L12.4
“Utility Spells and you?” Sweetie tilted her head as she read the book’s title. It was one in a small stack of spellbooks placed in front of Sweetie. Biting her lip, she wondered if she would actually be able to levitate all that. Thankfully, it looked like they had included a cart to carry it in. Celestia bowed her head once. Sweetie felt a lingering tingle where her wings had been. It was a pity the spell only lasted three days.
“These are the same books Twilight read when she was starting out with magic. A lot of them are low level spells, but toward the end there are some that may prove useful. Either way, it wouldn’t hurt to know how to do more than levitation correct?” Celestia smiled and Sweetie gave a slow nod.
“That makes sense I suppose.” Sweetie looked toward Twilight and Rarity as she levitated the cart handle, pulling it toward her. Twilight smiled, and both bid farewell to the Princesses with a bow. Sweetie blinked, and then turned to copy the action. Celestia and Luna bowed their heads too, though not as low as Twilight did.
Making their way out of Canterlot, they had opted for the train instead, despite the offer from Celestia. Sweetie supposed that was wise, considering she didn’t want to lose any books in transit. Sitting down inside the train beside her sister, Sweetie flipped the top book open and glanced at the chapter titles. As expected, they were a list of spells.
Spell list(Ordered by chapter)
Beginner:
1: Water
2: Spark(For fire(ADULT SUPERVISION REQUIRED))
3: Stop-Sneeze
4: Wake-me-up
5: Knockout
6: Trip
7: Itch-be-gone
Intermediate
8: Stun
9: Telekinetic force(Knock-back)
10: Disarm
11: Teleport
12: Fireworks
13: Smokebomb
14: Cloudwalking
Advanced
15: Flight Spell(Wings)
16: Fire
17: Levitate self
18: Change gravity
19: Transform
20: Shield
Sweetie looked over the list, recognizing a lot she had seen Twilight using. The Intermediate and Advanced spells looked to be well worth learning. Sweetie knew she would need to practice through. At the very least, it looked like she could use the Beginner spells to play some pranks. Which reminded her, she still needed to look at the letters everypony had given her to prove she was in a time loop.
After arriving home, Sweetie quickly went up to her room to practice. The first one she tried was the water spell. Closing her eyes, she gritted her teeth, and slowly a drop of water dripped from her horn. Opening her eyes, she narrowed them, watching water leak like a dripping tap. Sweetie sighed, well, there was one she’d have to practice.
The next was the spark spell. Sweetie looked to her combustible room and shook her head. No, she wasn’t that stupid. The next one was a stop-sneeze spell. Sweetie cast it a few times, feeling a tingling sensation in her nose each time. After a while, Sweetie noticed her sinuses had cleared. Well, that could come in handy. The wake-me-up would have to wait until tonight.
Sweetie cast the knockout on her teddy, watching it fall over with a soft thump. Sweetie bit her lip, another spell she would have to practice. Wiping the sweat off her brow, she puffed. These spells were really hard. Sweetie wondered how many loops it would take before she moved to the Intermediate.
The trip was just using levitation to grab a person’s leg as they were walking. Sweetie decided to skip it for now. Finally, the itch-be-gone. Sweetie felt a shiver pass through her body as she cast it, and sighed as an itch she wasn’t aware of vanished. Sweetie wanted to use that spell more often, it felt really good.
Finally, Sweetie placed the book back on the cart. Walking downstairs, Sweetie approached Rarity. Rarity was currently making dinner, salad. Whether that was due to a certain filly strongly recommending it was an entirely different matter. It was definitely not related, not one bit.
“I have to spend tomorrow night somewhere else to repair the house.” Sweetie saw the slow nod from Rarity, and both mused for a moment. Sweetie could always spend a night in Twilight’s, but that left the risk of confusion in the morning. Besides, Twilight had a habit of staying up late.
“How about your treehouse?” Rarity placed two plates of salad down as Sweetie sat down to eat. Sweetie nodded, it sounded like a decent idea. It might be a bit cold though. Sweetie didn’t mind too much about the cold, it would still be fun to camp out in the clubhouse.
“Alright Sweetie, I’ll help you move your camping gear there tomorrow. For now; let’s eat.”
Sweetie snuggled into her sleeping bag, considering going to bed. After remembering her Mark, she sat up and looked toward the clock that was technically hers now. Levitating it over, she waited as time slowly ticked over.
11:59…
12:00
Sweetie glanced to her flank, and sighed in relief. Her Mark was still there. Rubbing it, Sweetie smiled warmly, remembering the moment with crystal clarity. It was something she was never going to forget, that’s for sure. The question was, how could she use the loops to achieve it? Sweetie sighed and shifted further into her sleeping bag.
Rarity would be looking for her in the morning. Groaning, Sweetie sat up and quickly packed her things into a corner. Sweetie knew none of the Crusaders would be coming to the clubhouse, so it was safe to leave things here. Turning, Sweetie trotted outside, closing the door with her magic.
Shivering in the cold, she walked through the deserted streets. Eventually she made her way back to the boutique, and entered quietly. Sneaking upstairs, she quickly checked her sister’s room. Creeping into her room, she was pleased to see the damage was gone, and slipped quietly into the sheets.
Giving a yawn, Sweetie settled into wonderful dreams about her Mark. Sweetie dreamed of her friends seeing it, and praising her. Sweetie smiled in her sleep. Finally, all three of them could potentially gain their marks. That might be the key to getting out of the loop. Sweetie dared to hope it was, finally slipping into slumber.
