The Beginning of Something Good

The air was thick as Golden trudged through the streets of a carnival only dimly lit by the moon sitting loosely in the sky. The streets were paved with crimson red cement, and in tact skulls that seemed to moan in pain whenever Golden walked upon them.

He was walking through the dark streets and alleyways when he came across a large carnival tent. The tent sported red and black stripes running vertically down the fabric. The entrance was about eight feet tall and six feet wide. Right above the entrance was a face. The face was white with three teeth, and all of them were rotting. His lips were painted red and designed to form a smile. Two hands were also shown. One holding a minimalistic red bird, and the other containing a wand. The wand was red with a white tip. He had one black, empty eye, and where another eye would be there is only a black "X". On his head he had a large gray hat which resembled that of a sultan's. The hat was adorned with about a dozen or so medium sized stars. Running vertically along the hat was a red feather that twirled inward at the top. Below this image was a large font text that read "The Great Milenko".

Golden couldn't help himself, and quickly ran inside of the gargantuan tent. Inside he saw a horrible spectacle. There was a man with a crack pipe in his hands, and was smoking and getting high off the fumes. Moments later the man that was named "The Great Milenko" walked in and simply said "The wicked die here you know." and disappeared. A few more moments later and the man who had been smoking his pipe began screaming and writhing in pain. All of the fumes he had ingested came out through his nostrils and formed into a faceless man with a hatchet. The man faceless man walked up to him and rose his hatchet, and swung it at the defenseless crack addict. Right as the hatchet moved through the addict he disappeared into a haze of fumes.

Golden woke up in a sweat from the fiasco he had just witnessed.

"Damn!" Said Golden removing his sheets and getting out of bed, "That wasn't exactly how I planned on getting up this morning." He grumbled.

Golden dressed himself in his green jacket, beanie, and blue denim jeans. He then started putting on his makeup when he heard someone yell from the apartments entrance. The voice was high pitched and sounded familiar. After a few moments he figured out who it was, and said "Come in Pinkie Pie."

Pinkie busted in through the doors, and noticed that the living area was a mess. More of a mess than what she was used to making! There were random piles of pants and shirts lying everywhere, and the T.V was on some strange cartoon channel. A couple of hand made cigarettes were laying around on tables and ash trays.

Golden came out with his normal makeup on, and said "How the hell did you figure out where I live?"

Pinkie took a deep breath, grew a beaming smile on her face, and then said ecstatically, "Well, since you asked, I found you by looking you up in the phone book, and then I called your house, and your dad or brother or something picked up, and then I told them who I was, and then they gave me your address. so then I started running over here to meet you this morning, and now I'm here." Finished Pinkie, now panting from her long explanation.

"Dammit dad." Muttered Golden with a look of annoyance on his freshly painted face, "I'm sorry Pinkie," He said now in a louder more clear tone, "I'm assuming you came here to walk me to school, or something. I'm ready, so we should probably go."

Pinkie nodded, grabbed Golden's hand, and bolted out of the building and toward the school building, which was only about ten minutes away from his apartment complex.

After a few minutes of running they slowed down, and Golden asked, "Hey, do you have any of these classes with me?" while loosely holding his schedule out to her.

Pinkie Pie snatched it from his hands, speedily read over each name and number on the crumpled up page, and then finally said in a burst of joy, " We have the same exact schedule, down to the lunch period at the end of the day!" Pinkie Pie ran ahead a few meters, and was hopping around the small area in which she stood.

They finished their walk in relative peace. The only exception to the silence was when Pinkie was singing or dancing or just talking nonsense, which was not annoying as much as it was endearing.

They finally reached the school building, and the first thing Golden noticed was the sun's heat waves pounding on his face causing his makeup to run. He quickly ran ahead of Pinkie Pie who did attempt to keep with him, but was not capable of keeping up with the nimble runner. The grass crunched under his shoes, and the birds chirped their melodies, but this was all white noise to the frantic Golden Shadow who was sprinting to the building.

He busted through the swinging metal doors, and he noticed his makeup was already running and smeared. he quickly dashed to the nearest men's bathroom he could find, dropped his bag, and started fixing it.

