"I have a CUTIE MARK, Wizbell!! I have to tell my parents!!!" Lyra left as she arrived, leaving me sitting on the floor a little more mentally exhausted from the overdose of happiness.
"Well, let's continue with the tour, now we will go see the different clubs that have emerged now…" I disconnected my mind from the conversation and followed the adults who were already turning a corner.
At some point we passed by the classrooms where the classes would be held, the blackboards still full of texts and problems solved in class, many of the problems were simple magical equations that I already knew, but the more I saw, the more uncomfortable I was.
At some point I found myself concentrating on correcting the poorly done problems and organizing the board, formula after formula I was solving the problems presented on the board, their complexity was minuscule, but it was annoying to observe the disorder and the obvious errors, it served to eliminate my boredom while my parents… PARENTS!!
I turned around worried about being left behind, but found my parents watching me with a proud smile as they silently waited for me to finish.
"Go ahead son, keep going," My father urged me to continue.
In no time at all, I'm done.
Miss Sunny showed me a big smile when our eyes connected for a few seconds.
The tour continued without any problem.
"This is the Library, in recent decades there have been some improvements in the registration and control of access to magical knowledge, since there were several cases of magical rebounds, access to different knowledge was regulated by levels, many of them delivered by Princess Celestia herself and some interpretations of Star Swirl the Bearded's magical diaries."
"For now it is closed and secured with magic since it is not visiting hours, well, if you were a student you would have easy access because your magical signature would be registered in the security circuit" The last thing was said directly to me who had collided with the invisible wall.
'Intriguing' I touched the invisible wall with my hoof and then followed my parents.
"Before continuing, a short break to drink water, although the school is small, it has several places of interest, I still remember when I ran through these corridors."
Soon an assistant arrived wearing office clothes and formal glasses, she approached Miss Sunny and handed her a folder with a print with the letters SMILE.
The tour continued until we reached the exit where my father took me to the ice cream shop, leaving my mother behind who stayed to talk to Miss Sunny.
Alegria's Pov
The whole journey was full of nostalgia, I could still see my own shadow running through the hallways to meet my friends or explore the place in search of little adventures, until we reached the exit where Miss Sunny showed me a folder and I understood what it was. Someone sent by the organization, my mood cooled, but I was professional.
My smart husband easily read the mood and took our colt away.
"I would like to talk to SMILE's sleeper agent," Miss Sunny said with a voice full of seriousness.
"I hope you understand that the case of the colt Wizbell is an anomaly—he possesses a remarkable gift for magic. It's not something that should be overlooked, especially considering that, previously, his soul wasn't contained within his body. That fact alone has caused the organization to have doubts." Miss Sunny couldn't continue speaking, as a sudden wave of bloodlust hit her while she looked at the written report inside the folder. When she looked up, she met my cold, unwavering gaze.
For a few seconds we looked at each other in silence.
"They won't take my baby. The organization has nothing to worry about... or did they forget my specialization?" My voice broke the silence, but the heavy feeling in the room didn't go away.
"I fully trained myself in care and healing—I'm a Professional Magical Doctor. I can disable an adult with two touches of my hoof in an instant. Scanning and detecting any anomaly inside my child was the very first thing I did the moment the miracle happened."
"I was the one most terrified when I understood the kinds of monstrosities that exist both in and out of our world. Of course I checked my son the moment I noticed something different—whether it was a shapeshifter or some kind of astral parasite."
"I would've known, right then and there, and I would've reported it not long after. But I wouldn't have had the strength to harm anything that wore my precious son's face." I clenched my theets, tears beginning to well up in my eyes and turning them glassy.
"My little one came back. Why or how, I don't know. But that day, my son finally came home and woke up in his bed. If he were some monster trying to harm us, I'd be dead by now. I've given him a thousand and one chances to strike—sleeping beside him, leaving myself vulnerable—but nothing ever happened. Well... something did happen: my son sought my comfort, the kind only a parent can give. He might not show it openly, but he's a mama's boy. He always hugs me when he sleeps. He's never more than one room away from us. All those behaviors come straight from his subconscious."
"And as for his magic—it's different now. It flows like a river of harmony, the kind only ponies have. That wasn't the case before. His magic used to be chaotic and wild, causing him pain… but back then, he was a body without a soul, so he didn't show it. But now? Now he's different. Completely different. So drop the doubts that he's an imposter."
I stared with resolution, silently daring them to challenge me. If I received a negative answer—I'd fight. I'd die for my son.
Miss Sunny looked away and toward the sky, clearly trying to dodge the weight of my words.
What a maternal instinct, she must have thought.
"The doubts have been clarified," she finally said. "The revalidation was only requested because the colt, Wizbell, has caught Princess Celestia's attention as a potential candidate for direct apprenticeship."
She handed me a folder, and I skimmed through it immediately, verifying every word she said.
"I guess I got a little carried away..."
