The Over-Powered Adventures of Gray and Silver

The next day, Gray found himself the most well rested he had been in a while, and was waiting for Silver in the lobby of the hotel, just as they had arranged. Gray, being an early riser found himself waiting awhile for Silver, and wishing he had set a time for when they should have met up in the morning.

It was nearly 10 when Silver showed up in the hotel lobby, much to Gray’s displeasure, given the fact he had been waiting for nearly 2 hours.

“Hey Silver.” greeted Gray.

“We have training to do. Let’s go.” Silver said simply as he started to trot off in the direction of the training center.

Gray didn’t get the time to respond to Silver’s greeting as Silver had already trotted out of the hotel, leaving Gray to catch up to him.

“Woah, for someone who woke up so much later than me you seem like you’re in a hurry.” Gray said to Silver when he caught up to him.

“I’ve got a Gryffin Empire to be in, so I need this done fast. Yes, I’m in a hurry.”

“I haven’t got a problem with that. But if you’re in such a hurry, you should wake up earlier.”

“You’ve heard the term ‘the early bird gets the worm’ I take it.”

“Yeah, where are you going with this?”

“I’m a firm believer in the philosophy of ‘the second mouse gets the cheese’. After all, who wants to eat a worm?”

“It’s a figure of speech, idiot.”

“Yeah, that’s nice. I could go for some cheese, actually. Sharp Cheddar, sharp like my swords.” Silver began to look daydreamy and drift off the path.

“Snap out of it! As you said, we have training to do.”

“Hmmm? Oh, right.” they travelled the rest of the way in silence until they reached their training grounds.

Silver once again lead Gray through the domed building to the place where they were training before. This time without any disturbances on the way.

“So, how’s this gonna work? You’re just gonna knock me over the head until I get the gist of not thinking or something?”

“Sounds like a plan, glad you thought of it.” Silver gave Gray a malicious grin. “Let me just search my weapon collection to see if I have something not stabby.” Silver sat down and let out a long breath. His eyes began to glow a gentle white.

“Uhh, what the heck are you doing? Why are your eyes all glowy?”

“I’m scrying my weapon collection, idiot. Give me a moment.”

“You’re scrying your weapon collection? B-but... How’s that even possible?”

“You’re a unicorn and you don’t know about scrying? Geez, you may need more help than I can offer.”

“Of course I know of scrying, but to see you do it, and it’s nothing like I’ve ever seen before. Generally a unicorn’s eyes don’t go white when they are scrying.”

“Do you see a damn crystal ball or horn? The magic has to concentrate itself somewhere, now shut up and let me look.”

“Okay, I’ll leave you to it.” Gray said, allowing Silver to have a look through his, fairly extensive, collection of weapons. After a brief wait, Silver smiled and leapt to his hooves.

“Here it is!” Silver extended a hoof, and a large, black warhammer appeared and fell to the ground. “It’s not as cool as a sword, but I do keep a few other weapons around just in case.”

“Y-you’re gonna hit me, over the head, with that?!” Gray almost shouted as he pointed a hoof at the weapon.

“Well, that was the plan. Which you already agreed to.” Silver pointed out.

“I agreed to being knocked out. Not smeared across the wall with a warhammer!” Gray replied.

“Nevermind, let’s just get this over with quick. Hit me hard enough to knock me out, but please don’t kill me.” Gray requested.

“Results may vary.” Silver lifted the warhammer and slammed it down on Gray’s head.

Gray tried to stay aware of what was happening as he fell unconscious, and briefly noticed what Silver had been on about the day before. But only briefly, about a second or two later he fell fully unconscious.

“That was great.” Silver laughed to himself as he waited for Gray to recover.

Luckily, only 10 minutes had passed by the time Gray woke up. Unluckily, it meant that there was only a 10 minute gap for Gray to recover in before being whacked over the head a second time by Silver, who openly laughed with glee as he did so.

Gray, as he was falling unconscious once more, took more notice of the period of time in which he could observe the phenomenon which Silver had been talking about, but after trying to maintain it for longer, he still only managed 3 seconds before falling fully unconscious once more.

