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// Chapter 1: The Adventure Begins  
// Story: Opal's Adventures 
// by SweetieStar 
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Chapter 1





Once upon a time in a magical land called Equestria, in the distant Thunderclan forest territory, the she-cat, Moonserena was having 2 kittens. The two kittens were a she-cat and a tom, and they looked exactly the same. The tom was named after courage and wisdom, Opalescence. The she-cat was named after love and kindness, Serenity.

The father of these kittens, the Thunderclan leader, Musestruck, was there too. He looked at his children and gave a happy smile; he gave the kittens a nudge and licked his wife gently on the forehead. 

The first one to open his eyes was Opalescence. He looked up into the light of his first dawn. The sun was so amazing and beautiful. 

Wow, this is wonderful! he thought. 

His mother and father were awake; they were keeping track of their children. They were very excited seeing Opalescence's beautiful blue eyes. Opalescence glanced at his mother and father, he smiled and tried to walk to them, but his feet were too weak. 

A few moments later Serenity opened her eyes too. Opalescence was so excited his feet suddenly became strong enough to reach his sister. His tiny legs wobbled and he fell a few times, but he took all his courage and ran to his sister. He knocked her over playfully and gave a slight baby laugh. Serenity was confused but then understood what was going on.

Opalescence spent almost all of his childhood playing with Serenity; they became very close to each other and they would always share and care for each other. They always slept and cuddled together and played all day until sunset. 
When Opalescence was 10 moons old, he and his sister were already walking and talking perfectly, they were ready to meet other children around. 

Opalescence and Serenity were not willing to meet other cats; in fact they spent the day together again. They played and had lots of fun. 


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Serenity spotted two bullies picking on some little kids, they were laughing and spitting at the young kits, they were about 11 moons old, 

“And what can you do?” One of the bullies said, looking them straight in the eyes 

“Oh, you’ve asked for it.” Serenity jumped into a position she called ‘Fighting Pose’ and wriggled her tail. She sprang up and jumped on the bully-cat and scratched his eye off, which created lots of blood and a huge scar. Serenity grinned at the other one and the other cat ran away. The kits ran away too. 

Opalescence gave her a quick ear-lick and purred “That was so brave!” 

“Thanks…” Serenity mumbled.


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A bit closer to the evening when they were coming back home from hunting, they heard noises of hissing and screaming cats. Serenity looked around the nest they lived in, and the sight inside was not pleasant. Serenity ran to Opalescence crying.

Opalescence went to check what was going on; he looked around and saw his father lying dead on the floor and a black figure of a dog scratching his mother’s neck. The dark figure left at the sight of more cats, and Opalescence ran to his mother. She was dead. 

“No! No mother no!” he screamed he hugged her chest and started crying. 

Serenity came in with a sad face. She was bawling and the pain was going deeper and deeper into her heart, “If only….If only I would’ve spent more time with you. If only I had a chance to tell you how much I love you!” Serenity started crying “Dad! Mom! Why?” 

Opalescence came to comfort her but she pushed him away and cried harder. Opalescence and Serenity were left alone without a caring father and a loving mother.

A few days passed. Opalescence and Serenity were upset and frustrated, after the death of their father, the leader, everyone was starving, and the new leader of Thunder clan was awfully stupid!  

“We have to find a new home! Starclan knows what will happen to us if we stay! ” Opalescence meowed out. Serenity looked at him. 

“You mean find another den?”  

“No, I mean we need to leave Thunderclan completely. Find an owner who'll protect us…” Opalescence mumbled, 

“What? Don’t you remember what mom and dad told us about those kittypets? We will turn exactly like them!” She exclaimed, 

“I-I know, but we have no other choice, we have to take that risk. We'll starve here.” He said calmly. Serenity agreed and they went off in search of a home. 


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They passed through the forest and soon they were in Fillydelphia. They saw lots of ponies and other wonderful things they have never seen before. 

“I think we are going to like it here” Serenity purred. Opalescence had to agree, this place was seen as a happy town and all the ponies seemed happy too. 

As they went on, they got tiered and decided to rest. 

“Let’s rest right here!” Opalescence requested, pointing to a shadowy area. 

“I don’t know Opal; this place gives me the shivers, are you sure?” Serenity asked nervously. 

“Oh don’t worry, you saw how happy this place of ponies is! The shadowy areas can’t be bad.” Opal said with delight. 

