I woke up with a start in my seat on the train, while on my way to Canterlot, for some experiments and tests involving my magical capabilities. I looked out the window to see we were at the stop before Canterlot, and stretched before standing up, and heading through the cars towards the dining car, to get a drink.

I got to the dining car and took a seat yawning, as I felt the results from the past few days I’ve done the same thing, as I’m about to do today, mixed with the exhaustion I had gained from the past, that I had pushed off when I threw my ascension away with Chronomancy. Even now, I’m wondering what they were going to look into today.

We had already tested my durability to different spells and magic’s, my own magical capabilities, and even got poked and prodded with different devices that read many different things. Magic, blood, muscle mass, and more that I didn’t understand the “scientific jargon” for.

“Sir?” I noticed an orange hoof wave in front of my face, as I looked over to see a mare that would look like an older version of Scootaloo, with her mane curled at the end. “Are you alright? I’ve been trying to ask what you wanted to order for a few minutes now.”

I shook my head and rubbed my eyes, as I got myself together. “Sorry, just woke up.” I looked at the menu for a few seconds setting it down. “I’ll take a glass of peach-cranberry juice, and some waffles.” I looked out the window seeing the sun was still low in the morning sky. “And an orange.”

I looked back to the mare as she had finished writing my order down, and smiled at me. “Alright, I’ll have it out in a jiffy.” She trotted off after setting the pencil on her ear, as I looked out the window again, noticing we were starting to go around the mountain Canterlot was on, as I leaned towards the window looking up to see Canterlot, before sitting back up and setting my arms on the table, laying my chin on them.

It didn’t take long for my order to come out, as I began to eat, taking my time to enjoy my breakfast. By the time I finished I had fully woken up, and got my bearings on my surroundings, to notice we were starting to pull into Canterlot station. I paid for my breakfast, and went back to my seat, grabbing my bag as the train came to a full stop. “Hopefully today’s experiments won’t be too difficult to deal with.” I got off the train, and began my walk to the castle with my bag slung over my shoulder.

About twenty minutes later I was walking into the castle, and up to the second floor of the solar wing, heading down the corridors. I eventually found the testing chamber and opened the door walking inside as I dropped my bag by the door, and closed the door behind me to look at a grey Pegasus stallion, and a green unicorn mare writing notes, probably about the previous tests, before they looked at me and smiled.

The green mare got up and walked over to me. “It’s good to see you could make it Blaze. You ready for the tests?”

I rolled my shoulders a bit, to help loosen the joints. “I suppose so. What’s the deal today you two?”

The stallion cleared his throat as he set his clipboard down and turned on a monitor, before walking over to me grabbing a box with his wing. “We want to see the magical fluctuations as you use your magic. See if we can figure out why you have instances or even days without your magic. We’re hoping to find out what is going on, so we can help you with that.”

“I see.” The stallion set the box down as he and the mare both pads on my hands, arms, the sides of my neck, and on each of my temples on my head. “So how are we doing this?” I began to head for a door that I knew headed into a large empty room, with reinforced walls for their tests.

“Well, we’re basically going to have Tulip here, send some rocks, at you and we want you to use magic to protect yourself or destroy them. We also want to see how you will do as they got larger as it goes along, so we can the change in your magic as you need to use more.” I heard them walk over to where the stallion was when I first came in, as the door closed behind me.

It wasn’t long after that parts of the floor would open up and rocks of varying sizes would float up from them with a light red aura over them as I raised my hands in front of me in a defensive stance. The rock flew at me, as I would swing my arms to either create walls of magic energy as a barrier, or focused the energy over my fist to punch a rock down, focusing more magic as they got larger.

After about an hour of this, I side stepped a rock that was as large as my entire upper body dropping my arms as I was panting. I then heard the mare’s voice come from some speakers that was above the door into the room. “Alright, that was great Blaze. We have one last test, and this one won’t involve my magic, so I won’t be able to stop it when it’s coming for you, understand?”

