Chapter 37: A Sparks Return

Phillip POV:

"But how?" that was all I could say as Spark Star stood in front of Discord and then fell to her knees. I ran to her side with a smile. When I touched her she jumped and started to freak out but my shhing and telling her it was me and that it was alright and she was with friends she calmed down after a couple of minutes. "Wh-where am I? Who and what are they!?" She was speaking about everyone but Tony and I and I smiled at her in my arms. "They are friends. They won't hurt you. that is the pony princess Celestia, and that's her sister Luna. That is FlutterShy, that is Amour, and the big pup there is Wolfen. And the one that brought you here is this thing, named Discord."

Discord rolled his eyes at the comment but didn't say anything as Star spoke up again. "But the last thing I remember was you holding onto me in the lake then…darkness. How am I here? And why are you holding onto me like that?" I smiled happily and hugged her tight before answering. "I am holding you like this because I am extremely happy that you are alive, and I am not sure how you are here. I thought i…" Discord spoke up before I could say anything else. "You didn't kill her. That is what I was trying to tell you."

We all looked confused and Discord explained it to us. "Electric elementals are the hardest elementals to actually kill in this world. Earth can trap them and water can make them dissipate into smaller pieces that would eventually reform. So you didn't kill her, you just made her break up into smaller pieces for the time being. She would have been back in a few years, but I used my powers to speed up the process. And brought her pieces here and let her keep her mind her own this time. So what she does next is all up to her. Take this as my apology for making you two hurt her in the first place. And I am sorry to you as well young one. I had no idea you were so young when I brought you here. And I am sorry that I made you face off with him."

Star just looked at him and nodded. "That explains why I was so mad when I got here and then couldn't calm down even when I wanted to, to talk to this guy. Sorry if I hurt either of you." Star looked to Tony and I and Tony shook his head as I laughed lightly. "It wasn't your fault. But now that you can stay calm can we please do that talk over? The one about me being an adult you don't hate?" I could for the first time feel my wings of hope form from the hope I had of helping this young girl. Star looked at me and heaved a sigh. "Sure, not like I could beat you two if I wanted to, as we saw. So lets not repeat that again. but can we get off the ground and can you please give me some space."

I laughed happily as I let go of her and stood up offering her my hand to help her up. "Ya sorry about that, you just remind me of myself at your age and I have spent the entire morning thinking that I just killed you. So I'm kinda happy that I didn't and that you are here willing to listen to me. But I will try to respect your space from now on. So would you like to be called Spark or Star?" she looked at me in shock at the part about thinking I killed her and then thought about the name. "Just Star is fine. But you really thought you killed me? And cared that you did?"

I nodded and pointed at Discord, making him flinch. "I cared enough to hunt down the one that sent you and beat him up a bit, and honestly I was pissed enough to kill him for making me hurt you if my friends here hadn't stopped me." Star took my hand and stood up looking at me like I had two heads. "Why would you care about me? I attacked you and your friend there. I don't even know you." Tony laughed. "He has a habbit of getting attached quickly, and the more the soul is hurting or sad the more he latches on. and if he hurts them at all he tends to cling to them until he knows they are better off."

Star looked at him confused. "I was sent here in a rage to hurt him as well. He kicked my ass and nearly killed me as well. After realizing we were more on the same team then we thought at first we have been good firneds and looking after each other ever since. So I wouldn't expect to get rid of him any time soon. Well unless you want to go back to the human world that is." she looked confused and discord spoke up. "Just as I brought you here I can send you home if you wanted. Or you can choose like these two to stay here permanently. But that is your choice that you have time to think about. So take your time getting to know this place and then decide."

Star nodded and looked around at the smiling faces and I could she how nervous she was. "How about you and I go for a walk alone for that talk? That way you can get out of the spot light?" Star nodded eagerly. "Yes please, I have never been good with being the center of attention like this. It never means good things for me." I patted her shoulder gently. "well here it does. I have figured out that many of the things that led to bad things in that old world mean the opposite here. Amour would you mind teleporting us to the house so we can walk in the woods?" I looked to my favorite fox and saw her nod and smile.

"With pleasure. We will ketch up to you once we talk more with this creature." Her eyes narrowed at Discord who looked away before a magic circle appeared under Star and I and we were teleported outside FluterShy's house. Well I guess its now our home, huh that's a new thought. And a nice one, but I had other things to think about right now. "So which way would you like to go?" Star froze and looked at me surprised. "You want to know what I want to do? Really?" I simply nodded. "Well when we were fighting you were mad about being told what to do. So I figured telling you were to go would be both rude and a bad way to start off a talk about not hating me like other adults."

She looked like she wanted to say something but then closed her mouth and smiled before nodding and blushing happily. Then she looked at the woods and started walking towards it. "Might as well see the destruction I caused this place." I followed her looking around at the burnt and destroyed trees. We followed the path that led to where she arrived and stopped to look around. "Wow, I did all of this?" I nodded. "Yep, its quite impressive honestly. It took me a lot longer to be able to do things like this when I arrived." Then Star interrupted. "But you weren't sent here in a rage to attack someone were you?" I shrugged at that comment. She didn't mean it to sound mean or like she was attacking me so I understood the meaning.

