Recap,

" Oh I almost forgot you and Applejack are supposed to be heading over to Sweet Apple Acres to see if working brings any memories back", Twilight said in a hasty tone.

Both his and Applejack's eyes shot wide open," Oh yeah we were supposed to go there, race you there Applejack!!!", with that he took off out the door.

Applejack took off after him, " Wait do ya even know where yer goin!!!" Twilight chuckled at the scene before getting hit in the shoulder by Rainbow Dash, who in turn started laughing.

Twilight rolls her eyes and thinks to herself, "Well at least he's having fun, today has been a long day.

After finally catching up to the speedy stallion, Applejack and Axel trotted side by side on their way to Sweet Apple Acres, the awkward stares they were getting were one thing, the awkward silence between the two was a whole other thing. "Well It's just a guess but ah think he ain't gonna talk" Applejack said to herself, " So uh, what do ya think about Ponyville", she had hoped this would park at least A small conversation.

She didn't need to hope for much longer, her attempts bore fruit, " It's a nice town, I only wish the ponies here would stop staring at me".

" Well It's not everyday ya witness a pony jump over an entire crowd without wings, that was some impressive hoofwork you were doin though, I think the only pony I've seen go that fast has been Pinkie Pie on a sugar rush", this got a chuckle out of Axel, " I ain't kiddin, that there was some hustlin you were doin" Applejack exclaimed.

He continued to chuckle, " No not that, what you said about the pink pony, speaking of her, It's nice of her to plan me a party, I still don't think I've ever had one". He looked up at the clouds as they walk, " The sky looks so nice the clouds are in perfect alignment too", Applejack noticed the serene look on his face as he gaze drifted deeper into the sky.

A thought popped in Applejack's head, why not figure out what her new friend thinks of all six of them, and she knew the perfect pony to start off with, " Ya know Axel Rainbow Dash helps put the clouds in the position they're in now, she can do it faster than anypony in all of Ponyville, hay! probably faster than anyone in all of Equestria", Applejack praised her friend, while trying to get an opinion out of the seemingly oblivious stallion.

Her words seemed to have caught his attention, " Rainbow Dash, shes the nice looking one with the rainbow mane right?, that's cool i wish i had wings, all the freedom you'd have", he trailed off getting lost in thought, Applejack however heard his compliment towards Rainbow Dash and her curiosity grew. Before he can say another word A memory hits him right then and there.

" The memory shows an adolescent colt who resembles Axel, resting under a tree during a rainstorm, " My luck, I go out on patrol and I get stuck in a storm, wonderful" , he scoffed at just how unlucky he was, " If she were to catch me like this I'd never hear the end of it. " As he opened his eyes he stared at the clouds and sighed, " I wish you were around mom, you always knew what was best to do, you also knew how much I hated getting wet on certain days", he was so lost in thought that he paid no mind to the sound of another pony walking up to him.

" You know if you stay out here much longer your're gonna get a cold", said a tender female voice. He turned his head to see a mare, from the voice he could tell it was the same mare from the last memory, she was holding an umbrella, " Come on, we're gonna be late for the combat meeting if you sleep all day silly", the mare giggled at him.

A cocky grin grew on his face, " You'd sleep as much as I did if you had recon every night, Hell I even sleep then" the rain began to lighten up as they spoke.

She giggled even more, " You sleep too much you know", she says as she closed the umbrella, " It's kinda cute, you snore like a little puppy dog, " her giggling continued which seemed to annoy him slightly.

"Hey give me a bre-", his words were caught at a standstill when his eyes shifted towards the clearing sky, A rainbow slowly began to form. A small smile took form on his face as he stood up, " Did I ever tell you why I sit outside when It rains, despite the act I hate rain", she shakes her head in response, " It's cause I've always admired the colors of the rainbow, for some odd reason it brings a sense of serenity to my constantly pained mind", he started chuckling at something, this made his friend rather curious.

" Hey what's so funny?" she asked in a confused tone.

He looked at her and grinned then took off, " Just the fact I'm gonna get to the meeting before you do!".

