A Day On the Town
“Princess Celestia!” by the call of her most faithful and strongest Pupil, the Ruler of the day turned as the purple Alicorn galloped into the throne room, Twilight attempted to bow but Celestia’s magic stopped her from doing so.
“Remember Twilight, you bow to no one, you are a Princess now,” The ruler said as she walked up to her pupil “but yet I am still your teacher, what is it you ask of me? If it is within my power I can help.”
“I seek knowledge,” Twilight explained, teleporting the book that yesterday Shade had been flipping through. She opened the book to the half page on the “Oblivion Strike” then turned it to face Celestia “about this: the “Oblivion Strike”.”
Celestia’s face stayed the same; she looked at the page and back to Twilight. “I am sorry Twilight, this is not my information to give.” Celestia looked out to her throne. Twilight’s face fell.
“Then who can give me the information I seek?” Twilight asked, Celestia turned back to face her student.
“Ask Luna, she has the information you seek, but I do not know if she will give it to you, but you can always try...” Celestia’s voice had a trace of warning. But Twilight ignored it and galloped away.
“Thank you Celestia!” Twilight called as she went out the doors.
“I’m sorry Luna…” Celestia sighed as she looked out to the stained glass showing Twilight and her friends using the elements of harmony on Nightmare Moon. “Looks like neither of us can ever fully escape our past”
Cold.
Immeasurable cold.
Lost feeling in hooves and wings.
The wings freezing over... so brittle any movement would break them...
The shivering has stopped.
This is Death’s truly cold embrace.
Heat.
Searing, immolating heat.
Burning pain in the legs as if they were pillars of fire.
Wings burning as if they were closer to the sun than Icarus ever flew.
Now instead of death’s cold embrace...
The burning pits of the hellish abyss awaited him.
“Just let me die!”
Shade Burst shot up out of bed, closing his mouth to stop himself from screaming and waking up Soul Song. The day was nearing the time of sunrise. Shade brought his hooves to his ears and snapped his eyes tightly shut and curled up as small as he could and tried not to shake. He waged war on the fear that was invading him, eventually the darkness receded with the twilight and the dark pegasus could move again.
“Why can’t you just leave me alone for one night” Shade thought grimly as he slowly got out of bed and went into the bathroom to wash up and take a shower. Afterwards the dark Pegasus came out of the bathroom, water still slightly dripping from his mane and feathers and onto the towel around his neck as he robotically went through the motions of his usual daily routine: check self in mirror. Dry mane. Put scarf on. Put watch in spot, check the room.
He then noticed that there was something... Off about his balcony doors.
Shade broke out of his robotic trance and raised his wings, gathering black energy in the wings, ready to boost as he cautiously approached the doors... in the crack between the doors there was a single feather, larger than a Pegasus’ feather, it was midnight blue. Shade's energy faded from his wings, he picked the feather out with a bout of curiosity that overpowered his paranoia.
“What is this?” Shade asked out loud as he backed away from the doors, feather in his mouth as he went to a mirror in his room and compared the feathers, the one in his mane was a few shades lighter than the one in his mouth, as well as it was longer than the one in his mane. Shade Burst had already guessed that it was not the feather like the one in his mane, for he remembered that had only seen these feathers on one Pony, or more specifically, one Alicorn.
“Thank you Luna, I am glad to still have your support” Shade thanked the Princess “may we both be blessed that I never will have to use this”
Soul Song awoke, his eyes fluttering open as a smell approached his nostrils, he checked the window… it was just after sunrise. Soul got out of bed and slowly flew down the steps and into the kitchen. The instant he sat down on the bar stool, a mug with some iced coffee in with caramel and chocolate flavoring in it with whipped cream covered in caramel and chocolate sauce appeared in front of him slid across to his outstretched hoof.
“Iced Coffee…” Soul drank some of the mug hungrily, “you make the best stuff ever!”
“Yeah right” Shade denied the compliment as he sipped a caramel iced coffee with a straw, the midnight blue Pegasus trotted over to the round table in the room and set his mug down. "Well, if Rainbow Dash likes this series so much…" Shade reasoned before flying up and grabbing a Daring Doo book, the second to newest. Shade flew back to his seat, pausing for a second to remember what happened. After refreshing his memory the pegasus flipped open to a bookmarked page and started reading. His colorless grey eyes scanning the page as he read the story, Soul Song flew over and read over the shoulder of the midnight blue friend.
“Oh! You’re at that part! Oh right then the monster is about to hit Daring she-” a hoof was stuck into the tan Pegasus’ mouth.
“Shut it” Shade commented and then brought the Pegasus in for a noogie, messing up his blond, brown and yellow mane “this is for trying to spoil it!”
“H-hey! I give! I give!” Soul Song surrendered and Shade let go of the tan musician’s head, Soul flew up and grabbed his coffee and flew back to sit on the opposite side of Shade. Soul Song reclined for a few moments before he started humming to himself. Finally the Pegasus couldn’t stand it and flew up and grabbed a daring doo book himself (the newest one) and started reading it in his spot.
“So Daring Doo uses a curved stone piece of a wall to redirect the arrows that were fired at her?” Shade asked out loud, his eyes not leaving the page. Soul nodded sagely, for he had read every book at least twice. “Possible, if the trajectory of the arrow was correct and the speed was right and the placement of the rock was angled right…”
The two pegusai sat and read in the early morning day as the sun started to actually rise into the sky and the day began it’s forward march. Shade checked his pocket watch and got up, bookmarking his spot and grabbing both empty mugs and washing them in the sink.
Soul paused for a moment as his sluggish brain finally got into full gear, then he remembered what day it was, “It’s SAAAAATURDAAAY!” Soul blurted and jumped into the air. The sudden burst of movement and scream caused the other bodyguard Pegasus to fumble with the mug he was washing, he caught it on his wing tip holding the handle mere centimeters from the ground. Shade sighed in relief and checked the mug once for cracks and put it back in the sink.
“You are correct in that statement,” Shade replied solemnly. “But do not say it so loudly next time."
“That means you don’t have to work today or tomorrow!” Soul exclaimed with a large smile.
“Yes it does.” Shade nodded in acknowledgement and continued washing the mugs.
“So… you don’t work today or tomorrow and you don’t have any plans?” Soul asked, moving forward, his smile growing by the second.
“No. I do not” Shade answered with a shrug, "I am also getting Monday off as well, Mr. Hakenama said I needed a break. I do not know why though…"
“Well then! I gotta-” Soul put his bookmark back in and shut the book and set it on the shelf “-go leave to go somewhere! Later Shade!” Soul flew out the door, literally. Shade watched his friend take the exodus out of his house and laughed as he trotted over and shut the door, then opened it again as an idea struck him.
Shade Burst smirked as he flew back and grabbed his long coat put it on, he shut the door behind him and boosted after the musician, Shade stayed far enough behind that the tan Pegasus did not notice him, but while Shade could see him in full view. He followed Soul Song all the way to a forest full of animals. The musician landed and practically skipped up to the door, while his military-trained Bodyguard watched from the cover of a tree.
“So he went to Fluttershy's house?” Shade thought as he hid in the shadows, watching his mark come up to the door and knock on it. At the second knock a rainbow colored blur flew out and tackled the musician, Shade froze as he watched Rainbow Dash hug the Pegasus.
“SOUL SONG!” Rainbow yelled as she picked the Pegasus up in the air “dude! It’s been AGES!”
“Yeah it has!” Soul cheered back, the two pegusai flew around and chatted and caught up on the past things that had happened between the last time he had come and the most current time. "Wow, you've done a lot!"
“Yeah, it’s awesome!” Rainbow Dash boasted as she landed “I usually am anyway” Soul laughed a little at Rainbow Dash as he landed himself. He knew of Rainbow Dash's less awesome moments through Fluttershy's letters. “What?”
"Nothing, so what about these elements?” Soul Song thought it better to voice his knowledge and changed the subject as he walked around Rainbow Dash who smirked.
"Welp, I'm the element of Loyalty, Fluttershy is kindness, Rarity is generosity, Applejack is honesty, Pinkie Pie is laughter, and Twilight is the element of Magic" Rainbow Dash explained, the explanation finally got through Shade Burst's head and he was surprised to say the least…
“I have heard of the elements that handled the Discord and Nightmare Moon incidents along with being key in the defeat of the Changeling hoard and the protection of the crystal kingdom from Sombra… but we never got a description, those five ponies and Twilight are our countries’ biggest weapon… they don't have the elements, yes, but they still have the magical connection to do some high level magic… But if these ponies are so important... why are they sitting out here in the open?” Shade's paranoia hit and the Pegasus tried not to yell in panic.
“If I remember right the ponies with the elements got tricked by discord and nearly lost… they could be tricked again and killed this time! And if one of them were killed, the entire connection would be lost and all of the other ponies would be too buried in grief to notice and be open targets! This is madness to have them so unprotected!” Shade shot up out of the tree and began blazing home.
“I am so sorry, Luna, but I have to use the feather… they are open targets… and I don't want them to be hurt because of me”
"Wow, that's awesome, I always knew you were the loyal one" Soul admitted with a large smile as he looked the Pegasus up and down with a new light.
"Thanks for saying that, I had a hard time believing it at first but in the end, it's true, I will do anything to help my friends." Rainbow crossed her hooves with a serious look, a look that was betrayed by her smile.
