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The train ride to Manehatten had taken forever according to Shade. He never felt so useless as he did. He couldn't do anything going after his friends. And Autumn had pointed out that if he flew off now, he would be in the middle of nowhere,so he had no choice but to wait. When the train had come to stop at the station Shade ran out the door. But not actually, he was so impatient, he had resorted to the power his grandfather gave him when he was a child. He had set his hind leg into a shadow then completely disappeared, fading into the very shadow and becoming a part of it. Autumn looked around for her friend and saw the he was out side and popped out of a wall with a tiny bit of shadows on it. He then ran off towards the city.
Autumn rolled her eyes. She had known Shade had that power for a long time so it did not surprise her. And she couldn't help but feel a bit jealous. As she walked off the train she had realized something. All good things come with a consequence, what was Shade's power's downside? She walked in the direction that Shade ran off and saw him pacing back and forth, he cared enough to wait for her. He saw she was there at last and ran to her.

"I have an idea of how we can find the others!" he said quickly to his friend. "All we have to do i-"

Autumn held up her hoof telling Shade to stop. shade silences himself and lets Autumn speak. "You need to slow down... And yes, we do need to find them, but just relax. We don't even have a clue where they could be at all." She said to her friend.
Shade had agreed then slowed down how fast he was talking. he took a deep breath and said his plane. "Okay, I was asking around if there was anypony that we could go to in order to report the strange and they all said there's somepony in that house way over there." he pointed to a tall white house off in the distance. The house was on a ledge of a mountain. shade continued, "And we should go see him to tell about what happened to Sunny and Mist.
Autumn had looked at the house. The travel would take a long time. From her guess, they would get there by tomorrow night. She had stated this to Shade and he chuckled and answered, "I actually know a shortcut. I know that house, though the memories are a bit clouded. But, I know I've been there." Autumn agreed then they headed off for the house.
They had managed to reach the house before sunset. Shade had jumped over a stone fence that surrounded the backyard. "Why would anypony need a fence when they live on a mountain?" Autumn said while climbing the fence.
She had slipped while climbing and landed right on her stomach. she was dizzy for a second and when she looked up she saw Shade holding his hoof out offering to help her out. Autumn was surprised on how Shade looked. His blue eyes were shing in the light and his hair was to his left. Autumn was thinking he looked handsome... Autumn then shook her head and thought to herself "What the buck am I saying?! He's my friend. And besides Mist likes him and I would never try to steal any stallion from Mist. Especially not if it's Shade..." But, somehow she felt like it was natural for her to have those feelings for him. She put the topic off of her mind and grabbed Shade's hoof and stood up.
"Thanks..." she said to Shade. "But don't expect me to ask for your help often" She then proceeded to walk towards the house. The backyard of the house had large pool with 3 diving boards, almost like community pools around the city. It also had a large area with a grill, lawn chairs, and a shed full of pool toys. Autumn sighed, as this brought back memories. Her family was the richest ponies in all of Equestria. And strangely, they were only bakers. They had owned several houses all at the same time. This reminded her of one of the houses she lived in. It was very similar. And she thought of the little filly that was left behind when the house was burnt down. She began to sob as she remembered coming home from her regular day at school to hear that her house was burned down... And her sister was left inside.
Shade called for Autumn to come inside and look around. She had thanked Celestia that he was there, because if he wasn't she would have started bawling. She had walked inside the house and noticed that she was in the living room. The room was very large, with much expensive and decorative furniture around the room. Shade had walked up to a wall and was tapping at it. Autumn walked over and asked him sarcastically, "You looking for a secret passage?"
Shade quickly looks back and answers, "Yes I am. I know the passage had to do
with this wall, do you mind helping?" Autumn sighed and looked around. She looked for anything out of place or that might be a switch. She had noticed a strange picture. It was a family portrait of possibly the family that owned the building. The portrait had shown a purple unicorn with a bright yellow mane standing next to a dark grey pegasus. They had two children standing next to them. One was an alicorn with a golden coat and her mane was in a ponytail. And the other was a tan pegasus with a shaggy dark brown mane with blue eyes that looked very familiar. There was no cutie mark on the child pegasus... Autumn was reaching towards the picture when Shade covered it with his hoof. Autumn looked at her friend with shock.

