Wisdom

Chapter 3

The Voice

Nopony was out at night so I ran to the edge of the town where the forge was. I arrived at the same worn down, old building from before. I leaned my ear towards the building hoping to here the voice, but I heard nothing. I waked closer to the door but I still heard nothing. I tried to push the door open, but it wouldn't budge. Frustrated I backed up a few feet, snorted, and charged at the door. The door was weaker than I expected and I busted straight through it. As the dust settled I looked around the building, it was covered with cobwebs and some of the bricks were eroded. It really didn't look like much. Upon the wall was every tool imaginable, some of them rusted or broken in some way. There was a work bench with unfinished projects and rusted pieces of sheets metal. As I looked around I saw something in the corner of my eye, I turned to see a pair of goggles gleaming in the moonlight on a hook. I grabbed them off the hook and examined them in my hooves, they looked brand new, there was absolutely no dust on them! I put them on and the band fit perfectly, I slid them down to my eyes and everything turned a light brown. I slid them back up and left the building.

Thankfully Twilight never knew that I was gone, she and Spike were still asleep. I yawned and took off my vest. I laid on my bed and examined the goggles again. I put them back on and slipped them up to my ears. My eyelids felt heavy and I found myself falling asleep.

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I had another dream and the goggles carried over into the dream. I took a look around and all I could see was the forge in the distance. I began to run towards it and I heard a voice but it wasn't the same as before.

"I will train you in the art of the forge, and you must follow my every command." said the voice

"I will Summer Beard, I will be your apprentice." I heard a smaller voice

I came up to the building and peered through the window, there was a red stallion with a bright yellow beard and a unicorn colt. Suddenly the dream shifted and now I saw Summer Beard and the same unicorn but older.

"I'm sorry Summer Beard," the unicorn said, "I've been training with you for years yet I have no cutie mark."

"I understand, you must leave to find your destiny," Summer Beard sighed, "I wish you safe travel."

The dream began to fade, "No I want to know more," I shouted at nothing, "What does this mean?"

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I jolted out of my bed, grabbed my vest and toppled down the stairs. Spike was reading a cookbook while holding a measuring cup with his tail.

"Spike, where's Twilight?" I asked him as I got up.

"She left earlier," He said, not looking away from his book, "Something about demolishing the old forge building."

I ran out hoping I wasn't too late.

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By the time I got there I was out of breath and could hardly speak. I had enough time to see Rainbow Dash climbing getting ready for a dive, and Twilight and the others hiding behind a bunker.

I took all the air left in my lungs and yelled, "WAIT!"

Everypony looked up from the bunker and Rainbow Dash had enough time to pull up from her dive. I gave a large sigh. "You. Can't. Destroy. It." I said between breaths.

"Why not Blaze?" Twilight asked coming out of the bunker.

"Yeah Blaze, what gives?" Rainbow Dash asked as she landed.

"You can't destroy it because," I bit my lip, "I heard a voice earlier and then I had a dream about Summer Beard, the old blacksmith," I paused, "I think this is where I'm supposed to be."

"Are you sure?" Twilight asked, "This place needs lots of repairs."

"I am willing to take the commitment." I said

"Well then good luck, blacksmith Blaze." Twilight smiled

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With the help of some ponies in town the forge was repaired in about a week. When everything was finished there was celebration for the grand reopening of the forge. The mayor said a few words and I was given the scissors to cut the ribbon. I cut the ribbon, Pinkie Pie fired her party cannon and everypony cheered. I noticed a small flash behind me, I turned to see that my cutie mark had appeared, it was a hammer hitting an anvil. I smiled as wide as I could, I was home.

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When we rebuilt the forge there was an apartment built upstairs of the forge, made with all living necessities. I got what stuff I had from Twilight, which really wasn't a lot, apart from my vest and goggles all I had was the bed Twilight let me use. I moved the bed in and really didn't bother with anything else. I took off my vest and put it on a stand next to my bed and I laid on my bed. The ceiling and I had a staring contest as I laid there, I smiled with excitement, tomorrow I started my new job in Ponyville! Eventually my eyelids felt heavy and I fell asleep.

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My dream was almost the same as before, I saw the forge in the distance. I walked up and suddenly Summer Beard stepped out the door and I froze.

Duh, I thought to myself, He can't see me this is a dream.

Summer Beard looked at the forge and sighed, "I'm sorry, I have to leave." He placed his hoof on the door, "I just hope somepony will take good care of you." He said then walked away.

I stood there and time accelerated rapidly and the forge grew old. It then stopped and I saw Twilight and myself walk by the forge and the same thing happened like before but I still could not hear the voice.

"Why show me this?" I yelled at the darkness, "I've already lived it."

Suddenly the dream faded.