The Bluestar Element

Chapter 5: The Flashback

To My Dearest Friend Skate,

I am happy to hear you had such a great day in Ponyville! You have to admit, meeting the element bearers was better as a surprise, no? I'm glad to hear you enjoyed your time with Twilight Sparkle, I knew you two would hit it off. In the next letter I would love to hear what you two said about magic, just because I don't have a horn doesn't mean I'm not interested in magic. I may have not gotten a horn due to me being half pegasus, but my Alicorn half makes me live a very long time and magical knowledge could come in handy. Speaking of Alicorn, it is fascinating to know that the element bearers will live as long as Mother, Auntie Celestia, and I. If only you could be an Alicorn. But lets not think about that. I was very pleased that you enjoyed my house warming gifts, more like a house gift but whatever[Very small drawing of a winking pony]. Auntie Celestia received a letter from Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash talking about you. Twilight said she was very surprised by your wisdom for such a young age, and said you were a joy to talk to. Rainbow Dash went on and on about corkscrews or something, you just had to show off your skills didn't you? I will never understand why you don't find flying exciting, especially since we're both pegasi, but I guess I will just have to live with that. I've heard many things from Celestia about the spa in Ponyville, Twilight has described it a few times in her letters, I'm sure it must have been heavenly. I'm very happy you're becoming fast friends with the Elements, and please Skate, please stop worrying about your secret. You know they won't care, you know they will accept you. Not every place is like Canterlot elementary schools full of ignorant young colts and fillies. Its nothing to be ashamed of, so please don't worry about it. I hope to hear from you soon.

Love,

Your Best Friend, Princess Silver Dream.

"Here you go Ms. Bluestar. Ooooo fancy pin and ribbon, must be important." The cross-eyed, grey coated mailmare said to Skate, giving her a polite smile.

"Thank you Derpy! This is a letter from my best friend in Canterlot. Have a nice evening!" Skate replied, returning the smile.

"You too!" Derpy called after her from over her shoulder as she began trotting to the next house. Skate closed the door and walked over to her desk in her bedroom. She unrolled the letter and read over it. Smiling, she set the letter aside and took out a blank piece of paper and a quill so that they would be ready for her to write a letter when she got back from the party.

Pinkie Pie's "Welcome To Ponyville" party started in about an hour, and Skate needed to finish getting ready. After combing her mane a few more times, making her sure her bow looked fine, she was satisfied she looked okay. She trotted out of her bedroom and into the kitchen, grabbing a glass and filled it with water. After quickly drinking the water, she walked out of the door of her house and locked it behind her.

When Skate arrived at Sugar Cube Corner, she noticed all the lights were out.

Am I too early?Skate asked herself. She gently knocked on the door, but saw that the door wasn't latched as it opened slightly. Stepping in the door, she called out, "Is anypony here?" As the words left her mouth, the lights came on and confetti shot out, and everypony she met that day and some that she hadn't  popped out from various hiding places.

"SURPRISE!" They all yelled energetically.

"AHHH!" Skate squeaked, startled by the surprise. Once she got out her shock, she started laughing and grinning widely. "Thank you so much everypony! I've never had a surprise party!"

Pinkie gasped in her usual loud manner, and in one breath said quickly "Omaigosh you've never had a surprise party?!!! Well now you have and we're gonna have a super duper awesome fun time!"

"What kind of music do you like Skate?" Twilight asked Skate.

"DJ-PON3" Skate replied. Twilight nodded and put the DJ-PON3 record on, and the music started playing.

"Well lets start this party!" Skate beamed. DJ-PON3 started playing, at Skate's request. Skate walked around and started mingling with everypony. Eventually she made her way back to Twilight Sparkle's little group. They proceeded to have some idle chit chat while bobbing their heads to the beat.

Skate's favorite DJ-PON3 song came on, and she yelled excitedly "Come on everypony! Dance!" And everypony started dancing to the fast, upbeat dubstep.  At one point in the song, it went to a very low, skipping drum beat. It started out slow, then  started speeding up. Skate knew exactly what was building up: the bass drop. Skate stopped dancing, and so did everypony. Skate stood on her hind legs, her head back, ready to jump forward and head bob to the drop.

