An Interesting New Life

Chapter Three : Three Years Later - Part 3 : Learning to Use Magic
By : The Eternal Star

Once again, another year has passed since I was born into this new world of Alicorn. During this time I had finally perfected my ability to read this world's letters and completely regained my ability to speak again, alongside writing alphabet letters of this world as easily as my previous one.

However, I must say that ever since Mother truly believed that there was a malevolent being inside our house and that it had started to act, it has become increasingly harder and harder for me to slip out of my cage and learn to do things on my own, especially since my foal cage now is encased in a shield that wouldn't go off unless my mother was the one to dispel it or my father was at home.

This means since then, I had to risk being caught by my watchful father to learn things on my own. I had almost been seen several times in the past by my father who I'm sure by now, is also convinced that there's a malevolent being in our house that seeks to harm my brother and me due to my frequent gallop to run past or escape him when he gives a chase.

However, that high risk of being caught doesn't mean I wasn't able to gather a new batch of information since I managed to find a loophole in the form of my ever-growing wing and its feathers. Since now I was able to read this world's letters and walk with my hooves, I just needed to slip one or two books under my wings when my mother brought me to her lab and wasn't looking or near me.

This way, when I was brought back to my foal cage and encased in a shield again. I would still be able to learn information about this world and its Alicorn inhabitants by reading the book that I gathered when my mother or father checked on me I just needed to hide the books under the pillows as apparently, this foal cage was enchanted to always be clean no matter what you did to dirty it up.

After I had done reading the book, I just needed to slip it in under my wing again and wait for Mother to bring me to her lab again, then return the book to its original place before taking and slipping another one under my wings. Easy, secretive, and simple.

But anyway, since I have been doing this for about six months, I have gathered a lot of information regarding this world and its Alicorn inhabitants. I must say, an elemental alignment of an Alicorn really affected personalities and/or appearances.

For example, previously I had described Fire or Blaze Alicorn as the type of Alicorn that is warm, understanding, and quite militaristic considering that most Fire or Blaze Alicorn have an occupation that is related to combat, survival, or warfare in one way or another,

There is much more than what I had just said about them. A Fire or Blaze Alicorn tends to have appearance coloration to be on the brighter side of the spectrum or color that is related to emitting heat such as red, orange, yellow, or occasionally shining blue flame.

Their personalities are like flames, so if you befriend a Fire or Blaze Alicorn and manage to have a good relationship with him/her over a long time. Then you can rest assured that they will always be your companions and stand by at your side, supporting and helping you even in the face of imminent danger or death.

They will always be warm toward you, making you realize that even when you have fallen so far behind, and are left in the dark. They will stay still at your side, warming you up from the cold and becoming a light of hope in the dark, alongside being the guiding beacon that will guide you to the light.

However, because their personalities are like flame. You need to ensure that your relationship with them stays good and maintained properly, as to do otherwise would result in them not becoming the warming fire in the cold, instead, they would be an uncontrollable wave of scorching fire that will try to melt you the instant you are close to them.

As an extra note, a Fire or Blaze Alicorn has an extremely high natural heat resistance with Fire Alicorns having heat resistance of about two hundred to three hundred degrees while their advanced form, Blaze Alicorn has a heat resistance of about four hundred to six hundred degrees.

Although Fire and Blaze Alicorns have extremely high heat resistance, it had a drawback that is they can't stay long in cold terrains or temperatures below five degrees as it would result in their body temperatures lowering too quickly that they practically would die because of hypothermia and frostbites.

Now here's come Water and Ice Alicorns, I previously described them as cold, quiet, and intelligence-driven alongside a society where the power of the body is lower than the power of the mind. They are relentless in their pursuit of knowledge and discovery, hence why their occupation is mostly centered on magical and technological advancement.

Their appearances lean toward a darker shade of color or color that is related to frozen surroundings like cyan which resembles ice and white which resembles snow, alongside that, their body can be seen to have more fur than other types of Alicorns, making them suitable for cold climates and terrains.

