Disclaimer: I do NOT own MLP in any way! All copyrights of this series goes to Hasbro.
What's up everyone! Welcome my second story after a long and depressing hiatus! Sorry I haven't been writing for months. I got depressed of not being a good writer and having no value. I even thought of suicide a number of times, though I try to suppressed them and pretend that everything was fine. But it only ended up coming back twice as much until I broke down in tears and sadness. After a few helpful advice and loving support from an handful of my fans and friends, I got back up on my feet and start fresh!
Anyway, the reason why i was depressed is that I have a few learning disabilities such as Expressive language disorder, Mixed receptive-expressive language disorder, Dyslexia and Disorder of written expression. I also stuttered a lot at times... All these disabilities does hampered me of my abilities and skills as a writer... But, I try my best everyday nonetheless because writing is my passion and I want to persuade it.
This story will be different from the t.v show since it will take place on earth, but it will still have everything from the show! The setting will be a large, humongous valley so it will have forest (Everfree) nature, animals, etc, and a middle school academy that the Main Six will attend, so it will be filled with romance, drama, fights, competition, and a few laughs here and there.
Their will be no magic though, that's why we will have OC's!
Please do not send them in via review. I am currently creating a forum to post them in and I don't want to get in trouble! I will also accept them by PM message but I want them being posted in the forum for the most part.
So create an OC, fall in love, and as I said before, please do not send in by review!
Oh! A couple of things to point out. For those that happened to read Middle School Life and even created an oc for that story to Kusanagi the Blood Angel, there are some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that for those who submitted their characters will have to send their characters again because Kusanagi the Blood Angel had to switched accounts for undisclosed reasons and could no longer be able to continued it. Kusanagi apologized for this sudden turn of events especially for those who have been waiting for the next chapter to be posted and thanked you for understanding. He now goes by the name Darkness Heartless.
However, there are some good news. I asked him if I could take over his story seeing that it had alot of potential and this would give me the opportunity to do a remake of the two stories that I never finished, which it was Middle School Days And School Stories (check both of them out). Fortunately, Kusanagi (again now currently goes by the name Darkness Heartless) said yes as he's has been a fan of my works and even read those two stories that I didn't finished. With his permission, I decided to bring this story back to life but with a different title since I can't (and don't want to) use the same title Kusanagi used. Also despite me taking over his story, he will be a majority of this story and will served as the storyboard and ideas for the story and will be doing the chapters from behind the scenes since prior of starting the story he asked me to help him by being co-creator of his story and I accepted it. Don't worry, Astrayel, Kusanagi's OC will still be in this story rest assure you, alongside with another OC he created a week ago and he will work on the chapters with me as well.
Rest asure you that I'm NOT stealing his story. Please bear with me that I'm not stealing this story. I'm a good friend of his and we have been knowing each other for years. If you still have doubts, go ahead and pm him. Remember, he has different account and goes by the name as Darkness Heartless. Just taking extra precautions that I won't be reported and be banned. The last thing I want is to be wrongfully accused.
With that being said, here's chapter one of Middle School Story Life. Enjoy! Also, because Darkness Heartless and I are doing the story together, he wants the first to chapters to be the same from Middle School Life with a few changes of course. Just wanted to point that out.
Chapter 1: New beginning of an old life
It was a bright morning as a small car traveled down the road leading into Majestic Falls, Nausicaa. behind the wheel was a young woman with dark blue hair and eyes almost the same color, while sitting in the passenger seat was a boy with the same style hair as hers, but with the colors of white, sky blue, and turquoise.
The young woman gave out a small sigh as a feeling of nostalgia came over her, she then glanced over a boy and a smile formed on her face, his gentle violet eyes were now full of determination as they stared at the sketch book in his lap, the pencil in his hand a flurry as a drawing began to take shape.
