A/N: ok I am sorry that I did not upload this chapter yesterday as I should have. I was busy helping family. I wrote around 85% of this chapter on Christmas eve but failed to complete it and upload. I was so tired that I fell asleep on my living room floor, sorry. I am sorry if it is lower quality or quantity. As always please review.

Chapter 7: Jump at the chance.

Heart left ms Cheerilee's class room after her Thursday lesson was complete. The sun was shining but was dimmed by the clouds overhead. It wasn't going to rain for a few days. The air was cool. Not quite cold enough for any clothes but enough for ponies to know that they would need them soon enough. Heart debated what to do in his mind. 'I could go home but momma doesn't know about what happened with Twilight. If I go home she will question me and I will have to tell her.'

Heart was too caught up in his own mind to notice his fellow Cutie Mark Crusaders walk up to him. Scootaloo broke him from his trance. "HEY!"

Heart shook his head in confusion. "Huh?" He noticed the CMC. "Hey guys. What you up to?"

Sweetie Belle answered. "We wanted to know if you want to hang out. We have something planned to get our cutie marks."

Heart didn't take long to decide that he had nothing better to do. "Sure. What do you have planned?"

Scootaloo walked and talked. "It would be easier for us to show you."

Heart followed his friend. Scootaloo led the group to a bridge just outside of Ponyville. It was a long walk by comparison to any location in Ponyville. The bridge was very large. It had enough room for two carriages to pass by each other. A stream had created a canyon below the bridge. Steep slopes lined the walls. It was over a two hundred foot drop to the stream from the bridge. Heart looked over the edge. "Holy crap that is a long drop!"

Scootaloo pulled a wagon full of gear from behind a bush near the edge of the bridge. "It has to be for what we are going to do."

Heart was scared now "What are we doing that requires this?"

Scootaloo held a rope in her mouth. "Bungee jumping!"

"WHAT!" Heart was freaking out. 'This is insane. I am not jumping off a bridge on purpose. I hate heights.'

Scootaloo hadn't noticed Heart's reaction. "We are going to tie this rope to our us and jump off the bridge. Nothing bad will happen." The other fillies agreed with Scootaloo.

Heart's mind went racing with what could happen.

Scootaloo tied the rope around her barrel. "This is going to be so cool." She turned to Heart. "Are you sure you don't want to try?"

Heart looked at the filly as if she was crazy. "Hell no!"

Scootaloo shrugged her shoulders. "Suit yourself." She jumped off. Spreading her legs as if she was flying. The others watched from the bridge. All was fine until the length of the rope went taunt. She bounced back up as intended but as she went back down the rope circled around her neck. The rope tightened as she went down. She did a small bounce before the rope tied her in a position she could not move. She hung like a piece of dead meat. She was forced to look up as her friends watched her choke. It became harder and harder to breath. She couldn't get any air into her lungs. The more she struggled the tighter the rope became. Heart was too in shock to do anything. Heart watched as his closest friend's life vanished before his eyes. Tears fell from his face onto Scootaloo's corpse.

Heart sat in his vision. His vision felt real to him. A tear rolled down his cheek. He left his horrible dream world when he heard Apple Bloom shout. "Is it ready?"

Sweetie Belle finished securing the rope to the bridge's guard rail. "Ready!"

Apple Bloom looked down at the water below. "Let's do this."

Heart realized what was happening. "NO!" All three of the fillies looked at the colt. "Let me go first. I don't want any of you getting hurt. If something goes wrong I can use my magic to make sure I don't get hurt."

Apple Bloom started untying the rope from around her barrel. "Seems reasonable to me."

Heart sighed in relief. 'No pony will get hurt on my watch.' After a minute of tying the rope around Heart and getting in position to jump, he was ready.

Scootaloo was on the other side of the railing with the other CMC. "Everything is ready. Jump when you are."

Heart nodded. He looked down into the river below. 'I wish I hadn't read those physics books. If I hadn't I wouldn't know that at this height that water is like hitting solid stone. Shit! Here goes nothing.'

Heart jumped. He spread his legs. The ground was disoriented and approaching fast. He fell for maybe six seconds but felt like an eternity to him. He did not scream on the outside but inside he was begging to not die. He felt so weird falling. It horrified him. The rope went taunt and bounced him back up. He was so happy it worked. The rope didn't curl around him. He even smiled from realizing he wasn't going to die. 'Wow that was actually…' His thought was cut off as the world went black.

