Side Story 1 - A Filly's Cutie Mark
Side Story 1: A Filly’s Cutie Mark
It was late at night, it was raining outside and Darky and Buggy were “watching” a movie just before going to sleep. They were lying down on a couple of pillows in front of the television. It was so comfy that Buggy fell asleep, while Darky wasn’t even paying attention to the screen. Nights like that always made her feel a little nostalgic. She looked at her friend and smiled, then looked at her flank remembering something.
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There was a certain house near the frontiers of Canterlot, where 2 young ponies, a filly and a colt, were having fun together during night, refusing to go to sleep. It was their first sleepover, and they wanted to have as much fun as possible, especially because of the occasion. What occasion? Nothing less than a new cutie mark! The colt, even still being pretty young, got his cutie mark the day before, and of course he would want to show it to his best friend. His talent seemed to be something related to painting, or drawing, or something along those lines since his cutie mark was a brush. He was so happy that he even said that, from that point on, he wanted to be called Buggy Brush.
“So, how does it feel?” said the filly to her friend. They were both laying on the floor while watching tv and eating some snacks.
“How does what feel?”
“Getting a cutie mark. The moment you get it. Does it tickle?”
“No, I didn’t feel tickled. It just appeared.”
“How did you notice then?”
“I was with mommy and she noticed it first.”
“I always knew your talent would be something about drawing. You are good at it.”
“Thanks Darks :)” he replied smiling.
“So, you will become a famous artist now?”
“I’m not sure. Maybe one day.”
“Oh, oh! Can you draw that?” She pointed to the screen.
“I… think? Just a second to finish this drawing first.”
“I guess I’m still not ready to know what my talent is,” said the filly while looking at the cutie mark she didn’t have in her flank yet.
“Can ‘daemonoquus’ get cutie marks?”
She giggled.
“It’s ‘daemonequus’, and yes, we can.”
“What do you think it’s going to be?”
“I’m not really sure.”
“Then what do you want it to be?”
She thought for a second, but she wasn’t sure about that either. There were some many things she loved, so many options, so many possibilities.
“I don’t know. As long as it’s not something boring, I think it will be fine.”
“I’m sure it won’t be. You’re like, the most awesome pony in Equestria! I’m sure your cutie mark will be the best ever!”
She couldn’t help but blush a little after hearing that. She giggled again.
“Oh shush, you.”
They both laughed, then Darky got closer to him to hug him. She tried to hug him with her wing first, but it was (still) too small to give hugs, so she gave up and just used her hoof.
They spent a while more talking about random things while Buggy kept drawing. Eventually Darky decided to grab a sheet of paper too along with a pen, but not to draw something, she wanted to write, she felt inspired.
“Oh! You’re going to write another story?”
“Mhm!”
“Can I read it when you finish it?”
“Of course! Why do you even like my stories, by the way?”
“They’re so so good! And I don’t even like to read!”
“They’re not. I just like doing it.”
“But they are! Don’t you remember what the teacher told you when she read it?”
“She was probably just being kind.”
“Nuh-uh, she really loved it. I saw it in her eyes.”
She looked away.
“I don’t know, Bug.”
“C’mon, Darks. What if we show your story to my parents when it’s done? So they can tell us what do they think about it.”
“I won’t feel comfortable with that.”
“Oh, sorry.”
Buggy thought for a little, watching at Darky writing.
“Can I try it too?”
“Try what? To write?”
“Yes!”
“Sure!”
She grabbed some papers, a couple of pens, and walked to the table. Buggy followed her.
“It’s your first time writing, right?”
“Yes. I have never tried it before.”
“Ok, let’s start with the basic then. What do you want to write about?” she asked smiling in excitement.
“Hmm… Something cute I think.”
“Something cute, hm? What about a cute animal?”
“Yes!”
“What is the first animal that comes to your mind?”
“Bunnies, lot of bunnies.”
“Fluffy bunnies?”
“Fluffy bunnies!”
“The fluffiest of the bunnies!!”
They laughed.
“Where would be the bunnies?”
“In a field I guess (?). That’s where bunnies live, right?”
“I think. What are they going to do in that field?”
“Have a lot of adventures!”
“What kind of adventures?”
“Oh, eeh… I don’t really know.”
“Well, time to figure it out, then.”
She kept asking him questions and helping him whenever they got stuck like that. The minutes passed by and the 2 of them were writing their own stories. Buggy had around half of his story done when Darky fully completed hers.
