Alright, here is the new story that I promised you guys. I hope that you enjoy it. Every one please appreciate the great cover art that has been given to me by none other than Pikachu913, the same person you made the last cover. Chapters for this story will not be as frequent as my last one but I will try to update it as frequently as I can. For all those who are just reading my writing for the first time, this story is a sequel to my first story "A Great Change" so it is recomended that you read that before you read this. One last thing before I begin this new story is that I need OCs! Please guys I am the worst when it comes to designing characters so i really need some ideas from you guys. Who knows? Your character might turn into a main character in the story. That's it from me for now. Enjoy chapter one!
-Tammo Woodsorel

True Valor: Chapter One-Pop Quiz
By: Tammo Woodsorel

Wisdom tooth was enjoying yet another day at Sugarcube Corner, watching his mare friend as she gave cup cakes and milk shakes to all the ponies of Ponyville. He didn't really have a job there anymore but he liked to stick around and help out when they got really busy. The Cake twins loved him and he always enjoyed the snack breaks that they got. He turned his gaze to the window that he was seated beside. he was not looking at the scene displayed on the other side but at his own reflection. He no longer saw the form of a Changeling that he had grown up with. He had decided to leave that side of him behind him. Now he saw the black, dark-blue maned Pegasus that he had become after moving in with Pinkiepie. He quite liked his new life. It was simple, joyous, and always an adventure with Pinkiepie around. They had spent all of the previous day searching the mountain range beside Ponyville for her pet alligator only to find it under her kitchen sink. Wisdom Tooth chuckled at the memory.

A familiar voice addressed him, snapping him out of his daydreams, "What are you laughing at?"

Wisdom Tooth turned to see Pinkiepie, a light-pink earth pony with a dark pink main that was very curly, but she was covered from head to hoof with flour.

Wisdom Tooth couldn't help but smile as took a napkin and began to dab her face as he spoke, "Oh nothing really. I was just reminiscing of yesterday's quest for your lost pet."

She giggled as he wiped off her nose and said, "Well today we need to give him a bath. I can't remember what kind of icing I coated the inside of that drawer with but I can tell you that it does not smell good after spending a day covering an Alligator."

Wisdom Tooth was taken aback by this and asked, "Why in Equestria did you coat the innards of your drawer with icing?"

Pinkiepie took off her apron and tossed it onto an awaiting hook as she answered, "Because, silly, icing is good!" she giggled a bit and continued, "Come on, I need to take a bath first before we wash Gummy and one should always swim with a partner..."

Wisdom Tooth was very tempted to take her up on her offer but he had some very important business to discuss with the Cakes, "You go on ahead, I'll have to catch up. I must speak with Mr. and Mrs. Cake."

Pinkiepie just flashed a smile and hopped towards the door as she shouted behind her, "Okie dokie lokie! But you'd better hurry before I finish!"

Just as the door shut behind her, Mrs. Cake appeared in the doorway to the kitchen, "Is she gone?"

Wisdom Tooth nodded and Mrs. Cake ran to him very excitedly.

She was jumping with glee and stopped before taking out a notepad and asking, "Ok, so what flavor did you want it?"

Wisdom Tooth thought for a moment and said, "Well I'm confident that any flavor would do but she does rather enjoy bubble gum. Although, that would taste weird as a candy ring. What do you recommend, Mrs. Cake?"

Mrs. Cake answered very quickly, "Well our most popular flavor by far is water melon but Pinkie's favorite is cherry."

Wisdom Tooth thought about it and then answered, "Yes I think that cherry would work out quite nicely. You're sure that you'll be able to make it with the present inside?"

Mrs. Cake gave a mock salute and said, "Don't you underestimate me, Wiz. I've been doing this for a very long time."

Wisdom Tooth gave Mrs. Cake a thankful hug and spoke as he released, "Great and one more thing. Since I plan on leaving tomorrow, I was wondering if it would not be too much trouble for you to go and pick it up. I've already picked it out and paid for it, but I had to wait for them to engrave it."

Mrs. Cake began to walk back to the kitchen as she replied, "Not a problem, Wiz. I'll stop by and get it tomorrow. Good bye and good luck on your journey!"

Wisdom Tooth waved his good bye and took his leave.