"Dammit!" Exclaimed Golden as he took all of the paint off to be re-applied, "This is just great. This is just fucking fantastic. I hope no one comes in here while I do this." Thought Golden now applying the black lines around his eyes with a metal tube of the special makeup.

He had just finished applying the lines under his lips, around his eyes, and nearly finished applying the white around the rest of his face, when two boys walked in. Golden looked to their direction, and saw two completely unfamiliar faces.

One had long blonde hair, a small beard that only covered his chin that was of the same color. His face looked young, like that of a freshman. He was wearing blue jeans, a black shirt, and black shoes with a red trim. He was white like Rarity, but he skin had many red and white blemishes on it, as well as a few bruises.

The other one had a shaved head, and looked about the same age as the other one, but his face was barren of hair. He was wearing a black shirt similar to other one, except on it was an interesting design that caught Golden's eye. It was a clown. The clown's makeup resembled that of a juggalo's, but it had a small splotch of red on the forehead. golden quickly deducted that it was a bullet wound.

The two looked at him, and the one with the beard said, "What the fuck are you doing? Why are you putting makeup on?"

"I think he's a juggalo. Little fuckers aren't even human you may as well not try to waste your intellect on them."

Golden quickly grew a face of anger, but it subsided as he went back to applying his makeup.

"Hey little juggalo, why aren't you doing meth right now? I mean that's all you are, are a bunch of white trash sub human meth heads who just need to fucking die. You are a waste of fucking oxygen now why don't you go to your little Gathering and over dose on crack?" Said the bald one with a smirk on his face.

Golden finished applying his makeup, and quickly walked out of the restroom to see Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash just outside of the room. They were talking about something, but Golden could not hear a word of it.

Pinkie Pie noticed him, and said in her usually hyperactive fashion, "Hey Golden, where did you run off to? Oh, " She said just now noticing where he had come out of, "you must have just had to use the restroom. You should have told me silly! Me and Dashie were looking for you. Well, I was, but then I found Dashie, and we started talking, and I guess we got lucky where we stopped."

"Yeah," Said Rainbow Dash interrupting Pinkie from her inevitable hour long rant, "I was actually kind of wondering where you were. I mean you two did walk to school together didn't you?"

"Yeah we-" Said Golden, only to be interrupted by Pinkie Pie who opened her mouth to say, "Yeah! I went to his apartment, and it was a mess. There were clothes everywhere and some cigarettes laying around. We walked all the way from his apartment to here. We also found out we have the exact same schedule, but then he ran off when his makeup started running or something." She finished panting from another rant.

"Yeah what she said." Replied Golden with a light smile growing on his face.

"Why were you so worried about your makeup? You are a guy. I didn't expect you to actually care about something like that, or actually use makeup at all really." Said Rainbow Dash as if she was about to burst out into laughter at the ludicrousness of a heterosexual male wearing makeup.

"It's because I am a juggalo, and honestly it's fun to wear to the makeup. Although I do have one problem that many of you girls have except to a larger scale. When this runs it runs everywhere. It turns into a gray mess that I have to completely take off, and reapply, and when it gets into your eyes it's just hell." Replied Golden talking as if he was a master on the subject of cosmetics.

Rainbow stared at Golden unsure about how she should feel about the whole situation, and said "Uh, OK I have to get to class. See you guys later."

"Bye Dashie!" Exclaimed Pinkie Pie frantically waving off her friend. "That reminds me, we should probably get to class too! Come on Golden!" Continued Pinkie grabbing his arm, and frantically pulling him deep into the labyrinth of hallways and stairwells.

They had only been moving for a few moments when the chime of the morning bell rang throughout the school's hall, and everyone began moving at the same fast pace of Pinkie Pie and Golden Shadow.

After they had bumped into a few other students they made it to a thick mahogany door with two signs on it. One on top of the other. The upper sign read "Physics" and the other sign read " Empty Gravity". Pinkie rushed in with Golden walking at a normal speed right behind her.

Golden saw she had sat right in the front of the room, and she was motioning him to sit right next to her, to which he complied. As soon as he sat down he felt a soft thud on the back of his head. He looked directly behind him, and noticed a crumbled up piece of paper.

