Chapter 21:Twilight's Great Worth
It was now a new day for Heavy Weight, he now had a new sibling student, and now this day he was going to see what she was made of, and he wanted to be sure that he was in top physical form to show what he knows and prepare himself. Finally the day had come for him, it was now Twilight's first day as a genuine student of the princess and Heavy was going to give her a first days experience like no other, but first he needed to get out of bed and the sun helped him with that.
The sun was peeking over the mountain and its light descended upon the castle, its rays entered through the castle and lit every part of the castle that it could reach, including the bedroom of Heavy Weight. Sun was peeking into his dark bedroom and lit it up just a bit, it brought some light to the room and it was just enough to crawl up through the bed and began shining into the colts eyes as he slept soundly, at least until the rays came.
Heavy growled and moaned with irritation as the sun began to irritate his, he levitated a pillow from his bed and threw it at a window, for a split second it dimmed the light as the pillow hit the window, but it was then short lived. Finally Heavy snapped open his eyes and growled again as he then levitated the cover off him and placed it against the window, and to his relief the light was dim again which was sweet relief to Heavy as he then looked around.
"Well thank Celestia for that...!"Heavy growled feeling a bit cranky this morning as he rubbed at his eyes and yawned."Gee... What time is it...?"
Heavy quickly made a clock appear in a flash of blue magic and looked at it, the time was still a bit early but it was indeed the day that would start Twilight Sparkles first day here as a student of the princess, and he had a promise to fulfill to her. He widened his eyes and stretched out a small smile before making the clock disappear in another flash of blue light. He then levitated the cover off the window to let the light back in knowing that this was a new day and he was going to enjoy this day thoroughly.
He let out a sigh of relief at the new day and finally got out of bed, he levitated the cover and the pillow he threw, and placed them back on the bed, he quickly made his bed with a few slick moves with his levitation and was then on his way after a few stretches of his legs and neck. He then turned towards the door to his room and began casually making his way to the door, he magically opened the door as he made his way out and was getting himself cite for his first day working alongside his old friend.
As Heavy entered the throne room, he looked around the bright room and could see his pal Rex and another new guard guarding the door and was about to walk over to the doors to leave a while, but that's when he was stopped by some pony else that was in the room.
"Good morning Heavy Weight, I see your up bright and early today,"Came the voice of Celestia.
Heavy quickly turned to see Celestia sitting on her throne smiling upon him as he just smirked and shook his head, he then began to chuckle as he approached the princess on the throne putting his excitement to the side.
"Yeah, just wanted to make sure I was up bright and early for today,"Heavy said to the princess as she raised from her throne.
"I see, excited about your first day learning along side Twilight are we? You and her seem to get along much better,"Celestia pointed out as Heavy just turned his head away from her to hide his smirk.
"Yeah, she's got fire in her I just know it, and I wanna see what she's got,"Heavy said while Celestia giggled at his desire.
"Well I'm glad that you have desire and belief in this new student, but just try to go easy on her for today, it's her first day here and I want her to get settled in before you two start going at it,"Celestia informed much to Heavy's disappointment as his smirk all but disappeared.
"*sigh*... Yes princess..."Heavy said in a disappointed tone.
"Good, and...oh... Goodness Heavy,"The princess said as she then suddenly noticed Heavy's smell and covered her muzzle with a hoof."And would you kindly get yourself a bath? you still never washed up from yesterday, and Twilight's parents are coming over and I want you to make a good first impression on them."
"Oh come on...! Yes princess...!"Heavy said impatiently as he secretly smelled himself and did confirm that the bad smell came from him."Wow... That does reek."
Heavy then shook off the smell and lit up his horn, he felt the magic surround himself as he watched an orb of magic surrounded him, then in a flash of blue light Heavy disappeared leaving the princess to prepare for the visitors. Heavy traveled through the tunnel of magic and smirked once again as he thought about training with Twilight, he had to admit that Twilight had peeked his interest, and he wanted to test her to see if she had a place with him and the royal guards.
It was then that he exited the tunnel and in a flash of light, Heavy Weight found himself in a castle hall way right in front of a fancy white door with fancy golden decor and door handle that glowed in the sun light that reached into the hall. He let out a stressed sigh as he opened the door to look into what appeared to be a very fancy looking bathroom with a large tub all white decor and white tiled floors, he then let out a sigh as he knew what he had to do in here, after all, the smell on him was getting unbearable.
