One-Wing Chronicles: Book 1: A Dark Past

Old Memories Lost in Time

by Hamon 240

It was a normal day in Cloudsdale, Rainbow Dash had returned home for two reasons. One, it was the day she had to turn in her annual report on her weather duties. Two, she had tickets to the Wonderbolts first show of the new year. "It's about time!" She yelled at the pony behind the counter of the Weather Factory. "Miss, I hate it when you are here. You're always so pushy and it just makes my job harder." "Yea, well...Here's the paperwork I have turn in, now, I'm gone!' Rainbow said as she rushed to get to the stadium where the show would be.

"Starseeker, you ready?" Soarin' asked. "Hmmm." the Wonderbolts rookie didn't answer. He just sighed at old memories of his childhood. "Leave him be Soarin'." Spitfire said. "His tricks just saved his life. If they weren't so good he'd still be nobody, walking the streets of Cloudsdale pondering his memories like my grandpa." "I'm still nobody." Starseeker said as he left the locker room. "I was ever since I left her behind." "What's eating him?" Soarin' commented. "The transition from poor and homeless to a rich fly-boy must be hard to process." Spitfire replied.

As the Wonderbolts came flying out, everyone kept their eyes out for the new rookie everyone was talking about. "I can't believe it wasn't me." Rainbow Dash whined. "But he seems to be a great flier. But, I wonder why his tricks seem so, familiar." After the show as Rainbow Dash was walking out of the stadium, she ran into the rookie, literally. "Owww...Oh, I'm so sorry...I didn't..." she stopped in the middle of her sentence as she looked at the rookies face. "Could it really be...?" she thought. "Well, well who do we have here?" the rookie remarked. He too paused as he saw Rainbow's face. "Could it be her?" 'I-is your name, Starseeker?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Y-yes. Are you, Rainbow Dash?" Star replied. "T-that's my name." Rainbow answered.

"Spitfire, I need to go to Ponyville for a couple days." Starseeker said. "Hmm, well I don't need you for a few days." she replied. "When will you be back." "Monday." Star said. "Go ahead."

Back at Ponyville, Rainbow Dash had all her friends get together. "So, Rainbow, why'd you gather us all together?" Twilight asked. "Well, I was just reminded that...I'm an orphan, and I was never adopted." Her friends gasped. It all made sense, Rainbow always being alone, never going to see family on the holidays. It was because she didn't have a family! "And this is what reminded me." Rainbow said. "Meet the Wonderbolts new rookie...Starseeker."

Star walked up and looked at Rainbow's friends. "We grew up together in Cloudsdale Orphanage." Dash continued. "I haven't seen him in years, but all it took was one look at his face to remember it all." "Same here. We were really close, it was rumored that we were dropped off on the same day and time!" Starseeker laughed for the first time in a while. "Seeing as we were foals when it happened, we may never know." Rainbow said. "Here's our story."

Cloudsdale, 17 years earlier

One night at Cloudsdale Orphanage, two foals were dropped off. There was a knock on the door. "Not again." the keeper, Kindheart said. "Too many babies are left here. Even for an Orphanage." Once she opened the door Kindheart looked down on to two foals. A cyan-blue filly with a rainbow mane and a black colt with a spiky yellow mane. "They're obviously NOT related." Kindheart commented. "Hmmm you poor bab- Where'd the girl go?" Kindheart looked behind her to see her inside already. "You're fast. Hmmm Rainbow Dash will be your name." Kindheart then turned her attention to the colt, he was busy looking up at the night sky. He seemed to be analyzing the stars. "Well now, come on Starseeker you and Rainbow Dash here need to go to bed.

Ponyville, present day

"Wait a moment. Fluttershy, didn't you say that your mother's name was Kindheart?" Rarity asked. "Ummm, No...at least...I don't think I did. Yes..." Flutter replied. "So you knew about this, didn't you?" Applejack instigated. Pinkie just stared her down. "Ummm, kind of, I mean I went to school with them...yes..." Fluttershy said "I saw them when my mom took me to work." "It's ok, RIGHT girls." Twilight pushed. "Yep no problems here." the other three answered. "I thought I recognized you." Starseeker said to Fluttershy. "It's been awhile." "Y-yea...so lets get on with the story...I mean if you want..." she remarked.

Cloudsdale, 15 years ago

"Rainbow Dash, Starseeker, this is my daughter Fluttershy." Kindheart said as she walked her own two year old in the door. Dash just stared at the yellow filly and Starseeker was asleep on a pillow next to her. Dash blinked as Fluttershy ducked behind her mother. "Some of the other children here like to pick on her, but I know you two will get along with my little girl." Kindheart smiled and left the three kids alone. Rainbow pointed at Fluttershy as Starseeker woke up. He gazed at her then yawned. By the time Kindheart came back, Rainbow was able to gain Fluttershy's trust. Starseeker still intimidated her a little though, but he didn't seem to mind, only two years old and already he seemed like a lone wolf. Kindheart still persisted. She would start leaving Fluttershy to play with Rainbow and Starseeker instead of taking her to daycare. Eventually, some of the other's enthusiasm rubbed off on Star and he'd play with them instead of sleeping and waiting for Fluttershy to leave. In two years time the three had became best friends.

