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// BlueBlood and the Midnight Pool 
// Story: The Season's Sound 
// by Autumn breeze24 
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	"WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN AUNTIE'S BED! GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT!" Autumn woke with a jolt as he heard somepony screaming at him. The furious pony attempted to grab him with their hooves, but his life in the Everfree Forest saved him from getting caught in their grasp. Autumn grabbed the sheets and twisted them around their hooves tangling them in the sheets. Then he ran for the door, but tripped on some of the sheets and fell off the bed hitting his head on the floor, hard. Having no time to waste on worrying about the pain he ran full tilt through the door his head spinning. Running down the hall he heard the sound of the now untangled pony cursing and running after him. The pony was just five short yards away and gaining on him. Then Autumn remembered that Princess Luna's room was just around the corner and he thought that if he could make it into that room before the pony went around the corner then he would be safe.Autumn put on an extra burst of speed and ran as fast as he could to the corner. He whipped around the corner and quickly opened the door and ran in closing the door as quietly as possible just as the pony stormed past. Autumn waited for a few seconds until the hoofsteps receded and then breathed a sigh of relief. 
"Autumn what art thou doing in my room, and why art you out of breath? Have you been running from somepony?" said a voice from behind him. Autumn turned to look at who had spoken closed his eyes and waited for them to adjust to the darkness. A few moments later he opened them to see a Princess Luna laying on a bed in the middle of the room. Autumn nodded and said Luna patting the bed next to her "Come here and tell me what happened." Autumn obediently walked over to the bed and started to climb up, but as he climbed one of his hooves slipped and he fell backwards and hit his head. Pain burst through his mind causing him to be unable to do any more than curl into a tiny ball. He tried to hold back the tears that came to his eyes, but his resolve failed and he started to cry as Luna flew to his side and held him tight. He buried his face in her soft fur covered shoulder and wept into it. Luna brought her hoof to the back of his head, but feeling something wet she stopped and held her hoof in the light. Blood, Autumn's head was bleeding. She gently swayed back and forth until he stopped crying and then she  wiped the tears away from his eyes. Then she swiftly laid him down on her bed and told him not to move a muscle and flew to her bathroom cabinet to grab some medical gauze to wrap his head in. Then at that moment the pony who had chased him out of Celestia's room walked in and started to say something to Luna, but he stopped short as he noticed the young colt that he had found sleeping in Celestia's room earlier. "FIRST I FIND YOU SLEEPING IN AUNTIE CELESTIA'S ROOM AND NOW I FIND YOU SLEEPING IN AUNTIE LUNA'S ROOM!" yelled the pony and before Autumn could get up and run the pony was on top of him and beating him with his hooves and magic.
It was at that moment that Luna who had heard the commotion ran into the room to see her nephew (Prince Blueblood) screaming at Autumn and beating him. "CEASE THIS AT ONCE NEPH- " Luna began in the royal cantorlot voice only to be cut short by an even louder voice.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!" screamed the small colt from under Blueblood. The force of the shout alone would have made a dragon cower, but it was not the yell that hit Blueblood the hardest. As Autumn continued to scream a blizzard whirled into existence between them and slammed into Blueblood, not only slamming him into the opposite wall, but also pinning him there. The storm grew in strength and ferocity as Autumn continued to scream. Autumn screamed out of his pain, his anger, and his fear. The storm seemed to be spiraling out of control. Then suddenly Autumn felt a warm hoof on his shoulder. He turned and saw Luna who to his shock was smiling at him. The smile seemed to say It's okay let it go. Then just as suddenly as it started it stopped. The snow fell swirling to the ground. As the snow slowly settled Luna was suddenly engulfed in a hug from Autumn and she thought to herself It looks like I was right. During the storm she had had the presence of mind to look at Autumn's face. When she looked in his face she saw an expression she recognized, fear. Autumn was afraid so she tried to be as comforting as possible.
"Prince Blueblood!" Luna said to Blueblood (he had been trying to slink quietly out of the room as her thoughts distracted her) "My sister and I will deal with your behavior here later." said Luna.
"But-but he-he was asleep on her bed and-and " stammered Blueblood trying to escape punishment.
"HE is an honored guest of Celestia and she herself offered him her room to rest in before the party tonight and I myself escorted him there. Now as I said before my sister and I will decide on your punishment later. Now leave us." commanded Luna.
"But-but- but-"  stammered Blueblood not moving an inch.
"I SAID LEAVE US!" Luna  shouted at Blueblood who ran out of the room as fast as he could. "Now then let us bandage that head of yours." said Luna with a smile. Luna sat down on a pillow on the floor and pat her forehooves on the ground in front of her. Autumn obediently walked over and sat down between her hooves and held still. Luna proceeded to wrap the bandages around his head. Autumn relaxed and let the soothing feeling take over. As he did so all the snow in the room melted away as if by a warm summer breeze. Luna finished wrapping the bandages on his head at which time Autumn opened his eyes. He stood up and stretched his legs and wings. Then he turned around and gave Luna a hug  and thanked her for her help. "Your welcome Autumn, but there was one thing I wanted to ask you..." Autumn looked at Luna questioningly. "The snow storm." said Luna pointing at the remains of the snow.
"Oh." said Autumn realizing what she meant. "Um... well I... Okay, it all started on my 6th birthday. I had been exploring a cave near my house when I ran into a hydra nest. The hydras chased me through the cave. I was twelve feet from the cave entrance when the cave floor collapsed under me. I don't remember how long I fell, but when I landed I found a pool. When I looked into it I saw that the pool contained the entire night sky and all the stars except. It was exactly like the normal sky, but a few seconds after I looked into it the stars started shifting and twisting. Suddenly one of the hydras fell into the room. It got up and seemed dazed for a moment, but when it saw me it roared and charged at me. I couldn't see any way out. My only option was to jump in the pool and hope for the best. I jumped in the pool just before the hydra would have hit me. I sunk into the pool and when I looked around me I saw that the stars I had seen from above were not just a hallucination, but pure energy. The stars started surrounding me. In a few moments they were covering me and then it seemed like I absorbed them. I started to rise out of the pool and the hydra attacked me and bit down on me. Instinctively I lashed out at the hydra and I hit it straight in the nose, but it wasn't my punch that knocked it into the wall. My hoof had seem covered in fire, but the fire wasn't like any fire I had ever seen. The fire looked like the water had when the stars were shifting in it. I was just as dazed as the hydra was, but the hydra attacked me again. I lashed out at the hydra and thought about how bitter winter had been and how bad the storms had been. Then to my surprise a storm just as bad as the one I had just been thinking of came from the flames on my hoof and slammed into the hydra." Autumn shifted from side to side as he finished the story.
"Wow." said Luna who seemed a little awestruck.
Autumn looked around for something to change the subject with. He spotted a new game console and said "Hey is that a new console."
"Oh... Uh... Yeah it is do you want to play a game?" asked Luna shaking herself out of her thoughts. Autumn nodded his head and then said "But I haven't ever played a video game before so you may need to show me how."
"Okay sure." said Luna smiling.