The next morning, Diana and her mother went down to the archery training fields of Paradise Island. The archery field was about the size of a football field that very suitable for long range shooting, very great for Amazons who want to hone their skills before their annual competition. The other Amazons with Diana and her mother were her aunt Antiope, a alicorn who looks nearly identical to Hippolyta, the only difference being her blonde hair that was slightly cut for combative purposes. The other amazon with them was Philppus, who has a darkened coat and blue hair braided into a bun. She was recognized as the greatest archer on the island despite her lack of lack of a horn to lift the arrow, she instead uses her mouth to pull the string back and opens to release.
After her aunt's round of perfectly shooting at the center of the targets, Diana was next. Normally, she has a lot of confidence in herself when it comes to her skills, but she usually has less confidence around Philppus as she is one of Diana's many instructors who taught her for almost entire life. Diana uses her basic skill of levitation to lift her bow and lifts a arrow to the bow, beginning to concentrate on hitting the center of the target.
"Release!" Philppus ordered Diana.
Diana released the arrow and it flew straight into the target, right in the red center, and leaving everypony in shock at the first shot of the her round. "Well, how did I do?" Diana nonchlantly asks her fellow amazons.
"Excellent, Diana." Hippolyta congratulated her daughter.
"Swift and beautiful form, my niece." Antiope told Diana as she felt proud of herself.
"Could use be a bit faster." Philppus told her and that made everypony look at her in a look that only describes "What the tartarus?". But then Phippus came forward and put her left hoof on Diana's back. "But can you shoot with three arrows?"
Diana smirks and levitates three arrows to her bow, lining all three on the string, and aiming at three of the four targets, one already taken by the one she already shot. She releases the arrows and each hit the center of a target, everypony cheering at this accomplishment. "That wasn't so hard." Diana told everypony.
"Commendable success, Diana, you absolutely amazed us." Hippolyta said as she hugged her daughter with one wing.
Antiope readjusted her tiara before her hugged her beloved niece. But then something unexpected, but sometimes expected, happened. "Now!"
Out of the bushes come out ten amazons, all different species, leap in front of Diana, catching her off guard. This usually happened to Diana once a week in order for her to maintain her training and skills, so what better to teach her to prepared for a attack then to do it once a week. But as she learned from these weekly attacks, she must always be quick on her hooves and she grabs her sword and shield with her magic and blocked the strike from a ginger haired Earth Pony.
"Huh you always knocked me down, Artemis, I'm impressed." Diana said to the ginger pony known as Artemis, her friend/rival when it comes to her lessons as Artemis was only a filly when Diana was brought to life. Since being brought together in lessons, Diana and Artemis were not only best friends, but also rivals when it came to physical and combative lesson, making it a competition between the two.
"Believe me, I don't want to kill you, but that doesn't mean I won't have fun in beating you." Artemis wise cracked as she attempted to slash at Diana again.
Diana dodged the attack and using her own sword to fight back, Artemis also dodging the attack and landing a controlled blow to Diana's chest, not enough to cut her. Artemis pushed Diana, but not enough of a push to knock her to the ground, and Diana retaliated with a mighty amazon roar. She slashed at Artemis and they didn't even hit her, Diana doesn't wanna kill anypony, but she wants to win this fight as much as Artemis. Slashing, dodging, kicking, swiping, all of that is what happened as Diana fought against Artemis and the rest of the ponies she had to face. This all concluded when Diana flew into the air, then straight down at Artemis, knocking her to the ground and creating a crater that everypony made sure to avoid or get injured in the chaos that a crater creates.
"Ouch." Artemis winced in pain. "I think that was a bit too far and excessive, Diana." She groaned in she got up.
"By Celestia's sake, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to do that." Diana apologized as she helped Artemis out of the crater and gave her to the amazons gathered at the edges of the crater, they lifted her and placed on a bench, everypony else looking at Diana.
"Diana...." One amazon that was part of Artemis's group started to say.
"That was..." Antiope said when she stepped closer to Diana.
"Powerful and irresponsible." Hippolyta said as she stepped closer to Artemis and looked over her.
After her mother said that, Diana had a look of shame and she looked like she could cry for what she has done. She turned around and ran forward into the forest's tall trees, vanishing from everypony's sight.
Hippolyta started to run forward until she was stopped by Antiope, who restrained her with her left hoof. "Sister, let her think things through. She doesn't know the full extant of her gifts." She said to Hippolyta.
"I know she doesn't know the full extent, Antiope. But she most never know for her protection, I made a vow to protect her since she brought to me by Celestia and Luna." Hippolyta argued with her sister, but not to hurt her.
"She can't be denied knowledge of her abilities, if she doesn't know anything about them, she may never be prepared for the day when she might need them. You know the day I speak of, you know?" Antiope questioned her sister.
Hippolyta looked at her sister. "She must not know of her full extent or what may come in her future that I'm trying to avert." She demanded.
Antiope looked down to the ground, then at Artemis. "As you wish, sister."
After running through the forest, Diana made to the beach on the west side of the island to think about what she has done. She looked at the bracelets on her front hoofs and moved her hooves to hit the bracelets against each other. They made a metal "clank" sound effect as metal should be be able to do. She thought to herself about what exactly was the deal with her creating that crater and nearly killing Artemis. "Just how strong am I." She asked herself. That was when she heard the oddest sound she ever heard, except for that Kasia made a sound that mimicked the call of a parrot. She traced the sound and looked to the sky to find something falling from the sky, the weirdest part was that was the area of the sky where the barrier that shields Paradise island from the rest of the world, making the island looking like another section of the sea.
Putting her focus back to the object falling from the sky. It wasn't even a object at all, Diana saw it was a pony, the wings giving it away to be a Pegasus, and a injured Pegasus judging by the crooked right wing on it's back. Diana immediately knew what to do and leapt into the waters where the Pegasus would land and swam to the pony as it crashed into the water. When she got there, Diana saw the pony was drowning and went underwater to grab the pony with her hooves and lifted the Pegasus back up to the surface, then back to the beach where she laid the most interesting thing about this pony, it was a stallion, the first one she saw in her whole life.
The stallion coughed a couple times after Diana pushed her hooves against his stomach, knowing that's one of the best methods to revive a pony after drowning. After his coughing, the stallion got up and up his eyes to see Diana, who is still wet from saving him. "Are you an angel?" He asked Diana.
She giggled at his question. "No, but are you a stallion?" She asked her own question.
He coughed again and stared in shocked at her question. "Don't I look like one? He asked another question before another. "Where am I?"
Diana replied with a answer. "Paradise island."
"Where is that?" He asked before getting up, then he winced in pain from his injured wing.
"Diana!" A voice called out to Diana and it came from Hippolyta, who run to the beach along with a few amazons including Antiope. "We saw something come through the barrier and feared the worst." She finished her sentence before she saw the stallion standing next to Diana, ignoring his injury and pulling out her sword to aim it against him. "Stallion!"
"No, mother, he is injured." Diana yelled an explanation to her mother. "He went through the barrier and crashed into the ocean, I had to save him."
Hippolyta went closer to her daughter and the stallion, examining him to see his injury and Diana was mostly proven right. But she needed more information before he can be proven innocent. She looked to the stallion's face and started to ask questions. "What's your name?"
"I'm afraid I can't tell you that, ma'am." The stallion replied and refused to give his name, something so simple.
Hippolyta did some quick thinking. "Looks like we might need to take the hard way."
"Sweet Celestia!" Diana mumbled to herself as she knew what that meant for the poor stallion.