Break your Fate

Chapter 1

My eyes open.

I look to the clock on my nightstand, reading the numerics.

10:22.

I jump out of bed.

"Damned! I'm late!" I growl. "Why didn't dad wake me?" I rush out of my room and look down the hallway, remembering the morning rituals.

I'm already missing them.

Normally, when mom and dad wake us, Meteor would walk down this hallway with a big smile, jumping on my back and give me a nice, warm hug.

Not this morning.

I sigh and turn to the stairs.

'No time to waste!' I jump down the stairs, like I often do when mom and dad aren't there. Landing as elegant as the rush allows me. I grab my keys and my coat and open the door, rushing out into the rain.

The way to the castle isn't that far, maybe five minutes hoofway. I charge through the streets, dodging ponies and stands on my way. On my way through the streets I look around, gathering informations by simply rushing past the ponies. Well... this time only parts of informations.

Dad always taught me that it's important to keep an eye out for your surroundings, to not walk into an ambush or anything else that might be dangerous.

My eyes rush over newspapers, my brain filtering out the small amount of informations I can gather by doing so.

Especially one information sticks out.

Canterlot Weekly

New filly in the castle! Celestia's long lost daughter!?

The rest vanishes out of my sight as I rush past the newspaper stand.

'Got no time for that! Faster!' I take another deep breath and sprint through the streets.

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Shining Armor had a very bad day.

Not only did that happen, no, he also has to deal now with something he never felt towards the Princess.

Anger.

He was angry at Luna, and Luna, by the looks of it, knew it.

"I'm very sorry Shining Armor, but I can't change her fate. She was born this way." Luna looks at him with an apologetic expression. "Believe me, I wish I hadn't to do this. But it's just how it is. No one is to blame for this."

Shining Armor's sigh echoes through the throne room.

"I know that Princess." He looks up to Luna. "But I can't surpress these feelings."

Suddenly Luna smiles, a weak but honest smile.

"Maybe you and Siren should take break from all this work. Go on a vacation. I can understand if your family needs some time right now." She tilts her head a little bit. "The treasury will pay for your vacation."

Something snapped in Shining Armor's brain. He turns around, looking at Princess Luna with anger and even menace.

"Do you really think that paying a vacation for me would make everything better!?" He almost screams at her. "Do you understand the feeling of having your-"

"Yes I do!" Luna interrupts, her voice echoing with a boom through the hall. "I may be young but I'm still hundreds of years older than you, you foal! So watch your tongue!" She takes a step closer towards Shining Armor, looking into his eyes.

And then hugging him.

"I'm very sorry Shining Armor. Especially sorry that it has to be your family." She moves away, her hooves still resting on his shoulders. "But I can't change it. And I never intended to "buy" her away from you. I just want you to have some time for you and your family."

She walks back up.

"You're dismissed." She sits back down on her throne. "As well as Siren, your son and Twilight. Spend some time with your family." She smiles, again a weak but honest smile.

Shining Armor turns around, walking down the carpet.

His feelings haven't changed.

He hoped they would.

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Being to late to training wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Sure there were some looks of my comrades who came in on time. But I just shrug them off. I still was late and had to go to my class.

'First class, hoof-to-hoof combat/armed combat.' I rush through the hallways of the castle to the sparring grounds.

The moment my hooves touch the grass I see my comrades turning around to me.

That's when I finally notice the looks of them. I even remember seeing these looks on the faces of the ponies in the streets.

They looked worried.

I walk closer and take my place at the end of the row, right next to Vivid Night.

Vivid Night was a breathtaking pony. A bat-pony. She was rather big but sinewy. Her form and attitude were perfect. She was kind and strong and always ready to help the ponies around her. The only taint was a long scar in her face. The scar was slim but noticable, starting on her muzzle she went all the way over her cheek, over her left eye and ended over her brow. A souvenir she got during a spar with Gold Heart. My eyes wander away from her beautiful face.

Her dark blue coat was possibly the softest thing in the world. I have to know, I felt it before. The very first day we both were lost and late. So it was fate. We rushed at the same door. And collided. There we were, laying on each other with deep red blushes, even though hers was almost unnoticable. And her voice was-

-talking to me.

"You're sure you're okay?" She looks at me, worry reflecting in her big purple eyes. "You're tougher than you look, Crescent. Admirable that you're here today. I would have stayed at home."

I'm confused, shaking my head I focus my eyes on hers.

"Stayed at home? Why should I?" I ask her.

"You're joking." She states, looking at me. "Or you're reaaaally stupid." I cringe.

"I'm not stupid, but I really don't know what you mean." I answer.

"Aren't you normally one of those ponies who reads the newspaper up and down before going to school?" She asks with a raised brow. "I swear, every other day you would annoy most of us with some facts you've read in the newspaper. But not today?"

