Chapter 3: Powers Emerged
Twilight and Ben arrives at Ponyville to get Nyx...and seeing a shocking sight. Some of the little ponies cheers on as the little alicorn was tackling down Diamond Tiara, one of the bullies at the school.
"Whoa, whoa, stop, stop, stop," Twilight exclaims in shock as she and Ben rushes over to put a stop to what's going on. Luckily, Cheerilee steps in and push the two fillies aside.
"All right, enough; stop it right now!" Cheerilee snaps at the two fillies angrily. The teacher rarely gets angry like this but when she does, it's for a good reason. "Now, mind telling me what's going on?"
"That freak attacked me!" Diamond protests to Cheerilee angrily while glaring at Nyx.
"I have a good reason: it was to protect a friend!" Nyx snaps at Diamond right back. "You were hurting Pipsqueak!"
"Mind telling me what's going?" Twilight ask Nyx in concern. Her daughter must have a good reason for fighting Diamond. "Nyx, what did you mean 'hurting Pipsqueak'?"
A sniff is heard nearby; Pipsqueak is nearby with Twist and Dinky Doo comforting the poor Earth pony. He spoke up while rubbing one eye, "Diamond Tiara was throwing rocks at me..."
"What? Is this true?" Ben asks Nyx and Diamond in surprise and in an upset way.
"Yeah, it was true! My friends and I were playing at the swings when I saw Diamond throwing rocks at Pipsqueak with Silver Spoon just watching her." Nyx snaps while giving an angry glare at Diamond. "I told her to stop but Diamond told me to 'mind my own business, Nightmare Moon'. When one of those rocks hits Pipsqueak in the eye, I have to jump in and save him."
"Yeah, we all saw the same thing!" Sweetie exclaims in agreement.
"Right, Diamond Tiara was picking on Pipsqueak because he has no cutie mark...and the fact that Princess Luna was his favorite princess." Scootaloo remarks with a nod.
"Diamond Tiara," Cheerilee ask Diamond sternly.
"Ugh. Fine, I was doing it." Diamond groans a bit, getting caught in the act of course. "But why do I care? Nightmare Moon over there is Princess Luna's former evil self and I can't tolerate anyone whose favorite princess emerges that thing."
"Regardless, you can't throw rocks at a pony just because his favorite pony's evil side was Nyx, and she changed her ways, you know that! And Nyx, although you did the right thing in helping Pipsqueak like that, you should've told me what Diamond Tiara was doing."
"I'm sorry, Cheerilee." Nyx said while looking down in shame. "I was only protecting ponies like my Cutie Mark wanted me to or like daddy told me."
"Cheerilee, I'm sorry about this." Ben apologizes to Cheerilee in concern. "I take responsibility for what happened. Believe me, I remember what it's like being bullied as a colt and already, I can see my enemy Boris in Diamond Tiara here. And I guess I kinda encourage Nyx into fighting."
"'Daddy'," Diamond scoffs to Nyx in disbelief. "I can't believe that you freak got a daddy. Takes one to..."
"Diamond Tiara, enough," Cheerilee snaps to Diamond sternly. Turning to Ben, she said, "Well, since Nyx was only protecting a pony, I will not suspend her for fighting...but she will lose a week of recess. And Diamond Tiara, I will however suspend you for a week for hurting Pipsqueak...and I'm going to have to call your father and let him know what you did!"
Diamond growls furiously while glaring at Nyx who is preparing to leave with her parents. As usual, she got into trouble, no thanks to that former evil of Nightmare Moon.
"You okay, Pipsqueak?" Twilight ask Pipsqueak in concern.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks, Nyx, for doing that." Pipsqueak said to Nyx with a sigh.
"No problem...I just can't stand there and let Diamond Tiara do that to him. It's just not right." Nyx remarks, stomping a hoof onto the ground; Ben and Twilight looks amused. They remember years ago when a certain filly was keeping a certain colt safe from a bully...and end up being a couple; Interesting.
"Still, Nyx, it's best for you to tell Cheerilee the next time this happens." Ben said to Twilight with a sheepish chuckle. "Maybe fighting wasn't a good idea to tell you."
