Chapter 4 - The Blue Light

The black door slammed shut and Roger was outside with the whole of the world around him. He faced right, took a deep breath and started his important mission of running away from home. Halfway down the street, he saw a group of people, the same who ran away from him after he shouted at Celestia earlier, waiting outside a house with a red door. Roger quickly recognized the house. It belonged to Sammy White, a school boy who Roger once bullied that ended with him getting expelled and moved to Happy Hill. "He will pay!" Roger spoke to himself as he walked slowly towards the house with the group of people waiting patiently outside.

Roger crept closer and closer to the house when one of the girls from the group spotted Roger. "Oh my gosh! It's him! RUN!" The group suddenly ran away from the house at high speed, some of them nearly tripping up, as they couldn't control their footing from sheer terror. Roger burst out laughing as he watched the group dash away from him.

Just then, the red door opened and out walked a small figure wearing black shoes, black trousers, white shirt, red and blue tie, black jumper and a black blazer with a logo on it saying Sunny Hill School. It had ginger coloured hair, blue coloured eyes, a large nose and large ears. It looked over to where Roger was standing. "Roger Larkfield?" The voice sounded posh and polite. Roger winced at how annoying it sounded.

Roger stared back at him, sighed and shook his head. "Oh Sammy, your voice hasn't changed one bit." Sammy stared at Roger with his jaw wide open in utter shock and surprise from seeing the bully after such a long time and started making his way back to his front door. Roger could see what he was doing and he tried to stop him. "If you make one more move towards that door, I will break your legs and you won't be able to walk again for a month." Roger's plan didn't work.

Sammy made a run to the door, his face was sweating with fright, his eyes were wide with fear and his hands were shaking violently. But Roger was too quick for Sammy. Just before Sammy got to the door, Roger grabbed him; his hand covering his victim's mouth so nobody could hear. Sammy let out a small yelp but Roger smiled evilly. "Where should I take you?" Roger wickedly whispered in Sammy's ears; making him more afraid. Roger looked left and right around the street until he saw an alleyway which was a good 400 metres away from Sammy's house.

Sammy saw that Roger was looking directly at the alleyway and mumbled under Roger's hand. The bully opened up his fingers so Sammy could speak through them. "I wouldn't go down there if I were you, Roger." The posh sounding boy spoke. "I've heard there are bad things down there."

Roger stared back at him with a clear sign of interest on his face. "What bad things?"

Sammy responded after a few moments of making up something to lie to Roger. "Well, there are some stories of murders down that alleyway. And another popular myth: if someone who has spent his whole life committing bad sins, like you, walks down that path, a curse will come to that person."

Roger was amazed and scared with all the things Sammy was talking about. "Do you want to come with me and see if the myths are true?" Roger, for the first time in years, was nervous of going on his own in case the myths WERE true.

Sammy was just about to question Roger about it when he realized that if he frustrated Roger too much, things would get too violent. He agreed and they both went off into the alleyway.

The alleyway was approximately 1500 metres from end to end. The only light source was from the entrance. Trees and buildings were looming above the "roof" of the alleyway... no light will be shining there for a long time. Roger and Sammy stared into the distance, trying to look past the darkness; but it was too thick... almost as thick as pea soup!

Sammy and Roger looked at each other, waiting for a voice or a sound; but the sound was their heavy breathing. Roger cleared his throat without warning, making Sammy flinch a little. "So, do you want to go in first?" Roger asked, looking in Sammy's eyes.

Sammy answered with a nervous gulp. "OK, h-here goes."

Sammy took one step forward to enter the alleyway. His heart was pounding; his face was sweating; his hands were shaking; but with one final deep breath, he had reached the 30 metre mark inside the alleyway. Roger could only just see Sammy through the thick darkness; though the black clothes he was wearing made it harder for the bully to see him. "Feel any bad curse entering your body yet!" Roger shouted through the alleyway blackness. No answer. "Hello?" Still no answer. "Sammy, if you don't respond I'm leaving you in there!" Roger shouted down the alleyway.

A few moments passed while Roger was waiting for a response from Sammy. Just then, Sammy finally spoke from inside the blackness. "Roger, you need to come here right now."

Roger instantly looked into the alleyway, pleased to hear Sammy's posh voice. He started to walk through the dark pathway when he saw a small; hovering; bright; dark blue light in the distance; shining the darkest blue he had ever seen. He looked at it in sheer concentration. "Are you talking about the blue light, Sammy!" Roger shouted with curiosity.

He waited for an answer from Sammy but it didn't come. Roger took a deep breath and slowly sneaked through the dark lane towards the blue light. The light was so dark; he had trouble finding it when he focused away from it for a split second. He got to about 5 metres from the light when he saw an unconscious Sammy lying on the ground next to it. His face was bright white and his eyes were wide with fear. He looked like he had seen a ghost. Roger lightly kicked him, but he didn't wake up. "Poor bastard..." Roger whispered to Sammy.

