//------------------------------// // Talent Scout // Story: Your Adventure Continues // by My Only Weakness //------------------------------// Chapter 4 You sit up from your bed and rub your eyes. Only one problem is that you're not in your bed. In fact, your not anywhere. You seem to be in a white void. You look around to see if their is anyone else around. Five head pop up in front of you. Your eyes widen in shock because the face were very familiar. The face were the five friends of Rainbow Dash. Pinkie, AppleJack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Twilight "Do you feel darkness?" asks AppleJack "Have you thrown your love outside" says Twilight "Do you feel heartless?" ask Rarity "Have you given up on love" says Pinkie "Has someone stolen the sun from the island you've been trapped on?" adds Fluttershy The heads of the five ponies disappear You look around more spinning around in circles and moving your head from side to side looking for where the voices came from. "Hello again StarGazer" a female voice calls out You look up to see her. Your guardian angel descending towards you "W-What the hay was that?" You ask "That was question swimming in the heads of the five ponies" she says You look at your guardian angles with sad. A confused look slaps on to your face "Wait! If your here then.... did I die in my sleep?" You ask with fear "Far from it, Your merely dreaming" she say "Oh" you say getting up onto your hoofs "So what are you doing here?" you ask "I'm hear to ask you something" "Okay, ask away" you say to her "Whats the main reason why you don't want to go back to Ponyville?" "Because of the way that the pony were treating me" you say answering her question She shakes her head "I think it because your scared" she say "Scared? I've never been scared of anything" you say stamping your hoof "Really?" You nod your head "Well what about this" A screen shows up in front of you. It shows your room during a thunder storm -----18 years ago---- You hide shaking under your covers from the thunder storm "Please, Please, Please, Please stop" you say quietly with tears in your eyes You peek you head from under your covers and look around "That me when I was 4 years old" you say to your guardian angles CRACK You jump from your bed and onto the floor with thud You get up from the floor and walk towards your bedroom door. You the door slowly and look around. You slowly exit your room and slowly walk across the floor and make your way to another room. Your parents room You open the door slowly and walk in "Mommy" you say as you walk in "Star? are you okay?" you mum asks with a tired tone in her voice "I...I" CRACK You jump from the sound of the thunder "Are you scared of the storm?" You dad asks "mm hmm" you say nodding your head "Why don't you come a sleep with us tonight" you mother say patting the space in between her and your dad You flap your little wings and fly to the space between them. You lay down in between them and get comfy CRACK You cuddle up to your mother as fast as you could and holding her tight "Goodnight StarGazer" she says and kissing you on the head ------------------------- The screen disappears reveling your guardian angles face with a smirk. "That doesn't count, I was four years old and that was my first time experiencing a storm" you say "Okay well what about this" she say Another screen appears in front of you -----7 years ago---- You stand in the tracks shacking in your hoofs as the other Pegasus stretch there wings and bones "That my first mayor race when I was fifteenth" you say Negative thoughts run through your head while you still shake "You okay Star?" your Dad says standing next to you You nod your head "You don't need to be scared" he say putting a hoof on his shoulder "Dad, Jet Stream is watching, MY IDOL is watching" you say turning your head to him "What if I make a complete fool of myself. Plus nearly everypony in Fillydelphia is here" "Just forget that Jet Stream their, you can do this, I know you can. Me, Your mother, Jack Hammer and Rose Beat will be cheering you on" he say giving a small hug and then walking back to the rest of your family You clear your mind and paperer yourself -------------------------- The screen disappears again You move your eye left to right trying to think of an excuse. A excuse you could think of pops into your head "That called be nervous" you say "Alright, listen to me StarGazer" she says grabbing your shoulders "I know that I can't control your life, but you need to think twice about this decision" You look down at the floor. If there was one that is The guardian angle flaps her wings and fly away You wake up from the dream and you rub your head. You were back in your bed. You sit in a coffee shop. You sit at a table just look at your coffee Is she right? Should I think twice about