“This is dangerous, not to mention crazy!” Sunburst shrieked, jolting back lifting his foreleg up into the air, his face a shade of beet red. He pawed at the empty air of nothingness, hoping to somehow reach her.

Starlight rolled her eyes, and continued studying the spell. Muttering under her breath quickly. “No one will ever make fun of Sunburst ever again.”

Scanning the page one last time, she closed the book shut, nodding to Sunburst before speaking aloud the incantation to summon the Peryton.

The spell’s aura surrounded the entire room, the blue wave from Starlight’s horn illuminating a light, sparkling like a firecracker as she unleashed the wave of magic from her horn.

Starlight pushed Sunburst behind her, watching as the aura filled the entire room. Her lips rose up into a smug grin at the sight before her.

It was giantitic, a long slender serpent-like creature, five times the size of a standard pony. The creature hissed, but went silent, seeing Starlight.

“Perfect, it will only listen to me.” Starlight exclaimed, the joy on her face, contagious. Soon, no pony would ever dare to make fun of Sunburst ever again. She’d show them all. She knew she nor Sunburst needed a cutie mark to be amazing together.

“Starlight please…” Sunburst begged, as he flinched back, and scooted away from the strange creature-being. He wasn’t even sure anymore. He took a deep breath, as he tried his best to reach Starlight before everything and anything went out of his control completely. He visibly cringed, remembering how often Starlight’s obsession with magic and the unknown; could lead to dangerous places and things.

Starlight didn’t even look at him. She was entranced by the creature she had summoned. Fascinated, even.

The creature loomed over Starlight, it’s strange gaze eyeing her over, slowly tilting it’s long slender head towards her, leaning forward.

“Gawh.” It muttered, half hiss, half attempting some form of communication with it’s summoner.

“Now, I want you to take care of a problem for me.” Starlight began, rubbing her front forehooves together, snickering. No more would any pony dare ever again to insult her friend, and they would all conquer before her own exquisite skills with magic.

It wasn’t long before the creature began slithering away from Starlight and Sunburst, heading in the direction it had been given.

Now, all Starlight had to do was wait. It was only a matter of time, before the bullies would get what was coming to them. Starlight looked back at Sunburst, who desperately was shouting at her, over and over.

“Starlight, what were you thinking?

“Sunburst, don’t even try to stop me. I’m committed to this, and there’s nothing that will stop that monster from destroying everything and anything in his path.”

“That’s exactly why you need to stop it. You could hurt innocent ponies!” began Sunburst, as his wide rimmed glasses fell down to his snout. He attempted to lazily fix them, while keeping focus. “The point is, you never think these things through. And that ends up with me having to fix it!”

“Sunburst, can’t you see I’m just trying to help?” Starlight asked, as she took a step forward, so that their noses were scrunched up together.

There was no telling how many numbers of ways this could go wrong, and inevitably would go wrong. Sunburst bit his bottom lip and pushed Starlight away from his body, stomping a hoof on the ground.

“Starlight, stop! I never asked for your help. I never asked anyone to help me.” Sunburst blurted out, as he turned away in disgust, and scurried away from her. He couldn’t look at her right now. He could let her see how much pain she gave him, by thinking he needed help.

Starlight blinked as she watched him run off in a scurry. She debated on going after him, but she chose not to. She knew no matter what, by the end of today all their problems would be over.

Starlight held her head high, as she strutted through Sire’s Hollow. She wanted to check up on him later, but right now she was enjoying this moment. She approached the bullies, and simply waited.

The snake-like serpent was already there, tormenting the bullies with it’s pure might, and oddity. The fillies didn’t know how to respond to it, as one by one each were grabbed in it’s coils and thrown off into the distance.
“Help! Please someone help us.” they cried all at once.

Starlight yawned, and sat back on her haunches. “Oh, if only Sunburst could see this now. I’m sure then he would understand why I did this.”

Starlight settled into her spot, as she enjoyed the visuals. Truly, it couldn’t be a nicer day for her. She just hoped Sunburst would realize that this was all for his benefit after all. He’d understand with time. She knew he had a tendency to overreact to things he didn’t quite grasp the meaning of.

Author's Note

Written by Nailah.