Chapter 14:I Will Become The Best
A tragedy had now taken place this dark cold and stormy night in Canterlot, the city had now lost one of its most talented unicorns that had ever existed, she had passed away peacefully in the Canterlot hospital and died a proud unicorn, and an even more proud mother. The crash of thunder rumbled in the dark clouds, rain had really began to come down from the sky as it drenched unlucky ponies that were in its path. However, there was one little unicorn colt who was the saddest and felt like the most unlucky pony in the world as he laid against his dead mother.
In the Canterlot hospital, young Heavy Weight laid against his mother Golden Heart who had just passed away a little more than an hour ago, the colt was sobbing uncontrollably in crushing defeat at the lost of his mother. He had felt some pain in this pass year from the guards that he practiced with, but this new pain was more painful than he ever thought possible. This new pain was hurting his heart as he removed a hoof from his tearful face and placed it over his chest in pain, the grief and sorrow he felt was like no other, it felt as if his heart was being ripped from his chest.
His mother was the only one he had in this world, no pony else seemed to matter to him compared to his mother, he was alone, and it only made him feel even worse as he nuzzled closer against his mother's cold cheek. Her cheek was really cold to the touch, she did not stir, she did not move, she was now in an eternal sleep, Golden Heart was now with Mega Weight, and they were possibly within Heavy now.
Heavy slowly stood up on the bed and continued watching his mother sleep peacefully together, in a way he was glad that she was no longer in pain and she was now with his father in the after life, but above all he felt crushed and dead inside. All that he was feeling now was emptiness, all that still seemed to exist in his mind was the dream he had vowed to make come true, and he knew that no pony was going to stop him.
Suddenly his ear twitched as he heard the door to the room opening, he turned around with tears in his eyes and looked to see his family doctor, doctor Hoover entering the room along with nurse Red Cross. Upon entering, doctor Hoover was the first one to notice the scene and stared solemnly at the miserable colt who was staring right back at him with a blank look while tears still streamed from his eyes. Red Cross was next to see the scene and immediately let out a shocked gasp before looking down in sadness seeing a colt like this, a tear even threatened to leave her cheek as the doctor and nurse slowly approached him.
"Heavy... We're sorry you had to watch this happen... Truly we are,"Hoover said in the most gentle voice he could utter.
"Believe us... We're so sorry about this... A colt shouldn't have had to see this,"Red Cross said as she approached Heavy and gently placed the sheet over Golden Heart's face.
"Why...? Why did this have to happen...? Why did she have to go...? This isn't fair...!"Heavy yelled as he lowered his head in grief.
His words stung the doctor and the mare as they backed away from him as he threatened to break down once more, they could see the pain in his eyes, but they could also see the dark hollow look of his eyes surrounded with dark grey color, this pain was like no other they have seen.
"I... I guess it's just fate really child... Your mother died loving you and believing that you are capable for so much more, and so far she hasn't been wrong about anything, and know that she will always be with you... In your heart..."The doctor said as he suddenly pulled out a note and gave it to the colt."Here... It's a message from the princess, she wants you to collect your most valued possessions from your home and come back to the castle."
Heavy took up the note slowly in his magic and put it in front of him while drying his eyes, after a minute of reading it, he burned away the note with his blue fire and jumped off the bed to give his mother the peace she deserved. He slowly began leaving the room with his head held low, the doctor and nursed watched him leave and slowly waved good bye as Heavy left the room and quietly closed the door behind him.
He then slowly began to make his way down the hall way, grief still held a firm grip on the colts heart as he felt tears continue to fill his eyes, he remained silent as he then lit up his horn with his magic and covered himself with ice blue magic once more. In a flash of blinding light and a bit of traveling through a tunnel of blue, Heavy teleported out from the third floor and had reappeared in the middle of the lobby and spooked a few new patients in the process.
He looked around at the frighten ponies who then looked to him with interest before lowering his head and moving on, he made his way to the doors that lead out of the hospital with only his dream as his means for living. It was all he had left now, and he was going to make it a reality no matter what, he frowned at the door as he magically opened and traveled outside into the rainy and stormy outside world.
Upon making it outside, Heavy looked straight ahead knowing exactly where to go next, he kept his head low and continued on, but he failed to notice as Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle had waited right next to the door as they got up and saw Heavy leaving slowly. In her heart, Twilight knew something was wrong with him, she felt a pain in her chest that reeked of great sorrow and devastation, she then quickly ran out towards the colt and stopped when she was only a few feet from him.
"Heavy...?! What happened...? Are you okay Heavy...?"She questioned to the colt with a sad look in her sparkling purple eyes.
