Feather Paw's Destiny

I wake up and find everything’s fuzzy. I’m lying on the window on the flip over train. I quickly realize Shining is still missing, I get up. As I get up there is a throbbing pain in my right wing but I ignore "Shining Sword?" There are ambulances and guard carriages all around the train. I need to find Shining. I look for a long time, I shout out his name as I wander around, but there was no sign of Shining Sword.

At that point I'm so angry and sad that I grab the random object I could find and chuck it at the window. The window makes a shattering sound and there was a hole big enough for me to fit through, I quickly take my chance and jump through, landing hard on my hoof and getting a few scrapes I realize, I must clean myself if so it doesn't look like I was here.

I ran to the nearest public bathroom and went to the sink, took a paper towel, and wiped off my face and clean my wounds. I didn't do a very good job but it looked better than before. I walk around not knowing where I am but I just keep walking. I walk until I think I was in a forest, but it definitely wasn't the Everfree. It's also getting dark so I settle under a tree for the night.

I wake up to being nuzzle, I open my eyes, and to find a deer. She wrap me in her warmth and settle down around me, there were also other animals too, like bees, birds, skunks, possums, bunnies, and other animals. The skunk even give me some berries. I eat the berries and stand up saying thank you to all of them. The birds start gathering around my tail for some reason. They were all there in a circle and they were chirping so loudly, I couldn't hear myself think. I look at them, then back at the deer who had so generously kept me warm throughout the night and then look back at the birds, I didn't understand. The deer finally get up and walk over to me and all the birds fly upward. She look at the birds for a moment then back at me as if trying to tell me something. She look at my flank for a moment more before nudging the place where my cutie mark should've been. She nudge the spot again before I get her message. I look at my flank and then I see it. My cutie mark, I got my cutie mark, It was a paw print with a feather going directly diagonally of it. It’s a cyan, but maybe a shade or two lighter. I couldn't believe my eyes. I poke at it just to make sure it was real and it was.

That got me thinking of Shining... who hadn't receive his cutie mark. However I bet it would've been awesome. It even may have been better than mine. I say that and pray that to him wherever he is. Tears trickle down my cheeks, luckily the deer was here and she lick my tears away. I quickly stop crying. Maybe the animals didn't know it but I know Shining is gone. Deep inside me I just have a feeling. The really sad thing is I know I am right.

"Thanks guys" I tell the animals

I never knew that this was going to be my destiny, now that I think about it though it does kind of make sense. I wonder around the forest for a while before coming to a fork in the road. I choose right path, because I knew it was going to be the path that leads me out of the forest.

I walk and walk for what seem like an eternity but I finally hear voices and all the noises of the streets. I start sprinting toward the streets and finally came to the big Manehatten. I starting walking again to my friends old apartment which was really close to where I am, I turn a couple of corners and bump into some other ponies along the way. I get to her old apartment which is shut down for Health reasons, I fly inside and use the stairs to get her apartment 8B, I unlock the door with the spare key that was always under the doormat and invite myself inside. I remember this place and it bring back so many memories. Memories of me, Shining and her playing tag in the living room and hide and seek too. Spending cold nights by the fire and having a sleepover together. But now there’s no fire going in the chimney, there is no bunk beds in our room that I shared with her. There was just a mattress in the middle of the floor, and there was no family to sit on the couch with and tell funny stories, but the thing that bother me most was that there is no Shining Sword and no Sparky Night here.

I push that thought aside and get the dust pan and start sweeping the floor in the old room and I shake out the mattress so I could sleep on it. After that I use the food from the pantry and heat it up. After I ate dinner, I decide that it was time I take an early night. So I clean up, and did the dishes. I walk back to my bedroom. I pull an old dusty blanket from the closet and a pillow from the closet and went back to my room. I put the pillow on the ground and get in bed, I pull the blanket over my body and fall asleep.

The next morning I wake up and fall right back to sleep. I didn't gets very good night's sleep at all. I went out and try to scrape together some money for food. Sadly I only got seven bits. Today nothing much happen, I did that and then I work on trying to find a better place to stay. However I couldn't find anywhere to stay. Fortunately I know a couple of ponies that might help me in my time of need. I didn't go to them right away I decide it would've been best to see what I could do for myself. I went back to the apartment where I spent the rest of my spare time either cleaning or working on things in the house. The apartment that is shut down due to violating the Equestria Health code. When night fall came around I came back to the apartment and fall asleep fast.