//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 Some Answers, With a Side of New Powers And Friends (Edited) // Story: Swift, Knight of the Wind Chronicles // by Windy Swift //------------------------------// “You are you and your past is apart of you.” -Unknown Mike was running, trying to stop the man who killed his brother. No matter how hard he tried he always too late, usually to see his brother fall and the shooter making his escape.This time however right before the shoot as to pull the trigger , the teens quarry vanished in a flash of blue light. “Where is he where, did he go?” His train of thought was interrupted by a voice echoing around him. “Greetings, art thou the Knight of the Wind?” Mike froze he had heard that voice before, ”Vice Principal Luna?” He asked, looking frantically through the Darkness to find the origin of the voice. “Although I share the name, I am not a mere Vice Principal.” The voice stated, someone walked into the light revealing a pony with a horn and a pair of wings that was just a bit taller than the boy. The mare had a dark blue coat with light sapphire blue eye shadow. Her mane was moderate sapphire blue with a grayish persian blue aura surrounding it as it was flowing in the non-existent wind. Looking to the side Michael saw what looked to be a white crescent moon with a black background. “I am Princess Luna!” “This is a joke, right? I’m just going insane.” “This is not a joke sir knight, this is a test.” “Of what, my sanity level?” He joked. “No, the strength of your powers.” Suddenly, she shot out a bolt of energy. Mike dodged it at last second. He turned the head of his watch to the right, a green light engulfed his body, as it dissipated he was wearing his gauntlets, that covered about half of his forearms with grappling hook devices on the bottom with a touchscreen on the top of the left gauntlet. “Okay then show me what you got Moony!” The knight said taking a fighting stance. Luna started the battle by firing multiple types of magic an combos, one was ice followed by fire then electricity. Mike dodged them with quicksteps and dodge rolls but his power really shone in his close combat. He started his assault on the princess by spin dashing into her side and grabbing her neck piece. He tossed her across the arena. She recovered in the air and dove at the him, preparing to strike him. As Luna’s hoof was about to strike Mike, he grabbed her foreleg with his right hand, and spun around to have her jaw meet his left elbow. "Back off!" Luna grew frustrated and within a flash of light, a boulder was within her magical grasp. She flung the boulder at tge knight. He dodge it and fired a cable from his left gauntlet, attaching itself to the rock. The tension grew so strong, Luna heard a loud pop and a gripe of pain emit from the knight right before the rock hit her straight in the face knocking her down “Good, now that his left arm is injured I have the advantage.” She thought just as the knight hit her with a strong left hook “How could you possibly recover that fast?” “I did, I just have a faster healing speed than the average person, kind of depends on the injury, a simple cut will take a while and sometimes it doesn’t work at all. So you give up Moony?” “Enough, cease your incessant paddling!” Luna demand as she Fired multiple, very Large Magic blasts at the vigilante. “But incisive paddling is the best kind.” He joked. ”Oh no, GAH!” He weeped as he was taking a beating “How powerful is this pony!” He thought. “Hey Moony, how are your so strong?” "First it is Princess Luna, ruler of the night and second I am an Alicorn who has lived over one thousands of ye-.” she was interrupted by a spin dash to her gut, then a swift kick to her muzzle, followed by an uppercut that sent her flying on her back. ”Nice use of distractions and technology.” She said as she got up. “Well the high IQ and the powers tend to do that. Are we do-Yah!!” he was going to ask before being shot with a magic ball of fire resulting in an explosion which sent him flying, landing on the hard ground. “Copy cat.” He mumbled. “ So are we done with this test?” he asked, still lying on the floor. Luna trotted over to the knight, offering him a hoof. “Yes we are.” she said as Mike took the hoof, then a light engulfed them both. When the light dissipated the first thing Mike saw was that he was in an empty version of