Chapter 20:Two Friends Reunited
Princess Celestia and Heavy Weight were now on their way back from the Celestia's School For gifted unicorns with the new student Twilight Sparkle, and Twilight could not be more happy about her luck than she was right now. After so many years, Twilight was now reunited with her long time friend Heavy, she had fulfilled her promise to him and became the newest student of the princess, and needless to say, Heavy couldn't help but be impressed that Twilight had gone through with what she had promised. However, petty rivalry that Twilight promised was now the last thing on Twilight's mind.
Both students of Celestia were walking closely right behind the princess and walked side by side with each other, Twilight couldn't help but look to her old friend in disbelief at how much he had changed. He did not appear as the friendly little colt she knew, but she still couldn't help but stare at him dreamily while he continued to look forward to the princess that was now guiding both of them on their journey. Twilight was now admiring Heavy for his change, she looked pass the scary black circled eyes and the tough exterior he showed and continued to see nothing but inspiration and fascination.
The princess herself couldn't help but notice the admiring looks Twilight was giving Heavy and giggled while heavy raised an eye brow at her, he then turned to Twilight and saw her staring at him dreamily. He then quickly turned away from her with a mixed look of dignity and a touch of nervousness as blush threatened to take over, but he managed to shake it off and put a straight face back on before deciding to strike up a conversation.
"So... What happened to you and Shining Armor last time I saw you both?"Heavy asked out of a bit of interest.
"Well... My brother got accepted into the academy for royal guards, he's aiming to become the new captain of the royal guard, and for the most part he's doing pretty good, he hasn't talked about you much..."Twilight said while Heavy just snickered at the thought of Twilight's brother being a new captain.
"Well that's no surprise... No offense but your brother showed me a bit of his true colors so you could say we haven't been talking to each other much,"Heavy informed Twilight much to her interest.
"Oh... Well maybe if Shining does become the new captain then maybe seeing each other again will help you guys out with your issues,"Twilight said in a cheerful tone while Heavy rolled his eyes.
"I highly doubt that..."Heavy said to himself.
"So what about you Heavy? What have you been doing since we last saw you?"Twilight asked while giving him a playful bump to the side with her side.
"I've been training with the royal guards, and I've been studying and making magic like there's not tomorrow, I'm on my way to become the best, and I will be the best,"Heavy said with a serious and prideful look while the princess took interest in the conversation.
"Yes, Heavy now a days stands among the best of the guard, even captain Husky can't even keep up with Heavy, he's really gotten strong Twilight, maybe together you both will get stronger in due time,"Celestia explained as Twilight felt much joy of learning by Heavy's side making her bounce around Heavy.
"That's another thing, how good have you gotten with magic?"Heavy asked out of more interest.
"I got pretty good at it, you wanna see?"Twilight asked before lighting up her horn with purple magic.
Heavy raised an eyebrow at Twilight's sudden action and turned just in time to see Twilight disappear in a big flash of purple light, both Heavy and Celestia froze and began to look around, but Heavy kept a cool head and smirked as he let out a sigh. He was then suddenly gently blinded by two hooves over his eyes and the giggles of Twilight, he just chuckled back at her for he had a trick of his own to show her.
"A teleportation spell, and you made it so it's harder for others to track, not bad... That would have really gotten, if you hadn't gotten the wrong one,"Heavy said much to Twilight's confusion."Over here Twilight...!"
Twilight frantically looked around while princess Celestia was just smiling proudly straight ahead of them, Twilight then turned her head and looked to see Heavy Weight now standing ahead of the princess. She then looked back to who she was holding in her hooves and watched as the other Heavy suddenly burst into a cloud of ice blue magic dust, her mind was officially blown as she realized what Heavy just did and gave him a joyful round of applause.
"Oh my gosh...! Where did you learn to do that?!"Twilight exclaimed as she quickly rushed over to Heavy and joined him by his side again.
