Chapter 22:Learning With Heavy Weight
Another day had come for for the city of Canterlot, the sun was high in thee sky and shined upon a beautiful afternoon for Equestria, activity was all over the city, ponies of all sorts were going about there day especially the ponies at the castle. It was on this day that captain Husky was no longer with them and had left abruptly under the orders of the princess, now things were tense around the castle, the guards no longer had a captain to guide them and it was creating issues among the guards.
No pony was more upset about this than young Heavy Weight who was a bit pained to see a stallion from his past leave so abruptly with no reason to give, retirement was the reason, but he had left so unexpectedly, it was quite a mess for Heavy and the royal guards. Not everything was bad however, he now learned alongside his friend Twilight Sparkle now, and she was certainly helping him cope with this sudden loss, there was something about her that made Heavy feel better, he didn't know what it was, but it sure helped him out. It was now on this day that he would repay her for her company, by teaching her a little bit of what Heavy learned here during his time.
Both Heavy and Twilight were now in the library learning a personal lesson from princess Celestia herself, while Twilight seemed completely interested in the topic, Heavy appeared to be only half with them. His mid wondered a bit, the whole shock with Husky leaving was still on his mind and he could tell that it was getting on the guards nerves, there was no pony to guide them, no pony to keep them in line, but what could Heavy do, he was no captain of the royal guard.
"So then my faithful students, what type of magic runs through the roots of the Ever free forest?"Celestia said while magically showing an image of a very dark looking forest."Any pony? Heavy...? Twilight...?"
Twilight pondered on the question for a bit while Heavy rolled his eyes at the question showing signs that he knew the answer, but had no intention of sharing with the princess or his sibling student.
"Heavy...? I think you know what the answer is,"The princess pointed out while the colt just let out a sigh.
"The forest runs on a magic that is both dark and natural, it is a complex type of magic that has an unknown weakness to this very day!"Heavy called out of irritation for the simple question.
"That's correct Heavy Weight, the magic of the forest is also very unpredictable and only the tree of harmony itself can at the very least contain the dark magic, but it can't destroy it,"The princess explained while Twilight applauded at Heavy's answer.
He just smirked and rolled his eyes at Twilight being so supportive of him, it was a nice gesture and adorable even, but it was still not enough to help him get over the mood he was now in, he still had a bit more pent up anger in him that was dying to get out. Celestia noticed the tension building in Heavy and decided to wrap up the lesson so he could get some air.
"Alright, we will wrap up today's lesson with a quick review on the Ever free forest,"Celestia said as she walked over to the table the two students were in and paced back and forth."What magic lies within the roots of the forest?"
"Both dark magic and nature magic!"Heavy said with more irritation.
"Okay... How old is the Ever free forest?"Celestia asked a bit more nervously.
"No pony knows, all records of it were lost in the great and ancient draconequus war,"Heavy said blankly while the princess nodded slowly.
"Okay then... Finally, what is the only thing that appears to at least stop the forest from spreading across Equestria?"The princess asked waiting for an answer.
"The tree of harmony,"Twilight answered suddenly gaining a nod from the princess.
"Correct, well done Twilight, okay then I will allow you two to take some time off to attend to personal interest, you do have a nice afternoon,"The princess says as both students immediately got out of their seats.
Heavy collected his things and was walking off towards the exit into the hall way only to be followed by Twilight, as he walked down the lines of books, he looked back and caught her following him and shook his head at her tenacity. He finally made his way out of the line of books and made his way to the exit while picking up the pace to try and lose Twilight, he was still a bit irritated with the whole captain of the royal guard dilemma and last thing he needed was to snap on another sibling student.
Finally he made it out of the library and began walking down a hall way only for Twilight to continue pursuing him, he let out a sigh as he desperately tried to get away from her before he lost his mind, never did he thought he could be this upset about losing a stallion that use to hit on his mom. He turned off into a hall to lose his little follower, but failed miserably as Twilight managed to make her way to his side, and that's when he needed to do something fast.
