The Life of Tom

by ilikepie56

Rating: everyone
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Other, Random
Length: 1099

The life and times of Tom the Boulder.

Everything we see has a story. The trees have a story, the animals have a story, and even rocks have a story. This is the story of Tom. Tom the boulder.

I write really short stories when I should be doing my government homework. Not edited or pre-read. This story could contain intense levels of not being good or interesting.

Published 2014-01-12 08:10:06 UTC
Last updated 2014-01-12 08:10:06 UTC

Tom's Life

Hello there. My name is Tom, and well, i'm a boulder. Everything has their own stories to tell. Tree's, birds, bees, you name it and it has a story. Let me tell you my story.

First I will start with where I grew up. It all started long ago, way before Princess Celestia was the ruler of Equestria. I lived in a mountain with my mom, my dad and my two sisters. We lived in one of the biggest mountains in all of Equestria! I could see everything from where I was. I watched entire cities rise from the ground, then I watched them fall to nothing. History was literally happening before me.

One fateful day, a supporting rock near the bottom of the mountain started to give in to the weight. I'm not quite sure but I think his name was Brian. Brian finally crumbled and started a massive avalanche. I started to panic. Within a second I started to tumble down the mountain with my family. The world was spinning so fast I couldn’t keep track of which way was up or down. After awhile, I lost sight of my family.

After a few minutes falling down the mountain, I finally hit the ground and was luckily not damaged. I looked around to try and find my family. I saw my father a few meters away. He had a crack in him but nothing too severe. I started to look for my mom and two sisters. Sadly, I had found them. It seems as if they hit the ground and shattered on impact. There were a million little pieces. My father and I were devastated. One moment they're laughing and telling jokes and the next moment they're gone. I never even got to say goodbye.

My father and I grieved for awhile, but the pain soon eased. We spent the next hundred years or so at the bottom of this once great mountain, waiting for something to come our way. One day, our prayers were answered. Equestria's new leaders came to the bottom of our mountain to build a new home. Construction soon started, and like before, I watched a castle, then a city, rise before me.

My father and I were moved aside for this project. We weren’t tossed aside or anything like that, they specifically moved us to the side. I overheard them saying that they might need to use us later. Oh how I wished I would be put inside the castle, but I am just a mere boulder. After the castle was constructed, Celestia came over and stood next to us.

“Keep this one for the garden,” she said pointing to me. “You can get rid of the other one.”

The construction ponies picked my dad and I up and started to move in opposite directions. I was being separated from my family again. At least this time I was able to say goodbye first. The ponies moved me to the very center of the maze. It looked like I was going to be at the center of something for once! Contrary to my excitement, not many ponies went into the maze, and if they did, they never made it to the center.

About a year after the castle was completed, strange things started happening. Buildings were turned upside down, it started raining chocolate rain and everything just started to freak out around me. After awhile, the weird stuff stopped and I heard that a new statue was put in front of the maze. A statue of a draconequus.

A few years after the that, I heard a commotion happening from inside the castle. It was then when, in broad daylight, the moon rose high above into the sky and blocked out the sun. This was when a most epic battle took place. The battle between the sun princess and the moon princess. I watched them fly across the castle and shoot lasers and stuff. It was pretty cool. After a few minutes of fighting, Celestia used one of her most powerful moves and Luna just disappeared. I never did figure out where she went, I just figured she was dead.

Thus started a long wait. How long you ask? About one thousand years. It was just a fraction of the time I have been alive, but with no one to talk to and really nothing to see, it was pretty boring. A caterpillar did once make it's cocoon on me, so I had that going for me, which was nice. Besides the caterpillar turned butterfly who I had named Reginald, nothing really important happened. Nothing important happened until the weird stuff started happening again.

The same signs were showing. Buildings were being turned upside down, it started to rain chocolate and everything just seemed off. I was finally able to see who was doing all of this. His name was Discord, and he led a most beautiful pony to me. She was so excited to see me that she picked me up on her back and took me back to her friends.

We went out of the maze and I ended up in her home. It was really nice in there. All of the pretty fabrics everywhere, the dresses, it was stunning. A few hours later, she left, and when she came back she through me out and never wanted to see me again. I don't know what I did wrong, but I was shoved aside for the next few months. It was not until that Pink pony started appearing everywhere at once when they needed me again.

After hearing a bunch of zaps and seeing pink flashes of light travel into the forest, I was picked up and brought to this mirror pond. I was promptly dropped into the pool face down, so I was able to look into the other dimension. I heard them say that nothing bad like that would ever happen again, so I had the liberty of knowing that I was preventing more disasters.

And so, that about sums up my story. My life as Tom the boulder.

“Wow, so you saw everything?” Asked one of the Pinkies. “That's amazing!”

“I know,” said another Pinky. “Let's have another party on Tom!”

They all started to cheer and yet another party started. This is how I spend my days now, with a bunch of pink ponies who are happy all day long. I would say that this is pretty great.

Author's Note

This is the result of me not doing my government homework.