The Super-Natural Squadby princess-shy-writes-Chapters2. Starry Mint. 4. Shadow Light 5. Strawb Heart6. Love Is In The Parties1. The Meeting.3. Lost Boy (Higgens)2. Starry Mint. 2. Starry Mint. Hey, this is Starry Mint. Well first of all, let me describe myself physically. I am a unicorn. My fur is a light gray and my mane is white. I have blue eyes which my mother used to say we're big and beautiful. But to me they are just plain and ugly. I have a cutie mark, but it's more of a birth mark mixed with a cutie mark. Zig zagged lines in my back legs and inbetween are a few lines, circles, and a Star which wasn't there at my birth. And well, when at night I use my powers, I get goo off the tips of my horn and tail and in my eyes. If you bother me about it you're dead. Now I'll describe myself emotionally. I love mint items. Not just because my goo is mint, but it has always been my favorite color. I love anything supernatural and hidden, just like me. I hate scince, since it can't and won't ever be able to explain my powers, why only I have them,and is totally against of what I am. I would consider myself VERY confident. I like the sky and most of all I love my mother and my dad. Now to how I got my power and my cutie-birth mark. My dad was a soldier who worked in Celestia's sun army since I was very young. I never really met him. But I always had my mom there to talk to and help me through the good and bad days. My mom would take me outside each night and tell me a story. Not just any story, a story filled with Romance,Adventure, and Joy. It was stories about her and my dad. One night, as I patiently waited outside for her and her next story, I looked up at the stars and closed my eyes. I had a vision. I saw my dad looking at a picture of my mother holding a baby which was me. He was on a train on the way over here. I opened my eyes and ran over to my mom to give her the fanatastic news that dad was coming back. As I happily told her my vision, she informed me that I was full of mint goo and had a star in my birthmark. Pretty much all my life has been lived in a house separated from everyone else. After my father came back he didn't really like my powers and thought it would be best if I kept them away from everyone. What he doesn't know is that I know 2 ponies, one of them being Spity, and the other... Maybe she could be helpful as well! I don't think many people know about her powers... But anyway, I don't get out of that house unless it's nighttime, so I can practice my powers. But now that my father is dead, there should be no reason for me to be stuck there, right? I'm currently on a train, headed off to Ponyville, listening to music on my mint iPod. I looked out the window of the colorful train as I hummed to "Timber". I can't believe how beautiful Equestria is! I should have came out here sooner, but like I said, anything outside my house was a prohibited area for me. Which kindda sucks. I turned the sound up on my iPod and kept looking out the window. I suddenly got tapped on the shoulder by the colt sitting next to me. "Hey Miss... The train stopped, aren't you going to get out?" I blushed bright pink and nodded. "Y-Yeah. Thank you Dear Sir." I grabbed my saddle bag with my magic and put it on my bag, as well with my iPod. I got off the train and saw Spity sitting down in a chair. I walked up to her slowly and whispered "Hey Spity....." Let me tell you that she almost jumped out of the chair out of surprise as I chuckled. "Oh my Celestia Starry! You scared my soul outta me!" She looked around and then back at me. "We gotta find a way to get you into Mayor Mare's office without having Pinkie Pie notice a newbie into Ponyville." Spity said nervously. I giggled. "That is easier done than said. I lit my horn up thinking of a teleportation spell as it glowed bright mint and suddenly.... 'POFF' we stood in front of what seemed to be the Townhall Spity's eyes widen and she slowly nodded. "Mental note: Don't Ever doubt unicorn magic, Ok let's go!" I smiled and trotted next to her as she walked me to the Mayor's office. She opened the door that had "Mayor's Office"'written on it and whispered "Mayor, the friend we spoke about is here." I heard a voice say from the other side of the door,"Please let her in... And you can come in as well. We all need to speak." Spits opened rather door fully and went in at the same time as me. The Mayor looks really nice. She told us to take a seat and instantly went into business. She mention why she was making his team, why she would think I could be perfect for it, and why I should agree to join this cause. I thought about it for a minute and then I decided I would. My dad would be proud of the way I'm using my magic. I extended my hoof over to her and said, "You've got a first member Mayor, and I won't disappoint you." She smiled warmly and shook my hoof. Spity smiled and spoke up, "I am very glad to see that this got along well. And I'm sorry to have to ask you this Starry Mint, but do you perhaps know of anyone else with some supernatural power? If you don't, it's fine." I looked back at her as I realized that she had been pretty embrarraced or seemed so the last past few minutes, but I forced myself to push that thought away. "Yes. I do. But I highly doubt she would want to join... I have my reasons. But I will tell her, surely she will at least think about the offer....." "Thank you Miss Mint. As soon as we gather up the rest of the team the training will being. You will all will be trained by Spitfire and Zecora.... Zecora is a zebra, very intelligent mare shall I say. Now, I need to speak to her....." Mayor said as she suddenly lost her focus on us and picked her phone up. "Thank you very much Mayor." I smiled and left her office with Spits next to me. Just as we left the room, Spits started speaking "Well Miss save-the-world, got a day to spare with a mare that's a big fan of yours, like, me?" I smirked and blushed ever so slightly. "I'ld be more than happy to spend a day with the leader of the Wonderbolts, Spitfire." I smiled as we walked out of the Townhall, into Ponyville. 4. Shadow Light 4. Shadow Light This is straight out stupid. Why would anyone wanna know how I got myself into this intolerant group of..... Ponies and other weird creatures. Why would anyone want to know anything about me in the first place? I AM some trashy piece of goth and emo-ness. And don't even try and fight it when you don't even know who or what I am. My name is Shadow Light. And I am not saying my last name. I am a very very light green Pegasus. My eyes are a bright red, and usually hidden by my black mane with blue tips. See? Emo and Goth. I usually wear a hoodie and I have many piercings. Some in my ear, my mouth, and one in my belly button. I like Metal and Rock, both heavy. I like to stay up late and at times, not even sleep. My very little friends that I used to have say that I'm not very friendly or possitive. I don't like school or to study, and my parents call me lazy and without discipline. On my free time, I like to spraypaint things, like walls. I don't like TOO cheerful ponies. Those who couldn't take the truth and reality. But well,I ain't really speak of reality when reality and I have made our differences. Let's just say that I am not the full out definition of it. A boy who can move things with his mind? Yeah not really very realztic. One day while I was out spray painting a wall some guys that hate my guts in school came over and started making fun of me. They were 2 stallions and a mare behind them. The stallions were both unicorns and the mare was a Earth pony. The colts pretty much insulted me, what I liked, and called me names. After they were done beating me up with words, they did it with their hooves. The mare just stood there watching until they were done. I was left hurt on the floor, just as I saw them walk away laughing with my spray paint. I could barely see, but I could think perfectly straight. I thought up of so many curse words for them, the out of nothing, I pictured them fighting themselfs. I thought about it really hard for a while until all of a sudden I heard the mare scream. I managed to get up and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was exactly what I had pictured in my mind. Them fighting. The mare yelled at them to stop but they wouldn't. I smirked as I got an idea. I closed my eyes and thought as hard as I could about my bottles of paint rolling back to me. Something bumped into my hoof as my eyes opened up and I gasped. My bottles of spray paint were standing in front of me. It suddenly hit me that I couldn't walk home. My front left hoof was broken and so did my back hoof. I spread my wings and sighed as to seeing that they were alright. I put my spray paint in my back and started flying home. Just as I did, I tried to process what had just happened. Ever since then I have practiced my powers, and gotten better at them each day. To be honest, no one but I know about these powers. I wish I could tell someone but I'm sure they would just laugh at me and call me insane. Today just as I got up I knew it wasn't going to be a god day at all. Celestia handmade her sun extra bright this morning and I woke up way earlier than I should have. As I walked down stairs to get coffee I found my mom and my dad screaming in the phone. Not the prettiest thing to wake up to. I snuck into the kitchen, got my coffee and left back into my room. I put on some "Three Days Grace" and drunk my coffee. Just as I was getting into the Chorous of the song, it changed by itself. And to my luv k it wasn't just any song, it's was "22", a song I had downloaded by accident and completely hated. I growled as I walked towards my phone and tried to change it, but my phone was jammed. I left it on and got my coffee again, listening to it as I sipped the cup. I then with my mind picked out a hoodie, as it layed itself on my bed. I put it on and ran out my door. I was pretty much allowed anywhere all day as long as I was home by 12AM because my parents got home at 1 AM. So I decided to go to Ponyville, it was only an hour away. So I started walking to the train station. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Starry mint sat next to Zecora and Higgins, eating breakfast and such a lovely and warm morning. She and Higgins were planning on going out to the Ponyville park and staying there for a while, as you see, she had a vision last night. She saw a colt with the powers to move things as he wanted without anyone knowing, and if that's not a superpower than lord knows what is. They finished their breakfast and left. Since in the vision it wasn't sundown, they promised to be there before sundown. As they left, both started to talk. They told eachother about what they liked and disliked, their family, and Higgins spoke about how he had gotten to "Can I touch your mane? It just looks so... Cute and fluffy....." Starry Mint said sitting in a bench next to Higgins. He smiled. Honestly, he was starting to get feelings for this kind mare, he felt like there was something special about her. "Sure, but don't tell anyone I let you, I don't want ponies feeling free to touch my mane." Higgins said leaning his head over to her as she ran her hoove through it. "It's just as it looks! Cute and fluffly...." Minty said now nuzzling it. "T-T-Thank you Minty" said Higgins blushing a hot red. Continuing to rub her nuzzle into his mane, Starry Mint did the same. No one had ever called her Minty, though she loved the sound of that nickname. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Once the train finally stopped in Ponyville, I got out and started walking to the park. This, was the only place where I could get enough peace and quite to listen to my music calmly without having to worry about anything or anyone. I got there and growled as I saw two love birds had taken my seat favorite seat on the bench near the fountain. Wait a second... Was that a Zebra? I didn't even know those things even existed anymore. Ewww. Suddenly as I was about to sit down in the other bench, I saw a filly. She was playing near the water fountain and it looked as if she were about to fall in. I thought as fast as I could, and I grabbed her with my super powers and brought her right next to me. I gotta admit that I wasn't thinking straight when I brought her over here and used my magic to save her. A few ponies caught a glance and gasped at it. The mother, or whom seemed to be the mother, still didn't care about her filly, and kept on talking to her friends. Then the worst thing happened. Remember that I told you about the weird Zebra and its Marefriend? Yeah. Those two came over. "Hey, I'm Starry Mint, and he's Higgins. We saw what you did... And well, we wanted to say that you have impressive super powers, eh, we have some of them too." I frowned could it really be true? Two other po-creatures, that had super powers just as well as I did? "Yeah. She can see the future at night time, and I, I got like... Let me show you." Higgins said rubbing his hooves together as a blue light came out of them. "I can throw this and anything I think of comes out of them." He shoot the light and a butterfly flew out of where the light used to be. My eyes widened, yet they weren't visible. "We were hopping that you could come with us and talk to Zecora, a Zebra-" Oh wow. More of those things. "Spitfire, Leaderofthe Wonderbolts, and the Mayor." The unicorn mare said. And you expect me to believe that they wanna talk to ME? A loser? Nah. These guys wanted my magic. "Well, I'ld love to but-" before I could put an explanation to why I couldn't go and talk to the Mayor and those other ponies, Starry Mint Teleported me to the Mayor's office. Ok, I'll give that to you, they weren't lying. "Mayor we brought our third member." Higgins said. Mayor Mare turned her chair and looked at me. "Seems fair enough, why don't you have a seat so we can talk about you powers, and what this is all about. Maybe you would like to join us." The Mayor said as I sat down and nodded. THIS was how I got stuck here. Stuck with a Zebra and a Mare who has goo all over her at night. I was now officially in the super ponies. 