"H..HEY!! why you little!", she shouted as she chased him after him, the memory slowly fades. "

By the time he had snapped out of it they had already arrived at Sweet Apple Acres when A voice spoke up breaking him from his trance, " I'm guessin you just remembered somethin, " he nodded in response. Applejack smiled to his response, " Well that's good, If memory serves me right Big Mac and Granny are in town right about now, and Applebloom should still be on her campin trip, so that leaves me and you to do the chores".

She heard him chuckle, " Sounds too easy, let's get on it", he was sure of himself that he could do any task she gave to him.

"now that's what I like to hear, let's get movin partner", the first chore on Applejack's list was tending to the animals, but she thought of something else that would suit the large colt, " You'll be plowin the fields, normally Mac would do it but seein' as he ain't here I guess you'll do just fine, let's just hope your stronger than you look".

" Sounds simple enough" he said with an excited tone in his voice, " This is gonna be a piece of cake" he half expected the hyper active pink pony to pop up at the phrase.

Applejack pulled the plow over towards Axel, " Alright here she is, sorry if It's A little dull, we've been meaning to get it sharpened".

He started chuckling and pulled his sword off his back, " You didn't have to bring that out, I got the only sharp object i need, It should be enough shouldn't it?", he got a hesitant but assuring nod from Applejack as he grasped the handle of the blade in his mouth. As the blade hit the soft soil it sunk deep enough into the ground for Axel to properly plow the field, " This will be a breeze...now if only I knew how long I'm gonna be stuck doing this", sweat dripped down his forehead at the thought of him being stuck in the field for hours. With the handle of the blade grasped firmly in his mouth he proceeded to pull it through the soil in a neat line, "This is gonna take forever if i take it slow, hmm I wonder how strong I really am, I don't exactly think now is the best time to figure that out but maybe a little boost wouldn't hurt" with this thought he starts a light sprint dragging the blade behind him, the size of the blade and the overall strength he was putting out made easy work of the field. To say Applejack was impressed was to say the least, never once had she seen a pony, colt or mare, move that swiftly while toting something that seemed extremely heavy, it was incredible how he was moving, it wasn't as fast as back in Ponyville but it was some speed, and the strangest thing about it, he seemed eager to go faster as if he wasn't going full speed.

Despite how quickly he plowed the field it took A whole hour to finish the fields, plowing the field was the easy part, It was planting the seeds in the freshly plowed soil that took up most of the time. By the time they had planted the last seed Applejack could tell Axel was eager to do more than this, "Say, you wouldn't mind tryin yer hoof in apple buckin would ya?".

" Apple bucking huh?, never heard of it then again it's not like i would remember", he slowly rubbed the back of his head with his hoof before a serious look appeared on his face, " But what would it hurt if i gave it a try, let's get to bucking some apples then...whatever that means", and with that Applejack led him to the apple orchard. A look of excitement grew on his face when they arrived, there were apple trees as far as the eye could see, each one with a fresh batch of apples growing on them, " I think I'm gonna like apple bucking".

Unbeknownst to them, as Applejack explained the basics of bucking Apples to Axel, they had eyes on them from the sky, " Come on AJ you saw how easily he plowed that field, apple bucking should be a breeze for him", Rainbow Dash whispered to herself. She was asked by Twilight to follow them and make sure he was making progress, in reality Rainbow Dash felt this was more of stalking so it made her rather uncomfortable, " Sheesh, how did i get myself into this, one minute i was just sitting around at Twilight's place, next thing im on this cloud, spying on some stallion i hardly know, that's not creepy at all, " she said sarcastically with a roll of the eyes. She started to remember the events that unfolded at Twilight's which led to her being stuck watching Axel.

"Rainbow Dash was laying on the couch at Twilight's place, her, Rarity, and Fluttershy stayed at Twilight's after Applejack left to catch up with the hasty colt, Rainbow Dash could't help but chuckle at the stallion, " He sure is something else".

Rarity replied with, " He most certainly is, It's rare that you find somepony that can make black work as well as he does", Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes as rarity spoke.

"Hey Fluttershy, whats your opinion on him, you've been more silent than usual" Rainbow asked curiously.

Fluttershy opened her mouth to say something but found difficulty, it took her a moment before she finally got any words out, " He looks scary...b.but he, he seems nice" she gave a soft smile as she spoke.

