//------------------------------// // Chapter 8: Interview [Reedited] // Story: Twilight's new feather // by Onyxfire408 //------------------------------// Chapter 8: Interview Eagle woke up, but he didn't want to, he could hear Rebel barking in his ear, it was louder than usual. He turned to find Rebel licking his face and barking in front of it. He placed his hands over his ears to shield the painful sound of Rebel's bark. "ARGGHHH! Damn Rebel, tune it down a bit will ya!?" Eagle hissed at his dog as he pulled his sheet over his head blinding himself from Rebel's constant barking. Rebel huffed as he grabbed his clock with his mouth and spat it at Eagle's face. "Arg! Rebel what the fuck man!?" Eagle hissed in pain as he looked at the time. 8:45 ... ... ... ... "Oh.............. shit." Eagle said with shock as he sprung his head up only to feel a massive shock of pain course within his head. "ARGG!! GAH FUCK!" Eagle yelled in pain as he held his head for balance. Dammit, how am my suppose to get rid of this ass hangover? And how the hell and I gonna survive my interview!? He thought as he slowly stood and slumped to the bathroom, he looked at the mirror only to find a 5 o'clock shadow blanket across his chin. He huffed to himself as he reached in the drawer to find a razor and shaving cream, he applied the cream to his facial hairs as they were soon sliced by his razor. "There, clean as a whistle." Eagle teleported himself at the front door to only find Rebel scratching his front paw and whimpering in sadness. "What's wrong boy, you don't wanna stay here by yourself?" His husky nodded. Hmmm, I wonder........ Fluttershy was in her home as she placed that small fields of animal feed, her little bunnies, birdies, and rats all enjoyed their small feast of feed as Fluttershy couldn't help but smile at her small animals. She felt a tap on her shoulder to find a bear pointing at his open mouth. "Okay Barry, here you are." She reached into a basket as she pulled out a red fish. "A nice juicy salmon." Fluttershy said as she tossed it in the air causing her bear to munch it in mid air. Fluttershy stated to pat his head as the bear smile while enjoying his fish. Fluttershy stop feeding his animals as she could hear a knock at her door, she flew over to the door and opened it to find Eagle and Rebel. "Oh hello Eagle, how can I help you?" She asked feeling a slight tad nervous. "Hello Fluttershy, is it okay if you could babysit Rebel? I can't leave him alone and I think it's about time he makes some new friends." Fluttershy gasped in excitement as she sprung over to Rebel and cuddled with the husky. "Awwwww who's the cute little doggie!" Fluttershy 'squeed' as she started to rub her hand on Rebels stomach making his leg kick rapidly. But she looked over to Eagle with a look of concern. "Wait, Rebel is a canine right? He needs meat, waht if he goes for my creatures?" "Don't worry Fluttershy, just give Rebel some chow and let him run around for a few hours, he won't need to feed on your animals. Won't you boy?" Eagle asked as he gave a small glare at Rebel as he nodded. "Good." "Oh well good. C'mon Rebel, that's a good boy." Fluttershy called as Rebel quickly sprinted inside the house as multiple animals greeted him, except a white rabbit who held a butter knife and wore a pot over his head like a helmet. The husky walked over and stood dead on in front of the rabbit who rained sweat and dropped his weapon in fear. Rebel squinted his eyes as the rabbit feared for the worse. "Um.. Rebel, can you not-" But Fluttershy stopped as Rebel started to lick the rabbit in greet, barked at him, and smiled at him as he wagged his tail leaving the rabbit to shrivel in disgust. "Good boy." Eagle said as he said his goodbyes and teleported in front of Twilight's library. He aimed at the time on his phone to find that the time was 8: 57 AM, Eagle quickly whipped off any remained dust from his clothes as he walked up to the door and knocked. "Eagle is that you?" A familiar voice yelled from the inside, Eagle knew it was Twilight. "Uhhhh yea! Can I come in?" "Uhhh, just hang on a sec. I just need to- UWAAHHH!!!" Twilight was interrupted as she screamed. Eagle took action as he stood a few centimeters from the door, raised his right foot, and slammed it against the door breaking the hinges to find Twilight on the floor with a pile of books toppled on top of her. Eagle couldn't help but chuckle at the mare as he levitated the books onto the nearby shelves while Twilight Sparkle stood up from her mess and gave a sheepish grin. "Eh heh, thanks. Sorry I was kinda holding too many books with my magic and Spike kinda uh.... interrupted me." She said as she pointed at a small pile of books which popped open revealing the teenage dragon groaning in pain. "Sorry Spike, but you know what happens." "Yea yea yea." The purple dragon mumbled as he stood up and looked at Eagle. "Hey it's you uh....... I forgot his name." The dragon said in a flat tone as Eagle deadpanned. "It's Eagle, Eagle Eye." He gestured as he looked at the dragon. "And you're Spike right?" The dragon nodded. "How in Faust did you acquire a dragon Twilight?" Eagle asked as he pointed at Spike. "Oh well it's