5. Strawb HeartHeyo, this is Strawb! Who is Strawb? Well, me! Ok, maybe I should introduce myself to all of you. I am Strawb Heart, a changeling, and one of the only 4 mare changelings that my mother, Chrysalis had. I am almost the oldest, my sister won me by exactly 23 seconds. Damn, 23 seconds away from being Princess of Changelings. Too close. As much as my mom has over pressured me to become future Princess, I am NOT interested. Running a whole bunch minis of me are selfish enough to fool someone into falling in love with them just to feed themselves with it? Yep no thanks, I'll pass. I'm probably the only changeling who actually has feelings, and cares about others. And my sisters.... They are a lost cause. The oldest thinks she can boss all of us around even though she's only a few seconds older than the rest of us, the youngest gets whatever she wants whenever she wants it and pretty much screams her lungs out, and the other one, it's like she's dedicated her life to make mine miserable. Well anyway, I bet you're all wondering what I look like. My mane is long and to the side, most of it anyway, I have a few pices on the other side as well, but not as long. My body is just like the other changelings, but instead my wings are the same color as my mane. Pink with green. Guess you know where the "Strawb" came from in my name. My horn... It's a tad different from any others.... At first it started growing perfectly, but then it started to shape like a Heart. Everyone laughed at it, but I didn't care. I enjoyed the shape of it. I enjoy love stories, any kind, and someday, I too hope to find love, true,genuine love. My sisters have never seen me read or hear love stories, other wise they would have ran over to mother and told her with their loud mouths. So basically I teleport anywhere quite like a river, or the forest, maybe even a cascade once in a while, and read or listen to them. I had become very close to nature thanks to that... I also like to draw at times, I change into ponies and start to draw them. And last but not least I am extremely good at magic. My mom doesn't really take the best care of my bothers and sisters. Mostly brothers. She has a very busy life and she doesn't seem to care much about her..... Outcomes. As long as we check with her that we are alright every week, we are fine. And I'm glad it's like that... That way I don't have to be with my sisters all the time. I've been to a lot of places in Equestria, yet not all of them. Out of all the places I had been to, I found Ponyville the most welcoming. Of course I had not gone there as what I really am, I knew my mother had a past fight with the so called Elments of Harmony and The Princess, Twilight Sparkle, and her didn't end up on well terms. I went as a tourist, and had a chance to meet the Elements themselves. Everyone is so nice there,they loved their family, had friends, and we're kind and sharing, nothing like my house. I really missed it there so I had been planing on taking a small vacation to go over there, you know, look around, dress up as another tourist, read my love novels, buy a few things, maybe even make friends if I was lucky enough. I wanted to go for like, half a month, so I had to tell mother, which would be a pain in the flank. But I didn't care. Just as I ran up to her bedroom I had a few of my brothers waved and some of them even tried and flirt with me. Do you know how disturbing it is to know that you were made thanks to your Uncle banging your mom? Yeah, we are supposed to reproduce with our bothers. That's insane and digusting. I sighed and ignored them and continued on my quest to my mom's bedroom. I knocked on her bedroom door as she said, "Come in" She sat on her usual desk writing down something and looked over at me. "Oh, it's you, Hello Strawb, how are you?" I closed the door behind me and smiled at her. "I'm fine. Hey mom I wanted to ask you something..." I trailed off as she frowned and looked closer at me as if I had something stuck to me in my left cheek and she was trying to figure out what it was. Suddenly she turned back to her desk and spoke, "Hurry up and tell me. I'm busy and you know that Strawb" she used her horn to pick up the pen and once more started scribbling. "Well I wanted to ask for your permission, but I want to go on a vacation. I was wondering if two, possibly three, weeks was ok with you?" I said looking away and blushing ever so slightly. She growled "You can go three weeks, just call me every week to make sure you're ok." She used her magic to pull out a bag full of money and handed it to me. "Please, don't let anyone see you in your normal form." My eyes widened and I smiled widely "Thank you! And I will, don't you worry about me!" I ran out the room holding the bag of money as my brothers stared at me and I growled. "NO! Don't even try!" I ran to my room before they could do anything. I instantly started packing as I got into my room. I finished packing up and left the house. And teleported to the most slient spot on the Everfree Forest, so there I changed into a tourist. I checked that I had everything once more and went on walking into Ponyville. I was almost done with one of novels, So I decided to go over to the Town Hall and finish it, they always have free reading spots and a mini library there. So I started trotting over to the Town Hall. I had only been to Ponyville a few three maybe four times, and I well out knew that the Town Hall had never been a spot full of ponies, but today, it was. I could NOT get a tiny bit of concentration from all of the loud ponies screaming their celebrations. I wasn't about to be a party pooper, I dropped my book and joined the crowd of ponies in the party. I danced around and drank some punch at the party for a few hours. I even meet a few ponies at the dancefloor, but I saw this one Pegasus whom called my attention. He was sitting in the corner, away from everyone all the time I was there. I couldn't see what he looked like too well because he was wearing a hoodie, but maybe he just needed help getting to meet ponies and become friends with someone. Why shouldn't I help? As the song almost finished I walked over to him, "H-Hey...." Oh great, I came all the way over here to say hi and I can't even say it straight. What's happening to me? He looked up at me as I was able to see his dark mane colors and part of his red eyes as he spoke in a soft velvet voice "Hey..." Right about then my heart had a melt down and my cheeks filled with a hot red. "I-Uh, I'm S-Strawb." I smiled at him trying not to look too surprised or over exited. The colt took off the cap of his hoodie revealing himself fully as he said, "I'm Shadow Light. I can't say it's nice to meet you. It's never nice to meet anypony who's cheerful. Ha, meeting anypony period isn't nice." My ears flattened. Not much of a gentlemen, eh? That's no problem. I can still help him get out of his shell. I chuckled nervously at him, "Well, I really think that it is a pleasure meeting you. You seem like a really nice person." Shadow frowned at me "Oh no, you got the wrong pony, Cutie. I'm not nice. Neither am I anything of what you think I am. You should really get going, you know, hangout with that group of 'nice' ponies over there?" He pointed at the corner where a few mares and colts with happy faces that were talking and waved at anyone who passed by them. I suddenly froze in shock as I realized that he had just called me "cutie". My blush intensified as I thought more and more about it, then decided to snap myself out of it. "Nah, those ponies are plastic. Imma show you what real fun is." I smirked as I grabbed his hoof and pulled him into the dance floor. Just as we jumped in "Want You To Want Me" played on. Shadow shoot me a straight look in consern as I started to dance to the beat of the song and told him to join me. Just when the Chorous played he started doing a weird dance, and I chuckled and followed his lead. After that song finished we got punch and chatted for a bit, until we went back and danced. I know I was supposed to help him get friends and socialize, but we spent all night together, just the two of us. As if no one else existed there. "Follow me, I would like to take you somewhere, Strawb." Shadow said as he got up and walked in the crowd of ponies. I followed him into the end of the Townhall, which took quite a bit because the darn thing is pretty large. We stopped in front of large double doors and Shadow pushed them open. As the doors opened it showed something.... Interesting. I must admit that I liked it though. The set of doors reaveled a room. What is so amusing about a room? I'll tell you. This room was like a library but at the same time nothing alike. The room glimmered with magic that was forever lasting, moving books around from place to place, and cleaning up the room over and over again. The glass floor seem extremely slippery to anyone whom might examine it from outside, but Shadow seem not to have a trouble walking on it. The walls were giagiant and a soft white and creme color. At the end of the room was a golden fountain rippling clear water. A sofa was against the wall, it was the same color of the walls as a base and golden divine stitches and buttons. A flat screen TV was pinned to the wall and soft music played on it, with that and the sound of the water falling, it couldn't have been any calmer in the room. The rest of the room was full with matching decor. Whoever had designed this room of the Townhall, had the most exquisite of tastes. My eyes widened, "Oh my, this is.... Quite the room." Shadow Light smiled as I said that. I have never seen a boy whom can manage looking as emo as he did, but having such a sweet, cute smile. I bit my lower lip as he asked, "You like it? This is supposed to be my room here in TownHall," his smile faded away in a breeze and my ears flattened. "Of course I like it!" I said walking towards him. I flinched my tail next to this and smiled sheepishly, "But, mind if I ask why you have to stay here? And why are you so upset about it? This seems like an amazing room to be in." I looked about, blushing, hoping he wouldn't notice my tail on top of his. "Well.... I can't really tell you why I am supposed to stay here, unless you turn out being some kind of special pony with special powers that can help save the world," I looked back at him as he said that and noticed he was blushing softly. He continued, "Yes this room is amazing and all, but that's just it. I can't stay here. My parents would kill me if I didn't sleep at home at all." "Oh.... Well I say you're lucky that you have parents who care about you," I felt a wave of sound, but it didn't come from the outside or anywhere near the room. I frowned and I realized it was coming from inside of me. My pony form was glitching out. I don't think you have ever seen what it's like to be in somepony's body, but there are quite some rules to it. If you get beaten up, you're out of the pony form. If you get in big trouble, enough to get the pony who you're using to be scared of themselves, it takes you out. If you go past a certain amount of time without giving the body a break, it will glitch out on you. That last option was currently happening to me. All I thought was, this is my time to tell him what I really am. Then another part of me thought, he's going to hate the real you, why do you want to tell him. But I did, "And about the being special thing....." He looked at me puzzled and I heard another wave of sound inside me. One more and my real me would show up. "Well I'll show you, but you have to promise you won't run out the room once I do." He nodded and I changed into my real from before that last wave of sound came into my body. My wings and body eased as I freed it and I looked at Shadow. He was still standing there. As promised. "So now that I stayed, mind explaining what you are, why you're here, and why not just tell me from the beginning that you had such an amazing long beautiful hair?" I blushed a hot red and wanted to slap him across the face. But I didn't. That's just me. "My real name is Strawb. Strawb Heart. I am one of the Princesses of Changelings and my mother is Queen Chrysalis. And about my hair, I would rather it be shorter but I'm not allowed to cut it. Mother says that if I ever become Queen I will have to have long hair. But don't worry, that won't happen, I have my annoying sisters to save me from that pain." I smirked and he did so back. "Why is your horn shaped like a heart? You have sisters? How many?" he questioned me over and over all night until he knew all about me. Neither of us bothered on checking the time,but it was getting really late and the party had already died out. He played with my different features like my wings, horn, hair, and whoove holes. Every now and then he would surprise tickle me and I would squirm and laugh loudly. There was a knock on the door as we were having one of our tickle fights and Shadow got up to answer it as I fixed my mane. "Oh looks like you were having some fun,Shadow." I heard a voice say at the door. It sounded like a Mare, someone familiar.... He growled at her annoyed and said, "Whatdaya want Spitfire?" My eyes widened. No way! Spitfire! The leader of the Wonderbolts! I had meet her once in a after flight meet and Greet show of the Wonderbolts in an old visit to Las Pegasus. I got up and walked towards the door but then backed up remembering that I was in my Changeling form. "Well the Mayor called a meeting. She said she wanted to see if any of you had anyone in mind. She's really wanting to move this process onward." As Spitfire said that Shadow looked back at me and smirked. "Oh don't worry, I have just the person, Spitfire." He winked at me and I blushed. I don't have a clue what he just got me into, but I was fine with it as long as we were together in it. 6. Love Is In The PartiesThe morning light shone down on the room Strawb Heart and Shadow Light awoke in. The couple were laying on the couch, snoring, Strawb on top of Shadow. They both slept peacefully until a loud BEEP! burst in making them both jump up, and out the couch. "It's too early! Someone please shut my alarm up.... And please don't get up Strawb." Shadow complained on the couch as