"Very true. I was just plopped down next to a lake where my friend FlutterShy found me, and then tried to put me out." I chuckled at the memory while Star looked horrified. "She saw a fire and went to put it out was all. She had no clue I was alive or that I was the fire. so she meant no harm. She even offered to help put out the rest of the fire to save me when she realized I was alive. But luckily I spoke quick enough to tell her I was the fire. after that she never even set a glass of water close to me, incase it spilled on me." Star looked happily surprised. "Wow, that's really nice of her. And you. You forgave her just like that? Even though she could have killed you."

I laughed happily. "She didn't mean to hurt me, and didn't know better. Just like you. You didn't know what you were doing or could control it. and once you started to you seemed to regret attacking me. So its easier to forgive those that just don't know better than most seem to think. Just like Tony. He tried to kill me when he got here because he was tricked into thinking I was a monster that was hurting others. Once he figured out I wasn't what he was told and I figured out he was lied to it was pretty easy to get along. The only hard part is forgiving yourself." Star froze and looked at me as I picked up a broken tree limb and set it ablaze and absorbed it.

"Dude you are weird. Most people would never give those people and ponies a chance after they hurt them. i mean how can you forgive everyone so easily?" I frowned and shook my head. "Not everyone. I had to kill a poison elemental human that hurt FlutterShy. He showed up and wouldn't listen to reason. He just wanted to hurt for the fun of it. he tried to poison my friends to torture them and kill them after that. I killed him for poisoning her and still have no forgiveness for the memory of him. SO there is a difference in easily forgiving those that deserve it and forgiving those that don't deserve it at all. The main one being if they did harm or meant to. And a big one is if they are sorry for it."

Star froze once again in fear of the tone I took as I looked at her. Then she heaved a heavy sigh. "I wasn't sorry at first, but now that I know you are actually a decent guy I cant help but feel sorry that I attacked you. Even if I didn't really have control at the time. But how can an adult be like you? I have never met an adult who was nice to anyone really, especially a kid like me." I gave a sigh of my own as I leaned agenst a tree. "well you must not have met an adult that was mistreated as a kid and learned to wish that no one had to deal with things like that. Long story short I ran from an abusive foster home when I was five or six and lived on the streets from that point on."

Star looked at me in shock as I went on. "I lived on the streets with little actual friends and with a mind that didn't function very well. Before coming here I had to look at fire just to talk like a normal person. I was feared and hated beuse of my attraction to fire. I was never forgiven for things I had never even done. So I think those that haven't done anything truly wrong should be forgiven. And even if they did wrong things, it's the reasons behind them that determin if they get forgiven. And like I said I have only met one human here that has not deserved forgiveness of any kind. Even Wolfen, that big wooden wolf, tried to eat FlutterShy for lunch was forgiven because he did so to live. it was his nature to hunt and eat to survive. Once I saved him and offered a better way he hasn't tried to hurt anything around him, and we live in a house filled with little animals he used to catch and eat on a daily basis."

Star looked like I was from another world. "You tamed a wild wolf and can keep it from eating things that it could swallow whole? That's impressive. And its impressive that that thing and this FlutterShy can get along after he tried to eat her. I mean I would be scared shitless if something tried to eat me, let alone if it did so and was now living with me. You people and those ponies of this world are so weird. Its kinda cool. Would you mind giving me a chance to get to know things around here?" I smiled and nodded. "I will do you one better. I'll be your foster parent, like the one I never got to know." Star fell to knees in pure shock looking at me like I had just saved her life.

"What? Y-you want to take care of me? But why!?" I laughed happily. "Like I said I never got the chance to be raised with a loving or happy influence in my life. And I don't want you to just be thrown into this world alone. So I will take care of you like I wish an adult had done for me. And that way I can be the adult you don't hate and you can get to learn what being a good person is like. So can we call it a deal? We give it a shot and if you end up wanting to leave I won't stop you. That way we both get the resemblance of a regular life." Star stared at me with tears starting to form in her eyes. I stood up and walked to her, wrapping her in a hug.

"I know this isn't respecting your space but you looked like you could use a hug." She nodded with her face in my chest. "I am ok with this. Thank you. And it's a deal. Just try not to boss me around to much?" I laughed happily. "I will do my best to ask instead of demand unless I really need to. I mean I do have to try and be a parent, and sadly sometimes that involves orders. And I am going to be traingin to fight a monster so if we train together I will have to give orders as well. Think you can spark with that?" this got a small laugh from Star and she nodded. "Ya I can spark with that."

A/N: im sorry for all the short chapters but thats how it ended up and i dont like combining chaps just to make them longer. it seems lazy and jumbled to me to do that. so sorry but here is the end of this update! hope you all enjoyed it up to this point!