"Why did you do that?" Autumn asked angrily.

Shade did not answer. He put more force on the picture and Autumn heard a snap. Autumn opened her mouth in surprise. "You shouldn't do that! That is somepony's property!"
Shade replied, "Yeah, I know, but look!" He took his hoof off the picture and pointed towards the wall he was at a moment ago. Half of the wall was moved and covered the other half. Autumn and Shade walked over to the opened wall and saw stairs leading downstairs. Autumn hesitated to go down the stairs, but Shade had started walking down with out any hesitation. Autumn ran after her friend and when they reached the bottom of the stairs Autumn realized that they were in a hallway that seemed like it was in a regular house. She expected it to be like a basement down at the bottom of the stairs. Only two doors could be seen but there must be more around the corner. Shade had walked right into one room. Autumn had yelped realizing that he was invading the owner's privacy. Autumn had followed once again and saw Shade going through a dresser in the room. She decided to look around the room. Around the room was many posters on the walls. There were ones of Wonderbolts, ones with Unicorn history on them, and others were maps of Equestria. Autumn was about to sit when Shade suddenly yelled out , "Here it is! Still in good condition!"
Autumn walked over and saw what he was holding in his hooves. It was a gem about the size of one of his hooves. It was transparent and dark blue. Inside of the gem was a pure black cloud swirling around. Autumn was wondering exactly what this gem was. She asked, "What in Equestria is that?"
Shade looked at his friend and answered, "It's a gem called a 'Shadow Sapphire'. It can only be found once every 5 years and enforces powers of darkness. Anyone who can control the darkness in their heart can find a great use for this."

Autumn was confused about that last statement. "When the what in their heart is controlled?"

Shade had facehoofed, from what, Autumn had no idea. He explained, "Everypony is born with light and darkness in their heart. For most ponies, nothing special will happen. But the more darkness in their heart, the more evil they will be. That ranges from being a kind prankster to and evil overlord tyrant. And in a few cases, when the darkness is more than the light in somepony's heart, it corrupts them and takes over. And in a few extremely rare cases, ponies have only light or only darkness in their heart. As expected the ones with light are the kindest people you ever know. And the ones with only darkness in their heart are typically very evil since there is no light to combat the darkness. But, there are 3 ponies I know personally that have pure hearts. One with pure darkness and the others with pure light." He pauses for a second then continues, "You and Sunny are pure light and I have pure darkness in my heart. You have pure light inside of your heart and that's why you're naturally kind and care about others more than yourself. And I have pure darkness in me."

"But, you aren't evil at all! You're one of the nicest stallions I know!" Autumn said.

Shade had turned red at his cheeks. Apparently most mares never said that about him. He explained the reason for him not being evil, "When I was born, my grandparents had found out that me and my sister had pure hearts, but I was the biggest focus. My grandfather, Dusk Shine, had thought that he could give me powers to use the darkness in my heart in order to prove our family is better than StarSwirl's family. My grandmother, Dawn Shine, had seen things differently. She had used a spell that had made the darkness in my heart harder to corrupt me. That's all she could do. And my grandfather had used a spell that gave me control of the powers the darkness in my heart would allow. Which ended up being able to control shadows in way most ponies would never expect. I and use shadows to kill anypony that doesn't see it coming, teleport, and even make shadows cover a source of light. But I was limited because pegasi can't use magic. So when I actually use the shadows, if I use it too much I will be exhausted. And how much I could do depends on how hard it is to use. It's easier to teleport than it is to make a shadow fatal. And making a shadow fatal is much easier than forcing a shadow to cover light."

Autumn stood confused for a second then said, "That explains how you use your powers, but what about why you're not corrupted by the darkness?"

Shade facehoofed yet again. "Sorry, sometimes I get off topic when I talk... But anyway. I can control the darkness in my heart for one reason. I found a source of light that makes the darkness in my heart impossible to corrupt me. And that is actually something ponies find beautiful. I found somepony that I'm in love with..."
Autumn had realized what he just said. Shade was in love! But with who? Could it be Mist and he just won't tell her? Or is it somepony else that she doesn't know? She goes to ask but she then hears a voice from outside the room.

"Who's in my house?!" a voice yelled from the living room.

