“Ready for the Round 2 BugPony?”
Chrysalis was speechless, What did this monkey freak do? And what was that Axe in his hands, she was pretty sure she only saw him enter with one Axe in his back and it wasn’t that one, it shined like silver and looked very sharp but that wasn’t the most shocking thing, why was the monkey covered in Electricity, it was blue and cyan, he should be toasted.
“What are you?” She asked, not removing her eyes from him.
Steel Chuckled and narrowed his eyes even more.
“I’m just a human”
“A human?” Cadence and Twilight whispered.
“Ok. . .human, I don’t know how you managed to survive that fall and came here so quickly but it seems you now decided to fight seriusly, in that case I will not hold back anymore”
Steel kept smiling.
“I’m glad you say that, it would be a waste if the power you showed me were your maximus, in that case, you’d be huge dissapointing”
“Let’s see if this dissapoint you!” – Chrysalis said and shot another powerfull beam to Steel, he was about to dodge it but remembered he had ponies behind him, he growled to himself.”
“Damn! I hate protecting and fighting at the same time, it’s so problematic” He thought, then he took his Axe with both hands and hit Chrysalis’ beam and deflected to a wall, it exploded, leaving only dust.
Chyrsalis’ eyes widened.
“How. . . how you did that?”
“With an intense training, I’ll tell you that, not bad, not bad at all, that beam was really strong, I thought I wouldn’t be able to deflect it, now I see you are not trash”
“Trash?! I’m not trash! That’s it! I’m tired of hearing you! and seeing you!”
Chrysalis then shot another beam to Steel, she knew he wasn’t going to move to protect the ponies so she only had to tire him until he could no longer continue deflecting her beams but for her surprise, the monkey dodged the attack, that was insane, he didn’t care for the ponies?
Cadence and the rest looked horrified how the. . . human dodged the attack leaving them unprotected, he was heartless, all of them prepared for the impact but in never reached them, they only heard the human screaming:
“Plasma Barrier!”
When all of them opened their eyes, they amazed looked a transparent electrify forcé field surounding them. Applejack tried to touch it but she recieved a electroshock from it.
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you pretty cowgirl, you are not inmune to electricity as I am, just stay there and be safe, by the way, nice blond mane, I love it” – The human said. Applejack blushed a little a noded in understandment.
He then turned to Chrysalis and ran to her with an unbeliabible speed, he swinged his axe to her, Chrysalis managed to create a forcé field but the powerfull shockwave of the Axe broke it and sent her flying to a window, her body broke it and now she was out of the chapel.
Chrysalis was now flying a few meters away from the human, she smirked and said:
“Hahahahaha, how are now going to reach me now? You are going to try to hit me with your pattetic lightning beams again? Flying is one of my tops elements, you will never hit me! hahahahahaha”
Steel, still looking at her, adopted a crouch position, every eyes were focus on him, Chrysalis started to laugh.
“So you are giving up, too bad I will not. . . uh?”
She couldn’t finish the sentence for she saw the human jumping to her at high speed, the plant of his feet and Axe were coverered in electricity, like if it was propiling him, the second later he was a few inches in front of her.
“What?” was all Chrysalis could say before starting to feel pain in her cheek.
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“I love you my little Bright, you are my pride”
“Let me read you a bed time story my sweet treasure”
“I brought Spike with me! let’s play the three of us together!”
“My sweet Bright, please, watch out for Twlight, she likes you so much!”
“C’mon Brigth! Just a few mores swings and we are done for today!”
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Steel was listening to all those voices in his head, it wasn’t a nightmare but it wasn’t a good dream either, he hated not being able to see who they were, the only thing his eyes could see was a dark void, who were they? Were they his owners or. . . his family? Were they ponies? The lack of information was a torture for him, the second later he was surounded by a shinning light.
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Steel opened his eyes and found himself lying on the grass, he was next to the entrance of the sacred forest, his head was killing him, not to mention he didn’t have any energy left, he tried to stand up but failed miserable, he was also confused, how he got there?
