Blaze POV

"Girls, I can explain." I quickly said.

"You are going to explain why you have been lying to us?" Apple Bloom said.

"Or how you decided to be a colt?" Scootaloo said.

"What about messing with our feelings and pretending to be our friends." Sweetie Belle said.

All three looked very upset about finding out I have been lying to them. They deserve to know the truth. I began to tell them and the others about how I got turned into a colt and how I can't change back until I get a cure from Zecora. I explained why I kept what happened to me a secret as Cancer clearly showed why when he found out. When I finished, the Crusaders had a couple tears come from their eyes.

"I hope you forgive me for lying to you. I do want to be your friends and will gladly still join the Cutie Mark Crusaders. If you still accept me that is." I said.

They got into a huddle and discuss. When they came out of it, they nodded to each other. All of a sudden, all three jumped at me and tackled me to the ground.

"Of course we forgive you." Apple Bloom said.

"We do want you to join the Cutie Mark Crusaders." Sweetie Bell said.

"And we do want to be friends." Scootaloo said.

"As long as you come with us sometime when we go crusading." Apple Bloom said.

"Deal. Maybe I will discover a third special talent and get another cutie mark." I said.

"Wait! Third? How did you get a second one? I still don't have one for me." Al said with an angry tone.

"I was just as surprised as you are. I don't know if it will only appear on this form or will I also have it on my others."

"Now I need to work extra hard to get mine."

I grab the side of my head as the headache returned after the adrenaline wore off. "Ugh, now if I can just get rid of this stupid headache, everything will be peachy. For some reason, I can't heal it myself."

"Let me take a look." Colorful Sparks said. His horn lit up and touched my head. He was then sent flying back. "I did not expect that. That is not a normal headache you are feeling."

"Then what the hell is it!"

"You are experiencing what unicorns get when they don't use magic for a long time. You have magical buildup. And it is massive. I never felt that much magical energy in a pony before."

"How to I make it stop."

"You have to use magic."

I just facehoof myself. Great, I have magical energy and I don't know how to release it. Guess I have to go see the only unicorn that can possibly help. "Seeing I need to use magic, yet I don't know how. Guess I have to go see Twilight to help me. I am going on ahead, Al. You can lead the others to where she lives." Before anypony could object. I teleported out of there and arrived in the library.

Once there, I quickly looked for Twilight. I found her organizing a book shelf. Before I could say anything, Twilight spoke first. "I know you are there Blaze. You are not going to scare me this time." She said.

"I see you are becoming aware of your surroundings." I said.

"No, I have a spell active that informs when somepony does not use the front door like they should."

"Well this is sorta an emergency. I need your help."

Twilight stops what she was doing and walked over to where I was standing. "What's wrong?"

I placed a hoof against my head as another wave of pain hit. "I thought I was just having a normal headache throughout the day. I just found out it is actually magical buildup. I need your help in getting rid of it."

"It can't be that bad. You are still new to the magic so your magical font can't be dangerous to you."

"My friend that determined I had this was sent flying from the recoil of it. I think it is bigger than you think."

"Let me take a look myself. This will only take a sec."

"Just be careful so you don't get sent flying back too."

Twilight activated her horn. She touched my head with it. She quickly pulled away. "That was close! How are you still standing? Any other Unicorn would be screaming out in pain or be knocked out by it."

"Don't ask me. I just want the pain to go away."

"The only safe way is to teach you how to use magic. I am going to have to give you a crash course in it. Spike, if anypony comes in, we are not to be disturbed."

"Will do!" Spike said.

"Alright Blaze, the first step to use magic is to know where it is in your body. We are going to dive into your mind to find your magical font. Are you ready?"

"Come on in." Twilight activated her horn and dove into my head. Inside, I am in my human form in the empty white space. "Alright, we need to find where in your body your magic is being stored. I need you to close your eyes and look inside yourself for a small spark."

"Ok" I closed my eyes and began to search. The space around me began to show various things at hyper speed. Twilight could not make out what she was seeing. It soon landed in an area where they were on a cliff looking over three bodies of water. I opened my eyes to look at them.

