Scoota-Who?

After we pulled ourselves together so to speak, we moved to a small little house in the orchard. "What is this place?" I ask, looking round the inside of the little wooden house.

"It's the Cutie Mark Crusaders clubhouse, of course!" Sweetie Belle waved her hooves around the wooden room. " used to be a total dump, but Apple Bloom fixed it all up!" Said filly blushed.

I crane my head to stare at my friends flank. "Why isn't your cutie mark something to do with architecture or crafts then?" I ask, confused.

Apple Bloom looked at her flank. "Ah'm not really sure. Ah guess Ah'm just better helping ponies" she shrugged noncommittally.

"So, Scootaloo, do you have any idea on who did this to you?" Sweetie Belle asked, leaping up to the leaders podium.

In response, I unfurl my map, and lay it out. "This is an entire map of Ponyville" I explain. "Every building has a little red X going through it, but the mountain has a date, time and a strange marking on it."

Apple Bloom leaned closer. "Ah think Ah recognize this here symbol" she announced.

My eyes instinctively widened, and I leaned in, interested. "Where?" I demanded.

Apple Bloom seemed to be thinking, but after a while, she shook her head in frustration. "It'll come to me" she said. "In the mean time, can I make a copy of your map? We all have the exact same one's, for when we were crusadering, but still."

After I nodded, she carefully copied the map down, while me and Sweetie Belle watched.

"Well, I gotta go, Rainbow Dash will be worried if I don't go to the meeting place soon." It was true. For now, at least, I was staying in Rainbow Dash's cottage.

"What about your parents?" Sweetie Belle asked as I left.

I turned around to face them. "Do you know where they li-"

Sweetie Belle interrupted. "No,sorry. We never met your parents, even after we went to your house."

"Huh" was all I said. Now I was confused. How come nopony seemed to know who my parents were? One mystery at a time, Scootaloo, I told myself. "Okay then,bye."

Rainbow Dash flew me up to her cloud mansion, and we both went to bed. It was only when I woke up that I realized I left my map back at the tree house.

When me and Rainbow walked down to the clubhouse, what we saw nearly gave us a heart attack.

It was The Cutie Mark Crusader Clubhouse, or rather, was. Now it was all just a burnt crisp. What was weird was the fact that the trees around the clubhouse weren't even singed.

I didn't know that my knees felt weak until I collapsed. "Squirt" Rainbow looked down with concern. "What's wrong?"

For some reason my throat was extremely dry, so I swallowed and pointed at the wreckage. "I left my map in there last night.And none of the tree's were burnt" Rainbow Dash's eyes widened as she figured out what I was getting at. "This wasn't just a simple forest fire . . ."

"This was done on purpose" Rainbow finished slowly.