It was a cloudy day. The sky was gray, and the atmosphere was gloomy. The melancholy silence of the ponies was obvious this wasn't a happy celebration. Running shadow was hiding behind his mom, thunder strike, at the cemetery. Running shadow never was scared of anything.' Except grave yards' he thought. His father , starry sky, was dead. The funeral was for his father. Starry sky was presumably killed during a midair collision and that starry was innocent, they all assumed. What really happened was that starry had been flying at illegal speeds and crashes into a house. He was killed on impact. They found his body in their kitchen. Thinking he would never do anything illegal they assumed the accident was not starry's fault. The funeral crept on, every one who knew starry( the majority of the population, for starry was know by every pony) made speeches to burn into their minds permanently that starry was a good stallion and didn't deserve to die. " I remember the day starry helped me with my papers. He came to my aid when I needed to send important papers to the princess. I was struggling with the documents when he appeared and asked ' those papers are causing you trouble. Can I help you?'. He helped me and others. He shouldn't have gone." The mayor said with tears in her eyes. Thunder strike was then chosen to speak on behalf of her husband. " I remember the day we fell in love. I was soaring at dawn, and he was having trouble with his wings. I flew over and caught him before he fell out of the sky. He looked at me with his blue eyes, and we instantly fell in love." She had stopped there because she was crying. Then they gathered in prayer and wished for starry to be happy where he was. After the funeral ended, shadow and his mother were leaving. " hey shadow!" His friends called. Shadow looked at his mother and she nodded. Shadow then ran over to his friends, sky watcher, golden star and lucky coin. " hey shadow. Sorry about your dad. He was a good stallion. He did many great things for us." Sky watcher said. " shadow?" Golden star asked. " yes" he responded. " I left my back pack on the chairs over their. Can you please get it for me?" She asked. " sure" then shadow was off at a full paced gallop. " Shadow! Watch out! Your galloping right for a-" shadow then felt the solid ground dissapear beneath his feet. He then free galled Down a couple feet before hitting the bottom with a sickening thud. " shadow! Are you alright?" His friends worried. Shadow was in an open grave. Not just any grave, his fathers grave. They already had put the coffin in. Suddenly shadows breathing became quick and sharp. The walls seemed to close in on him, about to crush him. He then heard voices around him. They kept getting louder and louder, their unmistakable Rhythm sounding like a heart beat. Tha-dum tha-dum tha- dum. The air felt as though it was a vacuum. Suddenly shadow felt somthing fall on his back. He turned around quickly to find a rope hanging from the top. He grabbed it and was dragged up. When he got to the surface he was embraced by his mother. " I'm so happy your okay. I can't lose you too." She said. ' never again will I be closed in like that again.' He thought. But little did he know that soon he would be brought to face certain challenges in the near future