Adventures of Li Ch 1 sneakpeek

The Comet's Delivery: Li's Arrival

Equestria, A nation that is practically a newborn to the planet of Equis, is Fraught with turmoil. The natural predators of the world fight skirmishes with the border of the united tribes of equines. Mythical beasts run wild in the countryside of the nations. The three tribes still bicker, and some are still very outspoken about this union being a disgrace. However, all of that was about to slowly change, and it all started on one night...

White Tail Village
12 pm
The village of White Tail is a fairly peaceful village that did a much better job at integrating with the other tribes. A Pegasus guard was flying patrol over the White Tail Woods as a loud sound rings out. The guard looks skyward to see a burning object plummeting from the heavens. Quickly, the guard flies out of the flight path of the comet as it screams down into the woods. Trees are flung into the air with some barely missing the village itself due to how far the comet landed inside the woods. The guard takes off toward the village to get together a possible militia to inspect.

Meanwhile, a mare walking through the woods falls to the ground as tremors throw hers off her hooves. Curiosity getting the better of the mare, she heads off towards where the crash hit. The mare has simple turquoise fur, a horn, and a mark of a single star on her flanks. As the mare arrived at the crash site, she is in shock, trees are crush, and burning. Earth formed a hill at the lip of a crater from the sheer amount of dirt pushed forward by the comet's impact.

'Wow.' the mare thought as she did her best to avoid all the wreckage to reach the surprisingly spherical comet. The mare then heard a sound come from the site. 'Is that...crying?" she thought walking towards the comet. Looking at it, the orb is glowing red, but the mare used her magic to form a heat shield as she touches the orb with a hoof. The front of the comet falls off,and the mare dodges the piece of metal. Then she realizes something...the crying is louder now.

Looking back she sees a little creature sitting in the comet's remains crying their eyes out. "A...foal?" she says out loud in her honeyed voice. carefully inspecting the foal, the mare picks the creature up in her magic and looks around. "Who would leave you in such a place little one?" she says, and the child starts calming down to look at the mare holding her. The foal hugs the mare like a child would their mother in times of sadness.

"It fell round here!" A gruff stallion's voice called out. The mare looks around seeing torches starting to come towards the lip of the crater, and she looks quickly to the child before running away from the crash site. With some quick thinking, she manages to just avoid being spotted by the villagers heading towards the crater, and back to the village. making her way to her home, she shuts the door, and locks it while closing all the shutters to her home.

"Honey is that you?" a voice calls out. The mare freezes as her husband comes into the living room. Desperately trying to hide the foal, she hides the child behind a drape. "Bright Star?" Her husband calls, and she turns around with a desperate attempt to keep calm.

"Yes Sky strike? did i wake you?" she said nervously.

"It's okay. You were doing late night her gathering again weren't you." Sky Strike replied giving her a nuzzle.

"Yes, but...honey there's something we need to discuss." Bright Star said. Sky Strike was confused, but motioned for his wife to continue. She turned around and pulled out the foal from behind the drape. Sky Strike looked on in shock.

"What is that?!"he shouts in shock as his wife puts a hoof over his mouth to muffle the shout.

"This little one was in the woods crying. I couldn't let this little creature just stay there so I brought her here." The mare replied.

"Her?" Sky Strike asked.

"I checked Sky, A girl is a girl no matter what species." Bright Star said.

"Well what do you want to do with her?" Sky strike asks before looking his wife in the eyes. "You want to keep it don't you." he stated. She nods.

"Please Sky, you know that we can't have a child, and there isn't an abundance of foals needing a family in the village. Pleeeease?" She pleads with her husband.

"*Sigh* Alright honey. We can keep him, but remember that she has to stay a secret until the time is right." Sky strike said, and Bright Star nodded her head. "So...what do we call her?"

"Well what about...Lima(Lee-ma)?" Bright asks.

"Why. Isn't that a bean?" Sky asks confused.

"It was the name of my grandmother. It was actually because she was a farmer of beans, and she had a red mane like she does." She replied, and her husband shrugs.

"Alright honey, but I'm calling her Li for short. Welcome home Lima." Sky strike said rubbing the mane of the filly as the filly grabs his hoof and hugs it against her chest. Sky smiles at the cute gesture.

(Cue the Childhood montage)

Li age 5

Li was watching one of the local guardsmen training from the house as the stallion delivered a flurry of fast blows to the dummy. Her eyes lit up at this and so she started copying the stallion, When Sky Strike saw this, he was intrigued and so a month later got her a bag of sand to practice on outside hanging from a tree.

Age 7
Li Got a book on Martial Arts for Hearth's warming from her parents, and she was so eager to try it out, she ended up falling asleep outside under the sandbag. Bright Star picked up her daughter by her clothes and put tucked her gently into bed.

Age 9
Li one day broke her sandbag, and her parents couldn't afford the meat she needed because her mother's knowledge of bestiaries required to make her job safe, so she knew a carnivore simply by the teeth. To fix this Li wandered off into the woods behind her home to find some food. A loud squeal rang out, and she saw a big boar wandering around.

'Hmmm. How does mommy deal with animals?' Li thought remembering her mother used her horn to cast spells to prevent them from attacking. Waiting for the boar to look away she walked closer, and the boar squealed. It turned, and charged in anger, but Li was wearing the weighted clothes from her recent grounding still. Unable to run, she got into a defensive stance and when the boar came, she closed her eyes and let loose a punch, and a heavy weight hit her fist as she reopened her eyes to see the boar was on its side not moving. She grabbed the boar by its back legs and pulled with all her might as the boar slowly followed behind her as it was dragged along the ground.

Sky strike heard a knock at the back door, and opened it to see his daughter in her heavy clothes with a boar on the ground behind her.

"Dad can I have this for dinner?" she asked only for her father to feint from the site before him.

Age 12
Li had been allowed to go outside with the other villagers after an incident involving two foals, and a fight with a four wolves. She loved to be able to get private self defense lessons from the guards who found the enthusiasm of this little girl refreshing. On her twelfth birthday her parents got her a staff to help defend herself without using a blade, and the guard captain gave her a chain shirt to put over her normal shirt. Everything seemed to be going nice. Then it would all change for her...