14th July, 605 BNM

Early Afternoon

Imperial Pandina, Tabit Province

Hilomeyan Mountains, Xigongyian Valley

Mountainside, pathway plateau.

In contrast to the afternoon sun over the valley, on the plateau there was much less of a pleasant event.

5 dog hunters and 1 Tiger hunter stood back, watching as the blue mist seemed to be devouring the magic from the shields the two wizards within, one at the edge and the other in the middle. The plateau was a vortex of blue mist, with the orange Eastern dragon, their boss, hovering overhead, growing stronger as he drained them, magic and physically, by that cursed mist.

As the blue mist sucked dry Starswirl's shield, the grey Unicorn stumbling as his strength began to fail him from having to keep it up, Siral climbed up, his own shield not as drained at the edge of the blue fog.

Overhead, the Orange Eastern Dragon hissed with glee as more and more magic soaked into his body, and the grey/blue gem imbued silver amulet glinted fiercely amidst the magic leaching fog.

Eying it, Siral charged his grey horn, but felt tired himself as the shield he needed against the parasitic fog was all that stopped his life from being drained like a fly cocooned and eaten by a spider.

As Starswirl finally fell to his knees, Siral made to call out and charge in defence of his friend, but something suddenly blinded him as an unbearably bright burst of yellow light suddenly appeared in front of Ghung Chian overhead.

As if the sun itself had suddenly flashed into existence before Ghung Chian, the Eastern Dragon faltered in his draining curse, a hand shooting to his eyes.

Not 2 heartbeats after the light had blinded them, before his vision even cleared, a scorching yellow beam hit him directly in the face.

Ghung Chian howled in agony as he was sent flying backwards, the blue fog suddenly breaking as if blown away by a gust of wind, while the yellow glow faded. On the edge of the blue mist, as the shockwave dissipating it spread, the 5 dogs were sent tumbling backwards, down the slope or painfully onto their backs, while the Tiger hunter was knocked off the pathway's edge. As the Tiger hunter barely clung on, he saw 2 of the other dogs go tumbling too far, falling to their deaths headfirst on the pathway below. The other 3 dogs were sent off the edge, but were merely winded and bruised. As he recovered, the culprit came into focus atop the plateau.

The yellow Eastern Dragoness hovered there, her body seemingly ablaze with the yellow aura pouring from the gaps in her scales, her amythst pink eyes ablaze with a seemingly deadlier fire than her magic she exuded.

Removing the hoof from his eyesight, Siral slightly gaped as Hinai hovered down towards Starswirl briskly, though she looked at Siral, gesturing to the Orange Eastern Dragon lying in the mountain slope dirt a few dozen metres uphill.

"Did he hurt you?"

"No." Siral shook his head, while he gazed uphill, alert to the stirring orange serpentine dragon regaining his senses as Hinai came to stand over the weakened Starswirl.

"Starswirl, Starswirl!"

Her gentle shakes woke Starswirl from his bleary state, the grey Unicorn looking up at the slowly less yellow glowing Hinai. In his mind, he felt it.

The surge, the amethyst mist that hazed his mind the moment she miraculously appeared. She had done it. She had pulled off her act of magic. But, how?

"How?" Starswirl asked aloud, to which Hinai gave a small thankful smile on her scaly lips as she helped Starswirl steadily to his feet:

"I'm not sure, but I-GET BACK!"

Turning from thankful to alert in a split second, Hinai roughly shoved Starswirl aside as the yellow glow permeated from her scale gaps once again, whilst up the hill an Orange Eastern dragon soared upwards, the green glows in his hands signifying his readiness himself:

"HOW DO YOU STILL LIVE!? I TOOK ALL THAT YOU HAD TO GIVE!"

Hissing, Hinai formed a few spheres of yellow magic in her own clawed hands, her wings beating to bring her to hover above the ground while the dirt on the ground swirled around her yellow glowing serpentine form:

"You took my family. I won't let you take my friends too."

As she spoke, Starswirl realised that the drive to protect her friends, him and Siral, had given her strength to finally unshackle her self-imposed restrictions, and from it all, she'd accomplish through raw power alone, a feat that hadn't been accomplish in known magical texts or lore except in legends.

Hinai, the Exemplar of Magic, had unlocked her power and become what would be known later in history as the first confirmed Self-teleporter.

