The Adventure Starts

Silence. There was only silence in side of the dark closet that Sugar Rush was locked in. He has been locked inside of the closet for so long he didn’t know if it was day or night. “Stupid Changeling. Changing into me and locking me in this damn closet.” he said. As he looked at the rope, looking for a way out of them without breaking them.They were from the war when he had to climb up the rope to try and finish the mission.

“Hmm lets see......how can I get out......” He thought and thought as he tried sliding out of the ropes, tried to find where the changeling tied him at in the old rope’s and he even tried to bite the ropes that held him tightly.

“Damn these ropes are too tight...” but suddenly a loud roar made him forget about the ropes that he was stuck in. “U-ursa.....” he said as he was completely shocked from the roar that he knew so well was at least an Ursa minor, maybe even a Ursa Major. He broke free of the ropes that held him with his strong military muscles completely forgetting the memories that they held and he ran out of his house.

As he was going through the terrified crowd going towards the monster that he was able to see. Right before the very last turn around a building he seen that the monster was now calming down and was being lifted up by a purple aura and noticed that the towns container of water was emptied and filled with milk and was giving to the Ursa Minor as a bottle.

“Wow...” he said in pure shock. “Well I guess its safe to go home now. Twilight’s taken care of it.” and as he slowly walked away in pure amazement of how much magic one unicorn can hold he knew that the night is safe once again because ponyville had the best unicorn in all of equestria living here.

“Uuuggghhh” SnapShot said in a groggy tone from the lonely, yet very comfortable, bed. “What’s the loud ruckus?” I said as I looked out of the window to see what his new friend Twilight was doing to the Beast that was outside. There was soft music playing and the beast was being lifted up into the sky, a metal container that was being used as a bottle came over to it and it floated away.

“Wow...who would have thought she would have enough magic to do that spell and this!” He said in a happy tone. “She is so amazing and I’m so glad I now have her as a friend.”

Everypony gathered around her congratulating her as Twilight was telling Trixie something, but I wasn’t able to hear it because how far away the whole group was. Next thing I was able to understand was a big puff of smoke came from Trixie and as the smoke started to clear she was far out of town. Finally that annoying pegasus is gone. Lot’s of the ponies were  congratulating Twilight again but the group was quickly dispersing and going back to their home’s.

I turned around and started to walk down the stairs, groggily and unstable, and truthfully I was kind of scared walking down the stairs alone but that feeling quickly went away. “Wow....that spell she used on me sure was powerful.....it sure did make me......” I stopped walking down the stairs so I could yawn, “weak and sleepy.” As I made it down the last step I looked over to the little kitchen area where Spike went to earlier. “I wonder if she has anything to wake a pony up......”

While I was in the kitchen looking for something to satisfy my very hungry belly Twilight walked into her home talking about the beast and she sounded very exhausted. “That Ursa Minor was a big problem wasn’t it Spike?”

As I heard her ask the question I walked out of the kitchen and asked in a quiet tone, “What’s an Ursa Minor?”

Twilight looked over, “Oh hey Snappy! Didn’t know you were up” she came over to me with a happy gallop. “An Ursa Minor is a baby of an Ursa Major. They are really hard to explain for anypony really but there mostly like a giant stary-like animal. That one looked like a bear of some-sort”

I stared at her for a moment a bit dazed as I tried to process this information. The only thing that came out of my mouth after the explanation was this, “Wait....did you just call me ‘Snappy?’”

She looked a bit embarrassed as she spun her hoof on the ground in circle’s, “What you don’t like that name? I only wanted to give you a small nickname....if you don’t like it I will stick with SnapShot then.”

I started to laugh, “I love the name Twilight, I was just making sure that that’s what you said.”

She sighed slightly and came a bit closer in a nervous manner, “You know....It’s the middle of the night....and I know that I said you can sleep in my bed but...I don’t really have any other furniture to sleep on....is it fine if we share the bed?” she had a bit of a blush on her face when she said that last part.

“Twilight? Are you feeling ok? You seem to be acting rather.....odd”

“No, no I’m perfectly fine it’s just I never asked another pony if we could share a bed is all.”

