Feather Paw's Destiny

When I moved from Manehatten I moved to a queit town called Ponyville. Ponyville was a quiet, small town in Equestria that seemed really nice, I mean we'll be living in a house right down the street from the train station. Before I came to ponyville, we lived on a quiet street in Cloudsdale. When we came to Ponyville.... It just wasn't the same. First it was kinda overwhelming knowing that I had to start over in a whole new school with no friends and absolute no idea who were the bullies, and it's not just that but the thought of actually being in the classroom and sitting there with a bare flank for every pony to laugh at was also overwhelming. The school that me and Shining Sword will be attending starts in a week and don't get me wrong I really am looking forward to it but I don't know where the school is or how I am supposed to get there, I barley know my home address for ponysake and now I'm supposed to walk to school everyday?  My dad was supposed to walk me to school today but he said him and mom are trying to unpack the house and look for new jobs. I guess they have a lot on their plate right now but I'll do my part and make sure everything is organized by making a checklist. I tried helping but they told me to unpack my room, so I went upstairs and I started unpacking and I did have a lot of unpacking to do.

When I went into my new room I looked at all the old stuff in all the boxes and took them out one by one. Just the thought of having to unpack all these boxes made my stomach turn.

About an hour later my parents called me down for dinner. I was so hungry I could eat our dog Charley! After dinner ended it was time for dessert. We had apple pie from the bakery around the corner, it was delicious. When dessert ended my parents told me to go to bed. By the time I got in bed it was already 9:00pm.

       Today school starts and and I am so excited, I got up at 6:30am and made my bed, ate breakfast, brushed my teeth, and then worked on my flying.

"Hey mom?!" I yelled. "Can you tell me where I am going and how to get to school?"

"You're dad is going to walk you to school" she replied

"But I thought you said he couldn't."

"That was before we found out your school isn't very far from here" Mom yelled while coming downstairs.

"Oh, okay. Bye mom!"

"Ready to go?" My father asked.

"Yup" I replied excitingly! "Come on Shining!"

And with that we walked out the door and on to the street. We walked for about 5 minutes before we came to a dead end with a big red building that looked like a barn but when we walked inside it was a classroom with a teachers desk and all these other desks aligned in rows... Kinda looks like my old school. When the teacher came in, she introduced herself as Ms.Cheerlie. She was a magenta pink pony with pink hair and a cutie mark of flowers with smiles on them, when we sat down I was in the middle of a yellow earth pony with red hair and another one to my right who was silver and her cutie mark was a silver spoon. I guess I may have heard the yellow earth pony talking to her friends which appears to be a orange Pegasus and a white-coated unicorn and none of them had their cutie marks! But I heard them talking,they were saying

"See the new blank flank?" Asked the earth pony

"Yeah, but what's her name? Does she know about Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara?" The Orange pony asked.

"I dont know, maybe. But what if she doesn't?" The orange one asked.

"Then we'll need to warn her about them,but how can we approach her? She seems so shy." The unicorn asked.

"Hmm..." The earth pony said but was interrupted by the teacher saying it was time for lunch!

When I got outside I sat down on a school bench and opened up my favorite book called "Tales from the Hayloft" it's all these different and olden pony tales from long ago, it's basically a book with all these different ghost story's in one!"

That's when the two fillies that were next to me came over to me, the one with the silver mane and the one wearing a tiara.

"Hey Silver Spoon! Look at the new BLANK FLANK!!"

"BLANK FLANK! BLANK FLANK!" They scream at me. I was so embarrassed. I completely froze! I didn't know what to do! But that's also when those other three fillies came over. The ones without their cutie marks and told them to shoo and stop making fun of me.

After that they introduced themselves.

" I am Sweetie Belle, this is Scootaloo and Applebloom, pointing to the two other fillies next to her.

"Thanks for standing up for me, my name is Feather Paw, I'm new here."

" Yeah we can tell, but don't worry just don't talk to those other two fillies that just approached you." Scootaloo said. "If you haven't noticed by all their teasing they're kinda mean, they do it all the time to us!" Scootaloo added.

"Hey maybe since youre new to Ponyville and all we could give you a tour! Maybe after school if you're free today or tomorrow we could meet up at the Cutie Mark Crusader treehouse at Sweet Apple Acres and we'll show you around!" Said Sweetie Belle. The two other fillies nodded in agreement.

After lunch ended we went back inside and unpacked more school supplies from our backpacks and met all the other fillies in our class. When the last bell finally rang and everypony ran out of school we all met up at the school courtyard and decided our plan: first we would go to my house and tell my parents what we were doing and then we we would go to Sweet Apple Acres and go to the treehouse then they would give me a tour of Ponyville.

