My Icy Rescuer

Twilight was surprised, for a lack of a better word. She found out that Arctic, the cold and silent loner of the school was an orphan. It would explain his behavior, but more and more questions were pouring out from her mind.

Arctic noticed that his fellow orphans gave him a strange look. This didn't surprise him, however, as he never brought company before. He just wanted to go to his room before he could even- "Well, well" A cool voice spoke, making Arctic's shoulders slump. "What have we here?"

Twilight and Arctic turned around, with a stone face in Arctic's part, and saw the source of the voice. It was Anthony! His best friend since he came here to the orphanage.

"Not now, Anthony. I'm too busy right now." Arctic said as he turned his back on Anthony and took Twilight's hand, making her blush even more.

Unknowingly, Anthony followed the two and whispered something at Twilight.

"I hope you can finally get him to smile. Seriously, this guy needs to get laid." He said with a smirk. Twilight was now as red as a tomato.

"That's enough Anthony! Seriously, you might be youngest of the two, but that doesn’t give you the reason to act like a brat." Said a voice coming from the staircase.

Arctic, Twilight, and Anthony looked up and saw a man with black hair with icy blue stripes running through his hair. His hairstyle was long and spiky. He carried a black jacket, his shirt was white with the symbol of chaos on it. Also, he was wearing a pair of dark-grey trousers.

"Fine. But don't expect me to tease Arctic more often. Just the girl." He said with a pout, making the man chuckle as he looks then to Twilight.

"I believe Arctic owes me the name of this fine young lady." The man said.

"Right. Twilight Sparkle, meet Mallory Shadowielder. Mallory, meet Twilight." Arctic said.

"A pleasure to be in your acquaintance," Mallory said as he shook Twilight's hand.

"Mallory's the owner of the orphanage. He's also the one who taught me how to fight." Arctic said.

"So without you, I would've been raped," Twilight said, causing confusion with Mallory and Anthony. "You see, Arctic saved me from being raped."

"I see...." Mallory nods at Twilight. "...and since then Anthony here wouldn't stop annoying Arctic for what he did." Mallory pointed with his thumb at Anthony

"Indeed" Anthony replied with an evil grin looking at Arctic.

Arctic then punched the wall, a few inches away from Anthony, making a small crater the size of Anthony's head. He then looks at him with small circles of red on his pupils.

"Does it look like I need your opinion?" Arctic said with a demonic frown, effectively making Anthony and Twilight shiver in fear.

"No..." Anthony squeaked as Arctic took his hand out off the wall.

"Good boy..." He said. "Now, leave." He threatened. Anthony nods and proceeded to run away, screaming like a girl.

"Tell me what size are her breasts later!" He screams out to Arctic.

“Why you… Arctic growls silently as he looks at Twilight.

Twilight could have sworn she saw Arctic glowing light blue for a second. "I apologize for his behavior. I promise to set him right." Arctic said. "Now, how about I give a quick tour around the orphanage?”

Twilight nodded and followed Arctic. Mallory left the hall too. ‘Who is this Twilight? I’ve never felt such powerful magic before.’ Mallory thought while walking back to his office. There was still some paperwork to do for today.

Arctic showed Twilight around, first, they went to the kitchen and Arctic introduced Twilight to the chef-cook of the orphanage: Gustave le grand. He had a chef-cook hat on, light gray skin and a very long mustache that ends in a curl on each side of his mustache. He carried a white cook uniform and a small red scarf around his neck.

He bows before Twilight and took her hand “Enchanté Mademoiselle Sparkle” and kissed her hand which makes Twilight blush. “Perhaps you would like to try my delicious éclairs? He suggested, showing her a plate full of éclairs.

“Try them, his éclairs are delicious,” Arctic whispered in Twilight’s ear.

Twilight took one of the éclairs that Gustave presented to them. She took a small bite and her eyes widened and quickly ate the entire éclair.

“I see even outside the orphanage my éclairs are … trés délisieux!” Gustave chuckled.

“Thanks for the éclairs Gustave but Twilight and I have to go. She hasn’t seen the rest of the orphanage.

“Mais bien sur, pas de problème. Go ahead and I’ll see you again at supper with your girlfriend Arctic.”

“She’s not my girlfriend Gustave!” Arctic said Twilight chuckled at his reaction when she saw out of the corner of her eyes an itsy, miny, tiny blush on his cheeks.