his room, the only furniture there though was a circular table and two chairs which Luna was in the one at the opposite end. “come sit, and do remove that hood and mask I already know who you are Michael Winds.” Luna said , invitingly. “What now, do I have to take a written test your highness? Mike asked as he removed his hood and black mask which in doing so, it changed his eyes back to brown. “No, no I do believe you are looking for some answers, are you not?” “Well yeah but I’ll let you ask me something your highness.” “Very well.” The princess thought for a moment then asked. ”Why were you calling me Moony during our fight even when I told you to stop?” “My apologies your highness its a tactic I use, see the angrier one gets the lower their IQ becomes meaning they make more mistakes in a way so I attempt to agitate my opponents so I can use that theory to my advantage, most of the time, well that and it’s a mental coping thing .” “Apology accepted, now I am done you may ask away.” “Okay, how do you know who I am?” “Well-” Luna started "We have been watching you for awhile.” “We? and what do you mean awhile?” Mike asked “my sister and I, she rules over the day, I take care of the night” “Like a Diarchy?” "Yes, and we were watching you ever since you awoke from that coma you suffered from the bolt.” “Figures.” he thought. “Okay, what are my powers based off of?” “ well to be honest I'm not quite sure myself, maybe your powers are based off of things you strongly like, Sonic the Hedgehog for example?” “How do you know about Sonic?” “Can’t royalty be gamers too? Oh, I forgot, can we be friends?.” “sure why are you asking?” Mike asked as The ruler got out of her chair and trotted over to him with her horn aglow. She tapped her horn on his head causing his eyes to glow white for a few seconds, rubbing his head the boy asked. ”What did you do to me?” “From what it looks like, I gave you swordsmanship skills of Sora from the Kingdom Hearts games, and a little something special” “uh, thanks I guess, though I already know how to use a sword and that also leads me to the next question, how do I get more powers so I can get stronger?” “You must create a bond with others like aquetensives work with some powers, friendship with others.” “Really?” Mike asked sheepishly. “Yes, my sister and I hve seen you are anti-social at times but it’s the only way.” He sighed in defeat. ”Alright I’ll try, I guess I can start with the children of the owners of Carousel Boutique.” “Splendid, that's the spirit! you can start with the oldest her name is Rarity, Anything else to ask?” “Why are you helping me?” “I will tell you in time, but you have to wake up anyways.” Luna said “Wait, Luna?” “Yes Michael?” “Did someone do this to me?” The teen asked, concerned Luna gave it thought and sighed ”Yes, why must you ask?” Mike grew angry “If you know who exactly then tell them, it’s their fault my brother is dead! Now please wake me up?” He then asked as he put his mask and hood back on. Luna nodded and said in a concerned manner “I will, fare well Knight of the Wind! May I see thee tonight?” “Yeah.” Mike smirked. “It’s a date.” he said as a light engulfed both of them. Michael opened his eyes to see his alarm clock going off at 6:30. Turning it off, the he hopped out of bed and headed toward the bathroom to get ready for school. Afterwards, he checked his computer to find a message on his steam client from a user by the name of Sweet_Bell3_64 saying “Good morning windyswift.” “Hey Sweet what are you doin up so early?” Mike typed "School, how about you?” “Same, we must be in the same time zone since I moved.” “Sweet! I’ll see ya online when I get out, k?” “Alright see ya later.” Michael finished typing. The boy then changed into a red and gray T-shirt and brown pants. He ran down stairs almost running over his pet dog, Gizmo, he saw his mom getting ready for work as he made his way over to the garage to retrieve his bike. “Enjoy your sleep?” His mother asked. “Just lovely.” he said bitterly “And losing a fight to a Pony, of all things, in my dreams just put the icing on the cake.” He thought. “Anyway, I’m off to school.” He said as he put his backpack on his back. “Alright then Mikey, Try to make some friends this time around? Also don't get hit by any cars.” “Thats what I intend to do, love you Mom.” He said as he closed the door to the garage. Mike got