“Well I hope you can do whatever it takes to help Shade as well” Soul thought to himself and sighed internally "and speaking of friends, is Fluttershy home?" Soul asked while walking around Rainbow Dash and over to the house.
“Is your marefriend home? Yes.” Rainbow smirked as Soul turned around with a heavy blush
“Oh shut up!” Soul yelled and ran inside the house.
“It’s not a lie!” Rainbow called back as she fallowed and stopped. Fluttershy was hugging Soul Song and the two ponies muzzles where less than a hoof length away, Soul’s wings were up from surprise of Fluttershy’s sneak hug.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa-whoa-whoa, WHOA!" the sight of Fluttershy, never the one for physical displays of affection, being so forward, not to mention with her old friend. That was just a little too crazy for Rainbow Dash "bye!” Rainbow Dash, red faced, flew out the still open door and into the sky. Soul song and Fluttershy stopped hugging and moved away as they laughed and hi-hoofed.
“That was great! Good improvisation on that!” Soul smiled as a light blush hit his face.
“I wasn’t really improvising…” Fluttershy talked so quietly it could barely be heard as she scratched her hoof on the floor as she hid her face behind her hair, it was red as a cardinal. Only then did Soul notice what she had said and its implications for the incredibly shy pegasus.
“O-oh… Well then… I should… pay back the favor then” Soul slowly moved himself over and kissed Fluttershy on the cheek.
*POMF*
The tense silence of a second passed, then-
*THUD*
The poor Pegasus was so surprised she had fainted from the embarrassment, Soul panicked.
“Ah! What have I done!? Did I kill her?” he lamented as he brought his ear up to her mouth, she was still breathing... And she was unconscious, by the looks of it. “Oh thank Celestia she’s okay”
Soul fell back onto his haunches as he thought to himself as he tapped his chin with his hoof… “Okay… Shade taught me if someone passes out you have to make sure they are not anywhere where they can get hurt, if they are, move them” Soul nodded and went upstairs, opening the window to her room fully to provide a good entrance. Soul went back down and picked Fluttershy up and flew up to her room from the outside through the open window.
Soul gently set her down on the bed and tucked her in it, being incredibly gentle the entire time as to not hurt the fainted pegasus. The musician looked down at the animal tamer below him. “She is so cute when she sleeps, though I’d rather have her wake up… isn’t there something about in an old ponytale where an asleep pony would wake up if their true love kissed them? And if she’s asleep and it doesn’t work, she won’t know if I did anything to her…”
*POMF*
“NO! Bad wings! Bad! Bad mind! Bad Idea! No! No-no-no! No!” Soul Song slapped himself to snap himself out of it “OW! That hurts! Well at least now that’s over… maybe… I’ll just kiss her on the forehead, that’s not the lips, and it’s not anything bad… yeah… I’ll do that” Soul Song tentatively leaned over Fluttershy. His lips trembling as he slowly leaned down… he planted a millisecond kiss before jerking his head straight back up, his face beet red. Soul then watched for a change…
Nothing happened
“Looks like it didn’t work” Soul sighed as he exited the room and went downstairs, knowing the layout of the house and how it was supposed to be cleaned from the times he had helped. Soul Song and idea struck Soul as he landed on the bottom of the stairs.
“Angel!” the angry rabbit appeared out of nowhere to glare at him “hey, stop that" the rabbit continued glaring
"Alrighty then, let’s clean up the place for Fluttershy for when she wakes up, then she’ll be super excited when she comes down to a clean house!” the rabbit surprisingly nodded and grabbed a mini dustpan and hand broom and began sweeping, looks like the rabbit was used to it. Soul whistled as he worked and started cleaning the house himself “I hope Shade isn’t too bored today, he always was a loner on weekends…” Soul tried to focus more on the cleaning, but couldn’t help it as his mind wandered…
“Shade is… well… Shade Burst! He can always occupy himself, and he has to do stuff in private, he does have all those secrets and everything… and I mean he has all those books! And all that work to do…. That just sounds boring…I’ll have to ask him about what he does during his free time tonight… but for now I think it’s best to just let him be, Rainbow would probably be getting him now anyway… I hope” Soul Song looked up in to the ceiling.
“Rainbow… he needs a friend…. A really good friend, somepony he can trust above all others. Somepony that is loyal and will never betray him. I cannot be that pony, he won't let me. So… Rainbow you better be that for him, or else I don’t know if he’s even going to ever spill his secrets… and the secrets will hurt him, and not just himself, every pony around him will be hurt”
Princess Luna was sitting on the stargazing balcony of Canterlot castle. A telescope was standing next to her, just recently stopped being of use once the sun came up and the stars disappeared into the day, her mind wandered about the lights in her sky, the stars.
Even though Luna did bring the moon up, she did not determine what order or pattern the stars appeared in the sky. They changed on their own, different each season. It always mystified the ruler of the night but she let the stars be, knowing that they where not hers to touch.
A Pegasus had once studied the “star formations” as he called it and chronicled many patterns at midnight every night on a grassy knoll near the old castle, eventually the pegasus had became a Night guard and became one of her personal guards. Eventually the pegasus became Luna's protégé on the night sky and her champion guard. Luna would spend nights in the star gazing tower in the old castle with the pegasus, helping with the work. Luna already knew the stars for she had seen such positions every night for hundreds of years, and thoroughly enjoyed berating the Pegasus during the studies into the subject.
“You missed one” Luna called from the side of the balcony as she turned her head over at the pitch black pegasus looking through a handheld sextant up at the stars. One of his hooves was writing down dots on black paper with white chalk, the other holding the sextant. An astrolabe sat on the table alongside the black paper he was writing on. When he heard the Princess’ voice, the Pegasus set down his instruments gently and turned to look over at her with a frown on his face.
“Oh be quiet…. and if so, which one?” shushing the Princess was a very very bold move in the case of the pegasus, but he had spent enough time with the Princess and had saved her life on more than one occasion, so he earned a little bold moves here and there.
“That one” Luna pointed with her horn at the sky, the Pegasus sighed in exasperation, he looked up at sky full of stars, trying in vain to trace the line from her horn to the star.
“Tell me exactly! Do not be vague. Give me a straightforward answer.” The Pegasus ordered, even if he had no right doing so, but the Princess didn’t take offense to his bold out of line order.
“When does the Night ever give a straightforward answer?” the Princess of the Night smirked as the Pegasus sighed.
“When I look through a sextant or astrolabe at the stars, to I have to look through it at you to get a straightforward answer out of you?” the Pegasus illustrated his point by grabbing his astrolabe and aiming it at her face while looking through it. “I am looking at the Princess of the Night, Luna, now will she give me some answers as her sky does?” after a few moments of playfully glaring at her through the astrolabe, he switched to the sextant and began anew at the glaring game. Luna covered her mouth with her hoof as she tired not to laugh at the pegasus that was wearing very thin on his patience. The Pegasus continued glaring at her until Luna chuckled and then began to full on laugh. the Pegasus to smiled and brought his view back to the stars and continue his studying.[]] Luna's magic grabbed the sextant with a pale white glow.
"What are you-" the Pegasus holding the sextant asked before being spun a few times and stopped him to focus on a star.
“That one” Luna stated matter of fact.
“Oh what a beautiful star!” he exclaimed as he kept his eyes on it and went to his paper and wrote down the location, then switched to his astrolabe and looked at the star again “Perfect” he said and held his astrolabe in place as he double checked the paper, adjusting a few figures. The Pegasus smiled as he set down the instruments and looked at the paper he had wrote on while running a hoof through his grey charcoal mane. The paper showed the latitude and longitude positions of many, but not all of the stars in the sky. “That was a lot of work for today, if this pace continues I will have the stars for this month charted out by two nights.”
“Is thy night vision spell I gifted to thee acceptable?” Luna asked as the Pegasus looked over his work; he whipped his head over to look at the Princess, his attention fully riveted on her with his piercing blue eyes.
“Yes, it works as if I am in broad daylight, and with that spell I have covered the past two months of star charts” the Pegasus smirked at Luna "not bad for a pony that is not a scholar"
Luna merely shook her head in disbelief “thy may not scholar pony be. But thy can still apply scholar like figures, how?”
“With a lot of practice, and patience” he responded with a chuckle and scratching of the back of his mane “I may be in your Night Guard, but that does not mean my life is rooted to that thing along” he explained. “My calling may be for fighting. But I can have other passions and likes, charting the stars in your beautiful night sky as one of them.”
“But still thee cannot shirk on thine duties.” Luna warned him as she hid her reaction to his complement.
“I do not; I only do this when I have time to spare. Otherwise my first and foremost duty is your service, my Princess.” the pegasus bowed deeply to Luna, who smiled to his bowed face. As the pegasus rose, he was smirking “or if you don’t want my help I can just sit here all night-”
“No, I need thy help, my Knight” the Princess of the Night said to the Pegasus, “you are the greatest Knight I posses, and without thy support many evil events would have come to pass”
“And that is my calling, to help you, Luna” The Pegasus’s ears perked up as a rolled up message popped up beside his hoof, he grabbed it and ripped it open and read it quickly “and about my calling, I must go perform it, I will see you soon again. Somepony has found some of Discord’s plunder seeds that he did not use and is attempting to corrupt and destroy the Rainbow Creator”
The Pegasus explained the fact as he handed the letter off to Luna, he galloped to the edge where armor and a sword lay, and he put the armor on efficiently and quickly. But got stuck with the sword belt being hard to tie with his wings in the way. Luna tightened if for him.
