> Clown Mare > by Flora Blossom > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Once upon a time, where Rane Shackleton was born in Cloudsdale in the year 1253.  Her red fur coat from her father and her cute pink eyes were from her mother.   She aged well, with her parents.  At age three, she began to talk, age five she began to walk, age six she learned how to juggle, and at age seven she began her first clown circus act.  It was only just a small crowd of ponies of family members first.  She had never got her cutie mark just yet.  She then turned eight in the Fall of 1261. It was for her schooldays that she went to the little town called Los Pegasus.     Rane used her right hoof to hit the alarm clock.  She rubbed her eyes with both hooves when she put words to thoughts, “So, this is it, isn’t it. I was the only foal in the household.  However, when I always go to school things get out of hoof.”  After school grounds.  Rane used the right hoof to open her locker, a pony used its left hoof, and bash the locker towards Rane's face.  She shut her eyes, “AHHH...” felt pain right on her face, and dropped on the floor on her right side.  The pony who hit her face used lots of the saliva from their muzzle.    Rane felt a wet splat on her face.  The partner who was there looked at her pathetic face, started to use the left back leg, and kicked her in the belly really hard.  Rane tried to catch her breath however, she didn’t know how long it could last.  The one pony stepped on her face and headed to her class room.  The other stepped on her left leg and headed upstairs to her class room.  A strange blue pony appeared in the hallway, with a royal blue mane, and tail. The stranger walked up to her and put both of their hooves around her.  They picked her up and walked straight to the emergency medical room.    “When I was almost feeling it, I couldn’t be such a pony anymore after four years.  My parents sold me out to a royal family.  It wasn’t how I wanted my life to be. The royal family kept me in good shape for six years of being a maid.  Most of the family treated me kindly, the other half judged me as being a slave.  The year of 1272 in the Fall when I was nineteen, when I made a heavy decision of my life.”  Rane walked out of the room, headed to the left, down the hallway of five doors, another hallway where she turned right, walked past seven doors, and opened the eighth room.  No one was using it and she walked in.  There she was grabbing the soap with her left, turning both of the valves.  She walked over the edge where she felt a warm wet dripping water fast across her body.  Her chain around her neck was tight and it made a clash sound.  One way was to remember the happy times with her real mother and father.    “It was a great adventure with a few of my friends at the old school. Jeez I forgot how it felt before I went into this slave mess business. I wonder why my parents did it.  Did they ever love me back?  They must have been in debt or something.  Well, now I live in the rich folk as a slave. The only thing was, I hope they don’t put me in prostitution.”  Rane used both hooves and turned the valves the opposite direction.  The faucet had come to a stop, a fog of moisture in the air when she took a deep breath.  In other words, she stepped out of the edge of the tub and grabbed a dry rag with her left hoof.  She used both hooves and rubbed the rag left to right several times on the back side.  Took part of the right hoof, let the left hoof lose, swung the rag on the right side, and grabbed it with the left.  Her face went down onto the rag while she rubbed it up, down, left, and right.  “It was then I knew something must have come up on this very day, when the blue pony showed up when I was at the med clinic at the school.  We both graduated however, when he looked at me, and gave me that smile of his.  I don’t know why he smiled at me. For a moment I thought he might like me.  I never knew he was a prince until I became a slave.”  The door had made a knocking sound.   “Hey! You're late hurrying up to dinner room.”  “I’ll be right there.”  After she dried off, she used her right hoof to grab the handle from the first drawer to the right, that was underneath the sink. She of course grabbed the comb and stroke left to right around her bangs, the rest of her mane, and then her tailed that took about two minutes each.      The prince was waiting for her in dinner room.   “So, it’s been seven years I kept her as a slave.  I kept a promise to her parents that I would protect her from prostitutes.  However, when she turns twenty-one, she will make a choice.  Will she fall in love with me? The other royal families look up to me and most of them have different rules when it comes to slaves due to prostitution. Most of their rules are really horny compared to our family. Some royal families had a tendency of making them prostitutes when they first bought them while they were underage, older, or spot on at the age of eighteen.  Those royal families make me sick if they go underage. I like to treat my slaves the way they should be treated fairly.  My parents had some agreements on what I do. Sex is pretty high and addicting but, when it comes to truing romance there always a better way to make them like you.”  Rane walked in dinner room and picked the far end of the seat across from the prince himself. > Chapter 1.1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rane stared at the prince's eyes, in the dinner room where it was dark with a one hanukkah menorah on the table that was lit up a while ago.  “Mrs. Rane, I wanted to tell you something in return for our end of the bargain chip in two years in the future.  It is highly personal.” She used her left hoof to grab the tea cup, took a sip of it when she closed her eyes, when she took that breath in deep from her muzzle, she noticed it was a deep personal.  “So, Prince. What can I do? I’m a slave with no freedom to do what I truly want. I need special attention.  All I know is that this here my chain around my neck is the only thing that is keeping me alive.  Without it I wouldn’t be sitting here with you.  I’m all ears Prince.   I just wish I had better terms as a slave. However, I can’t do anything right. All I kept doing was getting a death wish in a gambling act. I’m a clown.  I used to love to laugh all the time, when I juggle the empty bottles I thought I could be some pony with a chance of a clown's skill. Why prince? Why is it so hard to be me?” The prince used both of his hooves to the teacup and took a sip of it while it was still hot, when he sat it back down he too shut his eyes. “Well, why not work on it.” He then opened his mouth putting his teeth together upon his face and slanted both eyes at her, took his right hoof, grabbed the cup as if he was thinking about her, lifted his right hoof, took a sip of it, and sat it back down onto the table making a glass noise sound. He saw that the mare did the same thing however, she never slanted her eyes.  All she could do was a smile at the prince.  One of the mare maidens opened the door and went to dinner room with a pile of food.  The mare used her left hoof and placed the apple dumplings in front of the prince, while she also walked toward the clown slave and placed a four piece of that key lime pie. Rane used her left hoof to grab the first slice of the key lime pie, put it in her mouth, used her teeth to chop it up, felt a taste likes no other once again, and then swallowed it to grab another piece from the plate.  The prince also used his left hoof, grabbed the apple dumpling, once then took a gentle bite out of it, and was a bit sad when he looked at the poor slave. The maiden walked out of dinner room. She headed towards the kitchen where a chef named Tenderheart. She was a pink earth pony who knew the culinary arts. Tenderheart paused and looked at the yellow earth pony named Sky Skimmer. “The chef has perfect tasting food with lots of deliciousness desserts.  I wonder what her cake tastes like with that new recipe she made and kept holding onto these past few months.  It said it may have been the best dessert ever with that fluff whip cream on top.”  "Hey their chef! I’m here for the main course salad with cheese.”   The chef used her left hoof and pointed to the direction of the royal salads.  Maiden used her right hoof and grabbed all the royal salads and put it on the tray that is resting on her left shoulder. She then headed out back to dinner room.   “If only ponies could see my potential back in the day as a cook.  I could have gotten a better royal family to produce the foods.  However, I heard rumors that this place is way better than the other families and how they treat their own subjects as a chef.  Still wonder what it would be like to be in their royal presence.” The maiden slowly walked down the hallway.  “This house seems to be the best place it can be, when the day is done, I wish I could just see the world that we live in, it is not that hard to find what you like however, I wish we could find another maiden instead of the slave.  I wonder if the prince really likes her though. It would be nice to take a break once in a while but, we also have to be careful of other slave masters.”  The maiden walked in dinner room and headed towards the left side of the Prince. She used her right hoof and placed the royal salad in front of him, then she walked to Rane Shackleton to her right side and used her right hoof and placed it in front of her as well.  “Do you mind Mrs. Sky?  I mean to give us some tea while you are finished upping over there.”  Mrs. Sky turned to the right and bowed, “Yes, Prince Blue Dream I’ll be right on it.”  Mrs. Sky walked to the door, opened it with her right hoof, and went to the hallway.  Rane used her right hoof, grabbed the utensil, gently used it on the plate making a clink sound, picked it up, having a piece of lettuce stuck on the utensil, while opening her mouth slowly, putting that utensil near her mouth, chopped it with her teeth together, made a lettuce cut sound in her mouth, when it was closed, and then slowly pull the utensil away from her mouth.   The Prince did the same thing, but was looking at her with a left raised eyebrow. “When I was looking at the prince, I could tell that he was looking at me very awkward.  I wonder what kind of thoughts he had when thinking about me.  Nevertheless, it was kind of moment where I sat down eating. Knowing that I could have done the same thing to make a jester expression.  However, I didn’t. I just sat there looking at him.” > Chapter 1.2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The maiden walked to the kitchen and used her left hoof, grabbed the pot, and hung it over the sink.  She used her right hoof and turned the right valve. The water was poured out with a nice fresh of hot moisture that steamed in the faucet.  She looked at the counter, opened the far top left of the drawer with her left hoof, and used her right hoof to grab one of the black tea’s bags.  She took the tea bag, placed it into the pot, while she carried it to the fire place, and held it there.   Rane took another bite of the salad when the Grand Duchess came from her room.  Every pony stood upping from their seat.   The mother took her seat on the left of her son, then everyone sat back down.   “Is the tea ready my good son?”   “No, it will be in a few minutes.”   “Oh, dear me.  Will you pass the salt Mrs. Rane.”   “Yes, Grand Duchess Light Heart.”   “Ah, still being all professional aren't we Mrs. Rane?”   “Why of course. I must go through all royal family rules and standards.”   The prince opened his mouth wide with his teeth together.  Rane used her left hoof to pass the salt to his mother.  The mother grabbed the salt with her right hoof and put it right next to her. The maiden walked back to dinner room, walked to Grand Duchess Light Heart, used her left hoof, poured the tea pot into the small cup, walked to the prince, poured the tea pot into the small cup. “Do you wish to have some tea dear?” “Of course.” The maiden walked over to Rane, while she used her left hoof and poured it into the small cup. The Father woke up from the bed, used his right hoof, grabbed the left corner of the bed sheet, swung it to the right side of the bed, and got up from the bed.   “This place was the most cherished house I had ever been.  However, how long will it last?  I hope for several years.  Due in time, once was the days getting shorter each day as I grew old. The only time when I read the newspaper was if something came up with the other royal families' reputations.”   He then looked on the left side of him at the wall and rang the bell.  Petal Blossom used her right hoof and knocked on the master's door.   “You may come in.”   She then used her right hoof and walked in the room where it was all fancy decorations; to family heirlooms, to ancient paintings, and old relics of Equestria.  “Grand Duke Tipsy Tulip the other head of the household.  He is something not to step across when getting into an argument.” “Does my mane look alright?” He then got up and walked towards the detail mirror that was kept from the last Grand Duke.  He lived in this same household until he died of old age. “Yes, Grand Duke Tipsy Tulip.  Everything is in order right now.” “So, this is it then, the way of life, I Grand Duke Tipsy Tulip will surpass my father Grand Duke Butterfly Hunter.” Mrs. Petal used both hooves to fetch his black coat that had a nice threading, the buttons were about thirty years old, and the bow tie was his fathers.     “You look tremendous Grand Duke.”   “Thank you it’s been a pleasure to keep you for all those years in service.”   Mrs. Petal used both hooves to fix his bow tie near his neck from to the left side of him.  The maiden turned left and walked back to the door and opened it for him. The Grand Duke walked out of the room and went to dinner room, once he got to the room he sat next to his son on the right.  Mrs. Teddy walked in dinner room and gave the newspaper to the Grand Duke.  Mrs. Sky looked at the Grand duke. “Do you want some tea my lord.” The Grand Duke nodded his head yes, while he opened the darkest rumor, when he looked at the newspaper. Mrs. Sky used both of her hoofs and poured the hot black tea to the Grand Duke tea cup, while the hot steam came out. Every pony that was sitting down took a sip at their cup, sat it down on the glass plate, and made a small glass sound.   Grand duchess used her hoof and poured the salt on top of the tea cup, used her left hoof with a utensil to stir it, and took another sip to see if it tasted better.  Her mouth opened ever so slightly, with her teeth together. “The Galloping Gala will be opened in a few weeks. Gentle colts and lady mares.” Every pony got up, the maidens walked out of dinner room to the kitchen, the Grand Duchess walked out of the room and went outside, the Grand Duke walked to his library upstairs, the Prince walked to his bedroom.     Rane however, used her left hoof and picked up all the plates, walked back to the kitchen, set them in the sink with water, and scrubbed them with soap.     Everything was beautiful outside where the wind gust went across your face, when the flower began to bloom, and then one stranger came up to their doorstep.  It was as if the person saw a mare walking out of the house to get some fresh air.   The stranger knocked on the house, then the door opened slowly with a pony with a chain around her neck in a red skin fur coat.   “I say, it’s lovely to be outside but, is the Grand Duke Tipsy Tulip in there.”   “Yes, Princess Sapphire, he's at his library upstairs.”   The white Princess Sapphire walked in and headed upstairs with Rane in front of her, once they got to the library the Grand Duke was sitting down in his chair reading a book. “Grand Duke? I’m sorry for the troubles but, this Princess Sapphire wanted to see you.” “Really, very well, you are dismissed.”   Rane turned to the left and walked out of the room.   “So, Princess Sapphire. What can I do for you in this fine place?”   “The auction.” The Grand Duke Tipsy Tulip glazed at her, put his left hoof over his mouth.       “We don’t speak of it here my Princess. Only because it’s bad.”     He remembered the first time when he was there.     “Ponies shout of abuse, rape, and other fetishes. A small crowd of rich ponies in a dark cave tavern. Most of them are perverted. Some pony really did cut the slave eyes once. It wasn’t pretty to look at. They called it the second Black Market. It was for all the ponies who didn’t have a home to go back to. They were captured and bruised and some were even foals. It was a disaster. I couldn’t save all of them. I only managed to get two, and they both are my maidens. I never had sex with them, and they said they were still virgins. Well, they are still. I remember I couldn’t cook at that time and still to this day I couldn’t. I made a deal to get a head chef named Tenderheart. She was hard to get since it was in Manhattan after all, when I was there it was full of heavy rain.” > Chapter 1.3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The full rain dripped down on him outside, he then walked inside and smelled the delicious bread those ponies were making.  The Grand Duke used his head to turn to the right, put his coat, and hat on a hanger to dry.  The two maidens walked behind him.  He turned his head to the left and looked at all the ponies that were cooking.  Several ponies grabbed the powder of flour, poured the water, used a utensil, and started to roll.  Most of the hoofs had some kind of white powder on their hoofs.  Five other ponies where Mrs. Tenderheart was. She used her left hoof and grabbed the egg. She then hit it on the counter, separating the shell over a bowl, then used her right hoof, and stirred the bowl.   Tenderheart closed her eyes with her mouth opened wide with her teeth together.  The Grand Duke with her maidens opened their mouths with their teeth together at Tenderheart.     “I’m the Grand Duke Tipsy Tulip.  Will you like to cook in our household? It will be an honor.”   Tenderheart nodded her head yes with both of her eyes shut and her mouth opened wide with her teeth together. “Mrs. Princess Sapphire is there anything you need?”   “One more thing.”  She gave him a letter, then she walked out of the room went downstairs, and walked out of the house.   The Grand Duchess Light Heart walked back with two flowers in her mane near the left side of her head. She then walked in the household and headed upstairs to the main bedroom.   The slave, prince, maidens, and the Grand Duke walked back to their bedrooms.     Prince Blue Dream walked in his room and started to wonder about the future of the slave Rane Shackleton.     “I wonder if Rane would love me.  It’s hard to tell these days what she likes.  One day, I will ask her out to dance with me at the Grand Galloping Gala.”   He walked to the bed and hopped on it, looked at the ceiling, used both hooves, pushed the sheets underneath him, and then pulled the sheets on top of him while he shook his body, took a deep breath, and shut his eyes.  Rane walked in the room she used her right hoof on her left wing.  She remembered what happened all those years ago back in high school.   There she was walking out of the locker room and went out of the high school doors.  There were a few more ponies that were waiting for her.  So, she walked further, one of them used their left hoof, and used a power force on the left side of Rane's face.  She dropped down and hit the gravel on the right side of her face.     The filly used her left hoof, grabbed her left wing tightly, pulling it, and then used her back left hoof on Rane’s left wing, and made a crack sound twisting it.  Rane had watered dripped down on her cheeks, while the group walked back and went home.   Prince Blue Dream walked out of the high school with the wind blowing in his face, and then he saw her laying down on the gravel.  He picked her up and looked at her left wing that bent in a different direction. He had water dripping down from his eyes.  