>>6215I narrow my eyes and feel my ears lie flat. “I SAID–”
The hair on the back of my neck stands up. “GIVE–”
My vision physically zooms in on my target, and in my mind I suddenly picture and feel the complete 3D shape of the object that’s in his hand. “THAT–”
My forehead starts to spark and I feel my brain twitch “BACK!!!!” I let out a guttural yell and pull. Hard.
Harry doesn’t let go in time and gets pulled with it, falling over sideways and slamming into the floor as the object slides out of his grasp. He groans, “Yeah, so, that was pretty fucking painful”. In front of him, hovering in mid air, is the dildo.
I’m speechless as I look at it. Harry slowly looks up at it, and let’s out a slow whistle. “The world will note, that on this day May 2nd, 2020, magic has been cast on Earth for the first time. One small step for a sex toy, one giant leap for mankind.”
I realize what I just did and I let go of everything. The blue glow around the phallic toy fades away and it drops to the ground with a plop.
I can’t help but laugh in jubilation. “You know, on reflection, we probably should have used something a bit more respectable for the history books.”
Harry gets up and dusts himself off, “Nah, it wouldn’t have worked. I knew we needed to get you really desperate.” He walks behind me and unlocks the bike chain holding my arms.
The second the chain was off I throw my arms around Harry and kiss him right on the lips. “We did it Harry! You’re such a genius!!”
Harry blushes and takes a step back, raising his palms to me. “Whoa, Rachel, whoa. I’m this guy called Harry, pretty sure Harry is not on kissing terms with Rachel. Your Tom is in the living room.”
I playfully punch him in the shoulder, “Oh quiet you, you taught me how to cast my first spell. Tom, as nice as he is, doesn’t share that experience with me.” I was going to bring up how he actually looks really cute with his pink hair and slightly feminine facial features, but at the last second I realize that might come across as weird. Besides, he is right, Tom is the one I’m really after. Harry might be cute and helpful, but Tom is my true dream girl. Wait, dream guy. Fucking brain.
Harry picks up the most honorable dildo and places it back in the box. “So, the real question here is can you do it again? Or will we have to chain you up everytime you want to grab something?”
I look around, spotting the ice cream sandwich still on the table. “Well, let’s find out shall we?” Now that I knew what the hell I’m supposed to be doing, this seems really easy. I focus on the ice cream treat and feel my mind analyze it and hold it, then my brain effortlessly twitches and I see the the ice cream glow blue and lift off to hover in the air.
Harry starts a slow clap, “Bravo, I am officially jealous.”
I glance over at him and smirk, “Yep, I’d be jealous of a magic user too.”
He shrugs, “Meh, I’m just jealous that now you can eat ice cream without getting your hands cold. That’s kind of unfair.”
I laugh, “Harry, I hardly think preventing cold hands is the primary reason I wanted to cast spells.”
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Tess’s typing is distracted as a Bluray box lands on top of her keyboard. Startled, she picks it up, and sets it aside, then turns around to look at me. “Rachel, don’t throw things at me, I’m trying to learn here.”
I nod, “I didn’t throw it. And besides, I know you’re trying to learn, that’s why I gave you the MLP discs.”
She rolls her eyes, “I’ve heard your theory before Rachel, and I told you it–Ow!”
I grin, “But I think I have some new information… Twilight”. The BluRay box floats next to my sister and pokes her repeatedly head.
She instinctively tries to bat the intruder away from her, but soon realizes boxes don’t normally float in mid air. “Are you…” Tess does a double take at the box, then looks back at me, and back at the box. “Are you using…”
I tap my foot, “Come on, say it.”
Tess reaches up and grabs the box with both hands, trying to pull it down to her level. I clench my teeth and increase the force I’m levitating it with. I look up as I hear a small shriek and see Tess pulled off the ground as she refuses to let go and the box pulls her a few inches into the air.
I pull her in the air towards me as Tess looks around in sheer confusion. Finally I let go when she is in front of me, dropping Tess to the floor with the BluRay box still in her hand. She turns her head to see how far she traveled. I smile, “Come on, say it.”
She looks at the box in her hands, then back up at me. “Do it again.”