Their personalities are like ice or cold water, they would be very cold to you, but over time if you keep having good relations with them, know when to not cross boundaries, and understand what they say toward you. Then they would slowly warm up toward you and before you realize it, you'll have Alicorns that would always freshen and relax your mind and soul.

Whenever they see that you are in a sad mood or are angry at something, they would come and help you even if it mean enduring any hurtful words you throw at them as they know that you don't mean it. They also would often be willing to sacrifice themselves if it mean helping you solve your problem.

They would be the oasis in the scorching desert, providing you with the important bits of life you greatly needed. They would cool and heal you from the inside, you would rest easy knowing that even when the whole world hated you, their door would always be open for you.

Because their personalities are like ice or cold water, however, you need to ensure that you respect their boundaries and keep good relations as to do otherwise. Would result in them becoming either the blizzard that would freeze you to death the instant you entered it, or the relentless wave that would drown you the second you touched it.

Now heres comes Force and Telekinetic Alicorns, now I be honest with you here, aside from personalities and prowess, there aren't any differences culture-wise between all types of Alicorn with Fire, Blaze, Water, and Ice Alicorns are the only exceptions as they are the ones from all the books about Alicorn I have read currently, have any significant culture that directly affected their life's.

Force and Telekinetic Alicorns, are the most active and cheery Alicorns out of all other types of Alicorns and probably the types of Alicorns I'm gonna be annoyed with the most when I meet them. They are shall I say, would be the type to throw strangers parties to befriend them.

Not only that, but they would often be the first ones to make a move to lend a hoof of friendship to other Alicorns. Meaning if you didn't meet them, then they would be the ones coming to meet you and order to be your friends. In the case of pursuing love or relationships, then they would often be the ones to act and propose it.

It is known far and wide, however, that Force or Telekinetic Alicorn would try their best to earn the forgiveness of those they had mistaken accidentally. If the one they try to earn the forgiveness of didn't forgive them, and if the mistakes were severe enough.

It would cause said Force and Telekinetic Alicorn to enter a depressed state that if not handled quickly, would turn into a suicidal/self-harm depressed state where they would start harming themselves to punish themselves for making those mistakes, if this was ignored then it may lead to them ending their own life.

Now here's come Wind and Typhoon Alicorns, they are the type of Alicorns that like to stick their muzzle and hooves into other Alicorns' problems or projects. They also have an ever so curious personality and would always be the one to ask the most amount of questions.

Appearance-wise, they looked similar to other types of Alicorns with the only difference being they are the smallest and have the most lithe, agile, and aerodynamic body type of Alicorns. They also have wings that are larger than other types of Alicorns.

This evolutionary trait happened because Wind or Typhoon Alicorns often lived high up in the skies in cloud houses, meaning they had to endure the strong force of winds daily and for a prolonged amount of time.

Now is the time for Darkness and Corruption Alicorns, and I must say these were my favorites. Because they are practically big Bat Ponies or Thestrals with horns, instead of the usual feather wings like other types of Alicorns have, they have a set of batwings from thick skins and bones.

They also have the slit eyes of a predator rather than the normal equine eyes, their fangs are longer and can inject paralyzing but pleasurable venom into the body of their victim. Their body colorations are mostly colors that are related to night like black, grey, and dark blue.

Although from what I have read from the books, it seems that these Thestralicorns will still give birth to normal Alicorns as the only way to ever become a Thestralicorn, is by a normal Alicorn discovering that their elemental alignment is Darkness or its advanced form, Corruption.

Their personalities are quiet, silent, and secretive in what they reveal to other Alicorns. They prefer a quiet and dark environment as their eyes allow them to see better in the dark, they try to not be the center of attention whenever possible and would try to slip out of crowds unnoticed.

They are a bit sinister however, they aren't afraid to use under-hoofed or frowned upon methods to solve a problem if the said method is the most effective one. They would do nothing that would humiliate or injure other Alicorns, but morality-wise especially when it comes to feral or dangerous animals, it basically didn't exist.