Carried her to his household.  The Arch Duchess Golden Glow took a look at her and used a healing spell to cure the wounds. However, she couldn’t fix the broken wing.    Rane’s eyes were shut and heard a conversation. “Sorry grandson but, that’s the best I can do for her.  You do realize if you like her you should be a protector you know.”   “I try my best but there will always be something up that I have to do. Like cleaning after school.” The Arch Duchess understood the problem, at that moment the prince used both hooves and touched Rane’s right hoof and shut his eyes. She then used her right hoof to pull the sheet from left to right, went on the bed, laid on her back, used her right hoof, and grabbed the bed sheets from left to right again.  She leaned on her right side and shut her eyes with teardrops running down her face. The Grand Duke gave the letter to the Grand Duchess.   “So, do you want to read what it says or should I.” The Grand Duchess used her left hoof and opened the letter with ease. The letter said. I will be returning to my household from vacation. Signed by Archduchess Golden Glow. > Chapter 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sun rose where the wind whispered on the grass, blossom petals caught the wind when petals scattered everywhere from the west.      Several ponies walked on the street towards Los Pegasus. One however, left the group.     She of course walked a different path to the household Moon Crest, walked towards a long wooden bridge, while she paused for a second, she saw the further into the distance.       “It has clearly been a long time since I came to my sons house.  I heard rumors he still has that slave that I bought from six years ago.  Hopefully she is doing well with that enhancement chain collar that can heal whoever wields it.  Although the broken wing was the main issue, I would love to check one more time.  Afterwards I spent in the dark and dusty old library working with healing magic and healing enhancements. At my younger ages I was so smart with wards and fire magic.  Healing used to be the worst thing that I could ever happen.  Until that one day.”    Countess Golden Glow was at age twenty-three when it happened during schools.     “All right class heal the wounded fish.”    Golden Glow cast the spell upon the fish several times but couldn't get it right.  She took a deep breath, shut both of her eyes, yellow glowed from her horn, and released the magic to the fish.  It wobbled, when she opened her mouth with her teeth together. The Archduchess kept walking to the household.   The wind blew her mane and tail from south to the east, she then looked at the right that was east of her, and saw the sun rising with blossom petals blooming everywhere.  The site, it’s finest, and she stared at it for a moment.    “It’s a beautiful site.  It’s why I’m in love with this place. A place where I can go back to.  The smell of it is so refreshing compared to the city.”   Walked over to the house and rang the doorbell. The Grand Duchess Light Heart opened the door.  Her expression on her face with an opened mouth dropped.   “Honey, get down here this instant.”   The Grand Duke Tipsy Tulip walked from the kitchen to the door entrance.  He turned his head to the left with a loud voice, “Maids, chef, slave and Prince Blue Dream get to the entrance at once.”   Everyone who was there and including the slave was there had bowed to the Archduchess Golden Glow. “Hello every pony!  It is an honor to meet all of you again.”   Rane looked at the Archduchess, she saw a lot of diamonds on her necklace, with a hat of an onyx gem on the front, and a bracelet on her left side with a blue pearl to show she was married.  Those cyan eyes of hers are very pretty even for her age. “I remembered her, she was the one that cast healing wards on me, and even made the chain have healing powers when equipped.  The thing she cast on that day, couldn’t remember it but it was a word that was weird, and I wondered what it was.  Clearly this family is the best I've ever seen in my life.  They are all nice ponies, something I felt like I was already part of a family to cherish working together.” Archduchess had her head high and walked to the library.  The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess walked behind her, Prince walked with Rane to the bedrooms, maidens walked to the bathrooms, and the chef walked back to the kitchen. The maidens used their hoofs with a rag and pressed the cloth on top surfaces in the tub, then they put the rag in the bucket and lifted it out, squeezed it inside of the bucket, went up and down the walls of the room, repeated the process for the sink, and toilet.   The Prince and Rane used their left hoofs with a utensil and lightly touch every surface, once they were done with that in the room, they clearly set the utensil down on an end table and picked up a wet cloth with the right hoof, and pressed against the fireplace, while they rubbed it up and down the brick surfaces. The Archduchess, Grand Duke, and Grand Duchess walked in the library. “I like to know what is the status of Rane?” The Grand Duchess used her left hoof and placed it over the right hoof, and looked down slanting both eyes. The Grand Duke walked to his chair and shut his eyes and took a deep breath.  The Archduchess looked at the sun continuing to rise with the blooming of the trees.   “So, what is the situation?” The Grand Duchess walked up to the Archduchess, used her right hoof, and placed it on Archduchess left shoulder, “She can’t fly.” “The pegasus will be looking down on us for sure.  It may start a war that we can’t win.  Magic is something but, weather is a whole different ball game.” The Archduchess turned her head to the right, “If we don’t keep this a secret from the Prince and Rane their relations might go sour. On top of that, pegasus wouldn’t give us rain, earth ponies can’t grow food, and we unicorns can’t produce magic for protection of wild creatures. That if things got out.” Every pony in the room felt shame to admit the future is too good to be true. Grand Duke opened his eyes, “I guess there will only be one way to find out.  Let the present flow into the future.” They all nodded their heads up and down. The Grand Duchess then put her left hoof back on the floor, walked out of the library, and went to dinner room.  Grand Duke got up from his chair, walked out of the library, and went to dinner room.  The Archduchess followed the Grand Duke. Chef Tenderheart used the pan and held it near the stove with her left hoof, put some spices with her right hoof. She then put the spices' utensil down and flipped the eggs. > Chapter 2.1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sky Skimmer walked to the kitchen, she then grabbed a yellow brick, slippery it was, screwed the valve on the left side that made a fog steam coming out of the faucet.  She put both her hooves together from top to bottom and made suds. The left valve was turned with her left hoof, the water had stopped, when she grabbed that towel from the rack, and rubbed both hooves, she then set the yellow brick back on the counter, and used her right hoof putting the towel on the hanger to her left.   “Eggs are done Mrs. Sky.  Will you send these out?”  “Yes, Mrs. Tenderheart.”  Tenderheart used her left hoof, grabbed the utensil, and laid the eggs on the three plates. Sky used her left hoof and grabbed the middle plate.  She then used her right hoof, grabbed the right plate, took a deep breath, let it all out, and then walked to dinner room. Petal used her left hoof and grabbed the last plate on the counter.    Rane opened the door to dinner room, Sky walked in, and used her left hoof to set down the plate for Archduchess Golden Glow.  Walked past the Grand Duke on his left, used her right hoof to set it down the Grand Duchess plate.  Petal walked in first and then Sky walked out of the room, when Petal walked toward the Grand Duke Tipsy Tulip, she set the plate down on his right side, and opened her mouth with her teeth together.  The dinner room had a slight crisp touch of perfection. Hanukkah menorah candles wax were dripping down slowly from the heat of the nine small candles.  The room began to warm up a little bit from the candles.    Archduchess Golden Glow had eaten the eggs, used her left hoof, picked up the napkin, and tapped it on her face.  “So, are we going to the auction house three days from now?  If so, we do need more maidens. There is also another option: find custom servants.”  Grand Duke and Grand Duchess slanted their eyes and looked down ever so slightly.  Grand Duke used his left hoof, grabbed the napkin, while his throat was dry, he then coughed into the napkin twice, and sat the napkin down onto the table.   “So, who are we going to get this time.  It would be so natural to take Rane’s place.  That poor filly can’t even fly.  We need to do something quick to make her heal that wing of hers. To make her fly.  With my sincere respect that she managed to make it this far in six years.”  Grand Duke used his right hoof, grabbed the small tea cup, put it near his mouth, and took a few gulps of water.  “I still can’t believe we're still managing a forty percent income as well. Archduchess.”  “Well, Grand duchess if it wasn’t for Grand Duke Brother-in-law, we would be in the soil ourselves.  We had common interests.  He wanted my husband's farm, so I made him rent it. It’s a fine deal if you ask me.”  The Grand Duchess looked at her tea cup on her right, then looked at the Archduchess.  “Which he is coming here tomorrow to pay us right?”  Archduchess looked at the Grand Duke and raised her left eyebrow.  “Why yes.”   Grand Duke opened his mouth with his teeth together.  “Well, I can’t wait to see him tomorrow.”    Miss Chef used both of her hoofs, opened the fridge, placed a sandwich in the fridge on the second shelf, and then closed the fridge door with her right hoof.  “Miss Chef.  Is everything good for tomorrow? He can’t wait to see his brother.  It has been quite some time.”   Miss Chef's body shaken a little bit, placed her left hoof over the right, and turned her head to the right.  “Everything is great. Don’t you know the Archduchess will be there as well?”  Jazz head went up and down, then turned to her right, walked upstairs to dinner room, used his left hoof, and placed the cupcake on the table. She opened her mouth with her teeth together.  “Duke Teddy, the Archduchess Golden Glow will be there.”  “It looks delicious. Tell the Chef that it’s perfect.”  Jazz walked out of the room and went back downstairs.   Duke Teddy used his right hoof, opened his mouth with his teeth together, and took a bite.  Duke Teddy used his right hoof, grabbed the napkin, used it, tapping on his face, shut both of his eyes, facing the window, and imagined the sweet taste of the cupcake.  “Copper Glow and Floral. Will you be so kind as to water the plants in the green house.”  Copper used both of her hoofs, rolled both of the wheels, used her horn with a glow of green aura. The watering can was lifted, went in the sink, Floral used her right hoof, and turned the right valve.  Water ran down into the water can, making a water drip sound, when it was full Copper put the watering can onto her lap with her magic.  Floral grabbed another watering can to fill.   Floral then took her right hoof and turned off the water when the watering can was full.  She then used her right hoof, turned the faucet to the left, pulled the watering can out of the sink, and grabbed the bottom with her left hoof.  Copper used her horn, turned out green, glowed on the faucet, and turned pipe back to the right. She then opened the door for Floral, rode on a chair out of the house, closed the door with her magic. The two ponies walked to the right which is north.  The breeze blew in their face from the west. The sun continued to rise where the trees shook their branches and made leaves scattered across land. Copper used her magic, opened the green house door that was facing towards them.  The door went inward to the right and made a creek sound.  Floral walked inside and used her strength to place it upon the left table near the door. She then walked back outside, used both of her hoofs on the back of the chair, and pushed it forward. Copper used her horn, the handle of the door glowed, then the door made a squeak sound when she closed the door behind her. Floral went and grabbed the watering can once again.  She used both hooves, picked it up, and started to walk on the green house tile.  Behind her Copper used her horn, the object from her lap had a green light aura around it, went lift off of her lap, and poured the water on the top shelves.  Floral used her hooves and poured water on the lower shelves.  She used this high pitch note when she sang in the green house. > Chapter 2.2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rane walked outside of the household for some fresh air. She of course was shaken up a little bit by the wind that blew on her body ever so slightly, she looked at a tree, and it bloomed in the day as she glazed upon it. The prince walked outside and saw nature take its course. He looked up at the clouds that were ever so white. When he walked towards Rane, he used his left hoof gently on her shoulder, and then opened his mouth with his teeth together.   Clearly it was a moment of truth when they both looked at each other's eyes.  It was then the Archduchess came in to view the most beautiful site. They all sat down together and opened their mouth wide with their teeth together.     “Rane, can we talk?”   “Yes, Archduchess.  What do you have in mind?”   “Prince, leave us to our meddling, won't you dear?”   The prince turned his head to the left.   “Of course, Archduchess.”   He then stood up and walked back to the house.   The Archduchess looked at him when he walked in the house.   “Oh, good. Well, it is time to think of what kind of dress you will be wearing at the Grand Galloping Gala.”   She then used her left hoof and pulled out a fan, used her hoof back and forth, when the fan had blown in her face, she paused the fan and put it over her mouth.   “Oh, well, I never had a dress.  Is it possible to wear the clown suit I once have?”   “Of, course not.  It would be highly inappropriate. How about a nice black dress with a good white trimming?”   “I don’t know.  I never thought about dresses.  It could be cool but they're expensive.”   “No need to worry my dear this will be on us.”   Duke Teddy was inside of the green house.   “Is everything done here ladies.”   “Yes, Duke Teddy.”   Floral nodded her head up, down, while her eyes were shut, and with that opened mouth with her teeth together.   The door opened behind Duke Teddy and was shut by another pony in the room.   “Husband! I came here to report to you that the flowers sold very well in the city.”  She had come in with her eyes open with a big open mouth with her teeth together.   The Duke ears went up with a left to right in a short time span, when he turned his head to the right.    “Hey! My lady Buttercup.”   Floral and Copper paused for a moment and turned their heads directed towards the Duchess.   “You are dismissed servants.”   Floral and Copper walked to the entrance of the green house. They used their hooves and set the watering can on the table on their right. Just at the same moment when Copper looked upon her legs.   “It has been a long time since I ever went mining those shiny jewels. I clearly miss those days badly.  My mining tools, my buddies who I was working with, and my boss who gave me a gem each time I found a big gem.  The rookie season when ponies didn’t follow protocols.  I lost someone closest to me, seven mining experts, and two rookies.  All because of that bloody fool.  Of all time I remember it very well.”   Copper slanted both of her eyes and her brain turned on putting a viewing image.   Copper was out of the office of the mining camp. All five of us went down into that deep hole.  That when it happened. Four ponies and two of them were rookies.     Copper and the six expert ponies walked down further in the cavern.  It was dark and they had three unicorns with light.  One of them was Copper Glow, while she stayed to the right of the group going forward, and then they discovered a big glass clear smooth surface. One pony placed an object right beside it, he turned his head to the right, and told them to take cover.  No pony ever agreed to this. They took a few steps back. The object was loud, the cavern shook hard, rock fell down from the cavern ceiling, and all the pones ran back. They ran as fast as they could but some along the way were smashed by the rock fall. Copper tripped on a stone in the cavern about three quarters of the way, while three of them ran for it. She jumped, the other two were out of breath, when the rocks fell on them Copper turned her head to the left.  It brought a water drip from her eye and ran down. Her heart was pounding in her chest, the eyes were blurry, and her head began to think of all those ponies who had died.  Suddenly the huge rock rolled in front of her, she turned away and slid across the filthy dirt, and the rock rolled back.  She moved her head forward however, the rock rolled on her back legs making a crack sound in both. Water dripped down on her face, both of her hooves covered her face, while the small rocks fell on her, when her heart felt despondent, she then shut both of her eyes. Later that three days in that cavern she opened her eyes. It was dark and many rocks were on top of her. The boss came by to see what happened when she heard the loud noise.  She used her horn with her magic to get rid of the collapse rocks, after a while she found a pony, and looked close at her legs.  Silver Glow used all of her strength to lift those rocks from the legs, grabbed her with both of her hooves, and pulled her out a few inches.  She then used her magic again, placed Copper Glow on top of her, and walked out two miles.   “What have they done? I didn’t know what they were thinking when they used explosives.  Even then it was illegal to use them in the mining in the first place. Only she can tell me of what happened.”   Silver Glow got to the elevator and used her magic to press the button to head up to the surface, slanted both of her eyes, and looked down.  The elevator had arrived at the surface, and walked to the hospital.  The moon rose when they got to the hospital. The wind blew in Copper's face to the present, when Floral pushed her outside.   Floral walked in the house with her and went to the kitchen; when she pushed Copper Glow’s wheelchair to the kitchen table.  She went toward the sink and used soap and water, putting her hooves together. Copper used her horn, carried the hot water near her hooves, grabbed the soap with her magic, pouring the water on her hooves, she rubbed them together, and then put all the water back into the sink drain. Floral sat down next to Copper opened her mouth with her teeth together.  Copper did the same back to her as well, when she shut her eyes. Rane walked in her bedroom and shut the door behind her. “Launch is two more hours away. What can I say? That I’m almost shy around the prince sometimes.  Oh, dear.”   Prince Blue Dream knocked on Rane’s door. “May I come in?” “Why, certainly.” Rane turned her head to the right.  Her heart started to pump fast; her cheeks began to bloom.  “It’s time to learn how to dance Rane.” > Chapter 2.3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sun started to set.   Jazz walked in the kitchen.  Duchess Buttercup saw her walking in the kitchen and sat down on the chair across from her. Jazz pulled out the bits.  The duchess used her left hoof and grabbed the bag.     “This is all I got from the last sale for flowers.”   The Duchess flipped the bag, coins dropped making a ting sound, then she pushed 200 bits over to Jazz.   “A quarter goes to us and the rest goes to the household Moon Crest.”   The Duchess shut her eyes and took a deep breath, she used her left hoof, grabbed the sack, set it underneath the table, then she used her right hoof, grabbed the full amount, putting in the sack, and then walked up stairs.   