With effort, he raised his arm to watch his hand, the silver ring was still in his finger, he really got the Axe, that thought made him smile but he quickly remembered he wasn’t able to summon it, he was lost in his thoughts when he heard a voice:
“So you finally woke up, great, I was starting to think you were in some kind of coma, that would had suck”
Steel turned his head and saw his favorite zebra in all the world.
“In case you are wondering, yes! I was the one who brought you here, you are heavy! I hope you know that, and second, yes you have the Lightning Axe in your hand, I can’t believe it chose a weakling like you”
Steel narrowed his eyes and said:
“A weakling? Hey! I got the axe didn’t I, I think I have proven myself!”
“That’s what I thought, until you passed out after summoning the Axe for two mere seconds!”
Steel didn’t say anything, somehow. . . he knew she was kinda right in being dissapointed of him.
(Sigh) “Ok, I admit I may be a little rude with you, but you must understand, If you really are going to use that Axe, you need to be a lot better than that!”
“And what you propose I should do?”
Zahari smirked after Steel said that.
“Come to Zebrica with me, I can teach you how to train your body and mind to use that weapon more properly”
“. . . really? you can teach me that?”
“Yeah, but I must tell you, it will not be easy, you will want to quit after the first week but if you manage to follow my lead. . . trust me, you can be awesome, like Strong Heart was”
Steel noded at her.
“Ok, I will go with you”
“. . . .wow, you didn’t even think about it”
“What is there to think? you can help me to get stronger and besides, my plan after getting the Axe, was going to meet you”
“What? you were going to look for me? why?”
“Remember about the voice I told you about?”
Zahari noded.
“You see, there are other voices I heard in my dreams, but I never can see the owners of those voices, all my dreams are black and gloomy, Onyx told me maybe you would be able to help me”
“. . . . I see, well, Onyx told you about my amazings potions uh? Ok, once we got to Zebrica, I’ll see what I can do for you, for now, drink this.”
Zahari then took out from a saddlebag a little bottle with a red liquid, she gave it to Steel, he drank it without asking questions, after some seconds, Steel felt full of energy again, he stood up with a jump and started to examinate his body, there was no pain and he felt incredible, not even his past nap was enough to help him to recover.
“Amazing! What is that what you gave me?”
“It’s just a basic healing potion, any 3rd class alquemist can sintetize it, but I can asure you, this is the best you will ever taste”
“I can see that, Thanks Zahari”
After that, both started to walk to Zahari’s house, it was at 2 days by walking, furtonately, there weren’t any troubles at Zebrica’s chekpoint, Thanks to her conections, she managed to take Steel inside her country, it seemed she was well known in Zebrica, Steel thought.
While walking, Steel told Zahari everything about his years living with his adopted family in Minus, Zahari smiled, thinking all the fun he had with her friends Onyx, Margaret and Jilt, this boy indeed was like his minotaur friend, she was starting to being glad that he was the one who got the Axe.
After two days of traveling and eating nothing more than fruits, they finally arrived at ZebraVille.
“They really have no imagination with the names of the towns” Steel thought, laughting in his mind.
When they entered the town, the reaction was the expected, many zebras stared at Steel who was wearing his mask at that moment, some of them only stared, some were taking defense position and some even smiled, Steel didn’t mind, he was so used to it by that moment, they kept walking until they arrived at Zahari’s house.
Once inside, Steel noticed the decorations, tribes mask and stands full of potions, the tipical house of a potion maker, not diferent from the ones he saw in Minus, Zahari closed the door behind her and said:
“Ok, let’s do it”
“Do what?” Steel said raising his eyebrow.
“Let’s see what your dreams are all about”
“Uh? you really can help me with that?”
