Chapter 3: Observation
Cobalt Breeze was normal.
She grew up in Los Pegasus, moved to Cloudsdale when she got older, before finally moving to Canterlot to visit her extended family, where she found her husband and got married and had Silver.
Cobalt Breeze was normal.
However, she was beginning to realize that her son was very much not.
It had started off small, almost unnoticeable, but when everything Silver ever learned had the same learning curve, it got pretty hard to ignore.
The second thing that rang warning bells after his... incident, was that he never cried, not once. Sure he wailed and pouted like other children, at least to a point, but there were never any tears, even when he got hurt.
The third thing, ironically enough, was just how... perfect a foal he was.
He never fought with her on anything, never played too rough with other foals, and always told her and Dawn just how much he loved them, every single day. Once he learned to talk at least.
Cobalt wouldn't have thought anything of it if she hadn't grown up with a little sister and seen just what normal foals were like. There was none of that fit throwing if he didn't get his way, no angry glares when she said he couldn't have a piece of candy, and no trying to play when she and Dawn had a rough day.
At first she didn't think it was too bad, but it started to get worse once he started getting older, breezing by some sections of school and struggling heavily in others, all the while having trouble playing with his peers, so she and Dawn decided to homeschool Silver up to a certain point.
Things sort of calmed down after that, but there were still little things that her and Dawn noticed, like how he always read more mature books, and how he never asked for any toys, just a deck of cards when he was six that even today she still saw him messing with occasionally.
Then came the day where they were going to see about enrolling him in Celestia's school for gifted Unicorns.
Cobalt figured that it would just be a normal day, with Silver getting into the school or not and everything turning out fine.
Now, as she watched her magical prodigy son, having become Princess Celestia's personal student, feed the baby purple dragon that he'd hatched and claimed as his little brother, Cobalt Breeze had a realization.
She really, really should have known better by now.
"Say 'Ah~'" Silver opened his mouth wide, smiling when Spike did the same, before the spoon of baby food floating in his magic found its way into the young drake's mouth, whereupon Silver made several 'Om Nom' noises, chuckling when Spike made them as well.
Silver hummed a tune from his old life as he fed Spike, mumbling half forgotten words through a pencil as he scanned a book he had sitting on a table next to him, tapping a few specific lines as he read, marking those down in a little notebook he was holding.
He'd been learning quite a bit about magic these past few weeks, the more technical bits anyway, and he'd be honest in saying that it had completely consumed his attention lately. It was like a smartphone, something you use every day with no hesitation or wonder before realizing that the thing you're holding like no big deal was made of little bits of earth and ran on lightning, letting you somehow talk with people on the other side of the planet.
He could sit there and boggle at magic for years, because it was wierd. For Unicorns, magic was like having fingers when everyone else just had stubs, the other races still had it, but they couldn't manipulate it like Unicorns could.
There was even an old type of magic that used chalk drawings, but it wasn't nearly as good as regular magic, though it did have some more unique spells.
For now though he was sticking to the basics of unicorn magic, that way he would be better equipped to deal with the more difficult magics later on. It didn't matter how much he knew about the teleportation spell if he didn't have the finesse to cast it.
Urp! Fwoosh!
Silver blinked, coughing as he brought a hoof up and rubbed at his suddenly soot-covered face, aiming a halfhearted glare at the giggling dragon who caused it and sticking out his tongue, making the drake's giggles explode into full blown laughter.
"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up you little gremlin." Silver grumbled. He floated a rag over and wiped his face, reaching out and booping Spike on the nose as he did, causing the baby dragon's face to scrunch up, before he sneezed out a burst of fire that Silver only just managed to block, sparing himself from the burns.
The book he used to block it, however, suffered a much worse fate.
Silver stared at the drake as his now burned and unrecognizable book fell to the ground, before he reached over and picked him up out of the chair with his magic, grumbling as he walked out of the room, giving his giggling mother a glare as he passed her by and using his magic to float Spike onto her back.
"Tag out, I gotta take this book back, see if I can't get it fixed." His mom nodded, using a wingtip to keep Spike's attention as Silver headed out of the house, ruined book floating beside him.
Silver hummed to himself as he walked down the streets of Canterlot, the city having become much more familiar in the months he'd had since he became Celestia's student.