Now here's come the Light and Aether Alicorn, now these types of Alicorns are gonna hurt my eyes whenever I see them in broad daylight. Their body colorations are colors that are related to daylight and can reflect light like white, bright yellow, and light violet.

Personality-wise, they are peaceful, serene, and polite even to those they genuinely don't like. They prefer a clean and bright environment as it complements their elements perfectly. They are willing to forgive even the most vile and evil deed an Alicorn can do, but they will never forget about it and use it to see if said Alicorn is gonna fall into the dark path again.

They are serene and kind, much more kinder than I would liked for an Alicorn to have. For example, they have something they apparently called 'morality' which for me is more like 'stupidity' as in one of the books I had read, it was said they allowed a former serial killer who had betrayed them twice another chance for redemption.

Anyway, before I start ranting about how stupid it is to have morality on such monstrous beings, I will have to change the subjects. Now here's come the Lightning and Blitz Alicorns, in appearances they are pretty similar to other types of Alicorns, only with their body coloration often times be color related to lightning like yellow, gold, and flash white.

The thing that makes this type of Alicorn unique is the fact that they have the shortest reaction time and the fastest body reflexes, making them more often than not able to respond quickly when in danger or dodge attacks. They are comparable to Fire and Blaze Alicorns in terms of combat prowess, but unlike them, Lightning and Blitz Alicorns didn't have a culture centered around combat and/or are militaristic.

Personality-wise, they are like lightning. They are fast to react and adapt to new changes or circumstances, they are also the most competitive out of all other types of Alicorns alongside often tried to attract the attention of the opposite gender, not letting it go until the one they are attracted to tells them to fuck off.

And last but not least, Earth or Rock Alicorns. Appearance-wise, they are the biggest and tallest type of Alicorns while also having the biggest endurance. Their body colorations are colors that are related to dirt, plants, or stones like brown, green, and dark grey.

Personality-wise, they are the most low-hearted Alicorns with their kindness almost comparable to the Light and Aether Alicorns. They understood and respected other Alicorn's boundaries or choices alongside understand when talking is better than acting and vice versa.

Now with all of the information I had gathered over the last year having been written on this particular notebook, I quickly closed the ink bottle and placed it under one of the corners of my foal bed alongside my quill. I then placed the notebook under my pillow to hide it.

After all of that was done, I stood up and began climbing the fences of my foal cage. When I reached the top I just jumped down and landed with a 'thud', by now my body was strong enough to brace off the impact from jumping to the ground from my foal cage.

I then stretched out my body for the next few minutes as I prepared myself for the upcoming task of learning magic, which would require me to have a book that teaches young Alicorn foals how to do cast magic since right now, I had absolutely no concrete idea how to do so, only theories.

However, it was not gonna be an easy one as I needed to walk outside my parent's room to the stairs while keeping my hooves quiet enough to not alert my brother in his room, who had been informed by my mother that there had been a series of events around the house caused by an unknown malevolent being.

After that, I needed to walk down the stairs quietly but fast enough to avoid my father who would often stay and patrol the first floor of the house, he would occasionally sit down on the sofas in the living room or go to the armory room to polish his sword.

Currently, I'm hearing a grinding sound of metals from down below. Meaning my father was polishing his sword and I would have chances to get to the door down the stairs and go outside the house.

Why do I need to go outside the house? Cause I'm searching for that book that could teach me to use magic in my mother's lab which had bookshelves filling the entire half of it, making it also count as a library. The bookshelves in the living room unfortunately didn't contain the book I was searching for.

After I managed to get the house, I needed to go into my mother's lab which would represent a new challenge- that being my ever-growing cautious and suspicious mother was inside her lab doing her experiments. This meant I not only had to collect the book that could teach me magic from one of the bookshelves inside the lab but also tried to avoid detection by my mother.