He casually made his way inside the bathroom and closed the door behind him and got to work taking a bath, for almost an hour he struggled a bit cleaning himself from top to bottom in hot soapy water. He made sure to scrub out his ice blue mane and tail wiping out the sweat and sand from his previous bouts with guards. He got to work on his coat next scrubbing it clean and making it shine and even made it become pearly white once more, but no matter what he tried on other occasions he would bathe, he still could not wipe the strange black circles off his eyes.
He gave his coat, mane and tail one last rinse with hot water before shaking it off some of the water on him and levitating a towel to his side to for him to use on himself, he stepped out of the tub and began drying off his mane and coat as he walked to the door to leave. Upon opening the door however he was met by none other than captain Husky Hooves who was strangely no longer wearing his armor, this struck Heavy as out of the ordinary as he focused the towel on his coat while he decided to ask the obvious question.
"Captain Husky...? Where's your armor? You know no pony will recognize you without it,"Heavy joked as he finished with his coat and went back to his mane.
"Walk with me Heavy, I need to talk to you about this,"Husky said as he gestured to the hall way that lead to the main hall.
"Uh...okay then,"Heavy said as he let the captain take the lead.
He then began to follow Husky down the hall way and was still trying to figure out the stallion, he had honestly never seen Husky without his armor before, His chocolate brown coat was a bit messy and tattered from past experiences. His mane and tail was black with stripes of gray, and he sported the cutie mark of two duel swords crossing each other, the experiences this stallion must have had were definitely a mystery to all.
"So... How did you get to be a captain in the first place?"Heavy asked out of curiosity while drying of his tail.
"It was when... When I would train with your father, when we first entered the academy to become captains for the royal guard, we would compete with each other in everything,"Husky began to explain as they passed by some guards."Your mother was also a reason we competed against each other if you haven't already figured that out."
"Yeah that was pretty much obvious to me,"Heavy blankly said as he looked to the ground at the memory of his mother.
"Of course your father had me bested on many things, the only things i had going for me was my discipline, and magic control, your father preferred to just throw his magic around,"Husky blankly said as they entered the main hall and looked out to the main door.
"Yeah figured as much, i like to do that too,"Heavy said with a bit of a chuckle before remembering another question."So why aren't you wearing your armor now?"
"Because... I'm being replaced, the princess has demanded that I go into retirement, and now she's going to bring in a new face this weekend,"Husky said much to the surprise of Heavy Weight.
"What...? Why...? You've been a great captain, why is she doing this to you?"Heavy said as Husky turned only to cringe as his back cracked.
"My back... It's been bad since that whole thing with Sunset Shimmer, the princess now feels that with my bad back I can't keep the royal guard under control and keep up protection,"Husky said as his legs wobbled a bit.
"So who is she replacing you with? Who does she even think can replace you?"Heavy said with a little bit of irritation at this news.
"Just some new young stallion who graduated from the academy yesterday, they say he's pretty good, but I've seen better..."Husky said with almost a bit of hate at the thought of him being replaced by this new stallion.
"Pretty good huh? I think I'll be the judge of that, we'll see what he's got if he even deserves the title of captain,"Heavy said before making his towel disappear.
"Well see that you do, i don't want some new blood just thinking he can walk in here and take charge without proving himself to the real royal guards,"Husky said before chuckling and actually smiling at Heavy.
"Oh I can do that,"Heavy Weight said with confidence before suddenly disappearing in a flash of blue light.
Heavy then suddenly reappeared in another flash of light right in front of the main gates of the castle and looked back to captain Husky before waving at him while the captain returned the favor by waving as well. Heavy then turned back to the main doors and swung them opened and felt a bright sunny day hit his eyes, he felt a bit irritated by the sun but fought through it as he stepped outside to go to the grounds.
As he did made his way out of the castle, he was then given the sight of the princess herself talking to a mare and stallion as well as Twilight Sparkle just within the castle's golden gates. He recognized Twilight right away, but the stallion and mare were new to him, the stallion appeared to have a dull blue coat a dark blue mane and tail, dirty gold eyes and a cutie mark of a crescent moon with a smaller crescent moon in side. The mare had a white coat with a purple and white streaked mane and tail, she had blue eyes and the cutie mark of three purple stars.
