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// Chapter 2 
// Story: P-RPG 
// by loopertooper 
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	“Okay how the hell did you do all that… weird magic?” Rainbow Dash asked the first question as the other ponies backed off in partial fear and also so Blade could stand up.  The trust Blade thought he had with these ponies at the library feels gone and forsaken as Twilight and Rarity both aim their horns at Blade, they think he’ll try something funny.  Even Angel Bunny is at Blade’s hoofs ready to bite him.

“I wish not to explain; OK… to put it simply, the magic is my power.”  Blade wished for relaxation.  Before Blade could say anything else in defense, Rainbow is on top of him.  Rainbow jumped on top of blade pinning him and then yelled at Blade.

“YOU’LL EXPLAIN, WITH OR WITHOUT PAIN!” Rainbow is pissed at the sight of Blade’s avoidance of her question.  Blade just stares at Rainbow, now he is also getting angry with Rainbow who won’t listen.  He was about to kick off Rainbow when she takes the silence as resistance and lifts one of fore hooves and drops it straight onto Blade’s right rib.  Blade, now gasping from the pain caused to him by Rainbow has had enough.

“Fi...n..e…, ple…ase…GET OFF OF ME!”  Gasping throughout his words, Blade manages to stress the final command.  Rainbow gets off of Blade allowing him to stand up on his 4 hooves, still wobbly from the strike to his rib.  He motions to some seats and all the “guests” take a seat near Blade’s bed where he is residing.

“You already know my name, but what I didn’t tell you was that I was a general in an army…” Blade watches the ponies trade glances.  Angel hops into Fluttershy’s hair in fear, while Spike backs up closer to Twilight and then Twilight and Spike trade glances of worry.  In their minds, they prepare to hear that Blade was a brute and was here to kill all of Ponyville.  Rainbow takes this as the time to stop the silence and to end the suspense and demands that Blade continues. “As you can tell, I am a unicorn, but if you look at my cutie mark you will see 2 swords crossed over.  I’m an elemental warrior.  Each color on the blade of each blade symbolizes an element.  I can control the elements, but can also wield swords just as good as any other warrior.  But then my commander, Commander Guard, accused me of treason.  The evidence brought forward was conclusive to the damned jury.  They wiped my mind so I wouldn’t leak “more” secrets to our enemies.  In the process, he wiped my mind of most of my magic abilities other than the basic elements.  There does that help?”  As Blade finishes he sits down and Pinkie stands and questions why he came here.  Blade ranted for hours on all the nice information he heard about of Ponyville.  He decided he should live here in peace.

“Wait, if they wiped your mind, why can you remember so much?” Rainbow asked, confused.

“They only erased secrets and abilities, they want you to remember all of the armies’ data and who got you discharged.  I’ll never forget Guard, that bastard.”

Twilight finally stands and speaks after her long, quiet thought process.  She whispered to the others that they should go.  And they did.  So Blade was left alone in the lonely cottage, all he had was a book, and his thoughts to entertain him.  Yet all he could think of was these ponies that seemed to be his “friends”.  Probably not though, he thought about how he scared them.  He decided he needed rest. And so Blade slept for the first time in Ponyville. 

The next morning came quicker than Blade thought it would.  He decided he should apologize to the ponies.  So he went to the library and before he could knock he heard a conversation between Spike and Twilight.

“How can you believe him, Twilight, he is obviously crazy?”  Spike seemed angry, but not towards Twilight, but towards Blade.  Blade never trusted Spike, but now he trusts him less.

“Didn’t you see what that pony did?  He killed a rampaging dragon by himself without getting hit once!”  Twilight’s rebuttal made Blade feel like a sideshow attraction.  But also felt the same feeling that he felt after defeating the dragon, purpose.  It was his responsibility to defeat the dragon, no one else could.  He was going to enter, but instead had a better idea and went back to his cottage.

“I’ll teach them how to be warriors!”  Blade declared to himself.  Blade had a book that included some basic attacks and abilities that he would need.  The main one was the ability to cure wounds.  Some of these ponies aren’t…the most…attentive.  They might get caught up in a zealous need for power and hurt somepony, most likely, Blade.  After studying for hours he finally got Cure down a little bit.  He would be able to use it, but not all the time.  “Okay, with this I can try to make those 6 ponies warriors.”  Blade was proud of himself.  Going out of his way to help others is why he joined that damned pony army.  And then they betrayed him, the strong trust broken.  But now his ability to trust others has been shown through these ponies.

“Twilight, can I talk to you?”  Blade asked this as he knocked on the library’s door.  Spike answered.

“No, she isn’t here… well she is here, but sleeping in a pile of books and…well I don’t know which pile.”  Spike opened the door and Blade almost died by a “bookalanche” but dodged before it killed him.  He tried counting the piles and seeing if any move, but they don’t move.

“Umm… you sure she is here, Spike?”  Blade doesn’t think Spike is lying, but that he is oblivious, and probably let her slip by, undetected.

