Chapter 2
Sweet Star looked around quietly standing inside of imaginary world of the training world. It was a nice little grassy plains area with Violet floating next to her. She waited for Violet to start the training session. She blinked as targets started to appear all around her, on the ground and in the air.
"First Lesson, combat tactics, and aerial maneuvers. Start when ready." Violet said in the same slightly motherly tone.
"Umm I don't know any combat spells." She said blinking at the targets then over at Violet. "And only pegasi can fly."
"Don't worry master. I shall teach you." Violet said. "Point your horn at the first target and open your mind. A spell will come to you."
"Umm.... alright." She said and pointed her horn at the first target close to her, and something came to her mind. "Shoot!"
"Mana Spear" Violet said the spell name, a purple beam of energy firing from Sweet Star's horn hitting the target. "Nice Shooting Master."
Sweet Star blink and grinned bouncing up and down. "Yay I did it, I did it!" She smiled at her, she jumped up, and small purple wings appearing on her hooves flying into the sky and hovering. "W.. what is this!?"
"Swift Move." Violet said, speaking another spell just before she flew up into the air. "Your flying master. To move around lean in the direction you want, to go up or down push your hooves in those directions."
Sweet Star tilted her head faintly nodding lightly leaning forward she felt herself move forward, she leaned back and felt herself moving backwards. "Oh this is fun. How do I go faster?" She asked smiling, Violet moving with her.
"Just think of how fast you want to move and you will move at that speed." Violet said moving and attaching to her necklace again.
"Alright, let's see here." She concentrating on moving after as she leaned forward. Suddenly feeling herself take off like a rocket. "Wahhh! To fast! To fast!" She tried to slow herself down, she felt herself slow and smiled taking a deep breath. After a few minutes of practice she felt herself starting to control her speed better.
"Sweet Star, dinner!" She heard floating around her mind and her eyes snapped open and came out of the training world. "Sorry Violet, I got to go to dinner." She said jumping off the bed.
"Understood master, we can continue after you eat." Violet said before going quiet.
Sweet Star trotted down stairs looking around smiling. She made her way to the table and hopped into her chair. "Hi mama Sweetie, hi mama Starbloom." She said looking at her parents.
"Hello Sweet Star, I heard you got into a little trouble today." Starbloom said smiling at her daughter, "Adventuring around in the Everfree Forest huh?"
Star squeak a bit at her mother and nodded. "Yes mama Starbloom, I did, I wont do it again, I promise." She said pouting softly.
Sweetie smiling at Starbloom and Sweet Star listening to them. "Of course not, Sweet Star you will be a good girl wont you?" She asked as she put the plates out on the tablet and started to fill them with pasta with vegetarian sauce and a light salad. She also placed cups of apple juice for everyone before taking a seat.
Twist had moved out a few months after Sweet Star was born. She was still in town, living in Starbloom and Sweetie's old house and still working at Sugar Cube Corner. Sweet Star and her got along pretty good and sometimes Twist gave her sweets for free.
"Yes mama Sweetie, I'll be a good girl." Sweet Star said smiling at Sweetie, then looked at her food. "This looks really good mama Sweetie." She smiled even more before starting to eat. She always enjoyed pasta and fresh salad.
Dinner passed by pretty quick, and quiet. Sweetie and Starbloom talked about things, but Sweet Star wasn't that interested in grown up talk so she didn't pay attention to it. Once done she slipped from her seat. "Mama Sweetie, mama Starbloom may I be excused?" She asked smiling cutely at both of them.
"Of course Star, just put away your plate and cup first." Sweetie said smiling at her. Star nodded and used her magic to take her dishes to the sink carefully putting them away before heading to her room again hopping onto her bed.
"Can we continue the training please?" She asked Violet smiling as she closed her eyes focusing on the training area again.
"Of course master, resuming training program one." Violet said and they found themselves back in the grassy field. The targets still floating around the area, she also still had the small wings on her hooves. "When your ready, target practice will start."
Star nodded and smiled looking at the targets. "I'm ready Violet, let's start." She said giggling looking around at the different targets.
"Training Program Start in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. Start." Violet said as the counter started to go down. Soon as she heard the word start she focused her magic aiming her horn at the target. "Mana Spear."
The purple blast fired from her horn into the target. She turned quick and fired another one at a different target before leaping into the air, the wings flapping and she fired a beam into one of the air targets. A counter was running, counting down the hits, misses, and time between shots as well as an over all rating.
She turned quick and fired another blast into a target behind her, twisting around and shooting another blast into a different target on the ground. Once she finished off all the target she landed on the ground. "Score, Seventy Nine Percent." Violet said and Star blinked a few times.
"Seventy Nine Percent?" She asked tilting her head lightly. "Is that good?"
"It's good for a first try, you can use multiple attacks." Violet said. "Full Reports, Twenty Five hits, Five misses, Time between shots, two point five seconds. Overall rating, Seventy Nine Percent, average ability."
Sweet Star tilted her head as she listened. "How do I preform multiple attacks?" She asked smiling.
"Like you did the single shots, only concentrate on two of the targets." Violet said and Sweet Star nodded smiling.
She focused on two different targets and concentrated, two purple spheres appeared by her before two beams fired off from the spheres into the targets. "Very good master. Now work on doing more then one target at a time." Violet said.
Sweet Star nodded and spent a good hour working on multiple targets flying around she was starting to get better hitting the targets with her spell. She was getting better at flying as well. "Activating moving target system." Violet said and Sweet Star blinked as the targets started to move and avoid her attacks.
Sweet Star adjusted her technique to compensate for the moving targets and after a few misses she started to hit the moving targets a lot easier. By the time she finished her first lesson she could hit up to four targets at once and had a near one hundred percent rating for the first lesson.
She didn't notice her parents telling her bed time, and her body was in a auto pilot trance, got under her covers and told her parents good night.
After she finsihed off the first lesson she woke up slowly yawning softly before drifting back to sleep. "Good night, my master." Violet said softly before going into a standby mode.