"I didn't learn it, I made it up just like many other spells, I'm even keeping all the spells I make in a book,"Heavy said as they waited for the princess to catch up with them before pressing on.
"You gotta teach me how to do some of that stuff, you just have to!"Twilight begged excitedly while Heavy found her pleas amusing.
"Maybe if you can prove that you got what it takes in the training grounds, then maybe I'll teach you a thing or two,"Heavy said much to Twilight's delight.
"Then I will prove myself to you, you and all the guards I hear about that live at the castle, then you'll have to teach me everything there is to know about magic,"Twilight promised as they both picked up the pace.
"Easy now Twilight, you forget who our real teacher is, isn't that right princess Celestia?"Heavy questioned in a joking tone.
"Yes, But I wouldn't mind if students would also learn from each other, it helps to bond and strengthen friendship and team work between sibling students,"Celestia explained before noticing their destination."Ah...! We made it back early,"
They all stopped to look upon the castle of Canterlot, the home of princess Celestia, and the place where Twilight Sparkle would do most of her studying and tutors in magic, and needless to say Twilight was amazed. The castle was nothing more than a common sight for Heavy Weight, but he could tell it was blowing Twilight's mind to pieces as she stumbled with each step she couldn't help but chuckled in the inside at Twilight's enthusiasm while Celestia indulged in her new student.
"I see you're liking what you see, this is the castle and the home which me and Heavy Weight reside, and now it is where you will be doing most of your studies from now on,"Celestia said wrapping a wing around her new student before gesturing to Heavy."Heavy...? Would you like to give Twilight a tour of the place?"
"Uh... Sure princess, I guess it couldn't hurt,"Heavy said before getting Twilight's attention off the castle."Come on Twilight, I'll show you around."
"Okay, oh this is going to be so fun, a tour with a friend!"Twilight exclaimed as Heavy took her hoof and guided her towards the castle.
It was then that as they were walking off towards the castle, Twilight noticed Heavy's horn glowing with blue magic and quickly held on tight as they disappeared in a flash of blue light, they were now no longer out in the street. It was then that right inside the castle grounds, Heavy and Twilight both reappeared in another bright flash of blue light and stood just inside the golden gate, and in the process they both had spooked a certain captain who looked on in confusion until he saw Heavy.
"so these golden gates are the main entrance and exit to and from the castle, you'll leave and enter these gates every time when you're coming here or leaving,"Heavy explained thoroughly before noticing the captain."And this guy here is our esteemed captain of the royal guard captain Husky, and Husky this is Twilight Sparkle."
"Hi...!"Twilight said while waving.
"Hello... So i'm guessing that this is the new student of the princess huh?"Husky said before cringing at his back.
"Yes, she's the new student, I see your back still never recovered from that battle,"Heavy pointed out as Husky gave him a weak nod.
"Yeah, the princess is urging me to retire believe it or not, I'm not sure if there's much I can do now to stop it,"Husky said while struggling to stand tall.
"Well hopefully if it does come to pass the princess will pick a captain that's at least half as okay as you were,"Heavy said before taking up Twilight's hoof again and walking away.
"I suppose that can be taken as a compliment...!"The captain called out.
"So where are we going next?"Twilight asked.
"I gotta place that you might like, it certainly had me going when I first arrived,"Heavy said with a smirk.
His horn then lit up once more and Twilight quickly braced her self as an orb of ice blue magic surrounded them, it was then that a bright flash of blue went off and they were once again gone in a flash and going some where else. After traveling through the tunnel of blue magic, Heavy and Twilight came to a stop and watched the magic around them disappeared and found themselves in one of Heavy Weight's most favorite places, the library, and once again Twilight's mind was officially blown.
"Oh my gosh...! Is this what I think it is?!"Twilight asked with staggering excitement.
"Yep, this is the castle's library, the most quiet and most enjoyable place to do some much needed reading and studying, it is open to us whenever we need a quiet place to study or just read for the fun of it,"Heavy explained before noticing Twilight taking off and exploring the entire library.