Finally Heavy Weight made his horn glow bright and began to cover himself in a veil of his ice blue magic, it was then that in a flash of bright blue light that disappeared from Twilight's side and was heading off to be alone. He traveled through the tunnel of magic only for a moment to go by before suddenly reappearing in the throne room right in front of his bedroom only to be noticed by his good pal Rex and another guard he had gotten to know.
"Afternoon Heavy Weight, how did the lesson go?"Rex asked from the door way to the halls.
"The lesson went just fine Rex, now I would just like some privacy for now,"Heavy said swinging his bedroom door open.
"Hey Heavy, look I know you're mad about captain Husky leaving us like he did, I know you two had a bit of history together, but these things tend to happen in our line of work, no matter how strong you get, life is going to knock you down or even knock you out,"The other guard tried to explain to him.
"It still isn't right! It wasn't his fault Sunset Shimmer had to go off like a pathetic crazed filly and injure him! It isn't fair!"Heavy yelled before entering his room and slamming the door shut and making the throne room shake a little.
Heavy growled as he looked back to his dark bedroom, he felt angry now, he knew that he had to try and control it for the sake of getting another lecture from the princess, but like before his anger over this problem got the best of him. He suddenly turned around and punched a big hole in his bedroom wall and growled loudly before attacking his dresser next with a hard buck to the dresser drawers.
He smashed a big hole in the dresser before turning to his bed and magically flipping it upside down in his blind rage, he punched two more deep holes into the wall and picked up his dresser before suddenly throwing it at the closet. He got even louder as he then began slamming his head against the door multiple times, still feeling his rage boiling he slammed his head against the door one more time leaving a small bruise on his forehead before turning around to blast some magic at his bed, only to be surprised by Twilight Sparkle who now stood before him with a very worried look as they both took in the damage he had done.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you in such a fowl mood today?"Twilight asked while magically flipping his bed back the right way.
"It's nothing, I'm just blowing off some steam, why do you think I was trying to get away from you?"Heavy said before softly hitting his head against the door again.
"Stop... Don't do that to yourself, you're going to hurt yourself..."Twilight said as she put a hoof over his head to keep him from doing it again.
"Not as much as I could hurt others... You noticed how the guards around here are a bit on edge right?"Heavy asked with a deep sigh.
"Yes... But that doesn't explain why you're upset,"Twilight pointed out.
"It's because captain Husky is gone, me and that captain had a history together, I couldn't help but respect the stallion, I would even go as far as to say that we were friends, and now he's no longer with us,"Heavy said as he walked to his bed and hopped up on it before sitting down to think."On top of all that now there's this new captain that's coming in tomorrow who thinks he can just walk in here and call himself captain!"
Heavy threw his hooves in the air in anger and slam them down on the bed before lowering his head to calm his nerves, it had been a while before Heavy had a chance to let out some steam from all the stressful things that come with being a student of a princess. He sat there on the bed for the for the longest moment in silence to gather his thoughts, it was then interrupted as he felt some pony else get on the bed with him and turned to the side of the bed to see Twilight sitting right next to him and turning her head towards him.
"I'm sorry, I guess these things just tend to happen, I guess the guards around here practically see you as a brother as well huh? It makes sense to upset about these kind of things..."Twilight said silently while Heavy raised a blank eye brow.
"Heh... You have no idea, had to work to earn their respect, but we all see each other as brothers, and the captain is like the father to us all, and now he gone... And some pony new thinks he can take over as the new father..."Heavy explain turning towards his window and staring at the orange afternoon sun.
""Oh... I've never thought of it like that, I don't know how i can help you come to grips with this thing, but I want you to know that if there's something on your mind, you can come to me and talk about it, it's better than being alone and letting it build in you,"Twilight said while placing a hoof on Heavy's.
"*sigh*... I know... I guess I'm more use to being on my own, I keep forgetting that I have some pony else to talk to about things..."Heavy said looking back at Twilight.
"Really...? Wasn't there any pony you learned alongside with before me?"Twilight asked out of curiosity.
"Yeah... But she could never handle what I have to teach,"Heavy said before they both chuckled together at his little joke.
"Probably, but I can handle it, I think I can totally handle what you've got to teach Heavy,"Twilight said turning to him completely.
"Really...? You think you can keep up with me...?"Heavy questioned with a sly smile.