"Well, this is gonna be one hell of a hard cat and mouse game. With all of my family members in the house or near the house, the risk of me getting caught is quite certainly quite high but then again.

Even when the odds are stacked against me, I always find a way to overcome it" I said as I finished my stretches' by flaring my wings and moving them forward and backward like moving my shoulders if I were a human eight times, I guess after I learned magic I would learn how to fly next.

After I finished my stretching, I walked to the closed door before opening it up by standing bipedally for a few seconds with my back hooves for a few seconds as my right forehoof moved the handle of the door downward to open it.

My body then dropped back down as the door opened slightly, I moved my right hoof to the small gap of the door before pulling it slowly. After the door had opened enough for me to slip out, I quickly slipped out of the door before I closed the door back gently but not fully.

After that, I turned my body around and walked to my brother's room and peeked inside the room at the slight gap in the door, to see that my brother was sitting on his study chair with a book on the table. He was deep in his thought as he was working on his homework, this meant he wouldn't be coming out for the next at least half an hour.

I then walked back toward the stairs but stopped just as I was about to take the first step down, I listened with my moving equine ears to the sound of my father still polishing his sword, judging by the sound of grinding metal I was hearing. Perfect, with both my brother and father occupied with their work, I would be able to slip out of the house easily.

I began walking down the stairs slowly as I kept my hearing focused on the grinding sound of metals, after a minute I had finally reached down to the first floor. I walked to the door of the house and stood bipedally with my back hooves again as my right hoof went to catch the handle of the door and push it down.

After I had done that, the door opened slightly and my front hooves fell down to the ground again. I put my right hoof in the gap of the doors before pulling it gently, when the door opened up enough for me to slip out, I walked outside of the house before closing the door gently but not fully.

I turned my body around and let out a relieved sigh as I had managed to get outside the house undetected and fortunately, quite easy, unlike my several previous attempts.

"Good, this has gone better and easier than I expected. I'm surprised that my father didn't pick up the sound of my hoof steps- he's usually like a hydrophone, knows the direction of the target but doesn't know how far his position from the target is" I said as I remembered the first time and several other times I tried to get out of the house while my father is home.

At the time, especially my first time, I was so surprised that my father was walking toward my direction to the point that I was forced to play hide and seek with him in the house, at the time I was forced to carefully navigate around all hidden positions in the house, and ensured that my hoof steps are quite enough so he just knew my general direction and not exact direction.

Anyway, no time to waste as it wouldn't be long before Father finished polishing his sword, even if it would have taken him a long time to polish his sword. I wouldn't want my brother to have finished his homework as then he would no longer be occupied and may check in my foal cage.

I walked my way toward the door of the lab, I then placed my ears on the door as I listened if there was any sound inside. After a minute of listening, I walked away from the door and toward one of the windows. I then peeked my eyes at the inside of the room through the windows and searched for any sign of mother.

After another minute, I still hadn't spotted my mother which meant she was in the deeper part of the lab in the research room, and not in the library part. I stopped my peek through the window and walked to the door before standing on my back hooves so my forehooves could reach the handle of the door and pull it down.

My forehooves then fall to the ground again as the door opens slightly, like before I put my right hoof on the slight gap of the door and push forward slowly so there's enough gap for me to slip in. After the door had opened up enough, I slipped my body through the gap of the door and into my mother's lab.

I closed the door slowly but not fully, I turned my body around and looked at the library sector of my mother's lab. I must say, there's some strong presence of magic in this place and I can see why just by looking at the fact that, the inside of the lab is much, much bigger than what was seen from the outside.

If I were forced to hazard a guess about the size of my mother's lab from the inside, I think it was safe to say that it was around twenty meters in length, fifteen meters in width, and probably ten meters in height as there's a staircase in the library section that leads to the second floor where I can see from down here, there are even more bookshelves on the walls.

Talking about bookshelves, there's a lot of them in here. On each side of the walls that didn't have windows always had a bookshelf, the room had bookshelves in the middle that were in the five by six formation with each bookshelf around two meters away from the other.

