Chapter 14: The Power Within(Un-Edited)

(Daniel POV)

I slowly opened my eyes after that light knocked me out. All I remember were the two beings I saw from my dream, then the roar from two shadowy creature, and then nothing.

I slowly raised my head and looked around to where I was. I was in Twilight’s house, and was in my bed. I don’t know what happened, but the girls must have brought me here when I got knocked out. Wait, the Timberwolves! Were they defeated? Is everypony safe?

I quickly threw the covers off and quickly got off the bed, but my weakness caught up to and I collapsed to the ground. I grunted in weakness while trying to stand up. How in the world could I be so weak? It felt like a strong portion of my energy was drained.

I heard the door open and I looked up and saw Twilight and the others.

“Oh no Daniel!” Twilight shouted and she ran over to me.

She grabbed my left arm and pressed her hand on my chest, helping me up while Applejack took the other side. Once I was on my feet, the gently placed me back on the bed.

“Are you alright Daniel?” Twilight asked.

I looked up at her and smiled weakly. “Ehehehe, yeah, just completely drained.” I then turned serious. “What happened to the Timberwolves?”

“Don’t worry about that sugarcube, ye took them all down. Ponyville is safe.” Aj said.

“What about Pipsqueak? Is he hurt?” I asked concerned.

“Don’t worry about him. He’s just resting in the living room downstairs.” Twilight said.

“How long was he asleep for?” I asked

“A couple of hours. He stayed up all night because he was really worried about you darling.” Rarity explained.

“He refused to sleep so I had to cast a sleeping spell to put him to sleep. He won’t be up until later.” Twilight added.

“How long was I out for?” I asked.

“Only for twenty four hours.” Twilight answered. “Daniel, I need to know, what was that magic you used against the timberwolves?”

“W...what magic?” I asked confused.

“You mean you don’t remember?” Rainbow asked.

I shook my head. “No. The only thing I remember was seeing two beings, red and golden light, two shadowy figures that roared, and then-AH!” I shot of extreme pain hit my head and I clung to it while groaning in pain.

“Daniel what’s wrong?” Twilight asked worried.

“AH! The pain! Make it stop!” I growled and hissed and I squeezed my head harder.

“Hang on. Let me see if I can relax your brain.” Her horn lit up and she gently tapped my head with it.

However, this action only made things worse. As soon as her lavender horn made contact with my head, the pain dramatically increased one thousand times fold. It was so intense, I squeezed my head even harder and I screamed in pain.

“Twilight, you made things worse for him!” Rainbow shouted.

“I’m sorry! I didn’t know my magic would affect his pain like that!” Twilight shouted back.

At the Instant, A flash of light appeared in my eyes. Through the light, I was visions of myself fighting the Timberwolf pack, using some kind of magic. Then my eyes widened when I saw myself using what I thought would be impossible.

“Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!”

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I...was using Jutsu. Not only that...I was using it’s elemental properties. My grandfather explained to me a while back that Chakra can come in different elemental properties. Fire was one of them. The memory went on and I saw myself using Earth style Jutsu and then using the shadow clone Jutsu technique.

After the memory faded, I saw yet another being before me. He was wearing a light lavender cloak, with his hood deep red, each of his arms were deep blue and golden. His pants had different colors on each side, one being light cyan, and the other light green. The final piece was a long cape that was black and white.

“Your true training begins Daniel.” It was all he said and then another flash of light appeared and I was back in the Library, and the pain in my head was now gone.

“Daniel are you okay?” Twilight asked in worry.

“I remember now.” I whispered.

“What?”

“I remember what happened back at the fight. Using that magic I used.” At that, another vision came to my mind.

“RASENGAN!”

“Rasengan…” I whispered. I slowly held my right hand out and focused.

“What are you doing Daniel?” Rainbow asked.

I didn’t respond, and I continued to concentrate. It finally paid off, and I saw blue energy forming and starting to spin in my hand. At that, a blue sphere of energy formed in my hand and spun at high speeds.

The group looked at it with amazement.

“Ooooh, shiny.” Pinkie said looking at the sphere.

“What is this magic Daniel?” Twilight asked in shock.

