"Twilight, my dear, you must wake up now. We need to get started right away." called Princess Celestia as the sleeping alicorn woke up and stared at her with her purple eyes. "It is time to begin your training, Twilight."
Twilight got out of bed and looked at the princess. "Princess, how long do you think it'll take me to become more powerful?"
"That is all up to you and how fast you're able to learn the incantations and spells. You could learn everything today and within a few weeks." Celestia said as she turned around. "Follow me, Twilight. We need to head to the Magic Tower."
Twilight followed Celestia out of her bedroom and down a few corridors. After crossing through several corridors, they reached the same old room that they had been in when Celestia had cured Twilight last night. Celestia walked over to one of the three large bookcases that were filled to the top with old spellbooks. She pulled one of them down and flipped through the pages using her magic.
When Celestia found the page she had been looking for, she began to say the incantation that was written on the page. "One wishes to learn the power held within these books, let the crown come forth and allow one to be able to call upon the power that lurks within."
Celestia's horn glowed as the magic from her horn formed a white ball of magic. In the white ball of magic formed what appeared to look like a replica of the Element of Magic crown. The crown set itself on the floor as the magic disappeared from it.
"What is the Element of Magic crown going to do for me?" asked Twilight.
"My dear student, this isn't the Element of Magic crown." Celestia said as she lifted the crown with her magic. "Look at the jewel on the front. It isn't magenta, but rather green instead."
Twilight looked at the crown to see that she was right. "I see. What is this crown supposed to do for me, Princess?"
"This crown will give you new found power that you have never been able to experience before."
"I'm ready to begin my magical training, Princess." said Twilight as Celestia placed the crown on her head, causing her whole body to fill up with power. "P-Princess, what is happening to me?"
"Your new power is channeling through you, Twilight. It seems the crown is also altering your appearance as well."
Twilight looked down at herself and see she had indeed had in appearance altered. Her appearance had been altered by the means of clothing, a pair of blue shoes in the same style as the princess and a collar around her neck with a green gem on it. Twilight almost looked similar to Princess Celestia clothing wise, but just in blue and green.
"Princess Celestia, I-I look almost like you in a way." said Twilight. "B-But why?"
"Because Twilight." said Celestia. "Luna and I used this exact book in order to gain more power after we sealed Discord away the first time so we could defeat any more potential enemies in case we weren't able to use the Elements of Harmony."
"That is amazing, Princess Celestia. When can I learn my first new spell?" Twilight asked.
"Right now, my faithful student." Celestia said as she pulled down another book with her magic and flipped it open to a certain page. "This spell here will be able to very slowly be able to dissolve tiny bits of stone. Within time, your voice will be able to break the stone that traps Discord."
Celestia used her horn and poofed in some rather small pieces of stone on the table. "Focus your magic, Twilight, and carefully read the incantation."
"Of course, Princess." Twilight walked over to the small pieces of stone and the open spellbook. "Well, here goes nothing. Stone will bend and melt at my command and will return to it's natural state when I command. Let the stone melt before mine eyes!" Twilight read as the green jewel on the crown glowed.
The tiny pieces of stone slowly began to melt before the young alicorn's eyes. She opened her eyes in amazement. She must have been more powerful than she thought she was!
"Pieces of stone, I command that you return to your original states!" Twilight read from the spellbook. The stone stopped melting and reserved itself, rebuilding what had been melted mush just a moment ago.
"Excellent progress, Twilight! It seems you'll have him free in no time at all." Celestia smiled. "How about we get some breakfast this morning?"
Twilight laughed. "That would be wonderful, Princess." she spoke as she followed Celestia out of the room and to the royal dining room.
They reached the dining room where Luna and Cadence were there, already enjoying their breakfast. They both looked up and smiled when they saw the two walk in and take their seats.
"Hey there, Twilight. How did you sleep last night?" asked Cadence.
"I slept fine. I have alot to learn today." Twilight smiled.
"Oh, what are you learning today?" Cadence asked happily.
