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// 5-The spark 
// Story: My little Sunspot 
// by LSTS Connor 
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The spark



I sat there frozen. Whether it was due to shock or fear or a combination of the two. I simply could not move my body no matter how much I wanted to or tried to. My heart was racing a mile a minute and I was beginning to feel faint. As the dust began to clear in the library. I was able to get a better view of the lunar goddess looking at me with murder in her eyes. Not exaggerating if you look up the dictionary definition of ‘murder in one’s eyes’ it would be a picture of Luna looking at me. So, after I finally got my body back under my command I went to try and run the hell away from her. ‘Then what?’ came the question. That would just confirm to them I could be bad in some way. So, I decided to do the one thing they would never expect. Something so monumentally stupid it just might work.

*Crunch*

I ate a cookie.

I just took one out of the jar, looked Luna right into her murderous eyes, and took a big bite. Thinking back on that moment I knew I could have done something better than that.

“W-wha… what art thou doing?” She said her previous murder eyes transforming into a face so full of confusion you would think she was trying to understand quantum mechanics using pinkie pie as a calculator.

“E-eating a-a c-cookie?” I manage to stutter out. My body still screaming for me to run as far away as possible. As adrenaline began to flood my system involuntarily.

Luna narrowed her eyes looking at the cookie I took a bite out of. Then she looked towards the jar I got it from. When she saw the moon emblazoned on the lid of the jar, she did a double-take. 
“I-is that my old cookie jar?” She asked suspiciously her eyes narrowing even further and her hands curling into fists and wings flaring out.

I gulped, now realizing that this was and still is a terrible idea. Now slowly scooting myself closer to the edge of my chair getting ready to make a run for it. “M-maybe?”

“You think you can distract me?! With COOKIES?!” Luna shouted angrily the murderous look reappearing in her eyes intensified by a factor of ten. She begins to slowly approach the table looking incredibly intimidating as she began towering over me.

“I-I was thinking more to c-calm you d-down p-princess,” I say voice shaking with fear as Luna’s horn begins to crackle with energy.

During all this Spike was still sitting next to me in shock while Twilight was in a near-catatonic state outside muttering something about books. Seeing that Luna was likely charging up a second death beam or something that I do not want near me I booked it back to my room.

Running into my room I slammed the door behind me and held it closed my back to it. Hoping beyond all hope that someone would snap Luna out of it.

“That will not save you from me, demon.” I heard Luna say through the door. Her tone so icy and sharp it could have frozen magma to ice then cut said ice into statues of her blasting me to the moon and back. The distinctive sound of magic being charged became audible through the wooden door.

That was all the warning I got before the door behind me exploded inwards knocking me off my feet. Pain exploding throughout my small body. The door was not blasted off its hinges or anything like that. It full-on exploded sending shards of the door flying at high speeds. Unfortunately, due to me trying to hold the door closed, take a guess at what most of the extremely fast, sharp debris ended up hitting.

My vision went white as pain exploded all throughout my body as I went flying through the room. Time seemed to slow down during my short flight, but I could not concentrate on anything other than the enormous amount of pain I was in. I was able to get a glimpse of Luna out of the corner of my eye. The expression on her face surprised me. It was not one of murderous intent, not one of the satisfaction of having injured me. But one of indifference. 

After flying through the room for several more seconds I went flying through the window I had been looking through earlier. Thankfully, I was able to bring my arms up in front of my face at the last second before I went crashing through the window. The glass cutting up my arms as it shattered, injuring me even more than before.

When I hit the ground outside my vision flashed white for a moment when my head it the ground. I started to feel nauseous and tried to sit up. But for some reason, I could not move my arms or legs. They would not respond to any of my commands.
So, there I was lying on my back in immense pain after having the door behind me explode and being thrown through a window. I heard a commotion behind me and soon after a face became visible. 

The face was yellow with pink hair. I tried to move away but was unable to. No matter what I told my arms or legs to do nothing happened. As my vision began to slowly clear up and the ringing in my ears slowly started to dissipate. I was able to make out pony who now seemed to be looking me over. It was Fluttershy. Her face was one of shock at my condition and she began to try and stop the bleeding.

I knew she was trying to tell me something most likely as to stay calm and or still but all I cloud make out were muffled voices. A second different voice also became known, but this voice was not full of worry or concern. No, that voice was full of so much anger I thought the Hulk was about to be released. I noticed that Fluttershy stopped tending to me and began to look in the direction of the voice. I was able to weakly turn my head to also see what was going on.

What I saw is the definition of the phrase ‘you dun goofed son. Big time.'



Twilight, Luna, and Spike were there and having one heated conversation, but something was different about Twilight. She was the voice I heard, and she was pissed.  I swear for the briefest of moments no longer than the blink of an eye, one of her eyes became like mine. Twilight was livid, yelling at Luna as if it were going to go out of style. Whether she was yelling at her about the damage to her books, the damage to me, or a combination of the two I was not sure. Spike was called over to me by Fluttershy most likely ordering him to go grab a doctor as even I could tell moving me right now would do more harm than good. The argument between Luna and Twilight began to pick up intensity then it all culminated due to one action.

*Slap*

Twilight slapped Luna.

Twilight the anti-social bookworm who always tries to find a peaceful solution. The complete egghead that wants to learn anything and everything. The shut-in who needed being forced to move away from canterlot to make some friends slapped Luna.

THE TWILIGHT GADDAMN SPARKLE JUST SLAPPED LUNA!

That shut Luna up quickly and like a parent who told a child to go to their room Twilight pointed at her, then at me, then she pointed off into the distance. At that point, I could not see the pair anymore as my vision was taken up by the form of what I assumed to be this Equestria’s version of Nurse Redheart. She seemed to have some sort of first aid kit with has as I began to feel bandages get put on some of my wounds. As well as some type of painkiller.

“Don’t worry you’re going to be fine just stay still and everything will be alright."

I could very faintly hear it. I’m not sure who said that to me but I know that the pain slowly began to subside but I still couldn’t move my arms or legs and my wings probably looked like pincushions with the amount of splinters and debris they must be filled with. Ugh makes me shiver just thinking about it.

As the minutes ticked on and I felt myself get progressively weaker. I started to think about my family. How must they be handling my disappearance? Did my house burn down? Will they ever know what happened to me?

I started to feel sleepy and the temptation to close my eyes grew by the second. But I knew that that was the last thing I should do in this situation. I wanted to become a doctor before all of this. But I was not even able to start my first year in medical school before all of this happened. However, I still learned as much as I could about the body, and I knew that this sleepiness is due to blood loss. 

As blackness began to envelop the corners of my vision, I was able to feel the vibration of multiple hooves begin to approach. The faces above me looked towards the source of the vibrations and waved them over to us frantically yelling something about blood and heart just before the darkness consumed me. And I fell unconscious shortly after. And as I fell into the void known as unconsciousness, I heard a voice.

I’m sorry