Chapter 16:The New Heavy Weight

Six Years Later

A very new day was now rising for the city of Canterlot, the sun itself had raised as if a new era had arrived as activity began to stir for the city, so much had changed in the pass six years for the city, as well as the ponies themselves. The memory of Golden Heart was still very much alive in the citizens of Canterlot, her death had hit every pony hard, very few ponies did not know of her passing for that fact, but her memory now lived on in a special some pony who now lived within the castle of Canterlot.

The times had especially changed for the ones that resided in the castle of Canterlot, the guards around the place were a bit more free thinking and had just a bit more freedom, some of them still payed their respects to golden Heart to this very day. With a little help from Heavy Weight himself they would find their way to the special place and give their respects and blessings to where the unicorn mother now rested.

Celestia herself was a bit changed from the serious event that had taken place all those years ago, she now felt as if she had precious cargo within her home, and treated Heavy Weight and Sunset not just as her students, but as her own children. She would do the usual things for them, teach them their magic and history as well as control and combat, Celestia also did things like teach them table manners, and would even sometimes tuck them into bed like a mother. Heavy and Sunset didn't think too much of it, they felt they had more important things on their minds now.

Heavy Weight had changed quite a bit from that day, he was no longer that friendly little colt that was willing to always be there for a friend, he had now become serious and in a way, he was now becoming a bit cold hearted. Even though he had since then become incredibly strong, He trained like crazy every day to become the best unicorn in the world, after all... His dream was all he had left in his life now a days, and he was going to do anything to make his dream come true. He would practice tirelessly with the royal guards and even with captain Husky, and he would study from the most advanced books he could find, and while he studied and trained, he also was doing his best to avoid his little admirer Sunset Shimmer.

Sunset Shimmer did her best to keep up with her studies, she would sometimes train with the guards, but she barely held her own against them let alone give them runs for their money, and it clearly did not impress Heavy. She would also take her time and would follow Heavy around, she would study what he does and what he would study about, she also did well to keep her distance from him as she began to have feelings for him, but she had also become fearful as Heavy began to get rough and even a bit abusive of her.

The sun was finally rising high into the sky, and the castle was now active with royal guards training in the grounds, as well as princess Celestia bringing forth the sun for the new day, and for two students of the princess, it was just another day in paradise. Withing the castle more activity stirred as one student was already out of bed while the other was still sleeping.

An older Sunset Shimmer was now sleeping in her little room in the castle, she felt the rays of sunshine hit her face from her fancy bedroom window, she stirred and let out a yawn as she rubbed at her eyes to help wake herself up. She quickly sat up in her bed and looked out her window at the new sunny day they had today as she let out another yawn before throwing the covers off her to reveal that she now had a cutie mark, the cutie mark appeared to be a sun with one side colored in deep red while the other was orange, basically it was the same colors as her mane and tail.

She quickly hopped out of bed and stretched out her legs before calmly making her way to the door to her fancy purple bedroom, she magically opened the door to her room and made her way out of the room. She then immediately was surprised as a flash of light went off in front of her, she shielded her eyes from the light for a moment before the light quickly subsided, and when she looked to see what it was, princess Celestia now stood before her smiling at Sunset warmly.

"Good morning Sunset Shimmer, and how are you this fine morning?"Celestia asked as Sunset rubbed her eyes before smiling as well.

"Good morning princess Celestia, I'm doing great, I got a good nights rest and everything, so what are we going to learn today?"Sunset asked with a bit of curiosity.

"Oh... I actually have a little surprise for you and Heavy Weight, could you be a dear and go get him, and when you do I want both of you to meet me on the training grounds for the surprise,"Celestia informed much to Sunset's curiosity.

"Sure princess, I'll go get him right away,"Sunset said in a slightly excited tone.

"Good, off you go then,"Celestia said as Sunset took off down the hall towards the throne room."Oh and after the surprise I'll treat you both to a nice big breakfast!"

"Okay...!"Sunset called out as she turned off into a new hall way.

She quickly ran down the new hall excited about this new surprise Celestia had in store for her and Heavy Weight, her energy felt endless as she giggled with each step she took, she was happy and excited to go see Heavy, even if he was rough around her. She then grind on the slippery marble floor under the big red carpet as she then looked down another hall way to see the massive doors leading to the throne room.

