That night, Teotle sat on the window sill and stared outside, like almost every night now. He used to sleep peacefully with Nyx in their bed, but it seems, that Teotle has found himself in the same situation he's always in. But this time was worse. His sister wants him dead, and he is being led to believe that his mother, the one he loved so much, didn't love him back and wanted him dead.
"Teotle?" Nyx asked from her bed. "Can we talk?"
He jumped down from the window and sat down next to Nyx's side of the bed. "Yes?" He replied.
Nyx bit her lip before asking, "Are you afraid to sleep again?"
"No, Nyx, I'm just not tired."
"Your bad at lying." Nyx said, sitting up in her covers. "You have bags under your eyes."
Teolte sighed and said, "Well, maybe I'm a little exhausted. Today was kind of messed up."
"So much that you can't go to bed anymore?" Nyx asked
"I'm scared, Nyx." said Teotle. "My sister blames me for what happened to our mom, and she tried to kill us today."
"We'll work it out, together." Nyx protested.
Teotle shook his head and said, "I have to do this alone."
"Why?" Nyx asked.
"If you or anypony else get hurt, I won't be able to forgive myself for letting it happen."
"That won't happen, Teolte." Said Nyx. "I trust you to keep us all safe."
"How?" Teotle asked, beginning to shed a tear. "How can I protect you if I couldn't even save my mother?"
Just then, Twilight stepped in the conversation and said, "That wasn't your fault. Besides, she wanted to be reunited with her real husband."
"But..." Teotle said, only be to cut off by Spike, who had been listening from his basket.
"No, Teolte. You can't carry that weight. I know that for a fact."
"Teotle looked at all of them and realized that they were right. He wiped his eyes and said, "Ok, I trust you."
"We'll find a way. You, us and all our friends will do it." Said Twilight.
"Do you think you can sleep now?" Asked Nyx.
Teolte took a deep breath and said, "Sure." and crawled under the covers to lay next to Nyx.
The next day, Teotle, Nyx and Their friends were listening to Cheerilee give a lecture about division. Nyx would try to answer any questions that she would ask the class. Cheerilee, however, insisted on letting the other students get a turn.
Teotle tried to get in on the lecture, if only to show the others that he was more like them then their parents led them to believe. That, unfortunately, didn't happen. If anything, they thought he was just another book worm like Nyx.
word had already spread across town about the fight yesterday. They know what Teotle's rage was doing to the ground and sky, and have made up new rumors of him being a monster. Some of the citizens still believed that Teotle and Nyx were just misunderstood, thanks to Pinkiepie's influence. But that was only a small quantity of ponies.
Eventually, class was dismissed, and all the fillies and colts were playing outside. before joining his friends, Teotle handed Cheerilee his homework and put a fresh dab of oil in the joints of his prosthetic leg. The oil smelled a little different from yesterday, but he didn't think much of it.
He walked across the playground, catching a glimpse's of some students staring at him, to the swing set where Nyx and the cutiemark crusaders usually hang out.
"How're you doing?" Asked Applebloom.
"Ok." Teotle replied. "I'm still a little uncomfortable here though."
"We just need to prove that we can do good, like the princesses said." Said Nyx.
"How?" Teotle asked. "You hardly have any magic and I can't fight without losing control of my emotions, half the time."
"I'm sure you'll think of something." Said Twist. "What do you have to lose?"
Teotle huffed and said, "You don't want to know how many answers there are to that question."
Nyx made a frown and said, "Teotle..."
"LOOK OUT!" Shouted a student, running away from the playground, moments before two timber wolves appeared from the trees and began chasing everypony in the school. Cheerilee had burst from the door and led any stray students inside where it was safe. Watching from the swing set, Teotle scooted his friends into the bushes to hide while he took care of the wooden beats.
Teotle whistled loudly, getting the timber wolves attention. They both looked at him with glowing green eyes and splintery teeth. One of them charged at Teotle with full force. Teotle jumped over it, making it crash into the monkey bars.
The timber wolf scattered on the ground in pieces. The second one charged at him. This time, Teotle tried to pull out his sword. However, his prosthetic leg was frozen in place and couldn't move. It was as if the joints were glued shut.
The timber wolf tackled Teotle and tried to bight into him, but he was pushing it away with his left leg. As they sat their, the timber wolf pulled itself closer to Teotle's face. It was about to bite into his flesh when Nyx pulled Teotle's sword out of it's
sheath with her magic and held it aloft. Teotle kicked the timber wolf off of him and reached for his sword.
Nyx, on the other hand, didn't give the sword to him. She just said, "Teotle, move out of the way."
Teotle looked behind him and saw the timber wolf getting back up. He looked back at Nyx and understood what she was going to do. He jumped aside and watched as Nyx channeled her magic into the sword. The blue pearl on the handle glowed again, Just like yesterday when Scarlet shot an arrow at Nyx. She swung the sword and a beam of light shot out of the blade and slashed the timber wolf in half.
After Cheerilee did a head count of the students, she concluded, "Ok, nopony was hurt. That's the good news."
The students looked at each other with confusion. One of them asked, "What's the bad news?"
Cheerilee's smile drooped down as she said, "The bad news is somepony put another student in danger. After Teotle showed me his metal leg, I saw that sand had been poured into his bottle of oil and stopped his joints."
Cheerilee didn't bother trying to find out who did it. She just said, "I've noticed that a large majority of you fillies and colts don't like Teotle. I also know that you have been staring and gosoping about him and Nyx. That's why I have decided to let him decide how to approach this matter."
She looked at Teotle, who was just as surprised as the other students. He didn't know what to do but say the truth. "I don't really know who would do this, but I don't care. I know you don't like me, and that's just fine. For a long time, nobody ever did. My mother sent me to equestria to live a good and happy life, but everywhere I went, when I offered friendship, you all spat in my face."
The students watched and listened intently as Teotle went on, "I don't mind you thinking badly of me, but what ever you do, don't do anything that puts my friends in danger. In all my life, before I met Nyx and the cutiemark crusaders, I never did a thing worth doing. I'll be condemned before I can't do good. I know My people have done all kinds of wrong my your kingdom. But if you'll let me, I'd like to do one thing right, protect you from our mistakes."