“Yeah, all the windows are blocked and other than the windows, there is this door, which I’ve been pinned to for 30 minutes!  On that note…HELP!”  After freeing Spike from the stranglehold the books put on him, Blade and Spike look through each pile.  Blade tries using telekinesis, but fails.  Spike looks amazed that he can’t use the simplest unicorn ability.  “You can’t use your magic to life the books?  I thought all unicorns could use telekinesis?”  Spike was more concerned than mocking, but came off as mocking Blade.  Blade grabbed Spike, brought him outside and lifted a nearby tree with ease.  Then grabbed Spike and brought him back to the library.  They both almost faint when they see there are more piles…and yet there are still books on the shelves.

“Okay either she only moves when alone, or she is playing a trick on us.”  Blade can only think of those options, and to his dismay, Spike doesn’t rule out either.  So they continue lifting and shelving books for about 2 hours, until finally Spike finds Twilights purple tail and then uncovers the resting place of Twilight.  She wakes up from the movement of her makeshift covers.

“What Spike, I’m studying?”  Twilight was trying to avoid saying she dosed off in the middle of a book pile.  

“Blade wants to talk to you.”  Spike says whilst still sighing from Twilight’s choice of sleep and the stress she put onto him.  At the mention of Blade’s name she jumps up and hits her head on the corner of a bookshelf, and also buries Spike in books.  Spike gets out with ease, but by now he notices the blood coming from Twilight’s unconscious body.  Before Spike freaks out, he carries the still body of Twilight to her real bed and leaves her there.  “Oh damn, damn, damn she is gonna die isn’t she?”  Spike has begun his freaking out.  Blade tells Spike to shut up and then moves to Twilight’s body.

“Okay hopefully this will work…CURE!”  As Blade commands the magic, his horn glows and then the cut is closed shut.  Twilight wakes up and winces in severe pain, Blade partially succeed by closing the wound, but not suppressing the pain.  With that Twilight runs off, takes a shower, and emerges back in 30 minutes with an icepack on her head.  Now Spike is organizing and Blade is reading quietly.

“Sorry for the wait, and thank you very much, but what was it you wanted to talk about?”  Twilight is finally ready to listen to Blade.

“Umm… where is the emptiest plain nearest to here?  You know no houses, no animals, just an empty field?”  Once Twilight answers and shows Blade on a map, Blade demands that she gets those 6 ponies over there ASAP, he’ll be waiting.

So after another hour, all of the ponies have arrived to see the dummies that Blade put up in the field.  He welcomes them and then directs them to the table and chairs he set up.  They all sit down and then Blade begins his speech.

“So I was hoping to stay and defend Ponyville in case of any danger that might arise.  But I will need help, so I wanted to train you 6 into fighters and mages.”  Blade bluntly dropped the bomb on the ponies who all sat in silence…until.

“Sure, I’ll learn.”  Rainbow sounded eager.  Blade smirked and then told Rainbow to walk to the hill for him.  Instead she flew and then he got ready.

“Okay Rainbow, come at me with your strongest attack.”  Blade was ready though, and kind of wanted to show off.  So, his horn lit up and then two swords appeared in his hooves.  He wielded them like they were an extension on his hooves.  Rainbow flew high into the sky and yelled down.

“I would run.”  Rainbow gloated.  The other ponies high tailed it for a nearby ditch.  The ditch was going to shielded them from Rainbow’s attack.  Blade was still standing there, waiting.  Then Rainbow decided that now was her chance, for she thought Blade was going to strike back.  “Feast your eyes on my…SONIC RAINBOOM!”  As she said this, she flew straight downwards at Blade.  Blade now raised an eyebrow and stood his ground.  Finally Rainbow collided and the other ponies felt the shockwave.  When the dust cleared they saw a huge gash on the right side of Blade going all the way from his shoulder to his flank.  But, a huge crater was right next to him and Rainbow was nowhere to be seen.  Finally she emerged from the crater, but was just as bloody as Blade.  Blade shook her hoof and then cured her wounds and, since he was studying before they arrived, was able to dull the pain slightly.  

“How did I miss?”  Rainbow asked weakly.  Blade said nothing all he did was sidestep to the left and looked up.  “You dodged?  Damn you, I thought I hit you straight on.”  

“Don’t worry, I just wanted to see how strong you were and you are damn strong, you’ll make a fine warrior.”  Rainbow was about to rebuttal by saying how she missed, but Blade just raised a hoof.  “Sometimes, even the greatest fighters miss, it isn’t the end of the entire pony world if you miss with one freaking attack, Rainbow, just practice and you’ll get the hang of it.”  Blade now looks towards the worried ponies in the ditch.  “I want to see all of your strong suites as well, but now I think you’re more worried with Rainbow, so we’ll take a break.”

The girls ran over and embraced Rainbow, which cheered her up.  Blade smirked as he sat down and continued to study his cure spell.  He thought if everypony was a good at their craft as Rainbow was, then this team will be unstoppable.