"ANNABELLE!" Daniel was curranty chasing his sister who was playing keep away with his phone. The picture she had taken when Nature kissed him was still in the folder. He didn't find it till he went through his photos a few days after. At first she set is as his background before decided to leave it in his phone and see if he could find it.

"So when's the wedding?" She said with laughter in her voice but it only made him blush.

"Enough! I mean it." He lifted her with his power of space and brought her closer to him. "You really are a pest."

"I'm your little sister. I'm meant to be." He ruffled her hair with a smile and took his phone from her. "But why didn't you take part in that sisterhooves social with me?"

"Two reasons. First off I don't feel very comfy changing my gender and secondly, with our enhancements it wouldn't be fair." Annabelle wanted to take part in a sister even that happened not that long ago but they went and watched instead of taking part.

"Fine." She was a little huffy but he had an idea to cheer her up.

"How about we head to Canterlot and see if there is some kind of college or group we can find for you to go to?" She perked up at hearing that.

"Really?" He nodded with a smile before turning them into their pony forms.

"Let's go. Besides, I need to be back in a few hours anyway. Nature is taking me on a job she has to do." Annabelle looked at him with a grin and wiggled her eyebrows. "Don't...you...dare." He warned her.

"Or what? Kissy boy." He just let it drop and teleported them to Canterlot after putting on his fake mark. They were greeted by Celestia after they teleported.

"Sorry for the intrusion Princess. I had no clue where else to teleport to." The guards were alerted at first but after seeing Cosmos they stood down. Celestia still maintained her smiled as she greeted him.

"Why hello Cosmos. Is there something you need?"

"Not really. I'm just here to explore with my sister for a while. Don't let me distract you." They both left the castle and headed to see the rest of the city. Looking at Annabelle he realised that she had chosen a Pegasus long ago to be her form and in all this time she hasn't learned to fly.

"Hey Annabelle. Let's find you a place where you can learn to fly." She looked back at her wings and realised that she had no clue how to properly fly.

"But I can just use my power. Right?"

"Yes but you don't know if you will always have it. Why do you think I am learning to do things normally and not relay on my powers for it all? Cause I don't know if I will always have them." She was going to respond but she stopped herself when she understood what he meant. "Come on, Let's find you a flying school."

As they walked Daniel saw a sign that indicated there was a college nearby so he stopped in to check their entry requirements. Annabelle was still too young to enter it for at least another 4 and a half years. As they walked around they saw many different kinds of students and in a way it reminded Daniel of his college experience back at home thanks to how similar it was, only it was cleaner and more refined than his was.

"I like it here." She looked around with a smile.

"Well you will be able to come here when you are 16. So you still have a bit to go." They left the college and looked around for a flight school and they managed to find one after 2 hours of searching. Daniel entered the front door and walked up to the desk.

There was an elderly Pegasus who's mane was fully grey and was going through documents. Daniel walked up to her and waited for her to notice him.

"Oh. Sorry. I didn't see you there. Can I help you with something?"

"Yes, I was wondering if my little sister strawberry can enrol in this school. She's never gotten around to learning to fly and she wants to learn how to be a good flyer now." The Grey Pegasus looked over her documents for a few moments before looking back at Daniel.

"We have 4 slots open. If she wants to then she can join." He looked at Annabelle and she nodded. "What's her full name?"

"Strawberry Sprinkles." He told her and she wrote it out. After a few minutes it was done. It turns out this school was part time rather than full. She would be here for 9 hours a week, 3 hours on the first 3 days starting at 12 and ending at 3.

"Remember what the rules are sis?" She nodded knowing Daniel meant there was no telling anypony about what they really were or using her powers unless her life was in danger. "Good. Now, want to look around for a while?"

"You bet. I saw something I wanted to check out." She grabbed him by the hoof and pulled her to a store that was selling a bunch of different things ranging from comics to books, furniture and even antiques.

A while more and they arrived back home. Annabelle had a stack of hero comic books and she was also wearing a shirt that Daniel got her. He had to get it once he saw it and put it on Annabelle, at first she was a little annoyed but soon just went with it. It was a black t-shirt with a pink pony on it but it was a foal and it had a large grin on its face as the outlines of the grin were red and the words 'Little terror' were under it.

"Happy with your comics?"

"I sure am. Thanks bro." He rubbed her head with a smile.

"Well Nature will be along soon, she said she wanted to show me what her work was like so I will be away for a while." Annabelle got a grin on her face when he mentioned Nature.