“Many thanks, my Princess” he thanked her and opened his wings, drawing his black sword at the same time. His wings gathered energy and he shot into the air, leaving a fading energy afterimage of a five pointed star made of pitch black lines, the energy afterimage rapidly faded away as sound cancelled and the Pony sped off towards to direction the letter indicated.
Luna stood and grabbed the Pegasus’s sextant with magic and brought her eye to it, staring through it until the Pegasus faded from sight. Her worry was rising the longer the pegasus was away from her sight.
“Good luck-”
“Princess Luna!”
“What would that be?” the mind of the Princess of the night was jerked back to reality as an Alicorn ran up to her, not her sister, but the newest Alicorn.
“Ah, Twilight Sparkle, it is good to see you this morning” Luna greeted the neophyte Princess.
“Thank you Princess Luna” Twilight tried to bow but Luna’s magic stopped her.
“No need to bow, we are equals, what is it that you have come to see me? I am quite curious, when you want to talk you usually look for Celestia, not I” Luna was telling the truth, Twilight rarely talked to the Princess, opting to talk with her older sister she had more in common in.
“Yes, I am sorry, I will try to talk to you more, starting now, actually” Twilight Sparkle teleported the book in front of her and opened the book, flipping pas the Rainbow Creator, the Rainbow Blast, and then showed the “Oblivion Strike” Twilight handed over the book to Luna, who picked it up with her own magic and looked at the article in front of her, Luna had to prevent her eyes from widening at the information presented.
“The Oblivion Strike? What do you wish to know about it?” Luna asked, catching onto Twilight’s idea immediately.
“Well... someone I want to be friends with, he researches magical events and magical things in general... I think he wants to perform this move, and I wanted to see if you knew anything I could give to him as information to help him out” Twilight explained. Luna set the book down and shut it gingerly, with her hooves, not magic.
“It is not as the book says, this cannot be performed by any Pegasus with a black mane... this… event can only be created by a Pegasus who has an incredibly rare power” Luna sighed
“Do you know who has this power?” Twilight was riveted
“Yes, only one Pegasus has performed the Oblivion Strike in its entirety. He had the power to change direction into whatever direction he wanted, being able to channel energy into his wings and expel it in a explosion that cancelled sound. The Oblivion Strike is all of his energy into one sound-breaking boost of speed, and he only used it in the most dire situations, never for show or profit, only for protection” Luna explained.
“And who was that pony?”
“My greatest knight, the Knight of the Moon, Shadow Cepheus”
“Your greatest Knight?” Twilight tilted her head “I never heard about that…”
“That is because he did not get recognized for his prowess, because he was at his highest strength and achievement… a thousand years ago”
“Oh…” Twilight’s ears drooped as she heard it.
“Yes, he was of the generals of the Night Guard and was my personal champion, much like how Starswirl the Bearded was my sister’s”
“You had a pupil!?” Twilight exclaimed, suddenly curious about Luna's past.
“No, he trained himself in his arts of war and I aided him in another one of his passions” Luna told Twilight as she stood and walked off the balcony. “Come with me” the Princess of the Night commanded as Twilight teleported the book away and accompanied beside the lunar Princess.
“Shadow Shield was a general of the Night Guards, yes. And he is one of the strongest fighters of all time, he was a match for Starswirl the Bearded at combat, even if he was at a disadvantage against magic because he was a Pegasus”
“Shadow Cepheus was a match for Starswirl the Bearded? That is not possible!” Twilight exclaimed, Luna rolled her eyes, already knowing of the younger Princess’ obsession with the mage and scholar.
“Ahem, I meant in combat, in wisdom… Starswirl was one of the smartest ponies that ever lived, but yet even HE used Shadow Cepheus’s work” Luna exposited. “Shadow Cepheus loved the night sky and the stars, he studied them every night at midnight, and made the star charts,” Luna pointed up with her hoof. Twilight looked up and she saw that she was in the equestrian royal library in the nonfiction section. Luna moved her horn with a flick and pale white aura and from a shelf flew a book to her outstretched hoof. Luna opened the book, and black pages with charts of the stars where inside “he was the one that made all these, after all these years of work he made a chart for the night sky for every month of the year,” Luna looked upon the pages with familiarity
“I was there, helping him by giving him night vision spells and heat preservation spells so he didn’t freeze. Aided in clearing the clouds during the clouded nights, I was with him the entire time, every night... every hard, hopeless time and every joyous night when a chart was completed. We were with each other every starry night…”
“…What happened?” Twilight asked, Luna’s face fell when she heard the question. Twilight instantly regretted the question, “I’m- I’m sorry, I shouldn’t of aske-”
“It is fine.” Luna sighed as she shut the star chart book. “I actually do not know what happened… he… passed during the years I was sealed away on the moon.” Twilight’s mood sunk as her ears and wings drooped.
“I’m sorry.” Twilight apologized, but she was consoled as a midnight blue hoof moved her face up to look into the eyes of the Princess of the moon
“Do not apologize for my actions, I was clouded by my jealousy, and I had to lose everything, including Shadow Cepheus.... I must now make my actions to atone for my loss, and I just hope he is in a better place now. I have made my peace, now all I can do is be a better mare and Princess from now on…” then Luna’s ears perked up as a rolled up letter tied with a midnight blue ribbon appeared in front of her. “I am sorry Twilight, I must be off. This is an important letter that commands to be read post haste. Pardon me” Luna moved away to another part to read the letter in private, leaving the slightly saddened Twilight behind.
“I never knew Luna went through so much pain, or that she had a pupil…” Twilight’s eyes stopped upon the star chart book. “Every starry night…” Twilight remembered and grabbed the book with magic; trotting over to a chair and table she opened the book gently with her hooves and began studying.
Studying the work of The Princess of the Night and the Knight of the Moon.
Shade Burst slammed his door open and then shut behind him, he boosted up to his room and went to his drawer, and opening it he grabbed Luna’s feather and midnight blue colored ink. Shade went into the middle of his room and set the parchment down in front of himself.
“Please forgive me Luna for using the emergency system to let you know, but you did give me your feather…”
Shade dipped the quill of the feather into the magic-infused inkwell and began writing, his mouth grasping the quill firmly,
Dear Princess Luna:
This is insane, absolutely insane! The Elements of Harmony are open targets! I know they no longer possess the Elements, and therefore cannot use them, regardless to that fact, they are still incredibly close to Princess Twilight Sparkle, and if any of them were hurt or killed, some of the strongest ponies in Eqestria would be deadly crippled! And in this town everyone knows their name and where to find them! Any assassin could just ask the location and this friendly town would show them to the house, and right to that Ponies’ death! I know Twilight is safe because she moved into Canterlot Castle, but she still spends a lot of her time in the library still and in Ponyville!
This is not a good choice; these Ponies need somepony, anypony to guard them! I know they can take care of themselves but they can still be beaten by a superior force or tricked by taking advantage of their weaknesses. Because of this, I request Guards. I know my position is temporarily removed as I have to take off from duty to “let the heat die down” if I am using the words right, and therefore I cannot officially request backup, for I know not how much They know about me and my location, as this was the original reason for my temporary discharge. But I think sending some Night Guards or at least some Royal Guards here and there and monitoring things is not too poor of a notion, and if this is not an official request, then it is my personal one. It is not too much of a request to wish protection for those that are important to my country, and important to me?
If you are able to send Night Guards or Royal Guards and fufill my request, I personally want to take over lead role in the guardianship of Rainbow Dash, Princess Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Spike, as well as Soul Song, even if that means my reinstatement and return to attention… the eight of them are, if not already, deeply interwoven with each other. If one where to die... the entire group would fall to pieces and be defenseless from outside forces due to grief or rage or other emotions that could cloud the mind in that state. Even though the six mares do not possess the Elements of Harmony, and therefore are not the weapon to seal Discord away again and are unable to use the power that you and your sister once had. And therefore could be expendable in battle. They still are the incarnation of harmony, and they still have the potential for great magic together. And they are the incarnate of one of the most powerful lights in this world, a light that saved you in your time of greatest darkness.
The light of Friendship
So please Princess Luna, Help me protect this light.
From: Shade Burst, Commander of Task Force 491
P.S. I know this has no place in a letter of such importance and on the emergency letter system, but I will still ask. Are my comrades okay? I have no doubt that they are alive and well, but I still worry for them, I hope you can ease my worry and confirm my belief that they are alright.
Shade finished the letter and set the quill aside, he wrapped the parchment up and grabbed a midnight blue ribbon, he tied it around the rolled up parchment and held the tip of the feather to the parchment roll the feather and letter disappeared in a burst of magic.
“Aright, I guess it is up to you now, Luna…”
Shade Burst sat up and sighed, he knew that Luna had to talk to Celestia once the sun was fully raised and then send guards out once they gathered them, or even approved of the notion in the first place. No use waiting over matters of country when they take time.
Time he should not waste sitting around doing nothing.
Shade went over to the door but quickly turned around. His mind catching on something he forgot. “I should not leave that open” he sighed as he grabbed the ink and ribbons and put them back into the drawer and shut it. The ink he had used along with the ribbon was something only the captains of the task forces used, the ribbons differently marked for every captain.
If they had a feather of one of the Princesses, if they dipped the feather in the magic-infused ink, and wrote using the feather as a quill, the magic could send the letter immediately to the feather’s owner. As such the ink was incredibly valuable. Shade shut the drawer and checked to see if the wards where still there, if someone beside himself tried to open it, the drawer would react as if it was locked. Shade nodded as he hovered his wing over the drawer once more to check.