As the air became charged by the magic surging from Hinai, Siral heard a noise from the plateau edge, as he saw the first of the 4 remaining hunters clambering over the cliff side, the Tiger male, raising his crossbow.

As Hinai gave a draconic shriek of challenge, Ghung Chian surrounded himself in the blue fog again, and charged down the slopes, wings spread, and green magic surging from his hands. The yellow Dragon charged also, yellow lightning bolts surging outwards like tendrils waiting to seize Ghung Chian. A clash of blue and yellow light exploded atop the mountain as Hinai's lighting attacks seemed to be too focused for the blue mist to drain, and the yellow dragoness began to circle Ghung Chian as she scorched him with more and more spells, his own green spells forming shields to deflect the blasts and send his own bolts back, himself giving up on the blue draining mist for now. He had raw energy, but it wasn't his own and wasn't self-replenishing anymore, and Hinai was more determined, though less powered. She did have her unique trick though.

Hinai vanished in a flash of yellow light, appearing behind Ghung CHian to fire a surprise bot into his back. Seething from pain and enraged at this turn of events, the Orange serpentine dragon spun and loosed a slashing wave of green energy, setting ablaze a line of trees further up the slope. But he caught no yellow dragoness in his attack.

As another round of yellow bolts followed a yellow flash to his side, Ghung Chian found himself losing control of this bout. Clutching the amulet around his neck, he focused on its raw energy banks he'd attained through it.

If this contest was one of raw power, he was sure he could win. But with the dragoness's ability to suddenly chance where she was, he wasn't completely certain of victory any longer.

Behind the clash, Starswirl whipped around as Siral galloped towards the Tiger hunter aiming at them, conscious of the other 3 dogs coming up the pathway nearby.

Charging forwards, Siral fired a grey spell at the tiger, who ducked and let the crossbow bolt fly. Barely missing Siral, who was charging a magic attack again, the Tiger hurled a locking rope, with a small rock tied around the end, around him, arcing it out.

As Siral fired the spell, Starswirl saw the rock loop around Siral's neck as the spell hit the tiger, locking it in place like a lasso. The rope went taut as the tiger's body was blasted off the cliff, the tiger going flailing by the shockwave spell, the rope still tied to his equipment belt.

"SIRAL!"

Choking and gagging, Siral was dragged off the edge of the plateau, hoofs scrambling as he slipped over the edge. Rushing to the edge of the cliff, Starswirl couldn't see where the two had landed before he heard the howls of the 3 dogs to his right, coming up the Cliffside paths.

Weary, the grey Unicorn spared a glance uphill to the clash of the two magic wielding dragons. The treeline atop the hill and mountain slopes, even if a small part of the massive valley they were in, was ablaze in broad daylight, the smoke blotting out the sun slightly now.

The smoke from the ablaze trees Ghung Chian's reckless attacks had created choked the air, but the Orange Dragon paid them no heed as he focused on the ground before him.

As he saw Hinai flying before him, her yellow glow between her scales almost taunting him, he gave an outraged roar, before he raised his hand to the skies suddenly.

Splinters, branches and sections of tree burnt and broken were lifted into the air, further being sliced up into a hovering forest of bark and wooden spikes and daggerlike shapes. Turning to the Yellow Dragon before him, he encircled the spike maelstrom around him in midair, the smoke swirling from the blazing forest beneath him as well. Now, Ghung Chian was surrounded by a bubble of spiked and deadly forest tree fragments.

Wary, Hinai flew upwards, but not before she had to duck from the first spearlike tree fragment suddenly shooting up at her as if hurled by a giant. As she soared around, more fragments flew, and some even began to chase her, some of the tree spikes still smoking from being ripped from the ablaze forest. Wincing as one or two sliced her rear leg and wing membrane slightly, Hinai heard Ghung Chian declare wildly from below:

"If I cannot drain you I'll simply kill you instead!"

As he barked his words, magnified amidst the whirling hurricane of trees, wind and smoke, Hinai focused, and in a flash of yellow light, she vanished yet again.

She appeared behind the swirling tree dagger cloud, behind Ghung Chian's back, her yellow magic surging around her as she charged inside. Tree spikes incinerated harmlessly off her as she charged into the cloud, glimpsing the orange scales as the owner of them turned in a slight panic, before his own sickly green eyes focused and shone a slight blue.

