//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: Old Homes and New Homes. // Story: A Shooting Star // by Nobody Special //------------------------------// Twilight and the group had just gotten back to the old library. Seeing this place again makes Twilight all nostalgic, even though it was six months since she was here. They had gotten some questions about what the big lights and explosion was about in Everfree forest. Also why she didn’t have any wings. They just told that there was nothing to worry about and that they had taken care of it. Of course they where lying because it was Shooting Star that took care of it, but they couldn’t tell them about him. If they did it would probably cause a bit of panic that a powerful unknown creature was roaming around. Celestia had just brought back her stuff from the castle, but she couldn’t stay because she had things to do in Canterlot. They where packing up stuff until there was a knock on the door. Twilight opened it and saw Lyra standing there. “Hello Lyra, what can I help you with?” “Nothing, I just went here to see if you guys have heard the news.” “News? What news?” “You guys seriously haven’t heard?” They all shook their heads. “There was some weird creature at Mayor Mare’s office not to long ago and it just bought the old observatory on the hill outside of Ponyville.” “Weird creature? How did it look like?” “Well it said it was really tall, had the same kind of mane as the princesses and its eyes was like stars.” The group looked surprised. Did just Shooting Star find his home already. “Do you know its name?” “No, but when it signed the contract it only wrote ‘S.S’.” Now the group clearly knew that this was Shooting Star. The group ran past Lyra and was heading to the observatory. “Hey wait for me.” Lyra said and followed the group. They arrived at the old observatory and saw that a group of ponies was there. They went to the ponies and was about to ask what the deal was, but a flash of light inside the observatory stopped them. Now they kind of understand why the ponies was here. Twilight went in front of the ponies to try to talk to them. “Ok everypony please calm down.” The ponies stopped talking and started to listen. “I know who lives here.” “You do? Then whats his or hers name?” A pony asked. “His name is Shooting Star and yes it is the creature that bought the observatory.” All the ponies started to talk now. One pony spoke up. “So do you know what he is doing inside the observatory?” “Ehm...no I don’t, but I think I can ask him.” She went to the door and knocked. “I told you ponies before, no you can’t come in.” The voice said behind the door. “Shooting Star, its me Twilight.” “Oh Twilight...the answer is still no.” “Can you just tell me what the flashing lights are all about?” “I’m renovating this place.” “With flashes of light?” “Kind of.” “Can me and the girls come in.” “I told you before, no.” “Please?” She said and did the puppy dog eyes, even though he couldn’t see her. “Your doing the puppy dog eyes right?” “Maybe.” It takes a moment until she hers a sigh. “Fine, but only you girls and Spike, no other ponies.” “Thank you.” The door opened up and the girls and Spike went in. “Please wait.” They here a voice say. They look back and saw Lyra running up to them. “Please let me in too. If I’m right you are an alien and I really want to see you.” The girls waited for Shooting Star’s answer. “Urgh, ok.” Lyra got excited and went in with the others. When they got in it looked like any normal observatory. A stair that leads up to a platform with a chair and the giant telescope. But thats what the similarities end. There was a kitchen area with a fridge, freezer, sink and cabinets. There was a bed across the room with a night table and a lamp. There was a door that said ‘Bathroom’. And there was some bookshelves, chairs, table and a couch where Shooting Star sat with a drink in his hand. He looked at them with a smirk. “Sup?” “How...how did you get all of this?” Twilight asked, all surprised. “I made it.” “How did you make all of this?” “Magic of course.” “You created this by magic?” He nodded. “But that takes years to learn.” “Well I had 1000 years to learn.” “Oh yeah I forgot about that.” “So what do you guys want?” “Well we where going to investigate the bright lights, but now that we are here I really want to ask you some questions.” “Oh oh me too.” Lyra said. “Ok, all of you have one question each, use it well. Twilight you start.” “Ok.” Suddenly paper and a quill was there. “My question is, why did you bought the observatory and how did you get the money to do so?” “Technically thats two questions, but whatever. To answer your second question I did the same thing as I did with the furnitures, I created them.” “You created money?” “Yes, but thats the only time I will do it. As to answer your first question I bought this place because I like space and I needed a place to stay until my real house is done.” “Your real house?” “Yeah, I’m building a castle in space.” All of them just looked at him weird. “What? If you don’t believe me look through the telescope.” Twilight walked the stairs, sat in the chair and looked through the telescope. She saw that he was telling the truth. Slowly bricks put each other