It was an average day in PonyVille, Rainbow Dash had cleared the skies, Fluttershy was playing with some forestlife, Rarity was trying on dresses, Applejack was bucking trees and Twilight Sparkle was testing out some new spells with Spike.
"How about this one," said Spike with an excited expression on his face.
"No, no, no... Too... Exotic," Twilight replied.
"Hmm, this spellbook seems interesting, Incrementum Alica quod Carmen. Must be fancy for AWESOME!" Spike blurted out.
"I suppose we can give that one a try."
"Sweet! OK, let's flip to a random page, how about... page one! Try this one out!"
"Auctus... What does Auctus mean?" Twilight Sparkle said with curiosity.
"I don't know but it sounds pretty darn cool to me!"
"OK, OK... Well what should I try it on? Is it a physical spell or a telekinetic spell?"
"I dunno, but why don't you just try it on me?" Spike uttered without a doubt.
"OK, here goes nothing!" *ZWOOSH* Nothing appeared to happen! Nothing changed on Spike, nor anything around him!
"Well that was a dud... Why would there be a spell that does nothing?" Spike said in a disappointed voice.
"Read me the description would you Spike?"
"The description is in gibberish, but I'll do my best... Causa quisquam vos iacio is in cretum ut unimaginable sublimitas quod widths. Presencia operor non satus insquequo duodecim hora secundum alica has been iacio."
After a while of trying to figure out what the heck the spell does, they just gave up. They decided to just go see what the other ponies were up to! First they found Pinkie Pie hopping around doing absolutely who-knows-what. "What are you doing Pinkie Pie?" Twilight asked.
"Playing Catch-The-Fly-While-Acting-Like-A-Leap-Frog!" Pinkie said with joy.
Spike spoke in a voice filled with bummer, "Twilight and I just tried out a spell that seemed totally awesome but it did nothing..."
"Well why don't you try it on me! I mean I could totally be the perfect test subject for any kind of spell, actually anything! I mean come on I have the perfect body for any kind of testing a pony could ever think of! Why do people think I couldn't be a test pony with all of this... this energy! Fire your horn up and get ready to set me on fire-- wait that came out wrong... whatever you get the point! Cast some spells on me!" Pinkie Pie spoke out that entire paragraph so fast you pretty much couldn't even hear her.
"OK, well hear goes nothing!" *ZWING* Again nothing happened to anything! Pinkie Pie still looked the same and acted the same. Applejack was walking by when she saw Twilight trying out some magic and had to get in on it.
"Well I'll be darned if you don't try some of that magic stuff on me! Don't you even second guess me, I heard you talking with Pinkie, maybe I can see what that spell does!"
"Well... Okay then!" Twilight's horn lit up as she cast the spell on Applejack. *ZWANGO* Nothing happened to Applejack either.
Pretty soon Twilight had tried the spell on every single one of her friends and nothing had happened to any of them at all! She tried it on everything she could find! Nothing came of it. She couldn't bear not knowing what it did, so she decided she would try it on herself! After everyone went to bed she went back down to the book she had kept on her pedestal. She re-read the spell, just to make sure Spike hadn't read it wrong. Nope everything seems to be in order she thought to herself.
Well here goes nothing! Her magical horn lit up as she cast the spell on herself. Nothing noticeable happened to her. Darn... well I guess I will never know what it does... She climbed back upstairs and crawled in bed. Her eyes closed slowly as her mind kept pondering the mysterious spell, Auctus.
