Raison D'être

by mechafone

47 - As Life Would Have It

Spark Storm opened his eyes, squinting at the light refusing to let him sleep. The moon had since moved directly into his line of view, and it was so bright. So bright, in fact, that he could easily make out the dark shape that resembled a pony's head in it. As he watched, Spark felt something ominous seeming to stare at him, and old feelings and memories began to surface, memories from over two years ago when he laid with Sapphire staring at the moon, just like this.

Suddenly, as if a switch had been shut off in his head, the strange sensations left him. He looked down at the mare in his arms as he lay on his back on the soft cloud overhanging Canterlot. Sapphire Snow laid on top of him since there wasn't room to lay on his side, and neither of them had deemed it necessary to find another place to rest.

The night air was getting colder now, and judging from the position of the moon, Spark figured it was sometime after midnight. They needed to get home and into bed. Geez Sparky, you really should phrase your thoughts better...He shook his head and eased the two of them very carefully until they had switched positions, with Sapphire under him and he on top, all four legs spread to the corners of the cloud.

With his tongue sticking out in concentration, he wobbled the cloud gently, testing his balance. The movment stirred Sapphire awake, and she gazed up at him with a deep blush. There he was, standing over her and bathed in silver moonlight. Was it time already? She wasn't ready! "S-Spark, um..."

Spark looked down at her, and immediately realized how this looked. He let out a barking laugh that started an actual barking from somewhere down below. "Relax, Sapphire, I'm just trying something."

Having neglected to explain himself properly, his statement only served to confuse the poor mare further. Spark smirked and leaned down to tease her with a slow, seductive kiss. He carefully grabbed hold of the cloud on all four sides and started flapping his wings. Sapphire squealed at the movement as she felt the cloud move. She was lying on her back, and to be moved backwards while essentially lying upside down was alarming. Her heartbeat went wild and she grabbed onto Spark around the neck, breaking off the kiss and watching her lover's face with wide eyes.

"S-Spark, you better not drop me..."

"Or what?" He said mischeviously. "You're fine if you fall."

"But if I fall that means you dropped me!" Sapphire leaned back down against the cloud and held her forelegs over her chest and gave him a 'come hither' look. It was Spark Storm's turn to blush as he looked down at her. He knew her body language was a tease, but it made it difficult to concentrate with all the flirting going back and forth.

Spark decided to try and concentrate on moving the cloud the two occupied. Gripping the cloud tighter, Spark flapped his wings continuosly, eventually moving the cloud through the night sky. Spark watched the buildings pass under him with an intense gaze as a feeling he'd never felt before start to swell in his chest. By using the cloud as a sort of air float, Spark was flying.

Sapphire gasped quietly as she felt something wet hit her neck. Looking up, she noted that there wasn't a single raincloud in the sky. She took a closer look at her boyfriend and noticed that tears were streaming down his cheeks. Tears of her own started to build in her eyes. The fact that he'd never actually flown before was something that had always bothered him, even though he got along well enough without it.

"Oh, Spark," she whispered, and reached up to touch his face with a hoof, then traced it down to his chest. It was racing, as if he'd been running first place in the running of the leaves. Realizing how happy this was making him, she felt her own adrenaline picking up pace to keep up with his. With Spark standing over her, flying the cloud around the city, and their blood pumping at near the same speed, Sapphire felt closer to Spark in this one moment than she ever had before.

Spark slowed down as he approached a random tower, and he chanced a glance down at Sapphire. Seeing the happy tears in her eyes, Spark leaned down to kiss her, which she returned passionately. She pulled him down on top of her awkwardly, but he settled into it easily. With adrenaline coursing through their bodies, the two young lovers fell into a passionate, heated make-out session that might've gone a little too far if a delicate 'ahem' didn't bring them out of it.

Spark and Sapphire both shot up into sitting positions on the cloud, both of their wings shamefully erect. Princess Celestia stared down at the two reproachfuly from her tower, which Spark had just barely avoided crashing into. He could've sworn she wasn't there when they arrived.

"Children, I do remember telling you to be responsible when you left earlier."

Spark started to apologize when Sapphire interupted him. "Princess, we are not children, we can look after ourselves, thank you very much."

The Princess glared at Sapphire, a smoldering look that would've cowed the toughest minotaur. "Young mare, if you don't watch your tone-"

"Knock it off!" Sapphire nearly screamed. She was flying now, hovering just in front of the Princess. "You are not my mother, so stop acting like it!"

Spark's eyes shot open at this unpleasant change of events. No one yelled at the Princess like that, not even him! Oh, what kind of trouble would his girlfriend be in now? And yet, the exact opposite of what he was expecting happened. Celestia looked hurt, apologetic even. "Sapphire Snow...I didn't mean, I...I'm sorry."

