Hey, everyone! Sorry again about the long waits; I've been busy as all hell with the same grind as always with work and school. But I will never let you down! So, here's a chapter that should start to add more substance to the story! Hope you like it!

Whenever Lyra was helping Kyle to clean up the house whenever Ed and Danny were gone, she had a habit of using her magic to move things around. Sometimes, it was several things at once, which ran the risk of damaging surrounding objects, since she did not pay close attention to what she was doing all the time.

"Careful, Lyra..." Kyle said as she levitated some dishes around a lamp, which risked knocking it over.

"I'm watching! Don't worry!" Lyra said.

But Kyle stepped in and grabbed her horn, which disrupted the flow of magic. The dishes slowly set onto the floor.

"It's just a bit too risky, with all the furniture that could be knocked over..." Kyle said, looking back over to the dishes. "...besides, it would help if you would just do them one at a time."

"But that takes longer!" Lyra said.

"I know, but if you would stack the plates, and carry them like that..." Kyle trailed off, because he noticed that something had happened.

He had been looking over at one of the plates on the floors as he was mentioning them, and one of them lit up with a green aura as it levitated for a moment, before falling back to the carpet. He also happened to notice the green glow on Lyra's horn, too, and he was still holding it.

Lyra looked quite shocked. "Whoa... what was that!?" she asked.

"Hm..." Kyle hummed. "...let's see if that works again."

Again, Kyle focused on the plate, as if he wanted to lift it. A moment later, Lyra's horn glowed the same green color as his eyes, as did the plate as it levitated and slowly set into place on top of another plate. Both the human and Unicorn were in immense surprise at what had just unfolded right in front of them.

Kyle took his hand of Lyra's horn, and looked at his open palm.

"That was me..." he uttered. "...I did that!"

"Wow!" Lyra said. "I never thought humans could channel Unicorn magic!"

Kyle assumed that it was the horn itself that contained the magic, and that any living thing that touches it can use its energy.

"That's interesting..." Kyle said. "...I didn't think it was possible to do that!"

"Kyle... are we..." Lyra said. "...gonna keep cleaning the place up before those two lazy sacks come back?"

"Huh, what...? Oh! Y-yes, we should get it all done here quickly..." Kyle said.

With that being said, they both resumed their task of cleaning up the house, just so that Ed would not be up on Kyle's case by the time they arrived back. In a short while, however, everything was neat and squared away.

"Well, we're done." Kyle said. "Want a soda?"

Lyra nodded. "Sure!" she said.

As they both sat at the table with their drinks, Kyle could not help but think about how he was capable of utilizing magic. Such a force did not exist in this universe, and yet it felt... natural to him. If magic does not exist... why would he be capable of using it? He was not a Unicorn, but just touching the horn seemed to make it work for some reason.

Kyle suddenly came back to reality as he let out a fairly large burp. He did not feel it coming. He put a hand to his mouth as he gained a surprised look. Lyra gave him a puzzled look.

"Are you serious?" the mare asked him.

Oh, shit... Kyle thought. ...I can't be doing that in front of women... or mares.

"If you're gonna do it, do it right! Like this!" Lyra said, just before she let out a fairly loud belch herself.

Both of them laughed for a while. They could not stop.

In any case, it got later into the evening, and the human and his pony went back into their sanctuary in the basement. They were more or less just browsing around the internet on their laptops. They continued until well past midnight... and that's when Kyle got an idea for something that she did to him a little over a month ago.

Kyle smirked, and leaned over to grab Lyra's horn. She was caught off guard by this.

"Hey, Kyle!" Lyra said, just as her horn began to glow Kyle's green color. "What are... you... do... ing..."

The mare slowed her speech as her eyes began to glow a green color. Kyle had successfully hypnotized her.

"Payback." Kyle said, smugly. "Now Lyra... just listen to my words... and... SLEEP."

He lightly jabbed his index finger at the middle of her forehead, and immediately, she closed her eyes and slumped over. He closed her laptop (well, his old laptop), and put it away. Then, he tucked the mare, who was already in a deep sleep, under the covers, and climbed into them himself. Within half of an hour after turning the lights out, Kyle was soon sound asleep. A some point in the night, a faint yellow light appeared at the very tip of Lyra's horn while she was still sleeping.

Lyra's magic began to react in a bizarre way that merged their consciousness states together while they slept...

(XXXX)

Kyle opened his eyes to find that it was morning. Slowly, he stood from his bed, being careful not to awaken Lyra, who was still asleep, and he left the room to get something to eat.

