//------------------------------// // Chapter8- The Marefriend // Story: The Alicorn of the Stars // by mushrumluver //------------------------------// The Alicorn of the Stars Chapter 8 – The Marefriend “Wrong Wrong Wrong!” Twilight getting impatient and quite annoyed with the results of her experiment. “Why doesn’t it go like it says in the book?” She ponders over the reason as to why her experiments with the Icy Sapphire are not going well in accordance to the book. “It doesn’t say anything about this.” She complains as she frantically flips the pages of the book searching for answers. Several crystals pieces are laying on the Library floor, crushed bit to bits, and some bits are losing their original blue luster, while some are totally grey dead. “I tried lowering my spells but it just doesn’t power up” Twilight dumbfounded and confused as she tries other reference books regarding the matter. “Why don’t you ask your new boyfriend?” Spike jokingly suggested as he was carrying a pile of books towards Twilight. “For the last time, he is not my boyfriend” Twilight furiously rejects. “Yea right!” Spike puts down the puts near Twilight “Last night while sleeping, you were like—” Spike giggles as he was trying to mimic Twilight’s voice. “Oh Ovan please be gentle” “Ahahaha really funny” Twilight getting sarcastic at Spike’s comments. “Now help me find some answers regarding this.” Twilight commanded. “Yes commander!” Spike returns back to the shelves hoping to find some books “You are so into him” he whispers after getting some distance between Twilight. “Is anybody there?” a familiar voice knocked behind the door. “Ovan?!” Twilight surprised to hear Ovan’s voice. “Here?! Now?!” she starts to panic as soon as she saw the status of the Library, with broken gems scattered all over and books laying in every corner and floor some opened in the middle while some were like tossed aside and not to mention there were still ice marks from her failed attempt a while ago. In her panic, she levitated all the mess and shoved it to the next room along with Spike and shutting it hiding every mess she made. “Hey?!” Spike calling out as he was suddenly tossed to the other room but fell into deaf ears since Twilight’s focus was to clear out the mess. “Hello?” Ovan’s called again. “Coming…” Twilight grins as she opens the door and sees Ovan. “What brings you here?” “Not much…” Ovan enters the Library scanning the room in the process, “I’m just curious, do you happen to have a copy of “The Time Machine?”” “Of course” Twilight nods as she pulls out a book out from the shelf “I really liked that, but I was saddened by the bleak future it predicts, glad that’s all fiction.” “That would be disturbing if that were to come true,” Ovan chuckles “imagine ponies eating ponies.” “Yeah, that would really be wrong.” Twilight agreeing with Ovan “Say, ugh… Are you going to do something later?” “Nothing as of now” Ovan replied “Why?” “Nothing, just curious.” Twilight getting all fidgety at this moment. “Well, if there’s nothing more… I’ll be going now and I’ll return this after I’m done with it” Ovan waving goodbye but his path was blocked by a small crystal fragment he stepped on while heading towards the door. “Hmm?” Ovan wonders as he picks up the fragment. “Isn’t this a…” He stares at the blue stone slowly losing its luster. “Ahahaha” Twilight suddenly speeds off towards Ovan and grabbed the crystal hiding it from Ovan. “Just some mess Spike made, you know baby Dragons.” Twilight quickly comes up with an excuse hoping to hide her failed experiments. “Just say that you need help Twilight!” Spike suddenly bursts out the door in a foul mood. “Help?” Ovan wonders what the baby dragon’s words mean. “Ahahaha…” Twilight, with her secret exposed, explained everything to Ovan. “How about tomorrow?” Ovan decided to help Twilight “Are you sure, you still have that book to read and you might get busy tomorrow. I don’t want to impose and all.” Twilight replied. “That’s ok; After all I just need to read the first chapter of this book for a reference.” Ovan responded “But we might need another room for that” “Why is that?” Twilight wonders. “It’s going to get a bit messy and we might do it all over the place.” Ovan explains. “Do it?” Twilight silently spoke to herself “it’s going to be messy?” a pigment of her dream flashed within her eyes and her expression turns red all of a sudden. “Yep, and the room should be