//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 The New origin of this cutie mark // Story: The Cupid Pony's Beginning // by Rainy_Daze //------------------------------// Chapter 4 The new origin of this cutie mark “Alright now that I know what year and day it is I just need to remember what happens now.” Wilber thinks to himself as him and Jane walk in to the house. “OKAY sis, I'm going to go do my homework now.” “Nice try, Wilber but you’re getting a visit from the Tickle-corn.” Jane says as she moves in to attack. “I really need to do this homework sis.” Wilber lies to Jane. He finished it in class as soon as he got it. “You are boring today lil' ber. OKAY, the Tickle-corn will wait for her chance to get you.” Jane says trying to sound scary. Wilber walks to his room to start thinking about what happened on this Friday three years after. It took him two hours to think of something, but he finally has a starting point. “If I'm right then tomorrow is the day it actually happens. When big sis and Silent Wind have a fight and stop being friends.” Wilber thinks to himself. “Silent's colt-friend comes here after his date with her tomorrow, and asks Jane to be friends’ with benefits Jane refuses. Something happens then he tells Silent a lie. That is what I'm to stop isn't It.” he Thinks. “Ah, but how?” Wilber shouts out loud. “How what little bro?” Jane says as she opens the door and places a tray with snacks and a drink on it on Wilber's desk. “Um nothing sis, just trying to think of what fun actives to do tomorrow.” Wilber says. “What are you going to do, ask a filly you like on a date?” Jane says with a big smile on her muzzle. “Yes.” He once again lies to her. “OKAY, what's wrong? Don't lie to me, Wilber. You can talk to me.” “Sis what if you had to do something really big, that could change if somepony were friends or not? Do you think you could make the right choice?” “Well Wilber. It not so much as making the right choice as it is doing what you can to keep their friendship. As long as you’re trying to do that, then they will understand you and everything will work out right.” “I hope so, sis. Thanks I'll just think of how I can keep this friendship.” Wilber says as he kisses Jane on the cheek. “I'm not done yet, you seem to be done with your homework. TIME TO ATTACK!” Jane whispers then shouts the last words. “Oh no, run away.” Wilber says as he starts to run away from the Tickle-corn. “You‘re not getting away this time, Young bolt.” The Tickle-corn says as her coat changes from eggshell white to a brown color, her mane also changes from blonde to the same brown color as her coat. Wilber's coat and mane take a similar color change, but instead of brown it is a salmon color along with a lightning shaped of silver in his mane and coat. “Drat, Bolt where have you gotten away to. Hiding is useless I will find you and you will be tickled.” Shouts the Tickle-corn “Not in your life time you foul monster. For I, am Bolt the monster hunter.” Replies the brave young hero. “Monsters far and wide tremble in fear when they hear this name. Monsters that have crossed paths with me have been sent back to the darkest reaches of Taurtarus, were they belong, and you will be joining them soon enough.” “HAHAHAHA All you heroes are the same, once they think they can win they start to talk and get themselves into death. Right now I'm in for the attack.” The Tickle-corn says before leaping on to Bolt the monster hunter “Oh no you’ve ~HAHA~ got m-me. ~HAHA~ whatever s-HAHA-shall I do.” Says Bolt behind all the laughter coming from him. The lights turn off “What shall happen to our hero, will he be able to send the foul monster known as the Tickle-corn back to Taurtarus or will he be done in by the Tickle-corn. Find out in the next episode—“As the lights turn back on. Bolt shouts to the monster. “You are not going to tickle me to death. You’re going back to where you belong you tickler of siblings.” “You really went there. No I'm not doing that line, nope not at all.” The Tickle-corn thinks to her self but gives in. “You think I tickled your sister I Am Your Sister.” “No, that can't be true. You lie.” “Yep, I lie.” “Now back to Taurtarus with you monster.” Bolt says as he pulls away from the Tickle-corn. Bolt starts to chant ancient words of power. “Ne ar yoh le fa ra nakau ne sem yio mu nao.” As he says them he starts to glow as he comes to the end the glow is almost blinding. With a flash the only one left is Bolt the monster hunter the monster is nowhere to be seen. “How dare you attack me when I'm distracted?” Is all that is heard from the Tickle-corn. Bolt has won, all is right... for now at least. “HAHA that was fun sis.” Wilber says as their coats and manes return to their normal colors. “I knew that would cheer you up. We played a long time today, it's six o'clock right now. I'll go make us some dinner.” Jane says as she walks out of Wilber's room. “That was truly fun, sis. I'll miss playing this game.”Wilber says to himself as some tears fall. The rest of that night was spent eating and spending more time with Jane before he'll have to make the change to the past. * * * ~The Next Day~ “That strange it feels like I've actually been asleep. Well today is when I'm going to change it. Better get to it then.” Wilber thinks to himself “... Wait no breakfast today.” Wilber gets out of bed and trots down into