//------------------------------// // Cobalt's Moment // Story: Cobalt // by Neonicbrony //------------------------------// Cobalt had awaken in Fluttershy's home but he didn't know why, he simply sat up and the wet rag fell onto the ground. He had an insane headache and was extremely confused ,which didn't help his headache what so ever. "Oh my, you really shouldn't be moving already, or you could hurt yourself." she said by gently laying him back down with the wet rag back on his head. She moved a few containers of medicine around and grabbed a small bowl of water and gave it to him to drink. Cobalt didn't ask a question, but he drank from the water and looked at Fluttershy. "What happened?" he asked putting down the water bowl and leaning on the couch. Fluttershy sighed and started playing with her hair as usual. "Well, when you left for the Butterfly Grove it was a few hours later and I had to get Angel before he got angry about dinner, I went to check on you first, but I didn't hear a-any of your music and when I found you out cold on the ground I got scared and just brought you to my cottage, I laid you down on the ground and put a rag on your forehead and you've been asleep for a few hours." as she explained this Cobalt was trying to grasp on how he was knocked out on the ground. He tried and tried but couldn't figure it out. "Oh and by the way when I found you, your um guitar was in pieces." she pointed to his guitar and Cobalt's mood got worse. Cobalt grabbed the broken pieces of his guitar and sighed. He needed a new one anyway, he thought. "Well thanks Fluttershy, I appreciate it alot." he put down his guitar and drank a bit more water. "Cobalt why are you in Ponyville anyway?" this caught Cobalt by surprise for he never told anyone of his traveling or even his reasons for that matter. "Well I guess get ready for a story, 'cause it's a long one." Fluttershy sat next to him and laid her head on her knees and looked at him. Cobalt sighed and rubbed his neck. "I guess it started in my original home of Canterlot, where I tried to become a big musician like Vinyl Scratch or Octavia, although my music never caught anyones tastes, so one day I had enough and disappeared without telling anyone." Fluttershy instantly had a question. "B-but what about your parents, or a family, maybe some friends?" she asked. "Well I didn't have a family, my mother and father left me at a very young age because they couldn't support me so I grew up in an orphanage, all I had was an orphan mother who sort of cared about me." he remembered some of those memories but they escaped his mind quickly. "Then when I was a small colt, I started playing guitar, I was fantastic at it by Octavia and Vinyl Scratches opinion but everyone else just didn't see it, so I was neglected and bullied for doing this." he sighed and almost shed a tear. "Th-then I guess I decided I had enough then I ran away from Canterlot and started traveling, so far I've visited; Hoofington, Manehattan, Fillydelphia, you name it. None of those places wanted to hear my music." he took a deep breath and prepared for what he was going to say next. "Then I came across Ponyville, my last and final stop of my journey." he shed a tear that ran down his face and he whipped it away with his sleeve before she saw him. "Why w-would of it been your last stop?" she said by perking her head up as she did notice his tear. "I had no where else to go and if no place worked, I would of given up my dream and headed back to Canterlot, to just continue a boring life." he said this and shed a few more tears not able to wipe all of them before Fluttershy wiped a few with a tissue. "I guess I know what you mean, but that doesn't mean you should end your dream, maybe you could of found a more important thing in your life then just music." the instant he said that what Princess Luna said instantly came back to him and his anxiety returned. He looked at Fluttershy and wondered a few things but shrugged them off. Fluttershy looked at him and then looked at the clock it read ten am. "Oh! I better get off to bed it's getting late, I'll see you tomorrow Cobalt, you can sleep here if you'd like to." she said that by grinning at him and turning off the kitchen light and walking upstairs with Angel. Cobalt sighed and stayed up for a while until he drifted back to sleep, although his dreams wasn't what he was expecting. He was laying down in a meadow, a gentle breeze was developing and all he could see far away was Fluttershy and Angel sitting on the ground laughing and playing. Cobalt gaught up and attempted to walk towards them. He kept walking but he never seemed to get closer, and Fluttershy nor Angel seemed to notice him. He started running for he was scared, he kept running and running until he fell into complete darkness. Until he awoke again in the forest scenery. "Cobalt, that importance is so much closer then you think, it could of been in your; dreams, your nightmares, your past, your present, your future. You just need to look past all what is blocking your emotions." she said that final statement and Cobalt woke up, he smelt a nice aroma it smelt of rosemary and cinnamon. He got up to see the door to Fluttershys cottage open and Angel at the stove. "That bunny can cook?" he said to him self. He got up slipped on his shoes and walked outside to see Fluttershy feeding a few chipmunks. Cobalt came up behind Fluttershy and knelt down next to her. "What you up to Fluttershy?" as he said when one of the chipmunks climbed up his arm and unto his shoulder. "Oh! Cobalt, your u-up, well I'm just feeding my woodland friends, w-would you like to try?" as she said holding up some acorns. He nodded and took one and held it in front of the one on his shoulder. Before he knew it that chipmunk already ate the acorn. "Wow! Someone was especially hungry." he rubbed the chipmunks belly with his finger and the chipmunk nuzzled him and accepted him as a friend. "W-wow they've never been that friendly to new comers, I guess you have something s-special to you, Cobalt" she said that by smiling at him. Both of them blushed before either one of them knew what they were doing. Cobalt got up and laid the chipmunk back on the ground. Fluttershy followed him up and looked him in the eyes, Cobalt was doing the same thing but to her. Fluttershy didn't notice the moment that Cobalt kissed her cheek. "Thanks for the shelter Fluttershy, I really needed it." he said that and began to walk back to town. Fluttershy stood there motionless and was touching her cheek. "H-he kissed me." she muttered to herself in tears of joy.