“O-oh-ok lets go, you weren’t wrong last time…maybe this will work out too...” Serenity sighed. The two of them went in to take a rest for the night. 


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Opalescence woke up and looked around for his sister “Serenity! Where are you?” He said in a playful tune. He went deeper in the shadowy area. “Serenity?” 

Something closed Opalescence’s mouth and said “Shhhh! There are dogs in here! Stay quiet!” It was Serenity’s voice. 

“What? We need to get out of here!” Opalescence gasped. Opalescence looked around and saw sleeping dogs. 

Serena came closer to Opalescence. “I'm scared.” she whispered. 

Opalescence looked at the dogs one more time and saw that figure, THAT same figure that he saw on THAT same day when his mother and father died. Opalescence gasped in horror “H-he…he killed our parents!” he cried out but eventually closed his mouth and looked at the dog. Thankfully, he was still sleeping. 

“What? Why, that little mutt!” Serenity spat. “I'm going to show him what happens when you mess with Thunderclan!” She immediately moved into her fighting position, as she used to fight bullies that were picking on the kits. 

“No! Serenity, no! We're only kits! Those aren’t bullies! Those are real dogs!” Opalescence shouted. He unsteadily tried to stop his sister, but she didn't listen. She gave a loud mrrow of anger and jumped right at the dog. She scratched his eye which gave him a huge cut. Sadly, it woke up the dog, and Serenity wished she had just quietly escaped and never attacked. 

The dog was furious. He took Serenity and started beating her at the wall, growling and biting her hard. Serenity screamed with pain, her heart was beating faster and faster. She cried for help, she pleaded for mercy, but the dog just beat her more and more. Opalescence wanted to help so bad, but his muscles were paralyzed due to the horror that he was seeing, and something in his head kept him away from the fight. 

The dog was about to kill Serenity, but when some other dog called out to him, he threw Serenity on the floor and she gave a yowl of pain. Opalescence ran up to his sister. She was covered with scratches and blood, her tail was ripped off and so was a part of her leg. Opalescence tried to help his sister to get up but the pain in the sisters body was so wretched, she was not able to get up. 

“Once again you were right” She whispered, smiling. 

Opalescence stood still with misunderstanding. “So…will you be able to…move on?” 

Serenity frowned but then gave a slight grin, on top of the pain that kept her weak, she was also starved and tired. “No Opal, I can’t move on, but that should not stop you! Leave me here, Opal. I will die anyways, go and find a loving owner.” She whispered quietly. 

“B-but I can’t leave you here! You-You are my sister! And I love you” Opalescence cried. “We will find a home…and you will be alright! E-everything will be fine! One day we will laugh at this moment… together!” He cried harder. 

Serenity wiped the tears off his face. “Don’t cry… I can’t move and that will slow you down, the dogs will soon come back and it would be better for you to not be there.” She calmly continued. “I don’t want anything to happen to you…” 

"No!" Opalescence refused. “No!" 

"Face the reality, even if I will be able to get up before the dogs return, I will just slow you down and there will be less chance of us to find an owner…because look at me, who will like a kit like me? And what if we don’t find an owner? It will be bad for both of us!” she raised her voice. 

Opalescence frowned; no matter how much he hated that fact, it was true. Serenity gasped as the pain got stronger, she looked at her brother. 

“Opal, I want you to be strong, leave me…” she sobbed, “...and may Starclan take mercy on you and lead you through your journeys.” She smiled. 

Opalescence frowned and gave his sister a big hug “I love you Serenity,” he sobbed. 

“I love you too, brother” she responded and hugged back. 

Opalescence ran away, still not believing that he left his sister to die…or maybe she won't die! Opalescence thought for a moment and turned back, he ran as fast as he could to tell his sister of his idea on the solution to the problem.

When he ran to the place he left his sister in…she was not there. “Oh no!” the cat thought to himself. He looked around and saw no cat and no dog. He started running deeper into the shadowy area. He did not know where he was running, he was just running in hope to find his sister. He did not care that he was weak, tired, starved, insanely upset and totally horrified, he just ran on. 

He ran faster and faster, he was running for a long time. He did not know where he was and if he would ever find his sister. He just knew one thing: there was no turning back. 

Finally, when his breath ran out, he fell down on the soft grass. There was no way a loner kit would know that he had ended up in the Everfree Forest.

~Newly edited by IceOfWaterflock~