With Rarity and Fluttershy having given their opinions, Rainbow Dash went to say hers when suddenly the door from Twilight's room swung open, " Girls I've come to A conclusion, we need to know if hes remembered anything or not as soon as we can and so I'm going to have one of you keep an eye on him while he works, and I already know the pony to do the job", Rainbow Dash was hardly paying attention, she was more focused on taking a nap while her egghead of a friend spoke unaware of what Twilight was going to say next. " and the pony i chose is, Rainbow Dash", Her eyes shot wide as she sat up, utterly shocked from her actually being picked, but then it dawned on her why once she looked at Rarity and Fluttershy.

She gave out a sigh of defeat," Fine I'll do it, but this is really wrong" with this being said she takes off out the door, and into the air"

" I should have just let one of the others do this, I'm too tired anyways", she looked down and watched as Axel attempted to buck his first tree. What she saw next shocked her more than when she witnessed him leap over the crowd.

On the ground with Applejack and Axel, Axel had been instructed to try and buck the tree she put him in front of, " So i just kick it real hard?" Applejack nodded for confirmation, " Seems simple enough", He reared his hind legs into the air, tensed his muscles, and giving as much strength as he could muster, he kicked the tree and uprooted it. Applejack stood wide-eyed and jaw dropped, he looked at her with an innocent face, sweat running down his head, " oops" he gave out a sheepish chuckle as he looked at Applejack's awestruck face, " Guess i hit it too hard.

Deciding to push the fact that he uprooted an entire tree with a single buck, Applejack decided that maybe it's best they take a break, " You sure are a bundle of surprises aren't ya, never would I have imaged that you would knock the tree over, I thank ya for replantin it though, these trees here are our lifeline, they're what keeps this farm alive, do you think you ever had somethin like that at one time" she knew she probably wouldn't get a good enough answer from the amnesiac, but to her it was worth a try.

To her surprise she actually got an answer, " I was actually wondering that myself, what did i live for before, or what lived for me, It's all a blur when i try and remember any of it and to be honest, it kind of hurts to remember some things, I know you, Twilight and the others are only trying to help..I only wish there were an easier way".

Both Applejack and Rainbow Dash who was watching from a distance couldn't help but feel sorry for him, they thought they were helping him by trying to find ways to get his memory back, but in truth they were hurting him," I..I'm sorry, I had no idea they hurt ya,we.., we can stop now if you want and I can take ya back to Twilight's place if-", she was cut off by him raising his hoof in front of her face.

He gave her a wide grin, " Now why would I want to do that now, we got one more thing on the chore list don't we?".

Applejack realized he was right, they had one last chore to do and that was fix the fence surrounding the farm, " You see there are some nasty varmints in those woods called timber wolves, and before ya ask what they are, their nasty wolves made of wood, ya can always tell if they're near cause of the smell they give off", she continued on about the beast as they walked around the parameter of the farm. Eventually they come across a fence that's been knocked down, " Well shoot!, one of the critters knocked A fence down, do ya mind gettin some tools from the barn, I know Big Mac always keeps them there" he nodded and like that he was off.

As he trotted towards the barn a foul odor hit his nose, " Yuck what's that disgusting smell, forget it, Applejack needs those tools", he ran into the barn unaware of the threats that awaited his friends.

"There, that should hold it till he gets them tools out to me, what the hay is that smell, oh no", she turned her head towards the forest only to see, what could be over thirty sets of hungry eyes on hers, she slowly started backing up, the second she took a step back the beast jumped from the shadows and quickly surrounded her, she managed to keep them at bay as best as she could by bucking the ones that get close, " What the hay am i gonna do", she saw one try to snap at her from behind, it was quickly pushed back by a good buck to the face, while she kicked its comrade, a large timber leapt over the rest and right towards her, teeth and claws bared.