“I’m ok with sharing the bed for a night. You know friend’s share things like that when they need to.” I smiled and hugged her tightly, “You know I wasn’t able to give you that hug earlier.” As I squeezed onto her with a hug that felt so glorious, it didn’t really seem like a hug, but something magical. I knew that there was thing’s that were said to be magnificent, I just never had one until that one single hug.

Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. Keep yourself together Twilight! As the thought’s were racing through my mind as SnapShot was giving me a hug.  You can’t show him how much you're enjoying this! We’re only friends! Wait! This is going to be a really tough night! Oh pony feathers! This is going to be even more embarrassing now!

“Thank you for the hug Twilight. Thank you.” he started to laugh, “Come on. It’s time to get some shut eye.” He turned around and waited at the bottom of the stairs to let me go first. “After you.” he said and got a smile on his face for just trying to be a gentleman.

As the two of us walked up the stair’s, SnapShot and I were talking about the Ursa attack and who brought them into the town and how Trixie ran out of town with her tail between her leg’s. “Well here we are!” I said as I plopped onto the bed hoping to take sleep before he got in. Sleep please! It will be getting awkward......now..... Was her last thought when SnapShot got into the bed with her and faced her and smiled.

“Well goodnight Twilight.” was the only thing he said. Then he closed his eye’s and started to snore ever so quietly.

“Goodnight Snappy.” I said as I brought my head up to his forehead and kissed it softly when I thought he was asleep. “It’s time to go to bed....I guess.”

There was only one thing that I felt in the bed before I “Woke Up” and that was a soft kiss on my forehead and hearing Twilight say, “Goodnight Snappy.”. When felt her breathing slow down next to me, I knew she wasn’t faking her slumber how I was, so I opened my eye’s to see her lying there in a comfortable position against me. She looked so peaceful and so happy being so snug to me in the bed, she just looked like an angel that has fallen from heaven.

“You look like an angel tonight,” I whispered softly so she wouldn’t wake up, “You don’t know this yet Twilight but you have saved my life.” With those final words I decided to do the same thing that she did, I kissed her on the forehead and wrapped my good wing around her and then I was able to fall into a deep sleep.

It was a bright and quiet morning as I woke up from my slumber. The sun was coming in slightly and today for the first time in a long time, was a day to really do nothing. There was one difference to this morning though and that was a brown wing wrapping around me. I blushed slightly as I turned over to see Snappy pressed against me, and having his good, soft wing wrapped around me. I blushed even more as the thought of the action as it felt like he was protecting me.

    I giggled softly just trying to ignore the wing with the thoughts in my mind, “Oh Snappy your being so silly.” I looked at him even closer and before I knew it I went in to give him another kiss on his forehead. Right after that one little kiss I wish, oh how I really do wish that I didn’t do that. Oh I really do wish I didn’t do that because, he woke up.

    “I-I.......I......” was all I could say from the embarrassment of him looking at me. He did something though that caught me off guard, he started to laugh. He laughed and laughed and didn’t seem like he was going to be able to stop. I just stared at him as I  was about to either ask him why he was laughing or just buck him in the face to get him to stop, but instead of either of those, he just stopped laughing and gave me a hug.

    Not a friendly hug that we did the night before we went to bed, but a hug that just made me want more. He held me so tightly, I just felt like I was melting. All I heard from him during the hug was a soft whisper, “So you feel the same way as I do then...”

    “Y-yea,” I said in a quiet whisper, “I do..”

    Right after those two words, he kissed me softly on the lips, and with that. I felt like I was about to die.

    “Ugghh. What a terrible night that was.” SugarRush said as he got out of his bed. “Well...I might as well go and see Twilight. She said to come back when I could to see if she might have found a spell to get rid of my little ‘Episodes’.”

    As he got up he remembered what happened the night before. He had the worst set of dreams that all ended up having him to wake up and make him “re-live” them from the war. Back then he was so excited to go to the war to save his home, but now it just ended up giving him nightmares.

    As he went downstairs he grabbed his house keys and started towards the door, “I hope today Twilight can help me out.... I’m getting tired of all these spasms.” As SugarRush walked outside of the house towards the library, he looked around to see all the damage that was caused by the Ursa.

