//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: Dreams, Training, and Family // Story: Saiyan of Equestria // by Boyzilla //------------------------------// Pony Saga Chapter 5: Dreams, Training, and Family. Lyra walked through the empty Ponyville, not a single other pony in sight. She walked past Sugercube corner and arrived at Twilight's Library, the door opened for her has she walked into the building. Lyra eyes set onto the middle of the room. Ken sat there reading a book, written on the book's cover was the word Saiyan. Lyra didn't know what that meant. Then suddenly, Ken dropped the book and stood to faced her. Lyra mysteriously heard the giggling of children, and before her eyes next to Ken stood another, more feminine, twin. As quick as the twin appeared, she alongside Ken vanished. Lyra walked over to the center of the library, and picked up the book labeled Saiyan, inside was one clear sentence. SAIYANS: WAR-LIKE SPECIES THAT BRING DESTRUCTION AND TERROR EVERYWHERE THEY GO. The Book disappeared from her grasp and the surrounding area transformed into the Cantorlot Gardens. Here, Lyra saw Discord no longer encase in his stony form, grinning insanely at something. Lyra glanced to the ground to found her precious Ken and the unknown twin female a couple yards away from each other. The female human was injured on the ground, but when Lyra looked toward Ken she saw a glimpse of Golden aura surround him before her vision blacked out. The mint-colored unicorn, Lyra, woke up suddenly and rubbed her eyes with her hoofs. When she finished easing herself of the drowsniess that accomponied her in awakening, he took the time to think of her strange dream. A dream that confused her because it seemed very bizzare compared to her normal human world ones. 'What a strange dream.' Lyra thought, 'What is a Saiyan? War-like? What did that mean? And what was up with the female copy of Ken?' So many questions with no answers, she had to stop thinking so much. Lyra looked at the opposite side of her bed to find her recently adopted little human not there. 'Where did he go?' She looked around to see the door open. 'Did he go downstairs?' Lyra throttled into the hallway and down the stairs, she glanced toward the clock to noticed it was six-thirty-three in the morning. Mild surpise filled her at waking up so early. Lyra looked through the Kitchen, Living Room, Dining Room, and the Lobby room, still no sign of Ken. 'Was... Ken just my figment of imagination? Did he not exist and I was just having another dream?' Lyra shook her head, She's not giving up that easily! She throttles back upstairs into her room and browses through her saddle bag, taking out Ken's adoption papers. 'Aha! So yesterday did really happen. So where is he-' *KATHUMP* "What was that?" Lyra said aloud. About 50 minutes before... 'Ken! Wake up, time to train.' Ken rubbed his eyes, slowly and begrudingly, getting out of bed. The half saiyan put on his white boots and turned back to Lyra. Ken saw her sweating, was she having a bad dream? He tip-toed over to her bedside and moved his hand over her smooth furcoat. Lyra seemingly calmed down after this action. 'I understand your a bit worried for her, but get moving we don't have all morning.' Ken stopped and exited the room, and headed downstairs. Looking around, Ken spied many rooms and finally the backyard door. He opened the door to Lyra's backyard, it wasn't that big but not small either, it had two trees and a small wooden fence surrounding the borders of the property. 'Is this a good place?' Ken thought questionably to Chris. 'The area is sufficent, though you might require to get a bigger area when we get to the advanced techniques.' Ken nodded mentally and closed the door behind him, he proceeded to walk over to the middle of the backyard. 'Wait a second, what about my broke-Hey Its fine, but how?' Ken heard a chuckle inside him. 'You forgot already? Three reasons, my seal, your saiyan healing, and good health care. Chris joked. 'Ooh! So, what's first Chris-sensai?' 'I'm going to train you in the Turtle Style, it's a common martial arts style with the Z-Fighters back in my home with some variations that other Z-fighters like myself individually add to it.' Chris flashed some quick images of a himself doing some stances and attacks. 'Just slowly follow the images in your mind and your catch up quickly. Pratice them and they will become second nature to your body.' Ken started with the stances and grew familiar with them, he preferred Gohan's stance of the Turtle Style. Having his legs bent one in front of the other with his hands in a claw like matter. Ken proceeded to start with punches and eventually moving to kicks, however unused to such kicks, he fell to the ground multiple times. "Ufph!" 'Why do I keep falling down when I start practicing kicks?' Ken pouted, and tried again. The seven year old fell down on the third kick, his tail suddenly getting in the way. "EEEEK!" The child jumped five feet in the air and landed on his feet. 'Oww, I landed on my tail that time.' Ken rubbed his tail with his hands. 'How bout I teach you a little about Ki.' Ken beamed up, the pain vanishing in the excitement. Chris laughed at the child's positive reaction. 'Alright, alright! Calm down first and listen.' After calming down, Ken sat down and waited for instruction from his sensei. 