Password: Broken Heart

by Silver Shine

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Sad, Dark, Alternate Universe
Length: 1006

The password...is a broken heart.

Four ponies have been through terrible things, and they have all lost important things in their lives. Now they all live in the same orphanage, and they've managed to create a secret group for ponies like them. They keep everything secret from others, and even have access to a special room only they know the password to. What's the password, you ask? Broken heart.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-11-17 02:58:20 UTC

Loss

Night Strike was a colt who hadn't been to school yet.  He was far too young.  His mother passed not long ago and his father was a soldier.  He was a lavender colt who wore a 'painted' flower that his father gave him, and sometimes sunglasses that matched his fur color perfectly.  It wouldn't be long until he would be able to go to school.  However, his father had to leave for a while to do things.  Before he left, his father gave Night clothes similar to his gear, and then went on his way.  Two weeks later, Night received word that his father had fallen in battle.  Having nowhere else to go, he was taken to an orphanage until he was either adopted or old enough to live alone.  He didn't think he could ever meet the ponies he'd be meeting there, and he never expected to be happy after he heard the news.  But he didn't know what was coming.

Charm Zap was a filly who was in her very first year of school.  Her parents had cared for her nonstop since she was born, and made sure they were both home when she was.  While sometimes this created money related issues, they always found a way to work through it.  Charm was at the top of her class, and every month her parents would take her somewhere to reward for doing so good in school.  Towards the middle of the school year, her mother came down with a sickness.  Charm and her father took her mother to a doctor, who said she would have less than 2 weeks left among the living.  She made sure her last 2 weeks were spent making everypony she knew as happy as she could, and 12 days later passed peacefully in her sleep.  3 weeks later her father came down with the same sickness.  She took him to the same doctor, who said he caught it from her mother and has fought it off until now.  He also stated that he will be fine as long as he stays healthy enough, and he would make it through the sickness.  Charm was relieved that she could still have one parent.  However, on his way home from work to meet Charm at home a few weeks later, he was attacked by someone who wanted his bits.  Upon refusal, the attacker sliced nearly his entire body, leaving no trace of skin anywhere.  Charm was confused when she got home, but the attacker had been watching her father for several days and knew where his home was.  The attacker arrived and said that her father was gone for a long time and he was sent to take care of her.  She didn't believe him.  He pulled out the knife he used to kill her father and ran towards her.  She ran until she couldn't run anymore, and she had apparently lost him.  Having nobody left to take care of her, she told her friends she was going to the nearest orphanage, and had one of her friends' parents take her there.

Mist Rider was a mysterious colt born into a mysterious family within a mysterious group.  He was left in shadow and told things would be explained when he was of age.  One day, his curiosity got the better of him.  He decided to sneak into one of the gatherings the group of families have.  He still didn't understand much, but two days later was brought to an orphanage and thrown out, being told his parents were 'silenced' for their inability to teach him right.  He was left confused, and expected nothing else of himself after that day than some screw-up, friendless loser.  Things were going to change when he didn't expect them to though, and he would have no idea what was going on when it did.

Star Striker's Forgotten Memories

Star Striker was born into a unicorn family extremely gifted in magic.  He was raised to learn magic above all else, and by the time he was 5, his magic matched that of the family's head.  Within a month, his magic went above and beyond that and his parents feared what may happen if he were to become corrupted by the magic power he may gain.  Their fears were realized when he was celebrating being officially of age to be considered a magic master in the family.  During his test, he became corrupted with the energy he had been using, and went against all rules and killed his opponent.  He struck the stallion with a laser through the brain, then  made a knife appear, which he threw through the stallion's heart.  His parents were the first to try to calm him, but he fired a giant magic blast at the two of them, which they both ran from.  The family head came down and explained he would have to be killed if he went any further.  He lifted her into the air and rained knives on her, killing her in seconds from hitting necessary organs.

A week later, his parents challenged him to a magic duel, which he accepted, not knowing of their secret plan.  One of them would distract him, and the other would have to cut of his magic somehow.  How that would be done was unknown to them.  When their battle started, his mother charged at him as a distraction, and his father charged his magic.  Star jumped over his mother and charged his father, attempting to kill him with his bare hooves.  His father fired magic bolts at him, but Star reflected them and they all went right through his father's body, killing him and ruining the plan.  His mother charged at him angrily, and he fired a shot of magic through her body, which would kill her in seconds.  In her last moments, she grabbed his horn and snapped it, and used her last bits of energy to teleport him to the nearest orphanage and erase his memories of those years.  However she could not complete the erasing before her life ended, and the memory lurks in his head of those years when he was young, and he would eventually come to remember everything.  Whether he would become corrupt again or learn from his mistakes was unknown, and he was left with nothing.