Sombra - Life Of A Dark Presence

At the end of spring, both Sombra and Blazing Light found themselves in the Crystal Empire kindergarten, which allowed foals and colts from all three races to meet each other and built friendships.

It was no extraordinary place in the city. Just another, rather long building with several rooms and a huge garden, that was used as a playground for everypony to visit. Adorned with sand tables, swings, carrousels and much more, it was a young pony's heart's paradise.

Not surprisingly, the two Unicorns were not enjoying themselves on one of the attractions, but they rather sat on a wooden bank with table and ate their sandwiches, while reading a grimoire.

The only difference from some months ago is that Blazing Light gained his Cutie Mark. In front of a blazing fire, a sword crossed a spell-book, symbolizing that he was a strong warrior and excellent in performing spells. Sombra on the other hand was still lacking his, but it did not matter to him and he was confident about that he would gain it anyway sooner or later.

“Hah! Now I got it!” Sombra shouted out loud happily, before he channeled his magic energy into his horn and transformed a piece of wood on the table into a banana.

“Wow...” Blazing Light replied deprecatingly. “Everypony take cover. The new fruit-gardener is in town.”

“Harrumph! Keep it quiet you,” Sombra responded angrily.

“Oh come on, you know I'm only  goading you on,” he assured him defensively.

“Yes I know, but sometimes, it is just annoying,” Sombra explained him with displeasure.

“Nopony is perfect...” he argued snootily, before he took the banana and bit off a piece.

“Well...” Blazing Light continued while chewing on the banana. “Not many at least.”

Sombra was slightly annoyed by his arrogant behavior, but suddenly, he had the idea for a great prank. Without hesitation, he channeled his magic once more and transformed the banana back into the wooden stick it was before.

Blazing Light could feel the taste of bark on his tongue, and without hesitation, he spit everything out again, causing Sombra to fall backwards on the ground, laughing until he could not breath anymore.

“I'll give you that. That was a good one,” Blazing Light applauded him, before joining the festival of laughter.

After wiping away the tears out of their eyes, Blazing Light cantered towards Sombra and gave him one of his hooves. “Come on, pal. Get back on your fours!”

Sombra nodded and took his hoof, and getting back on his legs, he was about to pack everything into his saddlebag, but suddenly, he heard something not so far away and turned his focus towards that.

Standing next to each other were two, relatively bulky, and slightly overweight Crystal Ponies. One of them was very huge, had a sandalwood-colored hide and acre-brown mane and tail, and he had three basketballs as a Cutie Mark. The other colt was small, had a sallow lavender as his hide-color and a dark gray mane and tail, with three footballs as his Cutie Mark.

Both of them were standing in front of another Crystal Pegasus colt, who was the same age as Sombra, but a bit smaller. He was a dark blue pony with black mane and tail, and his Cutie Mark was an encircled Lambda, one of the letters used in a special language for wizardry.

This little fellow was obviously bullied by the other two, as he was cowering on the ground, gazing at them with his innocent, violet eyes right into the faces of his bullies, who unfortunately had their eyes cowered up by their hair.

“Oh don't worry little guy, we just want to talk with you a little,” the brown Pegasus assured him.

“Yes, why not chatting a bit while in the air?” the other one asked him sarcastically.

“Oh yes, I forgot,” The brown colt remembered heavily simulated. “You can't fly, you Earth Pony!” he yelled at him before they joyfully laughed at him to his dismay.

“Hey, you!” a female voice bawled at them in anger. “Quit it, right now!”

Out of nowhere, another Crystal Pony landed in front of them. She was possibly the most beautiful and gracious pony to ever take a step on the planet. She had a shining, white hide, a gracile, azure mane and tail and clear, crystal-blue eyes. Sombra gazed at her, and for him, she was the embodiment of an angel.

“Knock somepony around who has your size!” she summoned them to leave the little Pegasus be.

“Mind your own business, Angel Wings,” the brown Pegasus warned her.

“This here is only for adults, so get along with you, filly,” the other colt insulted her, enraging her even more than before.

“If you're going to talk the talk, you've got to walk the walk!” she warned them, but they ignored her and prepared themselves to assault her.

