Chapter 3: So little time.

The school days passed quicker after Heart's Vision became a crusader. Before he knew it Saturday had come. He knocked on the library door. The door opened but Twilight was not the one who opened it. Heart was eye to eye with a purple baby dragon. He was not shocked. "Who are you?"

"I am Spike. The better question is who are you?"

"I am Heart's vision. Is Twilight here?"

"Why do you…"

Twilight came up behind Spike and cut him off. "This is my student Spike. While you were away I met this nice mare who was interested in finding a magic teacher for her son. This is that mare's son."

Spike looked at Twilight. "Thanks for keeping me in the loop." Spike walked away from the conversation.

Twilight changed her focus back to Heart. "Sorry for him. He is usually so polite."

"It's fine. Can we begin?"

"Sure. Come inside and we can get started." Twilight moved from the doorway.

Heart followed her inside. "I have been practicing what you taught me. I think I am ready to learn something new."

"Slow down my little pony. Learning magic takes time. Don't rush it."

"But I am ready for the next lesson."

"I will be the judge of that. Levitate one of the books from the top shelf."

Heart wanted to get this over as quickly as possible. 'I'll do you one better.' He closed his eyes and focused on his core. Instead of levitating one book from the shelf he took every book off every shelf. He moved each book around in different directions and at different speeds. Showing his skill with the spell. "I am ready for something new."

Twilight wasn't sure if to be impressed or aggravated at her student's arrogance. "Put them all back."

Heart did as she told. "So will we move on now?"

"I see no reason why not. We will learn a luminescent spell. It is a useful spell to have. I want you to imagine your core again but instead of focusing it on an object I want you to let it emit from you."

Heart did as he was told. He wasn't sure how much force to give his magic and ended up releasing a shock wave. All the papers flew away from him. Books flew off shelves and Twilight was knocked back a few feet.

"What was that? I wanted you to create a light not a bomb!"

"I am sorry Twilight. I wasn't sure how much force to put into it. Don't be mad."

Twilight used her magic to gather the papers and books. "I am not mad. I am more surprised than anything. That takes a lot of power to perform. How about you tone it down. Be careful when trying new spells. Try to guess how much energy it take to perform it and limit yourself. Try again."

"Ok." Heart tried again but used very little energy. His horn glowed. If it wasn't for it being day it probably would have lit up the room. "Yes. What is next?"

"Slow down. You haven't even tried this spell out enough. These things take time."

"I can perform this spell why not learn a new one? If you have learned something then one needs to move on and learn something new. It isn't productive to stop."

"You are not stopping. You are honing you skill with that particular spell."

"I can hone my skill when you aren't around. We only have so long together."

Twilight saw his logic. 'Maybe I can get a more difficult spell and it will show him that it doesn't always have to be fast.' She floated a book from the middle shelf. "Fine. I want you to perform this spell." Twilight floated the book in front of him.

Heart read. "A bubble shield spell?"

"Yes. It is a higher level spell. As the book states it has to have certain properties to be effective."

Heart studied the spell for a minute. He looked at Twilight. "I think I can perform this."

"Then show me"

The colt closed his eyes and focused. He gathered the energy and imagined a bubble around himself. Making sure that it wasn't to thin in any places. Keeping his concentration on the entirety of the bubble at the same. Heart opened his eyes. A dark bubble surrounded him. It was small and nearly touched him at certain points. "Ha I did it! See, I told you I was ready."

"The test is not over. This is suppose to be a shield. I will send a pulse of energy at you. Even if it breaks your shield it won't hurt you. Are you ready?"

Heart smiled. "When you are."

Twilight wasn't sure how to take his smile. She changed to a fighting stance. She lobbed a ball of magic at the small shield. The ball made contact with the top of the sphere. It shimmered as it made contact but held the invading force at bay. "What! You actually withstood it? I haven't taught you anything about projectile magic. How did you do it?"

The young unicorn felt proud of himself. "I have always liked to learn. The best way to learn is by reading. Before I moved to Pony Ville I read all sorts of books. I read some physics books. You said that you were going to send a pulse of energy so I predicted where it would land on my shield and gave it extra strength."

"That is not the point of a bubble shield. It is to surround yourself so that if something comes from any direction it will be stopped."

"But as the book says it soaks up your power at an alarming rate. I had no hope to defend against you attack if I distributed my power equally throughout my shield. You are stronger than me. My only hope was to focus my power to counter a small portion of yours."

Twilight was amazed by the speed he could learn. "I am glad you performed the spell but you have to pace yourself. Magic takes patience. If you rush it you could hurt yourself or some pony around you. Do you want to hurt an innocent pony?"

Heart stopped and thought, 'She is right, I don't want to hurt any pony.' He dropped his barrier. "I don't want to hurt any pony but I want to learn as much as I can."