Here it comes! Skate thought to herself, as the beat started raising faster and faster. Finally, after about thirty seconds of the build up, DJ-PON3's voice came through the record as the music completely stopped.

"Drop that."

And then the bass drop of all drops happened. Skate stomped her hooves to the ground, her head banging forward at the same time. All the ponies followed her lead, and all their hooves hit the floor with the same loud thud. Skate was greatly enjoying herself. Dancing to her favorite music and chatting with her newly acquired friends.

When a calmer song started playing, Skate decided to meet some of the ponies there she hadn't met. She saw a mint colored unicorn mare talking with a cream colored earth pony by the food table. Skate decided to trot over to them and meet them. She made her way through the crowd of ponies enjoying the music and enjoying the party. As she made her way through the crowd, she exchanged some "hellos" and received some "Welcome to Ponyville!" She finally got to the couple, who stopped chatting as Skate approached, and the two mares gave Skate a welcoming smile.

"Hi there! The name's Skate right?" The unicorn mare asked. Skate nodded and she continued,"Well nice to meet you! My name is Lyra Heartstrings, but you can just call me Lyra. And this is my marefriend Bon Bon." Lyra pointed a hood at Bon Bon who smiled and shyly said, "Nice to meet you."

Skate shook their hooves and said to them, "Very nice to meet you too! How long have you two been dating?"

Lyra's face made a confused expression for a split second, surprised that Skate didn't mention anything about them being fillyfoolers. She brought back her normal expression and replied, "About six years. But we've known each other since we were little fillies. We're actually getting married in three months! We're so excited!"

Skate grinned happily. "Congratulations! You seem like a cute couple, well I'll let you two continue your conversation while I go see if Pinkie has made the punch yet. Again, nice meeting you!" Skate  called after the two mares while trotting away.

"You too!" Lyra called back. She looked back at her marefriend, "She was really nice, wasn't she?"

"Yes, she was. I was surprised she didn't say anything about us being two mares and getting married." Bon Bon replied, also a bit surprised.

"Yeah. Well anyways, like I was saying. I think Celestia is purposely hiding the existence of humans from ponies..."

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Skate found Pinkie rather easily, since she has the about the brightest coat in all of Ponyville. Pinkie and the other five elements were chatting as Pinkie brought out the punch. Skate eyed the punch thirstily, just waiting for Pinkie to say its ready. All the dancing had made Skate thirsty, and the punch looked very, very good.

"So that's when Celestia told me th- Skate, if you want some punch you don't have to wait for me to finish. Just go ask Pinkie if its ready." Twilight and the other elements chuckled. Skate put on a sheepish grin and made her way to the punch bowl, where Pinkie was mixing in some final ingredients.

"Hey Pinkie Pie! I just wanna say thanks for this crazy awesome party. Is the punch almost ready? I'm pretty thirsty." Skate said to the pink party pony.

"Yup! I only have to add one more ingredient to really pack a punch! Haha, get it?!" Pinkie chimed, as hyper as ever. Skate let out an unconvincing laugh, trying not to be rude and just say how terrible the pun was. Pinkie just ignored the laugh, and reached into a bag on the floor next to her. She pulled out a tall bottle filled with a clear liquid.

"And now for the final ingredient! Vodka! This'll definitely be a nice touch!" Pinkie said while pouring the alcohol  into the punch. However, Skate was not so cheerful about the alcohol being added.

Skate's heart rate increased, her eyes narrowed. She shifted nervously, forcing her thoughts to the inner depths of her mind, refusing to let them break to the surface.

A-al-alcohol?

"P-pinkie. P-please don't add any a-alcohol." Skate pleaded. The pink pony just continued pouring the liquid into the punch, however.

"Oh come on Skate! Everypony likes a bit of vodka to get a little buzz! It'll be super duper fun!" She replied. Skate started sweating, her vision becoming blurry. She fought back tears as her sweating intensified. She started hearing the voice in her ears, that terrible voice.

