I opened my eyes and saw a nebula like sky. I frowned at it and sat up to see where I was. I looked around to see I was floating and saw the nebula around me. Okay~ this is trippy. I turned around to see if there’s anything behind me and saw nothing. I turned again as this time I saw five tall robe figures standing in front of me. I jumped at the sight or tried to. Floating around feels weird.

“Umm hello, can I help you because I may need some help.” Silence. I stared at them.

“Umm did you hear me?” Silence again. I frowned at them.

“Soooo how’s the family and kids?”

“Jace Beleren, we been expecting you.” The middle one said with a loud booming voice. He wore a white robe on with a golden sun on his hood. He stood up normally but looked like the one in charge. Okay they can talk or just the middle one can.

“We have watched you for a long time now.” The one on the right said. She wore a blue robe with a golden tear drop on her hood. She stood with her arms over one another as her sleeves cover them. Yup the others can talk. The first one had a strong voice that commanded authority and the second one sounded soft and kind. I also saw blue runes floating around her.

“We watched ya deeds ya have done in the planes, the good,” I one to the left of the middle one spoke. He had a southern accent and sounded old and powerful. He wore a green robe with a golden tree on his hood. He stood with a hutch and leaning on a staff made from a tree branch.

“And the bad!” The one to the left of the green one yelled. His voice sounded angry and somewhat beast like. He wore a red robe with a golden fireball on his hood. He was the biggest out of the five. His shoulders were like mountains on him and I’ll bet that one swing from his arms could destroy mountains.
“And now We cOmE To sPEak wiTh You.” The last one said. She wore a black robe with a golden skull on her hood. She creeps me out. Her robes moved as if the wind was moving them but there wasn’t anyone wearing them. When she talked she spoke in a whisper but it was also distorted. I felt a shiver down my spine.

“We have come to you because you have started your path to ascension, To become the sage of the five paths.” I looked at the White robe one. The sage of the five manas? That sounded cool.

“Okay that sounds cool and all but what’s the catch? There’s always a catch.” The blue robe one giggled at what I said.

“This one has a heart of gold and a sharp tongue, he’s going to be… interesting to watch.” Oh I like her. The green robe one nodded and turn to face me.

“Ya'll be tested by one of us, for now we’ll leave ya for ya first test. We’ll meet ya again.” And with that the green, white, blue, and black robe figures disappeared leaving the red robe one left. I gulped as I watch him float in front of me. Please tell me that I don’t have to fight him. He’ll kill me.

“You worm dared to begin your ascension with me! You will regret your decision.” Great I have to deal with the one with the anger management problems.

“Right then shall we start this test already.” I smiled at him and her growled at him. Sure he’s probably a powerhouse but I can’t help being an ass at him.

“SO BE IT WORM! LET THE TEST BEGIN!” With a slap of his hands a bright red flash shoot out and blinded me. After a moment of me blinking I looked up and saw that I in a different place.

I was standing in a Colosseum of stone and magma. I looked at the empty seats.

“At least there’s no one throwing food at me.” I whispered to myself. A voice boomed out and shook the ground.

“Now worm let see if you can beat the rage.” I frowned. The rage? That sounds like a bad villains name. I looked around and saw nothing at first. Then a torrent of flame shot up and something came out. It was all red and all creepy and it looked pissed.

“RAWWWWWWW!” It roared at me and blurred at me. I blinked away as I watch it destroy the spot I was standing. It turns to me and stared at me. Note to self: Don’t let it hit you, you’ll die.

It charge at me and I brought up my hands and casted a shield in front of me. It hit the shield and I grunted with the force of the punch. I blinked away of it. I brought my hands to the ground and began to summoned a group of goblins to help.

Nothing happens.

I tried again and still nothing happens. I felt red as I tried two more time. Both times nothing happen. I heard the monster laugh at me. I scowled at it. So summoning doesn’t work but spells do. I brought my hands up and summoned another shield that stopped the monster kick. I thrown off my feet at the force of the kick.

