New guy at CHS

"You be safe now Emerald...," Cobalt said as he walked with his sister to the train station.

"I should tell you that. Besides, won't you be late to school for doing this?"

"I got permission from Principal Celestia to do this. I'll be fine."

"Alright...," Emerald looked ahead, and she saw her train, "There's my train. Well, it was nice visiting you Cobalt."

"Likewise...," The two siblings shared a hug before she left. Once they broke apart, Emerald exhaled deeply, and began walking towards the train. Before she left, Cobalt stopped her, "Oh wait, Emerald!"

"Huh?" Cobalt held out his phone, and Emerald sighed, "You want my number, don't you?"

"Yeah..."

"Alright, here you go," Emerald gave Cobalt her number, and this time she was off, "I'll be back to visit again in 3 months. Hopefully you'll still be here for me to visit."

"I'll try my best."

"It should be the girls who should try their best."

"I see, well get going. Don't want to miss your train!"

"Yeah, yeah, bye Cobalt."

The two siblings waved each other off, both with a smile on their faces. The train took off, and Cobalt turned around with a frown on his face. He walked towards a nearby corner. He lifted his sleeve to reveal a large tattoo. It's design could not be explained.

This tattoo was given to me after my father was imprisoned. Traditionally, it's suppose to protect us from all evil, but Idon't think it can. It's just a tattoo...

Cobalt sighed as he began making his to school. Meanwhile, Sunset looked on from a distance, a look of confusion on her face as she witnessed Cobalt's tattoo.

"What was that tattoo? How have we never noticed it? I mean, yeah, he does wear jackets all the time, but when he was at his apartment? How did we not see it?" Sunset sighed as she smiled in relieve, "Well, at least he's keeping it concealed. If Principal Celestia saw that tattoo, he'd be in real trouble."

It was then she realized she had been talking out loud. She looked around to see if anyone heard her, but no one was around, "I guess I picked that up from Cobalt," She sighed, and went on with her day.

Meanwhile, in a darkened, eerie cave like throan room, a man decked out in spiked armor, along with a dark robe. He sat with boredom as two other men knelt in front of him, "My Lord, you don't seem happy."

"Of course not, this invasion on the human realm, how long must we wait?"

"The time will be right soon. Once your son loses full control in his dark power, your time to invade will present itself."

"Hmph..."

Back on the surface, Cobalt was absent from all his classes. His friends began to worry, and once school ended, they went straight to his house.

Once they arrived at his apartment, they noticed his door was open. They slowly moved towards the door, "Cobalt darling, are you in here? Why weren't you at school today?" There was no answer. They all looked at each other with worried faces.

"Maybe he's asleep...," Sunset said, in an attempt to soothe their worries.

"We're coming in Cobalt darling," Rarity opened the door slowly to reveal a horrible sight.

Cobalt's apartment was destroyed, the place was nearly covered in blood, and reeked of it as well. Rarity couldn't help but gag at the smell and sight. The others stood in shock, unable to even express any body language as to what they're looking at.

While the others remained at Cobalt's doorway, Sunset rushed inside, and screamed, "Cobalt!" At the mention of his name, the others quickly followed Sunset.

Cobalt was extremely wounded, a large gash on his abdomen, his arm seemed to be nearly coming off, and he had large amounts of blood around and on his body. In his hands, was a large halberd, with a green handle, and a golden dragon wrapping around it. The dragon's mouth was opened on the head where the blade protruded out.

Rarity ran to him, disregarding the blood she was stepping, and began wiping the blood from Cobalt's mouth. She shook out of anger, and turned to her friends, "Don't just stand there! Call for help!"

Rarity yelled unlike anyone has ever seen her yell. Tears ran down her eyes as she saw the shape Cobalt was in. Sunset walked off to call the police and an ambulance.

Rarity began touching the hand that was holding the halberd, she silently sobbed as she caressed it, "Who or what could've done this? Why Cobalt? Of all people..."

"They'll be here in 10 minutes..."

"Can't they get here faster?! Look at the condition he's in!"

"We know, but that's the fastest they're gonna get here. Trust me, I tried to get them here faster, but with the distance from his house and the hospital, it'll take some time."

"Why...? Why did this happen to him?" Rarity continued caressing his hand as she spotted something on the blade of Cobalt's halberd, "Wait," It was a piece of paper. It was stabbed by the halberd. The paper was ripped through the middle as Rarity opened it.

"What does it say?"

"If you wish to prevent this from happening to either of you, or to Cobalt again, I insist you-."

"And?"

They all waited for another answer from Rarity, but she shook her head, "I can't read it. I mean, it is covered in blood, and there's a huge tear in the middle of it."

"Here, let me try this," Sunset took the note from Rarity's hand, and her hands began to glow a bright red aura as the paper magically fixed itself, much to the girls' surprise, "I told you Cobalt was teaching me some stuff. This was one of the easiest powers he showed. However, I can only do it with paper, but let's read the rest of this note."

Sunset stared down at the paper, and read it over, "I insist that you show Cobalt this note, and no one else. This is an attack on humanity, and it starts with that boy Shining Cobalt. If you want to keep yourselves safe, then stay away from Cobalt, and no harm will be done to any of you. If you wish to stay with this foolish boy, then that's your own foolish choice."

"What is that suppose to mean?"

"I think someone is attempting to take humanity out, and they know Cobalt could be a potential threat to their goal."

"That means..."

"It doesn't matter what we do, we're still going to be in danger...," Sunset smiled and knelt beside Cobalt, "But... that won't mean we will... do what the note says. Cobalt is our friend, and we're not going to abandoned him, right?"

"I know I won't. When I find whoever did this will pay!" Rarity said with a flame of determination ignited within her eyes.

"Ah know ah will. Cobalt is my friend too, and there's nothing ah won't do to help him," Applejack stated in agreement.

"Of course I will! These punks that attacked Cobalt are gonna feel my fist in their face!" Rainbow Dash said as she cracked knuckles.

"Cobalt... is too nice to be left alone like this. I... want to help Cobalt. Especially after all he's done for me," Fluttershy stared at Cobalt as she said this. She joined Rarity in caressing him softly.

"Cobalt is my best friend, and he's a great guy to be around. I definitely wanna help him. I still haven't had a party with him yet!" Pinkie said with anger in her voice.

"Alright, then when Cobalt wakes up, we'll show him this note, and tell him our choice, no matter what he says."

They soon heard sirens outside Cobalt's apartment, and they all ran out to attract the attention of the authorities. Ambulances, police cars, S.W.A.T. vehicles and other cars of the law.

-Inside Cobalt's mind-

"What the hell happened?"

Can't you tell? You were attacked at your apartment.

"Wait, I was at the train station wasn't I?"

You were, but you arrived back at your apartment because you had forgotten your backpack.

"Aw man, that's the 5th time I've done that since I started school. Hold on, I was attacked?"

Yeah, you tried to fight back, but whoever your opponent was had much more power than you. Power that you could have with me.

"I know what you are now. You're the dark power that resides in me, correct?"

Took you long enough. Now you know the power I can give you. Will you accept them?

"No, I vowed never to use you. No matter what..."

Vows are meant to be broken. Especially ones that are to be broken inevitably. Listen, your friends will be in danger if you can't even protect them. What makes you think you can protect them when you couldn't even defend yourself? Come on, you want to protect them right? No, actually, you're afraid the first and only friends you'll have after this endeavor. Just use me, and you'll feel a whole lot better afterwards. Muhahahahah!

"Just stop this... get out of my head!"