A/N: Regarding Forever, I think I will continue it. I'm not 100% sure, but I'd hate to see it get unfinished and abandoned. And it really matters a lot to me, really. I can never complete a self-imposed project, and hopefully these two fics I'm writing can change that. I want to be more productive one way or another.

Anyways, enjoy chapter 2!

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Star Swirl calmly opened the door to his room, but instead of the door moving, the stallion accidentally teleported himself to his bed. With a yelp, Star Swirl jumped out of the mattress and analyzed what had just happened. He didn't do that on purpose, he just wanted to open a door! Well... It was probably a side effect of upgrading to alicorn magic, right? He needed some time before he got used to it.

The stallion walked over to the mirror in his room and removed his hat and cape on the way there, tossing them aside. He wanted to have a good look at himself to see if there were any sort of anomalies he could fix. And it turns out he was right! Star Swirl's eyes widened in shock after realizing his eyes were a very bright red, and his horn was glowing with magic. He expected the same explosive bubble incident from earlier happening, so he instinctively flinched and waited for the worse.

"Oh no!" He eeked.

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...

Star Swirl popped one eye open when he felt nothing had happened and quickly looked over at himself at the mirror again. This time very closely. It seemed his horn was stuck with that glow, but so far nothing bad had happened, save perhaps for the accidental teletransportation he experienced earlier.

The stallion made a squeaky smile and headed towards his bed, plopping down without a care. After shifting into a more comfortable position and placing a blanket on top of himself, Star Swirl sighed deeply and closed his eyes, ready to drift off.

"Ah... Finally, I can get some rest now..." He muttered.

THE NEXT DAY (DUN DUN DUUUUUUUNNNNN)

Star Swirl opened his eyes groggily when he heard someone calling from outside. He yawned and stretched as he rose to his knees. After a few more moments for listening he realized the voice that was calling out was Clover's. So he decided to head for the door and-

Wait a minute, why bothering opening door by door when he could just teleport himself in a flash so easily now? The stallion looked over at his hat and cape, tossed over to the side last night and which were now lying on the floor. Star Swirl began to make his horn shine to levitate his clothes towards him, but instead he caused the clothes to teleport towards him and dress him automatically. The problem was that he accidentally made them purple in the process.

"What the...?" He asked, then groaned, lighting his horn again to dye his clothes back to their usual color. Then he casted the teletransportation spell and reappeared in in the library's main hall, right in front of the door leading outside. Star Swirl checked to see everything was in order and smiled smugly, then opened the door with his magic. Clover was still knocking the door, and as soon as Star Swirl opened it, her hoof swung in the air.

"Ah!" The mare eeked and looked at Star Swirl. He looked... Off, "Oh, hello Star Swirl. Did you... complete your spell?" she asked, staring at his red irises and... bags under his eyes? They looked a shade darker from his natural fur color.

"Hello Clover," Star Swirl huffed proudly, "Why yes, yes I did." he replied, expecting Clover to see the changes he had done to his body. But the only thing the mare could see were the new eyes, the wings were barely notable, mostly because they were covered by his robe and you know... those eyes, again.

"So you... changed your eye color?" She asked, confused, "Didn't you already make an eye-changing spell years ago?" she asked.

"What-? No! This is just a side effect!" Star Swirl snapped and with a flash of magic he made his cape and hat disappear, then he opened his wings fully, which made Clover flinch and step back, "This is the main feature! The wings! I'm an alicorn now!" he ranted.

The mare on the other hand felt her jaw drop. How did he do this? More importantly, why would he do that? As far as she knew, it wasn't right to become an alicorn, you had to earn that status, right? Just like the two princesses, Celestia and Luna, did. Her shocked face soon turned into a serious frown.

"Um, Star Swirl, I don't think this is correct," She admitted, "I mean, what's the point of doing that? I-It doesn't make any sense at all!"

Star Swirl's eyes widened for a while, then frowned, "Oh come on, what fun is there in making sense all the time anyways? Besides, this DOES make perfect sense!" he snarked, flapping his wings in frustration, "Alicorns are the most powerful ponies in Equestria," he explained, "It is only natural that I enhanced my magic capacity sometime soon. Isn't that logical enough?" he inquired.

Clover darted her eyes left and right, feeling a bit intimidated by the situation. She didn't know why, but something told her this was about to go horribly wrong. "But..." She sighed, relaxing and lowering her head and looking at Star Swirl, "Reaching alicorn status is not something ponies can achieve with regular magic... You know that ponies need to understand empathetic magic to transcend! Friendship! Besides-"

"Besides nothing!" Star Swirl interrupted, stomping his hoof, "Friendship is ridiculous, and it's not the only way to become an alicorn!" he whined and folded his wings. Clover huffed and noticed Star Swirl's horn was glowing.

