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"This is me speaking"
'I'm thinking.....I'm thinking'

Moondancer

I awoke hours later. Patrick's sun had dimmed, allowing the metal cage containing it to lightly glow, recreating the moon. Spirit put her book in her saddlebag and we walked back to the cabin, just catching Pat, who was leaving with his pack.

"You heading out?"

"Just for a few hours."

When he stumbled unto me all those years ago, it had been the first time he had run into a pony in the Everfree forest. So to reduce the risk of being seen, he only leaves the 'sanctuary' at night now, mostly to gather herbs that can't be grown in the cave.

I nodded, "Ok, but be careful."

"Don't worry so much, It's not like I can die." He said , pulling Spirit and I into a hug "Love you both."

"Love you too."/"Love you daddy."

Unwrapping his arms, he walked a few feet away and teleported out. Spirit and I walked inside, getting ready for bed. Spirit took off her saddlebag, giving me a clear look at her cutie mark; a heart made from vines, decorated randomly with leaves.

Before her bag hit the floor, a pony seemingly made of wood caught it. It's eyes glowed a green light, and it smelled strongly of oak. It carried the bag into her room with Spirit following close behind.

It was her special talent; to grow and animate plants, creating creatures similar to Timber-Wolves, but without the carnivorous instinct, making them more like golems then living.

"Night Sweetie."

"Night Mom." She said, closing her door.

After years of waking up to a skull staring at you, nothing gets to you anymore.

I brushed my teeth, did a few magic exercises to avoid getting rusty, and went to bed. While Pat said he would be back in a few hours, he had a way of letting his mind wonder.

"He'll probably be back around morning."

I closed my eyes, the pale light of the metal moon illuminating the room.

Scootaloo

'I hate the rain.'

I thought as I walked along the road, getting soaked to the bone. Seeing a large tree, I walked under it in an effort to get dry. Though even as my body started to dry out, my face stayed wet with tears and blood. My nose was busted, but that was easily explainable to my friends. I couldn't tell them the truth, about my dad. He told me that if I said anything to anypony, he'd throw me into the Everfree.

My dad used to be the head of the clouds division weather team at Cloudsdale. He worked there for years but when he meet my mom, they moved to Ponyville. But when I was born, dad told me that there had been......complications, and she died shortly after. He mostly ignored me when I was younger, but has I got older, he started getting phyical. Especially when he found out that my flying skills where at an Equestria record of zero. And when he gets really upset, he'll kick me out of the house. Normally I'd go stay at Applebloom's club house, but she's there right now, having a sleepover with her sister.

I wiped the tears and blood as best I could, and looked up. I was still on the Apple farm, and being thrown out of the house made me miss dinner. But has I was trying to reach for a low hanging fruit, I heard barking behind me. I turned and saw Big Mac walking towards me with Winona at his side; he must of saw me walking around and thought that I was an apple thief or a Timber-Wolf.

I ran, not even stopping to look behind me. I got to the fence, and crawled through the opening and ran into the bush. But as I was running through the bushes I tripped and fell down a muddy slope. When I got to the bottom, something hard hit my head and I started to black out. My last thoughts were of Applebloom and Sweetiebell, before the world turned black.

Patrick

"I love the rain." I said to myself.

I used to hate how the rain made me feel wet and cold, but with this body, the felling of the water flowing on my bones was relaxing. It was something that is almost unexplainable, but felt good nonetheless. I pulled the large pack over my shoulder and walked along the edge of the Everfree. It was amazing just what some ponies were willing to lose just because it feel a few feet into the forest.

Came across a destroyed trailer once. Had lots of cool stuff in it.

Though I was lucky that no ponies saw me today, and I was able to grab the books I wanted from that rebuilt library. They were just the ones I wanted to get for Moondancer's birthday in a few weeks. While I did take things from the Ponies, I always left gems in their place, more than enough to pay for the things I take. I also was able to grab the apples for her cake. My girls love that recipe.

While me and Spirit didn't need to eat, it helps to keep us strong. Us not eating was like someone's diet mostly being McDonalds; you'll be alive, but far from healthy. The food turns to pure magic and keeps ours strong. It also helps that we can taste the food as we eat it.

As I was walking back into the forest, I spotted a Blood Rose. It was uncommon in the forest, normally white in colour and about a foot tall. But when blood is spilt on the flower, it turns a dark pink colour and grew in size, just like the one in front of me. I let out a small magic pulse; me being a Lich allowed me to sense the life energy of all around me, but for my own benefit, I usually kept this skill turned off.

What's when I felt the quickly fading life force of a pony. Running towards it, I found a badly hurt Pegasus filly. Normally I would have just left her at the hospital, with a small magic display to get the doctors attention. But as far as I knew, ponies had yet to cure having your head busted wide open, and getting your skull creaked like an egg. I quickly grabbed her and teleported home. I had ways of prolonging her life, just in case the worst comes to pass, but I didn't like using Lich magic on ponies. Felt wrong somehow. I looked down at the filly in my arms as I slammed my front door open.

"I need to move quickly. Don't worry little one, you'll be ok."

Author's Note

And there's chapter two. Sorry if it's not as long as people where hoping, but my stories seems to have a way of steadily getting longer chapters as the story goes on, so look forward to that.

Now, there are two things. First is that I wasn't going to originally update this story so quickly. But while my "New Daedric Prince" Story is much more popular on my fanfiction page. On Fimfiction, this story has more view then it in only a few days. Holy Christ did it take off. So because these chapters are smaller than the other one, I thought I would do an extra chapter in this story then start working on the other one. But now I'll be focusing my attention on the other story, so don't expect a new chapter in this one in till I've updated My skyrim crossover.

Secondly, l've changed the story details to fit the new direction this story is going, and you can blame my friend Alistair for that. Both of us love stories where it's mostly sad but has a happy ending, and Scootaloo is his favourite in those types of stories. So when we were playing games together, he asked me to have her in it, and 25 dollars later, his wish came true. So there's that.

I say this in my other story, that if you don't leave a comment, don't feel bad. I personally know how much fanfic's one can read in a day, and I know that not everyone can get a response. But anything you leave is welcome. Also, even if I don't respond to a comment, it doesn't mean I haven't read it, so post any.

Anyway, hope you liked the new chapter, and thank you for reading.