It was dark and the air smelled of smoke and flames dotted the white planes. The air's cold cut to the bone as it sapped at life's energies.

   A dark cloud hung over the frozen waste, threatening to devour any innocence that remained. One massive force of every race stood In defiance to it. The frosted planes shook as they marched away from the crystal mountains towards the final epic.

   Even the howling winds of the Cold Nurth could not keep the fires of hope from extinguishing.

   In the frozen distance, a dark cloud accumulated. Insect like creatures swarmed out of it. Most were small, while some were gargantuan. Their eyes glowed a crimson red and their mouths slobbered slime. The hellish horde loomed across the land in a wave of chitin gray.

   Both titans reached the first line of battle. War instruments and chants echoed across the frozen mountains.

   The swarms grunted and snarled, flailing their sharp mandibles at their impending pray. Hate poured out with the cries and shrills of each monster, mixed with the hunger to feed on the bitterness and pain of any who their claws could rend asunder.

   Once the alicorn forces gave the order, an ocean of countless warriors charged down the snow laden mountain side with one eardrum bursting cry, an embodiment of all the hope and love in that world made manifest, focused into the purist righteous fury.

   A soul sucking cry shrilled from the hordes ranks as they charged to ram the final nail in Equinity's coffin. A wave of gray rushed over the frigid plane and swarms blotted the darkening skies.

    Every pony from the multitude of the Four Kingdom's chanted the wars cries of their ancestral homelands. One war cry howled over the rest as the Titians converged.

   "Fram, fram! Ragnarok venter! Var dod venter!"

   Both tides were seconds away from the bloody beginning.One last cry sounded again over the rest.

   "Fram, fram! Med lyn gud vi ri! Til stor hall opp hoy!"

   The two armies clashed into one another Steel and chitin flailed and swung. Bodies fell like leaves, while green and crimson stained the land. The Titians shifted and melded into dancing waves of pandemonium.

   The frigid sky bled as waves of both alicorns and pegasus clashed against the numerous swarms above. Massive Firedrakes, Frostwyrms and elder Dragons dive-bombed into battle to Equinity's aid, scorching the ground and clearing the skies.

   The mighty wyrms and drakes swatted swarms aside and turned hordes to ash, but even with their power the countless swarms soon overwhelmed any who relied on strength alone.

   Corpses, pony, Dragon and insect creature alike, fell from the carnage above surrounded in raining crimson and green ice crystals.

   The fallen dead, dismembered and mutilated, froze solid within minutes. Their final expressions froze upon the faces of every warrior that fell, some filled with horrified agony, others seemingly calm, like they were sleeping.

   The Cold Nurth was soon a hellish graveyard in a matter of minutes.

   A middleaged unicorn with a light blue coat and a light purple and pink striped mane flashed into view on a hill top. "Wait, Alastar! The final Aegis is not yet ready! If you go now-"

   His pleas were cut off by a figure wearing an armoured twentieth century trench coat, standing near the hill side.

   The figure turned his head, his brown hair waving in the blaring winds, his brown eyes focusing through the sudden change of Sunlight as he looked at his old friend.

   "Our allotted time is gone Starswirl! Mael will consume everything if I don't use the spell now!"

   His irises tightened as his face soured with surprise. He pointed his palm in Starswirl's direction.

   Electric arcs shot down his arm and formed a ball of energy on his palm. "Starswirl, behind you!"

   An insect-like earth pony was charging at Starswirl.

   Starswirl charged his horn with violent energy.

   "Retched beast! Back to your Master!" A vicious bolt of thunder tore the creature into a cloud of greenish gore.

   Hordes poured out of clusters of black fog, charging towards the two mages screaming with hunger.

   A flash of blinding light arced across the frigid sky. The creatures flew apart into clouds of severed limbs and ash.

   A light green unicorn stood next to Starswirl. Her light dark purple and pink striped mane flowed with the frosty wind.

   "Clover, you are unharmed! Thank the Queen's sun." Starswirl ran to his side of the hill and took a defensive stance.

   "What and let you have all the fun?" Clover took her side of the hill top.

   "Clover, your timing is impeccable as always." Alastar flashported between both his friends sides, forming a triangle formation on the hill top.

   "What's the situation with the Aegis, Alastar? Is it ready yet?"

   Clover started to charge her horn. More creatures gathered to charge up the hill. A gray haze formed in the distant sky. "Buck, more beasts are coming and it wont take long for that swarm to join in."