Once more, I didn’t respond and I continued looking at the sphere. Then, the words of the being seeped once more into my head.

“Your true training begins Daniel.”

My...training. I looked up with determination and cancelled the rasengan and clutched my hand tightly. I got up and walked to the door.

“Darling, where are you going?” Rarity asked me.

I picked up my bag and sword and opened the door. I gave my friends one last look and spoke.

“I’m sorry for leaving like this everypony...but I got training to do.” With that, I closed the door behind me and walked out of the library. I had to find a suitable training spot, and I know where to train.

(Valley)

When I got to the valley where I first saw when I came to equestria, I placed my bag and sword down and opened my bag. I pulled out my scrolls and scanned through them.

“Let’s see...Jutsu techniques, swordplay...ah, here we go ‘The history of Chakra’.”

“Chakra originally belonged to the Shinju. No one knows how Chakra was truly developed, but it is said that a young man named Jonathan sāberu was the first to ever control Chakra. With his power, he ended all the wars that plagued the lands of Japan many years ago. His sons, Hamura and Hagoromo sāberu, were the first people to be born with Chakra. Hagoromo spread Chakra to others through a practice called ninshū, intending to create peace by using the Chakra to connect people's spiritual energy so that they would understand one another without even talking. However, the people did not use Chakra in the way Hagoromo hoped, instead using it to connect their inner spiritual and physical energies. They kneaded their inner Chakra to amplify and weaponise it, creating what is now known as ninJutsu.”

I pressed on and found a part about Chakra.

“Chakra is essential to even the most basic technique. Through various methods, the most common of which is hand seals, Chakra can be controlled and manipulated to create an effect that would not be possible otherwise, such as walking on water, exhaling fire, or creating illusions. Chakra is ordinarily not visible to the unaided eye unless it is highly concentrated or manifested in large amounts.”

I held my hand out again and concentrated and re-created the rasengan. Okay...it seems I have control over my Chakra due to the battle, but I wonder if I… Not knowing what I was doing, I decided to go for it.

I focused within my inner power and called out to my fire Chakra. At the instant, I saw tiny flames starting to form around my Jutsu. I focused harder to try to pour more of my fire Chakra into my Jutsu, and the flames slowly grew larger, but still not at its full potential.

“Come on. Come on...” I grunted while pouring more Chakra into my move. The flames grew larger and larger and I can see my achievement getting closer.

“Just...a little...moooore...aaaand…”

“HI DANNY!”

“YIPE!”

BOOOOM!!

The Jutsu cancelled out and it blew up in my face, sending me flying into a tree.

“Daniel!”

I opened my eyes and saw everypony running to me and helping me up.

“You okay sugarcube?” AJ asked.

“Yeah, I’m okay.” I looked at Pinkie and gave her a small glare. “Pinkie, that was right down dangerous what you did. I could’ve been hurt even worse. Next time when I’m doing something like that, don’t surprise me okay?”

“Okie dokie lokie.” She chirped.

I smiled a little and rolled my eyes.

“Daniel.” I looked at Twilight. “Could you please explain to us what you’re doing?” She asked.

I sighed and picked myself up and walked a little away from them. After a bit of silence, I spoke.

“What you all saw back from the battle and from the library is called Jutsu, a technique that can be unlocked when using hand seals and using what my grandfather called Chakra. Chakra is the life force of everything that exist in life. All of us have Chakra, even the animals, and even the plants, and trees have Chakra.” I explained. “Through history, only Samurai and Ninjas have the ability to wield Chakra and use Jutsu moves.”

“What about the fire and earth that you used?” Twilight asked with a scroll and quill in her hands writing what I said down.

“Chakra can also be channeled and create into elemental Chakra. There are seven different types of elemental Chakra. Fire and Earth were two of the seven you all saw yesterday. The others are Water, lightning, Air, Mental which is using telekinesis abilities, and the mixture of Light and Darkness.” I explained. “Each of those elements can be wielded by many Ninja and Samurai, all but Light and Darkness.”

“Why?” Rainbow asked.

