Lost in the Dark

“Why am I so unlucky?” Hige murmured to himself after the scene he had caused in Flutershy’s cottage. “All I needed to do was get food. WHY DID I HAVE TO COME ALL THE WAY OVER HERE?!” he screamed to himself. “Maybe I had to get Kiba, but that doesn’t mean that I had to stay and…” He had finally reached the end of the forest and was on his way to getting to his house. ‘If word gets out about of what happened… I’m dead’, he thought to himself as he ran to the door of his house ‘Remember… Remember… Remember.’ Hige became dazed for a split second, causing him to fall. After hearing the voice in his head, he spontaneously remembered a memory that had been hidden away deep in his mind since the day it had happened… until today. “No!!! For the love of all that it good, SHUT UP!” Hige said, almost breaking down; there wasn’t a noise to be heard. It took him a few second to regain the courage to stand up.

As he entered his house, he felt a wave of fear pass throughout his body. He knew what he had to do… but he didn’t like it. The memory he had hidden away for years was about his best friend, and the way they got “separated”. He had gotten used to having chunks of his life being erased from his mind ‘Its better that way’, he always thought. This memory, on the other hand, was unlike any other. This was the single most important memory of his past… and the one he most feared. The “Incident” with Fluttershy had caused him to remember his best friend’s name: Yowai. The name brought up events that had transpired during his repressed memory. He had no choice, he would suffer through remembering the memory or allow it slowly destroy him.

Hige walked upstairs and into one of the rooms. He found a few parchments, a quill and some ink. He planned on writing down everything he knew about his best friend and, in the process, hoped to release the memory he had hidden away.

After a deep breath, he began to write:

I was only twelve when I first met my best friend Yowai. He had gotten into a fight…

“C’mon ya faggot, do something!” said the light blue unicorn to the little colt which he had begun to kick in the middle of a deserted, dead-end alley, in the poor district of Manehattan “If you don’t do somethin’, I ain’t gonna stop”, he said as he landed a hard kick in the colt’s gut. The colt frantically started gasping for air. “DO SOMETH-“ The stallion was interrupted by a small rock hitting him on the side of his head. “Ahh!!! The hell was that? Who threw tha-“

“Pick on someone your own size!” said a small, dark-brown pegasus.

“Ha! There isn’t anyone in this town that can be a match for me!”, the light blue unicorn said arrogantly.

“Hahahahahaha!!!” The pegasus began to laugh uncontrollably.

“What’s so bucking funny!? “, said the unicorn, his rage intensifying.

“Everybody knows that you’re the only unicorn that’s too stupid to use magic”, said the pegasus with a smug grin.

“Why you little bastard!” exclaimed the unicorn as he charged at the pegasus, who then flew to top of the small building that composed the left portion of the alley.

“The only thing you managed to do was use that thing on your head like a spear… Not very impressive if you ask me”, said the pegasus in a inciting tone.

“Why don’t you come down here and tell it to my face?” remarked the now-furious unicorn.

“And why should I do that?” said the pegasus un-amused.

The unicorn looked around and smiled, “because if you don’t… I’ll kill this little colt.” True to his threat, he positioned himself in the perfect angle to stab the still breathless colt in the neck.

The pegasus’s eyes shot wide open, but quickly returned to their normal self. “Holding a defenseless colt hostage? What would your father say if the saw you?”, said the Pegasus as he positioned himself at the end of the alley ,“oh right, he left you… probably because he couldn’t live with the fact that his son is so stupid that he can’t even use the simplest of spells”, he said with a smirk.

The unicorn was dumbfounded, then irate, “Wh-what?... You’re dead kid… YOU ARE SO DEAD!!!” He began to gallop toward the pegasus, horn ready to stab him in the heart.

“Idiot…”, said the pegasus as he flew upward, avoiding the unicorn’s horn. The horn met with a brick wall, and shattered. The impact was so great that he fell unconscious.

“Are you okay?”, asked the pegasus, now turning his attention to the colt.

“Y-yeah… thank… you…”, said the colt between breaths, “is… he… dead?”

“No… I hope not… even if he is an jerk… he doesn't deserve to die…”, said the pegasus looking at the unicorn. “Can you walk?”

“Yeah… I just… need a minute… to catch my breath”, the colt said as he rested his back against the wall,

“what’s your name?”

“Oh, its Hige. Nice to meet you”, he said, extending his hoof.

The colt responded, “Likewise. I’m Yowai” and bumped his hoof against Hige’s.

Moments later…

“I-I think I can walk now…”, said the colt as he stood up.

Hige, who had been waiting at the entrance of the alley, walked over to him and said, “Are you sure? Jack did do a lot of damage.”

“Jack? Was that the unicorn?”, asked Yowai as he got up.

“Yeah… Everypony around here knows the legendary jerk, Jack… are you new?” Hige asked with a peculiar face.

“Um… y-yes… I’m new here”, Yowai said, looking like he could cry at any second.

“I’m gonna take a wild guess here and say that you came here on a safari retreat to look the animals that inhabit this part of the town. You saw Jack and asked your group leader if they could follow it and observe it; he said no. Heartbroken, you decided to look for the animal on your own. Then it snuck up behind you and took you by surprise”, said the pegasus with a hoof under his shin

“Well… no…”, Yowai said with a smile.

“C’mon, I know a place you can rest”, Hige said as he slowly made his way to the alley’s exit and looked back, “you comin’ or what?” Both of them gently smiled.

“Oh… okay then…”, said Yowai, surprised at the generosity of the pegasus.

Jack woke up hours later, only to find pieces of his shattered horn surrounding him. Then he promised himself, “Don’t think I’ll forget this, pegasus...”

… and that was the first time I ever met Yowai.

‘W-what… t-this can’t be… all my life… I’ve had a best friend… why did I hide it away...? Why do I feel so sad each time I think about it…’ Hige thought to himself after he had finished writing his first encounter with Yowai. ‘Never forgive…’ “WHO SAID THAT!”, exclaimed a startled Hige as he jumped out of his seat to look around… “I must be hearing things…” Hige murmured to himself. ‘Need to keep writing’ he thought ‘I need to know what happened’ Hige started to write once more…