Destiny

Chapter 1: Rain, rain come agian

Why was I the only one who smiled while it rained? The rest of the fillies and colts in my class always had an unmistakable frown but I was different, or was I the only normal one. They would groan and whine that now they would'nt have recess and be able to play in the playground. Which I really had no problem missing out on a little swing time. That kind of stuff was pointless to me.

Must be that my family had finally gotten to me. They wanted me to be the best unicorn in all of Equestria. Family image was everything to them. Must be some requierement growing up in Canterlot or at least the Lulamoon household. The prestigious title of The Great and Powerful was passed down from mother to daughter every generation once the daughter me had shown her worth as The Greatest Unicorn in all of Equestria, but that never mattered to me. I just want to see what's outside this city.

I've only been out of Canterlot once back befor I really understood much about this world, and that was to visit family in Manehattan for a couple of days. the whole experience was quite boring. A bunch of old mares including my mother WonderSpark Lulamoon talking about who knows what. The entire set up looked like some sort of secret society with the qet-ups they were wearing. Light purple capes which all seem to have hoods except for my mothers. Hers was missing the hood and instead had a matching magicians hat covered in yellow and light blue stars. Adorning the cape was a flawless light blue sapphire that was holding it together around her neck. I couldn't understand much of what they were discussing but all i knew is that I was mentioned quite frequently.

That was the highpoint of that vacation; if you could call it one. Spent the rest of it cooped up in my older cousins room. Who had gone off to college months before we had arrived. Mother didn't let me play witht he other fillies. Said they were bellow us. Lulamoons are never to associate with any lower class Unicorns, and to never at any point bee seen with a brute of a Pegasus or a useless dirty Earth Pony. They are the lowest of the low as far as equine go.

So for the rest of those days there I spent my time inside the room reading the only children books my aunt had. Which wasn't that many. Remebering I must have read them at least 4 times each.

Its been a couple years since then and still i haven't been anywhere fun. I know i'm still a school filly but I just wish one day I could be free to explore outside of these walls. Even if they weren't famous I didn't care. Like this place I read about in an old book called Ponyvile wouldn't be so bad. It was some little town to the west south west. It was cultivated by an Earth Pony family. The Apples I believe were their last names. The land was given to them as a gift from Princess Celestia herself.

Little facts like that were really interesting to me. History of Equestria was my favorite subject here at Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. It was the only thing I could stand here. Mother didn't show any enthusiasm in me pursuing my dreams. In fact when I was younger she stoot me down saying that No daughter of hers is going to be some nopony bum traveling Equestria in some attempt to complete and live out a worthless silly little dream that will make me some unaccomplished mare, and that the rest of my existance was already planned out...

That is where she cut off her sentence, walked out the door and left me there int he middle of the room crying my eyes out. What kind of mother would do that to her own daughter. Wasn't I the one in control of my own destiny. How was I suppose to get a cutie mark that showed my passion to become a traveler of Equestria to learn its many secrets. When that apparently wasn't in the agenda for my future. According to my mother at least. I spent the rest of that day crying under my sheets in my bed until I heard a familiar sound. Water droplets striking the windows in my room ever so softly. The sound was as soothing as feeling the first snowflake touch your body at the beggining of winter. For some odd reason it mad the tears go away and a smile take over my frown. Like it's doing right now.

"Ms.Lulamoon, Ms.Lulamoooon." The teacher for my Intro to Dreamscape Mrs.Mystic Slumber had been calling out to me for quite a while. She was a pompous looking mare with a light blonde mane tied back in some failed attemped at having an elegant look to it but just came out to looking like some school filly fashion disaster. On the left side of her disaster area was this little light red bow slanted sideways to show more of a modern take to an old lady like style. Everypony in class began to chuckle at me not noticing her calls.

Once she got my attention she asked for me to solve a question she had up on the chalkboard. It was How many stages are there before one is completly asleep and finally dreaming? I pushed back my seat, got up, walked to the board and wrote 5, and a little extra which is also known as (REM) or Rapid Eye Movement.

"Correct Ms.Lulamoon. You can take your seat now. Also take this tissue and wipe those tears off your face. It's quite unbecoming of a little lady to look messy infront of one's peers." The way she spke every word was as if she was in her own way poking fun at me.

