Magic Tricks [Open]

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Clothes? Check. A place to stay? Check. Full deck of cards?

...wait a moment.

In the park within the City, Sakura was busy shuffling through the deck of cards, slightly in a bit of a panic. In design, they looked like tarot cards, but on the face were different creatures of sorts, each bearing names like "The Windy" and "The Jump" and "The Shadow".

"...16...17...18..." Sakura uttered and stopped as she got back to the first card. "...where's Erase? I-I know I didn't drop it. Ohh, if I lost it, Kero-chan's gonna kill me!" She could see it now: the little plushie lion jumping down her throat because of it. Perhaps it wasn't lost, but more somewhere else on the ship? Sakura hung her head at that. "The ship's too huge, I'll never find it that way...!"

Right now, though, other problems were at hand. Like the state of her magic. If she didn't have access to her magic, what good were her cards?

With a deep breath, she removed the necklace holding the strange pendant and held it out, a magic circle forming under her. "Key that hides the power of the stars, show your true form before me. I, Sakura, command you under our contract. Release! " On cue, the pendant glowed and started to expand, showing its true form - a staff bearing a star enclosed in a circle on its head, small wings to its sides. "I-It works!" Taking the staff in hand, she looked towards her cards. "Let's see..."

...

About an hour (give or take a few minutes) later, the area around Sakura has changed a little bit - a few extra trees due to The Wood, a lot of flowers thanks to The Flower and resting under one of those tress were two Sakuras, one of them actually The Mirror in disguise.

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"Applejack," the pony introduced herself, quietly trotting over to allow the girl a hoof up if she needed one. "Pleased to meet you, and don't you worry. Plenty to fuss about in this place, but it's not all so bad. Like these trees here," she admired.

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Sakura couldn't turn down the pony's helping... hoof. Using it to pull herself up to a standing position, she couldn't help but admire the tree herself.

"It is nice, isn't it?" she said. "Would you believe... I made it?"

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"Er...no, I wouldn't," Applejack answered rather honestly. "How in the hay would you make a tree? You just plant a seed and wait for it to grow, don'tcha?"

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"Of course, but I have another way...!" Sakura said. Going for the deck of cards, she pulled out The Wood card once more. "...it's magic!"

[appletastic]

Ah, magic. It was so common with humans, wasn't it?

"And it's in the card? How does that work?"

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"Watch..." Sakura said, stepping back. Almost in an instant, the summoning circle formed under her feet as she brought her Star Staff to the forefront and aimed it at the now-floating card. "RELEASE!"

The card glowed brightly as the form of a woman covered in branches and bark appeared. "Wood, create a mighty tree for my new friend here!"

With that, a tree started to grow almost instantly from the ground in front of Applejack.

[appletastic]

"Whoa there," Applejack yelped, backing up a few steps. It was just plain eerie to see something grow from the ground that quickly.

"So...is it just like a regular ol' homegrown tree? Is it gonna stay?"

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"It's just like any other tree." Sakura reassured. "And of course, it can stay. Back home, I used this card a few times to cushion my fall, but I had to revert it so no one else would notice."

[appletastic]

"You had to keep your magic hushed up?"

That didn't really make sense to her. Unicorn ponies were well accepted throughout Equestria, of course magic was normal, but maybe something about those cards was a little funny./