The Duke looked out the window and saw lots of beautiful stars.  The Duchess walked in the bedroom, when she saw the duke looking at the stars, and dreaming of what might be up there.   “Hey, we got the bits from Jazz.  I’ll set the money down at the end table my dear.”   She walked towards the end table and sat the coin of money down.  The Duke walked over to the bed, when the Duchess jumped on the bed.  The Duke raised his left eyebrow and put his left hoof near his chin, when he rubbed it, he then thought it would be a good idea to give the others 200 bits for their hard work.     Floral used both hooves and pushed Copper near her bed.   Copper used her magic to lift herself up and down on the bed.  Floral backed up to the door and used her left hoof and turned out the lights for her.   Floral walked to the left and went to her room.  She wrote stuff in her diary.   “Dear future me.  I had a great time with Copper, Duke, and the Duchess today. It was fun while it lasted.  I can’t wait to see Copper neat trick again.  The Grand Galloping Gala is only a few weeks away.  It will be my first time. I’m excited to be there with the family.” Rane twirled around three times to the right while the prince used his left hoof and stepped back with his back-left hoof.  His right eyebrow went up and down while looking at her.  Rane opened her mouth and used her left hoof to cover her mouth, giggled when she shut her eyes, and then twirl left when the prince slid his hoof down her neck. “So Rane, are you ready for high society?”   “Not sure, the moment couldn't be any better.”   They both paused, Rane turned her head to the right and looked at the music box and listened to the high classical music.  She opened her mouth, took that deep breath, and let it all out.   “It’s going to be difficult isn’t it?”   “Well, yes the pressure of high society is something that’s breathtaking. However, I’m sure you can figure it out when the time is right.” Rane’s head went up and down quick and short.  The Prince opened with his mouth with his teeth together.    “She is looking at me.  If only I could do so much more for her.  I wish I knew if she was alright with it.  The new life in high society is something not the mess with.  Reputation is high key in society.  One little mess up, and we all could be in a path of regrets.  The pressure would be on all of us.”     A pony walked towards the big circular table with ten chairs around it.  The pony walked on the right of the chair.  Scoot it out with her left hoof, and sit down on the chair. She then scooted it up a little bit. Raised her head up high.   She then sniffed, “So, what is the next step.” > Chapter 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The day couldn’t be any better while I lost something of mine that was taken from the family of the Mooncrest. It clearly wasn’t the best idea to go up front. However, it was clearly the only option I ever had with my friend Noxis Kane. The last time I remember him was a game called chess.”     Before Noxis Kane father died.     “Dear Noxis Kane, do you remember the game you taught me when we were both at are young age?” Duke Teddy was looking out the window.  Looking at the star constellations as he was glazed upon it.  He was uptight when he used both of his hooves to tight up his neck collar.  Earl Tipsy Tulip was thinking about what stranger pony had said to him when he looked down on the floor with his eyes slanted and his mouth was a down upside.     “Remember dear boy, always protect the queen and king otherwise you’ll lose everything.” Duke Teddy looked at Earl Tipsy with slanted eyes with his mouth was towards leaning on his right side of his face.  Earl Tipsy Tulip used his left hoof and handed over the family's heirloom to Noxis Kane. Noxis Kane uses his right hoof and wore it even till this day.   Noxis Kane sat on the chair of the high society table with his head up high.  Rubbing the Mooncrest heirloom with his right hoof, slanted his eyes and raised his right eyebrow when he heard the commotion at the table.  “The next step? You say my dear, it’s clear we need to keep the changelings out of Equestria and also Grogar.” Princess Celestia looked at one another, “Of course Grogar hasn’t been seen in ages.  At least the other enemies such as my sister who clearly betray Equestria standards, Discord with his chaos and Ursula the Queen of the changelings that had been killed into battle. Which means we need to figure out who’s the next changeling queen after all. We can’t be too careful otherwise we will all fall.” Noxis Kane looked at the other ponies at the table and shut his eyes with a deep breath from his muzzle.  He then picked up his grey briefcase, placed it on the table he did, spinning it across the table and made a scratch sound all the way to Princess Celestia end of the table. The Princess used her left hoof and opened the grey briefcase with her eyes opened far wider than before. Princess Celestia looked inside the briefcase, “Tell me everything.” One of those ten chairs a pony named Princess Trixiebelle looked at Princess Celestia staying silent throughout the moment and gathering information to figure out who murder a pony from memory lane. The room gets intense for Princess Trixiebelle as the ponies discuss more on the matter. “This is the thing I hated most about being here in these top ten chairs and this table. The only thing I wish to be was a farmer or at least a gardener.  How did it even come to this?  Every day I wake up this is clearly seventy percent where we will always be. Sitting and talking about plans for the future of Equestria. Playing hero and nothing of the sort of being positive on some of the facts they say.  It’s truly a mess.” Princess Trixiebelle said in her mind and thought hard what she wanted to do in her next life. The Archduchess Golden Glow was on her bed with the bed sheets covered, right side with her eyes shut, and a slight noise from her muzzle. Princess Celestia and Archduchess Golden Glow were walking in the garden. “There, there Princess Celestia once you retire from all of this you would be known as a duchess.  Well, I mean Royal duchess of us all.” Archduchess opened her mouth and put her teeth together when she slanted both of her eyes with the weird umbrella to block the sun out. Princess Celestia quickly nodded her head up and down three times, “that's if I wanted to retire my dear Archduchess, however due to the fact my sister is gone I haven’t sought out a pupil to look after Equestria for me in a long while.  I have done it many times before and no one has succeeded in it so far.  The top 50 pupils I had failed to succeed with what I want them to be as, however the search continues.” Archduchess put her muzzle near the black rose flower from the southern patch, took a deep breath from her nose and then let it all out, “You must be joking.  Retiring is the best option for all.” The Archduchess wagged her tail and wiggled the left leg when she was fast asleep. Prince Blue Dream had himself tucked in his bed sheets with the right side on his bed with both of his eyes shut tightly. There he was sitting on the chair with both of his hooves tightly grasping the tea cup. He then put the tea cup near his mouth, taking that sip making an elegant noise from his mouth.  On the other side of the table was Noxis Kane. He then moved his rook to on the square of C,8 on the chess board that allowed Noxis to win as the queen was on H,7.  Duke Tulip was on his white king on square the I,8.  With a good game that they both had that one day before Prince Blue Dream ever took on Noxis Kane. Prince Blue Dream; still remains in his bed with his eyes shut tightly, wiggled in his bed sheets he did and on his right side throughout the night.  Thinking of how to get the treasure back. Noxis Kane stood upping from the chair and walked back to his house as it had been dark outside with a full moon.  Once he got to his house, he then paused for a moment to look at the full moon outside with the wind that blew in his face from the south to west.  He opened the door to his house and noticed the job wasn’t over.  He clearly walked upstairs and opened his closet and knew he had only four briefcases left. He then shut the door and walked to his bed, laid on it and shut his eyes as he thought to himself a job well-done.    There she was in her bed, when Rane turned to the left of her side with her eyes shut. She had thought numerous dreams in her sleep.  However, the dream was only a thing when she felt sad on the day of the incident. > Chapter 3.1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copper Glow opened her eyes, used both hooves and rubbed it near both of her dramatic arcs. While she then sat up and waited for her assistance with her personal life.  Floral walked in with the wheelchair in Copper Glow’s room, and pushed it near her bed.  Her mouth opened wide with her teeth together from Floral face.  She used both hooves and gently took Copper's left hoof.  There for Copper scooted near the edge of her bed. Once Floral got on to the chair as she sat on it. Floral then grasped the wheelchair tightly and took her in the bathroom.   Once they both got to the bathroom Floral used her left hoof and grasped the faucet near the bathtub.  The faucet lengthened when Floral pulled slowly and gently. She used the top button on the faucet to see if it’s cold or hot.  Copper used her glowing magic to turn on the water.   “It feels a bit cold. You might want to balance the hot valve.” With a love toning from Floral when she giggled. Copper slanted her eyes looking in the mirror knowing that hope may be lost because of her legs that could never walk again.   “Hey, Copper you must put on a smile.  Life is always worth something.” With her little top girl pitch tone.   She felt depressed and made a low tone voice, “Yeah, I know Floral.” Floral then put her hoof again in the water as it felt warm from the water that was spraying out of the faucet. Copper closed her eyes when Floral sprayed her with the faucet.  After Copper was drenched with that warm water Floral got soap and used both hooves together to make suds.  She then put her hooves in Copper mane and rubbed all over.  Copper used her magic and grabbed the soap with her own two hooves, rubbed them together.  She then shut her eyes and rubbed it all over her face, then Floral used her hooves and grabbed the faucet again and drenched Copper again.   After a few minutes Floral got some soap again and rubbed her hooves and went for Copper’s tail. Copper wiggled knowing it’s her sensitive area, she then got her red on her cheeks, then she used her magic to pick up the comb, and stoked her mane with the comb. Once Floral finished scrubbing Copper’s tail, she then used the faucet once again to wash it.  Floral then stopped with the faucet and put it back in place.  Copper used the same comb and stroked it on her tail when it curled. Copper used her magic and opened the drawer from the upper left cabinet of the sink.  The glow took out the toothbrush and toothpaste. She then squirted the toothpaste onto the thistle of the toothbrush when it made that squished sound.  She then used the toothbrush up and down on her front teeth, then her back teeth that made brush scratch sound, and when she spit out that paste down the bucket Floral put it down the drain. She had the strawberries taste in her mouth.  Once Copper was finished, she used her magic to put everything back into the drawer and closed it with her magic.   Floral however, used her hooves and grabbed the wheelchair and walked out of the bathroom and closed the door knowing that the window was making it bright in the room. Lady Buttercup looked at Duke Teddy, “Are we ready to head on over to the Moon Crest?  Jazz?” her mouth opened with her teeth together.  Floral then walked to the kitchen with Copper and then went to dinner room when her mouth was opened wide with her teeth together.  Jazz grabbed the money from the top shelf in the kitchen and gave it to Duke Teddy where she walked to dinner room on that wooden table. “Ah, Jazz it’s all in there I presume.” Duke Teddy with that opened wide mouth with his teeth together with his eyes squinted.   Jazz nodded her head with her eyes shut putting both of her hooves up with her shoulders drop once and shook her head up and down. “Yes, my Duke Teddy we are ready to take the train my dear.” Lady Buttercup said with the lady voice tone. Jazz took the wheelchair handles, “Floral you should take a break from pushing Copper.” as she looked at Floral when she opened mouth with her teeth together. “I’m sorry that my legs are broken, everyone I feel like I'm a burden to you all.” as Copper slanted her eyes putting her face down and looking at the left of her. “There is no need.’ Said Floral when she shut her eyes putting that one little water drop on her left cheek.  Copper used her magic and ripped a square piece of the towel from the kitchen and tabbed it on Floral. “There, there. There's nothing to cry about.  Something that I will cry over is spilled milk. Due to the waste of the luxury that could be high quality.” “Milk is very expensive, especially high quality.” Said Lady Buttercup; when she shut her eyes and gave that one drop of water near her right eye that flowed down her right cheek. Duke Teddy, Lady buttercup, walked to the door that led outside. The following of Jazz when she pushed the wheelchair out with Copper on it along with Floral behind Jazz. The moment when the family was outside, they walked to the train station that was north from the household of Shire Crest.  Once they got to the train station, they all heard the whistle, “ALL aboard the train it’s leaving in ten minutes.” The conductor raised his left hoof and shouted again. The Lady Duke walked up to the ticket booth, “I’ll need five tickets to Los Pegasus.” She reached for her purse on the left side of her and grabbed the bits with her right hoof. The ticket booth pulled out the five tickets with her right hoof and passed it through the opened glass window then she shut the glass window when Lady Buttercup walked towards the train cart with her family. She gave the ticket to the conductor and all five of them went to find a seat. > Chapter 3.2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was still early morning that day with Rane Shackleton on her second dream nearly at four o'clock in the morning.   “Well, the dream I had been was really beautiful.  I used to play around with the other pegasus in Cloudsdale.  It was when I was a happy filly at the time.  We used to fly with each other nearing the flying academy.  I always have that happy face, when I gave this weird look at the green stallion pegasus.  It felt that I lost my mind for a moment or two.  However, we both were very little. There was a purple pegasus mare that was very down on the speed when she used her wings.  Not sure what she was doing however, she was a jester as well when she made a lot of jokes.  I think, if I remember correctly there was one mare that I stuck around with in my childhood years. Her name was Ivy; A cyan earth pony however, once she saw a unicorn they gave her wings because she wanted to fly.  Magic can do almost anything if you set your mind to it and that was what she said to me at least.” Rane opened her eyes and used her left hoof to rub near her dramatic arc. There was a locket near the end table that she forgot to look at.  Knowing that it was missing she couldn’t remember where the thing had gone off to.  The only thing she could remember was a picture between her parents.  She then got up slowly making herself on a sitting position near the edge on the left side of the bed. “My eyes were a bit of a blur this morning and I clearly had seen something from another pony from the past when I was at Cloudsdale. It confronted me in a way that I didn’t expect to tap me like this.  Still wonder if the picture was on my bed from Cloudsdale. Well, when I tried to figure out what the picture was it had to be family right? I was not certain if it was maybe a friend that I used to play with back in the days when I was up there on the fluffy clouds.” Rane put all four hooves on the floor and walked to the out of the bedroom and went to the bathroom.  Once then she used her left hoof and flipped the switch on the left.  She then walked towards the bathtub and felt a deep wound in her mind.  Slowly used the valves as water sprouted out with warmth. She got in with that warm plastic tub with comfort of the wet blue liquid dripping down her face and then put her mind into thoughts. “I remember another few pieces when it comes to memory. It slowly drove me into sadness when I left Cloudsdale.  My parents made that face before looking down on me when I joined up in this new life.  A world of social status was a thing below the clouds.  Very hard to tell myself how far I've gone.  However, things may have changed depending on how I reacted to that one day when I was with that one pony.  Never knew it changed my whole life.  One mistake maybe?  Could it be that my parents had sought out.” She used both of her hooves, rubbed them together as the water was steaming in the tub, and then she took a deep breath.  Once then a few more soap suds in she used her left hoof and as she stroked her mane.  She clearly started to get her memory. In the year 1256, May 16th where she was at the circus with her parents at the age three.     “All I could remember on that day at the circus was a lot of juggling, bright lights, music, and a loud crowd that applauded ever so loud.  There were these ponies with white makeup and a red nose.  It made me smile and happy on that day once we left it was pouring rain outside.  I felt that cold rain drops on my face. It looked like I was crying.  Once then we got home.  Mother walked upstairs to sleep, my father walked to the living room to read a special book, and there I was listening to my father on his lap.”  The book showed some happier ponies on the fifteenth page of the book.  It had lots of blues and reds from her mane and a bit of blue and purple of the tail. The fur color was pink with her light blue sparkly eyes. She made a memory with her father. She used her left hoof and gently touched the pink pony, laughed with her mouth opened wide, and her eyes shut gently.  The father used his right hoof and wrapped around her chest gently. The mother walked down stairs. “Hey, Rane.” Rane’s left ear wiggled. The father used his pink glow magic and shut the book while it went down onto the table with a clunk sound.   “Do you want to go to see the circus again?”  Rane looked at the left and nodded her head up and down three times very quickly. Rane used her left hoof and used water from the shower.  She used her right hoof and tapped on her right side of her head gently. “Think what it was that my father read to me.  What was that book that was read during my early years?”   She used both hooves in the water and splashed to her face when she felt that warm water across her face. Rane used her left hoof and pulled the drain from the tub while the water made a sound in the pipeline. Rane stood up and put her back left leg out of the tub and then her righted leg.  She closed her eyes for a moment, and stroked it with her right hoof several times. The tub was still draining and then Rane walked over to the sink. “Prince Blue Dream is your suit having any type of problems.” “No, Petal Blossom the only fix I need right now is just the black bow tie.  It might be a bit crooked.” “Oh, I’ll fix it up Prince Blue Dream.” Petal Blossom used both of her hooves on the bow tie and slanted it to the left of her. “Does that look good?” He looked in the mirror with an opened mouth with his teeth together, had his chin up to the left eye pose, when he raised that right eyebrow. He turned his head to the maiden and nodded his head up and down three times quickly. "This looks very good Petal Blossom.  