I roll my eyes then take a glance sideways and spot a pillow on the ground. I effortlessly lift it in the air and bring it over to Tess, then start to make it spin in midair. What can I say, I’ve spent some time practicing in the kitchen. Trust me, as soon as you learn you can do magic, it’s pretty much all you want to do in your free time.
Tess stares at the floating pillow, then slowly shakes her head and smiles. “Well, slap a horn on me and call me Twilight… well played sis.” She pauses to rub her neck, “So, umm, can you teach me?”
I drop the pillow, “Really your not upset at seeing this?”
She looks confused, “I’m witnessing the greatest discovery in the past thousand years. Why would I be upset?”
I raise an eyebrow, “Well, this flies in the face of everything you spent your time learning. Doesn’t this make your entire physics degree pretty much worthless?”
Tess just stares at the floating pillow, “Meh, I have like three other degrees to fall back on right?” We both laugh for a moment but then Tess gets serious, “But no, really, can you teach me?”
“A chance to actually teach you something? Dear diary, hell hath frozen over.”
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About half an hour later we were all gathered in the living room. We would have started sooner but Tom was just starting to grow his horn and we figured it would be easier if I held this magic lesson just once for both of the new unicorns. Finally, around 7:45, I deemed Tom’s mini horn to be sufficient length so we could begin.
“I’m still not exactly sure what we’re trying to do here” Tom says as he sat next to Tess on the sofa.
“You mean Rachel hasn’t shown you what she can do yet?” Harry asks with a smile, he’s sitting on the other side of the room eating cake.
I walk to the center of the living room carrying two apples. “No Harry, I haven’t.”
Tess drums her fingers impatiently, “Can we please get this started? I have so many things I want to try, just show us how you do it!”
I smirk back at her, “Hey, I had to learn this by myself, be glad I’m offering to teach this to you girls.”
Tom lifts his hand to say something, but bites his tongue and holds it back. Harry speaks instead, “That’s a good point Rachel, you should charge them something to receive such a lesson.”
I wave a hand back at Harry, “My sister already paid. I get to call her Twilight now.”
She rolls her eyes, “Whatever. But what about Tom? Or does she get the lesson for free because you like her?”
Tom once again raises his hand in protest but is too polite to say anything. I bite my tongue as I think about what to charge Tom. My sister was right, I couldn’t really let Tom get the lesson for free, but I don’t want payment…
Harry pokes me as he stands next to me, though I could have sworn he was sitting down a second ago. “Don’t worry Rachel, I have an idea for this.” I shrug my shoulders and let him proceed. “Tom’s payment will be a kiss! If the lesson is successful Tom will owe Rachel one kiss. Sounds fair to me!”
I feel myself blush and I look away, but I hear Tom speak up. “Uh, sure. But can it be when all this crazy pony stuff is over? I think it would be a little weird to kiss with us looking like this.”
Tess mumbles something about ‘good luck with that’ and Harry walks back to his seat telling Tom that’s fine. I clear my throat and try to get on with the lesson, “Right, well with that settled let’s get started. You will notice I have two apples here.”
“Question.” Tom raises his hand.
I blush, pretty sure this will be about the kiss, “Yes Tom?”
Tom looks around, “Um… I’m sorry, what are we doing? What is this a lesson of?”
I nonchalantly levitate a small stack of magazines off the table and float them over to Tom, then hold them in the air for a few seconds before dropping them to the floor. “Levitation, telekinesis, whatever you want to call it Tom. You’re a unicorn now, you can do magic, this is your first magic lesson.”
Tom blinks in utter confusion. He didn’t even know what ponies were a few hours ago, and now he was being told he can cast magic? It was akin to telling someone that the Earth was actually flat. He looks up at me, “I’m sorry did you say magic?”
Tess butts in, “Alright Rachel, so I see you looked right at the books before you lifted them. Line of sight is required then?”
I shrug, “It helps, especially for starters. Here I brought these two apples for you two to try out.” I place them down a few feet in front of both of them, “What I want you to do is look at your apple. Really look at it. You want your mind to just sort of feel it in three dimensional space.”
Tess starts to glare at her fruit while Tom just raises an eyebrow and look up at me, “I’m really not following Rachel. Look at the fruit to make it float?”