“Ow.” I muttered. I stood up and stared at it. I felt a little ticked from that. “Alright you ass, EAT THIS!.

I fired magic blasts at it. It didn’t move and took the blasts head on. I stopped and smiled.

“Ha! Eat that you asshole.” I watch as the dust settled and the monster was standing there. He cross his arms and laughed at me.

“Is that the best you got?” I blinked at it. It talked, and it’s a he. He sprinted forward and threw a punch. I moved out of the way and cast a giant growth on me and punched him in the face. He got knocked back a bit. He looked at me and chuckled.

“That tickled.” I growled at him.

“Ok survive this!” I unloaded on him. Magic blasts, mana bombs, fire spears and axes, I went all out. After five minutes of just nuking him I stopped and took some breaths. I snorted at him.

“Not so tough now huh.” I grinned at the dust. I frowned as he walked towards me still arms crossed.

“Sorry did you say something, I wasn’t listening.” I growled at him some more at him. This was ridiculous! I threw everything at him and he’s standing there and taunting me. I got really pissed at him and he must of knew that because he shot forward at me. I cast another shield spell to block him. This time however he broke threw and kicked me in the stomach. I shoot backwards and hit the wall. I feel to the ground coughing up blood. The hell? Before he hit me it didn’t do this much hurt. I looked up at him as he laughed at me.

“Haha well look who’s all beat up. What’s wrong Jace not enough power?” I got up and tried to catch my breath. I must of have some broken ribs or something, I hurt all over. The monster walk over to me.

“I can feel your rage Jace, I feel it bubbling inside you. You’re angry at everyone, you’re angry at the monsters that keeps on marching towards the town. You’re angry at the dragon for making your job harder. You're angry at the mane six for coming close to the cave without some sort of backup, you’re angry at everything that happened to you but most of all you’re angry at the townspeople that hate you.” I looked at him. I wanted to say no. I wanted to deny everything he said but I knew he spoke the truth. I am angry at everything. I just wanted one day that one one, pony or other, to not hate me and try to kill me. He smiled at me.

“Why not just let the rage out? You felt the power in your hands, you were unstoppable! Just accept it Jace, you done it before.” He snapped his claws together and a image appeared. I watched as I faced off against the zombie dragon. I watched as I blurred around it and beat the living crap out of it. I saw me ripping the wings off and breaking its leg. I watched as I just turned burned it to ash. I remember the power. If I had that power I would wipe the floor of this thing. Odd it looks slightly familiar to me.

All I need to do is to let my rage out and I can be unstoppable? Well that’s sounds easy enough. I let my angry flow and I felt my skin glow red. I saw the beast smile as my vision go red a bit. I looked at the images and saw something that made my blood freeze. I came out of the cave to see the mane six, Vol and Nyx standing in front of me. I saw the girls looks of fear. I turned to see Sylph and Moonlight with the same looks.

‘I know you're trying to be and all but doing stuff like this is making it harder for them to see you nothing but a monster.’

‘I heard many of them complaining about stuff you do and most of them are not happy.’

‘I got a letter from the princess that some of the nobles are asking them to banish you from the land.’

Those words are what Twilight said to me about… what a week ago. I brushed it off as if it was nothing but I knew. I hated the townspeople for hating me. I did nothing to them but they still hate me. The whole town hates me and I didn’t do anything.

‘Well, not the whole town hates you.’ I heard a small voice in the back of my head then I remember some faces.

The mane six, Moonlight, Sylph, Mr. and Miss Cake, the CmC, Vinyl, and some others. I blinked a few times and saw that my vision cleared and rubbed a tear away on my sleeve. Great I was just saved by the power friendship, I feel all sappy inside.

I looked at the beast as he was frowning at me. Something about him is familiar, I just can’t put my finger on it. What did the big mountain man said let see if you can beat the rage.? The rage what did he mean by that? I looked at the monster as he moved closer to me.

