Starry slowly became aware again as he regained consciousness, however instead of being cold, like he was expecting he was warm, very warm. The colt opened his eyes slowly and instead of seeing snow he saw a strange pattern covering his face, with a slight push of his kinesis the blankets covering him fell to the floor. Starry looked around, he appeared to be standing in the middle of a room, a library actually, there was an intense bright light streaming in through the windows, he guessed there must be something going on outside, a sudden voice brought him out of his thoughts.

"Ah! awake I see! are you feeling well?" Starry looked up as a purple pegasus glided down from the second level of the library and landed rather clumsily in front of him. She placed a hoof on his head lightly and took it away gently, smiling softly as she seemed to be pleased by something.

"oh where are my manners, my name is Twilight, yours?" She asked in a friendly manner, however Starry was stuck staring in confusion at her head, she had a horn, and wings, and her eyes were solid purple. Starry stood still and attempted to make sense of the situation he found himself in last night, and the events leading up to now. By now Twilight had been trying hard to maintain a smile while waiting for a response, but it was getting to the point where she felt she should say something again just to break the silence.

"Er... so... what were you doing out in the everfree last night, you know its very dangerous." Twilight said looking down at the colt. Starry looked up and was able to ignore other factors for now, he could at least answer this pony, who saved him abroughght him int her home..err... library, even if she was some kind of strange mono iris colored, pegasus unicorn fusion..

"I was running" he answered plainly, and looked down at the floor, he decided he wouldn't go back, now twasnte forest wasn't even safe anymore, he couldn't go back.

"oh? Running from what?" Twilight asked, however Sarry didn't have any intention of giving a truthful reply. Using a Hoof he reached to his neck to pull his scarf over his mouth, when he felt his bare coat, he looked down, his scarf was no longer hanging around his neck. Starry looked up at Twilight wide eyed

"Have you seen my scarf? is it here?" he asked, Twilight saw his eyes for the first time and was slightly shocked, they weren't a solid color, they shimmered and changed as light hit them and sometimes were every color at once, she decided to inquire about that later though, as the absence of his scarf was making him visibly disturbed.

"oh dont worry!" its over here, but... its a little torn up..." Twilight lifted the scarf easily and held it in front of the colt, his telekinetic aura enveloping the cloth, shining in the same way his eyes did. Starry stared at the cloth disappointed looking at each individual hole and where some threads were pulled out and frayed, there were sticks and thorns caught in the fabric, he tried pulling them out, but they just tore more threads. Starry felt an immense weight in his chest, and sadness welling inside of him. Twilight stared at the young unicorn as he inspected his damaged scarf, and started to get the feeling it meant more to him than a simple article of clothing, then she had an idea.

"oh! I know, I have a friend who can fix it for you!" Twilight said with a smile and trotted to her door lightly. Starry looked up at the mare and forced his emotions down into the back of his mind where they couldn't affect him, then nodded and followed.

"Oh I never got your name."

"It's Starry Skies"

Starry and Twilight walked outside of the library and into the cold, crisp winter afternoon air, Starry Squinted and looked up at the sky, what was wrong with it? He had never seen anything so bright, it was blue and the lights were missing, instead the big round thing from last night had gotten a hundred times brighter.

"augh whats wrong with the sky?" Starry complained and put his hooves over his eyes."And why is it so cold?" Twilight looked at the sky, and the colt next to her covering his eyes.

"what? I dont understand, whats wrong with the sky?"

"it's so bright!" Starry said as he slowly took his hooves away and squinted, until his eyes adjusted, to the light, this was really strange, the world should not be this bright.

"And what's that big thing in the sky?" Twilight was getting concerned, a pony who had never even seen the sun before, she was really wondering where he had lived before.

"come on Starry we can talk about it when we get to the carousel boutique.

Starry followed Twilight through the town to a strange building that sort of reminded him of a tent, but was more of a permanent structure, after knocking on the door several times and finding nobody home Twilight wrote a note of the scarf and pushed it through a slot on the door, assuring Starry she would come back and fix it up for him.

"are you hungry?" Twilight asked Starry, and was answered with a polite nod. as they walked Starry started to think, clearly he wasnt near home, which was a good thing, and so far Twilight was the only strange hybrid pony he had seen although everypony had solid eyes... maybe they were wearing some kind of lense? like a fashion? it didn't matter, he needed to leave, it was only a matter of time before they forced him out, and he would rather get out before he caused anyone a problem, his thoughts were once again interrupted by a voice.

