Most of them laughed. The only ones to not breakout in a laughing fit were Big Mac and Princess Celestia, though Celestia let out a slight giggle. Spirit was just angry. He was already close to collapsing due to fatigue. Celestia calmed down quickly.

"Okay, you have eight hours to sleep." She smiled at him. "Big Macintosh, can you take Brawny Spirit to an empty bedroom?" Big Mac only nodded and waved for him to follow. Soon they got to the empty room.

"Thanks Big Mac." Big Mac once again nodded and left Spirit to himself in this empty bedroom. "Why did I say yes? This is just to weird for me..." He stared at the bed in front of him "What they mean by training, I have no idea." He finally got into bed and fell asleep in an instant. He began to dream about what had happened at the super market. He could only watch himself slaughter those ponies mercilessly. He began to have doubts about agreeing to this. It felt like an eternity, but a loud noise went off next to him. "Shit!" He yelled out. Next to him was Gunner with a large grin.

"Calm down. All I did was fire one shot. It isn't really that loud is it?" He put the gun back into the holster. "Its time to train!" He exclaimed. Spirit smiled as this pony truly was the embodiment of one his only friends from his coma. He got up from the bed and followed Gunner to the training room. "So, why don't you have a cutie mark yet?" Spirit thought for a moment, it then came to the front of his mind that he didn't have his cutie mark. He also didn't know what a cutie mark was.

"I've been in a coma for twelve years, not really much time to get a cutie mark..." Spirit glanced over at Gunner. "Is there something wrong with me not having one?"

"No, not at all. I was just curious. It took me quite a while to get my cutie mark! Lets go! we're gonna be late." Gunner ran ahead. unfortunately since Spirit hadn't gotten out to much, he couldn't run. He felt ashamed.

"Hold on, I can't even run!" Spirit shouted. Even so, they arrived at the training room.

"Sorry, we're late! Brawny here can't run." He chuckled to himself. Spirit quickly elbowed him and walked forward.

"Again, being in a coma and stuffed into at least five different books doesn't give me much time outside to play." Blade, Lightning, and Luna nodded.

"Even so, it is time to train." Luna said. "When you were asleep, we entered you're dreams Spirit. You dreamed about what happened last night. Truly odd, you can't really run yet you walk at such an incredible speed."

"I was only walking!? But I moved so fast..." Spirit was dumbfounded.

"Indeed. we were also able to convert memories from you're coma that angered you into spells that I can make you relive, so that we could provoke you into changing. When you enter, you must follow what your heart truly believes. That is the first step, are you ready?"

"As ready as I'll ever be..." Spirit let out a sigh while Gunner charged over to his friends and got into position.

"Okay, time to begin!" Luna shouted. Her horn lit up with a blue glow and shot directly at Spirit's head. As Spirit's eyes went blank white for a moment, he began to relive one of the worst tragedies of his life.

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Ryan stood in shock and disbelief in what he witnessed. He was so upset with himself, he just let it happen and did nothing at all to stop it. His best friend had killed his little sister. He was crying more then anyone would have believed, but it was not only out of sadness. It was also out of anger. He looked up from his sister's corpse to his "friend" Greg.

"What did you do!?" He shouted. Greg was surprised with his friend's yelling, but tried to stay calm.

"She was gettin' on my nerves, so I shut her up!" He shouted as if trying to justify what he did. Ryan snapped. He lunged for Greg and tackled him to the ground. Ryan began to punch him in the face, but was quickly pushed off by Greg. "What the hell man?! I thought we were friends?!" He shouted.

"No." Ryan said with anger dripping from his voice. "To me, you're just meat headed to the grinder!"

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Spirit changed once more, he snarled and foam fell from his mouth. Lightning chaser stepped forward and unfolded his wings. They charged at each other without a second thought. Spirit gave off a deep purple haze from his eyes and shoulders. Before they made contact with one another, Spirit formed some of the haze into a large sword of some kind. Despite how close they were, Lightning dodged the attack and struck at his legs. Spirit jumped and forced his hooves towards the ground, causing a large shock wave to push back Lightning. Lightning grinned and flew towards him at full speed. But when he got to Spirit, he was gone. Spirit just disappeared. He looked up and saw Spirit with deep purple spikes on the bottom of his hooves. Spirit nearly hit him, but Lightning was to quick. Another shock wave was sent through the air, this one sent Lightning spiraling out of control.

"That one was unexpected." He said to himself while giving a small pant. "Gunner! You're turn!" Gunner nodded and they switched places quickly. "Be careful, he is quite strong!" Gunner only smiled.

"Good! Then this wouldn't be very entertaining." He drew two of his pistols with his robotic arms, saving his new rifle for later. Gunner fired several ordinary magic blasts at Spirit who just blocked them with a purple haze shield. Gunner fired a red magic blast. Spirit simply tried to block it, but when it made contact with the shield it burst into flames. He jumped back before it burned him. Gunner then began to shoot yellow blasts that exploded at Spirit's hooves. He ran straight through the shoots and threw a hoof strike at Gunner who barely dodged the attack. "This may be more then I expected..."

