From a Painful Past to Solace in Ponyville

A couple days have passed since visiting Twilight and removing the spell. That memory hasn’t show back up yet both Crimson and Scootaloo completely forgot about it. Crimson has been busy working on a training regimen for Scootaloo’s flight training. Scootaloo has been spending all her time with her friends trying to get their cutie marks. Crimson decided to give the fox a name since he was living with them now. He named the fox Vesper. Vesper was laying in his bed taking a nap. Crimson is reading some books enjoying not doing anything for the moment. He is working on what he plans on making for dinner tonight. His decision is to make a tomato basil soup with grilled cheese and cinnamon apples. He was too tired to do something more but didn’t want to make just simple sandwiches. He started making dinner so that by the time Scootaloo came home it would be ready to eat.

Scootaloo go home about 30 minutes later and saw dinner already on the table. She sat down and started eating, “How was your day Crimson?” He looked up and smiled, “Relaxing. I gave myself a short day. I barely take time to relax, so giving myself a day off felt right.” Vesper was eating his dinner next to Crimson. “How was your day?” Scootaloo finished eating and said, “I had a really fun day with my friends. Now it is time to relax.”

“Don’t forget that we start your flight training tomorrow.” Crimson didn’t need to look up to know how big her smile was when he said that. “We are going to take things nice and slow. I want to make sure you can fly without issues, and I want to help you strengthen your core as well. The amount you do each day will depend on how your body feels. I’m not going to work you into the ground. If you need anything I’m going to be in my room.” Crimson went to his bed to meditate while Vesper sat in his lap.

Scootaloo went to her room to think. The way her life has turned around in just a couple weeks astounded her. She had a home now. She felt more beloved than ever before. Talking to Crimson felt more natural to her than talking with her best friends. She felt like she could tell him absolutely anything and everything. She enjoyed watching him do his training. She felt safe and that as long as he was around nothing would happen to her. She went to bed with a smile on her face.

Crimson wasn’t tired at all. He needed something to pass the time. He went for a walk through Ponyville. He wanted to see the town he had been living next to for most of his life. It also gave him the chance to clear his mind as well. He has been thinking about the different ways he could use the elements in combat. Earlier when he used fire like a glove unintentionally, it got him thinking about what other things he could do with fire and lightning specifically. He walked past Sugarcube Corner first since it was the closest place to his home. Inside was a sleeping Pinkie Pie whose body started shaking in a way that normally tells her that a new person had arrived in Ponyville, but she was too sleep to act on that sense. Continuing his walk, he passed by the market area and Golden Oaks Library.

From what he has seen so far, this is a small quiet town that he would enjoy being around. When he got to Ponyville Park he sensed something coming behind him. He turned around just in time to catch a knife flying his way. “Dammit I thought I had the jump on you kid. After all these years we finally found the one that got away.” Hearing that made him turn around in pure rage. The ones that killed his family knew he was alive and were searching for him for the past decade. “So you are the guys that ruined my life? I’m going to end you to send a message to your superiors. I don’t care how may come after me the result will stay the same. With you in a body bag or burned beyond recognition!” Crimson lunged that the assassin and the brawl ensued. He blocked every punch and kick this guy was throwing at him. He returned with his own punches, each one harder than the last. He struck too fast for the assassin to block all the punches. The first 2 were blocked easily, but the other 2 hit him in the gut and face respectively. “You little brat! How the hell are you countering my attacks!?! I’m going to gut you where you stand!” he took out 2 daggers and swung wildly at Crimson. Crimson just rolled his eyes annoyed.

Crimson blocked all his swings and caught both his hands. “You are such an impulsive idiot. You don’t realize that you are outclassed by a child your adversaries could even kill almost 10 years ago. You won’t make it back home. Your life ends here.” After saying his peace Crimson flipped the guys hands around and stabbed him in the heart with his own blades. “This was great training for what is to come for me. I thank you even though you can’t hear me anyways. You’ve lost too much blood and your body has shut down. Such a waste of talent. You could’ve become a good fighter if you were properly trained and could control your rage.”

