Ashella Gear

The pain in me is worse then what you can see on the outside of me. I look at my new home and sigh. My thoughts wirl in my head.

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"Don't be afraid of changes, Life still moves on.Promise me you'll be good no matter what happens."

"I Promise ,Mama. Where's Papa? I want him to read The Adventures of Nyx. "

"He should be here shortly." She looked out the door and turned to me. She went and sat in her chair. We were in the living room waiting for Papa to come home. It had been a long day. It was my birthday, I had turned 8. Papa had gone to work. After a while I heard a low whistle. Mama looked at me. Before I knew what happened she grasped me in her magic. I looked at her. She was scared. She ran across the wooden floor and up the steps. She turned a corner and opened a door at the end of the hall. I was confused. Why was she taking me into the storage closet? She ducked and swervd and jumped over a few things. She tripped on an unseen box ,still holding me up. She pulled a book on a bookshelf and the wall slid open. She sat me in there and leaned down. She pulled me close in a hug. When we pulled away I looked at her she was sad and scared she looked at me and took her necklace off and sat it around my neck while saying,

"Stay here until I come to get you. I love you,be good." She began to sob.

"Raven, come on," My Papa said coming into the room.

"Monroe, Please say something to your daughter first," He looked at me and came closer. He hugged me so tight.

"I love you, Here will you hold these for me." He his goggles off and put them on my head quickly and kissed my head. "Be  quiet, we will come to get you." There was a loud beating coming from downstairs.

"Monroe!" Papa and I look around and see Mama at the window."There here." She cried harder. "Monroe, I can't leave her here alone."

Alone?, I think. "Mama, what's wrong?"

"I love you, sweetie, Be good." The wood cracked to the door downstairs.

"FIND THEM NOW!!!" A stallions voice calls through the house. Papa shuts the door to the wall. I see them moving. Mama was crying softly and Papa was holding her. There was a crack that I could see out of. I pulled  back as the door to the storage room opened.

"Thought you could escape forever,No?" The stallion said in a Germaine accent.

Mama cried harder.

"You thieves. Where is the filly!"

"She's gone and even if we had her we wouldn't tell you were she is." My Mama said between sobs.

The pony defied the laws of physics and pulled Mama away from Papa Faster then anypony could blink.

"Seize him!" The Germaine stallion said to his henchman. He put a knife to Mama's throat.

"Raven! Do not hurt her ,she has nothing to do with this." Papa said strongly.

"She's your wife ,no? We have been everywhere, You're family and roots are dead."

Mama nearly passed out from crying,but the knife kept her alert. The stallion pushed the blade harder onto her neck, flat and still a thin strip of blood came onto her white fur. She wailed in agony. Papa pushed the stallions away who were holding him down.

I didn't see what happened next for I passed out.

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"Nooooo," Raven cried as her beloved husband hit the ground, a knife in his chest,"Monroe,"she sobbed.

Monroe looked at his wife. They had been married for Twenty yrs., He struggled to lift his head to look at her.

"Monroe." she uttered. He stood up and took three hoof steps and fell.

"Gah," he said falling to the ground.

"Stop, Monroe, Stop." Raven said worriedly.

He looked to her and as the world turned to white, his life flashed before his eye's. The day he got married to his Raven. When there daughter was born and the adventures he had when he was younger. Then, he began to see things that he would not be there for, His daughter's wedding, his grandchildren, and Being with Raven, sitting on the porch talking about there lives'.

"Raven," he muttered at this last thought. " I love you."

Raven stood there begging to see her husband.

"Please, Please, Please," She cried.

"Shut up," He said tired of lolly gagging. The sound of sirens began in the distance. "Your coming with us."

She looked at them and said "Of course," she began walking with them. There was no feeling in her anymore. She would never see her daughter or husband again. She smiled and began to crack. She began laughing madly as her pupils shrunk. She grinned more then anypony should after what happened.

The house was closer now as I begin to step off the grass onto the walk. The cement was cracked and the weeds were growing high through them and around the house. The house is falling apart and there are shutters on the ground. Mister Hemlock stands next to me as I stop.

"Is this were I'm going to live?" I say a little unhappily.

"Yes, I know it's not as nice as the past houses, but it is closer to Manehattan." Mister Hemlock says.

Mister Hemlock is a dear friend of my Mama's and Papa's, He was there for my Birthday celebration. He is also, the only pony doesn't call me orphan. He believes Mama is still alive. She was soft-spoken and gentle, He said once. I believed him because Mama never raised her voice or hurt anyone. He said once, Papa was an adventurer and saved my Mama from villains and they soon got married and had me. I sighed as these remembrances went through my head. I had accepted what happened to Papa but, I thought Mama alive. I looked up at the gray stallion with white hair. He smiles gently at me. I look ahead and begin to walk slowly towards my new home. As we approach the house further I can read the sign which reads Madame's home for girls and boys.

"She sounds nice," Mister Hemlock said uncertainly. We walk to the front door and he knocks gently. The door opens, onto my new life.