Heavy slowly turned his head as Shining Armor joined Twilight by her side, they watched as Heavy turned slowly and looked to them with the most depressed look they had ever seen, now Twilight knew for sure that Heavy was in great pain. They watched and felt their hearts hurt as they saw tears rolling down Heavy's cheek, he then let out a sniffle before turning back in front of him and continuing on while Twilight and Shining were left with confusion and great concern.
"Shining...? Why is Heavy Weight in so much pain...? He's hurting so much, I...feel it, something bad has happened to him..."Twilight asked as she looked to Shining Armor with a sad look in her eyes and tears stinging them as well.
"I... Don't know Twily... But I'm going to find out, you go back to the house and wait for me to come back,"Shining Armor said as he looked to Heavy.
"Are you sure...? Will you be okay...?"Twilight asked with fear.
"Of course I will, now just go home Twilight, let me handle this,"Shining Armor said as he began to follow Heavy down the street.
Twilight did as she was told after a minute of watching her brother pursue Heavy without delay, she quickly took off and made for her home while Shining was now following Heavy Weight all the way back to Heavy's house. Little did both colts know however, Shining wasn't the only one that was now following Heavy Weight, from out of the shadows of the hospital, Dark Shine had emerged with a wicked smile on his face and was now following Heavy as well as he rushed to catch up.
Heavy Weight felt the burden of his mother's death still heavy on his shoulders as he walked with his head held low, his grief he felt inside was unimaginable, he felt the cold wind and rain on his fur and his mane, but now it was as if he felt nothing. Minutes went by as he passed by his two old stallion enemies who didn't even glare at him as they too knew the pain he was now going through as they looked down in shame and despair for the colt.
Heavy just sneered at the two stallions as he ignored them completely and began to feel a wave of anger mixing with his grief, he began stomping his hooves down on the ground leaving small little holes the size of his hooves in the ground as he walked. Golden Heart's death was feeling more unfair and more uncalled for as he thought about it, more tears leaked out of him as he saw his home in the distance through the cover of the heavy rain.
Shining Armor was seeing the holes Heavy was making, and was now feeling Heavy's pain for himself as he followed the deep hoof tracks in the ground, whatever happened to Heavy, it must have been awful if he's this upset. Shining could barely see a thing except for Heavy and could see that Heavy was making his way towards a small house that looked to be possibly his for that fact. Not wanting to go any further, Shining quickly hid behind another house and decided to wait there until Heavy was done conducting business with the house.
Heavy was now standing in front of his house and looking it over one more time knowing that this was going to be the last time that he would ever want to see this beloved home, now that it held a terrible and fresh memory in his mind. He wiped the tears from his eyes before magically opening the door and casually venturing inside the house, and the house could not feel more empty and cold inside if it tried.
The whole house was almost pitch black with darkness, Heavy quickly lit up his horn and looked around the room, it looked as if the house had not been touched or occupied for years, dust was everywhere and the building creaked as Heavy walked through the house. He lazily walked up to a picture portrait of his father Mega, he looked at the picture of his father with almost the same look as his father was giving in the picture, except there was no smile for Heavy as he then surrounded the picture in his magical blue aura.
With a small grunt, Heavy suddenly made the portrait disappear from sight, Heavy had decided it was one of the things he wished to take with him as he then looked to a small picture of him as a foal and Golden Heart. He levitated the picture as he gritted his teeth in new found pain, his eyes closed as he allowed tears to flow, he quietly sobbed as he stared at the picture of him and his mother. He knew that this was all he would need, to see his mother's smiling face to remember what he was fighting for, and what she wanted for him, and he was going to fulfill it no matter what.
With tears still in his eyes and on the verge of breaking down again, Heavy levitated the picture into the air and looked at it one more time before suddenly making it disappear as well, and that concluded what he wished to take with him. He took one last look at the inside of his house, feeling his old memories of the home flooding his mind, he quickly shook it off with a big sigh before walking to the front door, leaving behind his home to return to the castle and a worried princess.
He stepped outside into the rain once more and looked to the sky with a blank look as thunder and lighting crashed and stabbed through the sky, he glared at the sky as if to be cursing it as he slowly walked down the small steps of his home. Heavy stared lazily in front of him with a completely emotionless look as he then began to walk away from his home through the heavy rain, but at that moment, his new sense for magic and fighting kicked in and saw a red glow to his left.
His senses kicked in and Heavy immediately threw up a magical shield around himself, his shield easily deflected the blast of sudden red magic and watched the attack strike the building right where Shining Armor was hiding, but thankfully Shining was spared from being discovered and getting hurt. Heavy watched the roof of the building burn for a bit before the rain put the burning fire on the roof out, he then turned with an angry look and saw the very last pony that he ever wanted to see... Dark Shine.
