Lighting the Shadows

Lighting the Shadows

Chapter 1: Arrival?

It was a bright, sunny day in Ponyville. A few clouds dotted the sky, a nice, gentle summer breeze brushed against the quiet town. The weather ponies made it a perfect day, which was much appreciated by a certain bouncy, pink pony known by the name of Pinkie Pie. She happily walked around Ponyville, greeting everypony she saw with a friendly “Hello!” or a “How’s it going!?” She hummed gleefully, skipping along the path towards Twilight’s library to visit her magically gifted unicorn friend. Eventually, she closed her eyes, noticing a lack of ponies in sight and having memorized the path towards Twilight's library and home-in-one. After a few minutes of mindless skipping, she was interrupted from her thoughts of sugary treats. She had bumped into somepony while rounding a corner. She fell to the ground, landing on her plot with an “Oof” escaping her lips as she rubbed the area that hurt. “Owie zowie!” she said looking at the stallion she bumped into.

He was sitting on his plot rubbing his head, when Pinkie also noticed her head was hurting, as well. They must have bumped heads. Him getting the short end of the stick as she had been going at a faster speed than him. Pinkie looked him over for a minute. His coat was fiery orange, and it looked rather nicely taken care of. It was cut off just above his hips by a red hoodie, the hems a darker black than the an endless abyss. His hood was down, showing off his messy mane to the world, it contradicting his rather groomed coat. The stallions mane was black and curved just below his muzzle. It really brought out the blood red strip in his mane. His cutie mark was rather intriguing, being a royal looking dagger, shadows twisting around the blade. He stopped rubbing his head and she thought she was about to get a glimpse of his eyes when suddenly a pair of sunglasses were put on his face by a little white coated colt.  The glasses were like a band across his face making him show no emotion whatsoever but he smiles and pats the colt on his head.  He stands and offers a hoof to Pinkie.  “S-sorry that was my bad I wasn’t looking where I was going…” he said softly seeming rather shy and embarrassed.

Pinkie smiles and takes his hoof as he pulls her back onto her hooves. “No no!  It’s my bad I was skipping along and I thought ‘Well nopony is here so I can skip happily with my eyes closed and not run into anypony.’  So really it’s my fault and since i was moving faster you got the bad end of the deal.  Anyway you’re new here!  My names Pinkamena Diane Pie, but all my FRIENDS call me Pinkie Pie!”  she said putting a big emphasis on the word “friends”.  She was so happy and giddy to meet somepony new.

The stallion nods his smile slightly fading away he was nervous, not being a pony of much contact with others.  “N-nice to meet you Pinkie.  My name is Shadow Blade but everypony usually calls me Blade.  The little one is Shadey Tune…” he said moving to the side to reveal the hiding white colt.  His coat had a shining white glow seemingly more taken care of his older brother.  He had on a azure blue tailcoat with only three black buttons, the collar and pocket hymes also black.  The little colt’s eyes were a deep sea shade of blue just like the three blue vertical stripes in his short mane. The appearance of his mane seemed like scootaloo’s mane but there was no curl upwards in the front and he has three bangs, one long bang in between his eyes and ’two smaller bangs that curled around the outside of his eyes.  “Come on Shadey introduce yourself to the nice mare.”

The colt nods and waves sheepishly “Hello...my name’s Shadey Tune but all my friends call me Shadey.” he said nervous.  He had about as much interactions with other ponies as much as his brother did.

Pinkie smiles happily “Nice to meet you two!” she gasps “I should throw you a welcoming party!  Oh and don’t worry that’s just what I do i’m not called the party pony for nothing!”  she says happily bouncing around them.

Blade shakes his head “N-no party we don’t do parties.  Besides you don’t even know us so you have no reason to throw us a party.”  he said as Shadey hides behind his brother again.

Pinkie smiles “Oh but i insist and besides you called me Pinkie!  That makes us friends! Oh there will be cake, and ice cream, and games, and balloons, and streamers, and and just so much fun!” she chirped out bouncing around them before she noticed the two here just gone, no where insite.  “Hey!  Where’d you go!?”  She said looking around for them.  “I guess they went to go get ready for the party!”  she said skipping towards Twilights house once more.

Pinkie arrived a short time after starting towards the library.  She helped herself in “Hi Twilight!  Guess what? I just met two new ponies!”  she said bouncing around the library.

Twilight was so use to Pinkie’s antics that she just decided to stop what she was doing putting her bookmark in between the pages she was reading and turning to her friend. “New ponies?  We just got a pair last week Ponyville sure is getting popular.” she said walking to her.

Pinkie stopped bouncing and looked at Twilight confused.  “Last week?  No no no impossible i would have met them and i never saw them around who are they.”  she asked happy to meet even new ponies.

Twilight had to think for a moment.  “I don’t think he actually told me his name...he came in for a cook book said he had to learn how to cook to feed himself and his little brother.  I remember that his coat was orange and he wore a red hoodie and if i recall he had-” she was continuing before another friend walked into the door by the name of Rarity.  Spike was following in toe with her.

“Dark sunglasses that went across his face making him look rather dashing and oh my those red highlight brought out that black mane so well.  However his outfit was rather bland..” she said before continuing. “However Twilight you must be mistaken he’s been here for two weeks now.”