"Oh, I should have expected you would want to hang out with your girlfriend more often." This caused a blush to appear on his face.

"She's not my girlfriend." Annabelle didn't lose her grin.

"With that kind of kissing, I think she is." She took his phone and opened the picture of them kissing. Daniel took it back and closed it. "Face it. You two are getting closer."

"Can we not talk about it?" Annabelle decided to give him some mercy so she took her comics and headed to Terabithia.

Daniel sat down to calm himself after Annabelle's sudden bluntness. He didn't want to think about it but he felt like Nature was starting to mean more to him than just a friend or a mother figure.

"Daniel. She is millions of years old, there is no way she would take an interest in you." A thought then popped in his head, asking him why she kissed him but he just brushed it off as one of her jokes or an attempt to calm him down.

His thoughts were cut off as a light appeared in his living room and Nature was there once it disappeared.

"Morning Daniel." He stood up and smiled.

"It's the afternoon." He corrected her.

"Well good afternoon. Thanks for accepting my offer. This could be a great opportunity to not only let you see more of the cosmos but also to give you and understanding of what we do. I hope you're ready for this. I mean, you may have to take a life. Can you do that?" Daniel looked at the ground, wondering if he really could. He has never taken a life before and even after he merged with the heart he only ever injured. Even those who hurt Annabelle he didn't kill but left heavily injured.

"I honestly have no clue if I can." She walked up to him and grabbed his hand.

"Well we will try and avoid it. But if the worst happens. Remember, sometimes you can't save everyone. Now come on, this planet isn't going to help itself." With a smile she teleported them to their location.

What Daniel saw was a little scary to see. There was a planet that had a surface made completely of ice and it was heading towards a blue star which looked like it was erupting violently as the lava that was on its surface was exploding in multiple areas.

"What's this about?" Nature pointed to the planet.

"That planet was once in a solar system like Earth was. After an incident involving a collision with another system, the planet was thrown out of orbit and into deep space. The ones who lived on the planet managed to make a life for themselves underground but now their planet is heading for that star. It's our job to put it back in an orbit." Daniel knew this job would be easy for Nature to do but she wanted to see how he would do it. "So Daniel. How will you do this?"

He was a little taken aback by this and was worried. While it was true that he remembered Archie saying that his punches could pierce starts, that was hearing it. To see the scale up close was another thing all together. Daniel looked at the planet and both of them went to the surface to see something that broke his heart.

There were strange life forms that could best be described as living plants that were in the shape of spiders but the legs were vines and the heads were Venus flytraps. He saw families together and all of them were holding vines and looking up at the blue star as it got closer. While the planet was freezing it was also starting to melt the closer they got.

"So Daniel. What will you do?" He almost collapsed under the weight of realising that she was putting the fate of an entire planet and species on his shoulders. He needed to think of something and fast.

Attacking the star wasn't an option as that would probably cause a supernova which would destroy the planet. He thought about trying to move the planet into an orbit but he had no clue how he would know if he did it.

"Calm down Daniel. Remember, if you are in a panic it will weaken your powers. You need to be calm and confident." He decided to do the first thing that came to his mind. He flew up to the upper layers of the atmosphere and closed his eyes.

He imagined the planet as a small ball and channelled energy into his hands and imagined he was grabbing the entire planet. His heart was racing and his breathing increased as he was hoping he didn't look like a fool doing this and was worried if it was even working.

A moment later he felt his hands trying to pull away from him. This is when he activated his spectral vision and saw his hands looked like they were around the planet when really they were still close to him and if felt as if the planet itself was trying to get away.

"I won't let go." Daniel said with confidence but with a quiver in his voice. He tried to pull the planet back but it felt like he was trying to pull on a bolder. He had trouble pulling the planet away but he finally managed to stop it from going closer to the star.

"Ok. Now pull." He pulled as best as he could and for a few moments he felt nothing but a slight budge. This made his confidence grow and he kept trying to pull it away from the stars gravity. Over time as he felt more confident that he could do it he soon felt that the pull of the star lessened more and more until he almost didn't feel it.

"Gotcha. Now to put you in an orbit. But...how?" He did the best thing he could possible think of. He started to push the planet in one direction and hoped it would orbit the star. He pushed more and more causing it to go faster and soon he saw the planet was starting to move in a direction that wasn't straight towards the star.

He opened his eyes and the spectral vision went away but when he looked down he saw no planet. Worried for a moment he started to frantically look around for it and saw it off to the side.

