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// Ahuizotl's Beginning 
// Story: Origin of Ahuizotl 
// by Catrina37 
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Chapter 5: Ahuizotl’s Beginning


In the cave, Megan and Daring Do tried to get the rocks out of the way, but it was no use, none of them would move. They sat down in defeat.


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Outside, Rainbow Dash, while shocked, zoomed to the cave entrance and tried to move the rocks, but they were too wedged to budge.

"Megan! Daring Do! Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash cried, "Are you okay?!"

"We're fine, Rainbow Dash!" Megan hollered, "But the rocks won't budge! There's a small opening to let in some air, but that's it!"

"There's a bigger problem!" Daring Do said, "Ahuizotl and his pets are trapped in here with us! He's unconscious from his fall, but for how long?"

"Hang on! I'm gonna get help!" Rainbow Dash said as she zoomed away.


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A short while later, Ahuizotl grunted as he began to come back from unconsciousness. His eyes slowly opened and cleared up from a blur to see Megan right in front of him. He warmly smiled and gently put his hand on her face.

"It looks like I'm looking at an angel," he said softly, "I must be in heaven."

"I wish," Daring Do huffed.

Ahuizotl scowled to her comment. As he got up, he felt a pain in his right arm. He looked down and saw the yellow scarf wrapped around his arm.

"I see you've been tending to my wounds," Ahuizotl chuckled, "At least someone was willing to help despite my history."

"History as a villain you mean!" Daring Do groaned, "Of all people to be trapped with, it’s the one creature who is not only my worst enemy, but the enemy of Tambelon!"

"Watch your tongue Daring-" Ahuizotl yelped when he felt a sharp pain in his arm.

When he yelped, Megan put a comforting hand on the hand connected to his broken arm.

"Don't move, Ahuizotl," Megan said, "You may have broken your arm from your fall."

She got him to sit down on his hindquarters.

"Megan, why are you even helping this jerk?" Daring Do asked harshly, "Have you forgotten the stories the Knights told you? About how he burned Scorpan's home and left him an orphan? About how he bullied him and his friends? About how and why he was banished from Tambelon and became my mortal enemy?"

Fluttershy zooms in front of Daring Do and gives her the stare, causing Daring Do to look at her with fright. Ahuizotl's cats surround him and Megan and growled at the adventurous Pegasus.

"Now Daring Do," Fluttershy said, "Ahuizotl may have done horrible things, but that doesn't mean we should hold back our kindness from him. Megan had the right idea. All creatures, no matter who they are or what they did, deserve a helping hand."

"Besides, Daring Do, does it occur to you that I was driven to be who I am today?"

"By who?" Fluttershy asked.

"By my narcissistic father. Who else?"

"Duke Coatl?" Daring Do said, "But he was once part of the Tambelonian Council."

"And you never asked yourself what went on behind closed doors with him and me behind them?" Ahuizotl said.

"Why don't you tell us about it from the beginning?" Megan said.

Those words from Megan sparked something inside Ahuizotl that he had never felt before...ever. In his mind, she was the first to show him any compassion.

"For you, I will tell," Ahuizotl said as he put the hand of his good arm on hers, "I'll start at my beginning..."


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"...Ever since I was a young cub, I've always been fascinated with books on history, along with ancient and modern spells. But my father had other plans for me, and he made sure of it in his own way..."

A young Ahuizotl was reading a book on legends of Equestria when his father, Duke Coatl, took the book away from him.

"Ahuizotl! What are you doing?!” he yelled, "We come from a long line of ruthless deviants! We do not do honest things like reading! No good comes from reading about the past! We must set plans for our future hold on Tambelon!"

Young Ahuizotl quivered in fear to his father as he tore apart his book.

"For centuries, my family was well-known for their deviousness and cunning. My father had ambitions to go after bigger power, namely the Moochik's magical power. Once he obtains it, our family can have the power to rule Tambelon."