Butterfly's Story

The moon was rising into the sky by the time Fluttershy had dragged her daughter over to the building address Rainbow had left behind. It was a bubblegum-shaped home full of candy theming. It looked more like a candy shop than a fostercare. Fluttershy thought to herself as they approached it's front door.

"Is this it? Oh my goodness it looks so cool in here!" Butterfly gasped, admiring all the candy-coated windows. "Is that real candy mommy? oh let me inside, let me inside!"

"I have to knock." Fluttershy clarified and slammed her hoof repeatedly on the door. It alerted who was inside and quickly the lady running the place opened up. "Hi Fluttershy! I'm the fostermom, is this the little foal your giving to me?" she asked, turning to the cowering Butterfly, who had hidden behind her mother's tail out of pure shyness. "Well, yes. Her name is Butterfly. I can't keep her anymore so you need to take good care of her, okay?"

Butterfly stopped at the "I can't keep her part." what did her mom mean by that? was she getting rid of her just like she did to her daddy? "Wait! mommy, what do you mean I'm being giving away? you aren't leaving me are you?" she cried out, hugging her mom tight so the big bad pink girl couldn't take her away. "I don't want this human to by my mom, I want you!"

"Oh I see she's a little frightened." The fostermom observed and knelt down. "It's ok little one, i'm taking care of you. Your other mommy can't anymore so she has to give you to me forawhile, okay? I have some kids inside that are around your age. They will love you."

Fluttershy departed from her daughter, kicking her away from her leg. "Promise to be good for me Butterfly and maybe we can see eachother again when you are older. But remember, don't you EVER and I mean EVER go looking for your dad. You have to hide from him for the rest of your life, you got that?"

"O-Ok.." Butterfly cried. Not wanting to face the reality of waking up without Fluttershy. What would happen to all her animal rescues? or her garden? she would never be able to do any of those things ever again now. "I love you mommy." Butterfly choked out. Fluttershy took one last glance at her and hid behind her mane. "I love you to Butterfly, be good." she then flew off into the night, never to be seen by her daughter again.

Butterfly sunk down next to the human girl who was now supposed to be her caretaker. She scrunched up her nose. She hated humans! she didn't want other ponies thinking that girl was her mommy! she knew her real mommy, and she would never forget her either. Why would she want some random fillies to play with when the only ponies she ever loved to be around where her own parents? now they were all seperated, and it would never be the way it used to!

"Come inside now. You have to meet your new siblings." The lady said, and escorted her inside. Butterfly turned away from the raining outdoors and stomped inside, sniffling as she sat down. The candy place didn't look so welcoming now. She didn't want to be in a forever hotel without her mommy. It didn't feel safe anymore.

"Violight, Tree, Carrot Dash, come downstairs this instant!" Fostermom called out. Butterfly heard some rustling upstairs before an energetic bundle of three all came crashing down the steps. All eagar to see the new pony. "Oh boy! a new sibling!" Tree exclaimed. Did that tree just..talk?

Violight and Carrot Dash stopped at the bottom of the steps and circled Butterfly. "This is our new sister? but she's so small!" Violight, a light purple unicorn with a light blue mane topped with pink and yellow streaks similar to Twilight Sparkle's complained. Carrot Dash, the other fostersibling looked more like Rainbow Dash as a filly, except she was all orange and had a dark green, blue, and hot pink mane. Butterfly was saddened that they didn't look anything like her. They didn't even have the same eye colors. Theirs were magenta, hers were a deep blue.

"Ugh, I don't want this runt in our house." Carrot Dash sneered. Fostermom ignored them and walked off. "Too bad, she has been welcomed into our house and that is where she will stay. Now get to know each other while I cook dinner."

