The Baltimare Story

by BlazingLight

Rating: teen
Tags: Rarity, Twilight Sparkle, Anthro, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sad, Other, Romance
Length: 3637

A stallion abused by his family, a new life in Ponyville. What might the outcome of this new stallion's life be? Eternal depression, or a happy life with friends? Rarity will decide to make a new stallion out of him.

A young stallion born in Baltimare, was abused by his father, neglected by his mother, and turned depressed to his jealous sister, Crystal Star. After a tragic incident when he ran away from home, his house is mysteriously burnt down and some how, gets on a train to Ponyville.
Coverline, the main character, suffers through depression after reading a newspaper after getting off the train. When he earned his cutie mark, it represented a piece of paper with a quill in red ink. His special talent is poetry and doesn't think anyone will like his poetry. Most of his poetry is involving depression, sadness, suicide, etc. Most of the time, he's too shy to talk to any pony and since the incident, he thinks no pony will be his friend.
One day in Ponyville's Town Square, Rarity finds him sleeping on one of the benches while out shopping. After a small walk with Coverline, she decides to take him inside and treat him the way he's never felt before

Published 2015-03-08 21:10:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-03-08 21:10:02 UTC

The Baltimare Story - Chapter 1

Author's Note

This story is an RP that I had on Omegle.com and I was just putting in parts that was similar to things that happened in my life. My mother actually died and I had dealt with BELT slapping instead of a paddle, but this is a story that is similar to my life. There are some things in the story that a not true at all. I'm not a bad person, I would never burn down building in any case.

But anyways, this is my first story, please give me any constructive criticism. This is technically the first story that I'm going to publish to a real public and I'm really nervous. So I hope you enjoy this.

The Baltimare Story - Chapter 1

Around three days he after left my home, he arrived into Ponyville. His only home that he could even have was just a small bench around Town Square. He was sleeping when a white unicorn with purple hair in curls walked up to him. The colt could hear the clop, clop, clop sounds with every step. She was holding shopping bags and set them down on the ground. She then spoke out saying, "Excuse me sir, but why are you sleeping on this bench?" He then awoke to the sound of her voice, looked into her blue eyes and she looked at him questionably, like if she knew him somehow. The colt panicked and hid his eyes with his hooves. "What do you want from me?! Just do whatever it is already!" He cried out in fear. The white unicorn knelt down to her knees and moved my hooves away from his face. She saw the tears streaming down the side of the colt's face. He opened his eyes, but couldn't see her clearly through the tears. "I'm not going to hurt you," she cooed.

"Who are you?" The young colt stuttered through the tears as I spoke those words.

"My name's Rarity. I make dresses for ponies in Ponyville. What is your name?"

I stand up and stare into her eyes through my tears. "My name?" The young colt repeated.

"Yes. What's your name, sir?" Rarity said again.

"I don't remember. I don't think I was ever called by my name by any pony."

"Take a walk with me. I must know why you're here. You seem really down in the dumps today. Talking usually helps, but I'm going to help you feel better."

"Don't push your luck." He says before he started his story.

"I was born in Baltimare. My mother and father didn't seem to like me and I barely got any attention from them. When I was three years old, my mother told me that I was born as an accident. I went to bed that night and I was wondering what she meant that I was born as an accident. What could it mean? Why was I an accident? I couldn't figure out the answer for myself, but later, when I turned 6, my mother and father enrolled me in school. They never say goodbye, or even wave, so I went to school that day. When I met my teacher, I asked her what it meant when someone is born by accident. She told me that it's when two ponies have a baby and they're not happy, there's a big chance that they'll neglect that pony. 'What does it mean to neglect somepony?' I asked her. She said to me, 'It means to not care for properly. Take a seat, class is about to start.' I went through school as if that I never was there.

"When I was 9 years old, I overheard my mother talking about having another baby. She said that it was going to be a girl. I was excited. I couldn't wait to she her. When my sister was going to be born, my father told my mother the name he was going to give her. "I was thinking Crystal Star. It's a really pretty name, I hope that she'll be as pretty as you." As he said that, he chuckled a little bit. When she was out of mother's womb, she was wrapped in a purple blanket and we took her home for and took care of her like she was their favorite child. I was even more ignored by my mother and my father.