"Blaze, you sure this is where your magic spark is at? This nothing like us Unicorns have."

"I believe so. What is your font look like to you?"

"It is a beach next to a very large lake. I think the Princesses are about the size of a sea."

"Well I felt for a spark or something different in my body and that led us to here. If I have to take a guess, one of them is my ki source and the other is my chakra source."

"How come we are looking at them from here?"

"I wanted to verify which one is which. Don't want to go to one and have nothing happen. Give me a minute."

I started to build up my ki first. In the center of lakes, a vortex formed and began to draw the water up to the sky. I stopped and the vortex went away too. I moved to building up my chakra energy. This time, a vortex appeared on another lake. Then one appeared in the clouds above, heading higher into the sky. I released the energy and they disappeared. I now looked at Twilight and she was confused at what she saw.

"Blaze, how come one lake showed a vortex, the other had one on it and on the clouds above?"

"The first one is my ki source. I only need that for my ki abilities. The other one is my chakra source. It requires that and some of my spiritual energy to use them. Too much of one or the other will affect how the jutsu reacts. It has to be the proper balance to make them work."

"So I take that third body of water is your magic font."

I nodded. Suddenly, I got another wave of headache pain. The area around shook like an earthquake. We quickly back away from the edge as it started to fall apart. Once the pain subsided, so did the shaking. "Let's hurry before they get even worse." I said. I moved us so we were now next to the magic source.

Twilight quickly looked around and was impressed at what she saw. The body of water was bigger than she realized, she could not see the other side of it. Twilight turned to me and asked, "I was expecting yours to be the size of an average Unicorn. It now looks like you might have a bigger source than me. We need to work fast before another shakes this place up."

I nodded in agreement. "So what is the next step oh The Great, Wise, Twilight Sparkle?" I said while bowing to her, stroking her ego.

"Time for you to take a dip." She then quickly shoves me in the water.

I jump up and shouted. "BURRR! The water is icy cold!"

"That is because you have not found how to handle it. Magic is more of a feeling. If you are nice to it and not force it, it will help you with what you are trying to do. By forcing it, you can create a backlash and it could lead to dire consequences."

"So, I need to treat magic like a friend and ask for it to aid me when I need it. Was it necessary to push me in the water then?"

"No, that was for all the times you scared or tricked me. Now take in the magic into your heart and let it flow. Let it embrace your feelings. Magic like happy feelings like, joy, compassion, and love. The best emotion to use with magic is serenity. Do you feel it?"

I closed my eyes and began to focus on this. I had my hands down to my side in the water. I soon felt the water slowly traveling up the arms and heading to my chest where my heart is. It started to warm up to me. I let it feel my emotions I have for this world. I could actually feel the magic embracing my emotions.

Twilight was watching this take place. She ready herself in case something went wrong. The world in my mind began to change. The nearby trees and bushes began to sprout beautiful flowers of every color and style. Some of them were even the colors of the rainbow. Twilight was happy that I was taking this well.

-Out in the Real World-

3rd POV

"Come on Spike. We want to check on Blaze to see how he is doing." Al said.

"Twilight told me to not let anypony or human in while she is helping him get his magic under control. I am sorry, but you have to wait out here." Spike said.

There was then a loud crash within the Library. Everypony outside feared the worse. Al grabbed Spike and picked him up. Spike thrash out a bit and blew some fire at Al. "I am sorry for this Spike, but we cannot wait any longer." Al said.

Lightning Trails went to the door and quickly opened it. When he stepped inside, he got hit by several books. He jumped back outside to avoid any more hits.

"What happened?" Colorful Sparks asked.

"I got bombarded by several books. I think they were thick ones." Lightning Trails said as he rubbed the side of his head where he got hit.

The others looked through the opened doorway to see what is going on. Twilight's horn was still glowing it's light purple color. The odd thing now was Blaze's whole body was glowing yellow. The objects around the room had the same color around them. Both of them were in the center of the room so none of the objects were getting near them.

