Our Soul Friendships

Fears - Part 2

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The midnight shadows were gruelingly casted upon the streets in the top platform, nopony visibly was able to even sleep except for those in the Northern District. Many were hidden in the darkness, talking to each other or fighting except for the Western District where everypony was hiding in their homes or in any crack that was pheasable.

A common theme within the Western District was the abundance of constant and differenciating fears of many things.

Motion Reflux walked up the tower staircase this night to the top of the western district tower and a sudden headache hit him. He staggered slightly as he walked and suddenly it felt as if his fears were amplified. His tiny fear of water and his extensive fear of darkness were amplified greatly.

The development of his fear of the dark started after he earned reached Cloudsdale when he was younger as his fear of being discovered was the true connection to it. He feared the darkness because he feared those who were looking for him would finally find him.

He knew he couldn't hide so he had to suck it up, slowly walking along the path shivering with fear. Looking around himself he saw some homeless ponies curled up in some boxes or in even darker alleyways.

Now he knew something was wrong; he looked at a glass of water and yelped in shock. He wasn't this scared of water before too, he usually was able to shove away the feeling of fear for it but like the darkness he couldn't.

He fell back, his eyes locked onto the darkness surrounding him and before he knew it he shut his eyes tightly, crying.

Blankness and the feeling of a pony carrying him away was the final things he felt before he ultimately was somehow put to sleep. The one thing he knew was that it was either another pony kindnapping him or it was Swiftshock helping him in her own strange way.

It was probably the latter.

As he woke strapped onto a chair in a dark room he could see the sharp red eyes of a familiar pegasus that was staring him down. She started, "It's not safe to go out alone in the dark, stupid colt." and all he could do was huff in response. Then she threw a punch with her forehoof, keeping her balance on two legs as she barely missed his face and only skidding his fur slightly.

When the deft punch hit a surface the lights immediately switched on showing that he was in the main bedroom. Swiftshock was crying heavily like she too had felt the strong field of fear.

"Don't you ever explore in the dark without me again..." she cringed he teeth as she spoke, rearing back from her punch and falling onto floor landing on her rear.

He struggled slightly but finally freed himself from the straps on the chair as they weren't tightly tied and he rubbed his nose against her cheek to sympathize and apologize, "Alright... I guess there's going to be a lot of rules just to be with you then..." he smiled and wrapped his forelegs around her neck in a soft embrace, "How about you write them up on a sheet of paper and I'll look them over so I know what to follow." and then he let go of her and walked over to the bed, flipping onto it.

She stood and trotted to the other side of the bed, smiling gently as she made her way into the bed and wrapped the sheet around herself. He didn't bother to as he just curled up and fell asleep.

Her blush was sincere and held back as she soon followed suit and fell asleep, there was much more to this blue pegasus she knew and she wanted to learn all about him in her own ways later on.

As quickly as time flew the snow quickly strode in and it began snowing moderately. The sun wasn't glowing too bright in Skyfell this morning because of the snow clouds blocking it.

Motion Reflux woke up first and noticed that Swiftshock was out of the sheets and snuggled up close to him with her wings wrapped around his body like she was protecting him.

He quickly jumped away in slight embarrassment, his cheek slightly red as he stood staring at her. She was still blissfully asleep and as he stared he blushed at her beautiful appearance. Although her eyes gave her a sharp stare of fear to those who saw it, her gentle yellow body had the physique of an angel. He turned away and quickly made his way out the room, his wings flared in what seemed to be silent pleasure.

He creaked a peek through the door to see Swiftshock waking up, she yawned and stretched out her legs; then she immediately looked side to side in surprise. Her head slowly turned towards the door, her hair covering her eyes as only a red glow could be seen past them. A purple negative aura was noticeable around her head.

"Where... is... my...Fluxxy?!" she shouted angrily.

Motion Reflux eeped silently, nosing his way past the door and shivering; his speech stuttered, "H-Hey Swi-Swift!" he faked a smile and she glared at him. She smiled, "There you are, Ninny-colt!".

She called me Fluxxy earlier so why not now?

She rolled out of the bed and jumped towards him, flying politely through the small distance. "I was wondering where you were!~" she giggled cutely like nothing ever happened before. He choked his words, "Y-Yeah! I'm here o-of course!" he nuzzled her cheek and she nuzzled his.

Then she walked around him and through the door and saying, "I'll let you go off to your own thing now, ninny-colt, it's daytime and I also have to write up a list of rules for you~" she turned once she was outside of the room and the other side of the door from him and continued, "But don't think you can do anything funny... I'm always watching."

