Mysterious Alicorn

Chapter 11

By Aponymous

The next morning came slowly, the sun feeling almost hesitant to rise. Not that I wanted day to come, Under my covers felt safe, away from my magic, away from strange unicorns, away from ponies being afraid of me.

As I was lying there underneath the blankets I heard a knock on the door and did my best to ignore it. Gradually the knocking grew more insistent and I got up and opened the door only to see Twilight Sparkle standing there.

"Hey there, are you doing anything today?"

I shake my head no.

"Excellent! Follow me, I have something to show you"

I sigh and decide I should at least try to act normally. We leave a note for Fluttershy and I follow her out of the cottage onto the road leading away from ponyville

We trot along awkwardly for a while, Twilight looking as though she was trying to find the right words. Every now and then she would start to say something but would trail off after a word or two and go back to thinking.

Eventually Twilight got around to saying whatever it is she wanted to say.

"You know, Fluttershy isn't really afraid of you, give her time and she will come around."

It took her that long to say that? I realized I should be touched but I couldn't get around how bad twilight was with words.

I started to laugh and Twilight had a moment of confusion before realizing and frowning

"Hey! I'm trying to comfort you"

I nod and stop laughing

"I suppose it worked..."

As we continue walking the positive emotion slowly starts to drip away again and Applejacks words start to weigh on my shoulders. Twilight frowns, seeing that my good mood was only temporary.

We walk in silence for most of the way there, with a few more attempts at merryment from Twilight.

Eventually we arrive and a large empty field, with quite a few target dummys and large boulders, the land looked scorched and charred and there where parts of dummys everywhere.

"This is where I go when I get frustrated. Sometimes it feels good to just unload your magic at something, I thought it might help you relieve some stress." She the procedded to turn away from me and face one of the dummys.

Twilight Sparkle's horn glew lightly with magic, the glow from her horn steadly increasing until it reached a point of blinding birghtness and she fired a dark purple bolt of energy at a nearby dummy, scorching it but not destroying it.

She smiled and gestured wordlessly for me to give it a try.

I gave her my best smile and walked up to next to her, focusing on the dummy she had hit.

I focused energy into my horn and felt my energy coalecing into one point, building up hotter and hotter until it burned, I felt my eyes watering and my vision blurred. I wasn't giving up that easy though, I channeled more energy into my horn until it reached a breaking point.

My forehead felt like a dam, holding back a lake of water, slowly reaching overflowing. I felt a crack run down this proverbial dam and felt a drop of the *water* flow out before hearing a scream. Startled I released the magic and opened my eyes.

The scene set before me was extreme to say the least. The dummy in front of me was gone, in fact, so were all the other ones. and the boulders. In fact, pretty much everything that wasn't the ground or alive was on the other side of the field or in a pile of ash scattered about the field, and the things that were alive didn't do so well either.

"Well... maybe less power next time" Twilight Sparkle chimed in, lowering the shield she had raised.

"Lucky I have quick reflexes."

Well... It had been a little over an hour since I woke up and I had already risked someponys life.

Today's going to be terrible.

I quite enjoyed that one... Short chapter though...