It was a sunny day, with some clouds in the sky. Austin was eating some breakfast with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. After they were done, Austin got up from his chair.
“Momma Celestia, Momma Luna, i-I’m going to hang out with Tempest f-for the day, if that’s okay with you.” Austin said to the princesses.
“It’s okay with me dear, hanging out with friends will help grow your friendship further.” Princess Celestia said.
“I agree sister, growing your friendship will help in the future.” Princess Luna replied.
“Okay then, I’ll b-be back in a little while, bye mommas.” Austin waved at them as he began to walk towards the door.
“Bye dear!” The princesses said in unison.
Austin walked up to the door, opened the door and closed it behind him. Celestia looked at the door with a worried look.
“What’s the matter Tia?” Luna asked.
“I… don’t know. I have a strange feeling that their is something in Austin…” Celestia said worriedly.
“Now that you mention it, he has been distant with us every since Wingdings fell ill.”
“No I mean like something is telling him stuff to make him distant towards us, but I’m not sure.”
“I’m sure he’s fine… I hope. We just have to trust him.”
“Your right Lulu, we must trust him, but I can’t help but feel worried for him.”
“Me too Tia, me too.”
Austin was walking in the hallway and he noticed Gaster was standing in the hall with a notepad.
“Hello Gaster, how is Wingdings d-doing?” Austin asked Gaster.
“He’s still in a coma, but he’s stabilized when we put him in the medical room.” Gaster said to Austin.
“Oh… at least he’s fine now.”
“Indeed.”
“Well, I’m going to h-hang out with my friends. I’ll be back in a while.”
“Alright Austin, have fun.”
“I will.”
Austin continued to walk down the hallway before changing into Sans and teleported to Ponyville. He teleported to Twilight’s castle and knock at the door. He waited for a few seconds and Spike opened the door.
“Oh hey Austin.” Spike smiled.
“Hi Spike, is Tempest here?” Austin asked Spike.
“Yep, come on in.”
Spike let Austin in and they walked down a hallway. They opened the door to the library. It was still charred by not as bad as it was. Austin looked around with a sad look on his face.
“I’m sorry about w-what happened to the library.” Austin said sadly.
“Why are you sorry about it? Starlight told us that she showed you a new spell that she was working on and it backfired.” Spike said
“Oh… so she did lied about it…” Austin thought to himself.
The both of them left the library and into the main room, where Tempest was sitting on one of the six chairs.
“Tempest, Austin’s here!” Spike said to Tempest.
“Oh hey Austin!” Tempest smiled.
“H-Hi Tempest,” Austin said. “What are we doing today?”
“I just thought we could go for a walk and you know, talk for a bit.”
“That’s sounds l-like a good idea.”
“Thank you!” Tempest smiled. “Well, shall we?”
“Yeah.”
Tempest got out of the chair and walked towards Austin.
“Let’s get going then.”
“Alright t-then.”
Tempest and Austin walked to the door, but Tempest turned back to Spike.
“Spike, tell Twilight that I’ll be out for a while.” Tempest said.
“Okay, have fun you two.” Spike said.
“We will!” The two said in unison.
They closed the door behind them and made it outside. They began their walk. As they were walking around Ponyville, the ponies gave Austin a mean glare, causing Austin to tear up a bit.
“Austin, what’s wrong?” Tempest asked worriedly.
“Oh, I accidentally shot lightning at a mother and a filly, but I s-saved them, except another lightning bolt struck us and she ran off with her c-child. Now she must’ve told people about what happened and now they’re angry at me.” Austin said sadly.
Tempest, eyeing the ponies with an angry stare and her horn was sparking in rage.
“WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PONIES!!! This kid saved us from a Ursa Minor AND a Ursa Major!! Plus Austin didn’t mean to hurt that mother and child, he was trying to save them from his own lightning. You should all be ASHAMED of yourselves!!!” Tempest yelled at the crowd.
The crowd of ponies flopped their ears down and lowered their heads down too. But one of them didn’t do that.
“Well at least he didn’t turn our princesses to stone, entrapped us AND stole the magic of the princesses to that Storm King, just to bring your stupid horn back!” The random pony yelled back.
Tempest, fully raged now, started to shower sparks from her horn.
“Tempest, forget about them, this is our time to have a-a peaceful time, not getting angry by others.” Austin said with a smile.
Tempest looked at Austin and calmed down a bit.
“Yeah your right, let’s go.” Tempest said as she glared at them one last time.
As they walked around the whole town, they stumbled upon a beautiful grassland, filled with flowers of all kind, animals doing their own thing and a hill with a big oak tree standing at the top.
“Follow me, I have a great spot to stop and rest for a bit.” Tempest said to Austin.
“Okay…” Austin replied.
Tempest went up on the hill with the oak tree and lied their, and Austin did the same, except he was crisscrossed.
“This is my favourite place to go to when I’m feeling sad or angry. It help sooth me, you know?” Tempest asked Austin.
“Yeah, this place i-is very beautiful and can make you relaxed.”
