Chapter 1:The new kid in town and a birth of a bond
The train rumbles as it makes its journey to the up coming town called Ponyville. Rumor has it got that name in honor of the six pony spirits that represent harmony. Of coarse that was mostly a myth. Back to the train in the very last cart where they keep luggage sat a thirteen-year old girl with wild purple hair,a slightly tan skin and slightly round face, and under her close eyelids are purple eyes. Her clothing is an orange short sleeve shirt, dark blue shorts, and dark red shoes
As the train rumbles a man in a blue suit walks towards the cargo cart to check in on the luggage to be sure that either no luggage was messing,or there are no stowaways hiding, he enter the cart and began looking around to see if everything is as it should be and no free loaders hiding anywhere. The young girl had heard the man coming and hid herself in a pile of suit cases with a small hole to see through, she held her breath when the man walked close to her hiding place, it was when he was about to pass is when the young stowaway's luck ran out. The train had a big bump that caused the pile she was hiding in tumble and almost squished the older man,when he turned to see the fallen luggage he found the young girl in the middle of the fallen pile, she looked back at him with a sheepish smile before running out through the door, the loder man gave chase, this is how the first of fateful encounters began.
The young girl ran like hell to escape the the conductor that is chasing her through the carts of the train, she would knock over various items to the floor to slow the pursuer down,but unfourtanetly he managed to doge every obstacle so far. The two had ran through half of the train and were soon approaching the civilian cart where all of the passengers were as the train rode on.
"Slow down you runt!" The conductor demanded in a gruff voice as he slowly catches up to the child that had managed to sneak on the train with out the guards from the previous city.
"No way you old geezer!" The girl shouts back in a slightly tomboyish voice as she opens the door to the passenger cart, she quickly closed it behind her and threw random junk she could grab to block the door, though it would probably get her a few minuets before he could get through. She looked around for a place to hide, she saw a seat with an empty space that was big enough for her to hide, she crawled into it with out a second thought. The conductor had broken through the blockade and ran forward as fast as he could, when his footsteps couldn't be heard the young girl crawled out of her hiding place.
"Man that was close." She said to herself.
"Um, hello?" The stowaway jumped by the the sound of another voice from behind, she turned around to see that it was a girl around her age with pink and purple hair,green eyes, and pale skin. She wore a white dress with a pink belt around her waist, and purple shoes with black socks.
"Oh sorry I didn't see you there." The purple haired girl said sheepishly "I'm Scootaloo."
"I'm Sweetie Belle." Sweetie Belle introduced nervously as her fingers drum on a book in her lap, Scootaloo noticed it immediately.
"Hey, that wouldn't be a book of old spells is it?" Scootaloo asked curiously as she looked closer to the book, this caused Sweetie Belle to blush in embarrassment.
"It is, I got bored so I decided to catch up on some studying." She didn't look in Scootaloo's direction when she spoke,she felt to embarrassed when talking to some random stranger about her idea of passing the time. Scootaloo took notice of the size the book is and how many pages it hold, she became impressed with how much this girl had read already.
"Wow,it looks like you've read a lot already, you must be pretty smart if you can read so much." Scootaloo complimented,but she noticed the sad way the other girl's eyes look when she said that.
"I read so much because I don't really have any friends to talk to or to be around." The way Sweetie Belle had said those words had reminded Scootaloo of herself when she travels from place to place, and so, Scootaloo had made a decision. But it would have to wait because the conductor had came back to look for her.
"Found you little rat!" He exclaimed furiously as he tries to grab at her, but she was to quick and jumped to the seat opposite of Sweetie Belle,she then jumped to the walkway and ran down the train once more, the conductor gave chase again leaving Sweetie Belle in utter confusion.
Sweetie Belle walks through Ponyville as she caries her pink bag on her back, her eyes wonder around the town as she walks seeing the familiar buildings and people she had seen the last time she came here a year ago when visiting her older sister. The thought of seeing her sister brought a happy smile on her face as thoughts of what the two would do and talk about when they reunite, but then her thoughts turned to when she had met that strange girl on the train. She remembered her name as Scootaloo, she seemed nice,but for some reason Sweetie Belle felt something strange from her,like there was something powerful whith in her, just who was she?
As she ponders on these thoughts her stomach began to growl furiously,the sudden noise had brought her out of her thoughts, she remembers she hadn't ate anything since she came here and looked around for a place to satisfy her grumbling stomach, she spots a nice little cafe. She walks through the door, the bell over it signaled her entry to all that were already inside, one of the waiters would have greeted her,if not for the fact that the cafe is being robbed by a couple of thugs,said thugs looked at her when the door bell had ringed.
"Hey you, get over there with the others!" A bald headed thug demanded as he gestures to the other hostages in the corner with a rifle like weapon. These weapons are known as magic weapons, they allow the users to use magic attacks even if they are not wizards, magic weapons are powered by magic stones call a lacrima, the weapons these thugs are using are magic rifles, each with a different color of lacrimas for different types of magic shots the rifles will shoot.
Sweetie Belle moves to the other hostages as the thugs hold bags for money to be put in,one by one the hostages put in either their money or jewlery that would worth a lot. When a thug put the half filled bag infront of a woman she didn't put anything inside it.
"I don't have anything of value for you." She said, the thug didn't look happy about this and it was clear on his face, but then he had a sinister grin on his face as he had an idea.
"Well then I'll just have to take you with us for some 'fun'." The woman had a look of horror on her face as she knew exactly what that entails. The thug grabbed her by the wrist tightly and began to walk away with her as she pleas for help.watching the whole thing Sweetie Belle became angry at these thugs for messing with these people, and determined to stop them. But just when she was about to do something the belle to the door ringed,signaling the arrival of a new customer.
