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// My Name is Jax// Story: Adventures of Jax, Wandering soul// by Nero_Nova//------------------------------//
Chapter 2 My Name is Jax
The sweet smell of flowers and incense filled the air, an unfamiliar softness delighted the senses upon awakening. Drowsy eyes twitched as the young stallion forced himself back to the waking world. Confusion struck at the sight of the soft bed he was lying in, the room warm and comforting full of fine art and elegant furniture. The stallion rose from the bed and was met with a splitting pain in his head. A hoof to his forehead in an attempt to soothe the pain revealed bandages that were used to treat his injury. Further inspection of himself was met with the discovery of his left hoof wrapped in a sling, thinking back to the beach the young stallion tried to think of how this happened, no explanation came to mind.
With what legs were still functional the stallion got out of bed and found his things on a chair near the door. Donning his cloak and silver bands the stallion made his way out the door to head off. Walking through the halls he heard voices coming from the other side of a rather large door.
“Are you sure you’re o.k.?”
“Twilight I assure you I'm just fine.”
“Yes darling, I'm sure Princess Celestia would have taken care of that awful creature herself if that brave stallion was not there.”
“I'm sure there was a reason it was after the ship...”
The conversation went on as the stallion pushed the door open with his shoulder. Inside he found a huddle of mares, two of them alicorns to his surprise. His presence was noticed by the tall white one as soon as he walked in.
“Well, there he is now,” Celestia announced and all turned to the door, everypony rushed up to the stranger and nearly made him jump from shock. Each of the mares asked him questions; who is he, where is he from, how did he kill the Kraken. It was Celestia who calmed the six mares surrounding him asking them to give him space.
She walked with the grace of a true princess as she approaches the stranger, “I am Princess Celestia, you were injured and knocked unconscious during your fight with the Kraken. I brought you here to the royal palace to have your wounds treated in thanks for protecting my subjects on the beach.” Celestia rose her hoof and pointed to the other mares as she introduced them. “This is Princess Twilight and her friends Pinkie Pie, Rarity Rare, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Fluttershy.”
The stranger bowed his head in respect “Thank you for your aid and care, I'm very grateful.”
Celestia smiled “As I said, you are the one who is to be thanked for defending everypony on the beach, might we know your name so we may thank you properly.”
The stranger paused for a long moment as if hesitant to tell them his name, however with all smiling and waiting for his next words, the stranger saw no reason to be. He opened his mouth to speak when the other door flew open and a small and rather messy dragon walked in.
“Oh man, nothing like Joe's Donuts, you just can't get stuff like that in Ponyville.” The little dragon was busy licking his claws clean of frosting when he noticed everypony looking at him slightly annoyed “Was it something I said?”
Twilight put a hoof to her muzzle as she introduced the little dragon as her assistant, Spike extended his hand to greet the new pony. Instead of shaking hooves the stranger simply spoke, “I'm Jax,” was all he said.
Everyone looked back and forth at each other until Applejack spoke up asking in her thick southern accent, “Is there a last name there?”
“Not really...”
The clearly country mare scratched at her mane pondering how this new stallion did not have a last name.
“Princess Celestia tells us you were on the ship that ran ashore. What happened?” Twilight asked in an attempt to break the awkward silence.
“The ship wasn't too far from the shore and was heading for the nearest dock, the Kraken just attacked all of a sudden, I don't know why. Now with all due respect, I really should be going, thank you again for the help, it's been an honor to meet the royals of this land.” Jax bows his head and turns to leave.
Just as Jax spots the front door a very worried Fluttershy places a hoof on his side, “You can't just go wandering around in your condition, you could get hurt again or make your leg even worse.”
Jax wore a look of confusion as if questioning why this yellow mare cared, he goes to speak, but just as Fluttershy did, a hyper pink mare pops out in front of him with quite a lot to say and had crazy little antics to match.
“Fluttershy's right, you could get hit by a cart full of watermelons that get sent flying and fall on your head, or you could fall down a hole and wind up in the darkest, scariest place you've ever seen, or...” The pink fluffy maned mare was cut off.
“Pinkie Pie must you always be so eccentric?” the classy white mare said as she covered Pinkie's muzzle with her hoof. The question was met with an innocent shrug.
Jax watching the whole thing was starting to feel uncomfortable, “I appreciate the concern, but I'll be fine, it's not the first time I've been hurt like this. Besides, my bag was still on the ship when I jumped off, I need to see if I can find it.” Jax went to take a step but was met with another mare blocking his way.
“Well, why didn't you say so, we'd be happy to help you get your things.” Jax looked at the orange mare like she was crazy as she stood there proud of her statement.
“There's no need for that either, I just need to know where to go.”
“All right, beach day!” Declared Rainbow Dash as she pulled out a pair of shades and leaned back while she hovered in the air lightly flapping her wings.
Jax continued his protest, explaining how he did not need any help, his words fell on deaf ears as the six mares started for the door explaining to Rainbow Dash that this was in fact not a beach trip. Seeing no point in complaining Jax took a breath and started for the door and his new company. Watching from the previous room Celestia bids everyone so long, telling them to come back to Canterlot when they were done.
Hours later, Jax searched through the wreckage of the transport ship looking for his saddle bag. Each of the girls did the same looking under ship fragments and digging around in the sand finding several objects, but no saddle bag. Jax patience is tested as Pinkie Pie pops up here and there asking if the random objects she finds belong to Jax. After a while Jax stopped looking at whatever she brought him simple to make her run off and dig somewhere else.
In the distance near the remains of the kitchen Jax spotted his belongings underneath pocking out just enough to be seen. Jax inspects the mangled portion of the ship and finds his bag is trapped tight under the wreckage. For the average pony, it would take some tools and a few days to move such a massive portion of the ship, at least ten stallions would be needed to lift it long enough to grab the bag and no longer. Jax, however was not this patient, he took a firm position facing the opposite direction, with both hind legs Jax delivered a mighty blow to the wreckage and sent it flying a good five feet in the air and ten away.
Jax reached down and recovered his belongings, taking a moment to look through and see what was still left. A few things broken and lost, but most were just fine. Moving his cloak aside for a moment Jax put his saddle bag on and went to join the others, he was met with looks that told him these mares were not used to seeing a stallion that was so strong.
“Found my things, we should get going.” Jax said calmly pulling his hood over his face, hoping no questions would be asked. However the questions came just as expected, everyone asking for an explanation of such strength. Jax found a way to sidestep the questions as he pointed out that they were going to be late for the next train. To this everypony sped off to the station grabbing Jax and pulling him along.