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At the Market; Open
Topic Started: May 28 2012, 01:15 AM (2,393 Views)
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The moment Flight Risk was handed the comics he dove right into reading them. In his opinion it wasn't generosity, it was a fair trade. A good comic was just as good as zap apple jam on toast. So it as no big deal. "Ay'll contact y'all about that later for sure." He liked all the comics out there, at least all the ones Johnagold had given him. They were just made of pure awesome. He was definitely more interested in the comics than the other books. Even if he could morph into a complete changeling in theory.
Jewels//Pegasus//Mare
Flight Risk//Earth Pony//Colt
Mystique//Earth Pony//Female
Princess Jasmine//Dragon//Mare
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Johnagold smiled again as Chronius tried the jam. Then, the kirin handed out his books and invited him to look through them.

"To the books," replied Johnagold as he picked up one of them and began to read. It was a book on the life cycle of changelings. Johnagold couldn't help but feel a little squeamish through the whole thing, especially the part where it showed slimy cocoons with ponies gradually becoming changelings inside them. Welp, Johnagold was going to have trouble sleeping tonight.

Another book, however, caught Johnagold's eye. It was a book on mental spells. He was mostly attracted to the awesome-looking design on the cover, but he decided to skim through it, anyway.
Johnagold||Earth Pony||Stallion and daughter Ginger Gold//Unicorn//Filly
Heinrich||Unicorn||Stallion
The Colonel||Unicorn||Stallion
Jess//Diamond Dog//Female
Shikataro//Unikirin//Buck
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Chronius looked up from a book concerning unwilling magical transformation. The things that could afflict an unsuspecting pony and bring them to a horrible death, or worse were truly frightening. Even with his natural resistance to magic he was still quite disturbed. The idea that some outside force could fundamentally change who or what you were was terrifying. No one should be so helpless before the will of another that even their identity was no longer their own.

That wasn't to say that it didn't interest him. A part of him wondered what wielding such power could be like. The fact that such things could still call to him is what terrified him most. that one day he may either give into his instincts and end up changed into a monster, or give into ambition and be something even worse. He quickly tossed the book away and decided to look over changeling hierarchy instead.

As he looked for the book he noticed Johnagold seemed quite interested in a tome about mental spells. It was the peculiar look on the stallions face that gave him pause. Flight Risk had seemed quite stable before but it was no doubt Johnagold knew him far better, and if some sort of mental change had taken place in the boy that could be the start of something terrible. Or perhaps it wasn't about Flight Risk at all. Perhaps someone else had been affected. He was, however getting ahead of himself.

"Find something interesting?" Chronius inquired.
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Brimstone||Unikirin||Buck
Deep Impact||Pegasus||Stallion
Relucesco||Dragon||Male
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"Oh absolutely, these comics are the best!" He was assuming, of course, that if a few pages of one of the comics were good, that they were all good. It all boiled down to tastes after all, and Chronius seemed to have spectacular tastes in comics. He'd probably be staying up all night just to read these things.
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Johnagold looked down at the page he had flipped to. The words Mental Sterilization Spell stood out in big, bold letters. He looked through the section on the spell, being mostly unable to comprehend anything other than the symptoms and cure. But that was just enough for Johnagold to start wondering about whether or not one of these spells was what was happening with Jewels.

"Yeah, Ah found somethin'," replied Johnagold. "Ah'm readin' this little bit on Mental Sterilization, and Ah can't help but think that maybe Julie's been exposed to the spell. It all adds up: All she's done is eat and sleep, and that's a symptom of the spell. She had been stayin' in Cloudsdale in the hospital not long ago, and she kinda has some bad blood with those pegasi supremacists down there. Maybe they used the spell to demoralize her or somethin'?"
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Heinrich||Unicorn||Stallion
The Colonel||Unicorn||Stallion
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Mental sterilization. The ability to do such a thing would be the hieght of theft. The pinnacle of domination. Stripping someone of what they held so dear was twisted to say the least. But would the subject even care? If they lost all drive would they continue to feel pain. What if someone had desired such a thing. Would it a mercy to do so or a curse.

He shut his eyes for a few seconds and sighed. These were questions for someone far wiser than a kirin barley past his second decade. He should focus on how this could have actually happened.

He began pacing and staring at the ground. He quickly glanced at Johnagold and asked, "Did these pegasi have access to unicorns in order to cast the spell for them or is this a sort of ritual magic? How long would it take to cast? How would they get her secluded for enough time? If she was in a hospital she would have to be in a secluded area, or the entire staff would have to be in on the conspiracy. Or perhaps some of them were unaware, found out, and silenced." He was beginning to ramble. Which would make it difficult for anyone to answer him. he stopped and began tapping his claws on the ground. his eyes staring of into nothing.

"Does their reach extend so far? Why go through such trouble fore one mare? Was it only one mare? have they done this before? How often? Always in this hospitale or many locations. Could ...."
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Brimstone||Unikirin||Buck
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"Well when we left there was a little war between the Cloudbankers and other ponies, it was pretty intense." Flight Risk commented, putting his comics down for a moment. "They tried to hurt even me, but Ma was too kick flank. She made those lightening whips that day. Only they were whips and not swords that day."
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"Ah have no idea how them Cloudbankers got their hooves on that spell," said Johnagold as he looked through the section of the book on mental sterilization. "We sorta just took her away from the hospital, kicked some flank, and got outta there."