  "The Aegis has yet to activate Clover." Alastar threw flurrys of fireballs and lightning bolts down his hill side. Each exploded with such heat and force the craters glassed over.

   "That's just great."

   She huffed disapprovingly. "This plan just gets better by the second."

   "Our forces cannot hold long against attacks from both the ground and the sky." Starswirl let a few bolts fly to keep the evil spawn down hill.

   "We're running out of time friends. Our window to hit Mael at his black heart is dwindling fast!"

   Clover cast a water spell. A massive wave knocked back the horde below, then she cast an electrical storm into the water, killing any swept in the wave. "We'd better hurry the hay up!"

   Starswirl cast a fire spell.

   "Just keep at them! They must end at some point." He snapped a tindril of fire like a wip at the horde below, slicing heads clean off and torsos apart spilling the half cooked insides.

   Alastar jumped then punched the ground sending a wave of earth downhill towards the creatures, crushing what could not dodge it into a green mutilated paste. He looked downhill then sighed heavily, as hundreds more broke from the dark fog.

   He shook his head. "It's no use! I have to cast it. We're out of time!"

   Starswirl shot a desperate look at Clover. "Clover, please, talk sense to him! The Aegis is likely to otherwise kill him!"

   His pleas were cut short by Clover's expression, one of sadness and regret. "I am sorry Starswirl, but even I can't see any other way."

   "But-"

   Alastar booted one of the creatures in the face, then cast a fireball. The beast's upper half burst into ashes. "Listen to me. I have to, or this world dies. Pray that I die instead, as Mael will die with me."

   Starswirl's eyes watered. "I have so little left as it stands.... I cannot choose losing another friend!"

   Alastar watched the hordes below clamber over each other, slipping and struggling to get up the muddy hillside. "We're mages, Starswirl. Hard choices are our lives. Even harder choices lay before you, Clover and Gala. Can you deside the path for this world after this madness ends?"

   Alastar gave his old friend a saddened glare. He was so tired of it all, watching all he loved suffer and wither away through his worn fingers. He got so used to it he forgot how to cry.

   His glued heart made him forget, but it was not the time for pain. Alastar knew what needed to be done, what needed fixing. He would gladly die to preserve what little that was left to love, his last three friends.

   Starswirl let his head hang down at the ground. His eyes were shut. "So, this is it? To save the world I must let my friend die?"

   Alastar smiled. "Don't worry, Star. A little dark cloud wont ruin my day. Besides, you have Clover the Clever to keep you out of trouble."

   Clover rolled her eyes. "Why you're all so insistent on calling me that is beyond me."

   The hordes below howled, nearly up the hill top and ready to storm towards them. Starswirl and Clover both charged their horns to respond, but Alastar stepped forward with his left hand blocking their line of sight.

    "Let me handle this friends." Alastar ran to the edge of the hill. The beasts howled and grunted when he stood over the hill. Their burning eyes glowed and set on him.

   His armoured coat unbuttoned itself and flew off of him. Two scrolls flew out of the inner side pockets. Grabbing the scrolls, he unlatched them while muttering some words.

   Runes burned on the paper, burning it into ash. The runes danced in the air and burned white hot. Each rune etched into the bare skin of his upper body, making steam flow of his bare skin in the wind's chill. The ground rumbled around him while static charged the air.

   The runes and his eyes glowed white hot as he bent forward, arcs sparked and snapped off and on his body. The monsters cleared the climb and howled at him.

   With a grunt he threw his arms out towards the dark horde, sending a hurricane of wind mixed with a maelstorm of lightening and thunder. The wave swept the horde into the air obliterating them into nothing.

   Alastar managed to clear the hill side and a path to the center of the darkening sky.

   Smiling, Alastar turned back for a final farewell. "This land's future now belongs to you my friends. Guide her well."

   "I promise, Alastar the Librarian." Starswirl's voice trembled while he sobbed lightly.

   "We will take care of our end, just you be sure that monster pays, Alastar!" Clover shot him a serious look then nodded to him.

   So much was said in that nod. Everything Clover did not have the time to say to her old friend was put into but a simple gesture. Even her eyes glistened slightly through her angry expression.

   Alastar nodded back in turn. He eyed down to his left, his coat laying on the hill side. Holding his hand out, the coat levitated to him.

  "Oh yeah, here, Starswirl."

   He walked over to the blue mage, handing him his armoured coat. "Please, take care of Coat. He will need the company. They all will need someone to watch over them. Oh and tell Gala goodbye for me, wont you?"