the kitchen to find that there is no pony there. He looks around the house till he remembers to check Jane writing room. To his luck Jane is indeed there but she is talking to herself. Wilber decides to listen in. “SHIT. How could I miscalculate the dead line for this story? Dammit. I need to get this done by Five o'clock and I'm half way done. I'm sorry Wilber, but I have to ignore you today, I'll make it up to you for sure.”Jane curses as she starts to come to the door to the room, Wilber hides around the corner so Jane doesn't see him. Jane puts a sign on the door handle that reads 'Do not disturb! Working' and fully closes the door. “Darn looks like I won't be able to tell sis not to answer the door today. I know why she locked herself in there now.” Wilber thinks to himself. “Well if I can't tell sis, then I need to tell big sis Silent about this, but I need to wait till their date ends. I guess I need to follow them.” Wilber quietly leaves the house as to not disturb Jane from her writing. He wonders around for an hour. He finally spots Silent and her stallion. He gets closer to the couple while trying to stay hidden. “So darling what are we going to do today?” Silent Wind asks. “I'm sorry silent love, but this has to be a short date today I've got some plans for the rest of the day.” The stallion says. “Oh I don't mind at all as long as I'm with you today I'm fine.” “How about we grab some breakfast then walk around then, love.” The stallion says as he starts to walk. “Alright.” Silent Wind says as she happily skips up to him then starts to walk normally. “Wow she looks so happy around him. I feel kind of bad having to tell her, but it needs to be done for future happiness.” Wilber thinks to himself as he starts to follow the two. The couple has a quiet breakfast as neither wanted to talk, they wanted to enjoy their meal. Wilber also had some food. Silent and her stallion paid, well Silent paid, for the meal and left. Wilber did the same after about a minute later as to not be seen by them. Wilber caught up to the couple at the park and continued to follow. They walked for about a hour or two before stopping the stallion turned to tell Silent Wind something what that was Wilber couldn't hear, but he knew that their date was over as they parted ways with a kiss, Silent was now on her way home while the stallion was going to the Heartcarle home. “I need to wait about ten minutes before bring Silent over as to stop the fight between them. I guess I could go up and ask to hang out for a little then ask her to come over. Yeah I'll do that.” Wilber thought to himself as he started to gallop after Silent Wind. “Big sis Silent, Hey wait up.” “Oh goodness!” Silent nearly exploded from joy. “And I run into lil' ber, today is a good day indeed. You are up early on a Saturday, you come to play?” Silent asks while shaking her tail. “What are you a dog?” Wilber thought. “Yeah I just wanted to play with big sis Silent. But I that's not why I'm here big sis told me to come and get you in thirty minutes about 10 minutes ago.” “So we can play for nine then walk to your home, Yay. NOT IT!” Silent shouted then ran off to hide. “Better start counting then.” Wilber said out loud Then he started slowly to count down from ten, and speeding up at about five. “Zero ready or not Silent here I come.” Eight minutes go by as Wilber is unable to find where she has hidden herself. “Alright, Silent I give up.” “Woo-hoo undefeated hider.” Silent Shouted as she popped out of a hole in a tree that seemed to be too small for her to fit into. “Um how Just how?” “How what? Come on if we don't hurry we'll be tardy for seeing Jane. And you don't want to be tardy do you?” “No, not the duct tape.” Wilber says while he blushes due to what happened last time. He was laughed at for weeks. As they begin to walk to the Heartcarle family house, for the most part it was a silent walk. Silent Wind for the most part was humming a tune that Wilber remembers Jane singing all the time around the house. “Hey Big sis silent, what is the name of that tune your humming? It sounds nice.” “Oh I don’t know what it’s called, but it is beautiful in sound isn’t it?” “Can you keep singing it?” “Sure I will lil' ber.” They continued to walk for about two minutes before Silent Wind started to go a little crazy with the tune. “Um big sis Silent, I think you can stop with the song now.” “Aw I was just getting into it to. So what did your sister want to talk with me about?” “She doesn’t I need you to come with me, I have a bad feeling about something.” “Alright lil' ber you haven’t done anything to have me not put trust in you.” They both were silent from that point till the front door of the Heartcarle home. Wilber try as he might wasn’t able to work up the courage to open up the door. If he was to early then the cheating stallion wouldn’t get caught in the act. If they were to late then the fight will still happen. Silent Wind was starting to look a little worried as she looked at Wilber’s hesitation was affecting her. She was starting to fear what was behind the door, what horror awaited them. The tension was broken by the sound of glass breaking, Wilber was about to open the door, but Silent stopped him. “Wilber go and play. This is not a place for colts and fillies.”Silent Wind said quietly so only Wilber could hear. “Alright Silent.” Wilber did as asked