Done by a Single Night

I stood on the precipice before the cloudy tower and- wait, what?

I looked around. Since when did this area actually have physical elements? Before it just was all flat. And, last time I checked, the only building here was a Victorian mansion... Okay?

The cloud tower came up, and definitely represented the interior a lot better... well, in terms of size. Its style was way off though. It composed of a smooth cylinder that came up to the skies. I don't know how, but I knew that it wasn't done, and was still being built up. On the sides of the tower, two swirls came up, that were streaked with rainbows. They looked a suspicious lot like stairs. At intervals up the swirls, bridges of light came out into doors, as if that was the only way to get to the rooms.

I walked into the building. The interior was the same as usual. 'Lexis was grinning behind the desk. She got up and shook my hoof. "Congratulations Dash!" She said. "Come, sit."

She waved her hooves, and the regular desk fell through the floor like my chair. A larger, round table fell from the sky into the center of the room, and three chairs came out of the floor with it. Canvas came, vaulting off the balcony again, and we all took our seats.

"Now," 'Lexis said, raising a wineglass. Did it fall down with the table? Wouldn't it of shattered? "To business!"

"What are you doing?" Canvas mumbled.

"I'm proposing a toast!"

"...Okay..."

"So er, what's the celebration for, guys?" I picked up a wineglass. It began to fill itself with a golden, clear liquid, which was filled with bubbles. And when I said golden, i really did mean golden. It looked like melted gold, except clear, and ice cold. It didn't look alcoholic though. Or like any drink I knew of for that matter.

"Oh, don't pretend you don't know Rainbow. You were there, I was there, Lexis was there... c'mon."

"Umm... I still don't follow."

"What Canvas is trying to say is, you've summoned a Persona for the first time."

"A what?"

"A Persona. Per-SOH-Nah." Canvas drew out slowly.

"When you use an evoker - those mines your friends have - it allows you to channel what are called Personas. The whole concept of Personas is very hard to understand, and it isn't exactly understood completely either. Heck, I don't really get it. Canvas, who's a Persona himself, doesn't even understand it either."

"I try not to think about it too much," he said.

"So umm... I didn't kill myself?"

Lexis laughed. "Not yet."

"Okay, good. Wait, yet?"

"So, to business!"

Canvas and I raised our glasses. "To business!" We both said.

"What are you two doing?"

He was confused. "But I thought you were- oh never mind..."

"So, we would like to give you two gifts. Well, more like two sets of gifts. Canvas, if you will?"

Ooh, what am I getting? I can't wait to find out!

He traced the outline of a rectangle in midair, and the rough shape of a card materialized. He hit it with his hoof, and it flew up, hovering over the table, and began to deal cards. I counted about like, eighty of them. When all had been laid on the table, they all converged in the center, forming a deck. On one side, a covering appeared, and the rest of the panels materialized around the deck, forming a case for it. Canvas picked it up, and gave it to me.

"Thanks! Uhh... what is it?"

"So, to your next gift." I felt as if they were avoiding my questions. Were they? Probably. "Now, this isn't a physical gift, but I think you'll find it amazing. So, I guess you'll want your dreams back. And you want to stop passing out randomly on the street. Right?"

"Erm, yes, that would be good."

"Well here's your solution!" Lexis thrust a back hoof into the ground, and suddenly everything around me disappeared. Looking around, there was nothing but a bluish hue like the Cloud Tower's inside. Speaking of which, why did it change? I'd better ask them when I got back. Anyways, I seemed to be on a platform, which limited my movement, unless I wanted to fall into a neverending void.

"Ready?" I heard Lexis say from somewhere.

"Ready for wha-"

"I take that as a yes!"

Suddenly, a flash of light blinded me, but when it faded I was surrounded with a tornado of colors. Every hue ever seen by ponykind was flashed in front of my eyes, all in the span of about three seconds. When it was over, there was another quick flash of light, and I was sitting back in my chair. Well, I fell out of it, but whatever. I could practically picture my eyes rolling around in my head.

"Are you feeling different?" Canvas leaned over me.

"Definately at least seeing different..." I said groggily. After a few minutes I was able to figure out how many hooves I had. "So, what was that all about?"

"Lucky for you, you won't have to randomly drop unconscious every time you walk three feet anymore!" Lexis extended a hoof and helped me get up.

After I had been sure that the chair was indeed not moving. I asked her "What's that supposed to mean?".

"We've given you probably one of the most important spells you will learn," she said.

"Woah woah wait, important? Spells? What are you talking abou-"

"Two, to be precise. But there will be more to come. First, you must prepare your spells. Take any one of your two front hooves, and picture it in your mind. Close your eyes, even."

