chapter 4: Innocence

Twilight was just about done with the books. She was pondering what the image she saw was, but couldn't remember a thing. She was wondering if the princess had ever heard of the book before realizing that she was sitting on the floor. She didn't know why she was on the floor but decided to use the opportunity to continue reading the book. She chose not to use her magic on the book out of fear and picked it up in her mouth.

She opened the book from the page she read and began reading: "In his world, he is a king among beasts of his kind. He is the last of his family line. He was already surrounded by death even at birth. He holds the strength of ten Ursa majors and is resistant to extreme cold, heat, and pain. He cannot be stopped with disease, he fights with complete fury. He is feared by many in his world. the only thing that can stop him is a being with ultimate power but that only exists in his world. when he comes to our world…never try to fight him for he will slay us all."

Twilight was unsure why but whoever this pony is or was must be a terrible cruel pony. "oh my" she mumbled. She was considering sending a report to the princess to warn her, but she reassured herself again that this thing does not exist, so there was nothing to be afraid of. She turned the page and read out loud the single strange sentence on it: "Until light fades from our hearts, let us know that there is always a chance, when the world falls, let us know that he will save us from death."

" Huh, I wander what this means?" Twilight was wondering what this meant for a moment. When she turned the page however, it was blank. She continued turning the pages all the way to the end. "blank" she could not understand the nature of this book at all. She closed the book and started wondering about what the sentence meant.

Tavo was walking through the town gazing at everything around him. He'd been wandering around the town for a couple minutes, it had never occurred to him how wonderful it was just walking. He had seen a lot during his time in captivity and his time of freedom, but this place was completely different from anywhere he was sent. It was colorful, peaceful, and warm happiness could be felt from all over. He could see all the ponies walking around talking, laughing, playing, and a few singing. If he could, he would smile. He looked up to the sky and stared at the clouds and pegasi flying to and fro. All the while he felt that their where also naïve "they don't know how lucky they are." he said to himself he remembered how terrible his world was and tried comparing it to this world. He could not. silently he thanked whoever killed him. Should have killed me years ago. he thought. He wondered about the town, noticing that not a single pony had yelled at him. Or cursed him, or threw rocks at him, or stared down at him, or aim weapons at him. a few had even waved at him. Other than that they didn't do anything, except the ones that got to close. They ran off at the sight of him. But it was nothing new to him, he was used to that.

He shortly passed what looked like a school house He walked along the fence studying the small one-building school house. It looked almost like one his Great-Grandfather described in a letter. He was watching all the little filly's, playing around, and laughing. They were too innocent and carefree, he just wished the orphan's in his world had this kind of life instead of the one he had. He was about ready to leave when he heard three little voice's from the school that made him stop. "So, cutie mark crusaders, what are we gonna do today?" the voices of the three girls made him twist his head to see three filly's discussing their plans for the day. " we should try skydiving, I heard it's a lot of fun" said the orange Pegasus." How bout somthin a little less dangerous." The yellow filly replied. "how about painting Mountains?" said the white unicorn." no, we already did that." answered the yellow one.

Tavo was still watching them with curiosity at what they would come up with. The three filly's had thought hard about what they could do. The white filly broke the silence "hey, what about something that has to do with the earthquake that passed?" all three of them smiled about the idea. "yeah, I heard that it started from the border of the town we could investigate it." Said the orange filly. The yellow filly smiled joyfully with the idea " oh my gosh, we could be cutie mark crusader earthquake investigators!" all three of them cheered their name loudly " CUTIE MARK CRUSADER EARTHQUAKE INVESTIGATORS, yay!"

At this point Tavo( still wishing he could smile)was watching the display of innocence shown. He'd only seen this once in his life though that didn't end well. He suddenly felt sorrow by the thought and dropped a single tear, but to his own amazement a completely different response came out of his mouth.

All the filly's at the school including the cutie mark crusader's, were shaken by the short, quick, extremely loud, cackling maniac-like laugh that lasted for about a second but shook them to their very souls. " AY QUE ME CHINGAN." Tavo blurted before shaking his head and biting his tongue hard, then running off before being noticed.

"w-what was that?" Sweetie Bell said "i-I don't know" answered Scootaloo. They clung to each other for about ten seconds before heading off to the edge of town.

Tavo was about a quarter mile way from the school, still freaking out about the laugh that came out of nowhere. "the hell was that? That's never happened before." Before Tavo said anymore, a thought and grumbling feeling hit him "when was the last time I ate?….thats right, 2 weeks ago" he decided to ignore the laugh and began walking to where ever there was a place to eat. He kept walking until he noticed something flying in the sky.

From his distance he could see a gray, blonde-mane Pegasus flying around without paying attention to what was in front of her and crashed into a tree. She flew out of the tree just to crash into the side of a building. She recovered but flew through another tree, spin, and crashed right in front of him. "hey, you alright?" he asked helping the dizzy Pegasus up. "yep, I'm ok!" said the Pegasus standing up straight like nothing happened. He was thrown off by the fact that one eye looked up and the other looked down. "hi, my name's …uuhh…Derpy!" the cross-eyed mare said with a joyful look."uuhhh my name's Tavo, it's nice to meet you" he said still a bit confused as to how the pony can fly around cross-eyed. Tavo remembered what he was supposed to be looking for "hey is their a place to eat?" asked Tavo  "well, if you're hungry, There's sugar cube corner, it's the best bakery in town!" she pointed to a house that resembled a gingerbread house. "me and my little muffin go their every few weeks, they make the best blue berry muffins." Wait is she a mother he thought as he watched her fly up "see ya later tavo!" with that she flew off awkwardly still staring back at him. "see ya Derpy" he yelled at the distant Pegasus who was waving and crashed into another tree.

Octavio was slightly mixed up at the thought of Derpy being a mother "well atleast she loves and cares about her" he said to himself. In his world, he'd only seen a mother once and that was about it. in one of his great-grandfather's letters he described the look of a mother. How even the ones that don't look like it are the best mothers a child could ever ask for. To him as long as she didn't have to live in the kind of world he lived and actually had a mother, the child was okay.

note: im still wondering why there are alot of dislikes to the story.....but then again i'll  still be writing and no ones gonna stop me.