Opportunity of a Lifetime

Chapter 5: Betrayal

(5 Years Ago)

Dusk was sitting in class, at the Cloudsdale Flight School, with his best friend, Blizzard Burst. Blizzard had a white coat and a stocky figure. His has a ruffled, light blue mane and has dark green eyes. His cutie mark was a large snowflake, backed up by several smaller snowflakes. He was also one of the most popular students in the school. He was admired from nearly everypony in the school and he knew that. Dusk counted himself lucky that they met when they were only five years old.

It was nearly the end of the day, the last lesson was was English.

“Hey Dusk,” whispered Blizzard, “what is your report about?”

Dusk shows him his page. “It is about ‘why homework should be banned from school’.” said Dusk.

“I did mine about ‘why jobs should be more accessible to students’.” Responded Blizzard

“I’m pretty much done, I just need to write on more paragraph and I’ll be-”

“Excuse me students.” The teacher grabbed the classes attention.

“Since there is only one minute left for today, I’ll need to collect everyone’s work. I’ll hand them out in tomorrow’s lesson so you can finish it.”

The teacher walked around the classroom, collecting the student’s work as he does so. He arranged them into a neat pile and placed them on his desk. He turned back to the class, as the bell rung, he lets the students leave.

“Have a nice day.”

Dusk and Blizzard go back to their lockers, which were right next to each other. When they both grab their saddlebags, Dusk noticed that a girl was hugging Blizzard.

“Hey Cloudie.” Said Dusk.

“Hiya Dusk.” Responded Cloud Charger.

Cloud Charger was Blizzard’s marefriend. She has a bright orange coat, with a naturally curly, crimson mane. She has blue eyes and a storm cloud cutie mark. She was also one of Dusk’s oldest friends and has been in a relationship with Blizzard for a week.

“Hi Cloud,  how have you been?” asked Blizzard.

“Not bad, I got a ton of homework from our Maths teacher but other than that, I’ve been fine.”

“That’s good.”

Dusk and Blizzard were both sitting in their dorm. They have both been room-mates since they were allowed to have their own dorms. Dusk was making dinner, because both of them knew that he was the better cook. The last time Blizzard cooked, he tried to heat up hayfries and failed miserably.  He somehow made the oven catch everything on fire and he nearly burnt down the dorm.

Dusk cooked a simple vegetable soup and decided to start a conversation.

“So how are things going with Cloudie?” asked Dusk.

“Pretty good. It’s too bad though that she isn’t in our class.”

“You miss her hugs that much?”

“A bit. She does tend to be a bit clingy.” Stated Blizzard

“Yeah, I know. She’s like that.”

The next day, Dusk woke up and realized that Blizzard left the dorm before him, which was strange. Dusk checked the time and sure enough, it said 6:02 AM. Blizzard is never awake until after 7:00 AM.

He decided to try and find where Blizzard went, because this was awfully suspicious of him. He walked onto the school grounds, which were luckily open at 6AM every day. He knew the faces of every student who woke up early. Normally only himself and 8 other students were awake at this time.

After thirty minutes of searching, he couldn’t find Blizzard anywhere. He decided to walk back to his locker so he could prepare for the day’s lessons. When he approached the hallway, with his locker, he saw a large crowd of ponies in the area. They were making a lot of noise, but they weren't really saying anything distinguishable.

He moved through the crowd and he saw that they were surrounding Blizzard and Cloud. Dusk had no idea what happened. He saw Blizzard, who look satisfied, prideful and slightly angry. He was towering over Cloud Charger, who was badly beaten. She had a black eye, multiple scratches and cuts, bruises all over her body and a lot of blood dripping out of her body. She sat on her haunches, crying her eyes out and pleading with Blizzard Burst.

“I-I-I’m s-sorry Bliz-z-zard.” She said in between sobs, “I d-didn’t-”

“Shut up, you ugly mule,” he said with malice, “I know that you cheated on me.”

“B-B-But I d-didn’t, E-Emerald is l-lying t-to you.”

Dusk could not believe what he was seeing. Blizzard brutally beat down Cloud just because of a rumor that he heard. He wanted to step in, but he just couldn’t.

“That is wrong and you know it Cloud Charger! Emerald Star would never lie to me.”

Dusk knew that Emerald had a massive crush on Blizzard, and that she hated Cloud just because she was going out with Blizzard.

Cloud looked at the crowd. She saw a lot of Blizzard’s ‘friends’ among the crowd, but one face caught her attention, Dusk's.

He saw that she was staring at him with the saddest face that he had ever seen. He could tell that she wanted him to help her, but he was too shocked and scared to interfere. Dusk then saw the worst thing that he would ever see.

His best friend landing a final punch to his oldest friend.

He could only watch on in tears as he saw Cloud’s head hitting the ground.

(Current Time)

He awoke from the floor of Fluttershy’s house in tears. Nearby, he could only see her curled up in a ball crying. He moved to where she was and was trying to comfort her, while still upset.

“F-Fluttershy, it’s a-all good now. S-Stop crying please.”

She looked up, with tears down her face, “Dusk, I’m so s-sorry, I was so w-worried about you.”

“It is OK, now. Can I explain what I think j-just happened.”

“O-OK, Dusk.”