"Then one day at school, there was a fire, but everyone saw me walk out of the bathroom and they all saw me walk out when it exploded. No pony understood the explosion part, but they all thought that I did it. I then lost all of my friends and was expelled from school. Since that day, I started taking poetry. That's what my special talent became. My cutie mark was a piece of paper with red ink on it. When I got home that day, my father took out a paddle, leaned me over his lap, and started spanking me yelling, asking, 'Why did you burn down the school?! Don't you know you could have killed some pony?!' And after every five times I was spanked, he asked me again. He spanked me until I told him why, or when I start bleeding. I was going to choose bleeding, but I never bleed before, and it started to hurt more and more, so I told him that I don't know how it happened. 'All I did was use the bathroom and that fire just started all of a sudden!' I yelled at the top of my lungs. He then dropped me to the ground, knocking all the air out of me. He left me there alone, and I cried for ten minutes, shouting, 'Why?' over and over. I could hear fast clopping sounds towards me and I felt my mother's touch on my head, but when I got on my back, I noticed it was Crystal, but I couldn't see her through my tears. She grabbed me by my neck and stood me up by force, saying, 'Stop crying. What are you, a four year old? Get out of my face.' and walked away from me.

"I turned 16 years later and showed my poetry to my sister Crystal. She read through my entire list and asked, "What is this?"

"I haven't been feeling happy lately, and I just wanted to show you how I've been feeling. Maybe you could help me out?"

Her questionable look turned into a frown and then said, 'Why should I help you? No one likes you, and neither do I. Mother said that you were born a mistake and you will be a mistake until the day you die. Now get out of my room.' I jumped at what she said, and went to grab my poetry. As I picked it up, she lifted her leg up and tripped me and said, 'Get out of my room, NOW, poetry boy!' I got up on my feet and ran towards the door and went to mother after that. I told mom that Crystal doesn't like me and says that I'm never going to be loved by any pony else. She knelt to her knees and said, 'I know it's hard to accept the fact that you have a new sister, but you don't need to be jealous about her.' I went to bed crying that night, knowing that Crystal was right.

"I was able to save enough money to leave town for a one-way trip to Ponyville. As I left home that night, I took one last look at home and turned around, hanging my head in shame of my own life. I even cried on the way to the station. When I got up to the ticket booth, I cried in front of the ticket vendor and said, 'One-way trip to Ponyville, please.' I then handed the vendor my money and pulled out a ticket. 'Enjoy your stay.' he said. When I got on the train, the car that I was in was starting to flood with more and more ponies every second. By the time it was full, the pony sitting next to me looked at me and shouted, 'It's him! He's that pony that burned down his school!' Every pony looked up to see what he was talking about. The entire train car was starring at me, while I was staring blankly at the pony. He turned to the cars doors that lead to the other cars and yelled, 'Run for your lives before he burns this train!' Within a matter of minutes, the entire car was empty, and then the train started moving. When it turned dark, I slept that night and had a nightmare that looked like my house was burning, and that three ponies were running on the lawn and they plopped down on the ground and then they died. Then a big white flash appeared and a newspaper was shown before my eyes. The train squealed to a stop and then the conductor woke me up, saying that I've arrived in Ponyville. I asked him how he knew that I was going to be in Ponyville, and he said, 'I was the one that took your ticket before you went on the train, remember?'

'I exited the train and I didn't even get introduced to anypony. I just walked around and found a place that was giving out free newspapers. I grabbed one of them and I saw that my nightmare came true. On the front of the newspaper was a burnt house with three dead bodies on the cover. I read the entire story from front to back and realized that it was my mother, father and sister in the house at the time. I just threw it away and just lived under that bench."

And right as the colt finished telling the story, Rarity stopped and said, "We're here." He looked up at the building in front of him and realized that it looked like a castle. She opened the door and said, "Make yourself at home. I'm going to get my friend to come over here. I think that she'd like to meet you."

And with that, he was able to talk to someone about his life without anyone screaming and running away from him. He waited for about ten minutes and then Rarity's door opens and her friend comes in. She's a purple alicorn, which was a pony with both wings and a unicorn's horn. The only alicorns out there are Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Cadence, and Princess Twilight Sparkle. This alicorn looked a lot like Twilight Sparkle. She was a purple pony with purple hair and a pink streak near her horn.