"Not bad." Looking behind him he saw Nature standing there with a smile. "But I think you made it go a bit too fast. At the speed it's going one day will last 5 hours." Nature pointed to the planet and with a glow on the end if her index finger she slowed the orbit down. "There we go." She looked back at him with a smile.

"So...how did I do?" Putting a hand on his shoulder, she gave him a thumbs up.

"You did fantastic for a first timer. But we still have one more assignment to complete." Before Daniel could react they were teleported to another location and they were standing inside a pink bubble. "I am still going to be here if you fail, but I want to test you. Let's see how you deal with the most powerful thing ever found in space." Nature looked over his shoulder and when Daniel turned around her was instantly shaken to the core in fear.

His view was almost completely covered by the disorientation of a black holes gravity which was up close to him. He felt like his legs stopped working as he was frozen with fear and even his hands refused to move.

"Hey now. Don't give up." Nature patted him on the back and he was snapped out of the fear he was in.

"Nature. Are you crazy?" He said, not taking his eyes off the black hole.

"Perhaps. I am millions of years old." She said jokingly but he wasn't amused. "Relax. I'm here to jump in if it's to much for you to handle." He took a deep breath and calmed down.

"What do I have to do?" He said with nervousness in his voice.

"This black hole is wondering through space and its approaching a solar system. The gravity will knock them out of orbit but you leave that to me. I want to see if you can stop it before it reaches the star the planet with life orbits around." Daniel looked at it and wondered how he would stop it.

"I need a moment to think."

"Well you better think fast. I will deactivate this bubble and the anti-gravity field in 1 minute." Daniel's mind started to think of things to do. Could he put up a field wall? Would the mass be to much for it to handle? He had no clue how to do the anti-gravity thing that she was doing and trying it could lead to good results or make things worse.

He was unsure if his powers of space would even work on it as he knew a black holes gravity can effect space and time.

"Time's up." She said and the field deactivated. Immediately Daniel felt himself getting pulled and put a space field around him before moving to the side. As he moved it felt like he was pushing through quicksand as his movements were sluggish and tiring.

Turning around he looked at the black hole and Nature who was standing in a field and watching him with a smile. Looking at the black hole he tried to put a field around it and it failed miserably as he felt his hands getting pulled together and his bones getting crushed as his field shattered.

He opened his eyes after a moment as the pain subsided and looked at his hands only to see his fingers were almost skeletal and broken in a few places. He felt the sting as they healed, watching as his muscles grew over his fingers after the bones snapped back into place and then his skin growing back over his muscles. He slowly closed and opened his fingers to feel them back to normal before his attention was brought back to the black hole.

In his pain he lost concentration and his field deactivated and now found himself closer to it than he was before. He panicked and immediately put up another field which he felt was already starting to break but he did his best to keep it up.

Nature looked at him from where she sat and saw he was struggling so she flicked her pinkie finger which caused energy to go to his field and held it together. Daniel felt his field was easier to hold together and he focused on expanding it as it slowly went over the black hole. Nature flicked her pinkie once more to give him a bit more energy. She wanted to build up his confidence before she removed her energy to see if he could do it himself.

As she watched his field cover about half of the black hole and a smile appearing on his face she decided to remove her energy and see the result. Daniel's field started to crack and he lost his smile quickly, replacing it was a face of determination and concentration. As his field cracked, some of it broke but as Daniel got more determined she saw the cracks soon fixed themselves and soon he was back to having it half covered by his own strength and power.

He then started to try and lift the black hole upwards before he attempted to throw it away and as he did his field broke. Sending it on a different path and away from the direction it was previously going. She went down to Daniel who rubbed his arms and hands before looking at the black hole that was going away and a smile appeared on his face.

"I'm very impressed Daniel." She said with a smile as he looked up at her. "You know. It's funny." She put up another bubble field and made a chair appear as she sat down. "When I first met you, you were shy and very hesitant to fight. You're power was quite low but look at you now. A growing warrior. Getting more confident and a entity in training. You are much stronger then back when I first met you."

"Well...I had a great teacher." He said with a smile and then blushed when he realised he flirted with her. He was being honest but he then realised it could also be taken as flirting and she had a grin on her face when he said that.

"Oh my Daniel. Flirting with me?"

"No I didn't mean-" She put a finger in his lips.

"I know what you meant, I just couldn't help but mess with you." She then took her finger off his lips.

"Did you help me or did I do that myself?" He wanted to be sure if she interfered.

"Well I might have given you a little temporary help." She lifted her pinkie and 2 balls of energy appeared. "I helped you keep your field up until it reached halfway." His eyes widened when he realized why he suddenly seemed to lose power the moment things were going good.

