Man with no Heart
A date with a Shaman part 1
Previous ChapterNext ChapterBeing hit by rainbow from Twilight and the other five was painful like laying on a metal sheet while a fire burns underneath it, that's how painful it was. My reaper form was helpful against Discord since the speed in the form is fast is in a blink of an eye, but downside of that form is that my body doesn't have that much armor skin and supernova wastes my energy more than using a fire clone. Didn't really suspect the rainbow to drain most of my hell energy nearly leaving me with no hell energy only my mana kept me from losing my conscious. Really can't say I wasn't happy from the fact that everyone saw my face and what I had turned into when I was fight Discord.
Being in a coma for a week makes you feel like weeks had passed by, but in truth in a bridge between life and death I found something out that I prefer to keep away from Zeal. Everything is in the past and that those events should be forgotten. Luna hasn't seen me in my dreams the past week because of "him", he trained me during my small coma of spells and other things. I can let Luna in my dreams now since I learned some things from him, but maybe later when I sleep tonight.
Waking up with Zecora on top of me giving me warmth except the warm body above me felt a bit more warmer than the average body temperature of a human. Opening one eye open I saw a black bulk creature laying on top of me curled up, not know what this creature I carefully scooted out of from underneath the creature to have a better look at it. Once I had my legs out from under it I swung my legs over to edge of the bed and tried standing up. I am able to stand now after regain some of my strength, but my legs were wobbling from the weight of my body.
Taking baby steps I made my way in front of my bed to take a good look at the creature on my bed. After many baby steps to the front I saw that the creature color was black and neon blue, faintly glowing, pure white spikes were sticking out its back, same neon blue color in its eyes, and the size of it may be twelve feet two inches tall. I continued observing the creature before a knock from the door caught my attention along with waking up the creature.
"Hey, you awake?" I heard Zeal's voice behind the door, I looked back to see the creature on my bed was wide awake with blue glowing eyes. Silence was between us as we stare at each other in the eyes until Zeal opened the door causing the creature on my bed leap over me and landed between me and Zeal. Zeal pulled his sword and pointed it at the beast.
Studying the creature's action on how it stayed very close me by an inch, it had its claws ready to strike Zeal if he gets close to me. After my quick study I discovered that it's protecting me from Zeal and that it won't let him get near me.
"Zeal wait don't attack," I demanded causing him to sheath his blade, with Zeal swords sheathed the creature in from of me dropped its defensive stance. With the creature calm I stumbled over to the creature and scratched its hard hide with my right hand while the left patted its back. The creature's muscles loosen as its leans into the scratch and purred, I don't recall ever seeing something with a dangerous appearance would be ever so calm by a scratch and a pat. As I continued scratching I started to notice its body shape and a slim body... Oh in the names of titans it's a FUCKING FEMALE!!!
I stopped scratching her and looked straight at Zeal with an raised eyebrow questioning on why there's a feminine creature here and why it was asleep on my bed. She turned around and looked straight at me, yup the thing was female due to her cup being around the B size. Zeal cleared his throat catching both of mine and hers attention.
"Justin, if you're wondering why there was a female Goliath on your bed was because of an egg I brought in for you," Zeal said answering my question in my head, but still hasn't answer the other." And another is that whenever you're not around home you will always have help." Well the other question has been answered. I no longer like being called that name anymore because of something.
"Guess that answered my question," I looked back at my "pet" thinking of a name for her something that might fit her. She growled at Zeal when he opened the door and pulled out his sword she guarded me, she didn't attack me when she heard the knock on the door meaning she sees I'm not a demon nor reassemble as one. She sees something Zeal that is a sin,but doesn't see any sins in me. After the quick playback of seeing her action a name popped up in my head." Taliha. I'll you Taliha."
I scratch the same spot on Taliha's hard hide to show she'll be call that name in her life spam. Sounds of footsteps outside my room in the hall told me that Zecora was awake. With nothing to do now since I lost my job, life, and trust in Equestria I had a plan today that Zecora would probably love.