Strawb got up from it, trying to push the button on Shadow's phone. "Shadow if you don't let go of me how do I get to your phone? And plus we got the meeting in less than an hour. You have gotta get up," She said brushing her muzzle on his messy hair. He moaned and looked up at her, "Fine I'll get up. But promise me that once that stupid meeting thing is over we will return to this same room and watch a movie or play video games." She chuckled softly and nooded at him "Okay we will. Now please let go of me and go fix that adorable messy hair of yours." Shadow let go of her and she moved towards his phone as he went out to the Bathrooms. She turned the alarm off and fixed her own mane. Once they were both ready to go, they headed down into the meeting room. As they got nearer Strawb got closer and closer to Shadow. She was afraid of what anypony else in the meeting might say of her. No they most likely wouldn't say anything, they would think. They would judge her inside their mind because of something her mother, the Queen of Changelings did. Not her. She also found herself getting closer to Shadow because she was attracted to him. She was attracted to the way he acted when he was with her, his smile, his hair, and most of all, him. Every single part of Shadow she had yet meet of him made him more and more attractive to her and she doubted that there was anything that could or would take that feeling back. She knew it was too early for love. She had read about it on all of her Romance Novels, but there was just something about him that drove her insane. She stopped thinking so much about him once they reached the room. She realized that his hoove was around hers, held tightly for no real reason. She sung the door wide open but only the Ponyville Mayor sat in the large table full of seats waiting to be taken. They sat down and Mayor Mare offered them some coffe and croissants. As Strawb picked up her coffee she noticed the 'Ponybucks' sign on it she smiled. At least she had her favorite kind of coffee to drink. A few minutes later, Higgens joined them to drink coffee and converse. No one saw or had any signs of Starry Mint showing up soon, so the meeting started. "Well now that.... Most of us are here, lets get this meeting officially started." Zecora said. Everypony stared talking and the meeting started. All of a sudden, Shadow got up from his seat and said out loud making sure everypony in that room could hear even though there weren't many ponies to hear so, "This is Strawb Heart, she's one of the Princesses of Changelings!" He pointed at Strawb whom waved shyly. "And she is also known well as my Marefriend." Shadow smirked. Higgens spit out the coffee that had in his mouth and said harmonized with a blushing, confused Strawb, "WHAT?!?" Then five seconds later, the changeling mare fainted on the chair she was sitting in. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Everypony in the meeting room might have thought that Starry Mint had slept in, but she couldn't have been anymore awake. The unicorn was placing mint colored decorations that she had bought at a party store nearby. She knew she wasn't the best at making parties, but she just couldn't hold herself back. This party was for someone special. She used her magic to place the last piece of mint decor on the table, and set off to go find a few more items she needed for this party. "Hello, is anyone here?" Minty asked as she walked into the brightly colored stores that smelled like buttercream and many other delicious ingredients. "YEP I'M HERE!" Yelled a voice from where the smells came from. Minty dared not to look behind the counter and see what was going on. The one and only element of laughter came from behind the store, mane full of cake ingredients and greeted the mare, "Welcome to Sugar Cube Corner, may I help you with anything today?" The mare smiled brightly and Starry chuckled, she couldn't really be happy being this messy could she? "Well, yes please. I am looking for a cake or maybe some cupcakes. I'm throwing a party for my friend and-" That's as far as Starry Mint could get before the Pink mare gasped loudly. "A party? That is fantastic! Ohhh is it a surprise party? For who is it?" The mare blabbered on about the party. Starry Mint smiled widely, "Yes it a surprise party. And it is very important to me. I need as much help as I can get to have it ready soon. Do you think that you could help me if you got some free time?" She asked as the mare's smiled widened. "I'ld love to help you! But- I need to know who the party is for and how many ponies there, if you don't mind me asking," The pink mare said exitedly as she looked around the counter. Minty couldn't believe it! She had just gotten a pony to help her plan the party! "Yes I will, but it has to be somewhere private and you can't say it to anypony. Not until the party starts." The mare nooded and said making an 'X' across her chest where her heart was, "I cross my heart," She went on moving both front whooves up and flapping them up and down, "Hope to fly," then she suddenly got a Cupcake out of her messy mane and stuck the thing to her eye as Starry Mint gasped, "Stick a cupcake in my eye that I won't tell anypony!" Minty smiled in relief to see that the mare was okay and asked, "What was that?" "My pinkie promise, duh. It's something only I as Pinkie Pie do! Well that's too obvious, I mean how awkward would it be if someone else invented it? It wouldn't be a Pinkie promise any more would it? It would be something.... Not as fun. And what's the fun in not as fun?" Pinkie Pie said to Starry Mint. Starry laughed a bit too loudly, "Oh Pinkie! You're so random!" _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "You do not just assume someone is your Marefriend, Shadow Light!" Higgens hissed at the colt who was trying to get Strawb Heart back into consciousness. She had been laying in that chair without moving for about five minutes now, and the room grew more tense each second. Shadow ignored what Higgens said to him, instead he nuzzled Strawb and all of a sudden she got up dizzily, "Hmm.....?" She said under her breath. Everyone sighed relived and they went on to asking if she was okay. "I don't know. I'm confused. Since when are we dating, Shadow?" She asked looking at him tensely. She was more than 'okay' alright. "Well, I meant to ask you out this morning before we came into the meeting....." Shadow Light explained, his ears flattened. "I'm sorry. That was stupid of me to think that you would actually like me. No one ever-" Strawb made him stop talking as she placed her lips on his, gently kissing him. Everypony stayed silent for a while. Just trying to insert what in the living hay had just happened in front of them. As Strawb took her lips off Shadow Light's own, she looked around and giggled playfully. "I do like you Shadow, and a lot. I would just like to be at least informed that I am taken before you say it out loud to a room full of ponies I don't know." She smiled him and he almost fainted. "I didn't expect that." Higgens murmured, and the meeting went back on. It didn't go back to normal though. Shadow and Strawb were now holding hooves and everypony stumbled on their words. Strawb Heart didn't care how tense the room went. All she could think about is that she had in mind was that she was holding the hoove of the most amazing boy in the whole Equestria. Equestria? Who was she kidding? The whole universe! 1. The Meeting.Mayor Mare walked inside Ponyville Townhall, a place where she had spent many of her days as Mayor Of Ponyville. She knew every spot of the Townhall by memory. She passes by the birth records, where many times had Pinkie Pie helped her clean up. The more she thought about the pink pony and her friends the more she was sure she was making the right choice calling this meeting. The meeting was with the one and only leader of the Wonderbolts, Spitfire, and the Zecora, the Zebra. This was not a usual business meeting she would have, but a matter that was much farther important. Some might ask if it was so important, why weren't any of the Princesses there? Or any Royalty? Royalty, Princesses, nor Princes were allowed to THIS important meeting. There was no way any of those could ever know about this meeting or otherwise the full meaning of it would be lost. She walked into her usual meeting spot as she spotted the two other mares patiently waiting for her, sipping on a cup of what seemed to be coffee or tea. She fixed her voice before starting to speak and going towards her chair. "I'm very glad to see you both here. This is a very important meeting. It's about Equestria. And Equestria's safety." Spitfire frowned in confusement. "Don't get me wrong Mayor, I would love to help Equestria and its safety, but isn't that kind of Royalty's duty?" She put down her cup and glanced over at Zecora. Mayor Mare nodded as she continued, "It most certainly is. But, have you ever thought about this?" She pulled out a scroll. "This my friends is a list of everypony in Equestria well known for having powerful magic, or known for saving Equestria at least once." She opened the scroll carefully as Zecora and Spitfire looked at it, still in concern. "Have any of you ladies ever thought of what would happen if let's say, Luna, ever became Nightmare moon again? What if she teamed up with Discord and transformed every one in that scroll evil? What would happen if Celestia suddenly felt like putting Equestria on fire? Or Princess Twilight Sparkle and Her friends all fall? Who would stop any of this from happening?" She looked down at the list. As confident as she sounded, she shook in fear of the tought that what she was speaking, might become true someday. Zecora nodded in agreement with Mayor Mare. She too had tought about this several times. Twilight herself had the Power to destroy Ponyville, she was scared of what Princess Celestia herself who had given most of her power to Twilight could do. "That's why I have made up a plan. We will build a group of ponies, not just any ponies, supernatural ones. The type that secretly have powers and few ponies know about. The kind that couldn't destroy anyone by themselfs, but could destroy any powerful being together. That way none of them could ever do what we were afraid of in the first place." She paced herself around the large meeting table as she spoke carefully, full of confidence. Spitfire's eyes suddenly poped out in amazement. This idea would be great! That way no one could get hurt yet none of the Royals would ever suspect any enemies. "I say this is a brilliant idea Mayor. And I have a ponies in mind already." Zecora agreed with the other too. She didn't know many ponies in Equestria, but she knew someone well enough and thought they would fit in this category perfectly. She was sure that he wouldn't let her down. "I will need a few days to get in touch with this mare, she's very.... Well she doesn't come out of her house a hole lot. You should understand perfectly why. I met her once when I was little. I caught her practicing her magic in the late night and since then I have been her only friend." Spitfire smiled as she thought of the gray fured unicorn. "She sounds great! Do you happen to know what her.... Abilities are?" Mayor Mare was anxious to know, she believed that Equestria was a place of great magic, and she knew most of it was hidden, but she also thought it could be uncovered if needed. "This is a Gray fured and white maned Unicorn. She has the power to view part of the future. Though he abilities are limited to the night time, as you see stars are what grant her that power, Mayor." Spitfire said. Meanwhile in the other side of the table, Zecora was still thinking if that young boy she met in her old town still lived. "It sounds like we found our first member of the Super Ponies! Please get contact with her as soon as you can and tell her to come meet me here in my office!" Mayor Mare smiled. Zecora kept thinking about the boy as she realized that she had a potion in her tree hut that could tell you weather someone lived or not. She got up from her chair. "I was glad to attend this meeting, but I have something to do. I will get back to you as soon as I can Mayor." Zecora sprinted out the Townhall to check if the long lost boy was still alive. Spitfire shurged as the Zebra left and looked back at Mayor. "I will. And as for Zecora...." Mayor cut her off. "Don't worry about her. I'm sure she must have had something on her mind that was bothering her. Now go look for that mare!" Mayor insisted happily as Spits nodded as zipped out. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Meanwhile in Zecora's Hut, she was busy making the potion. She remember each step of it as if it were written on the back of her hoof. She grabbed bottles and put them together to make the potion. When she was done she put the bottles back in their place and looked at the lite here she had been putting all the ingredients together. "Please show me where....." She murmured a name lowly as an image of the lost boy appeared. Zecora sighed in relief to see him in the same spot he had been all these years. She could now happily, tell this to The Mayor. This "lost boy" had powers that no one could have ever imagined he did. and was sure to make himself useful for this occasion. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Spitfire could hear the sound of the phone ringing. It rung once, twice..... Where was she? Why wouldn't she pick her phone up? She was sure to be home around this time and answer her phone. Mostly when it was her calling. Then she heard a "Hello?" As the phone stopped ringing. "O-Oh hey! This is Spitfire. Hey I don't have much time to talk but I think you might be interested in something... As you see my friend, the Mayor of Ponyville, needs my help, and yours, for something extremely important." Spits told her everything as she listened from the other line. "Sounds fair. I will go to Ponyville as soon as I can. Perhaps you'll be there with her, Spity?" The voice slowly sounded a bit cuter as she said Spitfires name. Spitfire blushes ever so slightly and nodded. "Yeah. We need to catch up. I really miss you and I won't miss this chance to see you for the life of me. Plus, I may or may not be seeing you a lot much more often since I will be your..... Trainer." "Ok then Spity. I'll see you soon." The mare hung up. Spitfire sighed and smiled as she too hung up and whispered to herself, "Bye Star" Author's Note OK I CANNOT DO ANYTHING ZECORA LIKE SOOOO SORRY. But other than that I'm really proud of this. I can't wait till next chapter! 