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GoldenEyes
By ThePinkDerpFace
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Chapter
1: The New Filly
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It was recess at the Ponyville Elementary and I, Ash Flame also known as Ashie the earth pony decided to go hang out with my friends. They were all sitting in a circle and I sat down next to them.
"Hi, Ashie!!" They all chimed simultaneously. There was a breif paused before Emerald, the fully lime or emerald green unicorn colt exclaimed, "Jynx! Owe me a Pony Cola!"
He received several eye rolls. Cheerilee has a somewhat purple with a pink mane and pale green eyes opened her bag of lunch. We always called her Cherry even though Cheery would have been a better nickname. She pulled out a delicious looking salad and began munching on it.
"Hey Ashie. Wanna play later?" Emerald asked me. "We could build a rocket ship and slay alien ponies on the moon!"
"Nah, sorry but I have to go to the market later to buy some things..." I frowned I wanted to play with Emerald.
"Oh, okay..." Emerald seemed really saddened. "Hey, Jackie? Wanna fight alien ponies with me?" The orange earth pony turned to Emerald and nodded.
"What about you Cherry?" Emerald asked.
Cherry who was alternating between her salad and her report looked up. "Yah, sure. But please don't disturb me now, I'm working on my report."
I bit my lip and she definitely noticed it.
"Ashie, you didn't complete your report did you?" Cherry asked already knowing the
answer to her question.
"I worked on it! Kind of... For two hours last night! I didn't write a single word though because I don't know what I want to be when I grow up..." I defended.
"When ah want to grow up I'm gonna do somethin wit apples!" Jackie bounced showing off her report on apple related jobs with lots of bright and colorful pictures.
"When I grow up I'm going to be a space pony!" Emerald declared proudly.
"Ashie. Why don't you take this..." Cherry handed me a sheet of lined paper. "...and just write about some random job you know about. If you're swift enough and get enough done you won't get an F."
I stared at the sheet of paper blankly. I didn't know that many jobs. All the ones I did know somepony else in class was already doing.
"I think it would just be best to tell him the truth.’ I don't know what I want to be when I grow up and I stayed up late last night trying to figure it out and got nothing.' He'll understand, right?" I gave my explanation for when I will tell the teacher I got no report.
Cherry understood I was that I was willing to take the risk and took the sheet of paper back. Emerald and Jackie both gave a skeptical looks.
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I walked to the market. My mom had instructed me to buy some groceries after school because she would be incredibly busy and we can't go another day without any food. When I got there I bought what I was told but before I left a large commotion broke out.
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"Give that back you wretched filfy thieving mule!" The angry merchant yelled loudly at the escaping filly carrying stolen carrots in her mouth running as fast as she could. It seemed like she had obtained a safe distance to stop running but unfortunately her eyes couldn't come into focus fast enough to see the wall in front of her and then react and then react. She slammed her eyes shut as a large sharp painful pain spread across her head rapidly as she felt the ground do anything but cushion her fall.
She opened her eyes and the intake of sunlight and the massive headache now plaguing her head caused a sharp throbbing pain and she shut her eyes tightly. She opened them this time more slowly. It hurt but it didn't matter she had the carrots now, she'd be definitely eating tonight.
She'd recover in time. She wiped the trickle of blood from her forehead and stared at the smear she had made on her hoof and let out a short sharp sigh. She noticed that there were tears forming in her eyes clouding tem from the immense pain throbbing in her head and wiped those too.
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I ran over to the filly who had just ran away and slammed into a wall by the time I arrived she had finally sat upright. Not quite certain what to do yet I took the carrots and stepped a bit closer to her.
She was a small grey pegasus with a blonde mane. She was small but not baby small but definitely younger than me. She looked over to where she had dropped the stolen carrots and saw me. She stared into my eyes with her heart melting golden gems excuse for eyes. The funny thing was they were pointing different directions.
She snapped out trying to take the carrots back from me. "Give them back!" She yelled angrily and somewhat desperately immediately attempting to snatch them again which I managed to avoid with grace.
"But I think they're not yours." I stated as her golden eyes beginning welling up with tears which immediately made me feel bad.
