Fluttersaiyan

                                                        Chapter 10: Quest for the Senzu Part 2

Being deep inside of a forest, the rooster at Fluttershy’s wasn’t able to wake me up this morning. So I got to sleep in and set a record for the time I got to cuddle with Fluttershy. I could hear that it was actually nice out today, the birds were singing, and the sun was shining through the leaves and onto the tent. Fluttershy had her forelegs wrapped around my chest, and her face nuzzled against mine. I was going “Aww” on the inside but I didn’t want to say it out loud and wake her up. I was lying awake with my eyes closed cuddling with the cute, warm, and adorable Fluttershy for about an hour when I heard the zipper to the tent opening.

“Pst! Dako, are you…” I heard Twilight begin to say, but then she gasped in surprise at the sight of me and Fluttershy cuddling. She’d never guess that we did before.

Hearing Twilight gasp, the others stuck their heads into the tent too.

“Oh, hi guys, good morning.” I said. I unzipped the sleeping bag and stood, the others gasped again, probably because they saw I had no clothes on, just my underwear.

“What were y’all doing in here?” Applejack questioned.

“Uh, cuddling. We were cuddling.” I said. Just then Fluttershy woke up too.

“Good morning everypony, what are you guys staring at?” Fluttershy asked confused.

“Why were you two cuddling?” Twilight asked.

“Well, she was scared of the thunder last night, and I made her feel safe.” I said.

“Besides, we cuddle all the time.” Fluttershy said.

“Okay, well aside from this awkward event, what’s going on? We can continue our journey right, well let’s get going.” I said while quickly getting dressed.

“But why were you guys cuddling?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Because I love her, okay? Cool.” I said flat out. Then I heard them do something I least expected, I heard them go “Awww”, all of them except Rainbow Dash. That seemed to distract them.

We all packed up our stuff and got ready to leave, but first Twilight had to check the map. Once she found the direction we began our march again. Today we would have to be quick to make up for lost time. After 30 minutes through the forest, we finally reached the base of the mountain. Now that we had made it to the mountain, we stopped for lunch. We woke up late, at around 10:00 and had no time for breakfast, so we immediately began walking. So we took the time now to eat, and it was close to lunch anyway.

I took out the food I had, an entire loaf of sliced bread, some lettuce, a whole onion, some ketchup and mustard, tomatoes, cheddar cheese, and a knife. I had everything to make a sandwich, except unfortunately, meat. There was no lunch meat in Equestria. I began making me my sandwich with plenty of lettuce, cheese, and onion, to make up for the lack of meat, I’m not a huge fan of tomato. Everyone else had their own versions, some containing grass, or flowers.

“You know what would go great with this?” I asked them.

“Some Senzu beans.” I said smiling. They laughed, which I liked, because that meant that bad joke was actually a little funny.

“Remember how I said I love Fluttershy?” I asked them, to which they all responded with “yes”.

“Well, as awkward as this will be for you guys to hear I’m just gonna go ahead and tell you. I love you guys too. It’s why I knocked out Gilda for making Fluttershy cry, I care about you guys. I would risk my life to protect you all.” I said. They went “Awww” again.

“I just see you guys and think “Wow, I still can’t believe I’m here in their world.” You guys are so cute and adorable, so cuddly and soft looking.” I said, now that was weird. “Sorry, that was probably the weirdest thing you heard, but it’s true.”

They all Awww’d again, and I was suddenly surrounded in a group hug.

“Words cannot describe, how cute you guys are being right now.” I said holding them all. “That’s the magic of friendship!” I said fake crying, which made them laugh more. We broke up the hug and finished eating, then packed up again and headed on our way.

We began climbing the mountain. There was a path, but even then it was incredibly steep, and loose. Every step had to be a careful and planned one to prevent slipping in the loose rocks. This may have been the slowest and most dangerous part of our entire journey. Suddenly I heard one of them slip and cry out, it was Rarity. Before anyone could turn around I had already flown over in a blur to catch her.

“Oh, thank you Dako! You saved me!” she said relieved.

“It’s what I do.” I said while gently setting her down.

“That was close, everypony, please be careful, we’re almost to level ground.” Twilight said while looking at the map.

After another 100 feet we finally reached a point in the path where it leveled out and we could walk normally. But this place looked really, spooky.

“Remember everypony, we have to be absolutely quiet, we don’t want to trigger an avalanche.” Twilight whispered back to us. I began to hover off of the ground, since I wasn’t very light in my steps in the first place, and because I was wearing boots. Then I got a brilliant idea.

“Wait, stop.” I whispered to them. Their eyes shot over to me.

“What if we trigger an avalanche now, so one won’t happen later.” I said.

“Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, grab somepony and carry them up off of the ground.” I told them. Rainbow Dash grabbed Applejack and picked her up, Fluttershy grabbed Pinkie Pie and flew up with her, then I grabbed Twilight and Rarity in one arm and flew up with them.