Right as it was about to strike Applejack, Rainbow Dash dived down and grabbed her friend and went to fly her to safety, only to have her wing clamped down on by the larger wolf, making them tumble a few feet away. The initial pain from the bite made Rainbow yell and cry in pain, " Sweet mother of Celestia this hurts!", tears welled up in her eyes as she looked at her wing, it was bleeding and had some of it's feathers torn off forcefully by the wolves jaws. She crawled closer to Applejack, thoughts raced through her head of how she was soon going to meet her end at the claws and teeth of the wolf pack. The two ponies hugged each other as they awaited their demise, the alpha wolf leaped at them with the intent to kill, "This is it,the end of the line, I'll never get to be a wonderbolt, I'll never get to live any of my dreams" .

Similar things were going through Applejack's head, " It can't end like this, Big Mac, Apple Bloom, Granny..I'm sorry".

They waited for deaths embrace to take them, but it never did, all they heard was a loud yelp. They opened their eyes to see the alpha timber wolf impaled on Axel's sword which he held firmly in his mouth, " Are you two gonna sit there or run, go!!", they were hesitant but they did as they were told, they saw the other path was blocked by the wolves so they took a short cut into the forest. They turned back to watch the action unfold, Axel tosses the alpha off his sword, into a tree making it fall to pieces, then turns his attention towards the smaller wolves, " You guys hurt my eyes and nose", the all lunged at him at him at once but were quickly cut off literally from an underside strike from the sword, " Are you predators or fire wood", three wolves lunged from behind knocking him over and clawing him on his exposed underside, making the girls gasp before running off.

Rainbow dash felt conflicted about leaving him behind, " We've got to go back for him, he could be hurt", she didn't know why she was worried other than the fact that another pony was in danger.

" What can we do Rainbow, you saw how many were there, yeah he took out most of them, but where one comes from another comes and so on, plus yer not in such good shape with that wing, I just hope he can hold them critters off till we get help", Applejack said in a concerned tone.

The wolves piled on top of the downed stallion , "I can't fall not to weaklings like this, that memory showed me what i was capable of...what I can do to those who stand in my way!!!".

"The memory shows what seems to be a war torn field, soldiers of different kinds lay around each other, ponies, griffons, minotaur, all different races aligned under one flag, fighting a common enemy. A rag tag group of soldiers are all that stand against the endless hordes of shadow like beings that resemble ponies, among the surviving soldiers is Axel, his sword grasped in his mouth as he stares death in the face, " so who goes first", one of his allies said.

Axel spoke up, " Leave it to me" he trotted forward before crouching down and focusing on something.

" when doesn't he show off", said a pegasus colt wearing a bandanna around his face and a scythe strapped to his back, his allies shrugged in response.

Once he lifted himself up he leaped almost 20 feet in the air, sword held up above his head, " Let's see how well you like the grand slam!!!", his sword slices through the forces upfront and makes contact with the ground, splitting the ground for a few feet, " The funs not over yet! " they were about to make a counter strike at the same time he pulled his head back, he quickly swung it aorund throwing it at the crowd, cutting through anything in its way.

A large Minotaur wearing armor stepped up, "I suppose it's our turn to join the fray", he lifted a heavy battle ax onto his shoulder before running forward being joined by his comrades, save for the masked pegasus.

" Am I the only one who thinks things through before we strike, if you can't beat them join them as they say", he spread his wings and flew fast towards the waves of shadows, his scythe held up high to strike.

Axel stood up over the numerous bodies that feel before his blade, " It's rare we see Cyrus so pumped for anything", he spotted his blade flying back at him, " welcome home" he ran straight towards it as the blade shifted to his side at the correct moment, allowing him to grab the handle in his mouth. His attention shifted to the skies where his pegasus ally and what griffons remained dodged a hail of arrow fire, without thinking he hurls his blade into the crowd again striking the archers, he gave chase to the blade as soon as it hit the archers, " Way to easy!", a large hulking figure came running at him while he was too focused on the blade.

The memory quickly faded as he felt the pain of a timber wolves jaws on the back of his neck, " You know, you guys really piss me off!" another quick memory formed taking place right where the last one ended.