Finding his emergency letter materials safely put away. Shade went about double-checking if the balcony doors where shut, for he knew Luna had shut them last night.
As he trotted up to the doors Shade Burst noticed the view outside his balcony. The midnight black Pegasus opened them instead. Moving out the doors he went forward and leaned on his railing. Looking over the town of ponyville as it began its weekend day, a smile on his face as he watched. He thought about flying and spectating from higher but the breeze was great as it moved around. His eyes still found one thing lacking, but he shook off the feeling “Even though my view is not perfect, I still can enjoy it….”
“My thanks to the weather patrol” Shade thought out loud, knowing that Rainbow Dash was the one behind the clear, beautiful day.
“You’re welcome” a voice sounded from behind Shade Burst, causing the midnight black Pegasus to spin around and rise his wings and crouch, ready to tackle the voice, recognizing the voice’s owner Shade voiced is thoughts in surprise. “Rainbow Dash!?” he frowned as Rainbow laughed and landed next to him.
“How long have you been there?” he asked knitting his eyebrows together in slight frustration.
“Well… that’s for me to know and you to find out, isn’t it?” Rainbow replied, a knowing smile on her face as Shade smirked.
“Well… did you see the explosion?” Shade asked.
“What? What did you do!?”
“Oh, you did not, then nothing!” he smirked as Rainbow Dash started pegging him with questions.
“What did you do!” She yelled, grabbing his scarf and bringing their faces closer, his smirk to her death glare.
“Nothing!”
“What did you do to make the explosion!”
“Nothing at all, I never made one in the first place.” Shade responded with a smirk growing on his face even wider as Rainbow Dash blushed and thwacked Shade on the shoulder, as she realized that her leg was being pulled.
“You had me worried!” Rainbow glared at him as Shade brought a hoof to his heart.
“I did not know that you cared so much, thank you.” Shade smirked as Rainbow Dash stopped herself from screaming in frustration.
“How do I deal with this pegasus! He is driving me crazy!” Rainbow screamed in her head, Shade trotted past her and into his room, motioning for Rainbow to fallow. Shade once again noticed his scarf had changed color once more.
“This scarf is really starting to annoy me…” Shade thought as he rubbed his hooves on it, changing the color back once again.
Rainbow Dash waited until Shade had passed his bed and gotten into the hall, then she dashed through the room and into the hallway.
"I do NOT want to be in his bedroom" Rainbow glared at the door and continued following Shade. The midnight black and cyan pegusai flew down into the main loft as Rainbow Dash landed on the couch and relaxed without any care of Shade’s opinion. Shade ignored it as he glided into the kitchen, noting that he still had some coffee still half warm in his coffee pot he looked over to Rainbow Dash.
“Want some coffee?” he asked. Rainbow Dash’s ears perked up and with a blast of wind and rainbow trail; she was sitting at the barstool.
“Lay it on me brony!” She spread her hooves wide.
“I never knew of a Pegasus that liked coffee on their body, some pegusai these days…” he commented as Rainbow Dash shook her head profusely
“Not like that! It’s a figure of speech!” she groaned as the light of understanding reached Shade’s grey eyes. “Seriously, how much into the modern world are you?” Rainbow asked while facehoofing.
“Not very much, Dash” Shade said to himself as he grabbed the coffee pot and poured one into a mug. “You like it hot?” he asked, motioning to the mug.
“Steamy” Rainbow Dash replied in a low tone, she blushed as she realized what she had done. Shaking her head to clear it she reiterated her statement “yes, hot coffee please” “where in the bucking hay did that come from!?”
“Alright…” Shade shook his head and got the words out of his head “you like things… steamy, I will remember that…” Shade took note of the large blush that appeared on the mare’s cheeks at the words, it was becoming of her “wait, where did that come from?” he thought to himself as he warmed the coffee up to its normal hot temperature.
“You like your coffee black?” Shade asked, Rainbow took a moment to decide.
“No, surprise me” She challenged.
“Okay then” Shade started off by adding mocha creamer, mixing it until he found fit and adding half a creamer of caramel. Mixing until he found it right he grabbed another mocha creamer of another kind, adding a little he mixed it in, then added the rest of the caramel creamer, finally finishing mixing the creamers with a straw he took a quick sip through the straw and took it out, not letting the Pegasus at the barstool see him sample it.
"I think it is ready” Shade grabbed a bottle of caramel, noting that Rainbow Dash was right hoofed he added some caramel to the inside and on the lip of the mug, on the left side if the handle was facing him, he put the caramel away and set the mug in front of Rainbow Dash. The mare that was a frequent coffee drinker inspected the coffee before looking up at him with a withering stare, Shade only shrugged.
“Down the hatch!” grabbing the mug with her right hoof, Rainbow smiled, setting her lips to the spot shade had put caramel and took a sip, then a few more after it. “How… how did you do that?” she asked the midnight black Pegasus.
“How did I do what?” he asked, pouring caramel creamer into his own mug and mixing it, before putting crushed ice in and setting it into the freezer of the fridge.
“You made it taste like chocolate candy with caramel in it with coffee flavor in it, how?” Shade smiled at Rainbow’s question
“Mr. Haykenama runs us very hard to make the best drinks, it is our specialty, so I try to do my best, though if Mr. Haykenama makes you a drink, you will never think mine are good ever again,” Shade denied the praise “and honestly, some of the other workers there are twice as good as me, if not better, I got here only through a lot of bad drinks and failed attempts.” Rainbow smiled.
“Still good nonetheless” Rainbow replied, taking another sip gratefully “I like it a lot” she smiled again as she took another sip “not as much as zap apple jam and hay, but close” Shade rolled his eyes and took his own coffee out, added whipped cream on it and began sipping it through a straw as he leaned on the counter on his hind legs, “now that’s not right” Rainbow glared at Shade.
“What isn’t right?” Shade looked at himself, his long coat was fine, scarf was still black, his feathers where still in his mane, he was standing on his hind legs on the counter, was that her problem?
“You are drinking iced coffee with a straw, which is a crime against coffee-”
“Drinkers everywhere, the coffee drinking community should exile you from such misusage of such practices of coffee” Shade completed. “I know about you devoted hot coffee drinkers, do no try to change my belief”
“Hot coffee is better” Rainbow Dash crossed her hooves as she set down her drink, and idea came to Shade and he took and ran with it.
“Fine, let us test this notion” Sade grabbed and took a drink of Rainbow’s coffee, in the same spot she drank from.
“That’s my coffee!” She yelled like a kid and reached for it as Shade brought the mug down Rainbow grabbed and looked at the amount of contents left “oh thank Celestia you only took a sip…” she was glad Shade was not that cruel.
“Not half bad” Shade judged with a smirk, something about the drink was… different to him… “Was it that Rainbow Dash drank out of it first? Like it matters” Shade dismissed the feeling.
“Not half bad!?” Rainbow exclaimed, “this stuff is the best!” she boasted.
“Thank you for complementing my work. I am glad you like it” Shade smirked as Rainbow had complemented him, even though her purpose was to insult him. She saw the mug in Shade’s hoof, an idea of her own came and she took and ran with it.
“That is mine” Shade stated as Rainbow Dash took the mug out of his hoof and started drinking it through the straw with some gusto. “hey! Do not drink it so fast or else!” Rainbow dash stopped drinking to deliver a glare.
“Or else what!? Oh horseapples!” Shade sighed as Rainbow Dash hurriedly set the mug down and put both hooves to her head, her brain splitting with pain and cold equal to a windigo-level blizzard.
“Or else you will get a brain freeze, I like my drinks really cold.” Shade shook his head, a smile of mirth making his grey eyes shine. “Silly filly, you need to take my advice every now and then, or at least wait and assess the situation completely before taking action” Shade walked around the counter so he stood behind Rainbow Dash and grabbed her mug of coffee and brought it to her lips “if you drink something hot it will cancel the brain freeze” Shade tipped the mug slowly and gently and Rainbow Dash let Shade Burst hold her drink as she drank the rest of the coffee, letting the warm liquid run down her throat and warm her brain back up, she let her hooves down and tilted her head back as Shade made sure she got every drop of the coffee. “There, better?” Shade asked, setting the mug down and moving behind the counter again to lean up on his hind legs and drink the rest of his own coffee silently. Rainbow sat silent for a minute, trying to figure out what had just happened, the blush came and was pushed away as fast as her legendary speed allowed.
“Yep, my brain freeze has-”
“Thawed out?” Shade commented as he took his now empty mug and threw the straw away, putting the mug in hot soapy water with the mugs from the morning, letting them soak. Rainbow threw a glare at the trickster Pegasus and started licking the edges of the mug, trying to get the rest of the caramel off the mug,
“Wow, this caramel is really good! What is with it?” Rainbow thought, her tongue still not reaching the edge of the mug, she finally gave in to her annoyance and jammed her muzzle into the mug, finally reaching the bottom of the mug, she sighed as the last of the caramel was finally addled onto her tongue and relived her of her desire of caramel, seeing as it was fully eaten.
Shade was leaning on the counter, watching the shenanigans the rainbow colored mare was performing, oblivious to her behavior being monitored by the Trickster Pegasus. Shade’s smile grew as she finally jammed her mouth into the mug “she gets annoyed quickly, often resorting to brute force, I will have to remember that” Shade then repressed a laugh as she visibly calmed down, her shoulders sagging in relief “that and she likes things steamy” Shade took a breath and calmed his smile down to a smirk. “Trying to clean off the mug, are we not?” Rainbow froze.
