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// Magic Lesson One 
// Story: Why Am I here Again? 
// by Z-A-C 
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Two weeks later, and I'm out of the hospital. Which I'm pretty happy about, that place was boring. I would fill you in on everything that happened during my stay, except nothing really did. Well... I guess I may have tried to use magic without knowing what I was doing, and well... At least everybody's okay. The room didn't explode, nope, it's perfectly fine. 


A Week and a Half Earlier


I concentrated on my left hand, feeling heat from the mini fire ball slowly rise in the palm of it. Suddenly, the heat started to rise quickly and the ball started to grow. I couldn't stop it, and I began to panic because it was starting to hurt. And then the door opened, which startled me, and caused me to unwittingly let go of the fire ball. It hit the ceiling and exploded. It sounded like a bomb went off. After I opened my eyes, I saw Nurse Redheart standing in the door with her jaw hanging open in surprise.


Present Day


Don't know why the newspapers are lying. You believe me, Right? No? That's alright, no one else does either. Idiot... But that leads in to present day, my first lesson in magic. My teacher? Twilight Sparkle, but that's only because Luna is busy today.

The lesson will be taking place in the main room of Twilight's castle, which she's leading me to now. Even though I know where it is, I figured she might have some pointers on the way, but we haven't spoken since she woke me up for the lesson. Which is fine I guess, four in the afternoon is a bit late. Well, for the ponies at least, apparently working at night is pretty rare here. "Are you excited?" I was so spaced out that I barely heard her.

"Hmm?" I said, turning my attention toward her. "I'm sorry, didn't hear ya."

"Are you excited?" Twilight repeated.

"Not really, considering what happened last time I tried..." I said looking forward. Noticing the large doors that lead to the main room coming closer.

"That's because you tried to use a fire based spell. Indoors." She said with a stern tone. "Today, I'm going to be teaching you the basics." She said with a cheerier voice. "I think we'll start with telekinetic spells first."

"So... Levitation?"

She nodded her head. "As well as how to move other objects, yes." She opened the doors. "And then, after you have a handle on that, we'll move on to the others." She said excitedly, stopping in the middle of the room. She pointed towards the table. "There are three objects that I want you to move." I looked at the table. There was a medium sized rock, an apple, and a bowling ball. "This will also show how powerful your magic is, by how much or little effort you use to move each object." I nodded my head. " For example, if it's easy for you to move the bowling ball, then we may be able to go toward moderate level spells. Or if you can't move the rock, then we will have to start everything from the very beginning."

"Okay?" I said with a raised eyebrow. "And the apple?"

"If you can move the apple, then we can start with common spells. But, regardless of the results of this little test, which will be at the end of the day, we are still starting with the basics."

I looked at the bowling ball for a few seconds, before turning my attention back to Twilight. "Well, I can't move anything if I don't know how too."

"Exactly! And depending on your test results, I think I might let you choose what type of magic you want to start out with."

Necromancy? I wonder... "Really?"

"Within reason, of course." Damn.





I don't like Twilight as a teacher. She gives things in detail, which is fine, but she gives details about the details. The diagram she's using doesn't help things either. I knew magic was complex, but damn. "Did you get all of that?" I just gave her a blank stare. She gave a nervous chuckle and looked back at her work. "Oh, right. Maybe I went a tiny bit overboard."

"Not to make myself sound dumb here, but what is the most basic way you can describe it?"

"...Concentrate really, really hard..."

I wanted to face palm so hard. "You could have just said that..."

"I know, but since you have Alicorn magic, and no knowledge on how to use it, I wanted to be thorough."

"Well 'concentrate really, really hard' is more understandable." I gave a light chuckle. "Just don't dumb everything down." I looked at the diagram again. "We can come back to this later, if you want."

She made it disappear with a sigh. "I'll leave that up to you." She turned toward me. "Now that you know how to use telekinetic spells, Try moving each of the objects." I concentrated on the rock first, but it wasn't moving. I tried harder and still nothing. Then I had an idea. I raised my right hand up, as if I were reaching for it. It moved. To me, rock! I said in my head, and the rock sailed toward me. "Very good!" Said Twilight. "Now try the apple."

I put the rock in one of my pockets, and turned to the apple and did the same thing. The apple flew into my hand at the same speed as the rock. I set the apple back down on the table, and tried to move the bowling ball. It shook a little bit, but nothing more. I tried again, and it lifted off of table, but dropped after a few seconds. I started to get agitated, but I tried once more. Well, I say try, what I really mean is... "Get over here, dammit!!" And it launched of the table, straight into the air, and exploded. I just stand in silence. I looked over at Twilight, and she was was pretty speechless too. "So, uh... I don't think I did it right..."

Spike ran into the room. "Hey guys, is everything-" He looked at the remains of the ball. "Aw man! That was my last spare ball!"

I looked at Twilight, and she gave a chuckle while scratching the back of her head. "I'm sorry Spike, I thought you had another one. Are you going bowling tonight?"

He shook his head. "No, not anymore." He looked sad, and turned around, and left the room.

I just looked at Twilight. "What?" She asked.

"What the fuck happened?" I asked, still recovering from the sudden explosion.

"Language." She said before continuing. "When you got angry, you put too much power into it too quickly, that's why it exploded." She tapped her chin. "You have Alicorn level magic, which I expected, but not the required control. I think that will be our next lesson."

"Controlling magic? Or my temper?"

She seemed to think for a few seconds. "Both, potentially." I tilted my head. "But that's tomorrow's lesson. I think we are done for today."

"Okay, what now?" I asked.

"I have some errands to run. Would you want to join me?"

I looked at my watch, and shrugged my shoulders. "I guess."