“Dako, what are you doing?” Twilight asked me.

“Making this path safer.” I said. “Watch.” I stuck out my right hand and fired three energy balls at the top of the avalanche zone triggering a landslide. When the rocks and dust settled we all set back down.

“Cool, now we can talk, and walk safely.” I said to them.

We continued walking, the path got tighter and tighter as we got nearer and nearer to the top of the mountain. But then something else started to hold us back. The air was getting thinner and thinner, and we were all becoming exhausted from the lack of oxygen. Every step was more difficult than the last. I could see the ponies were tired, but they faired slightly better than I, being able to walk on all fours. I thought I meet need to use the freaking kaioken just to keep walking.

“Twilight, how, much, farther?” I managed to ask between breaths.

“Almost, there.” She said the same as me.

If I could carry them all to the top I would, but at the least I could only carry two of them. I didn’t like seeing them like this. All of a sudden I lost my footing on a loose rock, I should have been more careful, but I was too tired. If I had fallen flat on my face that would have been just fine, but I didn’t do that. I began sliding down the side of the mountain face. I heard everyone gasp and run over to the edge. It happened so fast, I was picking up speed, knocking other rocks and boulders loose to fall after me. At one point the mountain came out from under me as I was thrown from the mountain face. I immediately shot into the kaioken and began flying straight upwards trying to dodge the falling rocks. On my way back up a lot of them hit me, but there was one I couldn’t miss, one I should have seen if it weren’t for the fact that I was looking down, one that I somehow didn’t see coming.

The boulder I didn’t see coming, the size of a bedroom, came down right on top of me. That’s the last thing I remember. These next events were told to me by my friends. They say I was lucky enough to be knocked out and knocked out of the way by the boulder, therefore I wasn’t crushed. Since I was knocked out I started to fall again. Rainbow Dash took off in a nose dive straight after me. They said I was bleeding a lot, and that my left leg was broken. Rainbow Dash threw me over her back and flew back up to the top off the mountain. They laid me out on the sleeping bag I was carrying. Twilight checked me out, and heard my heart was still beating. They decided I was hurt so bad that it would only be wise to head back down the mountain. Then I finally regained consciousness.

I woke up on Rainbow Dash’s back. I opened my eyes slowly, and weakly. I looked around and saw Fluttershy, she looked extremely frightened, and had tears running down her face. I could feel pain all in my back, and in my left leg. I tried with all the energy I had to speak.

“Fluttershy.” I managed to get out. I saw her eyes widen as she looked over at me. They all stopped walking to look at me.

“Dako! You’re awake, I was so scared!” she said, starting to cry more.

“I’m okay. Where are we?” I strained to ask.

“It’s okay, we’re going back to Ponyville, we’ll get you to a hospital.” She said.

“No.” I said, then I rolled off of Rainbow Dash’s back, which was a bad idea. As soon as I hit the ground I felt all of the pain.

“Dako, what are you doing, you’re hurt!” she gasped as I fell.

“We can’t stop. The Senzu bean, can help.” I grunted in pain.

“Dako, we can’t go back.” She said. “If we do and you really need a hospital, we might not…” she couldn’t finish her sentence, she burst into full out tears, thinking of me dying and what would happen if we didn’t get to the hospital in time.

“Fluttershy. Come here.” I said to her. I was still lying on the ground. When she walked over I forced myself up to hug her. Unfortunately I got a lot of my blood on her.

“I won’t leave you, I promise.” I said to her. “As soon as we get that plant, I’ll be fine, you won’t have to worry.” I told her.

“Please Dako, there won’t be time if , if…” Twilight tried to say before she too broke down into tears.

Then I tried something incredibly stupid. I tried to stand up, which instantly failed as soon as I put weight on my broken leg. I asked Rainbow Dash to help me, I wanted to put my arm over her so I could stand. Now that I had her for support, I began hobbling back up the mountain.

“Dako, it ain’t worth gettin’ yourself killed over a bean.” Applejack said, trying to change my mind.

“Trust me, let’s go.” I said through gritted teeth.

The journey back up was more grueling than before, but I was determined to find that damn bean, and determined to live. I kept going though, step after painful step. I was getting lightheaded again from the thinning air, and from loss of blood. The bone in my leg was sticking through the skin, I could tell, and I had a deep gash on my left arm. On the way up, due to blood loss, exhaustion, thin air, and excruciating pain, I passed out probably 10 times, each time lasting only a couple of seconds. But each time I stayed out for longer and longer, who knew when the next time I passed out would be my last, and I wouldn’t wake up at all.

We continued on, until we passed the point where I fell. I said to keep going so we did. After another football fields distance, the gray dusted and barren rocky mountain surface, turned a vibrant green, covered with plant life. This was it, surely this was where the Senzu bean grew. The top of the mountain had about a square mile of flat land. We continued towards a dip in the flat land, where a field of green grew at its thickest.