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These spells will come in handy!
Trip, itch-be-gone....
keep it up!
A nice chapter, but I have to wonder how Sweetie Belle's suddenly able to cast so many spells like her talent was magic or she was an Alicorn... The show clearly states ponies can only perform magic related to their talent, and hasn't contradicted itself yet, ignoring the Alicorns...
A lot of them a low level spells
1. Are.
5325347 It's not actually the fact that ponies can only use spells or abilities related to their talent, but it's just easier for them to do it compared to others. Saying they can only use spells related to their talent would be equal to saying they can't do anything else besides their talent related spells.
Noice chapter!
5325347 In addition to what 5325387 said, Sweetie was having trouble with the basic spells she tried, so it's not like the author made her a sudden expert on par with Twilight.
More than a few of those spells look really dangerous...
That book really goes to show you how much more organized Twilight would be if she took the time to read the table of contents.
Still not clear on what her Cutie Mark is. But at least she's getting skills in feilds of magic besides her CM talent.
Have tree destroy home when loop resets...
Sleep in tree house doing the next.
Brave little filly, ain't she.
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Well, it seems looping thingy extends to borders of room she is in. One could argue that the boards of treehouse are wood and came from tree, but so does paper. So it means said magical signature is lost over time
Whether. Although the phrasing of the whole sentence still seems awkward.
... what's the difference between the tree that grew out of control through the roof and the tree-house tree that wasn't affected?
Teleportation, and intermediate spell? I don't think so, that belongs in advanced I reckon.
5327200 Only things in the room she is in reset with her. As the treehouse is sitting in the tree, the tree is technically outside the room, and therefore unaffected.
Hmm..... that itch she wasn't aware of dosent have anything to do with her temperature dose it?
>Sweetie felt a shiver pass through her body as she cast it, and sighed as an itch she wasn’t aware of vanished
HAWT
>Sweetie wanted to use that spell more often, it felt really good
DRUGS!
5395182 u make me laff boi
5421185 :DDD
5325723 U BUKIN KIDDING MEE
5489838
You do know there's such a thing a lower case right? And I'm not.
It was the most hastily, thrown together, out of nowhere, poorly explained thing. "She connects hearts ..." 99.999% of the time it is never shown. What has been shown, and would have made loads more sense is a more generalized magic ST.
1) It's what she's been doing this whole time. Other than looping. And would still cover that random Heart Song thing.
2) Ponies (and this is an average, other than magic based CM) s have a harder time with spells outside there CM. Yet almost effortlessly, Sweets is picking up new spells, and more spells than any non-magic based uni. Even high level stuff that we rarely see outside Trixie and Twilight. Not counting physical Dieties, Ali 's are a whole different ball game.
3) Cutie Marks correlate to their natural / innate magical ability. What there strongest at.
We never see a glimpse at a heart song. Heck since Twilight Time she's been dumping herself into learning magic. Much like she's been doing in this fic. We get a canon explanation to why we aren't getting a singing based CM in the show.
And
3) It's almost never used. Ever. We see it once when it's tossed into the story, and rather than just being a spell in her spell reserve (didn't Twilight ascend for making new magic. Sweetie invented a new spell and notta, she needs to call Twilight out on that.). She gets a CM out of it. Here she is learning more spells than a pony with a song based CM would get. Inventing, making, and learning stuff up a freaking storm.
Yet no Spell Inventor CM. No Magic Insight CM, just something we see used twice. And honestly the Cutie Mark story for it took up what, 5 paragraphs.
_____
So no I'm not bucking kidding you. We get several different expressions of Bloom's and Scoots CM. Both of which are so fast they can be surmised in one chapter without preamble. But I can deal because they are side points that needed to be rushed over in order to progress the story. Then skipped with the hand wave (you already saw it happen).
Yet the main character who nearly out ran an Ali, and Dash. Who has shown great magical ability. A) hasn't suffered CFIS (Cutie Mark Failure Insanity Syndrome) 20 odd loops in. B) Never goes into her CM, C)barely ever mentions it, and D) almost 99% of the time never does anything related to her CM.
How she's kept something she never uses, is going to use, and for the most part ignores (rather than the random 1 out of X spells in her repertoire) is beyond me. And has confounded me ever since it has been decided to keep something so ill defined rather than drop it one loop, and have it die. It's not like she'd miss it, or miss out on the spell she invented ... and for some reason nopony makes a big a deal as Twilight playing editor.
Okay, now I know she's not gonna have it next chapter. This is a great story! Good job!
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How come no one in time travel stories who is told that someone is in a time loop, and then believes them, has an existential crisis? I mean, who they are for the past few days just vanish from existence! How can that thought not horrify anyone? It's not like they know if they technically die or not each reset, right?
5583340 Ahem. You mean Canterlock.
you know your life is weird when this is a normal discussion
Wait, she was asleep, then slipped into slumber? Is sleep different from slumber?
Ya know, I have a problem about using passive voice in my stories. This author is much better about it.
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That is the same thought I had
wake-me-up-inside Idk where I've heard that be I've to feel as if I've heard it from some song along time ago. If it's not something from a song I heard a long time ago I'm going feel stupid/
7273954
I don't think this was intentional, but maybe like going from rem to deep? Though rem occurs sparsley between bouts of deep sleep.
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"bring me to life"