Ohhhh that what he means.

I watched as he walked closer to me. Flames shot out from his footsteps which I have to admit looked badass. I cross my arms at and looked at him square in his eyes.

“No.” He stopped and looked at me.

“No? What do you mean no?”

“I mean no, I’m done fighting, I’m tired, I’m sore all over, I think I have a few broken ribs all I want to do is go home and go to sleep.”

“SLEEP! No we’re not done, we’re still fighting that’s what’s going to happen. So FIGHT ME!” Okay then someone lost it.

“Go fight with someone else, I’m done.” I turn to leave. Now how do I get out of here?

“RAWWWWW” I turn to see him charge at me. I watch in slow motion as he was about the cave my face in.

Then a giant rock crashed on top of him. I blinked a few times and watched as the he tried to lift the rock off him and curse out loudly. I saw the red robe figure walk up beside the rock.

“You know, I threw everything at him and did nothing to him but it took a giant rock to stop him. Not cool.” I kicked myself for saying that. He just chuckled.

“So you found out that he’s your rage.” I nodded and walked up and kneeled down to him.

“Well there was some clues, first you said that I was facing something called ‘The rage’ So it had something to do with anger and rage.” I jester to the images with a hand. “Then there were those, which are me when I went on a rampage and we looked a lot alike.”

I looked up and smiled at him. “And then there's was the fact that the more angry I got, the harder he hit.”

“Well then what are you going to do with him then?” I looked down at my rage and snorted.

“Well I can’t really get rid of him right, he’s my anger and rage if I just get rid of him then I would be out of my mind. Sooo…” I got up and put my foot on the rock and pushed it off. It was surprisingly light. My rage look up at me and got up. We stared at each other for a minute when I shrugged.

“Well now you're free, I’m guessing that I’m going to see you around you’re me so I have to see you.” He snorted and crossed his arms.

“Guess so.” He looked up to the robed man and nodded his head to me. “Well he passed the test, I guess there’s no point for me hang around so.”

He turned to me and walked through me. Well not really I just absorbed him. I felt all warm and fuzzy, and really weirded out.

“Okay then I didn’t see that coming so what now?” I looked at the big man.

“You have passed the test and are one step closer to becoming a sage, be warned the next four tests are not to be messed with.” And with that he was gone. I blinked a few times and looked around. Then one thought went thru my mind.

“HEY! HOW DO I GET OUT OF HERE.” Then everything went black.
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I opened my eyes to see the ceiling. I blinked at it in confusion. How did I get back home? What happ- oh wait never mind I remember.

Vol, punch, wall, being knocked out and all that stuff..

I sat up from my bed and felt a throb of pain from my chest. Ow what the hell? Why is my chest.... oh right got shot.

I moved my hand until I bumped into something. I felt hair around my fingers. It felt soft and silky. I looked down to see a bundle of pink hair. I looked at the hair. The only ponies that have pink hair are Pinkie and this isn’t her. Her mane would be more… poofy. The person laying on my bed moved a bit and I saw white fur and a hand. Ahhhh okay then.

“Hey, wakie wakie.” I nudged her a few times. She didn’t wake up.

“Ohi wake up.” Again she was still asleep. I frowned for a moment get grinned. This worked on him so it might…

“Oh my gods! There’s a two for one sale at the cake place, today only!”That did it. Celestia head shot up and looked around.

“Two for one cakes! Where!?” She blinked and looked at me. It took all my willpower to not burst out laughing.

“By the gods Tia, you’re your father's kid alright.” I looked at her as she looked at me speechless.

“Umm Tia, you okay?” She just looked at me a bit longer. Then she started to cry. Oh no.

“Uncle you’re awake!” She dove to me and hugged me with all her might. I felt pain throughout my body.

“Ow ow ow, pain so much pain.” She let me go and looked at me worried. I coughed a few times as I could breath again.

