Rekindling
Chapter 6: An Old Friend (INTRO)
Previous ChapterA NEW CHALLENGER APPEARED!! I own this new challenger, dusk, and freezin. Color Sphere is owned by Epsilonic Memory but I made his Pony Disguise, he actually complimented me on it.
3rd Person's POV
A mare in a grey cloak appeared on a cliff, she had silver bracelets on her hooves, each holding a crystal that is currently a purple color, a significant color that shows that she's happy, or something around that. "I got my information," she said, "And it might be right, I gotta check, he might be here. After so many years, I might be able to see him again, my friend..." She jumped down the cliff at blinding speeds, and landed next to a river, almost as fast as a pegasus. She traveled down the river till she came to a small town's outskirts. She took one step into town, and was confronted by a pony, "Who's there?!" he asked. The mare turned, her purple eyes gleaming into the night. "You suspicious folk there!" he asked, "why are you here!!!??!" "Please sir," she took a step forward, and the earth pony stepped back, "I'm just trying to find someone." "Sure ya are!" the pony said taking a step forward, ready to buck the girl, "And I'm an alicorn!" He ran up to the girl who instinctively dug her hooves into the ground as her bracelets started glowing, glowing a very bright light. The earth pony stopped and ran. "Run! Suspicious pony!" he screamed. Everypony shut their windows and doors and the streets were quiet. The girl sighed, "Well, not what I was expecting, but I still have to find him." And she set off for the streets, little did she know there was a tangerine pony looking at every detail that happened, her eyes wide with shock and somewhat fear. She ran back to her farm to wait for the next day, to tell her friends, and little did she know, the pegasus the new pony was looking for.
Dusk's POV
I started to wake up from my sleep, so I rubbed my eyes. I looked around, still in my tree. I yawned, what time is it... Judging by the sun, I slept to 11, again. I'm guessing Dash is starting to wake up to, wow we sleep late. I checked to see if Color was here, he wasn't. Well, might as well see if Dash is home, lucky for me, I live pretty close to her, The Outskirts. I flew over to her cloud house, still amazing, and called up to her. "Dash! Hey Dash! You there?!" She yawned, she's there. "Yeah yeah yeah, I'm up." She walked out, still looking like herself surprisingly, and yawned again. "You know where everypony is?" I asked, "Color's not home." She shook her head, "Let's go and check Ponyville out, race ya there!" The she bolted to town. "H-hey!" I said as I sped off. I caught up to her in time thankfully, but it was a tie, kinda short race too. We both dug our hooves into the ground to stop and folded back our wings, narrowly missing each other, thank Celestia. We looked around town, noone here. "Uhh..." I say confused. Someone tapped on my shoulder; I turned to find a mare in a grey cloak. "Uhhm, excuse me sir," she started, "I was wondering if you know where I can find someone." Rainbow still looked confused. "That depends ma'am, who are you looking for?" I asked. "Well.." she started but I didn't hear the rest because a purple aura surrounded Rainbow and a blue one surrounded me. "Wait, WHAT THE-" I yelled as someone pulled me back. I screeched into the air and cinders were sent into the air, causing the mare to look at me. I guess she thinks I'm weird or something. Can't exactly blame her. I just heard a slight whisper from her before I was completely thrown into a building, "Can't be him, his cutiemark was red and he had a mark on his forehead..."
