My Second chance

My breakfast was extremely quick. It was a simple bowl of oat meal with apples. Spike had some gems, and Twilight had an apple. Surprisingly, she was just now eating her breakfast. From what I can tell, she woke up just a couple of minutes before I did. I wanted to tell her about what happened during the night before, but I felt as if it would disturb the main storyline of MLP. I didn't want to disturb anything. After we ate, we went outside to start today’s training.

“Okay, today we will start with a simple illusion spell,” Twilight began, “The goal of this spell is to create an image of an apple out of magic.”

“Okay, so how do we start?” I was eager to be able to learn how to learn how to do more advanced magic.

“Fist we’ll start with charging our horns. For you this will be a bit harder than for me. To start close your eyes and concentrate on bringing power into your horn. You should see an image of flowing colors. Try and focus on the one that looks like your aura.” When she was done explaining, she closed her eyes and her horn started to glow.

I closed my eyes and concentrated on power flowing into my horn like she said. The difference was I didn’t see an image of flowing colors. I saw what was around me like I was looking through a thermal imaging camera. Her horn looked like it was the hottest object in the room. I got concerned very quickly.

“Uh, Twilight, I might have a problem.” I said possibly sounding a little panicked. Okay, I was a little scared.

I saw her horn’s power go down through the image, and I could she opened her eyes. She looked concerned and confused. Apparently every thing seemed normal, but my horn wasn’t glowing.

“Helix what’s wrong? Are you hurt?” She said worriedly.

“I don’t know. You said I would see an image of colors, but I can see like normal. I can actually tell how much magic is in every object. It seems different than what I expected.” I was so confuse and hoped to Celestia that I wasn't sick.

“That doesn’t sound right. Try focusing on this.” She replied while holding up a ruby. Spike looked really upset at this. I think I remember him telling me it was his favorite.

“Okay, I’ll try.” I said worried. I didn't know a lot about how magic worked and hoped I didn't blow anything up.

When I focused on the gem, the magical energy from it flowed into my horn. I absorbed more and more until there was none left to take. I opened my eyes just in time to see the gem fade to gray and turn to dust. My horn faded and felt significantly more powerful.

“What the Celestia just happened!?” Spike yelled. Me and Twi were just as confused as he was.

“I think I siphoned all the magical energy out of the gem and into my body. I feel like I could perform any spell I wanted to.” I went to my hind hooves and flexed my fronts like I was a strong pony.

“Wow, I’ve never heard of such a power," Twilight said flabbergasted, "The magic in something keeps the atoms energized. Taking the magic out of them must have broken the bonds between each other.”

“Okay, I guess that makes sense. It still doesn’t tell how I got this power. Do any other unicorns in history have this power?” I asked hoping she would say yes.

“Not that I know of," she said making me a little worried, "I will look into it though. We should run some test’s to look for the extent of this power.”

“Okay, I’ll do it again if I can. This time I won’t take all of the power. After that I will try to filter the power into something else. If we continue to look into this, we could find out how much I can do. Hopefully we will find out how to use this and help every pony.” I was scared about what was happening but I also wanted to know more. I felt as if this could be a key to save a lot of ponies.

We tested my powers for hours. I could feel the power rush into and out of me. Every time I used too much of my own energy into the siphon, I would feel incredibly weak. I could actually filter magic into gems and power them, creating a light source or a magical reserve. Twilight could actually use her magic to envelope the gem and instantly absorb its excess power. I had not yet tried to use this power on a living thing yet.