“Spike”
“Well,” I said after the scroll was rolled, and as I opened Bloom's saddlebag. “I could trace it, if you'd help me,” I placed the scroll inside and locked the bag. I looked back at Twilight and flashed her a smile. It's been so long since the last time we did magic together. And...I miss it. No offense to Jay, but I love Twilight as much as I love him. She's like a sister to me, as much as he is like a brother to me.
Twilight rubbed her chin with a hoof, and then a small smile appeared. “Well, we haven't been able to do some magic together for the longest time,” her small smile went wider and warmer. “I guess that could work. With my magic and your mail delivery service,” she chuckled, and I rolled my eyes. Really? She is still calling it that? “...we could trace it.”
Well, whatever. I nodded and started walking towards her. I heard the crusaders were following close behind.
A few more steps though, Twilight looked at Jay's statue. “I wonder why I never thought of looking at where it's exact location was while I was inside Discord's pony-formed body,” she frowned.
As we stopped in front of Twilight's table, she stood up and her horn glowed bright.
“What are you doing?” Scootaloo asked, stepping back.
Twilight continued to concentrate on her magic, her horn glowing brighter and brighter. She closed her eyes and pointed her horn up. “I can still remember that mapping spell that I read long ago, before the war even started. Nnnggg...!” Suddenly, the purple glow became white, and then it exploded...gently? ...and quietly? I'm not sure how to describe it. I mean, it appeared as if it exploded, but no sound came, nor did it look like one of the explosions during the war.
I heard Sweetie Belle gasped in surprise. That's when I noticed the fragments of the white magic explosion hung suspended in the air. They looked like...stars... The quiet air was suddenly filled by faint chime-like noises, which sounded really, calming, for some reason. Do stars sound like this?
“Pretty...” Apple Bloom whispered, touching a nearby twinkling fragment. Just as her hoof was about to touch it, it floated higher, as if trying to avoid her hoof. As it moved, it let out a noisier chime-like noise.
“Careful: don't touch them though,” we heard Twilight's voice, and we all looked at her. Her eyes were closed as her horn began to glow in white again. “Those may appear harmless, but they could still shock you. Not in a killing effect, but would still be pretty painful.”
Suddenly, the many star-like fragments started moving. As they moved, the air was filled with their chime-like noises that somehow made me think that it's what twinkling noises would probably sound like. They floated above towards the ceiling, forming what appears to be a familiar map. Huh, it looks really really familiar...
“A map of this region?” Shining Armor's voice broke the serene chime-like silence.
Twilight nodded with a tired-smile. “Phew... Haven't tried that for a long while...” She shook her head slightly before smiling at me. “Now then, send a letter to Kronz.”
I nodded and grabbed a scroll from Bloom's saddle bag. Twilight levitated a quill just as I was about to char my fingernail.
“I don't want you doing that.”
“And I was already getting used to it...” I sighed, but I'm thankful anyway. I don't want a burnt fingernail all the time.
“Hey Kronz. Twilight and I are going to trace where the portal is located in our world. I guess you can write back to me.”
With that done, I stuck the quill behind my ear, and rolled the scroll. As I inhaled some air, I saw Twilight's horn was glowing white again.
“I'm going to add the mapping spell on the green flames, so we could trace it.” Twilight explained, as if she read my question on my mind.
With a nod, I breathed out green fire that instantly consumed the scroll and turned into dust. As it slightly swirled in the air, Twilight immediately fired a fast jolt of white dust-like beam. It mixed with the green dusts, and soon, it flew away.
Twilight then tilted her head up. “All all we need is to wait for it to disappear...”
Blinking, I looked up and saw a bright white dot flashing on the magically-created region map. The dot was flashing on and off, and was moving down south in a slightly diagonal direction to the east.
“Now that's cool,” Scootaloo said in awe.
The flashing dot was over the War Planes...
“Wow,” Sweetie Belle chimed, “I can't believe we could do all of that sort of stuff with magic!”
The flashing dot was over Ponyville now.
“We can do a lot of stuff with magic,” Twilight beamed, “aside from trying to kill another pony, of course.” She laughed quietly and nervously.
Mere inches south from Ponyville was a small field that was surrounded by the edge of what looked like trees further south. That was the last time we saw the dot before it didn't blink anymore.
“The rock fields?” Shining asked to nopony in particular. I looked at him, and saw Twilight was as well. Shining then turned back to us, and smiled. “I've heard about that place during one of our invasion meetings...d-during the war, that is!”
I saw Apple Bloom raised an eyebrow, but shook her head as Twilight giggled lightly. “Well, the girls 'n Ah have seen that place.” All of us turned to her. “It's called a Rock Farm, where...ponies farm...rocks?”
“Well,” Twilight spoke, catching our attention, “rock farms are usually what earth ponies do to grow gems in a much quicker pace. They ‘fertilize’ the soil, so to speak, for rocks to be ‘planted’ in a proper manner so the gem inside them can absorb the nutrients outside it's rock shell.”
Aside from the chime-like noises up above, there was no other sound. Scootaloo broke it, however.
“Wow,” she turned to me as we turned to her, “is she like a walking library or something?”
Twilight frowned as I chuckled and shrugged. “Nah, more like a magical walking library.”
Twilight's frown went further down as the four of us chuckled. Shining Armor soon joined us, earning himself a glare from her.
“Isn't that the place where that pink pony wanted to go?” I asked as the sky chariot lifted off towards the location. This time, I brought along a thick blanket. The crusaders, Twilight, Shining and I were seated comfortably inside. Cloud Strike is the one leading the chariot, since he offered and all.
“Yeah,” Apple Bloom nodded as she brought a hoof to her chin. “Now that Ah think about it, she did told us that she was in a hurry to get there.”
“What are you guys talking about?” Twilight asked, blinking innocently.
“Oh, it's nothing,” Sweetie Belle smiled. “We just remembered a pink pony mare we came across a long time ago.”