Banned From Equestria

When I woke up, the sun shone brightly in my eyes. I was ready. I trotted down the steps and blew a kiss to Pinkie Pie before walking to the backyard of the Café. I set up some broken bottles for shooting practice. I had no idea how volatile this magic stuff was, so I made sure to set it up away from the street. Hopefully a stray bolt didn't hit Applejacks barn. How hard could this be? I thought, lowering my body and raising a hoof. “This’ll be easy”. I then waited, and realized I had no idea how to activate the magic powers of a unicorn. I was thinking that all I had to do was just think really hard and something “magical” would happen.

Eventually I figured that maybe it was something like Spiderman and tried different poses to fire off a bolt of magic. I lowered my head and then thrust it forward, emitting a small spark. “Ah hah!” I cried aloud. “That’s how that works!” I did the same action and thrust it harder forward. A larger spark emitted. I thrusted forward as hard as I could. A huge spark emitted and managed to reach all five bottles, evaporating them all. I realized then that I knew only how to use Spark magic.

I figured I’d have an easier time asking Twilight Sparkle or even Marshmallow how to use magic, considering they both had horns. Debating my options, I chose to go to Twilight. She seemed to be more knowledgeable and adept at Magic than Marshmallow. While on the way there, I saw Rainbow Dash crash into the Tree House. Worried for her safety I picked up the pace and barged into the Library without even knocking. I climbed up the ladder, only to see Twilight Sparkle frowning while Rainbow Dash speedily tried to patch up the window she had crashed into. I said hi to Twilight and when Rainbow Dash made eye contact with me I instantly looked down, remembering what I had learned the day before. Acting as if Rainbow Dash wasn't there, I asked Twilight how to perform specific spells. When she asked what I wished to learn, I instead opted for a book. I figured that the realm of magic could be explained in much more detail in a book than what Twilight could tell me. I entered the Café and greeted Mrs. Cake. We made small talk, mostly about how I was liking it here in Ponyville and my upcoming job. I said goodnight to her, and then suddenly was curious why she didn't ask about my horn. Pinkie didn't react, either… and I thought that especially odd because I never told her why we were gathering ingredients. In fact, nopony I saw today reacted to my horn. Perhaps everyone else was just busy, or something. I opened the spell book and read a little bit. I opened my window and practiced shooting some bolts at the bottles. One shot missed terribly and I saw a fire break out in the horizon. With my mouth wide open, I quickly shut my window and went to bed.