“Maybe, come with me”
Steel followed Zahari to the basement, there was a special secluded room with scented candles, they smeled very nice, in the middle of the room, there were pillows, perfect for a good sleep, when he turned to see Zahari, she said:
“This is the relaxing room, perfect when you are troubled or stressed, it also helps you to think better, until now, even if you haven’t realized, you’ve been troubled for your amnesia, it seems your head and heart want to remember but all those years in negation had blocked the memories to come out.”
“So. . . you think sleeping here will help me to remember better?”
“Not exactly, the room is one thing, but what we really need is this”
Zahari then showed Steel a bottle with blue liquid.
“This is a special potion that helps creatures to calm their minds to remember things they forgot long ago, like where they left something or creatures they knew before but it only works when the creature who drinks it really wants to remember, not to mention they remember at least a little, to be honest with you, I don’t know if it will work with somehuman with amnesia”
Steel noded and told her to continue.
“I’m going to give you this potion to try to forcé your memories to come out or at least help you to see the ones you already have more clearly in your dreams, thanks to your problematic mind I must tell you, it will hurt, that’s for what the room is for, it will help you a little but only a little, your forcé will is your best weapon here, and one more thing, we can only make this once, at least in a very long time”
“Why?”
“If we try to forcé your memories to come out many times, it could damage your brain permanently, trust me. . . I’ve seen it before”
“Ok”
Steel laid on the pillows and drank the potion, Zahari was next to him, waiting for it to start working, after some minutes, Steel fell sleep.
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Stell found himself again in the dark void.
“Great! This place again”
Suddendly, his enviroment started to shine, he felt himself being pulled to the light, the second later he found himself in some kind of box, he couldn’t see himself but he realized he was small, then a creature apeared in front of him, it was another human and it seemed it was a female very similar to him, it took little time to realize who she was, she kissed his forehead and said:
“Mo. . lov. . yo. . .Jes. . .”
“what? what did you say?”
He tried to figure out what the human woman said but then, he was pulled to another scene, now he was in a cradle, the room around him looked like a castle, he felt surounded by a gold aura, like the ones Unicorn ponies use, then a huge pony with wings and horn was in front of him, she was smiling and said:
“How. . is. . .m. . boy. . .day?”
Steel recognized her voice, it was the motherly voice he kept hearing lately, but why? why he remembered the voice of that pony even more than the voice of his “true” human mother? He didn’t have time to think for he was transported again, now he was lying on a bed, he felt he was higher now, it seemed he was not longer a baby, when he turned his head, he saw another pony with wings and horn, she was pink and man, she was gourgeous.
“And. . .th. . .princ. . . liv. . .happy . ..ev. . .after”
“Tha. . .dence, it. . wa. . beat. . tory”
“Yo. . ar .. .welc. . my. . sw. . .sin”
She kissed his forehead and left the room, he then though:
“Wow, so I was really taking care by ponies? Was I the family pet?”
The second he said that, he found himself in a garden, he had a wooden sword and was sparing with stallion.
“C’mo. . . Brig. . . . .yo. . .need. . .strong. . .”
The scene ended.
“They were training me? was I supposed to be a soldier or somekind of weapon?”
He then found himself again in the garden but he was taller.
“C’mo. . . Brig. . . tod. . .new. . .books. . the. . librar. .”
A beatifull purple unicorn filly told him, she took his hand with her hoof while blushing and started to pull him to go with him.
“What’s all this? Why can’t I understand entirely what they are saying? Why am I seeing so much ponies? And more importantly. . . what was I for them?”
Steel kept watching more scenes and more ponies appeared in them, he still couldn’t understand in full what they were saying, in one there were two unicorns, one stallion with blue fur and one with white fur who was very similar to the purple filly, in another scene, he saw a unicorn maid with a little unicorn filly who was hugging him, the last one was about a unicorn yellow filly with green eyes, strangely, this particular memory was interesting since she kissed him in the lips.
“So that may be the reason for why I am attracted to ponies!” He thought while scratching his hair.