“Light and Darkness Chakra has not been used in over many years when the first human in the Japanese society has discovered its power and abilities. Many Ninja and Samurai have tried to control the Light and Darkness Chakra, but many of them have died from its overwhelming power and some of them have been consumed by the Darkness Chakra, making them Evil.” I explained. “After many years, the art of using Chakra and Jutsu control have been lost. Though, my ancestors, along with my grandfather have still remembered how to use hand seals and how to control Chakra, even though my grandfather never knew how to control his own Chakra, even if he tried.”

I turned to all of them and spoke again. “I don’t know why I have the power to control my energy and modify it into Chakra and use Jutsu, but I got a feeling that it’s important. After the past few weeks living here in Equestria, I believe those visions and dreams I’ve been having is giving me some kind of sign.”

Twilight walked up to me and placed a hand on my shoulder and smiled. “I don’t know anything about this crazy phenomenon Daniel, but what you’re saying is true, we want to help.”

“That’s right. We’ll stick by your side all the way to the end. We never leave our friends hanging.” Rainbow added flying next to me.

I looked at the others and they all nodded in agreement.

I smiled and I hugged Twilight, which in return got a group hug from all of them.

“Thank you girls. this means a lot to me.” I said smiling. After I let go, I turned to Rarity.

“Rarity, would it be okay if you can make me some special Samurai robes for me? I need them if I want to train at me best.” I asked the white unicorn.

“I’ll be more than happy to make you some new clothing Daniel. Just say the word, and I’ll weave you up the best I can make.” She said with a proud smile.

I smiled back. “Thank you Rarity.”

“By the way Daniel, you still gave me that promise to train me.” Rainbow butted in.

“Oh, right, well, since I’m out here now, you wanna get started right now?” I asked with a challenging grin.

“You bet!” Rainbow accepted.

“Right. What we’ll start on first is meditating.” I said sitting on the ground with my legs crossed and my hands together.

“What? I thought you would be training me right now.” Rainbow said.

“Meditating is part of training Rainbow.” I stated.

Rainbow groaned a little, but sat next to me and followed what I was doing.

“While ya’ll are doin that, ah gotta git back to the farm. Come by tomorrow Daniel.” AJ said leaving.

“Will do!” I called out to her.

“I gotta get back to Sugarcube corner. See you all later.” Pinkie said hopping away.

“I must get back to the bouquet. I have some orders to fill in, and I’ll get started on your new robes Daniel. See you later.” Rarity waved goodbye and left.

“Umm..I have to go back to my cottage and feed my animals. Daniel...would it be okay if…”

“Of course Fluttershy. I’ll see you some time later?” I asked smiling warmly.

Her cheeks lit up in a slight blush. “O-of course. You’re more than welcome to come by.” She fell silent for the moment, but spoke again. “Umm...Daniel?”

“Yes?”

“Umm….I...I was wondering if….if…” Her face had a huge blush, and it almost made her face red.

“You don’t need to be nervous Fluttershy.”

“Umm…...n-never mind. Bye.” She quickly left, leaving me confused a little. I better talk with her later on about why she was acting like that.

“Do you mind if I stay and watch Daniel?” Twilight asked.

“Not at all.” I said smiling.

She smiled and sat at a fair distance watching us with the CMC, Spike and Pipsqueak.

Me and Rainbow sat in our places, feeling the warm breeze run through us. Everything around us was nothing but true peace and silence…

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“GAH! This is boring! When are we gonna do some real training!?” Rainbow asked breaking the silence.

I calmly looked up at her. “This is real training Rainbow. There’s more than just fighting and being confident in yourself. Meditation helps keep you body calm and collective during a desperate situation.” I explained.

“But this is boring! Come on, let’s get some action going!” She said fired up.

I sighed and allowed myself to give her, her wishes. I got up and faced her. “Okay Rainbow, you’ll have to learn the hard way.”

Like before, I placed my fingers in a plus sign and shouted. “Shadow Clone Jutsu!”

Ten clones surrounded Rainbow in a circle, and already, I can see her panicking a little.

“Is that all you got?” She asked trying to sound brave.

I simply shook my head and gave my clones their command. “Get her.”

The clones gave out their battle cries and charged at her while I stood and watched.

