can fly using levitation

I tried very hard to think of other things. “Tell you what: I’ll levitate myself up there while you two fly up.”

“Can ya do that, Li’lpip? Levitate yerself that far?”

To be honest, I wasn’t sure. Self-levitation had always been the hardest trick. I wanted to give it a try. But I didn’t want to suffer the fall if I failed.

“Be ready to catch me?” I asked meekly. Calamity nodded, stretching out his wings confidently.

(Somewhere behind me, I heard Xenith ask somepony, “Why do they not just make two trips?”)

I looked up, pointing my horn towards the shack. And swallowed nervously. It was… very high.

My horn began to glow. Focusing, I enveloped my body with a magical envelope and pushed off from the ground. I had done this much before; but just as in the Pit, my ascent had begun to slow rapidly. I focused harder and tried to pull myself upwards.

I was still slowing.

I concentrated, sweat beading on my forehead and running down my neck. An overglow flared around my horn, casting reflections on the cliff rocks.

I stopped slowing. I was doing it! I was pulling myself through the air!

I was… pushing exhaustion. The effort was almost painful. But I was doing it.

I was flying!