"What are you doing!? Stop!" Carrot Top stared in horror at Tumor, unable to move from being stuck in his power. She had gone outside to investigate the sound of her daughter screaming. When she had made it out she was met with a disturbing sight. Tumor was holding Leach up in the air by one of her hooves. Her body was covered in cuts and bruises. The mare charged at him, but was quickly stopped when a field of red energy clouded over her body.

"I can't, this is part of the training." His attention was turned back to his daughter as she groaned in pain.

"I don't get this...How is this part of the training?" The filly asked.

"If you're going to be a fighter, you need to be able to endure pain." He explained to his daughter. "Not only that, but you need to learn how to heal and quickly."

Carrot Top was glaring daggers at Tumor. How could he just abuse their child like this? "Don't you think you've done enough! Look at her!"

Tumor ignored Carrot Top and tightened his grip on Leach's hoof until there was a loud crack. The bone in her hoof snapped and she screamed in pain before being dropped to the ground. Watching this made Carrot Top more furious. Just as she was about to unleash all verbal hell on Tumor her mouth became sealed shut.

Tumor lowered himself down to Leach, staring at her body as she laid on the ground shaking. "Come on, we've been doing this all day. Just do as I showed you and the pain will go away."

Leach looked up at her father with tears in her eyes before nodding. She focused her magic, pulling energy out of everything near her. In seconds the cuts and bruises on her body started to vanish. Her hoof took nearly two minutes to fully repair, but once it was done she stopped, analyzing her body.

The pain was completely gone, and aside from the dirt covering her coat, she looked completely fine. It was as if none of the torture her father put her through ever happened. "It worked, it actually worked!" She exclaimed excitedly, feeling as if she were indestructible.

"Damn right it did." Tumor quickly commented. "Make sure you take in as much energy as you can next time though. It'll make your body more difficult to injure and you need to have some in reserve for when you do get injured so you don't have to take in so much to heal."

Leach got up onto her hooves. her body felt so loose and relaxed. She felt like a whole new filly. "This is great!"

Tumor snapped his fingers in front of her, quickly getting her attention. "Hey, I'm over here, retard. You need to focus." He looked over at Carrot Top who was still struggling to get out of his grasp. He sighed and clicked his fingers once more, releasing her.

"I'm going to shove my hoof so far up your ass, you'll be able to lick my hoof!" She shouted angrily, earning her a chuckle from the human/conduit.

Tumor was standing in front of Leach, Sebastian by his side as he stared her down. She gave him a stern look in return, the kind of look that says 'I'm ready for whatever you throw at me.' He nodded, "If there's one important thing about energy, it's that it can be used however you want. However, you have to be able to stay in places with high amounts of energy if you want to become stronger. In order to do that, you have to be able to see and track energy."

He glanced at his dark dressed brother and gave him a quick wink. Sebastian's body exploded into a large cloud of smoke and clouded the whole area, making it impossible to see even an inch in front of the filly's face.

"You're completely blind now, there's no way of knowing where you're going." As Tumor said this, Leach tried to navigate herself toward the sound of his voice, but fell over as something grabbed her hoof.

She quickly got back up and started looking around, but found nothing. Tumor watched her from outside of the cloud. He could not see her, but he could see the energy flowing through her body as well as the surrounding area. He could also see his brother floating around and tormenting her within, tripping her multiple times.

"You need to focus, Leach, otherwise you aren't going to find your way out." He called out to her.

Leach took a deep breath and closed her eyes. "Come on..." She muttered to herself, "Come on!" She opened her eyes, her green eyes were shining brightly. The filly started to look around, she could see her father's energy standing a few yards from her and ran toward it. Just before she could exit she spotted another energy source within the thick fog. It was coming directly at her.

She came to a halt and jumped as high as her little hooves could allow. Luckily, the thing that came for her ended up flying directly under her, and once her hooves hit the ground again she took off into a full sprint. She wanted to get out of there as soon as possible.

Her legs refused to stop moving, even as she exited the fog. It wasn't until her head ran into something hard that she stopped. She looked up to see her father looking down at her with his arms crossed and a grin on his face. "See, that wasn't so bad."

Leach let out a relived sigh, but she could feel something, something strange. It felt like something was coming up behind her. Out of panic she spun around, swinging her right hoof and decking Uncle Sebastian straight in the mouth.

The guy barely reacted to the hit, but a certain conduit found it hysterical regardless. Tumor fell over laughing as his brother was hit. The filly couldn't help but hug Sebastian. "I'm so sorry, Uncle! I didn't know it was you, I swear!"

Jack tied his hair back before cracking his knuckles as he looked down at his niece, who was giving him a rather fearful expression.

Leach looked over at her father. "Are you sure this is a good idea, daddy. He's allot stronger than you, so if he hits me then that could-"

Tumor cut her off before she could continue. "It's sir, and this is a necessary part of your training. If you want to be a hero then you're going to face very big and powerful creatures. Ones that are strong and may even want to eat you. Jack is a beast like them."

She gave her father a curious look. Jack usually kept himself in check while in front of her so she had no idea what he was capable of. All she knew was that he was stronger than her father, physically. "What do you mean, da-sir?"

"Jack is basically an unstoppable killing machine." He explained, causing Leach to swallow a new found lump in her throat. "He would go out an annihilate anything in his path, along with anyone in his way. And, from time to time, he would actually eat some of the people he killed." Despite every word being true, he knew Jack wouldn't do something like that to Leach. He said it to scare her, she would have to learn how to beat her fear so she would be able to fight with a clear mind. "Begin!"

Jack's arms ignited and he launched himself at Leach, his fists swinging to deliver a blow fatal to most. His brother said that they were going to train her to be strong, to be powerful. He wasn't going to hold back too much.

Leach was fast, well, fast enough to dodge her Uncle's swings. She had done what her father said and taken in as much energy as she could before the fight, putting it in reserve in case she would need it.

Jack was able to pick up on a pattern in her movement. This would give him an advantage. He faked a punch, causing her to jump to the side, while she was in the air he reached out and grabbed her by her back hoof before slamming her into the ground then proceeding to launch her into a tree with enough force to crack the trunk and bring it down on top of the filly.

The filly pulled herself out of the wreckage, panting heavily as she wiggled out from under the collapsed tree. That probably should have hurt allot more, but it didn't help the fact that the beating she had taken wore her out. Once she was back into the open she fell to the ground and rolled onto her back. "Ow..."

Tumor leaned over her body, allowing himself to be directly in her sight. "Yeah, you're still gonna need some work before we bring you along with us." Leach nodded in agreement. "I also probably should have mentioned that Jack can read movements. It's always good to change up your fighting style, otherwise you'll become predictable."

"Jee, thanks for the heads up, sir." Leach sarcastically replied. Her mom was right, her dad is a dick. She felt her father reach his hands under her and lift her body up over his shoulder.

"Alright, maggot. That's all for today. At ease!" He said as he carried her home. Her body began using her reserved energy to repair the damage she had taken from her fight with her uncle, making it impossible for her mother to see that they had still been training. After what had happened earlier she demanded that they stop and they agreed...You see how well that's working out, right?

Author's Notes:

I'm sorry guys, but it's starting to become more and more difficult for me to come up with ideas for this story. Expect MUCH later posts.