"You know I can...! So... How about we go out to the grounds and prove it, you said yesterday that you were going to teach me some of your moves, you promised,"Twilight playfully complained making Heavy chuckle some more and putting a smile on his face.
"Oh alright then, I suppose we could both use this,"Heavy said as he stood up on the bed and lit up his horn."Well... You might want to hold on tight."
Twilight quickly lunged at Heavy and hugged him tightly as a blue veil once again covered both of them and suddenly made them disappear in a flash of light as they were now teleporting their way to the grounds. It did not take long as they both traveled through the tunnel before suddenly reappearing right outside the castle and right in front of the training grounds iron gate.
Heavy opened the gate slowly and stepped out of the way to allow Twilight to go in first, she bowed at the colt for his manners and walked casually inside the training grounds only to be followed closely by Heavy Weight. He entered right behind her and closed the gate behind them, it was then that they were given the unusual sight of the grounds being completely empty, there was not a guard in sight.
The sands of the grounds were undisturbed, there was no indication of any recent training or sparring of any kind, this was all to easy to figure out for Heavy and he let out a sigh before shaking his head in disappointment. Thankfully his spirits were picked up as Twilight took up his hoof and guided him to the center of the training grounds, at that moment as the sun was starting to lower, it's light shined upon Twilight as her eyes sparkled and her mane glittered in the orange sun light. Heavy just widened his eyes and blushed a bit at the light reflecting off the filly as they came to the perfect spot.
"Try not to worry so much, the guards are probably just a little nervous about training without the captain to over look their progress, but we shouldn't let that stop us from training,"Twilight said as she released his hoof and stood at attention."Now then, what do you want to start out with? I'm all ears."
"Well uh... I...think first we should start out with the first spell I made, I think you're familiar with it,"Heavy pointed out as Twilight for for a second before remembering the trick.
"You mean that super enhancing spell that makes you so much stronger, the...body enhancement spell!"Twilight exclaimed knowing the spell from experience.
"Correct, but first I... uh... Don't take this the wrong way, but I just need to check your muscles,"Heavy said as he put on a dignified look and began moving towards her.
"Uh... Okay, I have taken time to take a good jog and a few push ups, but why my muscles?"Twilight asked while Heavy began to inspect her by checking her front fore arms first.
"I made a discovery when I was trying it out a few times before, now a days I don't use it unless I absolutely have to,"Heavy said as he finished looking at her fore arms, and they were a bit tough, he could work with this."I learn that the spell can only stimulate the power of the user only as much as the users real strength varies."
"Oh... So how strong are your muscles?"Twilight asked with sly interest as Heavy placed a hoof on her back making her giggle a bit.
"Let me put it this way, if I used the full power of the enhancement spell, I could possibly make half the city implode If I wanted to,"Heavy said as he felt that Twilight had quite a strong back."I scared the tar out of the princess and all the guards one time because I used the spell and almost melted a hole all the way through the ground right where you're standing right now."
Twilight looked down at the spot where she now stood, in fact the sand under her hooves did feel softer than the rest of the ground around them, and with that she slowly stepped away from the soft spot just as a precautions.
"Hold still for a moment, need to check your back legs before we can get started,"Heavy said as he tapped at her back legs.
He inspected calmly, but was fighting the blush that threatened to escape him as he was checking her legs and quickly looked away once he knew that her legs were very strong, she was definitely more than able to perform the spell. He then walked around her and stood in front of Twilight as she patiently waited for his verdict.
"Alright, you appear more than capable of using the spell, and your mind is strong, that means we don't need to worry about the spell warping your mind or anything,"Heavy said as he backed up a little."Now then, you are aware of what it does, and now you know it takes muscle to make it work properly, without muscle you are nothing, start your magic."
Twilight did so and lit up her horn and watched as Heavy did the same for her, he lit up his horn and immediately surrounded his entire body in a magical aura, Twilight decided to try and mimic what he was doing and focused her magic on her own body. When she did, Twilight suddenly felt a burst of sudden power along with great force around her whole body as her muscles tightened greatly. She tried to maintain the aura, but suddenly let out a gasp of air as she failed to maintain the magic, she fell to her knees as Heavy looked down to her.