Cloudsdale, 10 years ago

"Come on Star, you know that we can do it!" Dash pleaded. "I-I don't know it seems like a far drop..." Fluttershy remarked. "She's right Dash, we try jumping this at our age and one false move could be game over." Starseeker said. "Aww, you guys are no fun." Rainbow whined. "STARSEEKER, RAINBOW DASH, FLUTTERSHY! HOW AND WHY ARE YOU THREE UP THERE!" Kindheart yelled to the three children up on her orphanage roof. "Great now we get lecture hour..." Dash sighed. "It was your idea, you only have yourself to blame..." Starseeker remarked.

"How many times do I have to tell you three, DO NOT TRY TO JUMP ROOFS!" Kindheart complained. "Honestly, it's like I'm raising all three of you sometimes..." "There's no reason to feel like that..." Starseeker sighed. "What is that supposed to mean?" Kindheart asked. "The only one you should care about is Fluttershy, it's not like you own me and Rainbow Dash, there's no need for you to care about us, our own parents didn't want us." Star answered and ran off. "Starseeker!" Dash reached out as he ran off but it was Kindheart who brought him home. "Don't run off like that again! Do you hear me?" she said. He just sighed and went to his room.

Cloudsdale Flight Academy, the next year.

"Hey Fluttercry don't let my jokes get to you I'm only playing!" an older student said. "Leave her alone!" Rainbow yelled as she and Starseeker walked up. "Oh if it isn't Rainbow Crash and Star-bleaker." the bully remarked "You two don't have an appointment with me till later." "Well I must be ahead of schedule." Star replied as he kicked the older pegasus in the side. "Oh don't get me started on you." the kid told him. "They should have named you FAMILY-seeker, considering where you live." Star just paused and took the next few kicks to the gut. Finally the bully threw, Star,Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy in a storage closet and locked them inside. "Have a good day, losers!" Star sat in the corner of the small closet and cursed the bully, his parents wherever they may be, and Celestria herself. "I hate you all!" he yelled through muffled sobs. When the janitor finally found the three of them, it was 10pm and Kindheart was getting worried. "Oh my, what happened? Starseeker, your flank is bruised." she said. "Don't worry about it." he remarked coldly. "But..." "DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT!" with that star ran to sit on the roof of the orphanage alone.

Dash and Fluttershy explained the situation to Kindheart. "Oh, I see...bully problems again... That poor kid... He feels so rejected, I can't help but feel sorry for him." Kindheart sighed. Rainbow walked up to the roof and found her old friend. "You know, I have a way that they'll finally have to give me respect. The Sonic-Rainboom... If I pulled that off they could never look down on me again..." Starseeker sighed."Lets make a bet." Dash said. "We both like trick flying right? Well, lets say the first one to do the Sonic-Rainboom, owes the other... tickets to see the Wonderbolts!" "You're on..." Star smirked and shook his friends hoof. "But I gotta warn you, I've already been practicing." "Try me!" Rainbow challenged.

Cloudsdale Flight Academy, 7 years ago

Bullies were picking on Fluttershy again, but Starseeker was nowhere to be seen. So, Rainbow Dash stood up and challenged the bullies to a race. Then out of nowhere...the Sonic-Rainboom, she did it, she won the bet and got her cutie mark in the process! She just hoped that Fluttershy saw so Star didn't think she was lying. Little did she know she knocked her friend to the ground below. But, Fluttershy somehow came back up after awhile. "Lets go home!" Dash said excitedly and rushed to the orphanage. "Kindheart, Kindheart where's Starseeker, I didn't see him at school!" Rainbow Dash said. "I'm sorry, he wasn't at school because...he was adopted right before the you came home. I asked him to stay home so he could meet the family that wanted him, sorry, odds are you'll never see him again." Kindheart told the filly. Dash's eyes started to water, Starseeker was there every step of the way, now he was suddenly gone? "I HATE YOU! YOU COULD HAVE TOLD ME THAT BEFORE I WENT TO SCHOOL!" she yelled at Kindheart. "If it makes you feel better, he pushed for them to take you as well, but they just wouldn't have it." Kindheart said. "I DON'T CARE! I want him HERE with ME and Fluttershy!" Dash replied. "M-mom I want to move to below the clouds, I-I don't want to stay here anymore...If that's ok with you."Fluttershy said. "Yes, I do think we should move. Dash are you..." Kindheart stopped as she saw Dash ran off.

Ponyville, Present

"Not much more to say other than, I ran away to Ponyville and Kindheart sent Fluttershy to live with her aunt. Who, on pure coincidence lived in Ponyville as well." Dash said. "Wow, what a story..." Twilight remarked. "I never imagined that your life was so hard, Sugarcube." Applejack said to Rainbow. "Well, there is more." Starseeker said. "Don't you want to know about my life after I was adopted?" "Sure, why don't you tell me, later. At my house," Rainbow told him, "Umm, ok then." Star replied. After a while everyone went home and Dash took Starseeker home. "I hope he doesn't know how I feel.' Rainbow thought. "Does she share my feelings?" Starseeker asked himself.