We came to the plants, they were what we had looked for the whole time, the Senzu bean plant. They were 50 yards away, we had finally made it, and now I was going to live. I kept walking with my arm over Rainbow Dash, I tried to go a little faster. I started hopping, trying to go faster and faster until I tripped and fell of Rainbow Dash. 20 yards to go, I began crawling frantically, inching closer and closer. As soon as I made it to one of the plants I ripped of a couple of bean pods and started opening them. I was out of time now, I felt cold, weak, and things started getting dim. I quickly tossed one of the beans into my mouth and began chewing fast. I swallowed the bean waiting for it to work, but it wasn’t doing anything. I was panicking now, I rolled over on my back and laid on the ground staring at the sky. The ponies ran over to me and stood over me, watching me die.

Everything in my field of vision began to pull back, like everything was zooming out of focus, and around the picture in my mind darkness began to close in toward the center. I felt numb all over, no more pain, no more cold. I stopped breathing, I no longer could, even if I wanted, and I felt my heart stop, I couldn’t move and was now a prisoner within my body. Everything was black now, but I could still hear. I heard them all gasp, and then I heard Fluttershy crying. Suddenly I felt something on my cheek, Fluttershy kissed me on the cheek. Now I started to feel warmth. Suddenly, I blinked once and the picture came back to me. I felt everything, my arms and my legs, my feet and hands. I sat up, revived.

“Dako! You’re alive!” Fluttershy cried out tackling me in a hug.

“Whoa, that was too close.” I said, then taking a deep breath. “It worked, I guess it isn’t instantaneous.”

Everyone started cheering as I stood up to my feet. I dusted myself off only to realize my clothes were still covered in my own blood. My arm was no longer cut, just covered in blood from where the wound was, my felt better, and my leg was healed completely, bone set straight and all.

“Did you guys know that when a saiyan like me recovers from a near death injury we get several times stronger afterward?” I asked them. To which they shook their heads.

“Watch this.” I said smiling. Then I took off straight into the sky, the lack of oxygen wasn’t so bad on me now, now I was stronger, and I could fly much faster than before. As I flew straight up I kept accelerating, faster and faster until I broke the sound barrier, sending out a loud sonic boom. It wasn’t a rainboom yet, but it was something. I flew back down and landed among the others as they cheered and stomped their hooves in joy.

“Lets go home.” I said. I grabbed as many beans as I could and filled my pockets and their saddlebags, then we began our trip back down the mountain.

Obviously the trip back down was much faster than the trip up, we were no longer fighting gravity. Now I had unimaginable strength, Applejack and Pinkie Pie sat on my shoulders as I flew down with them, and Twilight and Rarity held on to my chest while I hugged them to me. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy flew down on their own right next to me. What took two days was finished in 30 minutes of flying as we flew to Ponyville. I flew everyone to their homes, then quickly flew back to pick up Fluttershy, who was waiting at Sugarcube corner. I picked her up in my arms, to carry her home myself. She laid on her back in my arms, like how a groom would carry his wife into their home, I guess. When we got home I had to take a shower to get the blood off of me.

I unfortunately had no other clothes now, just my underwear, my clothes were torn apart and bloody. At least I was clean. I would deal with clothes tomorrow, but now I was alive, and stronger than ever before. Me and Fluttershy got ready for bed, she got into bed first while I stood in front of a mirror, checking the places where I was injured. There wasn’t a single scar anywhere. Then I began showing off, flexing, checking out how much bigger my muscles were, how they had grown to about one and half times their original size. After I was done looking at myself, I pulled back the blankets and got into bed and put my arms around Fluttershy as she put her forelegs around me. She nuzzled her face into my chest as we hugged each other.

“Fluttershy, I’m sorry I scared you today. I scared you a lot didn’t I?” I said to her.

“I thought you died twice, I was so scared I had lost you, especially after you told me how much you loved all of us.” She said sadly.

“Its okay now, I’m here and twice as strong. I will never leave you.” I reassured her.

“I love you Dako.” She said to me.

“I love you too Fluttershy.” I replied.

We cuddled together and fell fast asleep in no time at all. I fell asleep due to her coziness and softness. She fell asleep since she had just gone through a traumatic and dramatic day. We were asleep for about an hour when I woke up. I heard her crying, she had just woken up from a nightmare. She told me it was a dream where I had died for real, that I never got help in time. I held her tightly to me, telling her it was just a dream, and rubbed and stroked her mane then kissed her on the top of her head, trying to calm her down. She felt better after a while and went back to sleep. Tomorrow I might just fulfill one of my dumbest ideas ever, but I couldn’t have Fluttershy around for it. What I would do is try to hurt myself more and eat more Senzu beans, I would cheat my way to being stronger. That is if it doesn’t kill me first.