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// Revelations 
// Story: What to Choose 
// by FALG 
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I didn't go the next few classes with Twilight, I assumed she didn't want to see me after I rejected her.

I loved Fluttershy, but I was developing a crush on this unicorn.
"Such an ideal for monogamy I have." I thought.

Once, a friend told me "If you fall in love with two people, stay with the second, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen in love twice". Now I was worried that I would have to leave Fluttershy just for some stupid crush.

I gave some thoughts to the situation, and came to the conclusion Twilight and I had more in common: we like to stay up late to stargaze, we like books, and we also share Shining Armor, who is like another brother to me.
But anytime I remember how much we have in common, I can't help but think of Fluttershy again, and remember why I've fallen in love with her in the first place.

I was very confused on what to do. So I decided to do something to help me think: go for a walk. I didn't want to greet anyone on the way, so I grabbed my black hood and cloak, put it on and left my house.

I needed to look down for my hood to cover my face. It was better that way, I can think better while looking down.

Walked down some streets, stopped at some hills, then walked again, I bumped into some pedestrians because my hood was covering too much.
When I wanted to correct it, I crashed into another pony:
"I'm very sorry! I wasn't looking." I apologized while getting up.
"It's okay, do not worry." a female voice replied.
I quickly walked next to the mare and kept on with my thinking. But a hoof in my shoulder stopped me.
"Are you okay?" the female voice asked.
"I'm fine, thanks." I quickly lied.
"You don't seem so. Is there something wrong?"
"Excuse me lady, I don't think this is any of your business. Please leave me be."
"Oh Flaring, you know it is my business too." she surprisingly knew my name.
I took off my hood, and looked at the mare, and I was met by two purple eyes.

But those weren't Twilight's:
"You!" I exclaimed.





"I can't believe it! How are you after all this time?" I asked.
"I am fine, thanks. And how about you? I have not heard from you for a long time." she asked.
"Well, besides today, I'm great."
"I see, so, have you met any mare you like?"
"You bet! In fact, I have a marefriend."
"Is that so? Well, congratulations!"
"Thanks. So how about you? Any colt that fell for the charms of the great cellist Octavia?"

Octavia was one of my other marefriends too, a few years back. She meant, and means a lot to me. After some time of our break up, we ended up as great friends, and helped each other whenever the other needed it.
I love Octy too, but as a friend, I don't feel anything for her now. Neither does she, but that doesn't stop us from being friends, does it?

I met Octavia in one of the Grand Galloping Galas, a few years before meeting Fluttershy. She's older than me, that's true, but that didn't stop me from asking her name and chatting a little.
She told me she lived in Ponyville, rather unlucky if you ask, but I didn't care, so I asked her if she had an address where I could write to.
While writing each other, I developed a crush on her. And when I decided to confess, she said she had a crush on me too!
And we ended up dating for a few months, until we broke up. She said I was too young for her, she was a little right, by the time we were dating she had a legal age, and I am 2 years younger than her; but that didn't stop me from trying to get her back, to no avail.
Once I was done with my rage that she left me, we established contact again, just as friends, and we get along better as friends than coltfriends.

We were sitting in a table at a cafe where we could talk:
"Actually, I do have a colt in mind, but I don't think he feels the same way." she said.
"Did you ask him?" I asked.
"Not really, but I should, right?"
"Of course! Go for it! And if he doesn't care, well, better luck next time."
"Hehe, true..."

We kept talking of our lifes, what happened to us since the last time we wrote each other.
I told her that I moved to Ponyville, and I searched for her for a long time, but she told me I wasted my time because she didn't come to Ponyville for almost a year now. When I asked her why she answered that she took this year as sabbatical, and visited many places, she had a big quantity of savings, enough to last 2 years without a work.
"Wow, being the cellist of Canterlot sure does pay." I said.
"Well, my family has given me some money when I decided to move to Ponyville." she explained.	
"And with that, plus your works here, you did save quite a bunch."
"Exactly, though I miss working too."
"Well, you are on the second half of your vacations, you'll work soon enough."
"That's right, but I had some little jobs on the cities I visited."
"Let me guess, it involves music?"
"Well, there are restaurants that pay very well."
"No argument here."

"So do tell, why are you sad?" she asked after talking some more.
"Just some love stuff." I waved a hoof dismissing the importance.
"Oh that's not good. What is your problem?"
And I told her everything.
"I remember playing that song in the gala." she pointed.
"Wait, you were there? But weren't you supposed to be on sabbatical?" I asked.
"Yes, but I took a few days off to work for the princess. I have to admit, that was a beautiful song."
"Yeah well, it's nothing compared to your music."

"So anyway, that is the problem? You do not know what to do?" she asked.
"Uh-huh, I mean, I love my marefriend, but I'm starting to develop some feelings for this other mare."
She brought a hoof to her chin.
"Well, I could help you if this involved only one of them, but when it comes to two, I can not tell you what would be right. That is up to you."
"That's true, I have to make this decision alone." I got up from the chair, and walked towards the door.
"Are you leaving so soon?" she left her chair and followed me.
"Yes, I've got a lot of thinking to do." I answered.
"Oh, that's okay, I hope to see you again soon."
"Me too. Well take care!" and I left.

