//------------------------------// // Chapter 10 Scootaloo Finds her Family // Story: The Black Fog // by mlprules537 //------------------------------// Scootaloo watched attentively as Sweetie Bell importantly walked up to the podium in the Clubhouse. "Applebloom," Sweetie called out as she started role call. "Here!" Applebloom responded loudly. "Scootaloo," she called again. "Here!" Scootaloo replied. Then Sweetie's eye sparkled with mischief. "Sweetie Bell," she called and then ran over to Scootaloo and sat next to her. "Here!" Sweetie answered back to an invisible version of herself on the podium. "Great! Everyone's here!" Sweetie told Applebloom and Scootaloo as she walked back to the podium. "Now, we must start our cutie mark trials for today!" she announced to the 'crowd' below her. Just then, Applejack burst through the door of the Clubhouse, panting hard. "Applejack!" Applebloom exclaimed as she trotted to her sister worriedly. "What is it sis? Is everything alright?" she questioned her sister. But Applejack wasn't listening to her. "Scootaloo," Applejack rasped then cleared her throat so they could hear her clearly, "You must get to Twilight's castle immediately!" cried out. "Why do I have to go?" Scootaloo asked warily. "Am I in trouble?" "No not all," Applejack assured her. "Well....... okay..... I'll go........" Scootaloo told her, Scoot's disappointment clearly showing. Then Rainbow Dash came zooming in a window and crashed on the floor next to Sweetie Bell. Sweetie yelped with surprise as the rainbow haired pegasus slammed an inch from her legs. Then RD scooped Scootaloo up and flew her to Twilight's castle in 4 seconds flat. "Told you I could get back here in under 5 seconds!" Rainbow gasped, her flanks heaving. Twilight flicked her tail dismissively at Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie. (Applejack is obviously still at Sweet Apple Acres.) When they had all left the room Scootaloo was staring at Twilight nervously, wondering why she would have to had to been brought to Twilight's Castle in such a rush. Twilight took a deep breath and began questioning the orange filly. "Have you ever ran away?" Twilight queried. "Ran away from where?" Scootaloo asked, mystified. "From your......... brother?" Twilight boldly demanded after a pause. Scootaloo's eyes stretched wide with fear as she remembered when she had left her brother, never to return. "How....... how do you know about that?" Scoot croaked. "Because, we found your brother," Twilight gently explained. Scootaloo was on her hooves in a heartbeat looking around wildly as if she expected him to walk out from behind the shadows against the walls. "Is Sunny Sky here???" she asked immediately. "He is........ but you might not recognize him......" Twilight told Scootaloo, her voice trailing off. Scoot's stomach churned with fear for her brother. A door behind Scootaloo slowly creaked open and Scoot had whipped around at the first creak. Much to her horror, Scootaloo soon saw a black stallion walk out of the shadows with pitch black mane and piercing green eyes. But behind the hard outer core, Scootaloo could sense a kind of kindness behind the scary. "........ Sunny Sky?" Scootaloo asked hoarsely. "Scootaloo!!!" he joyously answered her. He ran over to her and hugged his sister so tight that Scootaloo had to scramble out of his grip. When Scootaloo looked into his eyes she suddenly could see her brother as he had been. "Sunny Sky!" she cried back happily. "I thought I'd never see you again," he murmured as he brought Scootaloo into a hug. Then he broke the contact and stepped back a few paces. Scootaloo looked at him fondly then turned to Twilight. "How did you find him?" Scootaloo questioned the purple mare. "Well...." Twilight paused, "He found us more like." Twilight then began her story of what had happened after Pinkie Pie had fallen into the hole, up to the point where they had decided to take Icicle and Black to the castle. When Twilight finished Scootaloo was glaring angrily at the wall. "That Dummau will PAY for what he has done!" Scootaloo declared through clenched jaws. "Oh don't worry," Twilight responded, "He'll get what's coming to him. Mark my words. This villain will suffer GREATLY for what he has done to ponies, and dragons, and there's nowhere Dummau can hide from us. Because our fury gives us strength, and nothing in the world can hide from an ALICORN'S sized fury." Twilight finished her speech with tears running down her cheeks as she remembered her best friend, whom would not see his death's revenge in a physical form, but Twilight hoped Spike would be watching from up above, from the peace of heaven.