   "Of course I will."

   Starswirl took the coat, then put it on his back. "I will keep everything safe."

   "We all will." Clover smiled.

   Alastar turned around. "Good luck my friends."

   Seconds thoughts filled his mind. He wanted so much to ask them to join him, but he would not lose anything more. The madness had to stop. His friends had to live.

   Only one more thing needed to be said.

   "I love you guys. I will...see you later." Getting choked up, he took off with great speed down the path to darkest part of the sky.

   He finally remembered how to cry.

   Both unicorns, rivers freezing on their cheeks, bowed their heads to an old friend. "Erebus speed, Librarian."

   Clashing and yelling echoed from the gruesome epic below, even though a mile away.

   Starswirl eyed behind him one last time. His old friend was gone. He knew he might never see him again and it tore at his wounded heart. His friend's old coat shifted on his back.

   "Head up high Mage! We haven't won this war yet!"

   Starswirl shook his head, clearing his foggy mind. "Yes, of course! We must return to the King and Queen's side! Let us go, Clover!"

   Someone shouted from down the hillside. "Hey guys!"

   Both unicorns eyed around to see who it was. A white unicorn with a dark blue mane, in detailed armour with a mud stained and bloodied light blue scarf on, stood down the hillside.

   "Gala!"

   Clover shouted, "Where in Solstice have you been!?"

   Gala huffed then flashed out of view. She appeared in front of both her friends.

   "Well, fighting obviously, just look at my scarf, its all...soiled." She pointed at it with her hoof.

   Starswirl and Clover gaped a little at Gala.

   Starswirl asked, "But the hordes of hundreds-"

   "Oh, those Cretins?"

   Gala smiled while holding her head high with her hoof on her chest.

   "Such filth hardly stood little chance against a lady."

   She frowned and pointed at her scarf. "But, it was all sport until they ruined my blue scarfy."

   "Ugh, we don't have time for this."

   Clover turned around. "Come on, let's go."

   Gala asked looking around, "Wait, where is Alastar?"

   Clover answered. "Gone."

   "What!? What do you mean gone?"

   Gala eyed at her two friends in sudden panic. "He...he's dead?"

   "He said goodbye, that he loved us."

   Starswirl rasped, "He is going to fight Mael."

   "Then we must go to him!"

   Gala yelled in frustration, "He is our friend!"

    "Don't turn around!"

   Clover muttered, voice shaking, "Just keep walking."

   "Clover!"

   Gala stomped her hoof down with an icy crunch of frozen mud. "How in Solstice could you be so cold!?"

   "This is something he must do on his own. We must respect his wishes."

   Starswirl stared out into space. "Some other time maybe...."

   The coat on his back quivered.

   "Don't be delusional. There will not be another time."

   Clover turned so the others could not see her cry. "He is gone and he's never coming back."

   Gala whimpered, waves of grief tearing at her. She fell to her armoured rump with an icy crunch.

   "But...I never got to say goodbye."

   She grimaced, bearing her teeth as tides of pain forced her eyes to water.

   "Or that I love him back."

   Gala let her head back and yelled in anger to the winds.

   "Solstice why?! Do something!"

   Her head fell back down. "Anything...."

   Starswirl stood almost lost in the frost of the wind, staring down at the carnage below with glassy eyes.

   Alastar said once, There's an old saying on Earth. When life gives you lemons, it's time to find a new life.

   Starswirl whispered under his breath, "Then a new life we shall find."

   Life burned back into his eyes, he lifted his head high to Clover and Gala. "This land is ours to protect and guide now. We must insure its future, no matter what befalls after this victory."

   Seeing his new strength, the others walked to his side. They held their heads high as well, despite the thin trails of ice on their cheeks.

   Gala sniffled. "It is what he would have wanted."

   Clover smiled. "Bucking right it is."

   Starswirl yelled, "To the King and Queen!"

   They flashed into thin air, returning to the Four Kingdom's last stand in the war's final moments, and marking the beginning of the pre classical era.

   Alastar sprinted right towards the black eye. Mael was waiting for him and he would not keep him wanting. He reached his destination without fault or delay.

   Suddenly, swarms of gray spawned from both the ground as well as the sky. He knew one by one attacks would be useless against those kind of numbers.

   The horde of monsters charged him. He jumped into the air spinning in a cyclone, throwing his arms out while casting a whirlwind of ice spikes pelting the ground and clearing the sky, killing the horde of hundreds faster then it could respawn.

