Life is Unfair

It hurts to think back to what happened next. I can't help but think it was our fault. They had never been in danger when we weren't there. I keep thinking it was our fault for interrupting. I don't feel strong enough to write this down without messing up the ink with my tears, but I can do this. It wasn't pretty, really, but it must have been painful to her. Anyway,

I heard the ground crack and crumble beneath my mother's back hooves. She let out a shrill

"EEK!"

before tumbling off the edge of the cliff. Luckily, she was close to the edge and she had swiveled her body round so that she was facing the dangerous waves that lay so many feet below. This made it so when I reached out, I could just reach her delicately soft long tail with my mouth. She was surprisingly light for her age. She was a slim, even young mare. But, since I am only a young filly, to me she felt like she weighed 10 tons and had 150 kg dumbbells strapped to he head and mane.

Slowly, I started slipping off the edge too. Me holding onto my mother's tail in my mouth was pulling my front teeth out, but luckily they didn't come out. I released my mother's tail for a split second and then caught it again with both my hooves. I speedily wrapped my mother's tail around my hooves and trod on the end to keep it secure; because I knew where I was going to end up if I didn't call for

"DAD!"

My father's ears swiftly pricked up and he snapped his head around, finding an orange unicorn filly grasping her mothers tail while skidding off the edge of a cliff. At that point my father came running at what seemed like 70 mph. But alas, before he made it to me, my Mother's tail slipped from my hooves and I dropped her. My dad quickly shoved me out of the way and dove onto the ground next to the edge of the cliff in just enough time to grab my Mother's tail again with his hooves. But now he had more weight on him and he was slipping off the edge as well.

I decided this would be the perfect time for my first spell casting. But I pushed myself way too far for my very first spell. You see, when foals first use their magic, the gem beneath their horn heats up A LOT and it hurts, it burns the area around it ready for future casting. It hurt when I tried, too. Anyway, even though a levitation is the first spell that is recommended to learn first and test out, and I used the levitation spell, I was carrying way too much mass for my first ever spell.

So I used a levitation spell to try and lift them both back up. I heaved as hard as I could. My parents moved closer to us by half an inch. I tried again. I couldn't pull them any further than I already had, which was a complete bummer.

My sister blaze was just sitting there, paralyzed by the circumstances that were happening at that moment. I could tell from her eyes that she wanted to dart in there and use her astonishing magic to save her parents. Poor her. She just couldn't move; her body was so stiff. For me, it would've been torture. I bet it was.

Suddenly, my Mother's facial expression changed from fear to that of pride and a slight bit of sadness thrown in there as well. She used her new-found stomach muscle strength to pull her upper body towards her husband's face and kissed him.

"Wrench Hoof, sweetheart, please do one last thing for me and the kids." my Mother said, tears streaming down her face and dropping down to join the rest of the water down in the ocean.
"Of course, Stitcharoo. But whatever can I do to help you all now?" my father replied, trying not to cry, too.

Mother then flopped back down to hanging with her hooves pointing down to the sharp rocks and crashing waves beneath. Her mane dangling down, flowing in the wind.

"Let go."