for the most part he left for a moment. “What in the hay is going on here?” Silent Wind shouted to whoever was inside. “Oh thank Celestia you’re here.” The stallion says to Silent Wind as he rushes over to her. “Jane asked me to come over and help her move something yesterday, and then she tries to make me do ‘that’ kind of thing with her.” “Jane, i-is that true?” Silent Wind asks “It no..” Jane starts but stops. “What happened then?” Silent asks her voice turning into a shout. Jane doesn’t respond tears start to flow from her. Wilber was just outside of the room watching and doing his best to not interfere any more than he already has. “Jane, I can’t believe this. Are you not my best friend? Last time I checked best friends don’t do this.” “come on sweetie let’s get out of here.” The stallion says as he makes his way to the door. “No. this is not going to fail not now.” Wilber thought to himself. “Wait, big sis Silent. Big sis wouldn’t do something like that.” “I thing she did. Just look it’s as plain as day.” “But. Sis wouldn’t” Wilber says as something starts to happen to him. Wilber’s eyes close, his body starts to give off a slight glow. His eyes snap open they are pure white, the glow intensifies then it all starts to head to his head and into point about a foot from his head. Then the glow shoots from that point towards Silent Wind and her colt-friend. It circles them then in the middle of them it forms a heart, it starts off white then it starts to change color. It goes from white to a black color then it breaks in half and dissipates. As that happens Wilber falls to the ground. Jane rushes to catch him, she makes sure he is alright. “What just happened? Is Wilber alright?” Asks Silent Wind. “I think so. He just pasted out is all.” Jane says. “Am I missing something here? Weren’t we just leaving dear.”Asks the stallion “Jane what was that thing lil' ber just did it looked like magic.” Silent asks Jane completely ignoring her stallion. “Oh my Celestia, Silent look what Wilber just got.” Jane squeals. “His Cutie mark.” Silent Gasps. “Three hearts one white, one red, and one black. So his talent was something to do with love then.” “So what just happened was his special talent a black heart that breaks…I get it.” Silent says. “Hey darling, guess what?” “What sweetie.” “We’re done. You can leave now.” “What? Y-you can’t break up with me.” “Um…To bad already did.” Silent Wind says to the stallion. “Sorry I yelled at you Jane. Can we still be friends?” “The best of.” Jane said as they hugged each other. They watched over Wilber for an hour before he woke up. “When is he going to come to?” Silent shouts. “Ugh don’t yell. My head hurts.” Wilber udders through the pain in his head. “You’re up.” Both mares say at the same time they both hug Wilber. “Help...c-can’t...breathe.” “Oh sorry little bro. guess what you got… Your cutie mark. I’m so proud of you...” Jane says unable to finish her sentence as she and everything around Wilber fades into blackness. Wilber looks at his hooves then looks for something. “You voices are you there?” “Of course we are here we have nowhere to go to, we, unlike you, are confined to the darkness.” “Don’t mind him. He likes to sound big. It looks like you did what you needed to do there. That is all you can do for now you’ll be awakening soon.” “Thank you for helping somepony like me.” Wilber says as the dream starts to break into reality. * * * Wilber slowly awoke from the ‘dream world’ as he started to stretch himself out. “Oh boy, I’ve been laying down for to long now. Note to self: Don’t sleep for two days strait.” Wilber says to himself. As he gets up and starts to walk around, but he trips himself on his mane. “Maybe I should ask a Pegasus to fly me up to Cloudsdale. I’m tripping myself on my own hair. I guess I should go see Mint Glow.” As Wilber got up and walked to the next cart a mare bumped into him. She didn’t stop to check if he was alright she just kept going. “What’s her problem? Sheesh, some ponies.” Wilber asks no pony. As he tries to make his way to the next car, he trips on his mane twice. He makes it to the car that Mint said she and her sister were in, he looks through most of the car not finding a trace of Mint Glow, until he gets to the front is when he sees Mint’s curly mane. Wilber moves slowly behind her and tries to cover Mint Glow’s eyes. “Guess Who?” “Prince Crimson Folly.” “Who?” “Celestia’s nephew, Prince Blue Blood’s younger Brother.” “Never heard of him…Wait you’re from Canterlot?” “Yes I ran a shop, well more like a bakery really.” “Oh sounds good. Would you make me something sometime?” “You seem really chipper now. You sleep good?” “You wouldn’t believe. Getting up here was a pain though I think I’ll go up to Cloudsdale for a trim.” “That’s good… You know, pegasi are really lucky your kind can walk on the very clouds that give shade, water, snow, and lightning. I wish I could, it would be so fun.” “Everypony can walk on clouds, what do you think fog is?” “not that kind, on clouds high above the ground. Those kind of clouds are what I’m talking about.” “Maybe once I learn to fly I’ll take you up, seeing as you want to go so badly.” “I would love that.” Mint said as she shed some tears of joy. “Listen the stop under Cloudsdale should be coming up shortly. Let’s try to find a Pegasus to take you up, Alright.” “OK Let’s get to it then.”