{Dae}
As I sat on my throne, I was taking care of my royal duties for the day. I couldn't help but smile because of Betty's big race against her bully Marble. I'm pretty sure she's going to win. I kept thinking that if I were going to marry anyone, it would be Betty. I think my dad Lucifer is frustrated because I keep driving away those marriage proposals. My latest marriage proposal I drove away was that goody four shoes princess pony named Princess Twilight. I suspect that's why I got that burn mark from him lately.
I also suspect that since Lucifer can hear my thoughts, he probably knows how I feel about Betty, that is another reason for the burn mark too.
I know Betty's a Death Walker now and I know the Icebreakers sent her another half-and-half, Sami, that's already dead to tell her during her failed suicide attempt.
I think it's funny that the way Betty deals with her enemies is just as creative as the way I deal with mine. Even though it's not as ruthless as my father's way of dealing with them, I persist in such a way that my enemies actually will beg for death. However, I can't kill the enemies that are already dead. Of course, it's not against the rules to kill an enemy that's alive.
I've thought about meeting Betty face to face several times but I decided I'll just follow her around for now instead. Now that Betty's a Death Walker, I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to hide my presence from her. I'm figuring once she discovers me, then I'll introduce myself.
I kept thinking about Betty, this time more than usual, and it was actually difficult to keep focused on my royal duties. I rolled my eyes as I could sense my assistant Parada cleared her throat to get my attention. "What is it this time Parada?"
"You know what I'm going to say. You could at least meet her," Parada said. "You don't have to confess your feelings for her right off the bat."
"She just found out she's a Death Walker, I don't think she needs-"
Parada laughed, "More friends? Uh-huh yeah, sure, honestly, if anyone needs more friends at the moment, it would be her."
I still wasn't sure if I should meet Betty or not at the moment. "I'll think about it. As you can see, I'm taking care of my royal duties so if you don't mind, unless there's something else you want to talk to me about?"
Parada shook her head, "Nope, that's all I needed to say."
I sighed after Parada left because she's right. I should at least try to meet her.
* * *
{Betty}
The next day at school was my big race with Marble. Once we were at the track, I stretched a couple of times and Marble did the same thing only he seemed to be taking forever. I made sure to have my wings tied as promised. I was getting tired of waiting, it looked like Marble was stalling or something.
"What's the matter Marble?" I taunted. "Are you stalling because you're afraid you're going to lose to a half-and-half?"
"No, I'm not scared!" Marble snapped.
"Okay, fine, whatever," I said.
Finally, we got to the starting line. Mystic was there floating a red flag in her magic. "Ready? Set. Go!"
Mystic let down the flag and the race started. By the time the fifth lap came around, Marble looked like he was starting to run out of breath. I looked back at him and laughed as I wasn't even breaking a sweat. "Aww, come on Marble, don't you want me to date Silver?"
That taunting seemed to give Marble enough strength to finish the race, I snickered because by now it looked like he was panting. "Wow, you look like you're out of shape! Did you eat too many candy bars before this race?"
Marble sneered, "I'm not out of shape and I'm not going to lose!"
"Yeah just like you lost the last race?" I taunted. I blew a raspberry at him.
Once we got the hand-to-hand combat part of the challenge. After Marble caught his breath, his first move was to charge at me. All I had to do was step aside and then I tripped him and he fell on the ground face first. I noticed something as we were fighting, I was able to block Marble's every move. I felt stronger too. I'm going to assume that it might be because of all the practice I've done with hand-to-hand combat with Scarlett. I've heard that humans tend to be weaker than ponies by default. Since I'm half human, I thought for sure that would make me weaker than a pony.
But during the fight, I was able to block Marbles hooves with every kick and punch.
"There's no way, you've gotten stronger than me the last time we fought!" Marble snapped.
I shrugged as I blocked another punch from Marble. "Well, it looks like I am! Oh well."
At one point in the fight, Marble tried to grab on my tail to yank it with his mouth and I dodged it no problem.
I have no idea what is going on and why I'm stronger all of the sudden. I thought. But this fight ends now.
I tripped Marble and before he could hit the ground I put him in a chokehold.
"Tell your friend Silver to stay the hell away from me!" I snarled. I squeezed his neck but not enough to kill him or knock him out.
