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// Star 
// Story: It's My Duty To Protect 
// by BronySis 
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		 I didn't know what to expect when I decided to help with Princess Twilight's cause. But now looking back at it I would not change a thing. I may be brash and arrogant, but I work hard and know when I got it good. I had and even now have it perfect. -Star Stripe
Twilight came out of the tent followed by three ponies all with blank looks on their face. As if the gears were turning, for Cinder that didn’t last long. 
“What can I do to help?” Cinder looked to the princess determination in her eyes. Then she noticed every pony else in the area was staring at her, her posture stiffened and she tried avoiding eye contact. Ice went up to his sister, his face was concerned, he wrapped his ice blue wing around his sister.
“Hold on let's talk about this, you know before you may do something stupid or ill informed.” Star came up to talk as well.
“What is there to talk about, there’s a fight and we need to help. There are bad ponies and we need to fight them.” Cinder gave one small nod, almost as if she agreed yet disagreed. 
“I mean I, I guess. If you two are serious I guess I don’t have anything to lose.” The three nodded in varying amounts of energy. Twilight looked on seeming to reminisce on something. Cinder seemed to be the only one to pick up on this. 
“Very well I will assign you each a mentor, and a bunk for you all to stay.” The three nodded in unison. But Twilight wasn't done yet. “I will also assign a pony to read your cutie mark and find your position.” Cinder’s ears perked up suddenly in distress, her brothers were aware of this. Star spoke up to try and protect his sister.
“Princess, if you don’t mind could you not do that with are marks.” Twilight looked to the unicorn in confusion.
“Please call me Twilight. And why wouldn’t you want a cutie mark reading?” Her excitement started to escalate. “It’s so exciting to get a cutie mark reading, showing where they fit in.” Cinder’s head lowered, shame and sorrow on it. Star looked over and his ears dropped seeing his sister like that.
“Twilight you don't understand. Cinder doesn't have her cutie mark.” Twilight looked over to Cinder, her face struck with shock. Ice went over to his sister to comfort her, Cinder stared down at the ground, her expression unreadable.
“How old are you? You look the same age as Sweetie Belle and she's nineteen.” Twilight paused and tapped her chin, she was lost in thought trying to think on what to do. Star spoke up.
“How you let her, I don't know chose what she does.” Star emphasized the last part of his sentence. His attitude didn’t sit well with the princess. But he was completely right, there was no harm to do that.
“Alright, I’ll have Pinkie give her a tour.” 
“Thank you.” Star gave the princess a shy smile. But the princess continued to speak.
“You two will go to the cutie mark reader.” The other two nodded. Cinder looked up for the first time the whole conversation. She gave a smile to the ponies around her, trying to comfort them. Star looked to Sweetie Belle, the pony who was assigned to give the stallions a tour. Then a bouncing pink pony came up to his sister. Sweetie Belle spoke up to the two brothers.
“Alright follow me, and we won’t kick you out.”Sweetie had a harsh tone, same tone she had when they were holding them at gunpoint. Just something Ice picked up on. The two brothers follow, one almost excited, one scared because of his cutie mark. The two walked with the mare with the white coat. While Cinder was stuck with the element of laughter, the three shall meet again. I mean they are siblings, and no matter how hard you try you can rarely get away from family.