When Will You Come Home?
Derpy was an average pony. Well, almost average. She was born with her eyes in two different directions making it impossible to see straight. In her younger years, this didn’t bother her. Her parents were supportive and helpful, but they hid a part of them from Derpy. Their hidden sides were despair-filled ponies. They knew that she could never have a normal life and they couldn’t stop it.
Derpy, as a toddler was happy. She had friends that never left her side. She was always a bit awkward but her friends helped her out when reassuring was needed. However, she became more and more self-concerned over the years. She needed her friends more and more as she became aware of her eyes. But her friends also grew distant as they thought Derpy could never be a functioning pony. She felt like a burden to them.
When school started, Derpy was sure she could make new friends, she would never give up. This was a true virtue of Derpy. Ambition. She may have been awkward but she sure wasn’t about to let herself down. She knew she could make friends with somepony.
Her parents were now as nervous as ever. Derpy’s mother’s nervousness showed easily. She was never a tough pony. She was a mere tailor by the name of Chanel. On the other hoof, her father was one of Princess Luna’s royal guards, rendering him able to hide emotions.
Derpy’s appearance didn’t add good things to her lack of normal eyes. Her coat was grey and her mane was a simple, average blonde. She looked as the most average filly there was, but, because of her eyes, she seemed ….stupid.
The other fillies and colts wanted nothing to do with her. They didn’t even give her a chance on her first day! Derpy was unimpressed with the welcoming she got, to say the least. Everypony ignored her, she couldn’t feel more irrelevant. She faked a smile throughout the day , maybe, just maybe somepony will come up to her and say “Do you want to be friends?”
Her day passed quickly and she soon came home to her mother and father. They asked her the infamous question:
“How was school today?” Derpy knew she couldn’t just tell the truth and said:
“It was fine.” But you don’t need to be a genius to know it was horrible.
She ran up to her room and quickly rushed into bed.
“What have I done wrong? Do I not deserve friends? I’ll do better! I’ll have friends!” she said, through sobs muffled by her pillow.
The next day found Derpy excited to go to school to possibly make new friends. Even though she found the lessons interesting, Derpy’s main goal was to make friends.
Back at home, her parents were talking.
“Something is wrong, you know?” said Derpy’s father, Charles.
“What?”
“It’s Derpy. She isn’t making any friends at school and she hasn’t had any good friends in the last couple of years? What if, when she grows up she will be a depressed loner? I know it’s early to make possibly false assumptions, but then again, I worry about her. Do I worry too much?”
“Well, honey we just have to wait and see. However, we could give her more of the attention she deserves. I think we should go out with her somewhere this weekend. Maybe she’ll like it. Maybe she’ll meet somepony new.”
“You’re right. Maybe we should go to a park somewhere, give her some fresh air. Sunday sounds good.”
“Sunday it is.”
Derpy wasn’t having much luck at school. First, she tried to hang out with a couple of weird looking fillies, but their goo-green mane and tails, red, bloodshot eyes and jet black coat made Derpy turn away. “They can play together, they sure don’t need anypony else.” she thought. Derpy tried hanging out with other ponies too, but either they already had a friend group or they just didn’t like her. Or both.
When she got home from school the usual question and just as she was about to take the soon-to-be run upstairs, her father called her.
“Derpy, we’ll be going to a new park this Sunday. You can get some fresh air and even make a friend or two” A switch in Derpy’s head clicked.”YES! If we go the park I can join in a game of hoofball or something else and maybe then they’ll want to talk to me!” she thought.
“I accept your decision.” She said in the most non-chalant manner, and soon, she found herself upstairs.
The rest of Derpy’s week didn’t differ much than the usual. However, as Friday rolled around she was more than happy to go to the park. The majority of her weekend consisted of her waiting for Sunday to roll around. Such fun. But, when the holy day of Sunday finally came, Derpy was up at 6 o’clock and in no more than 15 minutes was she ready to leave.
“Derpy, no one will be in the park at this hour. On a Sunday. Go back to sleep.” Her mother told her. Derpy was obedient and went back to her room only to wait for 4 more hours, waiting to leave the house.
After many minutes of begging to her parents to go already, and after they, annoyed, accepted, Derpy was finally in the park and she was about to have so many new friends and she’ll have so much time and!!!......no one came near her. Some parents sheltered their young fillies from Derpy, thinking that she has a disease that is infectious. No matter how hard Derpy tried, she just couldn’t make friends, she was so sad, so ready to give up. Her parents noticed how devastated she looked and ran towards her.
Derpy was crying. Why did nopony like her? Why? WHY? The same question ran through her head breaking off and sticking to her. She felt the seconds pass in agony she could feel minutes pass like centuries she could feel so broken inside, like she lost something. Derpy’s heart felt like it had broken into two pieces. But then, the cold rush of water that trickles down your spine named reality hit her. What was she feeling? What was happening?
Just as she felt like she could collapse at any moment, a tiny hoof touched her. It wasn’t one of a mare or stallion, but of a filly.
“A-are you okay?” Derpy looked up at the mysterious filly. The sun shone so bright she was blinded for a moment. Who was this filly?
