Past vs. Future. Nah I prefer present.

by centreus

Rating: mature
Tags: Tragedy, Slice of Life, Alternate Universe, Sad, Dark
Length: 19834

centreus, who's an alicorn dragon pony, wants a new life. he's wanted for no reason and he takes shape of a different pony. Will he die or his friends will help him ? Better yet, who will be there when he reveals himself?

Centreus wants a new life, without remembering his 4000 years long past. He arrives ponyville and befriends the mane six, but with a different look. The wanted paper of him has already arrived ponyville. Will he hide his past forever wit his new friends or he will face it all together, without nopony helping him? Enjoy reading. First fimfic I've ever made

Sex tag used for sex related words.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-09-11 13:57:17 UTC

sudden arrival

Fim fiction: a past that hurts, the future heals

 introduction.

    Centreus Is 4000 years old due to being an immortal alicorn, different from princess luna and celestia, he's no royal blood either. He sn't a normal alicorn tho... he's a half dragon, half pony, but, I'm not here to tell about him, for now, I'm here to tell that... there's something that never fades nor breaks if it's real...

                                                                                                 Friendship.

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"Im still here in one piece... that's enough... at least for me." Centreus mumbled to himself .his voice was kinda deep but not that deep... He has been chased down by a timberwolf and before the timberwolf, ponies. Who would had known? Or even care?

He kept running as the timberwolf caught up with him as it bit down his wing but centreus reacted and grabbed his wing from the timberwolf but the timberwolf's teeth got his wing injured . fuck! My wing!

"Fuck you." Centreus cursed. He made a hard turn ,resulting in a timber crash And climbs up a tree. The timberwolf tried to follow him on the tree but it failed badly and barked at centreus.

"Shut up. " from all the animals in the everfree it had to be a fucking timberwolf. They are cool but he isn't friendly.

He sighed as he lays on the branch and drifted off to sleep.

huh? why it's kinda.... wet?

Centreus wakes up and looks around. He then felt one drop of water, then another, and Another. He then realized it was raIning.

great. This can't get w- he then heard a growl below him

me and my big mouth... up there is a exit but not a safe one. Down there is the timberwolf . I just need to coordinate my fall and- SHIT! Centreus slips from the branch . He then looked at the timberwolf and landed on it's head. The timberwolf dismantled as centreus fell hard on his back leg. his back leg bone sticked out from his blue coat as centreus rolled. He then stopped rolling and didn't noticed his bone until he put pressure on it.

"Fuck! My Leg! " he shouted himself. He looked at his leg and closed his eyes in pain. A sudden wood shaking brought him back to reality as he stood up and limped as fast as he could away from the wolf.

After a while of running, he stopped in front of an exit.

"A town. "he let out a relieving sigh buy then a worried one as he looks at himself .

useless alicorn... i think even a leaf has more meaning than you... he closed his eyes "don't think like that centreus... you will get yours soon. Maybe after a couple eons but I will ." He said to himself looking at his blank flank.

I can't stay here tho... there's a town and here is me. I'm wanted for no fucking reason and need to be safe. Body changing spell... he mumbled to himself. His horn glows as he starts changing. His blue coat turns to a purple , his mane , changes to a rainbow dash style but in green. His height lowers to a normal pony size. His horn dissapears but his wings don't, making him look like a normal pegasus. His eyes color( being first red in his right eye and purple on the other.) turn to a green lime . His scar ,however, doesn't dissappear, Being on his left eye . after the spell is finished, he falls sideways, panting. He wasn't a changelings to turn into another pony so the spell took most of his energy.

"Note ...to self... make illusion necklace..." his voice has turned a nice, shy, low voice. He stood up shaking on his 3 good legs.

now I'm... um... ready... for... why my... nevermind

He started to limp to the little town but he didnt even got out of the everfree as a wooden claw grabbed him by the neck and threw him inside

"shit."

The timberwolf caught up with centreus but wasn't alone... two other timberwolves has followed the main one. Centreus stood up and backed up from them.

fucking shit... now there's three... he kept backing up until his back touched something. He saw green smoke Coming from behind.

"oh oh..." he turned around and saw he was surrounded by 4 timberwolves.

"I...um... HELP!!!"

They looked at him as he Shies to the floor. He covers his face with his front legs ,scared.

great... new personality: shy, scared. Right? Fucking shit I hate myself...

He didn'even heard that there were hoofsteps as the wolves growled and launched at him.

"Not so fast partner!" A mare said as A rope grabbed centreus front legs as it pulled him out of the Crash.

"Not so cool!" Another mare said as He heard flapping and a swoosh and wood smashing and breaking. He didn't dared to even open his eyes. He only heard and shaked in fear.

"Um... excuse me?" the first one said. She poked him as he jumped and zoomed to a bush where he stayed hidding. He saw the two mares , one an orange earth pony with a cowboy's hat , and the other was a cyan pegasus with a rainbow colored mane. Behind them, pieces from the timberwolves.

"Really?" The cyan one asked. "First time I see a stallion like this "

"He was just attacked by a pack of timberwolves , rainbow . Don't expect to him not be scared. " the orange one said.

"That... kinda makes sense ."

Centreus peeks his head out slowly as he limps out slowly

"Are you ok?" The orange one asked.

"I... um... think... i'm ...ok"

"Just like fluttershy. Maybe more shy than fluttershy." rainbow stated. Aj slapped the back of Rainbow's head. "Ow."

"Sure? You don't seem pretty well with that cut on your eye."

The scar looked just like a recent cut, although the truth was that he had it since he was a filly. He whimpered in pain quietly.

I hope they don't see my leg..."Oh... um... it's ok... it's no-"

"SWEET CELESTIA! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR LEG!?" Rainbow shouted.

"nothing..." He said as he looked away. my big mouth I swear...

"That ain't looking like nothing. Come on , uuh"

"shadow..."

"Well, charcoal, better take you to safety." Rainbow said

and here we see somepony that Hearing is fucked up

" I said... shadow"

"Shadow. Ok partner, lets get going." Aj said as she and rainbow started walking out of the everfree. "The name's applejack by the way shadow "

"And mine is rainbow dash. Rainbow danger dash"

show off... centreus now called shadow followed behind with his disguise on.

"A... um... pleasure to... meet... you... b- " shadow falls to the floor unconscious

"a pleasure to meet you too shadow. Shadow?" Aj asked. "Shadow!"

"Losing blood. We need to take him to twilight and fast. "Rainbow said as she grabbed him. "He's kinda heavy for his size"

The two mares started running and flying toward a castle. A huge, crystal Castle.

" Scissors. Alcohol. Bandages"

"Twilight, we ain't real doctors so stop talking like one, please, is annoying... kinda. "

The two mares have arrived at the castle as a lavender uni- I mEan alicorn let them in and started patching him up.

" what happened to his leg." Twilight said flatly

"we really don't know. It was like that when he found him, kinda gross. Not so cool either... " Rainbow admitted. Twilight grabbed a book and started reading it as she looked at the last injury , the bone, as an light purple aura surrounded the tip of the bone that was sticking out.

"He's bucked up. " Aj said . Twilight then pushed it back inside halfway.

"aaaaaaaahhhhhhh! " Shadow screamed in pain as he woke up by it, seating up. rainbow couldn't hide her laughter as she starts laughing on the floor. His scream wasn't even louder than fluttershy's yay

"And he woke up. Hey shadow. Had a good sleep?" Rainbow asked sarcastically after she finished laughing.

"i... um... no... " he said quietly. stop...

"Rainbow. " the alicorn glared at The mocking mare as she stopped.

"Fine."

thanks ,random alicorn who made her stop! All hail the-

"It's the worst scream I ever heard too!" Twilight said before laughing too.

FUCK YOU TOO, RANDOM ALICORN!

"Luckily discord isn't here. Otherwise, he would be mocking shadow too..." applejack said With a sigh.

sje should be a princess... who's discord anyways?

"'Ah will be honest, that was the most embarrasing scream ever."

5 outta 10.

" But still no reason to be mocking or laughing at him."

Actually let me give her a 9.

"W-who's...discord? " the shy stallion asked.

"You don't want to know. Let's just say his name says it all." Twilight said after she stopped laughing. "But at least he isn't as chaotic as before..."

"O-oh..."

"'ah better get going. There's alot work in the barn and I want to finish 'em already with Rainbow... Bye twilight. "Aj said as she trotted out, Rainbow following.

"So... um... I guess you... are ...a pri-"

"Please, Call me twilight. "

"Ok ...princess... twilight"

"Twilight "

"Twilight... um... well then..."

"You act just like fluttershy."

"Um... who?"

"A great friend that is shy. The name also says it all, but don't underestimate her. "

"Um... ok.." he puts a hoof on his bad leg slowly. "a....am I going... to...um... be ok?"

"Sure... just a little push and we are done." she sets down the book.

"A push? Wh-" twilight then pushed abruptly and quick as shadow screamed his quiet scream.

"Done." She said.

"That... hurts!" He 'shouted'

"I know. " she then proceeded to bandage the leg after sewing the opening. "But now you need rest. "

Shadow eyes narrowed as he touched the soft bed. "W...where am I?"

"Somewhere safe. Specifically, my castle."

"Oh..um...thanks... I think "

"No problem. "That being Said, she teleported out.

"Why..."he asked himself. "I'm a complete stranger and she just... let- no, ordered - me to rest on her catsle..." he sighs and lays on the bed, looking at the window as he drifted to sleep.

"A dragon pony will always kill."

"Useless alicorn"

"Kill your self"

"Monster"

Centreus is surrounded by a crowd of ponies insulting him and such. He laid on the floor and putted his front legs in front of his face.

"You don't deserve to live"

"Stop! Shut up please!" He shouted. The shadowy crowd then vanished into Nothing. He raised a leg to see just a forest and stood up.

Looking around, He then saw some ice blue eyes.

"W-who's there? " he asked. The eyes blinked as he regretted what he just asked and ran away. the eyes then turned to a dark blue coat and a night like maned alicorn.

he then stopped after a while and fell to the floor panting.

"What... was that..." he said to himself. The mare approached him as he stood up again backing up.

The alicorn then vanished, as everything did too...

Twilight was shaking shadow sleeping because he was steering constantly and whimpering and talking in his sleep. Shadow wakes up after a while of such stuff panting like hell.

"Shadow? Are you ok?" She asked. He looked around and rubbed his face. "You looked like you had a nightmare..."

"I...I'm ok... I think.. why you came if ...I may ask...." he said, trying not to sound rude.

" I heard you whimpering ."

"it's nothing...."

Twilight then trotted out as he shaked his head. he looked at the mirror next to him as he realized something.

"Shit. I Hope She Didn't noticed them. " he looked at the door as his forehead, where its supposed to be his horn, started glowing. His eyes then became circular instead of the line as it stopped glowing.

"There..."

He took his blanket off and seated to the side of the bed. He put a hoof on the floor and stood up in 4 and limped towards the door. He didn't put a lot of pressure on his injured leg Because it'll hurt. (No shit Dude)

He walked out and went to the main room, where some couches were set. He looked around and walked to the kitchen.

she's a princess... I wonder why there is no guards or chefs...

"You are supposed to be resting on the bed." Twilight said, making breakfast.

"I... i... i..." shadow sighed and turned around "I just wanted to ask..." he turns around again " why you let me stay here on your... I suppose its a castle... not forgetting about attending my injuries ..."

Twilight stopped doing what she was doing and looked at him.

"Well... first, you were unconscious, you were bleeding . Second, Rainbow and Aj said what happened and how they saved you from being a midnight snack... third, I wanted to help . And fourth, as princess of friendship, I want to be your friend."

shadow blinked a few times after hearing what she last said... A friend?

"A-a fríend?" He asked.

"Mhm" it seems he never had any friends... better ask him "do...do you had any friends?"

Shadow looked away with a sigh.

