Chapter two
Identify
Author notes: I'm terribly sorry for the delay. My mom turned off the internet at my house. well here is the second chapter enjoy.
Lightning Runner didn't have time to sleep that night. He was too busy walking in the shadows of the town looking for that one pony he was suppose to find. He walked through shadows slipping past tired ponies noticing that none of them were the one he needed. He kept walking finding himself in front of a tree that was made into a house.
He slowly checked the occupants through the window and saw that twilight was inside reading a book. He tried to see the title of the book but found he couldn't see it. Lightning walked away from the tree and looked up to the sky. It was tinted with orange as the sun was preparing to rise.
Lightning looked around as some lights began to click on inside houses. He proceeded down the road to get back to his house. Along the way he saw a streak of rainbow shoot across the sky. He focused his eyes on the tip of the streak seeing a cyan colored Pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail.
He grinned as he thought, "she's fast"
He continued his walk as he didn't want to be seen during day. He entered his house, the party ribbons laid on the floor and food still on tables. He lifted a cupcake off of the table and took a bite out of it.
"not bad" he said looking at the cupcake. He ate the rest of the dessert and went up to the room that contained his saddlebags. He walked over to the bed grabbing the covers he ripped them off since the day was a warm summer day. He looked over the bed seeing that it was relatively clean. Lightning took off his cloak for the first time in ponyville revealing a pair of white feathered wings.
Lightning winced as he realized that the shades were not drawn across the window. He quickly shot over to the window drawing the dusty shades.
"if anypony found out about me, it'll ruin my cover" he said to himself walking over to his bed, "I need to be more careful"
He walked over to his bed picking up his cloak and laying it on the bed. He quickly fell to sleep.
As he slept he dreamed about the time he was only a filly. Lightning runner was never a popular filly, in fact he never really had a friend. Every day he would wonder out to celestia knows where. Lightning had grown up outside of equestria, where everything was chaos. Every day was a fight just to live. One of the reasons lightning was out casted was because he was an alicorn. Even his own parents didn't recognize him as their son.
One day lightning had decided that he had enough of the laughter and torment pointed at him. That day and since whoever dared to mock him died by his hoof, horn, or anything else that he could use as a weapon. The first pony who he killed was the one pony who organized other ponies to make fun of him. When lightning had killed him he had earned his cutie mark, his cutie mark was a biohazard symbol. Symbolizing he was dangerous and was not to be messed with.
He woke up from his memories to a sudden knock on his door. "for crying out loud" he said getting up off of the bed and pulled his cloak over his wings. The knocking continued until he yelled out.
"what! What do you want"
"it's me"
"me who" lightning asked walking closer to the door.
"twilight sparkles"
He opened the door and saw twilight standing there waiting.
"what you want" he asked.
"nothing much, just wanted to introduce to my friends" she replied smiling.
"I don't wa" he was cut off as twilight shoved passed him followed by five other ponies. One of them pinkie pie.
"alright then, come on in" he said sarcastically.
"thanks" twilight responded still smiling, "these are my friends"
She gestured to the cyan Pegasus with rainbow hair "this is rainbow dash"
"yo" rainbow simply said.
Twilight then went to a white unicorn with purple corkscrew hair, "this is rarity"
"nice to meet you..." rarity trailed off.
"lightning, lightning runner" he said quickly hoping to end this little conversation fast.
"yes, indeed" rarity replied. Twilight went over to a orange pony with blonde braided hair.
"this is applejack" she said.
"might I ask what happened to your eye" applejack tried to ask politely.
"no you may not" lightning glared at her, trying to keep his temper down. What happen to his eye was very private to him and whenever somepony asked or mentioned it lightning usually killed him or her. "come on lightning, she's not your target" he muttered to himself.
Twilight moved to the last pony other then pinkie. She was a butter yellow Pegasus with pink hair, "this is fluttershy"
"h...hello" fluttershy said, her voice barely audible.
Lightning only grunted.
"look lightning I know that you rather be left alone. But if that's what you truly want then you chose the wrong town" twilight said, "here everypony is evrypony's friend"
Lightning sighed,"alright fine if you want to be my friends I won't stop you"
"yyyaaaaayyyy" pinkie squealed with delight.
Through out the day twilight and the others got to know lightning a bit better but not much as he still held many secrets from them. Lightning had lit the stove warming the house as the seven ponies sat in the living room talking.
"I have one big question in my mind right now" lightning said.
"what is deary" rarity asked.
"who is celestia"
The six ponies gasped at the question, "you really don't know who the princess is" applejack asked.
"princess" lightning repeated scrunching his face up in confusion.
"princess celestia. Ruler of all equestria. Rises the sun every day" twilight said.
Lightning sat there dumbfound," excuse me for a bit" he said getting up and walking to his room. He closed the bedroom door behind and walked to where his saddlebags laid. He then went through the items within and pulled out a small circular device with two buttons. Lightning dropped the device on the floor and pressed one of the buttons. The device began to produce a small beeping sound. The beeping went on for about twenty seconds before a spiral of smoke came out of the device forming into a figure with dark black armor on.
"what is it" the figure spoke.
"a princess" lighting glared at the figure, "a freaking ruler!"
"don't you dare yell at me" the figure leaned close to lightning's face.
"you expect me to kill PRINCESS celestia" lightning didn't back down.
"but of across. You are after all the perfect killer"
"I'm no perfect killer"
"alright then how many ponies have you killed in the past" the figure said crossing what passed for his arms.
Lightning looked at the floor, "I...I can't remember"
"that's right, you can't remember because you've killed so many you can't remember" the figured said as he moved closer to lightning, "listen here lightning runner, if you don't kill celestia I'll have no choice but to terminate you"
Lightning growled at him,"oh now, now lightning. You chose this path when you challenged me to a battle. Remember, I gave you that nice little scar and allowed you to live if...you served me the rest of your pathetic little life"
"if you don't kill celestia. I'll kill you and then I'll have to really get my hands dirty by killing celestia" the figure then moved back to his original position, "don't fail lightning. When you are done with celestia use this device to come back" he said pointing to the other button in the small device. With that the smoky figure disappeared.
"damn him" lightning growled. He looked at his saddlebags. He sighed,"celestia it is then"
He walked back down to twilight and the other ponies, "exactly where does this princess live" he asked.
"you silly filly. She lives in canterlot" pinkie said.
"canterlot" lightning asked.
"The city on the side of the mountain" applejack said moving to a window and pointed to the glorious city.
Lightning moved next to applejack looking at the city,"ah" he simply said.
"well if you girls would be kind enough to leave, I have some private business to do" be said looking back at the others.
Twilight nodded and ushered out her friends saying, "bye lightning, I hope to see you later"
Lightning only waved a hoof at her as he thought, "two more steps lightning. Just two more"
author notes: any ideas for the plot I will take into consideration. I hope you enjoyed it. Maybe lightning will finally get some real friends, maybe he won't. Just stay stick with me and find out. Please leave a review and I will try to improve.