quite the story. You see..." Twilight started to tell her story as Eagle sat down, but spaced out and tried to look like he was listening. He looked around the room as Twilight closed her eyes and continued to folk her story. Eagle leaned over to Spike. "Is she always like this? It's almost like this is a story time period in school than an interview." Eagle whispered. "Yea. she'll space out at times. But long story short, I was a dragon egg and Twilight hatched me with magic." "That's it? Oh yea, I think I saw you pop out of the castle years ago." When I was still old. Eagle thought with a small hint of depression. "Yep, that's me, Twilight had some sort of magic overload and well, long story short, it's like Discord went and possessed Twilight or something." "Yea I bet." Eagle said with a chuckled grin as he faced Twilight who seemed to almost finish her story, but she became runoff. "And then my friend Rainbow Dash caused a Sonic Rainboom which caught me surprised causing me to create a magical overload and so I turned both of my parents into magical made fern like plants and then my magic suddenly turned spike into a gargantuan that he-" "Twilight." Eagle deadpanned as Twilight paused and looked at the unimpressed employee as she blushed and creaked a single smirk. "Ehehe sorry." She apologized as she pulled out a clip board from her desk along with a pen. "Alight, I'm going to ask you a few questions and I'll send you off to your first delivery." She started as pulled out a pair of glasses from her desk and applied them to her face. "Okay, Where are you from?" "Canterlot." Eagle simply answered. "How old are you?" "29" He lied. "What do you do for a hobby?" "Ehhhh, I mostly like to swim I guess. But I guess read and work out is what I like to do." He answered as Twilight wrote her information on her clipboard. "And last question, How are your family members?" "Dead." He said in a cold tone as Twilight covered her mouth with her hand and dropped her clipboard and pen. "Oh, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't of asked." "It's okay, it happened a long time ago." A long LONG time ago. Eagle said in his head as Twilight readjusted and continued to write down on her clipboard. "Okay, well now that that's finished. I need you to take this bag of books and bring them to these addresses." Twilight said as she handed Eagle a bag full of books and a piece of paper with a few addresses. "Now just take these books and bring them to the customers, they'll hand you some bits and when you're done, I'll sort out the bits for your pay." She informed as Eagle nodded and took the bag of books and left the building leaving Twilight with a small patch of pink on her cheek. Nearby on the upstairs, Spike walked down with a massive grin across his face as he looked at Twilight. "You like him don't you?" He ask mischievously as Twilight's patch grew three times larger that moment. "Gaahh... I-I-I don't know what you're talking about Spike. I don't like him." She grunted as she stomped away into the other room. "She likes him." Eagle walked around Ponyville as he looked through the list of orders and names for the books he was delivering. He looked at the first name. "Let's see here...... Dinky Hooves 3412 Leaf St." Eagle read as he summoned a large map made of magic which showed where he was and his deliveries were. "Good." He continued to walk the path of guidance until he reached the first house. He walked up to the doorway as he knocked on door. As it opened, out came a grayish purple unicorn filly along with a light gray mare with strange eyes. "Uhh... I have a book here for a.... Dinky Hooves?" "That's me!" The filly chimed as Eagle handed her the book and she zoomed off leaving the mare at the door. "Well that filly sure loves magic." Eagle said with a smile as the mare smiled as well. "Yep, my little pony wants to be like Twilight some day." She admired as a soft sigh escaped her mouth. "Oh yea, the money." She remembered as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a sum of bits and handed it to Eagle who happily placed them into a pouch on his belt. "Thank you." "No no, the pleasure is mine." Eagle thanked with a bow as he made his way towards the next homes with his deliveries and pick ups. He looked over to his list to find a pick up. "Okay, next one is Rainbow Dash huh? And location is...." He read the address. "In the sky?......shit." He groaned as he slowly walked into the nearest alley undetected. He looked up at the rooftops as he shape shifted into his eagle like form and flew to the top of the building near him. He then noticed a small cloud home with multiple rainbow waters spewing out of the clouds. He stopped to think, "How the moon am I gonna get there? I can't go that far unless..." He trailed off as he saw something nearby in the sky, it looked like a hot air balloon. He could see it closer no more than 15 feet away from him, he sprinted as he jumped off the roof and shape shifted into his shattered glass like eagle and gripped the basket as he regenerated into his pony self. He climbed inside as he saw Pinkie Pie inside the basket, funny, he didn't see her before he flew inside. "Pinkie Pie?" "OH