What he felt after that surprised him. Twilight was hugging him

"Then I will be your friend, Shadow. "

"thanks... pri-"

"Twilight. "

"Twilight. "

"Why don't you stay at the kitchen table? "

"I ...will "

"What's that smell?"

"Breafast? Burned breakfast? "

"Oh shit!"

In another place of equestria, at a military base exactly, entered a cream mare pegasus with some clouds as her cutiemark. Behind said clouds was a sun. With her were a couple guards with swords and spears.

"Ryan, we failed to find him. We... were stopped by a group of timberwolves. "

A dark red unicorn stallion paced around the room . He had a closed book and a pencil as a cutiemark (meaning he's a writer) And a grey mane.

"Damn it. This just worsen our situation . Send changelings to the forest and to the towns near By. We need to get him. " he grumbled.

"Why?"

"For the millionth time, literally, Because he needs to be captured as fast as we can. You know the reason"

"but-"

"No buts, cus, Go!" the startled mare nodded and ran out. "I'm going to get you... sooner or later..."

Anger can get the best of everypony, (If that's how's said.) Even controlling others, Right?

"This tastes good."

"Thanks."

"Omnomnomnom ."

Twilight, spike and Shadow are in the table eating . Twilight, seeing shadow, giggles.

"You have a little syrup here" spike said to shadow, pointing at the end of the mouth. Shadow blushes a little and wipes it off.

"Sorry... is that...I don't know since when I haven't eaten... maybe since last week... " shadow admitted. Twilight just stared in shock and disbelief. "um ... it's true... "

"How you survived then? "

"Well... I had a unicorn friend that used a spell for hunger so it wasn't necessary to eat... But I think the spell broke yesterday or before yesterday..."

"wow... need to learn that spell."

"Well, shadow, from where are you from?" Spike asked. Shadow stops eating and sighs at said question .

"Spike..." Twilight whispered almost quietly, hoping shadow didn't heard. And was very very very low her volume.

"Is ok twilight." He cleared as twilight looked at him again. He heard her. How? " Is that... it very nostalgic to me. I will be better saying it to somepony tho. I'm from slomovania. Very far away from equestria and very close to changeling territory and dragon territory. "

"Oh. I heard that everypony that's natal from slomovania are immortal in age, although they aren't alicorns nor royalty, right? "

"not really, there was only 4 immortal families. There was the earth pony family, the unicorn's, the pegasus and the alicorn family. "

"Oh. Do you knew them?"

Shadow closed his eyes and looked away.

"Yes... more than you Know..."

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"Centreus, hide!"

"But dad!"

"Hide!"

deep inside a forest, the deepblue forest. There was an adult, white alicorn with a sword, with clowns stuff as his cutiemark, such as the red nose, the long slippers and the bow tie, standing in defending position While a little blue foal and a grey filly hid behind a bush. Although the blue foal was an alicorn, the grey one was a pegasus. The blue one, centreus, had claws, dragon tail with hair on its tip, his eyes were dragon eyes, telling that he was a dragon pony . The grey pegasus, however, was normal, except for her eyes. They weren't like centreus's but different.

"Light scheme! " A black unicorn appears with a sword.  " where's your son!?"

"my son? He's just in the deepblue forest. " the alicorn chuckled.

"Ha ha ha. Very funny. It's funny just to think that even in the worse circumstances, you make a joke or something to try to break the sour mood. Open your eyes, this isn't the circus! This is real life, light scheme." The unicorn said as it charged. "I will do the same as I did with our other siblings: kill you all. The unicorns family will stay standing, above all other races! I should thank your little daughter by killing your beautiful wife. It saved precious time." after that, swords clashed . Metal clashing and punching was heard, sweet and blood fell on the floor .

After 15 minutes of fighting, light scheme was panting as blood fell from his face. He had a cut on his forehead and on his ear. The unicorn had a few cuts also, on his chest and on his front, right hoof. Both panting, kept fighting until the alicorn's sword was send flying to the bush, where got, stabbed between the two foals that saw every second of the fight.

"How foolish of you, big brother... you always the head of the family. Mom should had made me the one that inherited all of the money. instead the older, fool brother got it." the unicorn said. " Remember those days where we all fought between us? Shipper, although being the strongest in the family, was the first one to fall being ripped off in half, then Sapphire Cloud followed, she was the fastest but not fast enough to escape her death. It's a shame that her death dress didn't fitted her body, or her body didn't fitted in the dress. Yeah, being filled up with petroleum can damage her organs, and expand her body width. Her stomach didn't stand enough of it as it exploded . You could see her pain in her eyes but not the exploded stomach. That's a shame... and you, your throat will be sliced in half before you die. I wondered why we separated ourselves . Mom and dad told us to be together, but look at us. Sapphire and shipper are dead. I killed them both. why we separated? Because you told us to? Or it was we were all different ? I once admired you, ONCE! BUT INSTEAD I GOT A PAT ON MY SHOULDER, SAYING THAT YOU WERE BETTER THAN ME, BEING SAID BY THE ONE IM ABOUT TO KILL! "

"I have two things to say. First, so it was you who killed our sisters. Your bigger sisters. All for what? Assure to have the inheritance? I admit, I was a selfish bitch back then. But you!?I could be the living tartarus but I would never kill our siblings for the inheritance! I would instead kill the one who ordered me to do so! And second, your lame speech was boring, I needed the popcorn to at least eat something before I die. I'm happy the speech is over tho." Light scheme said, Chuckling.

"You also were the 'bottomless barrel' of the house... always thinking of food ... then eat this! "The unicorn said as he put the sharp part of the sword in his older brother mouth, pushing it down its throat. After that, he cut open his throat by the inside as the alicorn fell sideways, looking at the bush where his kids were.

"uncle killed daddy." The gray filly whispered. Centreus saw as his father soul fade away by every second as it gasped for

air. "uncle killed our aunties... "

A red light then glowed from the bush as the unicorn saw.

"Well... there's centreus. And if I'm not mistaken, there's d-" before he could finish his sentence, light scheme's sword flew around and cutter the unicorn's head.

"Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit" the head said before staring blankly at the sky .

The sword's handle was surrounded by a red aura, coming from centreus horn as he walked out crying. Seeing his dad, he dropped the sword as he ran to his fading father. His sister followed, trying not to puke . Light scheme's white coat was stained red by his own blood.

"Dad! Dad stand up! We need to go!"

"C-c-centreus..." light scheme said. He then signaled at his crying daughter and made some hoof signs to centreus with the strength he had left (plus holding his breath instead of gasping) that both knew. 'protect your sister with your life, and gather up with your cousins . The alicorns are the ones that lead the rest to safety. You must lead them and protect them. they went west, to equestria. You must go. I saw ryan before we came here and he probably want you dead, like his father. He doesn't knows that they are going to west. Lucy should know where her twin and Genes are. You are the youngest but mom chose you for a reason. Make us proud...' after that centreus and his sister hugged their father one last tIme before He died.

"We... have a mission... gather with Lucy, Lightning , and Genes. Come on" centreus said with his squeaky voice, grabbing his father sword and walking away, crying. His sister followed ,crying badly, holding onto her small brother ...

~present~

"uh... shadow?"

Twilight asked.

It has been 10 minutes since twilight asked her question and shadow just looked away and closed his eyes. Nothing more had been said by the reason he just stayed there, motionless and speechless.

"Shadow. " twilight then slapped his shoulder as his trance got cut off and looked at her.

"Y-yeah?" He finally said.

"Are you ok?. "

"Is ok. Memories... just... forget about it. Changing subject, I want to look around town. I need to.. um... familiarize with this town... if that's ok with you..." shit man... cool off... just act how you would act if you were... with your sister...

Twilight blamed herself for bringing memories to her new friend.

"Um... are you sure? Your leg is still injured ..."

"Mhm..." shadow nodded as twilight sighed.

"I can't order you to stay here either... But be careful, oh and if you see a pink earth pony, I suggest you hide."

"Why"

"You don't want to know right now " twilight chuckled as he rubbed his wing.

"O-ok..."

After a while , Shadow had finished breakfast and walked out. twilight refused to insist on making him rest or staying in the castle. It wouldn't be right even if it was for his own good.

"hide if I see a pink pony? Why?" He asked himself. "Is The pink pony a murderer or something like that? " He couldn't help but worry about such ideas he was having.

"hey shadow.." A voice said to him. Startled, he jumped and looked at the voice emitor. He sighed in relief as he saw Aj on her apple stand that he didn't noticed .

"Oh... um... hey... Applejack it was?" He said as she nodded.

" 'ah see you are better."

"Just a little bit... um ...." he assured. "Thanks... for ... what you did yesterday with the rainbow maned mare."

"No problem partner. Why you were there in the first place? " she asked. shadow just got a little nervous, trying to find a way to tell the truth without blowing his cover.

"I... um... got lost ... inside the everfree forest... " he said.

"That wasn't the question..."

shit...

"I... was... being followed ... by some ponies..." he said.

"Oh. Why? Are you a criminal or something bad?" The orange mare asked as she prepared her rope.

"no. Unless that being a nomad is illegal. "

"since when?"

"4000- "managed to shut up at this point and lie... cool huh? Nah I suck at this...

"-yyyyy-months." He lied. He facehoofed inside. That last arrangement tho...

"If 'ah know something more than anything is that 'ah know when a pony is lying or not, and you are."

"I... am not lying..." he assured, getting more nervous.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes... I mean no... I mean..." he started to get even more nervous as Aj stared at him. He couldn't help but shy away. "I... need to go... bye!" He limped away as fast as he could . Aj just glared at him suspiciously. What's going on with him?

"Time for the next prank, pinkie. He he he." Rainbow dash said to a bush. She then hid inside the bush and waited.

"Ooooohhhhh I'm so excited! Who will it be this time!?" a very energetic voice said from inside the bush.

After a while of waiting, a bandaged pony limped close by as it stopped in front of the bush.

"huh?" shadow looked at an 'x' on the floor. Before he could react, he was thrown with water over himself. cold ice water.

"EEP!" He exclamed as he jumped back again.

"That was a good one pinkie!" Rainbow said. there were voice laughing around as shadow shied away.

"I... um... shit..." shadow said before limping away to the castle .

"Oh... there goes shadow... "

"Already finished with ponyville?" Twilight asked as shadows enters, all wet. she then sees shadow. "Oh..."

"Just... don't... worry ..." he said before walking to the bath. Twilight couldn't help but chuckle.

Shadow closed the door with lock  as he looked at himself on the mirror.

"Why I'm still here... I ... I just came in and I get... pranked... "he sighs as he opens the key for the hot water to come to the tub. (Don't know how's called... :/) after the hot water is almost at the top of the tub, he turns it off and gets in carefully. His shivering stops as he relaxes. he starts taking the bandages off as his forehead glows red as more bandages from the drawer are taken just outside waiting for him to use them when he comes out. He cleans his wounds carefully and after a while, he comes out, bandages up his wounds and dries off, draining the water. He have seen a pink tail under the door but he paid no care to it . he limps out of the bathroom and sees confetti leading to his room . He limps toward it and enters.

"Twilight?" He called inside the room, only to silence to answer back. He entered slowly and lowered, not knowing what's inside the room. His eyes narrowed as he saw a one-layer cake on his bed with a note. He instantly smelled the flavor.

mmmmm chocolate.

He grabbed the note and read it.

Dear Shadow:

                My name is Pinkie Pie. I really really for real found out that you were new in ponyville after me and Dashie pranked you. I'm really really sorry about that (It was fun tho). I wanted to do a big party for you because, as I'm a party pony, I want to see everypony happy! I usually do a 'welcome-to-ponyville' party to whoever is new to ponyville But, sadly, twilight told me that you were a little... shy, and that she though you wouldn't feel comfortable in a party just for you. So I just left a cake for you and maybe later we can meet for really!!!

                                                                   Pinkie Pie

"well then... how did Twilight knew? I never told her... maybe by how I was behaving when we first met..."he sighed as he grabbed a book with his magic and put it next to him as twilight enters.

"Are you ok, shadow? " twilight asked.