"So which one is it this time?" she asked in a kind voice. Startled by the sudden question, the boy dropped the pencil in his hand and gave the woman a solemn look. "Eh, sorry about that Astrayel, guess I forgot how easily startled you can get."
Astrayel gave out a sigh as his solemn expression turned into a smile "It's alright Aunt Luna and its Aquila this time." Astrayel then held up the sketch book, on the page was an eagle with it's wings spread out, it's claws open as if it was about to catch it's next prey, then all through out the eagle many different lines could be seen, almost each one connected by small circles.
"I still can't believe you're able to do all that with constellations, all I see is a bunch of lines every time I look at them" Astrayel slightly blushed at the comment, and turned his gaze to the front window.
"To think it's been a year since we left Majestic Falls..." he said with tiredness in his voice, his smile then changed into a frown "I hope Twilight and Spike still remember me, considering what mom said they've made a lot of new friends."
"Of course they'll remember you, you're their oldest and closest friend, in fact I think you might like who their new friends are." Astrayel didn't say anything else, he instead picked up the pencil he dropped and began working on the Aquila constellation again. A little disappointed, Luna gave her full attention back to the road, "I hope you're right Aunt Luna" Astrayel said in a barely audible tone, but Luna was able to hear what he said. "Don't worry Astrayel, I promise everything will be all right." was the last thing he thought as they exited Majestic Falls and entering the Royal Gardens.
They drove around for almost an hour; Astrayel's house was only a few minutes away but the new buildings and attractions kept them busy. After a while they finally arrived at one of the largest houses in Nausicaa and standing in front of the door way waiting for them was a woman with pink eyes and the same hair style as Astrayel and Luna but with the colors pink, green, blue and purple, she had on a beautiful white dress with a gold trim and on her face was a large smile.
"Mom!" He yelled out as he jumped out of the parked car and almost knocking over the woman with a tight hug. "Hello dear, I've missed you so much." The woman said as she embraced him, albeit with more force.
"Hello Tia" Luna said as she stood in front of the car with Astrayel's bags in her hands. "Hello Lulu, it's been a long time" she then broke the hug, but kept her hands on his shoulders "Astrayel, could you go please put you're stuff up in you're room, I would like to catch up with you're Aunt Luna for a bit."
"Of course mom!" he said with enthusiasm, he then ran over to Luna and took his bags from her, but before going inside he gave her a big hug, "Thank you, Aunt Luna." she returned the embrace as well and gave him a loving smile. "You're welcome sweetie. Now hurry upstairs, your mom and I have a lot to talk about." They then broke the embrace and Astrayel ran inside, he took the stairs to the top floor and stood in front of his bedroom door.
Putting his luggage on the floor he cracked the door open and peaked inside, it was the same as he left it a year ago. Opening the door all the way he grabbed his bags and went in, again he placed them on the floor, this time in his room and made a quick sweep with his gaze. "Alice, im home." he said in a quiet tone, for a few moments nothing happened, but then a small animal like noise rose from his bed and filled the room. The two pillows on his bed began to rustle, and between them popped out a black rabbit with red eyes and a red bow on her right ear.
The rabbit made an excited chatter as she leap from the bed and onto his shoulder; she then began to nuzzle his cheek. "I missed you to Alice." he then grabbed her from his shoulder and placed her in his arms as he plopped onto the bed. Laying back onto the bed, he shut his eyes, enjoying the feeling of nostalgia that began to overtake him, well that is until he felt Alice thumping his chest with her foot. Opening his eyes, he gave her a small smile "What is it Alice?" she then pointed to his bed side table; on it was a small black box. Carefully opening it up he was surprised to see a pendant that was a beautiful golden-yellow sun and a pretty blue crescent moon inside. Letting Alice back onto his shoulder and pendant in his hand he ran back down stairs.
Hearing the voices of his mom and Luna, he entered the living room to find the two chatting comfortably on the couch. Feeling another presence in the room they both stopped talking and look at him with smiles "What is it dear?" Celestia asked him in a loving tone, taking the seat between then he held out the pendant "I found this in a box on my table, and I've never seen it before."