"The hulking figure slammed into him, throwing him to the side and barreling through enemy troops, " Talk about a head rush" he shook his head and regained his focus, before staring down the hulking unicorn in armor. The longer the two stared down one another, the angrier Axel grew, he could feel his anger reaching it's peak, his eyes began to glow A deeper shade of red than they usual were, " You're really starting to piss me off!!! " he caught his sword which was flying back towards him, then took off full speed at the armored menace"

Like in the memory, Axel's eyes began to glow deep red, " Now get off!!!" he shot up, tossing the wolves off in the process, " Now you've really done it!, Begone!!!", with A swing of his sword he cleaved through the remaining timber wolves, like a hot knife through butter. After regaining his composure he looked around for Rainbow Dash and Applejack, only to find a trail that lead into the forest, " Oh for the love of..", he rushed into the forest, unaware that he was being watched by two pairs of eyes this time.

" Most interesting, don't you agree sister", said the taller one.

" Agreed, did you feel the presence he gave of when he became enraged, truly remarkable", said the shorter one

The taller one flew down to the remains of the timber wolves, " Such tenacity and power, I've only ever seen such power from us Alicorns, yet hes lacking something we have, I know its the wings but..it's something in his head as if he were using a primal instinct".

The shorter one landed next to her sister, " You do not jest Tia, they fought as if it were predators fighting, such an interesting stallion".

The one know as "Tia" started to giggle, " Exactly how interesting is this stallion Luna, so interesting you couldn't keep your eyes off his flank", she continued to giggle at her sister who was now furiously blushing,

" Thou surely is jesting right?!, we would never stoop so low to stare at a colt's flank!", Luna said in a defensive tone, which made her sister laugh more.

While this is going on Axel has managed to catch up with the wolves chasing after Applejack and Rainbow Dash, " Hey stump-for-brains, Eat this!!", he stopped in his tracks to throws his sword like a boomerang at them, striking each one, save for the largest one who had managed to jump over the blade, " You mutts just can't make this easy on me!", he focused in on his horn, gathering as much magic in it as possible, " Let's hope this transportation spell thing can get me in the air", his horn began to glow and in a flash he was gone.

Applejack and Rainbow Dash had run as far as their legs would carry them, how cruel and ironic it was that their legs just happened to take them to a cliff's edge. " Oh great now what are we supposed to do, if only I had gone to Twilight's when i had the chance to get help", Applejack was going to say something but before she got the change they saw the large timber wolf emerge from the woods and leap at them, once again they were ready to embrace deaths cold grasp, but again it never came.

The Timber wolf lunged at them, and right as it was only a few feet away from them Axel reappears above it, sword ready to strike, " Take A hike, or better yet, Go jump off a cliff!!!", he spun in mid air, striking the wolf in the center, splitting it in half and knocking it over the ledge. Axel slid towards the ledge of the cliff, stopping right at the end, " Whoa that was a little too close", he turned and smiled at the mares, " you ladies OK ", they ran up and hugged him, both of them saying thank you over and over again, " Uh girls I appreciate the thank yous and all but I'm on the edge of a cliff!!!!", they backed away with sorry looks on their faces.

" Sorry about that partner, It's just we thought we were done for, then ya went and saved us, where did you learn to do those things anyway?"

He rubbed the back of his head looking for an answer, "Let's just say i remember some things an old friend taught me", before he could say anything else he heard the sound of claws against rock, he looked over the ledge to see the timber wolf, now bigger than ever, was scaling the cliff side to reach the stallion who destroyed its pack and practically humiliated it, " This thing is like a bad itch, doesn't it ever go away", a serious look grew on his face as he pulled the sword off his back. Once the behemoth of a timber wolf had it's eyes fixated on Axel, he could easily tell he no longer cared about eating Applejack or Rainbow Dash, now it was personal, " Aww i made the little pup cry, I guess its bed time", he crouched down, the ground cracking beneath his hooves, " Don't worry this shouldn't hurt long" he jumped high enough into the air to stare the wolf in the face, " Nighty nigh-", he was cut off by the wolves paw slapping him to the ground. He coughed as he stood up, " Correction, this should hurt for a while", he got up on all four legs, ready to fight the beast, this time with a plan. " What comes up must come down!", he hurled his sword straight into the air and followed it by jumping into a nearby treetop before leaping into the air above the monster wolf, " If it takes too long to come down, make it come down!!!" he catches the sword in mid air and then throws it at the wolf's face, striking its eye. The beast let out a howl of pain, stumbling closer to the edge, while it was distracted with It's injury Axel fell towards it's back and gracefully landed on the center of it, " Sheesh you smell worse close up. "

