Author's Message: With this, I hope to bring up my writing skills, and show you all how I've been improving, ever since my last chapter. I do want to say one quick thing: I will need an official pre-reader for this story, and an editor...Now, while I edit my own stuff (mostly) I want another person to check over my writing, as I KNOW I mess up every now and then. If you'd like to apply for either of these places, lemme know through a PM. Thanks for reading this message, and for reading my story. Please, have fun reading, and enjoy this, my newest fanfic: The Chronicles of Faint Darkness.

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A happy stallion, and his lovely wedded wife...
The stallion is standing next to his wife, who is laying on the bed, smiling at her newborn foal...
The nurse, and the two other guests stand near, also smiling...
An evil pony, with a mind clouded with nightmarish thoughts stands outside, horn ready to cast his spell...
The fire set, as he galloped away...nopony knew who it was...
The guests make it outside...the mother and nurse safely get the foul outside, and to the ground, to safety...
The father is searching for something, something important...
The mother runs inside to get him....
Neither make it out.

Faint sat up in his cloud bed, breathing heavily. He looked around, and used a hoof to wipe some sweat form his head. He looked around, and checked himself- His wings were their normal size, and he was perfectly fine...
Just then, his aunt ran in, with a terrified look on her face, and her wings practically flared out. She was a pale green pony, with a light yellow mane, and her tail matched.

It was her eyes that caught most ponies' attention- They appeared to be a dull brown, but that was only a cover-up. In reality, her eyes changed, with her mood...Most don't question it, but some do, and others just find it really fascinating, yet they leave the subject alone.
Her cutie mark was a large yellow sunflower, as she was very good with plants, especially Sunflowers. It was a trait that Faint had found interesting, but he loved her nonetheless.

"Ah! Are you okay, sweetie?" She asked in her sing-song voice, yet it shook, and sounded completely worried.

The young, six-year old Faint nodded, and gulped loudly.

"Yes, Auntie Flower...I just had a nightmare, is all..." He tried to smile reassuringly at his Aunt, but she looked like she barely believed it.

She watched him with a careful eye, and smiled back.

"Alrighty then...Try to get back to sleep. Remember, your first day of school is tomorrow." She winked, as Faint groaned...loudly.

"Nope nope nope, don't give me that. You knew that you started tomorrow."

"But Auntie, we don't even live anywhere NEAR the school! Why can't I go somewhere else for school?" He pouted, and stick his lower lip out a bit, to accentuate his argument.

" Faint, dearie, you know that Cloudsdale is one of the very few Flight schools in Equestria- and it's the closest one to us!"

"Yeah, but we live WAAAY over here, past Canterlot! It'll take like eight ba-jillion hours just to get there!"

"Faint Darkness, you are going to Cloudsdale Flight School- We'll just have to leave early. We're not arguing over this!" She smiled, not angry at all, and left Faint's room, after saying "Good-Night!" to him, with a kiss on his forehead.

Faint sighed in defeat, and went back to dreamland, now only having nightmares of his second worst fear- Flight School.

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It had been about three years since Faint's last nightmare about his parents-He tried not to think about them much anymore, yet they almost always crept up into his thoughts. He was now sitting, yet again, alone at lunch, dutifully chewing on his daisy sandwich, with only his thoughts for company.

His mind wandered around his schoolwork, his studies, his aunt...and his parents. Now, during this time of thinking, he was vulnerable, to the most dangerous predator, to the prey of Flight School- Bullies.

"Hey, flower-breath!" It was Dumbbell's words that snapped faint out of his trance, and brought him to the reality.

He looked around, noting that Dumbbell and his two other friends were standing practically over him again, smirks on their faces. Faint didn't know why they loved to pick on him and that one pony- Rainbow Crash, they had called her, and her friend...Flutter...Flutter-something. It seems they just really hated people who either flew better then them, or didn't really liked flying...and Faint was better then them by miles.

Yet again, Faint was snapped out of his thinking trance- this time, by Dumbbell's hoof. It connected with Faint's left cheek, right under the eye, and Faint could already feel it starting to swell up. He felt his blood boil, and, fueled by all his anger, he punched Dumbbell back, right on his snout.

There was a scream and a crunch. The next thing Faint knew, one of Dumb's friends grabbed Faint by one of his wings, as the other punched him over and over again. While all this happened, Dumb was getting up, and a green Pegasus-pony came up to the four young colts, with a very angry and disappointed look on her face. Faint couldn't recall who she was, until she spoke.

"My office, NOW!" Flight School Principle Lucky snapped at them.

The two colts holding (and punching) Faint dropped him immediately, and they trotted toward her office....as Principle Lucky walked with Faint herself. He was bleeding from the nose, mouth, his grabbed wing, and some other bruises and cuts. Also, his right eye was now completely swollen and black, and his left wasn't much better- He could barely see out of it.

As they marched (well, Principle Lucky marched- Faint practically stumbled around, trying not to bump into anything or trip over his own hooves.) Faint noticed the looks he got from the other colts and fillies. They were mostly looks of disgust, pity, and not-wanting-to-laugh-at-the-kid-they-all-practically-hated-for-no-reason.

Everypony gave him this look...except for three fillies, and one colt. Rainbow Crash, Flutter-something, Snow Angel, and Midnight Flare. (The colt.) These four were some of the others who are/were also bullied by Dumb and his friends, so they were the only ones who understood his pain at this moment. Faint looked at them, and they actually looked back, one by one, and even though they all were in separate places, he saw looks of pity, and sorrow...The only looks he deserved.

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Faint, now at age nineteen, and officially out of Flight Academy, Manehattan University, and School for the Royal Guard for some time now, laid in his bed, exhausted by all that went on. He looked for a job, tried to make some friends although failing horribly, and read, because that's what he did when he was bored. His search for a job had been bad at first, until he found his calling at being a Disk Jockey, commonly known as a DJ, and making music.

It wasn't much, but it worked out for him. Ponies around Ponyville and Manehattan started to get to know him better, and make fun of him less and less for they saw his musical skills. He also spent time practicing new flying moves and the like, but mostly in private, besides in the Academy and Guard School. Faint's life now started to slightly look up, except for the deaths in his family.

He closed his eyes, wishing his parents were still here, wishing Aunt Flower hadn't died from some stupid disease, and wishing that he was young again. Eventually, he fell asleep with pleasant dreams about his parents and Aunt for once. Little did he know, that something was about to happen that'd change his life-in the most major way possible.

Author's Note

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Post-Writing Author's Message: Sorry, but I gotta put this in...First off, to clear some things really quick- Faint's parents are both Pegasi. (As far as he knows.) As for the two guests....don't ask, as I'm not telling. Yet. Also, I know some things aren't actually represented, or may be inaccurate, but please, go along with it...An example of this is the whole flight-school thing.

Back in the episode when Dash talks about Flight School, they looked to be about 6 or 7, maybe 8. Also, we don't know how long Flight School is...I'll probably tell at what age he graduated, but later. Now, thanks for reading! I'll only continue this story, though, if I get 10 likes within the first week. I'll write another chapter either tomorrow or the day after, though, so you'll have at least 2 chapters. After that, 10 likes, or I know it's not worth continuing...and you don't even have to like. Just post a comment saying I should continue or not, or like/dislike. your choice. Now, I'm goin' to bed. I'm currently writing this at 11:08 pm, and I'm tired as hell...N'Night y'all!