Wisdom Tooth had walked to his house that he was sharing with Pinkiepie and stood on the front door step as he took a deep breath. He knew that Pinkiepie was going to ask him to stay a bit longer, but he knew that he had to get going on the assignment that Princess Celestia had given to him. He had been given the task of finding a Pegasus for this team that she was putting together. If all went as a planned, this would be the strongest Pegasus in all of Equestria and he would become a knight in Princess Celestia's Elite Guard. Wisdom Tooth would become a squire under him in order to train and become stronger. This team was going to enforce the law, put a stop to the growing crime rate, and find Captain Fear in order to finally punish him for all that he has done.
Pinkiepie has not been looking forward to the day when he would be leaving on this mission but knew that he had to go. With one more deep breath, Wisdom Tooth opened the door and was met with steamers and balloons as well as a chorus of voices yelling surprise.

Wisdom Tooth had to blink a few times before seeing what was going on and was surprised to see that all of his friends were gathered in his house ans staring at him.

Wisdom Tooth could think of nothing else to say other than, "Well this is certainly a surprise... What's going on?"

Pinkiepie was next to him in an instant and she explained, "I know that you're leaving tomorrow so, instead of begging you to stay again, I decided to throw you a good bye party! Come on!"

without giving him a chance to thank her, he was being pushed into a crowd of awaiting ponies who quickly had him blindfolded with a stick in his hooves. He's played this game in this house so many times that he's gotten it down to a science. Judging by the distance he was shoved from the door and in what direction, he knew which way the piñata would be and how far away it was. He smiled, took a jump and a mighty swing, expecting to make contact. However, his stick never touched anything and he just landed with a thump on the floor.

He could hear Pinkiepie laugh and say, "Nice try! I moved it!"

This was met with laughter from the rest of the party. Wisdom Tooth took a moment to think. There was only one other spot in the main room that would be able to have a piñata tied to it since it was high and had a support beam running across. He spun around and leaped for another swing but was again disappointed to hit nothing but air.

This time, Dragonshy's voice was the one that he heard, "You'll have to do better than that, Wiz. The piñata is hung from the rafter in your bedroom... good luck getting to it."

Things were serious now. This was no longer a party game. Wisdom Tooth deduced that, for some reason, Pinkiepie was assisting Dragonshy in putting on a test of his skills. This probably had something to do with the fact that he was leaving and he knew that there would be obstacles. It only took him a moment to figure out what those obstacles were. He heard the slightest clink of metal-on-metal on the second floor. The sound was soft and did not vibrate very long, meaning that it was actually gold armor. Gold armor was the armor worn by the Royal Guard. Royal Guard always travel in groups of three unless joined by royalty. Wisdom Tooth decided that there would probably be no more than one group and that they were probably not accompanied by royalty. So that meant that there were three guards standing guard over his room, ready to knock him out to keep him from the piñata. It was not likely that all three were stationed outside his bedroom door. There was most likely one at the top of the stairs, waiting to ambush him as he flew up. There would be one outside the door, ready to catch him during the fight with the first one. Then the last one would be in the room as a last defense in case the other two failed to keep him out. He had gone through all this though within five seconds and was now ready to head up the stairs.

He took the stick in his mouth and launched himself into flight. He heard more armor clanking as the guard at the top of the stairs prepared for a fight. Wisdom Tooth was flying up the stairs sideways so that the long stick could fit between the walls. He knew how many stairs there were so, just before he made it to the top, he spun sideways so that the stick caught on the walls and transformed his forward momentum into circular motion. This allowed him to deliver a staggering kick under the chin of the unsuspecting guard. Wisdom Tooth knew that the guard would have been holding a spear and knew that the spear would only be held a certain way. He would have been holding it in a defensive position so it would fall to the left as he fell with the tip pointed toward the ceiling. Wisdom Tooth caught it and ran toward his room. He could hear the other guard heading a counter-charge. Wisdom Tooth forced the tip of his spear into the floor, allowing him to pull-vault over the guard and land on the other side. Wisdom Tooth quickly took the spear and dashed into the room. He shoved the spear in the crack between the door and the frame so that the guard would not be able to open it.

He took a step forward but was blasted back against the wall by a magic spell. This was particularly strange since the Royal Guard consisted primarily of Pegasi. The only magic-users were royalty. Wisdom Tooth quickly began to recall all the royalty and what they were doing presently. Princess Celestia went with Princess Luna to inspect the Changeling Capital and were not due to be back in Canterlot for another four days. Princess Cadance and Shining Armor were in the Crystal Kingdom and were required to maintain a presence there in order to keep the residents under control. Discord was terra-forming a barren wasteland that has been under drought for the last ten years so that it would be lush and plentiful. The only last bit of royalty that the guards would be able to travel with have to be none other than the newest princess added to the list... Twilight Sparkle. That made sense since she had been the only one that he did not remember seeing in the main room when he first entered.