'Since you are starting in the usage of Ki, you will have to be completely calm to use it. The more you use it the more your body adapts to it. Ken, your Ki will become second nature once you've adapted, allowing your emotions to easily affect your Ki and potentially unlock any latent powers. Such in cases with having any extreme emotion.' Ken listened in carefully, this after all is important info and both his human and saiyan side urged the child to learn it. Now then, calm yourself as much as possible. Search your inner body for a strange feeling like a small flame, usual between the chest and stomach. Once your feel a pull just bring to out through your hands, and Walla your got a small Ki ball. Being half saiyan had its advantages over other creatures when learning how to use Ki, for one, saiyans were naturally adept in Ki manipulation and it takes only a minute or two to get them to learn a Ki ball. And, after a full good minute, a small yellow ball glowed between the two hands of the young hybrid. Ken looked at the small orb of energy within his palms in awe and wonder. 'Yea I know, It's cool huh? The power of your very own life force right in your hands, and with training. It can be used to save lives, protect cites, and fly around the planet if you so wished. Anyhow, now I wanted you to retract your Ki ball back into you, its really simple just think of it doing that, then repeat the process until you get feel for it.' After a couple of minutes, Ken human curiousity urged up within him, he made a Ki ball, it appeared about the size of his hand. 'I wonder what would happen if I fired it.' Before Chris could respond Ken shot his arm forward and thought 'FIRE!' The Ki ball reacted, shooting forward toward a tree which caused it to crack, and start to fall near Ken. 'Uh oh.' Ken thought so briefly. *KATHUMP* If Ken had moved faster, he might had not experianced the worst possible pain of saiyan-kind. The tip of the tree landed on his only weakness and the pain was almost unbearable, and to make matters worst, the mental barriers of his mind began to crack, causing Ken to remember his past life, his orphan years, the years of being in a lab, and the love of parents that never came to him. Ken's time on Earth, his life that had been. How in the time in the orphanage food was scarce, there were no games, whatever parents that had birthed him left him to rot in a unforgivable enviroment of sorrow and loneliness. Yet this didn't compare to the horror that the child experianced within a lab. The half human hybrid could not hear Chris in his emotional experiance as memory upon memory bombarded him, tears came down his cheek until a familair voice called out to him. Comforting him in his time of need. Suddenly the tree lifted allowing him to crawl his tail out of it. "Oh Ken." Lyra galloped down the stairs at the sound and opened the backyard door. Only to see her little human laying on his stomach in front of the tree, with a painful face. She pondered what could be hurting him, after all the tree missed him... Oh... It didn't. She ran over to the tree tip and lifted it with her magic, Ken crawled away from it with his tail limping behind him. Lyra sighed in relief to see her 'creation' (Yeah she's still going on about that theory, u mad?) mostly unharmed, well thank goodness it was only his tail even those are painful enough. She walked over to the human who was weeping with emotion. "Oh Ken" She puts her hoof around Ken and hums a sweet lullaby to calm him, the calming tune of Lyra's voice comforted the young human child greatly. Ken suddenly hugged Lyra, tears rolling down in her fur and his face expressing deep emotion. Ken continued to cry and relief himself of the mental pain that haunted him for so long. 'Whatever is troubling him is more then just physical pain, Oh what has my human gone through in his world?' She thought Looking through all the memories of her dreamt world, Lyra only came up with the black hooded man. His evil grin instantly telling his possible responsiblity of Ken's pain. She blamed him, she disliked him, she hated him. But this is no time for that, Ken first. "Come on, Celestia's sun is up and breakfast must be eaten." Lyra said compassionately, the young human hybrid nodded and wiped his tears on his worn shirt which Lyra made a mental note to buy new ones. They walked back inside, Lyra would clean up the fallen tree later, breakfast for herself and her little human came first. She told Ken to go to the dining room and wait for her. Lyra went to the kitchen to find Bon-Bon up, starting too cook breakfast. "Your up early Bon-Bon." She said moving toward the pantry. "As are you, then again that noise sure awoke me, not to mention you running up and down the stairs." Bon-Bon groaned out. "Oh hehe, sorry about that, you see I was bringing Ken to the bathroom outside and I might've had a...magical discharge and it broke a nearby tree which fell done and hurt Ken a bit." "Really Lyra? A magical discharge at your age?" Bon-Bon raised an eyebrow at this. "Hey, it happens to some unicorns!" Lyra half-truthed. "Sure it does." Bon-Bon teased the human loving unicorn. The stomachs of both ponies suddenly growled like manticores. And giggling at that, both ponies helped make breakfast together. When they brought their food to the dining room, Lyra saw Ken drooling at it. She grabbed some extras of the meal they probably wouldn't have eaten and place it in a plate giving it to Ken. Ken grabbed the plate and sat next to Lyra, with the plate in his lap and began to eat. Nopony minding the fact that the pet of the house sat with them at the table. And now Ken was sure, that for the first time in his life, he had a mother. Or at least one that comes pretty darn close.