Feather Paw's Destiny

We step on to the cold hard concrete of our driveway. Wow I guess I might need to let the other crusaders in on what I'm doing. I'll have to leave them a note I think to myself.

"Okay, here's the plan I need to leave a note on the crusaders door saying that I won't be here for a while. I am giving my mom and dad space to work stuff out. So can I have a piece of parchment and a quill?"

He hand me a piece a parchment and a quill. I walk up to the door, and tape it to the door and began to write. What should I say? I thought to myself, maybe something like... Hey guys, It’s me Feather Paw. I know that we only met a while ago but I am leaving Ponyville. That gave me a brilliant idea. Okay, only have one shot at this so I have to get it right I repeat in my head over and over again.

Dear CMC,

I am so glad you were my first friends in Ponyville and thank you for everything, the tour, the time together but I'm leaving Ponyville for a while. You could say it's more of a temporary move for now. Tomorrow you could try knocking on my door but I won't be there. It will only be my parents, I have no idea where I am going but it won't be here. Also I do Pinkie Pie Promise that I will come back. Maybe in a couple of years, cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye. See you guys in a couple of years.

Love, Feather Paw.

As I left the note hanging on the door by a piece of tape I looked back at it and prayed they wouldn't go on one of their crazy adventures to find me and Shining Sword. "Come on" I say nudging him along. We walk and walk until we got to the train station, I tell him to go and sit on the bench and wait for me until I get our tickets. When I walk up to the machine, I put in four bits for two tickets and right on time too because when I walk back to the bench Shining mention that the train was coming.

"Come on!" He says pushing me along.

"Alright Alright. But Shining if anypony asks I am fourteen not twelve." I say looking at him sharply "Got it?"

"Okay..."

I look at him before we got on the train, as we hand the pony our tickets he stopped us.

"Oh, Hello sir" I said trying again to get on the train  "Where's the cheapest ticket that also happens to be a long way from Ponyville?"

"That would be Manehattan" He tells me looking at me suspiciously "Say, aren't you a little too young to go riding around on a train all around Equestria at three in the morning?"

"Nah, I'm fourteen... my parents got divorced and I am going to visit my father in Manehattan, my mother lives in Ponyville" wow that was a really cheesy cover story I think to myself.

"Then I would like to get permission from this mother of yours." He says looking at his watch.

What do to... What to do! I can't tell him that my mom is sleeping or that my whole story was a lie. Then he definitely won't let me on the train. That's when I came up with a brilliant idea, but before I could even announce the first word I heard somepony's voice. It’ss raspy and somewhat mare-like voice. When I look up it’s none other than Vinyl Scratch.

"Hey, these guys are my kids. They were just getting me tickets"

I guess he’s surprise by the resemblance between Vinyl and I because he looked astonish. He let us on without a fight. When we get on, we all sat down and start talking.

"So why are you guys getting on a train at three in the morning?" she ask.

"Family reasons, you know horrible dad. My mom married him right before we moved from Cloudsdale, but he was only nice for about two seconds and since then he been rude but I had never had dad before this and I don’t think I want another dad."

"Oh, jeez sorry to hear that kido."

Sympathy isn't what I need. I need a home, money, a family, food to feed Shining and I. I need a lot more than sympathy.

"It's not your fault. I'm tired so I'm going to get some sleep" I tell her.

That night instead of nightmares I had pleasant dreams, dreams of being back home in Cloudsdale. Getting reunited with Babs Seed and catching up with her while she was gone. I had another dream of coming home to mom and another stallion, they looked happy. And I was back home with mom and that other stallion. My last dream was horrible. It was Shining Sword, and I in school. We were in class learning but then the my alarm clock went off in the middle of class. My alarm clock. Everypony was pointing and laughing but the teacher was not amuse.

I wake up, my heart still racing from my dream and hooves shaking uncontrollably. practically falling out of my seat being jostled around the train.

Everything is chaos when I wake up. The train was going at an uncontrollable speed and everypony around me was screaming in fear. The train lost control! Now we are going even faster than we were before and Shining is nowhere to be found. I’m looking around trying to navigate between the screaming ponies, I look out the window and realized that the train was on the brink of going off the tracks. I look around the train until the train sound like it hit a bump and then everything went black.

I wake up with my vision being blurry "Shining!" A million thoughts are racing in my head, where would he be? Would we get off the train alive.

I slip and slid around the train bumping into everyone running towards the door. I didn't know where to find him but if I’m going to get out alive and possibly find him and hope he already gets out I would have to go now. But before I could get to the door, the train went off the tracks and everything went black.