Shade's Pov:

while on the ride to Ponyville as the ponies called it, I closed my eyes and absorbed nature chakra while listening to the six ponies and one small dragon converse between each other...I assume he's a dragon cause I saw him blow fire, he could be a fire breathing gecko for all I know

anyway not an hour later we approached Ponyville and with a swift undetected move I removed myself from the train car and walked off completely forgetting the other ponies, as I walked I had that feeling of another presence, with a second I spun around to catch three fillies freeze in place and look at me with there big eyes, my eyes roamed to a light yellow earthpony filly with a red mane and orange eyes she wore a big bowtie on he head, then two a marshmallow white unicorn with a two tone mane light pink and pale purple she had green eyes, finally there was a light orange pegasus with a dark magenta mane and purple eyes,

"and what would you three want?" I asked the three looked at each other and nodded

"are ya an alien?"

"are you an minotaur?"

" are you dangerous?"  came the simultaneously questions while I just blinked

"in a way yes, no,extremely" I answered

"are ya a nice alien?" came from the filly with a bow tie

"yes by normal standards I am miss..." I trailed off

"oh ahm applebloom, this ere is sweetie belle, and this is scootaloo"  she said pointing to the unicorn and pegasus in that order

"and together we are THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS" they yelled in unison

"nice to meet ya but if that all you need to go" I said turning and walking away

"WAIT!!!" they yelled as they all jumped on me, When I hit the ground I burst into smoke

"whoa where'd he go?" asked a stunned scootaloo

"I don't know scootaloo" spoke sweetie belle

"you girls don't need to jump on me ya know" I said directly behind them causing them to jump, squeal, and run right into each other

"how did you do that that was so coool" scootaloo gushed

"I'm a ninja that stuff is like my everyday life kinda" I said as I continued my walk the fillies in tow with scootaloo at my side

"yer a ninja prove it" applebloom challenged

"so be it what do ya want me to do?" I asked

"oh shoot I'm late for my flying lesson" said scootaloo as she galloped off

"got it girls hang on" I said as I put all three on my shoulders

"where to scootaloo?" I asked

"south field" she replied

with a slight nod they held on around my neck as a sped up rapidly, I kept adding chakra until I was running so fast my legs were a blur and with in thirty seconds I stop running and slid past rainbow dash completely spinning her out

"*OOF* what the hay was that?...shade!?" she yelped as the dust cleared

"hello miss dash"  I replied as the trio of giggling fillies jumped from my shoulders

"*snort* quit with the miss stuff were friends no need for that stuff" she said

"Hey rainbow dash did you see it we were going so fast" scootaloo said giddily to rainbow

"yeah I did squirt, shade how did you do that?" rainbow dash asked

"I always have to move like that sometimes faster" I replied

"wow we need to race...oh wait where did you go you just went and disappeared on the train?" she asked

"I went through the window for a walk" I said

"well you might want to check with twilight she was freaking out when she couldn't find you" rainbow dash said pointing to a large tree

"fine see ya" I said as I jumped outta there

walking up to the tree house which turned out to be a library so I walked in two a complete mess and a freaking out purple pony with a dragon that had a look that said he could give less of a fuck

"miss sparkle if you could calm down I think if I were to get lost I could take care of myself" I said

while the dragon and twilight jumped at the sound of my voice

"shade" was the response as she hugged my leg while I looked at the dragon who just shrugged

"miss twilight calm yourself" I said as I picked her up by her scruff while she squeaked

"you done?" I asked and with her nod I set her down

"shade where did you run off to you could have gotten into trouble?" twilight scolded

"ran into a filly trio and then took them to rainbow dash" I said as I sent clones to help spike with the clean up and he shot me a grateful look

"Shade you can't...Shade where did you go" twilight asked as she looked around

"CELESTIA DAMNIT" was heard all over ponyville

for an hour I looked  around and found an abandoned two story house with no roof and I took to the wall, leaning against it I fell asleep by the time I awoke it had to have been nine pm and what I was awoken by was the slight creaking on the lower level

and when I snuck to the broken stairs I saw scootaloo come in and curl up in a corner so I walked down the broken stairs and walked to where she was and sat against the wall

"How long you been an orphan?" I asked making her jump and look at me

"S-Shade what are you doing here?" she asked with...fear?

