Blood Ties

by Tiny Branch

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Mystery, Rainbow Dash, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Scootaloo, Adventure, Tragedy, Gabby, Dark, Sad, Drama, Gore, Original Character
Length: 2007

Scootaloo receives a letter from her actual family on her 15th birthday. Desperate to find them she sets on a journey of self discovery.

On Scootaloo’s 15th birthday she wakes up and finds a a letter on her bedside table. After reading it, the signature says love mom and dad. She is overjoyed to find out she has a real family, well which is alive. She immediately packs for a journey of self discovery. She tells the other Crusaders and they join her and Rainbow on her journey.

Published 2017-12-17 15:20:06 UTC
Last updated 2017-12-17 15:20:06 UTC

Prologue

Three pegasi were sitting on the stone floor of the cave in the mountain they were living in. The cave was furnished and was full of posters of the Wonderbolts. Outside the cave was a large village, population 138, surrounded by sharp rocks. A dark magical aurora trapped the ponies inside. No pony could get in or out. The village was dull, the only colours came from the drepressed ponies held captive in it. Atop the mountain was a castle, as grey as the village. There lived a cruel monster. You could only just spit our his name, Crimson Moon. He was a powerful and power-crazed hippogriff who would daily feed off a random pony’s power with his magical amulet. He and his ‘inner’ ‘circle’ kept the force field working and would beat up the earth ponies when they didn’t give him 1/2 of their crops.

The oldest pegasus in the cave was dark emerald green, his mane was a dark violet. He had a scar on his right eye, after Crimson scratched his eye when he tried to refuse to give up his magic. He was blinded in that eye and his other one was a beautiful bright blue. His cutie mark was a lightning bolt behind a silhouette of a scooter. The other adult pegasus was a bright orange, her mane was yellow and red. Her eyes were a beautiful blue, just like the starlit sky out side the cave. Her fur shone in the moonlight, her cutie mark was a blue and purple mist and stars twinkling. She was holding the final pegasus in the room, a younge filly. Her coat was the same beautiful orange as her mother’s. Her mane was was was a brighter than her father’s but it was still the same eyes as his. She was sleep. Her mother was the first to speak,”Scootajade, Scootaloo can’t live her. My friend, Azure Myth still has magic and she is the most powerful unicorn I know. She can send Scoots to Ponyville were we met, to Holiday and Lofty. They will look after her. Jade, it is for her to live a good life.”

“Astral Starlight, she is our child. We can’t let her go,” Jade replied.

Astral argued,”Yes but if she stays we could lose her still, in a worse way than this. Remember Wild Strikes and Blaze.”

Jade sighed, Wild Strikes was a friend they made when they were first captured and taken here. He and a few other ponies were murdered on the spot when they tried to touch the stones, trapping us. Blaze was a friendly colt who was one of the 3 foals chosen every 5 moons to be slaughtered. ”Starlight, you are correct, she can live a life worth living then. Go get Azure, make her teleport Scootaloo to safety.”

“Yes, Jade. I will,” they smiled as they say hope for their young one. Astral went to the entrance of the cave and walked down the stairs going down the mountain to the rest of the village. Jade looked around the cave, he went and packed a few things into a hot air ballon’s basket. He firstly put a pillow and Scootaloo on it next to it. He put her favourite blanket on her as she slept. He found his old limited addition scooter he rode when he was a colt, he put it in. He put his old helmet in for safety’s sake too. Then he found his signed photo of Wind Rider, a photo of the Sonic Rainboom, a photo of him and Astral on their Wedding. He put them all in. He got out of of his Wonderbolts photo’s. Then he got a bunch of photos of one of Astral besties in college, Rainbow Dash. All her other photos were lost. Then he wrote a letter to Lofty and Holiday.

Dear Lofty

Sis, I hope you and Holiday can look after me and Starlight’s child, Scootaloo. Were are trapped in a place were we cannot live a happy life. Let Scoots live a happy one, tell her that we are dead, or have been thought to be dead. Ok, I hope she lives a happy life. Remember her birthday is the 21rst of May.

Love Scootajade.

Astral continued down the mountain and walked slowly to Azure’s house. Nighttime was the only time foals were aloud out side and she saw to fillies playing with a ball and smiled, hoping they wouldn’t be chosen for slaughter. The nice thing about Azure was she lived very near to the edge of the mountain. I had and idea, I may have lost my power to fly for now, but I could glide down if I spread my wings enough. Then I jumped off, I worked! I was gliding down the mountain. This was the most alive I felt since me and Jade conceived Scootaloo. Then I dived down and up again then glided down to Azure Myth’s house. I landed by her doormat. I knocked on her door,”Azure, ready to pit your magic to the test?”

A pink pony with a whiteand green mane opened the door. Her eyes were green and her cutie mark was three green stars,”Yes Star, I guess he finally agreed?”

“Yup, firstly can you tel-a-port us to our cave? Bet ya can’t?” I chuckled.

“Ha! I can! And I love a challenge!” she shouted as she stared to form a little aurora around her horn then it exploded and we were back in our cave,”Told ya I could!”