Crimson took the lifeless body to a remote part of the outskirts of Ponyville and burned it beyond recognition. He now knew that he was still being by the same group who killed his family. He needed to train even harder now to make sure they couldn’t get a jump on him. He felt some pain in his left arm. When he looked at it he saw a long gash that was bleeding profusely. He tore a part of his t-shirt to make a tourniquet to subside the bleeding until he can clean it at home. He sprung into the air and zipped home to clean up before Scootaloo could worry about his whereabouts. When he got home, he went to the bathroom dressed his wound and took a shower to clean off all the blood that was on him from the fight. He knew he wasn’t going to get any sleep after that interaction. He put on some workout shorts and went downstairs to train. He didn’t turn on his mechanical dummies. He opted for a straw dummy mostly so the could punch and kick his frustrations out until he was calm again.

Scootaloo has been sleeping peacefully then she saw something in her dream. She was a baby in a crib looking around her room hearing a lot of noise that woke her up. She was wondering what was going on but was too scared to go check. She just stared at the door. A stranger flew through the window and grabbed her. As they flew off she saw the house explode into flames. Scootaloo abruptly woke up after that. She mumbled, “That was the memory that was lock away. But, but of all things why did it have to be that? Wait I was kidnapped while my family died!?!” Then realization settled in as she recounted what Crimson told her about his family and what happened to them. He had told her that he didn’t know if his sister was alive or not. After processing everything Scootaloo gasped and bolted out of bed. She noticed his bedroom door was open, but he wasn’t there. The first place she went to check was the training room. She was him swinging at a dummy so hard she was shocked that he didn’t break it. She saw how hurt he was emotionally and the dam broke. The combination of the memory and seeing his mental state caused her to cry harder than she has ever cried before in her life.

The sound of Scootaloo crying got his attention. He switched from pure anger to wide concern for her and ran over to her and gave her a big hug, “What happened? Are you okay?” he asked her. She looked up at him and said, “I remember everything. I know who I am now. My past has finally been revealed to me. I’m happy and I’m sad. I’m sad I will never be able to see my parents, however the past few weeks I’ve never been happier. I always thought Scootaloo was such a unusual name that I was given. The one’s who kidnapped me changed my name and my looks. I may not be able to get my old colors but I can feel that in the coming days my mane color will change. The memory made me realize I had a living family member.”

“You do? That’s great we need to find them soon.” He was about to let go of her when he felt he squeeze him making him stop. “We don’t need to. I already found them.” Her smile was big and it slowly turned into a grin. “Crimson, my only living relative is you brother. That memory was of the attack on our home. I saw our home blow up and everything. I was taken from my crib while mom and dad were being killed in front of you. The kidnapper forced me to stay quiet then tossed on the doorstep of the orphanage. I ran away a couple years later and found Ponyville after a few days. I’ve been here ever sense.”

Crimson started crying tears of joy. His sister has been alive all these years. Now he finds out that he has been taking care of her this whole time. To him this is the best day he ever had. “Do you remember your real name sis?”

“No, I don’t remember my birth name Moony.” She said not really caring about her real name at the moment even though she wanted to know it. She had her brother back and that was all that mattered to her right now. “You real name Scarlet Night. I now remember what your old colors were. Your coat was half red, half white and your mane was dark red. I will say that that spell they used on you to change your appearance was a side effect of the memory lock spell. Since the memory spell is gone, there is a good chance your body could revert to what it was when you were born Nighty.” Scootaloo blushed. “Don’t call me nighty around others Moony.” Crimson blushed. “I won’t if you don’t call me Moony around others.” she nodded “Deal.”

“Do you want me to call you Scarlet or Scootaloo. I would prefer to call you Scarlet since its your name, but I will do whatever you’re comfortable with Nighty.” She stood still thinking about it. “Hmm, well call me Scootaloo until more people know my real name is Scarlet. Crimson can you come with me to school in the morning so we can tell me teach about everything? Outside of my friends she needs to know. She will help with letting everyone at school know about my name.” He nodded with a small smile on his face. “We’ll go there early so you got time to get settled in. I know your teacher is going to try to make me enroll in your class due to my age and me being your brother. At the moment me being enrolled isn’t going to be a good idea. I’m sure you saw my anger being unleashed earlier when you ran in, right?” She gave a slight nod for him to continue. “I went for a walk because I couldn’t sleep. When I got to Ponyville park I was ambushed by a random guy. I had no intention on fighting, but he revealed himself as a member of the group who killed our parents and I ended up killing him. I was angry cause apparently, they were hunting me because somehow knew I survive and escaped. I don’t know when they plan on attacking me again, but I’m going to train hard to make sure I am prepared for it. I promise you that I will keep you safe Scarlet. I just found you after all these years. I am not going to lode you again. Would you like to spend the rest of the night in my room with me and Vesper we got to get up early.” Once again, she nodded. They went to his room to sleep. Scarlet and Vesper snuggled up next to Crimson and they all fell asleep with smiles on their faces. They are a family once again and they couldn’t be happier.