The smile on her face grew larger as she took the pendant from his hand, "It was a gift from you're father, he gave it to me on the night you were born." she then held it by the chain and placed it around his neck "now I want you to have it, consider it a late birthday present."
With tears beginning to form, he gave her one of the tightest hugs in his life "Thank you so much mom, I love it. I promise that I'll always take care of it!" They kept the hug on for a few moments until they heard Luna get up.
"Well, I've got someone else to visit so I'll see you two later." she began walking out of the room." Tell Snowflake that I'll be by soon Aunt Luna." She stopped and gave him a small smile "Of course I will." she then continued out of the room and then out the front door. "Uh hey mom?" she looked at him "I was wondering if it would be alright if I visited Twilight and Spike?" she then gave him another bright smile "Of course it is dear, you might want to take a shower first though."
Astrayel then stood up from the couch, Alice still on his shoulder and headed back up to his room, letting Alice onto his bed and putting the pendant on the side table he took of his clothes and began his shower. After a few minutes and with a towel wrapped around his waist he stood in front of the mirror, on his body were three deep scars that began from the top right of his chest to the bottom left of his stomach. He gently touched them, but quickly jerked his hand back.
With a look of despair on his face he finished drying off and changed into a dark blue short sleeved shirt and black jeans, followed by black high tops and a black hooded jacket. Placing the necklace around his neck and grabbing his phone, he gave Alice a warm pat on the head and went back down stairs, bidding goodbye to his mother he took off out of the house and down the street.
Astrayel was standing in front of a large tan house; next to it was a humongous and wide tree with what looked like a door and windows on the front of it. Without a moment to spare he knocked on the door of the tree and waited. A loud "coming!" was heard and the door opened to reveal a small boy with spiky green hair and emerald green eyes, he had on a pair of light purple shorts and a green tee shirt with a dark purple hoodie.
The little boy went wide eyed when he saw who it was that had been knocking. "A-Astrayel!" Astrayel gave him a smile "Hey Spike, it's been a long time!" Spike quickly ran into Astrayel and embraced him in a hug "I-I can't believe it, it's really you!" "Spike who is it?!" shouted a feminine voice from the tree, without a word they both entered the tree and walked up the stairs into a large room filled with books. Sitting in the middle was a girl with strait dark purple hair that had a pink and light purple streak going through it; she had on a dark purple sweater and a pink skirt. She didn't notice the two had entered since her purple colored eyes were focused on the book in her hands.
"Uh, Twilight?" she didn't respond "Twilight." Spike said a little louder, but still no response. "Twilight!" it was Astrayel who spoke this time. Fed up with the interruptions Twilight put the book down looked at the two with a glare, which then changed to one of complete shock. "No way..." was all that she managed to get out before suddenly tackling Astrayel to the floor with a hug.
"I can't believe you're back!" Twilight yelled while tears began to fall from her eyes. "Uh ye-yeah, it's been a long time Twiley." he said with a stutter as a light blush spread out over his face. Finally standing up she wiped a few tears away and helped him up. "So, when did you get back?" she sat back down in the chair she was reading in, Spike brought out two more chairs and sat in one himself while Astrayel took the other one. "About earlier this morning, I can't tell you two how glad I am to be home, I've especially wanted to see you two, since you are now officially my brother and sister."
They both gawked at him "Wh-what are you talking about Astrayel?" Spike asked with confusion in his voice.
"Well since Cadence and Shining Armor are married, that makes him my cousin. But I think of him more as an older brother honestly, and since you two are his brother and sister that makes you my siblings." he smiled at the logic he just used, but poor Spike seemed to be even more confused than before.
"It means that he's are brother now Spike." Twilight simply said with a short sigh. "Oh, then why didn't you say that in the first place?" it was Astrayel's turn to sigh as he face palmed.
