//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: The things our children never knew of // Story: Friendship carried on through the ages // by keam //------------------------------// On the buss, Twilight had asked Poesy what her house was like. Now that she was standing here, she could tell that Poesy’s description had been pretty spot on. It was a smaller estate surrounded by an enormous garden located pretty far out side town, in a small village consisting of a bunch of similar houses with surrounding gardens. "Well, welcome to my heaven. Pretty neat, huh?" Poesy said to Twilight, bending down and picking up a small, grey lamb that came walking up to her. Twilight just stared at the scene in front of her. Poesy was standing there, in the hallway of her home, holding a small grey lamb in her arms and absentmindedly patting it's head while a big orange cat was stroking its fur against her leg. Noticing Twilight’s shock, Poesy blushed slightly, laughing nervously. “Yeah...um...my mom is teeeny tiiiny bit obsessed with animals...and my dad is a veterinarian, so we got a lot of them around here. Guess I should have mentioned it on the buss, huh?” Twilight kept staring at her for a moment before slowly starting to laugh. At first, it was quite, barely more than a childish giggling, but it quickly grew bigger and bigger until it filled the hole hallway and the others, even Posey, couldn’t help but join in and laugh with her. “POESY! Get your friends to shut up! we’re trying to do homework up here!” From around the corner of the long staircase leading down from the upper floor, a boy with tall, dark blue hair appeared, closely followed by a smaller, brown haired boy and muscular giant with braided blue hair who had a thin, slender, model like girl holding his left arm in a tight grip. Poesy looked angrily at the blue haired boy and was just about to say something when a third boy came rushing down the stairs. “hey guys, wait for me!” The boy exclaimed, joining up with the other three persons standing behind the first boy at the bottom of the stairs. Not caring about the third boy, Posey once more opened her mouth. “Ocean, i know you and your friends are just playing video games and googling answers off the internet, so don't tell us to shut up! “ “We’re not googling answers! And we finished off the last chapter of Uncharted 3 weeks ago! Besides, mom told me we can’t use the bedroom cuz it’s your turn!” the boy, Ocean, replied, screaming. “Well it is!” Posey countered. “is not!” The boy screamed back. As the two teenagers continued to fight, Firefly quickly dragged Twilight aside, out of the way of the two fighting siblings next to Oceans friends. “Ocean is Poesy’s half brother, and this is his friends.” jackie said, pointing at the other group. “Everybody, this is Twilight Shine.” The tall gigant with the slender model like girl stepped up first, each of them shaking Twilight's hand. “A pleasure to make you acquaintances, Twilight. I’m Clyde of Dale, and this.” He rose his left arm to indicate that he was addressing the green skinned girl beside him. “Is my girlfriend, Ivory Heart.” The green skinned girl winked her hand at Twilight, but remain silent. “Well, I’m Thunderbolt Sentinel. Nice to meet you girl.” the third boy, then one who’d been late, said. Twilight then turned her attention to the last one, the short, brown haired boy with the Hawaiian shirt. "And who are you, then?" Twilight asked, smiling warmly. The boy looked at Twilight, a terrified expression on his face. "I...I...um...my name...I..." The boy stuttered, doing his best to say something. "I...my name...I...I am Silver Screen." Finally having received the name of the brown haired boy, Twilight was just about to tell him that it was nice to meet him, when someone screamed. "GET DOWN!" Everybody quickly bent down, barely avoiding being hit by a big, black school bag that heavily hit the wall behind them, the noise scaring several animals that ran across the room and den the hallway, away from the fighting siblings. "Okay, that is it! Everybody, up the stairs NOW!" Cloud exclaimed, his voice deep and powerful as he started to try and push people up the stairs. His suggestion met no objections and the two groups of friends quickly teamed up in pairs of two who fled up the stairs to the upper floor, Thunderbolt standing at the bottom and keeping look out for flying objects and other threats, telling them when it was safe to go. Eclipse grabbed Twilight, who barely understand what was going on, by the elbow and dragged her up the stairs, Thunder following closely behind, idely telling them to run faster and keeping a look out. They had barely come around the corner at the top of the stairs when the real threat which Thunder had been keeping a lock out for entered the hallway beneath the stairs. A middle aged woman with long pink hair dressed in blue jeans and a yellow blouse entered the room. Despite her fragile-looking build, the woman radiated an aura of respect and ever-so-slight fear. Twilight could literally hear all the people crowding around her take a deep breath as the woman reached the centre of the room and the two fighting siblings, violently separating them. "Who is that?" Twilight whispered to Eclipse, who was standing next to her. "Shhhh. She's Ocean and Poesy's mom, Fluttershy." Eclipse whispered back, holding her finger to her lips. Still processing this new bit of information, Twilight