Journey to the Brother Side of Equestria

Lucid Arius looked down at his little sister and smiled at her growth in her magic skill. She went from levitation to teleportation in just six nights! he thought. Soon she'll be eligible for Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns, no doubt!

Lucid had recently heard of Twilight Sparkle, a six-year-old filly who was chosen as Celestia's personal protégé at the school. Lumin might not be as magically gifted as Twilight, who hatched a baby dragon egg on her own, but she's only three. He watched her practice some more. She teleported right into midair, barely able to keep hovering above a pile of books. She'll improve by the time she turns six, I'm sure.

"Don't fall on the books, Lumin!" Lucid exclaimed. "Magic books multiply five-fold when they fall to the ground!" He tried to levitate her away from them, but, since she had just recently teleported, he couldn't. Lumin Aria fell right onto the stack of six books, and they instantly multiplied into thirty. "What'd I say? Multiplied. Five. Fold."

Lumin counted the books, did the math in her head, and confirmed what her brother said was true. Lucid helped her clean up the books, put them back on the shelf, and sent her to bed.

"But I'm not even tired yet!" Lumin cried. "I want to practise more magic!"

Lucid needed some time alone, and Lumin wanted to practise more magic. Lucid thought of a solution. "You don't have to sleep, Sis!" he told her. "You can practise your magic in bed if you want. Just don't cast any fire spells!"

After sending his sister to bed, Lucid finally had a moment of free time to himself. He could hear grunting and groaning coming from his sister's room, probably because she was concentrationg on advanced spells such as duplication or incineration. He quickly galloped to her room, and she was trying to open a book with her hooves. Of all the stupid, foalish things a Unicorn could do... Lucid thought. "You know, Sis, you could just open the book with your magic!" he explained. "All it takes is a simple levitation spell, which you've clearly mastered if you can keep aerostasis for four whole seconds!"

"Oh." Lumin "I've been trying for thirty whole seconds," Lumin replied, mocking her brother's exaggeration of time's meaning, "to open the book with my hooves, but you're right. Magic is a lot easier than that! It doesn't consume any of the energy that I'm not trying to save for actually casting the spells, Lucid!"

"Sorry, Sis!" Lucid replied. "I forgot how little energy young fillies have at night." And that was true. He did forget. Lucid left his sister's room, returning to the house's main room. He began to read a book himself. It was a book of pony tales, entitled The Tales of Treponius Mane by Richpone Mare-ington. "There once was a pony who walked sun or rain, and he went by the name of Treponius Mane..." he began to read. "He went to a thousand lands both new and old, that included a land of just silver and gold."

Suddenly, Lucid heard his sister cry for help. "HELP ME, BROTHER!!" She's probably still trying to open the book with her hooves. he thought. That'll consume a lot more energy than casting a simple levitation spell!

Lucid went back to reading his book. "He always could count on his pals to all ends, for he knew that forever they'd always be friends. Treponius travelled the far and the wide, to find troubled ponies and help them with pride." Lucid read the rest of the book in his head, and he made a promise to himself to never forget the words of it, and to try to live like Treponius Mane did.