closed and no pony must enter randomly.” As Ovan continues his precautionary procedures Twilight gets red and red thinking beyond the context of what Ovan is saying and translating it into a more erotic meaning. “Twilight?” Ovan worried about Twilight’s daydreaming expression as he gets closer and closer to Twilight’s face. “Wah!” Twilight starled to see Ovan just in front of her as she returns from her daydream. “Sorry about that. Got it, a clear and secured room.” Twilight nodded. “Well, see you tomorrow morning.” Ovan waved goodbye and exits. “You should really cut those kinds of books Twilight.” Spike snickering behind Twilight. “Oh shut up and help me get this place ready for tomorrow.” Twilight replied. “Ovan… Ovan…” a gentle voice whispers through Ovan’s ear as he lays comfortably in his makeshift bed of bales of hay. “Five more minutes…” Ovan refusing to get-up and ignores the call, yet he took a peek to see who was waking him up. Daintily he saw a silhouette of a purple unicorn mare, her smile seemed like the sunrise itself yet her horn slowly gathering magic with malicious intent. “I’m up!” Ovan hurriedly came to his senses not wanting to repeat the same incident at the hospital. “Shall we start?” Twilight excited for her first lesson with Ovan. “Aren’t you a little early?” Ovan bringing out some gadgets and meters. “Here’s some coffee, I thought It might wake up some nerves.” Twilight hands a cup of coffee to Ovan. “Thanks” Ovan accepting the courtesy and places the cup over a small table besides the bale of hay as he calibrates and sets the devices he needs. “What’s that for?” Twilight curious about the gadgets that Ovan is tinkering for some quite of time. “This one? this is a manameter while that one is a catameter.” Ovan replied as he finished the calibration and takes a sip of coffee. “So what does it do?” Twilight curiously asked while she was glancing over the two devices. “For starters, the manameter basically measures the amount of magic a certain unicorn casts while the catameter measures the amount of magic that must be used on a catalyst.” Ovan explains as he slides some gems to his satchel. “These can be used to help beginners to grasp the amount of magic they must put into a catalyst for it work.” “But I have never seen these devices in Canterlot ever.” Twilight wonders. “That’s because I made them.” Ovan replied “So shall we go?” Twilight excitedly nods in response, along with the joy in her heart beating wildly. A time with the stallion of her dreams, what more could she ask for this day. As they walked towards to the Library, Twilight’s excited grew larger and larger yet she still managed to contain it but not the red blush on her face. Fortunately, she was in front of Ovan so she was still managed to hide her gleeful expression. “See what I mean?” Ovan showing the meter’s reading after he did a basic ice spell as he turned a glass of water into ice, numbers suddenly appeared on the screen showing the values 25MP.”By the way MP stands for Mana Points.” Ovan clarifies. While Twilight is awed by workings of the device, Ovan pulls out the catameter and places the probes over a small blue crystal. “And here it reads 15 to 35 MPR” Ovan reads out the numbers being pointed by the two arrows on the display. “This means, anything below 15MP won’t do anything and more than 35MP will bust the stone.” Ovan discusses the significance of the values they gathered. “So that was why some spells didn’t work while some were inconsistent and some cracks my samples.” Twilight was finally enlightened to the fact that she now knows the reason why. “But how come this method isn’t explained on the book.” She begins to wonder about the method that Ovan is teaching as to why it isn’t printed on the book. “Probably, because using magical catalysts is a new discovery so, there aren’t many books about them and about these devices I’m the only one who uses them.” Ovan tries to explain “and besides that book does things the old fashioned way.” Just outside the Library, Applejack is seen taking a peek over the window watching the two ponies get together. “Hey AJ!” Rainbow Dash surprising Applejack in her greeting “Whatcha’ doin’ there?” “Shh… “Applejack hushed Rainbow Dash “Quiet RD, Can’t ya’ see Ah’m busy here?” “Busy with what?” Rainbow Dash getting curious to what is Applejack watching over the window so she decides to also take a peek. “That’s—“ Applejack muffled