They woke up early the next morning like planned, ate breakfast and were about to head to the school to talk to Miss Cheerilee when Crimson noticed something. “Hey sis, look in the mirror. Your mane is different its looks cool.” She went to her room to see that her mane had changed to its original color. Now it’s red with purple highlights. She loved it. “Lets go before it’s too late to talk to Ms. Cheerilee.”

Vesper and Scarlet climbed onto Crimson’s back and they flew to the school. Upon landing, Scarlet saw Ms. Cheerilee, “Ms. Cheerilee good morning!” Cheerilee turned around supirsed at the voice she heard, “Scootaloo what a surprise. You are never this early to school and who is this young colt with you? I’ve never seen him around before.”

“Can we go inside we have something to tell you. Its important.” Cheerilee lead them to her office in the school. “What can I do for you and your friend Scootaloo?”

Crimson spoke up first. He could tell how nervous she was to say anything at this moment “Good morning Ms. Cheerilee it is nice to meet you. My name is Crimson. I am not here to enroll in school today. We are here for a different reason. I am Scootaloo’s twin brother. The reason no one knows about me is we were separated when we were 2 years old. She didn’t know I was still alive as well as me not knowing she was alive. I know you are wondering why you haven’t met any family as well. Our parents were killed the night we were separated. She was kidnapped and a spell was put on her to lock the memory of that night away. A side effect of that spell changed her appearance to what you see today outside of her mane which I can see confused you when you saw her. Her mane is slowly reverting to its original color from birth. I think she is going to keep it the way it is right now. She lives with me, so you don’t have to worry about her being homeless. I doubt the color of her coat is going to revert back to its original colors. The fact that her mane is has surprised me. Also her birth name isn’t Scootaloo, her real name is Scarlet Night. It is her decision if she plans on using her birth name or the name the orphanage gave her. I know this is a lot to process this early, but we really needed to tell you.”

Ms. Cheerilee had heard their story is made her sad to hear what they had went through, but she was happy everything was cleared up at least to a point. “I’m sorry you went through all that kids. In regard to your mane, I think its cute and suits you really well. As for your name do you want to go by Scarlet or Scootaloo?”

“I’m so used to going by Scootaloo that changing to my birth name would take a long time for me to get use to everyone calling me that. I need to get used to it as some point. I want to use my birth name, but I want to wait until I get my friends used to it. I will tell you when we can use Scarlet instead of Scootaloo.” They agreed on this plan of action for the time being. Scootaloo and Crimson walked outside, so she can wait for her friends. Vesper has been curled on Crimson’s shoulders. Vesper followed them to school. He didn’t want to be alone, so he tries to be with Crimson all the time when he leaves home. Crimson and Scarlet sat on the bench talking about training.

“Well look what we have here, this cute guy is sitting with the blank flank. Such a waste of time right there why not come be with us.” Scarlet sighed and rolled her eyes, “What do you want Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon? Do you really have to waste your energy bothering me?”

“We were just wondering why anypony would bother sitting with outside of your worthless friend.” Diamond said.

“Why I’m here with Scootaloo is none of your business. You are just a pompous brat who acts all high and mighty to compensate for your own insecurities. Spending any energy to even deal with your obvious attempt at making Scootaloo mad is just a waste of my time. I got some errands to take of so I will see you later Scoots.” He gave her a hug and walked away leaving Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon shocked to the point that both of their mouths almost touched the ground. Other students who were arriving to school themselves heard everything and didn’t know what to do. It was so quiet outside the school that you could hear a pen drop. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom got to school and were confused by the scene in front of them. Scootaloo casually got out off the bench and walked into school like nothing happened with a smirk on her face.

School was uneventful to say the least. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon left Scootaloo and her friends alone which confused Sweetie and Applebloom. After school the crusaders ran to the orchard to play. They didn’t feel like crusading today. Sweetie kept glancing at Scootaloo noticing how oddly quiet she has been all day and she was getting worried. “Scoots you are never this quiet are you okay?”

