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// Chapter 7: One, two, skip a few... 
// Story: Knights of Night - Chosen of the Moon 
// by vadram 
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Chapter 7: One, two, skip a few...





In the southern part of Equestria, a little over two weeks away from the capital city, stood the little city of Lilyblue, named after the exotic plant that only grew in the region. Built by the unicorn tribe during the reign of Discord the city was everything one would expect it to be, old, crowded, with narrow streets, and tall buildings, on the outskirts, contrasting heavily with the large open areas filled with flower gardens, fountains and elaborate mansions that housed the elites and nobles.

Through its narrow streets three little ponies were running for their lives.

“Hurry!” a little unicorn colt with a black tail, dark blue coat, wearing a black bandana on his head and a heavily patched up cape on his back, yelled at his two friends.

“We are!” another colt yelled back at him. He was a pegasus, a little larger than the other two, with a much lighter blue coat and fiery red mane. Just like his friend he wore a similar black bandana and cape, his was however in a much better condition.

Trailing behind them, wearing only the cape, was a pegasus filly. She was by far the smallest of the group, her coat was a pale-yellow and her mane and tail were light green in color. 

“Wait up!” she yelled. 

“Stop running! We just want to play!” Two smelly, soaking wet, young earth pony stallions were running after the group, with the intent of giving the three a good beating.

“We are not falling for that again!” the unicorn colt said as he took a sharp turn down an alleyway, his friends following his lead. 

The alleyway lead to a flight of stairs on the sides of which various merchants set up shops, and were selling everything from fresh produce, and freshly cooked food, too expensive fabrics, dyes, carpets, clothing and jewelry.

“Starry!” the pegasus colt yelled at his friend. “Rack!”

“I see it, Foggy,” he replied.

In front of them The unicorns horn glew blue and he grabbed a stone in his magical aura. The stone flew towards the wheel of a clothes rack and snapped it off, causing the entire thing to fall into the narrow street. The owners rushed to pick up their wares, just in time to block the path for the two bullies, the little ponies having passed easily between the merchants.

“Nice shot,” the filly told her friend as the trio put some more distance between them and the two stallions.

“Thanks Petal,” Starry turned his head to reply to the filly, proud of his action.

He did not see when, from a side street, two ponies appeared in front of them.

“Watch out!” the unicorn colt, Foggy yelled out to Starry.

The little unicorn didn’t had the time to turn his head when he knocked into the brown earth pony stallion, knocking the both of them off their hooves and causing his bandana to fall off.

“Are you alright?” the other pony, a blue mare with a silver mane, asked the colt. She smiled warmly at him as she stretched out her hoof to help the little pony up.

“I’m fine,” Starry said knocking the mare’s hoof away and getting up on his own.

“Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m alright?” the bown stallion asked his companion.

“No,” she promptly shut him down with a much more serious expression on her face. “Now get up, we have a job to do.”

“Fine.” The stallion jumped to his feet. 

“I can’t believe how much you take all the fun out of this,” he told the mare as the two went on their way.

“And I can’t believe you forgot where you parked it,” the blue mare replied.

“I did not forget! It is that it is not where I left it.”

“Whatever you say.”

The kids watched the two bickering as they disappeared into the city.

The filly picked up Starry’s bandana from the ground and hoofed it over to him.

“Thanks,” he quickly grabbed it and tied it around his head making sure that none of the scars he had on his scalp were visible.

Foggy looked up at the sky and saw a few grey clouds being moved together.

“Come on you two,” the other colt said as he took a couple of steps away from them. “Sister Lovehearth will be angry with us if we are late again.”

“Yeah, and we are in enough trouble as it is,” the filly added.

“Hey!” Starry protested. “They had it coming.”

“You dumped sewer water on them!” Foggy yelled at him. “In front of the entire school!”

“They called Petal damaged!”

“Well, I sort of am,” the filly said holding her head down.

“No, you aren't!” both the colts yelled at her.

“And neither am I,” Starry added.

No sooner has the unicorn colt snapped at Petal did the first drops of rain started falling. The three ran back to the place they called home, the Southern Star Orphanage, where they would receive a scolding.