It was then that Heavy had made his way down the stairs and began to approach the group and was immediately recognized by Twilight and the princess, but the stallion and mare seemed a bit worried when they saw him.
"Ah...! And there he is, Mr Night Life and Mrs Twilight Velvet, this is Heavy Weight, he is also a student here,"Celestia said as Heavy approached them."It's good to see you finally out and about, these are Twilight's parents Twilight Velvet and Night Life."
"Hello..."Heavy said in a low tone.
"Hello there, aren't you a cute little colt, so this is the friend you would always tell us about huh Twilight?"The mare known as Twilight Velvet said to her daughter.
"Yeah, you have to see him mom, he's probably the most greatest unicorn ever! And he said he's going to teach me what he knows!"Twilight said before rushing to Heavy and hugging him."Right Heavy...?"
"Right... But you still need to show me what you can do before we even start,"Heavy said before he noticed the stallion known as Night Life was looking at him funny."And... You must be her dad."
"Yes, I'm her father, and you must also be the one who defended my daughter against a bully aren't you?"Night Life pointed out while Heavy just smirked.
"Yes sir, she was fighting back a bully, and she just needed some help, and your son wasn't able to handle the kid so I stepped in,"Heavy said knowing where this was going.
"Uh huh, Twilight? This isn't also the colt that destroyed the school is it?"Night asked his daughter.
"Dad...! You said you weren't going to bring up all that stuff,"Twilight complained.
"Come on Twilight, lets just go and start out the day with some work in the training grounds,"Heavy said guiding Twilight's way as he lead her over to the iron gates.
"Now hold on there, I didn't get my answers from you...!"Night said before being held back by the princess herself.
"I'm sorry about that Night, Heavy prefers not to talk about the school situation, we had already cleared up that mess and it costed the school a few teachers and many bits to fix the whole place,"Celestia said as Twilight Velvet came to Night's side and nudged him.
"We're sorry too princess, Night had promised he wasn't going to fuss about the student our daughter was going to be learning with,"Velvet said as they watched the two students entering the grounds.
"That's quite alright, these two seem to have quite the spirited friendship about them, and Heavy Weight has done many great things in his days since i first chose him from the school,"Celestia explained as they all walked to the training grounds.
"You'll forgive me for this but I need to know a bit more about this colt before we finally agree about Twilight attending, all we know of him is the damage he caused to the school,"Night said with deep concern."We just don't want anything to happen to our little filly while she is learning along side this colt."
"Of course Night Life, Heavy Weight was very young when I first chose him to be my student, the principle obviously didn't tell you the whole story from what happened at the school am i correct?"Celestia questioned to the parents.
"Yes, we did have our suspicions on the story, after all it was hard to believe that a little colt beat another colt that was twice his age with such extraordinary power,"Velvet confided while Night Life kept his eyes forward.
"Well, Heavy Weight had saved both Twilight and Shining Armor that day, the attacker had tapped into very dark uses for his magic and could have killed them, but Heavy showed unrelenting strength and a will of iron as he faced down the colt,"Celestia said as she smiled at the memory of Heavy that day."He was strong and his bond with his friends helped him carry out the victory, such power needed the best attention they could receive, so i took him under my wing that day, and he has grown powerful, his magic... it even shows signs of matching my own."
"I see, and does it not worry you that such a pony is before you when he seems to have a bad attitude and such a potent magic that could very well endanger your own life?"Night asked out of curiosity.
"No... I do keep a close eye on him at times to be safe, but he hasn't done anything that brings cause for concern,"Celestia informed as she opened the gates just in time to see the students stepping into an almost empty training grounds,"Trust me... No serious harm will come to your daughter."
They watched as Heavy and Twilight were making their way to the center of the training grounds, it was at that time that two guards that were training in the center of the grounds, as the colt and filly made their way to the center, they noticed how the stallions weren't moving from their spot. Heavy glared a bit at the stallions a bit before they finally got the attention of the guards who just looked back at Heavy with the same looks.
"Great... More new recruits, will you guys move it so we can start our little session?"Heavy demanded as the two guards just chuckled at him.