“Hmm?” Scootaloo answered nonchalantly.

“Ya haven’t said word all day scoots. Is everythin okay?” Applebloom chimed in wondering the same thing.

“I’m doing great. I don’t really have much to say.” She responded.

“I got a question for you Scootaloo. Do you know why Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon ignored us all day? They never miss the opportunity to make our lives miserable.” Sweetie asked. That has been plaguing her mind all day.

Scootaloo grinned and said “This morning Crimson walked me to school, and they tried to bully me. He told them off with all other students hearing every word he said then walked off like it was nothing.”

Sweetie and Applebloom smirked at each other, “Sooooooo you were with him this morning huh? Does somepony have a crush?”

“What are you talking about?” Scootaloo asked looking stoic.

“You’ve been talking about him a lot and you have more pep in your step Scoots. Are you sure you don’t have a crush on him after he saved our lives?” Sweetie inquired.

“Really girls? I’m not interested in dating. Haven’t put any thought into that. My life has changed I will say that.” Scootaloo stated “He is a big reason why my life has changed, but it is not what you think.”

“Then why ya said your has changed due ta him?” Applebloom asked curiously.

“Well, I recently learned something about my past and my family. Crimson helped me find out things I didn’t know about myself. Until a couple days ago, there was a memory locking spell placed on me. With his and twilight’s help, we were able to get that spell removed. One of the side effects of the spell was a change in my appearance. The effects of the spell are wearing off which is why my mane is the way it right now. What you are seeing is mostly my original mane color from birth. I like the way it looks right now so I think I’m going to keep the purple highlights. Anyways before I tell you the details of the memory that was locked away there is something you need to know first. Haven’t you been wondering why you haven’t met my family?” They nodded, “I’m an orphan. That memory that was locked away was the night my parents died. I was 2 when it happened and I only survived because I was kidnapped and thrown in an orphanage. I was given a new name and new appearance to go with it. Crimson has been helping for longer than the day you guys met him. He saved my life from a timberwolf a few weeks ago. The reason I’m around him and that fox that is always on his shoulders or head is because I’ve been living with them since that day. Also Crimson is my twin brother who somehow managed to survive that night. He didn’t know I was his sister due to the name and appearance change.”

“Hold on he is your twin brother who you didn’t know was alive all these years?” Sweetie asked having trouble holding in her tears from the story “Since Scootaloo isn’t your real name, what is it?”

“Yes, he is my brother. My real name is Scarlet Night. In case you are wondering I would like for you to call me Scarlet from now on. I know it will take a bit for you guys to get use to it so I’m not going to get made when you call me Scoots instead. I’m trying to get use to Scarlet as well.” She smiled and hugged her friends. “I’m going to head out. I need to talk to Twilight by girls.” She trotted away to the castle.

Crimson was sitting on the fence to the orchard waiting for her, “Hey sis ready to head to the castle?” She nodded and Vesper hopped onto her shoulder and nuzzled her. “Twilight knows we’re coming. I sent her a letter to expect us.”

“Hey squirt!” They heard a voice yell out from above. “Who’s your friend here? He new to Ponyville?”

“Hey Rainbow Dash! This is Crimson, yes he is new to Ponyville, and we are on our way to see Twilight. We got something important to tell her.” She responded with a hug.

“I got nothing to do, so I will tag along.” Rainbow said.

Crimson smirked and said, “How about a race to the castle Rainbow Dash? I bet I could beat you.”

“Haha no one is faster than me, but I like your spunk kid. I accept.” She said getting ready to pounce into the air.

“Hop on Scoots this is going to be fun.” Crimson said his grin getting bigger by the second.

“Try not to bore me kiddo. Ready. Set Go!” They shot into the air and sped off like they were shot out of a cannon. Crimson kept pace with Rainbow as they approached the castle. Scarlet was giggling with excitement as they were racing surprised that he was keeping up with Rainbow. Crimson started his decent sooner than Rainbow did, so his landing wouldn’t be rough. He got to the doors of the castle before Rainbow did and noticed that she was about to crash into the doors. Thinking fast he put Scarlet and Vesper down and created a wind current that was powerful enough to slow her down and help her correct herself, so she didn’t crash. As upset as she was that she lost the race, she was more confused that she didn’t crash with how fast she was going.

