Chapter Six – Growing Up & The Truth
"You know, Pasta, you might not be able to lift that." said Teal.
"But.. I can do it.. mommy..." said Pasta while struggling to lift a huge log. "I.."
The log fell on him and Teal barely caught it in time.
"Pasta!" she screamed as she caught the log. "I warned you, you can't lift things this big."
"But you can lift them, mommy." said Pasta.
"I barely can..." said Teal while she struggled to hold the log. "Ah!"
She fell down and the log fell on her leg, but the log was caught by somepony.
"Well, I hope you guys aren't going to hurt yourselves while I'm not here." said Stab.
"Stab?" said Teal. "Did you just save me?"
"I did, and you saved Pasta, didn't you?" said Stab.
"Yeah." said Teal.
"How can you hold it?" asked Pasta.
"I'm stronger than you think." said Stab. "Mommy knows all my workouts in a single day."
"Mommy, how did your brother's workouts go?" asked Pasta.
"Well, he never took himself of off exercising since age ten." said Teal.
Stab saw Pasta's small hooves and legs. "Pasta, I think you really need to become stronger."
"How?" asked Pasta.
"You workout every day and exercise like me, and you will be very strong, you won't lose against anypony." said Stab. "Look at these muscles."
Stab showed the muscles of his right hoof.
"Try to break it." said Stab.
Pasta punched Stab's muscles and he didn't even feel anything by it, he just kept on standing there with Pasta, punching his muscles.
"See?" said Stab. "Nothing happens, because you're very weak. If you become like me, you're never going to get beaten up in your life."
"Really?" said Pasta. "Teach me, teach me!"
"Okay, I'm going to teach you how I do my workouts." said Stab. "First of all, let's go to my house, where my working out tools are at."
"He's still too young." whispered Teal in Stab's ear.
"He has to have strength to protect himself." he whispered back.
"Oh come on, Stab." whispered Teal. "You can't do this."
"I have to." he whispered back and took both of them to his room. When they were there, Pasta immediately looked amazed at the fact that Stab owned so many exercising tools.
"These will help." said Stab. "Let's start with the first tool, you need to go on this bed and try to pull this metal piece up and down again with all your strength. I'll help you for right now, but when you're strong enough, you'll be doing it on your own."
"Okay." said Pasta who got a little scared when he learned that he would have to pull the big metal piece up by himself when he was strong enough.
Stab got his hooves under the metal piece and gave Pasta the signal to lift it, when he tried to pull it up at first, it wasn't even moving, but when Stab also lifted it, it immediately lifted up.
"See?" said Stab. "This is how it works."
"Yeah, yeah I like it!" said Pasta. "I want to become strong!"
YEARS PASS BY
"Whoa, even I can't lift this one up!" said Stab while trying to lift a giant metal piece about a thousand kilograms in weight.
"Don't worry, I'll help." said the big and grown up Pasta. He put his hooves under the metal piece and lifted it without any difficulties. "Stronger than you, Stab."
"I guess you are." said Stab. "You wanna do hoof-wrestling?"
"Sure, It'll be easy." said Pasta, they sat on Stab's wrestling table, Pasta held the extended hoof of Stab.
"Go!" said Stab. He spent all his strength in trying to pull the big, strong hoof but he wasn't able to do it. Then, Pasta immediately sat his hoof down on the table. "Goodness, you're so strong!"
"You made me strong as this." said Pasta. "Day by day, I'm only getting stronger. Muscle check?"
"Sure." said Stab and showed his muscles.
"Suppose they aren't as big as these guys." said Pasta, showing off his giant muscles.
"How are they going to be able to touch you?" said Stab.
"They won't be able to." said Pasta.
"Pasta, you need to come here, now!" shouted Teal from far away.
"Well, I think your mother wants to see you." said Stab.
"Yeah, I'll go and see what she needs." said Pasta, he walked towards the door and opened it, moving into the morning lightened hallway and into his mother's room.
"What's up, mother?" asked Pasta.
