Chapter 1
*BANG*
"SNOWFALL!!!"
I fumbled the book I was reading before hastily setting it down on my desk and running to my bedroom door. I quickly stopped and made sure my snow white coat and ice blue mane and tail were in check before galloping the rest of the way to the front door.
I saw my father standing in the front door, an unimpressed look upon his face. Father had a white coat like mine, but he had a black mane and tail. He was also wearing a black suit. I ran up to his side and faced him with my head held high.
"You useless excuse for a stallion. I have been standing here for two minutes." father said through gritted teeth without looking to me.
"S-sorry father, i-it wont happen again." I said with a hint of worry in my voice.
Father walked inside of the house while I followed.
"Father, are you ok? You seem..." I began to ask, but was cut off when a hoof of his flew straight into my face.
"You will not speak unless spoken to!!! Do I make myself clear!?!" he shouted at me.
"Y-yes father." I said with a shaky voice. Father turned around and continued to walk towards the stairs. I felt the muscle under my left eye twitch in pain.
"What did I do to get such rejects for children?" father muttered to himself. "Snowfall! Where is that waste of fur you call a brother?" father asked.
"H-he's in his room, sir. Doing his homework." I said. I cringed when father called him a waste of fur, but that was one of the nicer things he called him.
"I want you to go back to your room and continue to study now." father said in a normal tone, which was rare for him.
I scurried up the stairs and back into my room before I closed the door. I let out a large sigh before making my way over to my mirror again.
I had a black bruise on my left cheek where father had hit me. I made my way back to my desk and was about to pick up the book I was reading again, but stopped when I heard a shout.
"Pyre Blitz!!! You think you can sneak outside and not have me find out about it!?!" father shouted from down the hall, causing my heart to drop.
'Oh no, not again.' I said worriedly as I jumped up from my desk and galloped out of my room and to the door of Blitz's room.
"No, Daddy Please!" *SMACK* "AAAHHHHH!!!" I felt my body cringe harder than ever as I heard the sound of fathers hoof coming down onto Blitz.
I heard more smacks and even some crunches mixed with screams of pain before I snapped.
'No, this has to stop!' I shouted in my head before I spun around and kicked the door open. I then rushed in and pushed father off of Blitz's body and stood over him defensively.
"Snowfall!?! How dare you come in here and disrespect your father like this!" father shouted at me as he pushed himself back up.
"No more. Leave Blitz alone and take your anger out on me." I said as I glared at him.
"Fine!" he shouted one more time before charging up his magic and levitating me up into the air. "You brought this on yourself."
He then levitated me over before he began beating me over and over. The first hit he delivered to me was in my stomach, followed by another and another. He began to beat me all over my body. My head, my back, my legs, neck and every other possible location anypony could think of.
But no matter how much he hit me, I refused to scream out in pain. I knew it would only encourage him.
As discreetly as I could, I activated my magic and used a chill spell inside of me to numb me entire body to reduce the pain.
After about 20 minutes of father just beating on me over and over, he finally stopped and dropped me to the ground before spitting on me and making for the door with his head held high.
I looked out of my right eye and saw him stop in the doorway and look back to me.
"Snowfall, I want you to fix yourself up and go to bed immediately. You may be useless, but at least you know how to take a beating." he said before he left.
I closed my eyes and curled up into a ball as the pain began to seep through my spell that I had cast over myself.
"Snowfall? Are you ok?" I opened my eye and saw Blitz trying to crawl over to me. He had a red coat and a black mane and tail. He now had multiple purple bruise over his body, and his azure eyes were filled with tears.
Ignoring my pain, I pushed myself up and limped over to him before collapsing next to him and wrapping my hooves around him.
"Don't worry little bro. I got you." I whispered in his ear before I activated my magic and tried to numb his injuries. "I'm sorry Blitz. I'm so sorry." I apologized.
"Don't be Snow. I should have known that father would know if I broke out. But I had too to get a glimpse at the unicorn that was turned to an alicorn a few months ago." Blitz said as he began to stop shaking from pain as my spell kicked in.
I smiled weakly. "Hehe, did you get to see her?" I asked. He was never allowed outside, father's rules, but I knew that he was fascinated by alicorns.