“Oh uncle I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to…” I waved at her and took some breaths.

“It’s fine Tia, it just shows that you were worried about me.” I gave her a smile and nodded at her. “You know, the last time I saw you like this is when you fell under the weather and I had to bring you here and tend to you until you recovered.”

She blushed and started to brush her hair with her hands. “I guess the spell wore off when I went to sleep.”

I chuckled at her. I looked at her and saw that she had bags under her eyes, her hair was all bedhead like, and her clothes were all wrinkled. I frowned at her. How long was I out for. The door of my room opened and Moonlight walked in.

“Celestia I hope you're awake because I’m not going to- oh.” She looked at me and I smiled at her.

“Hey there, I hope I didn’t miss anything important, by the way I’m hungry.” She rolled her eyes and me and crossed her arms.

“You just woke up from being in a coma and that is the first thing you say is that.” I frowned at her and looked at Tia. She didn’t meet my eyes.

“Moonlight how long was I out for?” My eyes didn’t move from her as I said that. Tia started to shift from one foot to the other.

“You were out for three days, why?” I nodded at her, still looking at Tia I narrowed my eyes.

“Tia why are you here.”

“I umm well you see when I got a letter from my student I got to the part that you were in a coma and I rushed as fast as I could to see, and I umm… I didn’t leave your side since.” I licked my lips and saw Tia sweat a bit.

“Tia answer my next question truthfully, did you spent those three days by my side.” She turned her head to me. She looked like a kid got caught with her hand in the cookie jar.

“Y-yes.” I facepalmed myself and angrily groaned.

“You just left Canterlot, your job just to watch me sleep. Do you know how irresponsible that is.” She flinched at me.

“But you were hurt, I couldn't just sit around and-”

“CELESTIA, You know full well that I survived anything that is thrown at me and this is no excuse for abandoning your subjects.” I pinched the bridge of my nose and took a deep breath. I looked at her and pointed at the door.

“Now I want you to go back to Canterlot and do your job.” She looked at me with shock. I saw out of the corner of my eye that Moonlight and chuckling.

“B-but uncle!”

“No buts, get going.” She just stared at me for a moment.

“NOW MISSY! I heard a eep! from her and she started to run out of the door. Her pink hair waving in the wind.

“Hair!” I called out to her and felt some magic in the other room. I heard a pop and I knew she was gone. I sighed and rubbed my eyes. She’s a grown adult but she acts like a child sometimes.

Moonlight sat down by my bed and passed me a small bag. I took it and pulled out three white orbs and pop them into my mouth. I felt the magic in them working on my body and my pain slowly melted away. They also tasted like vanilla.

“Luna came by once to check on you and Celestia, so did the girls and Sylph.” I nodded and leaned back in bed. I look at her bracelet and saw the two gems glowing brightly. I look over to my dresser and saw my gantlet with all five gems. All but the red gem glowed brightly. The red one flickered a bit, like a flame.

“So Moonlight, still keeping up with your training.” She nodded at me.

“Sylph helped me with training but I got the hang of some complex spells and summons.” I nodded. I snapped my fingers and a box appeared on my lap.

“Well now that you have control of both green and blue mana, time for you to get some more fire power.” I opened the box and pulled out a dark red gem and handed it to her. She slow reach to take it but I grabbed her hand and stared at her. She looked at me in shock.

“Before you take this I want you to promise me something alright.” She nodded and I put the gem in her hand and held it there.

“If you ever feel angry and so pissed off at something, do NOT use any red spells, if I find out you did I’ll take all the gems away and you're starting all over again. Do you understand me.” She nodded some more. I smiled at her and let go of her hand. She looked at the gem and put it in her braclet. I saw is shine for a moment and heard her gasp at the rush of mana. Red mana does that to you.

“Alright since we can’t do anything right now let's start your learning with some knowledge alright.” She nodded again and I set back and raised my hand and put one finger up.