Finally she walked out of sight and he sighed gently once he knew so. Quickly he made his way out the mansion and went to visit the Southern Districts top platform. He flew up the scale of the northern tower and then hovering over the top platform he made his way into the southern district.

Looking around under him he saw ponies arguing with each other, others bumping into one another like their sight was impacted. If this was the southern district and the western district was fear then what was the eastern district?

He didn't want to find out just yet, right now he surveyed the area. There were two large parks and the houses here were two stories high and made of pearl and wood, there were less houses than the western district but more homes than the northern district. This must've been the moderate wealth part of the city.

He hovered around a bit more and explored the parks, they weren't too shabby nor were they that great but they sufficed. As he explored the park he saw ponies blindly moving around separate from each other, none trying to socialize until the odd ones out come in contact and begin to argue for no reason.

This place wasn't too fun to hang around in so he quickly made his way back to the western district tower and began walking down the stairs, he really didn't feel like flying too much today.

As he reached the floor where the library was, a thought came to his head if he should see if Discovery is willing to speak now or maybe he should just leave her be for awhile more.

He exited out the tower onto the library platform, now standing in front of the grand library. It was now or never.

Entering past the large doors he walked towards Discovery and waited until she noticed. She looked past the side of her book to see the blue stallion waiting there and before she spoke she figured out it was the blue stallion from before.

"What are you doing here?" she murmured annoyingly, simply unamused by his presence as she put down her book and looked at him with a bored face, "Can't you see that I want to be alone?". He gave off a gentle smirk and said, "Maybe I can change your idea of friendship and finally be your friend, Discovery." his muzzle was an inch away from hers. She pushed him away with a forehoof and grudgingly snarled, "I might not have friends but I know you're in a relationship with the toughest character in Skyfell." she picked up her book and began reading once more, "I don't want friends, nor do I even dare step outside."

"I don't need to eat, drink, sleep..." she lectured, "I'm not a real pony."

This confused him greatly and created an immense set of questions in his mind, is it possible for her not to be a pony?, is she a ghost?, is it even possible to create a pony?...

It almost made sense to him as he began putting pieces of the puzzle together, all he was missing was the final piece which could only come from her answer. He knew she wasn't willing to answer the question in his thoughts.

She tilted her book down and glared at him menacingly from behind it, popping the question, "Do you believe in fate?" with a smirk hidden. He answered, "Fate isn't something to truly believe in, I don't completely believe in it but I also do believe in it; but it comes around to the decisions you'd make that generates this energy of fate."

"Bzzt... wrong, Fate is something that you can believe in like everything else in this world, everypony is entitled to their fate that is destined to them as shown by their cutie mark." she tilted her head, her mane flowing magnificently to the side, "But some cutie marks are even deeper than that."

"Huh?" he looked at her with a brow raised, "A deeper meaning to ones fate?". She nodded, putting down the book and resting her magic for once, "It takes incredible thought to even find this in a pony. Take something like The Elements of Harmony, some cutie marks in the six don't even signify the true element itself."

Closing her eyes and taking in a short breath she continued, "Cutie marks aren't your true fate but the answer lies within the deeper meaning of fate within ones cutie mark." she looked at his mark, "Your cutie mark is a wave with a large countering wave that shows a control of water, the small wave being a regular ripple of motion and the large wave being a created wave of motion within water." she squinted her eyes, "But if you really think about what I just said, it's all about motion."

He rolled his eyes, "I guess you do know a lot from reading all of the books in your grand library". She snickered softly, "I already knew everything from the day I was created."

She's lightening up...

She glared at him once more and stated, "Fate and Destiny aren't the same, in fact their ideology is completely separate."

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Stretching his wings he looked over at her as he turned, "You know a lot then." she smiled and replied, "Most ponies are controlled by fate but I know the special ones are controlled by destiny. I know those with destiny follow a set future but fate is never in stone."

"I fear the unknown." she finished, turning away and walking deep past the large bookshelves and disappearing from his sight. He thought to himself, The unknown, huh, I guess that's why friendship is so stale to her... but then he dismissed the thought and left the library.

Walking towards the edge of the platform, he leaned against the golden railing; turning his head towards the tower staircase since he didn't want to really fly he noticed a familiar blue figure climbing up. He squinted his eyes to see it was a mare from the figure's shape, it has no wings nor a horn so it was a earth pony, and what finally made him run towards her to greet her was the fact her cutie mark was a shocking bolt with three blue plus signs.