Heavy couldn't help but laugh at the fillies enthusiasm and take off after her through the library, thousand of books passed by them in the blink of an eye, Twilight giggled and laughed at the lines of books she was seeing, while Heavy started to catch up. He watched as he caught up to her only for Twilight to speed up and begin tom outrun him, and that's when he decided to do a little trick of his own.
He quickly lit up his horn and disappeared in a flash as Twilight was nearing the center of the library, she looked back to see if Heavy was still on her tail and saw nothing, but that didn't stop her from wanting to reach the center. It was then that as she was coming up on the tables of the library, and in that instant, Heavy Weight reappeared right in front of her, Twilight didn't have time to react as she then suddenly crashed right into Heavy and landed right on top of him right on the floor.
Twilight shook off the head on collision she had and looked down to see Heavy Weight right under her and now muzzle to muzzle, they both looked to each other nervously while Heavy did his best to keep a straight face, Twilight was now blushing. She then quickly got off him and helped Heavy to his hooves only for him to shake it off and chuckle at her and her enthusiasm for learning.
"Sorry about that, I just got a bit excited, are you alright?"Twilight asked while dusting Heavy off.
"Yeah I'm fine, I've taken a whole lot worse than that,"Heavy said rubbing the back of his head before gesturing back to the library."Any way... This is where you would read your books and do some studies, and this whole library has a big selection of different spell books and history books to read."
"Wow...! There's actually thousands of books here?! How many have you read?"Twilight asked as they began walking back towards the exit.
"I've read about a good seventy two books so far, there's still so much for me to learn yet, and there will be plenty for you to learn as well,"Heavy said while looking back at Twilight while she looked to him."So... Do you wanna see the throne room and my bedroom?"
"Yes...! I mean... I would love to see the throne room, and your bedroom..."Twilight said with a small giggle as her blush threatened to return.
"Then hold on tight,"Heavy said as his horn lit up again.
Twilight quickly lunged for Heavy and held onto him for dear life as he surrounded them both in another orb of ice blue magic, then in another flash of light, they were now gone from the library and traveling to the throne room. After another round of traveling through the tunnel of blue magic, they then froze and once again watched the orb disappear around them to give them the sight of the throne room where princess Celestia seated herself, Twilight once again threatened to go around and explore, but this time she was stopped by the voice of a stallion.
"Halt...! Who goes there?!"Came the stern voices of two royal guards.
"Oh...! I'm sorry, It's just my first time here and I was just getting a tour and such and-"Twilight started off frantically before Heavy put her at ease.
"It's alright guys, she's the new student here, and I'm just showing her around,"Heavy said much to Twilight's surprise as the guards instantly turned friendly.
"Ah...! Heavy Weight, sorry about that this new student was unfamiliar to us,"one guard said while Heavy let out a hearty chuckled.
"Don't worry about it Rex, just showing this filly around the castle and such, so hows the wife?"Heavy asked.
"Ah...! She's still very much large and in charge, any way enjoy the rest of your day you crazy kids,"Rex said before taking his position back at the gate.
"You too Rex, come on Twilight, let's let these stallions be,"Heavy said as he took up Twilight's hoof once more and showed her around the throne room.
"Gee Heavy, I didn't know you were such a celebrity around the castle, why do those guards treat you so nicely, other than possibly showing them a thing or too?"Twilight asked as Heavy snickered at her question.
"Well... I do stand among some of the best of them in the castle, even the princess has issues keeping up with me, but really... I think it's because I'm the son of the great captain Mega Weight,"Heavy explained with less of a smile.
"Oh yeah, I read a whole lot more things about your father, captain Mega Weight, I love the story of how he fought the thousand serpents of the Ever free, your dad looked like the unstoppable,"Twilight said as she made a book appear in front of Heavy for him to see.
"Yeah, that's pretty much him, I've read that book too, It's one of the things that keeps me going on my journey to be the best,"Heavy said before changing the subject to the throne room."Any way this is the throne room, and that seat over there is where the princess sits her royal flank everyday to perform her duties, this place also has a reputation for being the most well guarded place at night, so just don't try to break in here."