I was frozen in sheer embarrassment. Heat began to take over my face and at the same time did a shade of red. Did I just walk up infront of class with tears in my eyes. This could not be happening but it was. I took the tissue, wiped my face, threw it away in the trash, and walked back to my seat as quickly as possible. The sound of laughter was resonating around the classroom. Some of the fillies in my class were whispering to each other as they watched me get back to my seat. I couldn't understand fully at what they were saying. Only things I could decipher was Trixie and Freak.

The words were echoing in my head. Tears wanted to escape again but i knew if I did I would just get some looks and be ridiculed. So I kept it all in as much as I could.

"Ring...ring..ring, ring" the bell went off at just the right moment. Any longer and I would've lost it and cried. The day was over I can finally go home to the only real friend I had in this world. A dark blue celestial bear with a star pattern all over his body. His name was Rune. It was simple but I loved it.

I grabbed my school books with my hooves and opened my satchel with magic. Right as I looked inside my bag all my books fell to the ground making that loud and awful noise. To my horror Rune was staring straight at me from the bottom of the bag. When did I put him in here I thought to myself, and why didn't I notice when I got to class and grabbed my books. This was the worse thing that could've happened to me.

I looked around to seeif anypony had noticed, and just to my luck those fillies who were talking bad about me not to long ago were smiling and staring into my bag.

Can this day get any worse? Oh how i would regret those words so much by the end of this day.

Trying to do this as quickly as possible I put my stuff inside the bag and walked out of the classroom. The walk to the area where my older sister Lexi was picking me up seemed like it would take forever. It was on the other side of the institute. I would have to pass through some areas where I would be alone. The feeling of fear that something bad was going to happen to me while walking through those places was taking over my rational thought process, but nonetheless I had to go that path.

There are three halways I have to look out for. The 300 wing where The Advanced Equine Physiology Classes for the higher grade level students were located at. If I walk fast enough I know I can make it through with at least one teacher inside one of the classrooms that might of stayed late.

The music hall where our marching band practiced their halftime shows. They usually had practice in the morning so by this time there wouldn't be anypony inside the halls or classrooms. Sometimes however they had after school practice for those having trouble learning the steps to the shows and with state fast approaching a lot of them will be tuning up their skills.

Last but not least was the hallway where the majority of potions were taught. That is where I knew I was in trouble. Classes there were only held in the middle of the day when the sun was at its highest. Mostequine concoctions needed a bit of sunlight to be created. Knowing this the classrooms will in fact be empty, and there was also one other thing about that hallway. It was the meeting place for all the popular ponies would spend time together after class. Kind of like their own special hideout, and that's where I knew I'd see those fillies. They were self appointed leaders of the popular fillies and colts.

I dredded it once I arrived to my first hurdle but to my relief there was one classroom that had its lights on and inside was a teacher who had indeed stayed late after class grading papers.

The music hall was safe going as well. Students were practicing for their upcoming show at state and by the sounds of it looked like we are going to bring back the golden trophy once again.

My confidence was finally going up. Nothing could stop me was going through my mind. I got to the doors of the last hallway and saw that nopony was inside. Finally I can smile and walkthrough without worrying. "They must have gone home early" I told myself while pushing one of the doors open. Walking through i couldn't notice that the lights inside several rooms were turned on. "Even better" I thought to myself. That means that someponies had stayed late to catch up to their studies. Why was I so naive and believed this to be true. No how could I believe this to be true. Was I this dense. Maybe I deserved what was going to happen to me this day. Just maybe.

Once I got to the center of the hallway the sound of two doors slamming against the walls echoed from behind followed by the samme occurrence from two doors right in front of me. Behind me were two fillies. One named Emerald Legand which was a green coated black maned filly from my Equine Communications class. From the same class the filly right next to her was friend a light red coated crimson red mane with a light pink streak who followed Emerald everywhere. Her name was CandyCane and she was a tool if i ever saw one.

They weren't the ones I was worried about. It was the two in front of me. It was the two fillies from class. Their names were Bunny and Princess. The names were a perfect match for the two. One thought she deserved everything she wanted and the other came out from a hoe.. err i mean hole. Princess talked first of course.

