The soul in the sword, and mask.
Author's Note
Yokana mean midnight because I'm unoriginal like that. Anyways hope ya'll enjoy this little skit.
The soul in the sword, and mask.
"YONAKA, GET UP THE CON IS TODAY!" my little brother yelled from downstairs, already dressed as a Shinigami.
"SHIT! I FORGOT TO GET THE SWORD FROM YAMA!" I screamed.
I had forgotten to go to my friend's house since I spent all night finishing the shihakushō and making the hollow mask for my Bleach cosplay. I got dressed and got my keys. I was almost ready for the con.
"Yonaka, I told you doing all of that at the last minute was a bad idea. We have planned this for weeks for crying out loud." said dad, already dressed in his Urahara Kisuki Cosplay.
'Sometimes I think him and Urahara are the same person.'
"Watch it, you've done worse. Remember when you forgot Tokito in the park after being on a call with your work buddies?" I countered with a glare.
"I thought we said you wouldn't bring that back up!"
"Then don't be a hypocrite about forgetting important stuff."
After the family drama, we swung by Yama's house to pick up my sword, in the nick of time, before he needed to go to work.
Later that evening,we arrived at the con, and it was an introvert's dream and nightmare all at once wrapped up in one big glorious anime bow. We made our way through the crowds of others dressed as their favorite alter egos so we could take pictures and get autographs from the voice actors of Kenpachi Zaraki and Urahara Kisuki.
Urahara was beyond impressed by my father's cosplay, from how accurate the clothing was down to my father's imitation of his voice. Which made me proud, but also pause to question even more if my dad really was Urahara made flesh.
"Hehehe that was fun. I wonder if I could get Uriah to do Yoruichi?" dad asked in a curious way.
"Mom!... OK, what's with this family, and trying to be picture-perfect imitations of fictional characters!? First it was Tokito when he dyed his hair blue(trying to look like who?), me when I dressed as Sci Twi from MLP Equestria girls, (when I lost a bet to insert friends name here) at Comic Con, and now you and Dad dressed like(insert names here) . It's like some type of Anime Twilight Zone." I was apparently on a good ranting jag because I didn't notice the person running in my direction until it was too late and was mowed down. "WATCH WHERE YOU'RE GOING-" *SHATTER* "OH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" and just like that, my mask shattered like the pottery it was made from,” I should've just used the resin 3D printer Yama had" because of course the dwarf had a 3D printer.
"Ahhh that looks bad. I might have something to replace it…," said a raspy voice in what sounded like mock empathy.
"And it so happens that I have a mask that could give a little twist in design." As he pulls out a hollow mask with a purple horn on it with a twilight colored star around it. Just then, I realized he was standing in front of a merchants booth I do not remember being there moments before. Ok, guess I hit my head harder than I thought.
'Is this some type of joke? Well I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth... damn puns.' "Well, convenient as that may be, how much is this going to cost me?" I said with a skeptical eye trying not to get robbed blind by some random Resident Evil cosplayer. A cold chill ran down my spine as the echo of my words reverberated in my head with a foreboding feeling.
"It would only cost 7,000 yen," he said with an eager grin.
'WELP! I'm not about to pass up that great of a deal!' I thought excitedly, whipping my wallet as fast as possible. "Can I also get the angle wings? They will look amazing with my costume now that I think about it!"
The problem was it seemed I WAS no longer thinking. It was as if I had been switched to auto pilot, all I could think was, ‘get the mask, get the wings,’ like my life depended on it.
"Hmmm that would be 10,000 yen more," said the Merchant smugly.
"... I have 11k yen... eh I didn't see anything else good so sure." I tried to hand over 10.5k to the merchant, but then a loud noise rang across the building as one of the rafters fell on top of me with an audible crunch.
"You had to steal my displaced didn't you, Faust" The merchant said before everything faded to black.