When we got to my house I went inside and told my mom and dad about my new friends

"Mom! Dad! I'm home!"I yelled

"Hi Feather Paw" mom said "Who are your new friends?" She asked

"Oh this is Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Applebloom, if it's okay with you and dad they were going to show me a tour of Ponyville!" I said eagerly "And look! Their blank flanks too!"

"Glad to see you made some friends.Be home before seven." They said

"Thanks mom, thanks dad!" I screamed while running out the door with my new friends.

"To the Crusader treehouse!" announced Sweetie Belle, half way out the door.

"Bye mom!"

As we were coming up to Sweet Apple Acres Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon cornered us and backed us in to a tree, they started bragging about how good their cutie marks are and how we don't have our yet and we'll probably be stuck with the worst ones in Equestria. At that point I was so angry at them I felt like I was going to burst into tears so I shoved past them and ran away crying with tears in my eyes. I know I don't have my cutie mark just yet but that doesn't mean they get to rub it in... after a while of running I realize they were following me, chasing me, yelling out my name and calling me a blank flank and then I realized the crusaders were chasing them telling them to stop, I didn't know how much more of this I could take so naturally I did the only thing that came to mind... I stopped my self from running and flew away. I flew up to the highest branch in a tree I could find. When they couldn't find me they walked away, but when my friends couldn't find me they ran up to an orange earth pony with golden hair plowing the fields.

"Hey Applejack, have you seen a filly with no cutie mark run past here?" Applebloom asked

My footing was beginning to slip and I didn't want them to know I was in the tree, just in case those two other fillies were lurking somewhere close by.

"Sorry sugar cube, can't say that I have I've been working in the fields all------" suddenly being cut of by me screaming because I was falling out of the tree.

I didnt have time to stop myself. As I fell I landed with a really hard THUD.

"Oww" I said still bamboozled from my fall. Then all four ponies ran over to see how I was, but who knows, I mean, there could've been sixteen of them. As Applejack helped me to my hooves I fell down just as quickly as I got up. It was because of the bruises on my body I couldn't get up they were making my body really sore.

"You fillies stay here I'm going to go get the first aid kit" Applejack ordered

"Ow... you have a really bad cut on your left ear Feather Paw" Scootaloo said

When Applejack came back she put an ice pack on my hoof, and some ointment on my ear.

"Thanks Applejack" I said

AppleJack helped me up and told me to take it easy for a while, so I did as I was told. We walked to the treehouse and they called a meeting. I went over but they said it was for Crusaders only. After a couple of minutes went by they said...

"Good news! If you'd like we have an open spot for another crusader." They happily announced

"Sure but what do you even do in the crusader club?" I asked quite intrigued

"Well we help ponies like ourselves find their special talent and help them get their cutie marks!" Scootaloo answered

"Awesome, I would love too!"

"I have an idea!" Applebloom said " We should write a letter to Babs Seed saying we have a new crusader!!"

"Yeah totally!" Sweetie Belle agreed

"Wait?" I said " Babs Seed as in BABS SEED?! As in the pony in Manehatten?!"

"Uh yeah, how'd you know?" Applebloom asked

"She's been my BFF since diapers"

"No way! That's my cousin!" Said Applebloom

"Really?!" I asked

"Yes, come on let's write her a letter!" Applebloom said again

As we got out a peice of parchment paper and a quill they said maybe I should write it and then all of us will sign it! I said that I'll gladly write if they want me to but I didn't know what to write so Sweetie Belle said maybe instead of a letter we should send a care package from us to her with pictures of us and her and also some cards from us saying we miss her and want to see her!

So when everyone agreed it was going to be a care package we got to work we got the box and took pictures of ourselves and put them in and then after that we all made her a card saying we miss her and we need to get together soon. When we finally made everything and put it into the box we walked to the postal service and sent it.

"Come on, lets go back to the Crusader treehouse, and uh, sorry about Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. That was quite a way to be introduced to somepony who's new here. Anyway come on." Scootaloo said.

"Alright"

When we got back to the treehouse they said they needed to preform a ceremony for me, so I would be an official member of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.

When the ceremony ended they told me I was an official member of the Cutie Mark Crusaders and that tomorrow we will start trying to find our cutie marks.

"Awesome! Where will we meet?" I asked

"Oh right, um, meet everyday after school in the courtyard and we'll take it from there." Scootaloo said

"Yeah but there's only one problem with that Scoot" Appleboom replied "What about Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon?"

"Hmm... I got it" Sweetie Belle said "we can wear hats!"

"Well if thats what will keep them away then sure!" I replied "Thanks guys, that was fun! I really do appreciate all you did for me today."

"Oh no!" Scootaloo

"What is it Scoot?" I replied in shock

"We still need to give you the tour!"

"That's right" Appleboom said "come on!"