“That was fun Rainbow. Thanks for the race.” Crimson said before heading inside the castle. Both Rainbow and Scarlet looked at each other confused, but followed behind him. Twilight was in the library like usual nose in a book. “Good afternoon Twilight. How are you today?”

Twilight looked up with a smile “Hello Crimson, Scootaloo, and Rainbow Dash. I was expecting you Rainbow. Crimson I have a question for you. How where you able to send me a letter today with having our mailmare deliver it?” Rainbow added, “And how did you help me land without crashing at the end of our race?”

“To answer your question first Rainbow, I created a wind current that was strong enough to counter your speed so you could land gently on the ground. For you Twilight, I know a spell that send any object to anywhere as long as I know who it is going too. Before either of you ask how I can do that without a horn. I know the complex ways of using pegusus magic and creating wind currents is a part of my special talent.” He responded casually.

“What exactly is your special talent Crimson?” Twilight asked.

“I can create, summon and utilize weapons and the elements.” His response was a little bit weary not knowing what kind of reaction to expect from them. “Can we please get to why me and Scoots came to talk to you Twilight?”

“Oh yeah we should. Your talent is very impressive and I would like to know more about it later. Why did you want to come by today?” She said.

Scootaloo spoke up so Crimson didn’t have to explain it again, “The memory just came back last night. I now know what is was about. That memory is about the death of my parents when I was 2 years old. My home was destroyed during the attack and I only survived because I was kidnapped. Crimson here is my twin brother who managed to get away before he was killed or kidnapped himself. My appearance has slightly changed as you can see. My mane is now red with purple highlights instead of all purple. I was born with red hair, but the kidnappers changed my appearance and my name when they threw me at the orphanage in Manehatten. My real is Scarlet Night. If Princess Celestia were to look at census of Manehatten is would both me and Crimson as deceased along with our parents. I’m happy to have my brother back in my life again and we’ve been living very well together of the past few weeks along with Vesper, the fox on his shoulders.” Upon hearing his name Vesper hoped off Crimson over to Scarlet and nuzzled her. “Where do you live Crimson, we’ve never seen you around till recently?" Rainbow asked.

“An underground bunker I built myself, that I’m still expanding. I’ve been living there for 9 years. No one has known about me because I home make everything myself. I also have an underground garden where all my food is grown, I don’t have to leave my home to buy anything. I even made the clothes I wear. Before Rainbow asks me yes, I was born half red half black and the cut through my right eye is from the night our parents died. Does that answer all the questions both of you have about me?” He stated. Both Twilight and Rainbow nodded. Before anyone could say anything else, a random arrow flew through the window zipping towards Crimson. Without looking towards it, he caught the arrow, set his fist a blaze, and disintegrated it after sensing where it came from. Twilight and Rainbow stood shocked at what they just saw.

Crismon had an annoyed look on his face because he was being hunted while with Scarlet. His wings sprung out and he flew through the window, where the arrow came from, somehow not managing to break it. He wet straight to the location he tracked the arrow from. “So my hunch was right, come down here you little brat.” Crimson saw a random brown earth pony wielding a bow n arrow. “You got to be joking. Your arrows are scrap. I will give you props on your aim considering you somehow managed to arc it at just the right angle. If you had a little bit more power to your shot, you might have been able to hit me in the head with your shot. Unless you have any close combat training, you have no chance at injuring me let alone killing me which is your intent. Spare me this waste of an interaction and leave before you get embarrassed. Tell your boss that he needs better henchman or to do his own dirty work instead of sending useless lackies.” Crimson’s adversary got extremely angry when he said that and lunged him. He sighed and thought, ‘Here we go again. This won’t take long.’

