//------------------------------// // A Chance Enconter // Story: Sweet Star Adventures // by L_Wolf //------------------------------// Chapter 1 Sweet Star woke up slowly in the morning sitting up in her small bed yawning softly. Rolling off the bed to her hooves she trotted her way down stairs heading to the kitchen. The morning was quiet, she could make out the sounds of her mom getting breakfast ready in the kitchen. She made her way into the kitchen looking up at Sweetie and smiled. "Morning mama, where is mama Starbloom?" She asked tilting her head faintly. "Morning Star," Sweetie said smiling at her, "She's still asleep she was up late last night again." She answered, while Star went to the counter and climbed her way up onto a stool. "Oh.... she sleeping late again huh?" Star asked after getting herself settled on the stool. Watching as Sweetie put a bowl of oatmeal in front of her with some orange juice. Sweet Star had a pink colored coat, her mane and tail was blue and darker pink in color. She had a green eye like her mom Sweetie, but her other eye was red. "Yea, she does have to work at night sometimes. So if your going to play inside it'll be best if do so quietly." Sweetie said smiling at her as she sat across from her with her own breakfast. "Yes mama I will." Sweet Star said smiling as her horn flickered with a red aura and she started to eat. Sweet Star had always been naturally gifted with magic, while she did display magic as a foal like most unicorns do. She didn't loose it like most. She did forget how to do the spells so Starbloom and Sweetie had to reteach her how to use levitation. "Mama can I go play over at Cinnamon's house?" Star asked smiling up at Sweetie when she finished her breakfast. Cinnamon Apple, was Apple Bloom and Featherweight's little colt. He was a year older then Sweet Star but they got along well. "Sure Star, just be back before it gets to late and be careful." Sweetie said smiling at her. Star smiled back and hopping off the stool and headed to the door going outside. It was a nice day out, only a handful of clouds drifting through the sky. Star started to trot down the street towards Sweet Apple Acres East Farm. Despite plans to move to Batlimare, Apple Bloom and Featherweight decided to stay in Ponyville. They decided to stay close to family and had a house built on the east farm. It wasn't to far for the filly to trot to, she opened the gate and headed inside closing the gate behind her as she made her way to the house. She smiled as the looked at the big apple trees around her. She saw Cinnamon near the house practicing bucking a tree stump. Cinnamon was a earth pony, light brown in color with a orange mane and tail like his mom and brown eyes like his dad. Star ran up to where he was and watched him buck at the stump again. "Nice buck, Cinnamon your getting strong." Star said smiling at him. Cinnamon looked at Sweet Star and smiled. "Thanks! I'm gettin` better at it." He said, he had the same slight country accent like his mom did. Though it wasn't as noticeable since his dad didn't have it. "Do you know if Swift Wing is going to make it today?" Star asked tilting her head. Swift Wing was Scootaloo's daughter, she was about the same age as Sweet Star. "I don't know, I think Scootaloo took her on tour with her again." Cinnamon said sighing abit before smiling. "But we can still have fun, what did you have planned for today?" She looked around quietly to make sure no one was listening in before leaning over close. "Sneaking into the Everfree forest to explore that cave." She whispered grinning. "What do you think?" Cinnamon grinned back nodding. "That sounds like a lot of fun. Come on, let's go." He said and both of them started down the path heading away from the house. The made there way to the edge of the forest looking around to make sure no one saw them before darting inside and down the path. Star took the lead since she knew the way to the cave she wanted to explore. "What do you think is in the cave Star?" Cinnamon asked keeping close so not to get separated in the forest. "Maybe it's a dragon's den and has lots of treasure in it." He said thinking out loud. "Hmm I don't know, that might be pretty cool though. Could bring home a bunch of treasure and jewels." Star said giggling and smiled over at Cinnamon before finding the cave. "There it is." She said pointing, the cave entrance was to small for a dragon or anything large. Cinnamon looked unimpressed though looking at the cave as they got closer to it. "Star... this is to small for dragons." He said sighing softly his dreams of treasure dashed. Star made a face at him. "Well I'm still going in, might be some cool stuff in it." She said and started into the cave to start exploring, her horn taking on it's red glow to give off light. Cinnamon thought for a moment before grumbling and followed her into the cave. It was bigger on the inside but not to much could be seen. After a few minutes he spoke up. "Star I don't think there is anything in here but rocks." Star sighed softly as she looked around as well. "Maybe your right, I guess this cave has nothing fun in it." She said and started to turn when a glint of something shiny caught her attention. "Hang on I saw something," She said trotting over to the shine that caught her attention. Cinnamon moving to keep up with her. She used her magic to pick up a small purple marble, the little marble was connected to a silver chain. "Ohhh pretty." Cinnamon stuck his tongue out. "Blah it's just a necklace." He said and huffed abit. Star ignored him and put the necklace on smiling before looking around more