“Aaand finish!” the little filly said.
“How do you write so fast??” The colt replied. She just giggled as an answered.
Buggy read her whole story, it took him some minutes, since he wasn’t really good at reading, but once he finished, he didn’t waste a second to let his friend know how much he loved it.
“Every time you write a story, they keep getting better and better! How do you do it?”
“Thanks a lot, Bug. I just like to write a lot when I’m bored, but I don’t think it’s that good.”
Before Buggy could reply to that, she asked him if she could read what he had been writing, he agreed and passed the paper to her.
“Hey, this is not bad at all!”
“Really?”
“Yeah! Only one thing, ‘bunny’ is spelled with 2 n’s.”
“I forgot the second one, didn’t I?”
“No, worse, you wrote it with 3!”
She couldn’t help but chuckle a little, then they both burst out laughing.
“Do you want me to help you think about the rest of the story?”
“Yes, please! Thanks, Darky. How do you know so much about writing?”
“Aside from writing myself, I read sometimes, and I got interested into stories and how do they work.”
The room started to light up slowly as she was speaking.
“I like to think that, the most important part about writing is not to be a professional or complicated. I think-“
She started to float a little.
“-that the most important thing is… just to have fun.”
The room was turned white by a bright, shining light coming from Darky, that started to slowly fade away. Buggy was looking at her in awe, while she was trying to understand what just happened.
“W- What was that??”
Then he realized.
“DARKY!!”
“???”
“YOUR MARK!!”
She looked at her flank still confused and, instead of her light blue coat, she saw the picture of a yellowish feather with some purple ink, her cutie mark.
“OHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSHOHMYGOSH!!”
Everypony in Buggy’s house, and maybe even in that side of Canterlot could her shouts of happiness. She wasn’t a blank flank anymore, she finally got her cutie mark, and in something she loved! She had never been so happy in her entire life.
“Psst, Bug.”
He opened his eyes, still half asleep.
“Wha? Was I sleeping?”
“Hehe, yeah, you were. Maybe it’s time to go to bed now.”
“You’re aight.”
“What?”
“’Right’ I meant.”
“Gosh, Bug, you’re barely awake!”
She helped him to stand up.
“Let’s go get some rest. After all, tomorrow is the castle tour, and we better be well rested for it.”
She turned off the tv and they both went to sleep. Tomorrow was going to be an exhausting day.
Side Story 2 - Nightmare Nighters
Side Story 2: Nightmare Nighters
This young pony stands in his “respiteblock”. It just so happens that tonight is Nightmare Night, and he’s planning go trick or treating with his best friend.
“Hey! Looking good!”
“TH4NKS!!”
Buggy was dressed as his favorite character from his favorite webcomic. Said character is a girl, but he didn’t really mind.
“You’re rocking that costume, by the way.”
“Ho ho ho! Thanks, Bug!”
Darky was dressed as the sexy pirate lady from one of hers and Buggy’s favorite videogame series. She loves pirates, and she certainly loves that pirate, so she was waiting for that night to dress like her.
“Thanks for helping me with the horns.”
“No problem!”
“Oh Gosh, I’m excited!”
“Me too!” -she started to prance- “I already want to see what costumes will wear our friends!”
“Same here! Especially June’s and Sunrise’s. Their costumes are always so so good.”
“Yeah. Those girls sure take Nightmare Night as a serious business.”
“Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s get moving!”
“Woohoo!!”
The two left the house and headed near Zweet Beatz’s house, where they all planned to gather. Everypony around them was wearing costumes. They could recognize some, some others were just creatures instead of specific characters and some others were so well made that they weren’t even sure if it was a costume or a real beast. They eventually crossed paths with 2 of their friends, Sunrise Goldhearts and June Griffon. Of course those two would be the first one here.
“Girls!” said both of them.
“Hi guys! Nice costumes, I love them!”
“Pretty risky choice, huh Darky?” added the griffon while winking her eye at her.
“Hehe, nice one.”
“Your costumes look really awesome too!”
“As always to be fair.”
The pegasus was dressed as the main character from her favorite videogame, and the griffon as one of the characters from a visual novel she’s really obsessed about.
“Thanks you both!” replied the pegasus blushing.
“It took us a while to complete these, but it worth it.”
“Absolutely!”