"I won't, so... Where's your room at?"Twilight asked as she brushed up against Heavy with a dreamy look.
"Right... Uh... Follow me, my room is just over here to the right,"Heavy said gesturing to his right of the doors.
Twilight stuck right to the colts side as they casually walked over to his bedroom, Heavy was finding it hard to keep a straight face as he kept feeling Twilight brush against him, he then notice Rex and the other guard was laughing at him. Heavy stuck his tongue at him and hid a blush that was appearing on his face as they made it to Heavy's room, he quickly opened the door to his room and allowed Twilight to go in first, and upon entering Twilight looked on with an impressed look at Heavy's new digs.
She began looking around his bedroom, she looked to Heavy's room and trailed her sights from his large bed to the big window that gave him a perfect view of the sky and city, as she looked around, Heavy couldn't help but to look at her. He watched Twilight and had some sort of feeling about her, perhaps Twilight did have a talent for magic withing her, it just needed a little push for it to be reveal. For the first time Heavy couldn't help but smile, he felt glad that Twilight was back, he couldn't figure it out but there was also something about her presence that made him feel comfortable and pleased, she still had that friend feeling that he had not known in quite some time.
It was then that Twilight had noticed Heavy's desk and noticed a book laying on it with Heavy Weight's name on it, she walked towards it and was about to reach for it, and that's when Heavy stopped her by putting a shield over the book and rushing over to her and taking up the book.
"That's the book I was talking about Twilight, this has plenty of spells in it but it's not ready yet,"Heavy said while looking at the book.
"Oh... I'm sorry, It just looked very special and I really grew an interest for all sorts of magical spell books,"Twilight said feeling nervous about her friends reaction to the book.
"It's alright, it's just that this book has proven to be dangerous as well, last pair of foreign eyes that looked and read this book ended up going insane with its power and nearly destroyed the castle, and the princess needed me to kick the whack job out of the castle,"Heavy explained as he remembered his little bout with Sunset."Only unicorns and Alicorns with strong wills and great control of their magic can read this without their magic corrupting their minds."
"Wow... I had no idea you could make such a powerful spell book, I bet I could have a strong enough will, but you still won't teach me or let me read will you?"Twilight asked in a solemn tone.
"Maybe I'll teach you, but you need to prove to me that you can apply yourself fully and can handle yourself in the grounds, the last student that I worked with was nothing of the sort,"Heavy said as Twilight put on a brave face.
"I... I will do it, when can we have our first bout?"Twilight said with great pride.
"Ah... Tomorrow would be better, I just did some training this morning so I'm not at my best, can you work with tomorrow?"Heavy asked.
"Yes! I can totally do tomorrow!"Twilight exclaimed with excitement before suddenly hugging Heavy."Oh this is going to be so fun...! I really missed you Heavy Weight..."
"I... I guess I... Kind of missed you to Twilight..."Heavy said while returning the hug for a minute before parting from the hug.
"So... Heavy, why do you live here all of a sudden, don't you usually just go home to your mom or something,"Twilight asked as the word mom struck him and knew he would have a difficult time explaining this to Twilight.
"Well... Here's the thing Twilight, I kind of... I don't know if I can even say this, but my mom kind of..."Heavy started before a guard suddenly burst into the door and spooking both colt and filly in the process.
"Hey Heavy Weight...! We could really use your help here,"A guard said frantically while Twilight was holding onto Heavy with fear.
"Well... Go on then, spit it out, what's going on?!"Heavy asked as he managed to squeeze Twilight off him.
"Two guards in the training grounds are going nuts, they just pulled out their weapons and almost killed another, we can't risk losing another guard to them, we need your help!"The guard practically appeared to be begging.
"Well... Alright, you wanna come with Twilight, I just need to teach some unloyal guards a lesson about turning on their own brothers,"Heavy said to Twilight before he got a surprise as he saw Twilight nodding with a very interest.
