Lonely Stalion Saga: from Everfree

“Ignore them Nightstar… just… just ignore them and they will get bored and go away” thought Nightstar in an effort to drive his mind away from the legged bush that kept following around. He had already hiding and suddenly running, but wherever he went the legged bush found him. The most annoying thing was that the bush became painfully obvious while it quickly chased him through the streets of ponyville. It was already getting on Nightstar nerves, but he didn’t want to make scene, even when he was arguably making one already as everypony saw him running away from a bush.

“Seriously, can’t they even make a little effort?” though a seriously annoyed (and a little nervous) Nightstar “this has to stop now”. Nightstar was tired and ready to up the ante, so his horn started to charge and before you could say “muffin” he transported all the way from the plaza to the library.

“Ha! That’ll teach them” Said proudly Nightstar.

“Teach who?”  Nightstar quickly turned around to see a purple unicorn standing in front of him.

“Uhm, Nobody, Twilight. By the Way, did you found what I asked for?”

“You asked for it just thirty minutes ago, but yes, I already found it, I was going to your home to give it to you” said Twilight while taking out a book from her saddlebag.

“Thank you very mu… Oh! You got to be kidding me!” Yelled Nighstar when he saw the legged bush getting closer.

“Sorry, What?” Answered Twilight.

“Gotta go” Said the black unicorn grabbing the book just before sprinting to the opposite direction and leaving a dumfounded Twilight.

The bush quickly caught up to him, and engaged once again on a pursuit through the streets of Ponyville. Nighstar’s horn shined once again, and once again he vanished, this time all the way to the front of his home.

“Alright, there’s no way they followed me this ti… OH C’MON!” Nighstar Reaction was completely natural, given the fact that when he turned around. He saw a bush briefly walk just before staying still.

“Let’s put an end to this” said Nighstar while heading to the unmoving bush.

“Think he saw us?”

“Nah, no way! We are masters of this spying thing” answered Scootaloo to Sweetie Belle, Just before a magic field took up the bush, leaving them exposed.

“uhm… hi!” Said Aplebloom upon being found out, making a nervous grin at the same time that Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo.

“You! Why the hay are you following me around?!”

“Sorry mister, but I really really wanted to know what kind of talent would have such an amazing pony”

Nightstar’s angry expression suddenly softened and turned confused. Flattering? Admiration? Nobody had ever expressed that to him, not since he reached ponyville at least.

“All of this is just because I putted on her place that spoiled filly? Cause I don’t see that as enough reason for stalking” Finally answered Nightstar.

“Hey! It’s not stalking! Is spying” replied Scootaloo.

“Well, that was amazing, but we had already seen what you did with the lightning before, and we thought that it was amazing! But nopony wanted to tell us where you lived, and I never saw you around” said Aplebloom.

“You said that you never had seen me before” answered Nightstar

“uhm, I lied” said Aplebloom just before putting on another innocent grin.

Nightstar put on a look like he was just told a bad joke, and then he realized the fact that these fillies had already discovered his experimental spells.

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From a long time ago Nightstar had been fascinated by the lightning that formed with each storm, and has started to research all kind of spells related to lightning during the night. He became able command lightning to fall down from any cloud, but that was just the beginning of his experiments; He researched all kind of possible uses for the lightning, including lighting, defense, and even cooking. His experiment reached their high point when he developed a spell for a lightning armor and another for lightning wings. At the beginning they seemed like good ideas, but no matter what he did, they resulted impractical at best and simply disastrous at worst. The Lightning armor seemed like a perfect protection, physical and magical alike, but it required a high level of focus to keep it on, it was unusable on any flammable surface, and whenever it went off, which could happen with the smallest lost of focus, it shot lightning everywhere. The lightning wings seemed like a huge improvement on the spell for those fragile glitter wings, they weren`t totally physical, which made them almost indestructible, and were capable of taking any kind of pony to an insane speed; but, like with the armor, there were problems too big to be ignored; The Wings had the instability characteristic of the lightning, and with them you moved like one, which meant that at best you move on an awkward zigzagging, and at worst you had no control whatsoever of where you were going; on top of that, it was really hard to stay still.

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“Mr. Star, are you ok?”

Sweetie Belle’s voice made Nightstar come out of his deep thinking

“You went out for a while, are you alright?” said Scootaloo.

“Uhm, oh, yeah, I just was… thinking” replied Nightstar “By the way, why are you still here?”

“Pftt... Because we wanted to know if you have some cool talent related to lightning or something, remember” answered a bored Scootaloo.

“Yeah… no. now go. Away.”

“We ain’t going anywhere until you spill the beans, what’s the problem rith talking about your talent” was Scootaloo answer

“Argh, fine, here’s the deal, I will show you tonight how much I can do with lightning and you leave me alone, is that alright?”

“Really? But remember, if you don’t we will be behind you until we know” said Aplebloom with a smile

“Yeah, alright, alright, cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye”

“Was… was that a pinkie promise?” said a surprised sweetie belle.

“We got a deal, go away, now!”

“Fine, but remember, nobody breaks a pinkie promise” said sweetie belle while leaving with her friends.

Nightstar got inside his home, breathed relieved, emptied his saddlebag on a table, and then thought about the three little fillies.

“Just what I got myself into?”