"Yeah, but you were awesome there, Nyx." Twist said with Dinky Doo nodding. Both of them are good friends of Nyx and members of the CMC. Twist became one when she was invited into the group by Nyx when she was an adult. Dinky was added by Apple Bloom, Sweetie and Scootaloo around the same time that Megan returned to Equestria.
"Yeah..." Dinky Doo glances at Ben then smiles. "Hey, you must be Ben Mare. Mommy told me about you."
"Your mother; Oh, you must mean Derpy, right?" Ben ask, noticing how Dinky looks similar to Derpy Hooves. This must be the same unicorn daughter of the cross-eyed Pegasus that Mrs. Cake spoke of.
"Yeah...of course, her original name was Ditzy Doo but mommy doesn't mind the name Derpy. Thank you so much for helping her!"
"No problem. Come on, Nyx; Time to get you home."
Nyx nods as she and her parents prepare to head on home. Diamond meanwhile groans as and Silver Spoon was watching them leave. Once again, Nyx has gotten the main bully herself into trouble...and worst yet, the black filly has a daddy of all things.
"Stupid Nightmare Moon," Diamond growls a bit. Her own father Filthy Rich is going to be called in and now she is in for an earful later. "I need to take my frustration out on something."
Diamond notes Pipsqueak who is playing with what appears to be a Princess Luna toy after calming down. With an evil smirk, the bully rushes over and swipes it from her victim. The Earth pony gasps, "Hey!"
"Diamond Tiara, I don't think..." Silver begins to say but Diamond grabs a stick while keeping the toy away from the protesting Pipsqueak.
"Give that back, Diamond! I will tell Cheerilee!"
Diamond hit the toy into the air very high for a filly her age. She laughs madly as it flew into the air; most likely the toy will break upon hitting the ground or lands in a tree. Either way, Diamond Tiara put her frustration out on something.
Ben heard a noise and turn to see the toy landing in a huge tree nearby. Pipsqueak rushes over and jumps up to get it back but to no prevail, groaning in sadness. His toy of his favorite princess is up there and now he can't get it!
"What's going..." Twilight turns and saw the toy high up in the huge tree. She groans upon seeing this and glares at Diamond who is laughing cruelly while some of the foals gather around Pipsqueak. "Oh no, she just doesn't learn."
Twilight was about to use magic to get the toy out of the tree but Ben stops her while saying, "I got it." Suddenly the Earth pony jumps and...grab the toy. "I got it!"
Ben looks down and saw a lot of faces staring at him in shock or surprise...even Twilight is stunned at what's she seeing. That tree is huge, hard to climb or to even get to the toy which is on the highest branch. But the biggest surprise is that Ben has gotten to the said item...
And is in the air flying without any wings!
"What?" Ben asks puzzled as he flies down to the ground, landing before giving the toy back to Pipsqueak. "Oh, what I..."
"You can fly?" Twilight ask in shock and disbelief. Ben could fly...without wings?
"Err, let's go home. Now is not the time."
Ben quickly trots off with Twilight and Nyx following him. The foals are still talking in amazement or disbelief. Diamond and Silver are stunned by what they just saw: an Earth pony flying...without wings?
"Wow." Silver said stunned. "Never saw that before..."
"Wait until I tell daddy and other ponies about this." Diamond said with a smirk on her face. Of course, after Filthy punishes her daughter for what she did at school, she will tell: Nyx's daddy is a bigger freak than he is!
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Back at the library, Nyx came in, Ben introduces Koga to her. As the two begins to play, a disbelief Twilight spoke up, "Why didn't you tell me that you can fly without wings? What the hay?"
"I'm sorry. I didn't think it would happen again." Ben explains to Twilight in concern.
"'Again'; it happened before?"
"Yeah, when I was a colt..."
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Princess Celestia was walking by the castle library when she hears cries for help coming from inside. That was her son Ben's! The alicorn came into the library, looking worried as she calls out, "Ben? Ben, are you in here?"
"Help me, mommy, help," Ben calls out. Celestia looks around...then looks up to see a surprising sight. There's her son on the very top of the biggest bookshelf...and with no ladder in sight! Ben holds on for dear life while crying. "Mommy, help me, mommy!"
