The Broken Road

Symbol had just finished the school day. He was a young colt who inside was secretive but outside was loud and playful. Symbol did not only make the family happy, but others too! He was someone you could trust. Symbol, in most situations, could use his trust more than he needed to by using that trust to get information off the pony. He lived in Manehattan. It was a huge. City that Symbol wanted to explore. Tambour, his mother told him that it was too dangerous to go alone. What would the world be without danger.

His parents sent their self's to pick Symbol up. His father was named Drummer. Drummer was a band dad and never quits on his dreams of becoming famous. Drummers cutie mark was a drum. He was born from a band family. He was deceiving and could lie at anytime and you wouldn't know. Symbols mother was also born from a band family. Her cutie mark was of tambourines. Symbol for himself was a unicorn despite both of his parents being pegasi. He doesn't have his own cutie mark yet. He was also different from his family. Symbol was great in everything and had gotten more A's than his parents, math being his best.

Symbol started to wait for his mother and father. It was a warm afternoon with white clouds scattered across the sky. They both cared much about Symbol. Drummer and Tambour both always chose the safest options when letting him go places. He waited. "Hey, you!" Yelled Diamond Tiara.

Diamond Tiara was snooty and rich. She didn't care about anybody but herself. "Your parents told me that you could walk home today." She said

"They wouldn't say that!" Symbol told her sternly.

"Well they did and they told me to tell you." Diamond Tiara responded.

Symbol believed her surprisingly and started walking from the school house to Manehattan without questioning the pony. He walked to the Ponyvile train station  many ponies were concerned to where his parents were. "Don't worry," he would say cheerfully. "I know where I'm going!"

He continued his journey with high hopes. "Hey! Hey!" Yelled a pony with enthusiasim.

Symbol turned around and what he saw with his eyes was a bright, happy, pink pony. She had curly pink hair with balloons for a cutie mark. "How ya doin'? Do you need something? Where are your parents? *GASP* are you alone?!"

Symbol continued to walk during the conversation. She had many questions! "My name is Pinkie Pie! What's yours?" She asked quickly.

Symbol replied as fast as he could. "Symbol!" He exclaimed.

"What are you doing here?"

"Going to Manehattan"

"Why?"

"Because that's where I live."

"That's interesting..."

She stopped walking and yelled in an enthusiastic voice, "Have a wonderful day."

He finally had some peace while walking. Symbol then noticed that the station was right in front of him. He started to run, run fast. He didn't want to be late. All of a sudden, two ponies walked out from the ally way between two houses.  One had a cowboy hat on and the other had a bow. The pony standing off to the side was red haired and yellow while the bigger mare had blonde hair and was orange. She had a cutie mark of three apples. The tinier one was a blank flank. The bigger and taller one was pulling a cart, a huge cart, of apples. Symbol had been running too fast to slow down. He slid and skinned himself a little while also hitting the cart. "AAAAUGRH!" The adult pony yelled while she tumbled and hit her head on the ground, the giant pull part of the cart pulling her to the side as she fell.

"I'm so sorry!" Symbol yelled as he was recovering from the cut he got sliding and trying to avoid the cart.

The small philly quickly ran to make sure that the pony that fell was ok. "Apple Jack!" She yelled in a high tone. "Are you ok?"

As they spoke they looked at symbol and he did what would most likely help, he tried to push the cart over. Apple Jack got quickly unhitched by the smaller pony fairly quickly. As Symbol began to try to lift the cart the train came. "You," she pointed to Symbol when she came around to see him on the other side. "Can you hel..."

She stopped at words when she found him helping. Usually ponys passed up helping others but Symbol was different from other ponys. Apple Jack began to help him too. "What was that?" The smaller pony asked.

"I was going to go to the train station..." Symbol began to say.

'WOOO WOOOO'. The train had blown it's whistle. The cart toppled upward and then landed smoothly on the ground. "Gotta go!" Symbol said quickly.

"Wait!" The small pony yelled. "We didn't properly meet!"

Symbol brushed off the words and ran towards the train station along with the pain of the cut bleeding. The train started to creak and move, starting very slowly. I must catch that train! he thought to himself. Quickly he stepped up onto the wooden station and just jumped for his life, hoping there was a door open. The pain was quickly covered with the rush of adrenaline flowing through Symbols body.

Was this worth just going home? Was this legal? What if he failed? These questions were left unanswered because security didn't make sure that every door was closed and Symbol slid in with almost no problem. It was the last car on the train which made it almost remarkable. The cut burned at the sudden landing on hard wood. The train didn't stop and no one seemed to see what he did. On his way to Manehattan he went! It felt like a great and bad idea. He could adventure to see what the nature was like and he could go home finally be himself.

Symbol was in a storage car. Mostly a great place to search for anything. The car was red on top and brown and orange on the bottom. The entire interior was plain wood. It was dark on the sides with a floor of bright birch. The car was shaky and  dangerous with everything moving but he had many items at his disposal.

Symbol didn't leave anything at his school. He brought journals and different things like pencils. This would be the perfect time to make a journal of his discoveries. He wrote:

Today, I found new places and different things too. I found out that places can be beautiful and interesting but there's always a layer of danger. Maybe Equestria isn't the most safe of places. Adventuring maybe isn't the most interesting with everything taking so long.  Was this the best choice? Listening to Diamond Tiara might not have been my best move. Hopefully this is all worth it.