The Guardian Chronicles

We flew home feeling nice and the breeze felt good against my face.  But, something was troubling me. I tapped rainbow's head and she looked up.

"Hey could you fly down for a minute? I got something to show you" I said.

"Uh, sure" she replied confused. So she hovered down to a field about two miles from home.

"Okay" I said. "Now go about 50 yards out that way".

"Travis? What's this about?" She asked.

"Remember when I told you I have certain characteristics of you?" I said. She nodded. "Well I want to show you one" I said.

Confused at what I meant she flew out into the field about 50 feet and stopped. She landed on the ground and looked in my direction. She had to squint but I could tell she could see me. A thought ran through my mind, "I had never pulled this off before!". But there was no turning back now. I had rainbow waiting for me and there was only one way I was getting to her...run.

I began to sprint towards rainbow at the average speed I  normally run. I could do it this time, I had rainbow to support me. I pushed myself harder and felt my legs speed up. I was getting tired but I couldn't rest. No, I needed to do this. If I just did it once it would be easy t do it again. I channeled my magic, sending it to my legs. "Come on!" I shouted. My legs sped up even more to a point where they were blurry from the motion. Rainbow watched as my speed gradually increased.

"T-Travis?!" She cried.

Now all I needed was a little push. I took all the magic I had and brought it down to my speeding legs.

"Here I...GO!" I shouted.

I pressed off the ground hard and as I did so I sent a shockwave of energy through my body. Once the shockwave hit ground I was launched forward in a streak of blue light! I didn't even notice that I had ran right past Rainbow! But when I ran past her I saw her shocked expression out of the corner of my eye which made me laugh a bit.

I was doing it! I was running as fast as rainbow could fly!

"WOOHOOHOO" I cheered as I blasted through the field. Remembering I had to go back to rainbow I turned on a dime and began to head back. I saw rainbow coming up with that shocked expression still frozen on her face.

As I was heading back something felt...off. I was feeling weaker and was slowing down. The blue streak was shortening which made me nervous. Then my legs gave out from under me and I hit the ground hard. I tumbled across the ground traveling about ten feet every time I made contact with the ground. When I did stop I was in serious pain and was about to black out. The last thing I saw as my vision grew dark was rainbow flying towards me shouting my name.

When I awoke I was on my pillow looking up at the nervous face of rainbow dash. She let out a sigh of relief whe we saw my eyes open. "Travis! Your awake!" She said.

"Yeah" I replied. "I'm good".

When I attempted to sit up she used her hand to assist me. "Thanks" I said. She smiled which made me smile a bit too.

"Travis, what you did in the field. It was so AWESOME! I had no idea you could run that fast" she said enthusiastically

"Yeah but I blew all my energy attempting it" I said. "Who knows how long it will take one fully restored".

I attempted to stand up but felt a sharp pain which made me yelp and sit back down. That's when I noticed the bandages around my side. I stared in awe at the spots of dried blood that had soaked through.

"Oh, you had a nasty fall after you gave out and cut your side up. I'm not the best medic but I stopped the bleeding and wrapped you up." She said fairly proud of herself.

"Wow good job" I replied making her smile wide.

"I want you to rest. If there's something I learned, it's that bed rest is great for injuries" she said. I nodded and lied back down on my pillow. I almost instantly fell asleep which wasn't a good thing because the nightmares started up again.