A warm flush spread through my coat as I handed the folder back.
"Your dedication as a mother is admirable, and you have a good son. One who clearly loves magic—his ears only perked up when I said the word." Miss Sunny let out a small laugh.
"That'll be all. As soon as I receive the results of the entrance exam, I hope to be the one teaching such a talented colt. Have a good afternoon with your family."
Wizbell's Pov
The days passed without any mishap, except for the increasing anxiety due to my mother's pregnancy symptoms, some sightings but nothing extraordinary.
Today like any other day, I was playing with my new magic [FLASH], the discomfort of using it had disappeared and had given way to the confidence of being able to use it without fear, very reckless of me, but I could feel it, at some point in time.
After activating the spell and deciding the direction of my teleportation I could sense my surroundings and understand whether or not there was something hindering my teleportation.
It was a new sense that began to form within me the more I used [Flash] spell by luck or destiny, I have a high compatibility with abilities that require the dimensional theme.
The test was my new sense, which made me aware of my surroundings, I could guess how many apples my dad has hide behind his back, I don't guess, I feel it magically.
According to my dad, my horn resonates with the magical particles of the space around me and I receive feedback, but the magical pulse is something passive and has 0 consumption.
A naturally arising skill, replicating it will be almost impossible, since I cannot demonstrate or explain how I do it.
Being in my house so much, I have the whole house mapped in my mind so now I sometimes move with [Flash] when I want to go to a room that is on a different floor.
Little by little I simplify and improve the magic channels to cast [Flash], which means I can do it faster and consume less magic.
It's a bit of trial and error as well as a bit of eureka, as sometimes my gut urges me to make some improvements which now makes the spell only consume 40% of what it used to be 100%, but those magical shortcuts, they are only possible for me, since the new magic formula or circuit is being optimized for my magic circuit.
Before when I researched the spell, the formulas were for [general] use, now I was developing the spell as a personal one, if another person could copy my magic they could burn out their own magical circuits and seriously injure themselves.
This is how I discovered that when developing magic the data of some formulas is of a [general] form, that is, it will not be optimized for my use, even if I am a creator, and the only way to avoid that is to be able to quantify my magic circuit in the formulas, but now I can't do that since as a colt, my magical circuit is evolving, spells that are now suitable for me, I will have to improve them in the future when I am an adult.
That's why all new magic wastes a lot of magic when used for the first time, it was interesting to find that truth, which is a piece of logic for any adult unicorn.
Now that I had half mastered my [Flash] magic it was time to get creative, find a way to be able to take a long journey using a single [Flash] and break the concept of its use being limited by the imagination of this world.
Teleporting was making a crack in the plane of reality and opening an exit at the desired coordinates using very complex formulas to determine the desired destination.
It became very complex for me when [Flash] only consumes magic for the instant in which one becomes energy itself and travels at the speed of light, so there should be no distance that I couldn't reach, but so far I have only been able to use [Flash] as far as my perception is capable, since the idea of going further is repressed in the introduction of this book since one cannot predict if there will be a pony walking or a wall due to misinterpretation of data, so It was a semi-dangerous magic and was only used for short emergency trips.
But here I am! I can use [Flash] without fear because I feel and in some magical way I see my destiny, if I could take that sense to a greater distance maybe I could use [Flash] to go from my room to the center of Canterlot.
I can already imagine it, a spell or magic where I concentrate my sense in one direction and I am able to feel everything in that direction like a tunnel, everything else would be empty of information, while in my tunnel I could see everything and determine where I want to appear, the limit of distance... that's a problem, I don't know how far I could feel or how to shape my sense to only feel in one direction, less shape it.
For now my magical sense is like a radar with a fixed distance, for now I plan to determine the limit distance and for that I brought my toys to the tailgate and placed them 20cm/8in apart from the central point where I am going to stand.
"What are you doing, son?" My dad looked out from the door with a coffee.
"Determining the limit of my magical sense."
"Um, for what purpose?" *sip*
"I think that if I can direct this sense further, maybe I can use [Flash] to travel long distance."
"Oh, you already thought about solving the problem of sensory saturation that you will suffer from the excess of information you will receive, first learn to turn it off, so far you haven't come out, so we don't know if you can suffer a migraine from an information bomb if you are surrounded by many ponies with magic in constant movement, I will tell your mother what you want to achieve, so that she doesn't get scared to death by some magical accident you will get."
I continued placing the toys and I kept thinking about what my father said, which has some truth, until now I have not left the house because Flash is not there, Lyra is too busy to go out to play and Twilight is brought home and We don't go out because we are almost always reading something.
So far the maximum number of people around me within my sense has not exceeded 5 ponies, it is very likely that what my father said will happen to me, since I am very aware of my parents when they enter my magical sense range, As it would be with several dozen and magical devices included... it's already a bit of a headache to imagine.
I have to first determine the limit of my magical sense and also learn to turn it off.