"Wow, this place looks packed." Came the comment of a familiar tomboyish voice,Sweetie Belle's eyes widened as she turned around to see the purple headed girl she met on the train.
"S-Scootaloo?!" Sweetie Belle shouted in disbelief, Scootaloo turned to see Sweetie Belle with a surprised look before turning into one of joy,as if not aware of the situation that she had walked into.
"Hey Sweetie Belle your here too? that's great I've been looking for you to say something." The thugs in the restaurant took notice of the new visitor and potential target.
"Hey runt, you better give up some cash or you'll get seriously messed up!" A yellow mohawk thug threatened as he stepped closer to them, Scootaloo looked back at him with a confident smirk on her face which surprises the thugs and Sweetie Belle.
"Oh yeah we'll give me your best shot!" Scootaloo challenged as she got in a fighting stance.
The mowhawk thug ran at her and tried to punch her but she dogged it and punched him in the stomach, she was surprisingly stronger than she looked because that punch knocked the wind out of the thug. A black haired thug tried to kick her but Scootaloo dodged again by jumping over the kick and roundhouse the thug in the jaw, he tumbled back in pain and tripped over a fallen table. Before any other thugs rushed towards her she ran straight at them instead and jump kicked the thug that had tried to take the woman earlier and knocked him away into the floor. Sweetie Belle watched this in silence and awe as Scootaloo managed to fight the thugs so easily, but she noticed the thug with the mowhawk had regained his senses and pointed his magic rifle at Scootaloo while she wasn't looking,a yellow magic seal appeared infront of the weapon. With no time to give a warning Sweetie Belle did the only thing she could do, she dashed in between the thug and Scootaloo and paced her right fist on top of her left palm, a light blue magic seal appeared in front of her.
"Take this you brat, Thunder Shot!" The thug yelled as he pulled the trigger, sending a bolt of electricity towards the two girls,this caught Scootaloo's attention as she sees the attack and noticed Sweetie Belle was infront of hit.
"Sweetie Belle get out of the way!" Scootaloo yelled, but Sweetie Belle didn't try to move away, instead she wound her hands to her left side, fist still in palm as a cool mist appears around her.
"Ice-Make:" she quickly moved her right hand in a horizontal slashing motion, "Shield" suddenly a large wall of ice appears in front of of Sweetie Belle, the electricity made contact with the shield, the attack disapate as it failed to break the shield of ice. Everyone stood still in awe as they witnessed the display of magic from someone so young.
"My turn, Ice Make:Prison." She made the same pose from before,except this time she frusted her hands towards the floor beneath the mowhawks's feet, causeing him to be trapped inside a box of ice, trapping him completely.
"That was awesome Sweetie Belle!" Scootaloo shouts excitedly causeing Sweetie Belle to blush.
"Not bad runt,let's see if you can handle me." Said a red haired thug as he points his magic rifle at the two with an red magic seal appearing in front of the gun, Sweetie Belle recognized the seal immediately and became very worried.
"Scootaloo look out he's about to use fire magic!" Sweetie Belle warned,but to her surprise Scootaloo hade a huge grin on her face.
"Heh,don't worry fire can't hurt me." Was what she said befor the thug shot a stream of fire right at her, it came too fast for Sweetie Belle could only close her eyes as the flames consume the purple haired girl,when she heard a strange sound coming from the fire did she open her eyes again and what she saw was something she would never forget. There stood Scootaloo completely unharmed instead of a burned corpse,but the thing that Sweetie Belle wouldn't forget was what the purple haired girl was doing. She has her mouth wide open as the flames were being sucked into it as if the girl was eating them. Once all the fire had been sucked in the girl swallowed like it was normal food and gave a dissapointed sigh.
"That fire was way to weak for my taste, oh well fire is fire I guess." She said to herself,she looked back towards the now frightened thugs and flashed them a devilish smile, flashing them her sharp teeth.
"Ok guys lets get something straight here." She announced pointing her finger at a stunned Sweetie Belle
"Anyone who attacks my friend gets the living snot beaten out of them." She proclaimed as she began to take a deep breath and summoning a dark red magic seal with a dragon head in the center.
"Fire Dragon: Roar!" She yelled as she breathed a large stream of fire at the thugs who were too scared to revise what was happening before it was too late, the fire made contact with the thugs creating an explosion that sent them all back and knocking them unconscious with burns dotting their bodies. Sweetie Belle looked on in complete awe of the magic she had just witnessed with her own two eyes, when she snapped out of it she looked straight at Scootaloo with wide eyes.
"Your a Dragon Slayer!?" She yelled,causing Scootaloo to step back in surprise.
"Yeah I was trained by a fire dragon named Barb." Scootaloo said, this made Sweetie Belle both excited and confused at the same time, excited because she got to witness a type of magic that was said to be a myth, and confused on how this girl got a dragon to teach her.
"Hey by the way,your not hurt or anything are you." Scootaloo asked worry in her voice,bring Seetie Belle out of her thoughts.
"Oh, yeah I'm fine thanks." She said politely causing Scootaloo to smile happily.
"Heh,that's what friend are for." Sweetie Belle looked at her in confusion of that remark.
"We're friends?" She asked confusidly.
"Well yeah,I decided back on the train that we were going to be friends,because I don't have friends either like you." Scootaloo said as she put a hand out towards Sweetie Belle. "Let's start over, my name is Scootaloo." Sweetie Belle looked at the hand for a moment ,letting what she said process in her mind before she let a big happy smile appear on her face as she grabbed the offered hand with her own.
"Hi,my name is Sweetie Belle."
From that moment a bond between fire and ice was born.
