I am a troll... It's one of my instincts... So, when we had arrived at Twilight's library, I quickly sprinted out of Fluttershy's cart and round the back of the library. To see that it was carved out of a tree surprised me, but didn't shock me completely in any way. It was actually quite easy to create something like this...
Opening up a window, in which surprisingly wasn't locked, I snuck inside; The mass array of books in here startled me. I mean, I know that this was a library, but this is ridiculous. The walls were packed with books and papers, all neatly set up as if they'd been organised this morning. The room was round, and had been expertly carved from the inside. There was a set of stairs to my right, that spiralled up the side of the tree as if they had been carved out as well.
Looking over at the ponies, I crouched down. They were all greeting Fluttershy, and helping her turn her cart around towards the door. Good; they thought I was still in there. They had just pulled the sheet off, I shouted, "Boo!" Well really, I only said it softly, but still, I got smacked in the head with a thick, floating book. I stared at it with a morbid fascination, ignoring the stares I was getting from everypony. I grabbed at the book, only for it to rise higher in the air, Twilight smirking at me as if I was a kitten playing with a ball of yarn. I noticed this, and reached for it again, twice. On the second grab, I got a hold of the book and started to float up with it. Tough girl huh? I don't think so. Quickly, I banished the book into my inventory. "What did you do?!" She almost screamed. Jeez, I didn't think she was attached to books that much, "Where is it!?" She shouted. All of the ponies surrounded me, except for Fluttershy of course.
Again, my inner troll decided to play yet another game. "I banished it to The Nether," I said plainly.
"What?!" She raged, "And just what is 'The Nether?'"
Calmly, I replied, "It is a dimension full of a fiery stone red as blood. Flaming mounds of it are scattered everywhere, and oceans of lava scatter the ground," My smile was widening.
"No no no! That was the journal I was using to write down all of my spells! All of them, gone!" She screamed. God, I'd hate to be around her when her library catches fire. Hm... My inner griefer is tingling. Better not thought, not while she's like this.
Re-summoning the book, I pushed it in front of her, her head behind her hooves. Smiling my shit-eating grin, I spoke, "Look! Magic!"
"What? The book! How'd it survive?" She said, almost prancing around. Man, this woman is obsessive over her books!
"I went and tried to sacrifice myself to the lava gods for it, but they said I could have the book back all the same,"
She just stopped and stared. "What really happened?" She said, a 'I see what you did there' look on her face.
"I put it into my bag,' I said calmly.
"No," Rarity spoke, "you made it disappear,"
Walking to one of Twilight shelves, I picked out a random book and banished it to my 'inventory' again, or my 'bag' if you prefer. The mares all gasped at what I had done. Twilight saw the book disappear into a white magic and quickly crawl its way up my arm and into my bag. "He's not lying," she said plainly.
Re-summoning it, I put it back into the shelf where it belonged. "Whoa," the cyan one shouted. Rainbow Dash, was it? Anyway, she came flying over to me, "That. Was. So. Awesome!" Looking over to her friends she corrected herself, "I mean; that was pretty cool. Got any other tricks?" She said in a deeper voice. I just chuckled and nodded my head...
"And then, I can shape and warp the materials how I wish," I said. The mares had all wanted to know what else I could do, and so I showed them. Right now, I was crafting.
In the middle of the room, I had placed a crafting table. It was a slightly rounded one, and looked much fancier than the rustic one I had back home, but it did the job. Currently, I had summoned all of the iron from my inventory, and was now playing with it as if it were mercury. White magic flowed down my arms and into the crafting table as I molded the iron into random shapes and forms, it levitating above the table.
"That's impossible," Twilight spoke, "it's just not possible. You'd need a great amount of heat and lots of strength to do such a thing!" She denied. I don't get her. She says that everything needs to have a possible explanation, yet she can't explain magic herself.
"So, sugar cube," the orange one, Applejack, said, "So... You gonna do anything with that?"
"You have no idea," I replied, "Any requests in particular?"
"How about a tiara?" Asked Rarity, "I'd look just smashing in a nice tiara!"
"Iron is a really dull colour. How about gold?" I asked.
She almost screamed, "Yes!"
And so, pulling some cobblestone out of my inventory, I crafted a small furnace, then placed it into the ground. "What is that?" Twilight asked.
"It's a furnace..." I replied flatly. I knew what was coming.
"No! You are not lighting a fire inside of my library. This isn't only my library, but this is my home!" She complained as I chucked a piece of coal in. Instantly, the furnace roared to life, a fire blazing inside of it. I then placed some gold encrusted netherack into it, and waited. About thirty seconds later, the fire died down and I collected the now separated gold and netherack from the furnace. The six merely looked at me in shock. It must've been because I set a fire inside. Either that, or because I was sitting on top of the furnace.
"Relax. It doesn't get hot enough to hurt," I assured them.
Twilight was the first to break from her daze, "Impossible! You can't melt things without great heat!"
"That's exactly what you said before!" I replied, putting all of the refined gold onto the crafting table. Despite their dazes, all of the ponies proceeded to follow my hands, watching me work. "Besides, I don't know how you pegasi are able to fly with such small wings,"
"Magic!" She replied rather confidently, a smile on her face.
"Exactly..." I said, melting the floating gold above us, my eyes never leaving the table. She sighed, giving up the battle I presume. Finally!
Pulling strands of gold from the base of the tiara up, I thinned them out to the size of a pin, then thicker again. I must say, it's a complete work of art. I never had much confidence in myself, but I must say that it has boosted by now. Hell, I want to make another masterpiece!
"It's done!" I said. It only took me a good five minutes, but Rarity was absolutely beaming at it. I take it that she was obsessed with, uh... Fashion? She takes the tiara from the crafting table, then levitates it atop her head. I can tell that she is absolutely giddy about it.
