Author's Note

I'm proud of this story. I'll be branching the two characters with several chapters to keep the story going. Next chapter will have Celestia and Nightmare Moon and their thoughts on Nathan. Also I'm throwing in a few references here and there that are a bit obscure. They will be marked with stars* to let you know it is a reference to something or someone. Take any guess you want or as many but keep it in the same comment so it is manageable. There are no winners since this is just for fun. Have fun and have a good read.

Progress is made

Perspective: Rinta
I sat in the court room, nervous. A few days had passed since I proposed that tax plan where the richer classes had to pay larger taxes as a means of circulating the currency where it had more strength. In hindsight I should have kept my mouth shut so I wouldn't be here. So I wait for the king as the silence is so fragile, yet so present, a shuffle could break it, the air so still that moving would draw all attention to me from the outside and my nervous so shaky it felt like I was trembling from a cold snap. I didn't know what was going to happen but the Jewel told me to remain calm. I was going to question why until the door opened, making me jump. The king had a sneering expression and my confidence up to this point broke as I shook a little. He walked with strong authority, taking light steps before sitting in his chair. He put his hands under his beak, like a government dictator before looking my way. "Young man," I locked up before he boomed with happiness, "YOU ARE A GENIUS!" I jumped. "The nobles were not happy about the change, but it has helped my kingdom greatly." He started to explain. "The working class can keep up with property costs and tax, the lower classes can get jobs or better jobs and all you did was propose the rich abide the law. It was more full proof than I first thought." He gave me a crushing hug before letting go for me to breathe. "You have done my kingdom a great service and we are in your dept. If you should ever need anything, please do not hesitate to ask." I nod with a smile and turn to the others before frowning.

"Does something trouble you?" One of them asked.

"Whether you believe me or not... I will out live you, your children, their children and so one." They looked skeptical. "But that is for the reason that I am part of an otherwise immortal being, connected to him. As long as he lives, so will I." They looked insulted.

"We need proof this being exists." One said sternly.

"Wait." Another spoke up. "I thought you looked familiar, and now I know why." I looked confused. "Hairless body, upright stance like us and the ponies but no animal features." I was confused by his deduction until he said it. "You're a human." The griffons in the room looked at me in shock before suddenly bowing.

"Whoa, what." This action caught me off guard. Suddenly I was the one it charge and it made me uncomfortable.

"You humans were wronged by her." The king said. "She said you were monsters when you are really warriors, wielding iron and brass against her for her subjugation of your kind, and all for the actions of a few extremists who want to rule with hatred rather than accept humility and honor others." His words - humanity - meant something to him, and the griffons from the sound of it. "Let us protect you, human. Let my people help you in your time of need." I was shocked before smiling, closing my eyes.

"If I always rely on something, if I'm controlled to gain strength from fear, then I'll have gained nothing." Without knowing it, my body was releasing a prism of light. "I'll show you and this world my strength in weakness, the determination of the weak." I opened my eyes and saw the lights before they died down. "What was-"

"Warrior!" One of them, a general by his armor, rose up suddenly. "Let me serve under you and pledge my life to your army!" That threw the whole room off kilter. "Let me be your sword and shield against the propaganda against you and your race." He was freaking me out before someone hit him with a pan and had an apologetic look.

"Sorry. We didn't know he would act like this." I raised my hands as if it were a gesture of forgiveness. They dragged him out of the court room as the proceedsings they had planned started and ended with no issues. Soon I was out in they town, getting 'Hello's from the working class and sneers from the upper class. Fuck them too. I don't need their sass. They wanted to be hoarders and pack rats and this is there punishment. Someone spoke up, took a stance and won. So they can SUCK ON MY BALLS*. The girls were rather... flashy with their approval of me. Some were flashing their wings, which was confusing, while others flashed their breasts or their ass. A more human action that I'm sure they learned and it was making my biology react with the poetry and call of nature's sweet embrace*. Putting that in the mental trash bin, I walked through the rest of this grand kingdom before some griffon stop me.

"You costed us everything you twerp." Oh great, whiners. "We had the good life until you came in and ruined it." And cue the monologue. "We had the money to buy whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted and you came in and ruined it." The griffin tapped his claws and more came out. Good thing I was armed. One of them rushed me before I hooked the pommel of the staff to his foot and threw him to the ground before blocking the blade of another and disarming him with a hard swing away from the claws. I looked back to see a sword coming down and panicked. Thoughts were going through my head such as how this would be the end, how my days could've been spent with a girl I loved and why it couldn't be a better day than this to die.

Something happened when I felt the need to block the sword and it was as it bounced off of a flash of color. and my instinct took the chance to slash at the assailant, the blade covered in bright green light*. I didn't focus on my weapon for to long as a blade came at me and the same barrier blocked it before slashing the weapon, cutting it to the guard. This fight was tipped in my favor but I still had to think weak to do these actions. Weakness can be strength if done right and this fight showed it as the griffins were disarmed soon and the 'formally rich' nobles looked on in shock. I looked at them with a predators intent and started walking to them.