He then turned his attention to the dark blue light, which looked like it grew bigger as Roger was trying to wake up Sammy. It was also starting to make a low humming noise; one Roger had never heard before. Roger suddenly found himself talking to it like it was another person. "What or who are you? And where did you come from?" Roger was stroking his chin while focusing his gaze on the light.

"Hello?" A voice spoke from the blue light, scaring Roger once again.

"Fu*k sake, Celestia! Will you warn me before you speak next time!" Roger impolitely shouted. He quickly checked on Sammy to make sure he wasn't awake. When the bully saw that the "polite voiced" idiot was still asleep, he regained his focus on the blue light.

The voice spoke, sounding younger and more childish than Celestia. "Celestia? No, Tia is my older sister... my name is Princess Luna."

"Luna? Celestia's sister? Blue light? What?" Roger started shouting out questions to the blue light or "Luna", which, unfortunately, woke up Sammy.

"Roger? Who are you shouting at?" The posh boy questioned, sitting up on the ground.

Roger started thinking up lies to say to Sammy. He didn't want ANYONE to find out about Equestria; Celestia or Luna... everyone might think he was mental and an idiot. "I wasn't shouting. It must have been a dream or something." Roger nervously said.

"Strange, I don't usually have dreams." Sammy asked suspiciously. "Oh well. Say, have any ideas of what that thing could be, Roger?"

"Um... no, I don't." Roger couldn't think of anything to say about that question. He wanted to speak with Luna, so he thought of an idea. "Sammy, you can go back home if you want. I'm going to stay here and find out what this thing is."

Sammy pulled a suspicious face at Roger, wondering why he was being so nice. "Roger... you're supposed to be a school bully, right? So why are you being nice to me and not beating me up?"

Roger had difficulty answering. "I'm not sure, maybe it's because I'm more interested with this blue light than bullying."

"Well, hope you find out what that light was." And as quick as the conversation ended, Sammy was dashing down the alleyway towards where the group of people ran away to earlier.

"Is he gone?" The voice whispered.

Roger flinched at the voice suddenly appearing but he quickly responded. "Yes, he's gone."

The voice sighed with relief and started introducing herself. "My name is Princess Luna, sister of Princess Celestia. As you know, Tia rules Equestria and she has a student who is learning about Friendship."

Roger pulled a confused face at the blue light. "Tia? Why do you call her that?"

"Just a nickname I came up with." Luna giggled.

"Oh right." Roger then thought of something spine-chilling. "Wait! Why didn't Sammy question about being unconscious?"

Luna giggled. "Because I wiped his memory of it as soon as he woke up, silly."

"Let me guess... magic?" Roger said sarcastically.

"Yes! How did you know?"

"Lucky guess."

Luna giggled again. "He fainted really. Wasn't knocked out or anything."

"How did he faint?"

"I showed myself to him. He looked at me straight in the eyes and suddenly fell to the ground." Luna giggled yet again.

Roger started thinking. "Earlier, Celestia said to me that if she showed herself to me, I would get the shock of my life. Are you 2 really different to humans?"

Luna stopped laughing. "We are NOTHING like humans at all."

"How are you different to us?" Roger curiously asked.

"Well, if you come a bit closer, I'll show you with a bit of magic."

Roger slowly walked over to the blue light, eager to find out once and for all who Celestia and Luna really are and what Equestria looked like and what other creatures lived there.

He got right up close to the light and waited for whatever Luna was going to show him. "OK! Show me, Luna!"

"Good luck, Roger. And remember... don't tell anyone."

Roger instantly got confused. "Wait! How do you know my name? Did Celestia tell you? What do you mean "don't tell anyone"? Luna?"

Suddenly, a big; dark blue hand, as big as Roger's parents' car; 2 times the length of himself, rose up slowly and smoothly towards the trees above the alleyway. Roger stared helplessly at the colossal hand, not knowing what to do. He took a few steps back; each making the hand hover closer and closer towards him. Roger quickly turned around, and started running for his life. Just as he started running, he felt something grab him... it was the hand. The blue hand grabbed Roger and started making its way back to the blue light. Roger tried desperately to break free from the hand but he couldn't... the hand was almost as strong as a bull.

The hand had finally reached its destination... the dark blue light. Then, right in front of Roger's eyes, the light suddenly changed into a swirling; blue hole. One strip was light blue, the other was dark blue. It was making a hurricane-sounding whistle with each rotation of the strips and every now and them, a small stroke of violet coloured lightning clashed out of the hole.

"Luna!" Roger shouted.

And then, as the giant blue hand, which was carrying Roger, entered the spinning hole, it closed up, sealing itself and vanished like nothing had ever happened...

To Be Continued...

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