I nodded as I popped my knuckles, before shaking my left hand a bit before focusing some magic into it, as I felt it fluctuating over it in an unresponsive manner, hoping I could do this. “Y-yeah…let’s do this.”

I could hear some clinking and clanging of gears for a moment, before she spoke again. “Alright, it should be heading up now. Just be ready because it’s pretty b-“her voice stopped as I looked at the door as I could see the panels of the wall around it slide out and make what looked like a ramp. “Princess, you can’t right now. No STOP!”

I heard the door open and looked to see Celestia walking into the room and up to me as I stood in a more relaxed posture. “Celestia? What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be dealing with morning court?”

She waved her hoof as she chuckled. “It just ended, and I had heard from Swift that you were here, so I wanted to come check on you.” I saw the stallion and mare reach the open doorway, as I could see the wall above open up to show a boulder, that could easily crush me begin to roll out, as my eyes went wide. “I heard you were training to control your chaos magic with discord, and I wanted to hear how it was going.” She blinked looking at me with a serious expression. “How HE…is doing…I have to say, I was surprised you suggested letting him free, to train you, but, from what letters I’d gotten from Twilight, it sounded…positive in a way?”

The two called her name as I tensed my left fist focusing all the magic I could muster into my left arm from the elbow to the ends of my fingers, as she looked behind her, before freezing like a deer in headlights from seeing the boulder rolling towards us. I slid around her with my right side facing the boulder before stomping my right foot down and twisted my body as I sent my left fist into the boulder creating a loud explosion as the boulder was destroyed and the magical force sent a massive blast of air around the room, as well as the dirt and rubble from the boulder, before I yelled in pain gripping my left arm.

I fell to my knees as I felt the surge of pain in my arm, with my teeth bore tightly inhaling in a hissing manner from the pain. “BLAZE?! WHAT HAPPENED?!” I could hear Celestia’s voice call out as the dust began to settle, and I looked at my arm to see that it had turned purple from the elbow down, and some places the skin had torn open and was bleeding slowly. The pain quickly faded to a bearable point as I stood back up. “Oh my gosh, blaze, your hurt!”

“I’m fine, Celestia.” I gripped the part of the arm above the elbow to keep from making it worse, as I headed into the other room, with Celestia in tow behind me. “It’ll be fine. I knew this would happen, but I had to make sure you wouldn’t get hurt. Discord said to never use chaos magic physically over myself for offense, but it was the only source of magic I could tap into with ease.”

I sat against the wall, as the mare and Celestia looked at my arm, before wrapping it up in gauss. “Blaze, I would never want you to hurt yourself to protect me like that. I could’ve dealt with it myself.”

I shook my head. “Not in time. You were frozen in shock, and wouldn’t have had the time to charge a spell in time.” I looked at her as she opened and closed her mouth a few times. I knew I was right, since the magic ponies use is slower to charge up, where chaos energy, you pull it from the atmosphere itself, rather than your own energy, making it easier to harness it in quick situations.

I heard the mare gasp as I looked at her, noticing she finished her scan of my arm. “This…is incredible. Your arm is…or was…broken, at a state to where magic couldn’t heal it, but it healed itself…well mostly…” she set a splint as she wrapped another layer of gauss over the arm, and separately wrapping each of my fingers as well. “You still need to keep it wrapped and let it heal the rest of the way before using it to be safe.”

I looked at my arm than the stallion hearing him gasp in excitement. “This is INSANE!” he turned to look at me with a large grin. “Blaze, you don’t have any problem with your magic, you just can’t harness the multiple energies at the same time!” he ripped a long print out of paper and ran over dragging a large amount of it, still leaving most of it where it was, as he showed me a set of lined graphs where it spiked, and where it was lowest. “During the test, I noticed points in time you had both that yellow aura and red aura.” He pointed to the low points that were circled. “that was when your magic was at its lowest, but when you focused one type of energy…” he pointed to a few points that the line was spiking a few times, than one that spiked in a quick moment, before going into a flat line. “and these moments is when you focused on one energy, and the moment you put so much in, it put pressure on your other energy’s reserve. You force it, instead of let it flow through you.”

