Assassin's Creed: Afterlife

Ezio and Rainbow Dash arrive at an empty grassy training field. It is all plain grass surrounded by trees just a distances away. The sun shines at the ground, clear skies all above, birds chirping. Peaceful. Ezio looks around the surrounding environments, noticing one of the trees has a pony-shaped hole on it, he tilts his head, wondering. Rainbow Dash is looking up the sky, knowing this is a perfect day for Ezio to start his flight training due to the cloudless sky. She turns her head down back at Ezio.

"You ready?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Si." Ezio looks back at Rainbow. "What's with that tree?"

"Fluttershy trained here to fly in front of a crowd a few years ago." Rainbow Dash answered. "We pegasi needed to create a tornado strong enough to gather water towards Cloudsdale."

"What's the water for?"

"It's required for the rainy season! What else?"

"Even ponies decide when it will rain instead of nature?"

"Sort of."

Ezio looks up the beautiful sunny sky, skeptical about Rainbow Dash's claim. How can ponies control nature? Ezio never even knew that Princess Celestia raises the sun herself instead of Earth's rotation. He turns his head to Rainbow Dash who is just hovering a few inches from the ground, waiting for the training to happen.

"Make it rain."

"Why?"

"I'd like to know what you can do."

"Hah! You'll see how awesome I am!"

Rainbow Dash disappears in a split-second with a loud boom, leaving behind a trail of colorful bright rainbow that leads up to the skies above. Ezio puts his hoof over his eyes to prevent the sun's shine from disrupting his view, spinning around, looking for Rainbow Dash. The cyan pegasus is no longer in sight, everything falls silent.

"Rainbow?" Ezio asked.

Ezio notices the brightly lit warm surroundings suddenly become dim and cold. Ezio, confused, looks above. On his sight is something that is blocking the warm glow of the sun. It is a cloud hovering calmly just right above his head. Above that cloud is a playfully smirking Rainbow Dash, standing on it as if the cloud is solid instead of gas. With a single stomp of a hoof, the cloud releases a shower of water down on Ezio's head.

"What are you doing?!" Ezio covering his head with his hooves, getting wet by the stream of water.

"I thought you needed a shower!" Rainbow Dash giggled. "You smell bad!"

"Cut that out!" Ezio said, spreading his wings without him noticing. The wings start to flap slowly, getting faster and faster over time as Ezio's hind legs gets pulled up from the grassy ground, blocking the stream of water on his way up at the same time. He comes closer to the cloud and more far from the ground, shoving the water back inside it with his bare hooves as soon as he reached it.

Rainbow Dash watches him fly like a normal pegasus would. She scratches her mane, slightly dumbfounded.

"You can fly, Ezio. I don't think I need to teach you anythin at all."

Hearing these words, Ezio realizes what his subconscious is doing for him. His wings halts its flapping immediately, enabling gravity to takes its toll. Ezio notices he starts to decrease altitude. Ezio bites into the cloud by instinct, his body hanging and swinging back and forth, flailing his hooves instead of his wings in an attempt to fly, making him look like a mad pony. He doesn't levitate even just an inch, his teeth slowly slipping off the cloud's cotton candy-ish texture as his weight betray him for the time being. He keeps trying and trying, his jaws starting to tire. Rainbow Dash falls down on his back, holding on her belly, laughing soundly at Ezio's helpless form.

"Muat are yo doing?!" Ezio said, unable to talk properly since he's still biting on the cloud to prevent falling.

Ezio finally gets his hoof to grab on to the cloud. Relieved, he unburies his teeth from the cloud's surface, wiping off sweat from his forehead. With lots of effort and energy, he pulls himself upward, panting due to fatigue, falling down on his chin next to Rainbow Dash as soon as he got his upper body on top of the cloud. He feels the cloud's soft texture, not falling through the visible mass of liquid droplets. Again, he doesn't feel suprised or shocked due to his body having already experienced standing on a cloud. The human part of him, however, is still amazed that he still haven't turned into a gravity-made pancake.

"I must say. This is very comfortable." Ezio said, looking at cloud beneath him. "This would come in handy if I have to stalk my prey without detection."

"Prey? You eat bad ponies or something?" Rainbow Dash asked, still recovering from her hysterical laughter. The sentence is interrupted by giggles.

"No." Ezio answered. "Best not to talk about that."

"How's your stay with Applejack. You've been there for only like... A few minutes?"

After what happened back at Sweet Apple Acres, Ezio didn't answer. Instead he gives Rainbow Dash a sympathic look. Applejack experienced a very traumatic event that could never happen in Equestria, even in its darkest times. If Applejack had been traumatized that severely, what about the three fillies? Ezio taught that it would be bad for him to show his face in front of the Apple Family, knowing that they would never want to see him again. What should he do? Should he stop killing? The habit of murdering someone is suppose to be a thing of the past. He's tired. He already knew his purpose, a conduit for a message for someone named Desmond. He should be inside a coffin by now...

"Anything wrong?" Rainbow Dash asked the silent Ezio.

"N-No... I..."

"Well... I guess she's busy." Rainbow Dash said.

"...Si..." Ezio said. "Let's just start with the training already."

"You just flew by yourself! You don't need any training."

"It was my subconscious, the previous stallion who once owned this body." Ezio said. "I know a part of him still exist inside me."

All Ezio had ever done is to bring the ugly face of death into this world. What if his arrival will do nothing but ruin this world's beautiful glory? Look at him, risking his own life for a Princess he barely knew using a body he stole when he's suppose to be food for bacteria now. What is this all about? All these Ezio thought inside his head. So many questions, no answers for any of them. Could this be a punishment bestowed upon Ezio by those who came before? Ezio's life has never been so mysterious.

"Let's begin, Rainbow Dash."