//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: Leaks // Story: Of all things... // by TheMajorTechie //------------------------------// Subject: I don't even care anymore. What's the point of these topic headers again??? Early this morning, after my parents left for work, I heard a slight rustling noise cone from my door. I immediately shot up, and quietly said, "W-who's there?" Luckily, it was just Twilight, who I only allow out of hiding when my parents are gone. I don't need any mass panic about any "aliens" right now. Twilight groaned as she stepped through the doorway, nearly stumbling into my bookshelf next to my bed. I caught her just as she was about to fall over onto the floor, and began stroking her mane. "What's wrong, Twilight?" I asked her. She only groaned in response, but I could definitely tel something was wrong, mainly from her facial expression, and the fact that some sort of lavender "aura" or whatever it's called was also freely flowing from her horn, as if it was leaking out of her. I watched for a moment to see where it went, but it only floated a few feet away, and then faded out, like as if it was never there. I pulled out my phone, and dialed Zoey's number. I waited for her to reply. A brief moment later, I was answered by a groggy "Hello?" from Zoey. Immediately after she recognized that it was me calling her, she immediately sprang to life. "Yeah, Hi, Sammy! What do you want to tell me? Oh and by the way, why were you going full godmode yesterday in your imagination? And also, have you ever dreamed of getting eye surgery?" I wrinkled my nose at her last question. Why would I ever dream about that? Sure, I might've been partially blinded in my left eye from a soccer match way back whenever, but I still saw perfectly fine, and until she mentioned it, I've never even thought about that. "Uhh... So remember Twilight? She seems pretty sick all of a sudden, and..." I winced at using such an un-scientific term, "well, it seems like her magic is kinda... leaking out of her?" I continued, "Also, with your second question, I only went godmode because I always feel like the only place I can be truly free with what I do is in my own imagination. With your third question, why in the WORLD would I ever dream of that??? Zoey stopped talking for a moment, but quickly replied, "I don't know, I was only asking". That girl, always asking the hypothetical and weird stuff about everything. I felt a sharp pain in my left eye, typical for me whenever I don't get enough sleep. Come to think of it, I've barely slept at all, with all the thoughts I've been having on what to do next with an all-powerful orb that I don't even know half about. ~~~Later that morning...~~~ I quickly dressed for school, grabbing a pop-tart and stuffing it in my mouth. With the looks of Twilight's "condition", I knew I shouldn't leave her alone at home, so I tried my best to get her hidden in my backpack the best I could. The thing is, my backpack definitely was to small to even fit more than maybe a two inch binder and some textbooks, so I quickly ran to the closet and grabbed a duffel bag. After I tossed everything out of the bag and spraying it a few times with some air freshener, I slowly lowered Twilight into the bag, being careful not to zip it all the way so that she could breathe. I then slowly carried the duffel bag out the door with me, and then walked to the bus stop. When I arrived, Zoey sprang up next to me as if she teleported there, throwing me off guard and nearly throwing the duffel bag into the road, with Twilight still in it. I turned around at Zoey, and pointed at Twilight, who was barely visible through the hole in the zipper. "SHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I quieted Zoey, who quit her babbling about her breakfast after she saw Twilight. "What's wrong with her?" She asked. I thought about it for a moment, remembering that the orb, though with unlimited power, still seemed to require a "cooldown" or whatever, and because of the multiple interdimensional jumps, even though they took less energy because they were already closely connected with reality, they still drained the energy of the orb pretty quickly. And trust me, you do NOT want to be stuck in a different universe when that happens. It's pretty brutal, and energy sources capable o "charging" the orb are pretty hard to find. After I thought it through some more, the bus arrived. As we climbed into the bus, I finally answered Zoey's question, "Well, I think it might be because her so-called magic is somehow leaking from her into this universe, and after reaching past the universal boundaries for Twilight's protective "bubble universe", it just seems to... disappear. But still, I think it might be because the boundaries for Twilight's bubble are starting to weaken, and that means that eventually, Twilight will also change form into the equivalent of her species, which I guess means she'll turn human. I'll write more when I get to school. I have to feed Twilight with a bottle now. She's so weak...