Since Equestria began all of the inhabitants have wondered why they cannot do magic like the Unicorns and Princesses can. Only in these last few millennia, with the discovery of the Great Starswirl the bearded, have they discovered that the horn of these Ponies is what allows them to cast such magic. Many have theorised that there must be a way for non-unicorns to perform such magic without a horn. Until one day a Pegasus by the name of CoconutSwirl invented a device that would change equestrian history FOREVER.
Mature Content Warning: Involves Course Language Not suitable for the Younger Audience.
Prologue [Insanity is just another word for Intelligence]
“I’ll show those ponies... I’ll show them all! I’ll show them all and… and… and SLAP THEM IN THE FACES WITH IT!!! HAHA!” I yelled into the forest outside Stalliongrad. I’ve been walking in one direction forever and my hooves were killing me. “Since when was the tree house this far away from Stalliongrad?” I asked myself to which I answered. “When you wanted to start doing magic like all the damned unicorns Coco...”
I was extremely tired from the 2 hour journey I’d been on and I’d previously been insulted from my stupid now ex friends. Al because they thought I was insane for wanting to alter my body to be able to perform magic like them... It’s not my fault I’m a Pegasus... Is it?
I was raised it that city I’ll have you know. Bucking greatest city in all of Equestria for an Inventor like me. I’ve been all around Equestria looking for a quiet place to stay and practice my hobby in peace but where ever I go I always get called upon by Celestia to make her guard more armour because they damage it in practice. I don’t even understand the point of it if the guards she has can’t fight and even if they could there aren’t any problems the Princess can’t handle herself.
Your probably wondering why the Princess asks... more like forces to make armour for her guard. Well I come from a long line of Equestria’s finest craftsponies. The Stallions in the Family have special talents with something related to the Blacksmith side of craft, and with the few that didn’t they still had fair knowledge of the craft. I was one of the few, but with my cutiemark of blueprints it didn’t take long for me to improve her majesty’s armour. Causing her to look to me for any new armour she needed.
I admit that the armour I made had its flaws that I could easily improve. I was only a young colt when Celestia put out notice for a competition for a new type of armour for her royal guard.
Now where was i? Oh that’s right.
“I can’t wait to see the looks on their faces when I shock them with their own magic…” I mumbled to myself with my eyes fixed to the ground. I continued to ramble on about my ideas and the chaos that could be brought from this and… “oof!” In my anger I must have started to gallop and ran into a tree. I looked up to see a good sight. “Oh good I’m home.” I said before flying up and through the window of the large maple tree that I called home.
[Third Pony]
Little did CoconutSwirl know that the Tree he called home would be the Birth place of one of the most destructive things in Equestria and more so…
As I put down my saddle bags that I dragged with me, I looked around the smaller room of my two roomed tree house. It isn’t exactly roomy as it could barely hold more than 10 ponies in it. And that’s if you had them all piled on top of each other. Its main purpose is to great any visitor I get, like I get visitors HA, so it’s not used often. The only real thing in the room is the door.
I picked a few things out of my bag. “One, phoenix feather… one litre of liquefied rainbow… urgh…” I think I’m going to be sick. “A unicorn’s horn and a string of wax.” I checked off my mental list. To be honest I didn’t think I would find a horn and I thought I’d have to kill for it but, my contacts caught wind of a recent dead unicorn and all I had to do was snatch the horn from the coffin and make a run for it.
I put these things on my back and left the bag by the door. I trotted over to a hole in the corner of the room and I jumped through it landing in my basement. Even though I don’t fly often wings are useful because if I were to use this kind of transport in my house without them the glass containing liquefied rainbow would’ve smashed on my back. But it only cracked slightly.
After recovering from the small fall I trotted carefully over to a workbench with a blueprint attached to the wall behind it and set down all my things so I could get to work straight away. I pulled out a steel frame from under the bench and placed it to the left of where I was working. “That’s for later.” I told myself.
I picked up the unicorn horn and placed it in the middle of the bench. “Now to drill a thin cylinder through it.” I seem to like talking to myself… maybe I’m just a bit of a loner? I shook my head. “Stop thinking of irrelevant stuff Coco or you’re going to ruin a chance to prove those sons of horse’s wrong.”
