Chapter 22: max's magic training

CANDERLOT CASTLE

princess celestia was busy in her room attending her royal duties as always. She was looking though her letters that she had received from twilight sparkle in the past few days.

Most of the letters contained progress of how the main eleven were doing, others were just letters for her and her sister Luna, she enjoyed reading the letters that she was receiving from her favorite star student.

As she was reading she then heard a knock at her door.

"come in".

As her door opened princess Luna came inside her room as she closed the door behind her, "forgive me for interrupting you sister" she said.

Princess celestia then puts down a letter that she was about to open next to her side as she then turns to her sister " it's alright Luna. You were not interrupting me. I was just reading over a few letters is all from my star student is all", Luna smiled hearing her sister call twilight sparkle her star student.

Luna walked up to her sister and sat next to her.

"how is twilight sparkle?".

"she is well".

"that is wonderful to hear".

"yes it is...but I have been wondering about something".

Luna then looks at her "what do you mean?".

Celestia then looks at her, "tell me. How did it feel sister?".

Luna then looks at her counfused by her words. "I-I do not understand what you mean by that?".

Celestia then forms a smile across her face.

"I mean how did it feel to kiss Clayton that one night when he came home after he ran away?".

Hearing this made Luna blush crimson red as she turned her head.

"I-I don't k-know what you are talking about".

She still kept her smile "oh but I do hehe"

Luna just turned her head as she looked out the window and stared at the clouds as she kept hearing her sister playfully tease her constantly.

PONYVILLE- GOLDEN OAKS LIBRARY

max was reading the history of equestria downstairs as he was relaxing. His first day on the job working for vinyl was really short as she basically told him what stuff worked and such, he got paid one hundred bits on his first day which made him very happy.

As max was reading the book in peace he then heard twilight come downstairs as she yawned as spike was laying on her back still asleep. She turned to her right as she saw max reading, she rubs her eyes a bit.

"uhh. M-max?".

He stops reading as he puts the book back in it's slot.

"oh hey twilight. How are you?".

"I'm fine max. How are you?".

He grins at her "oh I'm fine. I'm just done reading all of your books and now I'm finishing up on the history of equestira", twilight's mouth dropped to the floor she knew that he loved books, but never in her whole life has she ever read ALL of her books in her collection.

"b-but...h-how...what..." was all she could only say as he then got up and walked over to her as he petted her head, "hehe yup. And to top it all off. I now know some magic spells as well" he said to her as he walked into the kitchen.

Hearing this made twilight gleam with joyful eyes as she ran into the kitchen making spike fall of her and on the floor. "ouch! Hey!" spike yelled as he got up and rubbed his head, she stopped and turned to him "oops. Sorry spike" she said with a sheepish smile as she then turned back to max.

Max looked at her with a small blush on his face as twilight then jumped at him and hugged him as they both fell to the floor, max looked into her eyes as she looked into his. He then leaned up to her face letting his lips brush onto hers, twilight blushed as he did this as she then brushed her lips down his neck as she then looked back into his eyes.

They stared at each other for a few minutes before they both broke eye contact and looked away from each other blushing madly. Twilight then got off of his chest as she then walked over to the table and got into her seat as she then levitated an apple from the fridge over to her as she then used her magic to spilt it into three parts as she laid them down in front of her for max and spike to have fortunately the apple was big enough for them all.

Max got up and sat next to twilight as he took a bite of his apple slice, twilight smiled at him as she looked over at spike who was munching down on his apple piece. She takes a bite out of her apple as she then lays it down and turns to max "hey max" twilight said, max looked over at her.

"yes twi?"

"umm I was wondering. You said that you read all of my books".

He looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"yeah?".

"well...I was wondering. Did you read about the basics of magic book as well? And the advance set too?".

He then knew what she was getting at "yes as a matter a fact. Although twilight you could have just asked me, if you wanted to train me with my magic abilities" he finished with a wink.

Twilight just looked at him blushing as she nodded at him, "yes that was what I wanted to ask you. But I think it would be better if princess celesita and I both could train you. If that's alright with you?" she asked him.

"sure. That's fine with me. I could use all the help I could get anyway".

She smiled as she got up from the table "that's great. I will go and send her a letter". Twilight then walked out of the kitchen and into the living room next to her podium leaving spike and max in the kitchen, spike then started to smile making max look at him.

"what's with the huge smile spike?".

"dude your gonna be training with twilight and princess celestia. That's gonna be so cool".

Max could only smile back at him "yea that is true. I guess I am".

Spike then hit his leg as he winked at him "good luck max".