her before she was able to shout. “If yer’ goin’ tah’ watch, be quiet, don’t want them tah’ find out.” Rainbow Dash nodded in agreement. As both mares now peeking over the window watching what exciting moments could unfold between the two. “I did it!” Twilight suddenly embraced Ovan in her delight to successfully perform the experiment that she kept on failing to do yesterday as she was able to freeze a glass of water in just a second compared to without a catalyst that it would take about 5 seconds. “Oh! sorry” Twilight suddenly released her embrace. “Well, now that you grasped the basic concept, then this is where practice makes perfect, with constant practice, you can have a mental memory on the intensity of a spell you cast thus making it easier for you to do it.” Ovan concluding his lesson on how to use catalyst “You could keep those meters so that you can play with it.” “Are you sure?” Twilight asked. “What if you might need it in the future?” “No worries… You could consider me a Master when It comes to that” Ovan bragging with a proud smile on his face. “So this is it huh?” Twilight feeling a bit disappointed on the short time they spent together without anything happening. “Hmm… Not quite, I could teach you some spells that I just made up.” Ovan proposing his idea. “Really?!” Twilight delighted to hear an extension of their lesson, most importantly time together. “Why not…” Ovan decided to impart some of his knowledge to the mare since it wasn’t really much appreciated in the university compared to here in Ponyville better yet to Twilight Sparkle. “Remember the time at the Smokey Dragon Mountains?” Ovan recalling that time “This is the foundation of the spell I used back there.” Twilight excited to see the spell that saved her life from the boulder entrapment three days ago comes closer to Ovan as he takes out a red gem out from his satchel and holds it tightly in his right hoof. He then slowly charges his horn with magic, and gently beamed a ray of firey light over to the gem with the gem emitting a red radiant glow in response. Twilight’s eyes widened and sparkled to what she is seeing right now it’s either the beautiful red firey glow or the aura that complimented the stallion in front of her. After a few seconds, Ovan stopped the spell returning the lighting of the room back to normal. “This is a smaller version of what I used back there.” Ovan said as he was glancing over the gem he was holding and suddenly he turned his attention to Twilight who was still staring at him and the gem “Twilight?” “Oh, sorry” Twilight apologized “What is that spell anyway?” “It’s a storing spell, with this, unicorns can store magic into these stones for later use, but it gets a bit tricky since unlike earlier, you have to constantly put magic into the gem.” Ovan explaining his spell “So want to try it?” Ovan asked. “Sure!” Twilight accepts and hoping to get it right the first time. “For starters, you might want to hold the gem like this.” Ovan holding the gem with his two front hooves and his horn pointed towards the gem. “It might be a little difficult since you can’t see the target but just remember that it’s just in front of you so slowly cast your magic.” “Okay” Twilight nods mimicking Ovan’s posture. Ovan then hands the gem over to Twilight’s hooves. “Is this good?” Twilight asked wanting to know if her stance is good to go. “Not quite.” Ovan approaches from behind as he firmly holds Twilight’s front hooves straightening it and making it sturdier. “There, you might get surprised with the sudden burst of energy so I’ll act as a support.” Twilight getting flustered even more with Ovan holding her hooves just behind her, her back laying against Ovan’s chest, her face turning redder even more compared to earlier. And her heart is beats even more wildly, her breathe getting shorter and shorter and her concentration regarding the spell diminishes for each second passing by. Applejack and Rainbow Dash gets closer to the window upon seeing the situation. As both mares were too distracted, a gentle voice from behind startled them. “Girls?” Fluttershy wonders about her friend’s activities. “Fluttershy?” Rainbow Dash startled with the Pegasus mare’s greeting. “What you doing?” Fluttershy asked. “It’s not nice to peep on somepony’s window” “It’s okay sugarcube” Applejack reasons “It’s just Twilight and her new companion Ovan.” “Yeah! And they are going to do it!” Rainbow Dash