Spike prides himself free and quickly closed the door. "Now you see why Twilight said she did not want nopony to disturb here. She was worried they get hurt while she tries and get Blaze's magic under control." He said.

"We are sorry for trying to barge in. It was just the amount of pain I felt when I scanned him was nothing I never experienced. We are all hoping he is doing fine." Colorful Sparks said.

"He is with Twilight Sparkle. Her special talent is magic." Sweetie Belle said.

"We don't know another pony , besides the princesses, that knows so much." Apple Bloom said.

"If anypony that can help Blaze, it is her." Scootaloo said.

"That's right." Spike said. "One thing I am wondering though, who are you other ponies? I know Al, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom. I don't know the rest of you or how you know Blaze?"

"They are the other ponies Blaze and I trained with while in Canterlot." Al said. "Let me introduce you to Star Dust, Lightning Trails, Colorful Sparks, Cancer, Fang, and Dragon." He pointed to each one as he said their name.

"Nice to meet you all. Though, I have one question, why is your name after my species?" Spike said to Dragon.

"My brother and I were named after the constellations. They were glowing the brightest when we were born so our parents decided to name us after them." Dragon said.

"Plus when they call for him, they thought an actual dragon was coming into our village for a while." Cancer said.

"I recently met another Zebra recently. Although, she does not talk the same way you do. She talks in rhymes." Spike said.

"You must have met a Shaman. They are priest who practice in magic and other things. They talk that way as most of the spells they use rhyme too." Fang said.

"Yea, she is currently working on gathering the ingredients to cure Blaze of the Poison Joke. It is very funny what that plant does to those who get infected."

"Would you mind telling us her name and where she lives? We just would like to know as there are not many Zebras in Equestria." Cancer asked.

"Her name is Zecora and she lives in a hut in the EverFree Forest. I still don't know why she wants to live in that dangerous place."

The Zebra siblings were shocked when they heard that name. They recognized it from their hometown. They don't know if she would recognize them after all these years.

-Back in Blaze's Mind-

Blaze POV

"You are doing good Blaze. Now I need you to slowly let go of the magic. Let it flow back into your font. That's it." Twilight said.

I was following her instructions and let the magical energy leave on its own free will back into the body. Once it was all gone. I opened my eye and saw what my mind created. "Did I imagine all this from my emotions?" I asked.

"You did Blaze. You really do have a big heart and care about everything around you. I think this is more beautiful than the Canterlot Gardens."

"It is very close, depending on the pony's perspective. I think the headaches have stopped."

"That's good. Now let's head back and see what you did to my library." Twilight said with a sigh.

"Sure thing. Wait, what do you mean?"

"You will see."

We left my mind and returned to the real world. I looked around and saw all the books and everything else were scattered out on the floor. "What happened here? This is not how I saw it when I arrived."

"You happened. When you tapped into your magic, it was not focused on a task. So you pretty much picked everything up and had been spinning around us. That is why I asked Spike for no disruptions as they would have been hit by them."

Just then, the front door opened slowly. "Is it safe to come in now? We heard all the book dropping to the floor." Spike said from behind the door.

"We? Who else is out there with you?" Twilight asked.

Spike finished opening the door and let everypony standing out there to come inside. They all carefully walked in, making sure not to step on anything besides the floor.

"Hey Blaze, you feeling better now?" Star Dust asked.

"Al, who are all these ponies and how do they Blaze?" Twilight asked looking more confused.

"These are the other ponies we trained within Canterlot. They arrived this morning to temporally be placed at the Royal Guard post here." Al said. He went down the line again and introduced them.

Once introductions were done, Twilight said, "Well it is nice to meet the other ponies and Zebras that trained with Blaze and Al. I am sorry you had to wait outside while I help Blaze."

"We saw the reason why." Fang said.

"And felt it." Lightning Trails said as he rubbed the sore spot on his head.

Twilight looked at all the books lying on the ground with a sad face. "Well, the good news is Blaze doesn't have a magic build up anymore. Bad news for me is I am going to be up all night organizing all these books, again."

I placed a hoof onto Twilight's shoulder. "Allow me to help you, seeing I caused this mess." I said.