Max blushed as he scratched the back of his head, "yea. I'm gonna need it".

As soon as max walked away from his pal he then saw a white light in front of him. He shielded his eyes as he looked away from the light as it formed into a large alicorn.

Max then moved his eyes from his face to see that it was princess celestia, he smiled as he walked up to her and bowed to her in respect.

she smiled at him as he bowed "you may rise max" she said to him. He got back to his feet as he looked at her, she walked over to him as he stood in his place.

"twilight has told me that you have read some books on magic" she asked.

"yes that is correct".

"she also told me that you would like some help in using some of the spells that you know".

"yes that is also true".

She then wrapped her wing around the boy as she brought him close to her side, she then hugged him gently as she looked at him. "this is very wonderful max. You'll finally be able to master magic for the very first time" she then moved back from him a bit to give him some space.

Max could only scratch the back of his head in joy as he thought about what she just said, he then saw twilight walk over to her side smiling at him.

Princess celestia then used her magic to open the door "shall we be off?" she said.

Max and twilight nodded as the three left the house.

FIELD

the three walked away from ponyville and stopped in a large field on the outskirts of the town so that there magic training wouldn't hurt anyone.

Max was standing in front of twilight sparkle and princess celestia, he then looked over at twilight "so what is it that we are going to work on?".

Twilight then raised her hoof as she began to speak "we will be working with some basic magic spells with you max" she said, "we both want to see how well you can master magic for your first time". Princess celestia then spoke "that and we would also want to give you some tips on how to help you with some advance magic. Once you have fully mastered the basics I mean", this made max think about this for a bit seeing as he would have two teachers to help him out with his training learning magic might not be so hard.

Max then got out of his train of thought and looked at them and nodded. "that sounds like a good idea" he said making the two smile, twilight then stepped forward as princess celestia backed up a bit so she could give max and twilight some space for them to practice.

twilight made her horn glow "ok max I'm going to make three apples appear and I want you to try and levitate them ok" max nodded at her as he then began to watch twilight lay down the apples in front of max.

Max gulped as he then closed his eyes and focused on the apples that were in his mind, "ok...I just have to focus" he thought as he then opened his eyes and raised his hand and pointed at one of the apples. He then lifted his finger up trying make one of the apples into the air, he saw that the apple was not moving at all as he then focused on the apple more.

He then saw that apple was still not moving max was starting to get frustrated at his failed attempts to make at least one of the apples move, princess celestia then walked over to his side. "max there is really no need to try and master magic in one day. It takes time and practice" she said to the boy in her loving motherly tone as max stooped what he was doing to look over at her.

"I know. It's just I want to learn so badly. I've always been very fascinated with magic ever since I was a kid. But this kind of magic is a little different than what we humans learn on earth".

"oh yes I know" she said "I have studied that some humans can do magic tricks like making a rabbit come out of a hat or sawing a woman in half. That also takes time to learn. But this is no different from them like the magic tricks on earth max".

She then leaned over to his ear "but I know one thing. I know that you can do it. I believe in you".

Hearing this from her made max smile within himself as he then looked at the apples again. He then closed his eyes once more as he raised his hand slowly, as he did this he then felt a surge of energy flow with in his body.

He then opened his eyes to see that his hand was covered in a purple aurora making max smile with joy, he then aimed his hand at the apples as they then started to glow as well as max then lifted them up from the ground and moved them into the air as he moved his hand left and right making them go in the direction that he wanted them to go.

Twilight and princess celestia were had huge smiles on there face as they saw max mess around with the apples in his possession "max you did! You did it!" twilight shouted as she then ran to him and hugged him. The force of twilight's hug made max fall over making him lose his concentration as the apples stopped glowing and fell to the ground, the three of them saw the apples fall onto the ground as twilight then looked back at max.

"ops. Sorry max" she said with a sheepish smile.

Max only held her close to his chest "it's ok twi" he said as he nuzzled her cheek with his making her blush.

Princess celestia was smiling at the two she had never seen her star student so happy before in all of her life, and she was very happy to see that she had found someone in her life that made her happy.

Twilight then broke out the loving embrace of her lover as she then looked into his eyes "well max Now that you have unlock your magic abilities. We now need to practice on them. So that means were gonna have to train every single day after you come home from work ok" she finished, max only happily sighied "hehe. It looks like I'm gonna be having a lot of training huh?".

Twilight only nodded at him.

"well. I guess we better get started then. Shall we", he then laid twilight back onto her feet as he then got up and cracked his knuckles and used his new found power to pick up the apples again. With twilight and princess celestia's trainning he knew that he was going to be having a very busy week.