"Just hanging around now how long" I asked

"I uh I can't" she responded shakily

"if it makes you feel better I was in a similar position when I was your age" I said while looking at her in the corner of my eye

"really?" Scootaloo asked

"yes I have been an orphan all my life so I know what it was like and for some reason I was always beaten" I said

"beaten!?" came a horrified response

"yes beaten sometimes to near death I have been stabbed, burned, whipped, and just all around tortured" I said quietly

"wha-why why would anypony do that to somepony" scootaloo asked horrified at the thought

"scootaloo...If you had no choice would you kill a pony to stop them from killing you?" I asked looking her in the eye

"well I don't...yeah I probably would but only if I had no choice" she gave in

"have...you killed somepony before?" scootaloo asked I nodded

"I have and honestly I didn't like it" I said with a deep frown

"scootaloo do me a favor and never kill" I asked

"promise" scootaloo said

"my parents left me at an orphanage when I was three" she said looking down

"you ok scootaloo" I asked looking at her when she started shaking

"why...what did I do wrong" she asked as the tears poured down her face

I picked up the silently sobbing scootaloo and just held her with a slight rock until she calm down she was quietly sniffling now and I slowed the rocking pace and within five minutes she was a sleep in a ball between my crossed legs and though I'm usually nocturnal I slept as well

by early morning scootaloo looked around and noticed she felt warm she looked back to see me and she just snuggled back up into my legs me and scootaloo slept/rested all day and at night I left her in my jacket and went for food for the both of us once I collected a bunch of apples I put her back on my lap and rested, by morning I was up and walking around I had left scootaloo a couple apples and with my hands in my pockets I walked towards an apple orchard, when I approached I saw Applejack, Applebloom, and another pony I haven't met

When me and this large stallion met eye to eye we just looked at each other no smile, laid back eyes on both of us, and no movement, and within a second we both nodded to each other and he went back to work and I walked up to Applejack  

"Hello miss applejack" I said with a slight wave

"ah shucks partner y'all don't need ta call me miss you'll make me feel like high life snob" Applejack chuckled

"If you say so Applejack" I responded

"what can ah do ya fer" Applejack asked as she bucked a tree

"need any, help I will help" I offered

"well shoot we never turn down hard workers y'all jus head ta the west field and get them apples down ya hear?" she said

"Gotcha" and with that I jumped into the tree and started leaping tree to tree

when I reached the west field which I found do to a conveniently placed sign I did a hand sign and made hundreds of shadow clones each one assigned to a tree and within two hours no trees had apples on them with my clones and me we carried all the apple filled buckets back to the barn, I went there because that's where I saw other apple buckets

"takin a brake are we partner?" Asked applejack

"nah I'm done" I said

"wha...how you couldn't" she looked at me

"don't believe me go check" I smirked when she ran off

"heh" was the only thing that came out of my mouth when she came back with a dumbstruck face

"well all be sugarcube you done well fer yerself hang on here for one sec" she said as she galloped into a small farm house

"here you go sugarcube" she said as she handed me a small sack inside was forty gold coins

"nope I won't take it" I said as I out it back into her hoof

"now listen ere y'all worked hard and ya will get yer pay" she said as she put it in my hand

"okay" I said as I dropped the sack on applebloom's back as she trotted by

"thanks applebloom" I said as I ran and when applejack looked at her confused sister her eyes widened

"oh you sneaky stallion" she said as she looked at the coin sack

a couple minutes later I found rainbow dash and scootaloo

"hello rainbow dash" I said

"hey shade where ya been?" rainbow dash asked

"Just resting" I said

"what are you and scoots up to?" I asked

"were waiting for the doctors results for her wings" she said as we walked/hovered to scootaloo

"whats wrong with her wings" I asked

"I think there to under developed to be able to fly ever" she said sadly

"..."

"..."

"that sucks" I replied after a moment

"IT'S HERE" yelled scootaloo

me and rainbow dash ran/flew to her, rainbow read the note and her smile went to a frown, she bowed her head and handed the note to

scootaloo she dropped the note and galloped into rainbows shoulder while crying

"no" I said as I looked at the both of them

" you wont give up scoots" I said

"but it said I would never fly" she whimpered

"right the IT did but IT is not ME, now I was going to save this for a special occasion but I think this'll do" I said as I started to light up

and with a quick flash I was bright orange hair clothes everything

"woah...what is that shade" rainbow dash

"S-s-scoota-loo c-come here" I stuttered and breathed heavily, she trotted up to me