3. Lost Boy (Higgens)Author's Note If someone came up to me and asked me today, what did you do all day? I would show them this chapter. But yeah this chapter was awesome, and I don't regret the time I took on it... Enjoy! 3. Lost Boy (Higgens) Good Day to whomever shall be reading this! I am Higgins, a Zebra. I live in the same town as my dear Zecora used to live. You may think that I look a lot like her, all gray, but you my friend, are very very wrong. I have stripes colored black, my mane and tail are faded yellow. Top the darkest bottom the lightest shade. My fur is white other than my stripes, and my eyes are a faint orange. I love to read books! I also like sports, not any but just Football and track. I don't enjoy being forced into things... And, Well, between you and I, I have a terrible fear for heights. Now about my extra instinct.... I have magic. Not unicorn magic, something a lot much more powerful. A ball that matches my eye colour literally comes out my hoof, and if I throw it at anyone or anyplace, it would give me or do what I was just thinking of. Now, let me tell you my story. You may need to get a blanket or popcorn for this, it's gonna be long. Ever since I was little, a lot was expected from me. My parents told me that I had to grow up to be just as important as they were,that I had to not only be strong, but smart. And as I said before, I hate being pushed into things I don't wanna do. To my mom, all I have ever been is a throphy to show off. And to my dad, I'm just a back up plan so nothing of his goes to any he wouldn't liked it to go to when he dies. I was required to always have straight A's in every single one of my classes, which really wasn't ever a problem to me since I really enjoyed studying and books. One day I got a bad grade in one of my pop quizzes, and my parents locked me up in their library. I was hungry, thirsty, sleepy, and anything you can think of, but I read. The same day as I looked around in the library, I found a book that was cover in dust. I took it out and blew the dust off. Just as I did that, it started to glow letters. It read "THE LEGEND OF THE MAGICIAN'S SOURCE, WARNING:This book may only open up and work on whomever it wants to" I remember being really confused and curious... So the book let me open it. The library blew up in with lights. They all came back to the book and curled up in a ball in front of me. I slowly moved my hoove towards it and it pulled itself into my hooves. The ball was suddenly gone, instead, my hooves tinkled with a brand new feeling. I looked at the book full of words and started reading it, relazing everything I should know about this... New me. I have limited use to the balls of my magic. 20 per day and the filled up each night exactly at 12:00 AM. And my magic would only work if the book was still in its mint condition. Anything other than that was never restricted. Now about Zecora, she met me A few days after I got my power. She called me "Lost Boy" because she saw my inner soul, and she knew that I wasn't happy with whom I was destined to be. Yet she knew that soon, I would find my place with many other "creatures". Zecora has been like my mentor since then. We are very far away, but we manage to keep in touch either way. Today, just as I was reading a book inside my family's library I got a message from her, sent by an Equestrian bird. I was very surprise the thing made it alive all the way to here. It gave me a letter hoof written by the one and only Zecora. It said that she thought that she might have found the group of "creatures" that would help me fulfill my future. She said that they were all filled with supernatural unexplained magic just as I was and that they were using it to save Equestria. I smiled as I said to myself, "This is it! My chance to use my magic expand it, and well... Escape THIS prison." I sighed as I realized that no one was home. All the maids were getting super done, my dad was at work, like always, and my mom.... She was probably shopping. I decided that if I was planing on leaving anytime soon, it was right now. I got up, ran to my room, and started packing. I got my magic book, a few changes of clothes, some of my other favorite books, a comb, toothbrush, and, God pardon me for this, some money ,my dad had hidden in his office. I wrote a quick note saying where I was going, why, and a few "kind" words to my parents about what they had been using me for these past years. I left the note in the library on top of the book was just reading, then I grabbed the bag I out my stuff in and literally ran all the way to my nearest train station. I took the next train to the city closest to Equestria. There is no train to Equestria, since most Zebras whom live here are extremely scared to go there. Though it isn't too far from inbetween borders. Only 13 miles, taking a shortcut. I honestly couldn't believe I was doing this. It was so exiting..! Yet, I can't imagine the look on my mother's and father's face once they read that note. If they are in the same schedule as always... They would most likely read it in 3-4 hours. I chuckled to myself as I realized that by then, they would be way too late to do anything. I would be in Manehattan. Once I got to Manehattan, I would take a train to Canterlot. And from Canterlot I would go to Ponyville, where it would be rather easily to find Zecora. I got my book of magic out and started reading over it. Carefully, flipping each page and reading each word that describes me. Not just me. New me. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zecora trotted over to the Townhall. She was looking for the Mayor, she wants to tell her the news about the Lost Boy. She walked into her office and greeted her. "Hello Mayor. I think I may have a way to help in within the meeting from yesterday. I remember this Zebra from my town that met before I came to live here, he was just given his powers, but he wasn't happy with his family. I sent him a note regreting the Super Ponies, and he is coming to meet us." Mayor instantly seemed interested in the subject. "What? Why didn't you say so sooner Zecora? What are his powers? And his name? When is he coming? Wait, do you mean to tell me he's coming here without his parents consern?" "Well I just got informed that he still lives and I sent him a note as soon as I could. My bird messenger told me he was packing his stuff and getting ready to come here, and his powers are a bit hard to explain. You would need to meet him yourself to get to know them. His real name is Higgins, though I call him, Lost Boy. And unfortunately, yes, he came without his parents knowing about it." Zecora carefully said as she walked towards the door, "I'm sorry Mayor, I must go, you see, I will meet him in the Canterlot Train station." Zecora left the room. "But how do you know that he's stopping at Canterlot?" Mayor looked outside the door but the Zebra was long gone. She sighed, "Zebras..." _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I awoke when the train stopped, I looked up and realized that I was already here, the border of my town. I got my backpack and left the train. Then, I started to walk towards Manehattan, Equestria, leaving my family back behind. I walked and walked and walked until I saw a border bridge and a sign that said "Manehhatan, Equestria." I smiled to myself and slowly entered the Equestrian borders. As I walked in a few gaurds stared at me, but didn't do anything. I walked all the way to where I saw a train station and bought a ticket to the next train going to Canterlot. I once more got into a train, this one would be a lot much longer to get to. The trip was three and a half hours, when the last one had only been an hour. But I didn't have a problem with the timing of the trip, I just wanted to get to Canterlot safely because my parents had most likely already read my letter, and right about now, they were freaking out. Nah, they probably didn't even care. They probably won't find it until they BOTHER looking for me. Which will take them a while. And if they do care about the contents of that letter, then they would be way too late. I'm already in Equestria, and on my way to Canterlot. You're probably asking yourself how I kno many of Equestria's city names. Well let's just say that thanks to Zecora, and my thoughts on Traveling, I learned all of them. But well, I am in Baltimare, I should stop talking and worrying and enjoy my wonderful sorroundings. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The train was now 10 minutes away from Canterlot. And I was packing my stuff in my backpack once more. The train suddenly stopped, and I and the rest of the ponies went down. I honestly saw a few giving me a frown and a yuck stare, but I didn't care. I was suprised to see my one and only mentor, Zecora, sitting on a bench waiting for me in the Canterlot train station "Why Hello Higgins. It's been a while eh? You've grown so much." She scratched her hoof against my yellow mane meanwhile I sat there a little annoyed. I didn't enjoy people touching my mane. "I'm glad to see you too,Zecora. And thank you. But could we please get going on to the next train? I am really tired. I had to walk from the border of our town to Equestria's border, which is like, 13 or so miles." I yawned as I stretched a bit. "Sure Lost Boy, but don't you want to get a treat before we leave?" She pointed to the conssesion stand with her hooves full of rings. I looked the way she pointed and nodded. "Yes please! I am famished!" I got up and walked over. I ordered a water and a hay sandwich and payed the kind Colt serving. Just as I was doing that, Zecora got our tickets and we sat in the bench once more, waiting for our train to pass by. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ By the time we got to Ponyville, and to the Mayor's office,it was night. It had been 7 hours since I hadn't been home, and 5 since I've enter Equestria. So, I'm very sorry if my manners weren't THE BEST when I met the Mayor.... "Hello Higgens, Zecora has told me a lot of great things about you, would you like me to explain what's going on?" Said the Mayor as I yawned. "I think I know enough M-Mayor...-" my sentence interrupted by one more yawn, "Zecora makes her letters more amplified and large enough to be a book...." Both of the mares frowned at me as my head swang low and I yawned. "O-Ok then.... So, would you be ok with showing us your powers? I believe Zecora already knows them, but I would like to see how sharp you are at using them." Mayor Mare said kindly. I nodded and got up. I put both my hooves together and rubbed them 3 circular times. Just as that my ball of magic came to life. I, without thinking, threw it. Right then at that moment I wished I could have been dead. I had never been so embarresed in my life. Instead of something cool coming out, like a sword, or a pony, a bed came out the ball. I heard a soft chuckle coming from Zecora and I mumbled. "I have reasons to believe that he is very tired from his long trip, Mayor Mare. Would you mind giving him another chance to show off what he can do tomorrow?" Zecora said with a smirk on her face. "Sure. I don't blame him. Farthest I have gone is from Ponyville to the Canterlot Castles, and I was extremely tired that day." The Mayor smiled at me, then back at Zecora. "Th-Thank you...." I said in a somewhat yawn as I rubbed my eyes and walked out the office with Zecora. "Well, until we find the rest of the recruits, you and the other mare will be staying at my place over in the Everfree Forest. She should be here just about now with Spitfire...." Zecora said as my eyes widened. "There's a mare? What powers does she have? Is she a pony? Earth? Pegasus? Unicorn? Or maybe even a-" Zecora put a hoof in my mouth and chuckled. "She can see the future. But as far as we know she can only do it at night time, because the stars are her power source. And yes, she's a pony, a unicorn. And heads up, if she DOES see the future in front of you, goo will come out her eyes, horn, and tail.... Also, she's got a deer tail." Zecora explained the mare as carefully as she could based on what she knew. "Oh she seems amazing! I can't wait to meet her...!" I said exitedly, yet still sleepy. "You won't have to wait a lot my dear, she's right there." She pointed over to a corner where Spitfire and Starry Mint stood. Zecora and I walked over to them. See, I was so exited I could have ran over to them, but that would only make me look like a fool, and I had already embarrassed myself enough tonight. "Hello, such a pleasure to meet you both! I am Higgins." Stretched my hoof out and so did the Pegasus do first. "Hey kiddo, I'm Spitfi-" I cut her off "Spitfire, leader of the Wonderbolts, the fastest Pegasus in Equestria, I know. I just got here but I have studied Equestrian history for the past few years." I said confidently as both mare seemed impressed and Zecora clapped a little. "This is Higgens,I am his mentor. He lives I the same town as I used to. He is a wonderful colt." She smiled at both mares. "I-I'm Starry Mint." The mare said and she stood in front of me. God, was she short. "Nice to meet you. I have heard about your powers, and I think there might be a way to expand them..." I said as her eyes lit up with joy. "Really? I have always wished to know more about my powers..." The unicorn's smiled widened. "Yeah, but could we please get going? I traveled more than I should have today, and I'm really tired." I said as Zecora nodded. "Thank you for bringing her Spitfire. I will take them to my home now so the can get some rest." Zecora said joyfully. "No need to thank me.... " Spitfire smiled as she left. Zecora then lead us on to her house, all the way there, I told Starry about my powers. Yet I never got the guts to tell her anything about my parents or what had I been through just to get here, and feel like I'm useful for something.
