A New Life

"Brent?" "Yes Aunt Milly?" "Could you go out to the shed and get Uncle Bert the shovel?" "Yes ma'am" Brent being a 13 year old colt, never understood why he kept seeing them, the figures, they were always just there, watching, waiting, he never told his Aunt or Uncle about them, as he felt he didn't need to. They never talked to him, never hurt him, they were just there. he would see them occasionally as he went outside to play or went to the shed. He would look at one, watch it, then the figure would run away. "Brent? Brent? Brent are you there?" The sound of a mare's voice and a hoof knocking on the door woke Brent. Brent quickly got up and went to the door and opened it. "Hi Brent, oh gosh did I wake you, I'm sorry!" As his eyes adjusted he could see that it was Twilight. "No, I needed to wake up anyways, whatcha need?" Brent said with a tired voice. "Sorry, it's the second time I've done that, anyways, me and my friends are having a picnic in Sweet Apple Acre's, would you like to go?" Brent thought for a moment, Sure, but how long is it gonna be? "Probably from 10:00 to 4:00, but we are gonna show you around the farm as well." "Okay, I gotta be back around 5:00 so that's great!" "I'll go get ready, you can come in and watch TV or whatever till I'm done getting ready." Twilight stepped into the apartment and sat down on the couch. She watched as Brent entered the bathroom, then started to look around the apartment. She headed into Brent's room, she didn't want to be nosy, but Brent was acting strange yesterday. She noticed two bits with a leather string tied around them. She walked over to the table and picked it up to get a closer look. On the bits were Mom engraved on one, and Dad engraved on the other, and as she flipped them over the word, be, was on one, and the word, brave, was on the other. This was something she had never seen before. As she looked around the room she noticed a box sticking out of the bed. She slid the box out and in the box, there were photos. She started looking through them and she got to one that made her stop. It looked like a family photo. There were 2 stallions, a mare, and a colt. The colt looked like Brent, just of course, younger. and the oldest stallion looked like his dad and the mare looked like his mother, but the stallion next to his dad, had a brown coat and a black mane. "What is he hiding?" she said to herself. She heard the shower stop so she quickly put the picture back in the box. Slid it under his bed, and left the room to go to the couch, being as quiet as she could while going by the bathroom. She sat there quietly watching TV as Brent got out of the shower and got his things. "Alright, you ready to go?" Brent said as he was walking out of his room, putting his necklace on. "Yeah, let’s go." Twilight said hoping he didn't noticed anything different in his room.

    The two walked out of the apartment and into the street. "Let’s get a bite to eat before we go, what do you say?" Twilight said. "Sounds good, I’m kinda hungry." Brent said. They found a local Dinner and sat down to order. Once they ordered, Twilight was the first to speak. "So what’s your family like?" Twilight asked with a serious look. "Well they're just like any other family." Brent said in a nervous look. "Really? Have any siblings?" "No, only child.” "Hmm, what’s that like?" "It’s okay." Brent said. Brent wanted to just spill everything that has been bothering him out. He wanted to tell Twilight, but the risk of telling her and she feeling bad would be too much on him. Just then the food arrived. "Thank you sir!" Twilight said to the waiter. "So what’s your history?" Brent asked. "Well I grew up in Canterlot, studied magic and other stuff for a while, and pretty soon, as it was an amazing thing, I became Celestia's student. Then I came down here because she told me the summer sun celebration was held here, and she wanted me to do the preparations. But she was really testing me, a couple of years went by and