"Are you doing something?" The mare asked.

"Yes I am, I'm being disappointed at you right now." The stallion hissed.

"No, I mean your horn," Clover exclaimed, pointing at Star Swirl's forehead, "Why is it glowing? Are you doing magic?"

"What? No, not really," Star Swirl admitted, shifting a bit, "It's another side effect."

"Another?!" Clover asked, slightly concerned, "I guess I can deal with the eye change... And maybe the alicorn status, but that is not natural!" she eeked, "Your horn looks like it's about to come apart from all that magic inside it!"

Star Swirl rolled his eyes and with a flash he made his clothes reappear on him, "Don't be ridiculous, Clover, there is no such thing as your horn exploding from too much magic," he huffed and exited the library, closing the door with his magic and almost bumping into Clover in the process, "Now if you excuse me I have to train my magical abilities."

Clover looked at Star Swirl with concern, then frowned and began to walk along with him, "I'm coming with you!" she exclaimed, "I won't let you alone with the way you're acting."

Star Swirl frowned deeply and then turned his head away from Clover's direction, "Hmph, fine, but let me tell you one thing, miss," he said, then turned around to glare at Clover again, "Nothing that you might do or say will convince me from changing this back."

Clover's ears dropped in slight fear.

A FEW HOURS LATER

Star Swirl and Clover had reached a clearing in the forest nearby. The bearded stallion looked around for things to try his new powers on, when suddenly he noticed a little fluffy bunny hopping along the clearing, not noticing the two ponies. Star Swirl grinned deviously as his horn began to glow. Clover on the other hand was looking around at the scenery, when she turned around to see what Star Swirl was doing, she gasped.

POOF!

In a flash, the poor innocent bunny had been transformed into... An orange with bunny legs and tail.

Star Swirl stared at the monstrosity he had created, dumbfounded. When he was still a unicorn, spells like this really drained him and took lots of concentration, but now he had switched up this poor forest creature in the blink of an eye, and he didn't feel tired at all. The orange-bunny was squirming and rolling around on the ground in confusion, which caused Star Swirl to crack up.

"PFFFT! Ahahah!" The stallion laughed, stomping his hooves. Clover approached the orange-bunny and looked over at Star Swirl with a frown.

"Star Swirl! What was that about?" She complained, placing a hoof on the half-fruit half-animal creature to cease its movements, "We came all the way over here just so you could turn a bunny into this? Turn him back to normal!" she demanded, releasing the animal after it stopped spazzing out.

Star Swirl ceased his laughter and glanced over at Clover, "Ah, you're no fun. But no, we didn't come all the way over here just to zap a rabbit," he confirmed and with a shine of his horn, the bunny returned to normal and hopped away as quickly as it could, "I came here to test out and control my new magic, you just followed me. And it seems you don't really know what this spell meant."

Clover rolled her eyes, if there was anyone who was being the opposite of fun here, it was him. "No I don't, really." She admitted, looking at her mentor with an unimpressed expression.

"You don't?" Star Swirl eeked and facepalmed, but quickly placed his hoof back on the ground again, "This spell is one of the hardest to perform of all, and it requires absolute concentration, right?" he asked.

Clover nodded slowly, "And...?"

"And? I just did it in the blink of an eye for pony's sake!" He exclaimed, stomping his hoof, "This means now any sort of magic will be nothing but a simple trick for me!" he stated proudly, then looked around and stroked his beard at the same time, "...Hmm..." he huffed, then began to make his horn glow yet again. His horn quickly created a thin bubble field that began to expand and touch the ground and grass, this caused the land to turn from green to a pink checkered pattern. Clover took notice of this and yelped, backing off as the bubble expanded.

The magic bubble reached Clover, but thankfully it didn't do anything to her. Soon the magic touched some trees, turning them into crystal. After a while, however, the trees got uprooted and began to float, turning upside down, and poor Clover wasn't safe from this effect, either, as she began to levitate and spin around slowly.

Star Swirl's horn returned to its 'natural' dim glow state as he noticed what he had done. Even without his horn's power, all the changes he had done stayed the same.

"Eep!" Clover yelped, flapping her legs, "Put me down, Star Swirl! This is madness!"

Star Swirl looked at his apprentice with concern and began to make his horn glow. In a flash, soon everything was back to normal. The trees became natural again and returned to the ground without a scratch, the grass and dirt returned to their natural state and Clover fell to the ground with a thud.

"Ow..." Clover whined, her eyes were spinning before she shook her head and looked up to see Star Swirl approaching her.

"Just a simple trick," Star Swirl grinned, "I think it's obvious I now have a greater control over my magic, isn't it?" he asked smugly, "And you thought that spell meant bad news."

But who said Clover changed her mind about that statement?