How and Why? Season 2!
Chapter 15: Having Some Fun
Previous ChapterNext ChapterOk! So!.. Me, Spike, Twi, Dash and Rares made it back to Ponyville after I dealt with the dragons. During our way back home the girls decided to question me for some fucking reason.
"Streak?" She also decided to hover next to me.
"Yeah?" I'm still in my dragon form.
"That. Was. AWESOME!!"
"I have to agree with Rainbow on this one. You gave quite a scare until Spike told us you were you." We all looked to Twi. It took her a while before she noticed.
"What?" We continue to stare. “*sigh* You scared the tatarus out of me when you appeared behind us.”
“Thank you.” I say pointedly. “So Spike,” He looks to me. “did you find out what it takes to be a dragon?” He smiles and nods.
“Yeah! And I don’t want to be a dragon, I’d rather be a pony like you guys!” I would've taken offense to that, but since I know what he meant, it would be a lost cause to do so.
“Good.” Just then a single thought enters my head. “Hey Twi? How come it’s only you with Dash and Rares?”
“Oh! Right, Applejack had to apple buck, Pinkie’s helping the Cakes with a big order, and we couldn’t get Fluttershy to come with us for obvious reasons.”
“Oh, ok… We’re close to Ponyville by the way.” Everyone looks ahead to see some houses in the distance, very fucking far away.
“Couldn't have you just teleported us there?”
“Oh yeah… Everypony want me to do that?” I look at everypony and see them nod. “Alright.” I teleport us to Twi’s place, the library part of it. Rares and Twi would’ve tripped over nothing if they didn’t stop walking. Dash almost flew into the wall. I wish she did, that would've made my day.
“Woah! A little bit of a warning next time!?”
“Now where’s the fun in that?” *I think I just quoted Discord…* Yeah, I did, I wonder if that makes me something like Discord… Anyway!
“Whatever I have to go do some, cloud duty things. So see ya!” Dash flies out of a window that happen to be open.
“She know she doesn’t have to lie about lazing around, right?”
“Of course she does, but she’s Rainbow Dash.” Her little joke made us all laugh a little.
“You have a point.”
“Yeah, for “The fastest Pegasus in all of Equestria” she’s pretty lazy.”
“You got that right Twilight!”
“Yeah, I gotta go. Right now I bet Echo’s missing me.” I say during the laughter, no one responded so I just walked out and made my way to Sugarcube Corner…
I got to the worlds best bakery in relative time, Tia’s sun is just about to set. I plan to get to bed when I get home. I walk inside and Pinks pops up from behind the counter.
“Welcome to- Oh hi Streaky!! Here to pick up little Echy?”
“Yeah, pretty much.” Pink's mane starts to shake as Echo crawls out. We make eye contact and Echo practically screams with excitement. Echo launches off of Pink's head, using my face as a landing zone. "I missed ya too." I reach and place a hand over my little bat, scratching her by the ears. We stay like that for a few minutes until Echo lets go. I flatten out my hand to let her stand. "By far the cutest sight I've ever seen." She covers her head with her wings, a slight blush on her cheeks. I smile as I move my hand closer to my shoulder, allowing her to hop on and get comfy. "Comfy?" She nods. "Alright, lets go home. See ya Pinks!"
"By Streaky!" We wave to each as I walk out of the bakery, already dark out. When we got home Echo flew to her branch, hanging upside down. I get into my bed and power down.
--------->>>>One week's pass<<<<---------
I feel like I need to explain what's been happening over the past week... So I'll do just that! Basically I've been planning to screw with some ponies in Canterlot, more specifically the guard. Let me explain, I plan to act as a new transfer guard, and start picking fights with really fucking strong guards. Now, I used changeling magic to make me look like a normal pony, a standard guard. The difference between transformation spells and the former is that changeling magic just displays an illusion, transformation spells, on the other hand. My body changes to a completely different state, a more vulnerable state. Meaning I could get hurt, badly, if I were to use a spell, anyway. I've been planning this since the day after I came back, I even had a letter sent to Tia asking if she could forge official-looking armor. Tia, being the unexpected troll, sent me some. I looked the common kinda armor ya see the guards wearing. The other four days were spent perfecting my act, no spoilers! And now here I am, inside the royal castle, the royal guard wing, more specifically in a waiting room, this place has a reception area for some reason. And I'm waiting for 'my superior' to take me on a tour of this wing. It took a while for 'my superior' to get here, but h- she did. Yup, it's a mare, not that I have anything against that, just a little unexpected. Cause y'know the guard's male dominated and shit, just I didn't expect! Fuck! Anyway, she had a white coat with a blue mane and tail. The female equivalent to the standard guard. Weird...
