Light in the darkness

"We need more water!" a guard shouted as he and his comrades tried desperately to extinguish the flaming house. After what seemed to be hours the flames soon vanished with black smoke rising into the air. As four guards began to enter the house they noticed to seem to be a feet on the ground next to a table. The men walk over to the body with a disgusted looks on their faces as they looked down on the burn body.

"Damn" the captain said with a sigh "poor man wasn't able to make it out" he crouch down to take a closer look and noticed a ring on his finger "you two" he said turning to the two men behind him "search the house and see if anyone else didn't make it out"

"Yes sir!" They shout and begin to search the house.

"Private Light" the captain called out making the man stand to attention "what do we know about him?" he asked not turning around.

"Not much sir" the Private replied "it's going to be difficult identify the man. These are worst third degree burns I have ever seen."

"That's what I feared" said The Captain with a sigh.

suddenly a man rushed towards the two men "Captain" he said handing the Captain a white paper "The man's name is Silver Heart" he said breathing heavily "he's wife's name is Martha Heart they gave birth to a child two years ago". The Captain began to rub his lips in frustration.

"What do the neighbor say about the family?”

"All good thing sir, they are known to be a happy and respectful couple" the man answered "the majority says that the family would never have problems with anyone". There was a moment of silence as the Captain just stood there staring at the body "Is something wrong sir?" Private light asked.

"Sir!" a guard called out from one of the rooms "you need to see this" the Captain along with the other guards rushed into the room. Inside one of the guards was holding a small door that lead to what seemed under the house.

"An escape route" one of the men responded noticing a blood on the side of the wall  "Captain there seems to be a trail of blood down there" The Captain stared in silence not understanding what was happening to this "happy" family.

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"What do you think you're doing!?" a man with brown short hair shouted as the woman with long red hair began to walk closer to what seemed to be a corpse "get back over here!" even though his tone began to get higher the woman simply ignored him and continued walking until crouched next to the body.

"Poor thing" said the woman as she stood up carrying something in her arms “it appears she was a Pegasus-Blood although one of her wings were cut clean off"

"It's not our problem" the man growled in disgust

"It is now" the woman said showing the man the small baby boy sound asleep in her arms.

"A child?" he sarcastically replied raising his left eyebrow “Why would I possibly care about one of their -" before he could finish the woman uncovered the child revealing what seemed to be a symbol of the sun and the moon make an eclipse on the child's right shoulder. The man stared in confusion "what in the name of Tartarus is that".

"It's hard to say" the woman shrugged "I'm sure the elder may know what it could be" she said staring at the child, she couldn't help but smile.

"No" the man said in a serious tone, the woman looked at him with confusion "I know what you're thinking and I think it's a bad idea, this child is a pony-blood everyone would think we kidnapped him and killed his mother not to mention that mark behind his shoulder something about that feels odd".

"Don't tell me this child intimidates you" the woman joked with a sinister smile.

"W...what no...It’s not that...it's just..." the man stopped himself "Forget it" he whispered

"Well I'm keeping him with or without your help" she said as she walked passed him. She snapped her finger and lit the tip of her finger on fire as she walked away with the sleeping baby on her left arm.

The man nod his in disbelief "do even know what name to give him?" he asked

"Dominic" the woman replied as she still kept walking through the forest "or at least that's what she wrote with her blood on the stone next to her".

The man stared at corpse and let out a sigh "I have a bad feeling about this" he said to himself as he turned and began to follow the woman through the Everfree Forest....