I looked at the graph and tilted my head looking at it. “I…don’t understand this…” I looked at the stallion as he blinked and facehoofed, as Celestia began to worry about my arm and hand, and scolded the two researchers, to my amusement, as the three argued, about ‘how I could die in these experiments’ and ‘experimenting on my magic to help me control it, since I keep losing the ability to use it.’

A few days later.

I removed the gauss on my arm lying on the couch in the library as I held it up looking at the back of my hand as it blocked the light coming from the window above. It felt nice to finally free may arm from the layers of gauss and the splint…the itchy…itchy splint. Which reminds me.

I sat up and began to scratch my arm as I groaned in relief as I fell back again scratching it still. It feels like such a relief to scratch this itch I couldn’t reach for days. After I relieved the itch I let my arm hang off the couch onto the floor as I stared at the ceiling, as I heard hoofsteps coming in and out of the library, and silent whispering and murmuring for a while.

‘I can’t focus multiple kinds of magical energies.’ What could he have meant? That I’ll never be able to use all this magic to its full potential? No, that can’t be right, he was interested in it. I’m sure they’ll think of something to help me harness this power…right?

As I lied on the couch staring at the ceiling I felt a weight land on my chest making me jump and grab the culprit. I looked down to see I was holding Scootaloo as she was looking at me confused as I sighed. “You scared me there.” I smiled as I let her go. “Need something Scoot?”

She smiled as she held a letter to me. “This came in for you. Ditzy and Comet said it was important and to get it to you.” I took the letter as she sat on my chest, keeping her smile. “I may have read it out of curiosity.”

I chuckled a bit as I noticed the back was opened. “You know it’s rude to read others mail, right?” I saw her ear flick. “But if you’re smiling this much, it's gotta be something really good.” I could feel her bouncing a bit in anticipation as I slowly pulled the letter and mumbled some of the words as I skimmed it. “Hmmm…Mr. Feathers, we have discovered…yada yada…your magical flow is very spectacular…blah blah blah….” I kept noticing how they found the study on me to be increasingly interesting to them, then reached a point that made me blink. “Your magic can only focus through one conduit at a time. Mixing the natural magic of the atmosphere with one’s own magical reserve creates an overload that ceases the reserves from flowing for a time, mattering by the overload’s level.” I felt Scootaloo jump down off me, as I sat up. “If you can find a way to switch between the two safely, or find a separate conduit to pull the chaos magic through, you would be able to use your magic to its fullest.”

I set the letter down on the table. “I asked Twilight about it, and she said it meant you just need another way to focus your own magic and chaos magic separately, just like how a unicorn's….con…do…eet?” I chuckled a bit as I nodded looking at her. “…is their horn.” When I heard that I blinked and looked at my hand, I had just freed from its cloth prison.

My eyes widened as a thought hit me as to how to use it. I got up and headed outside to see Twilight was talking to Comet. “Hey babe, I need your help with something!” I walked over to her smiling, feeling the excitement to try this idea.

They turned to look at me as Twilight looked confused. “Uhhhh, alright, what do you need Blaze?” I walked past her to a clear area.

I looked at her and smirked. “I want you to create a barrier over me and a decent sized area.” Twilight blinked as she did as I asked.

I raised my right hand pointing the palm out as I raised my left hand coursing chaos magic through it, and placed it over my right forearm, as I heard Discord’s words from the first lesson to control my chaos magic. “the first thing to know about chaos magic, is it is not meant for combat, or defense, since such spells using it has repercussions of destroying your body, so it should only be a last resort for combat or anything like that. Chaos magic…is meant to change the nature of something. How it exists in the world.”