We walked over to Scootaloo,”Astral, you sure?” Jade had a worried look on his face as he said it.

“Yes, before we change our minds. Do it NOW Azure! Goodbye my little star!” I shouted.

Azure lit her horn again with it’s green aurora and exploded. Scootaloo was the first to leave this prison. The explosion had woken Crimson from his slumber. He used the magic he had consumed and teleported here. He shouted,”Who was practicing powerful magic!?” He had a angry expression. His claws were extended, his beak was open wide, he was wearing the amulet on his chest and a dark aurora was escaping it. His red and black feathered mane looked menacing. His bloodstained white feathered fur was rugged and full of ash. His beak was as black as the night but still managed to shine.

“Me,” Azure said and was completely submissive when he took her magic, she already had done all the good she could in this hell of a place. She fell to the fall as we ran to her, never had a pony fallen like that, they may of been wobbly on their hooves but something like that had never happened. She got up, aleast she wasn’t dead but then fell again. Eventually she got up and stayed on her hooves,”There! You have taken my magic! Now leave!”

“Holiday? What is this?” asked a pony.

“I don’t know Lofty, all I know that it is a foal and it has a letter, you can read it,” replied Holiday.

“Ok,” Lofty replied,”Ok, it says,Dear Lofty. Sis, I hope you and Holiday can look after me and Starlight’s child, Scootaloo. Were are trapped in a place were we cannot live a happy life. Let Scoots live a happy one, tell her that we are dead, or have been thought to be dead. Ok, I hope she lives a happy life. Remember her birthday is the 21rst of May. Love Scootajade.”

“They are alive!” shouted Holiday.

“I am as happy as you, but now we have a child to look after, let us make them proud.”

A Letter From the Family

I slowly opened my eyes and yawned, I got up and stretched then I saw Rainbow Dash if front of me and the she shouted,”HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAMP!” Then she flew over and hugged me.

“Thank you Rainbow Dash!” I said as I hugged her back.

“15 years now! Great job! 3 years since you got your cutie mark! And I see those wings are slowly growing too! They have doubled in size since last year!” shouted Rainbow to reassure me.

“Thanks, but it may be a while before I can, if I ever do, to fly. But it doesn’t matter I am a grounded to the ground for life, I am still the luckiest pony ever because I have you!” I said then I looked at the photo I had next to my bed, it was a photo of my mom and dad with RD. Rainbow was 3 years younger but that didn’t stop them from being besties.I no longer smiled and I almost cried when I noticed a letter next to my bed,”Hey look RD, I have a card under my pic of my you and my parents! Is it from you?”

“No, my present is on the other side of your bed. But you can open it first anyway,” she replied.

“Thanks Rainbow! Your the best!” I shouted.

I reached for the card and and brought it closer. It had a particular, it recognised the smell but couldn’t remember from what it was. I opened it and there was a whole passage of words on and on piece of paper. I decided that it would be best if I read it out loud.

“Dear Scoots,

I hope you have lived a great life so far, we wish we could be with you right now. We have been trapped powerless in a horrible, dull, depressing world. We wish we never got into this position. We finally got a unicorn Powerful enough to get this letter sent, we would of sent this to you much sooner anyway. I hope your anunts have spoiled you and that you are happy with yourself. I hope you met all of those Wonderbolts and one of our close friend Rainbow dash. Here is a feather from both of us, and if you ever have the courage to see us, please don’t. Spring River Valley Mountains have seen better days, if you come.. you are in grave danger.

Love Mom and and Dad.”

My heart missed a few beats after I read those last words. Two feathers dropped out out the rest of the envelope as well as a recent picture of my parents. The picture showed the same pegasi as the other one, only my father had a scar on his face. His right eye was blind. My mither was the same beautiful pegasi only now she had a more rugged mane and a cut in her ear. They were smiling and their wings were spread wide.

“Scoots? You ok, you have been frozen still for a few seconds?”

“Oh, sorry. MY MOM AND DAD IS ALIVE!!! I am just soo happy! I bet they don’t know who you are! We must find them! You beat so many villains in the past! Com on! We must save them!” I shouted overjoyed.

Rainbow was the same “Ok Scoots! But we can’t go alone, we must take the other elements with us.”

Then we saw our flanks flash, I was being called. Yes! I was being called with Rainbow! I jumped onto her back and she flew me to Twilight’s Castle of Friendship. We were there and so was the rest of the CMC’s. We were called to the one place I was hoping we were gonna go to, Spring River Valley Mountains. But then we saw Gabby’s mark, then were saw a klutzy griffin fall into the room.”Gabby!” we shouted.

“Hiya Cutie Mark Crusaders! I was gonna visit for Scootaloo’s birthday but then this started glowing like you described it when it happened to the main 6, so I flew here and the same is happening to you! Rainbow Dash! You are coming along! Yeah! Wait till I tell Gilda!” she shouted.

“Yeah, yeah. Now we got one big mission ahead of us!” she shouted.

“Well, I am packed!” said. Gabby.

“We’ll get packed!” shouted the CMC’s.