The Heir and the Chimera

by Unit Scout

Chapter 1: A short history of the Heir

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This Heir was named Glass Cannon of the Rubyshoes family. He is a light blue earth pony with purple hair. Glass Cannon grew up in the High Society of Canterlot with rich parents. He wanted to hang out with the Worker Class, but was limited by his parents out of fear of con ponies and clotnappers that would use him or hurt him. Glass Cannon only hang out with a few of his family’s worker’s kids. He hated living as a High Society Pony with hundreds of ponies pretending to be friends with each other, while others are snobs abusing them for their own gain. The only perk of being a rich colt, was you could get any “thing” you want. He had failed to get a cutie mark with all of his experiences growing up. His lack of a cutie mark gave his family of Rubyshoes a sense of shame.

Glass Cannon grew up and studied business. He was allowed by his parents to start up his dream business of an amusement park full of rides and “exotic” foods in Canterlot. Glass Cannon had a willing partner to help open it up.

Unfortunately for Glass Cannon, his partner’s greed and sudden sense of failure took over and stole the money for the land for the amusement park. He was left with only his personal airship and everything in it, including the last bits that he had. His parents didn’t know what do: They wanted to punish him for losing the money, but they didn’t want to hurt him too much.

Eventually, Glass Cannon’s Gruncle (Grand Uncle) Pearl Eye, heard about his grandnephew and took him into his home. It was a small personalized mansion with a basement as the help’s living quarters, 3 teleporters, an orchard of zap apple trees that grow all year and many other fun and expensive things located throughout the home.

Everything was great for about a week until one day, Pearl Eye never woke up. He had a smile on his cold face. Pearl Eye died of lung cancer from the days when he was digging in his mines himself, and his I’m going to die anyways attitude, didn’t help. Luckily for Glass Cannon, Pearl Eye gave him his house and one of his nearby mines.

After Pearl Eye’s funeral, Glass Cannon wearing a grey suit, with members of his family, a few close friends of Pearl Eye and several others meet with Pearl Eye’s lawyer (Pen Point) in his office. Whispers of foul play are barely heard in the crowd. Pen Point told the crowd that he and a group of other ponies need a month or 2 to gather any and everything from Pearl Eye’s mines and get other current assets in order, before the inherences could be passed out.

Glass Cannon was allowed to stay in the mansion until it is official, but it is up to him and any other “guests” to maintain the mansion since most to all of the mansion’s help will leave after they receive their last pay check.

It has been noted that somepony usually dies during the process or right after the inherences are passed for one reason or another. Everypony is given 500 to 1,000 bits (depending on the value of the inherence) to get themselves protect and/or medicine to at least feel safe.

At the moment of the meeting being over, Glass Cannon didn’t feel safe anywhere but behind the walls of his gruncle’s mansion.

During the night, a pony in black came to the door with a business scroll for a monster protection market. Glass Cannon took a risk to follow the pony in black to his employer’s store to get non-pony bodyguards. Glass Cannon bought a freshly polished and sharpened sword, in a converted sword bag at his side, just in case it was a trick. Glass Cannon also got as many bits as he could carry on the free side of his body.

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