Author's Note
I appreciate any constructive critisicsm
The Mysterious Filly
Why, that filly was Amethyst Star! Derpy could recognize her from school. Neither one of them approached each other, they were both equally shy. However, this one time, Amethyst forgot her shyness and tan up to Derpy to help her.
“H-Hi!” Derpy said, stuttering.
“Hi! So, umm, are you fine?”
“Uh… yeah!” Amethyst helped Derpy off the ground. “So, um, do you like, wanna play?”
“Sure!” Amethyst gave her a smile. She was always the cheerful kinds. Like that one pony that comes up to you and helps you out, but also would hesitate approachingyou any other time because of her shyness.
They played all day and had loads of fun. Derpy finally was happy. She knew Amethyst wouldn’t leave her, unlike her past “friends”.
At school, they were inseperable. At first, Amethyst was a little shy and hesitant, but one day, in the playground, Derpy did something Amethyst would never forget:
It was a simple Thursday. Derpy and Amethyst were at the playground. They were playing peacefully, not disturbing anyone else, really. But then, a couple of older students came by the two. Their eyes were giving them a mean look at first, then the tallest one, a pink pegasus with a blue mane, gave a look, a strange look, to another Pegasus. This Pegasus was white and het a yellow mane, but the sun shone its rays upon it, making it golden; she understood “the look” and used her wings to propel some sand from the sandbox Amethyst and Derpy were playing in, into their faces. Quite the cliché, really. But it wasn’t only sand. The pegasus’ wings flapped hard and proppled a bunch of tiny rocks as well. Derpy was fortunate enough to see the attack coming and covered her eyes with her hooves. However, Amethyst wasn’t lucky enough, she didn’t cover her eyes, but rather opened them wide open, not knowing what to expect. Tiny rocks and sand flew at a high speed and cut through the air, using Amethyst’s eyes as a coushin, and as the color faded a bit from her eyes, something even more unfortunate happened.
The white Pegasus had been hovering at about 4 feet off the ground, but suddenly came down with a loud *THUMP* and accompanied by many more rocks and sand. Derpy knew what she had to do. Mere seconds before the impact with the ground, derpy flew close to her friend’s eyes, shielding them. The rocks hit her body, but caused no more than some scratches.
Derpy turned her gaze to her friend, who was in shock and pain from the impact, observing her wounds. The color in her eyes faded a shade, but nothing more than that. Quickly, she turned to the older ponies.
“Why d’you have to do that? Did we bug you? Were we in your way? DID YOU REALLY NEED TO DO THAT?! HUH?! You kno’ what?! You are just a bunch of meanie-heads!”
“…Sorry”
Just then, a teacher came to see what discord was between the two groups.
“What has happened?!” The teacher turned to Amethyst, who was now crying. “Get her to the nurse’s office NOW” Then, a couple of taller stallions escorted her to the nurse’s office. “And you two, just so you know, if you didn’t cause any damage you’re getting detention, if you caused temporary damage you’ll get a two-day suspension, and if you caused permanent eye damage that is incurable, you are OUT of this school!” “Also, Derpy, you were very brave to stand up for your friend and protect her.”
The two fillies now completely trusted each other and protected each other. They were truly best friends.
As the years gone by, many they both achieved many accomplishments, some of which were getting their cutie marks.
The first to get her cutie mark was Amethyst, and it consisted of three gems, the meaning of it is Amethyst’s ability to turn regular stones into gems.
The day she got her cutie mark was a boring day. Like, very boring day. SO boring Derpy decided to see how many pencils she could stack on a toad. That is when Amethyst levitated a random rock to examine it, hoping, in one way or another, that the rock had entertainment value. Just as she was levitating it, she felt something strange happening….to the rock. Amethyst did something she never did before, using two spells at once. One spell was a levitating spell, to (of course) levitate the stone, while the other spell was…she didn’t know what spell it was, she had no idea what spell it was, no really. Whatever spell it was, it was a strange one for sure. One that made you feel like you were surrounded by the unknown force of raw magic, and that feeling meant only one thing. The magic that corresponds to your cutie mark always feels different than other magic that is because it IS different magic. It’s a form of magic that not even the greatest alicorns cam feel outside of their cutie mark magic. It’s a personal magic, a magic crafted in the souls of ponies long before they discover it, a magic that is unchiseled until the very day they find their destiny. And Amethyst was feeling that magic. She knew what it had to be, but she didn’t tell Derpy about it, they were both pretty quiet most of the time. And , before she knew it, A mark appeared on her flank just as soon as the rock turned into an amethyst.
“I did it, Derpy.”
“Did what?” Derpy turned around, causing her pencil-jenga-on-top-of-a-toad collapsed. “Amethyst, I didn’t see any gemstones ‘round here, so why are you holding one?”
“IT’S MY SPECIAL TALENT!!!!!!” She said (loudly really) as she jumped around and Derpy watched in awe.
“That’s gre-OH HORSEAPPL---“Just as Derpy was congratulating her friend on her biggest achievement yet, she tripped on some rocks nearby and fell on top of the toad used as a Jenga support and sent both of them into the deep water. Derpy then opened her eyes wide as she saw something glowing. In front of her were glowing bubbles and they seemingly copied themselves onto her flank as well, “Huh?”