I pulled out a manual drill, because I’m not a unicorn I can’t get a magical one, and a metal clasp. I set up the clasp and put the horn in to that it was horizontal and pointing the opposite way away from me. Without a second thought I grabbed the drill and place in in the centre that I marked with a piece of lead. While I held the drill in place with my right hoof I reached over the bench to a hammer that was hanging on the wall, once I had the hammer in my left hoof I smashed the drill into the horn.
The drill made a satisfying crack, reminds me of when you stretch in the morning and you crack your bones, I looked at the drill and saw that it had gone in a couple millimetres maybe even a centimetre. I nodded for whatever purpose it does and put the hammer back to I could free my left hoof. With my left hoof I put it next to my right hoof to support the drill as I use my mouth to twist it so that I made a long clear cylindrical cut in the horn.
The horn was about the size of Princess Celestia’s own so naturally I wasn’t surprised when the drill stops pushing in because it hit the handle, and I still wasn’t all the way through. No matter though. I remove the drill and put it to the side, picking up the string of wax and the phoenix feather that I collected from Ponyville one morning, it was literally just lying there waiting to be picked up.
As I place the two items in the middle of the bench I notice that there were wooden shavings that weren’t there previously. “How odd…” I said. Brushing the shavings aside I placed down the two items with the phoenix feather underneath the wax so that the feather would wrap around it creating a cocoon for the wax.
This didn’t work out very well as the feather would keep unfolding and ruining the cocoon. I knew this would happen and it’s exactly why I bought the liquefied rainbow, it’s so delicate yet so sticky so it won’t break the wax or the feather, and rainbow has, magical properties so maybe it will help transfer the magical energy from my body into the horn.
My plan was to get a connection going on from my body to this horn so I could then use it as my own. The exact reason for the steel frame was so it would hold the horn to my head while the rainbow had dried. That’s if the horn will even respond to my will.
The light Celestia’s sun produced was now fading as it made way for Luna’s beautiful moon. I have to admit that I seem to have a thing for blue mares. Don’t know why though I just seem to be drawn to blue.
I pressed a button on the wall and the sound of a rock hitting a piece of metal resonated throughout the room. Damn it… I went for the button again, but this time I slammed the button with my hoof really hard. The same sound resonated through the room again but this time a candle flickered on.
Yea I bet I impressed you there, a button connected to a piece of flint smashing against steel to create a spark onto a candle I place there, one of my first inventions for my family which was stolen.
With new light I continued with my project. I grabbed the rainbow and poured it over the phoenix feather, which then folded into a cocoon all on its own. Smiling I picked up the very end of the cocooned wax and slid it into the horn… kind of dirty isn’t it? *SLAP* I hit my self with my left hoof. “Snap out of it Coco FOCUS!!” I yelled at myself as I slid the wax all the way in.
When the whole thing was in I looked at my hoofiwork and just before I was about to take it out and prop in onto my head the horn started to glow a bright pink and sealed up the hole in its base. “SHIT!” I ripped the horn out of the clasp and propped it on my head and did what the book on unicorn magic told me to do. A simple magical energy discharge spell.
As I held it there with my eyes shut I started to think all of this was a waste of time, until… Nothing. Nothing happen at all. Except… “GAH STUPID UNICORNS WERE RIGHT!” I Yelled and threw the horn over to the wall where it smashed and I trotted to my bed which was only a few metres away and I picked up a tennis ball I found and threw it at the candle out of anger.
The ball smashed the candle out, but not before smashing the glass of liquefied rainbow and spilling it all over the place. “Ah stupid ball doing shit I don’t care about.” I mumbled as I close my eyes and drifted into an angry sleep.
[Third Pony]
As Coconut’s Blood boiled and he though there was no hope in a Pegasus doing magic, the horn that he smash, glowed throughout the night and in the morning Swirl will find that sometimes, destruction is the pathway to construction.
Chapter 2 [Magic is Infinate, and so is Imagination]
The Sun Shined Brightly throughout the forest around the tree house as all the animals came out to eat and play. The sun light shine through the curtains and on the face of our young inventor who was woken from his well deserved rest.