He waved at a few familiar faces as he walked down the streets, absently using his magic to help lift a box nearly twice as big as the pony trying to carry it, smiling when they nodded back thankfully.
Soon enough he was coming up on the castle, the too big doors guarded on either side by the statuesque royal guards.
He nodded politely towards them as he walked by, grinning when he saw one of the guard's eyes twitch towards him, designating that one mentally as 'the rookie'.
Silver hummed to himself as he made his way around the castle, stopping for a moment to pop his head into Day Court and see what Celestia was up to, before blinking when he didn't spot her or any other ponies, before shrugging and continuing on his way.
He floated a muffin from the kitchen as he passed it by, much to the protest of the chefs working there and his blatant amusement. Just for fun he waited until a chef popped their head out of the door with a particularly angry expression on their face, whereupon he took a big bite out of the muffin and trotted away, giggling to himself as the chef yelled after him angrily.
He took another bite of his muffin as he turned a corner, holding it in his mouth as he hopped over a static guard and headed over towards a door that he had become very familiar with in his months as Celestia's student.
He nudged open the Archive door, stepping in and trotting over to one of the bookcases, reading the sign at the end of it, before shaking his head and moving onto the next, doing the same thing two more times before he stopped.
"Household Maintenance and Utility spells, right where it always is." He mumbled to himself. He headed into the aisle, scanning the shelves until his eyes locked onto the familiar spot and he let out a sound of triumph, before cutting himself off mid sound and frowning.
"That's... odd, this is always where the repair spells are, and I'm the only one that really uses- oh!" He brought a hoof up to his face, sighing. "I'm a dumbass, and it's in my room." He took a deep breath, holding for a moment, before breathing out.
He whirled around, trotting his way out the door and back down the halls, making his way through that castle towards his room, before he stopped with a vindictive look in his eyes, reaching out and poking a guard on the snout, causing the guard's eyes to fill with the most desperate panic Silver had seen in a long time as they tried not to react in any way.
The guard's eyes widened slightly as Silver shoved his face in theirs, a mad look in his narrowed eyes, before he slowly took in a breath, looking up and blowing sharply.
"Gah!" The guard yelped, their hoof shooting up to their ear, before they froze.
Silver nodded solemnly, patting the horror stricken guard on the shoulder, sighing in disappointment as he turned and started to walk away, keeping his solemn expression up until he turned another corner, where it cracked.
"Pff-PFFFFAHAHAHAHAHA!" Silver burst into laughter, reaching out and using a hoof to brace himself against the wall, the burnt book in his magic flopping to the floor as his concentration waned.
"That was priceless!" He managed to get out between laughs, bringing up a hoof to his mouth and coughing, his laughs dying off into chuckles as he floated his book back up in his magic and clearing his throat, taking a few breaths to stop the last of his giggles.
"Picking on the guards again?" "Ohgod!" Sliver yelped, whirling around and lowering he head to point his horn at whoever it was, before letting out another yelp and lowering it to the floor in a quick bow.
"Princess Celestia! Anything you need?" He asked. She smiled down at him, raising an eyebrow and leaning over to peak around the corner, her other eyebrow raising to meet the other one, before she chuckled and turned back to Silver.
"You do realize they're all going to get you back for all your pranks, right?" She said.
Silver let out a chuckle. "Yeah, I know, but it's fun for now, so I figured why not." He said with a shrug.
She hummed lightly. "I suppose that you aren't hurting anypony. Just make sure not to let it get out of hoof." Silver nodded, and they both started walking.
"I take it you're heading to your room? May I join you?" Celestia asked. Silver blinked at her, before shrugging.
"Sure, don't see why not." He said. She smiled happily, reaching over and laying a wing on his back, much to his confusion.
Silver made a noise of embarrassment and ducked out from under her wing, giving her a theatrical betrayed look, much to her amusement.
They turned a corner, and Silver stopped at his door, turning to say goodbye to Celestia, only to freeze, his mouth half open when he noticed she was gone. He looked left and right, before shaking his head and shrugging.
"Maybe she was late or something." He mumbled.
Didn't matter he supposed, she was always busy with things, so her vanishing wasn't too startling, it'd happened a few times before.