Within Twilight's head
"What th- why is my voice all wobbly... wait what happened?" I said, panicking at the situation, trying to know what in all the gods that were worshiped name is going on. I looked down, seeing my skin had turned into a bleached purple, and when I saw this I was getting even more nervous, making my wings ruffle. "Wait-" I looked back and, Who would have guessed I had wings with the exact bleached purple color. "HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?!"and,
"Hello? I-is somepony out there?" I heard a voice of a child wandering around the abyssal white plain, making me go stiff as this place could only be the kid's mindscape. 'Who in the world says "somepony"' as I thought of this, the kid came into view looking pretty depressed. I was a little girl who couldn't be any older than 5, barely holding the syllables together.
"Uhhh, hello little one what's your name?" I said, trying to give as much comfort to the kid as I am to myself.
"My name is Twilight. What's yours?" she asked so innocently as I realized I was in Twilight Sparkles' mind.
"Hello Twilight by name is ✡︎⚐︎☠︎✌︎😐︎✌︎... that's odd, my name is ✡︎⚐︎☠︎✌︎😐︎✌︎... hmm I guess you can't hear my name yet Little Magic." 'Huh guess I'm a Zanpakuto now, and why did I call her Little Magic?'
"Maybe I can give you a name?" she said with sparkles in her eyes.
"Sorry Little Magic, but that would be highly rude. Zanpakto's can only tell you their name when earned in some way." I said in an instinctual teaching, and motherly tone I was not used to at all, 'what did that mangy merchant put in my mask!?'
"ok" Twilight said, looking sad at first, but the sparkle 'heh' in her eye shined brightly after realizing she could earn something. "HOW CAN I EARN YOUR NAME, and why do you keep calling me Little Magic?"
"To the first question, sadly, I do not know, and to the second one I just thought it sounded cute." I said in a jovial tone, 'She looks so adorable as a little child.’
"If I can't give you a name, why do you give me a name?" she said in the most adorable pouting face.
"Funny enough, the rule is only one-sided because the name of a Zanpakto holds power while we are allowed to give our wielders a nickname for fun, and the name Little Magic fits you nicely, don't you think?" I said with a playful smugness.
"hgmmm" the newly dubbed "Little Magic" found a way to melt my heart with a grumble glaring at me with unnaturally large compared even to anime eyes. She started fading away, meaning they were waking up.
"... I'm already bored" as I finished that line, I decided to go through Twilight's pov.
As I start spectating, I see her reading a book about minor heating spe- 'wait magic?! Well, I should have known magic existed, but I digress. "That's a nice book your reading Little Magic." I said through her mind.
"Wahuh?!" The confused noises shock her, and the not seen pink colored lady with both wings, and horns who looked concerned by Little Magic's outburst.
"Are you ok, Twi?" asked the newly named Strawberry.
"I just heard the lady in my dream!" Little Magic said with a broad grin.
"Are you sure? I didn't hear anything." Strawberry said, with even more concern for the child's mental health.
"She can't hear me silly, I'm in your head like when you read quietly." I said, chuckling at her expense.
"That makes sense. It would be hard to hear if it was in my head", Little Magic said, being pretty smart for what I would think is a 5-year-old.
"Um Twi I'm just going to use a small spell on you, ok?" Strawberry said as her horn glowed, making me feel a single hair on my neck raised.
"OK," Twilight said, waiting patiently.
"Can you hear me?" Strawberry said in Twi's head
"Yup!"
"Well I don't hear anyone else, so please don't scare me like that please?" Strawberry said with a resolute sight "Well keep reading your book I'm going to check on Shining armor."
"OK" said the excited bookworm 'But I swore I heard the alicorn that was in my dream.'
"You did, but I can't have your friend over there having a panic attack so please talk in your head please. I will teach you a cool spell if you teach me how magic works." I said, calming the little ponyfolk, and immediately making her eyes turn to jewels at the idea of teaching someone magic.
'I'm not that far into magic myself, but I can tell you how to use small light spells."
"Thank you this will be quite the experience for the both of us, now continue your education while I go, and wait for your slumber."
A flash step into learning how magic works.
Author's Note
Year 986 (Twilight will be 20 [born 12/8/980, or 8/12/980 for American at 7:00am ] in the pilot episode for my canon) hope you light my stupid story
A flash step into learning how magic works.