I start pondering. Gold is rather soft, and that tiara will end up being very fragile, especially with the really thin, strand-like bits. I might be able to enchant it to make it harder. I've never enchanted before, but I know what it is and how to do it. Apparently there are infinite combinations of enchantments, but the better enchantments cost a lot more experience points.
"It's made out of gold, so it's really fragile. I can enchant it if you want," I offered.
It was that moment that Twilight decided to but in, once again, "Next you'll be casting curses..." This woman was really getting on my nerves.
"Nope," I said, grinning, "I can't curse things," this seemed to piss her off.
"I don't suppose anybody's got any diamond, a ton of obsidian and an empty book lying around?" I asked enthusiastically. Surprisingly, they did.
"I have some diamond and obsidian at my boutique!" Rarity said, before dashing off out the door.
"I'm pretty sure that I have a couple of empty books upstairs," Twilight spoke, before racing up the stairs by the side of the library. I just stood there, mystified. Do they have diamonds lying around? Useful... Come to think of it, why don't they have swords with them. Don't monsters spawn in the dark here? At least I always stay in the light. Don't I? Oh, crap! I didn't! Not even last night! Just to think about how dangerous that was sickened me.
Obviously the other ponies was that something was wrong. "Are you ok?" Pinkie Pie asked. She hasn't talked too much, surprisingly. She did a lot of that when she showed up at Fluttershy's this morning.
"Oh, it's nothing..." I replied. It wasn't too much of a deal, I guess.
Applejack chose this time to come join in to the conversation, "I can tell that something's up, sugar cube. You don't need to keep it to yourself," she said. Other that the two, Fluttershy was still staring at the crafting table, wide-eyed in shock, and Rainbow Dash was tapping around at the crafting table, trying to get it to work for her. What she didn't realise was that only I could do that, and that made me chuckle a bit.
"Well, I'm a bit unnerved that monsters don't seem to spawn here. It's one of my instincts to stay in the light, and now that I don't need to, it makes me uneasy..." I uttered.
"It's okay! There's no monsters here, so-" Pinkie was cut off by a door opening. I turned to see Rarity, her chest falling and rising heavily. She looks like she's run a marathon! Turning towards the stairs, I saw Twilight, a smirk on her face. She must've come down earlier and heard it all. Fuck...
"Got the stuff?" I asked. I still couldn't believe that diamonds were so abundant here, even if it was just an assumption. Pinkie and Applejack were giving me disapproving looks. Must've been because I tried to change the conversation so early.
"Yes, darling," Rarity said enthusiastically. She splayed the materials down on top of the crafting table, and the obsidian next to it along with her tiara, and watched intently. It was quite amusing to watch.
"Okay," I said, picking up the rock of obsidian and put it on top of the table alongside the couple of diamonds she had gotten me. I picked up one of the gemstones and it stared into it. Yep. It was a diamond: felt like one. Twilight levitated the book over to the crafting table, then I did my stuff.
Morphing the chunk of obsidian into a squared shape, I cut off the four corners of it and put them underneath it as legs. Next, I pulled it the diamond and pulled it into quarters. I'm pretty sure I heard several jaws smash through the floor, too. Next, I shaped the diamonds to size and replaced the corners of the obsidian table with them. Lastly, I placed the closed book on top.
"Presto!" I shouted, pulling the table into my inventory and holding it as if it had shrunk. Walking over to a wall, I placed it and watched the book that lay on the table come to life. It pulled magical symbols and information from the books around it, and added them to its own pages. The book floated above the enchantment table ready to read. Rarity, having already recovered from her dislocated jaw, had come to stand by me as I enchanted the tiara.
"What do all of those symbols mean?" She asked.
"You mean you can't see them?" I questioned. I can read them just fine. Can't I? Wait a minute, they're not Minecraftian characters. How can I read this?
"No," she replied dryly.
"I can try a translation spell," said the now-recovered Twilight Sparkle. Pointing her horn at the book, she shot a small pinprick laser at it, the letters rearranging themselves into readable words. A burst of electricity bounced from the book and up her laser sam towards her horn.
"What?! Ow!" She shouted, "That stupid book won't let me use my magic!"
"It probably detects your magic as foreign," I said smartly. She just glared at me and trotted over to the others, in which still had their jaws lowered to the ground, and their eyes still stuck at the crafting table.
"Do you have any superglue 'round here?" I asked, scrolling through the book for some sort of 'toughness' enchantment.
"Yes," she said, levitating a small, white tube over to me, "why do you ask?" I grabbed the glue, banishing it into my inventory.
"I'll show you in a minute," I replied, before a blinding flash of white light came down from my chest and into the tiara, "There," I said, before banishing the tiara to my inventory and walking over to the still-paralysed ponies sitting on the ground.
Summoning the superglue, I walked over to each pony one-by-one, and gluing their jaws to the ground. I stopped at Fluttershy. No, she's been to nice to me lately. Besides, she won't find the joke too funny.
Walking back to the enchanting table, I summoned the tiara and lay it on the tough surface of the obsidian enchanting table. Next, I summoned a shovel from my inventory and raised it above my head. Swinging it down onto the tiara only elected a gasp from Twilight and a cry from Rarity.
Pulling the shovel up, I found that there was a big, tiara-shaped dent in the shovel's head.
"Yep, it's tough as diamond!" I said enthusiastically, earning a stifled giggle from Twilight. I'm pretty sure Rarity feinted, but she'll be up soon. I think...
"Uh, girls?" Applejack's voice came from behind me, "Why are our heads stuck to the floor?" She asked. Twilight laughed, and the now-recovered Fluttershy even spared a giggle.
"I'm such a troll..." I said to myself.