Chapters My name is Pinkamena Diane Pie. I live on a rock farm with my two sisters and my parents. It is a long and boring life on the farm. All we do is push rocks out of place and back into place. I am only a little filly right now, and my sisters are only a little bit older than me. I found a rock and hit it with my hammer. It broke and shattered into a bunch of pieces. I found a few tiny gems, and placed them in my bag. Then I walked over to Limestone.
"Sis, I found something." I said. She pushed her mane out of her face and looked at me with her dull lime-green eyes.
"What is it Pinkamena?"
I pulled out the tiny peices of gem and showed them to her. She had to squint her eyes and look closely at them. Then she got a frown on her face an looked blankly at me.
"Really? Are you serious Pinkamena? That is the worst find that i've seen all day." Then she slapped the pieces out of my hoof and trotted away. I stared at the pieces on the ground and felt tears well up in my eyes. My sisters never really appreciated what little things that I found in the rocks. I felt that no pony really cares for me.
After we all finished our chores, Limestone, Igneous and I walked into the house. We greeted Mother and Father and sat down at our places at the table. Mother walked into the kitchen and set down plates in front of us. I looked at what we were eating today. It was some beans and a small amount of hay from the village. We didn't really have much food to go around, so we all had to ration it. Mother and Father sat down and we all began to eat. After dinner, Igneous went to help Mother with the dishes, Limestone went with Father to help him outside, and I went up to my room, all alone. This usually happens to me. Where everyone forgets about me and I end up all alone. I'm always alone.
The next day, I went into the den. My Father was in there, reading the newspaper and smoking tobacco. I walked in and waited quietly until he noticed me.
"Ah, Pinkamena. I want you to go start working in the fields with Igneous. I'll call you in when you finish." He told me. I looked up from the floor at him through dull light blue eyes.
"Yes Father." I said blankly. As I walked out the door, I saw something that caught my eye. It looked like a small peice of paper.
I looked around to make sure nopony was watching me, then walked over to the paper and picked it up. I looked at the faded writing on the paper and tried to read it as best as I could.
"You are never alone, so don't think you are. " What the hay did that mean? I didn't know, but I thought the words were inspiring, so I put the paper inside of my saddlebag. I picked up my hammer and pickaxe from besides the door, then got to work smashing rocks and collecting whatever gems I could find. The smallest gems I stuck inside of my bag to keep, since nopony would care about them anyway. The bigger gems I found were placed inside of the wooden crate near the door for things like selling them. I looked over at Igneous, who was busy trying to smash one of the biggest rocks. After a final swing downwards, she managed to split the rock in two.
'Boy, she sure is strong for a mare.' I thought in awe. I decided to practice swinging down like that. At first I tried it on small rocks, scince than was all I could do at this age. The rocks broke easily. Well, of course they would, they were small. I found a couple small gems. I stuck them in my bag. Then I moved onto medium-sized rocks. After 4 or 5 swings, the rock managed to gain a small crack.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" I yelled in frustration. I threw down the pickaxe on the rock as hard as I could. The sharp point of the pick hit the rock, and the rock split in two. It revealed a large gem in the middle. My eyes lit up at the amazement of it.'
"OH MY GOSH!!" I screamed. "MA! PA! LIMESTONE! IGNEOUS! COME LOOK!" My family came running out to meet me; well, my find.
"Woah! Pinkamena, did you find this?" Igneous gasped.
"It's so big..." Limestone stuttered.
"Pinkamena, was this your find?" Pa asked gruffly.
"Yes Father." I said proudly. I felt so happy. I finally made my family happy, or, that's at least what I thought. Pa just looked at the gem, took my pickaxe off the ground, and raised it above his head. My pupils dialated as I realized what he was doing.
"NO PA NO!!!" I screamed. I lunged at him, but it was too late. The pickaxe came down on my gem and shattered it. I fell on my stomach and sat there. I looked at my gem, broken into a million shards on the ground. I felt my eyes well up and tears fall down my cheeks.
"Anything she finds; valuable or not, destroy it." Father said blankly. As I sat there, the rest of my family walked off to do chores of their own. I stared at the shards of gem on the ground, unable to do anything. Anything but cry.