The dark colt was easy to identify in the rain as Heavy lowered his shield and gave Dark the most intimidating death stare he could possibly give this enemy, but Dark Shine only chuckled as he began moving closer to Heavy. He flashed his wicked smile at Heavy while Heavy kept his guard up and watched every move Dark made as he began circling around Heavy. Shining Armor was seeing the rising confrontation and was thinking of stepping in, but he could barely see in the rain, and he didn't want to blow his cover and get in trouble with Heavy, so he just stood there and watched as the colts exchanged words.
"Well... Long time no see Heavy, so you just decided to leave without giving me a proper good bye, what kind of great unicorn are you suppose to be?"Dark said while chuckling at the angry Heavy.
"What do you want Dark Shine? Don't you have a place to go and be worthless or something?"Heavy questioned as he watched the colt circle around him.
"Oh ha ha ha! I forgot to laugh, you know I saw what happened back at the hospital with your mother their Heavy! Such a tragedy don't you think?!"Dark said loudly for Heavy and Shining Armor to hear.
"What...! That's what happened...?!"Shining asked himself before watching the colts again.
"You say one more word about my mother and I swear to Celestia I will make you regret it...!"Heavy growled loudly at the dark colt who then frowned at him.
"Or what...! What else is there you can do to me Heavy Weight! My mother practically laughs at me now because of you! That battle we had back then, that stripped me of everything I had going for me there, now I'm nothing more than a laughing stock!"Dark yelled in anger while Heavy gave him a look that said that he didn't care."At least you had a mother who believed in you, but now I guess that ship has sailed along with her corpse huh?"
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH DARK SHINE! OR I'll SHUT IT FOR YOU!"Heavy roared as his body began to glow with a violent blue aura.
"Like I bucking said! There's nothing more you can say or do to me that hasn't been done already, you're now just as worthless and dead inside as your mother is right now both inside and out!"Dark Shine yelled in the colt's ear.
Suddenly in the back of his mind, something finally snapped within the colt, he gritted his teeth in controlled fury as Heavy let out an ear splitting scream as he tightened up his right hoof and suddenly swung it towards Dark Shine. Reacting to the scream with startled effort, Dark put his right hoof up to block, but that proved to be the greatest mistake he could have ever hoped to make. He watched as the right hoof struck against his blocking arm with tremendous force, and in that moment to every pony's horror minus Heavy's, the right hoof struck so hard that it smashed through Dark's arm and knocked the limb clean off the colt's body.
Dark barely had time to scream at the sight of his now missing arm as the right hoof then struck the dark colt right across the jaw with tremendous force still as Dark was sent flying at sound breaking speeds and crashing into Heavy's house. The force of the colt smashing into the house made the whole building let out a loud creaking sound before suddenly collapsing down and exploding loudly in a cloud of dust and wood.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHH!"Heavy roared into the sky as lightning suddenly stabbed the sky and appeared to even be reaching for Heavy.
Suddenly Heavy looked at the wreck that use to be his home as he heard screams coming from the wreck, it was then that a red beam of magic shot out from the wreckage and Dark Shine quickly emerged from the pile before looking to the stump where his right arm use to be. Shining Armor looked on in sudden horror, he felt his stomach get tied in a knot and become cold as he watched Dark look at his missing arm in horror while Heavy was just growling at Dark with uncontrolled anger.
"AAAAAAAGH...! OH GOSH OH CELESTIA...! MY ARM...!"Dark shouted out in unbelievable pain."You little monster...! Aaagh gosh...! You're just a big worthless monster just like your mom...!"
"I TOLD YOU SHUT UP!"Heavy roared in blind anger.
Suddenly another bolt of lighting struck the sky, but this time it found an outlet for power, with Heavy Weight's magic kicking into overdrive, his magic suddenly surrounded the bolt of lightning and drew it down to his horn. The bolt of lightning then struck his horn and to every pony's surprise, Heavy began conducting the lightning bolt as he narrowed his sights at the scratched up Dark Shine with the missing right limb.
He gave one last glare at Dark before aiming his horn at the terrified colt as the magic mixed with lightning charged up in his horn, the power of this next attack was overwhelming and full of heat and heavy air. Dark shook his head as if to be begging for mercy, but Shining Armor just looked away knowing that there was no reasoning with Heavy, magic also began engulfing Heavy's eyes as he finally unleashed the immense attack of lightning and magic.
The beam made an exploding and electric sound as it surged and shot towards Dark Shine, the dark colt was only able to let out a scream before the attack suddenly struck the colt through the chest and immediately burned a hole through him. The attack blasted right out Dark's back as the colt began shaking violently as if he was having a seizure while his screams started to sound as if he was gagging on something. The electric power of the attack singed a complete hole through the colt before finally disappearing back into the sky while Heavy finally stopped his magic.
