Find Her, Keep Her

It has been a few days on repeat of Kyle having to go to work and leave Lyra to fend for herself for a couple of hours. But she was able to evade Ed and Danny, much to his relief. All the while, in his free time, he would find anything fun to do with Lyra.

Lyra really enjoyed watching videos on Kyle's Netflix account. He showed her the ever-famous Star Wars movies, a highly-successful television drama, Lost, and one of his favorite childhood cartoons, Code Lyoko. Despite showing her several other movies and shows, it seems that the three above are the ones Lyra liked and watched the most of. Plus, it was fairly nostalgic for him, who grew up with those movies and shows.

On Sunday, after Kyle came home from work and they were watching some videos, Lyra asked him a question that had been on her mind for a while now.

“Kyle... I've been meaning to ask...” Lyra said.

“Yes?” Kyle said.

Lyra hesitated before speaking: “Why exactly did you take me in when you found me? Why are you different than how I've been told humans really are?”

Kyle was on the spot by the question.

“Well... the thing is...” Kyle began. “...a couple of years ago, I probably wouldn't have taken you in...”

“Why...?” Lyra asked.

Kyle knew why; because it was before he became a brony. He thought G4 My Little Pony would be the same thing. He was surprised at just how mistaken he was.

But, he figured that it was best to be honest about this with Lyra, because she might be upset if she found out that he kept it a secret...

“Well, see, Lyra...” Kyle began. “...I've actually known about you long before we met out in the woods.”

Lyra looked confused. “Whaddya mean?” she asked.

Kyle got his laptop. “Here, I'll show you...” he said as he logged onto Firefox and typed in “my little pony friendship is magic” into the StartPage browser. He opened the Wiki page for the show. Lyra looked awestruck.

“Wait... you humans knew about us?” Lyra asked.

Kyle nodded. “And now, look at this...” he said as he typed Lyra's name into the search bar, and pulled up her page from the quicksearch result.

Lyra's eyes went wide with amazement at the sight of her older self on the picture of the page with her name.

“Oh, wow!” Lyra said. “Look at me! I'm all grown up!”

“So, you are part of a television show called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic,” Kyle said. “a show that was targeted for little girls, but attracted male attention in one of the biggest phenomenons our modern world has ever seen.”

Lyra was getting very ecstatic. “Oh, cool! So, is this show all about me?” she asked.

Kyle chuckled. “Unfortunately, no. You only appear in the background most of the time, but there are some points where you have had a bigger role, such as talking (believe me, a background pony actually speaking makes for quite a big role on their part). Plus, I don't really know a lot of the stuff you end up doing, since you've rarely made big appearances.”

“Aw...” Lyra said, looking a bit sad. “...but still, I think this is kinda cool! You watch us on the TV through a tunnel between the universes!”

“I guess so...” Kyle said. “...plus, I know that you do have a good amount of character development in the episode—”

“NO! Don't tell me!” Lyra said, before smiling. “I want it to be a surprise!”

Kyle himself smiled. “I'm sure it will be.”

Despite showing her the show that she came from, Kyle did not want to show Lyra her own fanbase, mainly because he did not want her to know some of the awful things people say about her, which could hurt her immensely. So, he tried to keep any internet usage aside from YouTube to a minimum, but it was still a bit of a risk. To be honest, it was already bad enough that she was watching videos on Netflix as well, but she has come to enjoy Star Wars, Code Lyoko, and Lost too much for him to take it away from her.

This first week with Lyra has been one of the happiest times that Kyle has had in a long time. She has helped immensely to reawaken his positive emotions, and get him feeling good about himself again. Sure, the things they do are fairly simple and lazy, but Lyra seemed to like it. But...

He has noticed that Lyra has been staring out the window every so often, drawing her attention away from a movie or show. It was becoming clear to him that she wanted to go outside, even though she has not asked him yet. He did want to make sure that she was enjoying herself to the best possible extent, but he was not entirely sure how to take her outside without her being noticed by anyone.
She was still pretty small, so maybe he could carry her inside of his jacket to a secluded area. Perhaps to his special area in the woods? He figured that was his best bet. Also, it seemed like it would be a good chance for her to practice using her magic.

Kyle had noticed that Lyra was never using her Unicorn powers. It seemed like she did not know how to use them yet. Perhaps he could help to train her as best as she could, maybe with things like levitation and teleportation. There was no way he could directly coach her on it, so maybe he could just encourage her to figure it out.

He wanted to spend more time with her, given that he has hardly done so ever since he found her. He did have school tomorrow and Wednesday, but it was just some more lectures; nothing important was happening this week.

Well... I've had perfect attendance all semester. Kyle thought. I guess it wouldn't hurt to play hooky for a day... or two.

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Kyle carried Lyra underneath his jacket out to his safe area, typically playing tag, hide-and-seek, I Spy, and other things with Lyra the next couple of days, including cloudwatching, hiking, tree climbing, et cetera. However, one thing he brought her out to the field for was to see if she could hone her magic.

On the first day, Monday, he placed a small rock in front of Lyra when they were out in the open grass.

“Okay, Lyra.” Kyle said. “I want to see if you lift that rock with your magic.”

Lyra looked at the rock, and seemed a little nervous. “B-but I... don't know how to use magic...” she said.

“Just try it!” Kyle encouraged her. “I know you can do it!”

Lyra took a breath. “Okay...” she said.

The filly strained herself as she tried to focus her magic, causing silvery sparks to flow out of the tip of her horn, but no actual magic use. She stopped and panted.

“Oh... this is hard...” she said.

She tried again, seeming to force with all her might, but getting limited results.

“Hold on,” Kyle said. “instead of forcing it, why don't you try doing it by instinct?”

“How?” Lyra asked.

“Well...” Kyle began. “...why not try telling yourself “I want to move the rock” while using minimal effort with your magic?”

Lyra pondered for a moment. “Okay, I'll try that.” she said.

This time, Lyra closed her eyes, muttering to herself: “I want to move the rock... I want to move the rock... I want to move the rock...”

After a brief period of time, Lyra's horn began to glow a lovely gold color, and Lyra opened her eyes and looked up at it, smiling.

“Alright!” she said.

Then, the rock was covered in the same glow, and very slowly, it levitated upward by a few inches, and hovered in the same spot for a few seconds.

Kyle clapped after witnessing Lyra use her magic successfully for the first time.

“Nice, Lyra! You sure learn fast!” Kyle commented. “I think this calls for a round of applause!”

Kyle pulled out his phone and played a crowd applause sound on it. Both him and Lyra laughed.

“I did it! I used magic! Yes-yes-yes-yes-yes-yes-yes-yes-yes-yes-yes...!” she cheered while hopping around like Pinkie Pie.

Sure, it was only a small rock. But still, she moved it with her magic!

For the remaining two days of Kyle's “weekend,” he taught her how to move larger, heavier objects, such as fallen tree branches, and even a few boulders. It took a bit of practice, but Lyra was getting a little better, but she was still a bit of a novice.

Still, he had strong faith that she would become good with magic someday. She was learning pretty quickly, that was for sure. But only time will tell...