The Tale of Silent Charge
Chapter 8: Getting there
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe area around Silent was like nothing he could ever remember. This was no longer the town that he had grown up in, it was a war zone.
The playground was a mess of twisted metal save for the swings, the swings were intact, they were swinging back and forth eerily, a smallish pony was siting on them, it was a wood colored pony, it looked like a mare but silent could not tell from so far away. Silent wondered if the pony was heart so he decided that it would be a good idea to see if she needed any help. As he got closer he noticed two things; first, he was right in his guess that the mystery pony was a mare. Second, he saw that she was holding something.
“Hello there, are you ok? Do you need any help?” Silent called out being carful enough to make sure he wasn’t too loud, after all he didn’t need to draw more attention then was absolutely necessary.
At this the mare, who Silent could see looked to be around his age, yelped and ran off, dropping the thing she had been cradling.
“Hey! Don’t run away, it is dangerous around here, YOU DROPPED YOUR FLOWER!” Silent yelled after the mare. He didn’t know why but he went over to the swings and picked up the flower, it had five petals was bright yellow and red and was around the size of his hoof, it was a very pretty flower, but Silent wasn’t really a flower type of guy so he just ate it.
“Hmmm, that’s odd, why would a flower taste like coffee?” Silent said to no one in particular.
Suddenly he heard a twig snap right behind him, he didn’t have enough time to turn around before he felt a sharp blow to his
head and everything went black.
At the castle
“Where is he?” thought Pure, “He is a smart boy, he should have easily had enough time to decode the message and get here by now”
“Give him some time, he can make it on his own, I trust him to do that much” said Darkened trying to console his wife.
“Honey… stop reading my mind” Pure said to her husband with a disapproving glare
“Yea sure what ever” replied Darkened
Back at the playground
“Wha, where am I” Silent awoke, not quite remembering where he was.
He looked around and remembered the incident with the unknown attacker hitting him over the head and then falling asleep.
“What the heck is going on?”
Then he saw a griffin, presumably the one that had hit is head earlier, completely wrapped in what looked to be vines.
On top of the now sleeping griffin was a note and a bright red and yellow flower.
The note read
Because I like coffee, that’s why
“What?, oh never mind I need to get to the castle, if I know mom as well as I think I do she is probably pacing about trying to figure out what is taking me so long.” Silent said out loud once again.
“I should probably get out of the habit to talking to myself out loud… dam this is going to be harder than I thought…..DAMIT”
Silent yelled, once again to himself
With that he spring into the air, taking flight in the direction of the large castle that was looming in the distance.
In the woods behind the playground
“Hmm, what a strange energy that one has, he may be interesting to watch… Darn it now has got me talking to myself as well” spoke the mysterious brown mare before slowly fading back into the forest.
Silent flying towards the castle
Something seemed off as Silent reached the castle. Everything was charged with a sort of tension that was likely to drive a pony mad. It seemed as though it was fully possible that the entire castle could topple to the ground any instant despite the obviously powerful and stable structure of the building. Another thing that had struck silent as odd was the strange movements of everything within the castle walls as he looked at it from up above. Everything was moving faster than usual. Not faster as in the usual hustle and bustle of the big city that the castle contained, faster as in it was hard to tell what was what and who was who. Everything was moving at a breakneck pace, blurs of blue and white and yellow were the only thing
that distinguished ponies from one and other.
He decided that it was something worth checking out, so he flew to the streets below, close enough to the main gate that he could get there quickly, but far away enough that he could have a look at the super speedy ponies that apparently now occupied Canterlot. But as he neared the streets he felt as though he was dividing into a pool of water, and all of the super ponies slowed down to the normal speed. He turned around to look at the sky, confused and bewildered by what had happened just now when he saw a bird frozen in place a few hundred feet above him. This was all too weird for him, so he decided it was high time to visit Luna per his parent’s request.
As he entered the gate he heard a loud BOOM in front of him and he was tackled by what seemed to be a white train.
“Now you listen here mister, don’t you ever do that to me again, you had me and your father so worried would not even believe it!!” Pure yelled at her son
Silent heard a loud high pitched whirring noise and saw his mom doing what he guessed was her little speech about how I should never keep her waiting away
“BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzt… UNDERSTAND ME!!!” Silent heard his mom say.
“Completely” Silent said with a grin.
“Hey look, he’s got blood on him but no cuts!” Darkened chimed in “You popped your murder cherry!, This calls for a celebration!”
“YAY PARTY” Yelled a Pink pony who pulled out a small cannon shooting confetti and cake batter everywhere.
The pink pony then suddenly exploded in a bright light leaving the group with cake and confused faces.
Celestia then walked into the room with a horrified face yelling “HAS ANYONE SEEN A PINK FUTURE PONEY WITH A CANNON”
Everyone raised a hoof
Then Luna ran in with a large pile of nets, tripping over them and getting herself trapped in them. Silent laughed and walked
over to her helping her out of the mess and saying, “Loony, why do you do these things?”
“I keep telling you that I don’t like it when you call me that…” Her face grew into a smile as she realized who she was talking to, “SILENT!!!”
She tackled him to the ground kissing him and drawing him into a big hug. Suddenly they were lifted up and pulled apart and turned to face Silent’s mom who said “not while I’m hear you don’t”
“MOOOOOM” Silent groaned
Out of the corner of his eye Silent saw his dad rolling on the floor clutching his sides in laughter.
Queen Faust walked in through a large door and said, “Oh good you’re here, now we can get down to business.”
[Sorry about the sort of abrupt ending here but I figured it was the best point to stop today and I can’t write anymore today or my fingers will fall off, damn you school.
The mystery pony is not a creation of mine, it is that of a friend and to that friend I say “do not worry, I will give you credit when I introduce your character formally, but for the sake of not ruining anything I won’t be saying any names for now.” ]