Chasing The Stars

Shadow was sitting beside a lake, looking at the moon. He had always liked the moon, ever since that he was a baby. Every time he looks at the moon, he felt warmth .It feels like the warmth of having a family. As if he had a home with parents to love, siblings to care and everything a filly with a family could have. But the fact is, he didn’t have it. It was just a part of his imagination. Shadow sighed of tiredness as he recalled his memories a few days ago…..

It was a fine, sunny day. Shadow was trotting happily down the streets of the morning bazaar of his town. While he kept on his trotting, he accidently heard a discussion of two mares:

“Do you know about the rumor?” the first mare asked the second mare.

“What rumor?” the second mare asked back.

"The rumor about Shadow Blade of course!” the first mare exclaimed.

“The filly that stays at the orphanage?” asked the second mare.

  “Yes! They say that Shadow is the brother of Nightmare Moon…” the first mare explained.

  Just then, all of his happiness ended when he heard the rumor. Shadow’s mind went as blank a sheet of paper. He didn’t know what to do. Then, he quickly ran back to the orphanage and locked himself in his room. Not noticing that his friends and the orphanage rector, Miss Starshine is calling him outside. He hid his head under his pillow, calling himself not to cry. But he can’t control his tears, causing them to fall. After all, He’s just a nine-year-old filly…

A few minutes later, he heard Miss Starshine using the keys to open the door. Shadow quickly pretended to fall asleep .Hoping that his little trick would work, making Miss Starshine to go away. Instead of letting all the other fillies coming into the room, Miss Starshine told them to wait outside and continue their activities.

‘Miss Star Shine is a kind pony after all…’ Shadow thought to himself.

After going into the room, Starshine closed the door and walk towards Shadow, softly. Shadow slightly shivered when Starshine went closer to him. And when she got beside him, Starshine uses her magic to levitate the blanket off Shadow.

“Gotcha.” She said as she saw Shadow stared at her, slightly frightened.

She chuckled softly when she saw Shadow’s frightened face. Causing Shadow to get a little mad and taking back his good impression to Starshine just now.

“It’s okay Shadow; I just wanted to make sure that you’re okay.” She said softly to Shadow.

Shadow quickly shook his head. He didn’t want anypony to get into this mess he’s in. He wanted to solve his own problems by himself.

“Are you sure you don’t need anything?” Starshine asked Shadow suspiciously.

Shadow shook his head again.

“Well, just call me if you need me okay?” Starshine told Shadow before going out of the room.

Shadow just nodded as Starshine went out of his room. When he made sure that she closed the door, he went down his bed and to his window. He felt lucky because that he was appointed to this room when he came to the orphanage. This window was the only one that he could get a good view of the moon. Shadow looked at the moon for a long time before going bed, telling the moon about his feelings today. He don’t know why, but the moon seems to listen to him. As if the moon was his best friend. After a few minutes, he bid goodbye to the moon in his heart and went to bed.

The next morning, he woke up and went to the dining room to have his breakfast. He was happy today, not to worry about the rumor he heard yesterday. When he arrived at the dining room, he saw that everypony were staring at him and whispering something. Shadow felt odd.

‘What are they whispering?’ Shadow thought curiously.

As Shadow sat down on the bench to have his breakfast, the fillies beside him quickly moved away, making a disgusted face. Shadow’s heart sank. The rumor already spread to the orphanage. Shadow ate his breakfast silently, hanging his head, causing his mane to cover his face as he was sobbing. After finishing his breakfast, he ran out of the orphanage, hoping that he could just go away from this world and to a place that he could fit in...

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After 1 hour of non-stop running, he finally stopped at a meadow. The meadow was full of fragrant smelled wild flowers and green grass. The sun was shining brightly in the blue, cloudless sky. Shadow was absolutely amazed when he saw the meadow.

‘Maybe this world isn’t so bad after all…’ he thought.

While he was strolling happily on the meadow, he heard a familiar voice coming behind him:

“Shadow, come back here you silly foal!” Starshine shouted.

Shadow turned his back and saw Starshine running towards him. He was completely surprised. He didn’t know that somepony would come and look for him.

“Come; let’s go back to the orphanage.” Starshine told Shadow as she levitated Shadow’s hoof, taking him back to the orphanage.

Shadow was defenseless. He could throw a tantrum like other foals at the orphanage and making Starshine to give up and leave him alone at the meadow, but he just…Can’t..

Shadow was only able to take a last look of the meadow before going back to the orphanage. He was not capable of telling Starshine that he wanted to stay there. When they arrived at the orphanage, Shadow saw that everypony was doing their own things silently. No more gossiping, whispering or staring. It was just like as if nothing happened before. Full of confusion, Shadow slowly went into his room while Starshine went to do her chores. He quickly closed the door when he got into his bedroom. He had already decided to go away from this town. He packed his luggage and kept it at a corner. Now, he just needed to wait for the correct time…..

After dinner time, it was bedtime for all foals. Shadow quickly went into bed and waited for the lights to turn off. After a few minutes, all the lights were turned off. Shadow took his luggage silently and tip-toed out of the orphanage. While he was walking, he suddenly heard a sound. He turned around and saw that it was only a rat.

‘Whew, that was close’ Shadow thought, slightly relaxed.

Then, he quickly went to the kitchen and got some bread to eat in his journey. After that, he went out of the orphanage. Now, he was free.