Element of Loyalty

The first to claim the element of loyalty was a pegasus mare named Jolt. At a young age she found an interest in jousting watching tournaments when given the chance. Soon Jolt began training herself signing up for a tournament held by some training camps for fillies and colts. She lost the tournament and a few more that were being held nearby but that didn't stop her from continuing to joust. Jolt practiced in her spare time entering a few more tournaments the following year lasting longer in each of her matches. But she didn't win against the last few opponents to move onto the finals, and claim the title as the tournaments champion jouster.

As she got a bit older Jolt’s jousting skills improved, winning a few tournaments she was able to go to. Some of the older competitors who were competing in other categories the tournament had, suggested she try a few of them out. She also watched a few of the sword fighting matches at times beginning to work on her swordsman skills for the tournament the coming year. She had help from a few older pegasi who usually entered that category.
By the time she was a young adult Jolt had become quite skilled in both events, but her real talent was jousting. She had been the jousting champion two years running and was hoping to keep the title a third year, also to possibly become the champion swordsman for the first time that year. She succeeded in her goal but barely beat her last opponent in the sword fighting match. After the tournament Jolt was approached by a stallion named Striker, he was one of the generals in Commander Hurricane’s army. He saw potential in her asking what she planned for her life in the future. Honestly Jolt had thought of joining the Pegasus army, having a desire to protect others, often getting into fight when she was a filly defending younger fillies and colts in her village.

Speaking with him Jolt decided to join the army traveling with Striker to one of the armies training camps. Striker helped Jolt improve her swordsman skills and the two had formed a friendship, and Jolt often looked up to the stallion seeing him as an older brother. After nearly two years in training she was placed in Strikers unit a few days before the great storm hit the three tribes. Once hearing the discovery of land that had been named Equestria, Striker offered his unit to be used in the settling of the land. Jolt was skeptical about it but knew the ponies who had to make it livable needed protection from the unknown creatures in the area. Also her friend was willing to help so she went along with little argument.

Once in Equestria she did all she could in order to protect the ponies in the small settlement. On one particular day Clover the Clever along with the ponies she had found returned to the settlement continuing their search. They’d found Shale in one of the mines who the elements had chosen ,and continued searching the mine for the last pony they needed but found nothing. The group continued to search the settlement only to come out empty hoofed, forcing the group further from the small town. With a few pegasus soldiers escorting them Clover the clever and her companions were led to the guard stations on the edge of the settlement.

She searched the small towers coming up with nothing forcing her to go after a few soldiers patrolling the woods. She met up with the small unit when a hydra attacked. With none of the soldiers experienced in battling against this creature they fled out of fear, leaving Clover the Clever and her group with only two soldiers Striker and Jolt to fight the hydra.

Jolt had been scared of the creature but wasn't going to leave her general and friend to fight it alone. The fight was long but with the help of Clover the Clever, and her companions the two soldiers were able to defeat the hydra with minimal injuries. Jolt had two choices in that situation, stay with her general or run back to the settlement. She chose to stay and fight beside her friend willing to die rather than just abandon him to save her own life. This showed that Jolt was the perfect choice to be the element of loyalty.