"Huh... out of sausage again. Really, Danny?" Kyle called out.

He expected to hear Danny's annoyed footsteps coming down the stairs... but they never came.

"Hm... 'bout time he gained some self-restraint... or he has his headphones on." Kyle said.

He settled for some stale cereal and a banana. After finishing, he decided to go and peek on Danny to see what he had been up to. He had been immersing himself in nothing but video games for quite a long time now; Gretchen had stopped seeing him after two weeks, because it apparently wasn't working out so well between them. The only way he could drown his grief was through some well-placed headshots on some overrated first-person shooter titles.

"And behind door number one..." Kyle said as he swung open the door.

But Danny was nowhere to be found.

"...nobody." Kyle finished. "Probably talkin' to his dad about something?"

He checked Ed's room... but it was empty, too.

"I guess they're at work and school." Kyle said.

He went to check the garage, but both of their cars were still there.

"Their cars are still here... they couldn't have gone anywhere." Kyle said to himself.

He continued searching the house.

"Hello?" Kyle called out. "Danny? Dad? Is this some weird kind of joke? 'Cause it's not funny!"

Lyra had come up the stairs, Kyle noticed.

"Hey, Lyra." Kyle said.

"Morning, Kyle." Lyra responded.

"You haven't heard Ed or Danny, have you?" Kyle asked.

The Unicorn shook her head. "Nope, why?"

"Well... it seems like they're not here." Kyle said.

"Why would that be weird? Maybe Ed went to work and Danny went to school?" Lyra asked.

"That's what I thought at first." Kyle said. "But their cars are still here. Plus, I know that they hate going for any walks."

"So, where could they be?" Lyra asked.

Kyle decided he would look around outside. Initially, when he got outside, his first glance was at the main road that could be seen from the vantage point that the house was at. It was literally ALWAYS busy with cars... but today, no cars were on it. Not one.

"Weird..." Kyle said to himself just before resuming his search.

He walked up and down the street... and saw no sign of any human activity. There were always some sounds near and far away... but today, everything was quiet. Too quiet. Even the air was unnaturally still. The usual sound of birds chirping was absent as well. Kyle's own footsteps were literally the only sound he could hear.

"Hm..." Kyle said, examining the surrounding area. "...there's something really weird going on here. Not one living thing on the entire block."

Kyle got back to the house, and explain to Lyra that the entire area appeared to be devoid of human life... and any life for that matter.

"What could be going on?" Lyra asked.

"Well, either everyone's on a vacation I didn't know about... there's a BIG glitch in the Matrix... or..." Kyle trailed off.

Lyra got to thinking herself.

"Do you think..." she began.

"...Yeah." Kyle said. "We made everyone disappear!"

He was surprised for a moment, but was quickly overcome with pleasure at the thought of everyone who ever gave him a hard time being gone from the world. A smile spread over his face as he had flashbacks of the bad times that would never repeat...

(Flashback)

"You are such a waste of life in this world, Schaeffer!" a bully said in elementary school.

(XXXX)

"You don't apply yourself, and I cannot tolerate your constant tuning out! I'm gonna have to send you to the principal's office again!" his fourth-grade teacher scolded.

(XXXX)

"Schaeffer, you are such a DISEASE!"

(XXXX)

"You're such a helpless weirdo... I wouldn't wanna date you, ever!"

(XXXX)

"Hello, everyone! My name is Cassandra, and today I'm gonna talk to you about green energy!"

(XXXX)

"I'm gonna feed you to my dog, Schaeffer!"

(XXXX)

"Kyle, I am Mira, the guardian of your psyche. You are not well. Something has gone terribly wrong; the trauma of your abusive lifestyle has . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . in terms of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . irreversible if left unchecked . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . you do understand, do you not?"

(XXXX)

"You can't ever stand up for yourself! I'll kick your ass to China and back!"

(XXXX)

"Look what you did, you shithead!"

(XXXX)

"...zzzzzzz... zzzzzzz... gah! Wha...?"

(End Flashback)

Kyle smiled at Lyra.

"We made everyone disappear!" he said. "Now we can do anything we want, and nobody can stop us!"

Lyra smirked. "So... where should we start?"

"Hmm..." Kyle pondered.

(XXXX)

Kyle had unplugged Danny's XBOX One and LCD TV, set them in the front yard, and took his air rifle. He then loaded the rifle, and started getting in a bit of target practice.

"Put your diodes where I can see 'em!" he shouted at the TV, just before firing.