"Twilight, this is that pony that I was talking about. He said that he was from Baltimare and is having a really hard time gaining some friends. I was hoping that you could help him out." Twilight looks at me questionably and strains her eyes at me and they turned to a shocked look. Twilight then shouted out, "He's that guy from that school-" but then Rarity clamps her mouth shut. I get up and walk away and Rarity shouts out to me, "Wait, Sebastian!" I keep walking away and disappear.

"Sebastian is his name?" Twilight asks Rarity.

"I don't know, I just thought of the first name that came to my mind. He can't remember his name. I should have told you not to mention that. He's having a hard time moving on after that day, and that other day when his house burned down." Rarity replied.

"His house burned down? Who did it?"

"I don't know. I need to find him. Please don't say those things about his past or else this isn't going to work out." And then she left to go find Sebastian.

The Baltimare Story - Chapter 2

"I don't know, I just thought of the first name that came to my mind. He can't remember his name. I should have told you not to mention that. He's having a hard time moving on after that day, and that other day when his house burned down." Rarity replied.

"His house burned down? Who did it?"

"I don't know. I need to find him. Please don't say those things about his past or else this isn't going to work out." And then she left to go find Sebastian.

"Sebastian? Sebastian? Where are you?" Rarity said as she ran around her house. She looked high and low, but he somehow vanished. "Sebastian?" Rarity called out one last time. As she was walking back to tell Twilight, she heard a small voice saying, "Leave me alone!" As Rarity heard that voice, she walked to where the source was, and then she found Sebastian. "There you are. You really need to have a thicker skin than that." she said. Sebastian looked up into her eyes and say, "How can I do a thing like that if I've never had a friend before? I've never had anyone to look up to, to talk to, to even smile with. I don't even think I remember what a smile looked like."
Sebastian gets up and walk back downstairs to leave the Boutique. "At least you tried. Have this poem that I wrote when I left." Rarity grabs the poem and reads it aloud.

The mind always speaks the heart

The mind speaks the heart, but can the heart speak the mind?
Ponies can never understand how ponies really feel
Some chose to speak the truth or not, but their words will always hurt
And we will never flee from the grip those words have on one pony

"Oh my Celestia..." Rarity said as she put the piece of parchment down. She sat down and stared at the poem and then flopped down on her back and stared at the ceiling lost in thought. "What am I going to do?"

"Let me out." Sebastian said.

"No. Twilight said. "I'm trying to apologize about what happened."

"And I'm saying, just forget about it already, because it doesn't matter. When your friend comes back down, tell her that I've written tons of poetry just like that one. Now let me leave."

Sebastian attempted to walk around Twilight, but she just kept getting in the way.

"Sebastian, wait!" Rarity yelled. She ran down the stairs and grabbed Sebastian's arm. "Where are you going?"

"I'm leaving. I just want to be alone." Sebastian said, shoving Twilight out of the way. "I never agreed to this anyway."

Sebastian opened the door and left the Boutique. Every pony is after me. Sebastian thought. I've never had a friend, and I don't think this Rarity pony is even helping. Sebastian turned to look at Carousel Boutique, and then the door opened. Rarity starts trotting to him, yelling, "Sebastian! Don't leave!" and Sebastian turns around and starts running away. "Leave me alone Rarity!" he yelled out. Without looking, he saw a quick blue blur followed by a rainbow.

"Hold it right there, mister!" said the blur as it was flying above Sebastian's head. The pegasus started to fly straight down on Sebastian and crashed into him. Rarity trots to where Sebastian crashed. "Gotcha!" said the cyan pegasus on top of Sebastian. Rarity walks over to the cyan pegasus. "Rainbow Dash, what are you doing here?" she asked the pegasus.

"I was sleeping on a cloud, and I heard a door slam, which woke me up and I saw you running away from Rarity. So I flew to catch up to you, but I heard Rarity calling for you and I thought I'd help her out."

"Thank you, Rainbow dear." Rarity said. Sebastian got up and looked at Rainbow Dash, "You look familiar." he said.

"Sebastian, I want to make an offer. Please consider this so that I can help you." she said, with her hooves in a pleading state.

Sebastian looked at Rainbow Dash, who was looking at Sebastian questionably, then just stared at him. Sebastian looked into her eyes and saw a small flash of light pass her eyes. Rainbow Dash blinked and she turned around. Sebastian then looked to the pleading pony in front of him. He closed his eyes and then said, "What is your offer?"

