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Chapter 14: 14. Book Donations and WAR!
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThey arrived within a few minutes of walking from the library, to Midnights home. Midnight had asked Twilight to head over to Sweet Apple Acres to get Big Macintosh and a cart to pull the books back to the library. Rarity followed Twilight as the Princess duo stayed with Midnight in his home. Luna seemed to look around the home in fascination seeing other worldly goods.
"Please make yourself at home Celestia. I don't have much to offer but you are welcome either way." He smiled as he slowly made his way upstairs.
Celestia gave a smile and nod as she walked around the room looking at various objects. She came across a picture of a young boy and two elder people behind him. Several other photos were scattered around the home as she looked them all over. It was the young child from the first picture growing older. They all went along his life as he did various things. From graduating the boy scouts to getting a degree in college. She went into the kitchen looking around seeing that it was a little small for her to be in, but she could still move around easily enough. She looked at various food items and smelt of a few that she had never seen before. Some were very sweet while other smelled bitter or sour. She ran across a small booklet on the counter that caught her attention. She opened it to find recipes, all home made items in which Charles had gotten from friends and relatives back in his home world. She flipped through it casually then placed it back down, making a few mental notes to have her cooks try some of them later. She stopped for a moment as she heard some shuffling upstairs. She came back into the living room to see a long row of books floating from upstairs to outside on the porch, stacking them all up in order. After a couple minutes the book train ended as the last book went outside onto the porch.
Midnight walked quietly from Twilight's room upstairs into his room. Nothing could be heard as he entered. Luna popped around the corner from downstairs startling Celestia.
"Hey Tia, look at this." She smile waving a small yellowish object in front of her. "Its strange looking. I wonder what it does?" She said as she gently used magic to poke, prod, and move parts of the object around. She looked into the end of it that looked to be a long tube and nothing could be seen at the end. She continued playing with it until finally she found a slide that went back and forth. *click* *click* she looked worriedly at it as the slide locked into place and no longer moved. She quickly began to poke and prod it again until she found a small trigger with her magic and pulled it. The object let out a quiet PFFFFT noise as a little orange dart was sent flying across the room hitting the wall with a thud. Luna gasped
seeing what had just transpired, she picked up the dart pulling it up to her face inspecting it. It was very sturdy but squishy at the same time. She hmmed to herself and did the same actions to the object again sending another dart across
the room. She giggled excitedly and yelled for Midnight.
"Midnight! We are curious as to what this object is, could you please come tell us?" She spoke out in the royal whee. A quiet trot could be heard from upstairs as Midnight mad his way downstairs.
As he descended the staircase he looked to see Luna holding an old Nerf gun that he had as a child. He gave a chuckle shaking his head.
"That my dear princess is called a toy gun. It shoots out little foam darts. I used to play Nerf wars with friends when I was younger. It's actually quite fun, just don't shoot anyone in the eye or face and its safe to play with." he smirked.
Luna continued shooting darts until it ran out. She gave a small worried expression as it ran out of darts. She looked to Midnight who just gave a chuckle.
He took a hold of it and placed the darts into a small cartridge he had pulled from the gun then placed it back inside. He showed Luna how to aim with it and its other functions until her curiosity was satisfied. Luna played with it for a few more minutes until she had grown bored of it and then went back to hunting. Midnight made his way into the entrance of his study, at which point he found out that there was not enough room to fit in it comfortably so he began to pull books from just outside the door moving them outside.
"You have quite the library Midnight. Have you read all of these books?" Celestia said as she walked under the floating line of books.
"I have read them all many times over." He smiled but stopped as he could now recall every word of every book he had read. He stood frozen for a moment as did the train of books. Then proceeded to let them travel outside again. Celestia noticed his sudden stop and asked.
"Something wrong?"
"Not really, I just recalled every book I've ever read is all. It's strange, I could never remember more than a few of them before, and now I can remember everything I've ever read. Even stuff from when I was a child." He rubbed his head confused.
"That would be due to your new Alicorn magic. It helps you to remember all the details of everything you have ever come across, that way you can always think of an outcome to any given situation."
Celestia beamed.
"Hmmmm, I guess that could be considered a gift and a curse at the same time."
Celestia flinched slightly from hearing the word curse.
"What do you mean curse?"
"Well, you would remember all the bad as well as the good. I honestly would like to forget all the bad. But then again you can learn from the bad so I guess it's not all that bad." He shrugged as the last of the books finally escaped the room and out the front door. Luna emerged from a back room downstairs wielding several Nerf guns as well as a vest covered in extra ammunition and other Nerf war material. Midnight looked at her for a moment before laughing. Luna smirked at him and then started shooting him with the guns. He gave a startled yelp and ran outside, Luna hot on his hooves. Celestia chuckled shaking her head as she followed them outside quietly.
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