Chapter 1: Introduction
Update 12 of March 2014: I have put the 3 first chapter together as one long one. Enjoy.
"There he is!"
"Get him!"
"We did it!"
"What the hell is that?!"
"No! How can he still be-"
The train whistle woke Applecore up from his nightmare. He has had the same dream for weeks now and hopes that spending some time with his cousins in Ponyville will make the bad dreams go away. His dark brown mane hung down the left side of his face halfway down his grey eyes and his bright red coat was covered in sweat. Looking out of the train window, all he worried about was how ponies would react to his cutie mark; a pentagram. But upon seeing his cousins Applejack and Big Macintosh with three little fillies he had heard about from his little sister Babs Seed, all his worries washed away.
Meanwhile in the Everfree forest
A young Pegasus had just woken up when an unbelievable amount of pain shocked through his body. His face and light grey coat was covered in scars from his numerous run-ins with the animals of the Everfree forest over the many years of living in the cursed forest. His mane was short and messy, not having been properly washed in so long, and midnight black. His right eye was missing, torn out yesterday and the cause of the pain. But what was the most peculiar thing about him was his cutie mark; an inverted pentagram. The Pegasus had taken to call himself Scar as that is all he sees himself as; a scar on the face of the world. As he got himself ready for another hard day he looked off in the distance and saw the nearby town of Ponyville. He had never set foot in the town but for some time he has seen a zebra enter the town and return to a hut in the forest, sometimes he even saw a little earth pony filly go into the hut. He knew that he had no other choice but to enter the town, his missing eye was worse than any injury he has ever sustained before and needed to be properly treated.
"Well, here goes nothing. I just hope I can get the necessary medical treatment without too much problem." And with those words, Scar started walking to Ponyville.
Scar moved towards Ponyville when he passed an apple farm. On his way to the little town he had discovered that his injuries were worse than he thought. When he tried to fly he discovered that he was bleeding under his right wing and he could hardly move his left one and his right eye socket was bleeding. He had walked aimlessly for a while and somehow ended up next to the farm. Thinking that he could get some medical supplies to at least stop his bleeding, he had started heading that way. But one of the downsides with missing an eye was that it becomes difficult to accurately judge distances and now he was at the point of collapsing from the loss of blood. He had just arrived at the entrées to the farm when his body became too heavy for him to support and he fell down. As darkness started to claim him his final thoughts went to the Pegasus he had looked up to when he still lived in Cloudsdale.
"Rainbow Dash…" And with those words, his left eye closed and he lost consciousness.
Applecore was shocked to say the least. First he got to meet his cousin's friends, one of them a princess, found out that his cousin Apple bloom and her two friends started the Cutie Mark Crusaders that his sister was part of and to top it all, a Pegasus covered in scars and bleeding to death had passed out in front of the farm. Applejack and her friends wasted no time getting the Pegasus to the hospital with Princess Twilight Sparkle teleporting them there. Applecore took Apple Bloom and her friends inside with Big Mac and put his suitcase in one of the spare rooms.
"Who was that Pegasus? And why do I feel like I'm supposed to know him?" All the questions plagued his mind until he made his decision. "Hey Big Mac I'm going to hospital to check up on the girls and that Pegasus!"
And so Applecore ran to the hospital, stopping to ask some ponies the way, and arrived at the hospital after about two hours. He heard from his cousin's friend Fluttershy that the grey Pegasus was stable and resting up. He also heard from another of his cousin's friends, Rainbow Dash, that the Pegasus was missing his right eye. When Applecore noticed the depressed looks in the two Pegasi eyes he grew concerned about what had them in such a depressed mood. Applejack told him that the Pegasus had taken severe damage to the joints in his wings and that it would be a miracle if he would be able to fly ever again.
When Applecore saw the Pegasus his heart sank. There where all kinds of medical equipment surrounding the Pegasus like heart monitors, tubes that connected to bags of blood, bandages around his wings and a medical eye patch over his right eye.
A beeping sound and distant voices started registering in Scar's head.
