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Play of the Ponymon's Star
Chapter 1: Canterlot's New Arrivals
High noon… lunchtime for young people within a high school. Students gathered meals for lunch. Everyone ate, preparing for the afternoon. However, more than food was discussed. "So get this, everyone!" a puffy pink girl with pink hair started. She wore a white shirt with blue sleeves and shoulders and a heart printed. Her violet skirt had balloons printed as well as wore blue boots. She joined a table with six other girls and a violet dog with spots of green fur. "Canterlot has announced that we'll be doing a school play! Isn't this exciting?!" To a blond with tangerine skin and wearing a cowboy hat, the news wasn't as exciting as the pink girl made it out to be. She wore a green and white long-sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up and a denim skirt. She also wore brown boots with apples displayed.
"You mean to tell us that you finally got the news, Pinkie?" she mulled. "It's not that I'm not looking forward to it, but we don't know what the play will be." The other five sided with the blond on the explanation.
"Applejack's got a point," the violet-haired ponytail teen with glasses agreed. She had violet skin while wearing a matching school uniform while her hair had a pink streak within. "Though, the idea of a play's a great way to work together." Pinkie dashed in place, eager to help out with the play.
"I wonder what it's gonna be?!" she cheered. "Is it Romeo & Juliet? That's a classic!"
"Get real, Pinkie!" scoffed a redhead/blond mix. She wore a black leather jacket over a dark violet blouse and violet/orange skirt. She had black and violet boots as well. "That's a cliché! Romeo & Juliet cannot be it. Besides, the two leads die by stabbing themselves!" Pinkie irked to the ending.
"They die?! They don't get married?!" The violet-haired sighed to Pinkie's freak out.
"Did you ONCE read the poem from William Shakespeare?" she questioned. "Or any of his work?" Pinkie blinked to the name.
"That name…" Applejack sighed to Pinkie's inability to recall. "Sorry, Twilight… the name just doesn't ring bells with me." There was a dark blue-haired girl with white skin. Her curled hair extended to her waist. She wore a sky blue t-shirt and a violet skirt and boots. Diamonds were her decal on her skirt.
"If I may suggest, one that can work is Beauty & the Beast," she offered. "Picture dancing with a real beast of a young man on stage…" She pranced around before nearly colliding with a rainbow-colored-haired teen wearing a blue short sleeve jacket over a white t-shirt. Her sky blue skin barely flinched with the blue-haired girl nearly colliding with her. She wore a magenta/white skirt over black biker shorts and blue boots.
"Easy there, Rarity!" she warned. Rarity stopped inches before meeting the new girl.
"Relax, Rainbow Dash. Didn't you hear the news?"
"Of course I did. In fact, I have a couple ideas on what they may be." The other girls grew interested to Rainbow's ideas.
"Let's hear what you have in mind," Applejack wondered.
"Okay… The Longest Yard!" The others froze in thought to the idea. Rainbow's suggestion fell apart. "I take that as a no… Sis, Boom, Bah!?" The others shook no to the other idea. The redhead thought back to Pinkie's idea.
"I'm gonna guess on another of Shakespeare's poems," she studied. "I think we can do A Midsummer Night's Dream." The girls liked the suggestion.
"For a second, Sunset," voiced another pink-haired girl. "I thought you'd bring up Hamlet." She wore a white tank top and a green skirt with pink and white linens. The skirt had butterflies printed. She also wore green boots.
"Don't get me wrong, Fluttershy," Sunset understood. "I did read Shakespeare's poems but A Midsummer Night's Dream doesn't involve people laying in blood. In fact, it's actually pretty funny, romantic and charming." She dove onto their table and acted faint with a swooning sigh. "Just lying in the grass between the trees…"
"Slow down, Sunset!" urged the dog. The girls turned to the dog who jumped on Twilight's lap then got its paws on the table to see the redhead. "I'm not into how plays go but I think we could do The Wizard of Oz." Rarity gave the dog a stern glare. "What? Don't like it?" Pinkie wasn't sure about the dog's idea.
"I'd say that's more a cliché than Romeo & Juliet, Spike," she shrugged. "Let's wait until tomorrow. Whatever the play is, we'll see about the characters and their actions."
"So would I," Rarity agreed. "If not Beauty & the Beast, perhaps Cinderella?" The girls began to realize Rarity's intention.
"Sounds like someone wants the starring role," Applejack debunked. Rarity gawked to the assumption.
"Don't be naive, Applejack!" she snapped. Another blue-skinned girl with white hair and added silver-blue streaks agreed with Rarity about the assumption.
"For sure, country bumpkin!" she snapped. She wore a blue jacket and violet skirt. Her boots were violet-blue with violet toes. "I, the great and powerful Trixie, would be better suited for the leading female role over her! Say, Sleeping Beauty?" Sunset groaned to Trixie's brazen claim as she rolled off the table.
"Seriously, Canterlot High doesn't revolve around you, Trixie," she snapped. Trixie became upset at Sunset's rebuttal.
"The nerve! What gives you that ridiculous claim?! You're just jealous that I have more talent in my hand than you'll have on your person!" Sunset's friends stood up and faced Trixie to warn her.
"This is why you don't have any friends, let alone a chance to lead in the play," Twilight advised. Trixie growled before walking off in a tiff.
"Just you wait! The wrath of the greatest and powerfulest Trixie will rule the day!" Her words shouted, Trixie sauntered off.
"She insists on using a word that doesn't exist?" moaned Sunset.
"She can be a lost cause at times," Applejack shrugged.