“Rule one of using red mana and spells: Don’t let your emotions get the better of you.”

It took a few days to recover from my rampage. The girls visited me at times, even the Cakes came by to see how I was doing. Pinkie came by almost every two hours to check up on me and every time she leaves she would mention that the party for the new guards is going to be in a couple days. She said that she had to reschedule due to something came up in Canterlot.

“It had something to do with Princess Celestia disappearing for a few days, it’s since she was her at the time.”

As soon as I was able to use my red mana again, and walk without a limp (It seems that turning into a raging demon puts a lot of strain onto myself and completely drain of red) Moonlight and I teleported to the mountains to get some red mana. Again getting red mana is scary as hell.

“Let’s never do that again.” Moonlight patted as she was on her back. She ran from a rock monster for thirty minutes straight.

“I wished it was that simple.” After that I showed her two spells that I found useful when I was learning red mana magic. A firebolt spell and a haste spell. The firebolt spell was simple, it’s like a magic bolt or blast just more… firey. The haste spell was a little harder, also funnier.

“Okay Moonlight the haste spell makes you move faster than normal.” I showed her how to cast the spell and everything.

“Now be careful now, you're moving three times than normal so try and take it…”

Zoom! Crash!!

“...slow.” I watched her move like a blur right into a tree. She groaned in pain and looked up at me. I burst out laughing at the sight.

“It’s not funny!” She yelled at me as I continued laughing at her. She got up and I saw a swollen black left eye and her scowling at me. I rolled my eyes at her and pulled out my bag of heal pops and tossed her one of them. She popped it into her mouth and I saw the magic working as the swelling went down. All that was left was a not swollen black eye.

“I told you to take it slow.”

“How am I supposed to take it slow, I take one step and I’m launched forward.” She rubbed her eye, flinching away at some pain.”

“It takes practice, you're going to run into things but you’ll get used to it. Now come on we got a party to get to.” I put my hand on her shoulder and blinked use to the Sugarcube corner.

Before I got turned into a statue I never really went to the parties at Canterlot. It wasn’t much of a party then a place where nobles go to to stick their noses up in the air, gossip, and brag about their money.

I prefer the fun parties, meeting friends, having a good time, and getting so drunk that you start to see three’s. Well all but the last one was here but I thought I saw someone spike the punch bowl. The party went off like any other party that Pinkie makes. Everyone was chatting away, some kids were playing, I heard laughter and overall everything was going great.

I saw the mane six mingling with the other town’s people. Fluttershy saw Moonlight’s eye and pull her to the side with RD to treat it. Twilight was talking to the mayor about something and Rarity was flirting with the new guards. AJ was with her dau-errr, ‘sister’ and the other two CmC. I got a cup of punch and took a sip. It was fruity but it had a bit of a burn at the end. Yup someone spiked it. I leaned over and grabbed a cup from a kid that was about to drink it and gave him some apple juice.

“Apple juice is better than the punch anyway.” I looked around and saw some ponies gave me some looks here and there. I saw some faces that I knew of but never met. I saw two mares looking at me. One with a look of anger and the other the look that she was trying not to run up to me and give me twenty questions. One was a pale fur earth pony and had a pink and dark blue striped hair. She wore a blue t-shirt with black jeans. There was three candies on the left side of her pant leg.

The other was a teal fur unicorn with pale cyan hair with a white stripe through it. She wore a red shirt with what looks like a string instrument on it and some ripped blue jeans. I narrowed my eyes at them and out of the corner of my eye I saw a stallion with gray fur, dark red hair and was wearing a black t-shirt and black jeans. On the shirt was a sword in the stone logo on it. He was glaring at me with full on hate. I sighed and looked to see the mayor finished talking to Twilight and started to walk away. She saw me looking at her and stopped. I pointed at her and did the ‘come here’ gesture to her. I did the same to the other three and moved to an empty booth away from everyone and waited. Better get this over with before the kids start egging my house.