The size of the bookshelf itself is about two meters in length from left to right and height, while the width from front to back is probably closer to ten centimeters. Every part of the crystal floor was filled with thick blue crossed violet carpet that seemed to always be clean no matter what I had done to dirty it up, must be another automatic cleansing enchantment.

At the end of the library sector, there would be a room that I can't see from here. This is where my mother had never brought me into because that is the research room where she will conduct her research, but I will not be going in there as undoubtedly my mother was in there for she isn't in the library sector.

Anyway, now that I had a clear picture of Mother's lab in my mind. I walked toward one of the bookshelves and looked at the small grey metal part on each side of the bookshelf, where there would be names indicating what kind of books were on this bookshelf, this one I was reading was history.

"Hmm, history? Would be an interesting subject to read if I had the time, but this wasn't what I was looking for. I probably need to search bookshelf with tags that are magic related" I said commentary, before walking away from this bookshelf tag to look at another.

After checking and passing over two dozen bookshelves alongside spending about ten minutes searching, I finally found a bookshelf that had a tag that I think is related to magic as I said, "Alicorn's Natural Prowess? Does casting magic count as one? I guess I should find it out myself."

I grabbed a book from the left corner of the bookshelf and pulled it out to look at the title which read 'How To Preen Your Wings Guide'. After I looked at the title of the book, I decided to tuck it under my wing as I said, "A guide for young Alicorns to learn how to preen their wings? I would keep this one for now, would be a useful thing to learn- especially when I began learning how to fly"

After that, I spent the next few minutes sorting through the books on the bookshelf to find any book that could teach me how to use magic. After about three dozen books, I finally found what I was looking for.

In my hooves now, there is a book with cyan cover art with a picture of a red young Alicorn filly smiling as her horn lit up in magenta light, in front of her are a few small stones encased in magenta aura and floating. Above the Alicorn filly is the title of the book which read 'A Magic Guide for Alicorn Foals'.

"Finally found what I was looking for, this book will surely give me an insight into how I could use my magic. Now I just need to tuck it under my wings and return to my foal cage undetected" I said happily as I tucked the books under my right wing and began making my way to the door of the lab.

However, it seemed that the world had other plans as I heard a ping sound, followed by the sound of my mother saying in an angry tone a few bookshelves behind me "Well, well, well? It seemed that I wasn't alone in here, what are your intentions here malevolent beings?

Are you trying to haunt or hurt me? After what you have done to my little filly Critic before, I wouldn't let you get away this time. Come here bitch, I will kill you myself!"

I then heard the sound of my mother walking quickly through the bookshelves toward my location, I cursed in my mind as of course. Just when things are going too easy to be true- because it is too good to be true. I then began walking quickly while trying my best to minimize the sound of my hooves as I thought.

'Of course the real challenge began after I acquired what I was looking for, mother was like a radar or sonar where she would ping my location every few seconds with her magic and would try to catch me. The only way for me to counter this is by moving and hiding from her line of sight'

And thus, our game of mouse and cat begins. As Mother was already at the place I was before, I had already changed my location and now I hid behind one of the bookshelves just a few meters in front of her. I heard the ping again and mother quickly moved toward my new location.

I looked in front of me and noticed that there were no more bookshelves I could hide behind, which meant I was forced to go deeper into the library and time my time for it as I scooted to the edge of the bookshelf I hid myself behind, and waited for mother's hoof to be on my line of sight before I quickly turn around and walked quickly deeper into the library and hide behind a new bookshelf.

I heard the ping again and just as I was about to move, I heard the sparkling sound of my mother's magic as I realized that she was pinpointing my location in order to teleport right next to me.

At this, I quickly galloped my way out of my current hiding spot and hid behind one of the bookshelves close to the stairs on the right that led to the second floor just in time for Mother to finish pinpointing my previous location and teleported in a flash next to it.

