We all bleed red

    Red Lightning woke up, just like Red aways did. Red watched the ponies walk through town. Red always never liked this. Red's family is dead, but that was along time ago, when Red was only a foul.

"Hey! Can you give us some directions?" A stallion asked Red, with his mare friend right by him.  He had a neon blue mane and cyan blue coat.

Red looked at him, with a soulless expression. He continued looking at Red, as if Red was going to answer his question.

"Follow the leading stars, and they will guide you." Red Lightning said, in a deep, monotone voice, like a corpse. He looked at Red like he was insane, and I probably was.

"Ummm... Ok then." The stallion walked off with his mare friend.

Red watched them as they walked to the Everfree Forest. Red knew that nothing was there, but assassin clans and a crazy Zebra who makes potions and lived before Tirek's rule.

Red saw a Changling foul walking down a road.

The foul chirped and ticked at Red, trying to talk like a regular pony.

"My... Family... Has... Been... Killed... By... Tirek's... Soldiers." The Changling foul said, as she began coughing. Red hugged her.

"I know your pain." Red said as her took her inside his house.

He gave her a blanket and began to tell her a story.

"Eons ago, before the Two Sisters, there were the Nova-Beings. These beings created the universe, but the Nova-Being, Tirek, betrayed his fellow Nova-Being for control of the Equis. The Nova-Beings stopped him, and imprisoned him in Tartarus. A thousand years ago he broke out of Tartarus and took all magic, even Alicorn Magic. But the 6 heroines stopped him, and sent him back to Tartarus. A century ago, he escaped and took all the magic, except the magic that I hold." Red told the Changling foul.

The foul, looked at him and continued to sob a bit.

"What... Magic... Do... You... Have?" The foul asked, sobbing.

"Elemental magic." Red then put fire in his right hoof and lighting a fire.

The foul looked a bit happier, but still sobbing.

"I will help you get revenge on Tirek. I promise you." He kissed her forehead and snuggled next to her.

"I... Don't... Have... A... Name... though." Her eyes stared into his.

"I'll name you... Kenley." He then went in front of her. "I'll train you in elemental magic." He hugged her and took her to his bed to let her rest.