Within Twilights mind
"Huh, interesting." I said looking at the glaive
"Let's continue reading the manual that appeared with me." I was reading a heavy leather bound book with the soul reaper logo on it.
"Hello? Miss alicorn lady?" said the young Twilight "There you are, and what's that?"
"It's a manual that I use to remember how to teach some spells as learning them is different then already knowing how to use it, and just casting. You would need to know how it works before you can cast it as second nature."
"Ok so what do we start with? Me teaching you magic, or you teaching me some cool spell?" she asked a little impatiently for new knowledge.
"We will start with you teaching me with magic as it would be best to know how work with it." we started talking about mana flows, and magical output starting with levitation which took a while as I kept sending imaginary mugs into nothingness, after that we tested my mana capacity... it was 2x my Reiatsu, so that was quite the feat alone. We finished playing around with mana, now we play with speed. "First you need to learn how to use spirit energy."
"What's spirit energy, Why do I have it, and lastly because I forgot to ask before why are you in my head?" She asked curiously with a cheerful grin almost about to split her face, and her head tilted making her ears flop to one side.
'EEEEEEEE she's adorable. This is my child now sorry not sorry Ms. Velvet' "Well my little scholar spirit energy is almost identical to magic, but while magic is power around you spirit energy is well energy from your spirit, or more accurately soul." after I said that Twilight's bugged out and screamed in outrage "MY SOUL!? WHY WOULD I USE MY SOUL!?"
I was at a loss "This energy held within your soul, not the soul itself, is used to produce impressive abilities like what I'm about to teach you." as soon as I said that I use Shunpo to get behind Twilight spooking her when I speak behind her "this ability is known as Shunpo, or flash steps. This ability is the least dangerous that could think of."
Twilight was shocked stiff to where I had to booped her on the nose to get her attention back "hay don't do that our noses are sensitive... wait why could I feel that."
"That's because instead of a dream you are directly in your mind as a soul, so it's not recommended to continuously do this without natural sleep." said in Twilights favorite way known as teacher Y⚐︎☠︎✌︎😐︎✌︎. Yes she found a way to get one letter out of my name after the 3 hours learning magic. "First I will have to open you spirit energy AKA make it physically noticeable." I put my hand above where her heart is, and used a touch of SP to let her feel her pathways.
"That feels weird," looking at her now glowing body "Looks weird too." the glowing was not white, but a bright lavender.
"It's almost like your spirit energy and mana are mixed. Impressive, now that you can feel your weird concoction of what Imma just call spirit mana lets try using it. focus on the spirit mana, and let it flow to your legs," as I say that I see Twilight moving her Spirit Mana(TM) to her limbs "Now try walking on the air." she lifted her leg and set foot on the air like a step stool "Now for the hard part. Run using as few steps as possible going as far as possible,"
"Ummm ok" she tried to run it a strait line, but ended up sending herself into the floor after 3 steps "ow"
"Ok let's try again but on ground so you don't sling yourself to the ground." I said she got back up on the ground and tried again. Thanks to luck, and maybe divine intervention this place was completely flat, but that also means it's slippery making it hard for Twilight to keep a grip in the floor sliding, and tripping like a drunk sometimes "Ok I think I know the problem. You're using too much energy so you have less stability It's like when you try running with different sized shoes, Try using less energy." with that she closes her eyes, and the light from her limbs dim down a bit "Ok now try again." she runs again, and this time she did it, but she was still a little dizzy from going at 60% the speed of sound.
"ughhh I feel dizzy, *rapidly shakes head* I finally did it!" she said jumping up, and down cheering, but after all of this my eyes shot open
"Umm twilight how long have we been training?" I said slightly panicking while also forcing Twilight to wake up.
Twilight's bedroom
"TWILIGHT!" yelled a frantic Shining Armor "You're about to be late for school!"
"WHAT!?" Twilight shot up, and started panicking grabbing everything she needed except the group project
"You forgot your project. I said, reminding her about it.