All around her, the swirling forest of spikes also became enshrouded in blue smog, and she suddenly felt a great strain as she tried to push deeper into the vortex of spiked wood and parasitic magic. She felt her breaking point closing, and in a surge of panic, before she saw Ghung Chian's eyes light up in victory, she gave a scream before she was engulfed in yellow light, teleporting out of the cloud of impending death.

Mountainside, pathway plateau.

The 3 dogs surged on Starswirl, though one of them slower now that he'd been stunned in the thigh.

As another yellow flash appeared behind him, Starswirl saw the dogs blinded slightly, and seized his moment. He fired a different spell, a sound blast spell, and at that moment a deafening crack followed a bright white blast in front of the 3 dogs.

As the dogs whined and groaned at the sheer noise, too high frequency for Starswirl to hear, he fired yet another, and began to muster the dogs away from the sheer agony of the noise.

As the dogs turned tail to run, Starswirl gave a last spell, a straight up sticking spell. The dogs were flung into the rock wall they were running beside along the mountain path, the spell sticking them to it as if nailed there.

While the dogs howled, Starswirl looked behind him. He saw Hinai wincing and struggling to stand up, numerous pieces of spiked bark embedded in her scaly body, her yellow magic glow strongly diminished. Heart racing, Starswirl ran up, sparing a glance down towards the plateau slopes below.

He saw the body of the Tiger hunter, mangled on the rocks he'd landed on. But Siral was not to be seen.

Rushing up, Starswirl saw some of the embedded bark causing bleeding in Hinai, who wheezed: "He's too skilled."

"We must find some way past him, get through his defences!" Starswirl urged, looking up at the ominously approaching maelstrom of wooden spikes, smoke and leaching blue mist, the orange dragon obscured within it.

Wheezing, Hinai asked out loud, thnking but not very hopeful as the whriling noise of the incoming enemy grew in volume: "How? He has power beyond anything I've seen, he can suck us dry.."

"He has that power, and something that is helping him absorb others' magic, or else helps his magic. That amulet, it gives him power, but he's too well defended, we can't get to him."

"I can." Hinai realised, as she stood shakily on her feet, towering over Starswirl. As he stumbled back, Starswirl heard Hinai remark:

"Whatever happens, thank you for helping me, both of you."

"Wait, HINAI!" Starswirl was cut off as the yellow glow surged once more, Hinai focusing intently on the centre of the cloud of swirling wood spikes and blue smog. And like that, she was gone.

As he stared on ahead, he saw the inside of the cloud flash yellow inside, before it began to wildly behave, the cloud becoming unstable, wood spikes flying in every direction wildly, blue smog and forest fire smoke trailing from them as they flew out.

Starswirl ducked behind a nearby boulder, before he heard a charging hum suddenly emanate from the cloud unseen. Then, a large blue flash, and a massive bang.

The yellow engulfed him, and Ghung Chian suddenly felt a set of yellow scaled claws scrambling over him, the dragoness's serpentine form struggling with his own.

Growling as he clawed at her, Ghung Chian compacted the hail of wooden spikes, and contracted the blue smog. He felt some of the wood slash his tail and rear legs, but he wanted her more wounded than he would be.

As she gasped at one or two spikes going straight through her wing membranes, she fumbled wildly, suppressing a scream of pain as Ghung Chian's claws, imbued also with yellow magic, cut deep into the back of her neck. Madly scrambling, she found something small, on a chain, within Ghung Chian's other clawed hand.

Her clawed hand surged yellow, and amidst the hailstorm of wood around them, and the blue smog slowly draining her, she burnt the orange dragon's hand enough for him to release the amulet from it, and with no second thought, she gripped it tight in her own.

As if turned on itself, the blue smog suddenly surged, and she no longer felt weakened by it, but empowered. She redrew the energy she felt was her own from it, and then, she felt Ghung Chian's energy itself. He was barely siphoning off the vast energy this amulet was carrying, he was taking the maximum of what he could handle, and keeping plenty in reserve with this amulet.

"You want power, my power? You have it already in your grip, SO TAKE IT!"

She focused, and sent the vast energies of the amulet directly into Ghung Chian. As he was overwhelmed, his body wracked with the blue energy surge, the whirlwind of wood around them blew apart, wood fragments hued with blue smog and black smoke remnants firing in all directions.