Furious tears fell from Sapphire's eyes. She practically shook as she hovered there, glaring daggers at the Princess. She took off into the night sky, leaving Celestia and Spark Storm to themselves. The Alicorn sighed and rubbed at her forehead gently before looking down at Spark. "I'm...I'm sorry, Spark Storm. I forget my place sometimes, that I am not a paternal replacement. Oh, that was...regrettable."

Spark frowned unhappily and shook his head. "I don't understand. Did something happen to her-"

"It would be best if Sapphire told you, Spark Storm. It's not my place to reveal the circumstances of Sapphire's training, I've already meddled more than I should have, and for that I apologize again." She turned from him, preparing herself for flight. "You'd think I'd learn to stop butting my nose in where it doesn't belong, but..." she turned to Spark, a hint of tears betraying the Alicorn's normally composed gaze. "it's only because I care. Good night, Spark Storm."

The dark pegasus sighed heavily as Celestia took off from the tower top. He turned his gaze in the direction that Sapphire had disappeared to, and now realized he didn't know where that was. She could've been anywhere now.

---

Foggy Nights sighed with relief as he released the last packing box with his magic. His shift had just ended, and it was time to be getting home. Maybe. He glanced outside of the storage facility he worked at and grinned with glee at his find. A pretty little white pegasus in a rather classy red, sparkly dress was sitting alone, probably trying to get over her boyfriend or something. Well, this is where ol' Foggy came in.

At eighteen, Foggy Nights was a handsome unicorn, even if his coloring certainly wasn't the most manly of colors. It was a mix of lavender and periwinkle, and it usually drove the mares crazy. It had certainly attracted the attention of a certain grey pegasus back in Ponyville a while back. He hadn't stuck around for that one, though. Her parents hadn't been crazy about their daughter dating a unicorn four years older than she. It also hadn't ended well when he found out that he was going to be a father. Again.

Foggy took a deep breath and cast his own personal touch of the Refresh spell. It removed the dirt and grime from the day's work from his coat and made him smell pretty. He shook out his lustrous blonde mane, making sure it was perfect before stepping out to go and offer the pretty mare some Foggy comfort.

"Hey, doll, what's wrong?" Sapphire jumped at the voice. She hadn't been expecting anypony to be out at this hour; it was already well past two o'clock in the morning. Her eyes fell on Foggy Nights as he approached, and she immediately and correctly dubbed him as douchebag material.

"Are you kidding me? How old are you, twenty five?" She backed away from him, keeping him carefully in her sight. This was going to be tough. An older unicorn would be tricky if he planned on being aggressive.

Foggy shrugged off the mare's attempts at keeping the conversation dismissive. "Oh come on, sweety, age is just a number. Besides, I'm only eighteen."

"'Age is just a number', yeah, and jail is just a room. Keep walking, pervert, go home before you get hurt."

Foggy rolled his eyes heavenward. He just didn't feel like going through the whole song and dance routine tonight. So instead, he tried one of his favorite magic spells: The Eyes Of Erised, something he'd come up with all by himself. He cast his spell with a subtle blue glow from his horn. Sapphire gasped as the spell touched her eyes. When she opened them again, she saw the one pony that she really wanted to see right now: Spark Storm.

"Spark?" She looked around for the unicorn, confusion running through the already emotional pegasi's mind. "What happened? Where's that jerk?"

"I scared him off. It's ok now, babe." Foggy said. He didn't need to worry about changing his voice; the spell did that for him. He reached a hoof out to her. "Come on, let's get out of here."

Sapphire frowned cautiously as she approached Foggy. Something was telling her this wasn't right. Hadn't there been a unicorn right in front of her? Even as the cogs in her head whirled at dangerous speeds, the Eyes Of Erised worked at switching the logical parts of her brain down, and it was working. As she got closer, Foggy leaned in and pressed his forehead to hers. "Spark's" eyes stared into hers, and she felt her heart speed up. Even as Foggy's spell held her instincts and logic, Sapphire could feel something deep in her chest literally screaming at her to pull away.

"I'll keep you safe..." He whispered, and pressed his mouth to hers. It was too much, and The Eyes Of Erised crumbled under the overwhelming force of true love, which could not be sedated, or torn, or taken from her. She pushed him away, and in a whirl of movement that Foggy couldn't have seen coming if he'd staring at it under a microscope, she took him down onto his back. His head hit the pavement hard.

Sapphire trembled with fury as she glared down at the older unicorn. He no longer appeared as Spark Storm, but as the sleazy jackass that obviously had plans for some late night fun at her expense. Sapphire brought a hoof down straight across Foggy's face, eliciting a cry of pain. He was no slouch at fighting though, and launched himself at Sapphire. He missed completely as she simply danced out of his way. He wasnt about to give up, though. He launched himself at her again, this time purposefully sailing wide.

