EQg Sunburst: Truth Seeker
EQg Sunburst: Truth Seeker
Sunburst was happy, he finally managed to achieve his dream: to be interviewed by one of the great DJs of Canterlot city, a guy named Loud Mic.
He knew that even if the people heard about the truth, less than ten percent would believe him, but he had to try. That's why he started his blog when he was in middle school about all the strange things that happen around the city and beyond, and the danger those things meant to everyone – especially to him, after what happened to his sister...
What he couldn't expect was the number of views he would get, and how his small blog would grow day after day, to a point where he would even be invited to this show.
And now, here he was. In the building owned by Cantermusic Studios and facing the door where the interview would be conducted, and where his renewed interviewer awaited.
"Mr. Shimmer, please enter the room." The secretary spoke calmly, signaling to the sign over the door that read 'off'.
Sunburst only nodded while trying to hide his nervousness, he took a deep breath and entered the door.
Soon after entering the room, Sunburst was struck by a disgusting smell, something so awful that he felt as if the hair in his goatee would fall off. Instinctively he turned around, searching for the origin of the odor, only to see a middle-aged man in the other side of the table where all the equipment for the interview stood.
"You must be Sunburst, right?" The man extended his hand to Sunburst without getting up, and he opened a tooth grin that was supposed to be friendly, but Sunburst felt only strangeness from his yellow teeth and disheveled look. Even so, Sunburst was determined to follow his goal of warning the population, so he chose to grab his hand, "My name is Mic, Loud Mic, Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you to..." Sunburst spoke unsure while sitting at the table and taking a better look at the man in front of him. His skin was pale yellow, a great contrast with his short and disheveled green hair and dark green eyes. His clothes were terrible, and a person didn't need a stylist to know they were terrible and past the point of being thrown into the garbage. The shirt was supposed to be white, but there were so many holes and stains of food – probably the ones that littered the floor of the room – that its color changed to faded yellow, and he was wearing battle-hardened jeans shorts and crocks.
"So, are you ready for the interview?" A strange contrast with his looks, Mic's voice was energetic and activating.
"Not really, but I wrote some bullet points to talk about"
"Cool, Can I see it?"
Sunburst had a bad feeling about it, but couldn't do anything. Loud Mic was the host of the interview and probably wanted to know beforehand what he wanted to talk about. So, with wariness, he took out the small note he had in his pocket and handed it to Mic.
"Wow, you really did it" Loud Mic spoke while reading the small note, and for some reason it made Sunburst feel proud because of all the research he did, and all the work he had to simplify everything into ten topics. "It is a pity it is worthless..."
"What...?" Almost as if it was in slow motion, Sunburst saw Mic tear apart his notes while maintaining a big and yellow grin.
"You won't be needing this because..." He pointed at himself with his finger, "I own the show."
"What..." Sunburst was still motionless, he couldn't believe the situation he was in.
"Well, you have ten seconds to gather yourself because we will be starting" Sunburst gulped, and Loud Mic winked at him "This will be FUN!"
2 (The first Problem) - Not about the topic, but about yourself
Sunburst wasn't ready when he saw Mic pushing one of the buttons to start recording, and had his mouth still open from the DJ's action when he started.
"Good morning, Canterlot, it's me, direct from Cantemusic Studios, your favorite DJ, Loud Mic!" The DJ pushed another button and Sunburst heard the sound of applause, "And today we are here with the owner of the famous, or rather infamous, blog known as "Truth Seekers" please, my friend, introduce yourself."
Sunburst used all his will to recompose himself to speak into the microphone in front of him, he wanted to sound the best possible, but, unfortunately for him, his voice came out in a strange falsetto – almost the same thing that happens when a teenager changes its voice.
"HEllO er..." Sunburst cleared his throat trying, and failing, to bring his voice to normal " My nAme is SunBURST..."
A snickering brought Sunburst attention to the DJ, who was trying to hold its laughter. Maybe it was the anger building inside him, but Sunburst felt as if he could talk normally with this... individual.
"Wow, nice to meet you, Sunburst, I loved your introduction" Mic mocked Sunburst and pressed a button that made the sound of "BOO's" fill the room."Now where should we start? Oh, I know, Mr. Sunburst, did you prepare anything beforehand? Like some notes or points you wish to talk about in our interview?"