Her hand still gripping the amulet, Hinai's scream of pain was drowned by the blue explosion, but she felt herself launched away, the amulet flying from her grip as the fragments of Ghung Chian's body soared in every direction.

Mountainside, pathway plateau.

The blue smoke trailed the body parts of the orange dragon that flew in all directions, and one fell over the cliff face with a particularly strong glowing blue amulet showing itself around the ruined upper torso part.

The smoke cleared, and the wood fragments lay scattered about as the thump of someone collapsing on the ground caught Starswirl's ear.

Coming out from his hiding place, Starswirl saw Hinai painfully collapsed on the ground, her yellow hued magic strong on her body, but numerous wooden spikes imbedded in her tail and lower leg, and some holes in her wing membranes. Exhausted, bleeding in places, but she was going to live.

Panting hard, Hinai simply lay down on the rock plateau, giving a weak smile of triumph towards Starswirl as he came out, before she rolled over to a more comfortable position on the rocks.

Walking out briskly, Starswirl paused as he spared a glance down the cliffs, hoping for something he wished to be false.

There, down below, there was movement. A black unicorn was straggling, with a slight limp, down the rocks, in the direction of a large torso fragment of Ghung Chian's body that had landed nearby.

Calling down ecstatically, Starswirl was all the more pleased when Siral's voice called back:

"SIRAL! YOU'RE ALIVE!?"

"Yes! I just took a bad fall, my leg is sore, but it works still!"

Breathing a sigh of relief, which Starswirl also heard Hinai give nearby as she overheard this call, Starswirl called back: "Stay there, we'll come down to you once we're ready!"

Starswirl saw Siral look up from below, waving a hoof in acknowledgement as he continued to crawl towards where the torso had landed, why exactly Starswirl didn't quite care about at the moment.

Wandering over, Starswirl remarked as Hinai breathed deeply through the pain of the imbedded wood fragments in her tail:

"You were remarkable today, I've never seen magic like that before."

Laughing, Hinai breathed as she suddenly felt Starswirl running a healing spell over her, before he began to slowly have a go at one of the wood spikes on her tail with his magic:

"I just wanted to protect you two.."

Laying a hoof on Hinai's forearm, Starswirl said with some subdued warmness: "And you did. And I feel that now, I think you have some things you could teach me and Siral when we get back to the hovel we have in this valley."

Laughing slightly, Hinai winced as she felt Starswirl tug at one of the wood fragments, before he let it go. Looking over her, Starswirl remarked aloud:

"You should heal, but I don't want to remove these until we have something to cover them with. Can you still fly?"

"Heal me up more, and give me some rest time, and yes. Enough to get us back down the mountain."

As Hinai answered, Starswirl nodded in agreement, as he sat down on the ground beside Hinai, running his healing blue magic over her body, enough to give her strength to endure the wood spikes and fly until the former could be removed.

Below the plateau, mountain slope ravines.

Wincing as he staggered on 3 hooves, keeping weight off his badly hurting rear hoof, Siral came upon the now no longer smoking upper torso of Ghung Chian.

The Orange scaled upper torso held only one of his forearms and half a wing, the rest blown off in whatever blast happened up there.

As the smoke from the forest fires up above cleared, Siral sifted the torso over with his magic. He knew it was here.

As he turned the scorched torso part over, he saw it. Its blue glow had diminished to barely a visible glint of a light source, but it was remarkably unharmed.

The Black Unicorn found himself staring at the amulet, the silver chain intact, and the blue/grey crystal in the centre of the amulet head tempting, emanating the power it had already drained, even if it lost.

Unconsciously, Siral's grey magic reached out, taking the amulet in its grip. As he pulled it off the torso, the chain coming over the neck to hover closer to Siral's eyes, he felt his magic straining more than usual.

Having second thoughts, Siral let the amulet suddenly drop to the ground, at his forehoof. Shaking his head, he realised it was still a potent artefact if used correctly or incorrectly. He tried something else.

Touching the amulet with his forehoof, he felt the same feeling of cold draining, but it was much more manageable. Even so, Siral was cautious as much as he was callous and curious.

With his magic, he took a small money pouch he had somehow not lost in this afternoon's events from his now slightly dishevelled robe pocket, and hover it out before the amulet. With a breath, Siral quickly gripped the amulet in the same aura and shoved it into the money pouch, releasing his direct hold on it before it could do any draining to him.