She quickly ran to the door like an excited horse all noble and brave, as she approached the doors, she quickly lit up her horn and threw the doors open with her green magic as she jumped right through the doors and landed in the middle of the throne room. She looked behind her and saw that she almost hit two guards that were positioned at the door, they glared at Sunset while she gave them an innocent smile.

"Sorry about that guys, is Heavy awake already?"Sunset asked while looking at his bedroom at the side of the throne room.

"Yes...! He's been awake for quite some time now, he tends to be an early bird,"The guard said while gesturing to the door.

Sunset nodded before walking towards the door, and as she was making her way to his room, she suddenly began to hear what sounded like hooves clapping together, she raised her eye brow at the strange noise as she continued on towards the bedroom. She then heard the clapping noises getting louder as she made it to the door and couldn't help but to put her ear to the door and listen to the hoof clapping, and finally her curiosity got the best of her.

Sunset opened the door with her magic and allowed the sunlight from the throne room to pour into the bedroom as she saw none other than a much bigger Heavy Weight on the ground and doing clapping push ups by his bed. She immediately blushed as she saw the older colt flexing his muscles as he did a surprising amount of clapping push ups, she knew he was serious about training, but this took it to a whole new level.

Finally after a few minutes of watching him go at it hard, she finally had enough of watching him exercise and decided to get his attention, she knocked on the door and was immediately given an immediate response as Heavy jumped to his hooves and turned around to see Sunset.

"*sigh*... What is it Sunset? Do you have a reason this time for bugging me?"Heavy said while wiping sweat from his head and walking over to his desk.

"Um... princess Celestia wanted me to get you, she said she had a surprise for both of us,"Sunset answered as Heavy picked up a quill pen and began to once again write in his book.

"A surprise...? Did she tell you what it was?"Heavy questioned without taking his eyes off the book.

"No... She just wanted me to get you and we can both come see it,"Sunset said as she couldn't help but sneak a peak at what he was writing.

She managed to get a good look at what he was drawing and it appeared to be a picture of a pony eating an actual rock, and another photo with the pony spitting it out as a fiery high speed projectile, it had been a long time since she was able to see Heavy's work again. This spell was one of now seventy new spells that were now written in the book in the pass several years, and she didn't even know half of the spells, but she sure wanted to as she reached for the book.

"Hey...! Do not touch my book!"Heavy Weight said sternly as he slammed the book shut and clipped her hoof in the process."The book is not ready yet, keep your sticky hooves off!"

"Okay sorry...!"Sunset said while flinching a bit.

"Let's just go before you do something else stupid,"Heavy said with a bit of irritation as he lead the way.

Sunset let out a sigh of shame as she followed Heavy casually out of his room, she saw him walking with great dignity and pride as they both bass in the light of the sun, so much has changed about Heavy in the pass six years, and not all of it was enjoyable for Sunset. He was strong and very dignified, not to mention he had grown quite a pride on him, he had a slightly slender body and yet he was very much strong on the inside, and she has known that from many passed experiences with him.

As they reached the doors to the throne room, the guards couldn't help but smile at Heavy as he stopped at the door and opened it slowly so he wouldn't crush them, but he did not leave without addressing them.

"Good morning Rex, good morning Light Hammer,"Heavy said as he passed the guards with Sunset right behind him.

"Good morning Heavy Weight, you seem in a ready to go mood today,"One guard said as they watched Heavy and Sunset disappear down the hall way.

"I always am Light Hammer! I always am...!"Heavy called back to them as they turned into a different hall way.

As they walked through the hallway, Sunset couldn't help but watch Heavy and admire him, he was a bit taller than some other colts his age, he was definitely bigger than her, and much stronger too. Even with his slender and slightly feminine body, she could see the muscles on Heavy's body, it made her blush while she noticed Heavy was looking at her, she quickly turned away from him hoping not to get caught staring at him, but Heavy didn't care as he rolled his eyes at her, he had no interest in such things.

They turned off into another hall way, Heavy continued staring straight ahead while Sunset did her best not trying to stare at him, she diverted her attention at the walls with new paintings of her and Heavy, all of which only had one smiling Heavy Weight on it, and that was back when Golden Heart was still alive. The old memory of Golden Heart still haunted Sunset a bit, and she knew that it was still a thought in the back of Heavy's head, but she would not dare bring it up to Heavy and risk another uncalled for scolding and possible beating.