"Ben?" Celestia ask in surprise. She flies up to the top of the bookshelf until the mother is face to face with her son. "How did you get up here?"
"I don't know...I flew up...help me, mommy!"
"Ben, get on my back...carefully."
Celestia helps Ben get on her back, the colt held onto his mother for dear life until the two lands back onto the ground. The alicorn is astounded. How was her son able to get to the top of a high bookshelf with no ladder...or wings for that matter?
"Ssh, it's all right, it's all right." Celestia said, nuzzling the crying Ben until she manages to calm him down.
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"I never figured out how I got up on that bookshelf that day...and the flying power didn't appear but at rare times." Ben admits to Twilight with a shrug. "Especially..."
"Huh...now that you mentioned it...Ben, do you remember how you got on top of that building while escaping Boris and his goons?" Twilight ask Ben, reminding her colt-friend as to how she escapes Boris and his goons when he was young.
"Yeah...I never figure out how I got up there...or how I got down. Even you didn't. And that isn't all I can do."
Ben motions to some books...and suddenly they begin to fly up as if being levitating by magic. Twilight gasps in disbelief as her colt-friend appears to be glowing. He is using magic and with no horn in sight!
Ben set the books down...then his eyes widen. Twilight turns and saw her friends at the door, shocked and jaw-dropped (Rarity pushes Pinkie Pie's mouth back up). Apparently they came to visit.
And now the mares saw what happened.
"Pinkie; Fluttershy; Rainbow; Applejack; Rarity," Twilight exclaimed in concern.
"Uh...Twilight...were you using magic or..." Rarity began to say in shock and disbelief.
"No, I think that was Ben...wasn't it?" Fluttershy asked, dumbstruck.
"Errr, yeah, that was me." Ben said with an embarrass smile. "How much did you saw?"
"A lot; How long were yew able 'ta do 'dis?" Applejack asks, blinking her eyes. "Oh, a followup: how was yew able 'ta do it?"
"Rarely at times," Ben said with a shrug. "What, never saw an Earth pony use magic or fly before?"
"He can fly without wings or a machine?" Pinkie asks in shock and surprise. Then the pony scoffs in disappointment. "Awww, I wanted to try something like that."
"I have these powers that appears rarely...I guess after I was the Demon Pony, they begin showing up more often." Ben said, floating a drink over to himself and drank from it.
"Well, at least I'm glad that I ain't the only pony who can use magic without a horn." Rainbow remarks with a smirk. She glows as Applejack's hat fell right off her head, landing on the library floor.
"Rainbow, quit it!" Applejack snaps in annoyance as she picks up her hat, putting it back on her own head.
"Wow! Daddy can use magic and fly just like Grandma!" Nyx giggles while playing with Koga who is already friends with Twilight and Spike's pets.
"But this is uncanny! Earth ponies can't use magic or could fly without horns and wings!" Twilight exclaims as she paces a bit. "How can this happen?"
"Perhaps...it's a rare occurrence." Fluttershy guesses meekly.
"Why not send a message to Princess Celestia?" Spike suggests to Twilight. "Maybe she could provide an answer or so."
"Yeah, she might know something about this." Rarity assumed.
"Perhaps; Spike, take a letter." Twilight said. Spike nods as he got out a paper and quill, the baby dragon wrote down what his big sister told him to write. "Dear Princess Celestia. My friends, Ben, Nyx and I have arrived home. First off, I'm happy to announce that your adopted son now has a pet of his own, a wolf cub named Koga. Second...this is rather shocking to explain...but for some reason, Ben is suddenly flying without wings...and using magic without a horn. It seems to be hard to believe, but that's what's happening especially when it's likely that it happened before. If you got any information that may explain how this happened, please send a reply ASAP; Your Faithful Student and Niece-In-Law, Twilight Sparkle."
After finishing the letter up, Spike rolled it up and breathed fire onto it, sending the message to Castle Canterlot.
"I just hope mom has an answer." Ben said with a sigh. "I have some questions as to why I feel different than the other ponies."
"How is it possible 'dat Ben could fly like a Pegasus and use magic like a unicorn," Applejack wondered.
