Disharmonious Heart

As Derpy slept a little bit longer she was awoken by a loud thump downstairs, causing the blonde mare to jolt awake.

"W-what was that?!" She exclaimed curiously as she made her way down the stairs carefully and slowly only to find it was her daughter Sparkler who had fallen and tripped over the lamp wires.

"Hi mom! Sorry I woke you up." Sparkler said seeing her mother as she got up and fixed her mane. Derpy giggled a little and sighed, "Dear.. Have you seen Dinky this morning yet?"

"I don't think I have mom.. Maybe she's sleeping in?" The magenta colored unicorn replied to her mother with a calming tone, "Why? Do you need her?"

The golden eyed mare nodded and without a word she walked up the stairs again towards her younger daughters room. Right when she opened the door she gasped and began to sob causing her other daughter Sparkler to run upstairs and hug her mother.

"Mom! What happene.. Oh..." Sparkler said staring into her sister's room and seeing she wasn't there. Where could she have gone? Thought Sparkler curiously before speaking again to her sobbing mother, "Mom.. if it makes you feel any better.. I could go and find her for you. I promise if I do I'll be extra careful!"

As I feel that I'm getting closer to the end of a journey.. I know it's only just the beginning...

As Dinky entered the cold and dark Everfree forest once more she shivered a little and hoped that the same thing wouldn't happen again. She still wondered what that figure was before but she decided to push it aside. It wasn't really the most important subject; what she was more interested in was where the hell was her father? And she was determined to stop at nothing to find him, even if a timber wolf...

"Huh?" Dinky suddenly said as her ears perked at a growling noise. She turned her attention to a pair of dark purple eyes glaring back at her causing her hair to stand on end; her heart rate went up higher then ever as her eyes widened in fright.

"Oh crap!" She said out loud, Dinky wanted to run but her body was frozen to the ground in shock. The filly didn't expect to run into the vain creature but like everypony says... things happen that we cannot prevent!

As the filly stood there the creature came closer and closer until it creeped slowly behind her, breathing down her neck making her tail puff up and sending shivers down her spine like no tomorrow. Just as the timber wolf was about to slash at her something bashed into the huge creature sending them self and the timber wolf into a tree.

She surprisingly turned around and ran towards the fight and it looked like timber wolf was fractured pretty badly. Dinky suddenly screamed and chucked a rock at the cracked parts of the timber wolf with her unicorn magic and bolted away as fast as she could before the creature had it's chance to pounce on her and end her life. The filly ran past the trees dodging them carefully with full speed as she came upon a bush, Dinky fell into the bush and tried her best to calm her heart rate before it got any worse then it already had gotten.

Without a single slow breath she had fallen onto her left side and passed out from all the shock and fear she had experienced that afternoon.

Little Dinky Hooves woke up in the pitch black darkness and tried her best to make the best of her surroundings before she solemnly decided to just light up her horn with a golden aura around it to make her path visible. As she remembered what had happened she was worried about the one who saved her and walked back to the scene only to find broken sticks and a very bloody figure that looked passed out; or maybe even dead!!

The filly walked closer and couldn't make the best of who it was so she decided to lay down next to the bleeding figure and wait till the morning emerged.

When she awoke she yawned, then got up and stretched before looking over at the figure from last night before gasping.

"D-dad?!" She said aloud before covering her mouth and broke into tears a little before wiping them away. Dinky examined the bleeding body and looked around for anything she could use to maybe clean the blood off so she could wrap the wounds as she spoke to herself quietly, "At least I'll know the truth now... well soon I guess.."

A while later as she was back in the bush with her knocked out father she waited forever and decided to walk out of the bush to get water and maybe a little snack; after all she wanted to save her food in her saddle bag that she had with her back in the bush. When the filly had returned she noticed that her father was gone and the only thing that was left behind was a huge puddle of blood.

Dinky popped her head out and searched high and low, left and right until she saw a trail of blood that maybe dripped off the stallion as he trailed away from the bush.

Drat!! I was this close!! Maybe I can keep moving!! She thought to herself. The hunt has begun...