Journal: I must say, the last couple of days have been quite interesting to say the least. Since I made that apology the ponies here seem to have somewhat warmed up to me. Maybe I’m too used to city ponies, who won’t forgive an offence if it kills them. I suppose I just need to adapt. Then there was the party. Oh boy that was fun. Didn’t know that the cider was strong or I wouldn’t have had so much. Even more surprising is what happened during the party. Apparently all of the Girls in Princess Twilight’s group were….hitting on me. I’m not really used to this at all. I definitely don’t mind, I mean they’re all cute, the way Fluttershy hides behind her main is adorable, and I have to admire the girls’ work ethic… Though I’m still feeling where the suits were tight. I can’t afford to get attached to anypony right now. I’ve just started my journey and I’m not stopping now.
Waking up brings some new pains. Note to self. Don’t let Rarity put suits too small on me, EVER! I spend the next 10 minutes stretching, and finally the pain is minimized. Walking down to the dining hall I notice that Twilight and Spike are already eating. I’m rather cheery this morning “Good Morning.”
Spike respond “Oh hey Flame, hungry?”
“Yeah Spike.”
“Sweet I made some extra muffins so here you go.”
“Thanks, Rarity wouldn’t let me do anything yesterday, I’m starving.” Both Spike and Twilight stare at me and their jaws drop.. “What? She had me be the model for the suits she made, she doesn’t have a stallion mannequin so she wasn’t sure how they’d fit.”
Twilight shakes her head “Oh okay, geez, use your words better, what you just said was very…provocative.”
“Oh nononono that wasn’t my intent, sorry. Well I hate to eat and run, but I want to check with doc if I’m cleared for magic.”
After eating I head straight to the hospital. The nurse at the front desk “Oh, hello Flame. How can we help you?”
“I’m just here for a checkup to see If I’m cleared to use magic yet.”
“Ok, follow me, the doctor will see you shortly.” See leads me to an open room “Please wait here.”
After a few minutes the doctor walks in “Hello Flame, how has your head been?”
“It’s been good doc…minus an accidental head butt.”
“Oh? Let me have a look.” Doc casts a spell “Hmm. Well you’re lucky. You look ok to me, so I’m clearing you for magic use. But like I said, you’ll have to wait 3 more days before you’re fully healed. Then you can do whatever you wish."
"Thanks doc. I’ll stay away from head butts until then. Bye.”
Before I leave the nurse at the front desk calls out “Hold your horses Flame. We still require payment for services rendered.”
“Oops I’ll pay that now.”
After leaving the hospital, I counted my bits and realized the hospital bill was roughly ¼ of my bits! Oh well, it was worth not having a permanent injury. Now I have the issue of what to do…again. I figure I’ll find something so I’ll just walk back to the castle. Walking back everypony is busy. Then I see Twilight “Hello Princess, what’s up?”
“Oh not much Flame, how did the checkup go?”
“Pretty good, the doctor cleared me for magic use, but I still have to take it easy for another 4 days.”
“Oh cool! Could you show me some of your spells now?”
“Yeah I can, just not the more intensive ones. Lead on Princess.”
As we’re walking, Twilight she gives me a funny look “You don’t have to keep calling me Princess you know.”
“But you are a princess, it’d be improper for e to not call you Princess…”
“Then at least add my name in when you call me princess then.”
“I can do that Princess Twilight. Where is the practice area?”
“Just over Ah here we are.” I look around and notice many scorch marks from spells gone awry.
“Ok Princess Twilight which spell do you want to see first?”
Twilight brings her hoof to her chin for a second “How about your fire barrier?” I nod, Thankfully this one is easy. I bring forth my barrier and it roars to life, the flames are more intense than I’ve seen them before. Were the Flames always this powerful? As I look over I notice my barrier has drawn a minor crowd. Twilight asks for all my elemental barriers, though the water one gave me a minor headache.
After a brief recovery “Ok Princess Twilight, anything else you’d like me to show you?”
“How about your’ strengthening magic?”
“No problem. But that spell doesn’t have much of a visual effect, how would we compare?”
She looks around and spot a dead tree “Here’s how, kick that tree once without and once with your spell.” Simple enough, so I walk over and give it a solid kick, it merely shakes a bit. Now I cast the spell and kick again, this time the tree cracks.
When I look over at Twilight this time, all her friends are there and a group of about 20 ponies are also there clapping… “Uh, when did everypony arrive?”
“Oh don’t worry Flame, they’ve been filtering in since you starting casting spells. Very impressive strength spell by the way. Can you do your fire hooves spell?”
“Yeah just give me a second. This one’s a little harder.” As I attempt to cast it I feel a headache come on so I stop the spell. “Sorry Princess Twilight. I think is my temporary limit.”
At that I hear a loud “Awwwwww.”
Haha, guess I’d better not disappoint “Alright I’ll do it.” Getting a decent headache on this one I light my hooves on fire, again noticing the intensity increased. I’ll have to ask Twilight about this. “Alright now I’m done, still a little too soon after my injury to do much more” I trot on up to Twilight “Hey Princess Twilight, I have a question for you.”
“Sure, what is it Flame?”
“When I cast my fire spells today, they were more intense than ever before. Is there a reasonable explanation for that? I haven’t used any magic since my injury over a week ago.”
“I don’t know Flame, I’ll have to do some research on that one. Speaking of which are there any book you’d like to read? I hear you’ll still be here a few days.”
“Well I would like to read up on more advanced steel smithing techniques.”
So I walk back to the library and just casually chit chat with Twilight.
As we reach the main hall in the castle Spike jumps in my face “Your fire spells are awesome! How did you learn those?”
“I just experimented and then it happened.”
“That’s so cool!”
“Thanks Spike.”
As I walk in Twilight is already digging through the books in the castle's impressive library. Seeing the growing pile on the floor I don’t think she’s having much luck so I decide to help. Even with all three of us looking it took four hours to discover that the Library didn’t house either book.
Twilight sighs “Oh, all that searching for nothing. And now we have to put all these books back in the right order.”
“Uh what is the correct order?”
Spike quickly yanks me out of there “You really don’t want to get in her way right now. It could take her all day to reshelf those books.”
“Well I suppose I should head out for lunch then. Hey Princess Twilight, are you hungry at all?”
I get the feeling she's not paying attention “I got it covered.”
“Oh by the way is there a book here about intermediate spells?” She just levitates me a book and keeps working. “Ok thanks Princess Twilight.” So I leave her alone and go to eat.