I took a deep breath, before exhaling, as I could see the light red aura over my left hand coursed through my right arm and hand, as I could feel the pores secreting a substance as I focused my flame magic into my right hand seeing a few flashes and heard pops like a firecracker. I tensed my teeth as I increased the chaos magic in my left hand feeling my right hand begin to tingle, as I focused fire magic in my right once more, as I loud explosion happened and I felt myself go flying and hit the barrier hard, making me catch my breath and fall onto my hand and knees coughing.

“BLAZE!” I heard Twilight and Comet run over as I noticed the barrier was gone, and could see a crowd gathering around us. “Are you alright?!”

I slowly stood up, breathing slowly. “I’m fine. Twilight, once more real quick.” I looked at her as I could tell she didn’t like this, as I smiled a bit. “I think I have it this time, just once more.”

She nodded as they backed up and the barrier came back up around me, larger than before and I placed my hands like before, and focused the magic through my hands, before the explosion happened again, but it didn’t send me flying as I held my hands in front of me looking at them and smirked closing them. A unicorn has their single horn to focus magic, but as a human I have my two separate hands.

I blinked and looked down at my feet, and slipped my hands into my pants pockets taking a few hops, before taking a few spinning kicks as lines of white and black aura followed my feet. I smirked as I pulled my hands out and set my left by my hip, keeping it open as I raised my right hand in a fist out in front of me, doing some kicks and punches, ending the streak, with the explosive blast, right against the barrier sending my flying, but I landed on my feet in a short slide panting a bit, as the barrier faded shortly after.

I could hear hooves stomping and saw Twilight run up to me and jump, hugging me as I caught her. “Blaze that was incredible! How did you do that?! That was the most magic I’ve seen you do recently without passing out, or being seriously injured!”

I chuckled and hugged her as well. “Well, Scootaloo mentioned her talk with you, and that made me think about my hands. Left for chaos, right for my own magic. Now I don’t overload my own magical energy, since I pull that chaos over my left hand, and my personal magic into my right, and my legs.”

She blinked and looked at me. “One more thing, how did you create that explosion?”

I blinked and chuckled nervously as I set her on the ground. “Well, I changed the nature of the pores on my right arm and hand, and changed how the sweat existed, as…well….more like nitroglycerine, using it as a base for an explosion. I…kind of ripped off the idea from a show from humanity, I discovered a few months ago, using the odd internet signal I found at the Wonderbolts camp.” She tilted her head raising a brow looking at me. “I’ll explain that in more detail later, for now just…I know how to use my magic safely, until I can mix the magical energies safely.”

Twilight gasped and smiled like Pinkie would, when she could throw a big party. “I have to write the princess about this!” she ran off towards the library, leaving me, Comet, Scootaloo, and Ditzy confused.

“Sooo…ya learned how to use your element in a different way, eh?” I looked at Comet to see him looking at me. “Seems I’m not the only one getting better with his element, and from the last I heard, Chrysalis was getting better with her terra as well.”

Ditsy walked over and put her hoof on his mouth. “You know I don’t like talking about the changelings right now, remember…?”

Comet moved her hoof going a bit red. “o-oh, right. Sorry Ditz. Why don’t you go ahead and pick up Dinky head on home, I’ll meet you there soon, before I head back to Cloudsdale. Alright?”

“Alright, I’ll see you soon.” Ditzy gave Comet a quick kiss on the cheek, before she flew off, as I watched, before turning into my Pegasus self jabbing at Comet.

“So, when did you and Ditzy become an item?” he tensed up, as his face went red, making me laugh.

He cleared his throat, as he scratched his head. “Oh, umm, that would be shortly after Discord messed up Equestria before. She and Dinky were on a floating bit of ground, and Ditzy didn’t have her wings. I helped them down, and went to help others after that, but about four days after everything was normal, I ran into them again, and she took me out to eat to thank me. Things kinda…kicked off from there.” He smiled a bit. “To be honest, I feel pretty lucky to have such an awesome mare in my life. We have so much in common. Music, stories, interests…we have opposites, but we see past those, and she knows about my magical capabilities, and she’s not afraid or seeing me as weird.” He looked at me smiling. “Us elemental ponies aren’t seen as freaks or monsters anymore, and it’s all cause of you Blaze. It’s like…you have some kind of power to create peace, and acceptance. Whatever it is you’re doing, don’t stop.” He turned around and ran off, before taking flight towards the direction of the school.