“The red hair looks good on you, Sunrise.”
“Thanks!”
“She looks hotter than usual with red hair, doesn’t she?”
“June!” -she blushed even harder and covered her face with her wings- “Stop it!”
“Haha, ok”
“You 2 are adorable.”
“Have you seen Zweet and Foggy?” asked the unicorn.
“No, I guess they’re still not here.”
“Well, we can wait for them.”
They spent some more time chatting, and suddenly, the other pegasus girl arrived in a pretty familiar costume.
“Oh, hey Zweet B- Oh, Celestia!”
“What? What’s w- OH!”
“NO WAY! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!”
“Haha, great minds think alike, I guess.”
“gr8t minds, you could say :::;) “
Zweet Beatz was dressed as another of the characters from the same webcomic Buggy’s costume was inspired on. It was one of the least favorite characters for them both, but that was ironically the reason why her costume was so awesome (and everything said, she looked awesome with that jacket).
“You knew who I was going to dress as, didn’t you!?”
“kinda, i assumed it.”
“How did you even got the wig shaped like that?”
“wasn’t easy, long story. tell ya l8ter.”
“You look amazing, girl!”
“Yeah, you look so pretty!”
“aaw, thanks everypony <3”
“So, are you ready to get sugar-stoned?”
“oh hell yeah!”
“Said what now?”
“Sugar-stoned. You know, eating so so much candy that it gives you a sugar rush.”
Sunrise looked at them a little concerned.
“Wait, is that healthy?”
“It probably isn’t, but we don’t really care. It’s fun!”
“yeah girl, don’t worry. we will be fine.” -She got closer to her and whispered to her ear- “And one of the reasons I go with them is to make sure they don’t actually get sugar-stoned.”
Zweet winked at her and Sunrise replied with a little smile. Zweet Beatz may seem carefree, but she was actually really responsible, even acting as “the mom of the group” sometimes.
“Oh, look who is coming there!”
“Good night, everypony.”
“Foggy!”
“Long time no see, you both.”
“Spooky costume, huh?”
“Yes. Do you all like it?”
“You look beautiful, girl.”
“Yes, you do.”
“agree.”
“x2”
“Yeah, you look really good!”
Foggy wasn’t dressed as a specific character like the rest, but as the grim reaper itself! She looked pretty nice in gray.
“We were missing you so so much,” said Buggy walking towards her to hug her.
“Yeah, we were trying to remember last time we saw each other. We thought about visiting you, but we realized how close we were to Nightmare Night, so it would be pointless.”
“What are you talking about? You can go visit me whenever you want. Just call me or send me a letter first.”
Now Darky came closer to her to hug her. She was really missing her friend too, both because of being her friend and because another certain reason ;)
“So… You wanna trick or treat with us?”
“Trick or treat?”
“We are going to get sugar-stoned!”
“Aren’t we too old for that?”
“What?”
“You know, we are in like almost mid-twenties, and most trick-or-treaters are fillies and colts.”
“oh gosh, the same shit again.”
“MOST trick-or-treaters, you said it.”
“I don’t really think there’s nothing bad with trick or treating being adults.”
“Yeah, it’s fun as heck! I mean, we two are not doing it this year, but still.”
“I suppose you’re right, but I don’t know. I haven’t done it in so long.”
“Why are you disguised then?”
“It’s fun to do so.”
“And it’s even funner to get candy by doing so.”
“it’s ‘funner’ a word?” whispered Zweet Beatz at Sunrise.
“C’mon, give it a chance.”
Foggy looked away (or at least I think so, it’s hard to see her eyes, if she even have eyes.)
“It will be fun, I promise.”
“Ok. I’ll go with you, but d-“
“YEAAAH!!” Buggy and Darky didn’t even let her finish to start celebrating their little victory.
“Hey, Beatz”
“yeah?”
“You’re keeping them in check, right?”
“yup”
“Thanks.”
“Let’s stop losing time. The night is short guys!”
“True, let’s go already!”
And with that, the 6 friends went to spend their Nightmare Night together: Darky, Buggy, Zweet and Foggy by trick or treating all around Canterlot, and Sunrise and June following them while having a date of their own.
Author's Note
Happy Nightmare Night everypony!! ^w^ Sorry if the story is too short or something. I had the idea of this like 3 days ago, so I made the 4 drawings and story in that lapse of time lol. I hope you like it anyways :D