He opened up the paper, and it read "What are you doing at Class? Should you be cooking meth or something? Oh wait. You wouldn't be able to do that. That requires a brain."

"So original" Thought Golden as he shoved the piece of paper into his pocket.

"What was that?" Asked Pinkie Pie with a concerned look softly painted on her face.

"Oh nothing." Responded Golden forcing a warm smile.

Pinkie Pie opened her mouth, but was swiftly interrupted by a tall man walking into the room. He was about six foot tall and had a thick beard. He wore brown slacks and a tan buttoned shirt. He wore glistening black dress shoes. His face looked young enough, except for a few wrinkles cluttering his cheeks.

"Hello class." He said in a monotone voice while quickly jotting down some formulas on the chalk board behind him. He began talking through his lesson, when another piece of paper hit the back of Golden's head. He unfolded it, and it read "Hey man do me a solid and jump off the nearest cliff you waste of fucking oxygen."

"What the hell is this guy's problem?" Thought Golden whilst taking notes on the lesson that was being taught.

The hour went by quickly, and Golden was standing up when the bald freshman from earlier walked by and pushed Golden into his desk landing him face first into the hard metal.

"That's fucking it." Said golden under his breath whilst walking up the bald student. "Hey you!" Said Golden to the bald student that he still knew not the name of. "What the fuck is your problem with me!"

The bald student turned around and asked in a condescending manner "Wait, are you trying to talk to me? You realize I am a human and you are a dog right? Now why don't you go to the kennel to get euthanize." He finished in a confident matter.

Golden was staring at him with his hand balled up into a tight fist. Golden started slowly walking the five feet that seperated him and the student that had insulted him.

Golden then stood inches away from the student, when he raised his fist and punched him in the chest. Golden then quickly jumped onto the bald headed student and began shooting blow after blow to his face. He had landed about five blows to the mouth and nose before Pinkie was able to bust through the ring of students chanting "Fight", and attempted pulling Golden off the now bleeding and bruised student. She used all of her strength, but was able to drag Golden off of him, and a few of the other student's friends began dragging him away to the nearest restroom to clean him up.

"What is wrong with you!" Exclaimed Pinkie Pie looking at the crazed Golden slowly start to calm down, "You can't just jump on someone for calling you names! You could have killed him, or seriously injured him. Now that I am thinking about it you probably did."

Golden was about to open his mouth when he heard a much older voice exclaim "Where is he!"

Moments later a tall woman with long flowing hair revealed herself to Golden, and she had an intense scowl imprinted onto her bright white flesh. Her hair was colored in layers with a light blue, a soft pink, a somewhat dark purple, and cyan. She wore a tan buttoned blouse, and purple slacks. She swiftly ripped Golden from his position with great force, and began leading him down the labyrinth of hallways he still knew like a novel yet to be written.

They quickly entered an office with the name "Celestia" printed on the front of the wooden door. She sat him down in a small wooden chair that barely fit his large frame, and was covered in small splinters. It smelled of strong perfume in the room, and it made Golden cringe as he sat in the chair. There was one picture on her desk, and it was a portrait of her wearing a blue dress, and an emerald broach.

"What were you thinking when you jumped that boy?" She swiftly asked him right as he sat down.

"I don't know." Replied Golden looking at her with an emotionless face, "I guess I wasn't."

"Well this kind of behavior can't be tolerated here, and you are going to be in an in school suspension for the rest of today, and for the next week."

"Okay" Replied Golden, "Where is it?"

Celestia pointed to just across the hall where there was an assortment of desks, and another older woman.

Golden walked in, sat down, and began examining the room where he was going to spending his days in for some time. The woman at the desk was wearing a white blouse, and dark blue slacks. Her hair was long and straight like Celestia's, but it didn't cascade with many colors like hers, and it was a dark blue color. On her desk there was a nameplate that read "Luna", and a stack of papers she was filling out. He also noticed a familiar face, Rainbow Dash.

He waved at her, and she waved back, but before they could talk Luna smashed a textbook on the desk and said "Faces forward and mouths shut!"