"So I heard that you guys made some new friends?" he asked the question in a happy tone, but on the inside a great feeling of dread began to well up. "Why yes, six of them to be precise." she said in a pleasant tone "Oh, well that's nice." he said in a happy tone, but right now he was thinking "So I guess that means they don't need me anymore." This thought kept running through his mind until Spike shook him "Hey, are you okay Astrayel?"
Putting on a false smile he gave Spike a loving pat on the head "Of course I'm okay little bro, just a little jet lagged from the trip home." He then turned to Twilight who was starring at him with her eyes filled with uncertainty, "Uh, so what have you guys have planned tomorrow, since summer's almost over I thought we could go over to the lake like we used to do." they both exchanged an uneasy glance before Twilight finally spoke again.
"Um, we actually have plans to hang out with the others tomorrow at the park." "Oh, o-okay, sorry about that then." The feeling of dread he had felt before began to grow until it felt like a boulder in his stomach. "How about you come with us?" A look of surprise spread across Astrayel's face, he wasn't expecting that. "Why don't you come with us tomorrow, that way you'll be able to meet all are new friends and hang out with us, I think you might like them actually."
With the feeling of dread beginning to leave him, his look of surprise turned into one of joy "I would be honored to join you." he said while giving a slight bow in his seat. After that Astrayel told them about all the different places he had seen, and all the different people he had met. They continued talking like this until late into the afternoon, with a group hug and quick goodbye Astrayel left the tree house and made the trek home, after getting home he had dinner with his mother and they talked a little about his trip. After they ate and dishes were put away he went back up to his room and began unpacking his bags.
Pulling out the many different notebooks and sketch books he brought along, Astrayel grabbed them all up and sat at his desk, it was covered in a mess of papers that had different drawings on them, all constellations. Opening up one of the drawers he began putting the books into different sections, trying to at least make things a little organized.
After that was done and with nothing else to do he flipped on the computer on his desk, clicking on one of the pop ups an image came up. It was a picture of him, Twilight, Cadence, and Shining Armor from years ago. Twilight was sitting on Shining Armor's shoulders while next to them Cadence had her arms wrapped around Astrayel's neck.
Clicking another button the image switched to another one, this time of him Celestia, Luna and a boy with snow white hair and ice blue eyes. Celestia was standing behind Astrayel while Luna was standing behind the white haired boy, they both wore smiles while the two boys had their arms over the other's shoulder and held up their hands making the peace sign, and they both also wore a smile.
Clicking the same button once again, the image changed and the feeling of dread Astrayel felt before began to well up inside him once again. It was a picture of him, Celestia, and a man with dark purple eyes and short black hair with red streaks, they all three faced the camera with smiles while forming a sort of group hug position.
"Dad . . ." was all he thought while looking at the photo, then a memory came to him, it was the same man but he was laying on the ground with a puddle of blood forming around him. He felt tears threaten to fall, try as much as he might they began to flow, and the room was filled with the soft sound of sobs. After what felt like hours he felt a hand on his shoulder, looking up with blurry eyes he saw his mother with one of the most sincere smiles she had ever given him. He wrapped his arms around her and began to sob even louder, after a while of this he calmed down, She then picked him up and gently placed him in his bed, pulling the blanket over him Alice popped out and cuddled next to his head.
She gave him a warm smile and a kiss on the head before she shut down the computer, trying her best to not look at the monitor. She quietly shut the door behind her and before entering into her own room she began to sob lightly.
Whew! That's it for chapter one! Don't panic everyone. I'll have the forum for this story ready and up in running by the next chapter so DON'T send your oc if you have one you want to give me. Wait until the next chapter to be posted. That includes the people who have send their oc's to my past two stories (Middle School Days and School Stories). You have to wait and submit your oc's like everyone else! With that announcement up, this is Allenfairytail signing off! See you next time!