"I did, I got to see Princess Celestia raise the sun with her magic while Princess Luna lowered the moon." he said joyfully, but his smile soon fell. "And to think that there was a possibility that you could have been Princess Celestia's student."
My smile fell too. "Blitz, you know why I'm not in that school." I said, but before I could continue, he finished my speech.
"Yeah, I know. You said to me that you purposefully failed your entrance exam so father couldn't use you to get closer to the princess." he said dejectedly before looking up to me. "But just think at where you might be now if Princess Celestia saw your power. I may not get out much, but even I think that your magic is more than most ponies could ever dream for."
"I know Blitz, but again, father. He would use me to his advantage to gain more political power for himself, so I keep my talents away from him." I said as I hugged him tighter.
What Blitz said next made me think to myself.
"I wish we could just leave. Just run away and never look back." he said quietly.
"What if we did?" I whispered back, causing him to look at me in shock. "What if we ran away tonight?"
"But we cant. The tracer spell father put on you makes getting away impossible." Blitz said in protest.
"There is a fortunate side. Not only can I feel when he is trying to use the spell, but the trace of his only works when I use magic. If I don't use magic, he will never find us." I explained. Father did not know that I could feel when he was trying to track me, and I wanted to keep it that way.
"But Snow, magic is one of the things you do best." Blitz continued.
"Don't worry about me. Father hasn't put the spell on you yet, so I can teach you everything I know about magic and you can use it freely." I explained.
He seemed to consider this option for a moment before speaking again. "A-are you sure that you're fine with never using magic?" he asked.
"As long as you're safe, I have all I need." I said, causing him to smile. "Alright Blitz, I want you to get your saddlebags and put what you want to take with you in them. I am going to do the same." I told him.
"But, what about father? How are we going to get past him?" Blitz asked.
"Tonight is the night of the Grand Galloping Gala. We will make our leave while he is attending that." I explained.
"But, isn't there a protection spell that he casts over the house while he is out?" I rolled my eyes, Blitz was so full of questions tonight.
"Trust me Blitz, I have our way out." I said as I let go of him and pushed myself back up. My injuries were screaming at me to just stay still, but I had other things to do.
Blitz jumped up and hugged my leg. I flinched in pain, but I managed to suppress a groan. I wasn't going to spoil his happiness.
When he let go, I got up and limped out of Blitz's room and made my way for my own room. When I got inside, I began to think.
'Ok, if we're leaving, what will we need. Bits would be a good start, but I'll have to get that later tonight. So now I'm just going to get a few other things.' I thought to myself as I walked over to my closet and pulled out my set of saddlebags before filling it with two blankets, a small medical kit I stole from father, a detailed map of Equestria, a few magic practice books and a photo of mine and Blitz's mother.
I froze on the photo for a moment and looked at it. Life was so much better for us when she was still alive, but she died giving birth to Blitz and father has become as violent as ever since then.
I placed the photo in my saddle bags and placed them back into the closet. I then went back to my desk and continued to read the book I was reading before father came home. It was the first Daring Do book where she was looking for the sapphire stone.
I read for about an hour before I heard my door open. I turned around and saw father standing in my doorway.
"Snowfall, I am leaving for the Gala. I want you to do the dishes, take out the garbage, and clean up the kitchen. I also expect better manners from you when I return." he said as he looked down his nose at me.
I got up from my seat at my desk and placing my hand over my chest. "Yes father." I said as I did.
I hate how he treated me and Blitz like slaves.
Father turned around and left my doorway. I stood there for a moment, not moving. When I heard the sound of the front door close, I trotted down stairs and into fathers office. I used my magic to open fathers safe and lots of bags of bits fell out.
My eyes widened in shock as I saw how much was in the safe. I would have had to estimate about 4 million bits.
I took a few of the small bags and shoved the rest back into the safe and closed it. I picked up the the few I left out in my teeth and carried them up into my room and put them into my saddlebags before throwing them over my back.
I walked back out of my room and to Blitz's. I looked inside and saw the small form of my brother was asleep on his bead. I picked up his saddlebags and placed them into mine. I then levitated Blitz onto my back without waking him.
When I was convinced that he was not going to fall off my back, I made my way down stairs and to the wall beside the front door. I closed my eyes and made sure father was not currently tracking me.
