Post by sparkler on May 8, 2009 10:35:11 GMT -5
LAST CHAPTER FOR PART 3!
Now I have to figure out what to do for Chapter Four... ;_; It's giving me trouble... *whimper*
~*~*~*~
“Stupid peg, he’s just a party pooper.” grumbled Sparkler, winking back in.
She marveled as the world around her spun and whirled. It was pretty, but so hard to focus on.
“Oh well, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!” Sparkler said to herself, raising her arms above her head and doing a pirouette.
She was pretty sure that everyone was staring at her, but what of it? Their world wasn’t spinning. Besides, she found if she spun faster, then the rest of the world often gave up trying to to compete.
“Whee!”
“Watch where you’re going!” cried an outraged pink earthling with an ice cream cone as her symbol.
“Sorry!” cried Sparkler over her shoulder.
“By the way, you suck at dancing!”
“You would know, wouldn’t you?” giggled Sparkler, skipping away to the cries of “I have you know I was professionally trained!”
“Yeah, honey, some things just don’t take.” she thought derisively before sitting down on the edge of... what was she sitting on anyway.
She looked behind her and waited on her eyes to focus for a moment before realizing she was sitting on the edge of a fountain!
“Oooh!”
Once, when she and her sister Powder were foals they had been caught walking the edges of the fountain and had been forbidden to go near it again. She giggled at the memory.
“This one’s for you, Pow-wow.” she grinned, climbing up on the edge of the fountain and spreading her arms. Slowly, carefully, she walked it.
“Pretty good for someone with blurred vision.” she laughed.
~*~*~*~
Blade was about to give up and have his new roommate paged over the intercom, when suddenly he heard a big splash and some very loud giggling.
Sure enough, following the direction that the giggling was coming from was fruitful. There was Sparky, balancing precariously on the edge of a fountain.
“Sparky!” he called.
“Wha–WHOA!” she shrieked.
Blade rushed forward and managed to catch her just as she tumbled off the edge of the fountain. The sheer force of her fall however was enough to spin him around and almost push him into the water.
“What is wrong with you?” he asked, rather worriedly.
“Nothin’.” she replied glumly.
“Are you sure?”
“Why, don’t you like me?” she pouted up at him.
“Way, way, way too much.” he thought desperately, finally settling on a very lame. “Y-Yeah.”
“You promise?”
How could he say no?
“Yeah...”
“Good!” she cried, dragging him away from the fountain. “Come on!”
“Wh-Where are we going?”
“It’s a surprise!”
The next thing he knew, she had winked them inside a photo booth.
“Why are we here?”
“Silly, no carnival is complete without goofy photos.”
“If you say so...” Blade always found that flash photography hurt his eyes.
He must have winced, because she said. “Your eyes! Oh, I’m so insensitive! Here, don’t look at the flash-y thing. Look at me!” she threw her arms around his neck, looking up at him.
He grinned at her unsurely.
“Not like that!” she protested. “If you’re gonna pay to have pictures, they might as well be worth it! Look at me like I’m your girlfriend.”
“That won’t be that hard to do.” he thought, instantly cursing himself. This girl didn’t want him! ...Did she?
She gazed up at him, grinning, a grin that was half silly, half feral. What on earth did that mean? Well, he knew what it meant, it had just never been directed at him before.
He melted as she reached up and stroked his wing. “I like you.” she said softly.
“O-Oh yeah?”
“Mmhmm... you’re sweet.” she giggled, kissing him.
“I have officially stepped through the looking glass.” he thought, a moment before his brain shut down completely. They were so enthralled with their embrace, neither noticed the flash going off, or the fact that Blade’s wing kept pressing the ‘snap’ button, or just how wobbly that little bench in the booth was.
BAM!
The resounding crash was enough to break them apart.
“Oww... that hurt.” muttered Blade, rubbing his lower back.
“Tell me about it. These things should be bigger... and sturdier.” grumbled Sparkler, rubbing her knee. “Let’s get out of here.”
“You want the pictures?”
“Yeah sure, put them in your pocket and lets go.”
“Okay.” he didn’t bother to look at the roll as he shoved it in his pocket.
“Hurry!” she cried, all giggly.
“Why?”
“Because I wanna go home... where I have more room.” she purred, smiling that amazing, feral grin at him once more.
“Yaaay!” cried a little voice in his head.
Sparkler got up, pirouetted out of the photo booth and latched onto his arm. “Come on! Come on!” she cried.
“You have the car keys!” he reminded her.
