Finding a Lost Cutie Mark

by MeChan25

Rating: everyone
Tags: Random, Slice of Life, Twilight Sparkle, Main 6, Princess Luna, Original Character, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Comedy, Cutie Mark Crusaders
Length: 2850

Crimson Hearts has lost her cutie mark, and Twilight has taken it upon herself to help her find it again.

CrimsonHearts was once the alicorn in charge of helping everypony find their special somepony. However, due to a tragic event with her own special somepony she has lost her ability to do so, along with her cutie mark. Embarrassed and not sure what to do, she went into hiding where no pony could see her again. Over the years she has made friends with afew ponies, but over all she still hides from strangers and does everything she can to hide her existence. That is, until her big brother dragged her out of hiding to meet the new alicorn princess Twilight Sparkle. Now everyone is trying to get Crimson Hearts back her cutie mark.

Published 2013-08-22 13:10:02 UTC
Last updated 2013-08-22 13:10:02 UTC

The Mysterious Red Stallion

Twilight Smiled as she stretched out. she had only been a Princess for a few days, but she was already starting to get used to the wings.Fluttershy and the other princesses were teaching her how to fly, she had learned quickly that Rainbowdash wasn't very good with beginners.

"Hey sis." ShiningArmor walked in behind her. "There have been reports of a hooded figure around Canterlot. Celestia said you should check it out with me and Candice."

"A hooded figure near Canterlot?" She frowned, "Why would Princess Celestia want us to check out something like that? I thought you and Candice were going back to the Crystal empire today."

"We were," he seemed just as confused as she was. "But i guess The pony has been spotted near where Discord is being rehabilitated. She seemed worried about it."

"Do you think discord could have a friend we should be worried about?" they started walking outside.

Her brother thought awhile before shaking his head. "I don't know, but I don't think so. If he DID have somepony who would threaten us they would have done so the first time discord got free."

*some hours later*
"Twilight~! how's it going~!" Discord grinned in a way Twilight still didn't trust. "And you brought your brother and Princess Candice~! you shouldn't have~!"

"umm right." Twilight couldn't help but be whery as a giant bubble popped in the chocolate pool that PinkiePie was swimming in. "Have you seen any strange ponies around here? Celestia said we should be looking for one."

"Wouldn't know." Discord seemed to be honestly thinking about it before shrugging it off. "I mean no one is stranger than me right?" as he said this he poofed into existence a teapot which poured him a teacup. "What about you fluttershy?"

Fluttershy was at a seat, having what twilight could only assume was a tea party. "The animal did see a rather large caped pony a few times, but they don't know where he's gone to."

"yes, I supped that one IS strange." Discord seemed to know who she was talking about. "I know, since he's already shown up a few times, why not stay and wait? I have an EXCELLENT idea for a new game."

*more hours later.*
"Ummmm what EXACTLY am I doing?" ShiningArmor stood atop a platform of jello that wobbled under his hooves as he looked down a taffy slide lined with gumdrops.

"Only the BEST ride EVER~!" Pinkie grinned as she jumped down the slide and screamed with delight. Before Shining could muster any response, the jello jiggled again, making him loose his balance and fall down the slide as well. His scream was NOT of delight.

the slide twisted and swerved and made all sorts of loopty-loops, quickly making him sick to his stomach, all the while he could hear pinkie giggling not far in front of him. Suddenly the Taffy snapped, Sending pinkie into the pool of chocolate, and shinning armor up in the air.

"I got it~!" Discord stuck chewing gum to his tail, slowing the process of his flight, however, it wasn't strong enough to stop him, and it snapped as well. "Or maybe not?" Discord sheepishly grinned and he was glared down by Candice and Twilight.

Meanwhile Shining was still flying though the air, screaming from the mere shock of it all. when the bubblegum snapped it cause him to spin, and now he couldn't even tell up from down anymore, making him too dizzy to cast any spells.As he was wondering when it would end, and how much it would hurt when he crashed, he was suddenly stopped by magic.

"Big brother?!" Tiwlight was searching frantically in the direction her brother had been flung, and the others were not far behind.

eventually there was a faint "Over here." She turned to see her brother strung along the back of another pony. another LARGER pony with a tattered black cape and a large unicorn's horn.He was easily bigger than Celiestia, though not by too much.

"Your friend seemed to have taken a tumble." the new pony chuckled as he walked toward Twilight and the others. "He couldn't even stand after I sent him down." With such a large build and deep voice, it was obviously a male, but that was just about the only thing she could tell. "I hope you don't mind if I offer to walk him home, he's a bit larger than the rest of you." and with that he started to trot the direction they had all just come from.

Author's Note

yeah, i know i probably messed up in parts, but this is my 1st posting, so don't judge TOO harshly okay?

