Hours later the cart bumped and jostled, landing on a bumpy dirt road. I had been practicing magic while on the chariot and now barley had to concentrate to levitate or teleport things. When we came to a complete stop I hopped out of the chariot and found myself on the outskirts of a small town. I walked up to the exhausted driver and asked “where are we?” “Ponyville” she answered between gasps “any idea where Twilight Sparkle is?” I asked “Library. Hollow tree.” She replied. I walked off down the road and into town. As I walked by the first house I saw nopony on the street and all the houses windows had there shutters drawn “Apparently my good looks scared everypony away” I mumbled sarcastically into the silence. After a few minutes of walking around I found the library, I walked up to the door and knocked. I heard a little squeal of fear that cut off abruptly like there mouth had been covered. I forced down a sigh and knocked again louder, the noise echoed off the empty streets. I was about to nock a third time when the door opened partly, a purple unicorn stepped into view “can I help you” she said trying to sound calm “Are you Twilight Sparkle?” I asked. She took a step back at the sound of my voice “Yes, what do you want?” she asked suspiciously “I was sent by Princess Celestia to deliver a package” her demeanour changed instantly “Oh, how rude of me come in” opening the door fully. I trotted in and plopped down in the closest chair, then used my magic to open the bag and bring out her package. Her jaw fell open and she stared at the hovering box. “What’s so important about the box? How does she even know what’s inside it?” I thought. Then she said “How…” I almost facehoofed right there “I forgot, the whole earth pony using magic thing” I thought “You gonna take it?” I asked impatiently “oh, right” she said levitating the box onto a table. Then I noticed that there were four other ponies sitting around the table. All mares, a white unicorn with a purple main, a teal pegasus with a rainbow mane, an orange earth-pony with a blond mane and a cowpony hat, and a yellow pegasus with a pink mane cowering behind the rest. I nodded hello and said “Well if that’s all I guess I’ll be going-“ “Wait! Are you and earth-pony?” Twilight asked “Yea, and before you ask. Yes I can use magic, and I don’t know why myself” “Would you mind if I did some tests?” Twilight asked. I raised a brow “I would but I have to report back to Celestia” I answered “that won’t be a problem ill have spike send a letter” she said smiling. I let out a sigh and said “Well if I'm staying for a bit, you mind introducing me to your friends” “yes of course” she chirped and pointed at the white unicorn “that’s Rarity” then pointed at the teal pegasus “that’s Rainbow Dash” next was the orange earth-pony “this is Applejack” and lastly pointed at the cowering yellow pegasus “and she’s Fluttershy” I said “I'm Nighters, nice to meet you” “Why are you wearing that dreadful armour?” rarity asked “Because if I wore anything else it would burst into flames” I said matter-of-factly. Everypony just stared at me “Oh yea. I can control fire, and I burst into flames when I'm angry” I said. They continued to stare until Rainbow Dash said “That is so awesome!” and hopped up and flew circles over my head “by the way I'm the best flyer in all of equestria” she boasted “really? Well you wouldn’t mind showing me some moves then?” I asked “No problem” she said and zipped out the door and into the sky. I walked out and watched her spin and twirl through the sky “This brings back memories… I always wanted to see the sky…” I thought. Then I heard a loud gasp and turned to see twilight about 30 feet below me and staring up at me, I looked back and saw I had a set of wings made from my teal fire sprouting from my back “holy shit!” i said and experimentally tried to move forward. It felt like I knew exactly what to do, and soon I was doing loops a twirling through the air a huge smile on my face. After a few minutes I stopped and realised that rainbow had stopped and was watching me a mix of shock and awe on her face. I flew over and said “what never seen an earth-pony use magic to make wings before” grinning like a mad stallion. She smiled and said “so you think your hot shit, how about a race” I was still high on my first flight and said “Hell yea, let’s do it!” “Ok! First one to Sweet Apple Acres wins, it’s the apple orchard by the way” Rainbow said “Ok. 3. 2. 1. GO!” Rainbow shot of at an insane speed and I accelerated to catch her. The trees below were wising by in blurs but Rainbow was still ahead. I concentrated on catching up and my wings exploded outwards and doubled in size. The next flap sent me flying past Rainbow. I was coated in flames and grinning from ear to ear, I twitched and lost control of my high speed flight. I shot a wave of fire out in front of me causing me to slow to the point I could stop. I started hovering and looked down to see rows and rows of apple trees, then looked back to see Rainbow only a speck in the distance. A thought crossed my mind “I could escape with my wings, fly away and not be stuck as a guard for a thousand years” I looked left and right nopony would know where I went and nopony could find me” however I didn’t remember that twilight had could turn me in quite easily. I flared my wings again and took off towards a vague mountain in the distance.