HI Eagle." She chimed as she gave a tight squeeze around his hips. "Gah Pinkie..... can't....breath...." He screamed through small portions of air as Pinkie let out and giggle with embarrassment. "Sorry, I'm just happy to see a new friend." "It's okay, by the way, is this your balloon?" "Yea, why do you ask?" "Well Twilight want's me to deliver this book to Rainbow, but her house is all the way up there." Eagle informed as he pointed towards Rainbow's house. "So can you give me a ride?" "Sure." Pinkie said with energy as she reached up and pulled down a chain torching air inside her massive balloon causing the basket the raise with altitude. While rising, Eagle took a look at his list to find Rainbow's name and a book with her book, it was the newest Daring Do book. The two reached the limited altitude, Eagle had an idea and had a smug grin across his face. "Hey, Pinkie, can you take me higher?" Eagle asked with a smug tone as Pinkie raised the altitude like a building. "Thanks, I can take it from here." Eagle declared as he stood atop of the edge of the balloon's basket, he took a deep breath as he jumped off of the basket spreading his arms out like wings and flipped over facing his back against the cloud yard. He landed only to make a *Phomphf* sound, he stood up, unharmed as he whipped off any remaining cloud bunnies off of him. He looked up and waved at Pinkie as she cruised off into the sight of Ponyville. Eagle walked toward's the cloud home's front door as he rung the doorbell. The door opened as Rainbow appeared from the door with a confusing look on her face. "Eagle? What the hay are you doing here? And how did you get here?" "Well the first answer is I'm here to deliver your book. My second answer is a cloud walking spell." "Oh okay, wait deliver my book? I thought Twilight was gonna do it." "Well you see she hired me to deliver and pick up books from towns folk. By the way, here's your Daring Do book." Eagle said as he reached inside his bag and pulled out a hard cover book as Rainbow squeezed he head in excitement and swiped the book away from Eagle's hand with greed. "Also, I believe you owe some books as well." "Oh right, wait here." Rainbow said as she dashed off and came back in a tick-tock as she had three books in a stack. "Here's the Daring Doo books I owe." Eagle levitated the books inside his bag, Rainbow gave a large sum to Eagle for her pay as Eagle saluted his goodbyes to Rainbow and closed her front door, he started to walk to the edge of the cloud. He stopped as he saw a green mist appear in front of him and pop out a scroll with a purple T labeled at the tie of the scroll, he unraveled the scroll as he read it through. Eagle, It's Spike, can you come back to the Library? Twilight want's to talk to you about something important. PS: If you didn't know by now, dragons and send messages via flames, just saying. Eagle crumpled the paper as he looked down at the ground, he looked down at an angle to see clouds layered going downward towards the town of Ponyville, Eagle had a idea in his head. He leaped off the home based cloud as he morphed into his eagle form and flew to the nearest cloud, as he was transforming back into his pony form, he immediately morphed back into his eagle form and morphed hopped all the way down to the ground. As he reached the ground, he dropped as he breathed heavily and tried to catch his breath. You gotta be careful not to use it too much y'know. Oh be quite, you were always like that. And you are still like this. Be quite, don't remind me. But what about that Twilight mare? She's something. Really? Do you really wan't me to go through the same thing? I'm not like her. But- I can't have another you....I just....can't....go through with it, not until I find a cure. Eagle argued in his head as he regained his breath and walked towards the path of the library. As he reached the treehouse, he opened the door to find Twilight with a smile across her face. "Hello Eagle." She greeted. "Come, we need to talk." Eagle walked in as he sat his bag of books down and sat down across from Twilight. "I think it's time you teach me that duplication spell you performed the other day." She said as Eagle created a small frown across his face. "You're serious, Twilight you are aware of the risks of this spell, right?" Twilight raised her eyebrow in question as Eagle gave a heavy sigh. "This spell requires the most magic you must build up, you need to learn the ways of Mana." Wait, Mana!? Is he- "Now, come with me, outside." Eagle demanded in a harsh tone as Twilight flinched and stood up. She followed Eagle, she followed him so far, they were at the outskirts of Ponyville with nothing but plain and plateau. Eagle looked around on the grassy field until he picked up a single dandelion, he brought it over to Twilight as he sat down, Twilight followed his action shortly. "Now, you must concentrate your magic, focus on this one plant. You must absorb it's power, as if you're talking to it." Eagle instructed as Twilight closed her eyes and lit her horn. Okay, concentrate. I got this. Twilight said in her mind as she set her focus on the one dandelion. She felt nothing, but she concentrated harder, but