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The train ride to Manehatten had taken forever according to Shade. He never felt so useless as he did. He couldn't do anything going after his friends. And Autumn had pointed out that if he flew off now, he would be in the middle of nowhere,so he had no choice but to wait. When the train had come to stop at the station Shade ran out the door. But not actually, he was so impatient, he had resorted to the power his grandfather gave him when he was a child. He had set his hind leg into a shadow then completely disappeared, fading into the very shadow and becoming a part of it. Autumn looked around for her friend and saw the he was out side and popped out of a wall with a tiny bit of shadows on it. He then ran off towards the city.
Autumn rolled her eyes. She had known Shade had that power for a long time so it did not surprise her. And she couldn't help but feel a bit jealous. As she walked off the train she had realized something. All good things come with a consequence, what was Shade's power's downside? She walked in the direction that Shade ran off and saw him pacing back and forth, he cared enough to wait for her. He saw she was there at last and ran to her.

"I have an idea of how we can find the others!" he said quickly to his friend. "All we have to do i-"

Autumn held up her hoof telling Shade to stop. shade silences himself and lets Autumn speak. "You need to slow down... And yes, we do need to find them, but just relax. We don't even have a clue where they could be at all." She said to her friend.
Shade had agreed then slowed down how fast he was talking. he took a deep breath and said his plane. "Okay, I was asking around if there was anypony that we could go to in order to report the strange and they all said there's somepony in that house way over there." he pointed to a tall white house off in the distance. The house was on a ledge of a mountain. shade continued, "And we should go see him to tell about what happened to Sunny and Mist.
Autumn had looked at the house. The travel would take a long time. From her guess, they would get there by tomorrow night. She had stated this to Shade and he chuckled and answered, "I actually know a shortcut. I know that house, though the memories are a bit clouded. But, I know I've been there." Autumn agreed then they headed off for the house.
They had managed to reach the house before sunset. Shade had jumped over a stone fence that surrounded the backyard. "Why would anypony need a fence when they live on a mountain?" Autumn said while climbing the fence.
She had slipped while climbing and landed right on her stomach. she was dizzy for a second and when she looked up she saw Shade holding his hoof out offering to help her out. Autumn was surprised on how Shade looked. His blue eyes were shing in the light and his hair was to his left. Autumn was thinking he looked handsome... Autumn then shook her head and thought to herself "What the buck am I saying?! He's my friend. And besides Mist likes him and I would never try to steal any stallion from Mist. Especially not if it's Shade..." But, somehow she felt like it was natural for her to have those feelings for him. She put the topic off of her mind and grabbed Shade's hoof and stood up.
"Thanks..." she said to Shade. "But don't expect me to ask for your help often" She then proceeded to walk towards the house. The backyard of the house had large pool with 3 diving boards, almost like community pools around the city. It also had a large area with a grill, lawn chairs, and a shed full of pool toys. Autumn sighed, as this brought back memories. Her family was the richest ponies in all of Equestria. And strangely, they were only bakers. They had owned several houses all at the same time. This reminded her of one of the houses she lived in. It was very similar. And she thought of the little filly that was left behind when the house was burnt down. She began to sob as she remembered coming home from her regular day at school to hear that her house was burned down... And her sister was left inside.
Shade called for Autumn to come inside and look around. She had thanked Celestia that he was there, because if he wasn't she would have started bawling. She had walked inside the house and noticed that she was in the living room. The room was very large, with much expensive and decorative furniture around the room. Shade had walked up to a wall and was tapping at it. Autumn walked over and asked him sarcastically, "You looking for a secret passage?"
Shade quickly looks back and answers, "Yes I am. I know the passage had to do
with this wall, do you mind helping?" Autumn sighed and looked around. She looked for anything out of place or that might be a switch. She had noticed a strange picture. It was a family portrait of possibly the family that owned the building. The portrait had shown a purple unicorn with a bright yellow mane standing next to a dark grey pegasus. They had two children standing next to them. One was an alicorn with a golden coat and her mane was in a ponytail. And the other was a tan pegasus with a shaggy dark brown mane with blue eyes that looked very familiar. There was no cutie mark on the child pegasus... Autumn was reaching towards the picture when Shade covered it with his hoof. Autumn looked at her friend with shock.