"Not bad... But you have to keep your mind sharp and you need to focus the magic within your body to maintain, it will also help you find the will to deal with your muscles when they tighten,"Heavy explained as his aura suddenly became more concentrated around his body and vibrated as a wave of heavy dense magic started spreading.
"Right... Right! I've come this far, I won't give up Heavy,"Twilight said as she stood back up to try again.
She then made her horn glow once more and quickly began to surround her body in her purple aura and felt the power once again growing in her, she felt her body getting tight again and quickly began to focus her magic with a more steady mind. It was then that Twilight felt magic inside her as well, her muscles were still tight, but they were being soothed at the same time with magic she focused within herself, and that's when she felt it, the power that Heavy was talking about.
A bright purple magic concentrated greatly around her and she felt herself vibrate a bit as a wave of unbelievable power began surging through her whole body, the power was unreal, it was unlike anything she had ever felt before. Twilight quickly looked to Heavy and stood there surrounded in her new found strength as Heavy was doing the same thing, he then began to laugh proudly at her as they both knew that Twilight had done it, she perfected the spell, and has now raised herself to the next level, she was now on par with Heavy.
"Great job Twilight! I knew you could do it!"Heavy yelled as Twilight looked to herself and laughed proudly.
"I'm doing it! I'm actually doing it! All this power is amazing Heavy!"Twilight said while looking at her glowing self.
"Yeah I know, try to keep a clear head Twilight! Don't let the power overwhelm you now,"Heavy informed as Twilight complied and relaxed a bit before standing there and smiling at him.
"So... What now Heavy?"Twilight asked out of excitement.
"Now that you've learned how to raise your power to new heights, the real training can begin, so how about a little hoof to hoof combat?"Heavy suggested as he smiled confidently and got into a fighting position.
"Sounds good to me, get ready Heavy, cause with all of this power, there's no telling what I can do!"Twilight said as she jumped back and got into a fighting stance.
"Whatever you say Twilight! Now show me what you got!"Heavy shouted as they both stood there waiting in the moment.
They were now so caught up in their training that they didn't notice that a group of guards were coming out to train as well, and as the stallions were entering the training grounds, they were treated to the sight of both colt and filly glowing with power and were about to go hard at it. They immediately took interest and quickly ran to the side lines to watch, more and more guards quickly arrived as well and began joining the group as they all wanted to watch this small battle unfold.
It was then at that moment that when a small breeze blew away some sand, both colt and filly suddenly exploded and in a lighting fast blast of speed, the two students suddenly smashed heads together creating a large and loud crash to sound off. They all felt a strong wind blow across the grounds and almost knock them on their flanks as Heavy and Twilight stood there locked in a head butting game again.
Twilight then quickly threw a left hoof at Heavy and watched as he dodged the hoof with a quick spin, he then came out of his spin and delivered a small jab across Twilight's jaw making her turn around and forcing her to look away from Heavy. The colt saw the opportunity and was going for a quick buck directly at her flank, but he was then thwarted by Twilight rearing back her legs and countering his buck with a hard buck of her. Their attacks once again collided with a loud crash as another blast of strong wind blasted through the whole training grounds, some guards even had to hold onto each other to keep from being blown away by the wind.
Suddenly Twilight turned around and started swinging while Heavy did the same, they're hard hooves struck each other and made loud crashing noises that made the grounds shake with each collision the attacks made. Waves of of purple magic began blasting every where as the two students continued their slug fest, the magic between the two of them was immense and was making the air around them heavy and hot with power.
Finally Twilight and Heavy threw one last right hoof at each other, and when the hooves slammed against each other, a combination of blue and purple magic exploded around them, but that didn't stop them from sparring. Heavy quickly swung his back legs and in a roundhouse buck and aimed for Twilight's head, but Twilight mimicked his spinning dodge move and came out of it only to deliver a right hook of her own, and that was when Heavy chose to stop holding back.
"Not bad Twilight... But I think I'm done being nice,"Heavy said with a smirk.
