The Coltland Chronicles 2: Foals' Story of their Lives

Four Years Later

Four years later in September

The Cutie Mark Searchers stood in the middle of the playground, ready to start their sixth year of primary school.

"I heard you all got your cutie marks." Miracle said in a sad voice.

"Yeah, I got mine. I got it when I was helping my dad plant some lily flowers in the garden." Lily said in excitement and showed that her cutie mark was a lily. She was also wearing a lily in her mane and she grinned.

"I got my cutie mark when I was making pearl necklaces in an jewellery making school in a different town." Lulu Belle said and her cutie mark was a pearl necklace. She was also wearing a pearl necklace around her neck.

"I got mine when I was helping my mum make some pies. I decided to make mandarin orange pies and this cutie mark appeared," Mandarin said happily and he turned around to show off his cutie mark which was a mandarin orange. "Who wants mandarin orange pies?"

He opened his saddlebag and pulled out a box and opened it. Inside it were pies for all five of them and they all took one each. They each took a bite and gave sounds of satisfaction.

"These are delicious, you should do a bake sale at some point for the school. You'll get lots of bits." Lily said and she was about to take another bite but she accidentally dropped her pie onto the ground.

She gasped with shock and she looked at the pie sadly.

"Here, Tiger Lily, you can have mine." Mandarin said in a shaky voice and Lily used her magic to take the pie.

"Tiger Lily...?" Miracle asked in confusion.

"It's a nickname I gave her a few weeks ago after we watched a movie at our castle about a magical pony that never grew up and he takes a mare and her brothers there but they decide to stay at their home instead." Mandarin said happily.

"I was nicknamed after that princess that didn't have any lines but she was a nice character." Lily said blushing a little and she took a bite of her pie.

"Anyway, I got my cutie mark when I was having a magic duel with my father." Eloise said in excitement and she did a slow turn to show that her cutie mark was four purple stars.

Miracle then gave a sigh of defeat.

"Guess I'm the only one out of all of us who doesn't have a cutie mark," said the light pink filly with a white mane with light blue stripes. "Does this mean that I'm no longer wanted here?"

"Don't be silly, Miracle, we would never kick you out." Lulu Belle reassured her and patted her on the back.

"You've been our best friend since we were in diapers, we would never do anything like that." Eloise said and she gave her best friend a tight hug.

"I can't wait for our sixth year of primary school to start in a few minutes!" Lulu Belle said in excitement and she managed to hold her squeal of delight.

So like her mother Annabel when she got excited. The bell then rang a few minutes later and the friends lined up with the class that they were supposed to be in. Miracle then noticed the bullies Ruby and Sapphire standing not too far from them. She sighed in anger, she knew that they were now just going to make fun of her for not having her cutie mark.

"Alright, the pupils in P6 (meaning the sixth year in primary school from where I'm from), follow me to your class." said a unicorn mare with a yellow body who had her red mane in a formal fashion.

All the pupils followed the teacher to a classroom that was on the top floor and they went through the second door. The teacher then sorted out everypony into their seats and they all sat down.

"Hello, class, my name is Miss Hibiscus and I will be your teacher for only this year," the teacher said and she wrote her name on the whiteboard with a marker. "I remember seeing all you since the time you've been in this school. Let's start with some maths, shall we?"

Every one of the schoolponies except Lulu Belle groaned.

"Oh boy, I can't wait to do some questions!" Lulu Belle said in delight.

"Now colts and fillies, what is one hundred minus fifty?" Miss Hibiscus said as she wrote the sum on the whiteboard. Miracle put her hoof up, desperate to answer the question. "Yes, Miracle?"

"Hey, blank flank, you still don't have your cutie mark like everypony else in the class!" Sapphire yelled from the back of the class and everypony else except Lily, Mandarin, Lulu Belle, Eloise and Miss Hibiscus laughed.

Miracle then put her hoof down and covered her face on the desk with her forelegs. Lulu Belle growled in anger, stomped up to Sapphire and slapped her in the face!

"How dare you insult my best friend like that?!" Lulu Belle yelled and she pushed Sapphire against the wall.

"Well, she shouldn't be your friend since you have your cutie mark and she doesn't." Sapphire said as Lulu Belle's hoof was against her throat.

"That's not true, she's still our friend." Lily said and she walked up to Miracle to rub her back with her hoof until she calmed down.

