//------------------------------// // Old Friends // Story: Cyber burst and the Mirage temple // by Mr Jelly //------------------------------// Chapter 1 Old friends Rarity looked left and right before approaching the stallion on the other side of the street. She hopes it is the stallion she’s looking for or else she would have made a quite fool of herself. Upon reaching the other side of the street, the stallion looked her way and his face lit up. Not thinking of her safety, the stallion said, “Hey Rarity!” “He“ Rarity tried to say something, but was cut off because she was then surrounded by many adoring fans. Saving the land of Equestria from Night Mare Moon and making some of the most beautiful dresses of her time really gets her a following. The stallion’s horn glowed and both Rarity and the stallion disappeared. They reappeared right next to a startled Applejack on Sweet Apple Acres. The stallion appeared with his face buried in the ground while Rarity appeared on her back. “I see you still haven’t mastered the teleportation spell, Cyber.” “I don’t know what went wrong this time,” “Darling, which teleportation spell did you use, the regular one or the teleport shuffle one?” “Oh, I feel really dumb using the wrong teleport spell.” “Well, there’s your problem darling, now would you mind using the right one and get us back to my boutique.” There was a flash of light and the two unicorns where gone. All there was left was a very confused Applejack. Applejack yelled before going back to kicking trees. “What’s ‘goin on ‘round here!” ************************************** After Rarity washed all the dirt off her mane, she and Cyber walked to the nearest shop (which happened to be Sugar cube corner) and talked. “You never told me you were in Ponyville Darling,” “I just stopped in to check on old friends,” “Oh, I’m doing just fine , selling a lot more Dresses than usual though,” “I wouldn’t say your fine Miss Generosity, you were almost mobbed by fans!” “I could’ve gotten out of that easily darling.” “And maybe you came to tell me something else,” “Uhhhh,” “Something you couldn’t have told me for the last fifteen years,” “You have a memory like an Elephant Rarity,” Cybeast started to remember the time the two had first met. He always loved to remember things because he had a great childhood of Mysterious caves and Giant relics, for he was an adventurer. But that is a different chapter. FIFTEEN YEARS EARLIER A young colt came trotting up to an unknown cottage for he did not know all the people who lived close to the Everfree forest. He went up to the door and banged on it for dear life. When Rarity answered the door, he collapsed in her hooves because of all the scrapes and cuts he had on him. An old scroll that was in his mouth was then dropped on the floor The colt woke up a with a start after what seemed like a little while later, laying on a couch, with a strange filly feeding him medicine. He panicked and tried to get up, but found he could hardly move because he had so many injuries. C.H. asked the filly, “Who are you, and where am I,” “My name is Rarity darling, you collapsed on my front porch badly injured,” Rarity was amazed on how this strange colt even got to her cottage in the first place. Pondering this, Rarity asked the colt. “What where you doing out in the Everfree Forest, it’s quite dangerous you know.” The colt just smiled and snickered, then muttered something under his breath. Rarity didn’t hear it but didn’t ask what it he said. The colt then answered her first question, “I can’t tell you now.” “Well why not darling?” “You wouldn’t believe me, Wait fifteen years, then I’ll tell you.” The colt noticed that he could move again and sat up on the couch wondering how this, Rarity could have such strong medicine. As if she was reading his mind she explained, “My parents own a powerful herb shop, but they keep a large surplus of herbs here.” The colt started to get off the couch and move about the room, then stopped to look at himself in a nearby mirror. From horn to hoof, he stands a good two feet high, tall for a colt at the age of five. He turned from side to side, looking at his light red flank, wondering what all the other kids would say at the start of the next school year because he was the first to get his cutie mark, a strange one at that. Then, noticing that his light blue mane and tail was neatly braided down his left side, asked Rarity, “Did you do my hair?” “Do you like it? I think it looks gorgeous darling.” In response to her question, the colt undid his hair and shook it wildly to get the glitter out. He scooped up the glitter and put it in the nearest container of sorts. Rarity looked displeased at him. “What, I don’t like glitter.” Rarity just sighed and took the glitter container up to her room. She put it next to her first dress which she made all by herself. Upon coming back to the room in which she left the colt in, she couldn’t find him. She then looked all around the cottage looking for him to find him at the front door. She was amazed at how fast he healed. Even with all of the medicine, she thought he would have to stay for at least until sunset. That was the first time she looked at his cutie mark. Realizing that it was rather strange to say the least. It was an old, open book with a code of numbers on the pages. She looked at the colt’s face then back at the cutie mark. The colt then asked, “How long did I sleep?” “For almost a day darling.” "What? ALMOST A DAY?!" Rarity was confused. Did this young colt think that he would just wake up in five minutes. The colt started to panic and said, “Great Celestia! My mother must be worried sick” The colt ran about twenty feet then turned and ran back and asked “I came with a scroll, where is it?” “Next to the couch Darling” The colt’s horn glowed and he used his magic to make the scroll levitate into his mouth where he then held it gently. Rarity noticed that the colt was ever so slightly transparent after the held the scroll in his mouth. When he was about to leave, Rarity asked the young colt, “You’re just going to leave without telling me your name, how rude!” The colt stopped and said with a huge smile on his face, “My name is Cyber burst, but everyone calls me Cyburst”