Clearly, we are going to be having guests today. I want you to be at your best Petal's like always.” She gave him an opened mouth with her teeth together, “Yes, Prince Blue Dream. I’ll do whatever I can to make them feel right at home.” Copper Glow was sitting on the bench next to the window and on her left was Floral.  She looked at her right side, “Mrs. Copper?” Copper was looking at the window from her right, “Yes, Lady Floral?” She then turned her head to the left. Floral's head turned her to the right ever so smoothly, “We are going to see Rane right?” She opened her mouth with her teeth together. “Rane; the broken pegasus just like me and my legs.  I can assure you Mrs. Floral we will meet her again.” They both opened their mouths with their teeth together. Duke Teddy sat on a bench behind Copper Glow.  The Duchess Buttercup sat next to her husband on the right of him. The Duchess Buttercup looked at the window with slanted eyes, “So, Teddy, did you hear the rumors of a monster near ponyville?” The Duke Teddy looked at his right, “What do you mean Duchess? You say there is a monster in ponyville.” “It’s just rumors, honey.” She turned her head on her left slowly with her eyes slanted. Afternoon had risen.     Noxis Kane was near the basement of the weather factory in Cloudsdale carrying that nice and shiny briefcase.  “The air is still hard to breathe. It's so thin I start to wonder how a pegasus can breathe such thin air. I had felt this way when I was here the last time from the same project of making its first creation.  It had been for only six years ever since my daughter was gone.  The only way to bring happiness to my wife is bringing back our daughter. I have to do this for her to be happy for the living.  Without happiness what's the point in life.  I’m no scientist but with high intelligence and a pegasus pony with their science we could make things possible.”  “Ah, isn’t it my old friend who came to see her own daughter.” She used her hoofs and placed two of the bat wings on both sides of the table.”  He looked at the table with a very good glance, “What are you doing? Diamond Glow.”  She laughed with that opened mouth with her teeth together, turned her head to the left with a right eyebrow raised, “Over here Noxis I’m just playing Celestial god.  You do know playing with the dead is clearly banned from Equestria.  However, with these wings she may come to life as we don’t use other pegasus wings to create magic to stand upon the clouds.  Bat wings can still do the same without murdering another pegasus. If we did, it would be an all-out war between unicorns, pegasus and earth ponies once again.”  Noxis Kane knew what the unicorns did to the atmosphere of wild magic to control all lifeforms, “If it weren’t for your wings, you would all be under our deep illusion spell.  Such an act that your pegasus species save the earth ponies from our spell. However, it’s just an old pony tale that no one tells these days.”  “In fact, you're right about one thing. Control is something we do with the weather but if the weather control ponies unlike the one unicorn who cast a magic spell who made the windigos. Hope may have been stuck in ice for many millenniums.”  Noxis Kane turned his head while Diamond Glow used her scalp knives, “I hope you have a big gut Noxis Kane otherwise you’ll be cleaning my work station after this.” Rane walked to the kitchen while the stew on the table was hot.  The Prince Blue Dream came in and sat down.  “I’m finished with all the dusting Prince.”     “I understand take the rest the day off Rane you deserve it.”  He then took a sip of the stew and the taste was hot.  He felt it burning from the top of the roof of his mouth.     Rane took a sip of the stew while it was hot and felt the tongue burning when the red tomato liquid went down her throat.  “Very spicy but very good mix in with corn and carrots.  It reminds me of home back at Cloudsdale.  I love those memories. In fact, I cherished them when I was the age of four. It was my favorite soup. The taste was very spicy when I had that cold fever in the winter that day.  Snow was everywhere and the weather factory went to overload.  The deepest thing I still love about that day was my mom.  She always used her right hoof on my forehead if I ever got sick.”  The doorbell rang five times. “Hello? Is anyone there?” Duke Teddy knocked on the door even more. Prince Blue Dream got up, “Rane, do you want to be righted by my side?” She nodded her head up and down three times with slightly quick and then stood up. Prince's Blue Dream took the lead while Rane was behind him. She had thoughts in her head of remembering the first time they had met. > Chapter 3.3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first day when Rane met with Copper Glow and Floral. Rane was hugging the pillow with a messy wet face in her new room at the Mooncrest at the age of six. “My wings are broken.  There is no place for a pegasus without her wings. How is this possible? Why did my parents sell me?  My parents didn't even care about me.” Rane then heard four taps of a sound from the door.  However, she didn’t answer the door although it slowly opened with a creek sound.  Floral stood behind Copper as she was shaking on this weird sound that the poor filly was making on her bed.  Copper first walked in and looked at her bed.  “Are you alright filly?” Floral then grasped Copper's left back leg, “She isn’t going to eat us like ice cream?” she whispered. “No, Floral we don’t taste like ice cream and pegasus don’t eat other pony breeds.” “Pony Breeds?” “Yes, pony breeds as in unicorns, pegasus, and earth ponies.” Floral eyes looked at the left, up, right, and then she sighed. Rane felt a tap of her shoulder from underneath the bed sheets. She then used both of her hooves to uncover herself from the sheets slowly.  Floral was still a bit shaken, Copper tried to walk, but she couldn’t because of Floral grasp.  Rane turned her head to the right and saw Copper when she also looked for the other pony where she couldn’t see her yet. “I said before, are you going to be alright?”  Copper then examines her with a slow gentle tone to her voice. “My name is R… Rane Shackleton.” Copper opened her mouth with her teeth together and also shut her eyes. “Come on Floral, it's impolite to keep our new guest waiting. You should introduce yourself behind my back left leg.” Floral shut her eyes tightly. “Hey, Floral don’t you dare fall asleep on my leg.  I’m not a pillow.” Copper quickly turned her head to the right and shook her left leg. “AHHH.  What are you doing? I'm too nervous, Copper.” Copper walked toward the bed and used her right hoof.  Rane was looking at Copper and used her right hoof to touch Copper’s right hoof. The door opened, Rane and Prince Blue Dream bowed at the guest. “Welcome to the Mooncrest.” “Yes, of course Prince Blue Dream.” Said Duke Teddy, when he opened his mouth with his teeth together. The Duchess Buttercup used her left hoof, covered her mouth and coughed several times, “My dears. Can you tell us where the Grand Duke Tipsy Tulip is?” Prince Blue Dream and Rane then lift their heads up. “They would be at the library having tea like always.” “Very well, shall we Duke Teddy.” The Duchess and the Duke walked to the library. Floral strolled Copper into the door.  Copper used her magic to close the door behind them. “Are your legs fine?” “Yes, Rane. Even though I can’t walk and maybe forever.  I think I told you the story several years ago.  Do you remember?” Rane nodded her head up and down quickly three times. “How are your wings doing if you don’t mind me asking?” “You're right I still can’t fly due to past history.  My memory is coming back little by little. The Grand Duke Tipsy was reading the newspaper in his fancy chair.  The fireplace was hot and had made some crackle pop sound.  “Dear, we have guests that will be coming soon to join us.” “Very well send them in.” The door opened as the Duke and Duchess from the other side of the family came in from the other side of the door.  They walked and the Duchess pulled out with her left hoof and set the money bag on the table where it made a clunk sound when placed. The Grand Duchess Buttercup looked at them, “Please make yourself at home here.” “So, how have you been Grand Duchess Buttercup?” “I do say so myself I’m clearly fine.  What about you?” She opened her mouth with her teeth together and nodded her head up and down. “Well, Grand Duke it’s a pleasure to be in this fine home.” “Why of course it is Duke Teddy. This place is everything to me that also includes the employees.  I’m happy for what I have in front of me.”  He then puts down the newspaper. Later that evening. Noxis Kane walked to his seat at the high table, sat down on his rightful place, and then it began. “Noxis Kane thirteen of my agents have gone missing.  It all happened on the day of the event of the two traitors that we still have no evidence for.” Noxis Kane raised left hoof and used it left to right five times under his chin.  He also used his left eye and raised it.   “Are you sure Princess Celestia that we should give up on the matter at a hoof or should we send more in and now know that they will lose.” Princess Celestia looked at Noxis Kane with her right eyebrow raised.  “It would seem so. Why?  Do you have an agent Noxis Kane that will do their job better than my deep well talent agents?” “Talents are the key but they were all unicorns. I'm afraid they rely on most magic through their horn.  However, I found a certain talent who has more combat training through magic and hoof to hoof combat. All I need is your authorization, so we may proceed.” Celestia nods her head up and down. “I can assure you Princess that it will be done. Also, I think I'll send in the rookie just to say I told you so.” “A rookie?” Noxis Kane opened his mouth with his teeth together. Flame, Bright Bramley, Fire, Berry Blight, and the rookie Aquara Darkmore. They were in this small room with a table and a board on the attack that happened several years ago. Glitter Study walked in, “Ladies I found out why and how it happened.  The specimen had this type of wing.” They all looked at it when Glitter Study dropped a big wing that is almost the size of a pegasus wing.  All of the ponies in that room think it was some type of big bug.  However, they begin to study it like no other. > Chapter 4 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Miss Painter used her left hoof and stoked the brush-up and down on a piece of paper. She then moved her head to the left and looked at Archduchess Golden Glow. “It’s been like forever for her to get done with the painting. It reminds me of my younger years when I had to do it with the other side of the family. A dark room with a spotlight that seems to be very traditional back in the day.  However, it’s very expensive to some commoners but as we are the rich it’s just a normal pocket change.” “Archduchess, it's finished. I’ll mail it to you when it’s ready for shipping.” “Very well, it’s a pleasure to do business.” The Archduchess stood up and clearly walked out of the room. She went to the hallway and walked to the exit of the building. It was dark outside where the water sprinkled from the sky.   “Is that you? Archduchess Golden Glow.” Golden looked behind on her left. She saw an orange pony. “Is that you Archduchess Wild Flower?” They both opened their mouths with their teeth together. “I remember them quite well about them in high society. They made some big plans for a garden seven years ago.  However, they have respect for such pretty accessory vases.  It reminded me of when I was a little younger at the time.”          In the year 1290 in the fall where everything was a bit dark outside.  Golden Glow finished up her plate and started to ask her mom.  “Mom, what do you think we should do tomorrow?”     “Golden Glow you know what day it is. It’s the day we start planting flowers in Mooncrest.”     “Really?  Are you sure that they will spread out their petals?”     “If you take care of them, sweetie.” She then opened her mouth with her teeth together and looked at her daughter Golden Glow. “Those were the good old days.  However, that’s when I met Wild Flower and the fillies.  Wild Flower came in with her friends.  They were all happy with those smiles.  In fact, they help us in the garden because of the talent of their cutie marks.  I believe that they know what they are doing.  Well, better than what I was doing that is.  However, it was a treat because we had a lot of tea together per day back in those days.  Lots of tea parties and talk about stallions on who to go out with.” “Archduchess Golden Glow.  Do you want to join us?” The Archduchess head went up and down three times and followed Wild Flower. Prince Blue Dream had walked to the kitchen.  “I wonder if she likes me for who I am.  Although I haven’t said anything yet because she is our servant.  I wonder if you can even marry such a beautiful servant like Rane.” He blushed and used his left hoof and stroked his mane.  “Only one way to find out.  The ball is coming soon this week and I haven’t even asked her yet.  Come to think of it, I wonder if it'll be her first time.  Once again I don’t know if she knows how to dance properly.” He then went to the fridge to get some nice cold water.    “Maybe I’ll ask today.  However, she could be sleeping or spending time with the others.”    The Prince Blue Dream used his right hoof and grabbed the water bottle, took a gulp of it, set it back in the fridge, and then closed the fridge.    “I might want to go and check on her.”    He walked out of the kitchen and went to her room.  Once he got there, he clearly used his left hoof and hit the door gently.  The sound of him knocking on the door three times was elegant.    “Hey…  Rane are you there?”    No one answered.     “I’m coming in ok.”  He used his right hoof that opened the door with a sound of a creek.  While he was looking at the darkroom, he turned on the dim lights just in case she may have been asleep from all the hard work from cleaning the house with the other maidens.  There she was on her left side with her eyes shut.  He knew that he would have to ask her later, then he shut the door with his right hoof quietly. “If I could only tell her how I feel about her.  However, is it wrong to fall in love with a slave?  I feel bad but her parents didn’t have a choice.  If I told her that her parents were gone after the incident. I wonder if she’ll understand.  I feel pathetic.” He looked down with a frown upon his face and walked back slowly to his room. Once he got to his room and opened the door, he then walked in and flopped his belly onto the bed. > Chapter 4.1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- One o'clock in the morning. Rane turned her body to the left side, her ears perked up, while her eyes were shut. “This place seems to feel like home. However, it’s not. Oh, how I miss Cloudsdale and my childhood friends.” Before she was sold to the family of Mooncrest. Rane woke up rubbing her eyes with her left hoof. “Today I’m four years old. It was time to show what I can do.” The air was so thin up in the sky while the sun shines bright upon Equestria. The sun moved up from the east with that massive cold breeze from the northwest. “My parents opened the door with that great look on their face. It was the best thing of a new day. I clearly got up from the bed with that great stamina of having that wonderful smile. It was just a new year where spring is first. I once had a pet however; it was more of a plover and the name was Mily.” She opened her eyes and rubbed her left hoof near her left dramatic arch. The bird chirped several times. It was a day where she had to go to her first school. “There I was getting to school on this one day. Many pegasus and parents were there. Some of the younglings flew just as I had. However, I never knew that the sky was the limit. On that very same day we went to school. However, leaving the parents behind. It was kind of cool to play with all the kids there. We all laughed, played, and even made lots of jokes. It was then I came to realize that I was happy.” “So, there she went as she flew with her friends that day. The best time of her happy days knowing it could fall so far.” Rane woke up from her bed in her room of the mooncrest. She sighed and put her left hoof on her face and rubbed it left, right, and a few sideways. “A new day to hate life. How could it be possible? The life I live in now is decent but my talent was to be a clown. I never got to the full extent of my cutie mark and the meaning behind it. If only I could understand why. Those days when that strange pony turned me in like he was a heartless pony. What was his name again?” Few early years of Rane time when she was just a filly of age six. Rane had watched the circus act when she was little at the age of five. In her room she started to juggle. “The only way to get my cutie mark is to show people what I'm good at.” She then juggles in the room and missed one of the balls as it went on the ground. “Maybe juggling isn’t my kind of thing anyway. However, if I could try hard, I might make it to the big leagues.” “As I thought I could do it. But the thing was how it all ended almost my life. I was near the entrance to the door at that time when the door opened and one of my balls fell out of my left hoof. I went for it and went through the cloud not knowing how windy it was at the bottom. There I was falling down with my wings shut tight trying to get the ball. I then got the ball however I glided down with my wings open not knowing how to land or fly back up. It was very windy so strong that I flew backwards instead of forwards into the mountain. Once I hit hard on the cliff my wings quickly bend the wrong way and broke both of them at the same time. That was the day that I will never forget the horrors that cursed me to this very day. However, not even my parents knew where I was.” > Chapter 4.2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The rock of the cliff was nearly twice the size of a griffon. However, It was coming straight towards me. After that I shut my eyes and then I was nearly at the hospital.  It was still odd that none of my parents showed up.”     Rane laid in bed and tucked herself tightly. A shed of water from her eyes as they nearly went down her face.  She clearly didn’t know what happened and can’t remember what she did in the past few days.  Noxis Kane however was sitting in that chair near the bed on the left side. Along with his best agent Aquara Darkmore.  She was also wondering about Rane.  Aquara looked at her knowing she saw that both of her wings are damaged pretty badly and her body shape with that many injuries.    She then smiled when Rane opened her eyes, “Dear Rane, I know this is a bad thing to discuss at this very moment of your own life.  Well, you see Rane we believe the circus owned you for a moment however your family will be punished for their crimes against a fallen filly pegasus.  The cost of both wings is a cost of both of your parents.  In fact, it wasn’t your fault.  We believe both of your parents had been in an incident from the rock slide.  Saving you in the process.”     Rane shut her eyes and with a heavy sighed.       “Noxis we are a slave company; what do you think we should do to her?”     “A pony that suffered shouldn’t be in the slave business; however, it will be light work till she gains consciousness.  My money is great at this time however, we don’t want the soul to suffer more damage.”     Aquara looked down with her eyes slanted, “The price is way too high for a clown mare to even comprehend to fix your wings.”  She then stood up and walked out of the door.     Rane gulped down her throat, “Price?”     Noxis stood up and walked towards the door, “The price for even being here is meant for nobles and royalty.  Since you don’t have any relationships with them and not born a noble, I guess you're the clown mare who doesn’t understand, know this dear that the cost of your both wings was the cost of your parent's death.  