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I burst through the center point of the Canterlot Castle, wind rushing all around me, yet I felt nothing. I asked Luna how long I was dead, and got a reply of about 63 days. Also being made aware of the wind by Luna, I was able to consciously stop it. I then heard Jake call my name, and I saw something that will forever live in infamy for me: I saw my son fly to me with semi-practiced ease.
Meeting him half way, I embraced him in a hug. “Daddy! I missed you so much. They wouldn’t let me see you in prison at all!”
“Interesting. I don’t remember bei…” I was cut off half way through my sentence by one Your Royal Miss Princess Lady Mare Pony.
“White Wind! I am sure that you don’t want to go straight back to prison after breaking out so thoroughly. I can tolerate a few things, but others I cannot.” I looked up to see a white unicorn/pegasus, or as what I now know, an Alicorn, if that blob thing was correct.
“Ah, if it isn’t Princess Celestia, or as I know her, Y.R.M.P.L.M.P. How are you doing? And if I feel like I can tell my son about my…” Once again, I was cut off.
“Imprisonment. Of course! You have every right to tell him about that. However, other information should be limited due to it being sensitive. I’m sure that you understand,” Celestia said.
I stayed silent, staring intently at Celestia. She stared right back with the same intensity, if not more. It soon became a war of glares, with me matching and exceeding her stare, and her returning the favor with even more intensity.
“Daddy?” I head Jake say.
I broke my glare, and returned my focus onto Jake. “I’m sorry Jake,” I whispered to him, “It wasn’t fair of me to be gone for so long.” I turned my attention back to Celestia, “Well, that escalated quickly,” I said to her.
“Yes, yes it did,” Luna jumped in, “Now, I don’t know about any of you, but I know Celestia has places to be right now, and I have plans as well.” Celestia and Luna made to leave, and Jake started to follow after Luna. Why? I did not know. But I intended to find out.
“Red Wing, hold on. Why are you following Luna?” I asked him.
“Because…” Luna started to reply before I stopped her.
“Red Wing. I want my son, Red Wing, to answer.” At this point, Celestia had stopped to hear our conversation.
“Because I’m her apprentice,” Jake said truthfully.
“And how did this come about?”
“I asked him and he said that he would,” Luna said quickly.
“Princess Luna. I do believe that I am asking my son these questions, not you. No disrespect, but I would rather hear this from him than you, or anypony else for that matter. I also doubt that you want to get me angrier than I already am, by lying to me about my own son,” I concluded, my voice completely calm, which I think scared the princesses slightly.
“She forced me into it, saying that I wouldn’t have anything if I didn’t. When I said I could just go home, she told me about all the difficulties that I would face, and how the train costs 200 bits!”
“You aren’t lying right? I just have to be sure so I can base my actions accordingly.”
“I don’t lie Daddy,” Jake said defensively.
“That’s a good boy. Now I want you to go into the castle, so I can have a private talk with the princesses,” I said loud enough for Celestia and Luna to hear.
“Okay Daddy,” Jake said before immediately spotting the hole I made and went for that.
Upon Jake entering the castle and leaving sight, I spoke, my voice level, my face deadpan, “So you forced him into being your apprentice, without even asking me about it. Hell! I would have said ‘Go ahead! Having the princesses of a country be my son’s teachers would be great!’” my voice raised ever so slightly in pitch, “But no! You psychologically forced him to!” my voice dropped back into its original octave, “You know, lying to me, I can understand, and I won’t even get even the slightest bit angry over it. But lying to my son... is something that I cannot, and will not, forgive.”
At this point, both Luna and Celestia were at attention, on guard for anything that might happen. “We didn’t have a…” Celestia started.
“Celestia, and Luna, I suggest you pick your next words very, very carefully. This once, I don’t think that I can tolerate anyone lying to me,” I said, my voice as level as when I started talking.
There was a pause before Luna spoke up, “We didn’t think you would agree with it.”
“And that makes it okay?”
“No, but we thought that he would go on a rampage,” Celestia said.
“Celestia, I thought I said not to lie to me right now. I know for a fact that you held him here because if he had gone to Ponyville, it would have raised many questions that you wanted to stay down.”
Celestia and Luna both stayed silent for a few seconds before either of them spoke, and unfortunately for them, they both spoke at the same time, “We didn’t have a choice,” Celestia said.
“We should have talked to you,” Luna admitted.
I think my eye twitched. The first time that my face broke composure during this conversation. I took a deep breath, “Luna, thank you for admitting that. Celestia,” I thought about moving extraordinarily quickly, and I was aware of the wind start to flow around me, “Celestia,” I flew to her in under a tenth of a second and whispered into her ear, “I thought I said not to lie to me right now.”
