The Others
Chapter 3
The following weeks dragged by for them. For everyone.
The air seemed to grow colder and colder with every passing day.
Kahl, however, was feeling unusually happy.
Usually, he would have cooped himself inside at the first signs of winter, but this time he was spending more and more time outside.
"Hey Kahl, why are you so...ermm..." began Dara.
"Heh, so...what?" asked Kahl, looking at him strangely.
"I dunno you're just acting different, you hate the cold! Yet you're outside at the lake of all places!"
Kahl shrugged, "Hey you can't expect me to be always grumpy when its cold, i gotta grow up sooner or later. Besides, doesn't it remind you of home?"
Dara thought about it for a moment, "I'm not sure, i can't remember. what's it like back home Kahl?"
Kahl sat himself on a log, Dara sat next to him, "Well you see Dara, it's green, vast fields of green, beautiful mountains and plains. Little quiet villages by the river, and big towns at the city. It was cold a lot of the time, but when the sun did shine, by god it was glorious."
Kahl seemed to drift off into a daydream...
He was back at his home, he was much younger, he went outside to the cold grey sky.
The sky opened up as it was pierced by the sunlight and the clouds vanished.
The warm glow of the sun was a welcome change to the freezing air.
The sun lit up the surrounding fields and the cows grazing in them, it made the rivers sparkle and shine, and it lifted the fog in the distance revealing the mountains.
He was home, his island in the sun.
He watched the birds fly and listened to them singing.
He slowly took in the fresh crisp air.
"Kahl!", an unknown voice shouted at him,
"Kaaahl, are you there?"
Kahl shook his head and was snapped back into reality.
He turned his head and looked at Dara, "Sorry Dara, i was jus' rememberin' what it was like back there..."
He got off the log and went over to the lake, looking at his reflection in the dark water, "...I sure do miss it there..."
Dara went over beside him and looked at him, "Do you think we'll ever be able to go back?"
Kahl didn't answer, he just sighed and shrugged.
"Oh...", Dara sat back down.
Kahl turned around to him and smiled, "Hey, chin up! We'll go back! Jus' not right now. there's still some shit goin' on and I don't want you in trouble or anything! When it's all over we can go back, got it?"
Dara returned the smile and stood back up, "Got it!"
For the next few days Dara was searching the Equestria Daily newspaper for information about his home, and the status on the war there.
He found nothing.
He was too young leaving he didn't remember what it was like.
He lay in his room wondering about it.
If what Kahl said was right, if they'd be able to return some day, if the war would ever end.
He turned his attention to the sky out the window.
The sky was clear, it always was.
But knowing it's being cleared by Pegasus ponies on a regular basis kind of took that element away from it of being special.
He wondered what a naturally clear sky would look like, just the wind aiding the clouds in moving along.
He wondered if he would ever see a sky like that.
He wondered if he would ever see the fields, the rivers and the mountains that Kahl told him about.
As he wondered he drifted off to sleep, wishing that he'd wake up somewhere else.
That night Kahl went for a walk.
Everypony was inside, or on their way inside.
Kahl was just taking it easy, enjoying the night sky.
He came to the lake.
He sat himself on the pier overlooking the water.
"God, i love this place..." He said to himself as he eased himself back, relaxing.
He closed his eyes and listened to the silence, he was at peace.
"OH! You again!"
A loud female voice and thud behind him startled him, making him jump.
"Oh, uhh, sorry..heheh"
He turned around to see Rainbow Dash.
"Oh umm no it's ok", Kahl picked himself up
"Why do keep coming out here at night Kahl?"
"Well, girl, i could ask you the very same question, i come out here quite a bit actually, it helps me unwind." He sat back down facing the water, but kept his attention on the Pegasus behind him.
She approached him and sat across from him to his right.
"Well im out here because im trying out this new route for my flying and it just happens to go over the lake so-" began Rainbow Dash, before she was cut off by Kahl,
"Suuuuure, thats it. a new route. I think that you are stalking me!"
Rainbow Dash looked over at him, surprised.
"W-what? I would never...I mean that just..."
Kahl laughed a bit and turned his head to her, smirking, "Relax i was jokin' ya! I know ya wouldn't stalk me." He smiled
She smiled back, "Heheh, Yeah...I knew that..."
"...but why the lake? why do you always come to the lake to relax?" asked Rainbow Dash.
Kahl Turned his attention to the shimmering water in the moonlight
"You see the lake? it reflects the moon and the stars. I love the stars, but the moving lake water seems to multiply them, making more stars in the water. Its a beautiful place at night. Thank you."
Rainbow Dash looked at him, confused, "Thanks? for what?"
"For keeping the skies clear of course. i wouldn't be able to enjoy nightfall without your help. Even without the lake, the sky is a beauty by itself," He lay himself on his back and looked up.
"Just imagine the there is some other pony out there somewhere looking back at you...thinking "what's out there?"..."
Rainbow Dash looked at him, "...You sure do have a lot of spare time don't you..."
Kahl laughed, "Yeah, i guess i do."
She also lay herself back to look at the stars, spreading her wings on either side of her as she did.
"Wow...it is beautiful..." she said.
"You tell me you spend so much time in the sky yet you've never looked up?"
"Well i only think to look ahead of me to see where im going but...this really is amazing..."
They lay there, looking at the stars for a while.
"You know what Kahl, i think i might have been wrong about you guys..."
"Hmm?"
"I always thought you guys were a bit strange, keeping to yourselvs a lot, but you guys seem ok now, well, you do anyway"
Kahl smiled, "Thanks, I think i was wrong about you lot too."
OK! so im really sorry about the million year late update :c
I couldn't think of ideas, and i was sick, and i got this school stuff and i got-
OH SHUT UP! YOUR A LAZY LITTLE FUCK AND YOU KNOW IT!
Shut up Keane!
No! Fuck you man! you didn't even put me into this chapter! so fuck you!
Hey working people into chapters in harder than you might think.
What so you couldn't have put in a little "Kahl said Hi to Keane cus Keane is cool"?
Oh shut up Keane!
Fuck you, you lazy fuck! I'll beat your ass if you don't change the chapter right now!
If you don't calm down im going to pair you with Pinkie Pie!
…...I'll be good...
Ok, now that thats over with, Keane is right, for the most part, I'm just lazy, but when i get going i usually come up with something good.
So if you guys have any suggestions, any reviews, constructive criticism or jus wanna say HI, leave a review! They keep me going! and make sure to tell me to update or ill forget again :P
So for now, Happy trails to you my Bronies, until we meet again!
~100Kallibur