2. Starry Mint. 2. Starry Mint. Hey, this is Starry Mint. Well first of all, let me describe myself physically. I am a unicorn. My fur is a light gray and my mane is white. I have blue eyes which my mother used to say we're big and beautiful. But to me they are just plain and ugly. I have a cutie mark, but it's more of a birth mark mixed with a cutie mark. Zig zagged lines in my back legs and inbetween are a few lines, circles, and a Star which wasn't there at my birth. And well, when at night I use my powers, I get goo off the tips of my horn and tail and in my eyes. If you bother me about it you're dead. Now I'll describe myself emotionally. I love mint items. Not just because my goo is mint, but it has always been my favorite color. I love anything supernatural and hidden, just like me. I hate scince, since it can't and won't ever be able to explain my powers, why only I have them,and is totally against of what I am. I would consider myself VERY confident. I like the sky and most of all I love my mother and my dad. Now to how I got my power and my cutie-birth mark. My dad was a soldier who worked in Celestia's sun army since I was very young. I never really met him. But I always had my mom there to talk to and help me through the good and bad days. My mom would take me outside each night and tell me a story. Not just any story, a story filled with Romance,Adventure, and Joy. It was stories about her and my dad. One night, as I patiently waited outside for her and her next story, I looked up at the stars and closed my eyes. I had a vision. I saw my dad looking at a picture of my mother holding a baby which was me. He was on a train on the way over here. I opened my eyes and ran over to my mom to give her the fanatastic news that dad was coming back. As I happily told her my vision, she informed me that I was full of mint goo and had a star in my birthmark. Pretty much all my life has been lived in a house separated from everyone else. After my father came back he didn't really like my powers and thought it would be best if I kept them away from everyone. What he doesn't know is that I know 2 ponies, one of them being Spity, and the other... Maybe she could be helpful as well! I don't think many people know about her powers... But anyway, I don't get out of that house unless it's nighttime, so I can practice my powers. But now that my father is dead, there should be no reason for me to be stuck there, right? I'm currently on a train, headed off to Ponyville, listening to music on my mint iPod. I looked out the window of the colorful train as I hummed to "Timber". I can't believe how beautiful Equestria is! I should have came out here sooner, but like I said, anything outside my house was a prohibited area for me. Which kindda sucks. I turned the sound up on my iPod and kept looking out the window. I suddenly got tapped on the shoulder by the colt sitting next to me. "Hey Miss... The train stopped, aren't you going to get out?" I blushed bright pink and nodded. "Y-Yeah. Thank you Dear Sir." I grabbed my saddle bag with my magic and put it on my bag, as well with my iPod. I got off the train and saw Spity sitting down in a chair. I walked up to her slowly and whispered "Hey Spity....." Let me tell you that she almost jumped out of the chair out of surprise as I chuckled. "Oh my Celestia Starry! You scared my soul outta me!" She looked around and then back at me. "We gotta find a way to get you into Mayor Mare's office without having Pinkie Pie notice a newbie into Ponyville." Spity said nervously. I giggled. "That is easier done than said. I lit my horn up thinking of a teleportation spell as it glowed bright mint and suddenly.... 'POFF' we stood in front of what seemed to be the Townhall Spity's eyes widen and she slowly nodded. "Mental note: Don't Ever doubt unicorn magic, Ok let's go!" I smiled and trotted next to her as she walked me to the Mayor's office. She opened the door that had "Mayor's Office"'written on it and whispered "Mayor, the friend we spoke about is here." I heard a voice say from the other side of the door,"Please let her in... And you can come in as well. We all need to speak." Spits opened rather door fully and went in at the same time as me. The Mayor looks really nice. She told us to take a seat and instantly went into business. She mention why she was making his team, why she would think I could be perfect for it, and why I should agree to join this cause. I thought about it for a minute and then I decided I would. My dad would be proud of the way I'm using my magic. I extended my hoof over to her and said, "You've got a first member Mayor, and I won't disappoint you." She smiled warmly and shook my hoof. Spity smiled and spoke up, "I am very glad to see that this got along well. And I'm sorry to have to ask you this Starry Mint, but do you perhaps know of anyone else with some supernatural power? If you don't, it's fine." I looked back at her as I realized that she had been pretty embrarraced or seemed so the last past few minutes, but I forced myself to push that thought away. "Yes. I do. But I highly doubt she would want to join... I have my reasons. But I will tell her, surely she will at least think about the offer....." "Thank you Miss Mint. As soon as we gather up the rest of the team the training will being. You will all will be trained by Spitfire and Zecora.... Zecora is a zebra, very intelligent mare shall I say. Now, I need to speak to her....." Mayor said as she suddenly lost her focus on us and picked her phone up. "Thank you very much Mayor." I smiled and left her office with Spits next to me. Just as we left the room, Spits started speaking "Well Miss save-the-world, got a day to spare with a mare that's a big fan of yours, like, me?" I smirked and blushed ever so slightly. "I'ld be more than happy to spend a day with the leader of the Wonderbolts, Spitfire." I smiled as we walked out of the Townhall, into Ponyville.
4. Shadow Light 4. Shadow Light This is straight out stupid. Why would anyone wanna know how I got myself into this intolerant group of..... Ponies and other weird creatures. Why would anyone want to know anything about me in the first place? I AM some trashy piece of goth and emo-ness. And don't even try and fight it when you don't even know who or what I am. My name is Shadow Light. And I am not saying my last name. I am a very very light green Pegasus. My eyes are a bright red, and usually hidden by my black mane with blue tips. See? Emo and Goth. I usually wear a hoodie and I have many piercings. Some in my ear, my mouth, and one in my belly button. I like Metal and Rock, both heavy. I like to stay up late and at times, not even sleep. My very little friends that I used to have say that I'm not very friendly or possitive. I don't like school or to study, and my parents call me lazy and without discipline. On my free time, I like to spraypaint things, like walls. I don't like TOO cheerful ponies. Those who couldn't take the truth and reality. But well,I ain't really speak of reality when reality and I have made our differences. Let's just say that I am not the full out definition of it. A boy who can move things with his mind? Yeah not really very realztic. One day while I was out spray painting a wall some guys that hate my guts in school came over and started making fun of me. They were 2 stallions and a mare behind them. The stallions were both unicorns and the mare was a Earth pony. The colts pretty much insulted me, what I liked, and called me names. After they were done beating me up with words, they did it with their hooves. The mare just stood there watching until they were done. I was left hurt on the floor, just as I saw them walk away laughing with my spray paint. I could barely see, but I could think perfectly straight. I thought up of so many curse words for them, the out of nothing, I pictured them fighting themselfs. I thought about it really hard for a while until all of a sudden I heard the mare scream. I managed to get up and I couldn't believe my eyes. It was exactly what I had pictured in my mind. Them fighting. The mare yelled at them to stop but they wouldn't. I smirked as I got an idea. I closed my eyes and thought as hard as I could about my bottles of paint rolling back to me. Something bumped into my hoof as my eyes opened up and I gasped. My bottles of spray paint were standing in front of me. It suddenly hit me that I couldn't walk home. My front left hoof was broken and so did my back hoof. I spread my wings and sighed as to seeing that they were alright. I put my spray paint in my back and started flying home. Just as I did, I tried to process what had just happened. Ever since then I have practiced my powers, and gotten better at them each day. To be honest, no one but I know about these powers. I wish I could tell someone but I'm sure they would just laugh at me and call me insane. Today just as I got up I knew it wasn't going to be a god day at all. Celestia handmade her sun extra bright this morning and I woke up way earlier than I should have. As I walked down stairs to get coffee I found my mom and my dad screaming in the phone. Not the prettiest thing to wake up to. I snuck into the kitchen, got my coffee and left back into my room. I put on some "Three Days Grace" and drunk my coffee. Just as I was getting into the Chorous of the song, it changed by itself. And to my luv k it wasn't just any song, it's was "22", a song I had downloaded by accident and completely hated. I growled as I walked towards my phone and tried to change it, but my phone was jammed. I left it on and got my coffee again, listening to it as I sipped the cup. I then with my mind picked out a hoodie, as it layed itself on my bed. I put it on and ran out my door. I was pretty much allowed anywhere all day as long as I was home by 12AM because my parents got home at 1 AM. So I decided to go to Ponyville, it was only an hour away. So I started walking to the train station. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Starry mint sat next to Zecora and Higgins, eating breakfast and such a lovely and warm morning. She and Higgins were planning on going out to the Ponyville park and staying there for a while, as you see, she had a vision last night. She saw a colt with the powers to move things as he wanted without anyone knowing, and if that's not a superpower than lord knows what is. They finished their breakfast and left. Since in the vision it wasn't sundown, they promised to be there before sundown. As they left, both started to talk. They told eachother about what they liked and disliked, their family, and Higgins spoke about how he had gotten to "Can I touch your mane? It just looks so... Cute and fluffy....." Starry Mint said sitting in a bench next to Higgins. He smiled. Honestly, he was starting to get feelings for this kind mare, he felt like there was something special about her. "Sure, but don't tell anyone I let you, I don't want ponies feeling free to touch my mane." Higgins said leaning his head over to her as she ran her hoove through it. "It's just as it looks! Cute and fluffly...." Minty said now nuzzling it. "T-T-Thank you Minty" said Higgins blushing a hot red. Continuing to rub her nuzzle into his mane, Starry Mint did the same. No one had ever called her Minty, though she loved the sound of that nickname. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Once the train finally stopped in Ponyville, I got out and started walking to the park. This, was the only place where I could get enough peace and quite to listen to my music calmly without having to worry about anything or anyone. I got there and growled as I saw two love birds had taken my seat favorite seat on the bench near the fountain. Wait a second... Was that a Zebra? I didn't even know those things even existed anymore. Ewww. Suddenly as I was about to sit down in the other bench, I saw a filly. She was playing near the water fountain and it looked as if she were about to fall in. I thought as fast as I could, and I grabbed her with my super powers and brought her right next to me. I gotta admit that I wasn't thinking straight when I brought her over here and used my magic to save her. A few ponies caught a glance and gasped at it. The mother, or whom seemed to be the mother, still didn't care about her filly, and kept on talking to her friends. Then the worst thing happened. Remember that I told you about the weird Zebra and its Marefriend? Yeah. Those two came over. "Hey, I'm Starry Mint, and he's Higgins. We saw what you did... And well, we wanted to say that you have impressive super powers, eh, we have some of them too." I frowned could it really be true? Two other po-creatures, that had super powers just as well as I did? "Yeah. She can see the future at night time, and I, I got like... Let me show you." Higgins said rubbing his hooves together as a blue light came out of them. "I can throw this and anything I think of comes out of them." He shoot the light and a butterfly flew out of where the light used to be. My eyes widened, yet they weren't visible. "We were hopping that you could come with us and talk to Zecora, a Zebra-" Oh wow. More of those things. "Spitfire, Leaderofthe Wonderbolts, and the Mayor." The unicorn mare said. And you expect me to believe that they wanna talk to ME? A loser? Nah. These guys wanted my magic. "Well, I'ld love to but-" before I could put an explanation to why I couldn't go and talk to the Mayor and those other ponies, Starry Mint Teleported me to the Mayor's office. Ok, I'll give that to you, they weren't lying. "Mayor we brought our third member." Higgins said. Mayor Mare turned her chair and looked at me. "Seems fair enough, why don't you have a seat so we can talk about you powers, and what this is all about. Maybe you would like to join us." The Mayor said as I sat down and nodded. THIS was how I got stuck here. Stuck with a Zebra and a Mare who has goo all over her at night. I was now officially in the super ponies.
