Mythic Spell, the Mage-in-training
Ch.II pt. 2: Things get complicated....
Previous Chapter"Ok, I can understand why you wanted to wait to apologize, but don't you think that might not have been the best idea?" Twilight states, now also on the brink of tears.
Mythic logically, but sarcastically, replies "Yeah, why not apologize, when you yourself don't understand why or how you lost control. Great idea, risk injuring them further as you apologize." Mythic, now that he's 18, is a bit cynical and sarcastic. He usually doesn't mean to sound rude, but what he says doesn't always sound how he wants it to sound.
Sorry Twilight, it's just been an...Interesting day, I can't use magic, one of my two only friends still hates me, and the other, I have no idea where she is," Mythic says apologetically. "At least I can use runes to heal." At that moment, Mythic pulls out glowing blue chalk and quickly draws a rune on his left foreleg. The rune starts to glow green after a few seconds.
While the rune heals his very annoying concussion, he explains how his runes work. "The runes work by taking in latent energy in the environment and converts it into magic the runes need to work. I use runes because I can how or when they work. Basically, compressed magic in a nutshell."
After a few more seconds, the rune stops glowing and dissolves into Mythic's flesh, leaving him with a clear mind and no dizziness. Mythic pulls himself out of bed to test his balance in order to make sure he won't fall.
He nods, satisfied that he won't need anything or anypony to lean on. At that moment, the white mare with a pink mane and tail, steel gray eyes, and a cutie mark resembling a red cross, Nurse Redheart walked in. She looks up to see Mythic standing and says "Your not supposed to be standing with a concussion, why are you up?"
Mythic chuckles a bit as he realizes that she probably didn't hear his explanation of runes. After a short explanation of runes, he finishes talking with "And so, I used a healing rune to get rid of my concussion."
After about five seconds, Nurse Redheart replies "Well, ok, but I'll need to check to make sure you're ready to leave." So after a quick checkup, Redheart concludes Mythic is okay to be checked out. On the way to the lobby, they pass by a bunch of boring stuff you'd find in a hospital: I.V. stands, medical cabinets, MRI machines, Advanced DNA replicator...wait what? Adv. replicator? Mythic takes a second look at the DNA replicator. After looking at it, Mythic decides that he misunderstood what he saw, it was actually just an odd looking coffee machine. -Okay, I seem to be hallucinating slightly.- Mythic thought to himself. After a couple more odd sights like a pink hippo stuck in a wall and a dancing mirror, Mythic decides he will no longer eat any wheat products without first using a rune to cancel out the side effects and deadliness of ergot poisoning. On that note, He stops short a few steps from the checkout counter and quickly draws a poison negation rune, again, on his left foreleg. Once Mythic stops seeing things and checks out of the hospital, he randomly says out loud "I just realised that I forgot to check my family tree to see if I have any family to stay with here in Ponyville.
Suddenly, before anypony can comment on Mythic's random comment, a strange, but oddly enjoyable sound makes it's way to their ears from the direction of the town square. Vroooom..Vroooom..Vroooom, Thud!. They all look at each other and silently agree to find the source of the sound. The members of the group start running towards the center of town in search of the source of the odd but enjoyable sound. The first place they check is the town hall.
Once the four arrive, they ask Mayor Mare, An earth pony who has tan fur, a white mane and tail, blue eyes, and a cutie mark that is a scroll tied with a light blue ribbon, if she has seen anything unusual that would give off the sound they all heard. After getting a "no" in reply, the four head to Sugar Cube Corner to ask the Cakes if they've seen anything unusual. Again, no success. They now head towards an unusually symmetrical building twilight, pinkie, and Dash refer to as "The Carousel Boutique".
As the group walks through the door, a light chiing! sound is heard, though no bells are present on the door. Curious, Mythic opens his senses to magic and spots a simple, but unknown weave around the door and door-jam. "Interesting...Not unusual, but....Different," Mythic says to nopony in particular.
Just then, a white unicorn mare with gradient blue eyes, and a beautifully styled purple mane and tail, with three gems in a triad as a cutie mark walks in from the back. "Welcome to the Carousel Boutique, how may I~ oh, hello there Twilight, Pinkie, Rainbow Dash. Do you know anything about that oddly alluring sound? And who is this nice, handsome, young stallion?" the mare asks.
Assuming she meant him, Mythic speaks up "Actually, we came here to ask if you knew anything. I'm Mythic Spell by the way, nice to meet you, miss..."
"Oh, just call me Rarity, darling. I don't mind titles, but I prefer to be called by just my name," the mare known as Rarity answered.
"Well anyway, Do you want to help us look for whatever made that noise? We were going to check out the Marketplace next," twilight states. Rarity nods and the group, now numbering five, sets out towards the marketplace. They walk down the road towards a bunch of stores, talking among themselves, but Mythic stays relatively quiet. Being deep in thought, he fails to see the tree coming in close for a high five.
Thwack! "Ouch! okay, I really need to focus more," Mythic says, holding his now sore snout.
The four who didn't walk face first into the tree stop and start giggling at Mythic. Twilight, still giggling a little, speaks up "How did you not see that tree? You seem to be even more accident prone that Ponyville's mailmare."
"I usually become oblivious to just about everything when I start thinking. I walked off my old house's balcony while thinking about runes once," Mythic replies with a chuckle, as the group arrives at their destination.
The unicorns of the group immediately sense something odd. As a precaution, Twilight shields the group's minds from outside forces as they start their search around the perimeter. Pinkie runs inside a store to look around and ask a pony named Bon-Bon about the noise, Rainbow flies into the air to act as spotter, and the remaining three search around in a delta pattern. After about ten minutes, Mythic notices an odd, blue, box off to the side in an alleyway. He approaches with curiosity and caution to investigate the strange box. Mythic eventually gets close enough to read the words written on it which read "Police Public Call Box". Right before Mythic calls up to Rainbow, the doors open and out come two ponies. One is a chestnut brown stallion with a dark brown mane and tail, and the other is a light gray pegasus mare with a banana yellow mane and tail. "Ditzy!?....Doctor!?!!?" Mythic shouts, surprised as he recognises the two ponies.