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Greg and Ryan charged each other, but Greg overpowered Ryan and pinned him to the ground. As Greg began to punch Ryan with everything he had, Ryan managed to get away from his opponent and kicked his thigh. After falling to the ground in agony, Greg tried to crawl to the sidewalk. However, his efforts were futile as Ryan grabbed his leg. As he was lifted into the air Greg tried to free himself, and he was released. Ryan had thrown Greg even deeper into the alley that they were in. He pulled a rusty pipe sticking awkwardly from a building and proceeded to inch towards the downed Greg that cried before him. At this moment, of blood, pain, and anger, Ryan came to his senses and realized what was happening. This was the memory he was reliving, and he had to do one thing. He had to make the right choice, or he would fail.

Should I kill him and avenge my sister, or should I let him live and continue squirming? Should I bash his brains in, or should I leave him to bleed out and risk someone finding him? Ryan thought to himself, and thought through what he truly wanted. After what seemed like an hour, Greg could see Ryan standing before him with a rusted pipe gripped tightly in his hand.

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"Jeez! This is difficult!" Gunner shot several magic blasts that acted as his bullets. Spirit just stepped to the side and dodged. Gunner frowned and shot a yellow blast, this one hit Spirit only due to the fact that he stopped for a moment. "Yes! The stun bullet worked!" Gunner quickly switched places with Blade. Before shooting Spirit with a magic blast, he just watched as Spirit flailed on the ground.

"Is... Is it working?" Luna stared in amazement. It had taken less time to get to this point in the training then she thought. It had been four hours of none stop fighting. Blade got serious and shot a crescent shaped magic wave at Spirit, it knocked him back before he could rise again. Spirit recovered very quickly and lunged at Blade. The purple haze on his shoulders turned into spears that Spirit tried to impale Blade with. Blade simply teleported away from him. When he reappeared he was shocked to see Spirit was already very close to him. Blade shot Spirit with a powerful magic blast. Spirit was panting now and so was Blade.

"This, is quite bothersome." Blade panted.

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Ryan watched as terror filled Greg's face as he walked towards him. "Don't tell me you didn't expect this, Greg." Greg only responded with the silly attempt to push himself away from his foe.

"Please... please don't kill me... I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" Greg Sobbed as he backed away from Ryan.

"Greg, you and I know that I cannot forgive you for what you did." Ryan said as he held the pipe tightly in his hands and began to bring it above his head. He brought it down, and smashed Greg's kneecap into bits. A sickening crack filled the air, along with a bloodcurdling scream. Greg gripped his leg and rocked back and forth ever so slightly. "That was for my sister, Susan." He said as he raised the pipe once more. "This is for me."

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As Blade shot magic blasts at Spirit, he advanced towards his adversary and charged his hoof with magic. As Brawny sat there, Blade was about to strike him. However, he stopped and backed away. "Spirit won" He said before leaving his opponent alone. In that moment where Blade's back was turned, there was an explosion of magic. It cleared quickly, and revealed that Crescent was right. Spirit had overcome his challenge and followed his heart. But suddenly, Spirit collapsed and struggled to stand. Luna and the others, excluding Crescent Blade, ran over to help him.

"So, d-did I hurt somepony?" he asked. Luna chuckled and looked back at the others, they all smiled and nodded.

"No, nopony is hurt. I must congratulate you, you have done a wonderful job with this first part of training." Luna said with a hint of relief in her voice.

"That's nice. Hey, is there someplace I can eat? I'm kinda hungry." Luna rolled her eyes, but held her smile firmly.

"Exit this room and go to the left by four doors. There should be a Mess Hall there."

"Thank you. I'll see you later." Spirit said as he turned to leave. When he was walking away, he could feel the stares of the others as if they were bees stinging his back. Spirit had left the room and followed Princess Luna's instructions. He quickly entered the Mess Hall and saw mostly pegasi and unicorns in golden armor talking with one another. He could also see the CMCs, who apparently had there own table. Spirit rushed to the line, got mainly fruit, and sat down by himself. Ignoring everypony else, he sat down and made a great attempt to use his hooves to eat. He failed miserably. He could hear Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo laughing at him, but he ignored them. He quickly got the hang of it after a while and finished his meal. As soon as he did, he turned to see Blade.

"Hello Spirit, enjoy your meal?

"Yes, very much so. Thanks for helping with my training today."

"No problem, I just wanted to ask you something." Spirit slowly became confused by this.

"What did you want to ask?"

"I wanted to know what happened in your memory." He said.

"Sorry, but I don't feel comfortable telling you." Spirit said in a nervous voice.

"That is fine, I also wanted to tell you that I have been instructed to bring you to the next part of your training."

"Okay, just give me a sec." Spirit said as he left his table. With this, Spirit thought back to the relived memory.

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Ryan raised the pipe over his head, and seemed to lose his grip on it. With this, a glimmer of hope shined in Greg's eyes. But that was short lived. Ryan quickly caught his grip on the pipe and swung it down on Greg's head, cracking it open. Ryan looked back at Greg only to see that he was barely alive, so he delivered more body blows and a few more strikes to the head. With that, Greg was almost unrecognizable. And that made Ryan happy.

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I am SO happy I didn't let him live this time. The sounds his body made when I hit him, that just made my day. Spirit thought as he followed Blade out.

Author's Note

Done! Hope you enjoy this one. I'm going to guess people won't like this but oh well.