//-------------------------------------------------------// What happend in the beginning. -by jurpke- //-------------------------------------------------------// //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 1 "Moving in" //-------------------------------------------------------// Chapter 1 "Moving in" "Moving in" "Is this the house?"  one of the brothers said.  The other one replied  "I belive  this is the one, if you know how to read a map,"    They both laughed   and proceeded to the   front door. On the front door there was a letter from the previous owner  of the house and  on the letter it said   "Ask  keys from neighbors" One of the brother was named Centurion    he   had  a     light   blue  coat and blue eyes   hes mane was  dark.  The other  was  named Lightning hes coat was  something between green and grey. Lightning had   grey mane  and yellow eyes.     "Ill go for the keys." said Lightning and  went for the  neighbors house. Centurion sat down  and  looked at the  sunset, it was  a  nice evening.     He  looked   ponies go by,  some ponies gave a strange look at  Centurion but he didn't care about that.  Soon after   Lightning came back with the keys.   "Lets take a look inside" Lightning said  with an excitement.   They went inside, it was bit dusty but it wasn't that bad.   They started unpacking their stuff. There was four rooms   livingroom, kitchen and a bathroom.  After unpacking  Centurion wanted to go outside to a local  food place.   He soon found one and went inside, he walked to the bartender.   "Hello!" said bartender, "Are you new here?"     "Yeah  i am new here, i just moved in with my brother." Centurion replied        Bartender asked: "so..what do you want?"      Centurion answerd: "I will have a cup of green tea." Bartender  went to make the tea  and  serve others.   Centurion took a random table next to the window and sat down. The sun had  already gone down.    He looked around the  bar,  it was quite nice. There was  a blue mare pegasi talking very loudly at the other table, they all laughed.     Centurion then  looked out from the window, hes eye caught something in the evening sky.   It was a green dot moving slightly above  the clouds. Until the dot disappeared.      Suddenly  someone shouted right next to  Centurion:  "Hello i haven't seen you here before are you new?!"         Centurion startled, It was that  same  blue mare. "Yes i am new here." Centurion said.       The mare asked: "Whats your name then?".          "My name is  Centurion   ah    friends call me  Cen,  and yours?" Mare replied: "I am Rainbow Dash, fastest  flier in the Equestria!"      she also said  "And those are my friends  over there, if you want you can join us  at the table."   "Sure I will!"  Centurion replied        they walked to the table. Rainbow Dash told Centurion  about  her friends   they had  chat and they laughed. It was time to go home.  When Centurion got to the house the lights were off  and Ponyville was in deep sleep.   He went to bed and drifted off to sleep. Next morning Centurion was woken up  by  Lightning talking to someone  at the front door.   Centurion came out from the bed and Lightning walked inside. "It was a royal guard" Lightning said "He told us that we are invited to Canterlot because  we are new around here and such". Centurion yawned "Well thats nice, what time we need to be there?"     "Sometime on the evening evening  he said, by the way now I am the one going outside, and i left some things  for you to unpack."    Centurion agreed  and Lightning left.   Now it was time for Lightning to walk around  the  Ponyville.  It was quite sunny and beautiful. Ponies were walking around  who had a job,  who needed to go to school  and such. He got to the market, ponies were selling  clothes, tools,food and such. One orange colored mare was  selling apples. Lightning thought that he would buy some apples   for himself  and for  Centurion  so he walked  up to the cart. "Hello!" said the mare with a loud tone.   "Hello there, I would like to buy some apples" Lightning answered with smile    and started  taking out the coins to pay. The mare gave   Lightning a strange look and then smiled   "Hey are you the new one here?"     "Yeah  i just moved here into Ponyville with my brother"  said Lighting "So that must of been your brother at the bar, he talked about you, and why you moved here".           "Cool, nice to meet you and whats your name?" Lightning smiled. "My name is AppleJack, and i do remember that your name  is Lightning."  AppleJack laughed.   Lighting smiled and said "Everybody has problems  forgetting my  name   even my brother!"  He laughed out loud. They both talked about the Ponyville  and  why  the brothers moved here.   "Well what about those apples then?" AppleJack       Lightning  had nearly forgotten "Sure  well  i take ten nice apples then."    AppleJack took the coins  and started to but Apples into the bag. But then  Lighting heard some kind of  noise  coming from the clouds, he turned hes head  and saw  a  green  light move above the everfree forest in the clouds.  Lightning felt how everything around him was slowing down   until AppleJacks voice echoed trough hes ears "Here are yer apples"    Lighting had a  very serious look  "Thank you."  he said that and then ran away.    