He had only been thinking for a few moments so he took a bow and greeted the young alicorn, "Greetings, Princess Sparkle. I'm so glad you could make it to my fare well party."

Twilight answered with annoyance, "Oh stop it, Wiz. You know I hate being addressed like that."

Wisdom Tooth spoke as he tried to take another step forward, "And I don't appreciate being kept from my candy. You know how much I like sweets."

This time, he heard her charge the spell and deftly dodged it. Knowing that she would need a couple moments in order to charge her next one, he quickly spread his wings and let loose a small gust of wind underneath Twilight. He knew that she was still inexperienced when it came to flight and he was satisfied as he heard her stumble to the floor because she could not remain stable. He took this opportunity to fly to the bed and take a guess at where the piñata would be on the bed. He used his speed to smash it open in one hit. He threw off his blindfold in victory only to see a rather ticked-off Twilight standing at the foot of the bed.

Wisdom Tooth smiled shyly and said, "I'll give you a piece..."

Wisdom Tooth was joined on the stairs by Twilight Sparkle and the two Royal Guards as he chowed down on the candy from the piñata.

He tossed a piece to Pinkiepie and said, "This is one of your best batches so far, Sweetie."

Pinkiepie caught it in her mouth and spoke as she chewed it, "Glad you like it!"

Dragonshy turned to the other three on the stairs, "Did he take the blindfold off?"

Twilight shook her head, "No, he played fair."

One of the Royal Guards spoke for the both of them since the other one was massaging his lower jaw, "He kept it on, sir."

Dragonshy nodded his approval, "Alright, thanks again for your participation. You're dismissed but welcome to stay for the party."

Pinkiepie blew a horn and yelled, "Party!"

Everypony began to go about the party as if nothing had happened.

Wisdom Tooth walked up to Dragonshy, still munching on candy, and asked, "So what was all that about?"

Dragonshy took a piece of candy from Wisdom Tooth before he could pop it into his mouth before responding, "Well I wanted to make sure that you were still capable in order to go off on this mission that had been given to you by the Princess herself. I did the same for Lunar Knight and I plan to do the same for Rennie. I was afraid that the Ponyville life had made you soft. But I guess I had nothing to fear. Your deduction skills and ability to think through any situation are as strong as ever. Good luck on your mission, Wiz."

Wisdom Tooth found humor in the fact that Dragonshy had said that as if he were ordering him to have good luck on his mission.

He gave a quick salute and said, "Thank you, sir," he let his hoof fall and asked, "So, how are the foals?"

Dragonshy answered happily, "They're great! Rainbowdash is just itching for their wings to grow out a bit more so that she can get them in the air and Fluttershy is such a great mother. I couldn't be happier. The Cakes agreed to look after them while we were here so we could get a little break."

Wisdom Tooth dumped the last of the candy down his throat and tossed the piñata to the side before speaking again, "Well I'm happy for you, Dragon. You're lucky you don't have to go searching for your partner like the rest of us so that you can stay here and enjoy it. Speaking of which, how is Vinyl's training coming?"

Dragonshy rolled his eyes as he answered, "She's way too impatient. She keeps asking me how to become a dragon when she can't even change into a squirrel. She is completely shirking her flying lessons in order to practice transforming."

Wisdom Tooth smiled and said, "Well I'm sure you'll get through to her eventually. Where's Rennie? I don't remember seeing him here."

Dragonshy shrugged and said, "If I had to guess, I'd say he's at the forge with his clone. When I invited him, he said that he knew you'd come visit him before you left tomorrow."

Wisdom Tooth said, "Well he's right about that one but..."

He was interrupted by Pinkiepie yelling to him, "Hey, Sweetie! Look! Mistletoe!"

Sure enough, she was standing under some hanging mistletoe.

Wisdom Tooth laughed and yelled back, "It's not Hearth's Warming Eve!"

She play-pouted, "It doesn't have to be! Get over here!"

He got there and heard the voice of Spike say, "Alright hold on, let's get a picture for the two of you to have when you're apart. On the count of three... One... Two... Three!"

Wisdom Tooth and Pinkiepie kissed and Spike captured the moment with two quick shots from the camera. The rest of the evening was enjoyed by all. Everypony helped to clean up and took their leave sometime around midnight. Pinkiepie and Wisdom Tooth went to bed and Wisdom Tooth fell asleep quickly, satisfied that he was given the opportunity to say goodbye to all his friends before he left the next day.