"You know, the usual. New magic tricks and what not." Twilight said with a big smile.
Cadence gave her a slightly confused look, partly suspecting it was just more than a magic trick or two. "That sounds wonderful, Twilight. I hope you and Auntie Tia will have fun today."
"We sure will. We have quite a lot to learn today." Celestia said as she levitated a donut to her mouth. "And you can always learn something new." she said as she bit into the donut.
At that moment, Shining Armor walked into the dining room and sat down next to Cadence. He quickly took notice of Twilight and her new outfit that she was wearing.
"Nice outfit, Twilly. Did Princess Celestia give it to you?" he asked with a smile.
Twilight wanted to say something but Celestia spoke instead. "I did indeed give it to her. A small gift for my number one student." she smiled.
"That was nice of you, Auntie Celestia." said Shining. "So, practicing any new magic today, Twilly?"
"Of course I am. Gotta study my books in order to learn more magic!" Twilight said with another large smile.
Shining Armor heard his sister's tone, almost sounding like she was hiding something. He overlooked her odd tone and gave her a smile. "You have fun then, Twilly."
"I will." said Twilight as she finished her donut.
"Twilight, let's have a walk through the Canterlot Gardens together. It'll be the perfect place for us to relax before we gt you back to your studies." Celestia said happily.
"That sounds like fun, Princess." Twilight said as Celestia got up and Twilight followed her right out.
Twilight followed the princess out to the Canterlot Gardens where the palace maze had placed back up and the stone statues were standing as tall as the day.
"Why are we walking through the gardens, Princess?" Twilight asked, knowing Discord was still here.
"I want to see if you can do another spell. But this spell comes from the heart and requires no incantation of any sort. Or any spellbook for that matter."
"I'm not sure if I'm understanding you, Princess."
Celestia walked a bit further and stopped in front of a statue. Twilight walked right next to the side of Celestia and looked up at the statue she was looking at. They had both stopped in front of Discord.
"I want to see if you can speak to him." smiled Celestia.
"But how can I speak to him? He's trapped in stone!" said Twilight.
"Not by speaking with your mouth but by speaking with your mind. You have already done it while you're asleep. Maybe you can do it while you are awake as well."
"H-How do I even start?" asked Twilight.
"I cannot explain to you how to do it to well. It's up to you on how you break past the stone exterior and into his mind."
"B-But Princess, I don't know if I can do this-"
"I know you have the strength and magical energy to do this, Twilight. Let go of any limitations you think you might have and try to break through the stone barrier and into his mind."
"I'll try, Princess." Twilight said as her horn and the jewel on the crown she was wearing began to glow purple and green respectively. She quietly whispered to herself, "My magic, break through the stone and let me talk to him, even if only through the mind. Let me here the voice for once when I'm awake and not fast asleep in my bed."
Twilight's horn and crown glowed for a moment, but the energy quickly faded away and Twilight had not heard a single sound from the statue, not a single voice different from her own in her head. Twilight looked at the statue and then at the ground sadly. How was she ever gonna free him if she couldn't even try accessing his mind like he was able to do to her?
"Twilight?" called out a voice. Twilight's head shot up instantly as Celestia smiled as she heard the voice as well.
"D-Dizzy? Is that you?" Twilight asked aloud.
"Sing to me, Twilight. Let me hear your angelic voice one more time." the voice called out happily.
Twilight opened her mouth and began to sing a wonderful melody, the words describing how much she missed him. Celestia smiled as her student sung for the one she loved and missed. Suddenly, the statue started to crack! Celestia looked at the statue in surprise and then at Twilight, whose horn and crown were both glowing as so was the statue.
The statue did stop cracking and glowing after a moment though. Celestia looked at the statue in surprise, not realizing just how powerful her faithful student really was. At that moment, Celestia decided that Twilight could easily learn the few powerful spells she needed to know in order to break Discord free.
