Sucker Pony

Everyone has an angel, a guardian who watches over us. We can't know what form they'll take. One day, old stallion, next day, little filly. But don't let appearances fool you, they can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet, there not here to fight out our battles, but to whisper from our heart, reminding that it's us. It's every one of us that holds the power over the worlds that we create.

    It was a rainy day, and a young mare sat on her bed anxious and worried. The doctor walked in the doorway of her room and looked at her in the eyes. Fluttershy's eyes began to fill with tears as she saw the slight movement of the doctor's head shaking. She climbed out of bed quickly and shoved past him.

    As she galloped into her mother's bedroom, she saw her step-father covering her mother's face with a blanket. She stopped and looked at her mother's bed and gave out deep breaths. Her sister trotted behind her and sobbed with her.

    "No!" Fluttershy's sister cried out. Her sister tried to go to her mother, but Fluttershy held her back and cried quietly. Her sister fell to her knees and so did Fluttershy.

    Their step-father walked from the room and straightened his tie, with a slight grin. Fluttershy's eyes were filled with tears, as she looked at her Step-father and hugged her sister tightly. Thunder clashed loudly.

    Fluttershy's sister threw a rose into her mother's grave that was already six feet in the ground. Fluttershy embraced her sister, and saw her life-less face. Fluttershy looked up at her step-father and saw his grin turn into a fake face of sadness. He took a shovel and piled dirt into the hole.

    Fluttershy's Step-father looked proudly at a document cover; Last Will & Testament. He grabbed a pocket knife from a little compartment that had a gun, jewelry, a pocket watch, and a packet of matches. He used the knife to slice of a seal on the front of the packet and slid the document out carefully. He clenched his teeth and began to read anxiously. He saw 2 words that he hoped not to see ever. My two daughters, the money he so patiently waited for was to be given to the two brats he hated ever so much.

    He threw everything on his desk, to the ground and chugged large amounts of alcohol. He tilted it and let it slide down his throat.

    Fluttershy sat next to her sister on her bed, and smiled softly at her. She kissed her sister softly on the forehead.

    Her step-father had made a fire in his fire place and threw his bottle of alcohol into the flames. The flame grew larger and he roared in frustration.

    Fluttershy left her sister's room and closed the door quietly behind her. She walked into the hallway and looked to her right. Her step-father had his hooves stretched out, blocking Fluttershy from that direction. She ran away quickly and slammed her door shut, but as soon as she could do that, her step-father struggled to keep the door open enough to get her. He grabbed her shirt and a button from the shirt, fell to the floor. She punched him hard and drew blood.

    He pushed her back and she fell onto her rum. Her step-father stood over her with a furious look. He looked in the hall-way over at her sister's room. Fluttershy soon caught on and also looked at her sister's bedroom door. She sat up and raced to her door, but was too late when her step-father locked her in her room.

    Fluttershy looked through the key-hole and watched as her step-father opened her sister's room. Her sister woke up and climbed out of bed. Her step-father straightened his tie and looked at Fluttershy's key-hole, and smirked. But her sister ran past her step-father and raced down the hall way. Fluttershy got up and looked at her window.

    Fluttershy's sister backed up into a closet and watched the door slam. She had locked the door, and her step-father was banging on it, trying hard to open it. She sat down and wrapped her arms around her knees, crying into them deeply. A light-bulb hanged above her and it shook from her step-fathers slams into the door.

    Fluttershy was soaking wet from the crazy rain and was climbing on the side of her house, grabbing pipes to find a window that would let her into the house.

    Finally, her step-father had used his back-legs to kick open the door. Fluttershy's sister looked up and feared the most she had in her whole life. The door began to creak close, but her step-father slammed it open and looked at her devishly.

    Fluttershy hopped down from her house and landed next to her car. She grunted and stood up quickly, but slipping in the mud that had produced in the rain.

   Her step-father turned his head slowly. Fluttershy raised a gun slowly. Her step-father held up his hoof and walked in a circle motion, with a bullet threatening to enter his skull. He lowered his hoof and smiled gently, it being fake. She fired the gun and closed her eyes tightly. She shot the light-bulb in the closet and the glass shattered everywhere. Her step-father ground his teeth and raised his hooves back up.

    She didn't miss him, but only shot his arm this time. He put his other hoof on his arm and grunted in pain. He stumbled to the ground and Fluttershy ran to her sister in the closet. She saw her sister lye on the ground and she picked her up by her head and tried comforting her. She felt something wet touch her right hoof, and she released her hand from one side of her sister's head.

    She looked at her hoof, and saw blood covered it. She cried out and cried onto her sister's head. Her step-father grabbed the phone and dialed for the police. He had the phone to his ear, but quickly dropped at when Fluttershy threatened him with a gun again. He raised his hoofs in the air, on his knees, very innocent-like. She sobbed and quickly trotted away in tears, dropping the gun.

    Police arrived and shined their flashlights everywhere. They found a yellow mare, with a dirty pink mane kneeling over her mother's grave. She turned her head and her make-up was running and her face was stained with tears.

    Her step-father made gestures and pointed around the house, while talking to a police colt. The police nodded his head and talked to him more.

    Fluttershy sat on the back of a ambulance car and was given a shot while having a jacket cover her shoulders. Police colts surrounded her and put their hooves on her shoulder.

    The next day, she was asleep in a car. Her step-father driving her to a place unknown.