"Well, I wanted to tell you something that I haven't been telling you since your childhood." said Teal.
"What's that?" asked Pasta.
"Well, whetether you want to leave me and my brother or not.. the decision of that depends on your answer." said Teal and she told him about the story of his parents.
Do you know that I'm not your actual mother? That's because I only adopted you when you were just an orphan without parents, do you know why? There is somepony we've been hiding from you in this castle, his name is General Death, best known as The General of Doom, who has killed many ponies with crimes, even little crimes. He found the best time to use my brother for his own gain, your father was a unicorn and your mother was a pegasus, thus they had comitted the crime of union between different tribes. This is a very real crime that makes the two ponies and their son or daughter immediately get executed. Unfourtanately, the general found this as the perfect opportunity to use my brother for his own gain, he even cut my brother's hoof to make him kill you and your parents along with you. Then, he gave him a small map with your home's location. He sent Stab with twenty-five soldiers to infiltrate your house and put a sword in all three of you. A soldier pushed Stab to kill them, your father closed his eyes and the next thing he saw was death. Then your mother was also killed while she was crying for her family. I understand you're going to blame Stab for this, but General Death is the one to blame, he forced Stab to do all thi-
"Don't talk with me." said Pasta, then he locked himself in his room, got on his bed and thought about his dead parents.
"They've kept this from me, I can't trust them." he thought.
"Pasta, it's normal for a pony in your age to react to something like this with your reaction." said Teal, knocking on the door.
"Go away, dumb liar." said Pasta.
"Come on, Pasta.." said Teal. "We've raised you since your childhood and yet you're still blaming us for your parents death? If you care so much, maybe you should take on the general."
"Get away from my door!" screamed Pasta, still trying to think about his parents, eventually falling asleep.
He saw nothing but dark clouds surrounding him in his dream, then, two ponies came out of the clouds.
"Who are you?" asked Pasta. "Leave me alone."
"My son, we're your parents." said the unicorn stallion.
"Oh really?" said Pasta. "My parents are dead, you can't be them."
"We are dead but that's how we entered your dream." said the pegasus mare.
"It's actually surprising that you're a big and strong stallion now, we only held you in our hooves for twenty hours, then we died." said the unicorn stallion.
"What are your names?" asked Pasta.
"I'm Cake, your father is Lasso." said Cake.
"What.. those are my parents names!" said Pasta in a surprise.
"We're your parents, Pasta." said Lasso. "Your birth was a miracle. You're different from anypony out there, and only we know what you are."
"What am I then?" asked Pasta.
"You're the first alicorn." said Lasso.
"What do you mean "alicorn"?" asked Pasta. "I couldn't possibly be an alicorn."
"Come give us a hug, my son." said Cake.
"I dunno, I'm still unsure you're my parents." said Pasta.
"Do you remember the time when your father took you out of my stomach?" asked Cake.
"I only remember darkness, then a stallion, standing in front of me." said Pasta. "He looked like you."
He pointed at Lasso.
"Well, son." said Lasso. "We wish you live a nice life, we don't have much time left."
"Come on, you're not my parents, are you?" said Pasta. "You're probably just what my brain is doing as a joke in my dream."
"Son, we live in here." said Cake, pointing at Pasta's heart.
"That couldn't possibly be true." said Pasta, not believing a word of what his mother said.
"Pasta, it's time we go back in you." said Lasso and they both became shadows, going inside of Pasta, then he immediately woke up and heavily breathed, he rubbed his eyes, only to see something different about his body.
"I'm black?!" screamed Pasta with a high voice. He looked all over himself and saw that his green coat was now a fully black coat, he couldn't believe what was happening to him, then he started to have pain all around his body, he had a terrible headache, then lightened lines appeared on him, he turned to his window with a really angry face and smashed it, he then broke down his door and went into the dark halls of the castle, but what's going to happen next, we'll be finding that out in the next chapter.
Long Life
Chapter Six (created by PastaRastaMasta)