Austin walked in the royal gardens, leaned on the rails and stared at the sky. It was still a cloudy day in Equestria, but the sun was now visible. Austin sighed sadly and began to tear up a bit.
“People are right. I a-am just a freak with bad luck.” Austin said to himself, tears coming down his face.
Austin could hear footsteps behind him and it was getting closer. The figure came to his right side of him, it was Celestia. Celestia placed her front hooves on the rail and stared at the sky too.
“Hi dear. Are you alright? After you left Wingdings to rest, you avoided every pony, even Gaster and his family.” Celestia looked at Austin worriedly.
“No, in not a-alright.” Austin said sadly.
“What’s wrong?”
“I’m feeling so much emotions that nobody should feel a-at once. S-Sadness, anger, confusion... and f-fear. I don’t know how to stop them.” Austin said in tears.
“Oh dear,” Celestia wiped off some tears with her wing. “You can always tell me what’s wrong and I will try my best to help. You don’t have to bottle up these emotions, it’s unhealthy to do that.”
Austin sighed sadly and turned to Celestia, this time without the visions.
“I guess I’m a-a bit stressed t-that Wingdings is in a coma and I want him to be safe.”
“You really care for him and that is a special gift for the two of you. You two are brothers after all.”
“Even though he was o-only meant to train me and that’s it, nothing else.”
“But he considers you a brother and that’s what matters.”
“Yeah, that’s true. I hope he w-will wake up soon. Ever since w-we became friends, I felt completely safe a-around him, but now... I feel lost and scared.”
“That what I thought when I was going to be a princess.”
“Really?”
“Yes. When I was just a colt around your age, my parents told us that my sister and I were going to rule over Equestria. Scared that I would be a terrible princess, I tried to run from my emotions and getting lost in the progress. But no matter how far you go, the emotions always catch up.”
“Woah... that w-was a lot to take in.”
“Sorry dear. But what I mean in the end is... don’t run from your emotions, you must face them in order to find peace.” Celestia smiled.
“Thank you momma, i-I feel a bit better.”
“No problem my child.” Celestia said lightly. “How about we go for a little fly.”
“You want to fly w-with me?”
“Of course. I wanted to do this for a while, but never had the time to do it.”
“I would love t-to fly with you.” Austin smiled.
“Great! Do you want to go on my back or do you want to fly yourself?”
“I’ll fly m-myself.”
“Okay dear.” Celestia started to flap her wings.
Celestia took flight to the sky and looked down at Austin, waiting.
heheh let’s have fun with his shapeshifting powers. Shadow Austin thought to himself.
Austin surrounded himself with the shadows and turn into Valkyrie from Rainbow Six Seige.
“What? I didn’t ask for Valkyrie,” Austin tried again and turned into Gem Stone from Popgoes. “No I didn’t chose this one either,” Austin tried once more and turn into Nora Wakeman from My Life of a Teenage Robot. “Oh come on! Ugh, one more time,” Austin tired the fourth try and turned into The Rat from Five Nights at Candys. “What is up with my shapeshifting powers?” Austin tried the fifth and final time, turned into Feedback from Ben 10. “Feedback? Not the one I wanted, but at least he can fly, so it’ll have to do.” Austin used his electric arms to propelled himself up in the air with electricity.
Austin finally got to Celestia, with Celestia having a worried face on him.
“Are you alright? You look like you were struggling with your powers.” Celestia said worriedly.
“Yeah im fine. My shapeshifting powers went a bit crazy their, but I finally got something that can fly.” Austin said with a static voice.
“Okay... let’s go for a little fly.”
“Alright.”
Celestia and Austin began to fly together. They flew all around Canterlot. Ponies waving their hooves at the two and they wave back. They flew above Ponyville, close to the clouds. Celestia looked over at Austin with a big smile, Austin smiled back. Celestia flew up in the clouds and Austin followed. As Austin got above the clouds, he saw Celestia wings stretched out wide with her front hooves stretched out wide too and was smiling. Austin looked at her and smiled as well. Celestia looked at Austin and came back down, looking slightly embarrassed.
“Hehe, I might have been having a bit too much fun.” Celestia said embarrassedly.
“What’s wrong with having too much fun? I think everyone should have fun once in a while.” Austin smiled.
“Yeah your right, I should do this more often.”
Austin and Celestia looked at each other in the eyes. They looked at each for about a minute before it got a bit awkward for them.