Steel kept watching all those strange memories, he felt some how relaxed, at least he knew now he was taken care good, his “owners” or “family” weren’t bad ponies but then. . . why they abandoned him? Did they get tired of him? Did he do something bad? He kept asking this question to himself until he saw one more scene.
He was now. . .inside of a cage, crying while some bad ponies were laughting at him, he was about to say something but he. . . woke up.
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“DON’T LAUGH AT ME!” He screamed and raised from the pillows.
“Steel calm down! Remember it was a dream” Zahari countered.
Steel looked at her and started to relax, he was sweating bullets and his head was killing him, looking at him, Zahari said:
“You saw something?”
Steel noded and proceded to tell his dream to her, she listened with wonder eyes, she then prepared some tea to help him with his headache, while both were sitting in the pillows, she said:
“So in the end, we found out you indeed were raised by ponies and not only that by the princesses themselves”
Steel splitted his drink and said:
“Princesses? How you know that?”
“You told me two of the ponies you saw had horns and wings at the same time, that’s an alicorn, I don’t know very much about Equestria but I do know there are only two alicorns existing at the moment, Princess Celestia and her niece Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.”
“So I was a royal pet?”
“As Onyx, I can’t be sure of that, that’s something you and him deduce for yourselves”
“I understand, it would be easier if I could understand crearly what they say, tell me. . . why I can’t understand them now? Before I couldn’t see them but at least the words were perfect”
Zahari gave a zip to her tea and said:
“Remember we forced your memories to come out, it probably was too much effor from your brain and you couldn’t get the full picture but at least this time you could see them, I think that’s a win situation”
“I’m agree with you. . . Ok, so. . . what do we do now?”
“It’s your choice Steel”
Steel thought about for a minute, then with a sigh he asked to Zahari:
“How much time do we need for me to master the basic and control of my Axe?”
“. . . well, If we train everyday and you make an extra effort, I think. . . a year at least but only the basic. . .maybe a little more”
Zahari asked Steel to follow her upstairs, once there, Zahari took out a scroll from her wardrove and showed it to Steel.
“It was given to our family hundred years ago, these are the techniques Strong Heart invented and mastered, even though the scripts says he always believed he never reached the full potential of the Axe.”
“What you mean?”
“hehehehe, well, according to our and The Fortune ancenstors diaries, he always thought the Axe could help him to fly”
“Fly? Without wings? That’s imposible”
“Is it right? but still he managed to do something very similar”
“Really? let me see”
Steel looked at the techniques in the scroll.
“Ohhhhhh, this is interesting, he was a genius, ok! It’s decided I will master all these techniques in one year and then I will travel to Equestria”
“hahahahaha, nice joke Steel, it took him at least 5 years to master this techniques, with luck you will master a couple in one year, I recomend you to master the defense ones”
Steel then looked at Zahari right to the eyes and said:
“It took him 5 years for he was the one who invented them but now I have his teachings at the reach or my hand, he was a good minotaur, he left this scrolls to help the next user, me! to learn faster, not to mention you will train me as well and at last. . . I’m a natural! You’ll see”
Zahari Chuckled after hearing him say that.
“I Like your optimism and it’s not like it’s imposible, Ok! Then we start tomorrow, sleep well”
“Yes my master!”
“Just one question, why train before going to Equestria, I thought you would want to go there first, you know, to have a closure”
“That would be what any creature would do, but that would be stupid, I’m going to a magical country where at least the half of creatures have telekinesis or can fly, just look at me, I really don’t think many of them will recieve me with open hooves, in case I find hostility there, I want to be prepared, or in case I was a pet and the princesses would want to “reclaim” me, I will not go down without a fight!”
Zahari chuckled again and said:
“Well, I’m glad to think you have a brain inside that head of yours, except for the part where you think you can best an alicorn, I think your plan is good”
“. . . . Thanks Zahari, Ok, good night, I can’t wait to start my training”
“Excellent now go”
Zahari showed Steel the guest room, once he was out of sight, he sighed and thought:
“Onyx, you really found something special, I hope he can find the answers he deserves”