“Oh... oh yeah.” she fished around in her back pocket for them. “There we go, nice little car keys, all ready to–“
Suddenly, lightening streaked across the sky, followed by a loud, echoing, boom.
Sparkler screamed out like she’d been shot.
“Hey it’s–“
He was about to reassure her that it was okay, but it was obviously not. She was on the ground, doubled over like someone had punched her in the gut.
“What’s wrong, did it hit you?!” he cried, kneeling beside her.
“N-No...” she managed to gasp.
“Sparky, what’s wrong?!”
“T-Take m-me h-home, peg...” she begged, her breathing ragged.
“Can you get up?”
“I-I’ll try...”
But she never got the chance. The sky lit up, thunder boomed, with a final shriek, the blue Unicorn passed out in his arms.
~*~*~*~
Hours later, Sparkler awoke.
“What happened...?” she groaned.
“Evenin’, Lady Blue.” said a tired voice.
She was surprised to find Blade there.
“Bladey...?”
“Yeah?”
“Tell me what happened...”
“Well... I’m... not entirely sure. The paramedics told me.”
“Oh God...” she groaned. “I meant to tell you.”
“They said you wouldn’t remember any of it, probably. Do you?” he asked, almost imploringly. Why did he look so desperate?
She closed her eyes and thought hard... it seemed as if it had all happened in a dream. Everything was so fuzzy. A couple of little squeaks from her bedside table made her look up.
It was the Princess Hats.
“Well, I remember these guys...” she giggled.
“They wanted to come.”
The Princess Hats floated onto her bed, linked their veils, and did what looked to be a tiny can-can dance for her.
“Awww, thank you.”
Blade sat on the edge of his seat, hoping that something would come to her. Anything. She had to remember what had went on in that photo booth.
“Let’s see... I found out the roulette wheel had been replaced, that sucked. Then we had some really good apple fritters, and you won.... oh what was his name–“
“Claude.” Blade reached behind her head and handed her the pink and white bunny rabbit. “He came too.”
“Thanks Bladey.” she said softly, patting his arm. “Okay what else?”
“You tried to kill Windwhistler?”
“Oh dear God...” she groaned. “How much damage did I cause?”
“Blew out one duck on the duck shoot, but you didn’t kill the machine.”
“That’s amazing...”
Blade shrugged. “They told me you were probably too weak to do that.”
She nodded. “Probably.”
“Sparky... I’m not trying to be nosy here, but... what’s wrong with you?”
She leaned back on her pillow and groaned. It was now or never.
“Peg,” she began in a wobbly voice. “If I... tell you this, you wont go spreading it around, will you?”
“No.”
“You promise?”
“I promise.”
She hung her head. “When I went after Spectre... there’s some things I didn’t count on... like, losing almost all of my powers.”
Blade did a double take. “How?!”
She sighed. “That’s what his power does... it destroys from the inside out. If you have little to no magic, you die instantly. If you’re magical... then... it just takes away your power.”
“But... how did...? What’s with all the lightening?”
“That’s my defense power. For some reason, he didn’t manage to kill that one... just made it stronger.”
“You can still wink.”
“Yeah, but not for very long distances anymore.” she said sadly.
“What’s your deal with storms?”
This was the painful one.
“I get weak during thunderstorms... so weak, that I act... well... like I did today. Stupid, and silly, and kind of like I’m–“
“Drunk?”
“Yeah.” she said miserably. “And when that happens, I act like a complete idiot. Some things I remember and some things I don’t.”
Blade’s heart dropped.
“And I usually have to get inside before the first lightening strike, or it tries to cancel me out.”
“What do you mean, cancel you out?”
“Spectre’s power is like shrapnel, it leaves remnants... part of my element is light, it doesn’t like those remnants. I’m like a magnet, so during a storm, it tries to get rid of those ‘remnants’.”
“By trying to kill you?!”
“Pretty much.” she said softly. “I have to check the weather forecast before I go out, or I’ll wind up like this.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Why would I?” she cried. “God, it’s so embarrassing! Do you realize the looks I get when I tell ponies that I’m basically a Unicorn without magic? Some Unicorn mother actually told her foals not to come near me, because she was afraid it was catching!”
Blade didn’t know what to say.
“Th-That’s why I stopped telling ponies. I was tired of getting the looks, like I had something wrong with me.” she sniffled. “And it didn’t matter how I lost them, that I almost took down one of the most powerful crimebosses, ever, by myself. No, I was branded the foul-tempered pregnant dog that couldn’t control her anger, and that’s why I lost my powers. I’m a freakin’ parable now!” she raged.