Pinkie’s mind was about to explode already from not knowing of the pony she just met that apparently moved in two weeks ago.  “WHAT!?”  she screamed at the top of her lungs.

Twilight and Rarity physically jumped at the scream Pinkie emitted.  “Pinkie calm down it’s not really your fault they don’t really leave their house and the little one was probably just got the paperwork done to get into school.  Trust me Sweetie Belle has been excited ever since Cheerilee announced a new student.” Rarity told her.

“They don’t ever go out?”  Pinkie asked wondering how that was even possible.  “How do they party?!  or have fun with friends?! Or anything!?”  she questioned thinking this was the strangest thing.

Twilight blinks “Pinkie I was like that before i moved here and got to know you girls and i’ve never been happier to have friends you just got to give them a bit to adjust.  I’m sure this place is a lot different from what they are used to.”  Twilight inquired being most likely right.

Rarity nods “Besides Pinkie darling they seem like they are shy and don’t like meeting ponies i mean when he came into my boutique he not only got a jacket for his brother he asked if i knew of any job openings and i told him and that was the end of our conversation.  He’s not very talkative very mysterious.”

Pinkie thinks “Well i’ll get to know them first hoof!  No matter what i will become friends with them or my name isn’t Pinkie Pie!”  she pledged holding her hoof in the air striking a dramatic pose.

Rarity and  Twilight nod, “Leave it to Pinkie Pie to make it a life goal to get to know somepony.  Well Pinkie just let me know if there is anything i can do to help.”  Twilight tells her.

Rarity smiles “Count me in as well darling.” she tells her happily as Pinkie pulls her and Twilight into a close hug.

“Thanks!  You girls are the bestest friends a pony could ask for!”  she cheered happily as they hug her back with smiles on their faces.

-To Blade and Shadey-

The two entered their house and Shadey looked at his older brother.  “Another nice pony….or at least she seemed nice.”

Blade smiles and pats his little brother on the head.  “Don’t worry i’m sure everyone here will love you if you went out more.”  he said hypocritically to his little brother.

“You’re one to talk!  You don’t go outside either!”  he argued with his older brother.

“Yeah well what am i gonna talk about?  ‘Oh hi i’m Shadow Blade nice to meet you i used to be a guard but i screwed up so here i am.’ Besides i don’t know how to converse well with others.”  he said backing away.

“Well at least you weren’t bullied by kids in your class.  Just cause i’m smart doesn’t mean i’m different from any other pony…” he pouts.

Blade nods “You’re right...how about this.  Try to make one friend at school tomorrow and i’ll go and try to make a friend too.  Deal?”  he asks holding his hoof out.

Shadey thinks for a second then bro hoofs his brother “Deal!  I bet my friend is going to be WAY better than yours!”  he gloats.

Blade grins “Oh yeah?  Well i'll make sure my friend can do a ton of cool things!”  he challenges.  He thinks about how Ponyville might have been the perfect place to bring Shadey...i guess we’ll see.  “Now come on let’s start on some dinner little buddy.  Go pick something out of the book we got from the library.” he said walking into the kitchen.

Shadey walks to the shelf taking a minute to look at a picture.”I will get over my shyness and make some friends this time!”  he confidently whispers to no one.  “i promise mom...dad...watch over me”  he said grabbing the book running into the kitchen. “I got the book!” he shouts to his brother.

The picture frame held a small picture of a white mare and red stallion both in celestial armor.  An orange colt wrestling with the red stallion and a white baby held in the arms of the mare.  The perfect little family with the most tragic of tales, but that tale was for another time.

The day had faded away into a calm night, even Vinyl was in bed at a normal hour for once in her life.  Shadey was putting away the last of his toys before slipping out of his jacket and then getting into bed just as his older brother came in.  “Well i see everything in here is clean, for once.” he teases his younger brother.

Shadey pouts “Hey i clean my room….sometimes…”  he says a sheepish smile on his face.

Blade made a movement with his head as if he was rolling his eyes before tucking the young colt into bed.  “Okay Shadey get a good nights rest because tomorrow you start school again.  Mrs.Cheeraliee seemed really nice when we first met her so you be a good little colt got it?”

Shadey nods “I promise and you better go out and get a job and make a friend with somepony.”  he said chuckling softly at his brother.

Blade nods and laughs with him “Yeah yeah, i hear ya.” he hits the lights but the room wasn’t pitch dark since Shadey still had on a small night light.

Shadey whimpers softly still not liking the new room, or house...he was especially scared of the dark.  “B-big brother...c-can’t I stay in your room tonight…?”  he asked not wanting to be alone.

His brother walks over to him and pets his head.  “Shadey it’s been two weeks you can’t stay in my room anymore.  Look i’ll stay here until you fall asleep ok?”  he said sitting next to his bed.  Shadey nods and was ok with that just happy to have some sort of protection around him.  “Remember what we talked about, if you feel scared just hum a soft tune and all the fears and monsters will go away.”  he told his younger brother.

He nods slowly before humming a soft and slow melody making him drift off into a deep and comfy sleep.  Blade grins before rubs his little bro’s head and heading to his own room.  Blade took no time hitting the lights now it total darkness as he puts his glasses on the side table before curling up under his covers before falling asleep himself.  He thought one final thing before he fell asleep.  “This town is nice, let’s hope we can one day call this….home…”