//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: The Beginning // Story: The Swifting Story // by SwiftyKaz //------------------------------// Hello my friends, I would like to tell you a story, and I know you all love stories. This story starts with a stallion called Swifty Kick, who had yet another hard day at school; he was struggling to learn in his lessons, he was being ignored by teachers and other students other than his brother, Shadow Beat and his friend Dashing Featherblade. But worst of all, he was being bullied. This isnt the first time this happened to Swifty, he was constantly being insulted, he sometimes had stuff stolen and even beaten up; sometimes for even defending others from them. Swifty has learnt to deal with it as they just want him gone from the school for good, just because he was one of the first stallions to get their cutie marks and they got jealous of it. This bullying as gotten as far as having reports of violence that cause many injuries. Swifty also has a case of being angry and hot-headed so easily, which made him the prime victim of this bullying, he was so sick of it that he just wished that he could make it go away forver. However, on this particular day, one moment would leave a mark on Swifty's life forever. After a long and hard day at school, Shadow Beat was walking out of the music store in Ponyville and was returning home with an album he has been meaning to buy for a while. He took his usual route through the park when he saw 3 stallions that looks menacing, and 1 stallion that was armed with a knife . The 4 stallions looked at him hard, then ran up to him and 3 of them pinned Shadow to the wall, making him drop the album. Shadow has a face of panic and was confused about what was happening, until the armed stallion walks up to Shadow and whispers something in his ear. "Im gonna make him regret for what happens here. He should have left when he had the chance." Shadow looks on in fear as the armed stallion gets his knife out and lowers it to Shadows cutie mark, rubbing the knife gently against it, shivering as the metal touched his body. The armed stallion readied himself to slice it off as Shadow closed his eyes as he was about to endure the torture that he would not heal from. Just when it was sure that the cutie mark was off, Swifty comes around the corner trying to find his brother; witnessing what was happening. Swifty at that point, was so full of rage and anger that he dashed towards the armed stallion and kicked him to the head, causing him to fall to the ground. The other 3 tried to attack Swifty, but they were hit before they could even react and Swifty just put them to the floor and knocked them out. The armed stallion gets up and attacks Swifty with a knife from behind, leaving him with a mark on the back of his left ear. The armed stallion tries to attack Swifty the second time, but Swifty just grabs his arms, twists it around causing it to snap, making him drop the knife. He then steps past the armed stallion and kicks him to the back of the legs, causing him to fall to the ground. The armed stallion, struggling to get back up, attempts to attack Swifty, but Swifty just grabs his head and twists it around, causing it to snap and the armed stallion just falls to the floor, lifeless. Shadow, who was just sitting against the wall thorughout the entire fight, was shocked at what has just transpired. He had saw Swifty go into rage and cause injuries before, but never has anything like this has been this twisted and chaotic. He tries to look at Swifty, but all he sees was pure anger and corruption, and then he sees him run off before he could say anything. Shadow picks up his album, which luckily hasn't been damaged at all and runs after Swifty knowing that this will not turn out well in the next fews weeks to come. He gets out of the park and he just stands there, watching Swifty beating up and knocking out people, even throwing a few around. Shadow, seeing what Swifty is becoming, tries to stop him from causing more damage by pinning him to the ground; but all he gets in return is being thrown over the shoulder to the ground and his arm twisted. Shadow, knowing that not only is his arm is broken, but also that nothing can stop Swifty. But when all hope is lost, a bright light blinds him and everyone else. The light dissapears and he sees a white alicorn in the sky and he sliently curses himself, knowing that it was Princess Celestia. Princess Celestia looks around at the scene in place, accessing the damage. She then looks at the black stallion, else known as Swifty and lands softly onto the ground. She never knew what total chaos looked like since Discord's return, coming from one stallion. Before she knew it, Swifty drops the guy he was beating up and runs straight after Celestia. The other ponies look in fear, as they can imagine what will he do to her. But to everyones surprise, Celestia lights up her horn and performs a spell that freezes Swifty in place. Celestia then performs another spell that repaired the damage done by Swifty. Celestia then walks up to Swifty, who is still frozen, and has a better look at the black stallion. Out of nowhere, a purple unicorn with a book in hooves or else known as Twilight Sparkle, appears next to Celestia, wondering what had happened and why she was here. Twilight looks at the stallion that is frozen in front of her and sees Celestia observing the stallion. Twilight then began to spoke and said "Princess, why is this stallion look frozen?". Celestia, looks at Twilight and said, "All will be said in another time, my student. For now I want to talk to this stallion, so can you meet me at the library?". Twilight says nothing and just teleports away back to the library. Celestia then performs a spell that unfroze Swifty, watching as the ice melts away and sees Swifty break free. Swifty looks around in confusion, wondering what happened here when he sees the Princess and he quickly bows to the Princess in politeness. Celestia just chuckles and says "No need to be formal today". Swifty gets up from the ground and then asks a question to Celestia, "Princess Celestia, what just happened here?" Celestia smiles at him and said, "It would seem that you were out of control and caused descruction around the town, luckily I managed to intervene before anything else happened". Swifty, knowing that what he has done was from his own anger and corruption, sadly looks at the Princess and said "I am so sorry, Princess. I knew I had these problems before but never to a degree this high.". He then closes his eyes and says "If I need to be punished for this chaos, then I await for whatever you have planned". Celestia just chuckles agains and says "No need to worry about your punishment. This was just due to your problems that you cannot resolve." Celestia then thinks of an idea and then says "I have an idea of how to cure your anger. I could take you to Canterlot and train you in the Royal Guards to not only cure your anger, but teach you other techniques others cannot." Swifty was shocked at this offer, and prepares to think of an answer. He then said "I reckon that would help me Princess, I would like to take your offer." Celestia then began to tell Swifty more. "There is also more. Once you accept, you have to stay in Canterlot with the Royal Guard for a year and you cannot leave until then." Swifty then looked shocked again, and just went into a deeper thought. He could not just leave like that. He still had school to finish and he would also have to abandon his brother. Swifty shared a deep bond with Shadow Beat. They would help each other out in an heartbeat, they would hang around together and they listened to the same music all day. Suddenly out of nowhere, Shadow comes from behind and puts his hoof on Swifty's shoulder and just said, "Brother, its okay. I can manage on my own for a year. You need this. I'll even give you a gift when you come back, I promise." Swifty, with tears in his eyes, looks at Shadow and just goes to hug him, saying in his ears "I'll come back bro, I'll bet my life on it and I'll write to you every day. I promise". Shadow returns the hug and they both remained there for a minute. Everyone except Celestia, who just smiles, had tears in their eyes as they see the two brothers in a brotherly love embrace. Swifty breaks up and looks at Celestia and tells her "I'm ready to go." Celestia then perfoms a spell that teleports herself and Swifty away. Shadow just waves in the air, knowing that Swifty will be back. Swifty's last thoughts before being teleported are the challenges ahead for him and the one song that he listens to with Shadow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is my first ever fanfic. Please dont flame me, I tried to make it long and interesting. Honest. Any comments and reviews are welcome, even constructive critism. I'll try to make more chapters if this gets enough reviews.