Cutie mark crisis

Chapter 3: Gaining allies
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‘’Don’t. Move.’’ Rarity whispers.
‘’Come here you witch!’’ Rainbow yells and starts flying straight at the house door, just when she is about to hit it, the door opens and Rainbow crashes at the mare who opened it.
‘’Come on!’’ Twilight yells and starts running to Rainbow who seems to be holding someone on the floor.
‘’What are you doing?!’’ Says the mysterious pony.
‘’I am here to get my cutie mark back!’’ Rainbow yells straight at the pony’s face.
‘’Where are you keeping the marks?!’’ Says Applejack when she comes behind Rainbow.
‘’You dare to blame me?!’’ Says the pony and kicks Rainbow off her.
‘’I am not the one who is stealing the marks! I am the one who is trying to find the one stealing them!’’ Says the pony and takes her robe off.
‘’See, she took my mark too!’’
‘’And he is a pony, not a zebra.’’ Says Twilight from the door.
‘’Zecora clearly said that it is a zebra who is stealing the marks.’’
Rainbow Dash rises from the ground and starts looking at the mare with shocked face.
The mare lets everypony come in and then Rainbow and Applejack apologies that they were so rude.
‘’It okay. Why are you all here?’’
‘’The zebra took my cutie mark and I’m gonna get it back.’’
‘’Ookay. And you all are here to help her?’’
‘’Yup.’’ Says Pinkie Pie who is already eating cake on the floor.
‘’You have cake?’’ The mare says and starts staring at the cake.
‘’I pack always some cake when I go somewhere. You want some?’’ Pinkie says with a big smile on her face and offers a piece.
‘’Thanks.’’
They sit at the table and the mare offers them some hot chocolate.
‘’My name is Lixidie, I have been here in the forest almost for two months now.’’
‘’My name is Twilight Sparkle.’’
‘’I’m Pinkie Pie.’’
‘’Name is Rainbow Dash.’’
‘’Rarity.’’
‘’You can call me Applejack.
‘’Umm.. I am Fluttershy.’’
‘’Well I think it’s pleasure to meet you all.’’
‘’Have you still found out where she lives? The zebra.’’ Twilight asks immediately.
‘’No, but I think I got a trace what points that she would live at south part of Eastern Forest.’’
‘’I think she is moving towards west because we came from there and she lit our house on fire when we were sleeping and if Rainbow wouldn’t have noticed we would all be dead by now.’’ Rarity tells.
‘’I don’t think it was her.’’ says Lixidie and takes a sip from her mug.
‘’No one else could have done it!’’
‘’She never tries to hurt or kill anypony. She never uses violence.’’
‘’Well who was it?’’
‘’I think it was a fire rat. It is like a normal rat but it’s teeth light things on fire. They live in the direction where come from.’’
With a little silent moment Lixidie breaks the silence.
‘’You look very tired. I have many extra beds. Do you want to take nap?’’ Lixidie offers.
Everypony nods. Lixidie shows the bedroom and everypony but Lixidie goes to sleep.
Twilight wakes up first and goes to find her bag from the kitchen but when she gets there the backpack is gone and so is Lixidie. Twilight starts panicking and wakes everypony up. Every single backpack is gone.
‘’I knew we shouldn’t have trust her.’’ Rainbow Dash states.
‘’I can’t believe it. She can’t be evil.’’ Twilight mumbles.
‘’You just have to accept that not everypony is good.’’ Rarity announces.
‘’Who is evil?’’ Says a voice from the stairway.
‘’You took our backpacks!’’ Rainbow Dash starts yelling.
‘’Yes. I did. They seemed pretty dirty so I washed them. I put all your stuff under your beds.’’ Lixidie says confused.
The pony friends look at Lixidie and then each other. They start laughing loudly.
‘’Umm.. Why are you laughing?’’ Says Lixidie and tilts her head.
‘’Nothing. Some of us seem to be a little stressed.’’ Pinkie explains and smiles at Lixidie.
‘’Okay. I have to go fill the water canister and search some berries. You want to join me? It would go a lot faster.’’ Lixidie asks and points out of the window.
‘’The water source is about a mile that way.’’