"But, I need them! I can't afford any!" She tried one last time to grab the carrots before falling backwards and cried, a streak of blood slipping from her head caused by the collision with the wall. It was so heart wrenching seeing somepony in pain that I couldn't take it and dropped the carrots in front of her and wiped her head for her.
"Here take the carrots." I bent down next to her placing the carrots in front of her. "Hey... what's your name?" The filly sniffed wiping her eyes as she grabbed the carrots and squeezed tightly as if I would try to take them
back.
"I don't have a name. Nopony ever gave me one." She spoke a little bit sorrowful taking a bite out of a carrot as I helped her up. She wobbled a bit upon standing and nearly collapsed bit managed to reorient herself.
"Why didn't you just give yourself one?" I asked realizing that I'm dealing with a different breed of pony. Probably one that never had a home or a family. It was a somewhat saddening thought but I pushed from my head.
"Why didn't I? Well I never needed one. However I heard a mare call someone a ditz once and I think Ditzy sounds kinda cute..."
"So you want your name to be Ditzy?" I asked the grey filly hesitantly making sure I didn't miss anything.
"Ditzy Doooooooo!" She giggled as she munched a bite out of a carrot.
I nudged her along. As far as I knew in your head is your brain, and what I was taught is that it's a really delicate part of the body and she just slammed her head into a wall. If the brain is as delicate as I assumed she should see some medical attention. And besides even if her brain was okay she was bleeding again.
"Where are we going?" Ditzy asked me nervously and somewhat curiously staring into my soul with her golden eyes that made my insides turn to liquid and my stomach to do backflips which caused me to struggle to resist the urge to go "Daaaawwwww..."
"You smashed your head pretty hard and it's bleeding again and I want to make sure your okay so I'm taking you to see Nurse Lovegood."
Ditzy nodded understanding as she put a hoof to her head to wipe it and winced a bit.
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We
arrived and I pushed open the door and we were almost immediately greeted by Redheart.
"Hi, Ashie!" The white filly greeted me. "Having tummy problems again?"
"No, that's not the problem. This filly here," I gestured towards Ditzy and she waved her hoof before putting it back to her head. " she bashed her head pretty hard and I came to see if she's okay."
Redheart giggled slightly at the fact this is his third visit this month to help out a presumably injured pony out. "Here comes Ashie to the rescue! Concerned
about hurt ponies as always!" She walked over to Ditzy and scanned Ditzy's head injury which was also bleeding. Again.
"Hmmmmm... I should be able to fix this without mommy's help. It doesn't look terrible. Please come over here."
Redheart nudged Ditzy into a decently sized white room and Ditzy not knowing what to do
sat on the floor by the door as Redheart pulled some supplies out of a cabinet. After making sure she had the right sprays and bandages and washed her hoofs she ran over to Ditzy and wiped her head off with a towel and sprayed the injury with a disinfectant and a healing spray. She reached from where she had everything spread out and grabbed the roll of bandages and began wrapping Ditzy's head. It was at this time when she noticed Ditzy's crossed eyes.
"You know Ditzy... Are your eyes okay? Did you really hit your head that hard?"Redheart asked curiously and a little bit worriedly.
"No. They've been like that as long as I can remember. I think they're a birth deef-def-der-derfect..." Ditzy stuttered trying to prounce the word "defect" properly.
Redheart had finished wrapping Ditzy's head and ran across the room to get some pain reliever. It was at this point I noticed her rear end. It took me a minute to realize why my brain had suddenly turned its attention to that specific region of Redheart's body but I realized she had gained her cutie mark since I last saw her. "So I see you got your cutie mark."
"I always thought it would involve helping ponies out." She smiled trying to get Ditzy to take the pain reliever which she wouldn't take for some reason. After getting it in her mouth long enough to get to swallow she gave Ditzy a lollipop which she happily accepted.
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"Ditzy?" I asked as she turned her head towards me still sucking her lollipop.
"Can you tell me more about you?" Something about seemed off and I think I pieced it all together but I wanted to know if I had it right.
"Oh, me... Well I never did anything worth noting...." Ditzy trailed off attempting to avoid the question.
"Pleeeeeeeeease?" I pushed further.
"Okay... I lived in an orphanage most of my early foalhood, I hardly made any friends because of my eyes and everypony was a bully and anypony worth being friends with got adopted really quickly. Eventually the bullying became to much and I went on my own. Admittedly probably the best decision I ever made."