together in space. Twilight looked back at him. “I thought you didn’t want to live in a castle.” “In Canterlot castle yes, but this castle will be a bit smaller and by my own design.” “So why didn’t you just create it with magic like the furnitures?” “Because a castle is to big, even for me. I just created a lots of bricks, put a spell on each of them so they could put a castle together by them self. Of course it will take a while, but thats why I live here for now.” Twilight went back to the group and now Pinkie wanted to ask him something. “So what are you drinking.” “Whiskey.” “Whiskey? Never heard of that before. What does it taste like?” He took a sip out of the drink. “Like cider, but stronger.” “Ok, my turn.” Rainbow Dash said. “How did you get here?” “Ah a very good question. You see I arrived after Nightmare Moon got banished to the moon. My theory is when Celestia used the Elements of Harmony on her, it created a space jump portal.” “A space jump portal?” “Yes. I am from another planet, not from another dimension. The space jump portal sucked me in and I traveled millions of light years away.” “Wait a minute.” Twilight interrupted. “After we defeated Nightmare Moon and turned her back to Luna, wouldn’t that mean this portal would appear again?” “Yes it would and it did.” “So did somepony else get sucked into the portal.” Shooting Star drack up his drink and chuckled. “Well first it has to be something on the other side to get sucked in.” “I don’t understand.” “Well you see, I too thought it was weird nothing came through, so I did some research and found out that my species killed it self in a war 500 years ago.” He practically laughed out. “Why are you laughing, it sounds horrible.” “Its funny that I’m the last of my specie and I have an immortal life.” He kept laughing a little bit more until he stopped and poured more whiskey into his glas. “Ehm darling, are you alright?” Rarity asked. “Yes of course I am. Why wouldn’t I?” “Ehm nothing dear.” “Just so you know that was your question.” “Do you miss your family and friends?” Fluttershy asked. “Sometimes. Its hard to not miss them. My dad was the fucking president of America.” “Whats a president.” Twilight asked. “Its like a king that rules a country.” “So you where like a prince then?” He laughed a little. “Yeah you can say that.” Twilight had a hard time thinking this over. This ‘man’ was a prince of another planet and is now the only one of its species with one of the most powerful magic she has ever seen. This sounded like a story she would write on a rainy day. “So what are you going to do know?” Applejack said. “Live. I got nothing to do then just live.” “Doesn’t sound so fun to me.” “Hey thats the only thing I can think about now. “When you fought Nightmare Fuel, how did you learn to fight like that.” Spike asked. “Through stories I ‘read’ when I was a kid. Also I got a few skills.” “Not when we fought.” RD said. “Hey I was rusty. I hadn’t fought for 1000 years.” “Yeah yeah, excuses excuses.” “Ok last question.” Now Lyra was jumping of happiness because she would ask this alien a question. “Alright, are you a human?” “Well of course I am, have you forgotten that Lyra?” “How do you know my name?” “I know all the names on this planet.” “Yes I recall you saying that when we first met, but how do you know that?” Twilight asked. “Well when you are stuck in a comet like me you usually get bored, so I played with my magic one day and suddenly I was in somepony’s dream.” “You went into somepony’s dream? Like princess Luna?” “Exactly, but she more goes inside somepony’s dream if they got nightmares, I however went inside somepony’s dream to just know their names and stuff like that. Thats how I knew about all of you. I even helped someponies if they had trouble in real life, like you Lyra.” “Me? But what kind of help did I needed?” “When you where a little filly you believed in aliens, but all of your friends thought you where stupid to believe that, so one night I went in you dream and showed myself. I told anything about the humans and stuff like that. And what I know, you became happy knowing there was aliens in the world. I just didn’t know you would be so interrested in humans.” Lyra just stared at him. It was this guy that made her so obsessed when it came to humans. She went and hugged. He hugged back, still holding his drink. “Please take it easy, I’m holding a drink here.” She stopped hugging and looked at him, then she slapped him in the face and went for the door. “OW, what was that for?” She sniffed a little and you could see a little tears in her eyes. “For ruining my life.” And then she was out. There was silence as all of them looked at each other like what just happened. “You guys should go, I want to be alone for a bit.” Shooting Star said and took a sip of his whiskey. “Ok, see you some other time.” Twilight said. “Bye.” “Bye.” He said goodbye to all of them until he was alone. He sat there thinking for himself until he heard a dark voice. “Well aren’t you looking sad.” He looked up and saw a creature standing on top of the telescope. It had black fur and was standing on four legs. It had claws, bat wings and a tail. Its head was a black crocodile head. “Let me wipe that sad face and you from this planet.”