[First Pony]
Celestia had to wake me to more misery. The dreams of failure didnt help either, but i'll get over them soon enough. I lay on the bed for a while with my eyes open so the light would wake me enough to get out of bed. I always hate just waking up and jumping out of bed especialy when there isnt anything waiting for me when i get up.
Speaking of nothing waiting i just remembered about my sorry excuse for an experiment. I got up and took a look around the room to make sure everything was still intact and i didnt destroy anything else, but it was all there. At least thats what i thought before i looked at my bench and saw the rainbow had stained the floor boards. "aw geeze now i have to scrub the floor." I mumbled angrily before geting up on all four hooves and trotting over to the cupboard to get a scrubbing brush.
Opening the door i grabbed a scrubbing brush and began to trot over to the bench when i had broken the liquefied rainbow glass. When i was about half way there i stepped on a small, but sharp object that burried itself into my back right hoof. "Oh CELESTIA!" i yelled a i hopped forward on one hoof holding the slowly bleeding hoof.
As you would expect from a hopping pony, i fell over face first into the wooden floor board. "oh... this is not my day.." I said now that the pain from my hoof was replace with a new pain all over the front part of my body.
With a groan i got up ignoring the pain as much a possible, and i looked over at a pile of shattered unicorn horn. "huh?" i said noticing the horn that i threw and broke the night before. Shattered parts of the long horn were everywhere. I stood there staring at the mess and i notced that at the center were two thin parts of the horn which seem to be connected before and the inner layer was lined with a wood of some sort.
I swear that it only got weirder as i carefully made my way through the broken shards of horn, limping because i my hoof, but i didnt mind. As i approached the centre i noticed an even bigger part of the horn, or atleast what i thought was horn. It looked like wood, mabye the same type of wood that was lining the inside of the horn, i walked up to it and picked it up, it looked weird with two knots in the wood at the thickest end and spiraling down into a point from the second knot.
I hopped up in the air with my three hooves and open my wings to take flight and hover over to a book case i had stashed away in the corner, or what i thought would be the corner seeing this is a circular room.
When i got over to the bookshelf i flew up to the very top shelf to grab a book of myths and legands and as i flew down to a comfy chair i sat down in an awkward fashion. I sat like the legandary human did long ago, or at least what the myths say. I put my hoof up on a smaller chair that i would normaly use to jump up and get some book that werent on the top shelf but too high for me to get on two hooves.
As i got comfy forgetting at the small leak of blood coming out of my hoof, i flipped through the pages of the book to the myths section. When i got the i flipped through a couple of pages and found a page about human magic. The book spoke about humans doing magic, and while they didnt have a horn, they use other magical outlets like magical rings that they made from the horn of a unicorn.
At this i spat out the stick and yelled "HOW DID I MISS THIS!!!! HOW DID ANYPONY MISS THIS!!!!" I quickly read throught the rest of it.
The Princesses have alowd some scientists to try make a bracelet out of a fat horn of an unkown 'DEAD' unicorn, there has been no sucess in getting anypony other than the unicorns to cast magic. There have been many theories as to why this is not so. One was that normal ponies are not ment to cast spells and another was that Celestia Canceled all of the magic in Equestria from flowing through the Earth ponies and Pegasi, but some have gone so far as to accuse the Princesses of sabotage to the devices.
Although some of these theories are ridiculous there is one theory that has never been tested nor thought of. It is that there are special words that the humans use to Unlock the device by giving it a name and calling apon it when they wish to activate the magic. This is Rediculous as an inanimate object cannot hear you and has just been dismissed.
There is no way any of these could be true so they have once again been dismissed as myth.
"well they are truly silly arent they?" i asked myself looking at the stick in my lap.
i picked it up with one hoof and asked it "well what should i name you? Sticky mc' Sticks?" whilst finishing my sentence that stick flew up into the air and the tip of it glowed white.
"Braden will do fine young pony."
[Author Brony]
Well CoconutSwirl... or me. has made a stick that seems to have a name and a mind of its own.. how does this stick talk? where did its name come from and why has nopony ever tried this before? Found out in the Next chapter of The Invention of the Wand.