I heard Mother's growl in frustration, quickly followed by another ping sound and this time she quickly galloped toward my location. I widened my eyes and quickly galloped toward the stairs that led to the second floor before galloping my way up it.

I then heard my mother say "There you are!" as she sped up her gallop and lit up her horn, no doubt preparing to cast a spell that would either incapacitate or kill me if I was to get hit.

I also sped up my gallop and lucky for me, the stairs had a wide and tall straight curved fence covering each of its sides, allowing me to take cover when Mother released her spell and fired a blue magical blast close to where I was. It hit the fence and exploded, leaving the fence with multiple cracks on it.

'Damn it, Mom, I knew that from your perspective there was a malevolent being that had scared your little filly and you anticipated that it would soon try to harm her. So now that you are given the chance to end the malevolent being inside the house once and for all, you will do your best to do it.

But I certainly just expected you to try to knock it out or incapacitate it! I thought all of that in my mind as I finished my gallop up the stairs, turned around, and went straight to hide behind one of the bookshelves with Mother close on my tail.

As I hid behind the bookshelves, I heard Mother closing in before she galloped past me, ah the advantage of being a foal- you had a small body frame and unless the adult looked down at you, you wouldn't get spotted.

I used this opportunity to run behind her toward the stairs and galloped my way down, but halfway down another blast exploded and this time it hit the fence above me which put my hoof steps off the stairs, resulting in me falling down the stairs till I hit the ground with a loud thud.

I heard a ping again followed by my mother saying "Where do you think you're going, face me bitch!". Before she quickly galloped toward the stairs. I quickly shook my head a few times before I grabbed both books with my forehooves and put them in my mouth as I stood up and began galloping toward the door.

As I was running to the door, I heard a ping again this time followed by the sparkling sound of a magic building, she's pinpointing my location again. I ran deeper into the library again and hid behind a bookshelf, near where I was before, a flashing blue light appeared and Mother stood next to where I was before.

She looked at her surroundings for a few seconds before her horn burst up in the light for a second and I heard the ping sound again, my mother looked in my direction as I ran deeper into the library before making a right turn and another right turn toward the door.

My mother was preoccupied with galloping to my previous location, so she didn't notice me running to the door and slipping outside before closing it shut. But just because I was already outside, doesn't mean my problem was over.

I knew that the sound of Mother shouting and blasting magic as she gave chase for more than five minutes, would attract my father and brother's attention, right now I'm guessing they were already on their way to the lab with armor and weapons at the ready.

I galloped my way toward the house before I hid behind a large pot plant, I waited for almost a minute before the door of the house burst open as my father and brother rushed outside with both of them wearing dark armor with swords in their magic as father said.

"Hang on there, Aeterna. We will come to help you soon!". He and Ethern then galloped toward the lab before bursting through the door and rushing inside. I used this opportunity to get out of my hiding spot and gallop my way into the house, I then rushed my way up the stairs, before slipping into my parent's room and heading to my foal cage.

As I stood before my foal cage, I realized that my foal cage was encased in double stacked blue shield and cursed in my mind as I knew that the only way for the shield to dispel, is either my mother was the one to dispel it or my father was at home.

I tried to bang my hoof on the shield, hoping that somehow I would be able to break through it. But instead of cracking, the shield color changed to red and soon a loud alarm sound was emanating from the shield, I cursed in my mind as this alarm would undoubtedly alert my family.

Not long after the alarm went off, the shield dissipated, quickly followed by the sound of magic bursting from down the stairs which most likely came from my father as I also heard the distinct burning sound. As soon as the shield dissipated, I quickly climbed my way up the fence before jumping down onto the bed.

I quickly put the book in my mouth underneath my pillow and lay down on my back just in time as I heard the sound of hooves galloping quickly before the door burst open with my father rushing in, his body was burning in literal flames as he scanned his surrounding for a few seconds before settling his gaze on my form.