As he held the money pouch in his magic grip, he felt no draining. It was safe to carry it in something that was lifted, just not itself. And it would remain that way until Siral knew more about this artefact.

As the Black Unicorn sat back, he spared a gaze upwards, seeing the 3 dogs Starswirl had stuck to the path's nearby rock face had been released, but were instead fleeing down the mountain.

A smart move, given their paymaster was dead.

25th July, 605 BNM

Late Morning

Imperial Pandina, Tabit Province

Hilomeyan Mountains, Xigongyian Valley

Wizard's shelter

11 days passed, and recovery was swift but not complete by that stage.

Sat outside, basking and relaxing in the near midday sun in the mountain valley, Hinai only felt the slightest of painful twinges from her tail and forelegs.

As they'd healed, it had been clear what they each wished to do. Siral had stayed indoors as his leg, merely now needing a brace he'd had constructed by a local metalsmith. He would take a few more weeks to fully heal, but he was fine. But he had yet to stop poring over the amulet he'd recovered from Ghung Chian's corpse, much to Starswirl's mixed opinion. The slightly older Unicorn didn't trust the amulet, but saw use in investigating it, and counter it if similar spells and artifacts cropped up later in their time.

Hinai on the other hand, couldn't bear the sight of it after what Ghung Chian had used it for on her family.

Starswirl on the other hand, had busied himself with learning something from her for once.

Before her, a blue flash suddenly blew some wind in her face, as Starswirl stumbled before her, his horn fading from fierce blue to normal as he held a hoof to his head:

"Better, but I still wish it wasn't as draining."

"Practice will refine it, make it easier." Hinai said, the faintest trace of smugness in her tone as she propped her chin up with a yellow scaled forearm.

Casting an unimpressed look at Hinai, Starswirl remarked back as he walked over: "I am getting better each time. But one trick you teach me is not enough to turn my sayings back on me with that tone."

"Forgive me if I enjoy being the teacher for once." Hinai jabbed a claw in Starswirl's direction as she gave a small smile at his expense. Under his breath, Starswirl mumbled with a mixture of annoyance, yet pride in her accomplishment:

"If you are this confident, you may not need me and Siral soon."

"Actually, I was going to ask about that…I think I should return home."

At Hinai's remark, Starswirl paused, turning to look at the suddenly introspective yellow Eastern Dragon, her face serious. Hesitating, knowing subconsciously that she had proven herself and he and Siral need not interact with her anymore, he had to admit he was curious.

"Why?"

"Ghung Chian took my parents and eldest brother, but Peng has now taken the throne in Shengdu. And Shung is still north, but Peng can contact him easily enough."

Understanding, Starswirl reminded her: "You are thought to be an imposter, it may not be safe."

"I have secrets that I'd have taken to my grave that my brothers and parents knew. I'm certain I can prove myself to Peng, and in turn Shung."

"What then if you do?"

Pausing, Hinai thought to herself: "I, don't know. I've embraced my magic side, more than any in my family have, and I've come up with magic unseen on my own. Maybe, maybe this is my path."

Cracking a small smile, Starswirl remarked: "I believe so too. Given your raw power, and your potential skill in coming up with being in any place at will on a spurred moment, you have an incredible potential if you choose this path. And if I may, you might honor your family more than you previously would have if you do."

Looking down, Hinai thought for a moment, asking: "If we do go apart, what about you and Siral?"

"I think this is for the best. It may be time for me and Siral to move on, we have much of the world we wish to see."

"Anyone you are looking for in particular?" Hinai suddenly probed.

Pausing, Starswirl told the truth, but not entirely: "We are searching for beings of distinguished ability and character, to learn from. I'm glad to say you were one we happened to stumble across."

Hinai sensed the semi truth, but understood the secrets that they would rather not say. She would not say exactly what her brothers would be told by her to know it was her either, everyone had secrets.

"Then I guess we should enjoy the last few days. I'll leave as soon as I'm healed. Will Siral be fine with his leg?"

"I'll assist him. And perhaps our next few endeavours won't be so dangerous to us." Starswirl hoped aloud, to which Hinai silently agreed.

With that, the last few days passed calmly. Hinai knew Starswirl would teach Siral to teleport in her stead.

It meant her return home would be faster for herself.

29th July, 605 BNM

Mid Morning

Imperial Pandina, Tabit Province

Hilomeyan Mountains, Xigongyian Valley

River banks

The 4 days had passed, and the Wizard shelter had been disassembled, the river bank it was on returned to normal, as if they'd never been there.

