Blank Flanks

Three young fillies trotted down a narrow road, brimming with excitement over their next attempt at getting their cutie marks. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were chattering away happily about what their cutie marks could be. Finally they got to where they wanted to be: Sweet Apple Acres. "Let's try everythin' that might give us our cutie marks!" Apple Bloom cried. "Okay!" Scootaloo made an effort to fly, but WHAM! She fell flat on her face."Whoops!" she said, a tiny smile forming on her flushed face. Chuckling,they ran over to some apple trees. "Um, Apple Bloom, what are we supposed to

do?" asked a confused Sweetie Belle."The way Ah do it, Ah just put a bucket there and kick the tree." So they tried it, but the apples kept missing the bucket. They looked at their flanks eagerly. Unfortunately they were all still blank. This continued for a while with different activities,then they heard a loud gasp. "Sweetie Belle! Your cutie mark!" Sweetie Belle turned to look at her flanks and saw a red burgundy splotch. The white filly laughed. "Guys, that's just a paint splotch from when we painted the barn a few minutes ago! See?" She wiped off the spot. Giggling, the girls returned to their work (fixing a broken barrel) Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle were struggling with the tools, but Apple Bloom was happily working. She felt a slight tingling near her flank. She looked back eagerly. "GIRLS!" screamed the yellow filly."What, Apple Bloom?! You almost blew my eardrums out!" commented a frustrated Scootaloo. "Mah cutie mark!" The girls examined it to make sure it was real, then screamed."Applejack, we have awesome news! Apple Bloom got her cutie mark! " The girls ran to the barn. You could here their screams from a mile away.