Rainbow quickly took to the skies and laughed. “If you haven’t learned from before, I can fly and you can’t!” She charged at me, but one of my clones jumped in and kicked her, causing her to fall to the floor.

One of my clones did some hand seals and threw his hand into the ground. “Earth style: Boulder prison Jutsu!”

Four boulders shot out and trapped Rainbows hoofs and hands, preventing her from escaping.

She started struggling, but had no effect.

“Let me go! This is cheating!” Rainbow shouted trying to break free.

I shook my head in disappointment. “This is not cheating Rainbow. You have your own abilities and I have my own now. What you’re doing is unacceptable as a warrior. You’re getting ahead of yourself and attacking head on without thinking of a plan. You’re being reckless.”

“What!? I’m not reckless!” Rainbow shouted.

“Yes you are Rainbow. A true warrior would never fight head on and be reckless by being brave and thinking you’ve already won. A true warrior would fight with honor and follow his heart and stay calm during a situation like the one you’re in right now.” I explained further.

“Are you saying I’m not cut out to be a warrior!? Are you saying I’m Weak!?” Rainbow shouted in anger.

“You’re not weak Rainbow. What I’m say is-”

“NO! I don’t need to hear it! I thought you were better than this Daniel! Just let me go. I don’t want to train with you anymore.” She said in a mixture of anger and sadness.

I sighed in disappointment and released the Jutsu, releasing her from her prison.

She got up, gave me a cold hard glare and flew off.

I stood there for a while, watching her fly away. She will understand one day, but that day isn’t today.

Twilight, the CMC, Spike and Pipsqueak walked up to me with a little concern in their eyes.

“Are you okay Daniel?” Spike asked.

I sighed. “Yeah. Rainbow just needs some time to cool off. She’ll understand what I mean one day, but that day isn’t today.” I looked at them and spoke again. “Since Rainbow is no longer training with me now, I need to focus on my true training. I would highly advise you all not to disturb me while I train, okay?”

They all nodded and walked back to their spot.

I sat back down in my meditating position and calmed my mind. The process of my meditation went on for about ten minutes until I thought that I did enough meditation for today. I then worked on studying more about Chakra and Jutsu to improve my skills. The process was long and hard, but I pushed forward and my Chakra control was more efficient.

Like before, I tried pouring some of my Fire or Earth Chakra into my Rasengan Jutsu, but little effort came out of it. Through the course of a couple of hours, my energy was starting to drain a little. I decided to pack it up for today and continue on later.

I grabbed my bag and sword and walked over to the others.

Twilight had her notes out, writing down what she was seeing during my training.

“Let’s head back to the Library. I need to rest up.” I said.

They all nodded and we left the valley with our belongings in hand.

“Hey Daniel, can I have a ride on your shoulders?” Pipsqueak asked.

I smiled. “Of course little rascal.” I gently grabbed his sides and placed him on my head, making him smile and admiring the scenery from my view.

“Wow. Everything looks so different from up here. This is great!” He said happily.

I felt a tug on my pants and I looked down at the CMC.

“Daniel, can we have a ride as well? Pleeeeeeeease?” Applebloom asked with her signature puppy eye look.

The girls next to her gave me the same puppy eye look as well, making my bones melt.

I smiled and shook my head. “It’s so unfair you girls know the art of cuteness.” I grabbed each of them and placed Applebloom and Scootaloo on my shoulders while I placed Sweetiebelle in my arms.

They each let out a happy gasp and they bounced a little on my shoulders, neck and arms.

I smiled and shook my head a little while we continued our way back to the Library. When we got there and when Twilight opened the door, I placed the fillies down and they ran inside.

“You do well with fillies and colts Daniel.” Twilight said to me smiling.

I blushed a little while scratching my head. “Ehehehe, well, I guess it just comes to me I suppose.”

Twilight smile grew a little. “I know one day you’ll be a great father.”

I smiled back. “I believe I will. But that time will have to wait. I don’t want to rush to fast.”

Twilight giggled at that. “Glad you think that.”

I smiled and walked over to the couch and sat down. I opened up my bag and retrieved my laptop. It’s been awhile since I used it due to the phenomenon that was happening, so I didn’t have a lot of time to use it.

