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// Just a City Boy 
// Story: Don't Stop Believing 
// by Mitslits 
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Just a City Boy

A medium blue colt raced through a black alley. "How in Equestria did I get into this situation?" he muttered to himself. Two shadowy forms galloped after him. He looked back and used his horn's magic to shove a crate in front of them.

They leaped over it easily and kept right on his tail.

The unicorn made a risky decision. He skidded and turned to face them, horn glowing, eyes narrowed. He charged them, jumping at the last second and landing lightly behind them. Without hesitating he ran on. The aquamarine colt swung his horn in an arc, creating a bolt of blue. With a jerk of his head he sent the bolt behind him.

The shadowy attackers screamed as the bolt pierced their chests and sliced across their legs. They stumbled and went down, breaking their muzzles due to their speed.

The original unicorn smiled grimly to himself and dashed out of the alley. His hooves led him to a train platform and he stopped behind the corner of a building, unseen by others. Two ponies got off, one a cream unicorn, the other a shady looking character. The train pulled away.

Dawn looked around. She shivered.

The other pony, brown coated with no horn or wings and a grimy five-o'-clock shadow, trotted up to stand beside her. His greasy pelt brushed hers lightly. "Ya cold, sweetheart?" he chuckled.

Dawn's Glow winced at the touch and at the smell of alcohol on the earth pony's breath. She stepped away and did not reply.

"Why don't ya come on down to ma place? I'll warm you right up." He raised a hoof and stroked her mane.

Dawn's head jerked away. "Don't touch me", she spat.

He encircled her throat with his hoof and pulled her closer. "I like 'em feisty." His mouth neared hers.

She struggled to get out of his grasp and even tried a magical attack, but nothing repelled him. Dawn's Glow leaned her head back as far as it could go, but his lips followed. She accepted her fate.

"Don't touch her!" the blue unicorn shouted, leaving his hiding place. He rammed his head into the brown pony's flank, forcing him away.

The mud colored stallion glared at him, but picked himself up and trotted away, not once looking back.

The new unicorn turned to look at the shivering Dawn's Glow. "Hey", he said tenderly. "Are you alright?"

She looked up at him. "Who are you?" Her ice blue eyes bored into his rich hazel ones.

"Oh, yes, the name. Indigo Moon. What's yours?"

"Dawn's Glow, but you can call me Dawn", she replied, already recovering from her shock.

Indigo Moon glanced over her, from horn to hooves. "Call me Indy. Where did you come from, anyway? You don't seem like the usual type that's dropped off here."

She shook her head. "I'm not. I come from a farm and I was trying to get to Manehattan, but I took the wrong train. What about you?" Dawn's Glow studied the unicorn beside her. He was cobalt blue with a frizzy, yet styled (similar to MLP:FiM's Pokey's mane) mane and a tail to match. Both were swirled with white and dark blue. His eyes were large and hazel. Dawn shook her head, bringing herself out of the trance he had put her in.

Indigo hung his head. "My story's long", he warned.

Dawn sat down on a nearby bench. "I've got time. After all I've got no money, no clothes, and no place to go."

Indy took a breath and began to tell her his story.