Eyes Of Crimson

Chapter 1

A red eyed menace

The wind howled throughout the Everfree forest as a mass of snow fell furiously from the sky, no living thing would dare stay out in this weather for long.

Lying in the snow was a dark black pegasus, his mane was messy but styled in a sort and his flank showed what seemed to be a blue speaker, his eyes however were blocked from view from a pair of dark sunglasses.

The pony awoke with a start. “Where am I.” he thought. “more importantly who am I?”

“Hey you over there, are you awake!” he heard a voice call out, but before he could identify the source he passed out.

“Are you sure this is a good idea?”

“Well did you expect me to leave him in the snow?”

“Well.... no but he could be dangerous for all you know Glade.”

“Oh shush Ice you're being paranoid... wait... I think he’s waking up!”

The pony awoke to a couple of strange voices arguing over something, looking down on him were two unicorns, one was a female she had a faint lavender coat with a snow white mane and eyes as blue as the sky, her flank held the emblem of a snowflake.

The other was a gruff looking make with a deep blue coat and a neat black mane his eyes were a light green, his most notable feature was his two demon like horns sprouting from his mane, he had the mark of an ice cube upon his flank.

“Where am I?” the pony asked.

“You’re in our home.” the female replied “I found you passed out in the snow and brought you back here, even though my brother here was against it.” she held out a hoof “I’m Snow Glade and this hardass is my brother Ice.”

The pony shook her hoof. “Thank you for your hospitality Miss Glade I don’t wish to be a bother to you.”

“Then go ahead and leave.” Ice grumbled.

“ICE!” Glade shouted at her brother. “I’m so sorry about him, he’s really hostile around others.”

“I can see that.” the pony said glancing towards him, Ice gave him a deathly glare.

“Well if you're so smart why don’t you give us your name, smartass” Ice growled.

“My- my name?.” The pony asked himself. “What is my name?” He thought furiously.

“Come on bro that was awesome, I’ve never seen a pony that can drop beats like that in my entire life!”

“Thanks man but you know I’m not that awesome.”

“Are you kidding me Shade? I’m telling you, one day the whole world is gonna line up to see Shade Nightwing perform.”

The pony rubbed his head as he felt a mild migraine as he relived a memory.

“My name is Shade Nightwing.”

“Shade huh, got something to do with these silly things” Ice mocked pointing to his sunglasses “Why do you even wear those anyway, here lemme do the right thing.” Ice took the glasses off his face and immediately regretted it.

Shade’s eyes adjusted to the sudden change in lighting, it was as if his eyes were somehow a lot less useful in the light, looking towards the other two he wondered what was with the horrified looks on their faces, that was when he looked in the mirror, his eyes were a crimson red, a VERY disturbing and rare colour.

“That’s it he’s out of here.” Ice declared opening the door and pointing at Shade. “Get out now.”

Shade was about to comply when Glade jumped in. “ICE for Celestia’s sake can you calm down and give him a chance, for starters nopony can survive in that weather and secondly you're the one who took his shades off him.”

Ice stared his sister down and sighed. “Fine, but I want him out by tomorrow, he can look for a place to stay in Ponyville.”

“Ponyville?” Shade asked.

“Yeah you know, Ponyville the small town two clicks north from here.”

“I’ve never really heard of it.”

“By Faust have you got amnesia or something?”

“Maybe, I can only remember my name and anything that a normal pony would know “

“Well Sis you can deal with him, I’m going to bed.” he finished heading off to his room.

Glade turned to face Shade. “I’m really really sorry about him, he’s always so protective of me, you said you have amnesia didn’t you?”

“Yeah, I can remember fragments but thats it.”

“Well I’m sure they’ll come back in time, hey can I ask if you know what your cutie mark means?”

Shade turned to look at the blue speaker upon his flank. “I’m not sure, I’m guessing it’s something to do with music or something loud, what about you?” he asked staring at her snowflake cutie mark.

Glade giggled “Well for one you can stop staring mister.” Shade blushed slightly. “and I’m what’s known as an Iceblood, a special pony that can master any form of ice or snow no matter what race of pony they are, pegasi have better control over snowstorms, some earth ponies can create ice structures with their bare hooves and unicorns like myself and Ice have the ability to manipulate snow and ice in any way we want: from creating snow golems to building Ice fortresses we have a great gift when it comes to winter.”

“Wow.....I never knew there was such special types of ponies in the world.”

“Oh trust me, wait till you’ve seen the crystal ponies, they are just strange.”

“Is it okay if I ask, does Ice have any reason why he’s so protective?”

“Oh... well, I think thats a story for another time, it’s getting late and um, you should get some rest.”

Shade was curious about her strange behaviour but shrugged it off. “I presume that I will sleep on the couch?”

“Yes, sorry we never have guests so there’s no guest room.”

“Don’t worry miss, It’s better than freezing my flank off out there.”

“Well goodnight.” she said going up her room.

“yeah... Night” he replied lying on the couch and drifting into a deep slumber.

“Come on Shade you know you can do better than that.”

“Sorry Vinyl I’m not in the mood.”

“Oh come on don’t give me that, tonight it’s Shade Nightwing and Vinyl Scratch performing live on stage, what do you think ponies are gonna do if it’s cancelled all because somepony ‘wasn’t in the mood.’”

“Alright I get it geez”

Shade awoke once again

“Vinyl....”

(Chapter one is done, Ice is not my pony it belongs to ice...no shit Sherlock)