Chapter 2
After a few hours, school had ended and both Cloud Nova and Electric Sky headed off to meet up at the same place they always do, Cloud's backyard, in order to further examine the book they had discovered in the school library earlier that day.
"What?! How?" Sky exclaims as she trots back and forth in a futile attempt too wrap her head around something of this scale.
"That's just impossible... " Cloud mutters as he sits and scratches his head. "I've never seen this stuff anywhere before, yet here it is. Written as if fact."
"More importantly, what the hay is a spider? Gross! Or a... tiger!" She quickly gulps in fear. "T-tigers sound scary!" She whimpers as she zooms into an overhanging tree branch.
"Sky, come on..." Cloud says to a seemingly frightened mare in a tree.
"Whats up?" Sky blurts out nonchalantly as she swings downward, hanging from the branch by her two back legs.
"I think we should probably tell Flare about this. But before that...do you think there is actually a way over the wall?"
"Well duh." She says as she flaps her wings in an over emphasized manner."Although, do you really think Flare should know? He'll just think we're crazy."
"I don't know, we will see... lets go find the nearest wall section or whatever." Cloud stands up and starts on towards the City wall, making sure to have brought the book with him.
"Sure thing." Sky says as she jumps out of the tree and begins following Cloud."I'll try flying over without being spotted by a guard."
"No Sky, we have to go together."
"Well, I probably can't lift you, but I'll sure as hay try." Sky responds, not understanding his
meaning.
"Sky, the wall's like 60 meters high..."
"... I know."
Looking at the wall, the first word that comes to mind for most would be Imposing. The grandiose wall stands towards the sky, and seems to be made of an impenetrable glossy white substance.
"Listen, I think is better if we can find a way through-" Before Cloud can finish his sentence, he is halted by a guard, as she should have expected since they are posted everywhere around the Wall, who had spotted them sneaking around the city limits.
"Stop right there. What are you kids up to in this area?" The guard states with heavy authority.
Sky glances at the book in Cloud's bag and then back up to the guard. "Uh, we were just going to return this book back to the library." She nervously explains to the irritated guard.
"Hmm, well alright then. Be on your way. I don't want to see you causing any trouble around here, understand?"
"We understand, yes Sir." Cloud blandly states as he and Sky trot back in the opposite direction of the wall. "We had better do this during the night." He whispers to Sky when he's sure they're out of earshot of the Guard.
"Yeah, there are just too many guards during the day. We'd better make a plan." Sky says as she picks Cloud up in order to head back to his house more quickly. As they arrive, they start looking at a modern map of the City in comparison to the old map in the book in hopes of discovering something they can use to get through "Why do you think they put the wall up anyway? Sky says as she stares at the pages.
"Well, according to the book, the wall has been her since the City was first built, however long ago that may have been."
"But come on, just look at this map. According to it, there's nothing out there beyond the wall anyway."
"Nothing beyond the Wall? What do you mean by that?"
Comes an unfamiliar voice from behind them.
"Wh-what!?" Sky blurts as she jumps and looks toward where the voice originated. There, leaning over the top Cloud's yard fence was a white unicorn mare with a shoulder-length, slightly disheveled mane of a sage green color.
"Uh... Hi?" Cloud says, his face still showing his surprise.
"Hey." The strange mare says in response with a big grin on her face.
Quickly, Cloud tries to make an excuse for what she's been hearing. "Umm, well, we were just... reading a story... yeah."
"Really? I could have sworn I heard something about the Wall." the unicorn points out coyly.
"First, tell me who you are." Cloud demands.
"No need to get so forceful. My name is Chrome Grace, but you can just call me tonight..." She says as she vaguely winks toward Cloud.
"Uhuh... Hi." Sky says, clearly not impressed. Cloud, on the other hand seems to get a bit flustered at that.
"Oh, well if you absolutely must know, we're thinking of a way to get over the Wall." He blurts without thinking, only to suddenly get punched in the front leg by an irritated Electric Sky.
"That sounds awesome!" yells Grace, clearly satisfied with the results of her persuasion.
"Why did you just say that to someone we just met?"
"Well, uh, she's my neighbor and I've seen her in school..."
"Yeah, I'm in PE with you." Interrupts Grace. Sky turns toward her and glares at her.
"Oh you're that pony who sits in the corner."
Ignoring the jab, Grace turns toward Cloud. "So you guys wanna get over the Wall, eh? I just may happen to know a way, and I can tell ya. For a price.
Electric Sky dumps the contents of her bag on the grass and points at them "I have 3 pieces of lint and a leftover hay fry. You want it, take it."
"Not that kind of price..." She giggles as she walks closer to Cloud. "I wanna tag along."
"Oh... um." Sky looks toward Cloud for his decision.
"Eh, I don't know..." Cloud tries not to look directly at the white mare, for fear of it altering his judgement again. "How can we be sure you won't rat us out?"
"I would never. Trust me, you'll be glad I came along."
Cloud looks at Sky for confirmation, obviously wanting her to be okay with it. She rolls her eyes at him. "Ugh, fine I guess." She then faces Grace. "Okay, so how do we get over?"
Grace smiles triumphantly. "Meet me by the section of the Wall down the street from the Diner, then you will see." She then turns to leave, flicking her tail in Clouds face in the process.
Sky stands up quickly, and smiles falsely as Grace departs, and once she's clearly out of sight looks toward Cloud and whispers, "I'm bringing my weapon just in case, and so should you. We can't trust her."
"Oh come on, Sky, she seems nice enough."
"Maybe that's because you were too busy looking at her Cutie Mark."