    “Wow...that’s going to take us a bit of time to be able to rebuild. Well I guess if we have some good unicorn’s it could be lots faster....I don’t know, all I know is how to destroy, not to rebuild.” as he came closer to the Library home he looked up to see Twilight’s window and noticed something odd for how early it was, but there were two shadow’s there.

    “Does Twilight have someone else that need’s help? But why this early? Hmm....well I don’t exactly need to have her do a spell on me right now if she has company...” he started to turn around as a figure came to the window and opened the curtain’s. It was a brown pegasus and he noticed him so he opened the window to yell down at him.

    “Hey SugarRush! You feeling better after having Rarity treat you?”

    “What do you mean ‘treat me’? I haven't been to Rarity’s for the past month, and how the heck do you know my name?!”

    The pegasi looked confused, “What do you mean? Yesterday you ran into me and brought me to your house to cook some food for me because of the accident. Then we went to Rarity’s and you passed out from her bending over in front of you!”

    He laughed hysterically, “I would never have passed out if she bent in front of me! That wasn’t me you naive child! That was...hmmm maybe I shouldn’t tell you...ahh what the hay. Come here and I will show you what it was!”

I came down the stairs after giving Twilight a hug, “I will be back later alright?”

“Ok Snappy. Have fun with SugarRush alright.....that reminds me, I still need to find that spell for him.....well there goes that so called ‘Day Off’.” She starts to get lost in thought as she turned around and walked towards the farthest bookcase looking for a special book.

As I walked outside I looked at him and he looked the same from the day before, so how could he not be the same friend? “So you really don’t know me?

Rush looked at me, “Nope. Can’t say that I do.”

“Well my name’s SnapShot, just to clear that up before anymore problems come around. Now what did you want to show me?”

Rush started to walk towards Rarity’s store, “Follow me and you’ll find out.”

“Um alright then......so if yesterday that wasn’t the real you then what happened to you then?” I asked confused.

“I was locked inside of my closet door so that thing could have been able to act like me and not worry about giving away what it truly was. Let me just say, you better not have a fear of bug’s because thats definitely what it looks like. A black bug that is able to change into any shape that it want’s to. This creature is called a ‘Changeling.’”

“A what? A change.....ling? I have never heard of them.”

“Good thing you haven’t then. These creatures want to feed on Love from everypony. I never thought that they would have followed me here from my last mission from the princess.....but they have.”

“The princess? You work for the princess?”

“I use to....but that was a long time ago during the last war. Don’t worry about that though, we're here at the shop. You go in and get the fake me out and we’ll take it back to my house to ‘dispose’ of it.”

I walked into Rarity’s shop and she quickly noticed me and came over to give me a hug, “Well hello Darling! If you're here to pick him up, he’s still where he was when you left. It’s surprising that a pony like him would still be passed out for this long.”

“Yea I know Rarity. Well thanks for taking care of him.”

“No problem darling. So was Twilight able to help you out at all from your visit?”

“Yea, she used a spell and I found out my name’s SnapShot. It was a very hard spell and I was surprised that she was able to have enough magic left to use that spell last night. I’m sorry about this but I’m kinda in a hurry so it’s time for me to go.”

“Oh....alright then SnapShot, I hope we can meet up again and talk more....It’s very wonderful to have this sort of small talk with a good friend now and then....bye then”

“Alright, bye Rarity.” As I picked him up and started to take him out

SuagrRush was waiting patiently outside when I came out and he took the unconscious Rush off of me and put it on his back, “Come on! We need to go to my house quickly!”

He quickly went into a run and I quickened my speed after he said that so I could catch up to him, “Why do we have to go so quickly? He, I mean you, I mean it seems like its in a huge trance and wont come out of it!”

“Well it was surrounded by love inside of the store, and since there was so much there it lost consciousness. I know I don’t have anymore love left from going to their homeland and I don’t know if you do either so it could wake up very soon. Do you have any feeling’s for anypony out there? If so it could be unconscious a little bit longer, but not for long.”

“Well.....I don't really want to talk about it alright......it’s something I want to keep to myself...”

“Don’t worry about it alright. Were here at my house anyways. Open that cellar door please.”