“If it’s any consolation, where I come from, they wouldn’t’ve blinked an eye.”
“I know they wouldn’t.” snorted Sparkler. “But since Dream Valley prides itself on being so damn diplomatic, of course what I did was out of order... even though he had it coming.” she growled.
“I know he did.” he said softly, patting her arm.
She blinked back tears. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before... I didn’t mean to scare you. But... its just so hard... not being able to do what you were put on this earth to do.”
“Tell me about it.” he replied, gesturing to his wings. “I got two big useless hunks of meat on my back that I can’t use to save my life. So if you think I’m gonna think you’re weird for not having any magic? You’re wrong. I can’t. Because I can’t do what I was put on this earth to do either.”
“I... I forgot about your wings.” she stammered apologetically.
“It’s okay, I forget about ‘em too.”
She flopped back onto her pillow, “Anything else happen?”
“The cotton candy incident.”
“Oh.. Oh yeah...” she giggled. “And... I remember you catching me when I fell off that fountain... is that when it happened?”
She didn’t remember.
“Yeah. Yeah... that’s when it happened.” he reassured her, shoving the roll of pictures very far down in his pocket.
He seemed so... crestfallen. Why?
“Something wrong?”
“Nah, just a little tired.”
“Me too.” she felt like she had been hit with a truck. “And I’ve been out all this time. You don’t mind if I take a nap, do you?”
He smiled at her gently. “Take a rest, Lady Blue.”
“‘Night.” she yawned, rolling over.
Blade waited for a few minutes, it didn’t take long for her to fall asleep. He was pretty sure if he’d almost been killed, he want to take a nap too.
Quietly, he left her room, and stepped out on the balcony adjacent to her room.
“I should’ve known...” he sighed forlornly, taking the roll of pictures out of his pocket.
Of course, there always had to be a catch to his happiness. It seemed like every good thing that happened in his life was never complete. Nothing could ever be completely good, or completely okay, no, there was always one thing that was always slightly off about it.
This was no different.
Then again, upon considering just how he had stumbled upon this poor girl, and the fact that he still hadn’t came clean about it...
“Maybe its better this way...” he stuffed the pictures back in his pocket and trudged back inside.
It was going to be a long night.
~*~*~*~
ENJOY... hopefully. X3
-§parky
Now I have to figure out what to do for Chapter Four... ;_; It's giving me trouble... *whimper*
~*~*~*~
“Stupid peg, he’s just a party pooper.” grumbled Sparkler, winking back in.
She marveled as the world around her spun and whirled. It was pretty, but so hard to focus on.
“Oh well, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!” Sparkler said to herself, raising her arms above her head and doing a pirouette.
She was pretty sure that everyone was staring at her, but what of it? Their world wasn’t spinning. Besides, she found if she spun faster, then the rest of the world often gave up trying to to compete.
“Whee!”
“Watch where you’re going!” cried an outraged pink earthling with an ice cream cone as her symbol.
“Sorry!” cried Sparkler over her shoulder.
“By the way, you suck at dancing!”
“You would know, wouldn’t you?” giggled Sparkler, skipping away to the cries of “I have you know I was professionally trained!”
“Yeah, honey, some things just don’t take.” she thought derisively before sitting down on the edge of... what was she sitting on anyway.
She looked behind her and waited on her eyes to focus for a moment before realizing she was sitting on the edge of a fountain!
“Oooh!”
Once, when she and her sister Powder were foals they had been caught walking the edges of the fountain and had been forbidden to go near it again. She giggled at the memory.
“This one’s for you, Pow-wow.” she grinned, climbing up on the edge of the fountain and spreading her arms. Slowly, carefully, she walked it.
“Pretty good for someone with blurred vision.” she laughed.
~*~*~*~
Blade was about to give up and have his new roommate paged over the intercom, when suddenly he heard a big splash and some very loud giggling.
Sure enough, following the direction that the giggling was coming from was fruitful. There was Sparky, balancing precariously on the edge of a fountain.
“Sparky!” he called.
“Wha–WHOA!” she shrieked.
Blade rushed forward and managed to catch her just as she tumbled off the edge of the fountain. The sheer force of her fall however was enough to spin him around and almost push him into the water.
“What is wrong with you?” he asked, rather worriedly.
“Nothin’.” she replied glumly.
“Are you sure?”
“Why, don’t you like me?” she pouted up at him.
“Way, way, way too much.” he thought desperately, finally settling on a very lame. “Y-Yeah.”