5. Strawb HeartHeyo, this is Strawb! Who is Strawb? Well, me! Ok, maybe I should introduce myself to all of you. I am Strawb Heart, a changeling, and one of the only 4 mare changelings that my mother, Chrysalis had. I am almost the oldest, my sister won me by exactly 23 seconds. Damn, 23 seconds away from being Princess of Changelings. Too close. As much as my mom has over pressured me to become future Princess, I am NOT interested. Running a whole bunch minis of me are selfish enough to fool someone into falling in love with them just to feed themselves with it? Yep no thanks, I'll pass. I'm probably the only changeling who actually has feelings, and cares about others. And my sisters.... They are a lost cause. The oldest thinks she can boss all of us around even though she's only a few seconds older than the rest of us, the youngest gets whatever she wants whenever she wants it and pretty much screams her lungs out, and the other one, it's like she's dedicated her life to make mine miserable. Well anyway, I bet you're all wondering what I look like. My mane is long and to the side, most of it anyway, I have a few pices on the other side as well, but not as long. My body is just like the other changelings, but instead my wings are the same color as my mane. Pink with green. Guess you know where the "Strawb" came from in my name. My horn... It's a tad different from any others.... At first it started growing perfectly, but then it started to shape like a Heart. Everyone laughed at it, but I didn't care. I enjoyed the shape of it. I enjoy love stories, any kind, and someday, I too hope to find love, true,genuine love. My sisters have never seen me read or hear love stories, other wise they would have ran over to mother and told her with their loud mouths. So basically I teleport anywhere quite like a river, or the forest, maybe even a cascade once in a while, and read or listen to them. I had become very close to nature thanks to that... I also like to draw at times, I change into ponies and start to draw them. And last but not least I am extremely good at magic. My mom doesn't really take the best care of my bothers and sisters. Mostly brothers. She has a very busy life and she doesn't seem to care much about her..... Outcomes. As long as we check with her that we are alright every week, we are fine. And I'm glad it's like that... That way I don't have to be with my sisters all the time. I've been to a lot of places in Equestria, yet not all of them. Out of all the places I had been to, I found Ponyville the most welcoming. Of course I had not gone there as what I really am, I knew my mother had a past fight with the so called Elments of Harmony and The Princess, Twilight Sparkle, and her didn't end up on well terms. I went as a tourist, and had a chance to meet the Elements themselves. Everyone is so nice there,they loved their family, had friends, and we're kind and sharing, nothing like my house. I really missed it there so I had been planing on taking a small vacation to go over there, you know, look around, dress up as another tourist, read my love novels, buy a few things, maybe even make friends if I was lucky enough. I wanted to go for like, half a month, so I had to tell mother, which would be a pain in the flank. But I didn't care. Just as I ran up to her bedroom I had a few of my brothers waved and some of them even tried and flirt with me. Do you know how disturbing it is to know that you were made thanks to your Uncle banging your mom? Yeah, we are supposed to reproduce with our bothers. That's insane and digusting. I sighed and ignored them and continued on my quest to my mom's bedroom. I knocked on her bedroom door as she said, "Come in" She sat on her usual desk writing down something and looked over at me. "Oh, it's you, Hello Strawb, how are you?" I closed the door behind me and smiled at her. "I'm fine. Hey mom I wanted to ask you something..." I trailed off as she frowned and looked closer at me as if I had something stuck to me in my left cheek and she was trying to figure out what it was. Suddenly she turned back to her desk and spoke, "Hurry up and tell me. I'm busy and you know that Strawb" she used her horn to pick up the pen and once more started scribbling. "Well I wanted to ask for your permission, but I want to go on a vacation. I was wondering if two, possibly three, weeks was ok with you?" I said looking away and blushing ever so slightly. She growled "You can go three weeks, just call me every week to make sure you're ok." She used her magic to pull out a bag full of money and handed it to me. "Please, don't let anyone see you in your normal form." My eyes widened and I smiled widely "Thank you! And I will, don't you worry about me!" I ran out the room holding the bag of money as my brothers stared at me and I growled. "NO! Don't even try!" I ran to my room before they could do anything. I instantly started packing as I got into my room. I finished packing up and left the house. And teleported to the most slient spot on the Everfree Forest, so there I changed into a tourist. I checked that I had everything once more and went on walking into Ponyville. I was almost done with one of novels, So I decided to go over to the Town Hall and finish it, they always have free reading spots and a mini library there. So I started trotting over to the Town Hall. I had only been to Ponyville a few three maybe four times, and I well out knew that the Town Hall had never been a spot full of ponies, but today, it was. I could NOT get a tiny bit of concentration from all of the loud ponies screaming their celebrations. I wasn't about to be a party pooper, I dropped my book and joined the crowd of ponies in the party. I danced around and drank some punch at the party for a few hours. I even meet a few ponies at the dancefloor, but I saw this one Pegasus whom called my attention. He was sitting in the corner, away from everyone all the time I was there. I couldn't see what he looked like too well because he was wearing a hoodie, but maybe he just needed help getting to meet ponies and become friends with someone. Why shouldn't I help? As the song almost finished I walked over to him, "H-Hey...." Oh great, I came all the way over here to say hi and I can't even say it straight. What's happening to me? He looked up at me as I was able to see his dark mane colors and part of his red eyes as he spoke in a soft velvet voice "Hey..." Right about then my heart had a melt down and my cheeks filled with a hot red. "I-Uh, I'm S-Strawb." I smiled at him trying not to look too surprised or over exited. The colt took off the cap of his hoodie revealing himself fully as he said, "I'm Shadow Light. I can't say it's nice to meet you. It's never nice to meet anypony who's cheerful. Ha, meeting anypony period isn't nice." My ears flattened. Not much of a gentlemen, eh? That's no problem. I can still help him get out of his shell. I chuckled nervously at him, "Well, I really think that it is a pleasure meeting you. You seem like a really nice person." Shadow frowned at me "Oh no, you got the wrong pony, Cutie. I'm not nice. Neither am I anything of what you think I am. You should really get going, you know, hangout with that group of 'nice' ponies over there?" He pointed at the corner where a few mares and colts with happy faces that were talking and waved at anyone who passed by them. I suddenly froze in shock as I realized that he had just called me "cutie". My blush intensified as I thought more and more about it, then decided to snap myself out of it. "Nah, those ponies are plastic. Imma show you what real fun is." I smirked as I grabbed his hoof and pulled him into the dance floor. Just as we jumped in "Want You To Want Me" played on. Shadow shoot me a straight look in consern as I started to dance to the beat of the song and told him to join me. Just when the Chorous played he started doing a weird dance, and I chuckled and followed his lead. After that song finished we got punch and chatted for a bit, until we went back and danced. I know I was supposed to help him get friends and socialize, but we spent all night together, just the two of us. As if no one else existed there. "Follow me, I would like to take you somewhere, Strawb." Shadow said as he got up and walked in the crowd of ponies. I followed him into the end of the Townhall, which took quite a bit because the darn thing is pretty large. We stopped in front of large double doors and Shadow pushed them open. As the doors opened it showed something.... Interesting. I must admit that I liked it though. The set of doors reaveled a room. What is so amusing about a room? I'll tell you. This room was like a library but at the same time nothing alike. The room glimmered with magic that was forever lasting, moving books around from place to place, and cleaning up the room over and over again. The glass floor seem extremely slippery to anyone whom might examine it from outside, but Shadow seem not to have a trouble walking on it. The walls were giagiant and a soft white and creme color. At the end of the room was a golden fountain rippling clear water. A sofa was against the wall, it was the same color of the walls as a base and golden divine stitches and buttons. A flat screen TV was pinned to the wall and soft music played on it, with that and the sound of the water falling, it couldn't have been any calmer in the room. The rest of the room was full with matching decor. Whoever had designed this room of the Townhall, had the most exquisite of tastes. My eyes widened, "Oh my, this is.... Quite the room." Shadow Light smiled as I said that. I have never seen a boy whom can manage looking as emo as he did, but having such a sweet, cute smile. I bit my lower lip as he asked, "You like it? This is supposed to be my room here in TownHall," his smile faded away in a breeze and my ears flattened. "Of course I like it!" I said walking towards him. I flinched my tail next to this and smiled sheepishly, "But, mind if I ask why you have to stay here? And why are you so upset about it? This seems like an amazing room to be in." I looked about, blushing, hoping he wouldn't notice my tail on top of his. "Well.... I can't really tell you why I am supposed to stay here, unless you turn out being some kind of special pony with special powers that can help save the world," I looked back at him as he said that and noticed he was blushing softly. He continued, "Yes this room is amazing and all, but that's just it. I can't stay here. My parents would kill me if I didn't sleep at home at all." "Oh.... Well I say you're lucky that you have parents who care about you," I felt a wave of sound, but it didn't come from the outside or anywhere near the room. I frowned and I realized it was coming from inside of me. My pony form was glitching out. I don't think you have ever seen what it's like to be in somepony's body, but there are quite some rules to it. If you get beaten up, you're out of the pony form. If you get in big trouble, enough to get the pony who you're using to be scared of themselves, it takes you out. If you go past a certain amount of time without giving the body a break, it will glitch out on you. That last option was currently happening to me. All I thought was, this is my time to tell him what I really am. Then another part of me thought, he's going to hate the real you, why do you want to tell him. But I did, "And about the being special thing....." He looked at me puzzled and I heard another wave of sound inside me. One more and my real me would show up. "Well I'll show you, but you have to promise you won't run out the room once I do." He nodded and I changed into my real from before that last wave of sound came into my body. My wings and body eased as I freed it and I looked at Shadow. He was still standing there. As promised. "So now that I stayed, mind explaining what you are, why you're here, and why not just tell me from the beginning that you had such an amazing long beautiful hair?" I blushed a hot red and wanted to slap him across the face. But I didn't. That's just me. "My real name is Strawb. Strawb Heart. I am one of the Princesses of Changelings and my mother is Queen Chrysalis. And about my hair, I would rather it be shorter but I'm not allowed to cut it. Mother says that if I ever become Queen I will have to have long hair. But don't worry, that won't happen, I have my annoying sisters to save me from that pain." I smirked and he did so back. "Why is your horn shaped like a heart? You have sisters? How many?" he questioned me over and over all night until he knew all about me. Neither of us bothered on checking the time,but it was getting really late and the party had already died out. He played with my different features like my wings, horn, hair, and whoove holes. Every now and then he would surprise tickle me and I would squirm and laugh loudly. There was a knock on the door as we were having one of our tickle fights and Shadow got up to answer it as I fixed my mane. "Oh looks like you were having some fun,Shadow." I heard a voice say at the door. It sounded like a Mare, someone familiar.... He growled at her annoyed and said, "Whatdaya want Spitfire?" My eyes widened. No way! Spitfire! The leader of the Wonderbolts! I had meet her once in a after flight meet and Greet show of the Wonderbolts in an old visit to Las Pegasus. I got up and walked towards the door but then backed up remembering that I was in my Changeling form. "Well the Mayor called a meeting. She said she wanted to see if any of you had anyone in mind. She's really wanting to move this process onward." As Spitfire said that Shadow looked back at me and smirked. "Oh don't worry, I have just the person, Spitfire." He winked at me and I blushed. I don't have a clue what he just got me into, but I was fine with it as long as we were together in it.