20 minutes later Gray found himself awake once more, and quickly knocked back to sleep with the help of Silver, who was still smiling madly. A whole hour and a half passed, or to put it into Gray’s recollection of the events. 4 consecutive knockouts.

Gray decided after the fourth time that he could try it without Silver’s aid, much to his disappointment. Gray took a seat in the same spot he sat in the day before and tried to stop thinking once more. Thanks to his experience in the subject he could now barely manage to stop thinking, but it was enough.

After Gray tried it out a few times he questioned Silver.

“So what was this meant to achieve anyway? How does not being able to think help me fly?”

“Huh? What?” Silver snapped out of some sort of daze and turned his attention to Gray.

“How does not being able to think help me fly?” Gray repeated

“It’s not about not thinking, it’s about the clear mind. This was only the first step. Now, here’s what you do... Wait, what do you do.... Huh, I only know how to make this work for magic. I dunno, maybe if you try the opposite of what I do. Use all that focus in that unicorn brain of yours and focus it into physical power.”

“Okay then, I hope you’re right about this.” Gray said as he began concentrating.

To begin with, Gray focused on the gathering point of all his magic, which could be found near the base of his horn. Then, once Gray had control over this magic he tried directing the magic towards the points where the bases of a pegasus’ wings would be. From that point Gray tried to form the magic into a physical pair of wings, thus allowing him to fly. In theory this sounded flawless to Gray, but in practice, a pair of wings were much harder to make, due to the complexity of their structure.

“Dude, you look constipated. What’re you doing?”

“I was trying to make my magic take a physical form, and create a pair of wings for myself.” Gray said in between his gasps and heavy breathing.

“Well that’s stupid. I said go for power, not try to create wings! Do I grow a horn when I use magic? No. Just focus on flying!”

Once again, Gray started concentrating on his magic. This time, instead of directing it to his back to make some wings, he instead sent it to his hooves, using his magic to manipulate air, and propel himself into the air. The only problem with this was how unstable directing air flows through 4 separate body parts was. Gray countered this unbalance by creating buffer zones either side of him to direct where he went.

Slowly but surely, Gray began to float into the air.

“Holy crap this actually worked!” Gray exclaimed whilst looking down, almost losing his concentration in doing so.

“Whoooo! Good job! Now I can get my ass down to the Gryffin Empire!” Silver cheered as he started doing a victory dance.

“I guess I should thank you, even though you had your own reasons for doing this.” Gray said as he lowered himself down to the floor.

“So, when should we leave?” Gray asked Silver, who was still doing his victory dance.

“Now, if I have anything to say about it! Wait, we?”

“Yes, we. Both of us need to arrive so it’s only logical we travel together, I’m sure that’s the reason why Celestia set that rule.” Gray said.

“Travelling together will ensure that both of us get there safely, and on time. So how about it? If you really don’t like it that much then we only have to get there so once we’re there we can split up. And besides, this agreement only lasts until the tournament, we won’t have to spend anymore time together after that.”

Silver seemed to think about it for a long time. “Seems legit. Just don’t slow me down.”

“Haven’t we already been through this before?”

“Yeah, maybe. Let’s go already!” Silver started off towards the exit of the building.

Gray followed Silver out of the building, off towards the Griffin Kingdom for the tournament. As they exited the building Gray spoke up.

“Hey, since you trained me in how to fly, don’t you think it’d only be fair if I trained you in something?”

“What in the name of Celestia’s pink pants do you think you could teach me?” Silver scoffed arrogantly.

“Do you know elemental magic?” Gray questioned.

“No, why?”

“There’s your answer. I can teach you how to manipulate the elements and use it in fights. I’m pretty sure even you can’t deny the awesomeness of two flaming swords. So, how about it?”

“Flaming swooooooooords....” Silver started drooling a little bit.

“Well then, it’s settled, we get food, then head to the Griffin Kingdom. I’ll teach you elemental magic on the way there.” Gray stated as they set off on their journey for food, and for the tournament.