"I see...well, thanks." He said with a smile.

"Well we're almost done." Nature looked at the black hole which was traveling away. "Best not let it cause any trouble in the future." They were moved to the front of the black hole and Nature stepped out of the bubble and was now standing in front of it. She put out a hand with her index finger pointing to the approaching back hole as her finger started to glow green. When her finger touched its event horizon it suddenly was engulfed in a green field which held it firmly in place.

Nature then tapped her finger against the field and walked back to the bubble as the black hole started to shrink with the field. Within moments it was only a fraction of it's size and it kept shrinking until it was the size of a marble.

"Ka-boom." Nature said with a smile and then a bright light blinded Daniel for a few moments before disappearing. Looking back at the field he saw that the black hole was no longer trapped in it and the field vanished. "There was go. Easy."

"Show off." He commented.

"What was that?" He knew she fully heard it so he didn't hide it.

"You're just showing off."

"So what if I am?" She said with a smile and a wink. Nature realised she was starting to enjoy spending her time with Daniel more than before. He made her feel proud when he passed her tests and he was fun to tease. Walking up to him, she decided to tease him a bit more as well a boost his confidence by kissing him in the cheek. "You did good."

Daniel immediately tensed up and froze like a statue and Nature couldn't help but laugh at his frozen expression. He soon snapped out it and shook his head.

"What was that for?"

"A confidence boost." She had a smirk on her face as she said that.

"I swear you are acting like my girlfriend." This caused both of them to freeze up. Daniel when he realized what he said and Nature because what he said was true. "Nature. Sorry if that was so sud-" He was cut off.

"Do you want me to be?" Daniel was left speechless when he heard that.

"What!?" Nature now had a blush on her face and when she realised what she had said she quickly teleported him home but she teleported back to the hangout.

She was currently sitting in the cafeteria with a drink in her hand and was searching her heart and mind. Wondering why she said that. She has never felt this way about someone before so she had no clue what to do or how to approach the situation.

"What the...oh no. I messed up." Daniel felt guilty. If he hadn't commented on how she acted then she wouldn't have freaked out. He started to think up scenarios in his mind about how this could effect things and most of them were in a negative light.

Annabelle was sitting on the couch when he appeared and she shrieked in surprise.

"Bro. What happened?" He didn't want to tell her because he didn't want her to joke around about it but she had a right to know so he told her.

What he expected happened and with a smile on her face she teased him.

"Well if she asked it she must want it. When are you going to start smooching?" Daniel blushed wildly when she asked that.

"Stop it Annabelle. I mean it."

"Or what?" Daniel knew his threat was an empty one so when she asked that he had nothing to say back to her.

"I'm just worried. If I hadn't said that she was acting like my girlfriend then she might not have freaked out."

"Sounds like she freaked out when she realised what she said, not what you said." Annabelle was right but he was still worried. With a hug from her to help him she then went to his lab and he went with her to check on it.

As he entered the lab he was immediately greeted with over 30 robots all building something and while it was easy to guess what it was, from the shape of it, it seemed like a vehicle used in the military. More specifically it looked like they were constructing a modern day tank.

While Daniel was going to object he remembered that he was originally building a robot army to combat King N when he found him as he likely wouldn't face Daniel alone. So he remained silent and let them construct the vehicle.

Bravacho was currently walking down a pathway to ponyville, happy that he had completed his mission. With that data gone it would buy the heart bearer a few months to train and prepare for its arrival. Sadly he didn't know how to destroy it as only his dad had that understanding of how it worked.

Walking into ponyville, he was happy to see Darvia looking out the window, waiting for him to return and when she saw him as the sun was starting to set she ran out with a large smile and tears on her face as she threw herself onto him.

"You made it back."

"I told you. Don't worry about me." But this in turn only made her hold him tighter.

"You went to his flagship. How could I not be worried when you would go to such a place when you are now marked for death by the whole empire." She had some tears swelling up in her eyes as she continued to hug him.

"You should know it would take a whole fleet alone to kill me. I wasn't just the King's son by blood, but also by power." Bravacho almost lost him smile when he said that as he knew his dad was at least twice the everything he was, but that didn't matter to him, only Darvia and the heart bearer mattered.

"How did you get back?"

"I was dropped off by the heart bearers teacher. Miss Nature, I think her name was. I took me a while to recover before I started to make my way back." He picked her up and put her on his back before walking into their house.