The wolf felt the stallion on his back and began to buck wildly, despite the fact they were close to the edge, " Yikes, you got some issues if you'rewilling to throw yourself off a cliff just to take me out!", he hastily jumped from the back to the wolves head, slamming his hooves onto it's muzzle, then leaping onto the cliff, " I'm starting to get too close for comfort, any closer and that thing would've taken me down with it".It could easily be seen that the wolf was getting annoyed, it wanted the stallion gone and it wanted him gone now, It lunged at him forcing Axel to quickly leap to the side, taking Applejack and Rainbow Dash with him, " why don't you girls get to safety while i take the dog for a walk, with a hasty nod from them, they were gone. Both stallion and beast stared each other dead in the eye, waiting for one another to make a move, " How sweet you want me to make the first move, maybe you should have bought me flowers and candy before you ask me to dance", he dashes forward dodging the claw swipes from the wolf, who at the moment wasn't his prime priority, he was focused on the blade that would finish off the wolf, " i'm tired of that smell, let's end this!!".

He rushed underneath the beast, swiftly grabbing his sword and then rolling out from underneath it, with a great leap backwards into the air Axel was high enough to get the perfect shot off on the wolf, " Here boy, go fetch!!!!!" he pulled his head back as far as he could, and with all his strength he threw the blade at the beast, striking it in the same eye as before, but unlike last time the sword kept flying and went towards the ground, cleaving through the cliff. While the wolf was busy swatting at the sword Axel took the opportunity and made a great leap above the wolf, his sword flying right at him, " I'm getting fired up!!", his horn glowed a deep red and began to spark.

With a bright flash a flame shot from his horn at the sword, lighting the sword ablaze and forcing it back and straight at the wooden beast. The blade pierces through the wolves head, lighting it on fire from the inside, but the blade also did something else. The fracture line the sword made the first time it hit the ground was struck again, the impact was too much to handle and thus the cliff began to crumble with the wolf on it. The timber wolf desperately clawed at the ground attempting to get a grip on the solid ground, but failing to do so. Axel watched from the air as the beast fell to it's doom, "It's on fire and falling off a cliff, I'd love to see it recover from that, say..shouldn't I be on the ground by now", he looked down and saw he was falling towards the bottom of the cliff, where he had just sent the burning timber wolf, " This is gonna hurt!! " With his eyes closed he awaited the impact, but instead felt something different, when he opened his eyes he saw he was enveloped in a dark blue magical aura.

"See sister I told you we would catch him" Luna said as she lifted him onto the ground, she looked him over before speaking, " Thou displayed incredible ability and heroics when facing that beast".

Her taller sister stepped forward, " Yes you truly are a hero, thank you for saving those two, I am Princess Celestia, and this is my younger sister Princess Luna, together we are the rulers of Equestria".

He sheepishly rubbed the back of his head with his hoof, " That's quite alright your highnesses, I'm no hero, just somepony looking to do what's right is all" he said as he smiled at the princesses.

" I have but one question, may I ask it? " Celestia asked.

He kept smiling, " Sure thing, ask away. "

Celestia's face kept its calm polite demeanor but instead of her smile she had a serious look on her face, " What are your ambitions, what is your goal, why save two ponies you hardly know, are you expecting something out of it, what is the reason you fought for them", Luna looked at her sister, she knew she was just being cautious, but did she have to be so stern about it.

The last question Celestia asked struck Axel straight in the heart, forcing a memory into his head.

" The memory shows field of flowers, in the center of it stands a terrified foal, that foal is Axel, even at a young age he has looked death in the face. A winged shadow wielding a spear just a few feet away from him, the urge to kill being clearly seen in it's twisted luminescent eyes. Axel closed his eyes awaiting the cold hard spear to piece his body, he heard the sound of blood hitting the ground, but not his own. In front of him stands an ash colored Stallion, a beard adorned on his face and a short mane on his head, " Kid,..how many times have i told you....when you freeze up, you become, you become vulnerable", Axel's eyes grew wide, he wanted to scream but couldn't. The older stallion used the spear against the shadow being, throwing it to the side and impaling it with the other end.