Rarity put her hoof on her shoulder saying, "I want to take you on a dinner date. I was thinking it might make you feel better."

"Fine," Sebastian said. "As long as I can be left alone soon enough."

"Don't worry. I think you'll lose that grumpy attitude once you've went through tonight. Now come into the Boutique, I'll make you a really nice suit free of charge, then I'll tell Twilight to go home so that you'll have some breathing room."

Sebastian looked at Rainbow Dash, then to Rarity, and closed his eyes, thinking about his next decision.

"I'll do it." he said, not sounding to pleased.

"Then it's settled! I'll make a reservation at a really nice place. Everything is on me!" Rarity said excitedly.

As Rarity started walking away, Sebastian started frowning at the entire decision. Rainbow Dash then said, "Why is it starting to get cold?" Sebastian started walking away in frustration. "How did those rain clouds get here!?" screamed Rainbow Dash, with a shocked expression on her face. She turned to Sebastian, how raised one of his hooves and stomped on the ground, and as he did this, a lightning bolt struck down on a tree, and then everything ceased to normal. Sebastian started to flail around screaming, "WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO HELP ME? IF YOU WANT TO HELP ME, JUST KILL ME!" And with that said, Sebastian walked back to the Boutique, passing Twilight saying, "Look, I'm sorry I said that thing about the school and stuff."

"Just forget about it already," Sebastian said, shoving Twilight with his shoulder on hers. He walked into the Boutique and slammed the door shut.

Twilight turned to Rainbow Dash and said to her, "Why is he acting like this?"

Rainbow Dash then looked to Twilight without saying a word to her.

"What's wrong Rainbow?" Twilight noticed that Rainbow Dash had a really sad look on her face.

"Coverline. That's his name. Not Sebastian."

Twilight walked closer to Rainbow Dash. "You know him?" she asked.

"Yes, Twilight. I know who he is."

"What do you know about him? Did Rarity tell you what happened in his life or something?"

"No, that's not it Twilight." Rainbow Dash said.

"Well, spit it out Rainbow Dash!"

Rainbow Dash lifted her head to look straight into Twilight's eyes and said, "I went to school with him"

The Baltimare Story - Chapter 3

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Epilogue

A few months later

When Rarity was out of the hospital, Coverline then lived with Rarity ever since. Rainbow Dash became his friend after telling him her story of how she knew him. Coverline then got to meet Applejack and Fluttershy and became their friends.

Twilight came over to Coverline one day and asked if he'd like to meet her other friends. The first was Fluttershy, who was a really nice, but shy pony. Coverline became a great friend with her. He even helped take care of a few animals, even though he did not have a single bit of knowledge about them. He even gave her a piece of poetry involving animals. When she read it, she said that it was a really nice poem and said that she'd keep it as a sign for her new friend.

He then met Applejack, who was an honest pony with nothing to hide. She worked at the apple orchard in Ponyville. Coverline learned so much about the Apple Family and their nature. He asked to help around her barn and she accepted. After a nice day's worth of hard labor, Coverline handed her a slip of his own poetry as well. When Applejack read it, she thought it was a really great poem and that she'd show it to her family. "Ah hope they take a nice likin' to ya!" she said, with a "Yeehaw!" in her voice.

He had adventures with them ever since. Coverline one night asked Rarity to have a bonfire with her friends in the Everfree Forest. She then asked, and he said, "I want to get rid of my past." And at the night of the bonfire, Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie all showed up. Coverline was standing in front of a pile of paper surrounded by rocks. When every pony took a seat, he then took out a matchbox that he somehow acquired.

"What are you going to do with that?" Twilight asked.

"I'm going to get rid of my past. I'm burning my old poetry and starting a new life. With friends that will stick by with me. And for once," he threw the matchstick at the pile of paper and continued. "I've been happy ever since I've met you guys."

As the ponies sung songs in the fire's light
Coverline never had to face his blight
With his friends to stand by his side
He had nothing to fear from and never to hide

THE END

Author's Note

I would love to thank my first follower, fluttershysone, by helping me edit a bit in the story and I'd like to give a shout out to a guy I met online. Jordan Wilcox. He helped me with ideas that were added into the story in between chapters 2 and 3. I wouldn't have done this if it weren't for the two of you guys. Thanks so much. And if you found problems in the story, please tell me in the comments and I'll get to work on them when I get the chance.