He put several holes in the LCD screen, and dented the surface of the XBOX, but it did not achieve the desired effect that he wanted. So, he went to Ed's garage, grabbed two sledgehammers, and gave one to Lyra.

"Let's take turns!" Kyle said. "Mares first..."

"With pleasure!" Lyra said.

With that, she brought the hammer straight down one the XBOX, which was standing vertical, squashing its structure.

"Ha ha ha!" Kyle laughed. "Nice one!"

With that, Kyle stepped up... or stepped back, rather.

"Fore!" he shouted, just before he ran up, and swung the sledgehammer like a golf club, striking the console Happy Gilmore-style.

Pieces flew out, including the motherboard as the casing broke open.

"Well, you know what everyone says about all those violent video games..." Kyle said.

(XXXX)

The two went on a rampage through Ed's bedroom, knocking over everything, and up-ending anything already on the floor.

"No more watching your sports channels!" Kyle said, hurling a lamp at the television, breaking it.

"And no more comfortable nights rests!" Lyra said, using her magic to bend and break one of the legs of the bed, making it sit fairly lopsided.

"Wish I could just let it slide..." Kyle said, just before smashing Ed's softball trophies on the floor. "...but rules are rules. You strike me, I strike back!"

(XXXX)

The two decided that they had their fun, destroying everything that belong to the two lazy bastards, and just decided to have some down time. They decided to head off to the open space in the woods, just to get away from the disaster they had created.

They were laying on the grass, looking up at the sky and clouds. While they were laying, Kyle could not push the thought out of his mind that his friendship with Lyra was evolving into something even bigger than he could have ever imagined. He felt like he was becoming more and more attached to her. He started to think that he loved her. Maybe he did... but maybe he was going crazy. Either way, he decided that it was probably best for him to get this off of his chest as soon as possible. He could not cope with concealing his feelings forever.

Just before Kyle prepared himself to sit up, Lyra had done so first. She turned to face him.

"Kyle... listen..." Lyra began, hesitantly. "...I've got something to... um... to tell you..."

"Oh yeah?" Kyle said. " 'Cause... well... I've wanted to tell you something... for... a while now, too..."

"I'll let you go first." Lyra said.

Not wanting to be pushy for Lyra to go first, Kyle cleared his throat and readied himself for what he was about to say.

"Lyra..." he began. "...ever since the first day that we met, and after all the fun times we've had together... I feel like... like we can take our whole relationship... even further..."

Lyra was looking somewhat surprised, but not in a bad way.

"I can't help but feel like... like I'm just becoming attached to you more and more with each day that goes by. What I'm trying to say here... i-is that I feel l-like I... lo... l-lo..."

No matter how hard he tried, he could not get the words to come out of his mouth. But, it seemed like Lyra had gotten the message; she put a hoof over his mouth. She smiled and blushed, just before she pulled him into a deep hug. Kyle himself was now quite surprised, but he managed to lift him arms to return the hug.

"Kyle..." Lyra said. "...thank you for telling me how you feel. And, as a matter of fact..." she looked up at him. "...that's how I feel about you, too."

Though the two were oblivious to it, the landscape around them was becoming brightly-lit with gold light, looking almost Heavenlike. They both closed their eyes and began to lean in towards each other.

"Lyra..."

"Kyle..."

They were about to touch their lips together... about to have their first kiss...

(XXXX)

Slowly, Kyle woke up. He saw light streaming from in-between the blackout curtains. At the exact same time, Lyra awoke. It was not a drastic awakening, like they both often experience after a dream; this time, it was very peaceful.

Lyra had a look of deep bliss on her face.

"Ah... I had a wonderful dream..." Lyra said.

"Yeah, me too..." Kyle acknowledged.

"Yeah... you and I were the only ones there... everyone was gone... we destroyed those two lazy bastards' stuff..." Lyra trailed off.

"Wait..." Kyle said. "...you had that dream, too?"

Lyra raised a brow. "What do you mean, 'too'? You're saying you had that dream...?"

Kyle nodded. "Yeah... and, near the end... you told me... that you..." he trailed off.

"And... you told me..." Lyra said, trailing off herself.

Both of their eyes widened. They did indeed have a shared dream... and they did INDEED confess their feelings to each other in an astral state.

Both of them looked quite flustered for a moment... and then they smiled at each other, and hugged. They held on to one another for a long time, not wanting to ever let go...

Well, things are picking up quite fast, aren't they? Well, slow, I would say, since I haven't had a lot of time to upload these chapters. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this chapter! I got more coming for you in the future! So, for now, I'll see you later! Keep holding on...