“You promise?”
How could he say no?
“Yeah...”
“Good!” she cried, dragging him away from the fountain. “Come on!”
“Wh-Where are we going?”
“It’s a surprise!”
The next thing he knew, she had winked them inside a photo booth.
“Why are we here?”
“Silly, no carnival is complete without goofy photos.”
“If you say so...” Blade always found that flash photography hurt his eyes.
He must have winced, because she said. “Your eyes! Oh, I’m so insensitive! Here, don’t look at the flash-y thing. Look at me!” she threw her arms around his neck, looking up at him.
He grinned at her unsurely.
“Not like that!” she protested. “If you’re gonna pay to have pictures, they might as well be worth it! Look at me like I’m your girlfriend.”
“That won’t be that hard to do.” he thought, instantly cursing himself. This girl didn’t want him! ...Did she?
She gazed up at him, grinning, a grin that was half silly, half feral. What on earth did that mean? Well, he knew what it meant, it had just never been directed at him before.
He melted as she reached up and stroked his wing. “I like you.” she said softly.
“O-Oh yeah?”
“Mmhmm... you’re sweet.” she giggled, kissing him.
“I have officially stepped through the looking glass.” he thought, a moment before his brain shut down completely. They were so enthralled with their embrace, neither noticed the flash going off, or the fact that Blade’s wing kept pressing the ‘snap’ button, or just how wobbly that little bench in the booth was.
BAM!
The resounding crash was enough to break them apart.
“Oww... that hurt.” muttered Blade, rubbing his lower back.
“Tell me about it. These things should be bigger... and sturdier.” grumbled Sparkler, rubbing her knee. “Let’s get out of here.”
“You want the pictures?”
“Yeah sure, put them in your pocket and lets go.”
“Okay.” he didn’t bother to look at the roll as he shoved it in his pocket.
“Hurry!” she cried, all giggly.
“Why?”
“Because I wanna go home... where I have more room.” she purred, smiling that amazing, feral grin at him once more.
“Yaaay!” cried a little voice in his head.
Sparkler got up, pirouetted out of the photo booth and latched onto his arm. “Come on! Come on!” she cried.
“You have the car keys!” he reminded her.
“Oh... oh yeah.” she fished around in her back pocket for them. “There we go, nice little car keys, all ready to–“
Suddenly, lightening streaked across the sky, followed by a loud, echoing, boom.
Sparkler screamed out like she’d been shot.
“Hey it’s–“
He was about to reassure her that it was okay, but it was obviously not. She was on the ground, doubled over like someone had punched her in the gut.
“What’s wrong, did it hit you?!” he cried, kneeling beside her.
“N-No...” she managed to gasp.
“Sparky, what’s wrong?!”
“T-Take m-me h-home, peg...” she begged, her breathing ragged.
“Can you get up?”
“I-I’ll try...”
But she never got the chance. The sky lit up, thunder boomed, with a final shriek, the blue Unicorn passed out in his arms.
~*~*~*~
Hours later, Sparkler awoke.
“What happened...?” she groaned.
“Evenin’, Lady Blue.” said a tired voice.
She was surprised to find Blade there.
“Bladey...?”
“Yeah?”
“Tell me what happened...”
“Well... I’m... not entirely sure. The paramedics told me.”
“Oh God...” she groaned. “I meant to tell you.”
“They said you wouldn’t remember any of it, probably. Do you?” he asked, almost imploringly. Why did he look so desperate?
She closed her eyes and thought hard... it seemed as if it had all happened in a dream. Everything was so fuzzy. A couple of little squeaks from her bedside table made her look up.
It was the Princess Hats.
“Well, I remember these guys...” she giggled.
“They wanted to come.”
The Princess Hats floated onto her bed, linked their veils, and did what looked to be a tiny can-can dance for her.
“Awww, thank you.”
Blade sat on the edge of his seat, hoping that something would come to her. Anything. She had to remember what had went on in that photo booth.
“Let’s see... I found out the roulette wheel had been replaced, that sucked. Then we had some really good apple fritters, and you won.... oh what was his name–“
“Claude.” Blade reached behind her head and handed her the pink and white bunny rabbit. “He came too.”
“Thanks Bladey.” she said softly, patting his arm. “Okay what else?”
“You tried to kill Windwhistler?”
“Oh dear God...” she groaned. “How much damage did I cause?”
“Blew out one duck on the duck shoot, but you didn’t kill the machine.”
“That’s amazing...”
Blade shrugged. “They told me you were probably too weak to do that.”
