Kala Point of View
Once again, we sat in the castle, bored beyond anything. It had been two days since Ian’s Derp experience, and once he heard what had happened and what was agreed, he was a little annoyed, but fine with it. Now, he, Crainer, and Discord were playing upside-down chess in an extra room. Sly and I were cuddling near a fire, despite the day being warm and musty. Jose was drawing some sort of scribble at a nearby table. Sky, Barney, Ross and Max were playing I-Spy while laying on their backs. Suddenly, Twilight walked into the room, holding a stack of books with her magic in front of her.
“Every pony, I’ve decided someth-”
“Yeah, well if it’s homework, count us out.” Eddie said, seeing the books, and laying his head on my shoulder. I hit him, and he jerked up.
“Ow!”
“Sly, she wants to talk to us about something. It could be about getting home.” He sighed and gestured for her to continue.
“Anyway, so I’ve decided that you need to learn how to be the type of ponies you are. So Fluttershy and Rainbow will teach the pegasi how to fly, and I will teach the unicorns how to do magic!” She squealed, as if teaching was the best thing someone could give her.
“Are we doing it outside?” Sky asked, rolling onto his stomach.
“No Adam, we’re going to do it in a closet, because there’s tons of room in those.”, Max said sarcastically, “Course we’re f***ing doing it outside.”
“Yeah, but I’ll be putting a spell around the castle so that no pony bothers you while you practice. Unicorns, I’ll teach you to teleport, summon light or other things, and lift things with your magic, like so.” She gestured to the books floating in front of her.
“So, cans we start? Wes are f wanting to do something.” Barney said, standing up, but Twilight stopped him.
“Barney, you’re not either, so you can go hang out with Derp and Discord. I get the feeling they’ll tell some pretty interesting stories. When you get there, can you tell Crainer to go to the outside entrance please?” His ears drooped, and he looked sad.
“Ohs, okay.” He trotted out and we looked sadly after him. Why did he have to be the only earth pony. There’s nothing special about it. He can’t fly, can’t use magic. The only thing he can do is run fast. I thought sadly. Twilight sighed, then lifted her horn up.
“OK, casting the spell in three, two, one...” She concentrated and her horn glowed brighter and brighter, until it sent out a blast of purple magic into the ceiling, then disappeared.
“Well, that was f***ing anti-climatic.”, Ross said, “I expected an explosion, some rumbling at least.”
“Weren’t we all, Ross?” Sly asked, chuckling lightly. I hit him again.
“Ow! What did I do now?” He whined, rubbing his head.
“Because I wanted to.” Twilight rolled her eyes. I swear, at the rate she keeps doing that, they will fly into space by next week.
“So, now that the spell has been placed, we can get started. Pegasi, go outside to the front entrance, Rainbow and Fluttershy will be waiting. Unicorns, follow me.” I kissed Eddie on the cheek.
“Don’t f***ing die.” And with that, I got up and followed Twilight. I heard the others get up, and once reaching the door, go their separate ways. We followed Twilight until she reached a door with her cutie mark carved into it.
“Now, this is the library, but I put a spell on everything, just in case something goes wrong.” She opened the door and walked in. Following, I saw the biggest library in all existence. No, that’s over exaggereating more than enough. It was the largest library I had ever seen, with shelves upon shelves full of books that I knew were full of magic. Behind me, I heard Max whistle appreciativly.
“Nice, if this place was an atomic bunker, we’d never get bored.”
“That’s why I suggested coming here every day since you started getting bored!!” Twilight huffed insignatly, then turned to us.
“Okay, so you know how to light your horn and send flares, Rarity showed you right?” We nodded and lit our horns. A light tingling spread across my face as my horn glowed a light blue, about the same color as my coat. She nodded.
“So as I said before, I’ll be teaching teleporting and lifting objects. Lifting objects is pretty simple, but teleporting is a bit more difficult. It requires quite a lot of concentration, energy and magic. When I was learning, it took me three weeks to learn, and that’s why we’re just doing lifting objects today.” By the time she finished, I was already nervous. If it took Twilight, one of the smartest people in this place three weeks to teleport, how long would it take us?
“So, for lifting and moving, you just focus on the object, and imagine your magic grabbing it, then reeling it in. Like a fishing rod does to fish. To move it, just imagine it’s flight path, and it will follow it.”, she turned to Max, bringing a book to land at his feet, “Why don’t you try to this book, Max?” He gulped and looked at it as if it would blow up if he messed up. Lighting up his horn to a light gray, he stared at it with what appeared to be all his might. He screwed up in concentration, but the book only sat there, a few sparkles showing up here and there. With one last effort, he managed to do something incredible, something I didn’t think he’d be able to do. He managed to let out a high-pitched toot. We all fell down on our backs laughing, even Twilight let out a small chuckle. Max on the other hoof, was red as Jose’s coat, in shame, concentration or lack of air, I have no clue.
“Well, your magic showed up around it, so good job. Now this time, try to focus more on the magic than actually picking up the book.”
“Yeah, Max. Don’t focus on your gas or farts as much.” Ross said.
“Shut the f*** up Ross.” He looked at the book, and took a deep breath. He closed his eyes and lit his horn once again. Slowly, the book glowed the same gray as his magic, and it floated a foot off the ground.
“Max, you did it!” He opened one eye, and cracked a smile as he saw it floating in the air.
“Now try moving it.” He nodded, still looking at the book, then suddenly, the book flew and hit Ross in the face over and over again.
“Hey! Ow! Max! Ow! Jeez! Ow! Stop! Ow!” Max laughed, then put the book down on Ross’s head. He bucked his head, and it flew off.
“Good job Max, who wants to go next?” Suddenly, there was a loud BANG! and we jumped in surprise. Looking around, I saw nothing, but Jose obviously did.
“Up there!” He pointed to a window, and we all started laughing again. There, plastered on the window, was a golden pegasi, his wings spread comically around his body. Sky peeled himself from the window, flapping his wings shakily. He waved at us, before disappearing from view. That was the most interesting thing that happened that day other than us learning magic. Anyways, one by one, we went up to the book, and after a few tries, it would be soaring around the room. Once we all got the hang of it, we were tired, drained, and wanting to sleep.
“Man, that was fun!” Jose said, stifling a yawn. I nodded, rubbing my eyes.
“Yeah, let’s go see how much Sly failed.” We headed to the entrance, only to find them already coming in, covered in grass stains, bruises and leaves. Rainbow followed behind them, looking tired and annoyed.
“How’d it go?” Ross asked Sky, who had a bandage wrapped around his head. He sighed.
“Other than crashing into the window? Well, let’s say that I’m glad I don’t fly like s.” They laughed, before heading over to Max, who had started heading towards where Barney was. I saw Sly, pointed him out to Jose, and trotted up to him. His hooves were covered in dirt, as if he had skidded in mud.
“Can you fly now?” Jose asked, sniggering a bit.
“Shut up Jose. Yes I can, the hooves are just from the first try.” He said, groaning a bit as he stepped on his back leg.
“Can you use magic?” I wiggled my eyebrows and lifted his wings up.
“Hey!” He tucked them in, but I just lifted them up even more.
“That hurts Kala, stop.” I let him down and we followed the group to some place comfy and a place we could sleep.