Chapter I - The Blank Filly

Chapter I - The Blank Filly

“GAAAAAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahaha! That was just AWESOME!” Scootaloo bellowed.
“Yeah that really WAS funny!”
“Ah don’t know girls, it seemed kinda... useless.”
“Oh Applebloom, don’t be such a naysayer! We almost got our cutie marks this time!”
“Well, maybe it was a bit dangerous though.”
“Oh c'mon Sweetie Belle, you agreed with me just a minute ago! It was so thrilling when the bear jumped out of the nowhere and started to chase us!” Scootaloo ran ahead, turned herself around and went into some kinda hunting position.
“Buuuuut if I wouldn’t have been around by then... GRROOOOAAAAARR!”
She jumped at Sweetie Belle and nailed her to the ground.
“KYAAA, Scootaloo!” Sweetie Belle squeaked.
“Hehehe, see? The BIG and AWESOME Scootaloo saved the day!”
“Ou c'mon Scoot, even you ran away like a little chicken!” Afte sayin' that, her heroic pose and
grin quickly turned into a frown.
“That's not true! I uhm, just wanted to...”
“Scoot is a chicken~ Scoot is a chicken~” Suddenly Scootaloo jumped at me and pushed both of us downwards a small hill.
“APPLEBLOOM! SCOOTALOO!” Sweetie Belle screamed.
Scoot and ah were rollin' down the hill, stones and other things were pushin' us on a painful kinda of way from on side to another.
“Ouch! Scoot you stupid chicken! Ahg, you, ouch, are, eek, such, uff, a, ah, DODO!”
“Stop, ouch, calling, argh, me, hmpf, a, hnrg, DODO! Ouch! And I'm NOT-A-CHICKEN!” Finally we arrived at the ground, the smashing impact let us rolled apart each other. We lay there for a
while, heavily breathing for exhaustion, but shortly after we've started to laugh.
“Hahahahahahahaha.”
“Hehehehehehe that was awesome!”
“Scootaloo! Applebloom! Are you two alright?” Sweetie Belle ran down the hill with a very worried expression on her face. As soon as she saw that we're actually laughin', she changed her expression from worried to confused.
“What's wrong? Isn’t...any pony hurt?”
“Hehe don’t worry Sweetie Belle, do you really believe such a small pity hill could harm me?”
Scootaloo jumped up and tapped the dirt out of her fur.
“Oh and what about you Applebloom?” Sweetie Belle hesitantly asked.
“Don’t worry Sweetie Belle, ahm aaaalright... just a little bit dirty maybe.” Ah stood up and stretched mahself a bit. Dirt wasn’t such a problem for me, ah mean, ah was livin' on a huge apple farm together with mah big sister Applejack and mah big big brother Big Macintosh. Well, actually our family was much bigger... much, MUCH bigger. But whatever, it was a fact that working in the mud or helpin' buckin' apples from the trees wouldn't keep ya that clean all the time after all. Sweetie Belle was Rarity’s little sister so she was much more familiar with tidiness than me or Scootaloo, but even she liked to make her hooves dirty from time to time, other than her big sister. Scootaloo was a pure adventure filly, makin' her hooves dirty was basically her life itself. She was always searchin' for danger and an adrenaline rush, although she was kinda... anxiously some time. But although we were different in some ways, we had one big goal in our life:
We wanted to find our Cutie Marks!
“Hehe, alright girls it's getting dark, lets go home. We have to be physically fit if we want to go surfing tomorrow.” Scootaloo said.
“You're right Scootaloo. You're coming too, Applebloom?”
“Hm? Yeah, but uhm.... Ah have to take the short cut this time 'cause mah big sis wanted me to
help her bringin' the today’s apple harvest into the barn.” Applejack was mad at me 'cause ah smashed the last harvest yesterday with a... cow. Yeah yeah it sounded kinda strange, but Pinkie Pie once told me that it’ll bring you luck if cows may fly, so.... Well ah admitted it, building a catapult wasn’t the best idea.
“Working at dusk? That’s really stupid, poor Applebloom... are you still able to sleep enough?” Scootaloo asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Yeah I hope so, it surely won't be THAT much.” It WOULD be that much.
“Oh uhm, okay then Applebloom, have a sweet dream and-” Before Sweetie Belle was even able to complete her sentence, Scootaloo already cut her short.
“Blah, blah, blah c'mon Sweetie Belle! The first filly who’s home wins!” And so Scootaloo dashed away, leavin' the confused lookin' Sweetie Belle far behind.
“W- wait Scoot! That’s not fair! YOUR HOME IS CLOSER THAN MINE, I WANT A ADVENTAGE! SCOOOOOTALOOOO!” Sweetie Belle started to chase Scoot, soon both disappeared at the horizon. Now ah was totally alone.
