The unknown filly

3.

“What about the birth?”

"Twilight? can’t help us? See can arrange it a secret one right?”

Dusty fished off her work, only making two more sales, yet her happiness didn't drop. I think in all she made about 25 bits and she seemed over the moon. 25 bits is about a much money to get food for one day. If she made about that every day she would just about survive. I waited for her to put away her many bottles of poison, she hide them down her alleyway. If she had a choice whether to live with Sally then why did she choose to live down an alleyway? She brought with a saddlebag full of her money out of the alleyway. “Ready to go lighting?” she asked. “Are you wings okay?” The pain in my wings in no means he stop hurting.  They are hurting like you're getting limb slowly torn off. “They really hurt” I say.

“In respect I will not fly at all while we are walking to Sally's.” She smiled at me and we went on are little journey.

***

Finally we got to where Sally lived, it was tall old apartment building. Some of the windows have been smashed, especially towards the bottom of the building. I look up to see a golden coloured unicorn with her head out of the window. She was smoking a cigarette, I think it was a cigarette. Dusty waved to the unicorn. “Who is that?” I ask. Dusty stop waving and looked at me. “Well I don’t know her real name, but her street name is Angel.”  Her street name? Is she a type of gangster.  I decide to ignore it for now. I hear a rumble for my stomach. I haven’t eaten since lunch time yesterday and now the sun was rising. “You're hungry aren't you Lighting? If we stop time wasting outside we can eat something and also we can see what we can do about your wings.” Dusty said. As we walk through a little pale yellow filly rushed out. It seem odd.

After walking up 7 flights of stairs we arrived at the door where Sally lived. It would've been a lot easier if I could have flown up! We arrived to a dirty brown door, the number was 17b. Dusty knock constantly  like a woodpecker until somepony  answered. The door open to the same golden unicorn, who was smoking out of the window. She smiled at me “Dusty, who is your little friend?” she ask.

“This is Lightning and Sally told me to look after her.” Dusty said.

“Oh okay.” The unicorn said. “Hello Lighting, my name is Angel and I live with Sally.” She said.  Angel moved out of the doorway, letting us in. I walk into the small room. The room was teal colour. The room was basic and a sofa which was broken . Angel looked at Dusty with disapproving look. “Dusty how do you get you mane in such a mess?” Angel said. Angle used her magic to grab the nearest mane brush and started to brush Dusty mane.  Dusty face turned from and face of joy to one of gloom. From look of it she didn't like for her mane to pampered. “Angle brushed my mane last night! I don't need it to brushed again.” Dusty whined. Angel sighed and continued brushing. Angel finally stop brushing Dusty’s mane .Dusty used her hooves to get back to how it was.  “So lighting why are you here?” Angel asked

“Um..” what do say? “Um well I got kick out of an orphanage” I said. Dusty rushed over to me, her eye looking me up and down. “What? you're an orphan too?” She ask, her face full of hope. I nodded, all of sudden Dusty hugged me. I screamed she had forgotten my wings. “Sorry, I just have never meet a nice orphan before... or some like me” She said her voice sadden. Like her? I looked at her in the eyes, her bright purple eye dimly turning to dark shade of purple. “Your pegasus right? Like me and you lived in a Manehattan orphanage right?” Her become desperate. “You haven’t gone to flight school?” I sadly nodded. “I know how you feel.. I mean I don't want to sound rude, but.... I know what all the shame feels likes..” tears came to her eyes. What happened to her, she was a happy pony, but know she a pony about to cry, “Sorry, but I don't want to bring the mood down... I was I could go to flight school... but I get really bad altitude sickness, I can’t go above this building, without feeling sick” What? That is not high at all... the poor pony.

“I wish I could go, but the care workers not want to the paperwork.” I said. Dusty mood change from sad to down right out rage. Angle put a hoof around me to comfort me, it really help. “Paper work, paper work?. Where is your orphanage I will show them a piece of my mind.” All of a sudden the door slammed opened, in the doorway was a white stallion. His hair was dyed a blonde colour, his lipstick smeared across his face, eye shadow created a blue patch around his eyes. He walk in with power but when a spoke his voice was so soft. “Dusty dear calm down, you're hungry. You rainbow mane, the girl I got away from the Blue earth pony gang?” I nodded, but Dusty was still up in alls. I was guessing this was Sally. Sally put a hoof around Dusty, almost instantaneously claiming her. “Angel dear places can prepare some breakfast?” Angel got up and walk over to the small kitchen area. “we all need to calm down okay?” He said, his voice soft and soothing.

I ate up my small meal, I have never been so grateful for so little food. Sally looked at me with a really weird look. “I not want to seem rude but do you know who your parents are?” Sally said

“Um... no why?” I said. Sally put his hoof on mine.

