Guardian Chap 26

by ~Sunjian54

The Equestrian Guardian

Chap 26

After returning home to Ponyville David spent most of his time with Twilight. He made sure that everything they did helped to rekindle their friendship since Twilight still felt really bad about leaving him behind. However a few days later David's guilt began to plague him. He began to realize how rude he had been to Celestia, who only wanted to keep him and Twilight safe from Nightmare Moon. As David fell asleep to the rhythm of Twilight's heartbeat that night, he decided he would ask Solas when he saw him in his dreams.

"Wow. Never seen you that angry before." Solas said as David opened his eyes to the familiar temple scene. "Tell me the truth Solas, was I a jerk to Princess Celestia?" He asked looking right at Solas's eyes. "You were only expressing your opinion. You only wanted to be with Twilight again." He said calmly. "So I wasn't a jerk?" David said hopefully. "Oh no you were a total jerk." Solas said. David hung his head in shame at the first Guardian, who had taught him almost everything about what he needed to be. "Listen David. I know you love Twilight more than you let on, but even you know that it would never work out." He said slipping his hoof over David's shoulder. "I know. But I do love her more than a sister. I love her so much." David said. "Well… Tell me how you feel about her." Solas said sitting next to him. David took a deep breath and let his heart pour out. "She's just so perfect. Every-time I'm near her my heart feels like it's gonna jump out of my chest. I feel like whenever she's around nothing can stop me. No…. Nothing will stop me when she's around." "And why is that?" Solas said as David felt the warm feeling overcoming him again. "Because I would rather die than see her get hurt!" David said as he woke up with the sun shining in his face.

As he regained his senses David noticed that Twilight's fore hooves were wrapped around his waist. He noticed however that her face appeared to be contorted in fear and her grip was tightening around him. David had never seen her so scared before. "It's okay Twilight. Your big brother is here and I will never leave you. I love you Twilight." He said as he kissed her cheek. As quick as he did that her frown and fear faded only to be replaced by a light blush and a smile. He quietly pulled the blanket back over him and wrapped his arms around his little sister who opened her eyes as he began closing his. Before he could speak, she quietly kissed his lips. "I love you too David. More than you know."

"Hey Twi, do you think it's possible for me to combine my element spells?" David asked as they walked through Ponyville later that day. "I guess you could…But it would probably be really taxing on your body." She said as they passed by Sugarcube Corner and entered a nearby ice cream shop. The smell of fresh waffle cones and sundaes blessed David's nostrils as he walked in. "I mean think about it Twi. I could make fire tornadoes by combing Fire and Air. Or I could make Earth fissures and have lava come shooting out of them." He ranted as a light brown unicorn pony approached them from behind the ice cream counter. "What can I get for the two of you?" She asked kindly. David looked up and saw that the pony had yellow and brown streaked mane with bright yellow eyes. Her tail matched the color of her mane and she had a once scoop sundae as her cutie mark.

"Yes Mrs. Sundae. I'd like the Sunrise Celebration and… what would you like David?" Twilight asked looking at him. David browsed the flavors and was conflicted on what to choose. "Uh can you do me a special order?" He asked. "Sure thing sweetie, what would you like?" The pony asked hovering the ice cream scoop at the ready. "Uh let's just mix the chocolate and peanut butter together and throw some chocolate chips on top." David said sculpting his perfect ice cream flavor... "Sure thing let me just…" The pony suddenly stopped when she saw who David was.

"Oh my Celestia… You're the Guardian aren't you?" She said with the scoop shaking in midair. "You are the Guardian right? I'm not having a scotch based hallucination am I?" She asked rubbing her eyes. David shook his head and confirmed that he was the Guardian by showing her the Element Bracer, but what really shocked David was that she had basically admitted to actually having ALCOHOL in Ponyville, which threw him for a loop. "I'm so sorry… It's just that you're famous… and you're in my shop!" She squealed as she began constructing both David and Twilight's ice cream orders. "There you go. One Sunrise Celebration and one Guardian Special." She said handing them their ice cream. "And don't you worry about payment; the first one is on me." She said throwing David a quick wink. As they both exited enjoying their frozen treats, David's mind continued to wander as he thought of ways to combine his powers.

"Hey why don't we go to Sweet Apple Acres and practice there? There's plenty of dirt, and it's a wide space in case something goes wrong." Twilight said licking her ice cream down to the cone. As they approached Sweet Apple Acres they could see Big Macintosh and AJ struggling with something out in the field. "AJ what's the problem?" David asked as they jogged over to their friends. "It ain't nothing big. Plow's just stuck in this hole is all." AJ said trying to force the plow out of the hole. David quickly stepped behind the plow and with a little help from the others it slipped right out and Big Mac got back to work. He then explained why they had come to the farm to begin with. "Sure y'all can use the training field back over yonder. Y'all holler if you need help." AJ said as she trotted over to help her brother.

Twilight and David made their way to the field where David began to slowly take breaths in and out so he could focus his body. Twilight was excited. She had never seen him practice his magic before and she was excited to be there watching. David quickly clapped his hands together and two glowing energies appeared in each hand. One red and one silver which Twilight guessed were forms of Fire and Wind energy. David suddenly thrust his hands forward palms first and with a flash of sparks and small gust of wind a raging fire tornado blast shot forward like a lightning bolt scorching everything it touched on the practice field. Twilight jumped for joy at his success, but it was short lived. David suddenly felt something was wrong. The power felt like it was doubling back toward him, and before he could stop it the tornado turned and barreled back toward him. He quickly broke his energy flow to the spell, but just as he did so the tornado engulfed his exposed hands. He fell to the ground screaming in pain as Twilight ran over to him.

The pain was intense and it wouldn't stop, it felt like the fire was still burning him. Twilight knew that David was going into shock from the injury. As she propped David up against the barn AJ and Big Mac came running around the corner. It was then that David noticed his hands. They were bright red with pink discoloration. Some parts of them were even charred black, and the pain still persisted. Every part of his body screamed in pain at what he was experiencing and it was causing him to lose consciousness. As AJ and Twi placed him on a stretcher and began running at full speed back to town he could barely make out what they were saying. "AJ those are second and third degree burns!" "I KNOW Twi, that's why we're going to Nurse Redheart right NOW!"

It was at that moment right before he passed out that David had a horrible revelation. If he lost his hands… How would he control his element powers? Or even worse… How could he even fight Nightmare Moon? Next Chapter: Chapter 27 Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 39 Minutes