"Midnight Javelin?" Oh yeah, I also had to make up a new name.
"That'd be me." And I also had to change my voice. I get up from the chair I'm sitting in and walk over to the mare. When I right in front of her I salute.
"At ease, recruit." She said with a sneer. "Follow me." She turns around and walks off, I quickly fall in step next to her. As we walk through halls I notice some of the guards cower a little when they see the mare I'm following.
"Ah, so you're one of those mares that everypony's terrified of?" She looks to me.
"How could you guess?" She says with sickening sarcasm.
"And I'm also guessing you're not so nice?" She stare blankly. "I can already tell that we're not gonna get along, at all. Not that you give a shit anyway." At the word 'shit', she halts and faces me.
"Don't you curse in here solder!" I gave her my best, 'I don't give a shit', face. "Wipe that look off of your face! Or else!"
"Or else what?" I can see all the guards freezing while looking at us. The mare has a look of pure rage in her eyes. That's when she headbutted me in the chest, it would of succeeded if I used a transformation spell. Instead the recoil sends her reeling back. All the guards in my peripheral vision gawk at me, jaws dropping to the floor. "Weak." At that she snorts.
"Follow. Me. Worm!" She turns to some directions and trots off. I follow behind her.
"I applaud your composure." I say dryly, making her snort again. She leads me through some halls and some corridors. She eventually leads me to a court yard, devoid of grass. This area's littered practice dummies, and guards practicing with them, the air's filled with wood smashing against wood, magic spells being fired, and the swoosh of pegasus guards flying by. . The mare motions for to continue following her, and I did. As we walk through the court yard I saw that all eyes were on us.
*She must be a real bitch to have this kinda rep...* I think as we stop at what looks like a little arena; a circle engraved into the ground. "What is this?"
"'This', is what we call 'The Circle'," Fucking original name. "and I brought you here t teach you some discipline! Never in my life have I meet such a pony with so much DISRESPECT! When we're done you WILL learn some FUCKING RESPECT! Now GET IN THE FUCKING CIRCLE!!" She barks out. My face goes blank as I walk to the center. By now a crowd of guards, all in varying ranks, have gathered around. "MIDNIGHT EMBER!!" A few guards side step as a thick, bulky-looking stallion steps into the circle. "Make this motherfucker wish he was never BORN!!"
"Yes ma'am!!" He enters a defensive stance, while I just stand there, looking at him blankly. "I'm going to enjoy beating you to a BLOODY PULP!" He digs a fore hoof into the ground. At this point the crowd started cheering, the mare being one of them.
"Well then? Punch me." My stance change as he snorts and charges at me. I just continue to stay still, then I look over to the mare, she has a crazed look in her eyes. If I could read minds I haphazard to guess that she'd be thinking I'm going to die like an idiot. *This is gonna FUN!!* The stocky stallion is just inches in front of me; fore hoof traveling at high speeds to my face, fast for a pony anyway. A loud 'CLANG' is heard as his hoof meets my face. Well... more like the piece of armor covering my forehead. That alone would've hurt by itself, but I guess since I did move an inch, neither did I flinch. The millisecond after his hoof connected with my face, the recoil caused him to fall on his ass. He then grabbed his hoof in pain, nearly crying out in pain. But he sucks it up and just grunts, now that I think about, if he went for the cheek, that would've made my head bend a little. But the bent bar of gold on my forehead shows his strength just enough. I take off my helmet and set to the ground, I then look to the guard who punched me. Still holding his hoof, the guards around all went quiet, especially the little cunt. I then calmly walk over to the guard who just punched me. He looks to me as I get closer.
"What... What the hell are you?" At that I give my most sick, twisted grin.
