The sound of knocking pestered me awake. Jesus, what time is it? Still half asleep I called out. “Come in.”

I could hear them come in as the door opened with a click. “Oh my… Umm Tyler, I appreciate the offer, but I don’t think we’re quite there yet…”
Huh?

Opening my eyes slightly I looked down towards the ponies I now realize are Twilight and the first nurse, Redheart I think her name was. Both wore masks still, although Twilight had a large stack of books on her back. They were both staring at something between us. Shit! Morning wood! “Fuck!” I quickly bent my legs to block their view.

I think I heard something about length coming from Redheart, but I’m not sure as her mask muffled her voice. Twilight broke the second of awkward silence. “Anyways, in order to get you out of the hospital you’ll need to break through your magical blockage. The easiest way to do that would to cast your first spell, but first I’ll need to teach you the fundamentals of magic.” She floated a small and colorful book from her back and held it out to me. ‘Your first spell!’

I looked down at it as I held it in my grip then looked up at her. “This is a children’s book.” Does she think I’m stupid?

This is going to be a really long day. “It is but it’s one of the- what? Eww.“ she stopped as a strange slimy sound came from Redheart, who was going to grab the tray from yesterday’s food.

Shit.

She looked at the almost transparent liquid on the bottom of her hoof. “What is this?” Oh lady you don’t wanna know.

Coughing slightly to get her attention away from it. “So some winged mare came in through the window last night and she left it where she was sitting… and before your ask she didn’t have a mask like you do…”

She took a second to connect the dots, but when she did she scrunched up her nose and held her hoof out away from her. “That’s really gross. I’ll… I’ll go get the janitor…” a light quickly flashed and it was gone. “Huh?”

Twilight had a disgusted expression. “That was really gross…” her horn was lit and a flush came from the bathroom. Okay, now I’m pretty interested in magic. I hate cleaning.

“So you’re teaching me magic? I thought this room repelled magic, so how can you use it in here?” I really don’t want to blow up before I figure this out…

She about lit up. Oh no she’s one of those types… “while this room wards off any natural flowing magic, it can’t completely prevent it. Since everypony has a magic pool they can bring in magic and use it as long as they still have some magic left, although casting will be slightly harder.”

I raised up a hand to stop her. “Before we start can I get some sheets or something? It’s kinda chilly without something covering me… and I’d rather not show my naked body around.” I can’t believe I slept like that actually…

Nurse Redheart was first to respond with a tilted head. That’s actually pretty cute. “Actually, where are your sheets? Purpleheart didn’t mention changing them last night and she would have gave you replacements if she did.”

What? “What? Then who took my sheets? I was in the shower when they disappeared. Did someone steal my dirty sheets? That’s really weird and kinda creepy.” I looked towards the window that was open last night.

Twilight followed my gaze. “...Perhaps you had more than one visiter last night.” That window is definitely staying locked from now on. Fuck airflow.

We all stared at the window for a few seconds before Redheart spoke up slightly unsettled. “I’ll… I’ll go get some new sheets…” She awkwardly made her way out.

A small cough woke me, I must have zoned out a little. Twilight nudged me with a book held in her magic. “You okay there? You’ve been staring at the window for a while.”

Losing whatever train of thought I had, I responded. “ Y-Yeah. This place is weird, is all. So… Magic?”

She seemed to forget her worries and perked up. “Yes! We first need to go over the basics of where magic is and how it flows. Normally as a foal grows it will naturally start to feel magic flow through them and in some cases can cast wild magic, but due to your situation you don’t have very much time to naturally feel for it. Magic naturally flows through the air and gets collected by magic users over time to be stored in their internal magic pool.” Her horn lit up and a paper cup floated out followed by the sound of water from the bathroom.

I watched the blob of water float from the bathroom to her. “Thats so fucking cool.” I could tell she got a smirk from that comment, even from under the mask.

Now that she had the water she continued. “Normally a unicorns magic pool fills passively.” she demonstrated by slowly pouring water into the cup until it was near full. “And once their pool is full it spills over and the magic flows back through the air.” The cup was overflowing while the spilled water floated back up to the main blob. “Now for those who have a blockage the magic is unable to overflow and continues to fill the pool.” Purple covered the top of the cup as water continued to flow in but not out. The cup quickly started to bulge. “Untill the pool cannot hold and…” The cup bursted spilling water everywhere. “The unicorn explodes with excess magic. It's very rare, but devastating. There is another possible outcome that causes a surge instead. That happens when the unicorn is able to break the blockage in the late stages by casting a spell. The spell will be extremely powerful but uncontrollable.”

I stared at the cup for a few seconds. Shit. I’m not ready to die… That looks painful too… “So then how do I cast my first spell? I’m kinda allergic to exploding.” Hehe death jokes.

She gave me a deadpan stare. Tough crowd. “First you need to imagine what you want the magic to do and how you want it to do it. For example, to pick up the cup I pictured a ring surrounding it and moved the ring around it. For the water I imagined a sphere holding it in the air. Once I pictured what I needed I pushed magic through my horn. It’s quite simple once you get the basics down.” She made the basic shapes in the air with her purple magic.

With a click the door opened and in walked Redheart with some sheets and a small blanket on her back. “Hope I didn’t take too long.” She made her way to the side of the bed past Twilight. At least she tried to. She slipped on the water that was spilled on the floor, her front hooves sliding forward as her back legs stretched back. She looked like a stretching cat once she caught herself. These floors really are slippery when wet… “I-I’m goo-ack!” A loud pop came from her back. Oooo that was a good one. That seemed to be her tipping point as she plopped on her belly into the small puddle.

Twilight cringed under her mask. “oops…

Author's Note

It's ALIVE! If anyone has suggestions lmk. I love comments!

I also don't have a proof reader so don't yell at me plz...

If this gets to 50k words I might try for a reading, idk where it would be posted tho..