"Yeah.. don't worry."

maybe I should ask who is pinkie pie...

"ok. So you met pinkie?"

"Um... no... I just got out from the bath. In fact, I wanted to ask you wh-"

"WHO I AM?!" The sudden voice outburst has startled both, twilight and shadow. On the top of the room was a floating pink mare. How. The. Hay. Is. She. Floating?

"Um...that's pinkie." Twilight said. Shadow just looked at the floating pony as she landed besides twilight.

"What's wrong with him?" She asked.

"I... think you broke him, pinkie..."

"How?" she then looked at shadow who was just staring at the ceiling. pinkie then trotted to him as she moved her hoof up and down in front of his face. "Opsie ."

"H-h-how?" He finally said, looking at the energetic pony.

"i don't know."

How the fuck she did that?

"Welcome to ponyville shadow." Pinkie said.

"How did you-"

"Rainbow told me, silly. "

"Um... ok." He looked at the window as pinkie shaked her mane. He saw her by the corner of his eyes and looked back at her. She took out her party cannon as a blast of confetti and ballons covered the room. Instantly, the room was decorated with said stuff.

"I prefer not to ask how she got that cannon in her mane." He said with an sigh. Twilight nodded , approving as 4 mares enters the room. He could recognize two of them: Rainbow Dash and Applejack.

He sighed as he stood up with the book he had grabbed to read and put it away, knowing he had all eyes on him. He turned around to see a yellow coated mare in front of his nose as both shied away. Both then went and hid behind the closest mare they had, shadow hiding behind twilight and fluttershy behind Rainbow.

"um... hello... my name ... um... is fluttershy/shadow" both said to each other, still hiding.

"Great... now we have to tell him fluttershy the second..." Rainbow dash said.

Twilight and rainbow walked away from those who used them for hiding. Shadow and fluttershy walked closer, shadow accidentally putting enough pressure to 'shout' in pain.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! " Twilight grabs him with magic as she put him on the bed.

"Better stay there, resting that hoof." Twilight admitted. He nodded slowly, knowing it was a good idea.

I suppose that's fluttershy... She seems nice...

"Um...hi..." hE said, playing a little with his mane.

The white unicorn stepped forward. "My name is Rarity. The yellow pegasus is fluttershy. you already know pinkie pie ,Twilight, Rainbow Dash ,and Applejack. "

"Mhm...." he nodded slowly. "um.... I'm...Shadow..."

"Sorry? I didn't heard you." Rarity said.

"He said shadow. Don't you heard? " Rainbow said.

"Well, You told 'im charcoal.  " Aj mocked As Rd grumbled.

"Um... pleasure to meet you... all..." He said. "And thank you... twilight, Rainbow Dash , and Applejack... for.... saving me..." the three mares mentioned nodded. He Sat up And Played A Little More with his mane before pinkie getting some  carton dishes, plastic spoons and a plastic knife.

really... how she get all those stuff in her mane...

Pinkie then smiled " squee!! Let's eat the cake!!" She said while cutting the cake...

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mission impossible: happiness

It has been a month after shadow's arrival. He is already working on a shop around town, selling cotton candy, muffins, cupcakes, and other sweets. You can know for who he started working. He was working for the cake family ,principally, but pinkie gave the idea of selling sweets around town, walking from place to place, corner to corner. the first 3 days working on that job and he already knew all ponyville (due to be walking around town.). It's has been 2 weeks since he started working . He would normally work from 8 am to 3 pm but he worked 'till late: at 7 or 8 pm .He was happy, not because the salary ( like if he needed the money either. Well.... maybe but not the reason.), but because he saw fillies and foals running toward the portable cotton candy shop wanting candy. He sure was having fun. Meanwhile, Twilight, Rarity and Pinkie Pie were looking from far away. They were talking about the stallion whom entered exactly a month ago (or got helped in the process.). His wing has been fully cured a week ago, magic maybe? Or it was twilight? He didn't exactly knew but he didn't care. He was just happy to fly again, he thanked twilight even if he didn't knew if it was her. his leg, however, wasnt fully cured . Twilight had to take him to the hospital the day after his arrival For it. It seemed like it had swollen the 'little push she gave'.

"hmmm..."

"What are you thinking twilight?" Rarity said.

"oh... is nothing, i suppose. It that every time i see him, he doesnt seem... very happy... like if something is missing... but i can't manage to know what..."

"Maybe a party!?" Pinkie said.

"Pinkie... he doesn't seems like those ponies who likes parties that much... and I doubt that a party is missing... no offence." Rarity said.

"Um girls?"

"And what do you know about him!? "

"Girls..."

"More than you, darling!"

"Oh ye-"

"GIRLS!!!" Twilight shouted.

"WHAT!?" Both responded back.

" He's looking at us." Both ponies looked at the purple stallion looking back.

"Oh..."

"I still know more than him. "

"Gah!"

Is late at night and Shadow is trotting back to the castle, after delivering a cake to a important stallion in ponyville. He felt two things now... maybe three. He was embarrased; because the filly told him blank flank, anger; because she kept singing the words with a friend and either parents doing anything to stop it, and tired. Just by that situation, his scar was glowing, not by embarrassment but anger.

"I'm not useless... "He murmured to himself, looking down. he didn't noticed a black figure hiding inside a bush as he seated in front of the castle's doors. He should be looking for his cousins And his sister. He couldn't think of it right now but he knew one thing... he failed his mission...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~past~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Centreus! "

"Don't let go! "

"I...am trying!"

Centreus and his sister had fallen on a raging River just inside the everfree forest. They were holding on for dear sake, while not drowning. Struggling, the river's current was raging badly as rocks could be seen. Centreus and his sister smacks a rock, separing both.

"NO!!" Centreus shouted as he saw the grey hoof disappear inside the water as the river divided in two. A peaceful side and the raging side. His sister, luckily, went to the peaceful side. He tried to swim toward his sister but that only caused the little waves to roll him and hit a couple rocks and cutting a few times with stuff in the water. He tried to grab something to safe him from what would come next. He could see something not that far . When he realized what it was, he tried swimming away from it.

"HELP! HELP! HE-" the water pulls him out as he coughed when he arose, only to be out of the water, falling.

*SPLASH *

He fell on the water and hitted a rock in the back of his head, knocking him out.

somewhere, at a river, Played a couple fillies. Maybe 15 or 20. there were all kind of fillies: including alicorns, small dragons, and gryphons. There were normal ponies too. There were two alicorn fillies and their mother. Both were playing together in the river, apart from the rest as the mother rested under a three. Then they took sight of something blue right on the shore.

"what's that, Tia?" The younger asked. She had a dark blue coat with a lighter blue mane and tail.

"I'm not sure, lulu... stay here while I check... " the oldest said. She had a white coat and a pink mane, slightly taller than her sister.

As she approached the blue object, she could recognize it was a small foal, with a scar on his eye. Also, he had a black eye and lots of bruises and cuts.

"Is that A foal?" lulu asked. Tia, how the youngest called, nodded . Lulu then ran off ,calling their mother. The mother trotted where tia was as she saw the little foal.

"Oh my. If it's just a little foal..." the mother said. She had white coat, like tia's and her mane And tail, we're red. Taller than the average pony, she stood besides him as he coughed .

Centreus opened a little his black eye but closed it again. Tia saw his dagger-like eyes a as she backed up.

"A bat pony???" She asked to her mother.

"doubt it... he has claws, unlike the bat ponies. Let's get him home."

"He doesn't seems fine... what happened to him?" Lulu asked.

The mother's horn as centreus got levitated and laid on her back as she opened her wings.

"Luna, can you pack our things up while I take him to the castle?" The little filly nodded and, happily, started packing up. Her sister helped her as their mother took centreus to the 'Castle'. It wasn't a castle really but luna insisted on calling it castle, because she had a lot of faith that their miserable life will change. She had a dream of it, she and her sister being princesses, having a huge castle, having servants, going on free spa, stuff like that. The mother couldn't help but call the poor, wooden cottage ,a castle.

Centreus woke up as he opened his eyes slowly, his vision all blurry.

"Where...am i..." he asked, almost with no voice, as he coughed up water.  He tried lifting his head up , shaking a little. his ears were flattened as he tried to see. He held a hoof up to his right eye, where the bruise was.

"Don't force yourself to talk, little one..." the mother said, as she took him to the bathroom for a shower. "I will clean your injuries and bandage you up. "

Normally, he would had refused to getting helped with shower. Mostly because it was embarrassing... at least for him. His sister loved him to help her while he didn't liked to. But due to the circumstances, and the worried expression from the mother, he didnt. He was too weak to do it on his own. She filled the tub and afterwards, putted centreus inside.

"I'm lauren by the way..." she said. " What's your name?"

"Cen...treus..."

After a while of cleaning him, lauren took him out and bandaged him and gave him a bag of ice for his eye. he, instead, Used It For The back Of His Head where he got hit .

"Mom! We are back!" Lulu Exclamed.

"Ok girls! I'm going down in a bit. " she said , half sang. lauren took him carefully to the living room and putted him down on the couch as she seated on the bigger couch. He closed his eyes and laid his head as his bag of ice remained on his head. luna was worried about him. celestia, on the other hoof, wasnt worried. In fact, her face was that of insecurity, scared and jealous. She wanted to get rid of him. His mother was taking time from her and luna for him.

"What are you?" Celestia asked. Lauren glared at her like wanting to scold her but centreus knew what she meant and opened his eyes.

"Dragon pony..." he said before closing his eyes again.

"Interesting..." lauren said. She inspectionated centreus body. His wings weren't full scales like dragons but weren't feathers like pegasus either. It was like a mix of both. Scathers? Feales?

"Awesome! Can you breath fire?" Luna asked. He just shrugged.

"I don't know... never tried..." he managed to say Understandable .

"Maybe you need some rest... maybe you can tell us tomorrow what happened exactly. " lauren assured. She was tad late: centreus was already sleeping. celestia now felt the urge of getting rid of the pest arrive at her home...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~present~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Meanwhile he was thinking about all of this, he had started to clean the floor of the castle with a broom. He even used magic to at least clear his mind. He finished after 30 minutes. He put the broom away, walked to his room and laid on his bed. He looked out the window on the night sky. He could see 5 stars shining brightly, one of them bigger than the rest. What did that meant? Maybe he was pretty close from one of his cousins or his sister? Either way, he did a mental note on visiting fluttershy the next day because he was free that time and closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Shadow has awoken early as usual, to clean his room, and making breakfast for twilight , himself , spike and the owl. He was surprised when he saw the mane six and spike sleeping on some couch .he couldn't help but sigh. He could see their happiness on their faces. He could go and try to find his family, but then the mane six would look for him and he could raise the curiosity of the mane six to ask why he left.

He took out the waffle mix and started making waffles. The tasty smell of waffles filled the entire castle, waking up the waffle lover, or the gems lover... maybe both

 "Good morning shadow" said spike, yawning .

Shadow looks behind and see the 'huge scary' dragon . He liked to compliment spike saying he's the biggest and scary dragon in all of equestria, in which the bond he and spike shared had become thick and hard.

" Oh h-hey s-spike " Shadow said trying to sound scared. Shadow gave the dragon a soft, playful punch on spike shoulder. Spike climbed onto shadow's back .

"How you slept ?" Said shadow, forcing a smile.

"Perfect" spike said, yawning.

"Mmmm this is delicious! " pinkie said as shadow finished his pancakes. The rest were either finishing eating or already finished. Fluttershy was one from the first to finish, then pinkie. Rarity didn't really bothered to finish fast, it would ruin her 'perfectly brushed' coat and that syrup would mess up her coat. Rainbow Dash and Applejack I'm their usual rivalry. This time of who finished last. twilight and spike just ate calmly as shadow looked away from them.

they are lucky to have friends that care for each others... or they are lucky or I'm the unlucky... maybe I should leave later to find lighting. I know how protective he is when I played with him. He must be protecting genes, and maybe planing on how to save his sister from Ryan... Lucy can be easily controled, probably she's being used to find me. That or trying to find lightning, wait no... if an alicorn is missing in the family, then the one to lead is the unicorn... but knowing lightning that well... he will refuse and fi-

"Shadow?" Spike called. He returned to equestria and looked around. the mane 6, owlowishus and spike were staring at him. "Are you ok?"