once more turned her attention back to what was happening on the lower floor. Fluttershy was glaring angrily at her two children, fixing each of their gazes with hers and keeping it for a few second, before starting to talk. "What do you think you are doing? I've said many times I don't want you fighting, and especially not throwing things! You know the rules and you know who can use the room when. Right?" Seeing their mother's furious gaze, they both quickly nodded. “Yes mom. sorry mom.” They said, staring down into the floor. Seeing the ashamed look on her children’s face, Fluttershy’s expression softened and she hugged the both. “It’s okay sweethearts. I just don’t want to see you fighting, that’s all. “ She said before leaving the room. Seeing that the danger was avoided, the two groups of friends who’d been watching the scene safely from upstairs quickly made their way back down to their friends. “So, um, how about me and my friends go to our room, and you’ll be upstairs?” Poesy suggested to Ocean. “Sure!” Ocean agreed, he and his friends heading back up stairs. So Poesy lead the way through the house, taking many twists and turns along the way, until they finally came to a big door at the end of a small hallway. The big room on the other side of the door was designed to be two separate rooms in one, giving each of the two inhabitants of the room a feeling of individualism despite sharing the living space. The walls on the right side, which was largely covered in gaming posters, had been painted to look like a blue summer sky with fluffy white clouds, and the wall on the left, beneath a couple of music and football posters, had a big, green field spreading out across it. Beside the wall painting and the posters, the left and the right side of the room was pretty much identically furnitured. Each side had a bed, a desk with a laptop, a chair, and book shelf above the bed. On both side of the room was also a small, white painted door. “What's on the other side of those doors?” Twilight asked, pointing to the one on Poesy’s side. The other girls, who’d sat down on Poesy’s bed, looked where she was pointing, puzzled. They had actually never thought about where the two doors might lead. “Mine goes to a small cabinet with a sink and some random junk. I never checked Ocean’s side.” Poesy answered, shrugging. “It’s a closet filled with old clothes and boxes and stuff!” Surprise exclaimed, having ran over to Ocean’s side of the room and opened the door before anyone could object. Firefly, Eclipse, Sparkler, Twilight, Poesy and Jackie looked at each other and shrugged, joining Surprise who was carrying out and opening boxes from the closet. As they opened the boxes, the girls discovered that most of them contained old books, toys and other stuff that must have belong to Poesy's parents when they were kids. "Um, girls? I think you should look at this..." Eclipse said slowly, having opened a smaller box which had been hidden in a corner. The other girls immediately dropped what ever random item they were looking at, quickly gathering around Eclipse to see what she had found. "What is it?" Jackie asked, looking into the mostly empty box, only seeing a small cartoon cylinder and a stack of envelopes. Instead of asking, Eclipse picked up a bunch of thin cards from the envelope she was holding in her hand, handing them out to her friends and picking up the small cylinder herself. The girls eyes went wide in shock as they saw the cards, Sparkler even letting out muffled scream. "But these are some sort of fan cards for the members of The Rainbooms, the band our mothers had in High School!" Twilight exclaimed. "I didn't knew they had any career beyond the battle of the bands!" The other girls looked at each other in confusion. They barely even knew their mothers had been in a band, and definitely not that they had had a career playing in that band. "Well, they obviously had, and a big one, too...or at least big enough for this!" Eclipse commented, waving the small poster she had found in the cylinder in front of her friends. " 'The Rainbooms - What happened after the stage?'? Seriously? What kind of shit is this?" Firefly said sarcastically, finally getting enough of everything. "I d-don't know what this is...but can we all agree to never mention it to our parents? P-please?" Poesy stuttered, suddenly feeling afraid of what might happen if any of them tried to confront their parents. They all nodded in agreement, gathering in a circle and placing their hands in the middle, over the box in which they'd found these items from their mother's secret past. "We all now promise, as trustworthy friends, not to talk to anyone else about this, unless having permission from the group. Okay?" Poesy said, her voice shaking ever so little. "Yes, we promise." They all promised, looking each other in the eyes. As they made this promise, their hands started to glow, the colours of the lightning creating a rainbow which shone down on the box, from which a small object wrapped in dirty clothing rose into the air, the object inside reflecting the beams of lightning coming from the seven girls hands through the clothing. Carefully raising her glowing hand, Surprise carefully removed the clothing from the object, which revealed to be the shards of a glowing red gem. With one bright flash of lightning, the shards were forged into a complete, perfect ruby which fell down on the floor with a small 'boink'.