I stopped scratching Taliha and stumbled over to the door, but when I nearly tripped on my own feet a pair of claws stopped me from face platting the stone floor. Taliha had caught me and pulled me back to my feet, I leaned onto her for support. Feeling comfortable of walking again with help I began walking towards the door.
"When you get the chance come downstairs to pick up a bow I created from oak wood," Zeal said as he walked out of the door to his own work place. Taliha and I walked out of my room downstairs into the kitchen, I can already smell something cooking in the kitchen causing me to drool. Zecora was probably cooking our breakfast this morning, but that will be no longer necessary for now. Walking in the kitchen I saw Zecora cooking some eggs on a small frying pan and chopping some vegetables on a chopping board near her, she was multi tasking cooking and cutting as she makes a breakfast.
Being silent as possible Taliha and I made our way over to Zecora, she's too focus on cooking breakfast that she didn't hear Taliha's claws tap on the stone floor. When I was close enough I stopped leaning on Taliha and stumbled over to Zecora wrapping my arms around her waist letting them climb down by her inner thighs. Zecora made an cute "eep" sound and looked at me in the corner of her left eye.
"Heartless, you're awake early than I expected, did the smell of food wake you up or is it something?" Zecora inquired as she lifted up one egg on the pan and laid out onto a plate on the table, her movement was limited because of me holding her from behind. After she did the same with the other egg, set it on the other plate, Zecora spin herself around in my embrace and kissed me.
I fell into the kiss pleasing Zecora as she moan each time I stroke her back with my hand, I lightly pushed her forward,but not close to the hot bars stove, and scratched behind her left ear with the other. Zecora started to fumble the straps on bra, but was stopped by me.
I don't really want to this a quick thing only a slow one with a date or two before I take her virginity, if she has one. Zecora looked at me with a confused face asking why I stop her.
"It's best we take it slow," I said, picking up a plate with an egg and walked towards the freezer. In the freezer were various of animal meat from pigs to dragon meat, but there wasn't much in there. Picking up two strips bacon and closed the freezer door with the flat heel of my foot and began cooking both bacons in the palm of my hand." Don't worry though our date would soon at noon when the sun is high in the sky."
When the smell of cooked bacon hit my nose I stopped cooking the strips of bacon in my hand and placed it on my plate. Taliha's gaze was on my bacon she whimpers a bit as she reaches out for my bacon. I looked down at Taliha and patted her head before giving her a single strip of bacon to her. She eagerly ate the bacon I gave to her and looked up at me.
"I may have to hunt food for you Taliha," I quickly ate my breakfast and laid the plate on the table. Taliha crawl on all fours by my side allowing me to lean on her and helping me walk around. Going downstairs I rode on Taliha's back on the way down since I would have stumble on my own feet and fall down the stairs like an idiot. I had to be careful not to stab myself with her spike as she jogged down the stairs to the basement, these spike aren't not for show they probably keep any creature off her back.
Reaching the flat floor of the basement I got off of Taliha and made my way towards Zeal's forge, he had many weapons hanging on the walls the weapons were made from iron to other metallic metal that I can't really name. Sounds of ringing metal filled the entire atmosphere as I walked towards the forge.
"Not everything has to be up close and personal," Zeal's voice echoed through the entire basement- Event some enemies has to be attacked from range. This is a reason why range weapons and firearms were invented because-" Another ringing of slammed metal ranged through the basement.
"With range weapons you can have some advantage in the air and ground, but everything has a price," I finished his sentence and walked through the barrier he has up all time. The entire basement was littered with weapon racks, chests, hooks, and three doors.
"Bow is on the rack with a quiver full of arrows," Zeal pointed his hammer towards a right by me. I picked up the bow and quiver and flung them over my shoulder, every living creature that owns a bow always has their bow over their shoulder to carry their bow. With a bow and quiver full of arrows I stumbled out of his barrier and met up with Taliha, in a few minutes I'll be hunting some critters for Taliha. Something tells me that she'll be growing up soon.