He lowered a little ,trying to appear invisible.

"Um... yeah..." he earns a worried look from all.

"Who." Owlowishus said.

"me."

"Who."

"Me..."

"Wh-"

" I need fresh air." he interrupted the owl irritably and went to the balcony, holding his plate with his wings. He putted the plate down as he seated on the balcony. He moved his tail next to him as he started eating.

"What's wrong with him?" Rainbow asked.

"Um... maybe he has a lot of pressure..." fluttershy supposed.

"Maybe he needs fluttershy and her kindness to calm him down.~" Pinkie proposed.

""Yes... maybe later... "

"Thanks fluttershy... for ... you know... letting me help you with your animals friends.

"Is no problem... isn't it supposed to be me saying thanks for helping me?" She asked. shadow shrugged and chuckled. they walked around fluttershy's garden until they both got bored of it and walked down a path leading to the everfree.

"Is this path safe, flutters?" He asked, kinda scared. He had passed through there a lot but his personality didn't let him feel brave or courageous.

"Yes... I think... this is the path where I walk almost always And meet up with zecora, a very nice zebra." She said, ignoring some rustling bushes. Shadow keep looking and noticed they were getting inside hydra territory. He gulped as both went deeper .

"Um fluttershy..."

"Oh... oh..."

" are we lost?"

"Y-yes."

"We must go ba-"

*SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECH*

A shadow started rising from the ground 100 meters in front of both. A big, huge, scary shadow with 4 heads could bee seen.

"A HYDRA!?" Both exclamed. The hydra heard both and ran towards them.

"Run!" Shadow said as fluttershy ran, in a different direction. The hydra, took the turn and followed fluttershy. Seeing her in trouble and more when cornered, lighted a spark inside himself. His scar glowed at the though of leaving her here, to the hydra's fate. He couldn't let her die. Not now during a peaceful walk. His wings flared up and flapped as fast as he could, towards fluttershy. He grabbed her just before the hydra ate her. she had her arms in front of her eyes, scared. Shadow then landed pretty far away from the hydra, who was spitting a tree from one of his mouth.

"Get to twilight!"

just great. Exactly a month after trying to escape the timberwolves and now I get to face a hydra. It's a shame that I threw my father's sword at a tree without anything to grab on...

Fluttershy nodded and ran as fast as she could toward ponyville.

"Come on big boy, show me your moves." He murmured. He knew he couldn't fly back, leading the hydra to ponyville would result in a catastrophe. He chose to stay there, at least until twilight came and helped. his forehead then started to glow as he shot the hydra with magic. That only caused the hydra to go to angry hawk mode as it charged toward shadow. two of the hydra went to tackle him, although only one suceded. Shadow managed to dodge the first one but didn't saw the other one as it tackled him. He was sent flying, although he managed to fall on his hoof as he slid on the ground for a moment. His muzzle was bleeding. His scar glowed brighter as he growled, taking flight again toward the hydra.

The hydra sensed it coming as one of the head rose and with an amazing strength, hammered him down to the floor. Dust rose . After the dust settled, shadow was lying there, inside a crater. The scar was glowing less and less each passing second but never stopped glowing. The hydra, being the victorious, grabbed him by his wings. They wanted him to feel more pain...

" hurry girls ! shadow may be in trouble!"

The mane 6 were running toward the hydra, who was facing the other way, not noticing the mares. There could be only be seen three heads with their necks, they supposed it has been defeated, but then the missing head rise up and hammered something to the floor. After a while, a head picked up something, and threw it towards some trees. The thing that the hydra threw was standing back up, shaking. Fluttershy saw what it was as her eyes narrowed.

"SHADOW!!!" she shouted. The hydra, hearing her, stops and turns around.

"F-f-flutters???" Shadow managed to say. He tried to limp toward the mares but a head noticed him and grabbed him, and threw him again to the floor. Fluttershy's eye twitched as her ear did so too. She had enough.

"How DARE YOU! HURTS HIM!" She shouted, breathing heavily. The hydra flinched at her sudden outburst and backs up. Fluttershy then started doing 'the stare' as the hydra paralyzed in front of her.

"YOU SHOULDER BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF! NOW YOU BETTER GO, BEFORE I CALL MY FRIENDS!!!"

That did it. The hydra whimpered as it ran away, scared.

Fluttershy calmed down before flying down in front of centreus.

"Shadow!" The rest shouted.

"G-g-girls..." he said. His muzzle was bleeding badly, if it wasnt before. His wings were injured... again...

"Don't try to talk now, shadow. You will be ok..." fluttershy assured.

"Don't close your eyes"

"Shadowy shadow!"

Shadow closes his eyes into unconsciousness. His heartbeat slowing down.

"Let's hurry to the hospital." twilight then surrounded him in her aura and took sight of something at the side on the stomach. "Should I take the log out?"

"No I don't suggest it. You can do it wrong too, just like when you pushed the bone back in instead of doing it the gross way..." Rainbow admitted. " and besides, he will lose blood faster. Let's get going!" the gang then ran to the hospital.

"A log in his side, a twisted hoof, few minor cuts here and here, a bruised lung, 2 broken ribs, and injured muzzle, among other minor injuries. "

"Shadow!"

"We need to take him to the operation room right away."

Shadow opened a little his eyes, enough to see where he was. White ceiling... he could feel he was being moved. He let his head drop to the side to see spike holding his hoof.

"S-shadow?" He was crying a lot as he saw shadow's blood stains in his purple coat.

"at... least... fluttershy's ok..." he said, before passing out again.

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"Is he awake?"

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"He's moving..."

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"Shadow?"

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"Wake up please..."

please... wake me tomorrow... today I got beaten the tartarus out of me...

"Ugh.... last time I felt this way... was when i, got carried away... by the river..." He said to himself, not remembering that there were voices. He opened his eyes slowly, looking at it surrounding.

"Why is... all blurry..." he scrunches his face as he hears giggling and relieving sighs. He turns his face toward said sounds.

"A pink blob... shiiiit... I swear I didn't got drunk..."

"No you didn't... I think... right twily?"

"No."

His vision became clearer as he saw 6 ponies and a dragon .

"Are you ok ,shadow?" Rainbow asked.

"I... think... not the first time I've been this bad tho... although it was a different situation..."he answered.

"Ah' suppose the first one was when you got dragged away by the river?" Applejack asked.

"How did you..."

"You just said it, silly! " pinkie giggled.

"Oh..."

now I will be here a month maybe... 30 annoying days... even I hope lauren would be here to comfort me...

recovery

Shadow wakes up, groaning a bit from his exhaustion, soreness and sleepy.

"30 days done... other 30 to go... I hate myself always I open my big mouth..." he sighs. The day he entered the hospital, he though it was just 30 days only...

"Future bitch slapped me with his reality..." he grunted as his breakfast was taken to him. The nurse dropped the dish she was carrying as he saw him . Shadow fast reaction made his horn glow as the dish was surrounded by a red aura, and when I say his horn glowed, his horn glowed... meaning one thing...

"Hey nurse Redheart, uh... why are you looking at me like that?" Fast reaction but slow realization. After a minute of holding the tray with magic, he realized what was wrong with him.

"Y-you... you... you..." nurse said, with an accusing hoof at him. "Are C-c-centreus? "

"I'm a late realizator... ain't i..." He said, looking away. she could see he was scared by the look of his face. She then calmed down as he didn't look at her.

"I'm the one supposed to be scared, instead, you are the one scared." She cleared out. "why?"

"I... have always been scared... it's just that... there are times that I hide them well, but I'm always scared... I've always been hated, wrongly judged and told I was a weak, useless piece of-" nurse Redheart covered his mouth and nodded in understanding.

"You arent useless, as far as I know. Princess twilight sparkle said that you saved her friend, almost losing yours. "

"I didn't do anything... fluttershy was the one who scared the hydra away. I just... distracted the hydra."

"And before?"

"well... maybe I did saved her... just about when she was going to get eaten... but that's it... other than distracting the hydra and almost dying, nothing." He didn't even raised his head when the nurse seated besides him.

"Well, why do you think you are useless in the first place? Don't tell me that's for not having a cutiemark. "

"Err... part of it..." he admitted. The face the nurse gave him, a curiosity face, convinced him to tell her why...

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"I told you he wasn't going to do anything. He just cries and cries."

"Hahahahahaha blank flank."

"Crybaby."

It has passed a few days since centreus arrived to Lauren's house. He used an old Pillow that he found at some trash cans as a bed. Lauren putted him in the school celestia and luna were in, thinking it was a good idea. WRONG. It was just his first day of school and he was already bullied. And even more wrong, because who was bullying him was...

"it's our turn to beat him up." Some stallions said. inside a circle of curious ponies , trying to look at something, stood a white coated mare with pink mane.

"Leave us something to punch ,celestia." Another said. She smirked and backed up for the rest to see a beaten up centreus on the floor, trying to stand up. She was the popular mare in the school, just because she had straight 'A' on all classes, helped with the school 'security', became the president of her grade, and because she was pretty and an alicorn.

"W...why..." Centreus asked, holding his eye .

"Simple. You took my mother's free time . She would had teached me and luna how rainbows are created instead of helping you with your problems." She answered. He didn't wanted to tell lauren about this or the director. He feared that she would do worse things.

"Useless crybaby. Waste of space." She said before walking out of the circle. The rest of them returned to their recess time ,leaving him on the floor. He tried to stand up, only to fail badly. His muscles hurts. His bones hurts. His heart hurts.

"Centreus!" A voice shouted. He shook before managing to stand up. "Are you ok?!"

he looked at the hall and saw luna running towards him. She, different from her sister, cared about centreus. She knew how much her sister hated him since the first day He came. Celestia didn't liked him to sleep with her nor in her room. In change, Luna volunteered to let him sleep in her room instead.

"Y...yeah... I think..." he answered, limping towards hIs locker. He trIed to reach it but fails. he had to use a bucket that celestia threw over his head to reach it. He opened, pulled out a notebook and a pencil and Closed.

"You don't see pretty good..." she assured. He then limped down the hall.

" Let's just go to class......" he said as luna followed him. He entered the classroom, behind luna. Although he was bandaged almost everywhere, where he could see His blue coat was mostly coated of almost purple. Bruises from before and now.

"Um... are you supposed to be centreus... the new student?" The teacher said. the teacher was a green coated unicorn, mane and tail were Red and as a cutiemark, an apple besides a ruler. centreus nodded slowly, taking sight of celestia. She was at the front of the classroom, in a seat. She grinned as she saw him but faded when luna came in.

"What happened to your blue coat? The first time I saw you, you were blue coated... maybe bruises here and there ... but.. what happened today?" He asked with a concerned look. Centreus just looked away as luna seated besides her sister.

"Um... maybe the... injures from before... I came here... they just appeared in recess... " he lied.

"Well then... take a seat... you may sit wherever you like." Centreus then looked around. The classroom was way bigger than necessary... at least for his class. He took sight of many seats in the back of the classroom and limped toward the last one, far away from the rest of everypony. Luna looked at him, worried. She surely didn't know that her sister was doing all these things.

"Well... first of all, welcome, mister centreus. I'm Mr. Rupples, your Science class teacher. "Mr. Rupples said. Centreus was trying to not black out or something like that. Although he was bandaged, he paid no mind to it and payed attention to the teacher. Celestia would give a death glare back at where he was from time to time. Time passed and the bell rang, meaning that school was over . The halls were full of teen ponies, looking for stuff in their lockers. Centreus decided to stay inside the classroom until the crowd diminished. He had planned to tell Lauren what was happening, but his fear of celestia doing worse almost made him change of opinion.