A few hours later Luna left the room, and Rainbow Dash walked over to Golden whom was taking a break from the boredom via a nap.

"Hey, wake up she's gone." Said Rainbow Dash whilst nudging him trying to awaken him from his light slumber.

He quickly awoke, and looked up to her face, to see hardly contained laughter.

"What?" Asked Golden looking up to her in a drowsy manner.

"Well two things actually. One, your makeup is smeared, and you really look like a clown now, and two, how did you end up here? Let me guess you beat the snot out of some bully who was messing with a freshman or something."

"Close." Replied Golden using a rag he had on hand to clean off the makeup, and wincing a few times whilst doing so, "Some freshman was being an ass to me, and I kinda lost my cool and beat the ever living shit out of him." Finished Golden as he finished wiping the smeared makeup off his face.

"Wow, that is not what I expected" Replied Rainbow Dash looking surprised at Golden for what he had said he had done.

"Yeah, I lost my cool, and this is what it lead me to. Oh well, it ain't the worst thing to have ever happened to me. So, why are you here?" Asked Golden, now much more awake than he had been.

"Oh. Uh, I may have kicked some guy in the crotch for coming onto me and not taking no for an answer, well it's a long story, but that's not important. What happened to your face?" She said whilst lightly touching his face which was covered in bruises.

"Ow! Don't touch them!" He said pushing her hand off his bruised face. "You remember yesterday when I beat the shit out of that ass that smashed Twilight's face into her tray?

"Yeah." Replied Rainbow Dash, "What about it?"

"Well when my dad is already a drunk, and somewhat of a drug addict. When I say drugs I don't mean dub, I am talking cocaine, and heroine. He drinks, and well, just is a very angry person. So a combination of my mom giving him lip, and him hearing about me beating the shit out of that guy, lead him to beating the shit out of me. There are more scars and bruises other than the ones on my face, these are just the most recent. He went to the strip club later that night, and didn't come back, which was the only reason I was able to sleep in my damn house that night. Oh shit!" Exclaimed Golden softly as to not draw attention to the classroom, "When he finds out about this he'll fucking kill me!" Golden was somewhat freaking out at this point, but still keeping quiet.

"Your dad did this to you?" Rainbow Dash asked shocked that someone could abuse their own son like this.

"Yeah." Replied Golden, "He doesn't only do this when I fuck up like this. He does it for no good reason. He doesn't beat women, so whenever my mom or any woman gives him any lip, or a compliment, or anything that comes off to him as aggressive he comes and beats me. You know how you asked why I wear the clown makeup? Well this is why. I wear it to hide the scars from everyone. Whatever it's not like it matters."

"Yeah, I don't think I can let you go back to your house tonight. If your dad really does all that stuff to you, well then he should be arrested plain and simple."

"First of all, if he got arrested, and if that bastard got thrown in prison he would get his ass killed in a day, and two if you aren't going to let me go home where would I sleep? The damn dumpster behind my complex?" Said Golden now laughing a little at the notion of sleeping in a dumpster when he had a warm bed.

"No, you aren't sleeping in a dumpster" Replied Rainbow Dash whom was also laughing at that notion, "You can stay in a guest room at my house. Considering the circumstances I don't think my parents will care all that much.

"Alright Dash, wait can I call you Dash?" Asked Golden.

"Yeah that's fine" She said with a smile.

"Alright Dash I'll take you up on your offer. I do have plans Saturday though, which is tomorrow, shit!" Exclaimed Golden again this time slightly louder, "I have to meet a few buddies tomorrow for this carnival thing. Hey, why don't you guys all come? It'll be fun.

"Okay" Replied Rainbow Dash, "I'm game, but I'll need to talk to everyone else about it if they are going too. I'm pretty sure Pinkie would be down."

"Sweet, well I guess I have a new roof to sleep under tonight," Said Golden beaming at the thought of not having to be in that run down apartment.

That moment the end bell rang, and the two rushed out of that room, and on their way to Rainbow Dash's house, which would hopefully be a place of sanctuary for Golden Shadow.

Author's Note

Alright guys for anyone who actually reads the story, or at least looks at this please no blind hatred, and only constructive criticism.