“What’s this all about?” The mayor asked as she was the first to come before the other three came.

“Trying to clear something up.” I put my hand out saying that she can sit down. She sat in the middle of the booth as the other three came and sat down. Lyra and bon-bon sat across from me as pissed off stallion pulled a chair from another table. I looked at all of them and sighed.

“So now that we are all here, we can all talk now.” Before I opened my mouth, Lyra spoke first.

“Yes we do, I never got a chance to talk to you! Are you really a human from another world? Can you swim underwater without coming up for air? Do humans have gills? Can humans use magic? Is your technology more advanced than ours? Ohhhh I wished I brought my notebook.” I blinked in surprised at her as the four of us stared at her.

“Umm what?” Bon-bon put her hand on Lyra's shoulder and looked at me.

“Just ignore her, she get’s like this when she finds something really new.” I eyed Lyra for a bit as she gave me a toothy smile that creeped me out.

“Okay then moving on, now I asked you all here because for the past month and so I been harassed by the town, so I have to ask why.” They all looked at each other (except for the stallion who kept glaring at me.)

“Well I don’t have a problem with you being here, sure there’s been cases of loud noises you have done and some… strange things you have done but other than that you been paying rent and never hurt anypony in town, well other than Filthy rich’s daughter.” Both Lyra and Bon-bon groaned at that.

“Diamond tiara is a brat and everyone knows it, it’s about time someone knocked her down a few pegs.” Lyra said as she crossed her arms. I nodded and looked at Bon-bon.

“So why are you mad at me?” She blinked at me and narrowed her eyes at me.

“About two weeks ago my store got robbed by somethings, I was told that they looked like small green imp like things running towards the Everfree, and I remember that someone saw you and Moonlight summoning them.” I looked at her and nodded. Goblins stealing candy? Why would they do that. I remembered walking out in the Everfree and found a small group of goblins carrying bags. After I took care of them I found out that the bags were filled with candy of different kinds. They are still in my closet for me to figure out what to do with them. I told her the story.

“Wild goblins are crazy and random at times, they also steal anything they can get their hands on. I do summon them from time to time but unless I tell them to go and steal candy they wouldn’t go and do that if I did why would I have them steal candy if I could just buy it.” She looked at me and nodded.

“That story is a bit farfetched but I don’t think you’re lying, if you can send me those bags that would be great.” I nodded at her and turned to the stallion, who looks more angry than before.

“Ok mister grumpy pants, what’s eating you?” He looked at me and snarled at me.

“You're a monster.” The room got quiet a bit. The party was going on but at this booth everything was quiet. Me and this stallion stared at each other for a bit. I could see all the anger in his eyes.

“Well that was forward of you, guessing your not beating around the bush huh.” He snarled at me and looked about he was going to take a swing at me.

“You come into this town with Nightmare Moon and expect us to just let her live, after what she was going to do! No I’m not letting this go.” I frowned a bit at what he said. All this because what happened back then? I thought Moonlight cleared that up with everyone.

“Look, I know what she was done was bad and everything but she changed for the better, I had town’s people come and attacked me at home and I’m starting to get sick of it. So how about we just forgive and forget and moved on.” He just stared at me than slapped my hand away.

“Forgive and forget, don’t make me laugh you're a monster and that’s what you're going to be. You maybe taking your time with everything but your going to go and destroyed this town and all of Equestria and no one see’s because they are all stupid, even the princess star pupil is stupid.” Ok, mister nice guy is gone.

“Look asshole I’m trying to be nice here but now you go and insult one of my friends so if you want to do this, how about we take this outside.” I saw him move his hand towards something on his belt.

“Why wait.” I saw that he was reaching for a knife. How did he bring one to a party without anyone seeing it. I looked at him and saw that he had a horn on his head. Oh that’s why. There was a slam that made us jump.