The bill for all of this is truly massive considering it’s only just a circus fee.  You still don’t have the money to pay it off so you’ll be working at mooncrest to have the procedure to pay everything off.”    He then walked out of the door.     Rane laid there with her face spreading water that dripped down from her face.  She then felt that awful pain on both of her sides.  “Ever since that day I regret everything. I then became a new pegasus that can’t fly yet.  One of these days I will try to not be afraid of strong winds ever again.”       Prince's Blue Dream put his left hoof out, “Come on now there shouldn’t be so bad.  Just a few more years till you can fly back to Cloudsdale.”     Rane used her right hoof with that smile upon her face knowing the future was going to be hard for herself. > Chapter 4.3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eight o’clock in the morning. Prince Blue Dream and Rane walked to the diner room. They both sat next to each other. Had their fill and Rane went to do her work around the house. While the Prince walked with her and helped her. Prince Blue Dream remembered one thing about how Rane Shackleton got to the Mooncrest but, however, he couldn't picture who it was because it was wearing something on their head; a nice white top hat that covered their face. He went into deep thought. A few years ago. Prince Blue Dream was looking outside and noticed it was a good day with a bit of sunshine in the morning. While he looked outside the window with a good view, he noticed two ponies walking towards the house. He saw a red pegasus with a leash on with the water down her face. He then headed down stairs to see what the commotion was about. You tug on the leash and say on the poor broken wing pegasus, “Don’t worry I know a place for you. Just so you know I could have sold you to a prostitute family. At least I'm giving you a chance to live. Losing both of your wings told me that you already suffer enough pain. Knowing both of your parents are dead and all. I can’t think of a better place to put you in.” You opened your mouth with your teeth together and placed that left hoof on top of the hat and shoved it down below the eye lines. Rane spoke with a heartbeat shaken as if she was shivering her whole body, “Please let me go.”  The white unicorn with a familiar nice full trend blue suit with a red tie, you spoke to the small little and helpless little filly, “You know your parents wrote the letter before they died anyway.”  You turned your head to the right and looked down upon her, “I know it’s going to be hard for you.  But the wise pony had once said you will die as well, just not like your parents from the rockslide incident.  They both went to a unicorn gypsy and asked about the future after they knew they wrote this letter.” Rane looked up at the stranger pony, “Please I suffer at a greater loss.  My friends that I had in the clouds I could join them.” You then spoke back to her with a less cruel tone, “Welcome to your new life and trust me I’m pretty sure that you’ll like this place more.” You then knocked on the door. The Grand Duke opened the door. You then saw him with a formal suit and up tight. You then bowed and then shoved the poor pegasus in front of the Grand Duke.  He then takes her in and then you walk back to your office without a word. Grand Duke spoke to Rane as if he was so tight, “Welcome poor pegasus to the mansion of Mooncrest.” Rane spoke to Prince Blue Dream, “Are you going to be alright.” He then nodded his head up and down two times, “Dear, Rane would you...?” Rane looked at him and tilted her head to the right. He then spoke again with a more serious voice this time, “Dear Rane, would you like to go to the Grand Galloping Gala with me?” > Chapter 5 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Gasp.” He then itches both of his eyes with his right hoof.  Both of his eyes had been blurry for a moment when he lifted his small glass specs and put them on.  “Flurris.” He shouted in his dark bedroom in the morning. He then had a moment of his childhood. They both flap their wings getting ready for school. “Sheyde.”  She shouted. Sheyde Evilian looked towards Flurris Nox mane and right beside her was their friend Rane Shackleton.   “Can you fly yet, Rane?” Saline asked with his mouth opened wide with his teeth together. Rane on the other hoof shook her head left to right several times.  She then closed her eyes with doubt. Flurris used her right hoof and taped her several times, “Don’t worry filly I’m sure you’ll get there.  After all, you promise me that we will become the best flight team in Equestria.” She gave her an open mouth with her teeth together. Rane jumped several times on that spec of white cloud as if it wasn’t soft already near the entrance of the door to the right. Saline looked on his right, “Rane, try not to jump a lot, you might fall under the clouds.”  She then turned her head to the right and had that mouth opened wide with her teeth together. Saline used his left hoof and took off the right top corner sheets, grasped it tightly, and shifted them to the left side of him.  While he got up as if he sat on the right side of the bed. He put both of his hoofs on his face while his eyes were shut.   “That was a long time ago.  I hope she is alright on the ground.  The old news was brought out about that filly who lost her wings during a heavy storm.  How can some pegasus still live after that?  It must be some kind of luck.  Rane I can’t wait to see you.  All your friends will be coming to the Grand Galloping Gala.” He then put his hooves down slowly and opened both of his eyes, stood up from his bed, walked over to his window, used both hooves, and opened the window curtains.  The light shines in his face as the sun rises on a new day.  While he opened the window the breeze flew in his face as he smelled the fresh air.  Saline headed over to the left, placed his left hoof, and picked up this picture. It had every memory of his eight friends that were on that day with Rane Shackleton. Saline took a deep breath, sighed, and then placed the picture back where it was. He then picked up the necklace, walked out of his room and headed down stairs, paused at the end of the bottom of the stairs putting his left hoof on the necklace and taking that deep breath. Sheyde Evilian used both of his hooves on the bowl and took that sip of milk. “It has been a long time since we were together isn’t it. However, a lot has changed throughout the days after the disappearance of Rane.  At least she is doing alright though.  However, I never liked ground ponies.  They were always mean to pegasus and saying that it’s our fault for ruining a perfect day.  I don’t think I can take that anymore. Well, maybe they have changed after putting some earth ponies to slave as well not just pegasus. I… just don’t feel like this peace will ever last with slavery.  It’s just not right.” He then closed both of his eyes tightly. “Our friendship seems so far away like the midnight sky.  Rane is very far away from Cloudsdale.  I just hope nothing happened to her.  Not only that, it's been weird since I haven’t seen her parents around either.” He then stood up and placed the bowl in the sink. He then raised his head and headed out of the house. > Chapter 5.1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I was captured on that very same day with Rane Shackleton because I too made an oops.  When I was on the cloud, I saw Rane flying in that heavy storm.  So, I flew down too to see what she was doing. However, I was a good flier and a little bit older than her by at least three years.  We were also best buddies.  Unlike the rest of our friends, they didn’t talk to me that much, only a few saw me as shy as anyone can be but a good flier.  That day of the storm was the worst thing I ever did; however, I didn’t break any of my wings.”    Veillios saw her friend laying there with her eyes shut.    “It was then that a unicorn cast a spell.  It was too dark to see and I couldn’t fly.  We both went to a weird tavern and it was scary.  It was the most awful thing I ever went to.  Pony bids on a slave.  The white unicorn with the hat down took Rane Shackleton and what did I get. I got some mare with a top classy red dress.  However, I couldn’t get a good glimpse if that was a stallion or a mare unicorn.  All I knew was the white.  I couldn’t even hear their name.” “Are my slaves ready for department?”  Dragonfly asked with her wide opened mouth with her teeth together. She then stroked her pink hair with her left hoof.    The slaves look down that were wrapped in chains. Dragonfly walked to the dim basement with moisture to the air.  She then used her left hoof to grab the chain, pulled close to her and used her right hoof, and soft tap on Snowball.  The walls creek with a little leak of water on the left side of the room far away from the entrance in that back corner.     Veilios looked at Dragonfly with her eyes wide open. Her body began to shake on its own and felt a cold chill through her heart.  Sweat began to drip around her face as she closed her eyes.    “Oh, no Dragonfly is here. What should I do? I have to get out of here. I saw what she did to those mares.  It was an unpleasant experience. There is no love about her. She is the only one that decides who she picks.  I hope it’s not me.  Oh, please Celestial help us all.”    Dragonfly walked over to Veilios and put her muzzle near her face and licked her left cheek.  “You would do Veilios.  How about on the bed with me?  I mean you can’t say no slave.”  Dragonfly slanted her eyes, grabbed Veilios’s chain, and started to pull her towards the one room where ponies scream for. Veilios looked at the other bruised mares and stallions in the room. She saw lost hope faces, fur were pale colors, and water had been running on both of their eyes.  Veilios was yanked three times by her collar from Dragonfly. “Please I beg you don’t do this.”  Dragonfly started to pull her chain to the other room.  Snowball tried all four of her hooves to stop her. “Snowball dear if you keep this up I will slash near your sensitive spot.” Snowball let go of the chain while Veilios was pulled into the other room. Veilios had put thoughts into her mind. “Slaves the worst thing that would come to Equestria down fall.  Thus, this high society as the slaves call it is clearly awful.  Nothing is ever good when you're rich.  All they care about is money.  The additional for slaves’ coins are so high it is very devastating.  Why would this gold be so expensive?” Dragonfly used her left hoof and pulled out two tickets to the Grand Galloping Gala. “If you wish to go on a date with me at the Gala I would be most pleased. However, you and I need to have a little chat first.” Veilios sighed with her eyes going from left to right.   “So, Veilios, how about it? You’ll get to see your friends after all.  However, you have to come to bed with me and let me drench my lips all over your face.” “Is my face that attractive?” “Why of course it is darling.  You know I do love your wings and all.” Veilios looked down on the floor with a sense of a hot face near her dramatic arch. She then lifted up her head slowly.  Dragonfly used her left hoof again and pulled Veilios toward the end of the bed as she fell on her muzzle. “Do you really have to pull on my chain?” The chain rattle in Dragonfly left hoof.  Veilios saw Dragonfly open her mouth slowly with her teeth together and that weird pitch noise coming from her throat. > Chapter 5.2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dragonfly nibbled on Veilios left wing. “Oh Dragonfly, that is my sensitive spot.” She shut both of her eyes tight and took a deep breath.  Her heart began to race with a warmth in front of her.  Dragonfly laid on their back, pulled on the chain, and it rattled with a ting. Sliding Veilios up the bed and into Dragonfly’s soft chest.  She placed both of her hooves on Veilios to look her in the eyes.   Veilios opened her eyes and saw light blue eyes. It sparkled that fits her with that pink fur coat.   Dragonfly had thoughts about Veilios when she pulled her close to her chest. “Her fur coat was black but she had a yellow mane that I found attractive. Her pink eyes gave it away every time I looked at her.  She has to be the one. I have to get her.  I don’t want to lose something so beautiful.  I never knew I could be a lesbian like this.”  Her cheeks were hot with red near her cheeks. “My face is so close to Dragonfly I can see the freckles this close up.  Why is it just me? Something just doesn’t seem right.”  Veilios can feel the warmth of the soft fur coat that Dragonfly has.  They both can feel each other's heartbeats touching one another's chest. Dragonfly wrapped both of her hooves near Veilios back slowly and firmly. She then licked Veilios left cheek, and then opened her mouth with her teeth together. Yet alone she slanted both of her eyes. Then it happened; suddenly Dragonfly hooves moved back, around Veilios wings, and up Veilios neck slowly.   Veilios had thoughts in her mind when Dragonfly stared at her with water dripping from her eyes. “I don’t think I have a choice in this matter.  If I ran away now I could be killed yet alone imprisoned here for a long time.  I knew this mare when I was little though.  Didn’t know she liked mares.  No matter how hard I tried to get a stallion pegasus back at cloudsdale.  My kind thought I was blending through the midnight sky. It was very hard to see in the dark.  Maybe life isn’t bad here.  At least I know Dragonfly a little bit.” “I was older than Rane at the time by three years and even then, I could fly in strong storms and yet I did.  I got caught by low, cruel ground creatures such as unicorns and earth ponies.  It was back then that I took pride in our race as pegasus.  But it still took me by surprise when I was a little kid when I went down there for the first time. That’s when I saw him; Dragonfly was with his mother and father. They were wearing some kind of elegant clothes. There were more earth ponies though just to get food supplies.  But one caught me by surprise though a weird white unicorn wearing the hat slanted near their face.  I couldn’t catch a glimpse of it.  Noxis Kane was there smiling if I remember correctly.”  Her parents and herself landed on the nice soft grass a few meters away from the scene of Noxis Kane.     “I flew in with my parents on that day where it was cold with snow on the ground, walked in the line. I then turned my head to the left side and saw a pony lavender with a pink mane and tail.  I think I heard Dragonfly that she goes with it.  Her father looked so uptight back then.  Now her mother is all uptight as well....  However, I never knew what high society was back then until now.  The drastic measure of pride.”  She felt a slight kiss on her lips when she was held by Dragonfly.  Veilios opened her eyes wide when Dragonfly slanted both of her eyes.  Dragonfly grasped her neck tightly. “So, Veilios, which one do you wish to keep here in this dungeon?  Remember I have a person waiting outside you must decide their fate and you can only choose one.  Who will you save?” “I…” Dragonfly licked her on the right cheek. “Don’t keep me waiting.” > Chapter 5.3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “What should I do with my slaves dear?”     Dragonfly squinted both of her eyes making that slight tone of her giggle with that weird smirk on her face of having her teeth together.     Veilios looked at her while the white unicorn walked in with a tight black suit and a white hat.     “Dragonfly, we are ready for departure.  Which slaves shall go?”     Dragonfly looked to her right.     “What say you Veilios my dear slave.  Pick one to stay, who shall it be?”     Veilios wondered in her thick skull of hers.     “What will happen to the rest if I may ask?”     “When ponies aren’t obedient, they need to learn their lesson.  I mean why else?  We are ponies who believe in the full strength of our faith.  The celestial gods.  If they can’t obey laws, they must be punished for their crimes.  However, your friend in red coat fur did something so cruel.  She led her parents to their deaths.  Which should be a crime… Her father died from a rockslide while the wife died from a timber-wolf.”     Veilios opened her eyes wide.     “We know what has happened to the mother where her corpse was stained in the forest.  The father however was squashed.  Like sugar pancakes with whip cream.”     “I… but what does this have to do with me.  I never killed anyone.”     Dragonfly licks on Veilios left cheek.     “Dispose of them besides the number five on her left ear.”     “Snowball is going to be saved.”     “Not quite.  Her crime is a mystery which has never come into question yet. However, you on the other left hoof were at the scene of the crime. Which must pay a slave toll since death is played.”     Dragonfly gives her that smile.     “Whenever you are done, stranger? You may continue to set them on the carriage and then set them for a course to the cult where they may learn a thing or two that is worse than death itself.”     Veilios scrunches her teeth.     “You can’t be serious; they are ponies but why worse than death?  What is even worse than death?”     “In my opinion life itself. Due to the knowledge of everyone who is a unicorn knows the pain. We are all nerds and realize this from age six to eight.  What do the pegasus know or earth pony? They are not like us. That’s why we're different.”  The white unicorn walked out of the room.  Grabbed every pony there besides the one with a five tag on someone's left ear.  While they walk out with the slaves and put them into the carriage.  The strange smirk led them out to the cult where they will find most painful in life.    The sun was setting while Rane looked outside the window with a sad face on what she had in her mind for most of the time she was there.  Questioning herself if she was guilty.  The night sky turned to black while Rane took a deep breath and blew it all the air out.  The Prince Blue Dream wondered what had happened during the dance that they had.  He of course thought she was sad with that one tear of her left eye.  Over to the Prince. He looked out the window which he saw was the full moon. While he thought it was beautiful, something was a bit odd to him. Later he questioned himself a bit about what her crime was.  > Chapter 6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You saw the horizon in a cave while it was dark there.  When you put all the prisoners in the new cage with your magic. A pony came up to look for something that wanted with some nice light glowing blue in his right eye.  You then asked. “Who is there?” A stallion with silver glowing in his left eye with his white mane and tail glowing as he did it with magic to attract some attention to you.  Once he used his right hoof on the ground and striked it a few times picking that dust with a sound of sand.  You of course turned your head to the right after the subject tag on his left ear was sixty-seven and then you gave that smirk. The stallion before you stood there and then spoke with a pure deep voice, “I’m here to buy some slaves from you.” With a tang of the sound of gold as he was levitating with his magic that you saw both of your eyes.  The wind blowing in the cave with a small dust flying into the slaves.  Both of you felt that nice good wind on parts of their bodies. You then squinted both of your eyes with a good tone and took the money. “I can’t believe that I sold four stallions.  If it was true, they were stallions as well. Maybe he was some kind of gay?  Couldn’t tell since I never knew the buyer that much.  I heard a loud sound when he smack the slave stallion on the butt.  My cheeks were getting red hot that day when I was thinking about it.  However, I prefer both.  Maybe it was because of that one day when a stallion from the gay faction in high society smacked me there. He was trying to flirt with me.  Also from the straight faction a mare slapped me there as well.  