In another show of lighting fast speed, he raised a hoof and suddenly blocked Twilight's incoming right almost effortlessly, the collision of hooves once again blasted another wave of mixed magic. Twilight tried to push for an advantage, but Heavy just held firm and even began chuckling at her tenacity before he suddenly began forcing Twilight back, she felt herself being overpowered as Heavy seized control of the battle and forced Twilight onto her flank with her hoof still in his grip.
It was then that an opportunity appeared as Twilight's belly became visible, Heavy immediately took the opportunity and swung a strong right hoof and struck Twilight hard in the gut, she let out a loud and sharp groan as she was sent flying right into a wall of the grounds. She crashed against the wall slamming a giant crater into the wall but was able to form a magic barrier behind her to cushion the impact as she slid down from the wall and landed on her flank just in time to see Heavy coming at her again.
She let out a gasp, but shook off a touch of fear that threatened to creep into her mind as she lit up her horn and began to charge, she was coming at full force towards Heavy, but it only got the colt more excited as a magical veil surrounded him. He then suddenly jumped into the air and disappeared into the veil of magic before suddenly shooting off towards Twilight in his infamous comet spell, and Twilight knew what the spell was capable of, and yet she kept on charging.
Twilight could tell that Heavy was looking into her eyes from inside the magical made comet as her and the attack were about to close in on each other, she poured her entire strength and magic into this one last headbutt as everything suddenly began to move in slow motion for her. The suspense of this collision got all the guards on the edge of their seats waiting for them to collide, they then felt an immense magical power surrounding them as the air became heavy around them, this scared them a bit as they continued to watch.
It was then at that moment, when everything stopped for a moment, Twilight had suddenly made contact with Heavy's comet spell, the impact was bone shattering and a loud ear splitting crash could be heard through the entire city. Both purple and ice blue magic flew every where and made the walls creak and even crack while the sand under them suddenly began to melt, lighting made of both magics shot from the impact where Heavy and Twilight collided.
The two combatants looked directly into each other's eyes and didn't notice that white sparkling magic began to spark from both of their bodies, the sounds of the electricity also appeared to have drown out the vibration of the strange white magic. It was then that a white orb of magic started to form between the two of them, but it was then that the new magic became too much for both of them and suddenly exploded right between both of them.
The explosion sent both of them flying away from each other, Heavy was shot from his comet spell and flew far before slamming completely through the iron gate of the grounds while Twilight once again straight into a wall. She slowly slid down from the wall once again and fell on her flank as she felt a good bit of pain in her back, but she still managed to stand up before noticing that Heavy was nowhere in sight.
"What just happened...? Heavy...? Heavy? Heavy where are you?!"Twilight said while frantically looking around to find her friend.
"I'm here...!"Heavy called out before suddenly appearing in a flash of blue light.
"Oh thank Celestia...! What happened back there, that explosion wasn't of my doing,"Twilight said as they looked at the molten sand spot where they had stood.
"It wasn't one of my tricks either, that was something else, but... I didn't feel another pony's magic being used, it just... Came out of nowhere,"Heavy said in confusion, for even he did not know of this mysterious magic.
"Geez... That last move really hurt, that's what I get for charging at you head on when your in that comet spell of yours,"Twilight said rubbing her back in aching pain.
"Don't worry, you actually held your own against me, there is potential in you, I can feel it, in fact, how about I teach you the comet spell so you got a little bit more power to bring to the table,"Heavy suggested as Twilight lit up and even forgot about the pain in her back.
"Yes...! That sounds like a great idea, please teach me more!"Twilight begged while jumping for joy.
Heavy nodded as he started to teach Twilight another new spell, while they were learning together however, they didn't notice that princess Celestia was watching them both train together happily, and the princess couldn't be more touched by the sight.
"Hmm... How interesting, perhaps there was more to both of them than even I could see..."Celestia said as she continued to watch the students spar and train together.
FOR THE ONES WHO HAVE SEEN THE ORIGINAL, WHO AM I KIDDING, YOU ALL SHOULD KNOW WHO THE NEW CAPTAIN IS, YOU'RE ALL SMART. NEXT TIME... THE NEW CAPTAIN OF THE ROYAL GUARD.