I promised in my other story, "Scales in School", that I would bring this story back someday and I did; restarted and with better understanding of the plot-line than from my first attempt on this.
Well Gear, this is it, this is a new beginning.
You bet it is Notch, lets get this show on MOTHER FLUCKIN' RAILROADS shall we?
Enjoy...
The rushing winds, the passing trees, the dark and gloomy night, all were pierced by the huffing and panting of two infant dragons. They were running, running at speeds that would boggle the mind, running at speeds that only creatures running in true fear, for act of self preservation itself, could accomplish. The running dragons thought of home, of a mother that would feed them their latest hunt, of a father who would share with them a gem from his private hoard, those were days long gone.
Now those memories were just that memories, tainted by what they had witness, their parents laying dead, those once lively and happy eyes now replaced with vacant and lifeless orbs, no warmth would be found in their mother's embrace, no gem to eat from their dad's hand, all that awaited in their, once warm, cave was blood stained walls and traitorous enemies. Their legs could run no farther, they had to stop, that moment of pause, caused all adrenaline to fade from them, replaced with exhaustion. they sat and thought, their parents so viciously killed right before their eyes wondering how they will live their lives without them to care for them, the mere thought of living without them never even occurred to the youths. They lay there on the ground lost. A tree offering adequate cover from the sky as they saw the murderers flying by to look for them. Then after an hour of searching and with no luck in finding them, the hunters flew back home.
Letting the exhaustion set in, the duo fell asleep, the peacefulness reflecting on their features were heavenly to say the least the oldest of the two was a yellow and white scaled dragon her pre-pubescent wings lazily resting on the bark of the tree as the other, a white and pink dragon, was laying on the floor her stubby wings flapping haphazardly, both the exact same height, the exact same face, yet they could not be more different; that is for another time. Deciding sleep too be of pressing matter both dragoness laid down and fell asleep almost instantly.
The morning was bright and sunny, seemingly perfect, and for what it mattered, it was. Not a cloud in the sky, a gentle breeze blowing across the forest. Yet there in the shade of a tree near the outskirts of some unknown village, there lay a huddled mass of scales and wings. One of pink and one of yellow.
The pink one broke the silence, "Hey sis, is the coast clear? Can we continue to a safer place?" She asked, having her shivering hands on her sisters shoulders.
"Maybe," replied the older of the two. "But we are never returning home after what we just..." she couldn't finish the rest as she started to fill up with hot tears in her eyes. The other started to feel the same and they hugged each other to let out their pain of losing their loving parents.
"It's okay sis, they wouldn't want us to be this way, they would want us to move on for a bright future." Her sister said inspiringly, still sniffling in sorrow and hurling tears at her chest now getting soaked.
"Well...*sniff*.., we should probably start moving along then to some nearby colony or village or what not."
"Hold on, I hear something."
"What?," she now whispered.
There were loud thumping noises and the ground was shaking, making the duo shiver down their spines, now afraid of what could happen to them at the very moment.
"I'm gonna take a peek of what it is?"
"Be careful..."
The yellow scaled sister peeked out of the rather large root of the tree they were hiding in and scanned her perimeter.
"I see nothing at the moment," she informed from above before climbing back down the root.
"Well then why is the shaking still continuing if theres nothing there?"
"I don't know and I don't want to stay and find out what it is."
They rose out of the tree and started creeping up to nearby trees to take cover, seeing the trees make large shadows nearly blocking all sunlight from above, making the duo see things a little blurry.
"You think we'll make it out?"
"Of course we will, just think positive." The first sister said while she herself tried to think positive, but could not get the haunting nightmare of seeing the lifeless bodies with their eyes staring at absolutely nothing; but what she saw was just a pool of blood surrounding the corpses.
"Hey sis, I see light straight ahead," the second, thankfully, saying as she moved on from tree to tree scratching her back on the rough bark.
"Almost there, just need to be clear of our surroundings hopefully not being followed." The first started looking around again but saw nothing but the shadows of the trees. "Alright—still nothing lets go."
They moved closer towards the light of freedom until a large shadow jumped in front of them and they both shrieked in surprise, falling on their bums and staring deeply into the shadows dark green eyes. A massive tail of a scorpion, a lions body and face, and a pair of draconic wings.
"Sis, what is that thing?"
"I think dad said this was a suppose to be a Manticore. But I also think we're probably gonna have to fight it to continue on." The yellow sister stood up and prepared for a fight.
"Are you sure, can't we see if this thing is actually friendly?," but her sister ignored and lashed at the beast with her claws wide open, cutting deeply into the rough skinned Manticore and heard a shriek of pain. The young female looked at her claws and saw blood dripping from them and felt terribly shocked, just now again getting the memory of the elder parents caring for them since they hatched and cared for and threw herself to the ground.
"Sis, I think you hit a weak spot cause the Manticore is backing off and moving unbalanced."
"Well this should give us a chance to run then." She picked herself back up and started running, "Come on!, Lets get out of here!"