"That's enough! Sapphire, Lulu Belle!" Miss Hibiscus yelled and she stomped one of her hooves on her desk. "You two, come to the principal's office after school while everypony else gets to go home."

Lulu Belle let go of Sapphire and the two walked back to their seats. Lily also went back to her seat after calming down Miracle. Miracle was then asked the question again and she answered fifty.

Miss Hibiscus said that it was the right answer and gave her a sticker.

"Teacher's pet as always..." Ruby muttered to herself and Lulu Belle growled at her but Ruby just stuck her tongue.

After school happened and Lulu Belle, Sapphire and Miracle were sent to the principal's office along with their parents while Eloise, Mandarin and Lily were standing outside the school, waiting for Lulu Belle and Miracle.

"Your daughter has a behaviour issue." Sapphire's mother said to Annabel and Jordan who looked at her in anger.

"No, it's your daughter and her friend who has it, she was insulting our daughter about not having her cutie mark." Annamarie argued back and Jordan managed to calm her down.

"Lulu Belle was only defending her." Magnus said and turned to Miracle who had a sad look on her face.

Lulu Belle was sitting outside the office while the conversation was going on. She had no idea what was making her snap like that everytime Miracle or the others were being made fun of. She was only defending her best friend.

The door opened and Sapphire and her mother walked out. Sapphire turned to Lulu Belle and stuck out her tongue and making the shape of an L on her head. Lulu Belle felt anger rise in her but she then calmed down. Miracle walked out slowly with Annamarie and Magnus by her side. She looked at her with sad eyes then looked away.

"I'll be hanging around with the others and Lulu Belle anyway, so we'll see you at home." Miracle said with pleading eyes.

"Alright, our little miracle, we'll see you at home." Magnus said as he scruffed her mane and kissed her on the head.

"Daddy, you and Mum don't have to call me your little miracle all the time." Miracle said blushing a little.
"But you are our little miracle, we couldn't really have foals like Mandarin's parents and you came into our world when we fou- adopted you." Annamarie said and the couple walked out of the front doors.

Annabel and Jordan walked out of the principal's office and stared down at Lulu Belle who gave them a sad look.

"I'll go talk to her, you just go home." Jordan said and Annabel nodded then gave him a kiss on the cheek and walked off.

Lulu Belle gave a slight disgusted look.

"You're lucky that she didn't kick you out of this school, she just gave you a warning," Jordan said calmly and Lulu Belle started to cry a little.

"Sweetie, this is the fifth complaint that we've received from this school, we let the other ones slide but this was worse than the time you threw food at Sapphire and Ruby in the canteen."

"I'm sorry, Dad, I don't know what is wrong with me everytime Sapphire or Ruby hurt my friends." Lulu Belle said with a wobbly voice.

"It's probably because you hate seeing your friends being hurt that you want the bullies to be hurt," Jordan said rubbing her back with his hoof.

"Now on a happier note, you go off and play with your friends." He pushed her a little and she galloped off to the school fence to the others.

Miracle then walked up to her and hugged her.

"I thought you went crazy back there but thanks for standing up for me." Miracle said and Lulu Belle sniffed a little.

"Aww thanks, Miracle." Lulu Belle said in a emotional voice.

"I have an idea! Why don't we go down to my mum's bakery? A nice delicious baked treat always makes me feel better when I'm down." Mandarin said happily.

When Lulu Belle saw Jordan, she trotted up to him and gave him a tight hug.

"Can I go to Valentina's bakery with my friends, Daddy?" Lulu Belle asked with pleading eyes.

"Of course you can, you can go when you want to and you're turning ten in two months and twenty four days." Jordan said scruffing her mane.

The five friends walked to Valentina's bakery and they sat down at one of the window seats.

"Hey, Eloise!" a mare's voice called and Eloise recognised it straight away.

"Hey, Elizabeth, my big sister!" Eloise squealed then she got out of her seat and hugged her twenty three year old sister.

She then stepped back and gasped in surprise.

"Are you...?"

"Yes, Eloise, I'm with foal. I have one more month and you'll be having a niece or nephew," Elizabeth said happily.

"Dahlia and Autumn are also having foals except Dahlia is having twins, two colts." Miracle then gasped in surprise. "I'm going to have two nephews?" Miracle squealed in delight.