Chapter Eleven – Struggles
Pasta put his hoof down, and said "You can go home, guys."
But the soldiers didn't raise their hooves down, they were still indicating that they were following Pasta's orders no matter what.
"Can you all do me a favor?" said Pasta. "Please, don't attack yourselves after, I go home. Just, swear that you won't attack yourselves,and I'll be able to leave without thoughts of another war."
"Yes, sir!" said all of the soldiers in front of him.
"I have to go now, stay strong everypony." said Pasta, and he flought up, heading towards Reisk's home, in hopes of seeing them all in one piece again. He landed on the cloud which held Reisk's home up and knocked on the door.
"Get out of here." said Reisk from behind the door.
"What, why?" asked Pasta.
"Pasta, you betrayed us, you betrayed the pegasi by joining the earth ponies and unicorns, we all saw what happened." said Reisk.
"But, I didn't take your home!" said Pasta. "I fought with the pegasi to stop the war!"
"Why would I believe you?" said Reisk.
"Please, let him in!" said Skywing.
"You don't make the rules here, Skywing." said Reisk.
"I want to talk to him!" screamed Skywing, she slowly lit up her horn and aimed it at Reisk.
"Whoa, Skywing!" said Reisk, walking away from the door. "Come on, don't do this."
"Get out of the way!" said Skywing.
"Alright, alright, talk to him, fine!" said Reisk, running out of the way.
She walked to the door and opened it, Pasta was standing in front of her.
"Why do you want to talk to me so badly?" asked Pasta.
"I don't know." said Skywing. "It's just an inner feeling."
"Really?" said Pasta. "Well, this isn't the perfect place to talk, so I suggest we talk somewhere more reliable than here."
"Alright, Pasta." said Skywing.
Reisk looked at Pasta with an angry look on his face, he looked like he wanted to kill him right there and now. Pasta didn't see it, he walked up the stairs with Skywing on his side and they entered his room.
Skywing closed the door behind him and just looked at Pasta.
"So, what do you want to talk about?" asked Pasta.
"Why were you gone for so long, Pasta?" asked Skywing. "Reisk says you abandoned us and went to fight war with earth ponies and unicorns."
"Why, yes, thank you for noticing." said Pasta. "I did it to end the war between the three tribes. Earth ponies and unicorns agreed on peace immediately but we had to fight with the pegasi as they were desperately trying to get rid of both earth ponies and unicorns. That way, I was able to end the war, the cause of your parents' deaths."
"Don't remind me of that, please." said Skywing. "It still makes me feel very desperate."
"Sorry, Sky." said Pasta. "I'm pretty sorry for your loss too."
"I've never known anypony kind as you except for my parents." said Skywing. "Thank you."
"I've always wanted to be nice since I was a little colt." said Pasta. "Because, I was raised by nice ponies, and I want to follow in their hoofsteps to not be a mean, careless pony who is selfish and doesn't care about the lives of anypony, a prime example of a pony like that, I can only think of General Death."
"I heard about that general, you've been telling me about." said Skywing. "He was the old general of the pegasi army from what I've learned. I also learned that you really did kill him along with many of his soldiers."
"I did kill him, I killed some of his soldiers at the courtyard of his castle to escape." said Pasta. "Huh? Look outside, I think it's late, it's better if we get some rest."
"I realized." said Skywing. "Goodnight, Pasta."
She went over to him and planted a kiss on his cheek.
"Did you actually just, kiss me?" said Pasta.
"On the cheek." said Skywing.
"Still counts." said Pasta. "Goodnight, Sky, see you tomorrow."
He opened the door and walked out of Skywing's room, he slowly walked down the stairs and saw Reisk and his son, standing right in front of his face.
"What are you doing, guys?" said Pasta.
"Did you do something bad to Skywing?" asked Reisk. "Did you murder her?!"
"No, I didn't!" said Pasta. "We had a little chat! That's all!"
"I'll check on her." said Reisk. "Follow me, son."
"He has become really stubborn since I left to that short war." thought Pasta. He walked to the couch and lied down, he closed his eyes and fell asleep, thinking about Skywing.
Pasta opened his eyes and saw bright light all around him.
"Where am, I?" thought Pasta. "What's going on?"
"Pasta, hello." said Skywing, Pasta turned behind and saw Skywing there. "I couldn't tell you much with Reisk checking on me."
"Sky?" said Pasta. "What do you mean?"
"I'm not feeling nice." said Skywing. "Reisk has become like the boss of my life, I can't do anything without his approval."
"Doesn't he want to protect you and keep his promise to your mother?" asked Pasta.
"That's his excuse, he hides behind his promise to my mother to boss me around." said Skywing.
"Tell me the truth, Skywing." said Pasta. "If he's bossing you around, I'll make sure he regrets it for his entire life."
"Pasta, I'm leaving the house." said Skywing.
"You're not the real Skywing, you can't be." said Pasta.
"We're having the same dream, I'm using my magic to do it." said Skywing.
