Child of the sky

Chapter four:The curse Twilight's notes

It's been four days since Zap came to ponyville and so far we've found out a little about his past. So far he's only mentioned that he's been alone for most of his life, is the X-captain of the Royal Guard, and is a best friend of my brother Shining Armor. When Zap found out I was his sister he asked me if we could go to dinner it would be him, "Shiny" (is what he calls Shining must be the nickname Zap gave him) Cadence, and I. We already made plans to meet at canterlout for a nice dinner and Zap also said he wanted to talk to Celestia he even called her by the nickname Princess luna gave her "Tia" Zap is apparently good friends with celestia to be able to call her that. Tomorrow we go and have lunch so I got my schedule all figured out and I tried to have Zap help me and he needed a break after five minutes because he got a head ache but he said he gets does at the most random times.

"Ok I got everything set up for toady and left a schedule for Spike tomorrow now I just needs to see if Zaps all set."

I looked around for half an hour but no sign of him. I saw AppleJack selling her apples so I decided to see if she's seen Zap.

"Well howdy there Twi hows your day been?"

"It's been alright just had to set up a schedule but I need to find Zap you haven't seen him have you?" AppleJack seemed surprised she said that she hasn't seen any sign of him. I asked around town to see if any pony has seen him and I ran into Fluttershy I know Zap and Shy are friends all ready judging by how well they get along and Zap is really talented with animals he can calm the animals down that only Shys "Stare" could only calm down.

"Hey Fluttershy hows your day been?"

"Oh hello Twilight it's been alright but I'm a bit worried I haven't seen Zap all day and that's not natural for his morning flights he always passes by my house and i knew something was off so I went to Rarity's she said that he wasn't downstairs or anywhere in the house when she woke up but he always says hi to all of us at least once. I asked Rainbow if she's seen him since she's always with him for his morning flight's but she hasn't either you haven't seen him either have you? But he would at least leave a note to tell us if he was going somewhere." Fluttershy did look really concerned so far no pony has seen any sight of him and now I'm worried that's not like Zap to not tell anyone where he was going he would at least tell Rarity where he would be.

"So no pony has seen him and he didn't leave a note I know he has a journal maybe there's a note in there."

"Oh no Rarity tried to see if there was a message in his journal but she can't even touch it. It has some weird magic that doesn't let anyone but Zap touch it maybe you could get a look at it and see if you can disable the magic." Where did Zap get a book with a defensive type of magic on it but maybe he put it there so when I tried to use magic on it the spell would disappear and only we could read it.

"All right I will try so let's go to Rarity's house and take a look at the journal." Shy left out a big sigh as she heard the good news Shy really is kind when it comes to her friends and would get really concerned when some pony vanished.

"Well, here it is girls this trap on the book is really tough even if you hold it with magic you have to be careful." We made it to Rarity's house and she got the journal so all we have to do is break the trap.

"Ok thanks for getting it Rarity now lets take a look at it." I just used the simple Scan spell to take a look at it and the trap level was extremely high it would take a lot of magic to break it.

"Apparently zap didn't want anyone else but us reading it because it looks like only I can break it because the trap level is extremely high but here goes nothing." I focused all my magic to break the trap and it looked like it was working till a lightning bolt was throw at me and zapped my horn causing me to get dizzy. It seems it has a counter against anyone who try's to break it and if you touched it with something to try and flip the page you would still get shocked.

"Twilight are you okay that looked like it hurt." I was still dizzy from the bolt that hit me it appears it can't kill or really damage someone just shock them and get them really dizzy and they would lose there grasp on it.

"I guess he doesn't want any pony to read it." I guess he didn't leave a note in there if there was a counter spell

"Well it was worth a shot but thanks anyway Twilight and you girls really should be going it looks like it's going to rain and the weather pegasus say it's a big one I would have you stay here but I'm really busy and can't have any pony distract me."