When I knew that he wasn't, I kept my eyes closed as I concentrated my magic and focused it onto the wall. When I opened my eyes again, a smile formed on my lips as I saw that I had turned the wall into Ice.
And with the lightest tap of my hoof, the wall shattered. I caught the pieces in my magic so they would not wake up Blitz by smashing on the ground.
I walked out and began to make my way towards where I presumed the train station was. Our house was in the northern part of Canterlot, close to the castle. I knew that the train station was between the castle and the city of Canterlot, I just needed to find it.
As I was walking, I was seen by more than a few ponies. They all looked mortified by what they saw. I presumed that they were all looking at my bruises that showed quiet easily through my snow white coat, but I ignored them and kept walking.
I don't know how long it took, but I eventually made it to the train station and purchased two tickets to the next train out of Canterlot. To some place called... Ponyville.
I climbed aboard the train and found an empty bunk before placing Blitz on top bunk and tucked him in. I climbed into the bottom bunk and got comfortable.
The train was supposed to leave in about 15 minutes, so I pulled out the map and began to look it over. As I looked it over, I heard what sounded like ponies saying goodbye to each other.
"Are you girls sure you cant stay here for the night?" asked one of the voices.
"Sorry Twah'light, but we have things that need ta be done back in Ponyville." said another voice in a southern drawl.
'Twilight?' I asked myself. 'Isn't that the unicorn turned alicorn?' I looked out my window and, sure enough, there was a group of six ponies. One of which was a lavender coloured alicorn.
"And besides darling, you said yourself that you will be returning to Ponyville tomorrow anyway. We will see you then." said a white unicorn with a styled indigo mane and tail.
"Alright girls, I guess I'll see you tomorrow." Twilight said dejectedly.
They all parted ways, Twilight took off and flew back to Canterlot castle while the other 5 ponies she was with climbed aboard the train. I quickly heard the girls heading to the bunk car that Blitz and I were on, so I closed my eyes and pretended to be asleep.
"Well, I have to admit that this gala went better that the last time's." I heard a quiet voice say.
"I just can't believe that Sorin proposed to Fleetfoot publicly. I don't know if I would..." another brash voice began to say, but was cut off by another.
"Hey! This white pony is all spotty. *Giggle* It makes him look funny." a bubbly voice said hyperactivity.
I heard what sounded like multiple sets of hooves make their way closer to me. I just continued to pretend to be asleep.
"Uh... Pinkie, those aren't spots. Their bruises." said the southern voice. "If anypony knows about bruises, its me or Dash here."
"What do you think happened to him?" asked the high class voice that belonged to the styled unicorn.
"I would guess he's been in a fight... and recently by the colour of and size of them." said the brash voice.
"Rainbow dash, how do you know all of that? Have you been fighting?" asked the high class voice.
"Oh no. This little guy is also hurt... Oh my, he's cold." the shy voice said with concern.
"Hu? what?" I heard Blitz mumble as he was woken up. "Hey... where am I? Where's my brother?"
"I'm down here little bro. Your ok now, just get some sleep." I said without opening my eyes, causing all of the other ponies to jump and back away from me.
I felt a slight pressure on my chest. I opened my eyes and saw Blitz had climbed down and snuggled himself into my chest.
"Excuse me?" I looked to where I heard the voice and saw a butter yellow pegasus with a pink mane. she was looking to me shyly behind her mane. "I was just wondering. why is your brother... cold? That is... if you want to tell me."
"I have used a spell to numb his injuries." I said.
"But what about you? You look like your in a bit of pain." she continued.
"*SIGH* Thats because I am concentrating on keeping my brothers pain to a minimum. I can still feel the full force of mine." I explained.
"An just how did both ya'll get like this?" demanded an orange earth pony as she butted her way past the quiet pegasus.
I shushed her, but she would not stop asking.
I rolled my eyes at her before charging my magic and creating a solid wall of ice between us, cutting off the sound of the mares voices.
I pulled out both blankets from my saddlebags and wrapped Blitz in them without using magic. I also did the same with the blanket of my bunk.
I had to start now. From that moment on, I was to never use magic.
I knew that the ice would melt by morning, and we could just leave. I could see the ponies on the other side of the ice trying to get through, but it would be useless for them.
The train jerked forward and I closed my eyes again as I slowly began to drift off to sleep.
'I beg you Celestia, just let us live in peace from our father.'