Couldn’t tell which I liked.” You then locked up the cages again with the key and shut both of your eyes.  Took that deep breath and let it all out. Lumina Cloven had voices running through her head with his eyes crisscross sticking out his tongue at the slaves that he bought from the white stranger unicorn.  He had a whip smacking those stallions to move.   “I couldn’t wait for the moment to have some fun time with these stallions.  Some good times on how I nearly made most of the slaves lose their voice.  They call me a torture king for nothing.  Somehow I can make them wish they had died sooner.  The crimes are still not enough on what Spiras Cross can do though.  Where they clearly do something very odd to their slaves.  The last time I was there he did some kind of performance on a high tension of sexual pleasure.  My stomach which I ate a nice flower sandwich just couldn’t digest correctly as I witnessed something that may scar my life forever.” Once he got home from a long walk that took four hours.  He then put new shock collars on them all on a high percentage of half.   “Hmm… Fifty percent could kill the slave or give them a nice torture and live.  You know life can be so cruel.”  He opened his mouth wide with those nice eyes of his and those teeth together when he made that nice deep pitch giggle. He then heard a lot of them saying mercy.  He left the shock on and fell asleep.  Once he did, he forgot about the slaves and had a dream listening to the screaming in their cages.  It made a nice melody to him when he opened his mouth with his teeth together.          When he dreamed, he thought that it was real to him.  That nice kiss on his cheek from one of the slaves that he lost.  The green stallion with that good pitch tone.  Of course, Lumina stroked Flash with his left hoof onto the tail.  When he pulled it, he then spoke.     “Oh, Flash, you make me hot.  However, it is time to get new slaves.     When Flash opened his eyes for his last time and shed a tear down the left eye. Lumina put a one-hundred percent shock on Flash's neck.     Lumina opened his mouth with his eyes slanted.  When he moved him from the bed.   He lifted his cup with magic and took a sip of alcohol. “How could I do something so depressing? I truly loved him but when a toy is worn out does this mean I get a new one and try to break it again?  Is it true when I feel that it may not be right in any aspect?  What is life when something breaks? It's best to get a brand new one to break it.  I remember that one day when my parents told me.  When something breaks you always need to get a new one to entertain.  But what about a soul?  I have to be wrong.” He passes more tears in his sleep and opened his eyes and gave them a break from the shock on the slaves. Lumina walked downstairs and slept on the couch in the living room.  Petting his tail with his right hoof and curling up in a ball.  His eyes had red veins with a few black spots near both of his eye arches.   “I loved him.” He spoke repeatedly for half an hour and shut his eyes. He then had a second dream.   “Mommy, I broke my toy.” he cried out. His mom said “don’t worry, you can always get a new one.”  Once then she hugged him with a smile upon her face.  Shedding tears with him. “I miss my father.  Mom I… Miss him so much.” The window blew a breeze in from the window in their house as the sun was setting. “My father was a good stallion and told me to be a good colt.”   He again shed more tears. The stars came out as it sparkled throughout the night. > Chapter 6.1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two o’clock in the morning.     Spiras Cross walked down in the basement as the stepped made a soft creek.     “Sighs this is not the best of my works.  Rumor has it that this place was the best for coffee.”     An earth pony who played this wonderful classic on the piano with a nice tone firm melody.     Spiras sat down on a high-end stool and then turned his head to the left.     “It seems Muse is doing great here.”     Precious spoke to Spiras Cross with a slight pitch tone of her voice, “Yes, it’s wonderful, isn’t it?  So, what would you like today Mr. Cross? Is it the usual this time?”     He then turned his head to face forward, “Yes, however, I brought my own cream if that is ok with you Precious.”     The lights start to dim in the room a little bit on each corner of the café. While Precious the earth pony who grabbed the mug with both of her hooves.  She placed it on a weird machine, grabbed a small light plastic shovel that weighed a bit 8 ounces.  She of course dug some coffee beans and put them on top of the machine.  While it was opened, she then closed it and turned it on with her left hoof and placed the shovel back to the coffee bean drawer.     “All I know is that earth ponies know how to make good coffee.  Maybe because they know how to grow these coffee beans.  We made a peace treaty to the earth ponies back when pegasus had an aggression towards our species, the unicorn race.  It was then we all made a peace treaty to the pegasus a year later because of other creatures in that weird forest that ponies keep spreading rumors about.  I don’t remember what they called it since my ears weren't paying attention to a royal on the day of the gala.”  Thirty minutes had passed by.     The coffee maker was making some kind of noise. Spiras noticed the liquid dropping in the mug when it poured on his left side.  He then thought to himself.     “It was my mistake for killing many slaves I clearly lost count after subject seventy-seven.  My true goal was to make a cure for cancer.  I feel so ashamed of my research I thought it could help ponies and yet I failed. Maybe when I have kids, I’ll teach them that healing with magic is still not enough, but I prefer research that means you work alone and work out the kinks of every serum. That's what it means to be a scientist.  But is it? I know they are all slaves and they will be remembered.  Still in this day of age not one unicorn has the talent to cure diseases yet.”  He took a deep breath, “Even then the cost of creating one with magic is so high in price not everyone can afford it.” Precious stopped the machine switch with her left hoof and used both of her hooves and placed the coffee in front of him. Spiras opened a bottle in his pouch that took with him.  Once he opened it he poured some of it in his coffee with that white thick liquid from the marshmallow that he was saving for this one moment. “I loved marshmallows as a kid. It was a dream that was more than chocolate.  Not sure why mares love chocolate but it does have a sweet taste as well.  But I’m in it for the cream flavor.  That extra silk texture is to die for.” He opened his mouth with his teeth together. Precious gave him a spoon from her right hoof. He used his magic to lift that spoon up and stir it in his mug. He then put thoughts into his mind, “Oh, gosh I forgot who would be my dance partner at the gala.  Maybe a subject mare would do." > Chapter 6.2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spiras took a sip of the coffee.  He felt that nice warmth of a taste in that coffee, nice, and hot.  The cream was a bit on his tongue when both of his eyes shut. He had a dream of that one single moment where he was at the place called home.          Eight years ago.  At the beginning of the winter festival.       He looked at the ground and picked up his choo-choo train. He smiled that very night with his parents.         “Hun you need to grow up and learn new things.” His mother took the train away from him with her left hoof.  He then realized at nine minutes to think of the sort of thing to do.  He grabbed the hammer and nails and built the lab.  With his knowledge he then made a secret laboratory.     “Soon my experiment will be completed. I will become the maddest scientist in all of Equestria.”             He looked back and set the mug down on the table. He then grabbed his bits and gave twenty coins to Precious.  She of course smiled, “I hope you come back soon.”       Spiras then stood up from his seat and walked out of the place. He got outside and the breeze went in his face with that nice warm front. He then walked five miles to the northwest.        “I just hope it was worth it.  The knowledge from the library in the restriction section.”      He then got home and opened the door with his left hoof.  Headed down stairs and opened the pod as it slowly opened.  Hot steam came out of it while he raised his right hoof.        “Are you ready for the next test? Dear.”      “What's left, doctor? You know I have a severe blood disorder and wish for it to go away.     “It all began that day when I was eating and had food poisoning from eating too much.  But how could it ever be possible?”  She took that deep breath and let it all out.       Moonshine walked out and looked on her left and saw Spiras with a needle carrying on his right hoof.  She then shut both of her eyes.  Spiras placed it near her left arm and shoved it in.        “You only have two weeks until the day you die.  I wish for the best for you but I was wondering before you die. I was hoping you would come with me to the gala for one last time before your death starts in the next two weeks.”   She nodded her head up and down while her eyes were shut. “It can’t be helped by the doctor.  There is no such thing as a cure is there?” He nodded his head up and down three times with his eyes shut.  However, he then spoke, “There can only be one possibility but I think we should make one last dance before we go to proceedings of anything further.  The only way there can be a cure is something that I know far too well to be possible.” She looked at him and sighed, “Well if that to be the case so be it.  But mark my words, Spiras it will be done. Whether I live or die.” > Chapter 6.3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Several years ago.     “Are you sure we should hurt her? I mean she is a pegasus after all.”     The mystery unicorn smiled, “Oh come on Moonshine we have to do this otherwise they will fly away. We have been living in fear of ground monsters and insects crawling through our houses.  I believe this should be good. Also, don’t be a chicken anyway.”      Moonshine tried not to smile but did, “But what about the Prince Blue Dream?”     She looked at Moonshine breaking the red pegasus wings, “Look I don't fear the Prince Blue Dream.  If we use fear, we wouldn’t be alive. Although my father always says, it's either breaking them or causing enough pain to teach them not to mess with us.”     “But…”     She then sighed, “Look Moonshine you don’t want to end up like her, do you?”     “I…”     The bones break further.     “Come on Festivities let’s go and you to Moonshine the Prince Blue Dream may come to us.”     Glittering Skater makes them follow her smacking her tail against Rane's left cheek.     “They don’t know what suffering means.  If only they knew the true meaning of life.  Which is totally painful.”  as the Glittering Skater smiled.          Moonshine walked to her bed in the late hours.     “Hey Festivities, come here for a moment. I have something wonderful to teach you about tea.”     “Yes mam.”  She bows.  “So, what can I do for you, friend?”  She looks at Moonshine with a smile upon her face.     “I need a moment on this delicious tea.  Even though I asked for a bit of pepper in it.”     “Of course, I have it right here.  I just didn’t know how much you wanted in the tea this time.”     “Ah, good question my dear.  Also go fetch me Glitter Skater while you're here.  Just a little bit of pepper this time.  It is the day where we have to meet up with that broken pegasus pony.  Wonder if the best time to do it is before the gala.”     “It’s not wise to do such a thing as Moonshine.” as a Glitter Skater.     “Why?  I need something fun to do.  Life is boring and not interesting.”     Festivities spoke to Moonshine, “It’s not good to do those things now we're almost adults now.  We of course don’t want to do those things now because we all have a reputation to make.”     “Even if we do, we would lose a lot of reputation here and now.  Is that what you want Moonshine?” Glitter Skater had spoken.     “Seriously.  Reputation is no fun at all.  Who cares about being popular? All I want to do now is have some fun.  By ruining some pony life. Well, at least a pegasus.”          Glitter Skater had thoughts in her mind that weren't too appealing of what may have happened.  “If we weren’t there to watch over her.  Her parents had died but at least we swore an oath.  I kind of highly regret that decision however, up till now I feel like this is still a good opportunity.”     Festivities also had thoughts in her mind, “I so regret this.  It’s tiring why couldn’t my parents let me choose my friends. It’s despicable.  However, one day her life may end soon and I hope it’s sooner.”     “Festivities back message right now.” Moonshine walked over to the bed and laid on her belly.     Festivities walked over to the bed putting her front hoofs on her back.  Soon we will meet Rane once again as Moonshine smiled and giggled. > Chapter 7 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sun started to rise, making that orange color in the sky.       The Prince Fauna walked on the road to Moon Crest. With his purple fur coat and his cyan mane and tail went in the direction from the wind that blew from the northwest. The moisture in the air was thick.   Prince Fauna put a lot of thoughts into his mind. Taking that one steep breath as he got close to the door, “So, there is a pegasus I presume. If it is true, that she is a slave. I must be kind to them. I keep hearing rumors that she will be a mare soon next year. If I do say so myself indeed those are pretty much accurate. It could be that she may be a blue mare like me. However, there can still be a chance to see her. Well in theory if the Prince Blue Dream wants her to go to the gala there could be some complications that those bullies that broke her wings may show up there as well. Things are about to get interesting.” as he then fixed his tie with both of his front hooves. He then saw the door was about to open.       He looked at this weird looking red filly. She of course bowed to him and told her name, “I’m Rane Shackleton.”       Prince Blue Dream was on the stairs. Walked down of course to the entrance of the door, “Ah, why isn’t it the Prince Fauna from household Sun Crest.”       Rane's body shook with both of her eyes shut.       “Now, now, now dear there is no need to be afraid. I am here to see if you can dance with the Prince Blue Dream himself.”   Rane looked up at Prince Fauna and swallowed a tiny bit of air.              Meanwhile later at the castle near noon.       “So, this is what Canterlot looks like, my dear friends.” Shayde Evilian spoke and looked at the gala.  They walked into town and hoped to meet Rane Shackleton.        They walked to a cheap hotel when Shayde opened the door with his left hoof.       “I would like to get a few rooms for all of us if you can?”       Mommy Bonheur nodded her head once and then smiled.       The group walked in as Saline grabbed his bits from his bag sack on his left. Placed about fifty bits on the counter. Mommy Bonheur took the bits with her right hoof and placed it in the sack underneath the counter. She grabbed the keys with her left hoof and placed three keys on the counter making that soft clang sound.      Shayde Evilian picked up the keys with his left hoof making a scratch sound on the laminate countertop. He then gave the other two keys to Volta and Flurris. They all walked up stairs and headed to their rooms for the next day. The last key that Shayde gave was the next key to Saline. While Saline and Shayde went into their rooms they could only think about Rane Shackleton. > Chapter 7.1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sugar Belle walked to the hotel. Mommy Bonheur looked at her with a smile. “How can I help you dear?” Sugar Belle had spoken, “Oh, that’s me. I’m next in line.” She giggled while her eyes were shut and that awful smile.  “I’m here to get a room since I came from Ponyville after all.  It has been a long journey from the train ride.” Countryside Pony also walked up to Sugar Belle, “So, you got the rooms darling.” Sugar Belle nodded her head up and down three times with that awful smile of hers. Countryside Pony looked at her smile and felt awful about it and attended to look away to the left of her. Sugar Belle reached her left side of the bag to give the bits as it dropped down on the countertop making that clang sound. Mommy Bonheur took it with her left hoof and set it in the box with a smile keeping her eyes shut and grabbed the keys on her right hoof and set it down on the countertop making that one sound clang.  Countryside Pony picked it up with her left hoof.  They both headed up stairs. Apple Pie and Curly walked in the hotel next. Ten-thirty in the morning. Many ponies came to help with the Grand Galloping Gala. Diamond Glow spoke, “Is everything done yet.  Tomorrow is the day we celebrate Princess Golden Dream.  I need everyone to work together for a lot of streamers and balloons.” Diamond Glow placed her left hoof on her face.  “I have a feeling it’s like this every year nothing gets done. It’s so horrible.  If only there was a thing where we could see up in the ceiling to place the objects but it’s all calculations with the pegasus.”  She sighed and went to the kitchen to see the preparations for the food. Sweet Snowflake used the ladder to place streamers near the entrance of the Gala. She then shouted, “Secret Tale I need your help with the ladder make sure it doesn’t move on me.” Waterlily rushed over to Sweet Snowflake knowing that Secret Tale was also rushed to her assistance.  “If I only rushed faster, I could have done it.  Everything was always busy with all the decor.  So many helpers for an event every year it’s clearly very frustrating sometimes.” Secret Tale sighed. Princess Golden Dream looked at her dresser in the light in the middle of the room.  “Mom, how can I just move on?  A slave will come to the party but is she the one that I kept hearing about.  How she killed her parents.  No pony should ever have such a backstory that is so grim. The only thing to do is see her.  Killing is wrong, it's not justice.  But an accident is a whole different story.  I…  I need to know.”   She then squinted both of her eyes and then walked towards the end table that was from the left side of her bed.  She took a glance of her parents from the photo and placed her left hoof and touched the top of it.  She then set the picture down softly making a soft clunk noise in the room. > Chapter 7.2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Five-o’clock in the afternoon. “Daughter, tomorrow I hope you behave yourself.” Click looked at Baby Petal eyes. She of course looked at her mother. Also knew she had a sparkle from her blue eyes. “There are rules daughter rules that can not be explained to a child like yourself. I hope you have a better understanding.” She was curious when she used her left hoof rubbing left to right raising the left eyebrow.  Baby Petal used her head up and down three times quickly to understand her mom. Click put thoughts into her mind, “Oh, child you have no idea. I hope that you don’t take me as a fool. So, help me.  I have to do the most cruel thing.  However I can’t tell this to a young one. It's too shady to tell my own daughter.” Five-Thirty struck the afternoon. “Dear son.  It is time to go over the rules and regulations of this upcoming event.”  Noxis Kane looked at his own son with a cane as he whacked him on the forehead.  “Rule one. No spilling blood on continental grounds. Two if you made a promise to someone all promises must be honored, and three every pony who got an invitation is fully welcomed.” He turned to his left and looked out the window of the bright clear skies.  Six-o’clock in the afternoon the bell rang six times with a loud old tone sound.     Lady Rainbow walked to her house and noticed the letter.  