"That's alright Rarity. Fluttershy how about we head to my house and you can stay there till the rain goes away."

"Sure twilight I would probably never make it to my cottage in time before it would start raining."

On our way back it had started raining but it would get worse. I heard a small sneeze and looked around and didn't see anyone.

"Fluttershy was that you who sneezed." She shook her head no and started looking around to. It really started raining now but was still going to get worse when I saw something move in the alleyway.

"Whose there?" All of a sudden a colt showed himself from the hiding place looked at me and began to ran away but his coat and mane were all soaked I put him around my magic and grabbed shy and we made it to my house.

"We made it good it just started pouring." I noticed something the colt I grabbed was no where in sigh but there were small hoof prints on the floor board.

"Hello little colt where are you I wanted to see if you were alright?" All of a sudden he bolted around me still not giving me a chance to look at him before shy caught him.

"Alright why are running from us and who are you?" It seemed kinda rude but he was fighting back to break out of shy's grip while still trying to cover his face.'

"You better calm down little pony were not here to hurt you we just want to see if your all right." He finally broke free but I stopped him with my magic. He finally finally took note that he couldn't get away

"If I let you go will you stop running?" He looked at the ground and gave a small replay

"Y-yes I won't run" I set him down finally getting a good look at him he had a black coat and a blonde mane a lot like zaps even had the black singed at the end.

"Alright who are you?" I looked at him in the eye and didn't respond he had Blood red eye's I finally noticed who he was. He was Zap as a colt.

"So you finally realized I didn't want you to see me like this now you know and yes I really am Zap but as a colt just both of you sit down and I will tell you." So after him making us sit down he got on the table so that we were eye level.

"I know you guys are really surprised to see me as a colt but there's a reason for it. You see when I was the captain of the royal guard I made a lot of powerful enemies one of them had place a curse on me so that once a month I would turn into a colt again. She put a curse on me and I didn't want anyone to see me like this.

Fluttershy picked him up and started to snuggle him "Oh Zap thank goodness your okay and your so adorable as a colt." Zap tried to break free but it was a useless struggle

"Shy let me go I don't like being held like this. Now let me go" Shy noticed what she was doing and placed him on the floor.

"Now then Zap why didn't you tell us about this curse we could have helped you with it." He explained he went to celestia to have her break the curse and failed.

"There's just no way this curse can be broken. But now you know and just tell all the rest and I realized that I left my journal you guys didn't try to open it did you." We told him what happened and he just shook his head saying that it was a present from celestia and she placed that spell on it. It was his personal journal that no pony was to see but him without his permission.

"Well then what time is it I'm really sleepy and this curse will end soon." It was currently close to midnight and we were all sleepy.

"Well it looks like we should all get to sleep. SPIKE!! where are you." I realized I was standing right next to the small zap and he had his hooves over his ears and looked at me with his evil look.

"Yeah yeah I heard Twilight I will get the guest to bed but Fluttershy and Zap will have to share the bed." Zap and Shy seemed fine with it since they were to tired to care. Zap the colt got a little to tired and jumped on shy's back rearranging her mane  he made it like a pillow to rest his head on and was fast asleep.

"Well isn't that cute he over worked himself" Shy was just giggling as little zap was fast asleep on her back and she put him on the guest bed and she slide under making sure not to wake zap up as  I did to. Today we learned about Zaps curse that once a month he will turn into a colt for a day leaving him weak and unable to fight. I found the book Zecora returned and I wanted to learn about this "Children of the skies" so I lifted the book up and began to read it. It appears that these "children of the skies" has special talents that normal pegasus had and one of them surprised me there was tricks only a certain type of "child of the sky" can preform and there was a picture of the sonic rainboom. So is Rainbow Dash a "Child of the sky" she certainly seemed like she could and this proves it but does that mean Zap might be one because of his first visit to visit dash. I will have to check tomorrow Shy, Zap, and Spike were all fast asleep and now it's time for me to.