Starting Over

Spectra was a dark blue coated pegasus pony. He had a brown coloured mane with 2 barely visible black streaks, blood red eyes, and his cutie mark was Yin & Yang.

Spectra was tired of his life. Tired of selling drugs to ponies who needed their fix. Tired of being treated badly his whole life. Tired of Manehatten.

Spectra was lying on his bed in his apartment, staring at his ceiling. He had bags on his bed next to him, and a ticket to a place called "Ponyville" in his hoof. Spectra also had his guitar case with him. He would never play in front of other ponies. He's too shy.

That's the strangest thing about Spectra, he loves competition and thinks himself to be the best flier in Equestria. And yet, he can be incredibly shy and he can get very emotional easily.

Spectra gets up, picks his bags up, and walks towards his door. When he opens it, he finds one of his customers standing in front of the door. "Hey, Spectra my man, what's happenin'?" Spectra shakes his head.

"Ed, what do you want this time and how much of it do you want?"

Ed was a red coated, blue maned, green tailed unicorn with a weird top hat on his head with swirls decorating it.

Ed hoofs Spectra 150 bits. "I need some weed man. Things been getin' stressful 'round my place." He looks over to the case Spectra was carrying. "What's with the bags?"

Spectra walks over to his closet, grabs the last bag of weed, and tosses it back to Ed. He answers him with an emotionless look. "I'm leaving, dude. I hate this place and it hates me." Ed looks sad at first, then his frown turns into a smile. "Well, where ya headed, man?" Spectra smiles back. "Ponyville. I've heard good things about that place and decide to start my life over. Get a job, get a place, maybe find a marefriend and hopefully live the rest of my life in happiness."

Ed walks up to him, and holds out his hoof. "It's hard to see my favourite dealer leave, but nonetheless, I hope you have a great life."

Spectra brohoofs him with a grin. "Thanks, dude." Ed shrugs. "Well, take care, man."

With that, Ed walks out the door. Spectra walks over and closes it. Spectra looks at the ticket in his hoof. "My new life...." Spectra could hardly contain his excitement! He walks over to his bed and lies on it.

He had a good hour before the train leaves. Spectra decides to set his alarm clock and fall asleep. He knew that the nightmares would torture him, but he couldn't care less.

He has gotten used to the nightmares. The Nightmare. He see's a pony, screaming his name, face covered in blood. It was his mother.

He was there when his parents were murdered. He was only 2 years old. He is currently 28 and continues to have this nightmare ever since he was 8. The details of the killer were a little hazy. All he remembers from the nightmare was a deep laugh. When he woke up, he was sweating, and his alarm was going off. He switches it off and puts it in his bag.

He gets up and heads towards his door, opens it and leaves. Not taking a second glance at the place he called home for years. He exits the building, and sets off for the station.

-----Manehatten Train Station, 12:46pm-----

Spectra boards his train and takes a seat. He looks out the window as the train leaves. Watching Manehatten fly by without a care. Spectra had a good feeling that Ponyville will be great new start to his brand new life. "Ticket, please." Spectra turns to see the conductor. Spectra hoofs him his ticket. "Thank you, sir."  Spectra nods in acknowledgement, as he walks down the car.

It was a 4 hour trip, and all Spectra brought with him was his guitar, so he brings it out of his case, and starts to play one of his favourite songs.

Ponies start looking over at him in awe, Spectra was completely unaware of their presence, he just got on the train as fast as he could and didn't notice his surroundings.

As he ends the song, he starts packing the guitar away, until he notices the other ponies staring at him. Spectra quickly gets stage fright. "OH! Um, sorry! I didn't know you were there! I'll stop now."

The other ponies thought he was amazing, but didn't push the subject further. Spectra fell asleep the rest of the way. Same nightmare. He woke up, sweating like a pig and with the train in Ponyville. He collects his things, gets up and exits the train. He takes a deep breath, and exhales. "My new life. It starts now!" He begins to walk, until a cyan coloured blur rams into him, knocking him out cold. The last thing he see's before slipping into darkness, was a blurry pegasus with a rainbow coloured mane.