Now stood on the river bank, the mountains of the valley looming up on either side a mile high and wide at least, a cloud bank rearing up the valley as the morning boiled off the clouds.

Stood on the rocks, the panda village upriver merely a feature amidst the massive mountain-scape.

Kneeling down, Hinai wrapped her forearms around Siral, the Black Unicorn cracking the tiniest of smiles as the Yellow Eastern dragon backed up from her embrace, thanking him while Starswirl stood by:

"I'll miss you Siral. I hope your leg heals well."

"In time it will." Looking back, shifting his leg slightly, the metal brace clicking slightly beneath his grey cloak, Siral turned back to Hinai, urging her:

"I myself wish you well Hinai. You have great things in your future, if not already behind you."

With a slight bow, Hinai silently bid Siral one last look before she turned to Starswirl, remarking aloud to both him and Siral:

"Stay out of trouble if you can. Though if what you say is true, you may be drawn to it anyway."

"It seems to unfold that way for us." Starswirl pointed out, making Siral slightly groan at the in-joke and unfortunate truth. He wasn't the only one hoping their next endeavour would be less combative.

Pausing slightly, Hinai then she pulled the chained necklace off her neck, admitting with some pained expression:

"They'll assume the kidnapper took anything of value, to throw off the trail. And, I got this because I pledge to retain my magic for my parents. I know its all I have left of them, but, I think its best I let them go. I can make new ties when I return to Shengdu, or whatever comes next."

Pulling off the necklace, Hinai held out the necklace to Starswirl, asking him: "Its customary among my family to give a token of my appreciation. Please, take it, as a sign of my thanks, to both of you."

Walking forwards, Starswirl slowly hovered the necklace from Hinai's grip, placing it delicately into his cloak pocket on the inside. As Siral nodded to Hinai from the other side, Starswirl stepped backwards, with a silent nod, bidding her goodbye.

Keeping her tears down, Hinai spread her wings, the holes in her membranes patched for now with stiches, and beat them hard, taking flight.

As Starswirl and Siral watched, the yellow dragon flew up high, her serpentine form curling in the air a few time as it glowed yellow. With a familiar flash of yellow, Hinai was gone, as another yellow flash followed far away atop the mountain ridge to the east of the valley's rim about 10 seconds later. She would teleport in stages, resting by flying before she teleported next.

3 hours later

Imperial Pandina, Tabit Province

Hilomeyan Mountains, Xigongyian Valley

River banks, 5 miles south

Walking down the massive valley, Starswirl and Siral were already searching for a place to begin their next 'hibernating state spell round', for they had more individuals of merit to find.

Walking along the river bank, Starswirl asked Siral cautiously:

"What of the amulet found on Ghung Chian?"

"It may take weeks, months to fully understand it. I know not who forged it, but I think together we can understand the magic behind it."

"A side project, we must remain focused." Starswirl reminded him, to which Siral waved a hoof in acknowledgement.

Looking south, as the sun was high above the valley, Siral at least admitted: "But we have already seen much, haven't we?"

"Yes. A lot, and who knows what else." Starswirl remarked.

To Siral, what lay ahead was tantalising, what he could learn, but this time around, they had been involved not by choice, but by necessity. In Romane with the exemplar of loyalty, Siral had actively interfered.

What lay ahead, whenever they came out once they emerged from their upcoming hibernation. But from here alone, they had learned the new trick of Self-teleportation.

What more could be learned, be it tricks or philosophies, was beyond both of them.

And yet, in the back of his mind, Starswirl couldn't help but feel nervous at how devoted to that amulet, or any new magic or knowledge they came across, that Siral was slavish to trying to understand. He kept these fears to himself, for they had much more to do.

There were still 4 more exemplars to encounter, whenever and wherever they were. And still to come, those 7 beings of threat to their homeland, the world, the Oracles' prophecy to Starswirl had mentioned.

But ahead, they concerned themselves with the immediate future of moving on.

Author's Notes:

The MAGIC arc is over, and as said, the accomplishment of Hinai comes from unlocking her magic she'd buried self-consciously to protect her 2 friends and teachers, and pull of a previously unheard of magic trick. Teleportation already existed before Starswirl and Siral even set off to Romane, but not SELF-teleportation yet.