Heart of Cold
Chapter 6: Sweet Encounters
Previous ChapterTwilight Sparkle hugged her parents as hard as she can, she won't let them go as she did with Princess Celestia. A single tear fell down her cheek as she asked: "What are you doing here?"
"We could barely meet up with you when you became Celestia's private student." Twilight's mom said.
Twilight's dad continued: "Even less since you moved to Ponyville."
The couple then took a look on the five other ponies that were in the room, the five stood there enjoying the beautiful reunion.
"And these are you're friends, if I'm right?"
"Sure we are, ma'am" Applejack answered and the rest nodded.
Twilight's mother smiled happily, "Happy to meet you all, my name is Periwinkle."
The couple finally escaped the grasp of their daughter, "And my name is Crescent," the father said.
*author's note: I had to give them names, don't I ?*
The five ponies all gave their up their names in response. The group talked about the adventures they've had and the lessons they've learned. Laughs were shared and the massacre of Canterlot looked like it never happened.
"I know what we could do! We hold a Twilight's-parents-suprised-visit-partyyyyy!!!" Pinkie Pie yelled in joy.
The Unicorn couple looked at her like she was a stranger, "A party, now? At this hour?"
"Ofcourse, silly! It's never too late for a party or too early! Parties are important, they show the goodness of happiness! And balloons, balloons are like the best! YAAAAAY!"
As Pinkie was blabbering about the definition of parties and the grand philosophies around it, everyone already started putting up the decorations and snacks out of Twilight's kitchen. When Pinkie wants to party, there's no way to prevent a party being build. Everyone was in a, kind of, good mood. The events of today weren't erased from their memories, the party couldn't sooth their despair. The topic was brought up when Periwinkle asked her daughter:
"Twilight... Where's Spike?"
The party went silent when she asked the question, everypony had their heads pointed to the ground. Images of the massacre dripped like blood over the happy moments they had a for few minutes. The silence that hung in the decorated room was broken by the sobbing Fluttershy.
"Fluttershy, dear..." Crescent tried to comfort the Pegasus but she started to cry harder and with a scream she ran out of the tree-house trough the front door, into the dark and starry night.
Twilight's mom looked at the front door with great worry: "Oh dear, did something happen?"
"You don't know?" Twilight asked.
"Don't know what?"
"What happened today in Canterlot!"
"We were her since mid-day, dear." Crescent said "Now tell us, what happened in Canterlot?" he asked.
...
Fluttershy ran with tears trough the starry night. She ran and ran past the street lanterns and benches. After a long walk she eventually ended up before her own house. She stood before the little bridge that crossed the little river that flew by. As she crossed the little bridge she stood before her door. Her house was big and the roof is filled with leaves, grass and some bird houses to give it a nice touch. The sight of such beauty made her heart more warm as it was cold from the shock and fear she encountered today.
"Angel! Mommy's home!" She yelled as she entered her house.
From behind the seat a little white rabbit appeared and hopped towards the yellow Pegasus. Fluttershy petted the little rabbit, "Oh dear, you will not believe what a horrible day I had, Angel." They started to hug but the hugging became tighter as the room started to become cold and a mist started to emit.
Fluttershy...
The Pegasus started to hug Angel harder, almost choking the little rabbit.
"Who... Who's t... Who's there?" She asked
Kindness...
"You're... starting to scare m... Me"
Beauty and grace that gives light in the darkness that is chaos and disharmony...
"If you're... talking about... how Discord couldn't corrupt me..."
The mist that filled the room started to collect itself before Fluttershy, becoming a physical being. A giant, winged being with red eyes noticeable trough the concentrated mist.
...
"Oh my, Twilight. We're lucky we decided to visit you today." Twilight's mother said.
Crescent's blue coat became red in anger, "What where you thinking, daughter! You could've been killed by this Coldheart figure! That you possess the Elements of Harmony doesn't mean you have to confront dangers head on!"
The five ponies still pointed their heads towards the floor. Twilight's father fury was frightening but that's to show the concern for his daughter he barely to never sees. Periwinkle comforted her husband, asking him to calm down.
"Let's just be happy that Twilight and her friends are okay, dear."
Crescent calmed down, his coat returned to its dark blue color, "Yes, honey."
During Twilight's father's outburst, nobody could see the little white bunny that entered the tree-house. Rarity was the first to notice, "Angel? What are you doing here, darling?" she said.
Angel was just hopping around desperately, like she wanted to tell them something.
"Angel... Where's Fluttershy?" Applejack asked
Angel was still hopping around after she started to sense that the ponies in the room don't know what she tries to tell she started to use hand gestures for a pencil and a piece of paper. After a couple of tries, Angel could finally let them understood her and Twilight used her levitation magic to give the little bunny the pencil and paper. Angel started to scribble on the paper, since she is a rabbit her drawing abilities aren't that much to the artistic side. Eventually they started to recognize what the little bunny was drawing or at least Pinkie Pie could recognize what Angel drew.
"Ooh! Ooh! I know it! I know! It's a... a chocolate piƱata! No, it's Derpy eating a muffin! No, that's not it."
Angel looked at Pinkie Pie like she was a stranger and showed the drawing to the other ponies. On the paper was a yellow spot with pink lines drawn over it and two yellow strokes on the top. "That yellow spot is obviously your friend, Fluttershy" Crescent said, "But what about the other?" He pointed towards the big black spot that stood opposite to the spot that's supposed to be Fluttershy. The spot had a small black line on top of it's 'head' and like Fluttershy's spot it had two strokes on it's 'back', but these were black like it's 'body'. What was also noticeable were the two red dots on it's 'face'. It took a while but Twilight could finally realize who or what that black dot was. She looked at the drawing with a expression that was filled with fear, a fear that made your spine go cold as ice. Her parents looked at their daughter with worry.
"Do you know who this is, honey?" Her mother asked.
Twilight did not answer, she was still staring at the picture. Her friends still couldn't recognize the black thing but a look on Twilight's face made them guess the obvious.
Rainbow Dash asked Twilight: "Is it...?"
The Unicorn didn't answer.
Applejack tried to wake her up out of her 'status': "Twi....?"
"It's him..."