    I soon became the a princess. In the shortest way to say it really." The two were finished eating breakfast and headed to Sweet Apple Acres. They traveled down the dusty path and towards the farm. There, Brent could make out what seemed like a checkered cloth laying in the grass with an umbrella to the left. "You stay here and I'll go see how Applejacks doing." Twilight said as she walked off toward a red barn. "Hmm, Applejacks probably one of her friends." Brent said to himself as he sat down. As he sat there he thought of how beautiful a place Sweet Apple Acres is. As he sat there in the dark warm grass, Brent noticed something from a far. As he looked he could see something, a figure of some sort. Brent looked closer, this figure had a scar on its face, the only detail he could make out. Brent had gotten very nervous now. but he kept looking and soon, it turned and ran away. Fear was arousing inside of Brent. Just as he began to look away, the sound of Twilight's voice broke the silence. "Brent this is Applejack, Applejack, meet Brent." "Hey there pardner." The mare said as she held out her hoof. "Hi, pleasure to meet you Applejack" "Pleasure to meet you too, Brent was it?" "The others should be arriving soon." Twilight said. Just as she said that Brent saw what appeared to be a white Unicorn with a purple mane, a blue Pegasus with a rainbow colored mane, a yellow Pegasus with a pink mane, and a pink pony that was obviously Pinkie Pie by the way she jumped up and down instead of walking. "Hi everypony!" Twilight said with a big smile. "Hey Twilight! HUUUUAAAAAAHHHH, is that the NEW PONY?" Pinkie Pie said with a giant smile and a loud voice. Pinkie Pie ran up to Brent with a big smile. "Calm down Pinkie, I'm sure he doesn't like ponies being in his face." Applejack said with a chuckle. "Sorry, how have you been today?" Pinkie said. "I've been pretty good today, what about you?" "Oh I've been great! I just couldn't wait for this picnic!" Pinkie said getting louder and louder with each word. "Say dearie what’s your name?" The white Unicorn asked. "My name is Brent." Brent said. "Brent, that's different, where are you from?" "I was born and raised half my life in Baltimare, and half of my life in Manehatten, or really the outskirts of Manehatten if you wanna be specific. Brent said. "That's quite a way of life! I'm sorry I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Rarity." The mare said. "Nice to meet you Rarity" Brent said with a smile. "My name is Rainbow Dash!" The blue Pegasus said in a bold sort of way. "Nice to meet you Rainbow Dash, and Nice to meet you too Miss...?" Brent said while looking at the yellow Pegasus. "My name is Fluttershy..." I'm sorry what was that?" "Her name is Fluttershy" Rainbow Dash said with an annoyed look. "Oh, okay, well nice to meet you Fluttershy." "So, what do you all do for a living?" Brent asked. "Well, I'm going  to the Wonderbolts Academy!" Rainbow Dash said with a bold look. "And you Rarity?" Brent asked. "I work at the Carousel Boutique where i make all kinds wares and such." Rarity said. "And you Pinkie?" "When I'm not with my friends or meeting wonderful new ponies i work at Sugarcube Corner!" Pinkie said with glee. "And what do you do Fluttershy?" "I take care of animals for other ponies." Fluttershy said, Brent barely hearing what she had said. "Wow, those sound like they are pretty cool jobs. Brent said. The day went by quickly since Applejack really wanted to show Brent around the farm. As Brent looked around he kept seeing them, the figures. They weren't doing him any harm and were quite far away, but he could still see them. "Brent, whatcha starring at?" Applejack said. "Brent was to busy looking to notice her question. "Brent?" Applejack said getting his attention. "Yeah, huh?" Brent said stuttering a bit. "Are ya okay? your sweatin a little." "Yeah, I'm fine, just...uh...looking at the scenery. Brent said wondering if she bought it. "Alright then. Applejack said with an odd look. Twilight had noticed their conversation as they walked. And was curious what was going on with Brent. Soon time rolled around to 3:50 and the majority of the ponies left. All who was left was Brent, Applejack, and Twilight. "Well I think that was fun! We need to do that again." Applejack said with a smile. "Yeah, it was fun, wasn't it Brent?" Twilight said. "Yeah, got to meet some pretty nice ponies. And I enjoyed myself, couldn't get better!" "Well I'm glad you liked it Brent! Listen I've gotta go, see you guys later." Applejack said. "See you Applejack!" Twilight said. "See you!" Brent said. "Well it's been fun but I..."Gotta go, no, I have a question." Twilight interrupted. Brent looked at Twilight with confusion. "Why have you been hiding who your family is and where you came from?" Twilight said with a serious look.