on his bike as he went outside and pedaled his way to school. Rarity, who had been getting ready for two hours, was driving herself and her sister, Sweetie Belle, to school. “How much longer?” Sweetie Belle asked. “About 15 minutes, Honestly Sweetie could you-” “Sis Look Out!!” Sweetie shouted, looking to her left she saw a biker that wasn't slowing down, possibly thinking she’d stop first. In a panic Rarity slammed on her brakes as the biker tried to swerve to pass her, in which had him fly over his handlebars and the hood of the girls car. The boy landed on the other side with a thud, Rarity got out of the car to see if the biker was alright. Mike was riding his bike and thinking “Something was awfully fishy about what scaredy Buffy said, It was as if they wanted the Knight to be there and the break in was an invite.” Suddenly Mike had a tingling sensation in one of his teeth followed by going cross eyed for a split second and he shot his head to the right, noticing a car coming at him. He soon realized that everything slowed down even himself, somewhat, with this he shot his wheel to the right and front flipped over his handlebars. He had flown over the cars hood and landed on his stomach, “That was new, a sixth sense is kinda weird I’m gonna call it my tooth sense.” He thought as he layed there in some pain. Pinkie Pie was on her school bus thinking happily “Did he really say I looked hot holding a gun? Anyway he’ll be in for the surprise of his life when this is done.” Out of nowhere Pinkie sneezed followed by twitching sensation in her tailbone.”Hey someone is copying my Pinkie Sense! I should tell the girls at lunch.” she said gleefully. With his eyes closed, Mike mumbled “I hate Murphy's Law.” “Are you alright darling?” A scared young woman asked. Mike opened his eyes to Rarity’s staring into his. “I think I broke every bone in my body.” He said causing the girl to gasp, he added “I’m joking.” “Do you need to go to the hospital?” “Naw I’m good.” Mike said as he got up, only to see his bike with a bent front wheel. ”Aw Man My Bike!” “Oh dear let me pay for the damages.” The girl said. “You don't need to, it’s alright.” "Nonsense darling, I wasn't paying attention at all and I could have hit you, lucky my sister pointed you out. Say, how about I give you a ride to Canterlot High, that is where you are going right? ” “yes I am and that would be nice, thank you umm…" “Rarity darling.” “Thank you Rarity” He said “That was easy to find her, and convenient.” He thought “The name is Michael Winds but you can call me Mike, Nice to meet you.” He said as he held his hand, Rarity shook his hand. “Likewise Michael.” Sweetie was still sitting in the car while the two teens were talking and then Mike grabbed his damaged bike and put it in Rarity’s trunk. “Sis, whats going on?” Sweetie asked. “His bike became damaged trying to evade us Sweetie so I offered him a ride.” Mike finished getting his bike in Rarity’s car and placed himself in the back seat saying ”Thanks again for the ride Rarity.” “It’s not a problem I'm pretty sure after this meeting we could grow a healthy friendship, you know what they say the more the merrier.” Rarity replied. “Mind if I say something?” Sweetie asked. “Sure dearie.” “Falcon punch.” Sweetie said in a sly toned voice, which caused one of Mike’s eyes to twitch. “Sweetie dear, why would you say-” “FALCOLN PAWNCH!!!” Mike shouted, interrupting Rarity. “Windy it's you!” Sweetie cheered. “Sweet_Bell3?!?” Mike said in shocked. “Do you two know each other?” A confused Rarity asked. “Yeah sis, He's one of my online friends, he moved into this time zone but I didn’t know he moved to Cantermore!” Sweetie said while giving the tan teen a death stare “well I didn’t know you lived here,and that you were this young, 12?” “She is 13, but you were close enough darling,” Rarity said as she parked her car. “Sweetie said you moved here during the summer right.” “Yes why do you ask?” “So you can make some friends! We can start with my friends, then Sweetie’s.” “R-eally, huh great, how generous of you.” Mike said sheepishly. “Why of course darling, now we’ll need to compare our schedules since Sweetie and I know which classes our friends share with us and you now we can do that before we head to homeroom." Mike sighed “Alright let’s go.” Michael said as he and the girls got out of the car made their way to the school.