Bravacho sat down while Darvia sat next to him and had no intention of letting go of him for the rest of the day.

"What have you found out?" A group of ponies were together and trying to be as quiet as they could speaking about what they were going to out in the open. There were 2 mares and one stallion in the group and one of the mares was the first to speak.

"That Discord is currently at the bearer Fluttershy's house. But the strange part is that it seems the bearer Cosmos is keeping him in line."

"How? How can a normal pony make the spirit of chaos scared when even Celestia can't do that?" Both of them shrugged.

"What do we know about Cosmos?" The stallion asked.

"That's just it. We know nothing about him. I had a look at each of the elements of harmony. Twilight was Celestia's pupil and her parents were Twilight velvet and Night light. I checked the rest too. Fluttershy, Pinkie pie, Rarity. You name it. I checked them all but I have nothing on Cosmos. I can't find anything on him at all." They were all silent for a moment. If Cosmos was able to scare Discord into behaving then they would need to be very careful.

"We need to find out more about him." A mare broke the silence.

"How?"

"Talk to him, try to befriend him and see if we can get any history about him." They looked around and saw some guards walking down the path to their location.

"We will meet back here next week. But you will be heading to ponyville to check on Cosmos. Good luck." The stallion and one mare went off together while the 2nd mare went down an alleyway alone.

Daniel closed the door to Terabithia as Annabelle fell asleep peacefully. He headed to his living room to sit down and watch a movie he meant to watch but never felt the strength to watch but shortly after he sat down a light appeared in his living room and when it faded he saw Nature standing there.

Both of them stared at each other for a few seconds. The silence that resulted could make a pin being dropped on carpet audible. He decided to break the silence.

"Nature...I'm sorry about what I said." She walked up to him and sat down next to him.

"Don't be. I needed to take some time to search my heart and mind after what happened. I was surprised I said that to you." She didn't have a smile on her face but she looked a little down, almost unhappy.

"I understand. I was startled by your replied too." He chuckled and it made her smile for a moment.

"Daniel. Have you ever thought of having a girlfriend?" That question made him freeze up but then he decided to think on it. He never really did and it wasn't something that bothered him but then he thought of Nature and all the times she trained with him. How often they hanged out and even some of the 'Dates' they have been on which he assumed Nature just accepted to mess around with him.

"I...never had it cross my mind."

"Same. I mean...come on. I am old enough to be the grandma of your 1000 times great grandad. Possible even more generations back. I never thought about it and it never crossed my mind as I loved the work I did." She still didn't have a smile on her face.

"Well you are still as lovely as a newly bloomed flower." What happened next surprised him as she was the one to blush at his comment.

"Thanks." There was another moment of silence but this time she broke it. "Daniel...with all the dates we have been on and with how much we have been together, I think I do like you...as a little more than a friend."

"Wait...you mean-" He was silenced by her as she got closer to his face.

"Daniel...do you want me to...be..."

"My Girlfriend?" He said bluntly and she nodded. Daniel felt like time was standing still for him. She just asked to be more than friends and he searched his heart for a moment.

After a little bit of time he realised how much he liked being with her and his desire to help her when she needed it like what happened with Archie.

"If you will accept me as your boyfriend." He had no clue what he was doing but he followed what his heart told him. When Nature heard his say that she smiled happily.

"I would love for you to be mine." She leaned into him and rested her head on his shoulder.

Daniel was a little shocked when she did that. When he first met Nature she was just another entity but the more she trained him the more he got to know her. She taught him what it meant to be an entity. She trained him into a warrior and gave him the confidence that he couldn't find himself. She then became a mother figure to him and Annabelle but this when he realised how much he really cared for her at the tournament.

Seeing her like this was a little strange as she has always been knowledgeable, knowing what to say and what to do but here she was with something she was a complete novice at and so was he.

She lifted her head up and looked him in the eyes and soon she pulled him into a kiss like the one she gave him at the tournament. Daniel tensed up when that happened but he soon relaxed and closed his eyes and focused on returning the kiss.

She wrapped her arms around him and gently pulled him into a hug and the two of them stated to feel each others body heat. His hug only tightened after a moment from a gentle one to a almost tight one.

As Nature kissed him her mind reminded her of something his mother said to her. 'I want you to protect them because you wouldn't want Daniel to be upset over something happening to his sister when he becomes your lover.'

Nature almost chuckled while she was kissing Daniel

"Well played." She thought.

Author's Notes:

I CANNOT write good romance. I have a feeling that ending was more cringe than sweet.