The Demon's Game

Three days later, after fixing my new castle, having my 'Welcome to Ponville' party and introducing myself as an instructor for the mares, I finally got down to the brass tacks, finding out exactly how to train each mare. Therefore, I asked Twilight to invite them over to her castle and I met up with them there, in my pony form of course. As they each sat upon their thrones, I spoke, "now it may seem odd that one such as me could help any of you, but before you make any judgments, I implore you to see the power that I hold." I walked over to Twilight. My cane clicked upon the crystal as I carried the title-less red book once more. I continued, "this little red book, with no title," I paused and opened the book towards them, "and blank pages, holds more power than you could imagine. Think of not only any pony, but any creature possibly using magic that outclasses even that of unicorns, power that outclasses earth ponies and speed that outclasses pegasi. Now, this book will not give you the power, simply unlock what was already there." I paused for effect and looked to the expressions of the ponies around me. Rainbow Dash looked skeptical, Fluttershy was a little confused, Pinkie Pie's smile was massive, Rarity rolled her eyes and Applejack looked as if she was trying to figure me out. "Maybe a little demonstration is needed," I said as I closed the book and set it in front of Twilight. "Now, take a breath Princess and hold the book in your hands for a moment. After that a symbol will appear upon the first page along with a word," I said with a smile.

"Ok?" Twilight said not quite understanding how this was supposed to work. She picked the book up, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and waited.

Rainbow huffed and said loudly, "how is a blank book supposed to do anything!?"

Applejack chimed in, "yeah, I think somepony lied to ya."

"I'm glad you two spoke up. To start off nopony lied to me, because I made that book. Secondly, as I said it doesn't give you any power, simply unlock some of your true potential," I answered grinning widely.

Suddenly Twilights eyes shot open, they glowed brilliantly as the book opened to the first page showing a wand surrounded by energy. The glow died down and she read the words aloud, "spiritum veritatis." She looked up to me and asked, "what does that even mean?"

Your a wizard Harry, I thought and giggled in my head. "What it means is truth inspired. This is telling us that you are a wizard. A practicer of a type of the types of magic that I use," I answered.

Pinkie suddenly leapt into the air screaming, "do me next, do me!"

I looked to her and thought for a second. "Ok, but I may need to recharge the book after this," I said as I took the book and slid it over to Pinkie.

She picked the book up, took one quick breath and in less than a second her eyes were shining and the book had opened to the second page. However, both the second and the third page had markings. Afterwards she said happily, "oooo... I have two!" She giggled and everypony blinked at her.

I walked over to her and read from the book, "first, we have obscurum veri and this means dark truth. Next, we have quaesitor periculosa and this means adventure seeker."

"So, does that mean that I'm some kind of thiefy ninja type pony?" she asked. We all blinked once more.

"I don't think that's what that means," Applejack said.

"Um... actually she's mostly right. The actual classifications are ninja and rogue, respectively." I said just wondering about her. "Now if you don't mind I have some books and scrolls to get." I said as I picked up the book and walked out. Everypony just continued to blink at Pinkie as she smiled happily at everypony.