"Nothing we can do for her," Twilight sighed. Sunset looked out to the window. There, on top of a cliff overlooking Canterlot, a silhouette emerged. This fixated Sunset to walk to the window.
"What's that?" she spoke. The other girls heard Sunset and followed her to the window.
"Sunset, you see something?" asked Rainbow. All came out to see the silhouette with what seemed like long horns growing from the shadowy figure.
"Are we gonna have the devil visit?" gulped Pinkie. "I hope not!" The silhouette turned and began to journey when it lost balance and fell off the side of the cliff, one silhouette becoming three. Those watching gasped in horror.
"Oh no!" cried Sunset. She began to bolt out of the school, dashing with as much speed as her legs could move with other students following. When they arrived, Sunset saw a raven-haired boy in a blue-white short-sleeve jacket and black jeans. He was on his face, unconscious. He didn't come alone. One was a large yellow mouse with a lightning bolt for a tail. The other was a white otter with blue fur for his torso and abdomen that also had a seashell on it. Both creatures stood side-by-side, watching over the fallen boy.
"What in Canterlot!" gawked Applejack. The mouse squeaked in anger, warning everyone to back away but the otter seemed startled to the size of the crowd gathering. The first girls gushed in awe at the two creatures.
"Adorable!" they cheered. The mouse didn't react but the otter gasped to the compliment and blushed. The mouse saw the otter's admired face, not happy. It squeaked with static emerging from its cheeks. The otter irked from the mouse's snap and soon became defensive again. Pinkie snagged the mouse to hug.
"Aren't you the cutest mouse I've ever seen!" she cooed, trying to ease it. The mouse didn't like Pinkie squeezing it and unleashed a blast of electricity. Pinkie screeched in pain from the shock. The mouse stopped firing the electricity to let itself down, Pinkie burnt and stunned. "That's shocking…" The pain caused her to collapse. The mouse returned to the otter's side in guarding the downed boy.
"First time I've seen a mouse emit electricity," Twilight awed. She turned to Fluttershy with an idea. "Fluttershy, see if you can make any headway with these two." Fluttershy gawked to Twilight's request.
"Are you sure?" she muttered.
"You're the only one of us who can understand animals," Rarity offered. "We'll get some people to carry him to the nurse's office." Fluttershy had to rely on her friends for the health of the boy. She knelt to the two, the mouse not wanting anyone approaching him.
"I understand that you're willing to protect him," she started. "But he could be in real trouble if we don't treat his injuries." The mouse and otter gulped at the thought of the boy in trouble. It squeaked in deep concern for the boy. "There's a nurse's office we can take him to get rest." The otter whimpered to the offer. "No one will come near him while he's still hurt." Sunset came to the boy's side, thinking Fluttershy gained their trust.
"Let's make sure he's breathing, first off," she insisted as she reached the boy's body. "Rarity will bring carriers out here soon." She turned the boy over and soon became glued to his young face. The young nose, the zigzag marks under his eyes. "Oh my…" Fluttershy gawked to the sight of the boy as well.
"Oh dear…" she hushed. Sunset nodded as she touched his face. Suddenly, her eyes began to glow.
(Visions of boy)
Sunset began to see the boy in a different wardrobe than his current outfit: a blue sweat-tee over a black t-shirt and blue jeans. He looked to the mouse. "Okay to keep going, Pikachu?" he asked. The mouse squeaked, determined as they faced a young raven-haired woman who seemed stunned. She wore a blue school dress with a short skirt and pink stockings. She also wore blue slippers.
"What?" she gasped.
"Roxanne… the tougher the battle… that just means the harder we fight. We're just getting started." Another image had the boy flying out of a castle at the sea. In a veil of light, the boy flew and chased a large pirate in red with a long beard. "Hey, Phantom! I'm taking Manaphy back!"
"You are?" the pirate scoffed. "Let's see you try!" The boy swam through in the veil, gathering schools of marine life. Surfacing near Phantom, it wrestled a blue watery creature with stubby limbs.
"I gotcha!" The boy flew away from Phantom before the vision changed.
Sunset removed her hand and her eyes reverted. The mouse and otter blinked as Rarity returned with two young men. One was a blue-haired young man in a black jacket and jeans. The other was a green-haired young man wearing a black vest over a red t-shirt and bell-bottom jeans. He wore a black beanie hat and a pin with a green triangle made of stretched arrows. Sunset's head shook. "What did you see, Sunset?" asked Twilight.
"His past," Sunset started. "He's… a hero." Rainbow and Applejack gawked to who the boy was.
"A hero?" repeated the blond. Rarity doubled over in need of air.
"I got Flash and Sandalwood!" she gasped. "They'll carry him." The blue-haired reached the boy first with a backboard.
"This is him?" he asked.
"Thank you, Flash," Sunset praised. "It's him." Sunset helped lift the boy's side to put the backboard underneath him. Flash and Twilight helped position the backboard before Sunset lowered him as Pinkie found the boy's red baseball cap with a pair of blue circles as its logo.
"Flash, you good?" asked Sandalwood. Flash nodded before they lifted and carried the boy back to the school. Sunset watched helplessly to the boy escorted to the nurse's office.
"Sunset?" spoke Fluttershy. Sunset turned to the pink-haired girl holding the otter with the mouse on her shoulder. "Are you okay?" Sunset turned back to Canterlot High.
"I don't know…" she shuttered. "What am I feeling?" The mouse wondered to Sunset's blip. What could they know about the boy and the creatures he brought?
TO BE CONTINUED...