I cringe again. I never thought that I would bore or annoy them with my habits.

"I overslept." I answer weakly to defend myself. "Didn't have time to read the newspaper today."

Almost all ponies around us gasp.

"You are really that retarded?" Vivid looks at me like I'm a madpony.

"So you don't know that your-"

The bell rings, suffocating Vivid's voice. The first class was over.

"Sorry, I couldn't hear you." I look at her. "What did you say?"

Vivid opens her mouth to answer again, but get's interrupted as we hear hoofsteps approach.

I turn around.

'What now?' I sigh mentally.

Right before me was Prince Gold Heart.

Gold Heart was the son of Princes Blueblood and his deceased wife Amethyst Gaze.

And just like his father he was an snob. He was hated by almost everypony in my classes for his behaviour. He treated everypony besides himself as thrash and would always boast with his great and powerful magic.

I never really had a problem with him. We weren't friends but we never had any reason to fight.

Until the day, a few weaks ago he hurt Vivid Night during the spar. Not only did he hurt her more than necessary, bruises and even small cuts were pretty normal during the spars, no, he even went so far and said that she deserved the wound. The scar would show everypony that she was inferior compared to him.

Vivid had laughed that day.

She shrugged it off, got a bandage and just stayed the rest of the day. She even trained with the rest of us.

Vivid had laughed and smiled all day.

All day.

Until after the school.

It was pretty normal for me to stay longer in school, helping to clean up and waiting till mom and dad would pick me up. After all we work at the same place.

That one day I helped the janitor, Pristine, cleaning up the hallway when I heard crying coming out of the ladies' room. I had knocked and walked in, calling out to whoever might be in.

And then I saw Vivid, looking at herself in the mirror. She had taken off the bandage and was looking at the crimson wound over her face. That day was the first time she looked at me like she looked at one of her friends. She had turned around.

"I'm disgusting." She cried. "I'm weak and disgusting."

I was stunned. She always seemed so strong.

But not that day.

That day was probably the worst day in her live.

And I was there to console her.

That day was the day I swore to myself I would protect her as long as possible.

After that we've become friends, I wouldn't call her my best friend but I respect her. And I know she respects me.

...

And yes, I have a crush on her... give me a break!

I shake my head to clear my mind.

"What do you want Gold?" Vivid's voice was soft, no sign of anger whatsoever.

"Not talking to you peasant." He answers, looking at me. "I'm talking to this little pawn."

I sigh.

He was probably the biggest idiot and asshole on this planet.

"So what do you want Gold?" I ask, trying to copy Vivid's soft tone.

"I've heard that your little sister moved into the castle. Is it true?" His voice was arrogant and dismissive.

"What?" My eyes widen. "No, I don't think so." I answer, disbelief in my voice.

"Ähh, Crescent?" Vivid's soft voice in my ears, I turn around. She was now holding todays newpaper in her hooves, pointing at a picture of my sister. "That's your sister isn't it?"

I almost ripp the newspaper apart as I pull it out of her hooves.

My eyes fly over the article.

Canterlot Weekly

New filly in the castle! Celestia's long lost daughter!?

22th, June.

Today was a filly sent to the castle, Luna in person welcomed her. The filly, between 7 and 10 years old, was identified as Meteor Dust of the Sparkle family. Her parents were right behind her as they brought their daughter into Luna's hooves.

The rest of the written text disappears out of my mind.

I dropp the newspaper, crumbling it under my hooves and stomping on it.

"I can fully understand your reaction." Gold Heart looks down on me. "I bet the only reason why she was brought to Luna is because Luna is into fillies and needed a new-"

Red mist overtakes my vision.

Gold Heart's jaw suddenly dislocates.

Or to be precise.

My hoof, dislocates his jaw.

After the punch I jump on him, sitting on his chest I throw punch after punch into his face. I hear more bones break, lacerations open up on his cheeks and his muzzle, tooth break and fly out of his mouth.

I hear the screams of my comrades, muffled through the mist that clouds my mind.

I feel them pull on my hooves and my body, trying to stop me from killing Gold Heart.

They waste their time.

I won't stop until his blood is spilled.

Until his skull is crushed under my hooves.

UntIL hIS BrAin IS NoTHing MOre tHAn a BLoodY MusH oN THe GRounD...

UNTIL. HE. IS. DEAD!

My eyes open after my hoof hits Gold Heart's jaw.

He lies on the floor, screaming in pain. His fronthooves holding his jaw, trying to set it back into it's joint.

His screams echo over the field and through the hallways.

I turn around, and run away, sprinting through the hallways.

"Crescent!" I hear Vivid's voice.

She is far away.