Almost.

"Why don't you get out of the clasroom, centreus? " Mr. Rupples asked.

"I... don't like being... around a lot of other ponies..." he said. Mr. Rupples stood up from his seat and walked to him.

"Centreus, it is a bully problem? " Centreus looked at him, sighed and nodded. " then let me help you. we go to your locker and i accompany you until the front door. Ok?" Centreus nodded. Rupples levitated Centreus on his back and walked out. As they passed through the hall, centreus saw celestia and other boys glaring at him. he held his tail as they arrived at his locker. centreus opened it, took his other 3 notebooks and closed it.

"There... lets... go..." He squeaked .

Who must be bullying this poor foal... Don't worry, centreus. I will help you...

Rupples walked out and putted him down slowly. "If you need something, don't bother to visit me. I live at that house." Pointing at a house. Centreus nodded and limped away, with his notebooks on his back. He could feel a crowd starting to surround him as he hurried out of there.

"Stay away from me!" He said before breaking into a painful sprint. He grabbed his books in his mouth,  being thin. He could feel the air on his face and mane. He could feel the adrenaline inside his veins.

"For a little foal like you, you have amazing speed. " a teen mare voice said. He knew who it was and went faster, breaking his limits. Celestia ran behind, but centreus out ran her, leaving her way behind. He couldn't feel the pain he was feeling anymore. the adrenaline took its place for the pain as he zoomed to the house.

The speed! I can feel it! I love it! Celestia won't catch me now!

he could feel a smile widen on his face as he stops in front of his house, panting. He opened the door and trotted toward luna's room and putted his notebooks in a corner and walked out.

"Lauren! I'm home." he shouted. He entered lauren's room to see his adoptive mother tied up in her bed, her eyes covered as a black coated pony , with a sword in his hooves, was standing besides her. He could see it was an earth pony. He froze in place, not knowing what to do. The earth pony was staring at him, and started walking to him. Centreus backed up to the corner, looking at lauren, struggling. Her horn had a strange ring, explaining why she couldn't use magic.

"Little centreus... is that you?!" The mare asked. He knew that voice. His eyes narrowed as the mare took her ninja suit off. It showed a dark grey coat, a beautiful blue mane and tail and some stranges star on her flanks, meaning she was a ninja.

"A-a-auntie shipper!?" He Couldn't believe his eyes. He rubbed his eyes, thinking he was wrong. Nope. His aunt was there, putting away her sword.

"Centreus!" She hugged him tight. He hugged back, crying and smiling.

"How..."

"Our family had a connection sense, and if you are asking how I'm alive, your uncle killed my clone, not me." She answered both questions centreus didn't asked.

"why is Lauren tied up?" He asked, cleaning his tears.

"She ponynapped you, didn't she?" She felt guilt when he shaked his head.

"No. Instead, she saved me... " he said before walking to the bed , cutting the ropes with his claws and taking the ring off, and taking the cloth she had around her eyes as Lauren stood up in a flash and stood in a defensive stand.

"Lauren. It's ok. She though you ponynapped me. " Lauren didn't felt safe but nodded, straightening her body .

"Yeah... sorry... where's your sister, centreus? "Shipper asked. Centreus smile faded and looked away.

"I don't know... last week... we got carried by a river's current and we went different ways... I got carried Here... she... I don't know how she ended or where... i... i... " he dropped to the floor, crying. "I failed daddy..."

Shipper sighed and hugs him again. "Don't worry. I will look for her. meanwhile stay with lauren. and for you Lauren, I will pay for everything you did for him. I see how you are living right now and I'm honestly impressed. please, take this . this will help you and your family. If you want, I can also get you a new home." Shipper gives a saddlebag and takes out a bag. The bag let out the sounds that many bits did when moved.

"Here are, at least, three hundreds bits. I will call one of my friends bring more for you and your family care." Shipper finished.

"I... i... I dont know what to say..." lauren said.

"Just a thank you is enough. You deserve more tho. That's why I'll bring more by the next week."

"What will you do when you find her?"Centreus asked.

"Well, I asked somepony very good at magic to make some magic necklaces. Knowing that your cousin is already full grown, he would follow his father's steps. although I feel bad for Night Teckon, Aka your dead uncle... I found... " she looked at Lauren and sighed. "Sorry, may you show us a empty room? This may get a little Disgusting..." Lauren nodded and took them to the attic, where she left both. "As I was saying, I found him headless... why would somepony did this... he deserved it but... it just ... disgusting..." she laid down and motioning centreus do do the same As his pain returned again.

"A...about that... i... know who killed uncle night..." he said.

"Who?"

He took a deep breath and let it out.

"I did... I saw him kill daddy... I saw him telling daddy how he killed your clone and auntie Cloud... Auntie Cloud didn't use a clone either?" Shipper nodded, saying that she did use one. "And daddy... did he?" Shipper sighed and shook her head.

"He... didn't used a cloning spell on himself... he knew well that whoever was going to kill us, he knew it was going for me first, not having a magic or flying. He also knew when he was taking Sapphire out... but... didn't know when he was getting... killed. And very busy with your false accusation, he didn't had time to investigate. He was lucky to run with you and your sister out of your home... ponies burned your home with no chance of escaping. I just keep wondering how you didn't got caught... maybe because this little town didn't liked having guards or stuff like that... don't get me wrong. that's a blessing." she hugs tightly and notices centreus wincing. She lets go ." Sorry."

"Its...ok... where's aunt Cloud by the way?" Centreus said, rubbing his bruises .

"she's protecting Lightning and Genes. All under disguise , of course. It was a potion we created , but it's only temporary. We already ordered them. Is just a matter of time before we have them. When we know that we all are safe, we will pick get you. But in case that something happens... " she gives a knife to centreus. " it's a fake one so don't use it for defense... you press a button under it and Sapphire will be on her way. Don't worry. we will find her and protect her... " she said . He hugged her.

"Please... be safe."

The next day, centreus went to school, with luna and his bully. He lost his courage to tell Lauren after Celestia intimidated him with killing him, so he stayed Behind the pack. When they arrived, they went to their lockers. This time, when Centreus was trying to reach it, celestia and her pack walked to him, surrounding him.

"Well well well...if it's the small blank flank. Need help ?" Celestia said as she grabbed him and putted him in his locker, and closed it with him inside. he didn't struggled, or banged at the door. He just sobbed inside his locker.

"Yeah... crybaby... cry inside the locker.. that's who you are after all... useless chicken... " she laughed and trotted off to Mr. Rupples classroom, followed by her gang. He sobbed inside the locker, not wanting to come out.

"Welcome ,students. please take seat as soon as you enter." Mr. Rupples said. As everypony took their seat, he noticed that not everypony had arrived.

"Where's centreus? " he asked. Luna looked at the seat where centreus seated the day before.

"Dunno... last when I saw him was in his locker." Celestia said. It was true, she saw him inside it but never revealed by who. Snickers were heard across the room as Mr. Rupples looked at her and went to the door.

"Don't do anything while I'm done." He then exited the class. He trotted toward centreus locker and looked around.

*sob* *sob*

he looked around and stared at centreus locker.

"Centreus? Are you in here?" The sobbing stopped as hooves were heard from the locker.

"Y-yes..." he seated back at the corner of the locker. He started crying as the teacher looked at the lock. It had a small keyboard .

"What's the code?" Mr. Rupples asked.

"C-Crybaby ." He answered.

"I'm not a cry-"

"t-the code. C-crybaby" Mr. Rupples realized and tiped 'crybaby' . The locker opened as he saw centreus crying inside.

"there there... don't worry... I'm here... I'm here..." Rupples said, grabbing him and hugging him.

"I'm scared..." the little foal said, sobbing. a tear fell from Rupples as he made his way toward the classroom... "thanks..."

Centreus said. "for taking me out of there. "

"No problem kiddo."

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"Oh..." nurse Redheart said. Centreus had finished telling why he felt such thing. Nurse Redheart, however, had a Question.

"Wait... Celestia From Princess Celestia? " Centreus eyes narrowed at said words. Princess?

"P-p-princess?"

"Yes. Princess Luna also. "

Centreus shaked. He knew that Celestia hated him to the top. With her power as a princess, she could order his execution. He was wanted by her too, believing the words his cousin said to her.

"Please... don't call her." He begged.

"Don't worry. "She said, walking to the door. "I won't. "

"Before you go, can you tell spike who I really am, without letting the other know? "

"Sure."

"Sir! Sir!" Lucy ran behind Ryan. He looked at her

"What's wrong lucy?" He asked .

"I think we found him, the pony from the forest, he has the same scar that centreus."

" so it's him... send a group of soldiers to the everfree. And I want you to go where he is, gain his trust and make him reveal his true form. Call me when he does. "

"Yes sir " Lucy said while walking out...

 After a while of talking, shadow had a visit from the ponyville teacher, cheerilee, that gave him some drawings that the fillies and foal did. After that, he ate. The hospital food wasn't the best but was good... in his opinion

"I'm glad you all came here" Shadow said, happy. And all of the sudden, he jumps a little, like pain has attacked him so badly that he moved a lot from the pain. The doctor came in with a medicine.

"Don't worry, the medicine just wore off. " the doctor assured. It was a sedation for the pain." The visit time is over. He will be having the medicine and a sedation spell . " the doctor put the medicine in that little bag as the mane six left... preoccupied about him... but nopony was more preoccupied that spike... he didn't slept that night .

Early at morning, spike hurried with a basket with flowers, a get well soon card, and a saphire he found and jogged toward the hospital. He entered the room and closed the door slowly, not wanting to wake up shadow, not knowing that shadow was in his centreus form.

"Shadow?" Spike called quietly . Shadow wakes up and sits up, rubbing his ears

"Huh? Oh. Hey spike... what happened?" Shadow asked spike, who had his eyes narrowed about what he was seeing. Spike looked at him with fear, because he had seen his face in the wanted paper. He then realized after a while and closed eyes, looking away . "Oh..." was all that he could say...

"You...you... you are c-centreus.." Spike asked ,backing up to exit and tell the autorities.

Shadow nodded. "I understand if you don't want to be my friend anymore... "

Spike stayed thinking , the past weeks with him wasn't the same before his arrivel, it has been better. But if he was a criminal, why would he help him and twilight and all of ponyville. He should be a thief, a killer, but he wasnt"You arent a real criminal, right? "Spike said, walking toward him. Spike didn't saw him scared anymore, because if he was a criminal, he would already done something. Centreus didn't said anything, just shaked his head in a no. Centreus opened his eyes when he felt something. Not pain or anything that he waited for. Instead, it was spike hugging him.

"I will keep this secret...I promise" spike said, hugging. Centreus smiled and hugged back. After a while ,centreus turned into shadow as he smiled and said something to spike

"Thanks..."shadow said.

 Spike has been talking with shadow for a while now, asking him a lot of questions, like why he was wanted and if he was half dragon and such stuff. Shadow put a hoof on the side of his stomach, in which it was covered by the blanket.

"It started to hurt..." Shadow said

"Then the sedation is starting to wear off. I will call a doctor" spike said as he walked toward the door "I don't want you to scare us again like yesterday."Spike chuckled, as he went out the door. Shadow smiled .after a while ,spike and the doctor came in, the doctor with the medicine on magic. He felt relieved that spike didn't fake of what he said. The doctor used the medicine on shadow and a sedation spell and leaved

"Thanks spike." Shadow said as his little friend nodded. Shadow was kinda confused, because the rest weren't there... maybe they were busy, rarity with a dress, fluttershy with her animals, pinkie with a party going on scc, aj was bucking apples, Rd practicing for the wonderbolt and twilight... castle? Maybe she had to go to canterlot for some duties. He could understand that they were busy , at least.

"I bought you something" spike said, grabbing the basket and putting it on shadow's lap. He looked at the basket and grabbed it. He could smell the flowers, where dragolines, his favorite.

"How you found these flowers? These are hard to find . " Shadow asked, grabbing one and raising it up to his nose, smelling it.