"Okay then, you keep those guards cornered and I will be out in a second, go!"Heavy Weight commanded to the guard.
"You got it kid!"The guard said before running out of the room in a hurry.
"Well...? Are you ready, just make sure not to panic or get scared, this tends to happen, some guards can't take some harshness and some jokes, then next thing you know they lose their minds cause they can't get any respect,"Heavy explained as Twilight nodded in agreement.
"Okay, lead the way Heavy,"Twilight said as her excitement at seeing action was mounting.
Heavy then took up Twilight's hoof once again before lighting up his horn once more, they had then yet again felt the orb of magic surround them before a big flash went off again and teleported them out of Heavy's room. After a moment of instant teleportation, Heavy and Twilight once again reappeared outside the castle in the middle of the main grounds, the colt quickly turned around and looked to the iron gate that lead to the training grounds.
Heavy then released Twilight from his grasp and took the lead with Twilight right behind him, Heavy could hear that sounds of argument and crazed shouting as he threw open the iron gate and jumped through and into the grounds. Twilight stopped and just took the small few steps down to the grounds before they were both given a very complicated scene and a very difficult situation to deal with.
They both now saw captain Husky himself now being held hostage by two identically looking stallions, one was holding a spear to the crowd of angry guards to keep them back while the other held the blade of a sword to the captain's throat. Heavy calmly walked through the crowd while Twilight watched from the steps with great worry, but confidence in her friend just as the two stallions began shouting at the crowd.
"NO PONY MOVE! WE WILL END HIM RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW, WE'RE WARNING YOU TO STAY BACK!"The stallion holding the captain shouted in a threat.
"SO YOU ALL THINK IT'S FUNNY TO ALWAYS MOCK US, WE PRACTICALLY KICK ALL YOUR FLANKS AND YOU CAN'T EVEN SHOW US THE LEAST BIT OF RESPECT!?"The other stallion shouted as he threatened to skewer a guard.
"You two got only what you deserved! And you guys could barely handle a new recruit! Just let go of the captain and give yourselves up!"One of the guards commanded.
"Any of you come any closer and I will cut his throat!"The hostage taking stallion yelled as he pressed the knife against Husky's neck.
"You whack jobs won't be cutting any pony today! You're both going to surrender and give up on these little tantrums you two are having before you get into even more trouble!"Came the threatening voice of Heavy Weight as he made it through the crowd and appeared at spear point of the crazy stallions.
"YOU...! You were the worst of them all, you think just cause your all strong for your age and all special with magic means you can treat grown stallions however you please?!"The spear stallion yelled.
"I only treated you guys how all the others treat you for your childish behavior and your uptight flanks! Now this is your last warning, let the captain go right now, or else!"Heavy warned as he lit up his horn for a fight.
"He's using his magic! KILL THE CAPTAIN NOW!"The spear wielder shouted to the sword stallion.
The stallion with the sword nodded and was about to slit the throat of the captain, but just as he was about to do so, his momentum and his arm suddenly couldn't move and he felt a heavy source of power wrapping around his arm. He looked to his arm and widened his eyes as he saw that Heavy had already made the first move and saw a blue tentacle now wrapping around his arm, the stallion watched as the sword in his hoof suddenly melted into nothing and disappeared into the magic.
Twilight gasped in complete overwhelming excitement as she saw just a sliver of what Heavy had learned, it was then that she got even more to watch as the guards backed away from the scene a bit more to let Heavy get to work. It was at that time that they watched as Heavy lifted the stallion in the air with his tentacles, the partner in crime try to help him but was then in a situation of his own as he looked down and saw that tentacles had already wrapped around his hooves and held him in place.
It was then that in a flash of blinding speed Heavy had leaped up and stared the hostage taking guard before suddenly kicking him directly in the muzzle making him release the captain and fly into a wall, he crashed into the wall and was immediately crushed by rubble from the wall. Heavy then quickly released the other attacker while quickly teleporting the captain into the safety of the crowd of guards before turning to the other attacker just in time.