“You look like a very famous pegasus.” My jaw dropped. Sally laughed slightly. “Well yes you do, when I was about your age there was 6 ponies which protected all of Equestria.” he said, stopping so he wouldn't shock me too much. “Well they used the elements of harmony, you have learnt about them?” I nodded. “Well one of the ponies was a sky blue pegasus like you.  She had rainbow mane, but she didn’t have that blue lightning bolt that you do.” I look at my mane, I see the bottom of the blue lighting blot mixed in between the colours of the rainbow. “Really I look like her?” He nodded, Dusty look confused and Angel was smoking again. “She became a Wonderbolt. They are the best flyer in Equestria.” My mum could of been a Wonderbolt? I could already seen her? But I was so young. He countiend “She had many flings with ponies, but think after the Wonderbolts broke up she got married to one of them, which not many hardcore fans  liked.” He sat there thinking, while me and Dusty had the same expression of shock. “What? Hold up Sally, she could be a daughter of one best flyer in Equestria?” Duty said.

“Well that is what I think, you two are bit young to remember them, Angel do you remember the Wonderbolts?” He asked. Angle look at me, she exhaled smoke and with as sudden cough she said “I was young,about a teenager when the Wonderblots broke up, but I still remember them. Lighting you look like Rainbow Dash! She was the best one, but you don't have her eyes though.” Sally looked at me,

“Your right not the eyes, but it’s a uncanny you look just like her.” Dusty looked me with huge smile,

“We need to get her to see them, but first we need to go the Orphanage.”

“Dusty no, don't yell at him” Angel said in a motherly tone.

“I not going to yell I just want to say hi.” She said. “Any way she needs to get her stuff? If she as any?.”

***

We got the the orphanage, only me and dusty walk up the door. “This is the hell I went too, I got kick out soon as discovered my cutie mark” Dusty said. Dusty knock on the door, when she knocked on the door I heard a voice of a filly shout “Lighting is back”. The door slowly open, standing the way was the head care worker. He had a devilish smile as he looked at us. “Well girls, what do you want?” He ask. Dusty looked down at the ground. “Lighting what is matter with your friend?” He said. Dusty look him in the eye and said “You really don't remember me? Do you?” He look at her for a second, a sudden shock went through his system. “It’s you, Dusty Poison. You're the only filly I took the picture down from my office”  he siad. The office, the pictures. I remembered  what happened yesterday, rage was filling me. He was going to make me do stuff, that day wasn't a good day. Tatsu! “What have you  done with Tatsu?” I yelled,my body about rupture with anger. His smile grew. “What did do with the beautiful pale green unicorn, know as Green Tatsu.” He laughed. Mocking me. My wings wanted to open, I tried my best to stop them. They open and pain exploded around my body, only my anger stopping me from fainting. He laughed even harder. “This is pure gold, what is a weak filly going to do against me?” He said. Dusty quickly grab something from her saddle bag a crashed on the floor. The care worker jump up in the air, I dashed around him and ran down the hall towards the office. I was at the door, the horror room. I open a door, to find my little unicorn friend curled up in a little ball. Her brown mane, which is normally in two pigtails, was messy and out of place. I put a hoof on her back and she moved and whimper. “Tatsu don't be scared, it’s Lighting.” Seeing the strongest pony you know suddenly be weak, is a big shock. It plays your heart strings, a person you look for help suddenly, needs your help. She turned around to see my face, she had tears falling down from her brown eyes. She hugged me as hard as she could, the pain from my wings was worth it, just to help your friend, no your sister. “Come on we getting out of here.” I say. She nodded.

“ Where do you think you going?” the head care worker shouted. I ran forward and hit in where it hurts and then ran off with Tatsu by my side. We ran outside. Dusty pick up Tatsu and we ran  back to where Sally was.

***

We went back to Sally’s apartment, Tatsu and me sat there, looking at each other. Her tears have stopped. Angel came over and sat down next to us. She smiled at Tatsu. Tatsu become more like her normal self, now that she is in safe place. “So Tatsu do you know anything about magic?” Angel said. A smiled went across her face, magic is  Tatsu passion.

“What do you want to know” Tatsu said cheekily. Angle laughed at her statement. It amazed me how fast she got her normal self. After all that has happened, she can bounce back that quickly , she is the strongest pony I know. “You can tell what I should know, while I brush your mane?” Angel said. Angel used her magic to grab a hair brush and Tatsu started to talk.  I couldn't understand a word they said. Dusty rushed through the door, holding in her mouth a piece of paper. She trip up on something and chased on the ground, the bit of paper landed next to be.

The young Wonderbolts

That is right the world renown Wonderbolts are returning!

But with a new generation, calling all young pegasi

There is a tryout in your City

Are you the best flyer?

What? The Wonderbolts are returning, but they need a new generation. Why did dusty bring this? “Lighting this can be you chance!” Dusty shouted, getting up as she did. I not want to be a Wonderbolt, anyway I can’t fly. “Look who is judging it.” She pointed at the bottom of the paper. It said it would be judged by Rainbow Dash. The pony who Sally said I looked like. My mum could be judging this thing! I jump in the air with excitement. “Lighting we need to go to this thing, this your chance to find your real family.” Dusty said, this means so much to her. Why would she care so much about me finding my parents? “What is it Lighting?” Tatsu asked. I handed her the bit of paper.  “Look Greeny, she looks like one of the pegasus judging it” Dusty said.  “My name is not Greeny it’s Tatsu, also if this is true you have to go Lighting.” Tatsu said. Everypony nodded. There right I have to go, I have to.