"Daddy!" Three annoyed voices snapped me out of it as my powers faded and I looked to see three griffin females looking at there dads - I think - with annoyance. One guard took a swing at me before his blade vanished down to the guard and the girls gasps, drawing my attention to them as three roses were made out of seemingly nowhere. Their body language soften before it went stern again as they looked at their dads. "You said that everything was okay and we see you picking a fight with a kid who didn't do anything directly!"

"Sweety, he took your papa's money, the thing he uses to make you happy." He said, making me feel guilty now.

"Yeah? Well spending money for me and not hanging out or spending time with me don't make you a dad!" Ouch. Now I feel bad for the dad. "You spend money on me or give it to me to entertain myself."

"Same with us." One of the other girls said. "We like nice things but our dads are not there. It makes it feel like a bribe more than a gift."

One of the approached me. "Sorry for our dads. They can be jerks when money is involved." I had a stupid face.

"It's cool. Not everyday I get to see such rebellious girls of rich dads." Truth be told it's my first time seeing this, but they didn't need to know that.

"Hey," Opened my eyes and they gave me that lustful gaze. "you're that human right?" I froze.

"I think he is." One of the girls said with equal lust. "Maybe he can make us mommies to make up for our papas' bad behavior." I ran without thinking about it. I felt really uncomfortable and I could feel their horny gazes while the Jewel seemed to laugh. Why Nathan? Why did you make me like this?

Perspective: Nathan
I sneezed out of no where and remembered a superstition from the net that I saw on my third awakening. I had a feeling Rinta was talking about me. I pushed that aside and was waiting outside of a hole I had made. It had the purpose of drawing powerful creatures with an aphrodisiac type miasma. Weaker creatures would be killed from shock if they landed in the fluids. Stronger creatures would fight and fight and continue fighting until only one remain. This smell would not cause an immediate alarm like last time and the area is not being as immediately disturbed so this will go without a hitch. Thankfully the counterfeit jewel I put together would absorb spirit power to transmit to the real one. A little cheap, but I was not going to take any chances on me getting any form of spirit power. I need to remain undetected. 'Wait. Undetec-' God damn it! I forgot to make a gem to mask the jewel's power AND hid my heart. I needed to fix this immediately.

The miasma had drawn in the strongest creatures in the area and the spirit types would be one of them. Once absorbed by the counterfeit, it will be neutralized of emotion, leaving unfiltered power to transmit to the Jewel and strengthen it, while I get the body of the still living beast. If the seal wasn't broken on one day, I would come back the next and wait, keeping the air from reaching that woman again like it did last time. Taking a precaution, I had the idea of making a gem that would neutralize the presence of smell, sound, sight and taste of the creature in question. The only problem is making the correct neutralizer in crystal or solid form. It would take the time, trial and error that I do not have to make one, so strength was the highest priority for now.

Days pass and the beasts were still fighting. From the sound alone, one beast had been fighting non-stop the whole time, even wrestling with the spirit types. If I had to guess, a material monster and a spirit beast were brawling in there for supremacy. I had to end this. Arming a bow with an arrow I had purified, thanks to the wisdom of passing shaman, I fired the arrow just above the opening, breaking the seal on purpose as the two are set free. The beast came at me, with a body that made it look like one of Earth's darkest nightmares while the spirit tried to flee. I threw the gem at it and started absorbing the beast the moment it struck me.My body took on most of its traits before returning to a more human form and the gem had finished neutralizing the spirit, as the gem glow a flaming blue aura. Holding it up, the lion share of its power was shot to the Jewel, leaving the gem as nothing but a dim light. I felt accomplished but I had to hurry and get more power, but if I keep it up here, the forest will be as dead and stale as the rest of the land. Well not dead just... controlled.

With that in mind, I decided to leave, producing a white gas under me and flying off, as if being carried by a nimbus cloud. The land below me was as vast as can be. And without knowing where to start, I look dawn and make an atlas in my head, points A and B and that would be it. I did take notice of a range of mountains past the largest den within the range. I flew over to check it out and found almost no signs of life, but less is better as the most adaptable of creature can survive on the most bare minimum supply of food but attack it with a ravenous hunger out of survival. This will be perfect for later. I did, however, take notice of a city built into a mountain side, which would be an architects worse nightmare come true. Hopefully they pass of my smoke as clouds, which are just as harmless, and won't come to this area for a while. Looking around, I saw many animals, but nothing in abundance, which would damage the already delicate ecosystem. So I moved on to something more abundant.

Traveling further East North-East, I came across another massive forest and set down before missing a massive claw from a ruthless dog-like monstrosity before a wicked grin came to my face. Where ever this was, it was even more dangerous than the other forest. This was going to be a delightful stay.