"Thanks," she grabs her project, and subconsciously uses Shunpo to get to school. "That ability really is useful to get here in 2 seconds." Everyone was staring at her like some type of demon.
"Good thing that was the first thing I taught you eh?" I said with smugness
"yes I get it your a proud teacher" Twilight said out-loud, but the crowd talking to each other was louder
Classroom
"Today we will be showing our projects about the rune system of magic. Twilight, would you, and your group like to show your project?" Mrs. Script asked my wielder
"Oh sure, give me a second. *pulls 3 books, 2 pamphlets, and a poster* There we go let me just set it up" Twilight said, making the teacher give a look of concern for this foal's mental health, and being impressed by this filly's focus on education.
"Well this is my entire project about the rune system of magic." She started to talk about the necessities of runes for more permanent applications like kitchen appliances to more complicated things like the train that I can't stress this enough is called the "Friendship Express" which was really educational for every~~one~~pony including me. After everyone showed their project which by all means paled in comparison to the bookworm princess known as Twilight Sparkle. 'I heard that'
"I know." I said as Twilight could feel my smile.
"Ok class just so you know tomorrow we will be talking about "the Last Shinigami, and Wises Wizard" Star Swirl The Bearded." said Mrs. Script
"Must have a powerful constitution then... Wait "Last Shinigami"!?" I said with a heavy feeling of confusion. "How do they deal with Hollows without Shinigamis then?" I asked wondering how that was possible unless the other Shinigamis were hiding from the public to keep the Hollows at bay.
'What are Hollows, and why did she mean by "Last Shinigami"?' asked Little Magic in her head
"Hollows are monsters, and from what I am HOPING is that she unknowingly meant the last Shinigami open to the public because if not so we have a BIG problem."
"Twilight the answer is B"
'No it's A because if you go with B the formula mixes there, and there making it blow up'
"No it would only mix there, and there leaving the end part more stable to make a thin magical barrier so when in use the barrier will mix with the rest making a quick grow solution because if you do it with A the solution with consume to much magic subsequently making it act slower."
'...You're right... how.'
"I'm in your mind, and is using a whiteboard at the moment, while A is also the answer in a more unnecessary stable way using up too much magic I'd rather use B for such application... WHY ARE WE LEARNING ABOUT ALCHEMY YOUR 6 YEARS OLD!"
'I... skipped a lot of grades,' apparently 4 of them exactly.
Back home
"Twilight, what did we talk about using high level spells not authorized by us?" Ms. Velvet said as her, Strawberry who learned was named Cadence, and Mr. Light stared disappointed while I was not happy with MY child 'even though I am a part of her soul I am mostly my own soul from being transported here.' being reprimanded for using the most common ability of a Soul Reaper. "Another thing here, did you even learn teleportation?"
"It wasn't teleportation." my little magic correcting them as all Shunpo was is "Gotta Go Fast" while defying the laws of physics like other types of magic.
"Then what is it as the only spell that could transport you instantly is teleportation which is dangerous for fillies if they don't do the spell correctly."
"Ok this is getting annoying really quick. Just tell them about Shunpo, but leave out the spirit stuff because i think they could make a weaker version of it if they brute force it enough making it believable."
"It's called Shunpo which translates to Flash Steps. The spell is self explanatory due to using magic to heighten speed without harming the cast due to the magic also stops the user from feeling the effects of high speeds." she said going into her teacher mode.
"And who taught you this?" said Cadence
"Well..."
"Just say you wanted to create a spell."
"I wanted to create a new spell last night, that's the reason why I was almost late for school. Good thing the spell worked *
*"
"..."
"..."
"... That has to be the dumbest thing you've done next to seeing how many Hayfries can Shining fit in his mouth." Cadence said as everyone deadpanned.
"Well it worked..." Twilight said slightly sweating bullets
"you're grounded from your spell books for 2 weeks, and not using that spell again. We don't know how dangerous it is" Ms. Velvet said with a slightly irritated voice. "The last time you tried making a spell you made half the Furniture combust."
"When did that happen?!"
'When I first got introduced to the runic alphabet.'
"Impressive."