‘’I can come to help with the canister with Rarity and the others could go get some berries. Okay?’’ Twilight suggests.
Everyone nods and walks out of the house.
On their way to the water source Lixidie suddenly stops and takes her hood of and looks at Twilight.
‘’You have a really kind brother.’’
Twilight looks back at Lixidie.
‘’How do you know Shining Armor?’’
‘’I met him in canterlot. It was a rainy day, I was laying under a tree in canterlot garden. It was really cold evening. I had no place to go. The guards found me and threw me out of the garden. I stood there watching at the gate. Just when I was starting to cry, He came behind me and started yelling at the guards: ‘’Don’t you know how to treat a lady?’’ Then the guards told that they found me from the canterlot garden sleeping, but he was already giving me an umbrella and showing where I could stay through the night. At morning he was waiting me at the lobby. I spent whole day with him. He talked a lot about his sister named Twilight. But I couldn’t stay to say goodbye. I just left at midnight. I didn’t have the courage to say him goodbye.’’
Twilight and Rarity are watching at Lixidie silently.
They walk the rest of the way silent. They get the water and walk back to the house. When they open the door the house is quiet. They walk in when suddenly..
‘’Surprise!’’ Pinkie jumps behind the shelf and yells.
‘’Pinkie you scared me!’’ Twilight says to pinkie with a serious voice.
‘’Look! We found loads of berries!’’
Just when Pinkie is about to throw a handful of them in her mouth, Lixidie slaps Pinkies hoof and all the berries fall on the floor.
‘’What are you doing? It took us lots of time to collect them!’’ Rainbow says furiously.
‘’You idiots! I just saved her life!’’ Lixidie yells back at Rainbow.
‘’Saved from what? Evil vitamins?’’
‘’Those aren’t normal berries. Those are doomberries. They kill you instantly even if you take only one!’’
‘’Oh.. I didn’t know..’’
‘’Of course you didn’t! And that is why you shouldn’t underestimate my knowledge.’’
‘’Okay. I’m sorry. I should start trusting you a bit more.’’
‘’You should. Maybe you’ll learn something.’’ Lixidie says sarcastically.
‘’Okay. Now, what should we do next?’’ Rarity asks.
‘’Well..’’
‘’Let’s go find that piece of..’’ Rainbow starts but stops when Twilight looks at her.
‘’..Zebra’’ Rainbow finishes and Twilight gives her a smile.
‘’I think it’s best if wait until tomorrow so we can start early.’’ Twilight says with confident voice.
‘’By the way.. Where’s Fluttershy?’’ Pinkie asks suddenly.
‘’I am right here.’’ says Fluttershy who’s carrying four rabbits on her back.
Everypony smiles at Fluttershy. But then Rainbow Dash breaks the silence.
‘’Where did you find those?’’
‘’From outside.’’
‘’I didn’t know rabbits lived in the Everfree Forest.’’
‘’Some of them live in the Eastern part.’’ Lixidie notes.
‘’I can’t believe that I’m saying this but.. It’s nice see some rabbits after so long time.’’ Applejack says and pats one of the rabbits on the head.
They play with the rabbits rest of the day. When the night comes, Rainbow Dash and Twilight decide to take little walk outside.
‘’I didn’t think it would be so nice to live in here, but now when we have been here three days, I kind of got used to it.’’ Rainbow starts.
‘’Yeah and Lixidie is a great pony, she is so kind, caring and friendly. Think about this. She took six ponies to stay with her even after they had blamed her and ‘’attacked’’ her.’’ Twilight notes.
‘’And it is so peaceful here. No screaming of little fillies. No market noises. Just nature.’’ Rainbow starts getting a little sappy.
‘’You mean when nature is peaceful.’’
They both start laughing a little.
‘’Yeah. And I just realized that I had forgotten about my cutie mark. We had so much fun that forgot about it.. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t want it back.’’
Twilight nods.
‘’But we can worry about it tomorrow. Now, let’s just enjoy this moment.’’
They both just stand there a moment. They don’t say anything anymore but they start walking in the house and to the bedroom. Others have already gone to beds.
‘’Good night Twilight.’’
‘’Good night.’’