//------------------------------// // The Alicorn of Change // Story: The Season's Sound // by Autumn breeze24 //------------------------------// Autumn and Twilight arrived in the station to find Ponyville being destroyed by a giant celestial bear twice the size of the city hall. Autumn heard a scream come from the town square which was where the bear was currently at. Autumn seemed to recognize who the scream belonged to and bolted off in the direction of the square. Twilight was in far too much shock to react after a few seconds she gasped "An Ursa Major, here?" She had once defeated an Ursa Minor (a baby Ursa Major), but that had taken almost all her magic. She turned to tell Autumn to run only to see him running toward the square. Fires, debris, nothing stood in his way as he charged straight at the giant bear. When he finally entered the square the bear swung his giant clawed paw at a familiar orange and purple filly and slammed her straight into a brick wall. Time seemed to slow down as he watched the young filly fall to the ground unmoving. The bear, the town, none of it mattered in that moment. He flew to the her side and crouched and held her in his hooves. Tears streamed from his eyes as he held her. Then something came over him. In a dead calm he set her body gentle on the ground and then stood. The Ursa roared showing its might, but then was drowned out by a much louder voice. "How dare you!" said Autumn breathing heavily. "How dare you hurt her!" said Autumn as he started to shake in rage. "I'LL KILL YOU!!!!" Autumn finally screamed, hundreds of times louder than the roaring Ursa had been as a flame made of the night sky exploded into existence around him. This flame was larger than any he had ever made, but he didn't care. Nothing mattered other than the fact that Scootaloo had gotten hurt maybe even killed and this bear had caused it. The bear swung at the the colt with one of its great paws and Twilight who had arrived just minutes before Autumn had burst into flames yelled "NO!" eyes wide with shock. Then she was shocked even more as Autumn not only stopped the giant paw, but he did it with a single hoof. Autumn looked at the bear with pure hate in his eyes as it took another swing at him and this time Autumn not only blocked the attack, but launched an attack of his own. Autumn flew up at the its face full speed and slammed a powerful right hook with his hoof snapping the bear's head to the side violently. He then proceeded to hit the bear's face left and right and left again over and over at such a high speed that his hooves were a blur. Autumn flew up in a loop and slammed his back hooves straight into the stunned bear's face. The bear flew back 50 yards and slammed into a hill top and cracks spread out from the spot it hit. Autumn started charging a giant ball of purple magic right where if he had had a horn it would be and he launched it into the Ursa the point of all his hate. A giant explosion of purple light spread from the ball in a dome as it hit. The Ursa flew high into the sky propelled by the magic's force. Autumn flew up and flying higher than the Ursa he flew straight down as fast as he could. As he collided with the Ursa his flame enveloped them both. Then they crashed into the ground at speeds even Rainbow Dash would be hard pressed to beat. As the dust cleared Twilight saw in awe a very different Autumn than the one who had started the fight for one he had a horn and for another he simply exuded power much like Celestia did, but he was possibly even more powerful than she was. Autumn breathed a sigh and looked around for Scootaloo. Than spotting her he flew to her side with tears in his eyes. "Come one stay with me, please stay with me. I can't live without you. If-if you die I don't know if I could live in this world anymore. Your-your the only pony who was ever nice to me, who actually cared about me. Please don't die. I-I-I love you Scootaloo." sobbed Autumn. "Really?" said a weak voice in his arms. Autumn looked down at Scootaloo and to his extreme relief. "Y-yes, yes of course I do why wouldn't I? I mean you are an amazingly kind filly and I think that makes you more beautiful than anyone else." said Autumn standing up with her and then burying her in a hug. A short time later Twilight, Autumn and Scootaloo sat in her tree home with Princess Luna and Princess Celestia as they discussed the damage and Autumn's strange transformation into an alicorn. During which Autumn and Scootaloo cuddled together with their parents. After a few minutes (during which the princesses whispered to each other) the two sisters walked up to Autumn and asked him " What element do you have control over?" Autumn thought deeply for a minute and stared up at the stars then suddenly a light seemed to shine from his eyes and in a tone of certainty he said "I control the element of change." The two alicorn princesses turned to the crowd that had gathered in the square and announced in the royal canterlot voice "Please say hello to the alicorn of change." and they parted to show Autumn standing tall and proud in front of Scootaloo. Little did they know their happy moment would soon be ruined by somepony who had been all, but forgotten.