   Landing after the numbers thinned to about a hand full, three stragglers charged at him, mandibles ready to tear him apart like so many before him. He let one of the insect earth ponies impact against his left open palm, stopping it on a dime. Split seconds after, a massive bolt of thunder tore through its head and out its backside, decapitating the one behind it and eviscerating the other.

  Two swarmers bared down on him from the sky. How many were lost to those things alone? No more. Alastar channeled force inside his throat then let out a brutal sonic boom that popped their eye balls out of their sockets and caused their brains to hemorrhage. They fell from the sky like rocks. Their broken deformed bodies laying dead soon froze solid.

   "Not broken enough." Alastar would end it, the madness.

   The last one roared with anger, charging chitin mandibles flailing wildly. Alastar flashported, headlocking the beast while knocking it off its hooves and snapping its neck with one clean motion.

   The madness had to end. No more pain.

   "Mael!"

   He shouted as loud as he could. "You dare think to test me with this garbage?!"

  "Of course not, but it never fails to amuse."

   "Prepare yourself, Mael, God of nihility, I am your end!"

    Oh?"

   Mael manifested himself in front of Alastar, his voice transitioning from booming to normal.

   "Tell me, how? Mortality has failed, and without your Aegis being complete?"

   Mael crossed his arms. "You still have the gaudiness to claim you can end life?"

   Alastar's hands came together with a mighty clap. His right fist was being clasped by his left palm. A maelstrom of energy welled up from the ground around him.

   "What are you doing, Librarian?"

   Mael laughed lightly. "Surely you're not seriously thinking that will work on me."

   The runes blazed white on his skin. They arced then disappeared, causing lightening to dance and trail off his well toned body. His eyes burned with white flames and globs of plasma dripped like tears of fire, as he began to rite incantations of magic.

  Mael straightened, no longer smiling, but blankly glaring at Alastar. "You really are hoping that parlor trick will work on me! How dare you degrade yourself to such a mortal thing as hope!"

   "Elements of balance make sane this disarray! Life eternal, renew this new death back to life!"

   The air around him hummed with white magic. Alastar grimaced, as his skin started to tear and bleed a little. He passed the point of no return.

   "And how dare you degrade me!? You cannot destroy life!" Bolts of black energy arced at Alastar, but the hurricane of white raw magic absorbed the attack.

   "Arc and form, bend and break, shatter the dark then reform this world anew in light, Aegis of Balance!"

   Mael shook his head, saddened and torn with disappointment. "You have learned nothing."

   He massaged the bridge of his nose.

   "This was a waste of time."

   He waved his gray hand. "Come on then, let us be done with this."

   Alastar only needed to speak the final incantation to cast the spell.

   He gave the Mael a grinning stare. "Time to die."

   At first Mael frowned, face slowly darkening. He bared his teeth and shrieked with rage, losing control over his appearance. His mouth a maw of twisted black and yellow teeth which looked like sharped Human canines. The air around him distorted as the ground turned black and hideous creatures crawled from the blot.  A violent storm of dark energy swirled around him in a masking cloud disintegrating everything nearby but Alastar.

   Mael's voice boomed. The little red eyed creatures talked with him. "I see now I have been too soft on you. You know you cannot kill me, not any more than you can kill the hate in your own heart."

   "Yes, that's why you're coming with me, abomination!" Alastar inhaled and with one cry he let go of the immense amount of energy collected within, dooming himself into eternity.

   "Avra cadavra!"

   "Qui pro quo, let the lesson continue then!" Mael and the horde around him laughed manically.

   Alastar and Mael washed out with an explosion of white light. It burst forth in a sky high wave of positive energy that burned away the nihility.

   "Wake up."

   The light darkened into a clear wave that covered the whole land.

   "Wake up."

    When the light cleared, Alastar and Mael were gone.

   "Wake up, Argyle!"

   Twilight was shaking me hard, trying to wake me from my nightmare. "Wake up, wake up!"

   I shot up from bed wide eyed and panting. "What's going on?!"

   I eyed side to side, only seeing Twilight looking at me worried.

  She pointed at me with her fore hoof. "You were having a nightmare, a pretty bad one too from the way you were moaning and thrashing around."

   I sighed. "Oh good, just a dream."

   My head was pounding.

   Twilight shook her head.

   "It sounded like you were fighting in one of those wars I read about."

   She walked towards my room's door. "Well, it's a good thing dreams aren't real. Anyway, come on, get up. I am making breakfast!"

   I looked around, feeling my hands and pinching myself.