They ran with all they had in their bodies towards the closing in light but was stopped by the hybrid creature again, tackling the first sister "AAAAHHHH!" she screamed now squirming to free herself from the creature who was pinning her to the ground with drool leaking from its mouth and dripped next to the head of the helpless female.
The other sister was just standing in full shock and was motionless until she knew her sister needed her and felt a rage build up in her mind, flames in her blue eyes and just jumped at the seemigly intimidating figure and clawed away at it in its defenseless face. The claws sunk in deep after each stroke of anger cutting right through the skin and hearing nothing but roars of pain as the creature knew its time had come and now laid on the ground lifeless, with blood dripping from its face, now making a big mess around itself. The young one got up covered in blood all around her pink body and was just horrified of what she had just done.
"S-s-sis..." She fell and started to form tears; now curling up into a ball, crying and releasing all she had to relieve herself.
"...I... It's... I know what you did you never wanted to do with dad but you did it to save me and thank you," the yellow one now crept up and hugged her crying sister, trying to remove the dark shadow that surrounded her sisters mind.
"It's okay, you did what was necessary, now come on, we still got to move on."
They continued their journey down the path to the light and finally made it, all they saw now was a shining sun and a beautiful blue sky with few clouds, singing birds and...*SWOOSH*...In the sky now. The twins saw a cyan color object dash through the sky, making the clouds instantly disappear. They looked at each other.
"What was that sis?"
"I don't know... I don't know, but lets get you cleaned up."
Back in Ponyville, Spike was going to finally ask Rarity on a date. He had waited for so long to tell her, he wanted to do it before, but couldn't work up the guts as his fear of whether Rarity would feel awkward, or not want to be his friend anymore. Those dark consequences tortured him at night sometimes, telling him he'll never be with Rarity.
Spike walked up to the Boutique, took a breath and thought, "Well... This is now or never."
He knocked timidly and slapped himself, "Come on, get in the game Spike." He said to himself and knocked again with more force. As he heard the door unlocking, his heart was skipping beats and his mind was swirling with "what if this and what if that happened.
He now stood, pale white, nervous and racked with fear as he saw Rarity open the door looking as beautiful as ever with her red sewing glasses and swirled purple mane staring at him with a surprise look on her face.
"Spike!...Wha...What brings you here at a time like this?" She wanted to know why Spike would come to the Boutique this early in the morning.
"R...R...Rarity..." he looked away embarrassed.
"Why, what is it what you need darling?"
Spike faced to see her again with bright red cheeks, "Uuuuhhhhhhh... Rarity...I've been wanting to tell you this for a...a...a long time now"
"Well spit it out Spike, I have an order to work on," she said tapping her hoof repeatedly against the doormat below her.
"I...I...love you with all my heart," Spike started to turn white again wondering what would happen. He swerved his head away as his face felt intense heat from all the blood flooding his emotions.
"Sp-Spike...I...I don't know what to say...I am very flattered..., but...," was all the unicorn replied before seeing the dragon swish his head back around, looking at her with a face that would make anypony feel guilty.
Spike was now shocked and his heart sank, flooding all the blood cells he had in him. "But... but what?," he said very upsettingly starting to look away again with tears flooding his eyes.
"I can't say why." Now Rarity looked away feeling terrible having to break the truth to him.
Now Spike turned back again swiftly and saw Rarity had looked away also, "WHY!... WHAT IS SO F MORE IMPORTANT THAT YOU CAN'T ACCEPT MY EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS FOR YOU?!"
"Spike...," she started to cry, "calm down please."
Spike suddenly realized that he screamed out his lungs and had smoke coming out of his nostrils, his hands clamped into fists—knowingly he scared the life out of the mare he loved, "Rarity, I'm so sorry about that, I couldn't control that sudden rage that built up quickly and-and..." he started to cry and hugged Rarity with sorrow, trying to comfort her to make her feel better. "I'm sorry," he whispered close to her ear.
"Spike, I can't accept your dear feelings because I'm...with...somepony else."
Spike looked up to see her glorious eyes shimmering in the sunlight, "I'm...I'm too late." he whispered, luckily Rarity didn't hear that.
"I'm so sorry Spike." she hugged tighter now as they laid on the floor at the front door of the Boutique.
"Rarity...I should let you get back to work... I'm going home," he let his grip on Rarity fade away and started walking away.
"Spike..." But he ignored her and kept walking.
Spike was near the library when he looked back and saw Rarity had went back inside the Boutique. He really wanted her to be his, but it was too late now.
He came to the front door of the library, cleared away the tears and mucus leaking from his face opened the door and saw, to his great surprise, two dragoness look alikes—though one pink and the other yellow.
"Twilight, who are they?"
End of Chapter One of our restart, I hope you guys enjoyed because I know I enjoyed re-writing this—oh the memories of my past.
Ahem, anyways aside from that Gear, what else will you doing for this tale?
The things I should've done the first time...
Okay—anything else?
Nope.
That is all... I guess?
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