Scarlet, Vesper, Rainbow Dash and Twilight were running towards the direction they saw Crimson fly to. Rainbow and Twilight were worried about him. Scarlet knew why he looked so annoyed. When they found him he was being attacked by somepony they had never seen before. Crimson sensed the 4 of them, but didn’t acknowledge their arrival. He easily sidestepped the attempt at an attack and elbowed him in the back. The attacker is slowly getting more and more frustrated as time went on. He noticed Scarlet spectating and smirked. He threw a dagger at her. Twilight and Rainbow were too shocked that their reaction to the dagger was heavily delayed and Scarlet froze. Crimson kecked the attacker in the face to stun him then he dashed to the dagger, caught it with his mouth by the handle somehow, then went back to fighting the pony trying to kill him. Crimson caught and countered every punch and kick that was thrown at him. The fighting had been going on for maybe 15 minutes. A huge crowd had emerged during this time watching everything. Adults were shocked that somepony was attacking a child. Kids were thinking how cool this colt looked fighting an adult. The main 6 were stunned that Crimson hasn’t been hit once by this pony, and didn’t feel that they needed to intervene. Scarlet just sat on the ground and pet Vesper while she watched. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle sat with her also petting him while watching everything. Twilight used her magic to send a note to Spike to for Shining Armor and a couple guards. Crimson continued to dodge and counter strikes know that this pony would get so angry that he would try something very stupid. It about 5 more minutes of missing for the attacker to take out 2 more daggers to try to stab Crimson. Crimson knew this was coming, so right as the strike with the daggers was coming Crimson put up both his fists and a loud cling was heard. Crimson had summoned 2 of own bowie knives and blocked the attack. The crowds’ jaws dropped seeing this. Crimson never once looked at the crowd, but he knew they were there. He decided on not killing the pony in front of everyone, but trying to incapacitate him. Crimson went back to blocking strikes until he found the perfect shot at a crippling blow. During one of his blocks he kicked the attacker in his right shin, then kneed him in the chin. The knee to the chin caused some teeth to fly out. Crimson waited no time in going behind him and locking him in a sleeper hold and held it long enough to make him pass out but not kill him.

Shining Armor and a couple guards arrived as the fight ended. “Hey Twiley what’s going on? I got a letter from Spike saying you needed me.” The main 6 all pointed towards Crimson and the now unconscious attacker and she said, “Over there.” Shining looked over to where they were pointing and sighed. Shining Armor and the two guards walked over to Crimson, “I already know what you want to ask me. My name is Crimson Moon. This is an assassin who was sent to kill me, but failed immensely at even hitting me. He is too impulsive and untrained. I did not kill him; he is unconscious. I do not know who this pony is or who sent him to kill me, but if they try again, which I am confident that they will, they really need to send a more experienced fighter. Yes I am 12 year old child who is being targeted and no I don’t know why. You can go ahead an arrest this pony. I’m going to go home and eat. You have a nice day, and these are his weapons he attempted to kill me with as well.” He handed over the 3 daggers, bow and arrow to the confused guards. Once finished explaining everything to Shining Armor, Crimson started walking home. Vesper and Scarlet ran to him before he got too far from the scene. “Hey sis, you doing alright?”

She nodded, “Thank you for stopping that knife from hitting me. How did you catch it in your mouth?”

“I’ve trained myself to do that. I know it scared you when I did that, but I was thinking 3 moves ahead of him and I needed to have my hands free to block him.” They walked in silence for a couple of minutes. They heard behind them “Crimson hold on.” They turned around to see the main 6 and the rest of the CMC followed them. “Need something?” he asked. “We wanted to talk to you and make sure you are okay.” Rainbow said.

“Sure we can talk. I’m perfectly fine. He wasn’t able to lay a single hit on me. He was very untrained, and his temper was high. His distraction by throwing the dagger at her would’ve worked better if he knew how to capitalize off it. Anyways, follow us and we can continue this conversation elsewhere.” Crimson nonchalantly stated.

Everyone followed Crimson, Scarlet and Vesper to their home. “I’m going to go make some food for everyone. You can sit and chat while you wait for me.” Crimson walked into the kitchen to make some potato leek soup for everyone. He was happy he had enough bowls for everyone. Making way more than enough supplies for him to live paid off. Everyone could smell something delicious and were excited to see what he made. After about 15 minutes Crimson came out with all the bowls of soup. “Eat up everyone. I know you have questions for me. I will answer what I can for you.”

Rainbow was the first one to say something, “I only have 2 questons for you. What did you make? This is one of the most delicious things I’ve ever had. Second, how long did it take for you to make your home?” He smirked, figuring that Rainbow would negate the obvious questions everyone else had. “What I made is called potato leek soup. Before she asks.” He said pointing at Applejack, “I grow all my food myself and I will show where I grow it. For the second question, I’ve been building my home since I was 3 years old and its still a work in progress.” Everyone gasped.

“Well I’m impressed with what your able to build for yourself. Thank you very much for the food. It was very delicious.” Rarity said. “My name is Rarity. You are a very kind young colt darling. Since Rainbow decided not to ask the question we are all wondering, why was that pony trying to kill you?”

