Canterlot

Astral's POV

"Here you go Astral all 1000 bits", said Prince Blueblood

"Also hope that you can make good use of MY money"

"Sure Blueblood", I said with a forced smile

You have no idea how many times that I worked for this ass, that I had to force myself from personally beating this guy half to death. Though out of all the people I have worked for he isn't the worst person, and believe me when I say I have seen far worse.Though it's just more of the fact that he is snobbish and thinks that everyone below him is worthless that makes me hate him.

" That's Prince Blueblood to you" ,said Blueblood

"Ok, fine, Prince Blueblood I will", I said with a roll of my eyes

Blueblood narrowed his eyes at me, but realized that is as far as he was going to push the subject so he just motioned for me to leave. That was enough for me to leave, because personally I don't want to stay here any longer than I have to. So I head out of his office and head to the main entrance and now that I have a chance to look around Blueblood does have a nice house, but there are just so many photos of him everywhere. Probably to remind him that he is "SO" amazing, huh typical.

As I finally made my way out I decided I could use a few drinks to get rid of some of the stress that I had these past few days. So I headed down the sidewalks of Canterlot to the closest pub called "Hot Bird" (Real Bar in NY). Thankfully not as busy as I thought so I made my way over the the counter to take a sear at one of the stool. As I pulled out the stool I began to think about my past and what lead me to this point. First of all my name is Astral Spark a Pegasus and I have a Black mane and grayish coat. My childhood was not exactly a great one. I grew up without a father so my mother single headed raised me after Dad left, though I was to young to understand why he left and it didn't help that my mother never told me why. My Mother and I were not by any means rich or even a little rich. We had to fight sticks and stones to make a living, but that doesn't mean that we weren't happy we always had each other and always remembered that tomorrow was a new day and that day could change our lives. We always kept that in mind. While by mom was a waitress I was a errand boy mostly for Canterlot's elites doing small jobs, but while I was working for Fancy pants (one of the nicer nobles) I took some notice of the guards training and thats when my love for sword fighting came up.Though I knew my Mom wouldn't approve of it. I still wanted to pursue it so I asked the Sargent if he could train me he declined my offer and told me he couldn't train a pipsqueak like me. I knew I was a kid but I didn't like to be called short or any other form of short. Knowing that I couldn't do anything I slumped off.

3 Months later, I stumbled across a stealthed katana laying in the alley way while I was doing a errand run. I cautiously walked toward it and when I reached out to grap it this black mist climbed up my arm and made me blackout. Some time later I woke up and found the katana in my hand, but I had a strange felling about the sword like i felt like I knew how to wield it and understood it. I slowly got up and rubbed my forehead and headed home. When I got home to our old wooded house my Mother immediately ran to me and hugged me tight saying she thought something bad happened to me. When I looked over to the clock I was four hours late than usual. Then I hear my mom gasp as I saw her looking at my flank. When I looked what I saw surprised me I saw my cutie mark. It was a shield with a katana going diagonally through the shield with a little black mist coming off of it.

I knew from then on my purpose has something to do with my sword so when I got old enough i thought what better than to be a mercenary or a bodyguard for hire. I did this for years to come, but when I was working for this certain client named Richy Bit it changed my life forever. I was suppose to guard his jewels when he was moving them to his house and It went very smoothly until we got to his mansion. He was doing a jewel count and he found out one of his prized jewel was missing. He immediately suspected me , because he knew about my past (Background checks) I consistently told him I didn't take it, but he ignored me and told me I had 2 weeks to find it and if not I had hell to pay. Though those two weeks I looked high and low for it and came up with nothing. So I headed home so I could wait for what I suspected a bill to pay. Though when I opened up the door I got the shock of my life.

Blood spattered over the wall saying "You took something from me and now I took something from you

My Mother

Tied up

Her throat slit

De-

"Sir" a female voice said that snapped me out of my thoughts

I looked up and saw the bartender, a little surprised that it was a women it was kind of rare to see that around Canterlot

"Sir" she said again "Are you ok"

"Uh...Y-Yeah I am fine" I said finally getting a grip on my voice

"Well it looked like you spaced out there"

"Yeah I was uh.. thinking of something that I haven't thought of in years"

"Ok then as long as your alright, anyway what would you like"

"Oh um I guess some hard cider" I said just wanting to clear my head

"Alright coming right up" she said as she walked away

As she walked away I looked around the bar to see that some time has passed, some of the people that were there when he entered left and even some new people were here. I turned back around to see the bartender handing him his drink

"Here you go"

"Thanks Miss-"

"Lilly but just call me Lilly ,don't add any of that miss crap"

"Well ok then didn't know you found that offensive"

"Well I just don't like to feel old, what can't a girl feel young" she said while putting her crossed arms under her bust to make it appear bigger than it already was.

"I um..guess not" I said nervously, trying not to ogle

"Are you sure about that" she said getting a lot closer to me

She than just bursted in laughter properly from seeing me in a uncomfortable

"HAHAHA O' man I love doing that" wiping a tear from her eye

"Don't worry I was just teasing though now that I think about it I might have gone a little two far"

"You think" I said with a raised eyebrow

"Funny, well I have to go serve some other people. I hope I can see you around" Lilly said

"You'll see" I said and with that she left to go take other peoples orders

After I finished my drink I headed home, way in the bad part of Canterlot. As I reached my house I slowly mad my way to bed. When I layed down on my bed I just couldn't stop thinking about that memory of my mother.

"I hate nobles"

With that I fell to the land of dreams

Crystal Empire

Flurry POV

"Honey are you almost finished packing" I heard my Mom call

"Yes mother" I yelled back down

My parents and I are going to visit our Aunts in Canterlot and It has been a while since I last been there. Mostly because I have been learning how to be a princess these past few years and always stuck in the castle. I barely get to do anything on my own free will without my parents consent with me being the first ever born alicorn. The most exciting thing for me is that since we will be there for a few months. I get to explore the city as long as I am with bodyguard though I am planning on trying to ditching him the first change I get.

"I can't wait"

Author's Note

This is my first story so take it easy on the criticism though it is welcome and also if you could you could point out some things that I did wrong and help me improve :)