When I did stop flying, momentum and gravity started to hate me, it flung me into the wall and I just happened to land upside-down, I'm sure Rainbow had a better time than- OH DEAR CELESTIA! "Oh, that HAS to hurt" I heard Color say. Rainbow landed, THANK CELESTIA NOT ON ME, but right next to me, not even a centimeter next to me. We were literally touching hooves, had implants in the wall, and it hurt, alot, more so for Rainbow who hit the wall. My vision is till blurry, I'm still dazed, I fell onto the floor, which made me more dazed, if I have vision problems I could ask Freezin for help, I know he has a spell for it, I stole a book from him and found it. I didn’t get up, to weak, and then Rainbow fell on me, which didn't help us. Rainbow," I said, "Get off me." She rolled off me, and I stood wobbly. I opened my wings to steady myself and, aww come on, my wings touched Rainbow's wings (AN: I find that to be a sign of affection as a pegasus so it would be embarassing for two 'best friend' pegasi rather than couple pegasi) We blushed again, stupid incidents and what not... Some people smirked, and I think I heard Twi and Rarity giggle cuz they know what kind of sign two pegasi touching the other's wings with their wings is. I finally regain my senses and ask the important question, "WHAT'S GOING ON?!" "Well, that mare you were talking to scared Applejack, an old earth pony, and a lot of others when she came to town, and can make a special glow that isn't magic, she's an earth pony by the way." I looked at Applejack to confirm these accusations, she nodded. "Well, I don't see the problem, so I'm going out." Then the door froze. "She's dangerous," Freezin said, "I don't want you to risk it." I burn open the door and melt the ice. "Too scared huh, well I'm gonna help her." So I walked out, no one stopping me. And I saw the mare looking down, I wonder why...
Mare's POV (name will be revealed later)
I looked down, everyone is afraid of me. It's just like my childhood, where everyone ignored me for my abilities, for who I was. I sighed, onto the next town... Then that ash coated pegasus walked up to me. "What do you want...?" I asked. "I just wanted to help you find who you were looking for, also to apologize to my somewhat ignorant friends."I smirked, he is a lot like my brother. Too bad it can't be him, he'd remember me, he'd have his necklace too. "Meh, whatever. Let's go find my friend." He nodded in agreement, and we started walking around town. We started walking to the outskirts and I could see people going into the street again. I let a tear slide down my face, yep, this is just like before...
FLASHBACK :D (New Character who was 15 is now 9)
I was walking down the streets of Canterlot, various people running at the sight of me. Just had a meeting with Celestia to discuss something called 'Alchemy', the gift that I possess, which is acting more like a curse for me. I got the privilege to go to the castle library. I have to study Alchemy more tomorrow. "There she is!" a teenage colt said, "the freak of nature!" I turned my head to find a group of colts and about 3 mares staring at me. I took a step back. "P-please... Just leave me alone... I stuttered out, close to tears. The leader of the group, a colt about the age of 13, stepped up. "What's wrong? Afraid or something?" I was immobilized with fear, I couldn't do more than a slight shudder. The colt turned around and bucked me. I was thrown backwards. "P-please... S-stop..." I said, starting to cry. "HEY!" someone said in the road, I turned my head and tried to go back, and ended up being bucked forward. A stallion pegasus walked forward from an alley, a strap around his neck that lead to his mane, I guess he had a camera or something. "What are you doing to her?!" The gang leader smirked and answered calmly, "Why, we're just getting rid of this freak of nature, care to watch?" The stallion thought something for a sec. "Let me think," he said, "...no" He then spread his wings and before the group of others could blink, the colt punched the leader and he fell, causing the others to retreat. He sighed, "Causing Trouble wherever they go, for me and for everyone..." He turned to me, "You okay?" I try to stand and I could barely move, so I shake my head painfully. HE started walking to me, he looked a year older than me, and it also seems as if... he has a gift, something that makes him unique, but also hated. "Okay, I got limited time, my scream gave away my location, but I have a way that can save us for now" he said. He set his wings on fire, this has to be an enchantment of fire, I read about them once. There are several, and it's possible to have multiple enchantments of one kind, and there are two very powerful ones too, but I don't know much. Anyways, he set his wings on fire and I smiled in a look of amazement, this is the first time in a while I felt safe. He picked me up and I blushed lightly, he put me on his back, and with the simple words, "Hang on", we were off into the sky. "Thanks..." I managed to say. "No problem," he replied, "You can call me Heart if ya want." "T-thank you..." I said in my half unconscious state. "I need to know your name miss" he said, "I have to know the person I saved." I smiled, first person to ask that, first person nice to me. "Raven Soul, just call me Raven..." I said before blacking out.