A few steps away from the cafe, Octavia stopped me again.
"Sorry to disturb you again Flare, but I have to tell you something."
"What's up?" I asked.
She stammered a little.
"I want to talk to you again, but at night, at the park, do you mind?"
"What does she want?" I thought. "At night you say? Why?"
"I have something to tell you, before I leave Canterlot in a few days, please?"
"Well, okay."
We agreed an hour to meet, pretty late, and we said goodbye.



I waited at the park, until Octy showed up.
"Want to go for a walk?" she asked.
"You made me come here just for a walk?" I asked back.
"I'm just joking. I have to show you something, follow me." she said. So I did.

We stopped at the front of a house.
"Do you still do that freerunning stuff you told me a few years ago?" she asked.
"Um, yeah, why? Do you want me to show you?" I asked.
"Yes, I've never seen you do it, so..."
"Oh okay, hold on."

I prepared myself, and climbed the house.
"Is that it?" I asked from above.
"Not really, you see, I want to do it too." she said.
"What?! You want to freerun? Are you sure?"
"Yeah, I want to try."
"Well, this is strange but, okay, don't whine to me if you get..."
Before I could finish the sentence, she was already at my side.
"...hurt?"
"Well, it's not as hard as I thought. Shall we?" she said while going to other roofs.

We kept jumping for some minutes, she was doing even better than me, how could this be?
"Hey how do you do it?!" I asked between jumps.
"Do what, this? I guess I'm a natural!" she smiled.

We stopped at an edge under the moonlight, and sat there for a while.
"Darn, how is it that you do this better than me?" I asked her again.
"I do not know, maybe I have a gift for this after all." she joked.
"No seriously, how do you do it? I thought that only a few ponies were able to freerun so fluidly!"
"Is that so? Who were this ponies you speak of?"
"I shouldn't tell you, it's kingdom's secret."
"And how do you know it, if it is as much important?"
"My father was Captain of the army in Canterlot, as his son, I had as much clearance as him to explore the archives."

A tear fell from my eye.
"Why are you crying?" asked Octavia.
"After mentioning him, I remembered..."
"Remembered what?"

I looked at her, and explained her about the battle that Ponyville went through, the reasons why it started, the rescue in Anvil, my father's falling in action, and the backstory, everything I didn't tell her before.
"It was all a misunderstanding then? They attacked Ponyville because they thought you were the last one in a guild which you had no relation to?" she asked.
"Exactly, I could have explained the situation, but I sneaked in with two other ponies instead." I explained.
"I see, I'm very sorry."

"What guild did those ponies believe you were in?" she asked.
"They thought I was with the assassins." I said.
She gasped.
"So it was the Guardians that attacked?" she asked.
"Yeah exactl... hold on, how do you know?" I asked back.
She flinched, and sighed.
"Remember that I needed to tell you something?"
"Uh, yeah?"
She searched for something inside her tie, and showed me a necklace.

But not any necklace. This one, had the assassin's insignia.

"No way..."
She nodded.
"I am one of the assassins from Anvil." she affirmed.
"So all this time, you've been from Anvil?"
"Exactly, I had a rough time there, so I was sent undercover to Ponyville; if the assassins were to get eradicated there, I could rally the troups from other cities and make them attack the Reds."
Suddenly I realised something.
"So that's why you've been on vacation this last year! You've been gathering all the assassins on a big retaliation!"
"I suspected there was something wrong when I lost contact with the Head Master's protégé, who sent me undercover to Ponyville."
"You've been sent to Ponyville by Swift Slash?"
"How is it that you know Swift?
"Uh, maybe I missed to mention that he had a short affair with one of my group of friends."
Octavia was very surprised to hear that.
"Huh, interesting, I did not see that coming from Swift." she said.

"How come that you've been sent to Ponyville for having a 'rough time' in Anvil?" I asked.
"Well, I wanted to be somewhere a bit more easygoing, Anvil wasn't suit for me, it looked very medieval for me. So Swift, who was my friend by then, recommended our Head Master to send me there, undercover." she explained.
She kept silent a little.
"I have to admit, I was about to defect from the assassins after a year of being sent here."
"What? Why? Why would you neglect their cause?" I asked stranged.
She looked at me, and put a hoof on my cheek.
"Because it was around the time I met you, Flaring."
"So, that's why you left me..."
"I couldn't risk your life for a desire of mine! You mean a lot to me." she said
"Then why didn't you defect your allegiance and stayed with me? I loved you." I asked
She sighed.
"Even if I did, chances are that my assassin past would have caught up to us, and we'd pay the consequences. Once an assassin..."
"...you never stop being one. I know that feel." I said.
"I'm very sorry Flare."
"It's okay, you can't achieve to have everything the way you want." I sadly smiled, which she responded with one of her own.

She kissed me on the cheek, and stood up.
"I have to leave know, I have a long day tomorrow." she said.
"Didn't you say that you'd be leaving in a few days?" I asked.
"An assassin can not have an specific schedule, Flare."
She looked at the sky, then back at me again.
"Make up your mind with those two, do what your heart tells you what's right. Take care." she finished, stood up, and with a Leap of Faith, jumped off.

When I tried to find her, she was already gone.