They finally made their way into the main hall and looked out from the second floor they were on and could see the immense castle door at the other end of the castle, Heavy let out a sigh as he ventured down the stairs. Sunset quickly rushed to keep up with him and almost fell down the stairs, but to her relief Heavy saw her stumbling and quickly caught her in both hooves and made themselves teleport down to the bottom of the steps. Once they knew they were in the clear, Heavy looked to a spook Sunset and saw her clinging to his arm as he rolled his eyes again and managed to slip her off him and allowed her to look around.

"Thanks for the save Heavy,"Sunset said while Heavy just stared at the door.

"Be more careful next time, Celestia warned you many times that the stairs are tricky,"Heavy lightly scolded as he walked to the door.

"Right... Sorry..."Sunset said now feeling bad as she continued to follow Heavy.

She caught up with Heavy as he magically opened the massive doors, and the first thing that struck them was the blinding sun light directly in their faces, Heavy raised a hoof in front of his eyes as he made his way down the steps with Sunset right behind him and mimicking his actions. They turned off towards the training grounds as Heavy magically swung open the iron barred door and was surprised as they both saw princess Celestia standing in the middle of the grounds. As they entered the grounds, Heavy quietly and slyly looked around and noticed that there were no royal guards whats so ever any where in the grounds, but Sunset unfortunately didn't notice as she felt excited about the surprise.

"I got him princess Celestia, so what's this big surprise you have in store for us?"Sunset asked as she stood before the princess.

"Yeah... What is the surprise Celestia...?"Heavy questioned as he didn't buy this setting one bit.

"Oh... It's a surprise, you both have to come closer,"Celestia encouraged as Sunset gradually came closer while Heavy continued to scope out the place.

"Yeah... Some surprise this is...!"Heavy said as he got into a sudden defensive position.

Suddenly the filly and colt felt the ground shaking around them like a vicious earthquake, Heavy managed to stay on his hooves while Sunset had no choice but to duck and cover underneath Celestia as the ground exploded all around them. It was then that seven royal guards had raised from the ground all unicorn for that matter and formed a perfect circle around Celestia before suddenly wrapping many different chains all around the princess.

Heavy narrowed his vision and saw the princess remaining calm while Sunset appeared to be scared for her life from the sudden ambush, he was blocked off from the filly and mare as captain Husky and a Pegasus royal guard emerged from the ground right in front of him. The captain wielded two twin swords while the Pegasus held a spear, the captain quickly slashed at Heavy with both blades in a downward slice as the Pegasus took to the air.

Heavy reacted in a flash and surprised the captain as he stepped slightly to the right and narrowly missed the blades, he then tried to slash at Heavy's throat, but Heavy showed off his new speed as he ducked instantly before jumping into the air. Just as he jumped he saw the Pegasus coming down upon him with his spear ready to pierce the colt, Heavy thought fast and managed to perform a flawless spin as he dodged the spear and delivered a punishing left hoof to the Pegasus jaw while spinning passed him.

Heavy then found himself in the air and watched the Pegasus crash down right on top of one of the unicorns that were holding the princess in place, both of them were gradually unconscious as he then turned to Sunset and saw the most pathetic thing he has ever seen. Sunset was now cowering under the princess and was covering her eyes in fear like a damsel in distress, Heavy knew he was on his own as he suddenly felt a grey light hit his chin as he looked down to see the captain making his move.

He saw a large blast of grey magic heading straight for him, Heavy had to think of something, he needed to find a way to get to the princess fast and hold off the captain at the same time, and that's when it finally hit him. Heavy quickly focused his magic and suddenly a blob of ice blue magic grew from his horn and began to take the shape of a pony, the spell he was using began to take shape as a familiar body type and a familiar face formed on the pony. Finally after another second, an exact duplicate of Heavy formed and nodded at the real Heavy just as they began to descend towards the beam.

The real Heavy Weight surrounded himself in a ball of ice blue magic and shot off in the form of a comet towards the kidnappers while the fake Heavy turn towards the beam and blasted a beam of his own. The two attacks connected and thanks to the weight of the clone, the beam was breaking through the captains attack while slowly bringing the clone closer to his target, and as he made his way down, the two attacks finally exploded just as the captain jumped through the smoke and magic and grabbed the clone.

