Scootaloo Twilight Loona

Twilight examined Loona's dagger as she was reading the book. She had given Loona the benefit of a doubt for saving her and Scootaloo. But she had a few questions she needed answers to. And the dagger was one of them.

As she took care of some paperwork she did a few scans on the dagger. "Does it have dark magic in it?" "Is it magical at all?" "Can I tell anything about where it's from?" Were just a few questions bounced around in her head.

As she finished the paperwork for "temporary" housing, the scanning spell also finished. Blinking, she looked over at the dagger before groaning. "It's just a regular dagger?" Twilight gasped. "Then… does that mean?..."

Just then her ear twitched as she heard laughing coming from the other room. Twilight quickly rushed into the room and saw Loona still looking at the same book. "What's so funny?"

"The dark magic in this book is pathetic." Loona laughed. "All I'd need to do is change a few words and that'll destroy the dark magic."

Twilight blinked in shock. "Wait… seriously? That's it?"

Loona nodded and took a scroll and quill before writing down the altered spell. "See? Just don't read it out loud or try and cast it until you know what to change." She paused for a moment before laughing. "Seriously. I can't believe none of you figured it out already."

Twilight looked over the spell. After a few moments she turned her gaze on Loona. "I'll have Spike send this to the princess so she can look it over too."

Loona nodded and sighed before looking back at the book. "You think if I'm able to alter one of these spells…"

"You can use magic?"

"Magic is more common for my kin." Loona admitted as she looked through the book. "Anyway. There's one spell I noticed that I'd like to try."

Twilight took a deep breath as she fought to control her fears. "Luna did put an alert spell on you to let us know if you used dark magic. But… I'd like to test how skilled you are with our magic first. If you don't mind."

Loona rolled her eyes and grabbed another nearby book. Before quickly flipping through it. She turned it to show Twilight. "How about this one?"

Twilight looked it over. "That's rather advanced. Maybe we should start with-" She replied before cutting herself off as she watched Loona turn and wave her hand to the pony head that sat on the table as it turned to crystal and started to glow. "But… how?... you… you just combined two spells into one."

Loona facepalmed. Taking a scroll, she drew two lines and a dot on both sides of the paper. "Simple. The same way you can draw a line from one dot to the other without crossing more than one line."

Twilight looked at the paper. "I don't get it."

"You layer it." She explained, folding the paper along the lines making it look like there was only one line. "If each line is a spell. Then knowing how to put them together will allow you to put them together."

Twilight thought for a moment. "I see…" Blinking, she pulled out the spell Loona wrote and opened the forbidden book to the page the spell was on. "Wait… if that's the case. Then is it possible that there's hidden dark magic in these spells too? Dark magic that was hidden under the…"

"That's exactly why you need to understand the spell and what to change." Loona groaned as she started to get annoyed. "Changing one word changes the meaning."

Twilight thought for a moment and nodded. "I see." She sighed before writing a letter and rolling the two up and leaving a note to Spike. "Come on. I have the paperwork to allow you to look after Scootaloo until we get things taken care of… oh and I'd like to see the spell you want to cast before you use it."

Loona nodded and followed her out. "Sounds good to me."

Once outside, they were stopped by five mares and three fillies. "See!" Scootaloo cheared. "I told you guys she was real!"

Loona and Twilight looked at each other before sharing a sigh. If she was going to stay here and not draw too much suspicion. She'd need to play nice with these ponies. What might help is if they had something to help her unwind.

"I was just going to show Loona where the mayor is before bringing her to Scootaloo's home." Twilight explained. Seeing the unsure looks on her friends, Twilight rolled her eyes. "I get it. You don't think I should be so trusting. But I'm the princess of friendship, right? And we're trying to spread the message of friendship."

Her friends looked at each other and sighed before turning to her with a smile. "You have a point, dear." Rarity sighed.

"Sorry if it seemed like we don't trust your judgment, Twi." Applejack added sheepishly. "It's just… there's a lot of questions we have about her."

"I don't think hearing about where I'm from would be a good idea… especially around certain ponies." Loona mentioned glancing towards the CMC.

"Then how about telling us in private?" Rainbow suggested. Loona shrugged and nodded. "Great. Tomorrow while the kids are at school then?" Loona nodded again.

With a smile the girls nodded and left the two to their tasks.

Author's Note

This story may end up being one of those that's going to be a slow build up. But I may end up adding more drama from Helluva Boss. Or I might end up switching things up a bit. I don't know yet.