    Brent had tried to hide it from his friends, so they wouldn't hurt, wouldn't feel sorry. But it looks as if now, that won't work, so he did the quickest thing he could. "Alright, I'll tell you," Brent said with a sigh. "I have a question for you though, how did you know that I was hiding something?" "I'm sorry, but I looked through some of your pictures and things when you were getting ready." Twilight said with regret. "That's okay, I need to get it off my chest, shall I began?" Brent said. "Yes, you may" "Okay, here we go" "I was born into the richest family in Baltimare, The Maneswell family, we had a pretty good life." Brent said with sadness in his voice. "Who is the stallion with the brown coat and black mane?" Twilight said with interest. "That is my brother Chance, he was a good friend to me, he had to go away though." "Why" Twilight asked. "He signed up for the Royal Guard and was sent away one day, he told me he would return, but he didn't." "Why not?" Twilight said. "Because, he was killed" "What?" Twilight said in shock. "I'm sorry" "No, it's fine." Brent said getting his bearings. "I had been told that he was killed in an ambush by the changelings." "I didn't know, I'm sorry." Twilight said feeling a little sad to. "After that was the day my cutie mark had appeared. "The day that got me here." "It was my 12th birthday, I was told to go to the local store in town and get some flour for the cake. then when I got back I heard a scream from inside the house, I ran inside to see my mother and three ponies dressed in black. they were holding my mother against the wall, I didn't say anything in fear of them finding me." "They threw my mother on the ground and just as they did that my father rushed into the crowd of them and cutting one across the stomach and another on the cheek. They tied my parents up as they tried to look for my family's fortune." " They couldn't find it so they set fire to our manor, I had to say goodbye to my parents that day, they told me to leave so I ran as fast as I could out of the house and as I looked at the manor crumble in on itself." "Just as soon as I saw that I passed out and woke up in the hospital, where I found a cutie appeared on my side, the three 4 leaf clovers." I stayed with my Aunt and Uncle until I decided to move to Ponyville, so here I am, and the change i had leftover from buying the flour. My aunt engraved it and made it into a necklace." "So, now you know..." Brent said with a sigh. "Twilight was in shock, she couldn't say anything except one thing. "I'm so sorry for you" "It’s alright, but one thing scared me." "What is that?" Twilight asked. "I saw a figure earlier, staring at me, from a far. I looked closer and it had a scar on its face." "Oh gosh, do you think?" "Yeah I do." Brent said with a scared look. "Well stay safe Brent, and have a great day" Twilight said as she disappeared into town. "Oh shit, I forgot, I said I was gonna be at that club to see Bon-Bon!" Brent ran to his apartment as quick as he could, he unlocked the door and shut it, he took a shower, got washed up and entered the kitchen. As he was gathering his things he took a piece of paper and wrote a letter to Roseluck. It read, Dear Roseluck, I'm sorry I haven't talked to you in a while, been really busy lately, I hope your doing well, I'll talk to you tomorrow, Your friend, Brent. Brent got his coat on and left his apartment.

    Brent walked into the street, and looked at the map. "Okay so that is where the club is located." Brent said to himself as he walked down the dry streets of Ponyville. Though he did feel happy about telling Twilight what he was hiding, he couldn't help but feel bad about it. He shook it off as he headed to the club. The club was only a few blocks away, though he had written that note for Roseluck. Roseluck's house was just up the road from where he was. He walked till he reached the house, then attached the note and continued walking towards his destination. He walked up to the building and could tell this was the place. The sound of music could be heard from outside the building, and outside was a few groups of ponies. Brent spotted Bon-Bon and what appeared to be turquoise colored Unicorn standing next to her. "Brent you're here!" Bon-Bon said with a smile as she walked up to him. "Couldn't wait" Brent said with a small grin. "Well since you're here, this is Lyra." Bon-Bon said shoving the Unicorn closer to Brent. "Nice to meet you Lyra, my name is Brent" "Brent said holding out his hoof. "Oh... well, nice to meet you too." The mare said while shaking Brent's hoof." "Well then, are we all ready to go inside?" Bon-Bon said. "Yeah, I've never been to a club." Brent said looking at the doors of the building. "I'm sure you'll love it! Now let’s go." Bon-Bon said with excitement. Brent was very excited to enter, he looked around before entering, and he saw something, the figure, except it was just across the street, closer than it's ever been.

    The three entered the club where the music boomed and like any other club, the booze was a plenty. Brent was struck by flashing lights and Dance music. "Well, enjoy yourself! I'm gonna go catch up with some friends." Bon-Bon said as Lyra and her galloped off. Brent looked around the club, as he looked he saw a bar, a lounge area where Bon-Bon and Lyra galloped off to. And a Dance floor accompanied by a DJ, with neon letters above that read DJ-Pon3. Brent walked over to the bar to get a drink. Even over at the bar there were flashing lights. Brent found a stool and took his seat. "What would you like to drink?" The bar tender asked. "Just some beer, Brent said. "Here you go." The bar tender said as he handed Brent a shot. Brent took the drink and as he was at the bar he had a moment to think. "Well, here you are, you've made some friends, and are having a good time, what more could you ask for?" Brent thought. "I've gotta loosen up, stop worrying." Brent thought as he took another sip. At this very moment, Brent was happy, no worries, he has told somepony the one thing that was bothering him, and he had met lots of good ponies so far. Brent finished his drink and headed for the dance floor. There was a crowd of ponies dancing all over, the buzzing club music and the colorful strobe lights only made it better. Brent joined the crowd and danced along. All the sudden, it seemed as everything stopped, and Brent felt a sharp pain in his right rib. He looked down to see a blade through his side. The sounds of screaming ponies made it worse, Brent fell to the ground, his blood pouring onto the dance floor while ponies scream and cleared the area, and before Brent passed out from the pain, he saw a figure, the ones he had seen before, walking away...