6. Love Is In The PartiesThe morning light shone down on the room Strawb Heart and Shadow Light awoke in. The couple were laying on the couch, snoring, Strawb on top of Shadow. They both slept peacefully until a loud BEEP! burst in making them both jump up, and out the couch. "It's too early! Someone please shut my alarm up.... And please don't get up Strawb." Shadow complained on the couch as Strawb got up from it, trying to push the button on Shadow's phone. "Shadow if you don't let go of me how do I get to your phone? And plus we got the meeting in less than an hour. You have gotta get up," She said brushing her muzzle on his messy hair. He moaned and looked up at her, "Fine I'll get up. But promise me that once that stupid meeting thing is over we will return to this same room and watch a movie or play video games." She chuckled softly and nooded at him "Okay we will. Now please let go of me and go fix that adorable messy hair of yours." Shadow let go of her and she moved towards his phone as he went out to the Bathrooms. She turned the alarm off and fixed her own mane. Once they were both ready to go, they headed down into the meeting room. As they got nearer Strawb got closer and closer to Shadow. She was afraid of what anypony else in the meeting might say of her. No they most likely wouldn't say anything, they would think. They would judge her inside their mind because of something her mother, the Queen of Changelings did. Not her. She also found herself getting closer to Shadow because she was attracted to him. She was attracted to the way he acted when he was with her, his smile, his hair, and most of all, him. Every single part of Shadow she had yet meet of him made him more and more attractive to her and she doubted that there was anything that could or would take that feeling back. She knew it was too early for love. She had read about it on all of her Romance Novels, but there was just something about him that drove her insane. She stopped thinking so much about him once they reached the room. She realized that his hoove was around hers, held tightly for no real reason. She sung the door wide open but only the Ponyville Mayor sat in the large table full of seats waiting to be taken. They sat down and Mayor Mare offered them some coffe and croissants. As Strawb picked up her coffee she noticed the 'Ponybucks' sign on it she smiled. At least she had her favorite kind of coffee to drink. A few minutes later, Higgens joined them to drink coffee and converse. No one saw or had any signs of Starry Mint showing up soon, so the meeting started. "Well now that.... Most of us are here, lets get this meeting officially started." Zecora said. Everypony stared talking and the meeting started. All of a sudden, Shadow got up from his seat and said out loud making sure everypony in that room could hear even though there weren't many ponies to hear so, "This is Strawb Heart, she's one of the Princesses of Changelings!" He pointed at Strawb whom waved shyly. "And she is also known well as my Marefriend." Shadow smirked. Higgens spit out the coffee that had in his mouth and said harmonized with a blushing, confused Strawb, "WHAT?!?" Then five seconds later, the changeling mare fainted on the chair she was sitting in. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Everypony in the meeting room might have thought that Starry Mint had slept in, but she couldn't have been anymore awake. The unicorn was placing mint colored decorations that she had bought at a party store nearby. She knew she wasn't the best at making parties, but she just couldn't hold herself back. This party was for someone special. She used her magic to place the last piece of mint decor on the table, and set off to go find a few more items she needed for this party. "Hello, is anyone here?" Minty asked as she walked into the brightly colored stores that smelled like buttercream and many other delicious ingredients. "YEP I'M HERE!" Yelled a voice from where the smells came from. Minty dared not to look behind the counter and see what was going on. The one and only element of laughter came from behind the store, mane full of cake ingredients and greeted the mare, "Welcome to Sugar Cube Corner, may I help you with anything today?" The mare smiled brightly and Starry chuckled, she couldn't really be happy being this messy could she? "Well, yes please. I am looking for a cake or maybe some cupcakes. I'm throwing a party for my friend and-" That's as far as Starry Mint could get before the Pink mare gasped loudly. "A party? That is fantastic! Ohhh is it a surprise party? For who is it?" The mare blabbered on about the party. Starry Mint smiled widely, "Yes it a surprise party. And it is very important to me. I need as much help as I can get to have it ready soon. Do you think that you could help me if you got some free time?" She asked as the mare's smiled widened. "I'ld love to help you! But- I need to know who the party is for and how many ponies there, if you don't mind me asking," The pink mare said exitedly as she looked around the counter. Minty couldn't believe it! She had just gotten a pony to help her plan the party! "Yes I will, but it has to be somewhere private and you can't say it to anypony. Not until the party starts." The mare nooded and said making an 'X' across her chest where her heart was, "I cross my heart," She went on moving both front whooves up and flapping them up and down, "Hope to fly," then she suddenly got a Cupcake out of her messy mane and stuck the thing to her eye as Starry Mint gasped, "Stick a cupcake in my eye that I won't tell anypony!" Minty smiled in relief to see that the mare was okay and asked, "What was that?" "My pinkie promise, duh. It's something only I as Pinkie Pie do! Well that's too obvious, I mean how awkward would it be if someone else invented it? It wouldn't be a Pinkie promise any more would it? It would be something.... Not as fun. And what's the fun in not as fun?" Pinkie Pie said to Starry Mint. Starry laughed a bit too loudly, "Oh Pinkie! You're so random!" _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "You do not just assume someone is your Marefriend, Shadow Light!" Higgens hissed at the colt who was trying to get Strawb Heart back into consciousness. She had been laying in that chair without moving for about five minutes now, and the room grew more tense each second. Shadow ignored what Higgens said to him, instead he nuzzled Strawb and all of a sudden she got up dizzily, "Hmm.....?" She said under her breath. Everyone sighed relived and they went on to asking if she was okay. "I don't know. I'm confused. Since when are we dating, Shadow?" She asked looking at him tensely. She was more than 'okay' alright. "Well, I meant to ask you out this morning before we came into the meeting....." Shadow Light explained, his ears flattened. "I'm sorry. That was stupid of me to think that you would actually like me. No one ever-" Strawb made him stop talking as she placed her lips on his, gently kissing him. Everypony stayed silent for a while. Just trying to insert what in the living hay had just happened in front of them. As Strawb took her lips off Shadow Light's own, she looked around and giggled playfully. "I do like you Shadow, and a lot. I would just like to be at least informed that I am taken before you say it out loud to a room full of ponies I don't know." She smiled him and he almost fainted. "I didn't expect that." Higgens murmured, and the meeting went back on. It didn't go back to normal though. Shadow and Strawb were now holding hooves and everypony stumbled on their words. Strawb Heart didn't care how tense the room went. All she could think about is that she had in mind was that she was holding the hoove of the most amazing boy in the whole Equestria. Equestria? Who was she kidding? The whole universe!
1. The Meeting.Mayor Mare walked inside Ponyville Townhall, a place where she had spent many of her days as Mayor Of Ponyville. She knew every spot of the Townhall by memory. She passes by the birth records, where many times had Pinkie Pie helped her clean up. The more she thought about the pink pony and her friends the more she was sure she was making the right choice calling this meeting. The meeting was with the one and only leader of the Wonderbolts, Spitfire, and the Zecora, the Zebra. This was not a usual business meeting she would have, but a matter that was much farther important. Some might ask if it was so important, why weren't any of the Princesses there? Or any Royalty? Royalty, Princesses, nor Princes were allowed to THIS important meeting. There was no way any of those could ever know about this meeting or otherwise the full meaning of it would be lost. She walked into her usual meeting spot as she spotted the two other mares patiently waiting for her, sipping on a cup of what seemed to be coffee or tea. She fixed her voice before starting to speak and going towards her chair. "I'm very glad to see you both here. This is a very important meeting. It's about Equestria. And Equestria's safety." Spitfire frowned in confusement. "Don't get me wrong Mayor, I would love to help Equestria and its safety, but isn't that kind of Royalty's duty?" She put down her cup and glanced over at Zecora. Mayor Mare nodded as she continued, "It most certainly is. But, have you ever thought about this?" She pulled out a scroll. "This my friends is a list of everypony in Equestria well known for having powerful magic, or known for saving Equestria at least once." She opened the scroll carefully as Zecora and Spitfire looked at it, still in concern. "Have any of you ladies ever thought of what would happen if let's say, Luna, ever became Nightmare moon again? What if she teamed up with Discord and transformed every one in that scroll evil? What would happen if Celestia suddenly felt like putting Equestria on fire? Or Princess Twilight Sparkle and Her friends all fall? Who would stop any of this from happening?" She looked down at the list. As confident as she sounded, she shook in fear of the tought that what she was speaking, might become true someday. Zecora nodded in agreement with Mayor Mare. She too had tought about this several times. Twilight herself had the Power to destroy Ponyville, she was scared of what Princess Celestia herself who had given most of her power to Twilight could do. "That's why I have made up a plan. We will build a group of ponies, not just any ponies, supernatural ones. The type that secretly have powers and few ponies know about. The kind that couldn't destroy anyone by themselfs, but could destroy any powerful being together. That way none of them could ever do what we were afraid of in the first place." She paced herself around the large meeting table as she spoke carefully, full of confidence. Spitfire's eyes suddenly poped out in amazement. This idea would be great! That way no one could get hurt yet none of the Royals would ever suspect any enemies. "I say this is a brilliant idea Mayor. And I have a ponies in mind already." Zecora agreed with the other too. She didn't know many ponies in Equestria, but she knew someone well enough and thought they would fit in this category perfectly. She was sure that he wouldn't let her down. "I will need a few days to get in touch with this mare, she's very.... Well she doesn't come out of her house a hole lot. You should understand perfectly why. I met her once when I was little. I caught her practicing her magic in the late night and since then I have been her only friend." Spitfire smiled as she thought of the gray fured unicorn. "She sounds great! Do you happen to know what her.... Abilities are?" Mayor Mare was anxious to know, she believed that Equestria was a place of great magic, and she knew most of it was hidden, but she also thought it could be uncovered if needed. "This is a Gray fured and white maned Unicorn. She has the power to view part of the future. Though he abilities are limited to the night time, as you see stars are what grant her that power, Mayor." Spitfire said. Meanwhile in the other side of the table, Zecora was still thinking if that young boy she met in her old town still lived. "It sounds like we found our first member of the Super Ponies! Please get contact with her as soon as you can and tell her to come meet me here in my office!" Mayor Mare smiled. Zecora kept thinking about the boy as she realized that she had a potion in her tree hut that could tell you weather someone lived or not. She got up from her chair. "I was glad to attend this meeting, but I have something to do. I will get back to you as soon as I can Mayor." Zecora sprinted out the Townhall to check if the long lost boy was still alive. Spitfire shurged as the Zebra left and looked back at Mayor. "I will. And as for Zecora...." Mayor cut her off. "Don't worry about her. I'm sure she must have had something on her mind that was bothering her. Now go look for that mare!" Mayor insisted happily as Spits nodded as zipped out. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Meanwhile in Zecora's Hut, she was busy making the potion. She remember each step of it as if it were written on the back of her hoof. She grabbed bottles and put them together to make the potion. When she was done she put the bottles back in their place and looked at the lite here she had been putting all the ingredients together. "Please show me where....." She murmured a name lowly as an image of the lost boy appeared. Zecora sighed in relief to see him in the same spot he had been all these years. She could now happily, tell this to The Mayor. This "lost boy" had powers that no one could have ever imagined he did. and was sure to make himself useful for this occasion. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Spitfire could hear the sound of the phone ringing. It rung once, twice..... Where was she? Why wouldn't she pick her phone up? She was sure to be home around this time and answer her phone. Mostly when it was her calling. Then she heard a "Hello?" As the phone stopped ringing. "O-Oh hey! This is Spitfire. Hey I don't have much time to talk but I think you might be interested in something... As you see my friend, the Mayor of Ponyville, needs my help, and yours, for something extremely important." Spits told her everything as she listened from the other line. "Sounds fair. I will go to Ponyville as soon as I can. Perhaps you'll be there with her, Spity?" The voice slowly sounded a bit cuter as she said Spitfires name. Spitfire blushes ever so slightly and nodded. "Yeah. We need to catch up. I really miss you and I won't miss this chance to see you for the life of me. Plus, I may or may not be seeing you a lot much more often since I will be your..... Trainer." "Ok then Spity. I'll see you soon." The mare hung up. Spitfire sighed and smiled as she too hung up and whispered to herself, "Bye Star" Author's Note OK I CANNOT DO ANYTHING ZECORA LIKE SOOOO SORRY. But other than that I'm really proud of this. I can't wait till next chapter!