“Yeah, well, sort of. Hmm, this is hard to explain.” I scratch my head as I see Tess stare at her fruit and nothing happens. “Maybe I should demonstrate again.”
Tess breaks her fruit focused stare and nods. “Yeah, let us watch this time.”
I sit between the two girls and give them sideways glances, “Okay, here goes, pay attention.”
Across the room, Harry rubs his knee and mutters something about it being pinchy. Tess nudges me, “Rachel, tell us what you’re doing when you do it, should be easier to follow.”
Tom reaffirms this is a good idea, so I take a deep break and look at the two apples, slowly making them both rise as I explain what I’m doing. Tess squeaks, “I can feel that… in the air, it feels like magic? I can just follow that thread…”
I drop the apples, “Really? Tom did you feel anything?”
Tess stares at her apple again, her forehead twitching in concentration. Tom shakes his head at my question, “Not particularly, but–”
A nearby squee makes Tom stop. I look over at the source of the noise to see Tess smiling and the apple floating in front of her. I clap my hands, “Way to go Tess! That’s the ticket!”
She just grunts and focuses more, “I feel like I can do more… just gonna…”
I glance back over at the apple to see it starting to vibrate violently“ Um, Tess…” The apple starts glowing and starting giving off strange heat. “Tess, you might wanna back off a little…”
Tess doesn’t respond, she just gives off some feral noise and sparks start to shoot off her horn.
Tom stands up and starts to back away from the apple, “I take it this doesn’t normally happen?”
Tess’s eyes start to flicker white and her horn grows brighter. Harry stands up at the far side of the room, “Rachel, what is your sister doing?”
I wave a hand in front of my sister’s face, “Sis! Calm down, I don’t think you’re doing this right!”
The apple starts pulsating violently and starts to hum with energy.
Harry walks backwards away from the scene, “Umm, guys, something something something… messing with forces beyond our control?!”
I could taste something funny, something bad is about to happen. I glance sideways and the red glowing orb that used to be a simple apple. Pretty sure we need to get the hell away from this thing, it really doesn’t look stable. “Guys… we should leave…”
Tom doesn’t need a second warning and all but runs away from the scene to join Harry behind the door frame. I want to leave as well, but Tess is still sitting right next to it and I can’t leave her here. “Tess! Snap out of it, stop your spell, come on!”
I watch as both of my sister’s eyes suddenly turn pure white, then all of her hair stands up and her body lifts off the couch to float a few inches in the air. Harry groans from his location, “Oh, this is just fucking great, we got super saiyan Twilight in the living room.”
This is bad, very bad. Casting her first magic must have set her off or something, all I know is we are in the middle of an apartment block with a thousand inhabitants, and we are clearly messing with powers we can’t control. Sure this happens in the show here and there, but this time there isn’t a Celestia to come by and fix everything.
The red orb starts to give off red sparks, igniting the coffee table on fire below it. I reach out a hand to touch Tess’s shoulder to try and bring her out of it, but I jerk my hand back as an arc of something jumps to it and stings me. Harry yells out, trying to get his message heard across the ever increasing noise coming from the red orb. “RACHEL, DON’T TOUCH HER, SHE MIGHT TURN YOU INTO A CACTUS.”
Smoke was starting to build up from the coffee table, which is now fully engulfed in flames. Meanwhile Tess’s orb has grown to the size of a basketball and she doesn’t seem to be stopping. I look around in desperation, “Come on Rachel, think! I need to get Twilight out of here, but I can’t touch her body without getting shocked. Hmm, I can’t lift her whole body with my magic either, I doubt I can lift anything larger than a basketball…”
I blink at the realization and look back at the glowing orb of death. Hmm… I glance back at Tess, her eyes are still white. “Twilight… I hope you don’t mind if I steal your red ball thing.”
I turn back to the inferno and spot the red orb in the center of it, and surprisingly enough I see Tom heading back towards me. He yells “Rachel, come on, you need to get out of here!”
I ignore his warning, full well knowing that I can’t leave my sister alone as the room catches fire. I grit my teeth and feel my ears lie flat as I focus on the red glowy thing. I feel myself grab hold of it and I start to magically pull it away from us, silently praying Twilight doesn’t magically spaz out and kill me for stealing her apple.