"Lulamoon it's good to see you. How are you doing this fine evening?" I didn't answer. Just kept my bag close at had. Her eyes were fixated on it. She was in fact after with what was inside. Her next words said it all.

"How about you save yourself the trouble and hand me your satchel. I know you brought your little stuffed animal. It looks interesting and i want it." The look in her eyes were intent on getting her greedy little bratty hooves on Rune.

"No Princess you can't bully me into giving you my Rune" I said trying to sound a bit intimidating but in the end came out to some weak plea. Princess caught onto this and said.

"It wasn't a request. It was and order." With that the two fillies grabbed me and slammed me to the wall. The pain was great. I let out a lough scream but to no avail. No pony was around to here my call. Tears started to flow down my cheeks. Bunny got closer and started punching my stomach with each hit I was lossing my breath.

"Please... STOP." I whimpered and sobbed, but it wasn't helping. They were determined to hurt me till i learnedd some imaginary lesson Princess had embeded in each one of them. Bunny continued her assault until finally Princess told her to stop.

"Had enough Lulamoon" she said with a great big grin on her smug little face. Using and advanced levitation spell that no little filly her age shold know she lifted my satchel and everything inside was dumped on the floor. We both looked down and in a small puddle of my own blood was Rune.

She lifted him and said "this could've been easier if you just cooperated with me in the first place. It didn't have to get ugly but you forced my hoove."

"D....don't take hime... Pl...pl..please" *cough, cough* words were getting harder and harder to pronounce. "He's my only friend... Pri..Princess please don't do this."

My words were nothing to her. The response she gave was "oh Lulamoon if you want him so bad i'll give him back, but not before i play with him a little. I got to tell you though I play rough." She held the bear in front of my face and proceeded to tearing it apart. Leg after leg, arm after arm, finally taking off the head and ripping the boddy to pieces.

My heart sank. How can somponies be so cruel? What did I ever do to them? I wasn't some sort of threat to them. Never in my life have I ever done anything wrong to them. Was being considered a freak really a reason to be tourtured till my bones ached. "Rune..." Was the only word I could form before being let go and dropped to the ground where my best friend layed dead in my mind. Torn beyond repair. Without warning all four began to kick my body. The thought of death was creeping ever so slightly closer and closer to the front of my mind. Maybe it was a good thing at least I can see Rune again, and my dream to get out of this Celestia forsaken city. This would've been the case if She hadn't come to my aid. I'd never seen her before. This lavender pony with a midnight blue mane that had two streaks one pink one purple. The actions she performed that day saved my life. With a single spell all four of these vile fillies were thrown agains the wall. All four of them got up and ran away crying, bloody and limping away. Who was this pony who saved my life.

She started to speack but the only things I could understand were "please don't fall asleep. Do not die on me you hear. I'm going to get you to help."

I didn't want to let her down so with the rest of my will power I kept myself alive. Se lifted me up onto her back at the same time put all my things including Rune inside my satchel.

She ran as fast as she could trying to get to the nurses office. Everything around me felt like it was going slow motion there were instances where I almost lost consciousness but those words of hers echoed through my mind and I tried my hardest at staying awake. Then it began to rain. I thought today was going to be all horrible but for just an instant even if it was just a bit I was able to smile and trully be happy, but not just for one. I had tow reasons to smile.

Finally we arrived outside of the nurses office which was right next to the area where Lexi was waiting. She ran to me faster then I had ever seen her run and grabbed me off of this mysterious fillies back.

The words that she spoke next more like screamed I wish I could've stopped but was unable to speak a single word.

"Who in the Tartarus did this to my little sister? Was it you? Put her down now." She then punched her down to the ground. Fear and tears took over that once loving face. It was the last look she gave me as she ran away.

Quietly under my breath I was able to muster "Don't go.... you don't have to be afraid... please come back... I'm... sorry. I never even got to know your name. How can I ever be able to... thank you...." That's the last thing I remember before closing my eyes and passing out.

Author's Note

Attempt at writting while on Rockstar Super Sours energy drink (BubbleBerry). Hope you guys like it. It was really fun writting it.