“Um…. Yes?”
“Well did you need my help?” he asked, taking the mug off of her hooves and putting it in the sink to soak. Shade stopped and looked at Rainbow’s blushing face with an analytical look, making the mare uncomfortable until he moved forward slowly “I think you have something right here” Rainbow Dash froze as her mind focused on the stallion moving towards her face, the closer he got, the more nervous she got, until finally.
“Okay! Okay! I got it!” Rainbow ran her hooves over her face, whipping the caramel off her face and frantically moving way, falling off her chair and onto the floor, “ow.”
“Why did you do that?” Shade asked as he walked around, he leaned down and whipped the rest of the caramel off with a rag he had grabbed, “I was only going to wipe your face”
“O-oh…” Rainbow stuttered, making the midnight black stallion smirk,
“What did you think I was going to do?” Shade asked as he stood back up onto all fours, bringing Rainbow Dash back up with him.
“Nothing.”
“That is not the truth.”
“Well it’s all I’m gonna tell you!” Rainbow shot back, making Shade shrug.
“Fine, you can keep the information to yourself”
“At least I don’t have to worry about that now” Rainbow thought with an imaginary sigh of relief as the tension drained from her shoulders. Making the Pegasus mare roll her shoulders a bit to get them less sore.
“You look really tense, you should go get a massage from the spa, that could ease up some of the pain” Shade recommended, despite his own aversions to spas himself.
“The spa? No way! That’s WAY to girly” Rainbow blew off the recommendation.
“Alright, stay sore then” Shade shrugged and went over to the bookshelves and as he went to grab the Daring Doo book he was reading Rainbow Dash flew up next to him and looked at the newest book.
“Ooooh! The newest book! I really want to read it!” Rainbow practically drooled at the sight of them, causing Shade’s response to fire in reply.
“No, they are my personal books and I want them in good condition, so drool on my books is not something that I want, or approve of.” Shade denied, pushing Rainbow Dash cautiously away from his shelf of books.
“Awww…..” Rainbow Dash got a big-eyed look and aimed it at Shade Burst.
“Are you… trying to charm me?” Shade asked, surprised by mare was currently looking at him
“Yes…” “Now to shift it to round two” Rainbow adopted a small smile, tilted her eyes, and shut her eyes a forth of the way, Shade’s eyes widened slightly. “may I, Please, read the book?” Rainbow extended the please and moved slightly forward with each step. Shade blinked once.
“No, in face, I mean fact, we need to go get lunch.” Shade tried not to face hoof in his anger at himself as he turned around and grabbed his long coat and scarf from his coat hanger and put them on.
“Alright, fine” Rainbow pouted, something Shade found nearly as distracting as he previous look.
“Now where am I getting these ideas from? I need to lose this” Shade unceremoniously pushed his thoughts away by shaking his head, effectively removing the thought from his mind as Rainbow Dash passed him “Where too?” Shade asked, opened the door for Rainbow Dash and following out behind her, he didn’t see the mischievous smirk on her face as the location popped into her mind.
“we are going to Sugarcube corner”
Soul Song had finally cleaned up the house, and had begun making food for the mare he likes when the mare in question waltzed down the steps, a dreamy faraway look on her face with her eyes closed.
“Oh I had the most wonderful dream! Soul nuzzled me then carried me up to bed and kissed my forehead and then... Oh! It's just so wonderful” Fluttershy squished her hooves against her face to hide her blush as she fluttered about the living room in happiness. Soul Song watched from the sidelines of the kitchen as he looked at the pegasus dance around, a slight blush appearing on his face as his mind tried to fill in the blanks about what happened next in her dream. Fluttershy stopped as she noticed Soul Song, her blush deepening exponentally every second she was under his gaze.
“So… so what happened next?” Soul asked. Fluttershy shook her head frantically.
“Nothing! Nothing happened! Heehee…” Fluttershy adopted a shy smile to placate the tan Pegasus staring at her. She floated down and hid behind her pink hair that matched her face.
“You better be happy that you are so cute that I’m not going to get mad at you, otherwise you would have been in deep trouble pegasister” Soul stated as he went back to cooking and froze “I just called her cute didn’t I?”
“W-well I’m glad I am…” Fluttershy stammered out… “and… did you really nuzzle me back?” Fluttershy’s question made Soul pause.
“Eyup. And kissed your forehead too, I hoped to wake you up but it didn’t work. So I went down here and cleaned up along with angel and now I’m making lunch” Soul retold the events. Fluttershy nodded sagely.
“Good job, mind if I help?” Soul nodded frantically. “so what are you making?”
“Scrambled eggs, I’ve seen Shade do it millions upon millions of times. I’ve learned how to do it pretty well myself!” Soul explained. “I’m making a side salad too, but it’s only half done.” Soul pointed with a hoof to a half full bowl of lettuce and other greens, “can ya help out?” Fluttershy was happy to help, the two chatted a little as they made the food, more enjoying each other’s presence over talking.
Soul began singing one of his songs while he cooked, Fluttershy joining along once they completed making food the two Pegasai went out and sat at a table, their plates full of food, the two dug in, using forks with utmost efficiency to eat the food before them.
“Wow! You did a good job!” Fluttershy complemented the musician’s food.
“Well your salad is divine” Soul responded, causing Fluttershy to giggle and made Soul’s heart flutter.
“You really do spend a lot of time in Applewood, you can use some fancy words” Fluttershy’s smile caused Soul to talk more.
“Well “every gentle colt should have an extended vocabulary to better express one’s intentions when engaged in converse with other Ponies” as some speech dude would say.” Soul quoted a prissy Trottingham stallion he had met on the street that chewed him out when he used “too many uncouth, common words.”
“Wow, you can use fancy words!” Fluttershy’s laugh made all of Soul’s body light up in a warm feeling.
“Yeah I can! Wait, did you think I couldn’t?” Soul asked quickly, making Fluttershy laugh at his panicked expression,.
“Well… I didn’t know” Fluttershy responded, setting Soul Song at ease, shown by his shoulders slumping.
“Well I can, I need to be fancy every now and then” Soul’s statement gave Fluttershy a chance and she took it.
“Like when you talk to Octavia?” Fluttershy’s question made Soul’s eyes go wide.
“I do talk to her yeah, but not often, I’m actually thinking we could use her help” Soul reasoned with a smirk.
“How?” Fluttershy wondered, seeing the smirk on Soul gave her something that she either wanted to be worried or relived that it was present, she would find out.
“Okay, I say I take Shade Burst to go to Canterlot to go pick something up, you go on a shopping trip with Rainbow Dash, we can send them to the same place so they meet up, we watch from afar, and if they don’t go out together, we send them somewhere and all eat dinner together, I know you don’t like Shade, so you can leave, I can go “cheer you up” and we leave them together, then they go eat dinner and we watch, good setup, right?” Soul Song listed out his idea, they had planned to go get them in some romantic situation and Soul had slept on the idea. He waited as soul scratched her chin, figuring the plan out.
“Perfect! Though Rainbow won’t like going”
“True, but neither will Shade.” Soul replied.
“I think we can do it, but when?”
“Hmm…. It’s Saturday… Shade said he got Monday off this next week… so how does Monday sound?” Soul asked.
“I think it works” Fluttershy said with a smile. “I help the animals and Rainbow always gets the weather done in ten seconds flat, so we have open schedules.”
“And I am on vacatiooooooon!” Soul cheered, making Fluttershy laugh again.
“Yep! You sure are!” Fluttershy smiled and gave Soul that fuzzy feeling again.
“So now how do we break it on them?” Soul continued, scratching his chin.
“Spring it on them, they always have open schedules.”
“True dat!” Soul laughed at his words “it’s funny on how alike the two are.”
“What do you mean?” Fluttershy asked, that sparked a conversation on comparing and contrasting the two Pegasai, leading into stories and laughs for the both of them, the two pegasai’s food was eaten and they continued, once completing the conversation on the compare and contrast, they just talked, this continued until Angel jumped on the table slamming his feet on it. Creating a loud noise
“What the hay?” Soul asked. “Sorry.” Soul quickly apologized.
“It’s feeding time! I nearly forgot!” Fluttershy jumped up in a hurry and ran about “I’m sorry Soul but I am going to be incredibly busy for the next hour or so, so if-”
“It’s fine fluttershy, I’ll go out and go do something” Soul nodded with a smile as he grabbed the plates and brought them to the sink, he washed them off and left the house with a happy sigh, watching as the demure pegasus began feeding all the animals around her.
“Wow, I really am love-struck, aren’t I?”
Luna, the Princess of the moon, had just read the letter, smiling as she read the P.S added on the end.
“He is not as far off as I thought” Luna smiled as she went to the throne room, walking up to Celestia who was busy reading the normal messages of the day, when Luna approached with a somewhat serious face on Celestia bid the other ponies away, they cleared the room in seconds.
“What is the matter, sister?” Celestia asked. A letter floated over and Celestia began reading, getting the same smile her sister gained. “He really worries, doesn’t he?”
Luna nodded with a smile back “yes, but it is put within some fact” the sisters smiles faded for a second, then returned. “So do you have information on the Task Force that I do not know of?”
“The group? They are coming back within the next week; the mission in the crystal kingdom is finished.”
“Good, I was surprised they had pulled it off, it would have been easier if Shade was with them.”