"Why did you do that?" Autumn asked angrily.

Shade did not answer. He put more force on the picture and Autumn heard a snap. Autumn opened her mouth in surprise. "You shouldn't do that! That is somepony's property!"
Shade replied, "Yeah, I know, but look!" He took his hoof off the picture and pointed towards the wall he was at a moment ago. Half of the wall was moved and covered the other half. Autumn and Shade walked over to the opened wall and saw stairs leading downstairs. Autumn hesitated to go down the stairs, but Shade had started walking down with out any hesitation. Autumn ran after her friend and when they reached the bottom of the stairs Autumn realized that they were in a hallway that seemed like it was in a regular house. She expected it to be like a basement down at the bottom of the stairs. Only two doors could be seen but there must be more around the corner. Shade had walked right into one room. Autumn had yelped realizing that he was invading the owner's privacy. Autumn had followed once again and saw Shade going through a dresser in the room. She decided to look around the room. Around the room was many posters on the walls. There were ones of Wonderbolts, ones with Unicorn history on them, and others were maps of Equestria. Autumn was about to sit when Shade suddenly yelled out , "Here it is! Still in good condition!"
Autumn walked over and saw what he was holding in his hooves. It was a gem about the size of one of his hooves. It was transparent and dark blue. Inside of the gem was a pure black cloud swirling around. Autumn was wondering exactly what this gem was. She asked, "What in Equestria is that?"
Shade looked at his friend and answered, "It's a gem called a 'Shadow Sapphire'. It can only be found once every 5 years and enforces powers of darkness. Anyone who can control the darkness in their heart can find a great use for this."

Autumn was confused about that last statement. "When the what in their heart is controlled?"

Shade had facehoofed, from what, Autumn had no idea. He explained, "Everypony is born with light and darkness in their heart. For most ponies, nothing special will happen. But the more darkness in their heart, the more evil they will be. That ranges from being a kind prankster to and evil overlord tyrant. And in a few cases, when the darkness is more than the light in somepony's heart, it corrupts them and takes over. And in a few extremely rare cases, ponies have only light or only darkness in their heart. As expected the ones with light are the kindest people you ever know. And the ones with only darkness in their heart are typically very evil since there is no light to combat the darkness. But, there are 3 ponies I know personally that have pure hearts. One with pure darkness and the others with pure light." He pauses for a second then continues, "You and Sunny are pure light and I have pure darkness in my heart. You have pure light inside of your heart and that's why you're naturally kind and care about others more than yourself. And I have pure darkness in me."

"But, you aren't evil at all! You're one of the nicest stallions I know!" Autumn said.

Shade had turned red at his cheeks. Apparently most mares never said that about him. He explained the reason for him not being evil, "When I was born, my grandparents had found out that me and my sister had pure hearts, but I was the biggest focus. My grandfather, Dusk Shine, had thought that he could give me powers to use the darkness in my heart in order to prove our family is better than StarSwirl's family. My grandmother, Dawn Shine, had seen things differently. She had used a spell that had made the darkness in my heart harder to corrupt me. That's all she could do. And my grandfather had used a spell that gave me control of the powers the darkness in my heart would allow. Which ended up being able to control shadows in way most ponies would never expect. I and use shadows to kill anypony that doesn't see it coming, teleport, and even make shadows cover a source of light. But I was limited because pegasi can't use magic. So when I actually use the shadows, if I use it too much I will be exhausted. And how much I could do depends on how hard it is to use. It's easier to teleport than it is to make a shadow fatal. And making a shadow fatal is much easier than forcing a shadow to cover light."

Autumn stood confused for a second then said, "That explains how you use your powers, but what about why you're not corrupted by the darkness?"

Shade facehoofed yet again. "Sorry, sometimes I get off topic when I talk... But anyway. I can control the darkness in my heart for one reason. I found a source of light that makes the darkness in my heart impossible to corrupt me. And that is actually something ponies find beautiful. I found somepony that I'm in love with..."
Autumn had realized what he just said. Shade was in love! But with who? Could it be Mist and he just won't tell her? Or is it somepony else that she doesn't know? She goes to ask but she then hears a voice from outside the room.

"Who's in my house?!" a voice yelled from the living room.