She grabbed it with her left hoof and opened it with her right. They took a glimpse of it and saw the yellow ticket to the Grand Galloping Gala.  Walked past her fence, to the entrance of her door when she then opened it with her left hoof. She nodded her head and smiled upon her face when she jumped up and down three times.     Once she had a thought about the pony express news, she took most of it when she walked down the hallway to the left.  Took the pepper from the end table on her left when she walked from the room. Headed to the living room and sat on the chair. She felt the cushion so soft with a thread count of eight hundred.  Once she looked at the newspaper, she took her glasses from the right side of the end table.   Lady Rainbow put her glasses on with her left hoof and started to read the newspaper.     “Slaves coming to the gala interesting I hope they know what they're doing a lot of ponies may disagree on this. Including that one rumor about that red pegasus killed her own parents during an accident report from section area nine. Although it could have been execution if it weren’t for the slave traders though.  But let’s see how this goes when I meet her face to face.  As a true and one and only politician.”  She looks at the window from her left looking at the gala.  When time passed by in the afternoon.  There was a pony waiting at the door. When they knocked with their right hoof. > Chapter 7.3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seven-o-clock in the evening.     Nightstar opened both of her eyes.  Walked down the stairs slowly.  She felt the grain of the wooden rail.  Once she got to the bottom she turned left to the kitchen.  Many paintings on the wall.       “The night star will be there I can feel it.  The brightest star will be tonight.  A day of beautiful darkness and spots of white dots in the endless night sky.  It troubled me at first but when I saw how beautiful it was.  The stars shine bright like the star of my cutie mark.”     She took a nice brand thick dark mug near the island counter.  Nightstar used her left hoof and picked up the cup staring at the distance of the Grand Galloping Gala.  Fog started to spread in Canterlot.     “It seems that it’s almost time.  Tomorrow is the day where slaves make its way to the grand of all places.  If I stand correct that one of them must be the murder.  I heard rumors that this red filly killed her own parents.  However, is it wise? How must it be for the family Mooncrest reputation?  None of this made any sense of why they took her into their family.  Maybe as a slave but it was a rare thing they did.”     She rubbed left and right several times on the bottom of her chin with her right hoof. Nightstar placed the mug down with her left hoof and started to think hard.       “I do pray for that filly though, although she’s almost a full-grown mare.  I must pray at the stars one last time.  For though I find it funny knowing my life is coming to an end.”          Several years ago.     Nightstar gazed upon the stars near on top of the south entrance of the Canterlot.     “It’s nice outside to even stand on the roof top and gaze upon the stars and dream of what might be.”     Pegasus placed a lot of clouds near her area.     “Such a disappointment. Pegasus ruins the midnight sky.  Why do they have to do this every time when the night feels so good? Ah, who knows.  Looks like the clouds are at their peak.”     She walked back inside the house, walked down stairs and then headed to the basement, while then she opened the door to the right and jumped on her bed, belly first, the sheets of the bed made wrinkles, making that weird squishy sound.       Nightstar took a deep breath and let it all out.     “Pegasus always likes to ruin a night's day.  Even the full moon is out.  If only there were no pegasus we wouldn’t have food on the table.  But what about the magic food? I still wonder if that's even healthy.”     She shuts her eyes.          “A lot has changed up till now. My affections had changed a slight bit. Not much since I was a full-grown mare at the time.  The full moon will be out tomorrow. I must look my very best. Knowing it might cost me my life.”  > Chapter 8 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eight-o-clock during that evening.  Drifter was outside with Dreamer looking upon the stars. “So, the newspaper had told me that there will be slaves at the Grand Galloping Gala.” Dreamer used her left hoof and took that sip of the cup of yellow hot liquid. “Oh yes, a slave coming to a dance would be the most interesting we had so far in this life span. Think about it.  A salve with a prince of high society.” “But Dreamer, this is an outrage. No low class should even enter.” “Don’t take this the wrong way.  I heard that it was an accidental death to her parents. Which could cause many things my dear Drifter.” “But sister on also the events of high society one must be pure royalty to even be welcome.” “Enough, try not to get into the political side of things.  You should know Drifter that there were no lightning storms during that rainstorm.  It was struck by magic lightning from another unicorn.” “What, this… can’t be.” “It is.  Although we may never know what caused this to arise.” Dreamer looked at her and then shut her eyes. She then took that deep breath in through her muzzle and out from her mouth.   “It is said that the unicorn was also a foal at that time as well.  Trying to get his cutie mark in magic.  Creating a big surge because of him getting threatened by his life on the line.  It got out of control. We believe he lost his right hoof during the fight with this creature that was made out of wood.  He wet himself every time night begins to rise with the full moon.” “That must have been hard for that foal colt at least.” “It is a big day tomorrow. Drifter, we should get some sleep while we're at it.” She nodded her head up and down a few times quickly with that big stretch of her mouth with her teeth together. Flitter was laying on the bed of the hospital  “Help, please someone.  Don’t make the room dark. I hate it.  Please help.” His body was shaken throughout the hours on end.  “My name is Flitter. I saw something in the woods on that day and it was the scariest thing in my life.  I was scared to see those big bright yellow glowing eyes.  Yes, that’s what it was.  It was big and it had teeth that could feed on any pony.  There was nothing about it but I felt pain on that very same day.  I couldn’t feel my right hoof.  It was torn so badly like it was cut off clean.  I’m not even a unicorn.  So, I let fear get the better of me.  Lightning struck somehow and rocks fell like an avalanche.”   The nurse gave him a cup of tea. “Relax, dear pony, there is no such thing.  It must have been all a dream and you cut it off with a knife.”   The nurse put a lot of stuff in her head. “This little colt was probably trying to kill himself maybe?  Although I don’t know what happened, all I know is that his right hoof is cut off.  The only thing I can think of at the time is a foal playing with sharp things and hope he learns his lesson not to touch blades and knives. More likely sharp stuff.” “I tell you nurse it’s a monster down there.” “Monsters are bedtime stories dear.  They are not real.” The nurse looked at him again. She saw in his eyes that he was afraid of something. > Chapter 8.1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spiras Cross walked into a suit store.  While it was about ten-o-clock.     “Ah, I see the suits as one of the best suits makers in the history of Equestria. It is then I should buy the most usual suit that I wear almost every day in business; however, it was the suit always worn out after a few years at best.  I couldn’t repair them since they always seem to get so small during the laundry when some of it dries off.  I could get it tailored but however it would be repaired.  I could just buy a new one.”       He looked at the same fashion blue suit with a white trim near the buttons.      “A thread counts of one hundred seventy grams per square meter. It is one of the best tastes since when you wear it.  Has some degree of making it breathable.  This is why I love this lighter flannel peace.”     He grabbed it with both of his hooves of the hanger, placed it behind his back and walked to the cashier.     “I’ll be taking this.  I assume it’s the same price as always.”     He placed a load of bits to the counter making a ting sound.  The strange green pony opened her mouth with her teeth together. Nodding her head several times.     “Have a good day.”     He put thoughts in his head, “I know how much of a dirty business this place can get.  Expensive stuff can only lead to shady companies.  But I feel like that’s life itself.”     Spiras Cross waves at the cashier with his opened mouth with his teeth together.          Eleven-o-clock in the evening when the bell was struck; it made a loud tone several times throughout the city.     You look at the window from the left of the bed staring at the star constellation. For a moment I walked to your door and tapped your door three times with my right hoof.  However, you placed your left hoof on your left side of the face when you felt that tingle startle you from concentration looking up at the sky. I then knocked three more times.     You turned to the left and walked to the door from the south.    “Hello? Are you back from the Gala?”      You opened the door with your left hoof.  “Ah, Mistress Flora Blossom.”     “Ah, so it’s a mysterious pony with no name.  Still trying to hide it from me.”     “No, of course not Mistress, it's that I wish to stay anonymous.”     “I understand.”     “I should make some tea, Mistress.”     I nodded my head up and down three times.  Few seconds later I took a seat by the nearby window.     “So, after the incident all those years ago. I wonder how Rane Shackleton is feeling? I felt that same awful thing all those years ago.  However, I was in the woods that very same day casting magic with a few other strangers.  We had found a strange creature on that day and one of those strangers cast lightning magic.  It was uncontrollable.  It hit the rocks near the cliff and for that I couldn’t say anymore.”     I sighed and placed both hooves on my face.       The stranger poured the tea with their magic.     “Umm… Mistress Flora. Did you already pick a dress for the Grand Galloping Gala?  Because all of your followers and other strangers are going to be there.  Are you prepared?”     “Yes, I hope that other strangers don’t cause a problem.”     I then used my magic and levitated the tea cup and poured it softly into my mouth.  When I thought about the moment in my head. I was already thinking of the white dress to match a certain pony. > Chapter 8.2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I walked towards the bed and hopped on my back. Looked at the ceiling to know I was a very bad pony who didn’t confess to what happened at that time.      “I made one pony suffer and it hurts far deep inside of my heart.  It turned to regret.  To tell you the truth I felt like I was the villain of this story.  Thickened with high shame to my house.  What should I do?  Even if telling the truth could hurt my family for generations.  I could never risk being such in shame.  Oh, Celestial Goddess.  Help me to repent for my sins.”     I had salty water dripped from both of my eye sockets, curled my body into a ball and stroked my left hoof continuously with my right hoof.  However, I shut both of my eyes at the same time.  Breathing from the muzzle and out the mouth on this night.         Every pony shut the lights out and went to their beds to sleep besides one in particular.     Eleven-thirty in the evening.     The temperature dropped to thirty degrees fahrenheit.  The wind blew from the south to the north.     “So, it all began where I was wanting to do magic at the time. However, it was my own mistake for casting lightning at the place all those years ago.”    Princess Silver Swirl looked at the painting at the museum.     “I was anonymous but however, we all had our robes with our hoods stuck out to make sure that no one knew.  It was I who led them to the core at that very moment. I even sent a letter to them to a few couple addresses.  However, I never knew them until they showed up below the cliff.”     She squinted both of her eyes and had lots of thoughts.     “It was clearly before I asked to have several items before even drinking it.  However, that monster appeared and I didn’t have a choice.”          She used her left hoof and drank the potion.  While she of course cast a random spell at the weird creature.     “I was afraid and wet myself when it howled. I panicked so bad that my horn cast sparkles of light. However, it was a magical surge. With an uncontrollable force that I couldn’t even begin to control.  However, two innocent lives were dead by my hoof.  I didn’t want my new group to be disbanded. On that very day we all chose to wear a mask to keep us covered from security if it truly happened.  The potion was to make a magical surge and make it twice powerful.  However, it was way beyond our understanding of knowledge.”     Princess Silver Swirl and the group split up and ran back to Canterlot from different directions.          “I did send a letter to the same address saying that we should stay hidden for a while and not go to the Grand Galloping Gala.  Until now that is.”     She writes the letter to the same address from all those years ago.     “Not sure if they would be friends since the incident or they could have forgotten.”     She duplicated the letter with her horn and placed the letters into the envelopes, taking the crow out of its cage.  She cast a spell, and made it hold all the letters.       “Crow, make sure they get the message.  It is time.”    She opened her mouth with her teeth together. > Chapter 8.3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eleven fifty-five in the evening. She of course curled up and snuggled in her bed and shut her eyes. “Ahh… Why does it have to be sunny and cloudy?  I wish for rain.  Rain, rain.” She grabbed her sheets with both hooves. “Rain, I was born on a rainy day.  I guess that’s why I love rain so much.  People though as if I was so stupid and crazy.  I just wish they love the rain at least for once.  At least some of the commoners love the rain so much for their crops to grow.” “Princess Silver Rain.  Do please come here.” “Mom, I don’t want to go outside. It’s hot and dry weather.  It makes my fur all weird.  Please don’t make me go out.” “You need some sunlight, daughter, it's part of your health.” “No mom, I don’t want to go outside at this time.  Heat is bad.” She stared at her mom’s eyes as her pupils grew big. “You need to go to school? How are you going to get homework or even make friends?” “I don’t need them.  School is nothing but work.” “Princess Silver Rain, you must go to school at least.” “I’ll wait for night school.  That’s where all the best cool hot stallions are.” “What?” “It was clear that I then received an invitation down the cliff with some strangers.  I would never have thought.  That a stallion would like me as a friend.  Due to my condition of sunlight.” She wore a robe outfit and placed a mask as the invitation instructed. “If I remember. Rain poured hard from the clouds that day.  It was so heavy everyone was wearing robs that day.  The mask kind of freaked me out a bit from what they were wearing.  Some of them had better robes than I ever anticipated.” They heard a howling sound coming from the darkness.  The forest started to fog while the grass was being damped from it. “The glowing eyes were in that forest that night a lot of them.  A lot of howling too.  If I told my parents about what I did I would have gone to magic kindergarten school. That was only meant in the morning for those schools I would have been ruined.” She turned her head to the left. She felt that sap dripping from a monster's mouth. She screamed very loudly and a few others.  Once she got a full glimpse, she then turned her head back and ran forward.  She heard a weird sound and turned her head left again. “I saw the pony doing that lightning spell.  It was as if I was enlightened.  I wish I knew their real name though. I watched the monsters flee but also found something in the distance that was being eaten alive in the monster's mouth.  It was very hard to see but the smell of it was awful.” She jumped and her body was shaking. “That’s where it all happened. I too wet myself from the monsters in the forest.  I then rushed home like everyone else did. Once I got home though I was all soaked up wet from the rain. I dried off with the towel from the bathroom that I use all the time when I take a bath.  Once then I walked back to my bedroom and had many nightmares about that day.  The smell was pretty awful.” > Chapter 9 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The half-moon came out of the sky. Ponies began to sleep.  Twelve-o-clock midnight.     Lumina Cloven shut his eyes with his bedsheets on top of him cuddled with much warmth.          Once he opened his eyes felt the air, a bit of moisture coming from the ground and a little lantern flying above him trying to lead him somewhere.  He then walked and followed it.  He saw a light while the sun was setting. The orange color of the cliff is a memorable memory.     “Volta.  Do you think that this is a good spot to get… well, ummm married?” He turned to his right, staring at her.      She turned her head to the left and with that nice smile. “Oh, Lumina.  You're saying some awkward things to me again. Only if you can catch me in the sky silly.”  She stretched both of her wings, used her wings to go up and down at a good pace, and then jumped off the cliff on a muzzle dive.     He then smiled. “Catch you.  Oh, I can do that.”  He then stretched both of his wings and dived in.     They both got a speed like no other.  Flying fast, feeling that wind across their face, thin air circulated in high altitudes.  Clouds moved in as she went towards one.  While Lumina Cloven was behind her.     He rushed so fast through the clouds, that air blowing on his face with a bit of a wet damped face through that hydrogen cloud. Volta sneaked behind him and used her left hoof to smack his rear.     He went through a lot of shock as if he felt it making his face red.  Volta Norwood shut her eyes and cuddled herself in her bed. As she woke up she noticed a red flower dying out.  “Is this the beginning of no end of pain?” The red flower had that awful growth as the last petal fell. “Thy flower I’m sorry you suffered the moment I laid eyes on you.  I should have taken care of you, my flower.  If only I could help you.  No… I wish that some pony could help you.” The mirror creeped behind her.  As if she turned her head to look at herself again seeing a mystery pegasus pony alongside her. The pegasus beside her on the right had used their right hoof to pet her on the head.  Giving her that smile. She heard a strange stallion voice that seemed familiar but couldn’t figure out who’s voice it was. “The future looks bright mother for then I shall be with you always.” The head of the strange stallion tilted its head on the left, having those black gushed on both of their eyes. “What is that?”  She opened her eyes wide. “I don’t know what you mean mother, I'm always like this.” The walls started to break with an awful glass tone.  She felt the mirror looks so perfect but the surroundings look awful dripped in black gush. Flooding with black gush she tried not to drown in it. The sound of the voice she heard for the last time. “I will come for you my dear if it’s the last thing I do.” She had that sorrowful feeling of her heart aching. > Chapter 9.1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spiras Cross curled up with both of their eyes shut, keeping that warmth under the bedsheets.  They of course woke up in Cloudsdale.  “What am I doing here? This is not Canterlot.”   They were forced to move near a strange pegasus house.  