“Alright.” As I put my hoof on it and opened the rusted, and very heavy door open. “Wow that’s really heavy....but there it is.” He started to walk down the stairs and told me to close the door and the good part is, that was easier to do then opening it.

“Alright! The door’s closed!” and as I said that I started to walk down the stairs into the little room. I seen the conscious SugarRush getting ready to strap the fake him onto a flat table with handcuffs to keep the one on the table locked up.

The entire room had blood in lot’s of place’s with very sharp and rusted pieces of  equipment. I walked over to the table and seen something I liked, it was a medium sized Katana. I picked it up and looked at its fine and very sharp blade. “This is a very nice blade you have here Rush....”

He turned around from the table he was working at for sharpening a butcher’s blade, “Yes it is. Hey, for some reason I have a lot of those of those so.....do you want to keep that? I will even throw in a few other’s if you want them. It would shorten my inventory down by a bit”

“Really? That’s nice of you to give me this....and yes I would like a few others...”

“No problem. All you have to do to earn them is to kill this changeling, once we get the answers we need from it.”

“Kill it.....? Couldn’t we just......keep it down here so it doesn't cause us anymore trouble?”

“No. You have to kill it. It would be able to escape and cause more harm if it is still alive. Kill it. After we're done asking questions.”

The changeling was making some weird sounds as it was awaking and noticed where it was and turned into what it really is. A hideous creature with huge green eyes and its body was pure black with holes all around it.

After a while of trying to negotiate Rush was literally screaming at the top of his lungs at the creature to talk, but the thing only laughed at him and spat in his eyes. He turned around to me and told me it was time. I walked over to the creature and lifted up the Katana in my mouth and closed my eyes as I quickly sliced the creatures throat very nervously. As I held my eye’s shut i heard coughing and I knew the blade made contact. I opened my eye’s  and looked at it for a split second. There was this different color of blood coming from it than a normal creature.

I decided it was time to end this hideous thing’s suffering so I quickly tilted my head to the side and started stabbing it in the stomach. The creatures blood was pouring out as the sharp katana ripped through it’s stomach, then the liver, the the heart and lungs. The hideous thing started to scream as now every stab I did to it some torn up pieces flew out. I kept stabbing until I heard this “heart-wrenching scream” and then nothing. I stopped and I knew for a fact at the point, it was dead.

I felt overjoyed to see it die because of my hooves. It made me feel like I did something that will help everypony because of the kill. “WooHoo! That made me feel good killing it!” I started to hop around with the sharp, bloody katana in my mouth.

    “Careful, careful! Don’t need to kill anything else. Here.” he tosses over a belt with 3 sheath’s on it with 2 katana’s in their holder. “That’s enough to have one in your mouth and 2 for your hooves. That should keep you safe if you ever get in a problem. Now......clean up and go back to where you're supposed to...I need to get rid of this body.”

    “Alright then...I’ll see you later alright?”

    “We shall see SnapShot.....we shall see.”

    “Twilight I’m home!” as I said that one little sentence I looked down to notice that she would not really appreciate the items that Rush gave me. I quickly found a spot where to hide the weapons. It was inside of a bag that looked like a manticore got a hold of it and had a new chew toy. As I opened it and looked inside I seen one thing that completely caught me off guard. A camera. I looked at it and noticed a faded tag that said ‘Property of SnapShot.’, “Well.........That’s something.”

    Twilight was starting to come down the stairs, “Fluttershy’s woodland friend’s found that in the forest a few hundred feet away from where Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie found you at. They said that a lot of the stuff was broken. The only thing they said that was in perfect condition was that camera.”

“Well..that’s all you truly need to take pictures isn’t it?”

    “Yea I guess you’re right Snappy.....”

    From up stairs we heard a belch and quick feet coming towards us, “Twilight! Twilight!”

    “Yes Spike what is it?” and as Spike held up the scroll with a seal on the front Twilight’s eyes had a bit of a sparkle in them as she used her magic to levitate it over to herself. As she was silently reading a few seconds she looked at me, “It’s......for you....”

    “For me? Well....that’s odd...who’s it from again?”

    “It’s from.....the Princess.”