I saw them walking away, slowly, everypony I loved, leaving me without looking behind. I try to scream but nothing goes out of my throat, try to run but my legs don't react. Hopeless, I saw how everypony vanished in front of my eye. Everything starts to darken slowly. In a last attempt, a heartrending scream escape from my throat, the tears sprouting fiercly from my eyes.
I woke up with a little jump, realizing that I was sitting in the train, still shocked with the recent event. I look around to see if someone saw my episode. 'It was just a dream...' I thought, running my hoof through my mane, trying to catch up some breath. It happened again, why it keep happening?
It's been months since I left all that behind, if it wasn't years. Images and memories of the nightmare poke in my mind, they just won't go away. I wasn't sure if the pills were still working, I've been taking those for a couple of months and after that they hadn't the same effect, or at least that's what Sage told me. You ended up getting used to them.
Trying to clear my head, I crawl closer to the window. I saw the houses appear in the horizon, we were getting close to the town. I began to strech my legs and wings, in an attempt to release some of the tension that formed by the recent events.
Caramel was going to get me in the train station and help me to get my stuff to his house. He was my cousin, and probably one of the few ponies that could understand me. In my family, in each side of it there was some sort of "bad luck gene". It doesn't appear in every generation, but in some moment it will. Me, as Caramel, own these "gene". The three horseshoes in our flanks where the sign, those three horeshoes that will follow us forever...I know, it sounds like I'm being dramatic, but this time just trust me.
Sighing deeply, I prepare myself to go down the train, I saw the station getting closer. I was going to stay with Caramel until I found a room for myself or something, I didn't want to bother him more than necessary... Maybe the university had a campus.
I didn't know so much about Ponyville, I mean I've been here but just stoping by. It looked like the perfect place to begin this though. Plus, with Caramel offering me a place to stay and a good university in the town... I wasn't gonna complain to that.
The university of Ponyville has a lot of acknowledgment. A well know unicorn which name I don't remember right now, which advisor was Celestia, reside here and raise the reputation of the university to the skies. I wanted finish my career in Weather Control, knowing that in Ponyville were one of the best Weather Teams in Equestria... Maybe I could even watch them in action and learn something.
Lost in my thoughts, I realize that I was the last pony on the train. The train assistant were glancing at me, impatient. Quickly grabbing my saddlebags, I jump out of the train, avoiding the assistents gaze. I wasn't exactly the most careful pony, sometimes I felt like I was living in a dream until something snap me out. Thinking that I will have to get the rest of my stuff in the station, I walk towards a puddle of water without realizing how deep it was, stepping right on it. I fall with half of my body into it. My saddlebags flyes throught the air, miraculously avoiding the water. While I trying to get up, I saw how the saddlebags open and all the things inside rolling out from it. Ponies from every direction glancing at the point I was, a few of them trying to hold they giggles, some of them failing. Great, this was the perfect way to start in a new town.
Caramel trotted towards me, rushing to help putting me back on my hooves. "What a way to find you" he said giggling like the other ponies.
"Don't you say?" I said, giving him a irritated gaze while I wipe the water from my fur. "Come on, help me pick up my stuff before something else happ..." In the corner of my eye I spot something being dragged by the wind. 'Oh please no... Anything but that'. The documents from the university were slowly flying away. Picking up my stuff desperately, trying to not lose the paper from my sight. When Caramel and I finish collecting my stuff, the documents were already gone.
I was about to throw myself in the last direction I saw the papers when I felt a hoof holding my shoulder. Thinking about push the hoof away assuming that was Caramel's, I look a the hoof owner just to find a dark blue pegasus with some documents in his mouth. He was slightly taller than me, black disordered hair, probably by long hours of flying, and a pair of big green eyes, giving me a look of concern. "I think this belongs to you" he said, taking the papers with his right hoof.
I froze in the place where I was standing for a few seconds, attempting to remember what you supposed to do next. I felt the blood start to accumulate in my cheeks while he was still holding the paper in front of me. I slowly took them, this time holding them tight in case they decide to take another adventure. "T-thank you so much" I mumbled, while he gave me a warmth grin.
"No problem, just be careful next time" half laughing, turning around and getting into the train station.
I just stood there, trying to process what just have happened, still looking in his direction. Caramel gave me a slight shove waking me up from my little trance. "Ok enough for today, let's go home before you lose something else that your papers" He said giving me my saddlebags.
"Look who's talking" I said grining at him. I gaze at the sky, it look like a storm was coming, maybe the Wheather Team prepare it. "Let's go before something smack in our heads, this wheather is making me nervous" I said, adjusting the saddlebags.
"I'm not gonna complain to that" Caramel said, clearly having the same worries.
While we walk into the station to pick the rest of my stuff, the same few ponies were still looking at me. Oh for Celestia's sake, has they never seen someone stumbling into a puddle of water before?. I hate being the spotlight, the topic of the talk, even if it was for my qualifications. I felt uncomfortable with so much ponies looking at me, watching at every single movement I did, increasingly prone to make a fool of myself. Back in my school days I was the only one who hadn't his cutie mark, being teased whenever they had a opportunity. In flight academy it wasn't very different. The first day I crash into a cloud that was being moved for decoration of welcoming or something like that, landing on a pool of rainbows, then getting into the wrong classrom. That was my life, the destiny managed to made the spotlight. I was never going to get used to that, I just couldn't.
After claiming for my belongings and putting them on a cart, we start to walk towards Caramel's house. I was still embarassed for what happened before. In the corner of my eye I spot a dark blue shape soaring through the sky majestically. "Thunder, everything ok?" He said, snaping me back to reality... Again.
"Uh... yeah, I'm sorry, I might still be a little be asleep for the trip, that's all" I said, trying to not look nervous.
"Come on, you can rest when we arrive there" He said, pating my back. "I have a delicious apple pie waiting for us and we could watch that mov..." I felt his words die in my ears while I start to go deep in my thoughts again, gazing once more at the pegasus who had just saved my admission documents.