I could only smile and look at my right hand, hopeful that I can protect those close to me now. But my smile fell as I felt a wave of exhaustion hit me, as it felt familiar, but I couldn’t figure out how exactly. Time is catching up to me, and the possibility from when it does still scares me, but I have to push past my fears if I’m going to protect what I love. All I can do is persevere, and prepare myself and everyone around me for now, and I have an idea of where to start with that.

For the next few weeks, I had gone from town to town, city to city, and farm to farm, setting a stake made of my blood in crystallized form, with a massive amount of chaos energy, to repel any form of dark entities, or anything possessed by such beings, to create a protective barrier around the homes and businesses, and over all the roads in Equestria.

On the final day of the preparations, I went home and collapsed in a chair at the kitchen table laying my head down, feeling the stress from the blood loss, hearing a plastic container be set on the table next to me. “I STILL can’t believe Princess Celestia agreed to this…” I rolled my head over to see an unmarked bottle, with a few red pills in it, before seeing Twilight through it. “Please tell me you’ve finished, I don’t think the princess can prepare anymore of these pills for you. She was lucky to get enough of those ingredients for this bottle as a matter of fact!” I could hear the worry, behind her serious tone, as I sat up in the chair, with my head leaning back opening my mouth, as I did with the previous times this happened.

I felt two pills slip into my mouth, as well as some water right after, swallowing the pills as the rest of the water spilled on my face, feeling as refreshing as ever. I smiled and looked at her. “Don’t worry. I got the last one placed today. Manehattan, Las Pegasus, Canterlot, Ponyville, all places where anyone is living should be protected now.” I looked up at the ceiling, chuckling a bit. “The crystal empire was actually super simple. I just needed to infuse the magic over the crystal heart, like a cover, and the heart integrated my barrier into its own.”

I felt some pressure on my chest, which made me look down to see Twilight laying her head on my chest with a small smile. “I’m glad to hear it’s over. Seeing you come in all pale, and nearly passing out sometimes has had me worried for your health.” She looked up at me. “But please remember we are all here to help you. You aren’t alone in this, alright?”

I placed a hand under her chin and lifted her head some more, and lowered my own to give her a quick kiss. “I know. There isn’t much more that I need to do alone. I know it seems like I haven’t followed what I’ve said before, but there are still some things only us elementals can do to prepare Equestria for any attacks from the Nightmares.”

Twilight sighed, as her ears drooped. “I understand…just please don’t overwork yourself, when you don’t need to.” I nodded as I stroked her mane. “It’s crazy. Knowing that the Nightmares are separate entities that possess and control Somepony.” She looked at me with a worried look. “I mean, how would we know if Somepony was possessed?! Any of our friends could be possessed right now for all we know!”

I placed a finger over her mouth, and shook my head slowly. “They can’t possess whoever or whatever they want. There has to be something they can bond to. Envy, hate, anger, pain, even sadness. If they can’t bond to some point of emotion in Somepony, then they can’t possess them. Just like how Luna was extremely jealous of Celestia for having ponies enjoy her days, and nopony, if any would enjoy Luna’s nights back then. But now there are those night clubs, and star gazing, and even dates held underneath the light of the moon and stars. She doesn’t have those emotions towards Celestia, so Nightmare Moon will never return. At least, not through Luna.”

Twilight nodded, and began to head towards the Library after we heard the front door open. “Well that’s a relief, knowing Princess Luna is safe from their influence, and that you finished those barrier staves, so everypony is safe from them.”

After she left the kitchen I lifted my left arm looking at the gauss wrapped around the forearm and over the palm of the hand, slowly undoing them, and looking at the dozens of red lines on the forearm, and the black lines flowing along the cuts, and swirling into the center of the palm, feeling the same sensation I had at the end of the Wonderbolt Academy.