"Celestia gave me a couple of them, and I planted them behind the castle and then the garden was full of those flowers. I love them,and it seems you do too" spike said. He though he was the only one who loved them , when shadow  arrived, more flowers appeared. He wasn't sure why until now.

"These are my favorite. I remember when I first smelled one, couple years ago, I found them in a forest.. not the everfree forest. I'm glad you gave me these, spike. My hero. " Shadow smiled, rubbed the lil dragon's head and took out the sapphire. It wasn't big enough but shadow didn't cared, he used to do collars with rubies, emeralds, diamonds, and sapphires.

"Hey spike, have you done collars with these?" Shadow asked. Spike looked at him ,shaking head. Shadow knew what to do, a best friend's forever saphire collar... if spike promised not to eat it.

Twilight and the rest of the girls were very busy that day. Pinkie was making a party for a filly , Rd was needed to deliver something to princess luna, aj with her usual work, fluttershy was replacing shadow with his work while rarity needed twilight with a dress making. Spike was walking happily to carousel boutique, to be with twilight and rarity. Or better yet, to be with rarity alone. (Don't think dirty pwease.)

"Hey twilight" Said spike ,while entering carousel boutique with the sapphire collar centreus did for both ,spike and himself. Twilight was talking about how spike and Shadow has been great friends for just a month On the kitchen table with rarity .

"Hey spike. Was just talking about you right now with rarity." said twilight, smiling. Oddly, it wasn't her normal smile, it was different. Different somehow. Spike didn't knew how but it was different.

Rarity haven't seen her smile. spike shrugged and jogged toward rarity . "How was your visit, my spikey wakey? " rarity said, grabbing spike cheeks, smiling

Spike was finding it difficult to talk when rarity grabbed his cheeks. Rarity said that his cheeks were the cutest cheeks she've seen. When rarity stopped with the cheeks grabbing, spIke smiled . "It was good, shadow is making a full recovery,even with those nasty injuries, so he must be out next week, maybe the other." Rarity smiled but twilight, smiling too, you could easily notice she was faking it. Spike didn't feel comfortable when twilight wasn't acting like she normally do. spike looked at twilight, suspiciously. "Rarity, can you come here a minute?" Spike said, walking out of the kitchen . Rarity looked confused but followed spike, but not after saying "stay here twilight"

"Is something wrong spike?" Rarity asked

"I don't know, I wanted to ask you if you have seen twilight... um... strange?" Spike whispered. Rarity looked at twiliggt, who was poking her wing.

"I... think so... I had to go to get her in the castle, she didn't even remembered she had to come here for the dress... and that I told her half an hour before I left... " said rarity, who was preoccupied.

"Odd ... she never forgets anything ...and if she knows she will forget something, she writes it somewhere she will see it." spike assured. "Just keep an eye on her please."

"I will " rarity nodded. Entering back to the kitchen, spike jogged outside . He knew somehow that smile... he must have seen it somewhere... but where???

After spike had left the hospital, shadow was looking at the dragolines. Spike said that more flowers appeared when he arrived. Shadow's curiosity grew the more he though of it. the dragolines could sense when a dragon or dragon pony was close ? He wasn't sure but he would investigate about them. Who knew flowers could have such senses? He didnt, he knew that. He grabbed the flowers and observed it. Its petals looked like dragon's scales. There are double color, like blue and red, green and yellow, and more, depending from the dragon who had it color. These were purple and green but changed into blue and red, the normal colors of centreus. He smiled , smelled it again and put it on the basket. Then he saw pinkies letter. He grabbed it with magic and when it was close enough , he grabbed it with his hooves. He didn't wanted to use magic around ponies, they could suspect he wasn't normal. He opened the letter as confetti was shot upward . Shadow chuckled , happy and confused , happy because confetti make him happy and confused because how pinkie could put confetti in the letter in a way it was shot upwards. He was going to ask her when he got out or pinkie visited him How she did it.

"Shadow?" rarity said, entering the room. shadow looked at her.

"Oh hey rarity. " Shadow answered.

" I have to ask you something... about twilight.."  Shadow smile disappeared when he head that. Rarity wasn't in her usual voice, instead, it was a preoccupying one.

Rarity started talking about how twilight was being this day. She talked about how she forgot about the dress rarity needed help with , about how she smiled ,how she talked. Shadow had frowned and was thinking. He analyzed every bit of detail rarity gave to him.

"Have you seen her eyes?" Shadow asked. he though it was a changeling, but if rarity said her eyes glowed light blue and turned back to normal...

"no... I havent." Rarity answered...

"Ok... just Try to keep an eye on her please. " Shadow said. Rarity nodded and walked out. Shadow was very preoccupied. What if his thoughts were true? If she was a changeling? He waned to walk around to try and calm down but he changed his idea when he took off his blanket. He was bandaged almost everywhere. He could feel his broken ribs, meaning the medicine was wearing off... again... he covered himself again and forced himself to sleep, hoping this was just a bad nightmare... a meanie bad nightmare

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the forced spy

the spy

Shadow has just got out from the hospital and walking toward the castle. Spike is on his back with the dragonlines. Shadow wanted to investigate more about them , they were very rare on this side of equestria. He and spike made a compromise to investigate to the fullest those flower. Luckiy,  anypony hasn't seen shadow in his real form, apart of spike and a nurse, whom she hasn't told anypony about his real identity . both spike and him are happy Because there is a party going on twilight's but the only one who doesn't know for who was shadow. shadow still had injuries from the incident but he was more stable, meaning he could walk , but he needed rest, and a lot...

Hiding, lucy was spying on them, trying to find the courage to talk with him. she knew well her job and what she had to do. She had to gain his trust and befriend him, make him reveal his true form . She started flying above them, hiding each time shadow looked around.

"I hope we are close... my chest started hurting again..." shadow said, holding a hoof up to his chest. He knew well How bad his state is.

" are you sure you are ok to walk? you don't seem very well ." Spike asked, worried.

shadow sighs. He knew spike wasn't going to give up on letting him rest. Shadow nodded and looked around . Knowing nopony was in sight, or that what he though, lowered a cloud with his magic. He lays on the cloud and pushes himself toward the castle. He felt relieved , most of the pain has gone . being in a hospital bed wasn't that comfortable but not very uncomfortable but he knew something that he never knew: clouds were more comfortable than beds.

it took about 15 minutes to reach the castle. shadow sighs ,relieved to be back at the castle. At the instant he closed the front door, he climbed down from the cloud and walked to his room. Spike has climbed down from him and was following besides him.

"I wonder where is twilight..." shadow looked around the hall way. he entered at his room and he looked around amazed. Pinkie pie has prepared a welcome back party in.... like 2 hours. Before shadow left, pinkie had made questions about which flavor he liked, favorite color, what logo or something like that he liked, things pointing she was going to do a party

"SURPRISE" the mane six and spike shouted .shadow jumped a little, smiled and chuckled . He should had knew about the party by pinkie's... questions.

"Welcome back " spike concluded ,starting the party.

Just outside the castle, lucy was spying on shadow through the windows. She entered the castle quietly and flew up to the top of the hall, where she wouldn't be seen. She was afraid of getting caught inside a castle, more from a princess and even more if shadow was centreus.

"I will be right back" spike shouted ,walking out the room and walked toward the kitchen.

Lucy knew that spike knew something about centreus so she followed spike from above. when spike arrived to the kitchen , he grabs a ruby and stares at it.

"This is a nice ruby. I hope cen- "spike stopped talking as he saw lucy from the ruby. "Shadow likes it. " spike concluded as he ran to the room. Lucy knew what happened and followed him. She wanted to run but it was too late , the mane six were out of the room and looking at her. She gulped and backed up. Shadow got out the room and looked at lucy. His eyes narrowed and backed up a little. Twilight looked at her as lucy looked at twilight. Twilight eyes glowed green for a second as lucy relaxed a little, knowing that it was a changeling from her side.

"um... I have to go. Bye! " lucy flew out the window as Rd followed behind but lost her. Rd and the rest looked at shadow, whom has come out again.

" who was she" shadow said, trying to sound confused . Rarity looked at twilight and then at shadow.

"Um... can I talk to you in private shadow? " rarity asked ,shadow nods and limps to a room ,followed by rarity. The rest got in shadow's room .

" I think I saw it..." rarity said. Shadow didn't know of what she was talking about for a while. He realizes what it's about and looks at her.

"Then she is... an changeling... I knew this was a bad idea... " shadow grunted. Rarity looked confused

" what idea are you talking about?" Rarity asked. Shadow sighs and looked around. He closes the curtains from the window with his magic. Rarity looked amazed and suspicious.

"Have you heard about centreus? " Shadow said,looking away. Rarity nods and looks at him. "Tell me everything you know about him "

"Well... I know he kills everypony he sees in sight, ponynap fillies and foals and such horrible things... why? " rarity said.

Shadow sighs and looks at her" what I am about to show you is a secret. Don't tell anypony. Spike already knows but still... don't tell anything..." rarity nods.

Shadow starts glowing a little as he becomes his true form:centreus. Rarity stands there in awe .

"That pony you mentioned: a killer, a ponynapper, and those horrible things, isn't me. " centreus admitted.

"B-b-b-but... you..." rarity a was cut off by centreus claw, holding it up to her mouth .

"If I were a killer, tell me how you and your friends are here, alive, nopony got ponynapped or such things?" Centreus concluded

Rarity started to think. that question calmed her down a little because it was true. If he was a killer , why she was still alive. He wasn't a killer. He was just a pony that wanted a new life. she then calmed down ,knowing that what he was saying is true

"Ok.. you convinced me. " rarity said . "So if what you are saying is true about that fake twilight, where is the real one then?"

"Twilight said she was going to canterlot for a few weeks... if I'm not mistaken, she's still there... " centreus turned back to his shadow form

"So how do we know if it's a changeling?" Rarity questioned

" we dragon ponies are ....let's say changelings archenemy. I can sense if she's one by just bringing her in here. We bring her here, and tell if she's a changeling." Shadow looked around and limped out. Rarity following

"Twilight? " Shadow said. Twilight was starting at him "yep. She is a changeling"

"You will get caught, now that I know that you are him. Ryan will ge- " shadow has knocked out the fake twilight ,as it turns to a changeling. Shadow didn't waited anything and uses a memory spell on the changeling and teleports it away.

"now we know he was a spy. " Shadow concluded and limped to his room. Rarity looked at him and where the changeling was laying. now she was sure he wasn't a bad guy. She had had one question: why he didn't do any harm to the changeling?

caught (edited)

caught

"Twlight....where are you.." shadow asked . twilight has gone missing for two or three weeks already. Neither celestia nor twilight velvet, twilight's mother, knew where she was. Shining armor supposed it was shadow but he said he didn't . Shining wasn't sure tho, he always felt uncomfortable around him.

"shadow... you must get some sleep... is almost midnight." Spike said.. he felt bad about shadow because ,apart he was one of the most depressed ponies by twilight's disappearance in equestria ,  he didn't ate or slept anything, being busy looking for her. He finished last week a necklace to keep his identity hidden. He already had it around his neck With the sapphire one.

"I cant ... we need to find twilight... " he said. The doctor said he must be getting rest for the injury to heal , but that's what he didn't had time to... rest. He always did his chores of the castle and worked. And now without twilight, hers too. It wasn't getting any better, if anything, worse.

"But tomorrow we have to go to fillydelfia . You can't go looking like this. Come on... a good night sleep will help you..."

"But.... " he sighs "if you insist... but if I don't wake up, Is your fault." He said. He stood up and walked to his room, spike following. He lays on the bed and curls into a ball , around spike. He didn't wanted to sleep... knowing twilight was missing but he fell asleep unwilling to do it.

The next day, spike shaked shadow. He groaned. He was still having a great amount of pain, more than he principally had .he couldn't hide it. He would breath heavily or lay wherever he was at. His leg has also worsen, his wings, however, were fully healed already. He didn't felt happy tho.. he wanted twilight back... celestia has sent guards all over equestria.

