Sweetie Belle was sitting down in front of a stump outside of the CMC clubhouse, with Apple Bloom and Scootaloo standing on the other side of the stump, and an apple was placed on top of the stump. "Okay, Sweetie Belle!" said Apple Bloom, "For your first magic practice, use your magic to lift this apple into the air."
"What, that's it?" Scootaloo complained, "Can't she do something cooler, like making the apple explode or something?"
"No, no! She has to start off small first, so this seems like the perfect way for her to start practicin' her magic."
"Okay, fine," Scootaloo said, rolling her eyes back, "Let's just hurry up so we can get our cutie marks faster."
"Okay then, Sweetie Belle. Lift the apple!"
"Okay," Sweetie Belle replied. She pointed her horn at the apple, and started concentrating on lifting the apple. Tiny sparks of magic came out of her horn, but they didn't affect the apple at all.
"Come on, Sweetie Belle! Yah can do it!"
"Yeah, come on! I wanna see some magic!"
Sweetie Belle kept on trying to lift the apple. She put her hooves on the side of her head like before as she tried to concentrate. Then, her horn started to glow brighter.
"Hey! Ah think it's workin'!"
Sweetie Belle kept thinking harder and harder, and her horn glowed even brighter. Suddenly, the apple started to glow.
“It is working! Keep going Sweetie Belle!”
Sweetie Belle kept using her magic, and the apple started to lift into the air. Scootaloo and Apple Bloom both watched in awe as this occurred.
"You did it, Sweetie Belle!"
"Yeah! Take a look!"
Sweetie Belle eagerly opened her eyes to look at the levitated apple. Unfortunately, when she did this, she stopped concentrating on lifting the apple, so the magic went away and the apple fell back down onto the stump. “Awww…I didn’t even get to see it for that long.”
“Don’t worry! Yah can do it again if you already did it once!”
“Yeah! But this time, try to do it so you can see the apple while you’re lifting it!”
"Okay, I'll try," Sweetie Belle focused her concentration and she lifted up the apple with her magic again.
"Okay, you got it. Now try and concentrate while looking at the apple this time."
"Okay," Sweetie Belle slowly started to open her eyes, even though it was quite hard for her to concentrate this way.
"C'mon! Yah can do it!"
As Sweetie tried harder, the magic around the apple started to convulse a little bit.
"Come on, Sweetie Belle!"
The magic convulsed more and more, until, suddenly, the apple exploded, scattering apple parts all over the girls.
“Well, that didn’t work too well,” Sweetie Belle said as she wiped some of the apple mush off her face.
“No, but yah were close!” Apple Bloom said encouragingly.
“Yeah, and besides, you were able to make it explode like I wanted after all!” Scootaloo said, laughing. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle didn't laugh at first, but then they joined Scootaloo after realizing it was all in good fun.
Just then, Applejack and Big Macintosh came up to the clubhouse. "What in tarnation is going on around here?" Applejack exclaimed.
"Oh, nothing's going on, Applejack,” said Apple Bloom, "We were just practicin' gettin' our cutie marks.
Applejack noticed the apple parts splattered all around, "What were ya'll practicing? Getting yer cutie marks in fruit mashin’?”
“Oh no, Applejack. That was just an accident from Sweetie Belle trying to lift the apple with her magic.”
“Magic??”Applejack said, astonished, “Are you sayin’ that Sweetie Belle can use 'er magic??”
"She sure can!" Scootaloo exclaimed, "You should have seen her explode the apple with her magic. It was so cool!"
"Well, that's just downright wonderful, Sweetie Belle! Congratulations on finally learnin' magic!"
"Thanks!" Sweetie Belle cheerfully replied, "But I do need to learn how to control it better."
"Aww, don't worry! Ah'm sure you'll be able to learn how to do magic just fine!"
"She's right, Sweetie Belle!" said Apple Bloom, "You just havta practice, is all!"
"Yeah!" Scootaloo added, "And then you'll be able to do even cooler stuff with magic!"
"Yeah! And then we'll get our cutie marks for magic!" Sweetie Belle also added.
"That's the spirit!" said Applejack, "But promise me you won't go too overboard, okay?"
"Sure! We promise, Applejack!" Apple Bloom responded, and then she turned her heads towards Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle, “Don’t we, girls?”
"Yeah!" Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo both replied in unison.
“Well then, Ah guess I should leave yah to yer magic learnin’! Have doing it, girls!”
“We will!” The girls said in unison, and then they all shouted together, “ONWARD WITH THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADER MAGIC PRACTICE!!!”
Applejack and Big Macintosh looked a bit blown away by their yelling, so when Applejack recouped herself, she said to Big Macintosh, “Ah hope they’ll be practicin’ a bit quieter than that, though.”
“Eeyup,” he replied. Then he and Applejack went back to the main part of their farm.