Guardian Chap 14

by ~Sunjian54

The Equestrian Guardian

Chap 14

"Uncontrollable rage and anger will awaken the darkness within, and only the light of a heart of someone who is close to him will break the dark hold." Twilight read as she scanned through her new book. "Whatcha reading Twilight?" Spike asked as he continued to put books back on the shelf since the CMC had knocked all of them off earlier. "It's a book that tells all about the Guardian and his powers. I was just reading about the Dark Guardian." Twilight said, with a scared expression on her face. "It says that if David ever gets too angry and can't control his powers, he'll turn into a rampaging beast and destroy anything that gets in his way." "Holy Guacamole!" Spike said.

"Yeah I know, it's scary isn't it?" Twilight said as she turned to see Spike looking out the window. "What did you say Twilight? I was too busy looking at the smoke coming from the Everfree Forest." She looked to where Spike was pointing and sure enough there was smoke pouring out of the forest. "TWILIGHT!! WE GOT TROUBLE!!!!" A voice suddenly screamed. Twilight looked down onto the ground to see AJ and the rest of her friends. "Applebloom said David went into the forest after some weird thing he saw, and he ain't come back yet!" AJ shouted up to her.

Twilight dashed through the door of the library and ran toward the forest at full speed with her friends behind her trying to catch up. "Please don't let it be what I think it is; please don't let it be what I think it is." She continued saying as they ran into the forest. As they ran deeper and deeper inside it wasn't long before they began to notice the signs of destruction around them. "These trees have been plucked right out of their roots." AJ said examining the trees. "This one's been burned to cinders." Rarity exclaimed. "Well egghead, what do you think happened here?" Rainbow asked Twilight. But Twilight had already connected the dots and was running deeper into the forest. (Oh please by Celestia's light, don't let me be too late.) She thought as she came into an empty clearing. She gasped in horror however when she discovered the clearing had not always been empty. The trees around her were destroyed; the ground scorched black, embers from small flames still crackled in her ears.

"Who could have done this? Who could have…no" She stopped halfway through her sentence when she saw a large set of gashes in a large amount of trees. Gashes she knew that could only have been made by one thing, a sword. She ran as fast as her legs would allow, following the fallen trees until she saw something in a clearing. As she entered however, her worst fears were realized. "David…Big brother… Oh no…" Her thoughts had been spot on. David had indeed become the Dark Guardian. His black hair had turned bright white and was much longer, and he was radiating a red evil like energy. He was scanning his head around the forest like he was looking for something. "David is that you...?"

She asked hoping this was all an illusion. He turned and as soon as she saw his black eyes she knew it was no dream. "Twilight? What are you doing out here?" He asked. But the voice was not his own, it was cold, uncaring, and void of any emotion at all. This was not the David that Twilight loved like a brother. "Wait… I know why you're here Twilight." He said smiling and revealing his beast like teeth. "You want to know what happened to me, why I look like this am I right?" Twilight was scared; this was definitely not her big brother.

"Well… I am the Dark Guardian, the Harbinger of Death! And I will gladly answer all of your questions… little sister. HmhmhmhhmhmhmhmHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" His laugh was so psychotic it felt like someone had replaced David with a murderer. "Please David, you need to come home." She said. "Home? You mean that dump of a Library? No…My home is on Earth and it's gone. I can never go home." "But David I…" "You're what!? Scared of me? You should be. I'm a human monster; I could kill all of you with the snap of my fingers. You all mean nothing to me. Especially you Twilight. You're nothing to me… nothing at all. Now leave, I have to get my revenge."

Twilight couldn't take it anymore she ran forward and tackled him to the ground, pinning him there with her weight. "What are you doing!!??" he screamed at her. She looked into his fire filled black eyes, and hoped that he was looking into her now tear filled ones. "Please…come back David…please turn back into the real David that I love." She pleaded as she wrapped him in the tightest hug she had ever given to anyone. "Let GO!!" he cried as he continued to struggle. She quickly let go and placed her face right over his. "Come back to me big brother." She then placed her lips right against his. His lips were like ice and he continued to struggle, but after a few moments warmth returned to his face and Twilight opened her eyes to see the silver eyes she knew and loved return. "David… are you okay?" She asked sitting him up against a nearby tree. His hair shrank back to normal along with his teeth and sword but tears began to pour down his face. "What have I done Twilight?" He asked.

"I nearly destroyed everything, and I could've hurt you. What have I become?" Twilight once again wrapped him in a hug. "You haven't become anything, you're still the same." She felt his tears running down her horn and face, but she didn't care because she was crying too. The only difference was that hers were tears of joy. "Don't worry, nobody will ever know about this okay? Let's just go home and we can talk about it there." She said as she began focusing her energy to teleport them away. "Twilight…I'm sorry." David said as they vanished from the clearing. Neither one of them noticed Trixie smirking in the shadow's. Laughing at the secret she had just discovered.

"It seems as though he's had his first brush with the shadow element your majesty." A mysterious green pony standing next to Celestia said. "Indeed Capt. Bio, but he will learn to resist it, I have faith in him and so do my student and sister."  She said sipping a cup of tea as she looked out toward the smoke coming from the forest. "Do you really think he's worthy enough to be the Guardian ma'am?" "Yes Captain, he is more than worthy, but right now his challenge is to overcome his new fear of the shadow element. Because that's the only way he will ever become the true Guardian of Equestria. He must conquer his fears, along with the elements. And he still has a lot left to conquer in both categories." She whispered as she used her magic to look into the Ponyville Library to see David, Twilight and all their friends together in one huge hug. "You have no reason to fear David. As long as they're with you, you can conquer anything. Even yourself." Next Chapter: Chapter 15 Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 49 Minutes