there was still no presence of any magic, nor power. Until she could feel a *tink*, a static zap of some sort. And inside of her dark vision she saw a tiny, yet lit white orb. She wanted to chase after it, she got closer until she was facing the white orb directly, she then placed a finger on the white orb "Owwwwwwwww." Twilight snapped open her eyes to see Eagle lying on the ground with a small burn mark on his forehead. Twilight covered her mouth in shock as she leaped over to Eagle for assistance as she tripped on a pebble and fell on top of Eagle with her muzzle mere inches away from his. She blushed deeply as she looked deep at his face. Oh my goodness, he is cute. I told you. I guess...I do kind of like him. Then ask him out. I don't know much about him! All you know is that he's from Canterlot, he's an expert in magic, and his family's dead. I need to know more, like his childhood. Eagle grumbled and merged around his head as he slowly creaked open his eyes. The first thing he could see was Twilight's face, super close to his. He hadn't seen something like this in years, but only in one time. He turned crimson as he cleared his throat for Twilight to notice what she was doing, but it looked like she was arguing with herself, but not only her. Y'know, she does look kinda cute. I already told you, I can't. C'mon, just at least date her, for me? Why? I mean I- Oh just shut up you foal and just ask her out. Why? All I know about her is that she's the Element of Harmony, She's related to Shining Armor and Cade, and she's Celestia's student. Imagine what Celestia would do if she saw me, not to mention Luna! Okay, maybe you're right, but at least be a friend to her. Fine. "T-Twilight? Can you get off please?" Eagle asked as Twilight turned scarlet and leaped off of Eagle hiding her face from embarrassment. Eagle sat up still partially blushing as he whipped off any remaining dirt. Eagle felt a warm sense on his forehead, he tapped his finger only to find some ash from Twilight's magic. "Good, good, this is a good start." Eagle said wiping away the ash. "But it will take you years, this is like foals play Twilight, and Mana magic is not as easy as Unicorn magic." Eagle informed as he stood up. "Observe the basic power of Mana." Eagle said as he stood up and walk a few feet away from Twilight. "You might want to shield yourself." Eagle advised as Twilight bubbled herself and braced for chaos. Eagle took in a deep breath as he curved both of his hand's fingers and connected them together with each other. He then broke the bond and whipped both his open hands facing the ground, his horn started to shimmer as Twilight could feel something poking her on her feet, it felt sharp. She looked under to find the grass blades standing straight, and facing towards Eagle as small orbs and white started to emerge and float towards Eagle like a reverse raindrop. Eagle could feel the power coursing around him that all of the magical orbs started to gather to the palm of his hands, in just mere seconds, Eagle had full spheres in the palm of his hands as they soon glowed whitish blue. He aimed his hands a nearby boulder as he punched the air with his palms sending multiple torpedo shaped mana essence as they started to pound and disappear as they made contact with the boulder. The mana missiles kept pounding the boulder until it shattered like glass shocking Twilight, but not just her. Eagle's mana sphere's then dispersed as Eagle exhaled deeply releasing his energy and returning it to their rightful owners, every last speck of them. "And there you have it." Eagle simply said in a flat tone as Twilight stood up and slapped Eagle in the face leaving a bright red palm on Eagle's cheek, ouch. "Argghh! What the moon was that for!?" "You're that alicorn aren't you! The one nephew Celestia told me about!" Twilight said as she glared at the stallion, her horn lit with fierce light and she held out her phone with a certain number on her screen. Eagle held his pain in ease as he squinted his eyes at the phone number Twilight had on speed dial, he knew that number. Shit what do I do!? I can't face her! You are not Eagle. What? You are NOT the Eagle. Wait what are you-.... oh, right. Thanks, you're the best. Eagle wiped off the pain from his cheeks as he cleared his through. "I have no idea what you're talking about, Although I learned it from another stallion." Eagle lied as he smirked. "Who!?" Twilight asked, sounding desperate. "I can't remember his name, but he taught me what I taught you, and I've been practicing it ever since. And this is the best I could do." "Did he have strange animal like powers? Like a wolf or an eagle?" "Now that you mention it, he did." "I'm going to contact Princess Celestia right away, she must know about you." "Why? What good am I, and why does she want to look for an alicorn stallion? I thought the three princesses were the only 3 alicorns." "Follow me to the Library and I will tell you the story." Eagle nodded as the two made their way back towards the Ponyville town and eventually the library. The two sat down at a table as Spike soon brought tea and crackers, for it was going to be a long chat. "Okay, so it's like this..."