"This is getting annoying." Arctic thought.

As the tour continues, Arctic showed Twilight the lunchroom, then on the first floor, were the offices of Mallory, Discord, the concierge of the orphanage and Nightmare moon. “… she is the twin sister of vice-principal Luna. She is the watchman and makes the rules around here. If you break one of her rules? You’re in big trouble!” Twilight gulped at this as they went to the second floor.

This was the free-time floor. There is a playroom for the little children. There were toys like cars, trains, dolls, baby dolls, comic books, board games…. The next room was the video game room. There were some of the teenagers playing a game. Twilight recognized one of the children, Pipsqueak!

"I didn’t know he is also an orphan." Twilight thought. Pipsqueak sees Arctic and Twilight and happily waved at them both which Arctic and Twilight happily did in return.

As they went to the third floor, Arctic quickly went to the next stairs leading to the fourth floor. “Girls restrooms” was the only thing he said. Twilight knew exactly what he meant by that and followed him to the … fourth floor. Her legs were getting tired from all those stairs.

"Finally!" thought Twilight. She took a moment to catch her breath.

“I need to go to the bathroom real quick. Room number 7 is my room.” Arctic said. Twilight simply nodded and went to Arctic’s room.

As Twilight enters Room number 7, she began to look around. It was small, only occupied by a bed, a small TV, a drawer, and a laptop sitting on the bed. Above it, was a small collection of books. The walls were icy-blue, one wall was decorated with pictures from Arctic with his other friends in the orphanage. Twilight recognized Anthony in the pictures and another one was with Arctic and… Trixie?!

"The great and powerful Trixie is also an orphan? That could explain why she’s always such a showoff at CHS." Twilight didn’t like her but now she feels sorry for her.

In another picture, she sees Arctic with three girls. One of them, the girl on the right from Arctic, with the yellow skin and orange curly, fluffy hair kissed him on the cheek. Artic had a surprised look on his face. Which make Twilight furrow her eyebrows a bit.

"Wait why am I angry about this?" She thought. As she looked at the other two girls she sees that the purple one with the big pigtails crossed her arms and looked away from the camera while the blue girl with the ponytail, sitting on the left from Arctic held a taco in her right hand and happily waved at the camera with her left hand. The rest of the pictures were taken when Arctic was on a vacation with Anthony, the three girls, and Trixie. Some of them were at the beach and some of them were taken on a ski/ snowboard vacation.

Twilight looked further around and found a set of training weights under the desk. On the desk was a black covered book with weird symbols on it. There were 28 symbols, grouped into what seemed like words. Suddenly, each symbol began to shake and turned intro readable letters.

"Shadowielder's Magical guide book.”

Twilight was absolutely curious about it. She opened the book to show two pages of written text, same symbols were used, but none of them started to shake. Twilight tried to look at other pages, only to find out that it was blank.

"What are you doing?" She heard a voice behind her. She quickly closed the book and looked behind her, hiding the book on her back.

"Ow, hi Arctic!" She said in surprise as she tried to smile. Arctic looks at her with a blank expression and held out his hand, implying to give him the book. Twilight sighs and gave him the book.

"Never touch this book. Only a few chosen are allowed to read this." He said as he placed the book inside his drawer.

"How did you get that guide?" She asked, taking Arctic by surprise.

"How did you know that it was a guide?" He asked.

"It said so on the cover. 'Shadowielder's Magical guide book'." Twilight said.

Arctic's eyes widened. NO one, except Anthony, Mallory, himself and a few others could read the book, not unless you had...

"So it really is true," Arctic said.

"What is?" Twilight asked.

"Never mind. Oh, and can you help me with something?" He asked.

"Uh..sure. What is it?"

To Twilight's surprise, Arctic turned around and took off his shirt, revealing his muscular, yet bandaged upper body, causing Twilight's face to burn. "You see, this wound over here has a bandage, and I can't reach it. Can you replace the bandage please?"

"S-sure," Twilight said nervously. Arctic then tossed her some new bandages and Twilight began to work.

She began to unwrap the old bandage, revealing a nasty-looking wound. Mustering all of her courage, she put the bandages back on.

"Thanks," said Arctic. “Normally I’d ask nurse Sweetheart but she isn’t here at the moment,” Arctic explained.

“Now let's get started with our project. Any ideas?" As he grabs some papers and a pen.