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Shining was running through the castle. Why didn’t he teleport? Well, because most every pony runs (or flies) when they can. Plus Shining needed the time to think of what to say to force White Wind into joining his guard right away. So, he ran up the stairs that would take him to the roof of the castle.
‘I have to somehow convince how to join, while keeping his propriety of the princess’s lives at equal or greater priority than his son. I could tell him that I will place a few guards to watch over Red Wing. I would be even more hard-pressed than he was now, to try to scavenge up a few extra guards to protect him, but White Wind could take their place. After all, he did successfully evade his guards back at the mountain, and he also proved that he can fight effectively right before he left Canterlot. I think as long as I can get White Wind to believe that his son in safe, then I can get him to join.’
Shining was finishing his thoughts when he reached the roof. What he saw, he didn’t mind to much as he saw no threat emanating from anyone. He saw White Wind, who looked completely calm, talking to Luna and Celestia. The only thing that threw him, was that Red Wing was nowhere in sight.
Intent to find him, Shining started to look around. His search lead him to the hole that White Wind had created, and was surprised at the diameter. It was a good ten feet across, in a near perfect circle.
Incredible sudden wind pressure forced Shining to go into alarm. Looking up, he didn’t see White Wind where he was earlier, but luckily he was at an angle where he was semi easily spotted. Right next to Celestia.
Shining never took his eyes off of White Wind when he cast a spell. This spell changed the color of the purple protective dome to black, alerting every guard within the bubble to immediately get to the castle, that the Princesses where in danger.
He watched as he was joined almost instantly by the other unicorns, who teleported, followed by the pegasi, and then the earth ponies. Thankfully more than half the guard was pegusi, so they were able to thoroughly able to surround White Wind from every side and angle.
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Rainbow Dash and her friends where just reaching the castle. Twilight was in a rather horrid mood, Rainbow Dash was slightly depressed, but didn’t show it, and everypony else was cheery, and excited to partake in the wedding. They reached the castle, and Twilight started to shout, but was cut off by a sudden wind. Almost immediately after, the area darkened slightly as the orb that was around them grew dark.
Rainbow Dash was confused as to why the area changed color, but she knew this wind. It had the slightly unnatural feel that was created whenever White Wind did one of his stunts. “White Wind,” she whispered softly, joy emanating from the two simple words.
Her joy was soon replaced with curiosity, and the urge to fight, when every guard that they had passed on the way to the castle, as well as a couple hundred more, all flew, or rushed, or simply appeared, to the roof. The cloud of guards was so thick, that it became difficult to see anything but another guard if you looked up into the mass, which had formed a ball shape around a specific area. Rainbow Dash caught a few glimpses of movement, however, before the ball completely formed.
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The sky turned black, yet light was still being filtered though. Right after I had whispered into Celestia’s ear, I uppercut her in the throat. She flinched away before the punch connected, so I hit her in a slightly less dangerous stop, the jaw.
I didn’t give up on my attack however, and quickly spun around in a circle, aiming to kick her in the side with a hind leg. Celestia was able to recover from the sudden assault, and materialized a shield that blocked the kick, and due to force, was held there until she pushed my back, and she grabbed a lance from a guard with her magic, and thrust it at me, forcing me to back.
Now armed with a lance and a shield, Celestia charged at me, magic shield forward, lance to the side. She sliced at me from the side with the lance, and I rolled over the blow. I was followed by the lance, however, and I used change in directions to ‘jump’ off of the weapon.
I evaded the shield, and barrel rolled around her, hooking one of her wings with my foreleg as I went past. I dragged her down before knocking her to the side with a powerful kick that sent her just to the outside of the sphere that still needed the top half. I followed Celestia in the path that I had just kicked her, and ended up waiting for her to reach the edge. Unfortunately, she regained control over her flight, and curved around the inside of the mass of guards.
I felt a few things deflect off the wind barrier. Looking behind me, I saw that four guards had thrust their lances at me. Unfortunately for them, two of them lost their lances, the other two had theirs broken. Celestia and I came to a standstill, and I made my way to the center of the sphere, where luckily, the hole I had created earlier was directly below.
With the area growing dark, I would soon be at a disadvantage. As the last few ponies closed up the sphere, plunging us into total darkness aside from Celestia’s aura, I threw the lances that I had, making sure that no air circulated around them. When the area truly became dark, I stopped the wind, leaving a dead space within the darkness, and I stopped my flying, dropping through the hole that I was over.