“Erm... this feels like a romance chapter and it makes me feel uncomfortable. We should we get back to the castle.” Austin said.
“Agreed. Let’s go back.”
As Celestia and Austin was about to leave, Celestia looked at the clouds and saw that they are getting darker in one area behind Austin’s feet.
“Umm... sweetie do you know why this cloud under you is looking dark like a thundercloud?” Celestia asked Austin.
“Huh?” Austin looked down under him and saw the dark cloud.
Austin’s eyes widened as he saw the cloud.
“Oh no! My electric powers are filling the cloud!” Austin said as he moved away from the cloud.
The cloud was sprouting out lightning and almost hit Celestia, but she dodged it.
“Woah! We have to stop these lightning bolts before they hit Ponyville!” Celestia said worriedly.
“Not to worry, I can absorb them in my body. The bad news is I’ll have to blast it away and I’m not sure it will be strong enough to hit space.”
“Well... we just need to get it from harms way!”
“Got it!”
Austin got in front of the cloud and extended his arms out. He started to suck the lightning bolts out of the cloud, but some lightning bolts were launching towards Ponyville.
“Oh no!!” Austin thought to himself
Austin started to rush towards the lightning bolts before they cause any damage. As he was chasing the lightning, he saw a mare and a filly walking without knowing that a lightning bolt was about to strike them. Austin’s eyes widened and started to go a bit faster. The mare the the filly looked up to see Austin coming straight towards them. The mare put a hoof behind the filly and closed her eyes fearfully. The mare reopened her eyes and saw Austin in front of them with his arms extended in front of him. Austin absorbed the lightning bolt just in time. Austin turned to the mare and the filly.
“Are you two alright?” Austin asked the two.
“Y-yeah. We didn’t see that lightning bolt and you saved us from it. Thank you.” The mare smiled.
“Happy to help ma’am.”
Before Austin was about to leave, two other lightning bolts struck the village. One hitting the town hall and one hitting behind the filly, the mare and Austin. The three flew off the ground and back on the ground. Austin got up and saw the town hall on fire and saw the two ponies on the ground. Austin went to the floor to help the mare up. As the mare got back up, she saw that her child was injured.
“Don’t worry ma’am I’ll help you with your child.” Austin said.
“I think you helped enough already.” The mare said angrily.
She grabbed her filly and rushed away from Austin. Austin reached out an arm towards the mare but then put it back down. Austin saw some Pegasus with clouds put out the fire on the town hall with rain from the clouds. Austin looked at the ground and started to propel himself, until one of his arms started to charge itself. Austin panicked and aimed his arm at a tree. His arm shot a lightning bolt at the tree and exploded the tree in the process. The ponies around looked at Austin with scared faces. Austin then propelled himself and flew away. Celestia saw the whole event in the air. Celestia saw Austin flying away from Ponyville and chased Austin back at the castle. Celestia landed on the garden and saw Austin back in his human form, standing in the middle of the garden.
“Austin... sweetie, are you alright?” Celestia asked Austin worriedly.
Austin didn’t respond right away. He turned to Celestia and frowned.
“It’s my fault that i-I almost got those two hurt.” Austin said sadly.
“But you also helped them before that lightning bolt took out you three. You tried to help them.” Celestia said lightly.
“But I was the o-one who made those lightning bolts and struck the town hall and almost hit that filly.”
“We didn’t know their was more of them.”
“Well i-I should’ve.”
“Don’t beat yourself too hard Austin,” Celestia placed a hoof on Austin’s shoulder. “I know it was an accident and the mother was worried for her young. She must’ve not been thinking straight and lashed out on you. I’m sure she will apologize for her actions when you see her again.”
“Hehe, thank y-you momma Celestia.”
“Anytime dear. Now let’s grab some food, you must be hungry after flying and saving those ponies.”
“Yeah I’m a little h-hungry now.”
Celestia started to walk in the castle, but Austin stood in the same place. He went to check his soul and saw it becoming gray. Austin looked at it for a second before he heard Celesta’s voice in the castle.
“You coming dear?!” Celestia yelled from the distance.
“Yeah, I’m c-coming!”
Austin put his soul away and walked into the castle.
“Well it seems like my theory worked. I have control over his body without him knowing. This will do wonderfully for my next step. Now we just have to wait until we go back to Ponyville and I will start ruining friendships with the main 6 and make them hate Austin. Until we see you again Pomyville. Shadow Austin laughed sinisterly.
To Be Continued...