He activated his horn as he sailed towards her a third time, pulling on her right wing into his path. She was expecting unicorn trickery, and her right hind leg shot upward. This caught him straight in the chin and set the unicorn flying headfirst into the air. Sapphire followed him up, her wings propelling her up until she was at his side. She flipped forward and came down onto his stomach, landing Foggy hard down on the ground. Foggy turned over onto his side, if only to stop the terrible pain in his tail and stomach.

Sapphire wasn't even breathing hard as she got to her hooves and spat on the ground near Foggy's face. "You've got some nerve, pal! I hope you think twice about mixing it up with-"

She stared at Foggy, her eyes briefly filled with horror as the spell from his horn shut her up. Her face became blank as Foggy's last resort spell took effect, a mind-control spell that was outlawed in the land of Equestria, punishable by banishment. He got to his hooves slowly, painfully, then grasped Sapphire's chin roughly and pulled her close, his eyes full of rage and dark intents. "Oh, you're gonna pay for that, you little bitch. I was just gonna have some fun, but now they're gonna find you in the aqueducts tomorrow morning!"

"They're not going to find you." The voice came from behind Foggy. Before he could turn to see who it was, he felt a terrible burning pain on his back as he sailed through the air and found himself rolling over the concrete until he hit the warehouse he'd just closed up. Foggy groaned and got to his feet, and stared at the jagged burn mark on his back, the mark of being struck with lightning.

The unicorn looked up into the sky, expecting the white pegasi's boyfriend sitting in a storm cloud. Instead, his eyes came down to rest on a single dark blue pegasus with wings too big for his body. His wings were raised over his head, and they coursed with angry little lines of electricity. As Foggy watched the pegasus approach, he could swear he could see the electricity growing darker, more ominous. "You are so dead!" the pegasus growled.

---

Celestia shot to her hooves in her bed. Something was wrong, something was terribly, terribly wrong. Something that had happened once before, nearly four years earlier. As before, Celestia heard that familiar voice in her head that was usually silent chuckling derisively. Oh, Celestia. Can't you keep your little minions under control? It's happening again, you know. Just like before. I'm not so sure he'll be as forgiving this time...

Celestia pushed the Draconequus out of her head for the time being as terrible memories came flooding back to her.

---

-Four years earlier-

"What is happening? Why is the spell breaking?" It was a long shot simply asking him. He'd been sealed in stone for over two thousand years. Not usually the best incentive to cooperate if it was simply to strengthen the seal, so of course it amused him to see her this panicked.

Why? Why not? Don't you think it's about time I came out to play? I've missed you, Celestia. I've missed what we could accomplish together.

She sneered, taking a few steps back away from him.

Oh, come now, my dear. Just think about it for a moment, hm? He stepped away from her again, turning to look thoughtfully into the abyss that was his prison. What could make the spell on my prison break? Certainly not a problem with the elements...hm?

---

-Present-

Aw, you remembered. See, I knew you cared, Celestia! Discord's laughed faded away as Celestia tucked him back into that little prison that she kept locked inside of her own mind. Usually, it was quiet. But almost four years ago, he had almost broken free when the Element of Forgiveness had nearly broken his very nature by comitting murder on a fellow pony.

She had been there, had witnessed the whole thing, warned by Discord himself to make things more interesting rather than let the Princess flounder about and make things too easy. It had been a gamble of course, but he had lost the game when the Element of Laughter managed to calm Spark down before he lost himself completely.

Now, it was happening all over again. Something had gotten Spark so very angry that he was willing to kill his fellow pony. Celestia shot through the open window of her room and headed to where she could sense the Element of Forgiveness becoming more and more unstable.

Comments

[Saveer]

I wana know what would happen if Spark found out who Foggy really was

[mechafone]

1012113 I know, right?! I'm sure he will at some point, but when he does it'll be towards his character growth. His element is forgiveness, after all, but as you've seen he's not that forgiving

[Saveer]

1012131 Im guessing the resilt will be BBQd pony and his horn will be the stick to hold it on mmmm unicorn

[mechafone]

1012158
Well, that's a nice image

[Saveer]

1012168 Well i can get crazy at times

[Licorice Twist]

So...shishka-corn instead of shishkabob? XD

[mechafone]

1017477
Dwah?

[Jacensolo43]

That Unicorn is certainly dead. He'd be lucky if he lasted the night, but he is certainly dead.

[Melody Brush]

Soul Of Songs, Foggy is a sex offender! When I read he was Dinky's father, I had lost all respect for who I thought would be a funny guy.