He rolled his eyes and opened his door, heading inside and using his back hoof to close the door, reaching up with a hoof to scratch at his ears.
"Now, where did I put the-" "SUPRISE!!!" "Gah!"
Silver flinched, flinging whatever he could at the first person he saw, the burnt book he threw banging against someone's forehead, causing them to let out a yelp, much to Silver's horror.
"Mom! Oh my gosh I'm so sorry!" She waved at him, wincing as she held a hoof to the new bump on her head, the little purple drake on her back giggling as she did, Celestia's smile widening while Silver's dad nodded along like he'd expected it.
"It's fine, I should've expected a reaction like that anyway." She laughed, walking over and draping her wings around Silver, hiving him a hug and lowering her head to nuzzle at his mane.
"Mom, m-mom! Mooom! Your embarrassing me!" He ducked his head away from her nuzzling, much to her vocal disappointment, reaching up with his hooves and running them through his mane in an attempt to fix it.
"Aww," Cobalt pouted. "But how could I resist nuzzling my birthday boy?"
Silver froze, blinking. "Wait, it's my birthday already?" He asked, confused.
"Yes it is silly." Cobalt said. "How do you keep forgetting?"
Silver chuckled, rubbing the back of his head. "I, uh... don't look at a lot of calendars." His dad snorted and Silver ducked his head, blushing as his mother giggled.
"Ah, don't worry buddy, I have the same problem." Dawn Bolt said, patting Silver on the head, much to his protests.
Celestia smiled to herself as she watched Silver interact with his family, before blinking when she felt something poke at her leg, looking down to see a tiny purple dragon sitting there a curious look on his face.
"Why hello there..." She lowered her head and smiled, at the little drake, before she blinked as he reached up and leatched onto her horn with a sound of triumph.
Celestia gave an amused smile as she brought her head back up, the drake latched on her horn letting out a sound of wonderment as he looked around from his new vantage point.
"S-sorry! He's-*Snrk!*-he's very adventurous!" Cobalt managed to say through the hooves dhe'd all but smashed into her face in an attempt to keep from laughing.
Silver meanwhile was too busy rolling on the floor choking on air and squeaking out a cackle every now and then.
Dawn Bolt rolled his eyes as his wife and son broke down into laughter, lighting up his horn and floating the tiny drake off the Princess's horn and onto his head, where he latched onto Dawn's horn and continued to look around.
"Thank you Dawn Bolt." Celestia sent the stallion a thankful nod, which he returned as he distracted the drake on his head by lighting up his horn every few moments, much to the drake's delight.
Silver rolled back up onto his feet, taking a minute to get his breath back as his mom went over to talk to the Princess, and he sat down as he took a second to just watch his family interact.
This was what it was like, every day, never a moment of quiet.
He loved it.
He let a small smile spread across his face, before his ears perked up as he got an idea, heading over to his trunk of stuff and throwing it open, digging through the clutter until he grinned, pulling out an old looking camera, twisting a knob on it's top.
"Alright, everypony come here!" Everyone in the room turned to him, before they smiled, Cobalt pushing everyone into position as Silver fiddled with the camera, his eyes widening when it started making a ticking noise, trotting over and squeezing in next to his parents.
Celestia watched this all happen with a smile, before letting out a yelp as a blue glow appeared around her, lifting her up and floating her over next to Silver, who promptly leaned into her, Cobalt doing the same on the other side of her.
Celestia felt happiness surge up in her chest as she smiled, reaching out with her wings and wrapping them around the family at her sides.
"Everybody say Cheese!"
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d'aww. cute chapter. I'll reread this story to refresh my memory, but i've still got a good handle on what's went on.
Yes! another great chapter in the life and times of Cobalt. Thank you good sir/madam.
Nice to see Silver’s family adjusting to all of that well. Can’t wait to read more.
Hmm. I see
I hope he uses his position to start quietly digging into Twilight and her family.
Is Twilight alive but elsewhere? Is she something other than a unicorn? Is her family alive?
A good place to start would probably be the local records. Keeping an eye out for Shining Armor would probably help, as befriending him would provide a lot of answers.
If Twilight DOES exist, and is alive, I really hope he befriends her and tries to include her in the life she's supposed to have.