FLASHBACK, END! (we'll continue it later :D)
We walked to the outskirts of town; people who were here are now in hiding or in town center, trying to decide my fate. Well, either way, I'll be okay for now. "So, who does your friend look like?" the colt asked. "He has a necklace I gave him for starts; he also has a flame cutiemark that's red and an ash grey coat. His appearance might've changed since I last saw him though. It's been 5 years." He nods and then asks, "Why here?" I give him a confused expression. "Why did you come to Ponyville of all places to look?" "Well," I started, wanting to keep my meeting with Princess Luna a secret.
DIFFERENT FLASHBACK
I made a door in the wall using my alchemy, with guards left and right trying to stop me. I was holding a make-shift knife in my teeth. I threw it at a nearby guard that was way to close, it made him go back, but it missed him. I opened the door which led to the throne room of Canterlot Castle, and I'm probably the first to do so in a raid, a single pony raid, and still live. After I entered, I turned the door back into the wall. I screamed into the throne room, "WHERE IS HE?!" This caused guards' heads to turn towards me and they charged with their spears. I clapped my hooves together and pressed it against the wall, causing the wall to extend out and around me, defending me to a point. I created a transmutation circle to make sure they didn't know I was still using my only weapon. I tapped the circle with my hooves and it started to glow, this caused hands in the earth to grow up and grab lots of the soldiers, so I simply walked past punching everyone who got in my way to the Princesses, who at the moment, are just sitting there. "I punched the last guard in my way and walked up to the Princesses, not even taking into consideration that I didn't bow. "Where is he?!" I yelled. No reaction. "ANSWER ME!" I yelled. No reaction. I grabbed the nearest weapon, and transmuted it into a ball of rock, I can't kill royalty, or anyone for that matter. I chucked it at Celestia, and it phased through! "What?!" I said confused. Something then struck me in the back of the head and I blacked out instantly.
I'm standing, it’s pitch black, this has to be a dream. I knew that. I walked forward trying to find something, anything. Then the darkness grew into a night sky, and a moon. Stars were starting to spark everywhere. Then a bright light made me shield my eyes, and Princess Luna stood in front of me. "Why are thou here young one. It is not thou who wishes to bring harm to thy sister and I?" she asked. I let a tear slide, the first in a while. "Where is he? I know he was here. And no one, not even Royalty, will stop me! I know what happened! A year ago he died! I asked his mother where he was taken, and it brought me here. NOW WHERE IS HE!?" I yelled at the royal goddess of night. "Thy wishes to seek a pony, one from thou's childhood? Thy does not know much, but I do know someone like thy describes, ash coat, flame cutiemark." I stood there, his description, I know what he looked like and I reminded myself a million times and then some, but it hurts to hear it. I simply nod. "The Pony you seek is in Ponyville, thou's destination is only a day's trip away. But I must warn thee, he has lost memories, and some can't be replaced, only reclaimed, and thy pony must meet you to reclaim these memories." I get a huge smile on my face, he's alive, he's really alive. Luna came up to me then, and tapped her horn on my forehead. A flash of light emanated from me for a brief second. "Yes, I know thou's past now. I has been long and treacherous, and thou wishes to meet 'your knight' per say?" That made me blush lightly, "Uhh well..." Is what I could sputter out. "Yes, I know what thou seeks," Luna said with a smirk, "Maybe when thou is ready, you can become thy's protege." I smiled again, "I-I would like that Princess Luna..." Luna smiled, "Please just call me Luna Raven, just Luna."
End of Flashback that was somewhat long.