Heart heard voices. He couldn't make out what they were saying. It was gibberish to him. He opened his eyes everything blurred. He could tell he wasn't outside but other than that he was clueless. A few seconds passed and his vision came into focus. He recognized were he was. He was laying on the floor staring at the ceiling of the CMC headquarters. "What is going on?" Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom moved to stand above him. Apple Bloom said something but he couldn't make it out. "What did you say?" He paid close attention to the fillies lips. It helped him understand what she was saying.

"How do you feel?"

"Like crap. Everything is fuzzy. What happened?"

"You hit your head."

"I hit my head? How did I hit my head? I was in the middle of the air?"

"You came back up and hit it on the bridge."

Heart thought about it. "Yeah I guess that makes sense."

"Do you want anything?"

"I could use some headache meds and water."

Apple Bloom left his sight. He heard the door thud. It was muffled but he knew it couldn't be anything else. Scootaloo picked up where Apple Bloom left off. "I am sorry. I didn't think we could get hurt. I am so sorry HV."

Heart waved it off. "It is ok. I am fine. You guys are fine. Everything is fine."

"No it isn't. You could have been seriously hurt."

Heart wasn't fully there and started to say things he normally wouldn't. "I know I could have been hurt. That is why I tested it first. I freaked out right before Apple Bloom jumped because I imagined you jumping and getting hurt. I couldn't let you get hurt when I could stop it. I would rather be hurt than you."

Scootaloo was surprised by what the clot she had known for such a small time would do for her. She was about to say something but Apple Bloom entered the door with a tray in her mouth. It had a fairly large pill and a cup of water. She set it down next to his head. "Hear you go."

Heart sat up and levitated the cup and pill to his mouth. It took a great amount of effort to left the small objects. He swallowed the pill. "That tasted horrible."

The CMC sat in their club house waiting for Heart to tell them he was alright. It took thirty minutes before he regained the majority of his senses. He had not noticed that it was cold. "Is it cold in here?"

The rest of the group nodded. Apple Bloom enlightened Heart. "When it starts getting cold Applejack brings a makeshift fireplace in here but she hasn't brought it yet. We don't have anything to heat it up tell then."

Scootaloo bumped Apple Bloom. "Tell her to bring it out here. I am tired of sitting in the cold."

"She won't bring it out here just because I tell her to. She has more important things to worry about."

Heart stopped the bickering before it escalated. "I can heat it up in here."

All of them looked at him funny. "How?"

"I know a spell."

Apple Bloom was not knowledgeable of unicorn magic. "There is a heating spell?"

"Yep. Let me show you." Heart started to emit heat from his horn. He put a small barrier around the base to keep the heat from damaging his skin. This took much more effort than usual. It took a toll on him.

But Scootaloo was happy. "It feels good. I love being warm. What other cool tricks can you do HV?"

"I know a few more but you will have to wait to see them. I am having trouble performing this one."

The fillies and colt spent the rest of the day mostly talking since Heart wasn't up for any games. Scootaloo explained how they got him to the club house after he was knocked out. They pulled him up with the rope, used the wagon and scooter to bring him to Sweet Apple Acres. He wasn't unconscious for long after setting him in the floor. The day was coming to an end and Scootaloo let Sweetie Belle and Heart's Vision ride in the wagon attached to the back of the scooter. Sweetie Belle's was pretty far from Scootaloo's or Heart's house. Leaving Scootaloo and Heart a moderate ride together.

Scootaloo slowed the scooter down. "I have some questions for you HV.

Heart wasn't back to one hundred percent after wasting so much energy on performing that heating spell for so long. "What do you want to ask?"

Scootaloo seemed nervous. "Well back at the HQ you said that you imagine us jumping and getting hurt."

"Yeah, what about it?"

"What did you see exactly?"

"Are you sure you want to know?"

"I am sure."

Heart let out a sigh. "If you say so." Heart took it from the top and described every last detail to Scootaloo. From her jumping to his tears. After he finished he waited for Scootaloo's response.

Scootaloo wasn't sure how to react to this information. She watched the ground pass beneath her. "How often do you see things like this?"

"Maybe once a month I get these horrid visions. I don't know why they come, they just do. I try to keep my mind off things like that but. But they take over me. I zone out when they come. I lose track of what is happening around me."