The One and Only Crimson Flame

“Are you SURE you are okay?” Tiwlight and Cadance hadn’t stopped worrying about ShiningArmor since they had found him with the mysterious stallion.

“Yes, I’m FINE.” He smiled at the girls, knowing they meant well with their worrying, but it was starting to get annoying. It was true that he was still a mess when they first found him, but he looked much better, and could now talk coherently again. “I’m sure I could walk if we just stop long enough to let me down.”

“No way punk.” The stallion he was riding shook his head. “If Discord was involved, there is NO telling what side effects might occur.”

“I don’t know, I think if anything is going to happen it already would have happened.” Twilight frowned. She didn’t trust discord much either, but from what he had said the few time he talked, she could tell this pony REALLY hated Discord. She took another look at the big Stallion. Under the cape She couldn’t see much, but his mussel was a deep maroon color, and every now and then she got a glimps of his auburn eyes. As he walked, long skinny legs came out from under the cape, leading he to believe that even though he was large, he wasn’t very muscular.

As she was noting all this, he saw her starring at her, and smiled “Sorry miss, you are cute and all, but I’m afraid you are not my type. I know it’s hard to stop staring at such a handsome stallion, but I’m afraid you must refrain from looking for your own good.”

“W-what?” Twilight was surprised he came to the conclusion that she found him handsome. “I was just wondering what you look like, that’s all.”

“What I look like?” he them examined himself, “OH right! I forgot I was wearing this. Come to think of it, I never introduced myself either, did I?” He let Down ShiningArmor and took of his cape. All three of them gasped when they saw what was underneath. Like his mussel, his coat was a deep maroon, and as Twillight guess, his was of a very sleek build. What she could NOT have guess what that under his cape, on his back, were two giant wings folded neatly along his sides, and that his red mane was like Celestia’s and flowed around him. Though his was much shorter, and looked more like dancing fire. He looked down and noticed their reactions to him. “Oh dear, it seems I’ve gained three new admirers. Sorry, but as I said, you girls just aren’t my type.” He looked over and ShiningArmor, “And you sir, are DEFINATLY not my type. But enough of that, I’m CrimsionFlame, But everyone just calls me flames.”

“You- You’re an ALICORN?!” Twilight was the first to speak.

“huh?” Flames frowned when he realized they were staring at him in shock and not admiration. “oh yeah… that IS sort of a big deal I guess. But you girls are alicorns too, Shouldn’t you be used to it by now?”

Cadance frowned as well, “I’m used to being an alicorn, but I thought I had already known all the other alicorns. I’ve never even hear of you.”

Flames shook his head, “You MUST be joking, I’m sure Luna must have talked about me hundreds of times! I mean I’m sure Lune misses me, I know I sure miss Luna. I mean you must talk to Luna right? Luna is so nice, and pretty, and I honestly can’t say anything bad about Luna. I mean even just Luna’s name is amazing, I can’t say it enough, LUNA~!”

The three exchanged glances. That must be the most ANYONE had ever said Luna’s name so many times in a single train of thought. Then Cadance giggled slightly. “Say flames, you were mentioning your type earlier… Luna wouldn’t happen to be your type, would she?”

“Well, yeah, you… well you COULD say that.” He blushed slightly and hooved the ground.

Twilight caught in to what Cadance was hinting at, “You wouldn’t happen to have a CRUSH on Luna, would you Flames?”

He immediately perked up. “Did Luna tell you that?”

“Just a lucky guess.” The two girls laughed.

“anyways,” He looked around the area again. “Do you girls know where Luna is? I heard there was a new princess-or-rather, and I thought it would be a good excuse to see her.”

“Well, I’m not sure where Luna is, but you are welcome to come with us to the castle.” Twilight was a little upset she was being used as an excuse from this pony to see his crush, but he didn’t seem to mean any harm by it.

“The castle huh?” he thought about it. “yeah I wanna see Luna really bad… but I’m not sure I wanna see her bad enough to brave Princess kill-joy.”

“Prinsess kill-Joy?” the three of them replied in confused Unison.

“Yeah I guess you would know her by Celestia.” Flames shrugged. “I call her Princess kill-joy. She NEVER lets me have fun with Luna, and whenever she is around I have to do WORK.” He groaned and he said work, as if it was the worse thing in the universe. “I hate working! That’s why I never come here, I’d rather just run all over the place and play then sit in some boring castle doing paper work or standing guard. I can’t even imagine how those guard ponies sit there all day doing nothing.”

“Well, I’m sure we can ask those guard Ponies if Luna is inside the Castle before we even go inside. Then you won’t have to see Celestia if you are trying to avoid her that badly.” Cadance encouraged him with a smile.

“Really?!” he got even more excited as they nodded in agreement. “Then what are we waiting for?!” and with that he levitated all three of them alongside him as he galloped full speed to the Castle.