I didn't know why I had to so intensely ponder my left leg, but okay...

"Now, picture it turning white, and glowing, just like the ground outside this room, as if it had been turned to the stone."

With difficulty, I did.

"Take your right hoof now."

How did she know I chose my left hoof first? Hmm...

"Imagine it turning dark blue, like this room. Ready? Now, open your eyes."

I did, and gasped when I saw my hooves. Just as she said, my left hoof now glowed a color akin to the outside hills. But it wasn't like, turned to the substance, it looked more like paint splattered on it. And it was covered in that fashion. Kind of like Canvas's hooves. My right hoof was glowing a more space-like dark blue, like the room around us. My left hoof kind of like, sparkled in the light, but my right gave off a ghostly glow, as if it were on fire.

"Erm... what did I just do?"

"We have given you two spells: Alia, and Corporeus. Now, think of them a bit like... keys, which let you get from place to place. Now, currently, you have your hooves selected to the spell 'Alia'. That means, you are in this dimension. If you want to get back to Equestria, imagine your hooves turning blue as the sky, and green as the grass. Then shout 'Corporeus!' You'll get transported to Equestria automatically, and vice versa. Now, if you go around with your hooves glowing like that, you'll get funny looks, so bang them together a few times and they should nullify out. Capice?"

"Uhh, yeah... I guess..."

"Great! Now, you should probably go back to Equestria now, your friends are all worried."

I imagined my right hoof turning green as the Equestrian leaves, and my left turning blue as the sky, which was pretty difficult seeing my coat color. Anyways, in the end I somehow got it to work, and, after finding my left hoof was surrounded in a white fire-like glow, I figured it was probably easier just to imagine the white part, and the rest would fill.

"Corporeus!"

When I opened my eyes again, I was in a hospital gown, in a hospital bed... at the hospital. Wow, I wonder who saw that coming?

I got out of the bed, and dusted off my clothes. I heard somepony sobbing by the doorway, so I got up and went by the door to check it out. There was Nurse Redheart there, talking to my friends.

"...so unfortunately, I do not think she will ever wake again. I'm very sorry. It is kind of a pointless cause; no tests have shown any signs of her being alive. With such a thick coma, she is probably and most likely dead."

"Why! Why did she have to die!" Rarity wailed out. Jeez, what a drama queen.

"Uh, guys, I'm right here..." I said awkwardly.

"R-rainbow Dash?" Twilight wiped a tear and turned to see me, a dumbfounded expression on her face. "How did you-"

My vision blackened for a split second and I heard a loud "WHUMP!". When my vision cleared again, Applejack was on top of me, pinning me to the ground.

"RAINBOW DASH!" She yelled at me. "Don't ya EVER scare me like that AGAIN!" She drew back and got off me, her voice retreating to a softer tone. "Ah wouldn't know what t'do if you were really gone..."

Leaning forward, I tried to get up, but was quickly pushed back down again, this time by Nurse Redheart. "Th-there's no way! I haven't gotten a diagnostic wrong in SEVEN years!"

I calmly pushed her off and rolled to the side. "And I haven't been in the hospital for seven weeks."

"Well, eleven actually, but-"

"Whatever. So, what am I here for?"

"You were asleep silly!" Pinkie seemed awfully bubbly, even though everypony else was crying about thirty seconds ago.

"Umm, I'm not sure how that requires me being in the hospital. You guys know how often I nap around Ponyville."

Fluttershy raised a shaky hoof. Apparently she was back to being shy outside of the Dark Minute, or whatever its called. "Rainbow, you were unconscious for a whole month..."

"Wait, one month!?" I exclaimed. How could that be possible?

"Three hours and fourty-six minutes." Okay, how could Twilight have memorized that? I mean, come on. I wonder if I can get her to memorize my to-do list for me...

"None of us are quite sure of that, darling." I can't believe Rarity hasn't passed out by now, or at least done her signature 'Worst possible thing' catchphrase. She probably had said it about twenty times daily while I was sleeping. "No doctors in Equestria have ever seen something like this before..."

"Well, I'm fine now, so I'll just be heading back home."

I turned, and jumped off the window, flying for my cloud house. When I got there, Fluttershy and Twilight had already arrived. I need to get Fluttershy to teach me that teleportation thing...

"Need some stuff cleared up, Rainbow?"

Sorry for late upload! Again, props to you if you can figure out the spell names. Nopony has even GUESSED at what they mean yet. I mean, c'mon. You don't get penalties for being wrong.