Chapters Star Flame was on the run.
He had been on the run since he had put a single hoof outside of the Canterlot hospital.
Star Flame was on the run because he was a changeling, and hadn't realized until about two days ago. Sure he had questioned why he had wings and a horn most of his life, but then The Incident happened. He didn't like to talk about it. But surprisingly after waking up in the hospital, Star Flame found out that he was, in fact, a changeling.
But as soon as he came out of the building the Royal Guard was in hot pursuit. Star Flame had been found in different towns across Equestria. This surprised him.
How do they keep finding me? Star Flame thought. He had one place left to go, his home in Ponyville. It was there that Star Flame knew the guards couldn't find him. He had been run out of towns from Canterlot to Baltimare It was his last place to go.
That day Star Flame planned to sneak into his home at night. He had to be careful not to be spotted by the Night Guard. Stealth was crucial at the time, and Star Flame didn't want to get arrested. He knew that if he got caught he was surely going to face harsh punishment.
But Star Flame couldn't think about that now, he was to busy planning. He was going to hide in the bushes, move from bush to bush undetected until he got to his front door.
When night fell, Star Flame begun his plan. Moving from bush to bush, he almost reached his home when Pinkie Pie appeared in front of him.
Pinkie was shocked to see a changeling in Ponyville, and gasped. "Oh my gosh a ch-" Star Flame cut her off by placing a hoof to her lips.
"Look, I don't need you to wake up all of Ponyville so that you can announce that I'm here." Star Flame said. Pinkie just stared at him as he lowered his hoof.
"But, don't you want to have a welcome party?" Pinkie asked. Star Flame just furrowed his eyebrows.
"Yes, but can it wait until tomorrow?" Star Flame replied.
"Okay."
"Do you Pinkie Promise?" Pinkie was surprised that the changeling knew of her special promise.
"Yes I Pinkie Promise" Pinkie said, doing the proper gestures.
"Thank you, and good night." Star Flame said as he opened the door to his house and went inside.
Once inside, Star Flame closed the door and sat on his couch.
His home was of usual size, standard rooms and all. But Star Flame had made some additions to the house. There was an elevator in the living room that led to his garage where he worked on his inventions.
Home sweet home. Star Flame thought. It had been a few days since he had been home, and it hadn't changed at all. Everything was as it had been. Star Flame let out a sigh of relief. His plan went as he predicted, except, of course, when Pinkie appeared.
Star Flame went into the kitchen and made some dinner. Nothing special, just a daffodil sandwich. Then he was off to bed.
In the morning, he went to his closet and found his old cloak.
I knew this would be useful some day. He thought as he put it on the dark cloak. Star Flame then went outside to go to the market. On the way there he ran into someone.
"Ow." The pony said.
"Sorry." Star Flame said as he helped the pony up. The pony had a lavender coat, a purple mane and tail, and purple eyes.
It was Twilight.
"I don't think I've seen you around before, what's your name?" Twilight asked.
"Star Flame." Star Flame replied.
:"That name sounds familiar." Twilight said. "Well, I'll see you later." Twilight then walked off.
She must mean the party Pinkie's putting together. Star Flame thought.
Star Flame walked into the market and pulled out his grocery list.
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After getting his groceries Star Flame headed home. But when he got home it was dark inside, too dark.
Light bulb must've gone out again. Star Flame thought as he hung his cloak on the coat rack by the door. He walked into what he thought was his living room.
It was quiet, too quiet.
"SURPRISE!!! " A bunch of ponies yelled as the lights turned on and they jumped out of their hiding places. There was a banner that said "Welcome changeling!" The "Surprise" didn't last long, it was immediately followed by gasps from all around the room. Everyone started having whispered conversations.
"Uh...hi?" Star Flame said to everypony in the room. He didn't get a response. Everypony just stared at him. Until Pinkie ran up to Star Flame. "You made it to the party!" she cheered
"Why wouldn't I? It's my house." Star Flame said. A few ponies were surprised. Star Flame could make out familiar faces,
Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy who was hiding behind the couch.