"Thanks kid, now teach them a lesson they won't soon forget,"The captain commanded to the colt while collecting himself.
Heavy then saw the other stallion coming at him with a spear in hoof and was going for Heavy's chest, but the colt then made his whole body glow with ice blue magic and suddenly swung a hoof at the spear tip itself. It was then that Twilight jumped with excitement as Heavy had suddenly smashed his way through the spear tip and struck the stallion across the face. The stallion quickly recovered and pulled out a knife and managed to swing it, he had then managed to deliver a small cut on Heavy's cheek before the colt got a bit angry and round house bucked him straight into a wall and resulting in the same rubble pile up.
Heavy saw that the two stallions appeared to be taken care of before letting out a sigh and directing his attention to the little present the last enemy had delivered on his cheek and wiped a bit of blood from his cheek before casually walking back to the crowd. In his haste to give the guards the all clear, Heavy didn't notice that the stallion that had taken the captain hostage had managed to find his way out of the rubble and was now boiling at the top for some revenge.
He quickly pulled out a knife from his armor and was about to to pounce on Heavy Weight, the guards widened their eyes in fear as they believed for that very second that they were going to see a colt die right before their eyes. However in that moment, the voice of a friend had called out to Heavy before running towards the scene herself.
"HEAVY LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!"Twilight Sparkle shouted before running off the steps and running to her friend with her horn lit up and ready to go.
Heavy widened his eyes and looked behind him to see the stallion going in for the kill and lit up his own horn to fight back, but that case then closed a sudden beam of purple magic shot right pass Heavy's head and suddenly struck the attacker in the chest. The mad stallion was then carried off into the wall once more and this time remained unconscious as Heavy took a deep breathe in relief before turning to his savior only to be surprised by Twilight Sparkle who immediately hugged him fearfully.
Heavy...! Oh my gosh! Are you alright Heavy?!"Twilight frantically asked while hugging him.
"I'm...fine Twilight, was... Was it you that just did that? Did you just take that guy down with a magic blast?"Heavy asked as he pulled her head away to look at her face to face with interest.
"I... I think so, I just didn't know what to do, I thought he was going to hurt you,"Twilight said as they slowly parted from their hug.
"No that's alright, you...may have actually saved me back there, and that was good aim with your beam too, I'm starting to realize why Celestia chose you to be the new student,"Heavy said before turning to the guards."Hey guys! You mind scraping these piles of trash out of here and putting them away!"
Immediately the guards stormed the grounds with weapons drawn in case of a struggle as they began digging the stallions out and putting them in cuffs, Twilight and Heavy were then beginning to calm down as they decided to leave the grounds.
"So... Do you think I have what it takes now?"Twilight asked with a sly smile as they left the grounds only to see princess Celestia waiting at the doors to the castle for them.
"Maybe... Lets see how tomorrows sparring session goes..."Heavy said as they walked side by side to the princess.
"Are you two okay?! I'm so sorry you had to deal with this on your first day Twilight, I promise nothing like this will ever happen again, oh I was so worried!"Celestia frantically said while hugging both students.
"Everything's fine Celestia, it's all taken care of,"Heavy said as he looked and smiled to Twilight who was smiling back at him."And I think your right, I think Twilight may very well have been the best student you could pick to be my new sibling student."
With that said, they all slowly parted from their group hug and allowed the princess to take the lead as the two students followed their teacher into the teacher to finish the rest of the tour. It was in that moment that Heavy had felt that he had reawakened a spark between him and Twilight, a spark of a special friendship... And maybe even love.
NOW THEN, TWILIGHT'S GOING TO PROVE HERSELF TO HEAVY NEXT CHAPTER AND THEN ANOTHER OLD FRIEND IS GOING TO RETURN, AND NEEDLESS TO SAY, HEAVY IS NOT GOING TO LIKE WHO IT IS.