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The Double-Edged Sword

by Asuya

Chapter 1: Prologue: Family Issues

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Prologue: Family Issues

Family Issues, what're you gonna do?

Asuya, a 12 year old pegasus with a pale tannish coat, a magenta and pale pink mane and matching tail, dark blue glasses over olive green eyes and generally has a blue watch strapped to his left forehoof, was just about to head outside for a breath of fresh air. Just as he was about to though, he heard the screaming of his only blood relative, his sister Velari. Velari is a unicorn mare with roughly the same coat colour as Asuya, a deep oak green mane with a starch white hairband resting behind her ears and a similarly deep oak green tail, light pink eyes, and a bow and arrow for a cutie mark. As he walked down the corridor leading to the testing room, his adoptive father basically lived in a laboratory , he listened as carefully as possible to try and figure out what was going on. After a few minutes of his sister screaming, he couldn't take it anymore and bucked down the door. What he saw absolutely horrified him. His 'dad', a mutated dark-gray pegasus with a rust orange mane protruding out from his forehead with a uncharacteristic bright yellow stripe splitting it down the middle along with a similar tail, had adopted both him and his sister close to six years ago and currently had Velari strapped to a surgeon's table and was forcefully attaching wings to her body.

He neither looked up at Asuya, nor did he stop his operation, and said "Wait in the library, and I'll deal with you later."

Without even thinking, Asuya charged his adoptive father in the hopes of stopping the unnatural operation. Unfortunately, Cordon, the adoptive father, was already extending his gray dragon like wing to smack Asuya. What he didn't expect was for Asuya to actually change form. Asuya's wings actually retracted and he started to run bipedal as he changed into a human-like form, with armor and daggers forming and emitting a dark oak green light as they did so.

Asuya didn't even realize what he did, but it felt natural. So instead of tripping in the new form, he smoothly slid out a dagger and ran it along the membrane of his opponent's outstretched wing. As he did so, Cordon's eyes began to glow as an aura formed around him, as well as Velari, and he retracted his wing as fast as he possibly could. His once calm and unreadable face turned to face the Glowing green form that had basically totaled his wing, pain as well as fascination obvious among his features. Asuya, on the other hoof (or hand currently), was a unreadable , flames literally surrounding his hands as he once again charged the Stallion that was still harming his one and only sister. As his dagger collided with the grey stallion that stood over his sister, Asuya could feel that his adoptive father was about to cast a teleportation spell and immediately jumped back.

"Don't you DARE take her from me Cordon! We've already been through enough by your hooves and I won't let you take my only family with you just to torture her!" Asuya said with a mixture of pure rage and unparalleled depression apparent in his voice.

But alas, it did no good, for the grey stallion finished his spell, teleporting them away from the humanoid creature in green armor. As an after effect, the teleportation spell also set the house-lab on fire. As he realized that his only family had been taken from him, Asuya slowly changed back into his original pony form and released a sea of tears to mourn his lose. As the fire in the house-lab raced up through the floor, Asuya could here the shouting coming from the Canterlot firefighters attempting to put out the fire. There effort was in vain though, as the fire eventually reached the chemical storage cellar and (as cliche as it is) just straight up exploded. Asuya, who hadn't moved in the few minutes between teleportation and explosion, was enveloped by the flamed and was knock out by debris that was caught in the explosion. Right before he blacked out, Asuya was reciting the same thing over and over again.

"I'm sorry sis."

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Asuya woke up suddenly, only to find that he was strapped in a hospital bed, IV and EKG and equipment setup all around him. When he tried to stretch, he could feel a crazy sharp pain in his wings and grunted, attempting not to disturb anypony else. However, somepony did hear him as the white curtain to his right was pulled back to reveal a nurse's head looking down at him. Asuya looked directly at the nurse, who then gasped and fled, going to get the doctor. Not realizing this, Asuya sighed and turned his head to the window a few feet away. Right as he was going to start crying for the loss of his sister, the nurse from earlier returned, a clipboard held under he wing. Still frightened, the nurse moved closer to Asuya, who looked straight at her as she did, so she could examine his wounds.

She did her best to muster a kind smile as she spoke to Asuya. "Good afternoon, sir. How are you feeling?"

Asuya sighed and looked back at the window "Does it even matter anymore? I mean, I'm really thankful for what you have done for me up to this point,  but I need to go."

The nurse blinked as he said this, "Well... OK then. I would ask what you need to go do, but I can tell that you don't really want to talk about it. Either way, you still need to rest, your wings were severely burnt and will take a few weeks to recover. Not to mention the fact that the lack of usage over the recovery time will weaken them."

Asuya nodded, not surprised in the least "Yeah, that's understandable. I can handle that. I do have one request however..."

The nurse genuinely smiled now because of Asuya's co-operation "Really? Well this is a first. A pegasus that's fine with not being able to use their wings for at least a few weeks. And what is it that you request, dear?"

Asuya looked down, as if embarrassed "Umm... does this hospital have a.... garden?"

Suppressing her laughter as best she could, the nurse responded "Yeah, we do. Would you like to see it?"

Asuya, catching on the the fact that this nurse was holding back laughter at his request, got defensive and glared at the mare next to him "Yeah, i would. Is that a problem? Or is it just HILARIOUS that a male would like to relax in a garden after being caught up in an explosion after his one and only sister got kidnapped?"

The nurse looked shocked, not knowing about his sister being kidnapped and all, and looked away from the agitated pegasus "I..... I'm so sorry. I didn't know. I can take you there if you want."

Asuya grunted and looked away once more "Just forget it. Besides, I need to be released from this room first" he said as he strained to get out of bed, only to be held back by the straps

The nurse sighed, feeling terrible about what she had done to the unfortunate pegasus "Listen, I'm really sorry about what I did. I'll leave you be for tonight, and I'll come back tomorrow to check on you, OK?" she said as Asuya fell asleep. She smiled to herself and sat down, watching her patient sleep peacefully.

Author's Note: First off, ALL of my OCs came from a story that I tried to write before FiM was even released, so if things seem a bit weird or out of place, please either just roll with it or tell me so I might be able to fix it. Also, don't count on any regular releases. OH one last thing, going to establish the backstory, so it will probably suck, so if you're reading it, Thanks!

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