"well howdy there, sugarcube!" Starry looked up, an orange earth pony was waiving at Twilight and trotting over, as she neared she looked at him then Twilight.

"Hey there Twi, who is your friend?" she asked with a big smile and a strange accent.

"This here is Starry and we were just heading to the sugarcube for some lunch, if you would like to join us"

"Well that sounds might fine, i reckon I just might!" The three ponies started walking and were soon joined by two more, a yellow pegasus, giving a very small and polite greeting, then a blue one, giving a... not so polite greeting, Starry didnt like the blue one, she reminded him of the bullies back home. After some time walking the orange one who he assumed was named A.J looked down at him and started talking.

"so where are ya from Starry? I don't think ah've seen you around before.

"StarFalls" he answered plainly, he didn't feel much like talking while within earshot of that rainbow one.

"StarFalls? Cant say ah've ever heard of it, what brings you to ponyville?" Starry's mind stopped just slightly, this place was seriously named ponyville? that like naming a bird city birdville...

"I ran away" He answered again, however after he did he wished he had lied, he seemed to have struck a cord in the orange one.

"ah c'mon sugarcube, ya cant just run away from your problems" Starry already was telling the truth and he felt like he shouldnt lie to this pony, but he didn't want to have this conversation either.

"Everyone there hated me, its better that I left, for everyone."

"Now ah know it can feel like that when you are a kid, but I promise the ponies there are worried sick about you back home, after we get something to eat me an Twilight can take you back and sort this whole thing out.

It took AJ a second to realize Starry had stopped walking with them and turned around to face him, the rest of the group having been mostly talking amongst themselves were now silently looking at the young unicorn.

"Im not going back, y-you cant make me" Starry said, his eyes were slightly dilated and he was now looking at them in the same way one might look at a bear getting ready to attack.

"Now sugarcube, ya cant expect us to just let you run away from home and do nothing, you're too young to be living by yourself."

"a-aj you should st-" the yellow one tried to say something but was cut off by the rainbow one.

"yeah you cant just run away from home! cant you imagine how you are making you're family feel right now, they must be worried sick!" Rainbow Dash said, landing and slowly pacing toward Starry, his eyes were getting wider, and brighter, as of they were producing their own light now rather than just reflecting.

"Im not going! Im not going!!"Starry yelled as light collected around his horn and soon spread away till his coat was covered in multicolored light, sparks falling off of him and onto the ground. AJ and Rainbow started stepping away from him as his hooves left the ground. Twilight placed a hoof on her head as she got a headache, she was getting weaker, like something was forcing her to cast a very strong spell, she looked around and noticed many unicorns in the park were reacting in much the same way. Twilight turned her attention back to Starry, now he was hovering, light and energy swirling around his body, some ropes of light even cutting swaths into the ground, his eyes a bright white.

Starry Couldn't think anymore, this was a lot of power, he couldn't control even half this much. only one thought flowed through his mind "away" he wanted to get away, and so he did.

There was a brief moment of silence accompanied by a flash of light, then he was gone, all that remained of where he stood was a large gaping crater in the middle of the park and a slight shimmer of light above it.

"What in the hay was that?" Rainbow burst out and looked at Twilight, who was standing in stunned silence at what had just unfolded, No normal unicorn should have that much power, especially one who was that young.

"did you see that, I mean he just exploded!" Rainbow was still freaking out when Twilight started speaking

"he didn't explode, it was a long range teleport, and if I try hard enough I should be able to open a portal to where he just went. Twilight looked at the shimmer of light above the crater and closed her eyes, pushing power at her horn and letting it envelope the rip in space, then push it open . slowly a hole opened up, revealing shining pillars of beautiful architecture and glittering ponies walking about.

"He teleported all the way to the crystal empire?!" Rainbow gasped and looked at Twilight.

"It would appear so, now we don't have much time, we need to catch him before he gets away, Rainbow, you and Fluttershy go find him, AJ and I will go to StarFalls and find out why he ran away.. and how he can do what he does. everyone nodded, Rainbow and Fluttershy jumped through the portal, Twilight and AJ started trotting towards the everfree, where Twilight found him

Author's Note

terribly sorry for any continuity errors between these two chapters, if there are any. please point them out if I missed any