Everything was dark, cold and lonely at first. Eveline couldn't see, hear, smell or feel anything.
Then it happened.
Light gently pierced through her closed eyes, wind brushed against her face and grass tickled her nose. She slowly opened her eyes and lifted her head to see a beautiful flower filled meadow, a long mountain range on the horizon and a clear cloudless blue sky. She tried to stand, but something was wrong as she ended up falling. She looked at herself to see that she was no longer human, but a pony. Her eyes grew wide as she looked over herself. She had light grey fur, black hair and a mark of some kind on her flank. A smile crept over the filly's face as she came as a realization came over her. There was no Ethan, no scientist trying to contain her and no E-Necrotoxin. She was free and most of all, she was alive.
After an indefinite time of learning how to use her new body she could no longer contain her happiness and she began jumping around while shouting in pure joy.
"I'm free, I'm free, I'm free!!!" she shouted as she bounced around the area before she came to a small hill where she stopped as she spotted something at the bottom.
She saw a small town at the bottom that she felt literally radiating happiness and love when she got closer. When she walked into the town, she was greeted by ponies that walked past her.
"Hello there little filly. Why are you not at school?" a male pony asked when she walked past him.
Eveline stopped and turned to face him.
"There's a school here? Where?!" she said as she began bouncing with excitement.
The stallion chuckled as he thought she was just joking with him, but he decided to go along with it.
"Go straight ahead that way." he said and pointed. "Then take one left, then the second right. After that you should be able to see the school."
"Thanks mister!" Eveline said before running in the directions he gave.
Just a few minutes later she stopped outside a pinkish red building that was decorated with heart shapes all over. She slowly stepped up to the door and then gave it three careful knocks.
"COME IN!!!" a chorus of voices came from the other side and the door was opened by a grey tinted white pegasus colt. Who moved aside to let her in.
"Hello. Is this the school?" Eveline asked as she stepped inside.
"Why yes. What brings you here?" a pink earth pony mare (most likely the teacher) said as she came up to her.
Eveline thought for a short while as she considered what she should say. She went with telling the truth but leaving the violent parts out of it.
"I'm new in this town and was told to go here." she explained.
The teacher raised an eyebrow and she got a curious look.
"Where are your parents?" she asked.
"Um...I don't have any parents. I've been alone my entire life." Eveline explained.
The teacher's expression went from curious to panicked in a matter of seconds after hearing Eveline's explanation.
"Oh, my goodness! Don't you have anyone to look after you?!" she asked in a worried tone, almost motherly.
"I did live with another family for three years, but the parents died, and the two others weren't responsible enough to take care of me." Eveline said while observing the teacher's almost motherly nature.
"Oh, sweet Celestia. Uhh...You can borrow the desk next to Apple Bloom here and I'll help you after class. Okay?" she said as she rubbed her head deep in thought.
"Okay!" Eveline said before walking over to the open desk and sitting down.
"Okay class, as you have all seen we have a new student here." the teacher said as she looked towards Eveline. "Now why don't you introduce yourself?" she finished.
Eveline shot a quick glance around before she stood up and began her introduction.
"My name is Eveline and I'm an orphan. I've never known my parents as I grew up in a laboratory. A family later took me in for three years before the parents sadly died. Their two children are still alive, but they couldn't take care of me, so I had to leave. A few weeks later I came here." she explained as she shot one more glance around the room before she sat down again.
"It's nice to meet you Eveline. I'm Cheerilee and we welcome you to Ponyville with open hooves." the now identified teacher said before she went back to the lecture.
When lunch break came not long after Cheerilee called Eveline to come up to her.
"I've decided that we should look for a family that can adopt you after school, but from what I know there aren't that many couples that-GAH!" Cheerilee said when she suddenly felt Eveline hugging her.
"I don't want them. You can be my mommy." she said while looking up at the speechless teacher with wide hopeful eyes.
Cheerilee's brain entered an emergency restart sequence as she tried to comprehend what was happening.
"B-but I...I can't be the right mother for you! I'm just a teacher. Surely there are someone else that can-"
"NO! I want you! Can please be my mother?" Eveline interrupted as she tightened her hug and pressed her face into Cheerilee's fur.
Cheerilee's eyes began to water as a warm smile began to form on her muzzle. Had her chance finally come? This was too good to be true for her, but she was not rejecting the chance to finally have a child of her own.
"Yes. I will be your mother Eveline." Cheerilee said as tears of joy began to flow down her cheeks.
"YAY!" Eveline exclaimed as she released the hug and bounced around the room in happiness.
Cheerilee wiped the tears out of her eyes as she sat down and opened her hooves when Eveline ran up to her and the two gave each other a big hug.
"Thank you." Cheerliee whispered into Eveline's ear.
A few weeks had come and gone since Eveline came to Equestria and so far she had no reason to give anyone a "gift". Cheerilee had treated her like a real daughter and told her everything she asked about (except for the 'where do babies come from' question). Eveline had gotten multiple tours of Ponyville, as well as a 'Welcome to Ponyville' party from Pinkie Pie. The only problem so far was that nobody really knew what her cutie mark meant. Although, things changed when Eveline saw two other fillies bullying a group of three other fillies for their blank flanks during lunch break.