“Mister Night we are trying to have a civilized conversation here, if you can’t do that I’ll have to ask you to leave.” The mayor's voice had some edge to it and it was enough to snap me out of it. I looked at him and saw that he was standing and had his hand to his knife and no one seemed to notice it. I began to prepare a restraint spell.

“Mayor he’s a monster, if your not going to do anything I am.” He looked at me as I narrowed my eyes at him. A hand came up and grabbed his shoulder.

“Now listen here, ah don’t know what’s going on ‘ere but if ya think of doing something at ‘ere party ya have another thing coming.” The stallion turned to look and Applejack as he glared at her. Before anyone could do anything someone yelled.

“HE HAS A KNIFE!” We all turn to see two guards run at him and tackled him down to the floor. I lose my spell after what just happened. The stallion was trying to shake the two guards off him.

“Wait! I’m not the one you should be getting, he is! He’s the monster!.” The guards turn to look at me and I shrugged at them. They turn back to the stallion.

“Well at least he didn’t bring a knife to a party now come on.” They pulled him up and pushed him out of the door. I sighed and shook my head.

“Well that didn’t end up as the way I wanted it,” I turned to the mayor, “Sorry about that, I should have handled that better.” She shook her head and looked to the door.

“Mister Night was always a bit of a hot head, I think he was the one who has been sending those groups at you for the time. I guess that with him gone the town with leave you alone.”

“Also he has been really shady too! He was in the candy store at times with a group of ponies right Bonnie.” Lyra said to us. I saw Bon-bon blushed a bit at the last part.

“Y-yeah he was using my store as some sort of HQ or something, I didn’t mind though since they did buy some candy.” She sighed and put her head on the table. “There’s goes my sales.”

“Don’t worry Bon-bon we’ll think of something, how about I play my lyre in your store again like the time I first moved in.” Bon-bon looked at her and smiled. I pulled out a notebook and passed it to her.

“Here.” She blinked at me than looked at the notebook.

“What’s this?”

“Just take a look at it.” She stared at it then opened it and began to read it.

“Are these candies? They look like them but they have different properties to them.” She frowned at one page. “Heal pops?”

I chuckled and pulled out my bag and pull one out. “They are some special candies that can heal as well. They also taste like vanilla, I was wondering if you can make them.” She blinked at me and quickly flip through the pages.

“This whole book is filled with recipes for different kinds of candies!” I nodded to her.

“I think you can do it.” I watched her as she opened closed her mouth a few times.

“I-I have to go to my lab and start preparing for some test and…” Lyra groans a bit and shakes her head.

“She’s going to be like this for the next few weeks.”

“When she’s doing that I can answer your questions that you have.” She blinked at me in surprised.

“You mean that?” I nodded to her. She clapped her hands together and made the ‘EEEE’ sound as she started to jump up and down.

“Oh my gods, oh my gods, oh my gods, oh my gods! I got an interview with a human! Bonnie can’t you beli- Bon-bon? where did you go?” Bon-bon disappeared and I saw her heading towards the door with my notebook on hand.

“Hey! Wait up!” Lyra jumped up and ran to her. I chuckled a bit and talked to the mayor for a bit until I got up and walked around the place enjoying the party. After a few minutes I hear someone that I never thought I would meet again.

“Jace? Is that you?” I turn to see a dark teal pegasus mare with sea blue hair and amber eyes. She wore a white t-shirt and jean shorts. On her right shoulder was her cutie mark, a winged sword.

“Amber! It’s been too long, how you been?” I smiled at her.

“Oh you know same old same old, I didn’t know that you live in Ponyville.”

“And I didn’t know that you were part of the group of guards that was station here.” She shrugged and took a drink of her punch. She looked at it with a frowned.

“I’m guessing someone spiked the punch?” I nodded and looked around and saw a mare with plum coloured fur and a darker version of the same colour hair hanging out by the punch bowl.