"I am but a simple pony. Thing is my parents abandoned me as a foal. I was told that I would've been killed by timber wolves, if it wasn't for a Minotaur saving me. That Minotaur was a female, Kialas Singlehorn, she told me that she saved me. And that she took me to her tribe, I was presented to their elders, to determine if I were live among them or not. Of course I was accepted into her tribe. Kialas took me as her unofficial son, and from then on, I was raised by Minotaur. And even trained by them to be as strong as one. I even trained to be as durable as one. So you can imagine how looks can be deceiving in my case." By now everypony went silent, some guards even teared up a bit. And I was LOVING it.The fact that I was pulling a bunch of bullshit out of the air was making all the more hilarious. "But that doesn't matter right now. It's my turn..." I say the last part with a very dark tone. I sit on my haunches, and reel my right foreleg back. Only using a portion of my strength I punch him square in the jaw. I punched him just hard enough to send him flying to the crowd, but not enough to knock his head off his neck. The sound of flesh squishing and metal clanging is heard as the affected guards get turned into a pile of ponies. I look at the rest of the crowd and see their awed faces. Especially the mares face.
"You can pretty much guess why I act the way I act. Ever since I came back to pony society. I found out a lot of things, things that are different from minotaurs. I'll spare out the details, but one thing is that so far, nopony has been able to match my strength." I stand back up and walk off like a badass everypony standing out of my way wherever I walked....
--------->>>>Three hours later<<<<---------
Right now I'm sitting at a table in the mess hall. And I've made somewhat of an impression round here. Everywhere I go guards avoid me at all cost. A couple tried to brave enough to walk up to me, but eye contact made them cower and retreat. So basically I was a total badass the whole time I was there. I was getting pretty boring though; nopony to mess with because they avoid me. Not even anypony had enough balls to walk up to me. No homo, but seriously it's fucking b-
"Javelin?" The cold, stoic voice of that same fucking mare rings in me ears once again. I look around and spot her by the entrance to this room. The whole room went silent when she spoke.
"Over here!" I wave so she sees me, when she saw me she walked over to the table I was sitting at. She sits across from me, everypony else just gets back to whatever what they're doing. The air around us is filled with silence as we stare at each other. So I decided to break it. "So, any particular reason why you've lookin' for me?"
"Yes," It looks like she's having a reeeeaally hard time talking right now. "I, wanted... to... apologize..."
*Did she just..? YES SHE DID!! I did not expect that from her! I'm so milking this moment.* I milk the fuck out it I did. "I'm sorry, didn't quite catch that." I move in closer, turning my head to the side.
"I siad... I wanted to apologize..."
"Oooooh! Well in that case, apology accepted."
"Thank you- wait, you heard me!?" I nod. "How the fuck did you hear over all this noise!?" I tap my ears.
"I was also born with hyper-sensitive ears as well."
"What else were you born with? night vision?" Man she loves using sarcasm. Since I'm having some fun with my eyes flash a light blue, briefly showing slited eyes. Closely resembling a dragons eyes. At that her jaw drops. "You have GOT to be shitting me..."
"There are many things you don't know about me, neither will you know unless I tell you." She looks at me expectantly, I chuckle. "As if I'm going to tell you!"
"And why the hell not!?"
"Because, I want to be the strongest stallion around here. And I intend to keep it that way." She huffs in annoyance. "Lighten up, at least everypony here's terrified of you. Much less me."
"You have a point there..." She shakes her head. "But you are an extraordinary pony from what I've seen."
"Heha, yup. I think I might like it here."
"So... this is your first time with other ponies?"
"Not exactly, this is my third day here. My first encounter was back in Ponyville, my mother said she found that little town on one of her scouting trips. She when she came back, she told me about this. And obviously I was ecstatic about this. 'finally I get to see my own kind!' I thought. The next day me, my mother, and a couple of my friends went to Ponyville. When we made an appearance there was mass hysteria, if you can believe that." She snickers a little at that. "Ponies where panicking every where. It was until my mother and friends presented me, and when, 'The elements' as you call them, arrived. They explained what happened to me and the towns ponies were quick to accept me. The two days were spent learning about your society. It was when I learned about your military that I made an application. And now, here I am."
"Is that it?"
"The short version of it, yeah."
"Will you tell me the regular version?" She asks blankly, with a hint of annoyance.
"Ye- nope."
"Fuck you."
"Flattery gets you nowhere!" Mockery is a wonderful tool.
Author's Note
Apologies for being late, again. My family decided to take me out shopping for the entire fucking day. The whole. Fucking. DAY!! I couldn't even update you guys because it was 11:00 when I got back home and was fucking exhausted.
Update: Same can apply for today, my family can be fucking assholes. Fucking crunch time.
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