Scratched Out

Author's Note: This is the end. Once again, I'm sorry, Kiana.

Final Chapter

Chapter 6

Rooftop Diaries

Kiana sat on the roof of her house. She was at the bar for a few hours before heading home. When she got back, all of Vinyl's things were gone. She must have hired a mover or something. She took a nice, long swig of whiskey. This stuff was cheap, but it was pretty strong. She shuddered as it touched her tongue and stung.

Why would she do that..... *sigh* she was supposed to be my special somepony.... But, nooooo! She had to go fuck that other mare!

This night hadn't been going well for her. First she has a hard time at work, then she finds her mare friend cheating on her.

I wonder how long she's been hiding it from me.... That image of Scratch lying on her back, being pleased by another mare sickened Kiana. She went to take another swig of whiskey but found that the bottle was empty. She threw the empty bottle against the chimney, where it shattered upon impact.

She stood and wobbled a little bit. She caught her balance quickly, having only started drinking once she got up on the roof. She leaned her head back and looked into Luna's dark sky, dotted with millions of little white lights. She could have sworn she saw one disappear before her eyes and another pop up somewhere else.

"*sigh* Why can't today just go the way I want it...?" Her depression soon came back to her. Memories of when she was a filly flooded her mind.

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Kiana lived in a little village way out in the mountains where none of the other ponies even knew what Celestia or Luna looked like. They thought the princesses deserted them and left their ancestors to die. They had learned to cultivate the rocky soil to survive. It was hard, but not impossible.

Kiana had always been kept indoors. Her parents, both pegasi, were shocked that their daughter was an alicorn. They were proud of their daughter, but rarely let her out of the house for fear of their daughter being ridiculed. She had learned to entertain herself while her parents were working. She was homeschooled by her father, the teacher at the local school. She had always been told not to leave the house.

Did she listen? Of course not.

One day, she got bored and decided to go explore the little village she called home. It was all strange, seeing buildings from the outside and seeing shops, other ponies, and even the landscape. The only view she had was from her bedroom window.

She walked down the street, gazing at everything that caught her attention. All of the shops, houses, street vendors, and even other ponies caught her gaze! Mothers backed their children away from her, many stared. Ponies kept moving out of her way. She stopped and looked around.

From behind her, she heard a colt ask his mother, “Mommy, what is that thing...?”

Kiana turned and heard several whispers and a few more children asking the same question. Her eyes started to water and she backed away. She started crying a bit at all the bad things being said about her. She heard mothers tell their children she was an abomination, a freak of nature. She spread her wings and took to the air.

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Kiana was openly crying now. Memories of her first time in the open had scarred her, made her think all ponies were cruel. And now, that’s seeming to be true, again. She opened another bottle of whiskey and started chugging. This bottle was quickly drained and dropped onto the roof. The young alicorn started stumbling again and dropped to her haunches. Her tears started flowing more as she remembered something else.

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She flew until she couldn’t fly anymore. She remembered her father telling her that pegasi could walk on clouds. She wondered if she could do the same. She descended and touched down on a cloud. It was soft, but firm.

“Yes! Oh my gosh, this is so cool!” She did a little dance before seeing a pegasus moving a darker cloud around the sky. She got low and hugged her body close to the cloud she was standing on. The pegasus saw her and flew over. Kiana started shaking uncontrollably and began to back away.

“Hey, you okay? What’s wrong?”

Kiana kept shaking and walking backwards. Her back hoof stepped off the edge of the cloud and she fell. She screamed as she forgot how to use her wings. The pegasus jumped after her and grabbed her, lowering her gently to the ground below.

“Hey! You gotta be careful! You must be new around here. Name’s Drift! Drift Whitemane!”

Kiana continued to shy away from him, slowly backing herself up against a tree.

“D-daddy told me.. n-not to.. t-talk to other p-ponies....”

Drift smiled and held out his hoof. “Don’t worry, I won’t hurt you.”

Kiana just stared at him.

“What? Do I have something on my face?”

Kiana continued to stare. “Y-you’re not... scared of me...?”

“No! Why would I be? You’re just like the princesses!”

“I’m... what?”

“Geez, where did you live before? Under a rock? Yes, you’re an alicorn, just like Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.”

