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."