"Uhh, miss? Hello?" the colt said as I snapped back into reality. "Uhh what?" He smirked, "Taking a trip down memory lane?" I nodded in response. "Heh, wish I could do that" he muttered. We continued to walk for a few minutes. "What species is he?" "Pegasus, he's a Pegasus." Then a light bulb went off in his head. "I'll be back in a few minutes." He zoomed off, leaving a trail blaze of purple fire in his wake, and just as quickly as he went off, he came back with a pony on his back. "Okay, to cut it short, he's my new brother, he's a changeling, keep the secret, Color do you know her?" He shook his head. "Sorry Dusk, never met her. But if she's looking for a pegasus, ash coat and all, might be you." He thought about this for a moment, "Can't be, I fit the discription but still!" Then I saw a piece of chain, a piece of midnight blue chain. I pulled out the chain and saw it, the necklace I gave my friend years ago, a midnight blue chained necklace with an amethyst jewel hung at the end. That brings back memories. "H-Heart?" I asked, "Is, that really you?" He gave a confused expression right away, not sure what to say. Then he put his hoof to his head and fell, nearly screaming in agony. "D-Dusk!?" The other colt said. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain in my head I put both my hooves to my head and fell next to Dusk. Then, darkness...
I woke up to a near complete darkness, the only light emanating from Heart and I. "Wh-where are we?" he asked. Then to answer his questions, a beam of light shot out of the darkness and onto Heart's head. The light looked like a stream of images, and then it stopped, right before a specific event. Then the light emanating from Heart spread everywhere and then it looked like we were watching a scene from our point of views, like a flashback of sorts.
Yet another flashback cept this is a continuation.
I woke up lying on a bed. Well something like one, it was a card board box, a pillow, and newspaper, in other words, it was cold and this was a horrible shelter. I was in an alley, it was closed off on 3 sides. Heart was standing next to me, almost guarding me. He looked down at me and smiled, "You're Awake." I blinked, am I dreaming or something? "So," he said, "You okay? I'm not exactly the master of healing but none of your bones were broken, you have a few bruises here and there, and minor cuts. I packed bandages with me so I patched you up." I looked at my hooves, they had bruises on them. I looked at the rest of my body, bandages and bruises. "Oh uhhm... Thank you" I said. "It's no problem, love to help those who are like me, unique, special, everything. If someone needs help, I'll do my best." He smiled and leaned on the wall. I saw that he had cuts. "You have cuts." He looked at himself, "Oh, I do? It's nothing really. I looked down, there was blood on the floor, it leads all the way to Heart. There was a small pool of blood below him. He pulled something out of his pack; I don't know what it is. He sighed. "You know what this is?" he asked me. I walked up, to be honest, it was actually easy, I guess he did a good job. I looked at what he was holding. It was a piece of sapphire, it was in the shape of triangle. "It's a sapphire." He nods. "I found two gems, they fit perfectly with each other, I also have two chains, one's silver, and the other one is black, like a black pearl." He pulled out the chains and the other gem, an amethyst. "I was saving this if I ever met my first friend on the run; I want you to have it." He connected the silver chain with the sapphire, and put the necklace around my neck. I started to blush. He then combined the amethyst with the black chain and put it around his neck. He then came closer to me which made me blush deeper and then he then put the amethyst and sapphire next to each other, they fit together perfectly. "Beautiful..." I said, my eyes wide, still with a deep blush on my face. "One day, if I leave, I'll see you again, no matter what" he said with a smile on his face. I nodded my head. Then he started to fall, which made me worry. "Oww... Guess those cuts weren't minor." I undid my bandages, flipped them over, and put them over his cuts. "Eheh, thanks..." he said. I smiled, first friend ever.
End of Flashback
I woke up from my semi-coma. Heart and I stood up at the same time, our necklaces dangling out of our manes. I noticed a small new detail on the jewels, our necklaces now had our initials, mine said R.S. and Heart's said D.H. "Uhhh, D.H.?" I asked? "Oh yeah, you don't know my first name Raven, it's Dusk." I smile, I found him. "Well I'm gonna have to explain things, now" Dusk said, "C'mon let's go." Dusk and I then started walking to the center of town. The other colt, who Dusk told me was named Color Sphere later, and then asked a question, "What just happened?"