Sunburst just looked at the DJ Loud Mic, anger building even more with the guts he had of talking about the notes he had torn apart... He couldn't even answer.
"Oh, you don't have any? Well, too bad then... It seems it will be my way, then."
"Okay..." Sunburst weakly answered.
"So, first, tell us about you. What are your work and hobbies? We want to know more about you!"
"Well, I'm a teacher. I give lessons in math and physics in Crystal Prep... I even have a formation on theoretical physics and... well, my hobby is to read books and write on my blog..."
"Wow... theoretical physics... what an intelligent little nerd you are!" Loud Mic pushed another button that produced the sound of laughter "Seriously, I can't imagine why someone as bright as you would be interested in those urban legends and legends you write on that blog..."
Sunburst was getting even more furious, but inside him a small sense of 'pride' for being called intelligent screamed at him to calm down. He took a deep breath and talked again, this time slower so that he wouldn't have problems with his voice.
"Well, it is not hard to understand why..." For a moment his mind traveled to his past when he was in middle school and saw his older sister disappear in front of him in a flash of light and how, after that, no one remembered anything about her. Even he, who saw everything, couldn't remember her name and barely remember her face or voice. "You can say that there are many things between the earth and the sky that the human mind can't easily comprehend, and I wish to try to understand those things"
"Riiight...if you say so. For me, and the majority of my listeners, this is a bunch of rubish..."
"What?"
"Yeah... nothing more than legends that people created to spook kids and make them behave. It's funny to think that you, a teacher, would pursue something dumb as it is..."
"Are you even listening to YOURSELF?" Sunburst tried to contain himself, but all the anger that was building inside him started slipping out, "ALL stories have a lesson and truth in them. True, some have only moral lessons, but others are more, FAR MORE than this. You just have to take a look at a zoology book to notice the great number of animals that were believed to be legends till someone like me, who believed in them, started researching and found out that they WERE real!"
"But... in your blog you talk about the alien influence in our world, how they helped ancient civilizations and that many creatures are, in fact, alien experiments that got rogue..."
"..."
"What the problem, Sunburst?" Loud Mic smiled disgustingly to Sunburst, "The cat got your tongue?"
"NO!" Sunburst almost screamed, "Mic, you just need to look around!
Think Mic, think!
"Why do you think that almost ALL cultures in our world have so many similarities in their lore? Why, even on the Eastern side of the world, they have tales about humanoids with horse heads helping the development and advancement of the civilization? HOW THEY BUILD THE THINGS THEY DID!"
"Simple, they used slaves, many scientists proved that it was possible and -"
"NO, IT WASN'T! EVEN NOW, WE DON'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE WONDERS AS THE PYRAMIDS, NOT WITH THE FINESSE THEY DID IT! "
"But there's no proof. It is impossible to have."
"NO, IT WASN'T! EVEN NOW, WE DON'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO CREATE WONDERS AS THE PYRAMIDS, NOT WITH THE FINESSE THEY DID IT!"
"But there's no proof. It is impossible to have."
"What if I told you it was possible to find one?"
"Hum?" Mic was curious, Sunburst could see it in his eyes.
"Some time ago the Stargaze Observatory registered that a meteor fell somewhere between here and the Everfree Forest, but for some reason, there wasn't any sound echoing in the city... there was no explosion... nothing that was supposed to happen happened after it fell."
"I didn't know about this..."
"Yes, and it is officially recorded. Not only that, but did you notice the many strange things happening around our city?"
"Like, did someone see small green things walking around?"
"Exactly. Two weeks ago a couple called the police talking about a group of small green creatures trying to attack them near the Hippogriff Lake. Not only that, but many more things happened not long after the meteor fell" Sunburst cleared his throat again, this time he was confident, he was on his field. "Like the disappearance of some people in the Everfree camp, the strange fire tornado that hovered over the Castle of the two crowns for almost two hours; reports of strange monsters strolling the roads of the rural area after midnight, and the list go on and on..."
"Wow... that explains a lot of why you write the blog..."
"And that's why I made a decision."
"Please, continue..."
"In some days I will put together a team to investigate all those strange events and, being it natural, supernatural or even extra-terrestrial, I WILL uncover the truth."
"Let me guess... because you're a truth seeker?"
"Because I'm a TRUTH SEEKER!"
Author's Note
Let's start with the world building! 
Codex: EQg World