“Well I can say that’s it’s better than the parties in Canterlot.” She sighed and took another drink, “At least I get to drink something and don’t have nobles looking down on you.”

“Yeah I know the feeling, I used to go to those parties and well they were boring as fuck.”

“I know and the way they talk about each other, sure it’s rude but after the fiftieth time you hear it get’s boring and dull.” I snorted and took a drink of my apple juice. I frowned at a thought.

“The Grand Galloping Gala is going to be a pain isn’t it.” She groans when I said that.

“I know, at least I don’t have to stand guard for it. I would be going but ever since I went there as a guard it loss a special meaning to me.” She looked back at the party and smiled.

“So how's the guy that I backed handed when I work up in the gardens.” She looked at me and was silent for a minute. She then made a ‘ahh’ face and smiled.

“He’s doing good, captain Ironhoof is a stubborn guy to deal with but he means well. He took the chance to do some sort of special training that the princesses put up for guardsmen to do with a lion guy that came to Canterlot a week ago.” I nodded and grinned a bit. It seems that Ajaxs is settling in nicely, I think.

“So if your captain left to do this training than who’s your new captain?” She smiled and cocked her hip a bit.

“You’re looking at her.” I blinked at her as she cleared her throat.

“You are looking at the newly appointed captain to squad Echo 4 of the Equestria army.” She smiled at me as I gave her a golf clap.

“Congratulations on the promotion Amber, or is it Captain Stream now?” She raised an eyebrow at me and giggled a bit.

“You can call me Captain when I’m on the job, K.” I gave her a cocky smile.

“Well even if you're on the job I’m going to call you Amber.” She glared at me as I just smiled at her.

“You know you're an ass right.”

“I think it’s just my smile.” We laughed a bit. A group of kids ran past us and Amber watched them.

“You know, I have to find my little sister I haven’t seen her for years and I just got here.”

“Oh I think she’s around here somewhere, we just-” I got caught off by a yell.

“AMBER!” A orange and dark pink blur tackled Amber side. She had to spread her wings to keep her balance.

“Scoots! There’s my little sister, how have you been?” She rubbed Scootaloo's hair a bit and smiled a bit.

“I’m doing alright, but it’s now awesome that my big sister and my idol are in the same town now.” I smiled at them and nodded to Amber.

“I guess I should leave you two catch up.”

“Oh but Jace I don’t know if you two had met yet.”

“Well we had met before haven’t we Scootaloo, I hope you’re not spying on me now.” Scootaloo blushed a bit and Amber glared at her.

“Scoots, how many times have I told you that it’s not nice to spy at people.”

“But Amber, everypony was calling him a monster and I was wounding if it was true.” Amber looked at me with an raised eyebrow.

“A monster you say.” I waved her off.

“Been taking care of, now Scootaloo how's the brat doing? Still giving you and the CmC troubles.” She just shrugs.

“Yeah she does but she does it to everyone, she even said that her dad was going to throw you into jail or something.” Amber frowned at me.

“Jace who’s this brat you two keep talking about.” I rolled my eyes at her.

“Some kid named Diamond tiara that thinks she’s better than everyone else because she's rich. I just showed her that she can’t boss everyone around.”

“Is that before or after you slapped her.” Amber eyes went wide as she heard that.

“You did what now?”

“Hey she had it coming.” Amber glared at me and then looked at Scoots.

“Hey how about you go see your friends or Rainbow or something, I want to talk to Jace for a minute.” Scoots nodded and went off and found RD. She pointed at us and we waved at her. I saw RD smiled and rubbed Scoot’s head.

“You know if it’s wasn’t for the paperwork and blood, Rainbow could have been mistaken for Scootaloo’s mother.” I nodded at her and watched them go off.

“Now tell me about this Diamond brat, I want a good reason to not give her a knuckle sandwich for bullying my little sister.”

Author's Notes:

Behold Amber Stream is still here! And she's Scootaloo's older sister! Surprised!

See you all in the next chapter :)