We continued into silence for a minute or so before I finally asked Ditzy a question. "Where do you stay?"
"I sleep on that park bench over there." She pointed over to a certain park bench not to far away.
With every question a desire burned within me. I wanted to help her out, and I think I knew how.
"I have an idea, why don't I let you have my tent so you have some place warm to sleep and every day I could bring you lunch so that you don't go hungry and steal from other ponies!" Ditzy smiled brightly and started jumping in her
seat.
"Do you really mean it?"
"Of course I do." I reassured her.
She bounced some more her smile widening and then lunged at me wrapping her forlegs around startling me and launching onto the ground.
"Thanknyou! Thank you! Thank you!" It was like she was trying to suffocate me in her death lock.
"Sure, j-just... don-don't kill me before theeen..." I choked as she pulled back realizing she was hurting me.
"Sorry, I got excited... I'm not used to being around such nice ponies..." She apologized helping me off the ground. I let out a small laugh and led her towards my house. Only after a short, relaxed walk we eventually got to my home. It was a below average sized house but I didn't mind.
"Please wait here." Ditzy nodded at me while she bounced up and down as I ran into my house. I navigated into and across my messy room to my closet. I dug through the pile of stuff blocking the closet door and opened it. Mom's right, I do need to clean this room. I hopelessly dug around in the closet, it seemed
like I'd never find what I was looking for. Luck seemed to be on my side today and I found my tent which I hardly ever used so it was hopefully in good condition. I couldn't tell it was because it was rolled up.
I lifted the roll and ran back outside to Ditzy. She jumped up and down obviously a little excited, even using her little wings once or twice to gain a little more air.
"Yay! Where are we going to put it?" Her joy suddenly turned to curiosity.
"We'rebgoing to put it at my secret hideout." I could feel the excitement beginning to rush into my voice also.
I nudged Ditzy to grab her attention and then ran towards the forest she followed closely, occasionally falling behind. By the edge of the forest there were a few dense shrubs. I led Ditzy through the walls of green into a small circular clearing a few feet in diameter.
"I like your secret hideout." She gazed around mostly amazed at the fact it had a dense leafy ceiling and yet light still escape in.
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I had finished set up the spacious tent with a foot of clearance all the way around. I also had a light set up in the tent to light things up during the night as well as a sleeping bag... for sleeping. Ditzy walked into the tent with me and her face extended into a gasp.
"This is amazing!" She ran around the tent a couple times and stopped right in front of me.
"This is all for me right?" She asked a little curiously as if it were all to good to be true.
I nodded to her and she stared directly at me, her golden eyes melting my insides. She bounced at me encasing me in another death lock, this time pulling away quickly so I wouldn't have to go to the emergency room today.
"You’re the best pony I ever met!" She declared proudly.
"That's what all my friends say..." I giggled a little to quietly to be heard.
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"And then Daddy said to stay away from her cause he doesn't want her thieving rubbing off on me." Goldie finished her story she had heard from her
father last night.
"Have you seen Ashie? He's been acting weird lately and I want to talk to him." Emerald asked his friends randomly changing the subject. Everypony shook their
heads, except Applejack.
"Ah saw him wit a filly yestaday! Ah think he got a fillyfriend and is to nervous
tah tell us!"
"Well the evidence does stack up that way..." Cherry commented.
"Maybe we can be spies and a spy on him!" Emerald exclaimed loudly as everypony simultaneously clapped their hooves to his mouth.
"If we’re going to be spies we can't scream it to the world!" Goldie whispered to him. Everypony nodded with her.
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Emerald, Goldie, Cherry and Jackie all searched around town for Ashie. Eventually they found him and started to follow.
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"Hi, I was wondering if I can have two muffins, please." I asked the stallion at the counter dumping my allowance in front of him. He counted the change and slid them across the counter back towards me. He then pulled two muffins from seemingly nowhere and handed then to me.
"Thank you." He nodded to me as I put everything in my saddlebag. I left the bakery and bolted towards the forest not even giving the rustling bushes a second thought.
Ditzy wasn't in her tent but was playing outside in the falling leaves. She leapt into a pile with an explosion right in front of me giggling wildly. After rolling around in the remains of the pile she noticed and instantly bounced to her feet.