Hunting takes time and experience for one to hunt, sure a beginner can kill a deer with a gun, but with a bow it surely takes time to practice with. I don't really have to worry about training Taliha to hunt a animals, she already knows how to kill a animal like its instinct tells it to. Great thing having her with is that she can sniff out any predators nearby and avoid them since she's still not full grown, but that would change in a year or two.(wrong)
Aiming a bow can be difficult sometime during a hunt since the arrow doesn't goes straight like a crossbow and gun, but I can lean during my hunt. I had trouble shoot a bow at a bear or a fox each miss I did the predator I'm hunting gets irrigated very easily and tries to attack me, if it weren't for Taliha brutally killing a enraged predator she eats them not caring about the fur. She leaves a bloody mess of bones, organs, and limbs when she's done eating a dead animal and leaves them there for others to eat.
Messing up kinda helps you know what you're doing wrong, I wasn't doing anything though just kept missing from my aiming. My aiming was slightly approving even every time I let go the quill of the arrow firing a yard or two away from my actual hunt. Things was turning in my favor after I started practicing each time Taliha feeds on the dead animal, each shot of arrow I started getting a bit better at it.
"Man this is your tenth kill Taliha how hungry were you?" I questioned and fired another arrow at a tree I'm practicing on. There was no reply from Taliha only the sound of crunching, snapping, and tearing from her. Pulling out another arrow from my quiver I placed the sting of the bow in between the nock of the arrow and pulled back letting my strength pull the string back. With a two deep breaths I let go of the nock from between my fingers firing the arrow into the tree.
'The date should take place in the garden on the side of the mountain.' Lowering my bow I walked over to the tree full of seven arrows in it all stuck in the bark. Pulling them out was a breeze since my strength is greater than a demon. After pulling out every arrow stuck in the tree I placed them all in the quiver before I head home with Taliha.
POV Zecora
Two hours passed after Heartless left with the creature with to somewhere, interesting to see a creature not even heard or written I books of creatures in all three books of creatures. A bulk creature having more muscles than a minotaur and tall as one, but a fierce and terrifying look to it, but if it's following Heartless then I have nothing to say of its looks. I may have to asked hIm what creature is it after our date.
I laid in bed waiting for Heartless to come back on for our date since he's had time to think of where it should be at. There wasn't anything for me to do while I waited so I got up from my bed and walked over to the bathroom to get ready for when Heartless arrives. Entering the the room I looked at myself in the mirror and began to brush my hair down from its mohawk to a flat down hair over and behind my shoulder. After brushing my hair down exit out of the bathroom into my room and picked out my training short and bra, Heartless has seen me wear these clothes whenever we train together.
Sounds of water reached my ears meaning that Heartless was here taking a shower, our rooms aren't that far away from each other only two doors away. Ever since the first kiss I started to fall for him even though he's a demon he has a soul of an innocent ze- person. The small patter of water drops stopped meaning his shower was over.
Not wasting time I took off my tribal clothing and put on the other ones before exiting out of my room towards Heartless. Muffle sound of music was playing behind the door, I couldn't hear it that well because of the door, but it had to be playing from his small device. I knocked on the door causing the music behind the door to stop along with the sound of how footsteps behind the door. Soon the door was pulled back revealing Heartless wearing only pants standing there with a confused expression on his face.
"Hey Zecora do you need something?" He asked looking at me. I felt my cheeks burn from the sight of Heartless top half being expose to me, he didn't have the slightest red on his face meaning that he doesn't care.
"I-I just what to see if our date for today was going to start," I said as I started to feel a bit unconformable about seeing his naked top half.
"It is noon so the date starts after I grabbed my shirt." Heartless turned around showing his back and a black symbol covering his most of his back. Curios on what it is I decided to ask him what it is.
"Heartless what is the symbol on your back?"
"Don't really know neither does Zeal," He answered and putted on a white shirt with hole by the shoulder in them." Had it when I first changed into human and Zeal didn't know what mean." After he had the shirt on he turned around with smile on his lips." And don't worry the place where our date is, the place is closer than you think."