"I know in your human form, you were able to quickly put back some of the books that gathered on the floor. This is the ENTIRE library. There is no reference to where everything was next to. I have been meaning to label the shelves, it is just some projects have been keeping me busy. How are you going to put them back while stuck as a colt?"

"With magic."

"You can't use magic! You haven't gotten any training in the incantations and focusing your magic. You can really hurt yourself!"

"She is right Blaze. You need proper training in the basics before you try something as this." Colorful Sparks said.

"I had lifted all of this with no focus while I was discovering my magical font. I think I have a way. Please trust me and stand back."

"I will be at the ready to stop you if it becomes too much for you." Twilight said.

I nodded. As I moved to the center of the room, Twilight joined me while the other back into the entryway. I stood on my hind legs and closed my eyes. I raised my fore hooves in front of me. I repeated the process of how to access my magic. I opened my eyes and saw my hooves soon began to glow. I focused on the books and ask the magic to help me guide them back to where they belong in the library. It started slowly. It took about a minute before a book glowed the same color as my hooves. It took a while, but is soon found its place on the shelves. Soon, more books follow, increasing in numbers.

Twilight whispered into my ear, "Blaze, how are you able doing this so soon and know exactly where these books are to go?"

"The control part is similar to chakra when I had to grab things while in pony form with my hooves. With magic though, it feels like actual arms are extending out and pick up the books. As to how I know where they are to go, I don't know. I am actually letting the books guide my magic back to where they are suppose to be," I said while remaining focused.

"You are very skillful and creative in some of the things you do. Not thinking the normal way to solve a problem, but to find a way with what you have access to."

"It's the Macgyver principle, to think out of the box and use what you have access to complete your objective."

Al started to laugh. While laughing, he said, "So true!"

"Who is this Macgyver? I never heard of that pony. Can you show me some of his work? I would like to understand more of his principle to see if I can apply it to some of my research." Twilight said sounding very interested in this character.

I had to keep my focus as I place the last book on the shelf. I wanted to laugh so hard right now, my face was hurting from trying to hold it in. Once my magic was done with placing the books, I fell onto my back and started to laugh out loud. Al was banging on the wall the entire time while laughing. The other ponies and dragon in the room were all wondering why we were the only ones laughing.

"What's so funny Blaze? Did you make up that name?" Lightning Trails asked.

I started to pull myself together so I can do my best to answer. While laughing a bit, I said, "I did not make him up, but he is a fictional character from our world. Oh you should hear about some of the things he did with everyday items he used to get himself out of a jam."

"Seeing you got levitation down, somewhat, we can get on to the next part of magic, barriers." Twilight said.

"Would love to Twi, but I am still am a colt and I have homework Miss. Cheerilee."

"Oh no you don't!" Twilight quickly places me in a magic bubble barrier. "You have been dodging me all week. How am I suppose to teach you magic like Princess Celestia if you are not here?"

"One, she did not set a deadline for you. Two, that was before I got poisoned and turned into an Earth pony colt. While I am stuck like this, I plan to have fun. Crusaders, I will see you at Sweet Apple Acres. For the rest of you, I will be home later tonight so we can catch up."

"I don't see how you are going anywhere while you are in there. I got this from my brother last year. It is his most powerful barrier."

"Really, guess he has not told you I already busted out of one of these already. But, I am not going to do that here. Don't want to destroy your place. So I am going to do this, Ninja Art! Teleport!"

3rd POV

Blaze fills the bubble with smoke and disappears. Twilight quickly looks over the barrier for any signs of stress. "How in Equestria can he do that, no pony should be able to escape from this." Twilight said.

"Remember, he is actually a human that is currently stuck in a colt body." Al said.

Twilight was getting very furious by now. "I am going to Sweet Apple Acres and see if Applejack can help me tie him up so I can teach him. Spike you are in charge of the Library!"

Twilight leaves and slams the door behind her.

"I don't want to be Blaze right now. It is never good when Twilight is determined to complete an assignment from Princess Celestia." Spike said.