TIME: Tutoring In Magical Education

Twilight had several books surrounding her in bed this morning. The smell of the pages sent her into a strange bliss as she cracked open the first book. That brief moment of intoxication was cut short when a small noise was made from the outside of the library. It sounds like rain, but the weather team hadn’t scheduled any rain today. There isn't even a single cloud in the sky. She stuck her head out to look where the noise was coming from. Searching around a little, the unicorn discovered that the noise was coming from Spike struggling with a hose. She was about to yell out something, but was interrupted by the hose releasing a small torrent of water, soaking both her mane and her coat.

“SPIKE!” yelled Twilight in frustration, “Be more careful with that hose! You almost sprayed water on the books I have out!”

“Sorry Twilight! But the valve is very touchy!” the young dragon shouted back, finally regaining control of the hose.  With a very slight turn of the valve, the water pressure went down to a level that was easier to handle and Spike returned to his chore of watering the plants outside of the library. The reptilian assistant was very careful not to water the plants directly, placing his thumb over the nozzle to make the gushing water to be rain-like when it made contact with the gentle garden.

“It’s a wonder how any housework gets done with Twilight studying so much,” he thought out loud to himself.

“Better go dry off.” Twilight sighed after a quick look in the mirror. Her drenched mane was shining in the light. She shrugged it off and sought after a towel to dry off. The wet pony wasted some time before succeeding in her search. She dried off her coat hurriedly and wrapped the moist cloth around her mane, not wanting to waste any time on searching for a drying spell, for now at least, and to insure the tomes wouldn’t get wet should she shake her mane dry.

A few minutes later and about half-way through with watering, a familiar white unicorn trotted behind and tapped Spike on the shoulder; Spike turned his head. “Hmm? Oh hi there, Rari-“

The love-struck dragon stopped mid-sentence upon seeing the object of his affections, Rarity, and began to stammer to the point of silencing himself from embarrassment. His face was turning a shade of red for being so dismayed.  Seeing as Spike wasn’t going to finish his sentence anytime soon, Rarity began her inquiry with a whimsically cutesy tone, “Good morning, Spikey-Wikey. Is Twilight home? I need to ask her for a favor.”

Spike shook his head to snap himself out of his brief stupor. “Uh yeah, she should still be upstairs.”

“Thank you Spike.” She gave Spike a light head rub and headed inside.

“Heheh, not a proble-“ Spike muttered, loosening his grip on the hose, “WHOA!”

As one would probably expect, Spike immediately lost control of the hose once more and was hit with water several times.

Rarity looked around the library foyer in search of Twilight. She called out, “Twilight? Where are you?”

“Hold on! I’ll be down in a minute!” Twilight replied. At precisely one minute after her response, Twilight, who was now dry, walked down the stairs with a few books levitating behind her, all of them looking heavy as bricks. “Hi Rarity, what brings you here this morning?”

“Well, I don’t mean to interrupt your reading on such a magnificent day, but I was hoping to ask you for some assistance. You see, Sweetie Belle, my younger sister, had asked me to teach her how to do some magic today, nothing difficult of course but…” Rarity said with a twinge of guilt.

“Huh, I never knew you had a sister.” The violet pony pondered this sudden discovery and placed her books back to their proper places amongst the shelves.

“Please Twilight; don’t interrupt when I am regaling you with a back story as to why I’m here. Now where was I? Ah, yes. But I have a really important order to fill and I need all week to finish. With my parents leaving on vacation… again... there is no one at home available to teach her.”

“That does sound like a problem. But why do you need me? “

Rarity looked at her with the most pleading eyes anypony has ever seen. “Twilight, darling. You are one of the most talented ponies I know at magic and the Element of Magic. Not including the princesses, who else could be a better magic teacher than you?”

Twilight blushed a little from the flattery. “Gee, since you think so highly of me… I’ll do it.”

“Thank you, Twilight. You have no idea how much this means to me. I’ll be sure to repay you for this.”

“You don’t need to go that far. I’d be honored to do it. So, when do I start?”

“Well, Sweetie Belle should—“

The designer was cut off by the hollering of a filly, “RARITY! YOU PROMISED YOU WERE GOING TO TEACH ME MAGIC!”

A quick glance to the open door way by the two unicorns showed that the yelp originated from a very irritated Sweetie Belle as she tried to lift a small rock by concentrating really hard on it, ending with the rock hitting her by the horn. She gave a loud groan and kicked the rock in frustration at full force. The rock conked Spike upon the head and caused him to spin around followed by a knock out. The handler’s fall caused the hose to be aimed at an open window. The water goes through the window and soaks, with nothing short of miraculous accuracy, Twilight, and only her, for a consecutive time

Rarity gave Twilight a very sheepish grin. She also took a large step away from Twilight, as the water hitting her was starting to pool on the floor. “Umm… How about after you dry off?”

The twice drenched unicorn lowered her head and gave a small groan.