Ah finally, I thought that meeting would never end. I just had a meeting with some of Celestia’s lesser advisors. The meeting was about where the summer sun celebration should be this year. Honestly I don’t care I only went because Celestia said she would throw out all my cupcakes. Ultimately it became my decision. I just said the first town that popped into my head which coincidentally was Ponyville. Anyway I feel that a nap is in order.
“Sean!” I looked behind me and saw Spike running up to me.
“What do you want Spike?”
“You’re pretty strong right?”
“Yeah.”
“Well I want to be strong like you.”
“Ok, what do I have to do with this?”
“Would you help me exercise to become stronger?”
“Sure why not.”
So the gym in the palace is pretty nice. There is a lot of cool equipment; there are some weight benches, a few punching bags, a weight bench specially designed for working wings, and some sparing mats in the corner of the room. I walked up to a rack of weights. Ok, let’s see here we go fifty pounds. Spike was standing just behind me waiting for orders.
“Here Spike, lift this.” I tossed the weight to him.
“Aah!” he tried to catch the weight but tipped back and then fell backwards. The weight was as big as a barbell on him. It was on his chest and he was struggling trying to lift it up. “Sean, I can’t lift it. Help.”
“Wow,” I walked up and grabbed the weight. The sad thing is I only used one arm to get it off of him. “Okay, let’s try the punching bags.”
We walked over to the bags; they were about as tall as me which meant they basically dwarfed the purple dragon. “Alright Spike, just punch it.”
“Okay,” he then raised his right hand and slugged it. That was a good punch I guess, it went back like two feet. The next part was hilarious. The bag flew pretty fast and smacked Spike right in the face. He went flying at least five feet.
“Well that didn’t work.”
“No kidding.” He walked back up to me rubbing his head.
“Yeah, well back to the training.”
Spike and I spent like two hours ‘exercising’ I say it that way because he couldn’t lift anything I gave him, he was bested by the bag seven times, and on the treadmill tripped and flew backwards into the wall. This was all very funny for me though.
“Sean I have a question.”
“What is it buddy?”
“Have you ever actually exercised?”
“Nope.”
“How are you so strong then?”
“Well my awesome is a key factor, but I am naturally as strong as I am.”
“Then why did you agree to train me?”
“I dunno, I was bored.”
“Oh.” He looked at the ground seeming rather dejected. Great, now I feel bad.
“Okay Spike, you may never be as strong as me or as awesome but you’ll get stronger. Tell you what how about we go hang out.”
“Okay!” he looked up smiling.
I am really starting to hate my bedroom door. Simply because everyone is always knocking on it in the middle of the night or early in the morning. Just leave me alone! So this time it was Celestia early in the morning, that’s a new twist.
“What do you want Celestia?”
“Today’s the day Sean!”
“The day that you ponies all agree to leave me alone?”
“No, it’s the day my sister returns.”
“Great tell her I said hi.” I then slammed the door in her face. Now back to bed. Then I heard my door knob turning and Celestia walked in to my room. Talking again.
“Sean, there are a few things that I need you to do.”
“What?” I rolled over to look at her. She was standing to the side of my bed looking down at me.
“First as usual you are in charge of the palace while I am in Ponyville however I don’t expect much to happen here. However, I have a new task for you as well. When I bring Luna home it would be great if my best friend and sister could become friends.”
“Great, is that it?”
“No, one thing is I am going to need you to teach Luna to fight once she gains her full strength.”
“Why would I need to do that?”
“I want her to be ready if we ever get into a real war.”
“Fine, now go away and let me sleep.” I then rolled over and turned my back to her. I heard her walk away and then the door open and then close.
I woke up about three hours after Celestia bugged me. I headed for the dining hall to get breakfast. When I walked in Celestia was reading some kind of letter. “Morning Celestia whatcha reading?”
“Oh just a letter from Twilight regarding Nightmare Moon.”
“Oh cool. So what are you gonna tell her?”
“I’m just going to tell her Nightmare Moon is only a myth.” She then pulled out a quill not sure I wanna know from where and began to write.
“Sounds good to me. I have one question.”
“What is it?”
“What are we going to do if this plan with Twilight and the elements fails? You can’t use them anymore and without them you can’t beat her.”
She let out a sigh. “If all else fails you have my permission to deal with her however you see fit.”
“Sounds like fun.” Celestia then flashed the letter she had been writing away.
Today was so boring. I did notice it was dark for a long time. Guess Nightmare Moon did get out. Absolutely no one came into the palace today. Time for my nap.
I moved to a window in the throne room climbed on the window sill and fell asleep.