“Yes, but they survived none the less, I am appreciative of the group's growth without true leadership, but they need their leader back, and they know who the true leader is”
“Trickster” Luna responded, smiling as Shade entered her mind. “How many years have they worked together?” Luna asked, just for general sake of conversation.
“Well… all began force training at the age of thirteen, at seventeen they became task force 491, and three years of missions.”
“I see, and one year of general separation, due to how close that was…” Luna completed. “That mission was too close for anypony’s comfort” Luna paced back and forth as Celestia looked upon her younger sister calmly.
“Have your hormones ever really calmed down?” she asked with a taunting smirk. Luna rounded on her and glared.
“It is nothing of the sort!” Celestia waved her hoof in a truce in the face of Luna’s rebuttal.
“Okay, now, onto Trickster’s request” the mood became somber.
“It is true, the six are in need of protection, and are an open target” Luna conceded.
“Yes, but if we reinstate him it may trigger the moles they have set up” Celestia sighed
“I agree with him though, we should send guard.s” Luna stated.
“I agree as well, but how many, and which guards?” Celestia asked, both having the same idea at the same time. Both recognizing the look on each other’s faces as they saw each other have the same idea at the same time and same reaction to it.
“We are sisters after all” they two Princess jinxed and smiled at each other.
“Now you owe me a drink of apple cider” Celestia told Luna, who shook her head in confusion.
“And why do I owe thee such a thing?”
“It’s a secret!” Celestia said with a smirk as Luna groaned. Celestia was glad to have her sister back after the years of isolation. “Only two more members and I will have the full family back” Celestia smiled, not knowing how long it will take but wholly intent on hoping that her wish will come true.
She had waited a thousand years; she could wait longer, if that’s what it took.
“Why are we are going to sugar cube corner?”
“Simple. They sell some of the best food ever!” Rainbow Dash reasoned as she went inside of the store. Shade burst following a second after.
“I cannot argue with that logic.” he muttered sarcastically under his breath.
“Hi there!” there was the sound of a party cannon going off as Shade found that his vision had been forcefully conquered by a pink mare smiling so large it seemed physically impossible.
“Hello…” Shade returned, he found his vision restored as the pink mare began bouncing around him in a display of impossible energy. “How can a mare possibly have this much energy in such a small form?”
“Have you already had your party?” Pinkie Pie asked, stroking an imaginary beard, “of course you’ve had your party! I throw a party for everypony in ponyville!” Shade nodded his head in affirmation.
“Yes, I came in a group, so when you threw the party multiple ponies were introduced, I am just more forgettable than others” Shade explained with a shrug. For the second time in a row Pinkie Pie had a confused face on her muzzle as she looked at the Pegasus.
“This is the same way she acted when I asked her about Shade Burst, she doesn’t know his name!” Rainbow Dash decided to not voice her thoughts as the midnight blue Pegasus talked to the pink party pony.
“What’s your name?”
“Shade Burst” he added with a disarming smile. “I am-”
“OH WAAAAAAAITTT!” Pinkie Pie gasped, “You’re Rainbow Dash’s coltfriend!”
“Wait, no I am-”
“Sweet! That means I get to throw a “Rainbow Dash got a coltfriend party!” pinkie’s energy flared and her eyes got large as dinner plates.
“NowIgottagotelltheothersandgogetpartyfavorsandstreamersandballoonsoh!Balloons!ohIcangetalltherainbowcolorsisawatthestoryandmostimportantlyicangetacake!thoughwhatkindofcakewouldaRainbowDashGotAColtfriendcakebelike?I’mgoingtohavetomakeone!Ohhthisissoexciting!”
Rainbow Dash tried to stop herself from bursting out laughing at Shade’s frazzled look “oh wow this is priceless! I wish I had a camera!” Rainbow Dash’s snigger brought Shade Burst back to reality, or whatever semblance of it that could be allowed when Pinkie Pie was present.
“Wait... you said party, how many would be coming?” Shade asked, the worry on his face brought Rainbow Dash out of her amusement and into curiosity.
“What, scared of large crowds?” Rainbow Dash taunted.
“Yes, yes I am” Shade admitted, giving Rainbow Dash a reason to pause and think.
“Oh, really? Well can I still have a party?” Pinkie asked, Shade thought for a moment.
“I might as well, I was given little choice” “… yes, but you can only have… five of your best friends come along, Rainbow Dash is with me” Shade’s restriction made Rainbow Dash’s face scrunch up in confused thought along with Pinkie Pie.
“Wait, so that means Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Raririty, Applejack, and Soul Song?” Pinkie Pie asked,
“I think that would be sufficient” Shade agreed.
“That’s awfully specific” Rainbow threw away her doubt, Shade seemed like the one to avoid attention, so a small party was something to be expected, and she needed to trust the stallion, she was the element of Loyalty, wasn’t she?
“Okie dokie lokie!” Pinkie Pie cheered and bounced up a down “a small party is still a party! I can’t wait until they find out that Rainbow Dash has a colt-”
“Actually” Rainbow Dash cut in “Shade isn’t my coltfriend, it could be a “welcome to being our friend” party instead of the other one” her suggestion made Pinkie Pie nod sagely.
“Yes, that sounds much better. Now I gotta go prepare! Tomorrow night at Sweet Apple Acres barn! See you there!” Pinkie Pie shot off in a burst of energy, Shade watched the mare leave… and suddenly felt very tired.
“How does she stay so excited? I cannot understand, is this what the element of laughter is useful for? Just making parties? It is not even needed for harmony” Shade sighed.
“She’s a crazy one, but she’s fun to be around, she can pull a great prank!” Rainbow defended Pinkie Pie.
“No wonder you and her get along, Pranksters, the both of you” Shade Burst accused, earning a mock hurt and shocked face from Rainbow Dash.
“Gasp! How dare you accuse me of such a thing?” Rainbow had adopted a posh accent that made Shade roll his eyes.
“You may think that you are better when it comes to accents, but I still win.” his statement in that posh trottish accent he has used before.
“Seriously!' Rainbow Dash exclaimed “how do you-”
“Practice, lots and lots of practice” Shade had coughed and re-adjusted his scarf, and coughed again “oh Luna I hate using that voice, makes my throat… feel weird” Shade scratched his neck, coughed once more “there, better, now if you can pick up your slackened jaw off the floor, I would like to see what you would like to order.” Shade’s taunt made Rainbow Dash promptly pick her jaw off the floor and go to Mrs. Cake, who was watching the two Pegasai interact with a large smile
“Well, nice to see you again, Ms. Dash, he’s a cute one” She smiled as Rainbow Dash refrained from groaning and only gave Mrs. Cake the “really?” Look.
“Seriously? I don’t like him, seriously, I don’t” Rainbow Dash denied and looked at the food. And ordered what she usually did, but for two people Mrs. Cake nodded in reply “he’s paying” Rainbow Dash added, Mrs. Cake nodded and went to go get the food ready while Rainbow went up to Shade Burst, who was looking around the shop, a slightly curious look on his face. “Hey, you gotta go up to the counter, you go pay and I’ll find a spot.”
“On it” Shade trotted over with nary a word after that and waited patiently. Mrs. Cake came out with the food requested and handed it over to Shade, who paid the correct amount without trouble, his bit bag jingling a little when he put it back in his coat.
“Be gentle with her, Shade, she may act tough but she’s not always that way.” Shade looked at Mrs. Cake who delivered the warning.
“I will do my best, but my circumstances are not always… favorable to others around me, I will protect her as best as I can.” he responded calmly without a trace of doubt.
“Good, I think she’s in good hooves, thank you, Shade Burst” Shade thought for a moment on how Mrs. Cake had gotten his name, then remembered that Pinkie Pie ad asked it a moment before, she must of overheard it.
“Thank you, Mrs. Cake, for saying that” Shade grabbed his food and went off to Rainbow Dash, who sat impatiently waiting.
“What took you so long?” Rainbow demanded and Shade replied and the two began talking back and forth.
Mrs. Cake watched the two pegasai interact and a worried frown creased her face “call it mother’s intuition, but that Pegasus is hiding something, and it seems like he actually can open up to Rainbow Dash… be careful, Rainbow Dash, you are probably one of the few that can get him to open up… But be careful, Shade is like fire, get too close, and you’ll get burned…”
Twilight sighed and blinked herself out of her studying daze, the alicorn looked around at the books that had piled up around her, all related to stars and their usage in medieval days and how that Shadow Cepheus’s work was referred to again and again, but just the book, no name, nor date or usage, just the data, “what’s going on?”
“That work was used many times for many things, was it not?” Twilight jerked her head to look at Princess Luna, who had a smile gracing her features as she sat down next to Twilight in her pile of books and opened to a book on stars and the future.
“Yeah, he was, just as much as Starswirl the Bearded was…” Twilight frowned. “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry I didn’t look anything up in the library about the night and stars…”
“It is fine, Twilight, you made no mistake, only since my return have the books on the night and stars have regained demand, though only very little now, my hope is that the study of my night continues, as the study of Tia’s day continues” Twilight could only stare at the Lunar Princess as she quickly scanned through a book and a smile of someone greeting an old friend dominated her features, she looked happy, but the melancholy and sadness was there too, Twilight was surprised enough that she forgot her place in the book as she accidentally closed it. But Luna shot her wing out and saved her page.