“Yeah… Austin?”
“Yeah?”
“I’m sorry.”
“Sorry f-for what?”
“I’m sorry that you saw me being that angry to that pony, I get… upset when those are mentioned.”
Austin looked at her with a sad face and placed a hand on her hoof. She gasp as she looked at Austin with a surprised look on her face.
“It’s alright, you are my friend, and when you were getting m-mad, I wanted to get you outta their before we both do something we regret in the future.” Austin said with a smile.
Tempest teared up a bit and hugged Austin. Austin was surprised because she was the more serious pony in the group.
“Thank you Austin. Its like you know me.” Tempest said with a slight blush.
“But I don’t really know much about you. Like what that p-pony said about the princesses.” Austin said to Tempest.
“Oh… right… that. It’s a bit of a touchy subject, sorry.” Tempest lowered her head.
“Hey that’s fine. If you don’t to tell me than that’s perfectly fine, t-though I’m a bit curious, but again I won’t force you.”
“No… you deserve to know,” Tempest sighed a bit. “When I was a filly, I was like every other pony, playing with friends, not having to worry about anything and having fun. One day, however, my friends and I were playing ball and the ball went into the Ursa’s den. My friends were to scared to go in, so they told me to get it and so I did. As I retrieved the ball, the Ursa Minor came out with its claw readied to attack. I tried to defend myself with my magic, but I was too late. The Ursa Minor’s claw struck my face, leaving a scar across my eye and my horn, causing it to shatter. Heart broken that my horn was gone, I tried to play with my friends, but my magic turned to lightning. As I was trying to lift the ball up, it kept hitting it with lightning. My friends were scared of me and they ran off. When they left me, they replaced me with another unicorn in a matter of seconds. I knew I didn’t belong no more, so I left my hometown and thought to myself that the best way to survive is to be all alone, and that’s what I did. Many years later I met him, the Storm King. He made a deal with me that if I trap the four princesses and help him get unlimited power with the staff of Sacanas, he would restore my horn. I immediately said yes because I wanted my horn back so badly, but it didn’t matter. As I reach Canterlot, they were having a party and I crashed it. I told them to surrender themselves and they refused to, so I sent in the Storm Kings minions to capture the ponies so that they didn’t escape. I used obsidian balls to capture three of the princesses, princess Cadance, princess Celestia, and princess Luna. Twilight escaped my grasp, but I captured her when her friends had a feud and she was separated away from them. I brought her to the Storm King in a cage and he used the staff of Sacanas to drain the princesses magic. With so much power, he blasted Twilight out of her cage and started to play with the day and night cycle with the staff. Twilights friends came to the rescue, but the Storm King made a big tornado and the tornado sucked anything that was close to it. After he made the tornado, I pleaded to him to restore my horn… and he laughed at me. He told me that he used me to gain power and he tried to attack me. He shot a few bolts from the staff at me, but i dodged two and I shot my lightning at his bolt, causing a small explosion that caused me to almost get swept away, but I held on a railing. Twilight saved me from being swept away. I told her why she saved me and she told me, because that’s what friends do. I changed my ways from them on out and made a new friend. However, the Storm King still had his intentions and he was about to fire on both of us. Luckily, Twilights friends came to the rescue again and hit the Storm King, causing him to drop the staff to hit a glass pane in the inside of the castle. The staff was unstable without a host and fired at the roof, causing it to open up. The six of them worked together to get the staff, but the Storm King was almost quicker than them. Twilight got the staff in time before the Storm King did, but he broke the glass pane and sucked both the Storm King and Twilight. Her friend were sad because they thought she was gone, but she was back and reunited with her friends. I thought that was the end, but the Storm King was still alive and he had a obsidian ball in his hand. He was going to throw it at the six of them, but I risked my life to save them. I leaped at him and the ball broke, causing us to become obsidian statues. The Storm King fell off the castle and broke into pieces, killing him instantly. I thought I was next to join him, but Twilight and her friends saved me. From that day forward I would never let my obsession to bring my horn back again.”
Tempest turned to Austin and she was shocked. She saw Austin balling on the floor.
“Austin, are you okay?!?” Tempest said worriedly.
“You had it w-way worse than I did.” Austin chocked up the words.
“No, yours was more sad than mine was.”
“No… you experienced everything that I’m going through, b-but at a very young age, except I don’t have a horn and a scar on my face, but their is some similarities with your
and my story.”
“But…” Tempest tried to say something, but she couldn’t find the words.
“Mine was about loss, and a villain that wants my s-soul powers, but your is about losing everything too, but you wanted to bring your horn b-back, no matter the length you were willingly to take and ended up helping a villain.”
Tempest lowered her head in guilt. Austin looked at her and had a sad look on his face. He then hugged her to comfort her.
“But at the end of it all, I forgive you for what you were trying to do,” Austin smiled. “And I also want to t-thank you for sticking up to me when those ponies who were glaring at me .”
“It’s no trouble for me, really. I always like to help my friends out as best as I can.” Tempest smiled back.