"s-spread your w-wings *gasp*" I said as I struggled to stand up she did so

"shade are you okay man?" rainbow dash asked carefully

I put my hands on her wings and pushed the healing part of kyubii's chakra into her wings

with a couple sick pops later I reformed to my original self while panting

"try flying scoots" I said as my vision started to blur

with her wings spread she flapped them repeatedly and with a gust of wind she took off

"look rainbow dash I'm flying" scootaloo yelled happily

"way to go scoo-ooooshaaaadeyouuuuooookkkk" was the muffled question as I passed out with a grunt

"SHADE" yelled both scootaloo and rainbow as they flew galloped towards my unconscious form

"do you think he's ok Sister?" asked a voice

I do not know I just don't know"came another voice

I shot up outta bed with a gasp Looking around I notice I was in a hospital and it was midnight

with a scratch of my head I went to get up when a weight on my legs stopped me  I looked to see scootaloo

"Scoots wake up" I whispered and gave her a light shake

"come on scoots" I gave another shake

"psst scoots you can fly" I whispered

"WHAT" She yelled as she jumped and looked around until her eyes landed on me

"S-shade?" she whimpered

"that's my name kiddo" I said with my first actual smile

"say kid how long was I out for?" I asked with a yawn

"you were asleep for three months" she replied  

"well that is a long nap, come on scoots" I said as I jumped out of the bed

when we left the hospital undetected of course it was hard to see but we walked/trotted over to our broken down house which got me thinking about purchasing the old home for me and her well if she wants to stay that is but that's up to her but for now we sleep I laid her in my coat and slept on a nearby wall when morning came around scootaloo was jumping around excitedly

"shade I forgot to say but thank you thank you thank you" she giggled happily as she hugged me

"you're welcome?" I chuckled

"you know for making me be able to fly" she said as she flew

"sure thing kiddo no problem" I said

"no I...I mean it  you don't understand how much it means to me...thank you" she said with a wavering smile sniffle thing...it was cute shut up

"no problem scootaloo now why don't you go see rainbow dash she'll teach you more kid" I said as she took off

"ok see ya shade"

I went to Applejack's farm and did two more fields and after Applejack got angry at me for not taking it easy she handed me the last pay and this pay which was triple the normal pay and after that she told me to go rest and I was going to until Applebloom let one of the pigs loose at it splatter mud on the both of which made us laugh I pulled off my jacket and undershirt and when I looked back to Applejack she turned her head but not before I saw a full face blush

"Applejack you ok?" I asked

"AJ! I mean uh call me Aj" she said nervously

"uh you ok Aj" I asked

"uh huh um rarity will clean your clothes bye bye now" she said as she pushed me off the farm

"o...k...then whatever time to go to rarity's I suppose" I said to myself but then stopped

"wait where does rarity live...ahhh hell" I said as I muttered to myself angrily as I walked along

as I walked along I heard a voice singing along side the road so I walked toward said singing

to find sweetie belle sitting on an old picnic table  

"dang sweetie belle" I said not so quietly

"eep oh no please bully me" sweetie belle squeaked

"eh nah sweetie you good" I said

"shade? oh tell me how was it" she asked

"hmm oh your singing sweetie belle you must sing to every er pony that's how good it is" I say with a smile

"Really?" she squeaked happily

"in fact when your ready to sing I'll play all the instruments" I said lifting up to my shoulder

"now I need to know where rarity's is can ya tell me where she lives?" I asked with her tiny nod she lead me into town more and towards the strangest building ever, I dropped my coat and shirt on the road and knocked on the door

"yes darl-Shade your ok and shirtless why?" she asked confused

"Got mud on my clothes by a pig" I said

"say no more darling I will help where is your shirt and jacket?" She asked, I turned and grabbed my shirt and walked back

"I wouldn't want  to muddy your place so I left them there, when should I pick them up" I asked

"come back tomorrow as of now you might want to visit twilight" she said as she floated little red glasses to her muzzle

I walked towards the library and entered

"welcome to golden oaks library...oh hey shade" spike said and when he did we both heard a glass break in the other room said rooms door opened

"Shade Canterlot Now" she said quickly

"and to be sure you stay there" she lit up her horn above my head and some green powder landed on me

"uh what is that?" I asked

"flu powder and yes it gives you the flu" she said

"wha-oh oh...I don't feel so good" I muttered as I fell with a thud