exaggerating. “Do it?” Fluttershy ponders about Rainbow’s words. “Don’t mind RD, why don’t cha’ take a look for yourself?” Applejack insists on having Fluttershy join it. “But, that’s not nice.” Fluttershy gently refuses. “Come on, just have a look-see” Rainbow carried Fluttershy over the window revealing to Fluttershy the scene. Fluttershy in turn turned her focus towards Twilight and Ovan disregarding what she said earlier. “Now slowly and gently…” Ovan instructed Twilight with Twilight getting stiffer and stiffer the longer Ovan holds her. “This time you have to feel the changes within the gem as you pour your magic into it.” Ovan’s face is now beside her. With her mind in shambles, she just blasted recklessly a spell blowing up the gem in the process knocking both ponies down. Rarity passes by the Library after her return from Dragonshire Manor, and sees her friends all packed-up peeking over the window. “That’s just plain rude, invading a pony’s privacy.” She said to herself as she approaches her friends outside the Library. “Ahem! Excuse me, do you mind? You’re invading on our dear friend Twilight’s privacy” Rarity tries to reprimand the group but only to fell on deaf ears. “Forget about privacy take a look!” Rainbow Dash suddenly grabbed Rarity bringing her over the window to take a look. “WHAT?!” Rarity shouted after seeing Twilight on top of Ovan getting muffled up in return by her friends. “SHHH!!” the group in chorus hushed Rarity. “Where in Equestria was that gentle and slowly?” Ovan regaining consciousness as his eyes are starting to gain focus only to see Twilight on top of him also regaining consciousness. “Well this is…” Ovan tries to look away slightly embarrassed at their current position. Words were not enough to describe Twilight’s burst of emotions at this moment. Both ponies slowly starting to look at each other with passion, “Twilight?” Ovan tries to regain reason back to the mare’s head as his heart also started to pound while staring at the mare. Twilight in turn stared back at Ovan. There was an awkward air looming around the room yet Twilight didn’t move an inch. As the air slowly turns into passion, both ponies mind also went with the mood. Their awkward stare soon turn passionate. As Twilight slowly comes closer and closer, not caring what would happen afterwards. Ovan in turn getting nervous yet he starts to see the mare getting more and more beautiful as she comes closer, although he liked her before but not like this, it is something different, he too desired the mare and wanted to do the same. Both of them gave in to their desires and slowly coming together. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy also got caught up in what are they about to witness as their eyes widened and the faces comes closer and closer to the window “SLAM!” the door suddenly slammed open revealing a pink pony carrying a tray of cupcakes and gleefully trotted towards the two destroying whatever passionate atmosphere that surrounded them earlier. “Cupcakes?” Pinkie pie offering the two a tray of freshly baked cupcakes. “I guess I’m also getting hungry” Ovan pointed out after sniffing the aroma of the fresh cupcakes with his stomach growling in response. “I guess?” Twilight returning back into her normal self grabbed two pieces and offering the other one to Ovan. “Why Pinkie Why?” Twilight in agony whispered to Pinkie Pie. “What? Those things are good; you really have to try them.” Pinkie pie innocently hopped away with her usual joyful grin on her face. “Let’s just get lunch.” Ovan suggested. “Okay.” Twilight disappointed with the sudden outburst of Pinkie Pie. As the pair exited the Library, they saw Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Rarity fallen down and knocked unconscious just beside the window with a distinct disappointed look in their faces as well. “I wonder what happened to them?” Twilight rhetorically asked herself, as they walked towards the town center to get something to eat. While the two of them are walking towards Sugarcube Corner, they were suddenly approached by a green mare. “Ovan! There you are” The mare suddenly dashed towards Ovan embracing him. “I was so worried, you never call or send messages.” “Ovan, do you know this pony?” Twilight curiously asked with a bit of jealously in her tone. “Oh, please excuse me.” The mare started to introduce herself. “My name is Fran, and I’m Ovan’s girlfriend. And you are?”