"The mysteries of life are pondered many times, by many philosophers. The truly understand the world one must embrace it, you must become one with it. The only way one can achieve that is by being as close as possible to nature. You can never truly appreciate everything until you realize that..." I think before my train of thought is interrupted.
"Ender, there you are, I've been searching for you everwhere!" somepony screams at me.
"Hhhaaaa...!" I scream while I roll off my back onto my hooves from the comfy patch of grass under a tree where I was just lying. I look up at the pony who so rudely bothered me. I see a unicorn mare average height for a pony. She has a dark yellow coat her mane is a dark brown with bright yellow highlights in it, her tail the same. Her cutie mark is a golden flower that has rays shining out of it. Her mane is in a braid. It is only when I look in her sea blue eyes I realize something very important. It is my sister that screamed at me.
"Hey, sis," I say, with a sheepish smile, as I slowly stand up still a bit disorientated from my previous self-induced trance I usually enter when I think deeply. It also explains why I didn't recognize my sister.
"I've been worried sick, because you didn't come home for lunch, and all you can say is 'hey sis'," she says with irritation and relief in her voice.
"I'm sorry, I just laid down and began to think and I guess I lost track of time," I say with my ears flat against my head. I really feel guilty now, I hate it when my sister is sad and I can tell she thought the worst happened like every time I disappear.
"I don't know what we are going to do with you, Ender. I truly do not" she said.
"Just love me," I say as I hold my hooves out in front of me inviting her for a free hug. She looks at me and sighs, then I smile appear on her face and she hugs me. I always enjoy hugs they are so nice.
We stay like that for a while then she breaks it. I look at her and it seems she feels better now.
"Come on Ed lets go mom made your favorite for dinner," she says.
"Yes! let us get going" I say. Now if there is one motivation for me its food. We began our walk back to our parents home.
"Oh and Ender don't think you are out of trouble for disappearing," she says with a stern tone.
"What if I were to give you more loving hugs," I say hoping she will accept my bribe.
"Oh no! you are not getting off the hook this time, but I might just go easy on you if you throw in a couple of hugs," she says whit a playful grin.
"Ok fair is fair, I will take my punishment," I say with a saddened tone making puppy eyes hoping to sway my sister, but alas it is to no avail. She is not going to change her mind.
"But before you commence with your punishment can we first eat," I say with a serious tone.
"Ok you big fatty we will go and stuff you full first," she says with a playful tone while nudging me
"Hey! I'm not fat I am just big boned" I say I bit embraced and my voice fades ate the end.
"Come on I'm just joking Ed you know I don't mean it," she says.
"Yeah I know miss chubby," I say as I nudge her.
She huffs and puts her nose in the air like a snobby pony, but she is unsuccessful in hiding her smirk.
As she stomps off I follow. As I look around I can see the looks ponies are giving me. I've gotten used to them my appearance puts them off. I guess a larger than normal pony with a completely black coat and mane. My mane, which is neatly combed to the right, and tail have blue highlight in them. I also a bit buff even if I don't always exercise. It is mainly because of my magic flowing into my body. I always wear a black cloak to cover my entire body. It also has a hood to cover my face.
I usually wear my hood up except when I am with my sister because she doesn't like it. I also where the cloak to cover my cutie mark, a magic circle used to do powerful magic, the only problem is it is used in dark magic,so yeah fun. I guess the reason most ponies look at me like they do is because of my horn. It is curved, unlike a normal horn. Also because of my talent. My dark blue eyes seem if they stare into a pony's soul or that is what they feel when I look at them.
When ponies see my they usually think I am evil, but it has its upside like I have no problem navigating through a crowd because they usually make way for me. They think if they touch me they will be cursed or something, but I don't really care what they think it just makes certain aspects of my life so much easier.
Honey Blossom sees this she scolds the ponies and grabs me by my hoof to get us as fast as possible away from them and to our parents home. We travel the rest of the way relatively fast and reach the house. It is a modest house its peach colored and looks really, down to earth, beautiful. We walk in the house and is see my mother, a middle age unicorn mare with a cream coat and light brown mane and tail with yellow highlight through it. She has sea blue eyes and her cutie mark is cake in the shape of a heart. Then there is my father also a middle aged pegasus stallion with a dark brown coat and black mane and tail. He has dark blue-green eyes and his cutie mark is a hammer.
"Hey mom, dad," I say
"Ender! You're finally back, I was worried sick that something happened to you " my mom says with a worried tone. She comes over and hugs me,
"Sorry mom, I got lost in thought again" I sheepishly say. I feel bad for making my mother worry. She is very overprotective and loving and I hate making her sad and worried just like with my sister.
"It's ok sweetie I was just afraid somepony might have done something to you," she says. It's true really most ponies dislike me because my talent is dark magic. They think that I will enslave them all or use them in sacrifices and other evil things. I have tried but failed to convince them otherwise. The king and queen were involved when I was a little colt. Many ponies believed I was a threat and they demanded that something is done.
This all happened just after the event were I got my cutie mark. I might add that it was because of a stallion that I got it and this stallion might have been hospitalized for weeks because of it. Dark magic is dangerous, but I digress. The king decided because I was still very young and had little control over my magic, that I will be under constant supervision. They initially wanted to take me away but my parent pleaded that I stay. Even though I was under constant watch I still managed to sneak away lots of time to practice my magic. The lessons that were provided for me were not adequate since I had dark magic. The time came when I was no longer being supervised. The king thought I could act responsibly. There were many ponies that were not happy I was still around and now also free to do as I please.
I was never going to harm any pony until some of them tried to get rid of me. They terrorized me. My mother is always worried they might achieve their goal, but let us just say I know a few 'dark' magic tricks.
"Well I'm glad your back now son, we made your favorite dish for dinner tonight," my dad said.
"Sis already told me, if it's alright with you can we eat I'm starving," I say and as to emphasize my point my stomach growls. Everypony laughs.
"Well let us get to it then we wouldn't want you to start eating the furniture again," my father said while starting to chuckle again.
"Hey! That only happened one time and it is only because my spell backfired and turned the couch into chocolate" I say in my defense. I was actually trying to change an iron fork into gold until my mother decided it was a good idea to bake a chocolate cake. I lost concentration when I smelled it and you can guess what happened, but I have to admit chocolate couch tastes delicious. At my comment everypony starts to laugh again. Afer we all calm down we sit down to eat.
When we were done eating we cleaned up and my mother is making our tea at the moment before we head to bed.
"Teas ready" mom says as she carries the tray in.
"It was so nice to see you two after such a long time, are you both sure you have to leave tomorrow?" my mother asks.
"Yes, unfortunately, mom, at least we were here for a whole week," I say.
"I suppose, but I am starting to miss you both already and you have not even left yet," she says sadness in her voice.
"Don't worry mom we will come and visit as soon as possible" my sister says.
After some more lite conversation, we departed to our rooms. Tomorrow I and my sister will be off again. We have to early to catch the boat. She is going back traveling over the sea to I believe it's called Equestria. I am going south to complete my research on sand wraiths, creatures that can manipulate the very desert they live in. After that, I will follow in my sister's hoove steps and go to Equestria to do some research there on some creatures that have strange magical abilities, like the timber wolfs my sister told me about. I am looking forward to it. I will be spending more quality time with my sister then. I also want to meet my sisters new coltfriend. For his sake, I hope he treats her good or I will personally release all of Tartarus on his flank.
Sleep slowly takes me as I start to wonder into the dream realm.