Rachel sat comfortably in the library, munching on the rest of the yummy yummy ice cream. She waited patiently for Twilight and Starlight to return from getting whatever it was they were going to get.

She casually would look up towards the direction of the stairs. Though their room was soundproof, she kept an ear out for her big huggable lizard. Spike’s not possessive - he knows not to be when it comes around Rachel - but there are times when Spike had gotten extremely grumpy when Rachel was not in his arms.

Not to mention she doesn’t like to be away from his arms either so it’s not too bad.

“Alright Rachel!” Starlight and Twilight walked back into the library with the princess holding a jewelry box. “Here it is.” starlight said as then walked towards the human.

Rachel sat the ice cream down on the table and sat up. “What is it?” she asked as they handed her the box.

“It’s a surprise, open it.” Twilight said, she couldn’t contain her excitement. “It’s amazing.”

Starlight placed a hand on Twilight’s shoulder to calm her down. She was close to having a geek heart attack.

Rachel eyes at the two before she opened the box and gasped softly. It was a silver cufflet with three different stones lay across. A red gem, yellow and electric blue gem.

“Oh my gosh!” her eyes glued to the bracelet as she took it out of the box and slipped it on. “Girls, this is-” the cufflet shrunk all of the sudden and latched onto her skin. “What tha?!” She stood up alarmed and tries to pull it off. “Guys, what’s wrong? This thing isn’t moving!”

“Oh we know.” Twilight giggled. “It did the same thing to us. It ensures that it doesn’t fall off.”

Rachel starts pulling as hard as she could trying to get it off. “What is it?”

Starlight chuckled. “It’s called a power cufflet. Twilight and I were working on a way to give humans the ability to do some magic.”

“Since what happened to Bouncer and his goons, we wanted a way for you to be on a playfield.” she squealed, so excited to see Rachel wearing the thing.

Rachel gave the two powerful creatures a deadpan look. “News flash, humans used to have magic over several millenniums ago in my world.”

That surprised both of them.

“Yeah,” she grunted as she tried to take the cufflet off but it was useless, it was stuck on her. “Want a history lesson?”

Both of them nodded their heads. All of the sudden with a burst of blue and pink aura, the library changed into a study, Twilight and Starlight were in desks and Rachel was at a chalkboard.

Veins popped on her forehead when that happened. “Warning, no using magic on me, I hate that.” she tells them in a low voice.

“Sorry.” the two said in unison before getting quills and parchment out and waits for Rachel to begin.

Rachel rolled her eyes before sighing, grabbing a white chalk and began drawing. “Many years ago, before there was dragons in this realm, dragons and humans used to live in the same plane.” she drew dragons and humans one part of the board.

“What?! Dragons used to live in your world?” Twilight exclaimed with wide eyes as she took notes. “How? How did they coexist? How did they have to do with humans once having magic. So many questions!!!”

Starlight was too was giddy about this. She has so many questions as well and wants to know all of this.

Rachel chuckled softly. “Easy girls.” she said as she kept drawing. “Many eons ago, humans used to worship the dragons. Dragons in our world were virtually gods, they would give some of their essence, their magic into the humans as gifts for their prayers and worship.” She drew the dragons giving magic to the humans, having wavy lines and sparkles as magic into the humans. “In the beginning, humans loved the dragons, used their magic for peace…” the art started to change to chaos and havoc.

“Then, as time went on, human hearts changed. They began to revolt the dragons, using their own gifts against them...even hunting them down and killing them for more magic.”

The two powerful students sat back in silence and listened. “When the remaining dragons had enough of this, they used their combined magic to escape, leaving the human realm and came into this world where they could live in peace. Taking the magic they had given to the humans away. Which lead to what humanity calls it “The Dark Ages.” . “

Rachel turned back to the two. “An old Elder dragon told me and Spike this before the scaley bastard tried to kill us. That is another story for another time..”

The two looked at each other, their parchment filled to the brim of what Rachel said. They didn’t know what to say about that.

“So...as much nice of this gift is...give me magic may be a bad idea.” She told them.

Now thats when one of them spoke. “Rachel,” Twilight said, looking at her. ‘You’re not like the others. And that’s a long time ago, way before you were even thought of.”

“Well, history does tend to happen.” Rachel said as she tried to get the bracelet off again but to no prevail.

Starlight looked at their human friend for a moment before saying. “Just give it a chance. Those gems are only meant for you. We got the spells only you, Twilight and I know about.”

Rachel thought about it before sighing. “I guess it won’t hurt.”

Twilight got up with a squee. “Ooh!” She summoned a scroll and gave it to her. “Now, two of the gems are defence and one of them is offence, memorize them well.”

Rachel blinked before unrolling the scroll and her eyes widened at the three spells written for each of the spell. Holy crap the spells looked like it was written by a little foal, but still legible to read.

Yellow Gem -- Calanmai *can cause a strong burst of light that could cut through even the darkest of shadows.

Red Gem -- Seroku Vilask *Can created a strong magic proof barrier around the individual that can withstand most blunt and long range attacks

Blue Gem -- Volteeria *Can electrocute an opponent with volts up to 4000 volts to stun them.

“Okay, this is good. Handwriting is crap but it’s very interesting.” Rachel said as she read the scroll. She then looked up to the girls. “But it’s really late, i’ll test them out in the morning.”

The girls nodded.

“That’s okay, and if you want it off, there is a button on the bottom of the cuff and it’ll slide right out.” Twilight explained.

That would be good to know, Rachel thought before deciding to keep the bracelet on. She rolled up the scroll back up and smiled at the girls. “Training in the morning?”

“Oh yes!” Twilight squealed. She wanted to study this….

And hoped to Celestia that it doesn’t kill their human friend in the process!

Author's Note

So sorry it took me so long to put a chapter out. RL things, drawing other projects...and the fact I'm addicted to an MMORPG game that I love.

So to show that I ain't dead and haven't abandoned my works, here you go guys!