for anything else that might be interesting. Her eyes went wide seeing a skeleton near where she saw the necklace. "Eeeep! Skeleton monster!" She yelled and turned to run, Cinnamon running after her to keep up. After getting out of the cave both stopped and panted a bit trying to catch there breath. "I.. think we got away..." Star said looking at Cinnamon who nodded in response. "Cinnamon Apple! Sweet Star! What in tarnation you two doing out here?" An angry voice yelled. Both looked up seeing Apple Bloom standing by the path near the cave. "M.. Mom!?" Cinnamon yelped in surprised blinking, "How did you know we was out here?" He asked both he and Sweet Star moving to the path looking at the rather unhappy Apple Bloom. "I was on my way home from visiting Zecora when I heard you two. Come on, yer going home, both of you." She said and lead both of them from the forest. She headed to Sweet Star's home first. The walk back to the house was pretty quiet, neither of the foals daring to try and speak. Apple Bloom dropped Star at the house with an apologetic, and upset Sweetie Belle before Apple Bloom took Cinnamon home. "Star, what were you thinking going into the Everfree Forest?" Sweetie asked peering down at her daughter. "You know how dangerous that place can be, even during the day." Star pouted and tried to be adorable as she looked at Sweetie, "W.. we was just exploring mama." She said shuffling her hooves a little. "I promise we wont do it again." She smiled up at Sweetie. Sweetie just huffed abit and shook her head ruffling Star's mane alittle. "What am I going to do with you?" She asked then tilted her head seeing the necklace. "What's that?" "It's a necklace, I found it in this cave. Isn't it pretty?" She asked smiling up at Sweetie. Sweetie nodded at her and smiled. "Yea it is, now go get a bath for dinner. Your staying in today, I'll talk to your mother about your punishment when she gets home." Star nodded and blinked. "Aww mama... do you have to tell mama Starbloom bout this?" She asked pouting abit up at Sweetie. Sweetie nodded at her and smiled. "Yes, I do, now go on." Sweetie said grinning shooing her to the bathroom. Star nodded and headed up the stairs to the bathroom turning on the water watching the tub fill. She used her magic to take off the necklace and looked it over tilting her head. She tapped the marble with her horn softly. "System Reboot in process, Stand By." Came a soothing female voice the marble shimmering and hovered on it's own. The voice spooking Star and she lost her magical grip on the marble. Her eyes going wide watching the marble hover in front of her. "What's going on, who's in here?" She asked looking around quickly to see if somepony had snuck into her bathroom. "Reboot Complete. Status Report. Condition Green. Welcome New User, please state your name," The voice spoke again and Star tilted her head looking at the marble. "Sweet Star, my name is Sweet Star." She said tilting her head watching the marble. "Who are you?" "New User Recognized, Sweet Star. I'm Violet Heart, your new Intelligent Device." Violet said, a purple light passing over Sweet Star a few time. "Analysis complete, your current magical level is high enough to use me." Star just blinked abit then squealed "Oh!" She used her magic to turn off the water in the tub noticing it was almost overflowing. She lifted the plug to drain some of the water out. "What, do you mean Intelligent Device? I don't understand." She said looking at the marble before putting the plug back into the drain before getting into the tub. "I'm a device used to allow mages to harness their magical power." Violet said floating next to her. "I'm not a mage, I'm a unicorn," Star said looking at the marble washing her mane. "I've never heard of a unicorn needing a device before." Violet was quiet, lines of text flashing across the surface for a few moments before it spoke. "Unicorn, species not listed in records. Either the data has not been entered into my system, or something terrible happened to my old master." Sweet Star tilted her head lightly looking at Violet. "Maybe he was the skeleton in the cave." She said standing up to scrub her body with a soft brush using her magic. "That's where I found you after all." Violet was quiet as it scanned through data again. "Record Found, master appeared on this planet and was attacked. I was put into recovery mode and eventually lost power." "Oh... I'm sorry about your old master." Sweet Star said rinsing herself off and started to drain the tub shaking herself before getting out of the tub and used a towel to finish drying herself. "How do you get power?" "I use a very low amount of magic from my master to power myself." Violet said, moving and hung itself around Sweet Star's neck. Sweet Star tilted her head faintly opening the door and leaving the bathroom. "So.. your draining my magic?" "Very little, not enough to effect your current magical power." Violet answered. "Ohh... well that's okay then, I thought it was a lot." She said looking around before heading to her room and climbed up onto her bed. "Can you teach me how to use you properly?" She asked tilting her head. "Of course master, I can teach you all you need to know." Violet said shimmering softly. "Starting Visual Training Simulation One. Close your eyes master" Sweet Star tilted her head and closed her eyes. In her mind she found herself standing in a large grassy field. It seemed so real to her, she could smell the grass and the fresh air. Violet was next to her floating in the air. "So, let's begin the first lesson master." Violet said, and Sweet Star nodding smiling.