AppleJack noticed that   Lighting  did not have a cuite mark. " Strange stallion." she said and went on with her stuff.  Lighting was running towards their new home.  The weather was changing, sun was now behind the clouds.  Lighting thought that the weatherponies were dooing that.  Anyway  he got home. Centurion was sleeping. "Wake up bro something is not, right look out form the window!"     Centurion got up slowly and  looked out from the window. "You silly  its the weatherponies, their dooing their job."  Centurion smiled.       "No no no no  the green light  i saw it !"      Suddenly  Centurion was more alert  and  went outside    this time it had  been closer  to the village   but still hidden in clouds.   "It uses clouds as its camouflage"  Centurion said  and  came back inside the house.   Other ponies  did not notice it.    "What is it, what if it attacks us!?"  Lightning was panicking.    Centurion was silent for some time and then he spoke   "I saw it first when i was very young, at least now you believe me."   He continued "It seems like it  wont attack but its getting closer every time.       "I am not going outside!" Lighting yelled.  "I nearly forgot  we have to go to Canterlot" Centurion said "Maybe princesses can help us!"         Lighting  went under the blanket. "Come out you silly" Centurion laughed.  "Lets get going."  They but on their suits and  they took a train to the Canterlot. At the Canterlot They were heading for the Castle   "By the way bro this is our fathers suit that you are wearing." Centurion said to Lighting    "He last wore it before he went missing."  Lightning said.    "He saw those Lights too."     They got to the  large door  or gate. Two guards were guarding it.    The door opened.  There were a lot ponies inside, they were chatting, eating  and having a nice time.    Four princesses  were  at the other side of the hall.   One  pony walked  right infront of the brothers.   "Hello! welcome to the Canterlot!"  He was  fancy  and happy. "They will be  there soon"    Centurion tried to say something  but  the pony   told them to follow him. They got to the balcony. The fancy pony left.     It was a clear night sky outside.   "Maybe the princesses know  about the lights,  or  maybe there is something written in the books." Centurion talked to himself. "Maybe our father is still alive" Lightning said.  "I hope so."  Centurion said.         The princesses  walked onto the balcony but the brothers did not notice that.  Somepony cleared her throat.   "Welcome to Canterlot i suggest u are new here."     Lightning turned around    and Centurion was startled.        That somepony was princess Celestia with princess Luna and the other were  princess Twilight with princess Cadance.    Princess Cadance and Twilight said something  to others  and then left.  Before Twilight left   she saw something strange     Centurion  had   nearly the same  cutie mark like  Celestia did only   hes was  blue     but  Lightning   he did not even have one!  She was puzzled.  Twilight was about to leave with her friend but  then she decided to go back. She wanted to ask some questions.     "Your cutie mark  how did you get it Centurion?"  Celestia  asked.    Centurion couldn't find anything to say.      "He was born with it"  Lighting finally answered.    "Born with it?" Celestia was now puzzled. "How is this possible" Luna asked.   "We are trying to solve it." Lightning said.  Centurion was very shy and asked very quietly. "Do your majesty know anything about the green lights?"   Centurion pulled himself together. "Me and my brother, we have seen strange lights in the sky, we even saw one today."    Twilight joined the chat. "It may be someponies magic".        " Those lights have bothered me since i was born." Centurion replied.   "Our father was investigating those lights, one day he disappeared."     Twilight was looking at  Centurions cutiemark  and she thought "Why does a pegasi have such a cutiemark like Celestia has.     "We are not actually pegasi. "Said Lightning with a smile.   A chair  started floating.  It did not have any visible magic field around it.  The chair   flew  right in front of Centurion and then it was  gently  put down.     "How  did you manipulate that chair, you you dont have a horn" Twilight said.    " We are trying to find out  how it works" Centurion spoke.   Twilight spoke "You are invited in my castle, i would like to run some tests on you. The brothers agreed, after all they also wanted to know  whats so different about them. The next day Twilight was doing some tests on Centurion and Lightning, there was also  one doctor aiding Twilight   they took blood samples, tested reflexes. Soon the doctor  made a list of things and gave it to Twilight.   "So how is it?" asked Centurion.   "Your brother is okay,but you are a lot more different, more difficult to understand."       Twilight added " We need to search trough libraries."       Lightning replied "We can help."   Some time after they were walking back to the  Canterlot. Lightning rushed next  to Twilight. He was quite worried.  "Whats wrong with my brother, is he ... ill?"      "Hes fine  but different than others,  a lot different." They finally arrived at the castle. Twilight showed the tests to Luna and Celestia then Celestia, Luna and Twilight had a private talk.  "So whats now." asked Centurion. "Maby Zecora can find answers." Twilight said.