The entire day had passed and Celestia had taught Twilight several powerful spells, which she had easily conquered thanks to the new power that ran through her entire body. Twilight arrived back in her bedroom that night and flopped into bed, still wearing her new outfit she had. As soon as she hit the bed, she fell fast asleep.
Twilight opened her eyes to see herself face to face with Discord, making her scream and fall backwards. He simply laughed at the purple alicorn.
"That was priceless, Twilight!" he laughed when he noticed Twilight's outfit. "Twilight...you almost look like Celestia."
Twilight looked down at herself and noticed the outfit she had been wearing in reality, she was also wearing in her dreams. "That's because this crown gave me power and created this outfit for me."
"Power?" Discord said with interest.
"Celestia taught me these powerful spells that can free you and you will no longer be effected by the Elements of Harmony and can't be sealed by them." Twilight smiled. "I told you all of this just last night, Dizzy."
"So, you're more powerful now?" he asked with more interest.
Twilight giggled. "Yup and we can create all the chaos we want, with limits of course." Twilight smiled.
"Oh, why limit the chaos?" Discord asked. "That wouldn't be any fun..."
"Dizzy, even order has it's limits as well and chaos needs it's limits as well."
"Such a shame you're turning like this. Before you didn't care how much chaos I spreaded."
"Well, chaos does need to have limits, Dizzy."
"This doesn't sound like the Twilight I had just last night. What happened to you today anyways, Twilight?"
"Well, Celestia conquered up this crown for me, I sang to you, and I practiced some new spells today."
"What kind of spells did you practice exactly?" he sounded concerned for Twilight before didn't care how much chaos he wanted to spread, now she wanted to limit him. This didn't sound right.
"Well, I did learn spells that required me to sing and Celestia performed a mind meld that helped me clear my thoughts when I got frustrated with one of the spells I had a bit of difficulty performing..."
"Twilight." Discord looked at Twilight with a bit of anger showing in his eyes. "Did Celestia do anything with that mind meld of hers?"
"Well, she muttered the mind meld in some old language and it seemed to clear my mind just fine. Is something the matter, Dizzy?" Twilight asked.
"Twilight, look into my eyes." Discord said in a slightly angered voice.
Twilight looked into Discord's red and yellow eyes. "Is something the matter, Dizzy?"
Discord's eyes slowly began to produce hypnotic swirls that caused Twilight's eyes to produce the same swirls as well. He began to mutter an incantation. "You will now be again accepting, become my chaos partner, and support me and my chaos."
"That'll remove anything Celestia might have put on you and put you back under the spell I had put you slowly under when you began to have these dreams." he said to himself as Twilight's eyes still had the swirls in them.
The swirls soon disappeared from Twilight's eyes and she looked up at Discord. "Dizzy, did I try to limit your chaos?"
"That would be Celestia's doing." Discord said.
"Oh. I'm sure she just doesn't want you turning her castle into a chocolate one." she laughed. "Or any other buildings into chocolate for that matter."
"Chocolate buildings? That's a rather interesting idea. Twilight, I want to ask you something."
"Can I ask you something first, Discord?" Twilight asked.
"What is it?" he asked.
"When I had that dream that I had finally freed you, was that your doing just to make me happy for awhile or was that my own doing?"
Discord gave her a sad smile. "I just wanted to make you happy for a little while. I just wanted to make you think that you had freed me in reality, but your baby dragon shattered the illusion I created when he woke you up from your sleep."
Twilight looked at him. "It's ok, Discord. You just wanted to make me happy is all and I really did enjoy it."
"I'm glad you do. I was meaning to ask you something before."
Twilight smiled up happily at him. "What did you want to ask me, Discord?"
"When I am free, will you become my goddess of chaos? We can spread chaos wherever we go." he smiled.
Twilight smiled happily at him. "I will be happy to become the goddess of chaos, Dizzy." she said as she flew up to his face and kissed his cheek.
"I knew you would say yes." Discord smiled.
"Of course I would." Twilight said as she batted her purple eyes, a small ringlet of red touching her iris.