Heavy watched as Dark Shine still shook as if he was having a seizure before he suddenly tumbled over and landed on his side, Heavy slowly began walking over to the colt with an angry look yet, he then came to the colt's side as he watched Dark continue to suffer. Finally Dark suddenly went limp and laid right at Heavy's hooves dead and still smoking from the powerful attack, but Heavy just maintained his mad look as he stared down the dead colt and moved his mouth down to the colts ear.
"I warned you to shut up... But you didn't... You just kept running your mouth, you deserved every last minute of this..."Heavy said in a cold tone as he levitated the colt's body into the air and threw it clear out of the city and even down the mountain never to be seen again."Oh...! You forgot this too! Take it with you!"
Heavy then lifted up the severed limb of Dark Shine and threw it in the same direction he threw the body and watched it disappear in the distance, he stood there for a solid moment in the rain before finally letting out a sigh. He then turned around and finally left the scene, he surrounded himself in an orb of magic once more, and in a flash, he disappeared once more to get back to the castle. Shining Armor on the other hoof was now panting and full of fear as he stumbled before taking off towards his home, he felt sick to his stomach, he could not believe what he just witnessed, some pony who he called his friend had just murdered a pony, sure the colt he killed was a bully and potentially evil, but it was still wrong.
"He killed him... He just murdered a pony just like that...!"Shining said as he ran with bone chilling fear coursing through his body."I thought he was my friend, but he's not... He's a murderer... Heavy's a monster."
Meanwhile back at castle Canterlot, the rain was still beating down on the castle as the storm showed no signs of letting up, Celestia and Sunset Shimmer were currently standing in the door way out from the rain waiting for Heavy to return. They didn't need to wait long as Celestia saw a blue orb suddenly appear right in front of the castle's golden bar gate, the orb then exploded into sparks of magic to reveal Heavy Weight as he looked around before looking to them.
He gave them a sad look that was returned with the same looks as he slowly walked through the rain slowly, his hooves clopped slowly and smacked against the puddles in the ground as he kept walking until he stood before the princess. He slowly lifted his head up and looked to Celestia as tears once more began to stream down his cheeks, Celestia and Sunset's hearts instantly broke for him as they both knew exactly what happened.
"I need a place to stay..."Heavy said in a soft and low tone as he stood in the rain.
Celestia instantly felt a tear roll down her face as she lunged to Heavy and scooped him up into a loving embrace, she nuzzled his cheek and felt his tears touch her cheek as she was feeling his pain. After a moment of hugging she slowly put Heavy down only for him to be hugged by a crying Sunset Shimmer, Sunset herself had gotten to know Golden Heart a little bit and felt saddened to know that such a good mare was now no longer with them.
"You can live here with us Heavy, it's the very least we can do, please... Come out from the rain and come with me..."Celestia said as she brought Heavy to her side and lit up her horn with golden magic.
The orb quickly surrounded all three of them and before they knew it, they were all traveling through the tunnel of Celestia's teleportation spell, Heavy could care less, he was in complete despair and did not care for anything. They quickly then came out of the tunnel and reappeared in front of the guest bedroom in the throne room, Celestia then quickly opened the door for the colt as he then raced in and jumped to the bed.
Celestia and Sunset both decided to enter the room and noticed that he had only brought two things with him, the big portrait of his father, and the small picture of his mother and him as a little foal. Celestia and Sunset slowly approached the colt as they saw him shaking and starting to sob again as he put his face to the pillows, Sunset jumped up onto the bed and walked over to Heavy while Celestia walked to the side and sat up on the bed and began rubbing his back.
"I'm so sorry about your mother Heavy... I'm sorry..."Sunset Shimmer said as she snuggled up to him and laid by his side.
"Your mother was a good mare, and she is going to get the best funeral we can possibly give her, I promise... I will take care of you in her place... Heavy Weight,"Celestia said as she managed to give him a nuzzle."Remember your dream...? No matter what... I will help you become the greatest unicorn in the world...And make your dream a reality."
"Yes... I will..."Heavy whispered out to them as he did his best to subdue his tears."I will become the greatest unicorn in Equestria... I will become the best..."
JUST ONE MORE CHAPTER BEFORE WE MAKE A BIG TIME SKIP, THERE IS STILL A WAYS TO GO YET IN THIS STORY, SO BE PREPARED FOR MORE ACTION IN THE FUTURE, BUT FOR NOW PREPARE FOR THE FUNERAL OF GOLDEN HEART.