“Thank you, Luna” Twilight nodded and reopened the book, only to shut it and bring the book out that was the cause of her study. “His work is truly amazing”
“It took practice, a lot of practice, and he never thought it was good enough” Luna replied, Twilight gained and incredulous look.
“That’s crazy! This is amazing! The attention to detail yet the artistic flair of it makes it amazing to look at, and even better to study! How could he think that it was never good enough?” Twilight turned to look at Luna who set her book down and looked over at Twilight.
“I said earlier, he was no Scholar, he was a warrior, so he thought that if any Scholar would take up his profession he would be quickly outpaced”
“But why did he think that? He was amazing!”
“But not a genius, though he always strove to be better in his secondary profession, even though as a warrior he was a genius, he improved on something else, and without knowing it, you have copied his trait, you are a genius at magic, and yet you made friends and became very good at making them, much like Shadow Cepheus, but different fundumentally, you pursued another kind of magic, whereas Shadow Cepheus sought understanding.... which in a way made a friendship with me.” Luna finished her talk and stood once again, bowing her head slightly, “I will see you soon again, Princess Twilight Sparkle.”
“See you again, Princess Luna” Twilight waved a little as Luna cantered off to somewhere else. Twilight studied for a few more moments before realizing her purpose “Shade!” Twilight stood straight up in shock and memorized all the titles and flew them back to her shelves, except for the book Luna had first shown her, Twilight checked it out and teleported it to her room in Canterlot and went out to the balcony and was about to take flight until she stopped. A letter appeared in front of her with a burst of confetti and a horn sound.
“Pinkie?” Twilight asked as she opened the letter
Dear Twilight
You are invited to the super-duper pony party
for Shade Burst becoming our friend!
Meeting at the barn at 2000 sharp!See you there!
From Pinkie Pie!
Twilight rolled the invitation up and put it in her mane, then smiled put to the sky “Oh well, I guess I’ll just talk to them tomorrow” Twilight turned back to the library and summoned the book she had checked out, a smile on her face.
“Now that I have the rest of the day clear… that makes room for long time of studying! Yay!”
Twilight had to refrain from skipping through the library as she went back to sections and summoned the books around her, Smiling, Twilight opened the first book.
“Ready for one productive day?”
Shade and Rainbow walked out of sugar cube corner, Rainbow Dash was talking animatedly while Shade walked alongside her, his long coat and scarf present as well as his smirk as he shook his head up and down as Rainbow explained. “Then I flew up to the dragon and kicked it!”
“You what?” Shade asked, blinking a few times. “Say again?”
“I said I kicked the dragon!”
“You must be really stupid.”
“Hey! I am confident in my abilities!”
“Overconfident is more likely...”
“Hey! I am not-”
“Overconfident? Yes you are, you kicked the dragon in the face, then what happened after?”
“W-well... It roared at me and it only made him angrier...”
“I thought as much.” Shade sighed as he shook his head. “So then what happened?”
“Fluttershy went up and made the dragon calm down. He was mad at me for kicking him.”
“I would be too if you kicked me in the snout when I just woke up from a nap.”
“Be quiet, I’m telling a story” Rainbow Dash shot a glare at Shade and took an annoyed breath. “So then fluttershy convinced him to leave and stop spreading smoke over ponyville.”
“Good job Fluttershy.” Shade commented, making Rainbow Dash glare at Shade once again “what? She nonviolently and diplomatically made the enemy retreat, without any casualties. The only injury was a hurt snout” Shade nodded, a smirk forming “I have heard of this… “Stare” of hers. It brought a cockatrice into submission. That is surprising in itself”
“What? What is surprising is that you agree with Fluttershy! I thought you’re the fight to win type”
“No, I use my words first, my sword second. If I can trick someone or use my wits to defeat an enemy without casualties, I will, but if conflict is the only way to defeat the enemy, then I will fight”
“Have you done that before?” Rainbow turned around and fixed Shade with a look.
“That is for me to know, and you to find out” Shade's signature smirk made a debut as Rainbow groaned and face hoofed.
“Stop... It!” Rainbow wiped her hoof of her face and Shade’s smirk wiped off his face and his neutral expression returned.
“All right, do you have any errands to run? I can come along and help, an extra pair of hooves make the work go past twice as fast”
“You sound like Zecora.” Rainbow Dash shook her head and hung it in shame.
“Zecora?” Shade tilted his head as a questioning look descended upon his face.
“Forget it, I do have to get some food. I could use some help.”
“It will be my pleasure, miss.” Shade bowed and walked alongside her as the two pegusai went into the central market side by side. Shade noticed the looks thrown his way as they walked side by side, Shade felt his training as a bodyguard kick in and warn him. “You are attracting some attention. Miss Dash.”
Rainbow dash then noticed the eyes in the market directed her way as the sudden change in the stallion's tone and demeanor alerted her to what was going on.
“It's fine.” Rainbow's reply did not put Shade at ease. “I attract attention wherever I go.”
“Yes you do, miss Dash...” Shade admitted “but now more than usual. And there is muttering amongst them” Rainbow Dash listened harder and heard whispers, but couldn’t place any words in the mutters.
“The “muttering” is new. But it's probably because I’m hanging around with someone as “Shady” as you”
“Was that an insult?” Shade Burst replied with a glare, Rainbow realized her mistake.
“What? No!” Rainbow backtracked “you've always been the secret one that no one knows anything about, you talk to no one and we rarely see you in town, so of course they'd be surprised if I walk into the market square with you by my side”
Shade thought for a moment, he frowned slightly “would this hurt your reputation if we continued to shop together?” he asked, his voice sounding with a note of finality “if so, I will leave to not hurt your reputation further.” It was Rainbow's time for thought now; she set her hoof on the midnight blue stallion’s shoulder and made him wait.
“No. Stay with me, we have hung out a few times already, so whatever damage was already done” Rainbow shrugged and smirked as she put a saddlebag on Shade and tied it on him “ready to be a pack mule?”
“Pack Pegasus, thank you very much.” Shade Burst corrected as he walked alongside Rainbow Dash into the main market square, Shade held the bags and made small talk with the vendors along with Rainbow Dash, the initial absurdity of Rainbow and Shade together all faded and ponyville went back to its normal progression like nothing had happen.
“Wait, they put out a new single of Once Lost Souls!?” Rainbow exclaimed as she stopped walking and stared at the music stand, then started bouncing up and down. Shade was carrying a few things in saddlebags (with Rainbow Dash's mark on them) and stopped quickly to avoid bumping into her.
“Yes, I suppose they did” Shade responded, trotting alongside her. “Do you like their music?” Shade asked, for Once Lost Souls was Soul Song’s band.
“ARE YOU JOKING! THEY- yes, I am a supporter of their music performances” Rainbow shrugged her obvious enthusiasm off and continued walking, trying to adopt a sophisticated air to make up for her previous fingerling. Shade smiled a little.
“Such passion, I am a little jealous...”
“You say something?”
“No, just thinking about if you would have enough money to purchase the song after running all your errands” Shade covered expertly. Rainbow nodded and continued walking, Shade trailing after. Rainbow was chatting up a vendor that was selling Wonderbolt posters, and Shade was left waiting for her to return. Shade looked over and walked up to a flower stand, the owner looked over and smiled at him as he walked up.
“Hello Shade burst, good to see you again.” the tan colored pony with rose-colored mane and tail smiled slightly as the Pegasus approached.
“Hello Rose Luck.” Shade replied “the feeling is mutual, how are those rose seeds growing?” he asked, he had obtained some rose seeds from the royal gardener in Canterlot, he gave them to Shade and had explained that “only one who has a cutie mark for roses could grow these, if you meet someone with that, give them to her” Shade had kept his word and gave them to Rose Luck, and had been checking on the progress on the seeds, curious on what they were.
“Great! They haven't bloomed yet, but they are nice and healthy, I’m going to give you one once they bloom, alright?”
“I have no objection to that, I will pay you for it as normal.”
“No! You don't need to pay for it.”
Shade shook his head with a sigh, “I will, if not as payment, then as a prize for growing the seeds. Will that be more preferable?” His offer gave Rose a moment to think.
“Yes, it will, thanks again, Shade Burst”
“I was only keeping my word, Rose Luck, there is no need for gratitude”
“…Do those have Rainbow Dash's cutie mark?” Rose’s question and point at his saddlebags made Shade sigh.
“Took you long enough” Shade muttered to himself.
“Why do you have her saddlebags?”
“I am pack pegasai for her today” Shade's matter of fact response made Rose's eyebrows rise.
“Did you lose a bet?”
“Yes, but I am helping her out of my own accord” Shade smirked as Rose Luck laughed nearly running into her flower cart but stopping herself. Shade changed the subject before any further embarrassment to him could be generated. “Are you still keeping my name secret?” Rose Luck nodded to Shade’s inquiry with a slightly miffed look.
“Yeah, I’ve been keeping your interactions with me secret, why do you go through such lengths to maintain secrecy?” Rose asked with her eyebrows knitting together.
“I don’t like ponies know my schedule or whereabouts, I already made one mistake and I do not want to do it again.” Shade shook his head “call me paranoid all you want, I just am.” Rose nodded in understanding of Shade’s predicament.
“Yeah yeah, I understand, somepony has to be paranoid or nopony would be safe.” Rose shrugged, then she became serious “Speaking of which I heard that somepony has been asking around for a pony that matches your description, I don’t know why or who, I’m just saying some rumors that I’ve heard” Shade frowned at the information the flower mare presented.