I opened my eyes and sat up in bed. Looking out the window I saw that it was still dark outside. I got out of bed and quietly tip-toed downstairs. As I looked into the doorway of the kitchen, my long dark-pink mane fell onto my left eye. Peeking into the kitchen, I saw Father in the fridge, the light showing him drinking some more of his beer.
'This might be bad for me when it reaches morning. ' I thought. Whenever Father drinks, he always throws the glass bottles at me. The glass breaking over my body and causing me to bleed. He's done this to me ever since I was a little filly. Even now, as an teenager, he still throws bottles at me whenever I so much as speak. Father always seems to be in an drunken rage lately. At first when I was littler not so much. But now that I'm on my way to becoming a young mare, it has become more so. Limestone and Igneous are now the favorites of the family. I'm just the disappointment. Whenever Father sees me, he goes to harm me in some way. Whenever Mother saw me, she just looked away like she didn't even know that I was there. I felt like an outcast. Like the ugly duckling in a family of swans. I snuck back upstairs and crawled back into bed. I faced the wall but didn't fall back asleep. I laid there facing the wall for hours, until I felt the warm little rays of sunlight on the bottom of my hooves. I looked out the window and saw that it was still pretty early, so no pony would be up yet. I got back up and snuck back downstairs. I looked back into the kitchen and saw that Father was not there anymore. I snuck past and walked up to the front door. I opened it up and went outside. I quietly closed the door behind me and started trotting towards the farm. I had brought my saddlebag with me and my hammer. I quickly stared smashing rocks with my hammer and placing the gem pieces into my bag.
" Lets see who's the early pony now Igneous and Limestone." I murmured. I started to move towards the next pile of rocks, when I heard a deep rumbling noise. I looked up into the the sky expecting to see something there that could've been causing the rumbling noise, but saw nothing. Then I saw a pony falling down out of the sky, a rainbow trailing behind her, or, him. No, It looked like a her. She was light blue and had a rainbow mane and tail. It looked like her wings were broken and she could not fly. I watched helplessly as she fell. I probably would have helped her, but she was too far away and I was just a useless Earth pony. I turned and continued to smash the rocks. As the sun crept up even further, I had practically cleared away the whole yard. Yes, I may have been covered in dust, and pieces of rock in my mane, and my hooves ached like hell, but I had actually felt like I accomplished something. I turned and started walking back towards the barn, just to see Igneous and Limestone come out, with their pickaxes and hammers in hoof.
"You two can have the rest of the field, or what's left of it." I said calmly as they passed. I walked into the house and went into the kitchen. Mother was in there. She was just setting out plates for breakfast.
"Hi Ma." I said, though I doubt she'd payed attention to me anyway. But I got a surprise this time. Ma turned around and looked at me, then looking around to make sure no pony else was around, she handed me a small slice of cake.
"Pinkamena! You're in big trouble young lady!!" He slurred. I just sighed and walked over to him.
"You're grounded!! Go to your room!" He shouted at me. Then he walked out and went to the den. Ma put a hoof on my shoulder, and I turned around. She handed me a note. I tucked it into my bag and trotted upstairs, where I then read it. "Meet me in the yard tonight okay? I have something to discuss with you" After I read it, I stuck it into my drawer and laid on my bed, taking a good long nap.
When I woke up later that night, I saw a plate on my dresser. It had an even bigger portion of hay than i was used to, and some fruits and vegetables!! I smiled happily and ate it all up. Then, creeping downstairs, I quietly walked outside and to the far end of the field where Momma was waiting.
I sat up on my bed, unable to sleep. The words Ma had told me yesterday had made the fur on my neck stand up.
It was the middle of the night. I had let Ma stay in my room, she was fast asleep in my bed. I had my head lowered, mane falling over half of my face. Sneaking past Marble and Limestone's rooms, I went down to the living room. I peeked in the kitchen, no pony was there. The fridge was open, and I squinted from it's light shining through the pitch black of the house. I snuck over to the den. There was Pa, with a bottle of beer in his hoof. He was drunk of course, but fast asleep. I trotted to the kitchen, grabbing an empty beer bottle. Then, walking back to the den, I sat in the chair across from Pa. It made a creak as I sat down, which in turn, woke Pa up a little bit.talk ."
Author's Note
Heyyyy! Sorry for all the lateness! Wait, why am I even bothering to write this? No one would care or read it anyways XD Okay, continue your story!