I was confuse on what he meant by that I knew the Everfree forest safe and beautiful spots like a map just how is there a spot closer to this mountain. Heartless let out a small chuckle of my confuse self and grabbed my right hand in his left. He lead me through down to the first floor in front of an stone door, I don't really know what's behind the door, but I'll find out soon.
Heartless opened the door for me to see the most unique sight of a indoor garden, every flower in the Everfree forest was in a single enormous room with sunlight shining through the roof the mountain. Confused and speechless I continued to stare at the entire area.
"Zeal made this place after he finished his forge, that guy can create an entire inside of a rock like a one way see through window," Heartless said walking forward towards a tree by a small stream, if Zeal can create something like this who knows what he can make a base with. I followed Heartless to the tree. I can absolutely say that this is the first time in Equestria that demons would live in a land for peace.
Both of us sat down near the tree in the shade watching the water run by the dirt edge, Zeal must have found a way to cause the water around and caused the water to be directly inside the mountain. While I started forming questions in my head I didn't notice Heartless offering me an apple.
"Want one Zecora?" He asked as he held up and apple in his right hand while he ate another apple in his left. I nodded and took the apple from his hand. Taking a bite from the apple I decide to ask some questions about his past.
"Heartless do you know any of your human memory to tell a tail of your past self?" I asked after I took a bite of my apple before speaking again." I have never heard of your old life from who you were before you became a demon in this new life living in the Everfree forest?"
(Lots of talking here)
POV Heartless
Time seemed to slowed as what Zecora had asked about my life caused me to cringe of human life, but I did not show it, there was many chances I could have told her and yet I hadn't. Taking a final bite in the apple I placed the core apple on the ground and began to tell of my human life.
"There weren't much memory of my old human life, but there are some I can remember easily. I'll start when I was six years old," I now began to tell some bits of my memories." I was a little guy no shorter than four feet, the rest is blurry but there was a girl that had feelings towards. Every boy would be a bit embarrassed to share the same feeling towards a girl they like or the one that likes them though...I wasn't like those type of boys. I was a kid with a fighting spirit of getting into fights and defending, but when this one kid tried fighting me he ended up on a wheelchair. The kid was a son of a police officer I would have been scolded by him, but he didn't yell at me nor reported me. He just let go, at first I thought he can't do shit to me though he actually was glad that I kicked his son's ass. Next memory is when I was fourteen, five years after I met Zeal, in a building full of teenagers the same girl that had the same crush on me. She followed me through that day and told me her feelings, but I didn't have any towards anyone ever since my fighting spirit went down when I first met Zeal of hearing my soul was turning dark despite my kind nature. I didn't feel any love to anyone so I told her this I am sorry to tell you this that I don't love everyone even my own bloodline so please find someone to love. Ever since that day my emotions became nothing as I felt my body give off a relief of a sin off my back."
"What happen to the girl that loved?"
"I don't know," After saying that I looked at Zecora, she probably thinks that I won't show any emotions towards. I can copy the emotions, but I can't really feel any love." But that doesn't mean I can't make you feel loved."
"I have never thought of you not returning the feelings, though you can't feel them. Just don't forget that I love you my demon don't ever forget that."
"Ah, you're right on that...just there are a few that really want their love to feel their own. And don't worry training me I no longer need it." I got up to my feet and looked up at the branches and leaves of the tree seeing some of the sun's rays finding their way to the grassy ground. Some moments are meant to be remembered as others to remind you of what ya done. Turning my gaze away from the tree I looked at Zecora and held out my hand to help her up to her hooves. She accepted the help and was pulled up to her hooves.
I think today's date would end now. Without saying a word I pulled Zecora closed to me and walked towards the exit of the garden, tomorrow would be another day of another date
Author's Note
Sorry for not working on this and updating since I had problems with the dating part. Hope you enjoy this everypony.
The symbol
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