3. Lost Boy (Higgens)Author's Note If someone came up to me and asked me today, what did you do all day? I would show them this chapter. But yeah this chapter was awesome, and I don't regret the time I took on it... Enjoy! 3. Lost Boy (Higgens) Good Day to whomever shall be reading this! I am Higgins, a Zebra. I live in the same town as my dear Zecora used to live. You may think that I look a lot like her, all gray, but you my friend, are very very wrong. I have stripes colored black, my mane and tail are faded yellow. Top the darkest bottom the lightest shade. My fur is white other than my stripes, and my eyes are a faint orange. I love to read books! I also like sports, not any but just Football and track. I don't enjoy being forced into things... And, Well, between you and I, I have a terrible fear for heights. Now about my extra instinct.... I have magic. Not unicorn magic, something a lot much more powerful. A ball that matches my eye colour literally comes out my hoof, and if I throw it at anyone or anyplace, it would give me or do what I was just thinking of. Now, let me tell you my story. You may need to get a blanket or popcorn for this, it's gonna be long. Ever since I was little, a lot was expected from me. My parents told me that I had to grow up to be just as important as they were,that I had to not only be strong, but smart. And as I said before, I hate being pushed into things I don't wanna do. To my mom, all I have ever been is a throphy to show off. And to my dad, I'm just a back up plan so nothing of his goes to any he wouldn't liked it to go to when he dies. I was required to always have straight A's in every single one of my classes, which really wasn't ever a problem to me since I really enjoyed studying and books. One day I got a bad grade in one of my pop quizzes, and my parents locked me up in their library. I was hungry, thirsty, sleepy, and anything you can think of, but I read. The same day as I looked around in the library, I found a book that was cover in dust. I took it out and blew the dust off. Just as I did that, it started to glow letters. It read "THE LEGEND OF THE MAGICIAN'S SOURCE, WARNING:This book may only open up and work on whomever it wants to" I remember being really confused and curious... So the book let me open it. The library blew up in with lights. They all came back to the book and curled up in a ball in front of me. I slowly moved my hoove towards it and it pulled itself into my hooves. The ball was suddenly gone, instead, my hooves tinkled with a brand new feeling. I looked at the book full of words and started reading it, relazing everything I should know about this... New me. I have limited use to the balls of my magic. 20 per day and the filled up each night exactly at 12:00 AM. And my magic would only work if the book was still in its mint condition. Anything other than that was never restricted. Now about Zecora, she met me A few days after I got my power. She called me "Lost Boy" because she saw my inner soul, and she knew that I wasn't happy with whom I was destined to be. Yet she knew that soon, I would find my place with many other "creatures". Zecora has been like my mentor since then. We are very far away, but we manage to keep in touch either way. Today, just as I was reading a book inside my family's library I got a message from her, sent by an Equestrian bird. I was very surprise the thing made it alive all the way to here. It gave me a letter hoof written by the one and only Zecora. It said that she thought that she might have found the group of "creatures" that would help me fulfill my future. She said that they were all filled with supernatural unexplained magic just as I was and that they were using it to save Equestria. I smiled as I said to myself, "This is it! My chance to use my magic expand it, and well... Escape THIS prison." I sighed as I realized that no one was home. All the maids were getting super done, my dad was at work, like always, and my mom.... She was probably shopping. I decided that if I was planing on leaving anytime soon, it was right now. I got up, ran to my room, and started packing. I got my magic book, a few changes of clothes, some of my other favorite books, a comb, toothbrush, and, God pardon me for this, some money ,my dad had hidden in his office. I wrote a quick note saying where I was going, why, and a few "kind" words to my parents about what they had been using me for these past years. I left the note in the library on top of the book was just reading, then I grabbed the bag I out my stuff in and literally ran all the way to my nearest train station. I took the next train to the city closest to Equestria. There is no train to Equestria, since most Zebras whom live here are extremely scared to go there. Though it isn't too far from inbetween borders. Only 13 miles, taking a shortcut. I honestly couldn't believe I was doing this. It was so exiting..! Yet, I can't imagine the look on my mother's and father's face once they read that note. If they are in the same schedule as always... They would most likely read it in 3-4 hours. I chuckled to myself as I realized that by then, they would be way too late to do anything. I would be in Manehattan. Once I got to Manehattan, I would take a train to Canterlot. And from Canterlot I would go to Ponyville, where it would be rather easily to find Zecora. I got my book of magic out and started reading over it. Carefully, flipping each page and reading each word that describes me. Not just me. New me. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Zecora trotted over to the Townhall. She was looking for the Mayor, she wants to tell her the news about the Lost Boy. She walked into her office and greeted her. "Hello Mayor. I think I may have a way to help in within the meeting from yesterday. I remember this Zebra from my town that met before I came to live here, he was just given his powers, but he wasn't happy with his family. I sent him a note regreting the Super Ponies, and he is coming to meet us." Mayor instantly seemed interested in the subject. "What? Why didn't you say so sooner Zecora? What are his powers? And his name? When is he coming? Wait, do you mean to tell me he's coming here without his parents consern?" "Well I just got informed that he still lives and I sent him a note as soon as I could. My bird messenger told me he was packing his stuff and getting ready to come here, and his powers are a bit hard to explain. You would need to meet him yourself to get to know them. His real name is Higgins, though I call him, Lost Boy. And unfortunately, yes, he came without his parents knowing about it." Zecora carefully said as she walked towards the door, "I'm sorry Mayor, I must go, you see, I will meet him in the Canterlot Train station." Zecora left the room. "But how do you know that he's stopping at Canterlot?" Mayor looked outside the door but the Zebra was long gone. She sighed, "Zebras..." _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I awoke when the train stopped, I looked up and realized that I was already here, the border of my town. I got my backpack and left the train. Then, I started to walk towards Manehattan, Equestria, leaving my family back behind. I walked and walked and walked until I saw a border bridge and a sign that said "Manehhatan, Equestria." I smiled to myself and slowly entered the Equestrian borders. As I walked in a few gaurds stared at me, but didn't do anything. I walked all the way to where I saw a train station and bought a ticket to the next train going to Canterlot. I once more got into a train, this one would be a lot much longer to get to. The trip was three and a half hours, when the last one had only been an hour. But I didn't have a problem with the timing of the trip, I just wanted to get to Canterlot safely because my parents had most likely already read my letter, and right about now, they were freaking out. Nah, they probably didn't even care. They probably won't find it until they BOTHER looking for me. Which will take them a while. And if they do care about the contents of that letter, then they would be way too late. I'm already in Equestria, and on my way to Canterlot. You're probably asking yourself how I kno many of Equestria's city names. Well let's just say that thanks to Zecora, and my thoughts on Traveling, I learned all of them. But well, I am in Baltimare, I should stop talking and worrying and enjoy my wonderful sorroundings. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The train was now 10 minutes away from Canterlot. And I was packing my stuff in my backpack once more. The train suddenly stopped, and I and the rest of the ponies went down. I honestly saw a few giving me a frown and a yuck stare, but I didn't care. I was suprised to see my one and only mentor, Zecora, sitting on a bench waiting for me in the Canterlot train station "Why Hello Higgins. It's been a while eh? You've grown so much." She scratched her hoof against my yellow mane meanwhile I sat there a little annoyed. I didn't enjoy people touching my mane. "I'm glad to see you too,Zecora. And thank you. But could we please get going on to the next train? I am really tired. I had to walk from the border of our town to Equestria's border, which is like, 13 or so miles." I yawned as I stretched a bit. "Sure Lost Boy, but don't you want to get a treat before we leave?" She pointed to the conssesion stand with her hooves full of rings. I looked the way she pointed and nodded. "Yes please! I am famished!" I got up and walked over. I ordered a water and a hay sandwich and payed the kind Colt serving. Just as I was doing that, Zecora got our tickets and we sat in the bench once more, waiting for our train to pass by. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ By the time we got to Ponyville, and to the Mayor's office,it was night. It had been 7 hours since I hadn't been home, and 5 since I've enter Equestria. So, I'm very sorry if my manners weren't THE BEST when I met the Mayor.... "Hello Higgens, Zecora has told me a lot of great things about you, would you like me to explain what's going on?" Said the Mayor as I yawned. "I think I know enough M-Mayor...-" my sentence interrupted by one more yawn, "Zecora makes her letters more amplified and large enough to be a book...." Both of the mares frowned at me as my head swang low and I yawned. "O-Ok then.... So, would you be ok with showing us your powers? I believe Zecora already knows them, but I would like to see how sharp you are at using them." Mayor Mare said kindly. I nodded and got up. I put both my hooves together and rubbed them 3 circular times. Just as that my ball of magic came to life. I, without thinking, threw it. Right then at that moment I wished I could have been dead. I had never been so embarresed in my life. Instead of something cool coming out, like a sword, or a pony, a bed came out the ball. I heard a soft chuckle coming from Zecora and I mumbled. "I have reasons to believe that he is very tired from his long trip, Mayor Mare. Would you mind giving him another chance to show off what he can do tomorrow?" Zecora said with a smirk on her face. "Sure. I don't blame him. Farthest I have gone is from Ponyville to the Canterlot Castles, and I was extremely tired that day." The Mayor smiled at me, then back at Zecora. "Th-Thank you...." I said in a somewhat yawn as I rubbed my eyes and walked out the office with Zecora. "Well, until we find the rest of the recruits, you and the other mare will be staying at my place over in the Everfree Forest. She should be here just about now with Spitfire...." Zecora said as my eyes widened. "There's a mare? What powers does she have? Is she a pony? Earth? Pegasus? Unicorn? Or maybe even a-" Zecora put a hoof in my mouth and chuckled. "She can see the future. But as far as we know she can only do it at night time, because the stars are her power source. And yes, she's a pony, a unicorn. And heads up, if she DOES see the future in front of you, goo will come out her eyes, horn, and tail.... Also, she's got a deer tail." Zecora explained the mare as carefully as she could based on what she knew. "Oh she seems amazing! I can't wait to meet her...!" I said exitedly, yet still sleepy. "You won't have to wait a lot my dear, she's right there." She pointed over to a corner where Spitfire and Starry Mint stood. Zecora and I walked over to them. See, I was so exited I could have ran over to them, but that would only make me look like a fool, and I had already embarrassed myself enough tonight. "Hello, such a pleasure to meet you both! I am Higgins." Stretched my hoof out and so did the Pegasus do first. "Hey kiddo, I'm Spitfi-" I cut her off "Spitfire, leader of the Wonderbolts, the fastest Pegasus in Equestria, I know. I just got here but I have studied Equestrian history for the past few years." I said confidently as both mare seemed impressed and Zecora clapped a little. "This is Higgens,I am his mentor. He lives I the same town as I used to. He is a wonderful colt." She smiled at both mares. "I-I'm Starry Mint." The mare said and she stood in front of me. God, was she short. "Nice to meet you. I have heard about your powers, and I think there might be a way to expand them..." I said as her eyes lit up with joy. "Really? I have always wished to know more about my powers..." The unicorn's smiled widened. "Yeah, but could we please get going? I traveled more than I should have today, and I'm really tired." I said as Zecora nodded. "Thank you for bringing her Spitfire. I will take them to my home now so the can get some rest." Zecora said joyfully. "No need to thank me.... " Spitfire smiled as she left. Zecora then lead us on to her house, all the way there, I told Starry about my powers. Yet I never got the guts to tell her anything about my parents or what had I been through just to get here, and feel like I'm useful for something.
