Inheritance of the moon

~ I would like to apologize for how long it's taken me write another chapter and that it might not be up to snuff. I've spent the last mont in bed with the flu.I'm feeling better now and can't wait to really get this story going again. ~

Magic is Easy

At least that's how it was supposed to work or so he'd been told. Over the last few days Midnight had been practicing his own magic with the help of book and even a very busy purple unicorn. Twilight Sparkle decided to pitch in with his learning since he appeared to have no training in magic or even told the fundamental basis of using magic other than levitation. Starting with the most basic of spells had been the plan: sparks, light, and some other more basic skills. The sparks? Backfired horribly, leaving a good portion of his mane and coat singed, at least he was dark coated. Light had worked in a strange way, instead of being a bright light it had been soft and easy on the eyes, almost like moon light.  All this took place on the first day, the next few days held absolutely no progress. By the third day Twilight had resigned to other seemingly more important such as applebuck season.

When he wasn't studying magic he was studying the night sky and stars. If he wasn't studying he was out and exploring Ponyville at the urging of Spike and Sunny. In the few days he'd been in town he had learned that Sugarcube Crner was one of the most prominent buildings in town but it wasn'tthe only one, there was townhall where he had to go register, Carousel Boutique where a white mare named Rarity, and there was even a small cottage at the edge of town where a pegasus named Fluttershy helped animals. But even knowing all this he'd decidd to spend muh of his time in the library learning.

Today had been no different, he woke up around eleven, ate breakfast, then high tailed it to the library. Twilight was gone for the day and possibly evening and Spike wasout gathering supplies they' need for the week. To Midnight's astonishment there had been very little hoof traffic in the library any of the days he'd come, it was only the random or bored pny looking for something to do or eding up at the wrong place. How any pony could mistake a giant tree for a giant building that looked like food was beyond him. He hadn't expected that someone would come by actually looking for the library, nor had he expected the pegasus to bring in a rain cloud. More so there were more clouds coming in by the moment. "Best Prank EVER!

Thunder cracked thn air as the pegasus thrashed into the cloud. "Ever!" Shouting again just before rain poured into he room.

"Whatdo you think your doing!" The tip of Midnight's horn was already glowing even i he wasnt aware of it, the water which should have been filling the room stopped just in front of the book shelves. "This is a librar you're going to ruin all the books." Pranks? This was going too far and he was not amused by it. Apparently the pegasus hadn't expected any pony to be at the library either, the lookof shock and surprise on her face seemed to mash well. The water within the room began to take on the glow of magic, Midnight's magic, soon the water was reversing dirction towards the egasus.

"Well I...you're not...library's never..DIDN'T DO IT!" The pegaus with a rainbow mane bolted for the door. Luck wasn't with her though, barely out the door the sound of rushing water followed. "No no no no no AH!" The sound of her mufled scream could be herd as a wall of water  Rainbow dash was quickly washed out of the library and down the street when the flow of magic finally cut out. Soaked the mair would walk down the street, mutterin and suttering from the coolness of the water. "Oh it's on, you hear me it's on!"

Midnight heard but he wasn't paying attention to it, he'd just done magic and it wasn't levitation. Well in a way or two it was like levitation but in the broader picture it was lunar magic, the color of the glow was more than enough to say that. "Feeling..." A unicorn had to feel the magic he or she had to feel the magic within themself, it was one of the first rules of learning it. "Magic is easy..." It was what all the books said at least and he had no reason to doubt booksor Twilight.

But right now there was another small problem on his mind, one that could possibly get him in trouble. The library and all the books were in a mess. "Just figures..." With a sigh and a little bit of magic he would get to work restoring the books to their propper spots. The effort took it out of him but he managed to get every book in the right spots just as Spike returned with arms full of things. "Hey Midnight could you help me?" The dragon called out as he entered. "And you have to tell me what happened!" Spike of course had a broad grin on his face.

"Tell ou about what?" Even though he was breathig heavily he took the groceries and set them on the table in middle of the room. Once they were set down he'd sit down, he'd over exerted himself without even thinking about it.

"What you did to Raibow Dash of course! She was absolutely soaked when she walked down the market and she was complaining about a prank turned around by a pony in the library." Spike actually fell over in a fit of giggles and didn't stopfor a minute or two. Rolling back up on tohis feet he'd bounce on to the table and sit. "So spill it." Of curse Spike would want to know what happened after all he was a silly dragon. "Come on come on come on."

Fighting back a chuckle of his own Minight would recount what had happened in full detail, not that there was much to tell. "I didn't even know I did it until she was out the door with the water."

With a cheer Spike would pat Midnight on the back. "See I kew you could do it! And you did it to get Rainbow Dash! Wait until I tell Twilight Sparkle she'll be excited! Well not about the library part she'll probably scold Rainbow." Jumping from the table he'd grab the bgs. "Well I need to get all this stuff sorted before Twilight gets back." Dashing upstairs the little dragon would disappea.

Shaking his hea Midnight found himself walking towards the door and to his surprise the sun was already starting to set. "Well another day past." But this day he had learned smething and it was important. With a smile on his face he walked out into the evening air, already he felt the tingle of energy returning to him. "It's going to be a good night."

Rainbow Dash's attempted prank is ony the beginning of trouble to come...