Author's Note

sorry, i don't know what happened to the origonal chapter, but i rewrote it anyways, so hopefully this works.

also, i drew CrimsonFlame (using a base) and this is the link -> http://mechan25.deviantart.com/art/Crimson-Flame-386037638?q=gallery%3AMeChan25&qo=0

Swamp Flowers

A young CrimsonFlame soared through the evening sky… or what WAS the evening sky. It seems someone had decided to make it noon again. He sighed, realizing that someone was probably discord, he had ruled over this world since before Crimson was born, and would probably keep ruling until someone with some serious magic could put him in his place. He was soon flying over a large body of water, and he couldn’t help but to stop and admire himself. He was still a foal, but he still thought of himself as the most handsome young Pegasus to ever live. He stared into to the water looking at himself from every angle, paying no mind to the strange things happening around him.

He admired his own dark coat, and wild red main, and knew his wings could carry him anywhere he wanted to, even if discord changed everything on a daily basis. He then looked at his new cutie mark, which he had just gotten the day before. Two crossed swords tinted red. He had gotten it protecting his friends from a box that had decided it wanted to eat little ponies for lunch. He had hoped it would impress Luna, but she just thanked him for protecting her and her sister before running home. If only he had a way of telling Luna how much he liked her…

He looked up and saw a patch of the most beautiful flowers he had ever seen, with dark blue petals, and smelled like honey. He looked around to see that the large body of water was a swamp, and that no one seemed to own this patch of flowers. “If I show these to Luna, she’s BOUND to fall in love with me!” He grinned and started to head in the direction of home.

But then a nasty little thought crept into his head. “This land is run by Discord. Things change every second. What if… What if when I bring Luna here the flowers turn into something else? Or disappear entirely? She’d probably be mad if I wasted her time like that.” He landed, and paced in the patch of flowers, thinking of what he could do to make sure The flowers stayed flowers. Eventually he decided to just grab a mouthful, and if they changed into something else, at least he wouldn’t waste her time bringing her so far out.

The whole way back his heart soared almost as high as he did. He imagined the look of pure joy she would have in getting such wonderful flowers. How she would just run into his open arms, and nuzzle him until they HAD to do something else, and they would go up to his favorite look-out spot and watch the sky as I can’t make up its mind what time of day it wants to be.

Well, that was his hope anyways. Can’t blame a young colt for dreaming can you? He finally landed softly on Luna’s porch, using his back hooves to knock (he thought doing that would make him cooler) Soon a white Unicorn poked her head out “Hello?”

“Oh, um hey Celestia, I came for Luna.” He tried his best to ‘play it cool’ but he was so excited to give Luna these flowers, he couldn’t help but show it. She just giggled and ran back inside. It felt like forever before he could hear Luna coming to the door, and he decided it would be fun to hide the flowers behind his back until the moment of unveiling.

“Hello Flames, Celestia said you wanted to see me?” She looked up at him with bright eyes, and he honestly thought that if he was the most handsome Pegasus in the world she had to be the most beautiful Unicorn in the world. Even if she had no wings or cutie mark, those shimmering eyes were more than enough to make up for that.

“H-hey Luna, I was um… I was flying in the area and I was just thinking about you and um… Well, HERE.” He closed his eyes, and held out the flowers for her blushing like mad as he did so. “These are for you. I think they are just as pretty as you are!”

“Oh… That’s…. Nice… I guess.” It wasn’t the over joyed ‘I love you’ tone of voice he was expecting. In fact it was more of a disturbed ‘why would you ever thing that’ tone of voice. Confused, he opened his eyes to see that the beautiful flowers had turned into bubbly swamp muck, that smelled more of sulfur than of honey.

“Wh-what the- EWWW what IS this!” Shocked, he tried to get it off his hooves, but it stuck to him, and refused to get off. “I am SO sorry Luna, it wasn’t like this I SWEAR! They-they were flowers, and really pretty and… and… what IS this stuff?!”

Luna watched as he desperately tried to get the goo off. She knew him well enough to understand that he really didn’t mean to offer her a goo-pile of swamp muck, and felt bad for the poor colt. “It’s alright Flames, Discord changes stuff all the time, I’m sure it’s not your fault. As things are these days it’s probably just the thought that counts.” She nuzzled his cheek lightly and went back into the house. “Good night, I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“G-good night~!” he watched behind her, in a complete love trance. He absent mindedly put his hoof against his cheek where she had nuzzled him, thinking of how nice it was, and how much he wanted her to do it again. Unfortunately, that was when the smell of everything nasty in the world reminded him just what was ON his hoof, and he realized he had made a mistake as the goo stuck his hoof to his cheek and he struggled to separate it.

Author's Note

this is more of a flash- back, showing Crimson Flame's crush, as well as why he hates discord. (Flames blames him for not getting a date with Luna.)