Liking the story so far. Can’t wait for more!
So.... Much.... Sweetness !!!! *heart stop*
Looking forward to seeing what will happen with our hero's story! Are the main6 still around? Does he have to do it all himself? Or are there five marefriend waiting for him in Ponyville? Going to be fascinating to see how things change! You are an excellent writer and I can't wait to see where this goes! I wonder if Twilight is even in this world. Or Cadance! Where is she? Is Shining part of the guard? So many questions!
Oh man the mental image of spike hanging off to as horn is to much for me
I’m wondering if this is one of the realities where the Sonic Rainboom didn’t happen. Twilight would be alive but didn’t hatch have the surge. No surge no hatching of spike and Celestia wouldn’t take notice of her.
In that case I believe Twilight still be a student of the School perhaps a research Cutie Mark and not the magic. Just another filly in the school never knowing her destiny was changed.
So then what did he "wail and pout" about exactly, the stock market exchange?
Anyone else reminded of Dusk and Rune?
Wait, I thought the narrator said that Silver didn't glare at his mother over trivial matters... then again, I suppose not getting candy when you ask for it and nearly getting your muzzle burned off are two different things, so I'll give it a pass.
{Silver: Gotta eat to live, gotta steal to eat; tell you all about it when I got the time!}
Considering that the stone-faced nature of the Royal Guard is indicative of the Queen's Guard, I believe this would be a more accurate reaction that Silver would receive from them.
But what do I know; if they can't deal with demigods that can move the moon, clearly they must be incapable of carrying out their basic everyday jobs too, right?
Wait... you mean he was so on edge from someone calling out his shit, he was going to defend himself?... Well sheesh.
This man in a child's body needs to calm down, seriously.
{Silver: Well geeze, Celestia's like the mom of Equestria, and she's super powerful. I feel like I might let her down from being me.
Also Silver: Sorry Celestia, thanks for the breakfast, but I'm not feeling it.
Silver About a Minute Ago: Oh geeze, you caught me doing pranks on the Royal Guard!
Silver Just Now: Hah, Spike's riding on your horn!}
Huh, I didn't know that Weird Al Yankovic Pony would be here so soon.
No, wait, it's just Brad.
you just did a fallout 3 camera flash timeskip didnt you?
Yay possible rune magic.
After what you said in the last chapter I feel like I should mention that the royal guards aren't that bad, they couldn't do much against most of the villains that attack them even if they had the best training.
Nightmare Moon- was secluded in the evergreen, probably sneak attacked Celestia so that the guards wouldn't know and only made an appearance at ponyvill, very few guards were there and probably wouldn't attack the everfree until reinforcements arrived from Canterlot.
Discord- they had no chance against him no matter what, unless they all had amulets that made them immune to chaos magic but even then they couldn't touch him.
Queen Chrysalis- She probably spent weeks kidnaping and replacing guards before the wedding so it made sense they couldn't do much there, plus even if she didn't kidnap them she could have just used mind magic to make it so that once the invasion started most of the ones she met as cadence would be able to fight.
King Sombra - Celestia didn't send any so it's a moot point.
Sunset Shimmer- she apparently only had to go through a small portion of the castle so her being able to sneak through a few hallways made sense, though no guards being at the door was probably because twilight asked them not to, she would probably feel weird about someone standing at her door all night, so I call this one her falt.
Lord Tire- If they all attacked him at once he would have just opened his mouth and ate all their magic, only the crossbow wielders could have done anything against him and even that might have vailed after a while.
The Storm King- No excuses here, they weren't even there, whether they would have been a big help against the giant gorilla monsters is up to debate but that doesn't matter if they went there. This one is a definite fail for them they deserve all the hate they get for this one.
Hiya, it's nice to see you back!
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This comment made my day.
Also, it was more a playful glare.
As for the guards, I think their reactions would be a bit less extreme given their ponies, and ponies are generally nice by nature.
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I admit to nothing.
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I actually like the guard, it's just that they're always places in unwinnable situations. If you remember, in the Alt. Timelines they were able to compete with Sombra's army, and in the normal one, the only reason Chrysalis won is because she's replaced quite a few of their number.
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Good to hear, I just see so much hate for them and I assumed you thought the same.
