Singularity & Multiplicity

Chapter II: Stable 24

"You sure you wanna do that?" I asked the black & yellow maned green unicorn that had challenged me to a fight. He heard about my unusual abilities, & decided to test them out.

"Yeah, I want to do it. Now get up, & fight me!"

"Fine." I sighed & stood up, moving into a defensive stance. He jumped forward & I slid out of the way, causing him to run into the wall. While he was stunned, I moved in & grabbed his right foreleg while still moving & pulled it out from under him. I could hear the snap of his bone breaking, so I turned around for another attack. I wrapped my tail around his other foreleg & slammed my claw into his chin. He flew into the air, breaking his other leg in the process. Lastly, I jumped straight ahead & frontflipped, kicking him into the ground, then spun on my right foreleg, knocking him into the wall head-first. The colt began to groan in pain as I approached him.

"Bad idea." I said as I punched him one more time, this hit knocking him unconscious. The other colts & fillies around me looked on in pure shock at the fact that I had just beaten the shit out of a colt nearly twice my size. A grey earth pony filly with a light pink mane stepped from the crowd, giving me a look that could have passed for scolding.

"What did you just do to him?"

"He wanted to fight me. So I gave him what he wanted. In my defense, I told him twice that it was a bad idea."

"That doesnt excuse the fact that you couldve just killed him!"

"But I didn`t, did I?" I gave her a quizzical smirk.

"Just because you didnt do it this time doesnt mean there wasn`t a chance of it happening." The filly gave me a slight shove with her right foreleg & walked away, her nose held high. I turned around & did the same, heading towards my home. As I flew, I almost walked straight into a light orange unicorn mare with a deep red mane. I was completely speechless at one single fact.

She was absolutely beautiful!

I then noticed that she had a cutie mark of two shields behind a bright green star. She looked at me, showing an expression of pure confusion.

"Uh, is there something wrong?" She asked me.

"I-I-Sorry. I didnt mean to run into you, I wasnt really paying attention."

"No harm done. I`m Citrus Shield. Nice meeting you." She held out a hoof, which I shook while wearing a look of complete "smitten-ism", as my dad had once called it. I quickly switched back to my normal look of both indifference & occasional curiosity.

"Rayzor. So, how did you get a cutie mark like that in a Stable?"

"Well, one time, my father was working on a piece of a ceiling that had started to fall in. It fell the rest of the way, & I used my magic to make a shield over his head. It probably wouldve killed him if it wasnt for me."

"What about the star?"

"That`s just because I have a green magic aura."

"Oh. Well, good meeting you. Im sure that Ill see you sometime again."

"Actually, you won`t."

"Why?"

"Im part of a team thats exploring the Wasteland outside of the Stable to see if its inhabitable again. Its me & two others. We leave in two days."

I couldnt believe it. There was the fact that she was probably much older than me & had a husband (or wife), but I thought I had fallen in love with her, & I couldnt let her leave right after I met her.

"Okay. Well, I hope you come back, & that you find something promising." I told her with a dejected tone. I turned around & kept heading home.

I walked through the door, & neglected to notice the large bruise on my knuckles from where I had punched the colt twice. I headed towards my bedroom, sat down on my bed, & picked up the old book I had gotten at the Stable library. Our Stable was a rare one, in that it had a library instead of just having a school.

"Rayzor? Was that you?" My father called. I stood up & walked through the hall towards him.

"Hey dad."

"Something wrong?" He asked with a warm smile, like he always gave to everyone.

"Kind of." I just couldn`t stand to lie to him.

"What is it?"

"I... kind of just had to fight someone."

"Why?"

"He caught me in a corner & made me fight him, because he heard that I could fight."

"What`d you do?"

"I think I might have broken a couple of his legs."

"This is gonna be bad. Who was it?"

"I had never seen him before. He was a green unicorn, about your size, with a black & yellow mane & a cutie mark of what looked to me like two microphones crossed over a treble clef."

Looks like being in a band actually paid off for once.

"Melodious Nocturne. I met his father once. Terrible stallion. If I had the choice, I`d rather shoot myself than have a conversation with him."

"So, what`s going to happen now?"

"Well, I honestly dont know. Nocturnes father is an unpredictable one. Just be ready next time you see him, but don`t actually fight him unless you truly have to."

"Alright."

I picked up a Sunrise Sarsaparilla from our refrigerator & headed back to my bedroom. I sat down at the small desk in the corner of the room & began to write in my diary.

Dear Diary,

Well, this really sucks. I ended up getting into a fight I didn`t even want to have, then my dad told me that I might have to fight him again!

But, I might have met someone that I could actually be friends with. The only problem? She`s leaving the Stable in two days!

-Rayzor

I looked over at the clock next to me.

10:30. Goddesses, I`m tired.

I walked over to my bed, laid down, & let sleep take me quite soon.