"You're kidding, right?" asked Pasta.
"Not at all, Pasta, come with me, I'll be outside when you've waken up." said Skywing.
Pasta lit his horn and and closed his eyes. He opened them again, and saw he was back in reality, he quickly jumped out of the couch and opened the door, he ran as quick as he could, looking for Skywing.
"Skywing!" shouted Pasta. "Sky! Sky!"
While he was running around, shouting Skywing's name, a hoof touched his hoof. He stopped and looked at the pony who was holding it, he saw Skywing, looking at him.
"Skywing?" said Pasta. "Was it you in my dream?"
"It was, I can do this all the time, it's one of the spells which my mother taught me." said Skywing.
"But your mother never got to see you." said Pasta.
"She of course sent envelopes to me, it was the way she educated me, I learnt from her." said Skywing. "She knew many great spells, she told me that only alicorns can do this spell because their magic is strong."
"Skywing, what does Reisk boss you around to do?" asked Pasta.
"Whatever he wants." said Skywing. "Him and his son beat me up all the time, see?"
She showed marks around her.
"I'll beat that guy up right now." said Pasta.
"Pasta, wait, we can go away together." said Skywing.
"Maybe we can, but I won't leave this place while I have to beat him and that son of his before we go." said Pasta.
"Pasta, please, for one time, don't show off your strength and cause violence." said Skywing.
"But he beat you up, isn't that violence?" said Pasta.
"That's true, but in one of my mother's papers to me, she said that even if somepony has done something wrong to us, we should still act kind to them."
"Okay then, I'm only accepting that because you told me so." said Pasta.
"Then let's go, I've packed my things." said Skywing.
"Hang on, I left my bag there!" said Pasta.
"Oh no, now you have to go back!" said Skywing.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine." said Pasta. He started running back to the house on the thin clouds which could collapse at any moment, he reached the house safely and slowly opened the front door in his attempt to not wake Reisk and his son up.
"Alright, there is my bag." thought Pasta. "Now I just gotta ge—"
Two arrows hit him, and then another wave of two arrows, and another, Pasta suddenly felt weak and fell down. His vision was blurring away, moment by moment, he saw the blurry faces of Reisk and his son, standing near him. Reisk took out a knife and stabbed it in Pasta. With that, Pasta was now unconscious, and he closed his eyes.
"Let's take him inside, strong boy thinks he's going to get past through us, I'll search the outside for Skywing, watch on him, shoot him if he decides to open his eyes." said Reisk.
"Yes, father." said his son. He took Pasta by his leg and began to drag him to the couch, after he got Pasta to the couch, he went near the table and got an arrow ready to shoot on his bow at any moment.
Pasta was dreaming at the moment, he saw that he was standing on pure air, and he couldn't move.
"What's going on?" thought Pasta.
"Is somebody here?!" he shouted.
"Yes, I went in your dream again." said Skywing, appearing in front of him. "I'm worried because you're not coming back, and I'm hiding in a cloud, Reisk is searching for me with a bow on him, I'm scared."
"I was shot by them when I got to the house." said Pasta. "And, I can't get back!"
"You were shot?!" said Skywing. "No! Please no!"
"Skywing, you have to go." said Pasta. "He'll kill you!"
"But, I don't want to leave you!" said Skywing.
"These are our last moments and they're in my dream, Skywing, and I fear I won't live for very long." said Pasta.
"Can I hug you if this is the last time?" asked Skywing.
"Of course!" said Pasta.
As Skywing heard this, she ran quickly towards Pasta and hugged him, crying as she knew Pasta would be dead before long.
"If, I am alive, I promise I will find you, Skywing." said Pasta. "Remember me."
He said as he faded into nothing, Skywing stopped the hug and looked at the disappearing Pasta in front of her with eyes full of tears.
"Of course, I'll remember you." said Skywing.
But Pasta didn't feel pain anymore, he was kind of confused, so he tried to open his eyes in a very little scale.
"Wait a minute, I'm alive!" thought Pasta.
Pasta lit up his horn and opened his eyes, he directed it at Reisk's son and fired, at the same time, Reisk's son let go of the arrow on his bow. It went in Pasta, but he couldn't feel pain anymore, his skin was turning black again and he was becoming more furious by every moment that passed. Reisk's son got hit by the beam and fell down, Pasta immediately smashed the door and ran as fast as he could to where Skywing was. He was running insanely fast and at a very high speed, he didn't see Skywing but he continued to run, although out of desperation, Skywing was nowhere to be seen, and he was starting to get worried now, he slowly lost his furiousness and got his green skin back.
"Surprise!" said Reisk behind him and shot an arrow at him, Pasta heard this and jumped, then he kicked the arrow, it turned to Reisk and hit him instantly, then Pasta ran away, with the only thing on his mind being Skywing.
This was Chapter 11 of Long Life
Sorry for the delay everyone, but I lost my grandfather last week and I still haven't gained enough of my morale back to continue writing, but don't worry, I am alive and I'm continuing the story so everything is fine.