Dark and Light: Chapter 4

A Spark

Hi, peoples! :P

I just want to say that I'm trying to complete the rest of my stories,

So that's my excuse for making my chapters so late.

Okay, now the story!

Dimmer snuck into his room, trying to avoid Wyanaz, who had a major crush on him ever since she became a guard.

He slunk inside and trotted to the other side of the room, which was dark and damp, and really needed to be cleaned.

He tenderly placed the flower he snitched from Bright's garden in the top drawer and sat down, staring at it.

The colors gave him a warm feeling and he smiled, then closed it gently. He just left when he saw Wyanaz leaned up against the wall next to his door and he narrowed his eyes. "Don't give me that look, I wasn't spying!" She spat and snickered soon afterwards. "Your mom wants to see you." She said and left, her short tail flicking his nose as she trotted off with a look over her shoulder.

He rolled his eyes and walked away, running into young Larixis again, who was running through the halls. He crashed into Dimmer's hoof and fell on his back, wings spread apart. "Sorry, prince!" He said as he rolled over and got up. "Why were you running?" Dim asked as Larixis panted.

"Me and Styre are playing tag, she's it!" He said as his sister, who was a little older than his ran around the corner and slammed into the wall, shaking her dizzy head. "Larixis!" She yelled as she angrily panted hoarsely. She was a young, intelligent changeling, with a purple saddle thing on her back and purple eyes.

She was areal beauty if you were a changeling, but she was ever so small for her age, half the size of Dimmer. Dim stepped between them and stood on Larixis's short tail to hold him in place while he held his sister back. "What did you do?" He asked. Styre growled, trying to fly over Dimmer to get to Larixis, but that ended in a failure.

Larixis remained silent.

"If it was hijacking her monster doll collection, it wasn't me!" Larixis yelled and Dimmer snickered, releasing both of them and stepping back. "Well, it's your problem now." He said as Larixis screamed with enjoyment and with fear of his sister. They ran away and Dim jumped off the balcony-hallway and spread his wings so he was gliding towards the Everfree forest.

It took him less that half an hour to get there and he finally saw Bright.

Bright was sitting on a smooth stone in the center of a clear, shallow pond and held a lily blossom cupped in her hands. She sniffed it and smiled, placing it in her leather shoulder bag that Applejack gave her. She reached towards another one and smoothed the petals before placing it back and fixing it to look like she didn't even touch it. "That one isn't ready yet..." She mumbled and stood up, brushing herself off.

She sighed, breathing peacefully as the emerald green trees swayed and the blades of grass danced around happily.

Suddenly, she heard a crack and her ears pricked.

She had just enough time to leap out of the way when a huge frog's webby foot slammed where she used to be and Bright yelped, falling in the inch deep water and pushing herself up on her hands, her front side still wet. The frog grinned, seeing this amusing as he swung another foot as her but she jumped back, landing on her butt as she brought up her arms.

She made them flare up, but then they went out and her arms steamed from the water that was still on her. Dimmer saw this and leapt into action, he charged, his horn jabbing at the frog's side and he roared, swatting at Dimmer but he swiftly and gracefully dodged, using a walk-on-water spell and landing without a splash beside Bright.

"You..." Bright whispered and then she smiled, Dimmer not looking at her. He charged again, this time he took the form of the frog and bashed it to the ground. He knocked it away and the frog retreated, leaving Bright shocked as she sat in the water. Dim transformed back to normal and looked over at her, his eyes clear and bright, like Chrysalis's but brighter.

"You okay? He asked and trotted over to her. "Y-yeah... I just can't use my fire powers until I dry off though..." Bright said as Dim leaned down and Bright grabbed his head as he lifted her to her feet. Just then, his eyes met hers and they stood in silence, staring at each other.

Dim broke the silence and turned away, blushing.

Just then, he detected love and quickly sapped it up.

"What are you doing back here? My mom said that your kind is bad." Bright said as she took a step back. "We are? I mean, I'm the only one that came this far, but other than that, I don't know what your talking about." He said and Bright sighed, then beamed. "Well it's nice to see you again!" She said and giggled, her one visable eye closing and then opened to look at him.

"Do you want to go to the meadow?" She asked and Dimmer cocked his head. "Mea-dow?" He asked and curiously looked at her.

She gasped and held his hoof. "You never seen a meadow?! You need to see one right now then!" She said and pulled him along, making him fly a she dragged him along.

"Isn't it beautiful?" Bright asked as she spun around in front of the sun, which was setting and butterflies flew around her.

Dimmer was really confused. "Beautiful?"

"You know, like pretty, or like... lovely, something that gives you a warm feeling." Bright said as she sighed, looking at the flowers and picked one. "This is a flower, and this is a butterfly." She said as one landed on her finger. Dimmer leaned in so close that his nose was touching the butterfly's face, then it flew onto his nose and he jumped back, wondering what it was doing.

Bright giggled and ran through the taller grass, stirring more butterflies as they flapped their rainbow colored wings up and down.

Dimmer's butterfly flew and joined the others, leaving him lonely before Bright ran up to him.

He hung his head and sat down, looking at his hooves. "What's the matter?" Bright asked as she sat next to him.

He pointed to the meadow. "The only things we have are dark and deadly and disgusting, the way that we like it, but this is new, and I like it as well..." He said.

Bright gasped. "You don't have these wonderful things where you live?" She asked and Dimmer looked at her. "Wonderful?"

Bright looked at him, her bang covering her eye, like always. "You don't know many positive words, do you?"

Dimmer suddenly felt curious, and put up his hoof, and began to pull her bangs away from her eye before she gasped and pulled back, slapping her hand over her bang before fixing it and relaxing. "Sorry, but it's best if you don't know about it..." She apologized and stood up. Nighttime blanketed the sky with stars in them and Bright brushed herself off.

"Have you ever seen fireworks?"

Dimmer shook his head and also stood up.

"They should be starting anytime now, and you'll love them, my momma promised me that tonight's fireworks are going to be spectacular!" Bright said, jumping for joy and throwing her hands in the air. Just then, there was a loud boom and Dimmer jumped and backed up, hitting a tree.

Bright giggled. "Don't worry, silly, it's the fireworks!"

Dimmer cautiously stepped out from under the tree and looked around, then Bright pointed to the sky and there was another boom, then a green fizz of firework popped and sizzled out. Next was a purple one and then a red one, and then several exploded at once. Finally, the last one was a pig pink heart with a yellow swirl in the center with white diamond-shaped explosions surrounding it.

Dimmer's heart skipped a beat and then he snapped out of it.

'How is this possible? I don't have a heart!' He thought as he felt thudding inside his chest and panicked. "I feel something knocking in my chest!" He yelled and looked at Bright frantically. She just smiled and touched is chest. "Its your heart beating, it's what keeps you alive." Bright said as Dimmer's cheeks turned red.

"Now your blushing, it's what happens when you feel love or embarrassment." She said and blushed also, her cheeks turning soft pink.

Dimmer smiled and hung his head. "I should probably get home, Sorry, but I'll have to leave. Thank you for teaching me these things." He said and spread his wings, then turned to her. "Where should we meet tomorrow?" He asked and Bright lit up. "We can both meet up where I meet Shadow, then we can train with each other!" She said.

Dimmer nodded and flew away, leaving the purple hedgehog behind in the dark.

Yay! I hope you liked it!

Now I need to upload and then do my homework :P

Okay, stay tuned for next chapter!

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To Be Continued...

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