//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Alone-Francis // Story: Alone and Found // by Hazuki Shimizu //------------------------------// I wake up smelling the usual mold in my room and the yelling of my parents upstairs. "Our son isn't worth all this money!" Again my dad wants me to leave the house...at age twelve...great I get up and pack up all my stuff from clothes to a food stash I have and I try to sneak out through the front door...and I did... "Now...where should I go?" I look at my map and saw a city not too far from Manehatten where I can still see my mom...Ponyville. "Okay Ponyville it is!" I run to the train station avoiding all the gangs and dead ends I saw so much I saw a pony get robbed and killed another get raped...it was terrible the world is so crazy a big ball of confusion, I finally arrived at the Train Station. "Welcome to Grand Pony Station how may I help you?" "One ticket to Ponyville please...one way" I give her ten of my five hundred bits that I saved. "Okay the train leaves in fifteen minutes have a nice trip" I roll my eyes I wasn't going on a trip I was running away my family doesn't love me no one does at least I can stay with my Aunt because she actually likes me...I walk to the terminal and sit down to rest then I see my mom looking around for me. "Francis?!" She sees me and runs up to me and hugs me tears going down her eyes. "Mom...why are you here?" She sighs and shows a bag. "I'm going with you to your Aunt's we are leaving your father and our problems." The train arrived and we both sat down in a seat. "Mom what if dad finds us?" "I want you to run, run as fast as you can." I nod to her understanding what to do. "But what about you?'" "I will fight." A few Hours later "Attention all we are arriving at Ponyville...I repeat we are arriving at Ponyville." I wake up at the sound of the announcement and yawn I look over to see a note. "Francis I went to use the bathroom don't worry I will be back, Love Mama" I sat and waited for the train to stop, and when it finally did I saw my mom talking to Aunt Leonica. "Mom!" I run to her with my stuff and I hug her. "Francis look at how much you've grown." She hugs and kisses me. "Aww...Auntie you're embarrassing me." She stops. "I just love seeing you that's all." She shows us around and we finally arrived at her house. "Francis you can sleep in Golden's room." Golden is gone? Wow he's college already? "Okay." I go down stairs and I see his room it's furnished there's a bed, desk, a TV and a desktop. I unpack and put my stuff away. "Francis stay down stairs!" I hear my mom say I didn't listen and ran up stairs. To see my father. "You!" He walks to me and hits me I start to cry. "Leave him alone Hank!" He hits me again. "He's worthless just like you!" He hits me hard and everything goes dark for a few minutes I wake up to see the door open and blood marks all over the place, I get up slowly and start to stumble across to the door. "Mama!" I start looking around then I see a trail of blood and I follow it and it lead up to a garden behind a house I see my dad stabbing my mom "No!" I run to him and punched him he looked at me and cut my arm. "Young Idiot!" He walks to me and he puts his arm up and in a flash of a second Mama takes the hit straight in the heart. "Francis..." She drops and her blood flows out. "No! Mama!" I start to get angry and I start to lift the rocks around me. "You caused this!" I bend a boulder at him and he was sent flying I follow his body. "No you did!" He starts swinging at me. "If you weren't born she would be alive!" I hit him again with a pillar and he was knocked out...I calmed down but I felt something dark inside me, I start to cry and I ran...ran away from all of the drama back to auntie's house and locked myself in my new room. "Why does everything bad happen to me!" I cry more and more until I start to dose off. The Next Day I wake up in my bed tucked in...I guess my aunt found me and tucked me in...I get up stretch and prepare my stuff for a new school day. "Francis come up stairs your breakfast is ready!" I go upstairs assuming mom would be there alive and healthy...but she wasn't she was dead everything that happened yesterday wasn't a dream...my dad did kill mom I didn't eat I ran straight to school avoiding my auntie. "My life is terrible..." "You think your life is bad?" A yellow pegasus swings down from the tree I jump back. "Who are you?" She flew down with a cheeky smile on her face wearing a gold and silver necklace she looked stunning...I guess... "Hi my name is Amla nice to meet you."