//------------------------------// // Agility and power // Story: The Menacing statue // by Prince Laviere //------------------------------// he just looked through a lot of the words in the codex. he didn't pay much attention to them, he decided instead of going through all of that crud, just skip to a random page (the FREs is were he landed) and choose a random one of them that sounded the best on it. he chose "THIS ONE! "Freiheit" I don't know why. but I like it." Applejack looked confused, Rarity was trying to remember what it meant, Twilight nodded, as did Celestia, and Rainbow dash, surprisingly, nodded as well "sounds good to me" the mare in sky blue with a touch of rainbow said "means..." she leaned over his shoulder and read it "Freedom. if it states anything about you, you're gonna love flying!" she then decided to pat him on the head. to say he didn't like this would be stating the obvious. Celestia and Twilight both smiled at each other, then the Former said "well, Freiheit, we can't have you staying indoors the rest of your life, we are going to have to let you out. we'll have Rainbow dash" RD whooped "teach you how to fly with your wings. Twilight" who smiled wider at this "teach you how to use your magic, and Luna will help to teach you the social norms, as to hopefully help you fit in with the Ponies... that is... after Equestria has at least some time to settle over your acceptance." Freiheit simply nodded. "fine by me. i'd rather not rot in this singular room forever, I'd get bored." however, everypony was a bit nervous and pensive about telling Celestia how wrong she was thinking Luna could help him with "social norms" not so oddly though, was "everypony" doesn't count to Pinkie Pie. since Pinkie pie is Pinkie pie "WAIT WAIT WAIT PRINCESS! you expect LUNA to teach him how to socialize!" she then burst into laughter Both the Lunar guards in the room cleared there throats, the smarter of the 2 stated "actually, miss Pie. Luna has become better with Socializing, has no negative feelings towards changelings, due ot her absence during their attack, and it would likely be beneficial to her and him to learn more... together." before anypoyn else can speak, Freiheit speaks up "before you all decide my kinda-sorta fate and all here, perhaps I could actually meet her and such?" they all nodded. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ they were out in the courtyard, in the evening, the sun just beginning to start it's decent in the sky, causing the blues to turn to oranges. Celestia had her Solar guards coat the cloud above the Castle grounds in clouds, however, hiding most of the oranging sky, and has guards lining the walls for Privacy of the visitor, and was currently off with Twilight apolagising to the hundreds of Scientists, mostly Biologists or social scientists, due to opening-date being held off for now. however, we're not talking about that. this story would be called "the slightly unnerving horde of nerds and weirdos showing up to a museum and get pissed" no, were with Freiheit. in the Royal gardens, with Rainbow dash, Luna and the others watching. "Ok, I don't know that much about your wings and stuff, but, i'm guessing from what I saw of them at the wedding fiasco, that you would flap your wings a lot, unlike a Pegasus who can flap only a few times but more powerfully to simply hover for awhile." Freiheit nodded, and did as such, getting a few inches off of the ground "OK, you'redoing good, now you have to move your legs like this- yeah that's good! now you just simply lean to the right or left with your head to turn., yeah yeah, that's good" it went on like that for a long while, and he got a hang of it. if he were a mare, and rainbow maned, and could do a sonic rain boom and was the element of Loyalty, he would be the changeling version of Rainbow dash. but he is slightly slower than her. after the tedious task of Teaching him, she decided to test him... both feverishly and frivolously, by racing him. she won, by about a foot (counting his horn) afterwards Luna had to Raise the moon for the night. Applejack, not being one to pass up on a competition, and Freiheit not having anything to do, decided to race, on foot. Him, AJ, and RD. more surprisingly, he was much more Agile and quick on his hooves. with that knowledge, not-as surprisingly, he Descimated them in the ground-based race. The guards were watching, flabbergasted. Luna, Celestia, and Twilight, were blown away when they came back and saw that. Rainbow Dash was a bit upset. but considering she was thinking of him as a competitive challenge earlier, quickly got over it. she thought ot herself "hmm.... he'll be more of a competitor to me and AJ than I thought." however, Aj was a bit ticked. "now... how did....." she was fuming mad. RD came to his rescue, he had no idea the fate that would have befallen him had she not. she was up in his face, prepared to buck him until he answered her. "calm down AJ! it was just a race! you never get that mad when I kick your flank. *cough cough* always *cough cough*" Twilight Came to her rescue "girls! stop fighting!" he took the chance to go over to Celestia and Luna and whisper to them "are they always like this?" before he coudl get his answer, Twilight came over to him "time to learn magic, right?" Freiheit "meh, sure, why not?" it took a few hours of explanation, but he finally understood how to do the most simple thing even Unicorn Foals can do. light there horn for a spell. however, ti was a bit chaotic from there he kinda blew some stuff up Twilight was pretty impressed "most ponies with your uh... skills.... might have problems even lighting there horn, YOU JUST BLEW UP A FLOWER!" to say the least, she was over-excited. Rainbow dash had been asleep until the explosion and was now freaking out "WHAT HAPPENED!? WHAT'D i MISS!?" Freiheit pointed to the sky "your bedtime, probably." he and Pinkie Snickered, Rarity gigled, apple jack barely kept herself from laughing, Celestia was was lightly chuckling, Luna had a raised brow and a smile on her face, and Twilight didn't understand it. "'Tia, you sure he'll need me for social interaction? he seems to be ahead of me. HE'S ALREADY AT THE JOKING PHASE!" "actually, that wasn't a Joke. it's probably like, midnight. i'm assuming she is normally asleep hours before this." Rainbow was already asleep again. "point exactly." _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Freiheit and Luna stayed up all night, talking about things. the Lunar guards guarding him, and a good amount of her own ones, were around, the only witnesses to their conversation. the Mane Six were out in there own rooms in the castle, and Celestia was asleep, resting for royal matters, such as day-court. but now was time for her to pass on the torch back to Twilight, to maybe teach him some more about Magic. but he was starving. turns out, simply talking for hours is actually tiring. he flew up to his room, the two guards close by. he simply went to sleep, The veteran (smart) Guard ordered some apples for him for when he awoke. which was 2 hours later, when Twilight found him, curled up cutely on the huge pillow on his bed. she practically screamed. "COME ON WAKE UP! WE HAVE THINGS OT DO!" to her, she was at a completely reasonable level. and she was being completely reasonable shouting to wake some-pony up. but her reasonable is jsut so unreasonable. "DANG IT!" he grumbled a bit "five moooorrreee minutes! the Veteran Guard took pity on him "Miss twilight, perhaps you should let him re-awaken a bit. he was up all day and night, and he hasn't eaten since that Feast Pinkie popped out of no were." Twilight took this into consideration and then sighed "yes, yes. you're right. Ok, I'll be back in an hour. he'd better be up by then." the Guard Nodded "he will, Twilight." the Next half of an hour they waited, Freiheit finally got up. "i'm hungry. He was hoofed a plate with some apples on it "thank you." he ate them quickly yet politely. the rest of hte hour passed by, but Twilight was no were ot be seen "think she forgot?" "perhaps" does your partner ever talk "you wouldn't like him when he talked. he's an idiot." he's right there you know, he can hear you." doesn't matter. it's true." then they heard Twilight and a loud knocking at the door "LET ME IN!" they could see a purple glow around the doorknob, but it seemed to be locked. the veteran went over to open it for her. that's when the assassin thought was the time to strike. along with the voices in his head "NOW! SLAY HIM!" the "idiot" guard flashed green and threw his helmet off and launched himself at Freiheit a knife prepared to kill him