"Why are you here?" Twilight asked with furrowed eyebrows.
"I wanted to come home." Star Flame replied with a bit of sadness in his voice.
Twilight didn't look like she believed him. "Why are you really here?" she asked.
"I just told you," Star Flame answered."I've got nowhere else to go, and wanted to come home."
"What about the hive?" Twilight asked with her eyebrows still furrowed.
"I...don't want to go there."
"How come you can't go to a different town?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"I've been run out of every town in Equestria, ever since I stepped out of the Canterlot hospital." Star Flame said.
"But...why were you in the hospital?" Fluttershy asked.
"I...don't like to talk about it." Star Flame said, again, with sadness in his voice.
Then the worst happened. Someone knocked on the door and said "Royal guard, open up." and Star Flame's eyes went wide with fear.
Star Flame cautiously went up to his door. He was afraid there really was a royal guard out there. He took a deep breath, and breathed out. He opened the door and.....
There was Pinkie, in royal guard armor. Star Flame nearly face-hoofed. He should have known. When he noticed someone was missing, Pinkie had knocked on the door.
"Pinkie don't do that." Star Flame said.
"It was just a prank." Pinkie replied.
"If it was the royal guard, then I wouldn't be here anymore for you to pull pranks on." Star Flame told Pinkie.
"Oh, ok." Pinkie said loosing the tiniest bit of happiness, but quickly regaining it.
"Than you for your understanding." Star Flame said.
Pinkie and Star Flame returned to the living room. There, he saw all the familiar faces, but there was one filly that he didn't recognize. She had a black coat, purple mane and tail, turquoise eyes and she was an alicorn. It took some convincing, but Star Flame got every pony to trust him. While everypony was playing games, he walked up to her.
"Hello there, what's your name?" Star Flame asked.
"M-my name is N-nyx." The little filly replied
"My name is Star Flame" Star Flame answered.
Nyx ran off to Twilight and tried to get her attention. When she did, she told Twilight the news.
"Mom!" Nyx nearly yelled with excitement.
"What, Nyx?" Twilight asked.
"I met a new pony named Star Flame!" Nyx nearly yelled again.
"Where?" Twilight asked looking around.
At that time Star Flame had walked into the bathroom. It was the first time he looked in a mirror since The Incident. He studied himself. Surprisingly, he still had his mane and tail, with a cyan tint and a few holes, they were pointy at the ends. He looked at his front-right leg. It was robotic. He built it after an accident before The Incident. It had holes in it now. His shell was white (so was his magic aurora). But what surprised Star Flame the most were his eyes. Instead of being blue with the white tint, they still had the whites of his eyes outside his irises. His irises, were a light gray. His pupils, were somewhat like a cat's, or Nightmare Moon's, or a dragon's, however you want to think about it. Normal black, but instead of being round, they were slit-like. Plus the fact that he didn't have fangs.* Star Flame smiled at his reflection, then walked back into the living room.
"There's Star Flame!" Nyx said, practically yelling by now, and pointed her hoof at Star Flame.
Everypony turned and looked where Nyx was pointing. Twilight looked at Star Flame. "Nyx, that's not Star Flame, he's just the chang-"
"No, she's right." Star Flame interrupted. Everypony looked at him with confused expressions.
"I wondered why you looked a bit familiar." Rarity said.
"Well, with that being said, anyone have any questions for me?" Star Flame asked. Almost immediately, everypony in the room lined up. This is going to take awhile. Star Flame thought.
After every question was answered star Flame looked at the clock. It read 10:30 Star Flame sighed.
"I'm gonna hit the hay." was all he said before walking into his bedroom and passing out on the bed.
When star Flame woke up in the morning, it was raining outside. When he walked into the living room, he found everypony passed out. guess Pinkie tried to pull an all-nighter. Star Flame thought. Nyx was barely awake, that Star Flame didn't know.
Then, there was a knock at the door. Star Flame went to open it, as he did he asked, "Can I help yo-"
CRACK!!!
