//------------------------------// // The six remaining days // Story: Midnight Spark and Harmony // by MrMidnightSpark //------------------------------// Midnight woke up the next morning, the sun and the moon stopped their frenzy through the sky. " Thank Celestia it stopped! I think I can stop worrying about the girls, they should be fine." He got to the shore, took a quick bath at the lake. Ugh, this water is really cold, but nothing like a good bath before starting the day. "I think I will continue on the bridge," he said while heading to the sand again. "Then, when the night start again, I will continue on trying to freeze the fire." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The week went slow to the girls, after the 'incident' with Discord they backed away from each other for a while, most trying to apologize for their behavior while in discorded forms. The first day went really slow, with exceptions, they went to their respective houses to tell their families that they were okay. The entire town of Ponyville heard that the girls defeated Discord, Equestria's most dangerous threat, the ponies gathered at the center of the town to make a party for the girls, and of course, Pinkie Pie was helping a lot at the preparations for the party. After the party the girls went to the library, they planned to do a sleepover there. Twilight, of course accepted, this night was special. At the sleepover the girls would talk to each other, apologize, as well as strengthen their bonds after such stress in fighting Discord, with this, their friendship was renewed and stronger than ever. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After some tiring session of training trying to create the bridge in the second day, he finally went out successful, realizing now that it was already full night. "Finally, but this bridge is still weak, I managed to create an ice cover on the water, I think it is time to go to the camp and try again freezing the fire." He went to the camp and tried to freeze the fire once more, realizing that it was getting easier to try this out. After some unsuccessful attempts, about two hours later, he almost fainted because of the stress and fatigue and went to the tent. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- He woke up in the third day staring at the sunlight. Morning again, another day of training. With this he went to the lake and took a quick bath, like the morning before. I think today I will try to strengthen the bridge, and at night, back to trying to freeze the fire, if it's really a plausible idea. So, he went to the front of the shore and made the bridge again, this time trying to do it stronger. "To start the next step of the training I have to cross that bridge by hoof, or I won't be able to do what I intent." He tried to strengthen the bridge several times, sweat running through his body. "This is harder than it looks." Every attempt failing, every time he tried to step on the bridge, it would crack and shatter to pieces. Finally, after several attempts to do the trick, he could step on the bridge without it cracking and shattering, at least, not at the beginning. "Finally, now I can cross it, so, to the next st-". Was what he could say before the bridge collapsed at his hoof, leaving him to the cold waters. "It seems I will have to practice more, hahahaha." After some time trying again, he succeeded. "Just to make sure." He started jumping on the bridge, it didn't cracked. "Finally! Starting step two of the training." But, it was already night. "Or get back to the camp." He said frowning. "So, the fire again. Today I will succeed in this." After getting to the camp again he lit up the fire and sat next to it. "Let's do it!" He said trying again freezing the fire. After some time he slowly was freezing it, but the fire would melt the ice almost immediately. After some more tries he froze half of the fire in a moment. "Some progress, now this ice is starting to understand what I'm talking about." He chuckled. Some more time trying and he succeeded, but only for a moment before the fire melted it away. "Now I made some progress, let's try some more." So, he tried again and again, failing to maintain the fire frozen for more than a moment. "I think I'm getting there, just some more tries." He said while holding the ice for two seconds. "It's not the power used to maintain it, it's the power to strengthen the ice that I need." Trying more times, he succeeded, the fire was frozen for more than ten seconds. "At last, it was about time for this fire to give up." He said before chuckling. With this he went to sleep. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Starting the next day, day four, he did the same routine and was about to make the ice bridge again. "Now, starting the next step of the training." He did the ice bridge and crossed it. "Now that I'm here I can start the next step, finally, freeze the waterfall." He made another ice bridge to the bottom of the waterfall. "Let's start next to it." So, he went with his first attempts of freezing the waterfall, thanks to the previous training, it was getting easier to produce the ice and make it strong enough to freeze at least a part of the waterfall, but after hours trying he noticed that it wasn't easy like he thought. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In day five, he woke up sooner and went to the training, at first, no results, at least not in the beginning of the day. After some hours he could almost freeze half of the waterfall, he thought of this like an advance in the training, but it was still hard to do even that, but progress is progress. Some hours later he ate some apples and the remaining cupcakes that he bought from Sugar Cube Corner, these were his meals until this day, thanks to the conservational system from the summoning spell, and went to sleep. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day six, he was feeling lazy, so he started later than usual, but needless to say, with the same energy than the other days. Making progress about freezing the waterfall, he could almost freeze the entire thing, and it was getting easier to do every time he did. After some hours he finally froze the waterfall. "Aha, the training is finished, but sooner than I expected, I have one day left and the remaining of this day, what to do in this time? I have something to improve?" He said while putting a hoof on his chin. "Aha, I can improve my defense, but what kind of defense? Yes, an armor. Ice armor? This would work? I'll give it a try, I will use that remaining day to see if this works." So he went with the plan, at first he tried making a piece of armor at his hoof, "If I use armor in my whole body I will be frozen where I stand, this wouldn't help." so it will be better if he tries this way. The same thing for the last day, day seven. "This could easily be used as defense and attack, because the ice would absorb the impact of an attack used against me and give more impact to my attacks." So he tried, after some time he could make armor parts around his body and create weapons with ice, he kept training this for the remaining day, at the end of the day his training was complete. "Finally, after a good night sleep I can return to Ponyville and see the girls. I wonder what was the thing Celestia called them for, tomorrow I will ask the girls, just wait Twilight, now I have the power to protect you and the girls."