It was Plusle!

He jumped a short distance and skid the rest, that sliding making a noise loud enough to get her attention. "Oh! Hey Motie!" she smiled and turned to face him, her eyes shut joyfully, "How're ya doing?"

He rolled his eyes and answered, "Doing fine for the most part and also trying to be-friend the keeper of the library." Plusle jumped back in surprise, "Y-You actually were able to speak to her?!" She took a breath and spoke, "Every time I see her I never get a hint of a peep from her..." she sighed sadly but then perked back up, "Maybe I'll tag alone with you the next time you see her! I've known mostly everypony here in Skyfell except her and I'd like to meet her!~"

She giggled cutely with her forehoof covering her mouth slightly. Motion Reflux observed that Plusle was always happy and joyful about everything like that's how she sees the whole world. He looks at her face and finally asks, "Hey, is there any time that I could see your brother? I'd like to meet him first before I try introducing you to the librarian."

Plusle nodded gleefully, "Anytime really!~" she tilted her head cutely, "..I think he should make more friends like I do, so just come visit anytime in the Southern District! We live in a building made of pure stone and wood and it really juts out from the crowd of rough cobbly rock homes around us."

She snuck in a nuzzle against his ear and whispered, "Just remember Motie that when you meet him, try not to do anything rash..."

"He's very mean..." she pulled away and then winked amourously, wiggling her plot in his view as she walked up the western tower staircase and moved out of his sight.

He watched her as she walked up the staircase out of his view and he thought to himself, "She probably could get out Discovery's happier side." he walked into the tower and began descending down the incredible spiral staircase.

Now he walked to the main castle because he figured Snowfall might have some kind of job for him now after the days wait.

He entered through the castle doors and to his surprise he saw Soft Spoken sitting on the throne. It was odd that she was there and funny that she was half the size of the massive throne. Motion Reflux waved to her and she tilted her head and smiled, motioning with a forehoof to come to her.

He did so and bowed, "How're you doing Soft Spoken?" he asked. She bowed her head and closed her eyes, "I'm just watching over Skyfell today because my aunt says she has some important business in Equestria."

She raised her head quickly and opened her eyes to beautifully look at Motion Reflux, squeeing slightly, "Hey Motion Reflux, maybe you could be my personal guard for the rest of the day. That might suffice for whatever my auntie Snowfall would give you as a job."

Soft Spoken nodded to herself and smiled, her thoughts to herself were private yet lustful. Hopping off the throne she walked passed him, "Come on, let's go walk around the southern district park for awhile." she winked as she trotted past him, her magnificent long mane flowing magically and beautifully.

His blush was faint as his wing was caressed by her smooth hair, tickling his sensitive limb gently; then he turned and followed behind her, sighing for what could be in for him in the coming moments. They both exited the main castle and Soft Spoken waved her hoof to the guards telling them in secret that there's no need to follow.

The two guards looked at each other and then one of them just shrugged and they both continued their job of holding guard at the main castle doors.

As if it was enough to worry about not knowing how to protect somepony, it was worrying when as if on queue the sky fell dim and dark, no pony was in sight around the park they had entered in the ground level of the Southern District.

Soft Spoken looked over at the blue pegasus behind her and smirked, her eye gleamed slightly in the moonlight as she turned and faced him. The fog lowered as if ordered by a ponies magic and then she slowly moved closer to him.

He winced and reared his head backwards as her muzzle tried to get close to his and he knew that something wasn't right...

She's trying to make a move...

Her efforts were worthwhile as her lips came in close contact to his but to his surprise she took a step back. Her ears perked up as if she heard a sound that he couldn't. Out of nowhere, Swiftshock stepped past the shadows with her eyes glowing an intense red ember. From her eyes emitted a red, slightly transparent, wispy and glowing flames which curved upwards flowing all the way past the dark fog.

"Don't you dare get near my Fluxxy..." she scowled at her, Soft Spoken replied in a declaring voice, "Your Fluxxy? My, My, Swiftshock... you're in love with him?" she smiled.

Swiftshock store at her angrily, a small common rosefinch hovering into sight beside her as she pointed at Soft Spoken and let out the words... "死ぬでしょう..."

After she said that, the small rosefinch burst into flames and transformed into a magnificent flaming phoenix, it's eyes as red as Swiftshock's and began to fly at high speeds, it's sharp break pointed at Soft Spoken...