Guardian Chap 4

by ~Sunjian54

The Equestrian Guardian

Chapter 4

David yawned and sat up looking at his watch, "6:00 am? Geez it's early." David mumbled as slowly began to rise from the bed. As he was moving however, he suddenly felt resistance. He looked back at the bed and noticed Twilight lying next to him with her hooves around him! David was confused, had Twilight gotten into the bed with him, or had he fallen asleep with her? His memory flashed back to the night before, he then realized what had happened. Twilight had fallen asleep at the party and David had carried her back home, but he had been so exhausted himself that he had fallen asleep in the same bed after tucking her in. "Ah well, I'm still kind of tired." he said sliding back into the bed. As he did the sun began to rise casting light into the room, as it did David noticed a smile on Twilights face. David couldn't help but smile, he laughed at himself however when he considered Twilight almost like a little sister. "Man David, you really are tired, thinking a pony could be the sister you never had." He yawned and quickly fell back asleep.

David woke up with a start when he felt something kick him (That and he fell off the bed.) David jumped to his feet and saw Twilight sitting up in her bed, her face bright red. "Why'd you kick me Twilight?" David asked rubbing his back. "Well… I woke up with you in my bed and my arms… well you scared me!" she said stuttering. "I'm sorry I scared you Twilight, but don't you remember what happened last night?" David asked changing into some new clothes since Rarity had delivered his suitcase. Twilight shook her head. "You fell asleep at the party last night, so I carried you home, but I was so tired that I fell asleep in the same bed after tucking you in." David said chuckling. "Oh, well thanks." She said getting out of bed and combing her mane. As David finished putting his clothes on, he decided that he would look around the library while he waited on Twilight. He began looking at all the different titles that he could see. History of Equestria, Equestrian Poetry Vol 1, Equestrian Atlas, Spells of Equestria. None of the books grabbed David's attention except the one with the silver spine and the title he couldn't make out. He grabbed the book off the shelf and noticed it was pretty light despite its thickness. He blew the dust off the front of the book revealing a patchy faded title which read: Elemental Magic for Beginners. David was immediately interested, he flipped the book open to the first chapter and began reading as quickly as possible. "The elements of Equestria are divided into 6 pieces, Fire: powerful, aggressive, and fierce. Earth: steadfast, unflinching, and stubborn. Water: calm, fast, and quiet. Air: ever-changing, determined, and forceful. Lightning: sudden, lethal, and deadly. And Shadow: dangerous, unpredictable, and unstable. Together these 6 elements comprised some of the first magic ever performed and harnessed by the ponies of Equestria." David's mind was racing, could he learn to use elemental magic? It had never been mentioned by Twilight and David could always try, what did he have to lose? David looked on and noticed a section of spells marked Level 1, since fire was the first element he decided to try it first. The instructions said he had to feel his inner fire to create a fireball. "Inner fire… powerful, aggressive and fierce. So maybe I have to feel aggressive and fierce when I strike?" David focused as hard as he could, blocking out everything else around him and concentrated on creating a fire spell. He focused hard, clenched his fist and thrusted it forward, but nothing happened. "Come on… I want to learn how to do this!" David shouted.

As he did however a ball of fire suddenly appeared in his hand. At first David thought to panic, but the fire wasn't hot, it felt warm and tolerable. It hovered right above his palm, the size of a baseball just waiting to be thrown. "So you got it down already." David jumped, Twilight had been watching from the stairway. "Well, I kind of have it down. I can't make it appear at will though. This one just showed up." he said indicating the fireball in his hand. "Well, you just learned how to do it, you just need practice." she concluded walking toward the door. "Practice…" David mumbled to himself. "You know Twilight, why don't you go have fun with everypony. I'm gonna stay and practice a bit more of this stuff."  "Okay, just don't burn the Library down okay…?" she advised as she and spike walked out the door. "Okay, fire's done for now. Let's try Water next." David said flipping the books pages, but to his surprise and shock the rest of the pages were blank. "Blank! Why are they blank?" David questioned as he continued to turn the pages. David's anger was mounting rapidly, he had just found a book of spells he could learn to use, and all of the pages except for the fire chapter were completely blank.

"Maybe I need to be outside to learn the other spells." He thought as he walked outside, around the Library and entered a small grassy region overlooking Ponyville. However even being outside did nothing to the blank pages. After a while he just gave up and went back to the fire spells. "Okay, the first spell was a fireball which I've gotten down… sorta. What's next…? Fire discs?" David looked over the spell description, the fire discs looked like Frisbees that David had always seen on Earth. David stood up and closed his hand like he was throwing a disc, and a ring of fire suddenly appeared in it. "Alright! Let's see what this thing can DO!" He shouted as he threw the ring off into the distance. It soared forward cutting through the air, sparks flying from it. It then reversed course and came right back at him full speed. David reached out his hand and caught it right before it went past his face. It vanished upon being caught, and he noticed that a small green checkmark had appeared in front of the fire disc description. David continued to read through the spells as quickly as possible, learning how to create torrents of fire from his hands, or make small flame tornadoes using the fire discs.

As the sun set behind him, he looked over the book. "Okay… 9 spells down 1 more to go. The final Fire spell: Flame Burst." David noticed a warning next to the spell: WARNING: DO NOT USE UNLESS NEEDED.  David laughed "Unless needed? Aren't all the spells needed?" David read over the instructions and stood up. He concentrated a small fire sphere in his hand, and positioning his fingers like a gun fired the sphere into a tree. "Flame…" he said opening his palm toward the tree. "BURST!" he clenched his fist, there was a flash of light and the tree exploded in front of him. David covered his face as hot wood splinters and branches rained down everywhere. One piece of wood lodged itself in his arm, it stung like crazy but he kept both arms up until the wood stopped falling. David looked at the carnage before him; there was no evidence to suggest that the tree had been there at all. The ground around where the tree had been was singed black from the explosion. David then realized what the warning in the book had meant. "If that had been a pony…" David fell to his knees sick to his stomach at the thought of what the spell was for. He silently picked up the book after he recovered at walked to the Library.

As he was about to open the front door however a gray Pegasus pony flew by and landed next to him. "Muffin" it said as it gave David a letter. "Thank you, um what's your name?" he asked the cross-eyed pony. "Ditzy Doo" the pony said as she flew off toward the town. David silently opened the letter ignoring the pain in his arm from the wood chunk. The letter was written on Gold-white paper and had a seal stamped on it. David read the letter:

Most dearest Student, It has come to my attention that the Human you met is very important to Equestria, I would like for you to bring him to meet me at around 2:00pm tomorrow. I would like to talk to this human and get to know him a little bit better.

You're Mentor, Princess Celestia

P.S: Ask him to bring his sword and musical instrument, Luna would like to hear it again.

David closed the letter and put it back into the envelope and left it on the table of the Library. He painfully removed the wood from his arm and began gathering his sword and other treasures. "If the princess wants to meet me... I better look my best." Next Chapter: Chapter 5 Estimated time remaining: 4 Hours, 42 Minutes