"I will never accept you as my sister." Violight growled. "Yeah, you're just a clingy nobody who got thrown in here because your mommy didn't want to. Stay away from us! we already have to deal with Tree, now we have two freaks in our family. I liked it more when it was just me and my sister." Carrot Dash laughed, pushing Butterfly over. Butterfly, having bad cordination tripped on her hooves and fell down.
"S-Stop laughing at me!" she demanded. "Why are you being mean to me when I just met you guys?"
"Why do you think?" Violight grinned and ruffled up her pink mane, ruining it. "Come on Carrot, let's get out of here."

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A month passed by and Butterfly was confident to say that her two sisters wanted nothing to do with her at all. They were a bunch of bullies, constantly picking on her and kicking her down. She missed her old home so much, with Fluttershy she was the only pony there. No sibling to insult her or call her a mean name. She was tired of being called runt and weak! she didn't understand why they got such a sick enjoyment out of making her miserable, but atleast her only fosterbrother, the talking Tree was nice to her. He would look out for her and when it got hot in the house he'd rustle his leaves to keep her cool. He was her only friend.

What Butterfly didn't know, was Violight and Carrot were extremely jealous of her looks and because since she was new fostermom gave her a lot more attention. When they were first dropped off they got all the love, being first to eat and be tucked into bed, loved and fondled over, something their past parents would neglect to do for them. Today, Carrot Dash had caught Butterfly sulking on the pink lolipop-themed balcony again. Just sitting there sad.

"Butterfly! all you ever do is sit by that balcony and stare at nothing all day, what is wrong with you?" Carrot questioned rather rudely, scaring Butterfly from behind with her harsh tone. Butterfly turned around and shrunk under her older sister's glare. "S-Sorry!"

Violight followed her sister upstairs. "That's all she can do now that her mommy abandoned her. She didn't want her no more so now Butterfly understands how useless she really is."
"You're LYING! SHE DIDN'T ABANDON ME!" Butterfly cried. "My real mommy loves me more than the whole world! and i'm not useless! Tree likes me!"
"Then why are you here? do you think she's just going to show up one day and come back for you?" Carrot challedged in a mocking tone. "Yes..she has to!" Butterfly replied. Violight nudged Carrot's shoulder. "Come on, let's go downstairs and play. Without Butterfly."

"But fostermommy said everybody has to be included in games!" Butterfly protested, chasing the two downstairs. "Yeah right, your no fun to play with! hey Carrot, I dare you to try and fly before Butterfly can. I bet with how small her wings are she could never beat you." Violight pointed. Butterfly felt anger swell up in her chest. You don't know that for sure, Violight!

"I can fly! I just don't know how to use my wings." Carrot turned toward her. "Then learn how, idiot." Tree came up from behind and waved his branches. "I know you can do it, Butterfly! just believe in yourself! flap your wings really fast."

"Ok Tree." Butterfly agreed and turned to her rude sisters. "Just watch me!" she said. with all her effort she flapped them fast, pushing herself up into the air. It took a lot out of her, but she was able to do it. Flying side to side she giggled. "I'm doing it! I'm learning how to fly!"

"That looks so easy." Carrot grunted, flapping her orange wings to try and catch up to her younger sister. However, as she attempted to hoist herself up into the air she tumbled and faceplanted. Violight cringed as Carrot Dash tried again and again, never really able to get flapping as fast as young Butterfly and falling to the ground in every way imaginable. "Ugh, just get me time to flap my wings harder!" she said, as Butterfly had already fully learned how fly at that point.
Ignoring her older sisters struggles, Butterfly became fully immersed in seeing what her young wings could do. She spun upside down like Rainbow occasionally did. She learned how to fly up into the air and how to land. "It's only my first try!" Butterfly gasped, however Carrot Dash had enough of her success.

"THATS IT!" she shrieked, jumping into the air and grabbing Butterfly by both wings before tossling her to the floor. "You cheater! you're just trying to make me look bad! i'll rip your little feathers out, every single one of them SO YOU CAN NEVER FLY AGAIN, you hear me?"