I started it up and typed in my password.

“What is that Daniel?” Pipsqueak asked next to me.

“This is my laptop. It keeps videos, movies, games, and a lot of almost everything in it.” I explained.

Twilight, the CMC, and Spike came over and looked at my laptop with awe.

“This is your laptop?” She asked excitedly.

I nodded. “Yep. This is what humans use to work more efficiently on their lives and stuff. Not only that, it also plays games, videos and other things.”

“Can you show us a video?” Scootaloo asked.

“I was just about to do that.” I replied smiling.

I needed a good laugh, and I knew just what I wanted to watch.

(2 hours later)

“Well if the coffee in the coffee shop won’t wake you up, this will.”

A man held a huge blown up balloon in his hands, and then he reached for a long pointed stick and then, *POP!* The balloon popped,causing the man to scream in surprise.

Me, Pipsqueak, the CMC, Spike and Twilight were laughing our asses off from this hilarious comedy.

“By Celestia, that was the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen.” Spike said regaining his breath and wiping a tear away.

“I never knew human comedy could be this funny.” Twilight said chuckling a little.

“It can be. Even though some getting hurt can look a little painful, but they always laugh in the end.” I said ceasing my laughing. I looked up at the clock and saw it was around eight thirty. “Well, I believe it’s time to hit the hay.”

“Agreed. It’s time for you three to get home.” Twilight said to the CMC.

“AWWWWWWW!” They whined in unison.

“She’s right. You three might have school tomorrow.” I added.

“Oh, that’s right. Tomorrow is Show and Tell for the last day of school.” Scootaloo said.

“Daniel, can you be our show and tell tomorrow?” Sweetiebelle asked with a puppy look.

The other two followed suit with it, making my insides melt once more.

I smiled. “I don’t see why not?”

“YAAAY!” They then hugged me tightly and nuzzled into my sides, making me chuckle.

“Can I be part of it?” Pipsqueak asked.

“Of course Pipsqueak.” They said in unison.

Pip smiled at the answer given to him.

“Alright you three, time for you all to get home.” I said smiling.

“Okay! Bye!” They ran out of the Library and closed the door behind them.

“They’re such a handful.” I said smiling.

“You have no idea.” Twilight said chuckling.

“Alright, time to get some sleep.” I said yawning.

They nodded and followed me upstairs. After we changed, we all got into our beds, and Pipsqueak once more slept next to me.

“Good night Pipsqueak.” I whispered.

“Night.” He whispered back.

My thoughts were drifting on why he’s staying with me so much when he should be with his parents. Then again, from a few nights ago, he had a nightmare about them. I needed to know more, but that’ll have to wait later on. Maybe I’ll talk to him tomorrow about this. I yawned softly and allowed sleep to take hold.

(Rainbow Dash POV)

I laid in my bed replaying what Daniel told me from the valley today.

“What you’re doing is unacceptable as a warrior. You’re getting ahead of yourself and attacking head on without thinking of a plan. You’re being reckless.”

“What!? I’m not reckless!”

“Yes you are Rainbow. A true warrior would never fight head on and be reckless by being brave and thinking you’ve already won. A true warrior would fight with honor and follow his heart and stay calm during a situation like the one you’re in right now.”

What he said to me struck a nerve in me, making me upset at him. How can he even say that to me? I’m not reckless. Sure, I can be clumsy, but not reckless.

But...for some reason...something me was telling me...he was true.

Could I really be reckless? My mind replayed the spar we had and thinking over what I did. I was trying to act all cool, and then charged at him being...confident in winning.

Oh, he’s right. I am reckless. I can’t believe how stupid I was. I got all angry at him for nothing. I also left him under my own anger. I’m the Element of loyalty for Pony sake, and I just just left him in the dirt.

Man, I can’t believe how stupid I am. I have to make this up to him tomorrow. I just hope he’ll understand.

Author's Note

I'm really surprised I'm getting better feedback after my last chapter. I really thank you all. To those who want to know what kind of video they were watching, they were watching Americas Funniest Home videos. I really enjoy their videos. Anyways, I'll upload the next chapter soon.