A Filly's Guide to Beginning Magic

by Lexicon_Spark

Two

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Sweetie Belle woke up again. And then tried not to again. And most of what had happened yesterday morning happened again. She eventually found her way out of the building of the Boutique, and suddenly remembered that she needed to grab something! Dashing inside at the speed of Dashie, she darted in and seized the book on magic. As she trotted outside for the second time, book carefully in her saddlebags, Tiara was nowhere to be seen. Probably a good thing, seeing as it is illegal to use lightning magic on another pony. She tucked the lightning spell to the back of her mind, and decided to attempt to douse Tiara in water.

As she was trotting around, she attempted to figure out what to do today, other than learn from the book, of course. Well, the other Crusaders are in Manehattan this weekend to visit Babs, so maybe just trot to an open field and test out magics?
However, her train of thought stopped. She had sighted Tiara and her companion. And this... was perfect!

Imagining an ice cube directly over top of Tiara's head melting swiftly, she quickly began to feel tired as her low amount of reserves were drained. She had forgotten to eat! Well, anyways, Tiara suddenly made a swift yelping noise which briefly roused her from her stupor. Revenge was sweet. However, her task wasn't done; she had something else to test. She imagined many buckets, flinging the water off of Tiara, and soaking all of her surroundings! Slipping and sliding, Sweetie managed to dart back into the Boutique to recover and eat waffles. And also to zonk out.


After having had a brief zonkage, she grabbed some cold waffles from yesterday’s breakfast, and ate quite a few.
Sweetie then exited the building,and looked around. Having found nothing to do, she cantered over to an empty lot on the edge of Ponyville to attempt some more magic, now that her reserves were back up. Opening the book, Sweetie turned to the next section.
Section 4: Air
Everyone wants to blow hot air, right? So this can let you do that. Well, room temperature air. But eventually we’ll get to temperature. Anyways, imagine blowing air. It’s pretty much just that simple.

Sweetie attempted to expel gas from her horn. She succeeded in expelling gas. Just not from her horn. Trying again, she managed to cause a brief breeze to flow from her horn. She quickly grew bored of this, though, so she decide to go have some fun with these newfound spells of hers.


“Ahhhhh! Confoundeth theis vind!” was the noise that she had managed to procure from the first victim of her antics. One Bon Bon, sitting on a bench, was currently being shoved with breezes from random directions, while a small filly hidden in the leaves of a tree’s horn glowed. She stopped, “Yes, fvinally a moment Fvree fvrom these vinds or torment!”, growing bored of this one and moving on to the next occupant of this section of the park.

As the Sweetie nestled into the bush, her horn began to glow as she caused a drop of water to fall on some green pony wearing a hoodie, who she’d never seen before. Then another drop. Then two more. Then a brief “I didn’t think it was going to rain today!” from the green pony as she cantered away.

Needing to find a second victim, Sweetie went over to another section of the park and climbed to lie in wait. She then spotted the window of Noteworthy’s house, and used telekinesis to carefully untune his piano. She had learned this skill when she had needed to get out of Rarity’s piano lessons.

Tired of being evil for the day, Sweetie began to return to the Boutique. On her way, she saw the train station, and got up on the platform to wait for Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. After waiting for a moderate time, when she was just starting to become bored, she heard the whistling of the train pulling in. Getting up, she called to the train, “How was Cutie Mark Crusaders: Travelers(yay!)?”

After the train had braked to a stop, the other Crusaders bounded off and ran over to Sweetie, who promptly hugged them both. “Me n’ Scoots had a ton o’ fun over at Babs place, Sweetie, but Ah sure am glad to be home.”
“Me too!”, said a very energetic Scootaloo.
“Ye had t’ve had some fun while we were gone, so ye HEV to tell us!”
“Yeah, tell us!”, echoed Scootaloo.


Now at their secret hideout near the brink of the Everfree, hidden in a bush, they began to discuss what Sweetie had been up to, seeing as on the walk there Scoots had non-stop been talking about their time with Babs.

“Rarity had to go to Canterlot because some surprise or something came up,” (“Wooo, surprises!”, Scootaloo interjected), “So I got a bit more freedom than usual this weekend. I decide to try learning some magic,” (an “Oooooh!” from Scoots), “And I learned some telekinesis and a bit of watery-airy-lightningy stuff!”
“Awesome!”, came from Scoots, and a “Wow, Sweetie Belle!” from Apple Bloom. The conversation carried on for a bit, then turning to how late it was, and the fact that they had a test tomorrow in Cherilee’s class. “We’d better return home, Crusaders! Rarity should be back by now, and I don’t want to get in trouble with her!” Nods of assent from Apple Bloom and Scootaloo.


Having returned to the Boutique and opening the door, light shone out in a beam of brilliance. Sweetie was then, almost instantaneously, scooped up into a giant hug. “Darling, I hope you still managed to have fun without me this weekend! I’m so sorry for being gone to Canterlot, deary!”
Monologuing of this vein continued for what felt like a half hour before she let her down, “Now, Sweetie, you have to go to bed! There’s a test tomorrowww~”

Sweetie then proceeded to spend the next three hours in the darkness of her room figuring out how to write with her telekinesis. Sure, pens tasted ok, but she wanted to impress her friends by using it on the test tomorrow.

Then she slept.


Author's Note

Sorry for dodging all the Scoots dialogue. I have no clue how to write Scootaloo.

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