Johnagold read carefully through the paragraph on how to break the spell. He found it quite funny that the cure just so happened to be...

Zap apples.

Johnagold looked over at the sleeping Jewels. She hadn't eaten any zap apple products since she came home from the Cloudsdale hospital, but she would be eating some soon.

Johnagold showed Chronius the page he was looking at. "It says here that zap apples happen to be the cure for the spell. Could you hand me that jar of jam, Flight Risk? Ah have a sandwich to make."
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Heinrich||Unicorn||Stallion
The Colonel||Unicorn||Stallion
Jess//Diamond Dog//Female
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Chronius stopped his rambling when he heard the cure. Zap Apples? Could it really be that simple? Well as he had said before, no thing was to outlandish. Zap Apples. The thought me him laugh. Who didn't love moments like that. When you found what you needed right under your own nose. He almost wished that one of those "Cloudbankers" was in the room to witness their mighty spells unraveled by a fruit.

"Zap Apples! If this plan work's than I'll have to find the people who did this just to see their faces! You Apples really are the best farmers in Equestria aren't you!", he laughed.

Nonetheless he was still troubled. If these Cloudbankers had allies then they could still be around. Watching the family and planning something worse. He said nothing about this however as he didn't want to spoil such a moment.
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Brimstone||Unikirin||Buck
Deep Impact||Pegasus||Stallion
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Bloodbeak||Griffon||Female
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"I don't see why it matters though. She has me. Why does she need more foals? I can understand it for Goaty, but for my Mom it makes no sense." Flight Risk said, delaying for awhile as the questions he'd been wondering popped out. He didn't get why it would be such a big deal for his mother and make her so bummed out and lifeless.
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"She don't need more foals," replied Johnagold to Flight Risk. "If we cure this possible spell that's affectin' her, she'll be a lot happier. She'll want to spend more time with you rather than spend time sleepin' on the couch and watchin' them soap opera reruns on the broadcastin' crystal. It ain't 'bout foals, it's her recovery we're talkin' 'bout here."

Johnagold put down the book and said, "Flight Risk, could you run inside and get two pieces of bread and a plate, please?"
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Heinrich||Unicorn||Stallion
The Colonel||Unicorn||Stallion
Jess//Diamond Dog//Female
Shikataro//Unikirin//Buck
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Chronius looked up from his books when he heard Flight Risk. Children always seemed to think that they could fix anything with their presence, for better or worse. He would have tried to comfort the colt but he heard Johnagold address the issue and figured that he likely could deal with the issue better the someone who was almost a stranger ever could.

Besides this would be for the best. Flight Risk would have his mother back and Jewels would be able to make her recovery. Who knows maybe Johnagold and Jewels would end up as a bit more than friends. However all this speculation wasn't helping anything.

He walked over to Johnagold and asked,"So do you think that this will just undo the damage caused by the spell? I mean such things can have rather far reaching side effects. Things may take a bit of time to put right." He looked about a bit awkwardly.

"I just want to make sure that you don't end up disappointed, with the results."
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Brimstone||Unikirin||Buck
Deep Impact||Pegasus||Stallion
Relucesco||Dragon||Male
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"I don't get why it would matter." Flight Risk muttered, fluttering towards the house. . He doesn't get it. Why would being able to be unsterilized make her happy? Why would it make such a big difference? If Johnagold said it would work he would give it a chance, but he was dubious. The kirin was right to doubt that even fixing this would help. Why would it matter? Why? Wasn't he enough for her?

… As any pony can probably zoo… There would probably be issues for it he ever had a little brother or sister. He was definitely used to being an only child, and the idea of his mother even wanting another foal was wince worthy and confusing.
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Johnagold heard Flight Risk mutter something, but he didn't quite catch what the foal had said. Johnagold looked back over to Chronius, adjusting his hat.

"The jam should work, it's made from zap apples, after all." Johnagold glanced back down at the book, re-reading the section on cures again. "...Wait a minute. It says here the zap apples gotta be fresh. That jam ain't fresh, and we don't got no more freshly picked zap apples left. Looks like we'll end up havin' to do some ritual or somethin', now that Ah'm readin' over this again, but it's written in fancy professor talk. Could you read it over, Chronius?"
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Heinrich||Unicorn||Stallion
The Colonel||Unicorn||Stallion
Jess//Diamond Dog//Female
Shikataro//Unikirin//Buck
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Chronius was a bit disappointed hearing that. Things were never quite that simple. He levitated the book over and began searching it over. He groaned looking at all of the ridiculously complex vocabulary. He was perfectly fine with using "fancy talk" but when it became so complex that the average pony couldn't even read it he considered it to be showing off.

"To put it simply," He started. "the magical properties of the jam lose effectiveness over time. If we wanted to do this with jam alone than it would take a swimming pool. But the zap apple tree does have the same properties." He stated beginning top tap his claws again. "The only problem being that it's concentrated near the core of the tree and attempting to cut it down would make the magic dissipate to quickly.

He flipped a few pages mumbling before exclaiming, "AH! What we need to do is essentially draw the magic through the tree directly and focus it into the subject. That or just wait for the next time zap apples come into season."
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Brimstone||Unikirin||Buck
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