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// Lesson 6: Magic 
// Story: A Valuble Lesson 
// by th3l0stch1ld 
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	The cake didn’t last long, but it didn’t seem to nourish me.  Half of it went to Hazmat, and he was more than happy to take it.  I don’t know how healthy it is or when it becomes dangerous for a wolf to consume too much cake, but he seems fine.  It’s the beginning of a new day, and the final lesson.  Time to learn something I guess.
The final stop.  A large oak tree hollowed out and made into a library.  A horrible idea if you ask me, but magic can make almost anything possible.  I approached the door that was carved into the side and knocked.  I waited a few moments before the door swung open.  I was greeted by a small purple baby dragon.
“Can I help you with any-CHANGELING!”  He slammed door in my face and I heard a distinct click as it locked.  I sighed as I knocked again.  “Go away!  Nobody’s home!”
“Spike!  That’s probably Amor.  I told you he would be coming soon.”  I could hear the voice of a familiar purple unicorn.
“And what if he’s evil?  What if he is just trying to learn our secrets so he could tell the queen how to defeat us?”
“He’s not evil.”
“What if another changeling took his place and is trying to get in?”
“You’re overreacting.”  The door unlocked and swung open once again, but this time I was greeted by a friendly face.  Twilight waved me in as she closed the door.  “Hi.  Sorry about Spike, he’s a little crazy.”
“He has every right to be afraid of me.”
“Ha!  I told you!”
I gave looked at him before turning my attention back to Twilight.  “I know what I look like, and I know what the changelings did.”
“It’s alright, you had nothing to do with it.”
“Right.”  I looked at the dragon.  “Sorry if I frightened you.”
“Apology accepted, but I’m not taking my eye off of you.”  He gave me a very serious look, as if he was trying to threaten me.
“Alright, so what do you want to do?”
“Considering you’re the element of magic, I guess we’ll work on controlling it.”
“You can’t control your magic?”
“I nearly hit Applejack with some sort of blast when she kicked my door in.”
I heard a near silent whisper directed towards Twilight.  “Evil.”
“Anyways,”  I looked at him once again.  “I would rather learn to control it instead of zapping anyone who startles me.”
“Sounds, like a very reasonable reason to try and control your magic.”  She gave me a nervous smile, as if trying to comfort me, or herself.  “So where do you want to start?”
“Basic magic seems like a good spot.  Levitation, things on that level.”
“You can’t levitate?”
“I never needed to until now.”
“Alright, it’s very simple actually.  First, concentrate on something.”  I looked directly at the dragon in the corner, my eyes burrowing deep under his scales.  He could feel it.
“Not me!”
“Alright, concentrate on something else.”  I looked at a book on one of the shelves.  A weak green aura formed around it.  “Now, think really hard.  Where do you want it to go?”  I looked at the table nearby.  My connection with the book vanished once I took my eyes, or rather my thoughts off of it.  I looked at the book again.  All I need to do is move the book from the shelf to the table.  From the shelf to the table.  To the table.  
The book began to wiggle, and everyone looked at it.  It slowly slid off of the shelf and momentarily floated in mid-air.  An eager and somewhat hopeful look in Twilight’s face told it all.  “Yes, yeeesss!”  My concentration broke and the book fell to the floor.  “It’s okay, try again!”  following orders, I focused on another book, and repeated the process.  It made it to the same point where the last one did and fell again.  “Try again.”
……….
There was a large pile of books in the center of the room after a while, some of the shelves bare without the pages cluttering them.  “Maybe I should give up.”
“No!  I know you can do it.  You just have to try harder, but you can do it!”
I sighed.  Concentrating on yet another book, it slowly made its way off the shelf.  It was shaking as it traveled through the air, making sudden drops, but quickly being pulled back up before it hit the ground.  It traveled at a slightly slower pace than the rest.  It traveled across the room, making it past the large pile, farther than any others had made it before.  It finally came to rest on the table I wanted it to stop at.  Both me and Twilight were focused on the book, thinking it was just a trick played by our eyes.  “I…I think I did it.”
“You finally did it!  You can levitate!”  she began dancing around the room happily, but fell into the pile of books that stood taller than her.
“S-sorry about the mess.”
“Oh, it’s fine.”  Her horn lit up, and every book in the room lifted off the ground.  Instinctively, they sorted themselves out it seemed, and were placed in the exact same spot they were taken from off the shelves.  “See.  It’s fine.”
“Alright, that seems like a good stopping point for today.  Anything else you want to teach me?”
“No, that seems to be enough for now.  Just don’t go and blast someone, alright.”
“I’ll try.”  I turned to the small door that I entered from.  I can’t believe these lessons are finally over.  They are over, and I feel I learned something.  I was still thinking to myself when I pulled the door open, only to hear a surprised, yet extremely happy cry from Twilight.
“Cadence!”