"I will teach you as much as I know but it will take time."

"Ok I will slow down." Heart had something to ask and he figured this was a good of a time as any. "I want to know something else. It is magic related so it kind of fits into your teaching area."

"What do you want to know?"

"I wanted to know about the elements of harmony. Sweetie Belle said her sister had one but Sweetie didn't know much about them. She told me to ask you about them."

Twilight loved sharing her knowledge but wasn't sure about this subject. "I don't know everything myself. There is six elements. Honesty, loyalty, laughter, generosity, kindness, and magic. My friends can bare the element they represent. Only if we are in harmony can we use the elements. They provide great power and we have used them to save Equestria on several occasions."

"Where are they now?"

"We had to give them up to restore the tree of harmony."

"What happens if you need them again?"

"That is the problem. We will have to face what ever threat that falls on Equestria without them."

"What if the threat is too strong?"

"I don't know. I am sure princesses Celestia will come up with something. Let us get off this subject. I want to teach you one more spell before you leave. It will be getting cold soon and this spell will be very useful."

"What is the spell?"

"It is a heat spell. It by itself is useful but if you practice it can be used for many things. There is two main general ways to use it. To slightly warm a large area or give a single point extreme amounts of heat…"

Heart learned the new spell and left for home. 'I wish I could spend more time with her. I should ask momma if I can come here more often or at least stay here longer on Saturdays.' Heart walked into his home.

Rose Spade sat on the couch listing from left to right.

"Momma I learned three new spells today. Isn't that great."

Rose looked at him confused. "Who are you?" Her words were slurred.

Heart quickly realized the problem. 'She took her medicine already. She needs to go lay down.' He walked up next to the couch. "Come on. You need to go lay down."

"But if I go lay down now I will miss my date."

"Go to bed. You don't have a date."

"Yeah I do. I'm not some loser. He will be here any minute."

'This is useless. I guess I will try a different route.' "You look so tired though. Why don't you go lay down and I will wake you when he gets here?"

"I am pretty tired. That is a great idea. Make sure to wake me up though. I don't want to miss him."

"I will make sure. Now let me help you." Heart helped Rose stand up and led her to her room. She used him as a crutch since she couldn't stand on her own. He helped her lay down and used his magic to cover her with the sheets. "Goodnight Momma." He went to the living room and sat on the couch. 'I wonder if bubba is home.'

As if on queue the front door opened. Fire Flash walked in with a saddle pack.

Heart instantly grew happy. "Hey bubba. Where have you been?'

Flash rolled his eyes. "I have been at work. Where do you think I have been?"

Heart shrugged. "I didn't know. What do you even do at work?"

Flash was going to yell but needed to know something first. "Where is mom?"

"She is in bed."

"Did she take her medicine?"

"Yeah. I had to help her in bed."

"I don't what you did. I am going to the room. Do not go in there."

"What about when I get tired?"

Fire Flash raised his voice. "You can go in there at bed time! Just don't go in there for like thirty minutes."

"Ok."

Fire Flash walked to the room with his saddle pack.

It was seconds after the room door closed that Heart realized he had nothing to do. He went to the room and opened the door. "I have nothing to do. I need my ball."

Fire Flash was sitting on the floor with the pack open in front of him. His left fore hoof had a plastic bag with some white substance in it. His voice boomed in Heart's ears. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING! I told you to NOT come in here!"

Heart cowered in the doorway. "I just wanted my ball."

Flash looked at his brothers bed. The ball sat in the center. Flash stood up and grabbed it in his hooves. "You want you ball? Here you go." Flashed threw the ball at his brothers face with at much force as he could muster. The ball made contacted with Heart's left cheek. It bounced off his face and back into the room. Heart ran out of the room, jumped on the couch and held his face. The black Pegasus shook his head. "Dumb brat."

After twenty minutes Fire Flash came into the living room with the now empty saddle pack. Heart sat on the couch with a saddened expression. "What was in that pack?"

Flash felt no sympathy for the unicorn. "Some stuff for work."

"For work? That bag had some white stuff in it. What was it?"

Flash didn't know heart saw the bag. "It was…flour. Yeah flour."

"Why do you need flour at work? Do you make cakes?"

"I don't bake cakes. What kind of job is that?"

"Then why do you have flour?"

"Because…I am a transport…things."

"Like flour?"

"Exactly! I transport things like flour."

"Ok. Can I go and get my ball now?"

"Sure."

Heart jumped off the couch and ran to the room to get his ball.

Fire Flash walked out the front door. "Why do I have to deal with that worthless shit?"

A/N: Look at that. Twilight be name dropping like that. For those who don't get the "Flour" it is coke. Wanted to point that out for any who didn't get it. I hope every one has a wonderful day/night and don't forget to review J