//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: Something’s are better left unsaid (Part 1) // Story: Life, Family, Friends // by Shadow Aqua //------------------------------// Chapter 4: Something’s are better left unsaid Part 1 It was common knowledge that the fastest way to travel from canterlot to ponyville was by train so it wasn’t surprizing to find the Ponyville train station packed with ponies as the Canterlot express pulled in, although the filly that gotten off the train found it refreshing that there were fewer ponies here in ponyville compared to the capital city. After taking a good look at her new surroundings, admiring all the nature as she let a smile cross her face as she relaxed her mind. “So this is where he lives now huh?” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Ah've been meaning to ask ya Cobalt, but yer accent is quite similar to the Apple families, now why is that?” I was in the marketplace doing the “Proper” shopping now that is was my first day off from my cloud clearing job (Twilight somehow convinced Rainbow, I probably should thank Twilight later.)Which now lead to me heading to Applejack’s stall to buy some of their famous apples, which then lead to her asking that question. “To be honest Applejack I ain’t sure. I have had it ever since I could first talk, which is even weirder since I was born and raised in canterlot.” I answered while throwing the bits onto the stand. That is ah mite strange if ya ask me.” She handed me a bag of mixed apples which I put into my bag across my back. “Can’t be helped ah guess.” Giving her trademark honest smile she was about to say her goodbye when something caught her eye. “Looks like yer little admirer’s back.” I knew what she meant by that and turned around to meet the gaze of a familiar little filly. The pink filly hide half of her face within her pale tan mane letting a single soft green eye stare at me intently waiting for my approval, which was a roll of my eyes and me motioning to my back with my head. With that the filly raced towards me and leapt onto my back, her little wings flapping to give her extra air. “Nice to see you too Aeris.” She gave a smile and couple coughs earning and frown and sigh from me, but decided to face Applejack with a smile. “Thanks for the apples; I hope they taste as good as they look.” I gave her a wave which she returned. “You two have fun, ya hear!” She called out after us. “You got it!” Aeris was enjoying the ride on my back, something that only started a couple days ago after I talked to her parents, Shallow Whisper and Winter Breeze who happened to work on the weather team with me. Well after getting their permission I basically became her older brother and spent most of my time with her, she would come with me even to visits to see Twilight or Rarity; heck even with Silver and Steel when we did pranks. “So what’s happened with you recently?” “Mommy’s teaching me how to fly!” She finished with a couple of coughs, part of the reason she rides on my back. “What about you Cobalt?” “Well Rainbow Dash is teaching me to use clouds, and do belly flops.” I stopped so I could turn to see her; she was staring wide eyed, until she burst out laughing. I gave in a good chuckle or two while remembering the incident. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Outskirts of Ponyville Two days ago “So do you remember what I told you Cobalt?” I nodded at the rainbow haired mare holding a cloud in front of me. “Good! Now fly up here and land on this cloud.” “You can do it Cobalt.” Silver stated, he was sitting watching me. Why he decided to watch? I don’t know, there’s just something’s about that colt I just don’t understand. “Do you really mean that?” I asked, a look of being unimpressed over my face as I waited for his answer. “Maybe, I guess?” He shrugged, earning groan from me and stomp of my hoof. ‘Wait calm yourself, that’s one of the rules for cloud walking.’ I sighed and took to the sky aiming to step lightly on the cloud, I closed my eyes and lowered myself until I felt myself being held up by the clouds. Relaxing that I haven’t fallen yet, I opened up my eyes. Only to watch the cloud disappear under my hooves. ‘Oh hay cakes.’ I thought. “BUCK MY LIFE!!!!” I yelled as I flailed my legs, watching the ground race towards me. Did I forget to say that I tend to forget that I have wings when this happens? I landed on my belly (And other VERY sensitive stallion parts) with a resounding thud, deciding it would be best to let the intense pain in some areas of my body pass before I got up, which I did with a whimper. That earned me some roaring laughter from Rainbow and Silver. Their laughter sounded like the time at the party when I beat my head against the tree (Fluttershy). Silver finally caught his breath. “I’ve seen some weird hay Cobalt, but that hay is just sour.” “Gee, thanks…” I discovered I now sounded like a mare after getting hit in my “Tenders” which hurt the little pride I had felt as foal. “What’s this? Prince Belly flop became a Princess? Priceless!” The rainbow haired mare shouted and was laughing even harder now. This called for one thing: Revenge Luckily Rainbow Dash was lying on a cloud which I flew under and proceeded to touch with my hoof. Now I discovered that sometimes I just need to think something’s through, like what I did just now. Because now I am once again on my belly (among other things) with a cyan mare on top glaring daggers into the back of my skull as Silver roared with laughter for the second time that day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aeris’s laughter had finally died down, not that I minded since I found it better to hear laugh then cough any day. “So Aeris what do you want to do today since it’s my day off?” I said look at her with a smile as she lifted one of hooves to her head in thought. “How about we go to the library?” I smiled and nodded. “YAY!” Wow I would have never guessed she could be that loud since she was normally as quiet as Fluttershy. We didn’t have to go very far to get to library and Twilight happily let us in, after setting Aeris down I decided