"Sorry, we got here first, why don't you two go play on a jungle gym or something like little foals are suppose to?"One stallion said while they got back to training.
"Aww... I guess we can reschedule if it's not the right time..."Twilight said while lowering her head down.
"No, we're training whether they like it or not,"Heavy said as the stallions looked back at them.
"Look kid, you don't want any of what we got, so do yourself a favor and buck off, go be with your little filly friend or something,"The other stallion said irritating Heavy to the brink.
"Bucking new recruits!"Heavy yelled as his horn began to glow.
He growled as he raised both of his hooves into the air and suddenly brought them both down hard smashing two small holes in the ground and suddenly starting to make the whole training grounds shake. It was then that the stallions were about to fight with heavy weapons and all, but then the ground under them suddenly shook and exploded as two large pillars of rock shot from the ground and nailed both stallions in the area between their back legs, a faint crack could even be heard from the impact.
Both stallions suddenly began screaming into the air with the most high pitched girly screams any pony has ever heard, Twilight cringed a bit even though she was a girl, the princess and Twilight Velvet also did so while Night Life was now more fearful than ever and felt as if he took it between the legs. They watched as both stallions fell forward whimpering like little fillies as they both fell on their faces while gripping themselves between the legs only to be picked up by Heavy in his levitation spell.
"You two little fillies are on time out now! you can both sit down on the bench and think about how stupid you both are!"Heavy yelled at them before levitating them both over to a bench in the corner and placing them there while they whimpered about their ruined areas.
"Wow Heavy, I didn't know you had so much control around here, and those were royal guards... How did you beat them?"Twilight asked while looking back to the now crying guards.
"Oh they were newbies, they get so annoying around the castle sometimes, they're not as tough as you think Twilight, pretty soon even you could start pounding a few royal guard heads if you wanted,"Heavy pointed out as they finally walked over to the center of the grounds.
"Really...? You really think I can?"Twilight asked feeling full of pride at Heavy's recognition.
"Maybe... Here's your chance to find out for yourself, come at me and show me what you got!"Heavy demanded as he got into a ready position.
"Okay then...!"Twilight said prepping herself while her parents and the princess looked on with anticipation.
"Are you sure about that princess, we don't want our little filly to get hurt by him, I mean just looked what he did to those guards!"Night exclaimed as the crying guards with higher voices left the grounds passing by them.
"Oh Night Life, they look so happy working together, maybe we shouldn't be worrying so much, I'm sure they'll be fine,"Velvet said trying to calm her tense husband.
"Believe me, no harm will come to Twilight while she's here with us, I'm certain Heavy will be nice and gentle with her,"Celestia reassured.
"Go...!"Heavy shouted gaining their attention.
At that moment Twilight attacked head on with her horn glowing bright purple, Heavy lowered his head and braced himself for a round of butting heads as he lit up his horn as well, but that was soon interrupted by Twilight disappearing in a flash of purple light. Heavy looked up and widened his eyes as he began frantically searching for her, it was then that he could hear faint hooves coming from right behind him and turned around only to butt heads with Twilight just in time, but unfortunately he did not brace for this sneak attack and took it hard in the head.
He felt a bit rattled by the sneak attack, but was able to shake it off before him and Twilight were fighting each other for the upper hoof in their little head butting game, he just smirked at Twilight as he felt his head hurt and saw that Twilight was putting forth all her effort. This interested him as he then started pushing back and made Twilight's hooves grind in the sand as he instantly took control of the battle.
With one hard shove, he then shoved Twilight to the ground making the grownups raise an eye brow as Heavy walked to the down Twilight, but he was quickly then surprised as Twilight got back up and was even laughing as she blasted a purple beam at him.
"What's so funny Twilight?"Heavy said with a smirk before jumping back and dodging the attack.
"It's not that this is funny Heavy, I'm just excited, because this is what I promised you before you left the school, I promised that I would become a student of the princess, and you would become my rival,"Twilight said as she stood tall and proud,"And now I have finally arrived, just like I promised."
"Yes... You really have fulfilled your promise... Twilight,"Heavy said as he suddenly glowed for a second and making Twilight tense."You're finally here, and you and me... We're going to be training and studying together, so now... Show me what you got."