"Why are you being so mean towards them?" Eveline said as she stood between them.
"That's none of your business. Go away." Diamond Tiara said and gestured for Eveline to leave.
"No! Tell me! Why?! What did they do?" Eveline shouted while stomping the ground angrily.
"They're blank flanks, okay?! They don't have a cutie mark like the rest of us. Are you satisfied now?" Silver Spoon said in a frustrated voice.
Eveline didn't answer at first as she stood in silence while looking down at the ground.
"You're being mean to them because they don't have their cutie marks yet?! If there is one thing mom has told me is that bullying is bad!" Eveline shouted in anger and on impulse she slapped Diamond Tiara.
This quickly erupted into a short fight between the two fillies. Note keyword "short" as Diamond Tiara landed a kick in Eveline's stomach, which made Eveline start to cough and soon the coughing turned to gagging noises. Then without warning Eveline began to projectile vomit a mold like substance which ended up coming into contact with Diamond Tiara. A better explanation is that Diamond Tiara was hit point-blank by the mold vomit and when it stopped she was a stinking mess covered in the goo. Most students that saw this were disgusted by the view, but soon some began to laugh at it. Silver Spoon almost threw up herself, Diamond Tiara began to cry and ran for the schoolhouse, while the Cutie Mark Crusaders stared in shock.
Eveline coughed for a few moments as she got her breath back and looked at the three dumbstruck crusaders.
"Are you okay?" she asked, hoping they wouldn't run away from her in fear of what just happened.
The three fillies sat in silence for a few seconds before they managed to get their vocal chords working again.
"First of all, ew! Second of all, how did you do that?!" the white unicorn, Sweetie Belle asked.
Eveline scratched her head as she tried to think of an excuse.
"I'm just....umm.....You know what, I really don't know." she half-lied.
Before they could say anything else they heard Cheerilee shouting from the schoolhouse.
"Eveline! Come here at once!" Cheerilee's voice sounded from the school's main door.
Eveline's ears fell immediately as she began to make her way towards the little building. She walked slowly and didn't lift her hooves much as she went. Upon reaching the door she carefully pushed it open to see Cheerilee sitting by her desk with Diamond Tiara there as well, visibly wet as she was most likely just washed clean.
"Diamond Tiara here has said that you threw up directly at her, may I ask why you didn't tell me that you were sick and why you threw up at somepony?" she said sternly.
"I wasn't sick! It happened because she kicked me in the stomach!" Eveline said and pointed at Diamond Tiara.
Cheerilee raised an eyebrow. "Is that true?" she asked looking at Diamond Tiara.
"Yes..." The high-class filly couldn't get herself out of this one and she knew it, but there was one thing she had on Eveline. "But she started it!"
Cheerilee looked towards her newly adopted daughter.
Eveline's ears fell as she gave her answer. "It's true, mom..." she let her head hang for a few seconds before looking up again. "I slapped her, because she was bullying three other girls."
Cheerilee couldn't help but let out an annoyed grunt. "Diamond Tiara, I have lost count of how many times you've been reported for bullying and somehow you get out of it every time." She stood up from behind her desk and opened one of the windows to the classroom.
"Apple Bloom! Scootaloo! Sweetie Belle! Come here please!" Cheerilee shouted and soon the three fillies were standing by the window.
"Yes miss Cheerilee?" Sweetie Belle wondered.
"Eveline claims that she started a fight with Diamond Tiara because the latter was bullying you. Is that true?" the teacher asked kindly.
"Yes, miss Cheerilee. She wanted to know why Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were bullyin' us, and when they told her it was because of our blank flanks she got all upset. She slapped Tiara and the two got into a fight." Apple Bloom confirmed.
"Thank you." Cheerilee said before closing the window and turning to the two fillies by her desk. "I'm not happy with either of you and I will act accordingly." she said as she looked at Eveline first.
"Eveline, you are grounded. I hope this will teach you a lesson that violence is never the answer." Cheerilee said before she turned towards Diamond Tiara. "You have managed to sneak away from punishment every single time, but not this time. In addition to all the other reports of bullying you'll be in detention every day for three weeks. I will also have to tell your parents about this."
Both fillies let out groans, with Diamond Tiara's being slightly louder for obvious reasons.
"Now, one thing I'll have you both do is to apologize to each other." Cheerilee said as she eyed both fillies with a stern look.
This time the two fillies murmured angrily to themselves before looking at each other.
"I'm sorry I kicked you, and hit you." Diamond Tiara said trying her best to make it sound genuine.
"I'm sorry I slapped you and threw up in your face." Eveline said with a slightly bitter undertone.
"Good, you may both go now. I hope things will be better from now on."
Neither of the two girls said anything as they walked to the door, but when they got out Eveline felt something. A small little tingle coming from Diamond Tiara. The same feeling she felt when she had given her gift to someone. A small mischievous grin spread across her face.
"Oh trust me. Everything is going to be just fine." Eveline whispered to herself with a small chuckle.