“Hahahaha poor Sweetie Belle, oh well lets go home before sis goes berserk.” Ah turned mahself around and went down the empty and silent road to Sweet Apple Acre. The sun was slowly setting and stained the sky into a beautiful orange-red color. Rainbow Dash and the other pegasus ponies were doin' a very good job this day, not even a single cloud could have been seen in the sky,
what a marvelous sight! The grass around me had a wonderful green color, the sweet land breeze were blowing softly through mah mane. It was just a amazing autumn evenin'.
While ah was goin' along the road, ah was thinkin' about today and our adventures as Cutie Mark Crusaders. Every pony had a cutie mark on his or her flank, a special magically symbol which appeared when the time was right and you've found your very own special talent in life. It was
hard for a young filly like me, Sweetie Belle and Scoot to find their special talent. Ah mean, sure
we just could sit and wait until it popped up OR we could try as hard as we could to find it ourself! It seemed that almost every other filly in Ponyville already got their cutie mark... except for us.
That was kinda depressin', but our friendship and our adventures were much better than every cutie mark in Equestria. Ah couldn't imagine a world without Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo... and mah sis
and family.
“Darn it! Ah forgot that sis is waitin'!” Ah was so drifted away that ah didn’t realized how the time ran away, the sun almost disappeared and Applejack surely was waiting and more than angry because ah was too late already... again. Ah was runnin' down the long green plane, soon ah arrived at a T-shaped crossroad. Now ah only had to go right and-
“Oh good evening Applebloom!” Huh? Ah looked down the right path and saw a tall purple
pony, no, a unicorn! It was Twilight Sparkle, one of mah sis' best friends and Celestias personal student. She came closer and started to smile at me.
“What are you doing out here all on your own?”
“Hey Twilight! You’ll never guess what we did today!” Ah started.
“So this morning...” Ah told her about our day, the CMC adventures as park rangers! That moment ah remembered the adrenaline shock Scootaloo mentioned before, after we've been chased by that bear-thingy. Ah had to tell her what happened, it tickled in mah hooves!
“That’s okay Applebloom, I just-” She tried to interrupt me, but ah continued.
“... but then Scootaloo was all like 'CMC Park Rangers!'”
Twilight nervously looked around and tried again to stop me from talking.
“Well, I’m sure you had-”
“... and then she said 'That’s NOT what a bear sounds like!'”
Ah kept talkin' another few minutes until Twilight started to raise her voice.
“Applebloom! I... uhm, I’m sorry but I REALLY have to get going! Take care now okay?” Twilight turned around and went down the left path, leading right into the Everfree Forest.
“... every-single-one! Huh? What? Ooooh, where are ya goin' Twilight?” She looked back at me
and said: “I promised Zecora to bring her some books and local herbs. I wanted to go earlier but Spike messed up a special delivery to Celestia... guess who had the honor to correct it.” Right now ah saw the bags, hangin' on her both sides, filled with green, red and other colored plants and some scrolls. She nervously looked up again to the almost disappeared sun. It was almost dark
now and Applejack surely would have killed me for that. Hmm, maybe Twilight could have givin' me a little alibi so that mah sis wouldn’t turn that angry at me anymore.
“I better hurry. I rather get home before it's dark.” That was my chance!
“Oh! Oh! Can ah come, too?” Ah asked with a very sweet and bright smile. Twilight just startled and broke off for a moment.
“I- I’m sorry Applebloom, but the Everfree Forest is no place for a young filly like you!”
“Ah'll be extra careful! Oh please, please, please?” Ah tried to open my eyes as far as ah could and made mah cutest face, but Twilight nervously tried to block again.
“I- I don’t think-”
“Pluuuuuuueeeeeeeeee...”
“Its just too-”
“... eeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...”
“There are many-”
“... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...” And then, thank Celestia, she gave up.
“Hmpf, aaaaalright, aaaalright! BUT you MUST promise me to stay close at ALL
time you hear?” Twilight was just the best!
“YES! Thank you Twilight! Lets go! Lets go!”
Ah was so excited! This would be mah third visit to the Everfree Forest. The first time was when Zecora once again appeared in Ponyville and Twilight and the other ponies got ill because of some weird flowers. Ah followed Zecora and she invited me into her home. Oh and the second time together with Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle, searching for one of Fluttershy chickens.
Hehehe that’s where ah got that nickname for Scoot: 'Chicken'.
That was so cool, ah didn’t even noticed that ah ran ahead, leaving Twilight behind.
“Applebloom! APPLEBLOOM WAIT!” Soon she outruned me and stopped me by biting
in mah tail.
“Slow down! Remember what you've promised me!”
“Oh right, uhm, sorry Twilight!” She let go off me and went ahead. Together we continued our travel through the Everfree Forest.