“Thank you, I will keep it in mind” Rose saw how mired Shade was becoming in his thoughts and she decided to get the pegasus back on the right track.
“Okay, now get along, I bet she'll get jealous if she sees us together. So get going!” Rose shoved Shade and turned him around, angling him to Rainbow Dash
“It is not like that! We are friends. Only friends”
“That may be true, but Celestia hath no greater fury than a mare scorned” Rose smiled as pushed Shade once again. The trickster pegasus smirked and began walking towards Rainbow Dash.
“That is something that we can both agree on”
Meanwhile:
“Agh, what to pick?” Rainbow Dash muttered as she considered what to choose between two posters, one of Soarin or one of Spitfire, she growled a little as she switched her eyes between the two. She wanted to instinctually buy the Soarin one and shove it in Shade’s bag, but a message would be sent to him, and Rainbow Dash found that she didn’t want to send the message to him, she finally decided on picking Spitfire, and once she paid her bits, she turned around-
“Rainbow Dash!” a voice called out to her and she looked about, a pony trotted up to her, panting slightly “have you been hanging out with that dark colored pegasus?” the flower pony, Lily asked, Her eyes wide and questioning.
“Yes…. and his name is Shade Burst” Rainbow sighed as Lily gasped and shook for a split second.
“You know his name!? That’s amazing!”
“I’m surprised you haven't heard it...”
“Well he only talks to some shopkeepers briefly, and whenever somepony asks about him they say it's “trade secret” and won't say a peep about him!” Lily exclaimed.
“Weird...” Rainbow noted, “Why hasn't he told me to keep his name or stuff secret?” Rainbow let her mind wonder “there must be a reason for why, but it's probably a secret too” Rainbow countered, “but why don't you just go up and talk to him yourself?”
“W-well, he is kinda scary…”
“Scary? He is not that scary” Rainbow did her best not to laugh, the Midnight Blue Pegasus was anything but scary to her, “then what is he to me?” Rainbow thought to herself, but then cut the train of thought off as Lily spoke.
“Well that’s because you are brave! He just has the Aura of… Danger around him, but you say your middle name is danger so maybe you don’t feel it?” Lily tried to explain her own avoidance of the Pegasus and Rainbow Dash’s apparent tolerance of the aura Shade emitted. “Well that and he is kinda hot.”
“Shade is hot?” Rainbow nearly laughed, she was hearing more descriptors of this Pegasus that she had thought of herself! “How is that?”
“Well he has a different colored coat than most ponies, and he has those feathers in his mane and his long coat, so he’s kinda… exotic? And another thing is that he is hard to find, you never can just look into the crowd and see him, you have to be looking for him in order to see him, and that is only for a few seconds, and I’ve never seen him flying either, he’s so… mysterious”
“Alright, I have heard enough” Rainbow Dash interrupted Lily’s gushing over Shade Burst, It triggered a strange feeling in her gut and anger to well up inside her “what is this?” Rainbow Dash pushed the emotion off “Shade may seem like that to you and anypony else that thinks that, but Shade is nothing like that, he’s just like everypony else, you just have to have the courage to go up and talk to him” Rainbow defended Shade. “Or be overconfident and yell at him like I do”
“Well than you should tell me about him! So I can know what he’s like so I can get the courage to talk to him!” Lily moved closer to Rainbow Dash, invading her personal space. “Pleaaase? Pleaaase?”
Rainbow Dash was starting to get uncomfortable with the look in Lily’s eyes, “Please tell me! You are my only hope of meeting Shade Burst face to face! Please tell me!” Lily grabbed Rainbow Dash’s leg, further putting Rainbow Dash at unease.
“Lily, I don-’”
“Please?”
“Lily, I shou-”
“Please?”
“Lily, sto-”
“Please!”
“Lily!”
“Please!”
“Would you stop preventing the blood from moving through Rainbow Dash’s foreleg please?” A dark voice sounded from Rainbow’s right, a Shade’s hoof descended on Lily’s and removed them forcefully from her foreleg. Rainbow’s right foreleg was tingling as the blood returned to her leg, Shade stepped in front of Rainbow Dash, putting space between Lily and Polychromatic mare “You may leave, after I ask you a question” Shade reached his hoof out and extended it towards Lily’s head, she squeaked and ran away from Shade Burst, her face redder than her friend Rose Luck’s roses.
“Blast” Shade muttered and stomped his hoof into the ground in frustration.
“What’s wrong?” Rainbow Dash asked, Shade turned around to face her.
“I felt a strange magic around here, and I thought somepony was the source of it, but before I could check Lily she ran away.” Shade adopted a look that Rainbow Dash could only describe as Shade’s version of pouting.
“HAHAHAHAHA!” Rainbow Dash began laughing and holding her sides, “that is hilarious!” Rainbow dash’s laugher gave Shade Burst his reason to regain his composure.
“Is my pouting really that amusing? If so… then how about this?” Shade actually pouted, his face dripping with fake distain, Rainbow Dash nearly fell over and Shade had to rush over and support her from falling over and smashing her goods that she had bought.
“BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Stop! Stop Stop! That is too much!” at Rainbow’s request, Shade Burst stopped his fake pout and smirked as Rainbow’s mirth echoed around him.
“I… I like this.” Shade thought to himself as he was tempted to join in “now I see why Pinkie Pie and the element of laughter are important to harmony, there is a need for levity in every relationship, for it may become too grim over time and become unbearable, laughter is the light that chases the gloom away” Shade ended his internal thought and looked at the cyan Pegasus “are you finished yet?”
“Yes! That was awesome!” Rainbow Dash wiped as tear from her eye “I haven’t laughed this hard in months! Thanks Shade”
“No need for gratitude, I am only doing my job” Rainbow Dash’s eyebrows rose as Shade denied the praise.
“What is that?” Rainbow Dash asked as she tilted her head in a way that made Shade smile a little.
“Being your friend” Shade’s comment made Rainbow’s eyes widen in surprise and excitement “that is what I am, am I not?”
Soul Song strung his guitar one last time while he was in the sound proofed room in Shade’s house, his sheets of music shrew about him on the floor as he sat playing his guitar, “another good day of songwriting, man this makes it so much easier to write when M isn’t looming over my back with deadlines and threats and other stuff” Soul whistled a few notes to himself and added the few notes onto his sheet music, writing the words underneath.
“I won’t let you fall…” Soul hummed to himself as he wrote the second chorus down, there was the sound of a door shutting as he looked through the sound proofed window as Shade Burst entered into the main room. He opened his wings and flew up to the fiction shelves and picked out the daring doo book he was reading earlier and flew back to his spot on the couch. he opened the book and flipped to his page and resumed without a word.
Shade glanced up at Soul who backed away from the window after Shade spotted the musician. Soul flew out of the room and around to land at Shade’s side with a thump. Shade shut his book with the bookmark at the same time Soul landed in an uncanny moment of timing. Shade turned to look at Soul as the tan pegasus smiled at his midnight blue counterpart. “So how did your day go?”
“It was okay, I am fine, I had a pretty good day overall, I got some things at the market, spent most of my day there actually” Shade explained with a shrug.
“Really? Cool!”
“Yes it was “cool” I am sure of it,” Shade replied, he checked the time on his pocket watch in the fraction of a second. “That was quite the amount of time I spent away, did you eat any food?”
“Nope, did you?”
“Neither did I,” Shade sighed at his irresponsibility. “I will go make food for us.” Shade stood up and trotted over to the kitchen and whipped up some dinner for the two of them. A light meal so that they could sleep without digesting food during it, the two ate off trays and read until the night came.
Shade slapped his book shut as he completed it, the trays were long since washed and put away, “I hate endings.”
“I hate them too, especially after a good story like Daring Doo, but now you only have a little left until you catch up to the new one!”
“Yes indeed, one more story to go through, then the newest book” Shade sighed as he put the book back in its shelf, and flew back down, a tired look on his face, “I think we both need to be asleep, do you not agree?”
“Actually, no, I’ll be up for a while longer, Shade, I gotta get my work done. Besides, you seem tired for once, just go to sleep”
“Alright, I will lock the house up” Shade kept his word and locked the house. Shade decided to refer to his friend on an event that was still troubling him. “ one of the ponies were… different… today. Be careful tomorrow.”
“Oh my, your paranoia is in full swing!” Soul sarcastically commented and brushed off the worry with a shrug, thus resulting in a face hoof from Shade and hold of his head as he felt a migraine coming on.
“Yes, it is my job to be paranoid.” Shade explained.
“And what is your job that you have to be paranoid for me?”
“Being your friend” Shade responded, glancing at Soul, his mind switched to Rainbow Dash, he had seen the same reaction on her face as well. “That is what I am, am I not?” the tired trickster pegasus left with a migraine running in his head and didn’t see Soul Song’s giant smile directed at him.
“Yes you are Shade. You are my friend, and you have no idea how happy I am that you say that.”
Well then! even with finals and distractions and other crap I still have enough time to upload! yeah this chapter isn't one of my favorites, maybe because I've read it ten times over with a critical eye and I find no enjoyment in the story portion anymore, this also marked my first time using google docs to set up the chapter, copy from word to google docs to here. It's a long process but totally worth it in the end.
that is what I meant by the fourth closed look, it's... interesting. I was surprised when I saw it, so Shade reflects my reaction.
Anyway, I'll write my next chapter and get it up after a good edit to fix any problems, as that is what I have been currently doing.
until then, じゃあまたね!
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