"Maybe those mysterious powers have something to do with that Cutie Mark of yours." Pinkie assumed to Ben as she pointed to the Triforce cutie mark on his flank.
"Perhaps..." Ben said thoughtfully. After all, he has that Triforce Cutie Mark for some reason. Perhaps his mom will give him an answer.
"For now, let's not mention this to anypony about this." Twilight said in concern. "The last thing I want is to give Ben even more attention enough to break his privacy."
"Right; a lot of attention was a nightmare for me." Fluttershy said with a squeak of worry.
"That's for sure." Rainbow agreed with a nod.
Unknown to the ponies, a familiar stallion was at the door, looking on getting a book when he overheard the whole conversion and saw what happened.
Caramel gasped in surprise as he rush away from the library, calling out to Golden Harvest, "Hey Golden! You ain't going to believe what I just found out about the newcomer Ben Mare!"
And let's say that once Caramel tells Golden...she told some of her friends who told their friends and...well...
Ben Mare is about to get even more wanted in Ponyville.
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Celestia paces around in her bedroom, looking worried as she glances at the message that Twilight has sent her. The alicorn knew one day that this would happen: her son's powers had reemerged.
'Must be what happened after he was saved by the necklace that Ben gave Twilight. I wonder how Megan would've deal with this problem.' Celestia thought to herself. She goes over to the books and looks through the subject.
Celestia sighs as she saw the subject: the Elements of Harmony. The princess knew of the main six that Twilight and her friends have: Honesty, Kindness, Laughter, Geneorsity, Loyalty and Magic. But there are more, according to legend, some are yet to be found...and some can be found within.
If what Celestia suspects to be true, more than one element has been found...and it isn't a necklace or a crown, but within a certain pony...
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It was a slow day at the library. No ponies came in for books just yet. Maybe because no one was looking for any right now or it's just a slow day. Either way, the library is quieter than usual.
Nyx was upstairs, playing with Koga, Owloysius and Pee-Wee while Spike is out getting some supplies. Ben and Twilight are left alone to do some studying or reading.
Ben, remembering the question about Starlight, spoke, "Twilight, I know this may be the wrong time to ask, but did they ever get Starlight's killer?"
Twilight sigh while answering, "No... He vanished years ago when Tadaka was brought to justice. But I remember that his name starts with the letter L..."
Ben was about to speak but then he remembers something from a while ago when the stallion was still cursed...
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Of course, a while after Nyx goes back inside, no one saw a figure coming out of the shadows: the same one that Boris and his goons has met. He grabs the cage's lock and breaks it before opening the cage.
The Demon Pony looks up and saw the figure coming to him, breaking the ropes and chains that subdued him, not worrying or caring about the diamonds. The prisoner growls in worry. What does he want?
"There. Now Boris won't need to tell me that I didn't help him," The figure said quietly. He is setting the Demon Pony free to at least give Boris a chance to kill him or not. The consequences won't be right if that foalish fool didn't complete his task when the monster is captured already by the Mane Six.
With a smirk, the figure held out one claw...and stabs right at the Demon Pony's side.
The Demon Pony's roars can be heard throughout the night. If anypony would've heard it, the noise would mean to them that the monster is roaring from his imprisonment...
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Ben gasps suddenly, "Twilight, I just remembered something!"
"What?" Twilight ask Ben in concern.
"When you captured me, I was freed by some two legged creature wearing a long black coat with a T. I couldn't see his face, but he did have green eyes and a scar over his left one!"
"What? Are you sure?"
"Yeah. After he freed me, the creep stabbed me in the side, causing me to scream in pain and go on a rampage." Ben explains to Twilight in concern. "My Demon Pony side only does that when provoked and he provoked me."
"Oh my..." Twilight gasps a bit. That means...her brother's attacker must've freed Ben/Demon Pony from his cage, "But why?"
"I guess he wanted Boris to kill me and freed me to let the villain do the task."
Twilight looks more concerned. That means that Boris's actions before were assisted by the one who killed her brother. And to think, Ben almost lost his life because of those two.
Twilight has a bad feeling that the killer is still out there, waiting for his next move. Who knows what he will do now?