Twilight thought for a second when an idea came into mind. "How about what happened in the Philippines in 1986?" She asked.

Twilight then lied down on the bed since she sat down at Artic's bed because of the lack of chairs. She blushed a bit when Arctic also lied down beside her, still without his shirt on.

"You mean the People Power Revolution of 1986? What about it?" He asked.

"I don't know. Maybe we could discuss why they did it and its effects on the country, maybe sprinkle in some examples to the class." Twilight said.

"Hm... that could work," Arctic said.

The two then laid down in silence for a while, enjoying the silence and merely each other's company. Suddenly, Twilight's phone rang. She pulled it out of her pocket looked at it.

"Oh, I didn't realize so much time had passed," Twilight said.

"Well, your visit certainly was much better than the Pink-haired girl's visit. Seriously. I tried one of her cupcakes and I didn't eat anything with sugar for a month." Arctic chuckled.

"Well, I better go home. Dad's going to be furious if I don't get home early." Twilight said as she started to get up.

"Sure. Guess I'll see you tomorrow then." Arctic said, still lying down on the bed and waved to her. Twilight was about to leave, but she stopped at the opening. She really wanted to know who those 3 girls are.

“Euhm… Arctic?”

“Hmmm?”

“Who are those three girls on that picture with you? The one with the girl holding a taco in her hand?.” She didn’t want to say the girl who kissed him otherwise Arctic might know her crush for him.

“Huh? Ow, those three.” He took the picture from the wall.

"That’s Sonata Dusk, the girl with the taco. She’s a cute girl but her IQ is pretty low.” Arctic chuckled at that which surprised Twilight again. “But she’s very kind and caring like your friend Fluttershy.” As Arctic continued.

“The girl with the pigtails is Aria Blaze. She’s cool to hang around with! Last but not least Adagio Dazzle. She’s the eldest of her 2 sisters and she has a huge crush on me. That’s why she kissed me.”

Twilight started to turn green from jealousy.

“But I don’t feel the same for her and I told her that.” Twilight gave a small sigh of relief.

“She had a hard time accepting it but she came to terms with it. We are best friends now. Oh! Almost forgot, don’t listen to their singing voices. Their voices are so beautiful that they can put you in a trance.” Arctic explains.

Twilight looks at Arctic with a strange look. Arctic rolled his eyes. “Just stay out of their way and you have no problem with them.” Twilight wasn’t sure if he was joking or not but she simply nodded at him.

“Was there anything else?” Arctic asked, standing up.

“No, I’ll… I’ll see you tomorrow. Bye Arctic!” He simply waved at her as she left the room. Arctic took the magical guide book and started looking for something specific.

Twilight was nearing the exit until something got her attention. She turned around and saw a boy black, short hair and brown skin dragging Anthony away while he struggled to get away from the boy.

"Is he's any good?" Anthony managed to ask, causing Twilight to blush. The boy, on the other hand, lifted Anthony by his collar and threw him to the ground, effectively knocking him out.

"Forgive me for my violent reaction. My brother doesn't seem to have any form of respect towards women." He said as he glares at Anthony. "That's just his way of dealing with our parent's death."

"And how do you deal with it?" Twilight asked.

"By merely accepting the fact that they're in a safer place." He said, looking up in the sky.

"Did Arctic lost his parents?" She asked.

"No. Mallory found him in a dark alley with Starswirl, Clover, and Zecora. It was hard for Mallory to took him in here. Arctic didn’t want to leave Starswirl and his gang on their own."

"Oh, I see," Twilight said. ‘Starswirl must mean a lot to Arctic.’ She thought.

"Do you know why Arctic is so distant towards others?"

"I don't know myself. But, I do know is that he has something inside him that, if he lost control of it, he can hurt others he held dear."

The boy suddenly realized something. “Oh, where are my manners. I’m Iron Argenteos. Anthony’s twin brother.” He took out his hand. Twilight shook her hand gently with his.

“It was nice to meet you Iron but I need to go home now it is getting late.”

“Of course, till next time then Twilight.” He turned around and lifted his brother of the ground and headed upstairs. "You like him... don't you?" Iron asked while walking up the stairs. Twilight blushed.

"I do think he needs something like that. An anchor for him to hold on." Iron said.

Twilight walked away, feeling that she had blushed enough for today.