I let go and Marble wheezed, "Listen, Betty, I can't control what Silver does, and Headmare Starlight Glimmer is right."
I squeezed his neck again and then let go and snarled, "About what?"
"I was teasing you because I have a crush on you," Marble admitted. "I only wanted you to notice me."
"Oh, I noticed you alright!" I snarled.
"I-I wanted to ask and I should've done this in the first place-" Marble said.
"Oh no, you don't!" I snarled. "If the question is what I think it is, my answer is a big fat NO!"
I let go of Marble's neck and he fell to the ground wheezing and coughing. I wasn't planning on killing the guy, I was just trying to make a point. Now that I've made my point, hopefully, this'll knock some sense into Marble and he'll leave me alone.
I looked to see the crowd in the bleachers watching us cheering. Mystic came up to us to declare the winner of this race. "Wow Marble! It looks like you're out of shape. Anyway, the winner is Betty Jewel!"
The next thing that happened was a big surprise to me. Sapphire came up to us and announced, "Hey everypony! I've recorded the whole race. I say we watch it tomorrow in my backyard. I'll have the projection screen set up and we can watch it there! And there'll be enough popcorn for everypony!"
I was shocked because I knew she said she was going to record the race so we could watch it later. But I thought she meant me, Mystic, and her were going to watch the race. I didn't think she was going to show it to everyone. Once I got over my shock, I fell over on my back laughing as hard as I could. I wondered after this if Marble was going to show his face in school for a while. If he did, he'd probably have to wear a brown paper bag over his head.
* * *
During spring break, a lot of times I like to go to the Castle of the Two Sisters. I like to play a game of tic tac toe with myself on the steps of the old entrance to the castle. When I do this, I prefer to play by myself, mostly because I break the rules of the game. I add more symbols than necessary.
This time as I was playing, somehow I was able to sense Scarlett's presence before she even announced herself. "Hey Scarlett, what's up?"
Scarlett smiled as she came and sat down beside me, "How were you able to do that?"
I shrugged, "I don't know, I just did it."
Scarlett looked up at the sky thoughtfully, "Hmmm, this might have something to do with your death walker abilities."
"So you mean that's a real thing?" I said.
Scarlett nodded, "It's real, did you meet Sami in the Land of Dead yet?"
I nodded. "I didn't think it was real. I figured that I was actually dead and how could I have come back from that? What does a Death Walker do anyway?"
"Well, a Death Walker is someone that keeps the balance of life and death in check," Scarlett explained. "It's a little bit complicated to explain. If you really want to know more about it, you should probably talk to the Icebreakers. That is if they want to talk to you about it. Anyway, the Icebreakers have picked me to be your trainer on your Death Walker abilities. We'll start with giving you this."
Scarlett went into her bag that she had brought with her, and fished out something that looked like a staff. I noticed that in the middle of it was an amethyst gem.
I examined it when she handed it to me, "What's this for?"
"That's your death walker weapon," Scarlett said. "It helps you to channel your powers to keep them leveled in a fight. No, I'm not a Death Walker myself, I'm a medium. I can talk with the dead. The Icebreakers probably chose me because I'm friends with you. You know, maybe because you're new to the Death Walker and would need someone familiar to train you. However, even though I don't have a weapon like you do, I do have a death walker ability, it's iron fist. Speaking of medium, I can see you, Cozy Glow."
Cozy Glow's voice sounded excited, "Yay! Someone that can see me!"
Scarlett rolled her eyes, "Wow, a dead person excited that someone can see them? Don't see that every day! How did you die anyway? Weren't you just turned to stone?"
"I died in my statue five years ago," Cozy Glow answered. "I couldn't figure out the reason why I didn't crossover like Tirek and Queen Chrysalis did. When Betty smashed my statue, somehow my soul became bound to hers. I have to admit, being bound to Betty like this is kind of nice because I get to spend more time with my favorite cousin. I just wish I was able to spend more time with her when I was alive. But you know the story about what I did.
"Anyway, wasn't Marble's defeat by Betty awesome yesterday? If you ask me, I think that's a wonderful way to get back at a bully!"
Scarlett and I burst into laughter at this and Cozy Glow joined in.
"I saw that," Scarlett said in between her laughter, "I can't believe Sapphire Diamond was so bold enough to play it on a projector screen in her backyard!"
