Author's Note

Hey y'all. I'm up here now, that's weird.

This chapter is a bit earlier than usual because my family and I are going on holiday soon for a couple of weeks. Expect the next chapter to come out around the second of July. I will however, apologise for leaving you on a kind of cliffhanger. Not my intention but oh well.

As always please yell at me for any spelling/Grammar mistakes. I still should be able to reply to comments. Peace

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"18, 19 and 20" Anon exclaimed excitedly as he finally finished warming up with squats outside behind the castle. Before them were lunges, pushups and walkouts. Each 20 times and the routine done twice. Now with magic flowing throughout his body again, he felt a surge of strength which included his legs also. It took almost an hour for the human to walk without aid or fault but after, his recovery quickened. Less than thirty minutes later, and he had already finished preparing for his 'present' Twilight had promised. Which turned out to be that construct thing she promised at the hospital.

"I would ask if this was a good idea. But knowing you, it's probably not." Astral commented as he walked up to the human, a bottle of water in his magical grasp.

Anon did not know whether his eyes were replaced or just altered, but they saw the flow of magical all the same. He eyed the water bottle as he observed how Astral used his magic to levitate the drink. He obviously saw a larger concentration pushing upwards to keep it off the ground but what surprised him was how much magic seemed to be used to push the water bottle forward. If levitation magic does not just simply apply a negative gravity effect but is actually concentrated magic fighting gravity then how much more magic would need to be used to compensate for wind or static movement like carts or trains? After grabbing the drink from Astral's magical grasp. The human pondered more as Twilight pulled a rather large car, a large sheet covered the contents from prying eyes.

The human shook his head free of his pondering so he may focus on more important matters as he walked towards the cart and the princess. Opening the bottle and taking a swig, the human pointed towards the cart before twisting the cap back on as he placed the bottle on a nearby wooden box, one of many scattered around the area.

"So this it?" He questioned knowingly. To which Twilight simply nodded as she swifty pulled away the large sheet revealing what seemed to be a fist sized blue sphere resembling a coloured marble. Surrounding it were varies pieces of lumber with different sizes, shapes and level of processed.

"And like that, you lost me." The human commented, gesturing towards the filled cart.

"This is the Magically Adaptive Construct or M.A.C for short. Back in the capital it commonly referred to as called Big M.A.C but for obvious and scientific reasons we will not be doing that. Anyway, created by the strongest Unicorn ever known and my idol Starswirl the Bearded. This amazing piece of magical technology simply needs a drop of blood, to which it will roughly mimic the donor and be fully operational to take orders. Which currently are all Princesses and a few select guardsmen such as my brother. Just to note, it uses the given blood as a fuel source but is very efficient, so a few drops should be more than enough for today." Twilight explained.

The human blinked a few times as his eyes refocused on his lecturer. "Ok, I think I got that. Actually that reminds me. I want my knife back." The human stated.

"Alright, but please try to leave it at home or here." Twilight replied as she poofed away in a cloud of smoke and sparkles before poofing back only a few seconds later and handing it towards Anon.

The human immediately held his hand over the sphere and pressed the knife against his thumb. "So just to check. Blood as fuel, efficient, few drops." He questioned as he looked over his shoulder towards the Alicorn.

Twilight sighed before replying. "In a very crude way, yes."

"Well in that case." Anon started as he moved the knife and pressed it into his palm. Slashing downwards, the initial splatter hit the blue sphere and the cart around it as well. Squeezing his now crimson hand, blood poured from the wound as it dripped and covered the orb. All the while with an excited grin plastered across his face.

"Damn it Anon! Spike, please quickly fetch the first aid kit." Twilight shouted.

Before the dragon could begin following his given orders. The human spoke. "Nah, don't bother. I'm a quick healer and this is nothing." Anon proudly admitted as he looked to his bloodied palm. His expression changing to one of confusion. "Not that quick though." He added, turning his palm towards Twilight. To which the Alicorn quickly approached and gave a quick look over the large gash Anon inflicted upon himself. What she saw, however, was not the large open wound she had been expecting, but an almost fully closed wound as what seemed to be tiny strands of magic, barely larger than strands of hair stretching from one side of the wound to the other as it seemingly began closing the wound.

"Well it seems that your 'quick healing' will be even quicker now. I would like to run some generic tests after this to determine in what capacity your body has changed.

The human was about to share his distastes tests but was interrupted by a strong metallic smell. Something too familiar to him. Looking down at the sphere. Anon was able to see the freshly spilt blood evaporate off the orb. As the blood began to disappear, he could see easier into the sphere as a red mist swirling around inside, slowly getting bigger as it absorbed more and more.

After mere moments. The sphere and cart were cleaned of blood as it shook slightly just before floating a few inches above the cart it had rested upon. Settling in to its desired height. It suddenly cracked and shattered into hundreds of jagged pieces all the while keeping the same rough shape. After idling for a few moments, it formed a tendril from a small cluster of itself, moving towards the offered lumber. Gently touching each piece with the edge of its snake like tendril, the wood shook violently before shattering also. After each piece it broke, they seemed to follow up the tendril towards the core, entering the seemingly hollow broken orb.

Once each piece of wood was acquired. The shattered sphere moved each jagged piece as it created a rough human, something similar to a stick man a child would draw. Fractured wood poured from the Center as it filled out this thin human silhouette.

As the wood covered the sphere's frame, each piece seemingly melded into one another, creating seamless unity within the wood. Anon watched on in confusion and wariness as Twilight held a very bright smile. This being her first time witnessing this.

Once finished, the wooden human fell to the ground with a thud as it laid there motionless.

"I get that like, magic is meant to be all mystic and crap but honestly. What the fuck was that?" Anon questioned.

Before he could get an answer however, the human looking wood thing spun its arm in ways something with bones could not as it shuffled into a prostrated stance towards Twilight.

"P-princes-ss-s"