   Nope, I'm still here. It's not a dream.

   I hit the bed with my palm.

   Damn.

   I rose from bed and made up the covers, then walked out of my room to see what was up for the menu.

   I heard Twilight after entering the kitchen.

   "Spike, what is that in your ears?"

   Spike looked at her shocked. "What?! A Manticore's eating a Deer?! Where?!"

   He looked at the window behind Twilight.

   She face-hoofed. "No, Spike! What are those in your ears?!"

   Spike took the ear buds out. "Oh, you mean these? Dunno, but they sounds awesome! When I press on this white box here...see? It makes music through these bud things! Here Twilight, you try it out."

   My eyes widened at what spike was holding. "Hey that's my IPod!"

   It must have fallen out of my pocket. I was grateful I had something from back home with me. I wondered if there was anything else I might have misplaced, or forgotten.

   "What is this? It's nothing but noise and yelling."

   Twilight took out the ear buds. "Spike you should put that noisy thing back where you got it. It can't be healthy for your head."

   Spike looked disappointed. "Aww, man and I just found this thing too."

   I walked up to them and pointed at it. "That is an IPod. It's mine, but I don't mind if Spike listens to it."

   Spike looked up at Twilight with puppy dog eyes.

   Twilight sighed. "Fine, you can use it if Argyle says it's alright."

    Spike threw his arms up in excitement. "Alright! Thanks!"

   "You humans sure are strange." Twilight looked at me puzzled. "What do you get out of that noise anyway?"

   "Music is emotional. It has no true definition. I have other kinds of music in there, even ones you would like."

   "I doubt that." She waved a hoof in the air dismissing the thought.

   I extended my open palm to Spike. "Spike, may I see my IPod for a second?" .

   "Sure, Argyle."

   I chuckled when I saw what he was listening to. "Amon Amarth? No fear for the setting sun, too? You have good taste Spike."

   I found it strange that a Dragon with no Human cultural background could appreciate death metal.

   Spike looked surprised. "I do? I just pressed on it by accident."

   Looking in my library of music, I started flipping through classical songs.

   Anyone who obviously reads as much as she does will love this.

   "Ah, here we go. This is called Air on a G string. It's by a very famous composer named Bach."

   Twilight put them in reluctantly at first, expecting more of that angry noise. She was in for a pleasant surprise.

   Her eyes slowly widened. "Argyle, this is amazing!"

   I smiled. "I'm glad you like it."

   She took them out halfway into the song. "Thanks, so what do you guys feel like for breakfast?"

   Thinking with my stomach I answered. "Egg's, bacon and do you have coffee?"

   Spike just looked at both Twilight and me.

   Twilight tilted her head. "Bacon, what's that?"

   I raised my eye brows. They were like Humans, omnivores. Yet she never heard of beacon?

   "It's sliced pork belly, cured with salt then smoked."

   Twilight shrugged. "Sorry, but I don't have that."

   "That's alright. It's not that healthy anyway."

   I smiled. "Chock full of grease."

   She scrunched her nose in disgust. "Sounds nasty."

   "Actually, there's nothing like it."

   I scratched my head, looking around. "Well, what's for the menu then?"

   She rubbed her chin with her hoof then answered. "Well, how does eggs, alfalfa sprouts, carrots and fruit spread on toast sound?"

   I had eaten worse. "I'll give it a try. Have any coffee?"

   She slowly nodded while thinking. "Um, I think so. Let me check."

   The alfalfa sprouts were surprisingly good, tender, juicey and earthy. I remember the food there, energizing. Perhaps the Sun had something to do with that? The plants most likely were absorbing the special energy off the Sun while growing, being super charged buy it. While the coffee? Digest high octane gas and live.

   Spike was eating a plate of quartz and gems. I could not help but blink at him eating solid stones. The new world I was in was breaking all the rules. I had to admit, I thought it was rather awesome.

   Twilight was reading some kind of book at the table. "What are you reading, Twilight?"

   She answered without taking her eyes off the book. "It's a tome on magical travel. I am doing research on the advanced flashport."

   That hit my attention. I thought I knew what it meant. "What's a flashport?"

   I wanted to see if I was right.

   "It's a type of teleportation. It allows the caster to go from one place to another close to instantly."

   I was right. I saw something like that in my dream. "Who's the book by?"

   Twilight looked away from the tome to look at me. "It's by Starswirl the Bearded, why? It's just a copy of the original."

   I waved my hands. "Oh, no reason."