"Do we really need to go to fillydelfia?" Shadow grunted. They were going to fillydelfia to look for twilight , although shadow knew she wasn't there...

"Yes... I dont wanna go either but we have to..."spike said. They both didn't wanted to go but pinkie insisted. She was the most depressed pony in equestria, shadow followed her and spike followed shadow then the mane 5...then her family and then the princesses and then nopony else because I won't be ending this story anytime soon If I keep going.

"do she has something that's hers in the castle."He asked.

"Yes" spike ran to her room and brought back smarty pants."this Is smarty pants. Let's say it was her "old assistant" when she was a filly. "

Shadow levitated smarty pants. he does a spell as smarty pants pointed at one direction.

"well. Smarty pants already knows where twilight is. Get the rest and meet me in front of the everfree. "he said before flying off. Spike, confused, obeyed and went to the rest. shadow was waiting in front of the everfree, looking at it.

"Shadow? What happened?" Fluttershy asked.

"smarty pants found twilight. Or that's what I think... anyways, let's get going." he said before taking flight inside the everfree. The rest followed confused, hoping that he hasn't gone crazy...

"I don't know anything! "

Twilight was tied up to a wall, cut and beaten up, just for not knowing an answer...

"I will ask you a last time because I swear , I will cut off those wings of yours. WHERE IS CENTREUS!" he shouted.

" I swear. I dont know. I really dont know... I really d-" Ryan has knocked her out with a wooden bat. Blood dripped from her face

"Remember me to cut of her wings, lucy..."

"But ... " lucy said

"But nothing. Remember me or the wings that are going to get cut are yours!" Ryan said, grabbing lucy's muzzle. "Understood?"

"Yes... brother..." she said. Ryan threw her to the floor and walked out. "no I wont... " she walked to twilight and cleaned the blood that was dripping from her face, hopping she could do something... "don't worry twilight, you will get out soon..."

"This place is creepy... and dirty... " pinkie said.

"Girls... whatever you see in here , don't scream. We are here to save twilight , not to look around And take pictures..." centreus said. "Spike, can you burn down the lock?"

"yes. " spIke answered as he breathed fire to it.

"It was open.. why melt it.?" Rainbow asked.

"when we escape... do you want to see your friends be locked in here while you, me and fluttershy fly out ,if the pegasus guards aren't above us?"-

"Oh.."

"You seem to know a lot from this place shadow." Applejack said.

"I like to investigate... um.... different stuff... from equestria..." he said nervously. Applejack stared at him

"Are you sure? You look like you are lying to me.."

"When we come back to the castle, if we do... I will tell you and the rest the honest truth... maybe you'll hate me, maybe you will understand Why i did." He looks away Closing his eyes.

"Why we would hate you? You haven't done anything to us for hating you. we will never hate you... never." Applejack said.

"I hope you are right Applejack... I hope you are right..." he pushed the door after spike finished. "We must hurry... " shadow said. they went on a full gallop. He took flight and entered the base labs, where smarty pants pointed. He gulped and entered. They followed close behind.

he touched a door and opened it slowly. "Twilight!"

He flew as fast as he could but he Gets send through the wall by a blast of magic.

"no touching." Ryan said, coming out .

"Shadow!" Spike said. He went to run to shadow but gets grabbed by ryan's magic.

"Aww... is a cute pet you have , shadow. " Ryan mocked. He then proceeded to throw spike to a wall . Spike was about to hit the wall when he gets grabbed again and is willed toward shadow was thrown. Shadow walked out from the wall and grabbed spike.

"Applejack, do you remember what I said before we entered? "Shadow said.

"This is no time for talking! But yes I do." She shouted.

"this is why I said you would hate me." He grabbed the magic necklace ,and rip it off his neck. What they saw, including twilight, made them back up .

"You... you...you are centreus?" Applejack said. He nodded and threw the necklace to the floor.

"I knew it was you, my centaurus" Ryan mocked. Centreus closed his eyes as his scar glowed .

"Centreus... " centreus said. his horn glowed as ryan was sent flying to the other wall.

He untied twilight and grabbed some bandages nearby "let's go" He said as they ran out. He was bandaging twilight's injuries as she looked at him, about to use magic.

"Twilight, don't use magic for now... you are going to be fine... " he said. her horn stopped glowing.

They managed to get out from the base and throught the everfree forest. When they got out, twilight horn glowed again as she blasted a beam at centreus, he send him flying back to a tree , dropping her . She rolled a few times before stopping and stood up slowly. Centreus stood up slowly too and shaked his head. He held a hoof up to his eye, bleeding. When he opened the other, he was blasted again by twilight, sending him deeper into the everfree.

"Lets.... go... " twilight said. She went to give a step but she fell, passed out. Rarity grabbed her and gave her to rainbow.

"Take her to the castle. I'm going to get some medical help." Rarity said before running to the hospital. Spike was running toward centreus.

"Centreus! " He shouted. He shaked centreus as he opened his left eye.

"S...spike... " he said. spike dragged him as fast as he could out of the everfree. Ryan's guards were coming from behind. Royal guards from the front.

"Run... before they see you..."

"No. I wont let you here. "spike was crying . Centreus took his sapphire necklace and gave it to spike.

"Go... Twilight needs you more than I do now... "

"No... I want to stay here with you..."

"I know... that's why you don't let me no choice..." his horn glowed .spike was then teleported to twilight, whom already was in the castle bed, with applejack, pinkie, rainbow dash, and fluttershy.

"Centreus... no... " Spike said. Applejack looked at him. He Was crying with no sign of stopping ...he held very close centreus necklace. Applejack was about to say something but didn't say anything... she didn't wanted To make spike worse than He already was

Centreus was laying on the floor, breathing heavily. He couldn't escape now... he was weak... those two blast were unexpected and took most of his energy. He stood up shaking .he looked around. he was surrounded . By one side, royal guards... by the other, ryans. he didn't know what to do. he was weak to teleport away or to fly. He hardly stood up. He gave up. He couldn't do anything. He dropped to his knees and after seconds, to his side. the guards came running and apprehended him.

"We are taking him to canterlot. "A royal guard said. Ryan was walking toward centreus and looked at him

"I'm going too. he's very dangerous so he may escape." he said. Centreus raises a little his head and drops it, to weak even to move.

"Twilight... why..." Spike asked. Twilight has woken up . Spike knew she didn't do it accidentally.

"He is dangerous. I don't want him to hurt you or our friends "

"twilight... he would never hurt us. "

"He is a dragon pony! He could have eaten us!"

"in that part you are right .but there's something wrong in that. He could eat us BUT he didnt Eat us .are you blind or trying to win this argument"

Twilight was about to say something about what he just said but Applejack took talk before she could say something

"He's right twilight... he could had eaten us but he didnt. Darn it... I think we busted up... leaving him on the floor." Applejack admitted.

"Yeah... i... now fully understand why he said we would hate him... he was scared that we would give him to the autorities... just like a cute little bunny in a very scary cave... " fluttershy said.

Twilight sighs . Her friends got a valid point. He wasn't evil nor bad... he just wanted to have friends and hang out, go to places, that kind of stuff, but twilight decided to not give him a chance at his normal form. She instead let him on the floor, weak and on its own, just after he saved her.

Twilight closes her eyes and lays head on pillow, head facing pillow.

"I'm supposed to be the princess of friendship... why I didn't gave him a chance... " she said.

"Twilight, appearances lies. I was just like you when I first saw him on the hospital. I was about to tell the autorities but, he said something that made me realize he wanted to have friends... He said 'I understand if you don't want to be my friend' . He knew that I was going to tell them, but I heard my inner voice, 'its the right thing to do?' Twilight. Now we are in a bad situation and we don't know how's going to end. Listen to your inner voice. It was the right thing To do?" Spike concluded. They were all watery, twilight rise from the pillow and hugged spike.

"I am a brain and stuff but sometimes, I think that you know more than I do...." Twilight said. Hugging spike.

"So now what."spike asked. Twilight didn't know but instead of laying around doing nothing, her horn glowed as books entered in a line. She was going to bring back her friend. She was going to prove that she really is the princess of friendship...

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plot twist.(edited)

plot twist.

Centreus groaned as he woke up .it has been 2 days after he got captured and put in jail. He rubbed his eye and yawned . A royal guard came by and opened the cell.

"Come on centreus, you are about to get judged." He said.

Centreus stood up slowly and limped out . He was still weak but he could stand up now. He would fall a few times before the guards finished dragging him and that's what happened. He then got dragged to the throne room, where celestia and luna were. He looked at them, holding a hoof on his eye. The guards slowly put him down.

Celestia looked at him, but he looks away.

"get a doctor." Luna said. Celestia looked at her. The guard nodded and went to get a doctor. Centreus looked at her too.

"Who would care about my injuries now... now that I am myself..."he said, as he looked away ,sighing.

"We do... we care about everypony's health, even if it's a criminal." Luna assured...

Criminal... that's one of the words he would be remembered... criminal, monster, fugitive...

"What happened exactly." Asked celestia.

He took a deep breath

"I... got blasted while saving princess twilight sparkle... twice" he said.

"By who?" Both asked.

"The princess herself..." the doctor came in and starts to attend all of his wounds. He changed the chest bandages and put a bandage around his eye. The princesses looked at him confused. Ryan enters and bows, knowing they have been waiting for him.

Centreus judgement has been finished after he tried to say he's inocent. Celestia nor luna believed him and he got taken to the base again by princess luna herself. Centreus didnt said anything apart of answering luna's questions. She has been asking him questions about twilight rescue as he answers them all. After they arrived, centreus got down with the help of luna and taken to his cell. Luna then left back to canterlot and ryan looked at him.

"Useless alicorn... she doesn't really care about you, you piece of shit. "Ryan said, walking off. He then came back with a guard and dragged him to a room and got on a table. They tied him down tight upside down and ryan horn glowed as an axe appeared. He knew that he had to use a magic axe,because a normal axe wouldn't even make a cut. Immortal alicorns could only get hurt by magic creatures, like a timberwolf, nature, magic, and weapons by magic.

Ryan ,with a swift move of his axe, cut off centreus wing as he screamed in pain.

"I have never been so happy to do this!" Ryan shouted. He then laughed maniacally and cut off the other. Blood was everywhere. On ryan's coat, his axe, on the floor, everywhere inside the room. Centreus screamed more as ryan cut off his horn.

"Now nopony will stop me from ruling the world! " ryan shouted. Centreus has stopped screaming and was crying instead..

"Don't cry... your suffering will last only a few hours... " Ryan said, Walking out. The guard then untied centreus ,bandaged him and dragged him back to his cell. Centreus was crying. He wanted to be with spike ...

"Come on you useless al. " the guard mocked. Centreus woke up , groaning and he stood up and limped out. The guard pushed him from time to time as they walked out. Centreus eye narrowed when he saw what was about to happen...

"Like the guillotine I just build? " Ryan said. He was now an alicorn, he should had used a spell to be one. " I made it just for you. Hope you like it." He then walked inside as centreus was tied up in the guillotine . It was the end... it really was. He closed his eyes and dropped his head, not noticing that something was closing in fast.

"Centreus!!!!!!"a distant voice shouted. The guillotine knife dropped as the voice was getting closer.

"Centreus!!!!!" It repeated. Just about when the knife was about to hit centreus, something crashed into it as it fell in front of him. He opened his eye startled as he saw the huge knife in front of him. He looked up as he saw twilight arriving with the mane six. Spike held his hoof

"I'm here.. I'm here" he said. Centreus let go a relieving smile.

"You almost came late. I'm glad y'all are here. " He admitted. Spike hugged him . Spike then melted the lock and freed centreus. He grabbed spike and put him on his back.

"We need to go." Twilight said. Centreus looked at the guards coming from behind.

"I have to get something. "Centreus said. "Wait for us on the entrance . " centreus said as he ran inside. Twilight nodded and got the mane six to the entrance , where they started beating up guards.