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Well no, people who harass the Queen's Guard don't get a bayonet in their face on the first strike; that usually happens on the third strike, or when some moron touches the shoulder the guard's gun is resting on like in the video. But in all three cases, the declaration "Stand back from the Queen's Guard" is resounded, and by the fourth strike, the tourist gets detained by the guard in question or any guards that he calls in for backup.
And yes, while ponies are nicer by nature, I don't believe that trained guards who'd no doubt follow a standing operating procedure would be taken down the same way Mr. Miyagi finished off Colonel Dougan after curb-stomping him.
It's nice to hear that everything is working out okay to a degree. I am looking forward to the next chapter.
Really loving this story and am looking forward to future chapters.
Hoping for more flabbergasted Celestia in the future
Firstly, sweet, an update.
Secondly, DAAAAAAWWWWWwww . . .
So glad to see you're back! I was getting a little worried that this would be one of the stories that had a great first 3 chapters and then never updated again. I'm glad your eye is better and that you're (mostly) done moving.(nobody is ever Really done moving)
Is there a timeframe we can expect the next update? I'm not gonna rush or nag, I just really enjoy the story!
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Ah... a week? Maybe two? It's a hobby, so it's not exactly a science.
It helps, however, that the next chapter is already 1k strong, so it should be soon. A few days maybe.
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Awesome! I'm excited for it!
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I'm also very glad. Yeah, unfortunately, a lot of stories with this kind of premise are done by authors who either have a great idea that the inspiration runs out after the first couple chapters, or stuff gets in the way in their life, and they stop writing. It's kinda sad.
(Also, I'm usually that first kind of writer. I have to write about five chapters before I try to publish anything, to make sure I can finish them.)
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I was the same way for a while, but I'm starting to see how the other writers do it. Helps a lot to observe them at work, or what I can see over the internet really.
Love the characters so far, can't wait to see how all of this plays out. Definitely going on my watch list, can't wait for more chapters!
Ohhh this is interesting. Tracked and upvoted.
Can't wait for more!
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ALL THE D'AAAWWWS!!!!!
Did I miss something or did you have Silver go from fearing Celestia cause she's a all powerful God, to thinking of her as family?
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Huh, that's exactly what I thought.
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He fears her like you fear any mom or grandma. Make no mistake, she is the scariest thing ever to him, but only when it shows. You don't fear your mom all the time just because she can punish you.
Let me put it this way, he doesn't fear Celestia for what she'll do, he fears her because he can't think of a way to even hurt her, so the only thing he has to use against her is talking. Which he's... not so good at.
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Simple just use levitation to snap someone's neck or take out the entire brain or every single body part splitting to pieces extremely fast to the point where she won't regenerate .Unless in this universe she has extremely regenative fast abilities.
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Seemed like he was afraid cause he didn't know her. She's a thousand years old, immortal, a ruler and maintains a image as kind and caring being but what is she really like? Isn't that what scares him?
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Dead on the money.
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First time I've been right in years.
It will be interesting to see how its shown he feels that way and for how long.
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For me, I just have a stubborn resolve never to let any of my stories die.
I almost hate it, since that means I can't start new ones when I have so many going at once, but it's for my own good.
weird. I before E, except after C, with exceptions like neighbor and weigh. Probably a keyboard barf, though. Goodness knows I do those enough.
Theory confirmed. You are missing an R in surprise.
latched
There is a lot of timeskipping between chapters, seemingly. Last time, he wouldn't be around Celestia and now they get along. It's not terrible, but it would improve things if there was a chapter in between detailing how that changed.
enjoying it thus far, keep it up!
I dare to go to my homepage you'll receive a like.Also in one of my comments you'll receive a choice in a important event....
MORE!!!...please?
What a wholesome chapter.
"Picking on the guards again?" " Ohgod! " Sliver yelped, whirling around and lowering he head to point his horn at whoever it was, before letting out another yelp and lowering it to the floor in a quick bow.
Sliver.
I love this chapter its the great and powerfullllllll Chapter.
Well this chapter went by fast.
Cute.
I know i should find this cute but i have this feeling telling me its going to be sad ...
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Why did you have to invoke Murphy? Now everything'll go to shit!