I don’t know if any of you can guess how quickly this battle actually took place, so here is a guide. By the time Celestia had grabbed a lance, the ball consisted only of unicorns. When I grabbed her, half the ball was formed. When I dropped, the entire ball was formed, and earth ponies were just arriving. The whole process took only one and a half minutes.
I found Jake quickly, despite the darkness. I went to him, picked him up, and whispered to him, “It’s okay Jakey, let’s go now.”
Jake didn’t argue, and barely made any sound as I placed him on my back, and flew down the rest of the holes to ground level. Only at this point were lights still on. I made my why out of the castle, and spotted Rainbow Dash and her friends.
“Hey there Rainbow!” I shouted to her, causing her head to snap towards me. She flew towards me at speeds that I don’t think even I have reached before. This flight ended in a tackle, throwing an unprepared Jake, up into the air. Rainbow Dash landed on top of me, her forelegs wrapped tightly around me, and I was on my back face up. I extended my arms past Rainbow Dash.
“Oh White Wind, I thought that you were dead! But I felt the wind earlier, and I knew that you where okay,” she said.
I caught Jake and said, “It’s okay, Daddy’s got you.”
Rainbow Dash, apparently thinking this was directed towards her, responded, “Actually, I think it is I who has got you.”
I ignored this comment like a sensible person would, and placed Jake down onto his feet, “Go along now, and say hi to everypony. Rainbow Dash, how are you?”
Rainbow Dash looked around and saw that I had just placed Jake down. She started getting defensive over her misunderstanding, “You’re a jerk, you know that? You let me think that you were talking to me. You know how embarrassing that is?”
“No I don’t. But you are the one who tackled me down, and is currently on top of me. No offence, but I think that the position you are currently in is more embarrassing than that misunderstanding. If a newspaper were to get a picture of this, we would be front page as ‘Couple has sex in front of Canterlot Castle’.”
“Daddy, what is sex?” I heard Jake ask.
“Sex is what to adults who are in love do, and it sometimes results in pregnancy, which results in a child,” I answered. The six ponies who were gathered looked at me with slight disbelieve and desgust. “What? He has a right to know. And if I’m not truthful with my son, how can I expect him to be truthful to me? I also didn’t go into detail. I could have told him…”
“Okay, just stop. I don’t want to hear it,” Rainbow said. It’s odd, she hasn’t gotten off me yet.
“WHITE WIND!” Hurray for Royal Canterlot Voice!
I looked up and saw Celestia flying down angrily. “Hi!” I shouted back, waving to her, a cheerful expression on my face.
“ARE YOU HAVING SEX IN FRONT OF MY CASTLE!?” she shouted. The RCV is very loud.
The ponies around me cringed from the volume, even Jake. I, however, just continued to smile and wave. “No, I think that this would be considered rape. I swear, I came out here, said hi, and found myself being tackled into a hug, with this pony on top of me,” I laughed at my own joke.
I am glad that everypony else was still recovering from the RCV, but thanks to Rainbow Dash still not having gotten off of me, she heard me, and punched me in the shoulder, “Hey, it’s your fault for STILL not having gotten off of me,” I then faced Celestia, and saw that her guards had already surrounded me once more. Rainbow Dash finally got off me, and I stood up. “All things considered, Celestia, I am not accusing Rainbow Dash of rape, as it was a joke, and an easy one to make.”
“I DON’T CARE ABOUT THAT! YOU WILL PAY FOR PICKING A FIGHT WITH ME!” she roared.
I turned from her and saw that both Jake and Rainbow Dash were within the ring made by the guards. “Rainbow Dash, will you take Jake out of here? I don’t want him, or you for that matter either, to get hurt,” I asked her. I watched as she got Jake to follow her out of the guards, who, thankfully, let them pass.
“We will defiantly talk about this later!” she shouted over her shoulder.
I watched them as they left. I caught movement in my peripheral vision, and acted upon the movement. I reared up, and high kicked the pony that tried to attack me from behind. I sent the poor earth pony flying, and, despite what the guards might think of me, I raced to her, and caught her, “Swift Sword, we meet again. It isn’t the wisest decision to try to rush at me from behind in a high tension setting like this,” I set her down and spoke to Celestia, “Celestia, do you really want to fight me? I mean, how is your jaw, your wing, and your ribs? They must hurt right now, even if you used magic to heal yourself.”
I felt a powerful magic descend upon me, then two other magics of high scale settle upon me. I felt hundreds of low powered magic fall on me. “Overkill much?” I said under my breath.