Once then they walked inside, opening the door with the left hoof, “Hello? Any pegasus here?” They looked around, seeing the toy of a small cyan ball that is next to the yellow small ball.  “Where am I?”  Once then they noticed a picture near the living room that was covered in a black stain.  They knew who the red filly was but never knew the other two ponies behind her. The picture had both of the parent’s heads scratched out of the picture.  They know that the filly eyes had some kind of black bar. “I know her.”  They started to remember what happened that day.  Spiras Cross closed their eyes, opened them up again and noticed the scene had changed.  They were in the dark forest close to the cliff, started to walk towards the rockpile from all those years ago, looked down, nothing but a hoof in the rocks.  Blood had been dripping out from the rocks. Also, with that awful stench of a pony's death. “I was standing right here and all of the sudden we heard that howl noise.  We all scattered but I think one of us saw it. The dead body.  They told me by letter that half of the lower body was missing.” They wonder in their dreams trying to figure out what happened to the lower half of the body. Shayde Evilian had his eyes shut without his bedsheets.  He made this loud sound coming from his throat. However, he woke up in a field of stone graves.  Night struck with the full red moon.  Tainted by bad luck.  He walked through the graveyard and stumbled upon the two family members that died.  The casket was out in the open.  He walked towards it carefully.  His heart was pumping.  Spider webs and dust everywhere.  He used his left hoof and saw the dead body upper half.  He looked at it carefully knowing there weren’t any wrinkles to the face.  A purple pony with pink hair was in there. However, she was holding a lazy gray color hoof.   He remembers that the hoof she holds was the husband.  So, he then used his left hoof and said a few words. “Rest in peace to the both of you.  You were all good flyers. Shayde Evilian shut the casket with both of his hooves. Once then he grabbed a shovel and started to dig. “You're not guilty Rane, you're just not guilty.  It hurts all of us as a pegasus.” Once he finished digging, he got up and then moved all of his strength. The casket went down making that loud clunk sound.  Soil flew in the air.  He coughed several times with water down his eyes.      “I don’t want to believe your guilt, Rane. We all wish you had a better life in Cloudsdale with our kind.  Things would have been different.  But with the broken wings and if you fall, we thought it would have been better.  How could we all be so wrong at the time? How could this be your fate? Now I feel like if you were still here, I might have fallen in love with you.  Every time you make a look on your face. I wish to make you happy.”     His heart is pounding faster, “Rest in peace and let the celestial guide you to paradise.” > Chapter 9.2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the dreams of Flurris Nox.      The snow had fallen hard.  “Where did you go little one?”  The red filly pegasus walked into a deep cave.    “This isn’t a time to play hide-and-seek Rane.”     The wind blew in her face.  She squinted both of her eyes, left hoof near the forehead, walking up the steep hill.  No pony was around, no voices but the strong weather that blew faster from the east side.  She felt that deep down of that cold feeling.  The awful feeling that the red filly had.  “Rane don’t go.”      The little filly called out her parents.        “There is no way I can fly in this blizzard.  It’s not possible.”     The filly walked in the cave.  Flurris was a few feet back trying to save her.     Flurris walked in the cave and saw a light that was righted one the three ponies inside. She walked deeper in the cave to see the red filly with two strange ponies.        “Mom… Dad…  It’s been so long to see you.  I can’t fly. I have lost contact with my pegasus friends. I have lost everything… everything that I stood for as a pegasus. And for what all, a toy that was precious to me ended up destroying my life.”    “Rane, that isn’t true.  Please don’t forget you are a pegasus you can fly.”     “Really?”  Rane turned her head to the right.  “You think I can still fly with broken wings?  Mind as well fell to my very own death because they can never be fixed.  Not even a unicorn knows how to fix a pegasus bone, and they are nerds of society.  They will never trust a pegasus you know the stories don’t you Flurris.”     Flurris shook her head left to right. “Unicorns can change. I know so.  Look at Princess Silver Swirl you know she changed to like pegasus and earth ponies just like Prince Blue Dream.”     “Are you sure that it is true Flurris?  Prince Blue Dream is an earth pony but.” “I think you're over thinking of this Rane.” Flurris heard something behind her. She turned her head to the left, seeing a light ray from the cave.  Flurris then turned around and walked to the light.   Four-fifteen in the morning. Aquara Darkmore looks at some documents on the table.  Classified information stamped.  Old paper like it was crippled.  “I never thought this case was so violent it was never to be seen to exist. Therefore it was not my intention to read an old case a few years back.  It was said that it was about my friend Rane and getting injured from a storm flight.  Not sure if the parents were guilty for making such a storm.  In my mind I can only think of one thing.  Did the parents hurt the child?” She kept thinking about it over and over again.  Swiping paper after paper upon the reports.   “It’s odd and unlucky to be found guilty at the royal court.  Even though she didn’t kill them but an accidental death.  It’s highly unlikely.” Aquara Darkmore looked at the last document. “What the?”  Her eyes began to open up. > Chapter 9.3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I myself was sleepwalking during the night after four-thirty.  With my eyes closed shut, spilled milk all over the carpet rug, juice spills on every painting in the house, and yet I didn’t seem to come to mind of the alarm clock until my husband screamed. “Flora Blossom.” He shouted with a face of being red with steam coming out of his ears like a choo-choo train. I opened both of my eyes to see what was the problem.  I clearly was upside down on the edge of the couch. Spilled spaghetti sauce all over my face. “Oh, good spaghetti sauce.”  As I used my left hoof giving that nice body temperature mix with room temperature. And licked the sauce making my eyes open wide knowing it wasn’t spaghetti.  It tasted like blood from my nose as if I had a perverted dream. My husband smacked his face with his right hoof.  It sounded so awful like a pancake flip to a ceiling.   “Oh, dear husband, are you blushing for me?” “No, I slapped my hoof in the face. That is why honey.” “I never seen a husband make such a cute noise from his voice before.  It was then I clearly noticed the mess that I created.  But tries to blame the husband for not waking me up.” “I couldn’t understand my wife when she sleepwalks, it's like a red clown poltergeist.” “I don’t think he noticed me.” “I think she’s looking at me.” “Look dear, don't worry we can let the children clean this mess up before the Grand Galloping Gala.” “Do you think kids these days ever clean up after themselves?” “Only if they are responsible honey.” “Which we did raise them responsible, right?” “Oh, Celestial help me.” That morning at six o'clock when the sun was about to rise. Every pony started to wake stretch and even had some fresh air for the great day.  They all opened the windows and then they said good morning and hello sunshine. You on the other hoof had woken up with all the ponies singing with joy.  You tried to place your ears into that wonderful soft pillow of yours trying to go back to sleep.  Equestria shook several times for you to wake up.  Hearing every pony trying to knock on your doorstep. You went down stairs just to say one moment. What truly happened at that point?  The fandom will never know. “I wish for some sleep.”  You fell near the steps and took your nap there. After a few hours have passed you wake up and head to the kitchen with expectations of a good meal or two. You then headed upstairs back to your room where a nice outfit was waiting for you.  Once you put it on and place your left hoof on the mini mirror next to the end table of your right.  Your looks are outstanding.  You then placed the mirror back, gave that great smile, and walked out of the room to prepare for the night. > Chapter 10 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Near six o'clock in the morning. Rane was still asleep. “How could I ever live like this?” Rane was at a cliff and tried to jump off. She tried to flap both of her wings.  The gravity pulled her down fast and hard. “I have to fly, I'm a pegasus and it is our right to fly through the sky.” Rane screamed in a never-ending fear pitch black with full of regrets. Rane woke up from her bed.  She rubbed her right hoof near her left dramatic arch. Her heart was pumping fast.  After that she calmed down, making those wet dripped tears from her face. “I didn’t want to die.  Life is scary to live on the ground. I just don’t know how unicorns and earth ponies can handle this.  It’s suffering.” Rane got up and walked to the window looking up at the sky.  She took that deep breath in and out.  The door knocked. “It’s me, Prince Blue Dream.” He opened the door. “I can’t fly, it's impossible with broken wings.”  She shut both of her eyes and looked down with doubt. “That’s why I’m here.” She heard a different voice in the room.  “Who are you?” “The name is Star Swirl.” She turned her head to the right looking at a glimpse of a white pony with silver design all over her rear and body that connected. “It’s not possible Star Swirl doctors could never dream to be the best at their feat. Do you even know pegasus anatomy?” Star Swirl opened her mouth with her teeth together. “Healing magic was my best feat in my school years. It was then I could heal bones without using anatomy.  Those days are still there, good and gone.  One of the best days of my life was practicing healing magic with a fish for several years.  The day when I started to heal ponies was an upper class that I had to complete in my early years when I was sixteen. Wasn’t an easy feat.  I failed many times until four weeks later.” “I never knew this pony had it in her to fix my wings, however I wasn’t allowed to use my wings.  Life still hurts though and I felt that pain through my years of life.” She then spoke, “How many days will it take… doctor?” “A magician should never tell any of their secrets.  That’s including how many days to heal as well.  However, I highly recommend not to damage them for a couple of days.” Prince Blue Dream nodded his head up and down several times very quickly. “We should get ready for the Grand Galloping Gala.” Prince Blue Dream walked out of the room and went to their room to get ready. Rane looked at the mirror for a moment to imagine what kind of dress she would be wearing for the big day.    The sky was perfectly blue and the sun began to rise. The sky was perfectly blue and the sun began to rise.  The air blew from the south to the north.  The great cold temperature with a little bit of moisture.  Rane looked at the mirror for a moment to imagine what kind of dress she would be wearing for the big day. > Chapter 10.1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rane put on the dress and walked to the door.  She walked past the door and headed to the kitchen. Prince Blue Dream walked behind her and used his left hoof to touch her left wing. She jumped, “Oh, don’t scare me like that Prince Blue Dream. I can assure you that I don’t like pop scares.” “My apologies Mrs. I just think your wings look cool.” Rane's face got red and hot, “Are you flattering me Prince?” He then opened his mouth with his teeth together raising that left eyebrow, “Oh, I’m sorry I just think you look beautiful.” Her body began to shake. “Well then do I need a dress for the gala?” “Well, yes in fact.  We have it ready in my mom’s bedroom.” “Should I get it now?” “Yes, I do want to see you in it before we head off to the gala.” Rane walked with the prince.  He then waited outside the door. Rane had walked into the room and saw Prince Blue Dream's mother.  She gave the dress to Rane, got dressed up, and then Rane looked at the mirror. “I never thought I could look this good in this dress. It was that time I had some thoughts in my head once again to tell you that it kind of itches near my left flank a little bit.” Rane twirls around three times. Had some thoughts in my head once again, “I hope that I don’t have to twirl a lot for dancing.  Motion sickness would not do me any good.  I remember the last time I had motion sickness.  It was flying in that strong wind. I couldn’t get that weird headache out of my left temple.  It hurt like it was going through a nutcracker. If only friends were here.” > Chapter 10.2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prince Blue Dream took her right hoof with his opened mouth with his teeth together.  Rane felt that his hoof was warm, her face was getting hot with smoke coming out of her ears.  They both walked outside of the house and into the carriage.         “So, Rane, how are you feeling today?”       “I've never been to a dance party before. Are you sure slaves are welcome?”       Prince Blue Dream had a tune of his throat covering his mouth with his left hoof. “Ah, you are such an interesting pegasus that I have laid my eyes on you on the day you came to the house.”       “What? How so?”       He rolled his eyes right to left with that opened mouth with his teeth together.  The carriage then started to move.  Prince Blue Dream fell onto Rane Shackleton.         “Is that perfume?” He smelled her mane, and once he sniffed it three times.  His face became hot red.       “Is this what a stallion smell like?” She of course sniffed him three times as well. Her face got hot with red near her cheeks.        They both stare at each other for a moment.       “Just look at him, he’s handsome.  I wonder how long this is going to be. It’s like I feel something strange about him every time I get close to him.”       “I have this weird feeling when I keep getting close to her. It's like my heart skips a beat every time I get close and even the smell. Oh, my celestial, if this is going to happen, I hope it happens later.”       “Just hope that he doesn’t notice me.  Please it’s too bare to think at the moment when a stallion this close looks at me.”       “What am I doing?  Should I tell her that I love her for real?  No, no, no…  Not a good place for it.  I’m royalty and I should find a good spot to do this.”   > Chapter 10.3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The carriage stopped at the gate. The door swung from the right to the left, and then it opened with a rattling sound.  Rane got out of the carriage along with the prince behind her. Prince Blue Dream grabbed her right hoof and walked down the red rug together.  She looked up for a few seconds at the blue sky.  Once they passed the gate and walked through the door, they saw Rane's friends.  It was a happy day for them.  They all cheer with great smiles.   You looked to the left and saw the others, seen them walking in the entrance when you were near that far left corner.  You used your left hoof and waved at them.  Your head turned back and went back to the conversation among your peers.   “So, do you think they would get married at a young age?”  You gave your friend a strange look with an eyebrow raised on the left side of your face. “Not a clue?  However, they may make a good couple, but her wings are damaged.”  Your friend knows the collar she is wearing. It looked like it was red with spikes on it.  I turned my head to the right looking at the newcomers that made it to the gala. There I quickly turned my head back to Aquara Darkmore with some sweet apple juice non-alcoholic.  We chat about the slave markets.  Princess Twinkle Star and Princess Fuchsia are talking to Grand Duchess Light Heart and Arch Duchess Golden Glow. They all try to agree to make Rane a servant than a slave.   “I’m afraid that leading her parents to death is still guilty.” “Is that true? I mean, let’s think for a second, Princess Fuchsia.” “Now, now, now. Let’s not get too hasty, Arch Duchess Golden Glow.” Grand Duchess Light Heart looked at Princess Twinkle Star for a moment. Dragonfly took a cup of tea, letting his salve Veillios go. “I don’t care for her if I’m honest about it as long I breed so I can have more children to receive my wealth when I’m gone.” Spiras Cross walked near Dragonfly and gave him those slanted eyes.  They turned their head right towards the new crowd of pegasus. After they saw them for a few seconds, they walked towards the coffee table. The table was filled with glass at the table with caffeine glass known as civet coffee.  They took the glass filled with coffee, used the left hoof, and grasped it tight. Rane Shackleton and Prince Blue Dream walked toward the pegasus of her friends. Volta, Veilios, Shayde, Saline, and Lumina were there to hug Rane.  It was a moment of their lives.  Lumina hugged her tight the most, and Volta shed some tears on their face.  Once they finished, they talked about flight up in the sky.  The breeze outside of the blue sky blew hard.  Noxis Kane walked over to the coffee table and saw Spiras Cross. “So, do you think Rane will ever get out of being a slave?” “Well, if she got married to the prince. However, she may become a noble like us.” “You think so? Let’s think about it, Noxis Kane.  She had a rough background story.  Her parents were by a rockslide and a certain creature that cut off half of her mother's lower body.” “I’m sure it wasn’t a creature.  It was a pony unicorn that did some kind of dark magic. They also ate their slaves as a delicacy.” “That’s gross.” “That’s why they are in prison at Tartarus.” Petals outside began to bloom. Copper Glow was sitting near the corner with Lady Floral. They were drinking tea together and shared a bit of knowledge of politics. Both took a sip at the same time with their left hoof.  It was good fresh green tea, a flavor of endless sweetness. “So, what do you think of the party Mrs. Glow,” of her voice Princess Berry said with a slight tone. Floral smiled, “Of course! This party is always going to be great.  Talking to friends and such is the best part.” “Copper also smiled, “Well, the music is pretty swell. I must say they got to be the most talented musicians.” Princess Berry laughed with a deep tone of hers. A bit of joy when she hoped three times, “It’s hard to find talents out there.  She then shut her eyes and smiled. The dance of Rane with Prince Blue Dream started. “So, what do you think? Do you truly like here in high society yet?” She looked at him with her eyes glaring at him.  It was the most thing that she could think of at this time.  It was clear that she hoped that the unicorns could fix both of her wing issues.  However, it could be impossible since unicorns don’t know the anatomy of pegasus. “Do you think I can fly this year? You know both of my wings have been in a wreck for a long time.” “I see.  I will try my best again to talk to the doctors from the noble hospital.  It’s not easy if a slave title.  I think only nobles can use that.”   “I see.  I guess that is the problem.  How do you get a title noble?” The prince twirl Rane twice. “There are several ways to get a noble title.  One is that you must be popular, which you don’t have.  Two is marriage, which could be a simple way, and three must have a royalty bloodline, which you don’t have. “Do you love me?” “Well, I do.  I don’t know if it’s enough to convince the Moon Crest family.” You saw them walk to the porch and look at the sky. Prince Blue Dream looked at her, and she looked at him.  They both closed their eyes and felt a warmth on their lips as they blushed with their red cheeks getting hot.