"Hi, Ashie! How are you?" She asked bouncily circling me.
"Good. I bought us some yummy treats." She sat down squarely in front of me as I took her and my normal lunch from my saddlebag and we munched them down.
"What's this treat you mentioned?" She asked as she finished off her last apple. I wasn't finished yet but I pulled the muffins from my bag and gave her one.
She just stared at it.
"What is it? It looks... weeeeeeird..." She wondered glaring at her muffin as if it were poisonous causing me to laugh a little.
"You've never seen a muffin before?"
"... ... No..." She stared a me before looking back down and hesitantly took a bite. She winced a bit and her eyes began to water, I wasn't getting the impression she liked it until she "Mmmmm..."ed and scarfed the rest down faster than most could blink.
"That was delicious!" She yelled throwing her hooves into the air to emphasize her enjoyment of the muffin.
"The best thing I've ever tasted!" She bounced up and down and in circles and off trees as if she just had a sugar rush. I hesitantly glanced at my muffin and then gave it to her. I didn't like muffins that much anyway. I always preferred cupcakes.
"Thank you!" She beamed at me still bouncing and gobbled mine up too. I heard a noise a rustle of bushes behind me and I turned around to locate the noise's source. There were bushes were moving on their own directly behind me. I stood up and walked over to them and I could here hushed voices. I stuck my head into the bushes and was immediately greeted to the site of my friends.
"Uhhhhh… Hi, Ashie we totally weren't spying on you..." Emerald should've probably won The Most Unconvincing Statement Award. And I should probably win The Best Name Come Upper Award.
"Yes we were." Cherry admitted. "Jackie got it in our heads you had a fillyfriend and we wanted to see if she was accurate."
"Do you?" Applejack pried further.
"No she's just a new friend that has special needs." I responded glancing backto Ditzy who had went back to playing with the leaves.
"What do you mean, 'special needs?' She looks fine." Emerald asked, a little curious at my word choice.
I stared at him for a minute wondering how I should break it to them.
"She doesn't have a home. She's been sleeping in my tent the last couple days or so and I bring her lunch every day."
Everypony gasped. "What's her name?" Goldie asked.
"Ditzy… 'Ditzy Doooooooo' as she said once or twice." I answered.
"I can't believe that somepony would give up such a cute filly..." Emerald spoke his thoughts aloud. As he realized what he had said his face turned pink.
"You've only been bringing her lunch?" Jackie the obvious chance to tease Emerald. I nodded.
"What about dinner?! You can't expect a pony to survive only eating lunch their entire life!" Cherry shouted just quiet enough so Ditzy wouldn't hear. I'd kinda forgot about all those other meals of the day. Like breakfast and dinner despite the fact that I ate them every day.
"Mommy told me I need to eat three meals a day to grow up and be a strong healthy mare." Goldie threw in her own comment.
I was definitely lacking ideas. My mom would notice if I suddenly started leaving the house for school every day with breakfast, two lunches and a dinner. Before I could formulate a plan I felt a pair of legs wrapping around me and dragged me away.
"Come on Ashie! Stop talking to the plants and let's play." Ditzy finally let go and with the slight help of her wings almost made a backflip into a pile offers leaves. I say almost because she missed the pile of leaves entirely.
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"Ashie! ASHIE!! Wait up!" I stopped turned my head after I heard a filly scream my name. Cherry had finally managed to catch up to me and was struggling to breathe at all.
"A-A-A-Ashie..." she gasped as if she were dying which was now getting me a bit worried.
"Where- where are you g-going?..." Her voice shook but she managed to get her question out.
"I'm bringing Ditzy her lunch. Why? Are you okay?" I was a bit curious but
still concerned.
"Meeee? I'm fine." She was now breathing at a normalish pace. "I packed dinner and I wanted you to bring it to her."
"Why don't you bring it to her yourself. She'd definitely like to make new friends since I'm her only one."
Cherry saw my logic and nodded "That would ne nice. I'd like to make a new friend too."
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End of Chapter
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Author's Note
This is my first fic so please feel free to leave constructive criticism, poke holes in my plot, and point out errors (cause this was done 99% on mobile devices).