   I knew that name. One of the ponies in that dream was named Starswirl. I had no clue how it was possible to dream about someone I never knew existed. I wondered if Starswirl was a common name.

   And the weirdness thickens.

   I scratched the side of my head, thinking of whether I should ask or not. I desided to ask anyway.

   "So, how hard is a flashport? Could I do one?"

   Twilight put the tome down.

   "Well first you would have to be magically gifted."

   She shrugged. "But only Unicorns or Alicorns are magically gifted to my knowledge. Of course, that is excluding Dragons and other magical non pony species."

   Spike nodded. "That's right."

   She got up from the table then went for a book in the main hall.

   "But, I think I read in one of these that a test existed...ah, here it is!"

   Twilight brought over a small white book that said something in ponyglyph on its cover in blue.

   She pointed at it. "This book contains everything about the basics of magic. It tells you how to start using it and it just so happens to contain a spell that senses magical energies. In theory, I could use it and see if you have any magic in you."

   "Go for it." I just wanted to see what would happen. I had no idea it would actually work.

   I watched as her horn glowed making the pages turn.

   "Oh, which page was it again?"

   She bit her lower lip. "Ah, here it is! Alright, sit still and you might feel a slight tingle."

   I was not too happy by the sound of that.

   Her horn started to glow. A feeling of static rushed over my skin, making my hairs stand up.

   Twilight gasped in surprise. "I don't believe it. You have magic!"

   "What, really?"

   I too was hardly able to believe that possible. "How is that even possible?"

   "Well, I thought if you did it would have been a little amount, but not this much."  

   I was unsure of what I should do, or say. "Uh, how much exactly?"

   Twilight looked shocked. "You have more than what most Unicorns start out with. Why, with some work, you'd be casting spells in a week."

   I go from just a teen, to an aspiring mage? What?

   I shook my head, too much, too fast, but my choice was obvious. "So...what now?"

   Twilight put her hoof to her mouth in thought.

   "Well, we do have two weeks before the Princess returns to Canterlot."

   She smiled. "So, I could teach you some tricks."

   Though I had a straight face, I was very excited inside.

   Who gets to be a wizard?!

   "When do we start?" I tried to keep a cool tone. I failed.

   Twilight had her hoof on her chin thinking.

   "How about today?"

   She looked over to Spike. "Spike, grab a paper and quill-"

   She frowned when she saw Spike listening to my IPod while lightly banging his head, completely unable to hear her.

   "Spike!"

   "Now I'm going to show you the four basics of magic."

   Spike was taking notes as Twilight continued. "You already have the first one down, magical affinity. The other three are focus, visualization and concentration."

   "Doesn't focus mean the same thing as concentration?" I tilted my head.

   "By Definition, but not by practice. I hardly think you can concentrate something you can't focus."

   "That makes a lot of sense actually. Alright, what do I do?"

   Twilight's horn glowed, soon after, an apple enveloped in purple floated from the kitchen then landed gracefully on the table in front of me.

   "Here, try to levitate this apple off the table, like this."

   Horn glowing once more, the apple levitated up and held its place then was placed back down flawlessly. "Now you try."

   I shrugged. "Well...I just focus right?"

   Twilight nodded. "Visualize, then concentrate."

   "Go on, you can do it, Argyle."

   Spike smiled. "Just believe."

   "Alright." I half expected I would blow something up, since I had no idea what I was doing.

   Just going with it, I held my hand up, focusing on the apple. While visualizing it floating, I imagined my hand had a hold on it. A rush of static made my hairs stand as my hand began to glow.

   A euphoria washed over me as dormant energy inside awoke, releasing like a flood gate. The apple shot up from the table, hovered in the air for a heart beat, then exploded pelting Spike, Twilight and myself in apple matter.

   Spike cheered.

   "Hey, he did it!"

   He looked at himself and laughed.

   "Whoa, that was cool! But, I guess that means he needs some work though, huh Twi?" He started writing on the paper.

    I laughed lightly. It was pretty cool blowing up that apple I had to admit.

   Twilight, covered with the brunt of that explosion, had a hoof on her chin while staring at me with a look of serious thought.

   "He actually got the apple off the table...on his first try?"

   She blinked at space, then her eyes shrugged with confusion. "The only common thing about what just happened was the apple exploding, but getting the apple in the air on the first try? That's beyond rare."

  I found it strange as well, while picking apple off of myself. "Alright then...what now?"

  Twilight pointed at me. "Now, we have a lot of work to do."