Lonely Stalion Saga: from Everfree

Nightstar took the food from the table and went to the kitchen, when the voice of a certain gray pegasi greeted him.

            “Welcome Nightstar! I emptied your fridge”

            Nightstar let out a groan “How did you get inside, Derpy?”

            “Through the new window” Derpy said while eating the last muffin.

            “The what?” Nightstar eyes suddenly got wide, he had a bad feeling about this, so he ran upstairs and to his disgrace he found exactly what he didn’t want, gaping hole in the wall. Nightstar went down the stairs, with an almost grievous face, just to be greeted downstairs by another uninvited guest.

            “Hi, star! What’s up?”

            “Just how did you get inside?”

            “Derpy let me in”

            “Figures”

            Lyra was there too, sitting in an awkward position like usual.

            “So, what do you want?” Asked a deadpanning Nightstar.

            “Oh yeah, I came to return this” Lyra handed over a really old looking book to Nightstar “It was kind of weird, some of the things that were in it didn’t make too much sense, even though a lot of pages are lost, many of the things that we are supposed to already know are described very differently than what you would expect”

            Nightstar relaxed but got a bit serious upon subject “Yeah, it puzzles me too, I’m sure that if I found a more complete copy I would be able to make sense of some things… or maybe it would get just more confusing”

            “Well, let’s change the subject; are you really going to make a whole show for those fillies? Cause that would be really sweet of you”

            “SHUT UP! And don’t tell anypony! ANYPONY!”

            “Geez, what’s up with that mood? Though I'm surprised you haven’t kicked Derpy out yet”

            “I guess I'm just tired”

            “Tired? But it’s barely Noon!”

            “You'd be tired if a walking bush had chased you all the morning… while you were carrying food and a book”

            Suddenly, Derpy came out of the kitchen after finishing with the fridge “Did you say something about a show?”

            “*sigh* This is not my day” Murmured Nightstar.

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            “Alright Derpy remember, you can come tonight but don’t tell anypony”

            “You can trust me star! I won’t tell anypony!”

            With those words Derpy flew away, leaving a very worried Nightstar. He didn’t really trust her, it wasn’t that she meant bad, but her memory wasn’t the most trustworthy thing. Then, just moments after disappearing on the horizon, the gray pegasi came back, Nightstar didn’t look surprised.

            “…”

            “Oh! Yeah! Here you go!” Derpy handed over to Nightstar a bunch of letters.

            “… Don’t tell anypony”

            And so, the gray pegasi flew away again.

            “Geez, she’s such a featherhead, it still amazes me the fact that she never mixes up the mail… even though she mixes up many other things”

            “Well, let her be, but you should trust her a bit more, that’s what friends do” Said Lyra while walking away.

            “Friends… I wonder about that”

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            The Night fell and suddenly three different screams of mild pain started to sound outside. Nightstar thought that it was strange, so he went outside to check it out, and upon opening the door he was surprised to see three little fillies that he recognized each being pecked in the head by a crow.

            “Andrew, Robert, Dante, stop, they are my… guests I guess” upon hearing Nighstars voice the three crows stopped pecking the heads of the fillies and flew up to the lone tower of the castle while the three fillies rubbed their hurt heads.

            “Are… are those your pets?” asked Applebloom.

            “You really should teach them better” complained Scootaloo

             “Owowowowow” whined Sweetie Belle.

“Kind of, I feed them and all, but they come and go as they please and I let them do so, it was three weeks ago the last time I saw them, and they are vey distrustful of strangers mainly because not many ponies come by” replied Nightstar.

“Good Evening Nightstar” Lyra said as she approached.

“Hey 'Star!” Said Derpy just before crashing into the wall, making another hole close to the one that Nightstar had repaired that afternoon.

“I made sure that those walls could resist the attack of a manticore at least, I just don’t understand how can she break through them so easily without even hurting herself”

“My bad!”

“*sigh*”

“Umm… I brought snacks” said Lyra.

“Me too” Sweetie Belle added.

“Let’s just get this over with" Nighstar said while showing a tired face.

“Alright Mr. Star! Show us you’re Talent” replied Applebloom.

Nightstar move away from the girls while they all (including a slightly concussed Derpy) sat closer together and looked at him. Nightstar closed his eyes and his horn started to glow, weakly at the start but slowly gaining strength. While his horn glowed, clouds started to gather on top of him in a spiral shape while turning gray; some clouds were attracted from the skies of Ponyville, and more came from the near Everfree Forest, eventually others seemed to come from thin air. While the clouds gathered the three crows flew from the roof of the small castle and settled on the heads of Lyra, Applebloom and Derpy. Lyra got a little nervous, Applebloom was paralyzed, afraid that the slightest bit of movement could unleash another rain of pecks, while Scootaloo and Sweetie belle moved away from Applebloom once the crow landed, Derpy didn’t seem notice.