Star Flame was interrupted by the sound of the flat end of a spear hitting him on the jaw, not only cracking his chitin, it also nearly broke the bone. The loud noise also woke Nyx. She opened her eyes the slightest bit just in time to see Star Flame get hit with the spear, again, from a guard in the doorway. Nyx's eyes shot open and she went to wake Twilight.
Star Flame couldn't react, the guard was swinging too fast, and eventually the guard hit him on the head again, but not before damaging the rest of his body. Be fore he blacked out he heard Celestia say, "Take him alive, and no severe injuries". All Star Flame had time to think before he blacked out was, Dammit Celestia, they were just warming up to me. .
When Twilight woke up from Nyx shaking her, Star Flame was already captured, and was being taken to Canterlot.
Star Flame was gone. He's either going to be executed, interrogated, or both! was all Twilight was thinking at the time.
MANY THOUSAND YEARS AGO... (Yes, this is still the dream.)
In the dream I was having, all I saw at first was white. Then the green of plants, and finally, I found myself in the Everfree Forest. Not much different then it usually was, but there were two things off about it, one being a certain blue mare behind a few trees. The other being the fact that I could see.... me? I shook my head and looked again. Yep, that's definitely me, without the artificial leg, that is, walking through the forest with a map in my-hi-. Screw it I'm gonna refer to the other me as "him". Anyway, he was holding a map in his magic when he spoke.
"I think.... No wait, yep, this is definitely the place." Confusion filled me as he walked towards a cave nearby, stowing the map in his saddle bag. He returned a few minutes later with a small crystal in his magic. He simply opened up his bag and brought out a few other crystals. He continued to cast a spell, which seemed to last a few minutes, and finally put the crystals back in his bag. "There, the spell should be working no-"
A loud snapping sound interrupted him, causing the three of us to look towards the area that it came from. The other me kept turning and looking around. When he was turned away from the place the snapping noise came from, the worst happened. A Nightmare came from behind the trees. One sentence repeating was clear on the changeling in the Nightmare's sights: Don't turn around.
But he did, and just as he did that, one of the Nightmare's forehooves collided with his face. Very. * Hard.*** Hard enough to knock his fangs out pretty painfully, and as he closed his eyes and hissed in pain, the Nightmare conjured up a magical blade and slit his throat.
Now that, was confusing, but then how am I here now? As the Nightmare left, I returned my attention to the body in the forest. It stirred a little, and finally, it opened its eyes and stood up and spoke.
"The spell worked." He let out a laugh. "The spell worked! I can't believe it actually worked!" So that's what the spell did. Luna walked from behind the trees and stood next to me as the memory continued. "Oh just wait till my father hears about this!" The memory began to fade into white as it finished. Then, Luna asked her question.
"Star Flame, what was that?" If one were to look close enough, you would see my past fast forwarding in my pupils, I gave her my answer.
"That, that was the day I died." Luna merely stood there in shock as another memory found its way through.
One week ago from present-time...
Me and Luna found ourselves on the mountain that Canterlot rests on. We could see me with my disguise, (Black coat, same mane style, blue eyes, alicorn (dumb idea, I know, and male ), and had a cutie mark that had a beige six-pointed star with a purple cloud behind it.) hiking up the mountain. He obviously was losing his footing as he took shaky steps upward.
Luna moved to help him, but I blocked her with a hoof and said "Let the past play." She looked at me then looked back at the pony quickly losing his footing and falling of the side, pulling his wings out to try and slow his decent. He still tumbled around getting cut by the rocks, and finally reaching the buildings of the city below. He tumbled through the buildings, losing his disguise in the process. He finally came to a halt on the street a block or two away from the hospital.
"Damn," I muttered under my breath, "and I thought seeing it from first-person was scary."
"You mean, that was you?" Luna asked
"Yeah, a week ago." I replied. Everything began to fade away as I was waking up.
When I woke up I immediently sat up in bed to see Luna standing before me. She simply asked, "Who is your father?"
"King Metamorphosis, why?" I replied.
"So, that means that you're a prince."
"Apparently."
"I need to tell this to my sister."