However he did not know that it was a fake he had grabbed as the real Heavy soared within his comet charge and circled around the princess cutting all the chains around her and freeing the princess while the guards fell back from the broken chains. Once the princess was free, she took to the air and carried Sunset Shimmer with her as Heavy grind his hooves to stop in the middle of the crowd while he looked to the captain and smirked as he lit up his horn.

The captain stood there holding the fake Heavy in his hooves and looked it in the eye as it just stared straight back, the clone then gestured to it's right with a smile on it's face as the captain turned to see the real Heavy Weight waving to him in a mocking fashion. He raised an eye brow in confusion as he looked to the clone just as the clone gave off a blank look just as it then began to crack like an egg and suddenly explode like a bomb right in the captains face.

"Whoa...! I didn't know Heavy could make his clones explode!"Sunset yelled in disbelief.

"Neither did I...! He has certainly grown and matured,"Celestia pointed out as they watched from the safety of the sky.

All the ponies looked on in astonishment including Celestia and Sunset while Heavy took advantage of the unicorns being distracted from the trick and began charging at them with his horn lit up and ready for a fight. He pounced on one guard who couldn't even get his sword out in time and uppercut the stallion in the jaw sending him flying into a wall, he managed to land hard on his hooves as Heavy saw another magical attack coming.

He side stepped out of the way just in time for the attack to miss him, but strike another guard as the colt ran to his attacker, the guard pulled out his sword as he was joined by another and got ready to swing their swords. Heavy anticipated the attack and leaped at the two guards as their blades swung side by side, the colt quickly spun right through a small gap the blades made and landed right between the two guards. He then kicked one guard in the back leg just as the other was going to swing his blade at him, but Heavy surprised him by blasting him into the sky with a magical beam of his own.

Finally he turned to the other guard and grabbed one of his front legs with his mouth as he then swung the stallion into three more right in front of him, he then quickly shot a bit of magic in the air just as the stallions scrambled to their hooves. They were about to attack Heavy fiercely, but they were instantly stopped in their tracks as a massive cage made of pure ice blue magic dropped from the sky and slammed down all around them trapping the guards inside. They kicked, bucked and blasted magic at the cage, but nothing broke through the impenetrable cage, the guards were now trapped inside and could no longer do any harm.

Heavy then heard the charging hooves of another guard and quickly spun around to see a sword pointed at his neck and looked to see a unicorn guard with a cocky smile on his face as he believed that he had caught Heavy. Suddenly Heavy smirked as they both heard a battle cry right above them, the guard barely had time to look up before another Heavy clone with magic poured into his hooves and surrounded in flames as it brought two front hooves down on the guards back. He slammed the guard down and crashed him into the ground forming a giant crater to show off the power of the attack, stones raised from the crushing attack as the guard fell unconscious and dropped the sword from Heavy's neck.

Heavy Weight smiled as his clone hopped from the crater smiling as well, the clone nodded at him as it appeared that they were victorious, but all of that was quickly forgotten as a scratched up and badly burned captain Husky emerged from the smoke of his last big attack. He quickly swung his swords at Heavy and his clone, he managed to slice through the clone as he aimed for the real Heavy, the colt just barely managed to jump away from the attack and felt the blade put a small cut on the side of his cheek.

Heavy slid back kicking back some stand as he stared down the captain, he completely ignored the cut on his cheek as he studied the injured and angry captain, he was weakened, his aim would be hindered, and his movement would be greatly restricted. Heavy smirked as he scraped a front hooves in the sand to challenge the captain, and the captain fell for the challenge as he did the same thing before charging at Heavy. The colt did the same as they began closing in on each other, testosterone flew as they lowered their heads as if they were going to head butt each other.

The captain then suddenly swung his right blade at the colt as they closed in, but his swing proved to be far too off and Heavy barely had to duck as the sword missed him by a few inches and that's when he struck. Heavy delivered a swift right uppercut to Husky's jaw making his helmet fly off his head and making him drop his right sword, but the captain kept his wits about him as he swung the other sword at him. Heavy quickly ducked under the other attack and slammed a hoof down on the captain's left arm making him drop the other sword before punching him across the jaw making blood fly from Husky's mouth.