Scootaloo remembered how Heart had zoned out when they were figuring out how to paint the roof. "Did you have one of your visions when we tried to get our cutie marks In roof painting?"

Heart nodded his head. "Yes, I imagined the three of you being mad at me for knowing magic."

"We wouldn't be mad at you for that."

"I know that NOW, but I had doubts at first."

There was a few second of silence before Scootaloo responded. "You don't have to worry about it anymore. As long as you are around me, I will make sure you don't have your visions."

Heart didn't know how to stop them. He wondered how a filly that has never experienced them could. "How do you plan on doing that?"

Scootaloo looked a little smug. "Simple, when you start having one I will get your attention."

"How will you get my attention? I told you that I zone out."

"If I have to I will give you a good knock on your noggin. That tends to get any ponies attention."

"I guess that will work. A would rather get hit than have that nightmare come to life."

"I am glad we came to an agreement, because we got to split."

"What?" Heart hadn't been paying attention. While he was thinking about if it was good idea, they made it to Scootaloo's house. "Oh, I see. See you tomorrow then." Heart hopped out of the wagon.

"See you then." Scootaloo went to park her scooter before going inside.

Heart began the short walk to his home. 'I can't go to Twilight's lessons, but I can still study on my own. She never asked how I knew to perform that healing spell so I didn't have to tell her about my book stash. I wonder why she didn't. Maybe she was in shock or something.'

Heart spent his week without Twilight's studies hanging out with the CMC and studying solo. He showed the CMC some of the spells Twilight taught him. In his solo studies he managed to learn three new spells. A cooling spell, a powering spell, and a display spell. All three were easy to learn but the display spell took practice. It could display an image from the mind like a memory but it took time to figure out how to make them image look better. It was one thing to see something in his head, but was different to make it appear and look the same to another pony. The fortunate thing was that the more vivid the memory the easier it was to display.

The week was up and Heart was nervous to go to library. He had grown accustom to not knocking on arrival, but it felt different this time. He placed three quiet knocks on the wooden door. Twilight opened the door shortly after. She held a neutral tone. "I see you made it. I was not sure that you would show up."

Heart did not hold his usual happy attitude when coming to learn. He slumped his shoulders and had a general image of cowardice. He was not ashamed of what he did but fearful of Twilight. "I wasn't sure about coming myself, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to learn more about magic."

Twilight led the colt inside. "I can see your drive to learn. That is the main reason I will still teach you. You remind me of myself at your age. I know how it feels to want something so bad, willing to do anything to prove yourself and earn it. The second reason is that I can see that you are gifted. I know that if I denied you our studies that you would try to learn on your own. That is too dangerous for me to let you do. I have come to a decision. I will continue to teach you as long as you listen to me from now on. If I find out that you don't I will no longer teach you. I will also not let you take any books about magic, as well as telling every unicorn in town capable of teaching you to not. You would not be able to learn magic as long as you live in Ponyville. Now that you know what is at stake, do you promise to do as I say?"

Heart was horrified at the thought of not being able to advance his knowledge of magic. "YES! I promise to do as you direct. Please let me continue my studies."

Twilight was happy to see her student so willing. She could not show it yet though. There was still one more issue to discuss. "I need to know one more thing before I teach you. How did you know how to perform that healing spell?"

Heart feared that she would ask this but knew he was on thin ice as it is so did not lie to his teacher. "I took some books from the library when you were not looking. One including a healing spell book. I promise I was going to give them back. I just wanted to learn from them."

Twilight wasn't angered as much as disappointed in her student, but at the same time she admired his will to learn. "I do not like that you STOLE from the library, but I will let you keep them until you are done with them on one condition. You must NEVER do something that dangerous again."

Heart was happy that Twilight was letting him keep the books. "I promise. I will never do anything like it again."

"Ok. I will continue to teach you. We still have some time to learn today so let's hop to it."

Heart was so happy to keep Twilight as a teacher. He didn't think he could find a better pony that would be willing to teach him.

A/N: Ok, I love giving yall a story but I will be taking a break. As of December 25th I will not be having daily updates. I will be gone a max of a week. Most likely I will only be gone about three days. I have gotten a video game that I have wanted for a long time and I am taking some time to recharge my mental batteries. I am stopping on this chapter because it has no cliffhanging properties. I would not want to be cruel to you guys and gals. Well until next time have a good day/night.