to talk to Twilight while Aeris looked through books. “I’m personally really glad to see Aeris doing so well.” She smiled at me. “I owe you for that.” “So that’s why you let me get a day off, well thanks Twilight it helped me get me on my hooves.” I smiled at her and she just gave a small giggle with tiny pink blush appearing. “Oh I didn’t do that much Cobalt…” I was a bit shocked at how she was acting but choose to ignore it. “Oh that’s right I saw a familiar looking filly from canterlot earlier!” I raised an eyebrow at her. “Really is it that uncommon?” I asked rather bluntly, she shook her head. “No I swear I know that orange filly! She used to come by that library in canterlot I think…” Orange filly… I wondered. “By any chance did she have blue ring bracelets around her front left hoof?” I asked trying to get any information I could. “Yes she did in fact! You know her too Cobalt?” Before I could answer Fluttershy burst into room, clearly in a state of panic. “Cobalt come quick! Rainbow and some filly from canterlot are in trouble!” I felt my blood freeze, from what I know about that canterlot filly she just might be my twin. “Where are they Fluttershy!” I demanded, thankfully she was already panicked so I didn’t make it worse. “By Rainbow’s and your place.” With that I bolted out the door took to the sky and rushed as fast as I could to the cloud district. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainbow didn’t like how this was turning out, she was crouched into a fighting position but had some heavy bruises appearing on her sides and shoulders; she was losing and she knew how to fight! It got worse however because behind her, was a scared filly that she was just showing around with Fluttershy, and in front of her is the pony who gave her those bruises and he didn’t seem to have a mark on him even after she gave him a couple of good bucks. Too top it off he looked plain creepy. He had a pure black coat with dark purple mane and tail, but what bothered her the most was the unblinking, soulless golden eyes staring at her. “You’re not the one my master seeks either…” It said in a deep emotionless voice. “What the ha….” Before she could finish a dark bluely purple figure crashed into side of the pony sending it tumbling several feet away from them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Giving a snort after making sure whoever that black pony was wasn’t going to be getting up for while from the sheer force of my blow I turned to face Rainbow Dash and the filly. Rainbow’s appearance concerned me greatly; her normally cyan coat had mixed blotches of purple covering her body in various places, she even had a small cut that was bleeding freely. The sight made my rage begin to boil until a voice snapped me out of it. “Cobalt is that you?” I looked behind Rainbow to see the orange filly staring at me with silver blue eyes. Rainbow looked back and forth between us. “You guys know each other?” As if to answer her question the filly ran up to and nuzzled me a tiny bit. “Sugar what are you doing here in ponyville?” I asked after she finally stopped nuzzling me. “We had a break from school… so I thought to surprize you by showing up at your place brother, it’s just I didn’t know where it was so Miss Rainbow Dash was showing me around.” I sighed and looked over at the now confused cyan mare. “Wait a minute… the twin brother you were looking for was Cobalt?” She rapidly looked back and forth between us now. “But you two look nothing alike!” What she said was completely true; Sugar Heart and I looked nothing like each other, I was after all bluely purple and taller than most colts (I was surprized to learn that was even a tiny bit taller than Big Macintosh but there is no way I could ever be as large as him.) Sugar Heart, on the other hoof was smaller than most fillies our age and took her colours from our fathers side, which why she was orange and blonde with blue eyes. I sighed in relief to see she was perfectly fine. Now as much as I wanted to enjoy the reunion of family a grunt came from the pony I knocked over, it turned over and looked at me its face turning from an emotionless blank expression to one of pure rage. “Thanks for saving for saving my sister Rainbow but I am taking over from here.” I threw my bag beside them without a care from the contents; it would be something I could worry about later. Now finally getting a good look at the pony, it was an earth pony and a colt; it didn’t seem to have many injuries either even from the blow I gave it earlier. “I don’t know who you are… But I am not gonna forgive you for hurting Rainbow Dash!” I approached it slowly just in case it decided to lunge at me. Instead it adopted a battle stance and I followed suit. “You… look just like master…” It growled at me clearly enraged by me. “You don’t deserve to look like master!” It lunged at me as expected he would, but at a speed I couldn’t dodge so I blocked with my hooves only to feel immense pain as I was sent skidding back a couple feet by his tackle. ‘Why the hay is he so damn strong?’ I looked over him; he wasn’t anything special in fact, he looked like a normal earth pony. ‘Screw that what the hay is he?’ Using my wings to increase the speed of charge towards the pony, it turning to buck me unaware that I had shifted to the side out of his range allowing me to perform my own buck to its side and follow up by smashing the falling pony’s head with one of front hooves, only too late did I discover I hadn’t stunned him for as long as I hoped as I felt one of his hooves connect with my chest after I hit him in the head. I let out a short cry as leapt back and placed my right hoof to my chest, my heart was beating far too heavily and that worried me greatly. ‘Whatever he is it’s far too dangerous to get close to him on my own, and Rainbow is already injured.’ I only had a single option: Hit and Run. It was risky but what else could I do? Author’s notes: The chapters are going to be shorter from now that way I can try to write them faster and lower my stress levels. Credit goes to my proof-reader: Silver Spirit, Warlok Thank you