“So I want to do the same for you.”
“What do you mean?”
“What is he going to do?” Shadow Austin said to himself.
Austin transformed into Sans and teleported the remnants of a shattered horn.
“Is… is that… my horn? H-how did you find it?” Tempest asked.
“I found it in your room for a quick second when we left for a walk.”
“What… are you going to do with that?”
“What a good friend can do… or at least try.”
Austin closed his eyes with his hands held at his chest. A green glow surrounded the horn remains and went to Tempest’s broken part of her horn. The horn remains circled around Tempest and a then there was a white flash that made Tempest close her eyes. When the flash was gone, she reopened her eyes.
“W…where is the remains?” Tempest asked Austin.
“Hehe… why don’t you see yourself.” Austin said as he teleported a mirror.
Tempest looked at the mirror and she couldn’t believe her eyes. The remains of her horn was back on her horn, fully healed.
“Wha… n-no… this must be a joke r-right, if so it’s not funny.” Tempest said as she was chocking on her words.
“No, your horn i-is now fully healed and functional.” Austin smiled as he transformed back to his regular self.
“I… I don’t know what to say, I wanted to restore my horn for… so long.” Tempest said with tears in her eyes.
“Why don’t you t-try it out?” Austin said as he got up and broke a branch from the tree.
“Are you… sure?”
“Yes.”
Tempest nodded and she used her horn. It was sparking a few time before her horn started to create a dark magenta aura surround her horn. Tempest gasped in excitement and tried to lift the branch. The aura surrounded the branch and got lifted up, but it didn’t stay up for long. Tempest magic faded in and out, then it disappeared. She looked at Austin with tears of joy. She gave him a very, very strong hug.
“Thank you, thank you, thank you!” Tempest said happily.
“Your… w-welcome… c-can you… loosen you hrg… hug please… it’s starting to hurt my back.” Austin said in pain.
“Oh, sorry, sorry.” Tempest loosened her hug.
“Phew… thank y-you…” Austin said in relief.
“No, thank you. For years I’ve been trying to find a way to restore my horn, but I’ve long abandoned that idea. But now it’s restored again, and I feel… happy.”
“Well I’m just trying t-to help the best I can.”
“And you’ve done so much for me. I think you deserve this.”
Tempest reach over at Austin and kissed him on the cheek. It wasn’t a long one, but one that Austin will most likely remember for a long time. After Tempest kissed Austin, Austin’s nose was leaking blood from one side of the nostrils and his eyes turned to spirals. He then fell on the ground.
“Austin! Are you okay?” Tempest said worriedly.
“Why is everything… s-spinning?” Austin said as his eyes spiral around.
Tempest giggled and blush slightly. She looked at the sky and didn’t realize it was almost getting dark.
“Oh my! We’ve been up here for so long that it’s almost getting dark. We better take you home Austin.”
Austin got up and wiped the blood off with his shirt. “Right, we should g-get going.”
“Here, climb on my back and I’ll give you a ride back to Ponyville.”
“No thanks I’ll just—“ he said as he looked at Tempests puppy eyes. “O-Okay fine.”
Tempest smiled and laid herself on the floor for Austin to get up easier. Austin got on Tempest’s back and they both went back to the village. The two stopped at Twilights castle and Tempest laid back down for Austin to get off.
“Well, today was a… very surprising day… and a bit emotional too.” Tempest said.
“Hehe… yeah i-it was.” Austin smiled.
“Hey, thank you once again… for my horn.”
“Hey, don’t mention it, I’m sure you would’ve done the same if something was lost on my body and I wanted i-it back.”
“Yeah… well… see you later Austin.”
“See ya later t-too Tempest.”
“My real name is actually Fizzlepop Berrytwist.”
“Oh, well Tempest s-sounds cooler, Um… no offence to your real name.”
“That’s fine, if you want to call me Tempest, I’m perfectly fine with that.”
“Oh… okay, I’ll see you s-soon Tempest.” Austin waved his hand goodbye.
“See you soon Austin!” Tempest waved a hoof goodbye as well, with a bit of a blush.
As Austin was walking down the now empty town, Shadow Austin appeared, looking very angry.
“What?” Austin asked.
“ARE YOU NUTS?!?” Shadow Austin yelled
“What? What d-did I do?!”
“You just costed our survival, that’s what you did!!!”
“What by giving Tempest h-her horn back?”
“YES!!”
“But she looked s-sad without her horn and she helped me with those ponies that glared at me, I had to repay her for that.”
“But now, when these ponies turn on you, she will be more powerful!!”
“How do you know that the ponies will turn on me huh? All t-they done for me was being nice to me and actually sticking u-up for me. I don’t think the ponies will ever turn on me.” Austin said as he walked through Shadow Austin.
Shadow Austin was filled with anger, but he settled down and smirked.
“Well we’ll see when you visit the Main Six next, then you’ll be alone once more.” Shadow Austin laughed silently and disappeared into Austin’s body.
To Be Continued…