"Go right ahead." I told her, and she teleported away. i simply walked through the bedroom door and found my way outside without getting lost this time.
I just looked out at the night sky and sighed. I had forgot. Everything. I mean, how am I supposed to react to that? I shook my head and somehow didn't hear the door behind me opening. And then there was a voice behind me.
"So, you're a prince, huh?" I looked behind me and saw Shining Armor. i just turned back around in response. "Something wrong?"
"Yeah." I replied.
"What happened?"
"Oh, nothing just the fact that I somehow forgot everything i knew for a while."
"Ouch."
I looked at him with a question on my mind. "What are you doing at this hour?" He looked around quickly then walked back inside as I just look away from the door again. A certain princess walking outside. I turn slightly to see it was Celestia.
"I guess I'm going to tell the public about what happened." She said.
"Guess so." I replied.
"You don't mind showing up do you?" I looked at her.
"No, not really."
"Then you might want to prepare, it's going to be tomorrow." The solar princess told me as she walked back inside. I sighed and looked into the stars, mentally preparing myself.
Tomorrow's the day I'm going back home.
Not going to finish this. Too little focus. However, you guys can create your own stories with me (Star Flame) in them.
I'm going to tell you the personality because I don't want a fight over it.
Friendly
Caring
Bit of a smart-ass
Protects friends and family like you wouldn't believe (may include murder :trollestia:)
Random fourth-wall breaking
Also, thousands of years old due to Afterlife Swarm spell
Daughter: Flutterheart (just 'cause)
Animal whisper
Kind
'bout crusader's age
ALBINO
shy to new ponies.
That's it, this story was screwed from the beginning, also, share this.
More specifically if you want, this guy (if you do, make sure the last name is "Roachanov", Star Flame, Rochanov. Got it? ok)
Thanks for being good people and... i dunno being good people.
In the mean time have this: BECAUSE WHY NOT?
-Star Flame POV-
I woke to find myself in an interrogation room, with Shining Armor at the other side of the table I was positioned at. Interrogation, of course. I thought that right as Shining cleared his throat.
"Now," He began, "you have been charged with murder." Now, had I been taking a sip of a drink, I would've choked on it.
"What?" Was all I managed to say.
"You heard me, murder." He replied flatly.
"Explain, please."
"Well, someone says that you committed murder four days ago."
"That doesn't make sense." I said with surprise clear in my voice. shining just raised an eyebrow.
"Your turn to explain." He replied, still not lowering that eyebrow.
"Four days ago, I was in Canterlot Hospital."
"Really now?" Shining asked, surprise in his voice now.
"Yes, I was , and you can ask the employees, they'll tell you that I was in the hospital during that time." I said, leaning that much closer towards him. He just moved towards the door.
"Well, I'll run this by the Princesses and we'll see if your story is true." Shining tossed over his shoulder as he walked out. "Oh, and you can use any f the bedrooms in the castle." I just simply nodded and followed him out the door, with the guards outside giving me a distrusting glance.
As I admittedly got lost in the castle, I overheard the conversation between Shinning and Celestia.
"He says that he was in the hospital at the time of the accusation." I heard Shining say,
"Well, how about you go see if his story holds true." Celestia replied. I heard Shining walk off and I continued my trek throught the maze of a castle. I passed by a few nice paintings, nothing special. Then a few guards who eyed me cautiously. Big surprise there. Not.
20 minuets later
I finally found a bedroom which I gratefully walked into. Not much to do, look around, check the time with the clock on the wall, 9:20 , and..... wait. Nine. Twenty. Nine. Twenty. I facehoofed. I guess it took that long if it was pretty early when I woke up. Sighing, I flopped onto the bed to get a good night's sleep.
Somewhere in the castle
Celestia was going to meet Luna when she found her in the hallways. "Luna, I need you to monitor the changeling's dreams tonight to see if he has any memories that could help us with this problem." Luna just nodded and teleported to the room Star Flame was staying in. She focused on him and lit her horn, entering his dreams.
Boy where they both in for a big surprise.