“Wow... We... um... My village hasn’t seen the princesses in generations.... At least, that’s what daddy told me...”

“Huh... must have been hard.”

“It was...”

“Hey, c’mon, let’s get you someplace you can stay, kay?”

“Um... A-alright...”

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Kiana smiled and wiped her eyes.

“I miss Drift...”

He had been so nice to her. He had helped her, he had protected her, he had loved her. They were together for almost two years. He left her shortly before their two-year anniversary because ‘he couldn’t handle the emotional rollercoaster.’

The tears came streaming back. The moment he dumped her was when she built that wall around her heart. This wall was broken several times as she let a few other guys into her heart in flight school. Then she met Derpy.

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“LOOK OUT BELOW!” A light gray pegasus came crashing into the clouds at Kiana’s hooves. She stood up and shook the white puffyness out of her mane. She smiled brightly with crossed eyes at the pony she almost dive-bombed.

“Um.. Hi?”

“Hey there! Sorry about that, still learning!” She smiled again, this time her tongue hanging out the side of her mouth a little. It was kind of cute. Kiana couldn’t help but giggle.

“What? Do I have something on my face?” The gray pegasus started feeling her face for something that might be out of place.

Kiana burst out laughing and started rolling around on the clouds. Kiana stood after several minutes to face the mare again.

“Hahah! Oh Celestia, that was too funny!”

The gray mare pouted a little but then cheered up. “Well, name’s Ditzy Doo! Most ponies call me Derpy though. Nice to meet you!”

Kiana smiled back. “The pleasure’s all mine. My name is Kiana.”

“Ooo, that’s a pretty name!”

“Thanks!”

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“Derpy....”

Kiana stood and looked around. She then looked over the edge of the roof.

“The ground looks really soft right now...”

She started walking closer, putting her front hooves on the edge of the roof.

“KIANA! WHERE ARE YOU?!”

That sounded like Derpy.... Kiana looked towards the voice and saw her best friend flying towards her.

“Kiana! Oh, thank Celestia I found you! Ponies have been worried sick about you!”

Kiana smiled at her friend. “Don’t worry, I’m fine.”

Derpy hovered there, just looking at Kiana. Those crossed eyes always made her smile. Eventually Derpy’s serious face turned into one of relief.

“Thanks, Kiana.” She turned to fly away but stopped. Derpy then landed on the roof in front of Kiana, a soft blush across her face.

“K-kiana... There’s something i wanna tell you...”

“What’s up?”

Derpy didn’t say anything. She walked closed to Kiana and got extremely close. Derpy then quickly kissed Kiana on the lips. When she pulled away the only thing she could see was a stunned alicorn.

“Ditzy....”

“Kiana... I... I love you... I always have....”

“Ditzy... I.... I’m so sorry.... I... I need to be alone right now...”

“Alright... Kiana...?”

“Yeah...?”

“Don’t do anything stupid....”

“..... Aright...”

Derpy then turned around and slowly flew back to Ponyville.

Kiana sat there for several more minutes, watching Derpy fly away. She stood up again and walked back to her perch on the edge of the roof. Tears were streaming down her face again.

“I’m.... I’m sorry... Ditzy...”

Then she stepped off the roof.

The last thing she felt was the wind blowing through her mane.

Thud

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The large white alicorn let out a deep sigh that echoed into the almost empty room.

“Poor dear....”

Princess Luna walked up to her sister’s side. “Do not worry, dear sister. This had to happen, as we both know.”

“Yes, Luna, I’m well aware of that. I just wish the poor dear didn’t have to go through so much pain.”

“The laws of the universe state that there shall only be two alicorns in the world. One to control the sun, the other to control the moon. All others will be purged.”

“I know what the laws state, Luna!”

Luna jumped at her sister’s sudden outburst. Only once had she seen her sister angry, and that landed her a thousand year trip to the moon.

She let out another sigh. “I’m sorry Luna. I know what the laws say, I just wish the universe had chosen a different way to... do away with her....”

“As do I, dear sister. As do I.”

The two princesses stared at the broken form of their fellow alicorn as she lay on the ground, her life snuffed out in its prime, due to the cruel laws of nature.

They just wish she didn’t have to go through so much pain.

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Fin.