She nodded. “Probably.”
“Sparky... I’m not trying to be nosy here, but... what’s wrong with you?”
She leaned back on her pillow and groaned. It was now or never.
“Peg,” she began in a wobbly voice. “If I... tell you this, you wont go spreading it around, will you?”
“No.”
“You promise?”
“I promise.”
She hung her head. “When I went after Spectre... there’s some things I didn’t count on... like, losing almost all of my powers.”
Blade did a double take. “How?!”
She sighed. “That’s what his power does... it destroys from the inside out. If you have little to no magic, you die instantly. If you’re magical... then... it just takes away your power.”
“But... how did...? What’s with all the lightening?”
“That’s my defense power. For some reason, he didn’t manage to kill that one... just made it stronger.”
“You can still wink.”
“Yeah, but not for very long distances anymore.” she said sadly.
“What’s your deal with storms?”
This was the painful one.
“I get weak during thunderstorms... so weak, that I act... well... like I did today. Stupid, and silly, and kind of like I’m–“
“Drunk?”
“Yeah.” she said miserably. “And when that happens, I act like a complete idiot. Some things I remember and some things I don’t.”
Blade’s heart dropped.
“And I usually have to get inside before the first lightening strike, or it tries to cancel me out.”
“What do you mean, cancel you out?”
“Spectre’s power is like shrapnel, it leaves remnants... part of my element is light, it doesn’t like those remnants. I’m like a magnet, so during a storm, it tries to get rid of those ‘remnants’.”
“By trying to kill you?!”
“Pretty much.” she said softly. “I have to check the weather forecast before I go out, or I’ll wind up like this.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Why would I?” she cried. “God, it’s so embarrassing! Do you realize the looks I get when I tell ponies that I’m basically a Unicorn without magic? Some Unicorn mother actually told her foals not to come near me, because she was afraid it was catching!”
Blade didn’t know what to say.
“Th-That’s why I stopped telling ponies. I was tired of getting the looks, like I had something wrong with me.” she sniffled. “And it didn’t matter how I lost them, that I almost took down one of the most powerful crimebosses, ever, by myself. No, I was branded the foul-tempered pregnant dog that couldn’t control her anger, and that’s why I lost my powers. I’m a freakin’ parable now!” she raged.
“If it’s any consolation, where I come from, they wouldn’t’ve blinked an eye.”
“I know they wouldn’t.” snorted Sparkler. “But since Dream Valley prides itself on being so damn diplomatic, of course what I did was out of order... even though he had it coming.” she growled.
“I know he did.” he said softly, patting her arm.
She blinked back tears. “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before... I didn’t mean to scare you. But... its just so hard... not being able to do what you were put on this earth to do.”
“Tell me about it.” he replied, gesturing to his wings. “I got two big useless hunks of meat on my back that I can’t use to save my life. So if you think I’m gonna think you’re weird for not having any magic? You’re wrong. I can’t. Because I can’t do what I was put on this earth to do either.”
“I... I forgot about your wings.” she stammered apologetically.
“It’s okay, I forget about ‘em too.”
She flopped back onto her pillow, “Anything else happen?”
“The cotton candy incident.”
“Oh.. Oh yeah...” she giggled. “And... I remember you catching me when I fell off that fountain... is that when it happened?”
She didn’t remember.
“Yeah. Yeah... that’s when it happened.” he reassured her, shoving the roll of pictures very far down in his pocket.
He seemed so... crestfallen. Why?
“Something wrong?”
“Nah, just a little tired.”
“Me too.” she felt like she had been hit with a truck. “And I’ve been out all this time. You don’t mind if I take a nap, do you?”
He smiled at her gently. “Take a rest, Lady Blue.”
“‘Night.” she yawned, rolling over.
Blade waited for a few minutes, it didn’t take long for her to fall asleep. He was pretty sure if he’d almost been killed, he want to take a nap too.
Quietly, he left her room, and stepped out on the balcony adjacent to her room.
“I should’ve known...” he sighed forlornly, taking the roll of pictures out of his pocket.
Of course, there always had to be a catch to his happiness. It seemed like every good thing that happened in his life was never complete. Nothing could ever be completely good, or completely okay, no, there was always one thing that was always slightly off about it.
This was no different.
Then again, upon considering just how he had stumbled upon this poor girl, and the fact that he still hadn’t came clean about it...
“Maybe its better this way...” he stuffed the pictures back in his pocket and trudged back inside.
It was going to be a long night.
~*~*~*~
ENJOY... hopefully. X3
-§parky