The captain reeled from the attack and was barely able to see as Heavy was about to buck him directly in the chest, Husky quickly grabbed both of the colts back legs, but he was then given another surprise as Heavy turned and smirked again. Suddenly two beams of magic shot from his back hooves and they immediately struck the captain's chest destroying his armor and knocked him to his back, he skid on his back in the stand before back flipping and landing back on his hooves only to drop to his knees.

Heavy saw the captain completely vulnerable and quickly ran to the captain with his head low to deliver a finishing blow, Husky could barely move as he struggled to raise his head only to see a glimpse of Heavy's face before being slammed in the head by a vicious head butt. Husky flew back even more and slammed against the iron barred door to the grounds and slid down them into the sand and watched as Heavy was charging in to finish him off, but he was then spared as a voice ended the chaos.

"That's enough Heavy Weight! You have passed my little surprise test,"Came the voice of Celestia as Heavy froze with his horn just an inch from the captain's face.

Heavy looked into the captain's eyes with his big smirk before slowly removing his horn from the captain's face and turning around to see the princess descending and landing back in the middle of the grounds as all the guards finally managed to get to their hooves. Celestia even freed the guards that were trapped in Heavy's little cage trap, they made themselves useful not being very injured and helped the more injured guards to the castle infirmary, it took two guards however to move captain Husky as he finally lost consciousness and was slowly carried off.

Heavy just ignored the damage he had done to the guards as he approached the princess just in time to see Sunset get released from Celestia's hooves, he then gave the filly a very disappointed look and even shook his head at her before looking to the princess.

"So that was your little surprise huh? No offense but you need to work on the whole fake kidnap session a lot better,"Heavy said before smirking at her proudly.

"I see... I will keep that in mind for the next test, you fought bravely today Heavy, I was quite impressed myself,"Celestia said as she decided to bring something up."I also liked how you perfected your cloning spell, it is certainly a nifty trick, how many can you spawn?"

"So far I can spawn only ten, my mind needs to be stronger, a strong mind is what helps create multiple different minds linked to the original,"Heavy explained before noticing Sunset approaching him without looking at him.

"You... You were very brave Heavy, you were amazing in the battle,"Sunset complimented while blushing and playing with her mane.

"And where the hay were you when the princess was being tied up in chains?!"Heavy questioned loudly out of disappointment."If I wasn't here to take care of all the attackers, and if this was a real situation, the princess would have been either dead or captured."

"Now Heavy, this was Sunset's first major test at defending herself and her future fellow princesses, not every pony can be as calm and as skilled in this situation like you can,"Celestia explained while Heavy continued to glare at her.

"Well they could be if they would just apply themselves...!"Heavy lectured before turning back to Sunset.

"I'm sorry... I just got scared,"Sunset said honestly while shielding herself with her mane from Heavy's heated glare.

"Yeah...! I could tell by how you hid under a captured princess... You're never going to become a good princess if you can't even defend yourself or others against an enemy,"Heavy scolded while Sunset lowered her head and took Heavy's scolding.

"Now that's enough Heavy...! She will learn with time, you just need to give her space and time to learn,"Celestia said while Heavy just snorted at Sunset to finish.

"Whatever, I'll be giving you my own little tests to see if you can toughen up, and you better bring your A game... Because I don't mess around,"Heavy said while walking away leaving a rattled Sunset a bit shaken.

Sunset almost felt like crying after her crush colt scolded and embarrassed her right in front of the princess, but she managed to stay strong and fight the tears as she felt the princesses gentle white wing wrap around her. She waited until Heavy was out of sight before hugging the princesses leg and brushing her head against Celestia as she shook with shame and sadness.

"Shh... It's alright Sunset, you have nothing to be afraid of, you know how rough Heavy can be sometimes, but do not worry, I will be there if you're ever having problems with Heavy,"Celestia said as they shared a hug.

Sunset nodded as they parted from the hug and quickly wiped the tears from her eyes before they could fall from her cheeks, they both then began to walk back into the castle to enjoy a nice big breakfast with the new Heavy Weight.

LOOKS LIKE THEIR IS SOME ANIMOSITY GROWING, YOU ALL KNOW THAT SUNSET SHIMMER LEFT THE PRINCESS COLD IN PURSUIT OF NEW WAYS TO BECOME PRINCESS, AND THE NEXT TWO CHAPTERS WILL TELL OF HER GROWING DISHONESTY AND THIEVERY THAT LEADS TO HER RUNNING AWAY.