When enough clouds had been organized in a spiral pattern over Nightstar’s head, he opened his eyes and his horn stopped shining. Moments later, Nightstar’s body tensed and his horn suddenly glowed brighter than before, lightning fell from the sky hitting close to him. Then another and another one, suddenly there was Lightning falling all around. Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were very scared, but excited at the same time; Lyra, and the crows, who had witnessed this before, were more relaxed, but still pretty scared; Derpy seemed very excited but didn’t show any sign of fear whatsoever. As the lightning and bolts fell down in a huge amount, the patron in which they felt started to look less random and more like it was tracing some kind of pattern. Then, the lightning stopped falling down and became considerably less intense, but now instead of falling down the now smaller bolts traced all kinds of patterns against the sky before going back to the clouds. Finally, the lightning stopped and the clouds started to disperse and dissolve, but just when it seemed like it was over, a last bolt surged from a cloud; but this bolt wasn’t like the others, it didn’t even look like lightning, it just stopped midair and it looked like it was an orb of light. The small group watching were simply amazed.

Nightstar then brought it closer and spoke “This is a lightning ring, a really rare and almost never witnessed phenomena that seems to disobey the usual behavior of lightning”

“Y-you didn’t do this when you showed me the whole lightning thing” said a Lyra that couldn’t believe what was seeing, even though the lightning ring was very small compared to the powerful bolts that rained down a few minutes ago, it was definitely more impressive, and beautiful.

“I perfected the spell it not much ago, it is much harder to make than regular lightning and requires a more precise control, because it is NOT like regular lightning” replied Nightstar with an uncommon smile, a smile that showed pride.

“It’s so… shiny…” said Derpy while her eyes lined up, like they do once a while, and focused on the lightning ring.

“So what do you think, kids?” said Nightstar proudly and with a bit of undeniable happiness.

Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Applebloom just stared at it, speechless. Finally, Applebloom spoke: “This. Is. AMAZING!”

Nightstar smiled once again; after all, even if he didn’t want to admit it, it made him happy to receive some honest praise. But while everyone was distracted, Derpy got closer and closer to the ring…

“Derpy! No! Don’t touch it!”

But it was already too late, as soon as a corner of Derpy’s hoof touched the ring, it dissolved and became a regular but powerful lightning that rant trough her body straight to the ground. Derpy fell unconscious.

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“Aww… my heaaaad”

“Derpy! Thanks to Celestia that you are awake” Said Lyra, while everypony gathered around. As Derpy looked around she noticed that now she was in a bed, inside Nightstar’s castle. After the accident, Nightstar and Lyra checked her pulse and breath, She was still breathing and her pulse seemed normal, that, together with the fact that Derpy usually went through all kind of mishaps without doing herself any true damage, leaded Nighstar and Lyra to decide to carry her inside and watch her, instead of carry her all the way to Ponyville hospital which was in the opposite side of the town.

“I will bring some water” Said Nightstar, he wasn’t used to take care of anyone and the whole situation had got him pretty worked up. He went downstairs and didn’t notice that Applebloom followed him there. After taking a glass of water Nightstar sighed, trying to relax, it was already pretty late and the night still didn’t seem to be over.

“Hey” Applebloom spoke; Nightstar hadn’t yet noticed her and let out a small scream.

“Ah, uh?  Oh, it’s you kid, what do you want?” said Nightstar slightly annoyed.

“My name is not “kid” is Applebloom”

“Well, “Applebloom”, what do you want?”

“Thanks alot for today”

Applebloom answer took him by surprise, he wasn’t able to come up with an answer so he just remained silent and looked down, he grabbed the glass of water and went upstairs, leaving Applebloom alone in the kitchen. Applebloom wondered if she made him angry.

When Nightstar got upstairs the scene looked exactly like when he left, Derpy was in bed, making a weird face while Lyra, Scootaloo and Sweetiebelle took care of her and talked.

Then, Lyra spoke “Maybe she should spent the night here, I’m sure is nothing serious but it’s not a good idea to sent her home like this, and it's pretty late already. Girls why don’t you spent the night here? Nightstar has another two rooms and both have a double-bed”

“What?! But, but…”

Lyra gave Nightstar a look like that of a mother scolding a child.

“Fine…” said Nightstar with a expression that denoted annoyance and discomfort “Now hear me girls, you room is the one in the tower, just take the stairs,  Lyra since you were the one who came up with the idea, you will sleep here with Derpy”

            “That’s alright; I was going to take care of her tonight anyway”

            Nightstar leaved the room and went downstairs, to the "summer” room and after wrapping himself in the sheets, he soon fell asleep.