He rushed toward me before picking me up with his burning wings which strangely emit a pleasant warm when it touched my skin instead of burning it, my father then looked up my form up and down, back to front, side to side for any sign if I had been injured. When he saw none, he sighed in relief as he said.

"My filly, Critic. I'm glad that you're okay and the malevolent being didn't manage to hurt you, this malevolent being is really starting to act and now it tried to breakthrough your shield". He then looked at my face which I tried to deceive him and acted like what a little filly would if she saw a monster.

I let out a fake tear as I began to sob, my eyes slightly closed as I looked at my father's eyes with a hopeful look. My body shivered in fake fear as my hooves tried to move in a vain attempt to get closer to him, I let out a meek and low voice "Daddy".

My attempt at deceiving him worked as my father had a sorrowful look on his face as he hugged me to his chest and said "Oh, I'm sorry my filly. I should have known that the being in our house is malevolent and listened to your mother that I should put up some alarm spells"

I sobbed onto his chest as father kept hugging me, I then heard clip-clops of hooves closing in followed by the cold voice of my mother as she said "I told you, Arcane. This malevolent being in our house is malevolent and not just a lost wondering spirit who decided to troll us for years.

Now look, this malevolent being just tried to break through Critic's foal cage shield minutes ago- my mother then reactivated the shield with her magic- and it seemed that the shield had suffered damage, it's minimal but it did show that this malevolent being did try to hurt our defenseless filly"

Since my sobbing had stopped, Father released his hug then he winged me to Mother who quickly grabbed me with her wings before she brought me close to her face as she nuzzled my forehead a few times with her muzzle. She then said in a warm and reassuring voice.

"Don't worry my filly, Critic. The malevolent being is gone and now you're safe, your parent and brother will ensure your safety from now on." She then dispelled the spell shield on the foal cage and placed me inside it, before she reactivated the shield spell and it sprang back to life.

My mother then looked at my father, her expression turned into one of scowl as she said "Now that you know what I had really been dealing with every day, would you finally take some real action about it, Arcane?"

My father met Mother's gaze and slightly flinched upon seeing the cold, stern, and scowling expression she was wearing on her face. He then said in an apologetic tone "Yes, Aeterna. Now I understood the real severity of the situation, this malevolent being is fast and agile.

At the same time, this being possessed quite a high level of intelligence as it knew when to hide when to strike, and when it should disengage. This is an abnormal spirit as I didn't remember any of the signs to be similar to any spirit I have dealt with before, I will put up a lot of alarm spells around the house alongside placing hidden surveillance mirrors so we can watch what is happening around the house.

And if things continue to escalate and/or worsen, then we may need to hire some protectors to regularly patrol inside and outside the house at all times. Not only that, but we may need to watch out for our colt Ethern here, while he is capable of defending himself, this malevolent being has shown to grow in power with time and it may be powerful enough to overwhelm him"

As father and mother continued discussing what they could do to increase the safety of the house, I just sighed in my foal cage as I realized that I indeed had managed to acquire what I needed. I may just make my future attempt at slipping out even harder now with Father casting alarm spells and placing hidden surveillance mirrors around the house.

' Slipping out undetected gonna be extremely hard if not outright impossible in the future, what's with alarm spells and surveillance mirrors in every corner of the house'

A few hours have passed since my latest stunt which caused my family to take more drastic measures by from now on by placing alarm spells and hidden surveillance mirrors in every corner of the house, they had begun placing the alarm spells but not yet the surveillance mirrors since they need to find and buy mirror alongside enchanting it first.

During these few hours, I managed to read part of the 'A Magical Guide for Alicorn Foals' book. I must say, it's quite interesting how an Alicorn can cast magic through their horn. Apparently, the horn isn't just all bone as inside it, there are several delicate soft muscles and nerves that are directly connected to the magical pathway.

If an Alicorn wanted to cast a spell, they first needed to know the appropriate pattern of the spells and have enough or more amount of mana required to cast it. The appropriate pattern of spells is more along the lines of the symbols an Alicorn needs to remember in their mind when they cast the spell, to do otherwise would result in the spell not being cast or at the very worst, exploding violently.