Suddenly Twilight widened her eyes and gasped as she suddenly watched Heavy turn to stone, and suddenly crumble to pieces right before her eyes, it was at that moment that she realized what was happening and quickly turned around while throwing up a purple shield around herself. She couldn't have done the spell at a better time as she suddenly saw a blue beam of magic smash against her shield and suddenly shattered the defense in a split second, but thankfully she was spared the first attack only to be head butted in the forehead by the real Heavy Weight.
"You're good Twilight, you don't cower or flinch when you're hurt or scared!"Heavy said as Twilight flew to the ground once more making her father want to run into the grounds,"You do have potential Twilight, but you need to hold up a stronger defense, and i want you to know this... You know that I'm accustom to brute force, but fighting with force is nothing without a strategy to help the flow of a battle!"
It was then that Twilight held her head in pain, but was fighting an urge to cry in fear of making Heavy no longer interested, she forced a smile and kept her horn glowing much to Heavy's surprise, the suddenly... She began laughing.
"You mean... Like this strategy Heavy?"Twilight said as she smirked at him.
Heavy raised an eye brow at her in confusion at her laughter only to have a pebble suddenly drop onto his muzzle, seeing that the pebble came from above, he looked up and was greatly surprised by what was above him. He was now looking at a large boulder that was hovering above him in a purple levitation spell, Heavy smirked before chuckling at Twilight's tenacity just as Twilight released her spell on the boulder.
The boulder then dropped and was about to crush Heavy, but he chuckled a bit more before getting very serious and letting out a loud roar, and it was at that moment that his head became surrounded in a blue aura. He then jumped towards the boulder and put his head to the boulder and delivered full force towards the massive rock while still roaring.
"YEEEEESSS! THAT'S WHAT I MEAN!"Heavy roared as he suddenly smashed the boulder to pieces with his head before coming down right in front of Twilight."That is exactly what I mean Twilight, you did that when you shot your magic blast at me didn't you, not bad..."
"Yeah... But it still didn't work, you just broke your way through,"Twilight said as she held her head in pain.
"There will always be a time in a battle to plan the next move, but for now, lets just stop here so I can handle that bump on your head,"Heavy said as he moved his glowing horn over to a bruise on Twilight's head.
Twilight watched him as Heavy gave her a gentle smile before placing his horn on her bruised forehead and suddenly covered the injury in the ice blue aura, she watched as steam quickly raised from the bruise and the pain began to subside. It was then that the bruise began to get smaller every second before finally disappearing in the steam, it was then that Heavy removed his horn from her head allowing Twilight to process what just happened.
"You... You healed me, how did you do that?"Twilight asked as she felt her head and felt no bruise.
"It wasn't without reading and studying off pony anatomy, that healing spell took a few months for me to perfect, and even so, it takes time for the healing to complete depending on the injury,"Heavy tutored as Twilight listened with interest.
"Wow... You gotta teach me some of this stuff,"Twilight said with excitement while Heavy chuckled nervously.
"Sure... Tomorrow I'll teach you one of my spells, hows that?"Heavy said as Twilight lit up with a happy gasp.
"You... You will...? Oh this is going to be so fun!"Twilight said before jumping high in the air with excitement before coming back down.
"Heavy Weight! Twilight Sparkle!"Came the calls of princess Celestia as they turned to see her, but strangely not the parents of Twilight."Come now, you two can train together a bit more later, but for now come with me so we can study some history of Star Swirl the Bearded."
Both colt and filly looked to each other and smiled before running back to the princess who was waiting for them right at the entrance, as soon as they got there, Twilight had noticed that her parents were nowhere in sight.
"Um... Princess? Where's mom and Dad?"Twilight asked out of curiosity.
"They left Twilight, do not worry, they decided to allowed you to be my student thankfully, so... Welcome to the castle of Canterlot Twilight Sparkle, my faithful new student,"Celestia said as Twilight smiled at the princess before turning to Heavy.
"Yeah, Welcome Twilight, you're an official student of the princess, and my new sibling student,"Heavy said as Twilight walked to his side before they all went back inside to start their first day of learning together.
ALRIGHT, TWILIGHT'S GONNA GET A SCHOOLING WITH HEAVY WEIGHT, AND SHE'S GOING TO LEARN A NEW MAGIC TRICK FROM HEAVY PERSONALLY... NEXT TIME.