At this point, I had tears in my eyes. I barely managed to get out the next words when I spoke, "Sapphire did tell me that she was going to record it so we could watch it later. I thought she meant me, Mystic and her were going to watch it. I didn't think she meant the whole entire school!"
Cozy Glow giggled, "I wonder if Marble's going to show his face in school again?"
I finally stopped laughing, but the thought of what happened might make me start laughing again. "I don't know Cozy Glow, but he did say why he was picking on me."
"Why?" Scarlett said.
"Apparently, Marble had a crush on me," I said. "He was picking on me to get me to notice him."
"Wow, what a wonderful way to win someone over." Scarlett chuckled. "He was probably chasing away all of the guys you liked just so he could have you for himself?"
I shrugged, "I don't know. But they did take Marble's side when he started picking on me. I don't think calling someone a halfbreed and huma-sus is a good way to get someone's love and affection."
I then went into mock Marble to show how wrong he was in how he tried to get my attention. "Oh hey huma-sus, I just wanted to tell you how much I love you! By the way, I think you're nothing more than a halfbreed which means you're nothing more than cattle to me, but I just wanted to tell you that I love you, would you go out on a date with me?"
Scarlett fell over on her back rolling in laughter. "Yeah, I think that might've been what the idiot was thinking. That's a good way to win over the girl of your dreams."
I was going to say something, but I paused because I felt that same dark presence that's been following me around lately. Okay, this is getting old and annoying! I wish I could figure out where this dark presence is coming from.
Scarlett frowned, "What is it?"
"It's that dark presence again isn't it?" Cozy Glow said.
I nodded. "Yeah it's weird, and that voice inside my head? Maybe I need help like mom does?"
Scarlett smiled, "Oh that's right! You have your court case tomorrow. I hope it goes well for you."
"Me too," I said, "I'm getting away from that psycho, I don't care if I have to live on the streets!"
Scarlett sighed, "Yeah I don't know why the police didn't help you out. At least I taught you how to defend yourself. I'm sorry, I saw what was happening but I couldn't do anything about it. Dad knew what was happening too. Unfortunately, you can only adopt someone if the parent that they are declared unfit or if the child is an orphan. Anyway, I'm wishing you luck on this."
I smiled, "Thanks, Scarlett."
* * *
The following week was my court case, Headmare Starlight Glimmer actually helped set things up. Fortunately, mom didn't have to be there. The only contact I would have to make again if everything went well, would be for the police officers to serve the papers to mom and help me get my things so I could leave.
I stood before the Judge nervous, he was looking through my medical records in shock. "Wow! Since the age of 6, you've had over 100 hospital visits, a couple of them were near-death visits! Why the police didn't have enough evidence to declare your mom an unfit parent is beyond me. On top of that, your dad is already a deserter. So given all this evidence, your request to be declared an orphan is granted!"
I smiled after seeing the Judge as I went to fill out the final paperwork. When I went outside the courtroom, I was surprised to see Discord and Fluttershy there to greet me. "Hi guys."
Discord smiled, "We heard you might be declared an orphan today. So we decided to give you a place to stay. So how did everything go?"
I smiled showing Discord and Fluttershy the paperwork declaring me an orphan.
"Excellent!" Fluttershy said as she clapped her hooves. "We heard about your situation through your friend Mystic Diamond. Sorry! We didn't know how abusive your mom was until now!"
"It's okay Fluttershy," I said, "the only thing I need to do now is to go get my things and escape mom finally."
"I'm so happy you can finally get away from that evil woman!" Fluttershy cheered.
"Uh-huh and since you're still in school," said Discord, "there's no need for you to get a job for the time being."
"Okay then," I said.
All three of us went to my now former home and I loved seeing the shocked look on my mom's face as I served her the papers. Mom sneered, "You can't keep her away from me!"
Fluttershy sneered back at mom, "Oh yes we will! You abusive witch! I'm surprised you're not in jail yet!"
"Since I can make pigs fly, I'm pretty sure I can definitely keep her away from you!" Discord snapped.
Discord snapped his claw and out of thin air came actual flying pigs.
"Okay Ms. Jewel, it's time for you to step aside so Betty can get her things," the police officer said.
Mom gave him a snide look. "Okay, since I have no choice, fine."
It made me even happier as I got my things and went to Discord and Fluttershy's cottage to stay at my new home.