"Where are we going centreus?" Spike said.

"To get ,my wings and horn back." He answered. He entered the room and grabbed a bag and put his stuff in it. He then gave it to spike and ran out. As they ran through the hallway, centreus gets tackled as they both fall.

"You arent going anywhere. Useless al." Ryan said. Centreus shakes his head and stands up.

"Go to the entrance spike. I will meet you there. " centreus said as he tackled ryan to the wall and breaking through. Spike ran off, and met up with the girls.

"Where's centreus?" Pinkie asked. Spike was about to say something but a wall breaking sound answered for him. Spike turned and saw centreus fly down the street. They started galloping as fast as they could.

"Not again." Spike said. He reached centreus and helped him stand up.

"Centreus!!!!" Ryan said as he charged at him. Twilight's horn glowed as a huge baseball bat appeared and batted him away from them. Centreus held a hoof on his chest as it bleeded.

"You are bleeding..." rainbow said. Centreus was breathing heavily.

"I...im... ok.." he said.

"No you aren't. "Twilight said.

A beam was shot at them as Twilight used a barrier, but the beam broke it and exploded where they were.

"It's over. "Ryan said. He waited to see the bodies on the floor after the dust lowered.

"Not it isnt. " a voice in the dust said. He didn't had time to react when he got blasted again... this time by princess celestia

The mane six, centreus and spike were behind a wall, with princess luna.

"Are you all ok?" Luna asked. They stood up and nodded, even centreus . He wasn't looking ok . Luna was about to say something but celestia called her as she flew to help. Centreus looked at the battle going on.

"Well princess celestia and luna. You both surprise me but you won't be winning this fight anytime soon. I'm way powerful than you both." Ryan said . The princesses were then grabbed by his magic and smashed to the floor a couple times . The mane six were looking at it as they gasped.

"Twilight... throw me ... as fast... as your magic can..." centreus said.

"Where?" She asked..

"To ryan. But in a angle that takes us both out ... from the world."

"Thats a one way trip, centreus, how you will survive?" Applejack said.

"I won't... there's a very low percent that I do..."

"Centreus....you don't have to do it. "Pinkie said.

"Well... it's that or him killing the princesses and who knows, he will look for us and then kill us. You all came here to save me, now I am here to save you and your princesses. You gave me a reason to live and to die for. "He then hugs them. "You 7 are the best friend's I ever had.." tears fall from his face, the rest hugs back also crying as he gets levitated .

"Have a good trip, cowboy." Applejack said. He nods as twilight throws him to ryan. He breathes fire as he turns on red and blue swirling fire. Ryan doesn't has time to react as he gets tackled.

"Let's have a field trip "

"Lets me go centreus!" Ryan shouted. "I'm burning!!!!!"

"Yes you are. And I think this isn't yours." Centreus said as he cut off ryan's horn with his claws.

"You bitch!"He shouted from pain. "You are going to pay for this! "

"No... I already payed for this. I'm just bringing the merchandise I bought for you. " centreus said . Close to the atmosphere, centreus bucks him off to space as ryan floats off .

"Centreus!!!!!!!!" He said , before two asteroids squished him. Centreus chuckled. He sure gave the merchandise and a extra.

"Celestia! Luna!" Twilight shouted, running to where they were. Celestia and luna then stood up slowly.

"We ....we are fine... but ...where's ryan." Luna asked.

"Centreus took him to space. We don't know where they are now tho..." Spike said.

They then saw something burning , falling. Twilight took flight to try and catch it but she failed. It crashed right in front of them. They gasped when the fire faded away. Centreus was there, smoke coming from him, proof that he was on fire but he didn't looked burned. spike shaked him, hoping he opened his eye. His heart beat: nothing .

"Centreus.... wake up.. please.. wake up... wake up bud..." Spike said. Crying.

"No... "Twilight said Shaking him.

"Centreus... please... come back... " Spike repeated.

"He must go to a hospital." Luna said. twilight nodded crying.

"It's all my fault. I shouldn't had shot him... we wouldn't be here ..."

Celestia horn glowed as she levitated apple jack and rarity, luna levitated spike and pinkie , and twilight levitated centreus. Rainbow and Flutters stayed besides twilight. They all then went to ponyville's hospital, hoping centreus woke up in the way there...

"Where am i?" Centreus said. He was walking in a very white place. He didn't noticed that he didn't had any Injury.

"Centreus?" A white pony asked. He turned around and looked at it. His eyes got watery as he ran toward him and hugged him.

"Dad!" He said. The pony hugged back.

"Centreus..." he hugged tight .

"Where are we... am I dead?"

"Yes..."

those three letters made centreus cry. His father, light scheme , comforted him.

"I'm so proud of you..." light scheme said.

"Why... because I'm here with you?"

"By the reason you are here .."

"But...I .... they ... "

"You died saving the princesses, you died to save everypony from ryan. He wanted to rule the world... he must had told you... you saved your friends and the princesses. You saved equestria from destruction."

Centreus sighs . He didn't saw it like that. He didn't't wanted twilight lose her teacher or her teacher's sister. He though she prefers losing him than losing them...

"I didn't do it for me..."

"I know. That's why I'm more proud of you, and you deserve something else for your bravery. I will be seeing you soon again, centreus." Light scheme said. He then poked centreus chest as he hugged his son a last time, as centreus disappeared from there.

"Centreus... please... give a sign that you are alive..."

Spike was holding centreus hoof as his heart sensor was still flat.

"Centreus... please..." Spike started crying again.

Centreus claw moves a little.

"Ugh...w...where am i..." centreus said. He opened an eye and blinked a few times before he could recognize where he was. Spike then hugged him , crying.

"Centreus ! You scared me!" Spike said. Centreus hugged after some seconds. He was alive. He was back with spike...

"Oh spike... the big, scary dragon of equestria is here with me. I'm glad you are here . " He smiled .spike giggled and hugged him carefully

Am I alive at all?

apologies.

"Where am i?" Centreus said. He was walking in a very white place. He didn't noticed that he didn't had any Injury.

"Centreus?" A white pony asked. He turned around and looked at it. His eyes got watery as he ran toward him and hugged him.

"Dad!" He said. The pony hugged back.

"Centreus..." he hugged tight .

"Where are we... am I dead?"

"Yes..."

those three letters made centreus cry. His father, light scheme , comforted him.

"I'm so proud of you..." light scheme said.

"Why... because I'm here with you?"

"By the reason you are here .."

"But...I .... they ... "

"You died saving the princesses, you died to save everypony from ryan. He wanted to rule the world... he must had told you... you saved your friends and the princesses. You saved equestria from destruction."

Centreus sighs . He didn't saw it like that. He didn't't wanted twilight lose her teacher or her teacher's sister. He though she prefers losing him than losing them...

"I didn't do it for me..."

"I know. That's why I'm more proud of you, and you deserve something else for your bravery. I will be seeing you soon again, centreus." Light scheme said. He then poked centreus chest as he hugged his son a last time, as centreus disappeared from there.

"Centreus... please... give a sign that you are alive..."

Spike was holding centreus hoof as his heart sensor was still flat.

"Centreus... please..." Spike started crying again.

Centreus claw moves a little.

"Ugh...w...where am i..." centreus said. He opened an eye and blinked a few times before he could recognize where he was. Spike then hugged him , crying.

"Centreus ! You scared me!" Spike said. Centreus hugged after some seconds. He was alive. he let go a relieving sighs.

"spike... W...what happened..." he asked. Spike didn't wanted to tell.

"Stuff... you sure like the hospital right?"

"I... really don't know... is kinda nice but laying here with nothing to do... I dont like being bored... " he admitted. "I hope this is the last time I get severely injured.."

"We do too"

The New voice coming from the door took both, centreus and spike's attention .

"We apologize for the sudden appearance ." Luna apologized. Her sister nodded ,approving . they both had some bandages here and there but weren't easily spotted by its color. The bandages that luna had were luna's coat color and celestia's were white.

"Its... it's ok..." centreus said, looking away. He didn't dared to look at them. He was angry because they were the one that judged him to death. His scar was glowing as luna backed up a little. he was gong to say something rude but his inner voice told him something that calmed him Completely, making his scar stop glowing.

"We want to apologize too for... judging you wrong... and condemning you... to... you know..." Celestia said.

"Is Ok... im just glad I'm here and not in the cemetery ...I think we would had died there if you both didn't arrived on time."

"And we would be dead if you didn't threw yourself at him." Luna and celestia said at the same time.

"Well... I ...didn't threw myself at him alone... I needed my friends to get the courage of doing it, not for me but for them... I didn't wanted twilight lose her friends... or you and luna... " he let out a sigh as he look at his back. "I will really miss most of the things I usually do... but at least ponyville is safe. You both are safe... spike is safe... that's All I really want, all of ponyville be safe."

He lays back on the bed, not noticing a flash coming from the blanket. Celestia tried to see it but it had stopped As fast as it started.

" well... it seems we own you ... we can give you anything... bits, fame, anything." Celestia said.

"Well... there is one thing I want to get rid off, and I think twilight and spike can help with it...."

Twilight was at the town hall talking to all of the resident, next to celestia and luna. Twilight was talking about centreus innocence and that he wasn't any danger, but all the contrary. She didn't said how they knew centreus . She didn't said his fake name Either. Far behind the crowd, centreus was holding onto a wall, somehow still on his hooves. He should be seated on a wheelchair that was nearby. He had insisted on getting out the hospital to see and hear the speech and after a few times, the nurse let him go. Spike insisted on moving him to the front row but he didn't felt comfortable around ponies being himself... that and he was taller than anypony there except for celestia but close enough to say he's the same height that her, although he was in a wheelchair...once in a while a pony would look at him with curiosity, like wanting to know about him. Others, scared that he would do something , and others, wanting him away for pure safety, not wanting to hear any good about him. He smiled at twilight and finally seated on the wheelchair .it wasn't easy showing his real him but he finally got it, although not as planned. He didn't cared. Not at all. He then remembers what light scheme told him about his return and looked away. When he would be returning? How? He now didn't cared about anything about what happened to him. He had his friends, that's all he wanted. He took a paper from his mane and smiles. He crumbled it up and throws it to the trash can. He didn't had to fear anything but about his horn and wings.... he remembered he could have a used horn, donated to some specific hospitals, but he didnt knew where he could get some wings... he didnt liked the horn idea, knowing it could be a different color. who wouldnt laugh at an blue coated ex-alicorn with a green horn, and maybe red wings. He shook his head , taking that idea away. He remembered the dragolines and his smile widened as he rolled the wheels to the castle excited about them ... and finally having time to investigate them. spike looked confused but smiled. he was happy just by looking at centreus happy. at that time the meeting has finished and spike ran behind centreus. Twilight walked toward the rest looking around.

"Where's centreus And spike? " she asked.

"I think they went back to the castle . They went in that direction but I ain't sure tho...." Applejack said. Twilight started trotting as the rest followed. After a while, they arrive at the castle and looks around inside. Rarity looked at the window that looked the garden and giggled. They were confused why  she was giggling until they saw what happened in the garden. Centreus was rolling around the dragolines without messing them up with spike. They could see easily that he was rolling carefully, not wanting to reopen his wounds. although centreus was bandaged around his flank, something could be seen , something blue and red. Twilight saw and smiled.

"I think he earned something he didn't had before." Twilight said. The rest looked confused as they saw too and smiled. He had earned his cutie mark finally But was obsessed with the flowers that he didn't saw it.

"Now can you rest? Asked spike. centreus stopped rolling and looked at spike and nodded. He then looked at the dragolines , laying his head on the grass. Twilight smiled and walked to the throne room with a paper that fell on her head... he didn't saw who let it fall but wanted to read it. She sat on her throne and opened it. Her eyes narrowed as she read it a second time,no hen a fourth and a fifth. She let the paper fall to the floor ,amazed and confused.

                                                                                             "I'm centreus sister. "

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Epilogue

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