"Wh-whuh? but I was just flying like you told me too!" she cried, trying to squeeze out of her older sister's grip. "Let's punish her for being a stupid cheater." Violight piped in, and together both of them beat the shit out of poor Butterfly. They punched and kicked her in the chest and sides, leaving bruises on her yellow coat. Tree saw what was happening and hopped over, he was a bit slow because jumping with just a stump for legs sucked.

"Hey! quit it you two!" he demanded. "Butterfly was just doing what you told her, and now you're beating her up?" Carrot stopped and turned toward the talking tree. "You know WHY we both hate you two so much? because before you two freaks got here it was just me and Violight. we were loved and we had a chance of going to a new home. But NOO! you two have to be cuter looking and nicer than us. YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!"

Butterfly scrambled to all four of her hooves and rushed out the door as Violight made an attempt to reach her. "Let her run away. We taught her a lesson." Carrot Dash smirked as Tree hobbled after her. "Wait, Butterfly!" he called out, finding her outside the fosterhome and crying.

"Oh Tree...I just want to go home to my real mommy!" Butterfly cried into her arms, crouching up into a ball of sadness. Tree leaned over her protectively. "I'm sorry they did that Butterfly. You are a really good flier, don't listen to them. We can tell fostermommy everything."

"She won't believe us Tree. She never does." Butterfly exhaled, trembling. "All I wanted was to impress them, I thought Violight would be proud of me, It's not my fault I laughed a little when I saw Carrot Dash fall on her butt multiple times. She laughs at me when I mess up."

Meanwhile, Violight and Carrot Dash were thinking of a way to get revenge on both of them. "Hey Carrot," Violight smirked. "I got an idea. Let's lure Tree over to our rooms and then beat him up. I'll tell you what to do next."

"Hmm, ok then." She agreed. About an hour later, Butterfly heard branches snapping. She knew right away it wasn't just any tree outside, that was her brother! he was in trouble! "TREE!" she gasped, flying fast downstairs to see what was happening to him. She had an idea of who, but couldn't confirm until she saw with her own two eyes. As she predicted, Carrot Dash and violight where standing over him, almost all of his bright green leaves were surrounding him.

"YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Butterfly screamed. She knew the only way to save him was something she promised her real mom she would never use again, but if she didn't she feared her little brother might die. Glowing pink, she used her magic to lift them into the air while she dashed in and grabbed him. "Tree are you okay?"

"Too weak. Can't move." He breathed and passed out in her arms. Butterfly held him close as she let her other sisters go. Suddenly, a bright white flash appeared out of nowhere. Was her flank glowing? turning toward it in confusion, her eyes widened as the white glow faded away, leaving behind something that was not there before. Her cutie mark! it was two blue hearts on top of each other, one light blue and one dark blue. It was only the outlines, they weren't colored in. In fact it was super generic, but Butterfly loved it.

"Oh my gosh, I got my cutie mark!" Butterfly gasped. "WHAT!" Violight and Carrot dash exclaimed in disbelief, quicking rushing over to her to inspect both flanks. Carrot and Violight were extremely jealous but tried to play it off as being disappointed by it. "Really? two stupid hearts? lots of ponies have hearts on their flank, it's nothing special at all."

"You don't like them?" Butterfly frowned. "B-But you bullied me for being a blank flank when you guys are too! I thought you'd atleast be proud of me."

"Seriously? US ever proud of you? as if." Violight retorted. Suddenly fostermom appeared and saw the damage they had done to Tree. "Butterfly!" she gasped in horror. "You did this to him didn't you? I saw you just push your sisters away."

"No I was-" Butterfly got cut off by her angry mother. "Your just picking on them because you have your cutie mark and they don't. It always happens in fostercare homes like this." Butterfly became irritated by her fostermom's stupidity. Did she never look at her flank before? she never had a cutie mark until today!

"Yeah Butterfly!" Her sisters chimed in, playing along with their mother's misinterpretation. "Be nicer!"