"His wounds have healed faster than we thought. He's one lucky Pegasus to have friends like you ponies." A distant voice said. "But his injuries are still pretty bad. His right eye is missing as well as some skin tissue around the area so he will always need to have the eye patch on. Not to mention his wings! Most of the muscles in his wings are torn beyond our ability to help. I don't think he will ever fly again."
As the world started to clear up for Scar he felt how something warm was going through his body. He also felt the eye patch the voice from earlier was talking about. But as he felt the contracting feeling of the bandage he started to feel himself panicking, memories from the past returning.
As the girls were talking amongst themselves to try and figure out what happened to the Pegasus in the hospital bed, Applecore noticed how the Pegasus breathing started to pick up like he was panicking.
As Scar's breathing became shallower, his heart rate started picking up, making the heart monitor go crazy. This got the attention of every pony in the room and the doctor, a brown earth pony in a doctor's robe, started shouting orders to the nurses. A crash cart was brought in but before anypony could use it, Scar's left eye shot open and he jumped of the bed.
"Stay the hell away from me! I'm not some tool you can use for your own amusement!" he shouted and surprised everypony in the room. When Twilight tried to get close to him he stated to back away until he hit a wall. His eye showed that he was beyond contact. "Don't think for a second that I will hesitate to kill you damn it! Stay the buck away! Just leave me alone!" In the middle of his shouting, his right eye started to bleed but, what surprised Applecore was that tears started run down Scar's left eye as he feel down on the floor, burrowing his head under his hoofs. "Please… I just want to be alone… that's why I started living in Everfree… Please."
"You live in the Everfree forest?!" One of Applejacks friends, Rarity, exclaimed.
Applecore surprised everypony when he when over to Scar as he was lying down on the floor.
"My name is Applecore. These are my cousin Applejack's friends, Twilight Sparkles, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. What's your name?" When Applecore introduced him and the girls, Scar lay still on the floor but his ears peaked up upon hearing Rainbow's name. He slowly removed his hoofs from his face, stood up and studied the stallion in front of him.
"I go by the name of Scar. I have been living in Everfree for most of my life and gotten along just fine so I don't need anypony to look after me. Now if you will excuse me, I have a forest to return to." But as soon as Scar started to move, a huge amount of pain shot through his sides making him drop down to the floor, holding his sides as he started coughing up blood.
"You can't go back to Everfree like that, you'll die!" Applecore took a deep breath before continuing. "Maybe you can stay with one of the girl? Would that be OK with any of you?" Applecore turned to the girls with a hopeful expression.
The girls looked amongst each other for a while as Scar carefully stood up. After a while, Twilight stepped forward.
"He can stay with me and Spike at the library. It's still and quiet so you can get the rest you need Scar." Scar merely turned his head to the side so everypony was looking at his eye patch.
"Not like you ponies are giving me much of a choice. Fine, I'll stay with the alicorn at the library. But as soon as I heal up, I'm going back to the forest." Applecore's mood brightened when he heard Scar say that and so they all started walking towards the library Twilight lived.
On the way there, Applecore noticed the looks of confusion and even fear they got. Ponies started to run into their homes or back away when the group got close. Applecore looked at Scar to see him sending angry and hateful looks at the residents of Ponyville.
It didn't take long for the group to reach the library, something Applecore was happy about. Scar had a hateful look in his eye the whole way and kept mumbling about how he can't be weak in front of somepony. When they all arrived at the library Applecore got to meet Spike, a baby dragon.
"The guest bedroom is right here on the first floor. If you want- Hey wait up!" As soon as Twilight had told Scar where the spare bed was, Scar started moving towards the bedroom door. He turned his head so the ponies and dragon could see the anger in his eye before he disappeared into the bedroom and closed the door.
It was getting late, so the girls agreed to meet up in the morning at a place called Sugarcube Corner and everypony started heading home. When Applecore and Applejack got back to the farm everypony else was already asleep so the two ponies decided to go to sleep. But Applecore's thought kept going back to Scar and after an hour of turning in his bed he finally fell asleep.
A/N: Thank you all for reading this far into the story. I hope that you enjoyed it so far. The chapters will wary in length and I will try my hardest to write good chapters for you guys. See you guy's next chapter of when the girls and Applecore try to make Scar open up about himself. Bye