Twilight, Rainbow, Applejack, and Fluttershy all noticed something was wrong with Skate, and they trotted up to her, worried as to why their friend was reacting in such a strange way to alcohol.

"Skate, is something wrong? What's the matter?" Twilight asked Skate.

"Yeah kid, you look like you just saw a ghost or something." Rainbow Dash added. Skate's vision started slipping from reality to memory, and becoming more and more blurry. She felt herself becoming very weak. Pinkie finished adding the vodka, and poured a glass of punch, then tried to hoof it to Skate.

"Here you go Skate! Have some punch!" Pinkie cheerfully said with a big grin. But her grin disappeared when Skate didn't take the glass of alcoholic punch.

"I'm s-sorry Pinkie, girls. I n-need to go to th-the l-little f-fillies r-room. E-excuse me." Skate replied shakily and weakly. Becoming dizzy and her vision fading even more, she hurried outside of the main party room inSugar Cube Corner. She practically fell through the bathroom door, and locked the door behind her. Skate made her way to the mirror, still extremely dizzy and her vision blurry. She looked at herself in the mirror. She didn't see herself, she saw a little filly, broken and hurt. Tears in her own eyes and the filly's eyes started pouring out.

No! Not now! Please not now! Skate cried to herself. She slumped down to the floor, still looking at the little filly in the mirror. Small and precious, with a deep blue mane with a purple streak, her dark purple eyes big, watery, and puffy. And...black.... The filly's bow was limp on her head, and her ponytail laid around her light blue neck, which had freshly made cuts and bruises on it. Skate was looking at herself, nine years ago.

Skate lied on the floor, crying her eyes out as her vision started to turn the world into a big, blurry light. Fading in and out of this strange state, Skate continued to cry weakly. Then it happened. The thing Skate feared with every fiber of her being.

There she was, much shorter, and weaker. The little filly, terrified as she looked up into the eyes of her father, knowing what was about to happen.

The flashback had begun.

"I'm s-sorry Daddy! P-please! I'm sorry!" The little filly cried, tears welling up as she looked into the hateful eyes of her father. Jet Bluestar was a good sized stallion. He wasn't a Big Mac, not by far, but he was still big nonetheless. He looked down at his cowering daughter, hatred burning inside of him.

"Sorry?" Jet began, anger clear and strong in his voice. "SORRY?! THIS'LL TEACH YOU TO BE SORRY STUPID LITTLE BITCH!" He screamed in anger, as her brought down a powerful hoof across the face of the little filly. She cringed in pain, crying loudly as the gash formed from the hit started to bleed. "SHUT THE BUCK UP YOU WORTHLESS LITTLE FILLY! STOP CRYING!" Jet screamed again, with even more rage burning inside of him. This time he turned around, and bucked the little filly so hard in the chest she flew four feet back and slammed into the wall.

Gasping for air, little Skate tried to get back up, but collapsed from the intense pain in her chest. The many empty whiskey bottles on the floor didn't help either. All she could do was lay there and cry, and hope that the beating was done and over. However, her wish would not come true. Jet grabbed her by the mane, and threw her to the center of the room, where he hit his daughter again. This time he hit her on the side of Skate's face, causing her to cough up blood.

"I'm not letting you off so easily." He hissed at his daughter. Jet forced her to stand up again, and he got ready for the final blow. Turning around again, he got ready for an even more powerful buck, straight to his daughter's stomach. Skate stood there weakly, too weak to even cry some more. She just braced herself for the kick, hoping it would knock her out and let her go a few hours with no pain. Just sleep.

Then the buck came. And indeed it was much more powerful than the last. Bucking her right in the middle of her stomach, Skate went flying back and into the wall again, causing it to crack as her limp body smashed against it, knocking her unconscious on impact. Battered, broken, and bleeding, the little filly lied there and slept as her father trotted to some other part of the house, still huffing and puffing with anger.

Just another day...

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A/N: So this is where the Dark tag comes into play. Please leave any criticism you have in the comments, and let me know how you think I did with all the intense emotions during the flashback. Do you think I delivered it well? Or poorly? I hope you enjoyed this chapter. The next will either be up tomorrow or sometime during the next week.