//------------------------------// // Mysterious Mare // Story: The Night Scooter // by Firo Blaze //------------------------------// The day ended with a small friendly celebration for Apple Bloom, including cupcakes made by Pinkie, cider made by the Apple family, and a show of fireworks put on by Princess Twilight. Rainbow Dash came over for a short time to congratulate Apple Bloom, but left too soon to finish some important unfinished business. Before Rainbow Dahs left she made sure to give Apple Bloom a ride in the sky. Scootaloo sat back and watched her friend as she enjoyed what would most likely be her best day every. At the end Rarity and Sweetie Bell walked with Scootaloo to Ponyville, but split up when they came upon their separate roads. Scootaloo came home to an empty house that put an uneasy feeling inside of her. It didn't take long for her to be cleaned and tucked deep inside her cloud. The air was cold like it always was at night, but this time it seemed different. Scootaloo shivered underneath her pocket of cloud as the cold slowly creeped around her. She looked around her room, looked at the place she felt safe, but was now letting a shiver flow down her spine. Scootaloo couldn't tell weather it was from the cold or the feint noises she heard from across the room into the darkness. Moonlight stretched across the floor from her window helping light the dark room, but it didn't stop the strange sounds, or the fear that kept Scootaloo frozen under inside her cloud she now wished was made out of steel. One the count of three I'm going to run for it, Scootaloo thought to herself as she crawled underneath her blanket to the opposite side of her cloud that gave a straight path to her door. One, two, she breathed in a deep breath for courage, three! Launching herself from her safety spot Scootaloo ran out of her bedroom, down the stairs, and into the living room only to be stopped by a dark figure lurking in its shadows. She felt something nip at her hind legs and found saw two timberwolves surround her from behind. Laughter arose from the dark shape. "My dear, Scootaloo!" A voice spoke out from the darkness, "I have waited years to see how you would grow, and might I say I am very, very disappointed with you. You are designed for greatness, but instead you fail to see your true potential. Your parents would be so ashamed. I'm not the mare you want to disappoint," She snarled. The mare stepped into the tall arm of moonlight showing her incredible height. Scootaloo whimpered, "Please, don't hurt me. I don't wanna die!" The tall mare stared through Scootaloo with rust color eyes, and a mind of pain. "I'm not going to kill you, you still need to learn who you are first and where you came from. Your mother doesn't remember you, but however I remember your mother. Her and I go way back, and I was the one that made your exhistance possible. So, as your... Friend... I will give you what you need to survive." She paused to walk inches infront of Scootaloo. Finally, she could see what the mare truly looked like. A queen who somehow looked even more powerful then Celestia herself. Her white mane flowed like water down the sides of her neck, her eyes where kind in the moonlight even thought the shined red, and her coat was the most majestic piece of her, dark grey with rusty lines painted in prominent jabs and swirly gestures. Her horn and wings were left untouched by the marks, but didn't deminish the effect of beauty. Scootaloo kept a watchful eye on the timberwolves, "w-what do I need to survive? What are you giving me?" The beautiful mare smiled, "I am giving you the power of vengeance. Anypony who does you wrong, in anyway, will fall at your command. I will only give you this if you except it. Will you except it?" The small filly kept silent for a minuet before making up her mind, "no. Well, yes I do want to have that power, but I don't want to take away anyponies will. But can you tell me about my mother? That's all I want." Scootaloo scuffed the ground, "you said that she doesn't remember me. Does that mean that she's still alive?" She asked, hopeful and shy. Scootaloo was on the verge of tears, first hearing that her parents would be ashamed and now hearing her mother could be alive, but has no memory of her own daughter was too much for Scootaloo to digest. "Your mother has been though it all, and now all she needs is power. With that power she will know all that happened. She will remember you, and she will know what happened to your father. Nothing you have been told is true, but listen here little one, the truth will come in time. You will find your purpose and with that comes exactly what you need to survive." The mare smiled kindly at the frightened Scootaloo. "It's a shame you turned down my offer, but if you change your mind, or need me to answer anymore questions, summon me and I will come." She bent down and kissed Scootaloo on the top of her head. "But how will I summon you?" Scootaloo asked feeling more secure around this new mysterious mare. She looked out the front window of Scootaloo's living room, "you will go into the Everfree forest, find a pond that glows in a cave of dark. Once you find this place you will call my name, Queen Alala." The young pegasus frowned as Queen Alala turned away from her, "what was my mother like?" Queen Alala didn't turn around to answer Scootaloo, "meet me if you must know." With that she disappeared in a cloud of white along with the two timberwolves. Scootaloo rubbed at her watery eyes in attempt to make them stop, but tears kept falling forcing her body to the ground as she shook uncontrollably. She just wanted a normal life, one where she could fly, where no one made fun of her for being herself, everything was perfectly normal. But she knew nothing was going to change, she was never going to see her parents again, even if they were alive, and her wings were never going to let her fly. Scootaloo screamed out in a mixture of agony, frustration, and wanting. Breathing heavily she hauled herself onto the couch and fell asleep with tears in her eyes. Then she asked a question she always thought to be no answer, doesn't anypony care enough to help me? But two words echoed in her mind, Queen Alala.