Sombra and Blazing Light could not just look at it, and promptly, they galloped to aid the white Pegasus. Sliding on the ground, they came to an halt next to her, with Sombra on her right side and Blazing Light on her left side. They did not really know each other, but Angel Wings immediately recognized them as classmates and her allies, standing tall and Strong to protect her friend.

“That is no way to treat a lady,” Blazing Light accused the two Pegasi in fury.

“Get along with you, before somepony gets hurt,” Sombra admonished them to their joy.

“Oh, who do we got here?” the brown Pegasus remarked teasingly. “The mongrel and his appendix.”

“Cut it out, Hoops, Score!” Blazing Light shouted at them.

“Pathetic...” Hoops, the brown Pegasus, annotated. “Alright. We will cut... some inches from you.”

Menacingly, they walked towards them, ready to deal out some pain. Blazing Light and Sombra were physically inferior, but they had magic on their side. They immediately canalized it, and their horns began to glow, purposefully emitting sparks to deter Hoops and Score away from them.

This worked for some seconds, but soon, they realized it would not hurt them, and laughing at the Unicorns, they kept on walking towards them.

Blazing Light and Sombra clenched their teeth. They did not want to attack them, but did they have any other choice? Angel Wings did not want to get involved into a fight as well, so she did the only think a true filly could do in this moment. Screaming her throat till it became hoarse.

The spell immediately ended and everypony at the playground pressed their hooves against their ears to avoid her terrible, deafening scream.

As soon as she finished and her throat was sore, an adolescent stallion jumped out of an entrance of the actual building and rushed towards the attendees.

“What is going on here?!” the dark brown, cream maned Pegasus asked in bewilderment.

“N-nothing, big brother,” Scoots tried badly to convince him. “It was just...”

But Angel Wings interrupted him and told him the truth. “Mr. Bell, these two were insulting and scaring our friend here,” she said while pointing at the respective, young Pegasus who gazed at him with puppy dog eyes.

Immediately, he turned towards his younger brothers and gazed at them in anger, and without hesitation, he gave them a good knock on the head, causing them to moan and their eyes getting filled with tears.

“What am I going to do with you? Only because I am supervisor in this facility does not mean you have a free ticket for everything.”

But they just stuttered, standing close from breaking down in tears, when out of nowhere, the little blue Pegasus came from behind Angel Wings and embraced both their chests. They blushed and were confused, but when the cute, tiny Pegasus gazed at them with a grin, they grinned back and nuzzled him, which he enjoyed very much.

“In affability lies happiness, not in unfriendliness.” Angel Wings gently made her point, to which the brothers nodded and the rest of the group smiled happily.

Then, Mr. Bell took his younger brothers with him into the building. Likely to get sanctioned by their parents anyway, he let them go unpunished this time.

Angel Wings turned to Sombra and Blazing Light and bowed to them. “Thank you very much.”

“All in a days work, my dear,” Blazing Light replied superciliously before embarrassingly gesticulating, making Sombra facehoof himself in shame.

But the young Pegasus took his hoof and held it gently in his hand, smiling at him.

“Hey, little guy...” he giggled gingerly. “What is your name?”

“B-Blue... L-L-Lambda...” he stuttered with his fragile voice, like it was a hard chore for him to pronounce his name.

“A pleasure to meet you, Blue Lambd...” he replied, but before he could finish his sentence, he was already hugged tightly by the smiling Blue Lambda.

“I wuv you, bwother,” he said weakly, which made Sombra smile in pride while he stroked his mane.

Angel Wings and Blazing Light were delighted by this sight, but quickly, they would loose their dominant position and get embraced by Blue Lambda as well, making it one big group-hug they enjoyed very much.

“Hehe, we love you too, Lambda,” Angel Wings told him while gently stroking his cheek with her snout, making him pure joyfully.

In this ongoing situation, Sombra felt something new. It was not the rival-friendship he had with Blazing Light. No, this was true fraternalism towards everypony in this hug. Were these his new, true friends? Next to Blazing Light a beautiful, kind and protecting Pegasus mare, and the cuddly, fluffy little Blue Lambda? He did not know, but he could not wish for anything more than this, and as the bell started to ring, he knew that this was the beginning of a new, joyful chapter in his life.