Tess doesn’t seem to notice, but I start to wonder where I can put this thing. I could tell it’s still growing and it’s still dropping flaming sparks everywhere. I spot the window and aim for it.
Tom waves his hands at me, “Wait, the window is closed!”
I yell back, “OPEN IT.”
Tom gestures forward with both arms, “There’s fire! And the red thing! I can’t get over there!”
“OPEN THE WINDOW TOM” I yell, immediately surprising myself with my voice. It was much deeper than normal and full of authority. It wasn’t a yell, it was a command to be followed.
Tom looks over at the window and stick out his tongue in concentration, a second later I see a faint blue glow and the window opens. Wasting no time, I hurl the red object out the window. As it leaves sight I feel it start to quiver and break apart. I quickly let it go from my magical grasp, as I’m pretty sure it’s going to explode without Twilight next to it. We live on the 20th floor hopefully it explodes before it hits the ground and–
My thoughts are cut off by a deep concussive sound followed by the sound of nearby windows shattering and car alarms going off. I wince, hopefully no one got hurt.
Tom claps his hands, “I did it, I opened the window! Haha, I totally did magic!”
I look back at my sister, she seems to be back to normal and is lying on the floor rubbing her forehead. “Are you alright sis? I mean, I know I started calling you Twilight, but that was some really next level shit you just pulled. How do you feel?”
She looks around, then spots a broken table leg and levitates it with her horn, “I feel fine, and hey look, I learned the levitation thing!”
I look around me, feeling the heat on my skin “Yeah, great, and the only consequence was setting half the living room on fire.”
Tess drops the wood from her magic hold as she looks around, “I lost control…”
I back away from the growing flames, “Yep. Turns out you not only learned levitation, you learned how to make a flaming ball of death that sets the building on fire.”
I’m in the middle of planning an evacuation route when Harry shows up wearing a fireman’s hat and carrying two fire extinguishers. After some quick work the fire is put out and he surveys the damage. I raise an eyebrow, “Harry, where did you get a fireman’s helmet?”
He takes it off, “Huh? Oh, I found it on the way. I thought it would be useful since I was on my way to put out a fire.”
I tilt my head in confusion but decide to let it slide, we have more important things to deal with. Sure the fire is out, but the police are probably going to come investigate the source of that loud noise that shattered windows and such. Normally I would be okay with this, I can talk my way out of most things. However, I’m sure really I can do that while covered in pony anatomy.
I rub my hand over my chin as I contemplate things, “Harry, any chance we could lay low at your place for a while?”
He shakes his head no, “Dude, I live in my parent’s basement. I don’t think they would take too kindly to four people showing up, especially when three of them have horns and they all have tails…”
I glance at Tom, “Same deal with you Tom? You live on your parent’s estate right? Do they know about this pony thing?”
Tom frowns, “No, they weren't home this afternoon when I grew my tail, but they will definitely be home now. I could probably sneak in myself, but there’s no way all four of us could live there.”
Tess walks over, still amazed at all the damage she caused, “Geez, all this damage was from me?”
Harry backhands her shoulder, “Yes, it is. You tried pushing yourself or something and you went full super saiyan on us. Which is great and all, but now we’re all completely screwed and have nowhere to hide”
Tess frowns and stares at the floor, softly saying an apology. Tom puts his hand on her shoulder, “Well… we’re not totally screwed. We can go somewhere.”
I look at him, “I thought you said we couldn’t use your house?”
He takes a deep breath, “Well yeah, not that house, but my family has more than one.”
Harry rolls his eyes, “Freakan one percenter.”
I laugh, “Well that’s great Tom, we can use your other house! Where is it, somewhere outside the city? One of the suburbs around Vancouver?”
Tom, ‘the American’, rubs his neck. “A bit further away than that I’m afraid. It’s in downtown Seattle.”
I raise my eyebrows, we are going to have to cross the border. That might prove difficult.
Tess, who was busy seeing if she could levitate three things at once, turns back to face us, “That can work, getting out of this city right now is probably for the best. Cops are going to be looking for what made that noise, and they’ll notice our room has burn marks.”
I agree, “Seattle it is, if we leave now we can get there by midnight. Should be a nice change of pace, hopefully there will be fewer explosions and such.”
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