this? "Excuse me, are you StarGazer?" A stallions voice calls out "If you're here to give the new racing magazine, you might as well take it back because I canceled my subscription mouths ago" you say not even looking at the stallion "Thats not what I here for" he says "Then what do you want?" you say look up at the stallion The stallion standing there is a orange unicorn with a green mane and tail. His cutiemark was a tiny marble ball with a cup on top. "May I have a seat?" he ask "Knock yourself out" you say He take the seat opposite to you and extends his hoof "I'm Jumbler" He says with a smile You smile and shake his hoof "I nice to finally meet you face to face" he says "How do you know who I am?" you asks "Well you see, I just happened to be at Ponyville when the rely race was on and I noticed you had your eyes closed at the final stretch and won the hole darn thing. Now if that's isn't talent then I don't know what is" he say with a smile "Thanks" you say then taking a sip of your coffee "You see I'm a talent scout and I've been looking for you for a while" he says "Why would you be looking for me?" you ask "Because I've also done some 'digging' and found out some stuff from you past" You slam your hoof on the table nearly knocking your coffee over "HEY! who gave you the right to look at my past" you shout "Calm down, I only looked at your racing past" he say in calming voice "Oh, well sorry for the out burst" you say "Don't worry about it. Anyway, I looked at your racing past and I noticed you broke the Fillydelphia youngest flyer record when you were six" he say You nod you head "Now that is impressive, so I looked all over Ponyville for you and I could've find you" "So how did you know I was here?" you ask "At the end of the relay race I notice you were talking to six beautiful mares, I assumed that here were your friends" "Were" you say under your breath "So as I was walking down ponyville and I just so happened to walk past the rainbow maned mare you was on your team" You perk up when he says 'rainbow maned mare' "I asked her if she know where you were" he continues "and she said 'He's in Fillydelphia', she seemed quite depressed, so anyway I got on the train as fast as I could and here I am" "So......what do you want?" you ask for second time He pulls out a business card and hoofs in over to you You look at the card "I want to be your racing agent" he says You look up at him "I don't know, I kinda go solo when It comes to racing" you say "Well just think about" he say getting out of the chair "Just come to my hotel room whenever and we'll discuses business" he continues and then walk out of the shop You watch him leave then look down at the business card You unlock the door to your house and walk into the living room while look at the business card You Dad is in the room writing his weather report "Hey Star......What you got there?" he asks "A business card" you say look at your dad "Whats it for?" "Well this guy named Jumbler whats to be my race agent" "Wait.....did you say Jumbler?" your dad ask getting up from the sofa "Yeah why?" "You can't trust that guy" "Why not?" you ask "Because he's a con artist, He'll act like he's going to help but in the end he's going to leave you for dead in a dark alley and take all the winning money and run off" He says "How do you know this?" you ask "Because he did the same thing to me" You look at him in shock "Before you were born, Me, your mother, Rose Beat and Jack Hammer were struggling with money. So I did the one thing that I thought would help us through. I went to Jumbler for help. I herd a bunch of bad stuff about him, but I had to what was right for the family. He made me his client, the first race we ever entered he had cased a spell on my wings to help me fly faster. Race after race we won money to help us through the cold times" he pause his story and looks at you You have a look on your face that begging him to carry on with the story "But one night after we won another race we talking in his office. Then he said 'You know Frost Bite you and your family are doing go yes? Well it would be a same that if something bad was to happen'. I looked at him like he's crazy. That's when some guys came in and grabbed me and started whaling on me. I thought back as best as I could but there was too many of them. I lost consciousness after a couple of hits. When I regained consciousness I was in a alleyway with a black eye, broken bones and a bleeding nose" he stops again and walk over to you "what ever you do, DO NOT got to him, DO NOT TRUST HIM" he yells "Alright I won't" you say Your dad nods and walks back to his paperwork. You put the business card in the bin. You grab some paper and a pencil and walk to your room. You open the door and walk over to your desk and start to write your first letter to Dash.