“For me to answer that question I need to tell you about our past.” He responed. Applejack asks, “Our past?”

Scarlet stood up and walked over to him, “He is talking about me AJ.”

Crimson began the story they told Twilight and Rainbow, “We are from Manehatten. I’m her twin brother Crimson Moon and her name is actually Scarlet Night. When we were 2, we became orphans. One night while she was asleep, I was downstairs with mom and dad when a group of ponies attacked our home. I watched them kill our parents in cold blood. Scarlet was in her crib when everything happened. She will tell you her side of things from that night. That was the same I night my cutie marks as well. I’m sure you all saw the knives I held in my hands when I was blocking his attacks.” They nodded all wondering where the knives came from. “I can do 2 things with my special talent. I can summon any weapon.” To demonstrate he summoned the daggers he used in the fight. “From close to long range, I can summon them all. The second part of my special talent I can show you, but not in this room its unsafe. Follow me everyone, it’s easier for me to show you instead of explain it.” He led everyone to his training room. “I need you all to go to that small room in the corner please. It will protect you from what I’m about to do.” They all went to the safe room and shut the door. Crimson placed 3 targets across the room from where he stood. First thing he did was manipulate the moisture in the air to create a spear made of water and threw it at the first target. At second target, he threw a 4 fireballs one blue, one red, one green, and one purple. He used his wings to shoot a high voltage electrical charge at the final target setting it on fire with the lightening. To finish the demonstration, he summoned a sword and slashed releasing a light-blue colored air whip to extinguished the fires. Once that was done, he motioned everyone to follow him back upstairs. When they got upstairs everyone sat down while Crimson took all the dishes into the kitchen. “Back to the story. Our home was blown to bits, and I fled from Manehatten. I taught myself how to fly while I was running away. Now it’s your turn Scarlet to tell our side of things.”

She got up and said, “On that night, I heard the commotion downstairs, but I couldn’t leave my crib to see what was going on. Somepony came in threw the window and kidnapped me. I wasn’t able to scream because they covered my mouth. I saw the house blow up as I was carried off. The ponies who kidnapped me used a memory locking spell and changed my appearance to what you’ve been seeing since the day you met me. Crimson and I got Twilight to remove the spell from me, so I could get my memory back. My mane has already changed back to its original color and I’m keeping the purple highlights. The kidnappers changed my name to Scootaloo. According to the records in Manehatten, Crimson and I are considered deceased. I just found out that Crimson is my brother a couple days ago went I got my memory back. I’ve been living with him for a few weeks now. I want to be called Scarlet from now on please. I don’t want the reminder from that night anymore with Scootaloo.”

Crimson took over the conversation from there, “That pony that tried to kill me earlier was sent from the leader of whatever group he works for. I don’t know why they are hunting me. Whatever their reason is won’t matter. I’m prepared for whatever they try to send my way. They are uncoordinated and untrained in any form or useful combat. I’m not worried about it. My only focus is living my life with Scarlet and our little buddy Vesper here.” Vesper nuzzled him hearing his name. “That is our story. I know both Applebloom and her sister are wondering about where I get my ingredients from so come this way, please.” He led everyone down the hallway next to the kitchen. The hallway led to his very large underground garden. The amount of crops he was growing stunned everyone and Applejack was overly impressed with it.

“Well I gotta hand it ya kid. I’m very impressed with what you got here. I’ve never seen this many different crops in one area. My name is Applejack by tha way.” She said.

“Thank you miss. This took me 2 years to get together.” Crimson said to her. “Now that you know everything. Did that answer your questions ladies?” They nodded satisfied with what they got from him and Scarlet. “Hey sis I going to go for a walk wanna come along?” She nodded and they led everyone out of their home. “You have a good day girls.” Everyone went home. Crimson, Vesper and Scarlet went for a quiet evening walk.

“Today was an eventful day.” Scarlet said “That soup was really good Crimson.”

“I’m glad you liked it. I’m too tired to train you today sis. We will start training tomorrow after school.” He smiled and hugged her.

“Copy that. Will you pick me up from school bro?” She asked.

“Absolutely. Let’s head home and get some sleep.” They home to recharge for the next day. They hugged, Crimson kissed her forehead, and they went to their rooms. Vesper curled next to Crimson, and everyone slept with peaceful dreams. The next day was going to be a busy one for them.