Nero Moon's Life

Blackness, nothing but blackness there was no pony in sight besides a black Pegasus she was nearly invisible in such blackness but her Neon green streaks in her mane and tail kept her visible. As she wandered in the empty space she could hear voices, no not voices screaming the same screaming she heard from her home town as she watched it burn, the screams just kept getting louder as she got close to its source, it was a bright orange orb, floating doing nothing but replaying those horrid screams. Once Nero was right in front of the orb the screaming stopped, silence, then the orb talked, but not in a soft sweet tone, No, it was a demonic screaming tone it yelled at Nero "We are Coming! Our Fire will erase all you love!"

"Ah!" Nero screamed she turned around and galloped as fast as she could in the opposite direction of the evil orb. After galloping as fast as she could she then realized she was not being followed, there were no screams of her home townsfolk burning, nothingness. Nero sighed in relief, then she heard something, it wasn’t demonic, it wasn’t screaming, it was some pony

"…you are the key…" the voice echoed through the black nothingness

"Hello?" Nero asked, no response “Is any pony there?” still no response from the blackness around her "….I’m all alone" she laid down and laid her head on her fore hooves, a tear came from her eye

"You are wrong" came a voice of a mare echoing and sweet and caring

"W-whose there?" said the Pegasus raising her head to see where the sweet and caring voice came from

"We are inside your head" another voice this time a stallions voice still echoing but gentle "Do you want to see us?"

"Um…" then just as she was about to say more a blinding flash of white overtook the black abyss then disappeared and the blackness returned, but the was indeed something there. Nero looked at the strange new item floating in front of her, a white orb with a white flame surrounding it, hot nor illuminating any light.

"Who and what are you?"

"We are-" the mare voice said before Nero interrupted her

"Wait, where is the other one?"

"Well..." came the stallion’s voice

"Well you see how my color is white" Nero nodded in response "due to his color being black, the blackness makes him invisible. "

"Wow that’s... inconvenient."

"Quite."

"Do you have names?"

"Ying..." said the mare,

Then the colt "...Yang"

"huh. so your the voices in my head..."

"Yes" Ying replied

"...And your also spirits..."

"We will explain that later, for now our time is short that Nurse, Mrs. Care, is calling for you, just remember you are never alone, just keep an eye on your necklace" after Ying said that Nero looked at the jewelry that hung from her neck it went from a Neon green to black and white

"It means we are present either in your head or in our physical forms"

"You have bodies?"

"Yes, now no more questions go we will be in touch"

"Nero? Hey wake up little one it’s your second week don’t need to be sleeping in yet."

"Huh? Oh hey Care."

"How was the nap?"

"Interesting."

"Good, are you hungry?"

"Very."

"Ok come with me."

Then both Mrs. Care and Nero got up from Nero’s bed.  Mrs. Care then walked out into the hallway and let Nero get ready. Nero brushed her mane, grabbed her saddle bag, notebook, black headphones with a neon green outline, music player, and her box of pencils, pens, and colored pencils. With all her things gathered and her spiky mane brushed, Nero made her way toward her door and out into the hallway, Mrs. Care was waiting for her

“You ready?” Nero just responded with a quick nod, then the little filly and the mare nurse made their way down the hallway. They chatted on their way to their destination, then Nero asked the nurse something

“Where are we going” The red manned nurse turned her head towards Nero and said with a smile

“Oh forgot to tell you that Mr. Clark asked if you and another pony would have lunch in my office” Nero’s expression was confused and worried “Not that you’re in trouble Mr. Clark simple has taken a liking to”

“Oh good I thought I did something bad… wait me and ‘another’ pony, who?”

“You’ll see."

“Hmm…” Nero looked worried as if this certain pony Mrs. Care was talking didn't like her, as if this new pony would hurt her

“Um, Nero you okay” the nurse pried Nero away from her thoughts

“Hmm, what oh yes sorry just thinking” after both them shared a smile they continued trotting down the hallway and Nero began to think again 'This is Care, why would she introduce me to some pony that would end up hurting me Care loves me like a daughter she would do anything to see me smile, she has even done some silly stuff. She is the best and she would never mean any harm to me EVER…' just as Nero came to the end of her thoughts Mrs. Care stopped in front of door one similar to the door on Nero’s room. Mrs. Care came up to the door and knocked before calling some pony’s name

“Oh vinyl, you up?” as Mrs. Care called the pony’s name a voice came from the other side of the door

“Ya, I’m up I’ll be there in a sec” then a couple of seconds later the door knob was surrounded in a deep blue aurora. The knob twisted and the door opened to a white unicorn filly with an electric blue mane and tail, violet glasses, and her cutie mark was two quarter notes, Nero was a little excited to see a pony whose cutie mark was related to music.

“Nero this is Vinyl Scratch, she has been dying to see you!”

“Really?”  Nero looked a little confused at the fact that some pony actually wanted to meet her, every pony at the orphanage didn't look like they wanted to even attempt to start a conversation with her let alone make eye contact.

“Ya you seem like a cool pony” Nero went wide eyed, no pony ever called her cool, exclude her parents and sister “Um did I say something wrong-” just as the white unicorn filly was talking Nero cut her off by throwing her front hooves around her neck

“Thanks” was all Nero said, and that’s all she had to say because both Vinyl and Mrs. Care knew that was probably the first time ever since the fire that took her home town that any pony had called her cool or anything nice. Nero broke the hug and said “so you like music?”

“Do I! I don’t just love it, I make it!”

“Wow, same, I can play just about every instrument, Guitar, piano, cello, violin, flute, saxophone, tuba, French horn-” before Nero could continue her rant about ALL the instruments she can play the electric blue manned unicorn stopped her

“Wow, wow what about a turn table?”

“Yep that too”

“Well aren't you just a mare of many talents.” Mrs. Care said as she had a smile on her face

“Um, Care what’s with the smile?” Nero asked as she stood there watching the nurse

“Oh I just know you two are going to have a great friendship” Nero knew the nurse wasn't wrong even she could see it “Shall we?” the nurse added as she pointed her hoof in the direction to her office.

“Let’s go” both the Pegasus and the unicorn said in unison. As the three ponies headed down the halls of the orphanage Nero and Vinyl talked. They talked about their interest, favorite foods, colors, things to do when their bored. As the nurse listen her smile continued to stay on her face, she was happy both of these ponies had a friend that shared so many of the same interest. Nero was happy, Vinyl was happy, and both these ponies being happy just, made this the best day every for Mrs. Care.

(Library)

“Wow that was somewhat uplifting.” Caroline said with a somewhat cheery tone

“Indeed it was.”

“So… is the next thing that happens going to be super-duper sad?”

“Doesn’t look like it.” Caroline cheered up a little bit and so did I , this dark, gloomy, and sad tale needs some… Pinkie flair