But anyway, right now I was sitting on my foal bed as I held the magic guidebook in my right hoof. I looked at one particular page that showed the particular symbols I needed to remember in my mind if I was about to cast telekinesis magic, which I currently did as I had prepared the preening guidebook on the bed in front of me.

I pictured the symbols in my mind and moved the muscle in my horn, moving the muscle is kind of like moving my equine ears manually. Only this time I needed to move it upward to squeeze my mana into the horn, this action resulted in my horn letting out a bright crimson light followed by continuous sparkling.

I then focused my gaze on the preening guidebook in front of me, then pictured the proper symbols for levitation spells in my mind which resulted in the book encased in a bright crimson aura before it began floating upward as my eyes widened in amazement at the fact that I manage to cast magic on my first try.

"Wow, this sensation. The feeling of magic coursing through my horn is just, pleasant. Combined with the knowledge that from now on as I learned the arcane art that is magic further, it would be my always loyal companion and ally in every challenge I encounter.

It is I must say, one of the greatest feelings I have ever felt in this world and, maybe throughout my previous life too" I said as my lips curled upward in a rare and actual smile of happiness upon seeing the preening book guide floating in front me before it stopped in the same height as my horn is.

I remembered that in the book, it was written that in telekinesis magic. To change the height or location of the object I levitate, I must control the muscle in my horn and move it in the direction I want similar to how I could move my equine ears in any direction I want.

I moved the muscle in my horn left-downward and the levitating book immediately followed, I moved the muscle up-right, and the book also immediately followed. I then remembered if I wanted to cast off the spell, I just needed to erase the symbols picture in my mind and relax the muscle in my horn.

Before I do that though, I moved the book left with my horn muscle pressed left until my head followed and I turned my body so I kept having the book in my line of sight. After I had finally turned around, I prepared my mind for the arduous magical challenge I put myself in.

Now this is gonna be the tricky part if I want to move more than one object with my telekinesis. According to the book it requires me to keep my horn muscle pressed in the center with my mind picturing some different symbols with each symbol representing its direction.

Then said symbol must be brought to my magic by my mind picturing the symbols entering the magic in question, which then said magic will apply for that order onto whatever spells it was doing and whatever object it was holding.

I moved my horn muscle to the center before I conjured another picture of the same set of symbols required for the telekinesis spell in my mind, this time I directed some part of my magic to the pillow by willing them to go there.

The white pillow then was encased by the same crimson aura before it floated higher till it stopped at my horn level by default, I then looked at the foal magical guide in my right hoof. Before I did the same thing I did to the pillow, which resulted in the book floating up to my horn level after I released it from my hoof grip.

I then looked at the floating preening guidebook, then conjured up another specific symbol in my mind, and this time I pictured it entering my magic before willing it to be sent to the preening guidebook. After all, was done, I did the same for the pillow and the foal magical guidebook.

Now that I had entered each symbol, ordered, and directed said order to the appropriate object, I could finally move all of the items by just willing it through my mind. I moved both the preening and magical guidebook onto the place where my pillow was before, before placing down the preening guide with the magical guide right next to it.

I erased the two sets of symbols I had conjured up in my mind to control the books, and soon enough the crimson aura on the books dissipated. I then guided my pillow down with horn muscle and placed it on top of the books, before erasing the set of symbols which resulted in the crimson aura on the pillow also ceasing.

After I had done all of that, I was left with a headache in my head and particular pain in my horn muscle as it had never been used before. But it was all worth it though, as from now on I know that if I learned enough about magic, it would be my greatest ally that will help me in my future slipping out of my foal cage.

'Using magic was fun, I have never felt any wonderful sensation like that before.' I commented in my mind as I let out a smile and a happy laugh as I wondered how much magic and spells I could learn since from now on, I would be able to fully utilize the effect my second wish I asked death to be granted.