Axel watched as the stallion rolled over into the flower field, " M-master!", he rushed over to his side, " Don't worry master, we'll get you back to the village, the doctor will heal you", he couldn't help but let the tears from his eyes pour down his face.

"S...suck it up, n-no student of mine...will be crying...on my w-w-watch", the bleeding stallion coughed up blood and stared at his pupil, " Tell me Axel, what will you...d-do once I'm gone, what will..what will you fight for... " the pain came in incredible amounts.

The tears continued to stream from Axel's eyes, " I'll fight for you cause your not going anywhere, I won't let you!...you can't go" he buried his face into his teachers side, still bawling his eyes out.

His master put his leg and hoof around him, patting him on the back, " You've got to, got to be strong, strong enough to fight for your's and my dream, strong enough to avoid..this", he watched as his crying student looked him dead in the face, " Now..tell me, what..what do you fight for, what reason will, keep you going.

"I fight, I fight for those who cannot fight, for those who haven't the strength, so that they can live on their lives without worry, without pain or strife", he continued to cry as he spoke, " And my reason to keep going is...is so that I can protect those who need protection the most".

Again the stallion coughed, feeling his last few breaths coming, " Your cause...your reason, are both noble...Axel, I want you to grow into..A strong warrior, so that you can fulfill your reason, for me, for our home, and mostly, for you", his vision grew blurry quickly, " This world, is a cruel one, you have to be stronger or else...or else this world will slowly tear you apart, until your...nothing but a hollow...shell". He began to shed his own tears, " But,..your as strong as they come,to think when i first found you, you were some...bratty kid with no..parents or family, the longer i kept you around, the more it felt like....like I had a son of my own, never forget your reason, never forget..why it is...that you fight", he slowly closed his eyes one final time, " Never forget....your dreams", with one final breath, he was gone.

Axel felt something crack inside him, the tears came more and didn't seem to stop anytime soon as he buried his face into his teachers torso, " I won't master, I won't!....I'll always...follow my dream, bot mine..and yours"."

Tears were rolling down his face as the memory faded, the princesses looked at him in shock, had Celestia's question in a way hurt him emotionally, " Tia I think you over did it".

Celestia went to apologize, when suddenly Axel turned to face them, tears still running down his face, " I fight for those who cannot fight, for those who haven't the strength, so that they can live on their lives without worry, without pain or strife, and my reason to keep going is...is so that I can protect those who need protection the most", the princesses were taken aback by his answer.

Celestia closed her eyes and nodded, " I see, you have a most noble reason to fight, yet you say you are not a hero, how odd". She opened her eyes and looked the warrior in the eyes and gave a sincere smile, " I know this may sound sudden, but would you mind accompanying my sister and I to our palace, we have much to discuss", he nodded in response. " I shall be waiting for you there, I shall also send for Twilight Sparkle and her friends, till then warrior" she then teleported back to the palace, leaving Luna there to bring Axel with her.

Luna walked over to the stallion and looked him in the face, " Forgive our sister, she tends to act like this round figures like yourself whom contain such power, and forgive us for making you shed those tears of sorrow, thou art truly a noble soul", she gives him a light kiss on the cheek before stepping back leaving Axel speechless, " We must hurry, Tia will want to talk as soon as Twilight sparkle and her friends arrive". Axel gave a hasty nod and places his hoof on her shoulder, and in a flash the two are gone.

Unbeknownst to them, A dark figure was watching the whole ordeal from the shadows, " So Celestia has gotten to the stallion before I" it says in a distorted voice, several hisses are heard around it, " Do not fret my children, soon we will have enough power to rule all of Equestria and more!!" the figure starts to cackle maniacally before being joined by other wild cackles and hisses.

Author's Note

Sooooooooo sorry that it took forever to get out, I got writers bloc in the middle of writing this so it took a while for me to clear it up, but i finally got it done, I've decided a ship but I'm not giving away who but some of you might guess if you do don't say, you might spoil it for yourself or others, anyway there may be errors in my spelling and grammar but each time i wrote It was late so I'll go back and fix it if I'm not busy with the next chapter, until then sit back and enjoy the chapter, later bronies and pegasisters.