“What are you doing to me…?” I rewrapped the forearm and palm, making sure they were wrapped like my right arm was, before getting up and heading upstairs to the bedroom, giving Twilight a peck on the cheek as I passed her. As I sat on the bed I raised my left arm once more, and focused, making the same bit of black cloak that I absorbed from so long ago, holding it between my finger and thumb seeing it flutter slowly, in a non-existent wind, pieces tearing off it, but the amount of the fabric never diminished. “What are you keeping secret from me…Death…?”

I reabsorbed the piece of fabric and laid down, feeling my eye lids get heavy, as they closed. I let them close, as I fell into a deep sleep. One I’ll need before I continue my lessons with Discord. Right before slumber fully took me, I could see two figures within the darkness. Silhouettes that made me want to run up to them, but yet…I was afraid to…I couldn’t even question before my dream’s pulled me in, sending me into a state of relief, making me forget about, whatever it was I had thought about.

Author's Note

alright, in case anyone hasn't seen my latest blog, i'm having trouble contacting the writer of the story for the next multiverse chapter, which i know he is going through some stuff in his life. he's already made a blog on it, but i don't think i have any right to mention it, since that seems rude, and just plain wrong, but all i can do for now is continue writing the chapter, try to think of and find the answers to the questions i had for him myself for now, until he does answer...if he does. and if he does, i can re-write it as i need to. when i finish writing it, i will send it to him, and give a couple weeks before i post it. if it doesn't fit to his standards, i will take it down, and rewrite as needed and re-post the chapter as a new chapter so everyone can see it.

are you sure you can't talk about his thing? i mean he has mentioned it himself already.

Dash...ugh, i suppose i COULD, but it seems rude to.

i...guess so.

i suppose i can say it is medical, and pretty serious, and i do hope he comes through it alright.

oh Celestia his story is so good! i can't help but enjoy it so much!

umm...i...cant deny that but it is very sexual...

but it's still such a good story. action, romance, and its very enjoyable.

maybe cause the story is mostly you and his OC...

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don't...just don't...

it's good to see you writing again, instead of just waiting. even though i do enjoy watching you play those stories. the one about that man with the axe and his son climbing a mountain was a very good one.

i s'pose it was. just seemed to be lacking something...

WHAT COULD IT HAVE BEEN MISSING?! IT HAD ACTION, AND EPIC CONFRONTATIONS, AND...AND...ummmm....PLOT TWISTS....and uhhh...interesting visuals? YEAH!

umm, i mean something along the line of...realism, since they dont eat a thing?

ummm...they are god's. they dont live in a way of corporeality, so they dont need sustenance exactly. they can enjoy food and drink, but they dont really NEED it...as well as the story takes place with the span of...i think the chronological span of the in-story time would be...7 to 8 hours? alot of it is side content and collectibles. besides, its a game...

ya made yer point...

umm...sorry.

PLAY THE ONE WITH THAT EYE SYMBOL!

umm, alright, i need to go deal with this. i hope all of you enjoy this explainative chapter, aaand...it may be kind of jumpy on subjects, i've written this chapter bit by bit for about two weeks, maybe getting to it every two or three days, and i wanted to do some stuff i couldn't fir into this multi-verse chapter sooo...yyyeeeaaahhhhh...

if you guys could give this chapter a break from serious critiques, that'd be greeeeeat

yes i did that meme 😅 im tired, since it's 4 am currently, and i cant get to sleep...haha...ha....😐why doesn't my melatonin work anymore...?

aaaand hes out. we hope you all enjoy the story so far, now we're going to get him into bed, since he has to wake up in 4 hours to get ready for his job.

SO HIT THAT LIKE BUTTON!!!

NO! DONT YOU DARE START THAT! you know he hates asking people for that, he wants people to follow it if they like it, and not like it because its asked.

right, sorry. i've been watching too much youtube with him i guess.

of course you have...TIME FOR BED EVERYPONY!