Chapters Dinky ran about her small room, sweat beading down her forehead as she looked about. Her blonde mane was in disarray as she zipped from one area of her room to another. The room was modest, it had simple white walls and a small red bed, one wall of the room was adorned with a large bookshelf, each full of titles varying from fiction to magic to lizards. Although she had a very large space to hold books, her floor was covered with short piles of books due to her very large collection. She balanced herself, digging her hooves into the carpet as she halted before a small pile of books. Her eyes scanned the room quickly as she searched.
“nononononononononono.” She muttered to herself, scanning the bookshelf, running her hoof over the titles to make sure she could see the books in their full identity. Hearing this disarray, Ditsy leaned into the room, her light blonde mane bouncing slightly as she leaned into the room.
“Dinky, what in the name of Celestia are you doing here?” She asked quizzically, raising her eyebrow to physically display her vexation at the events occurring in front of her. Dinky paused again, her small frame bracing. She stared at her mother, eyes wide with stress.
“Mom… do you know where my practical guide to basic magic is?” She spurted, the words coming from her were quick and immediate.
“Slow down honey” Ditsy said kindly, trotting into the room, watching her hooves as she danced through the room as not to disturb the books. I need to get her a new bookshelf she thought to herself as she navigated the labyrinthine structure of books on her daughter’s floor. “Remember, you left on your sheets last night when you were reading it after you were supposed to be sleeping.” She said, a smirk on her face. Dinky shuddered at the thought of her mother knowing she had been reading at night.
Dinky sighed happily, surrounding the dilapidated book with a purple aura as she placed It in the bulging saddlebags clinging to Velvet’s side. She lifted the flap and wedged the book in with all the other supplies in the bag. Velvet had been reading that book nonstop, practicing her magic nonstop ever since Twilight had told her about how she got her cutie mark. She was nearly infuriated that she couldn’t use magic yet, even though the other unicorn fillies in town had already begun to write using magic instead of their teeth.
Ditsy hovered in the air to keep from toppling the disorganized books as she left the room, her eyes crossed. Dinky sighed, this was her first day of school, all of the other fillies had been for a year now and she was still forced to wait with her mother still confused on whether she knew her ABC’s or not. This day would change her life, and her reputation, how she presented herself, decided the outcome of her whole young life! Her mother had a reputation for clumsiness, and she hoped it didn’t carry to her, she was adopted anyways. Not like she would tell anypony that, but still, she needed to be sure her mother couldn’t ruin her life. She always felt sad inside when she remembered her mother could be very embarrassing, she was smarter that most ponies, and dinky loved her mother with all her heart, but others just saw her as a nuisance, a mistake, they probably thought of Dinky the same way. Dinky vowed that she would secure her, and her mother in a place of honor, and show that she was smart. This was her chance, to prove herself, and to learn. She smiled, made sure her bags were on tight, and raced out of her room into the small kitchen of the family’s humble cottage. Ditsy was sitting on their round wooden table, holding a muffin between her front hooves, munching on it happily. Dinky trotted with her small hooves aver to the table.
“Hey mommy, ready to go!” Dinky said, shaking with the sheer anticipation of the events that were to follow, school, she was going to school, much to her mother’s grief. Ditsy sighed, but was still happy, she knew she would have to let go of her little muffin, even though she feared that her clumsiness would affect her daughter’s social life.
“Wait” Ditsy said, holding up a hoof “ you need to get some breakfast my little muffin!”
“B…but mom! I wanna get to school already!”
“School won’t start until seven-thirty, you need to eat!” Ditsy cooed, her eyes crossing again, and she dropped the small glass of orange juice in her other hoof onto the wooden floor of the cottage, she cursed under her breath, letting her wings carry her over to the site of the spill. One of her derp moments, again. She sighed, but found a small purple filly rushing towards her.
“What is it muf-“ Ditsy asked, fearful that her daughter would cut her hooves on the glass, but before she could interject, Dinky began straining, all four hooves digging into the floor. Dinky gritted her eyes, beads of sweat cascading from her forehead. Her horn began to spark, and soon her horn was surrounded with a yellow glow. The pieces of the broken glass were beginning to shake as they were surrounded with a yellow aura, they lifted simultaneously, but the aura dissipated, and Dinky laid on the ground, exhausted. But even worse was her mood, she had tried to fix the glass, tried to make things better, tried to make her mommy proud, but instead she fell short. Dink slumped down on the floor, looking at her hooves with the dismay of her failure. Her eyes trembled, threatening the coming of tears, but instead, the filly placed her rump on the ground, and stared at the broken glass.
Ditsy sensed the sadness emanating from her daughter and quickly moved to embrace and comfort her little muffin, only to find her moving away from her embrace. Dinky turned to her mother, looking down at the ground.
“Im sorry mommy, I only wanted to help, but I can’t do anything helpful.” She motioned to the glass, now in smaller shards. “I’m just useless, I’m a unicorn and I even mess magic up.” Ditsy put her hoof on her daughter’s shoulder and smiled.
“Come on my little muffin, don’t mope around, you just lifted multiple objects, in the air, all by yourself, we should be celebrating!” Dinky looked up at her mother, wiping the small amounts of tears from her face so she could truly see her mother looming above her.
“y…you really mean that?” She asked, mouth slightly ajar, awaiting an answer from her mother.
“Of course muffin, you are amazing, and you are very special, don’t let anybody, including you, tell you otherwise.” Ditsy smiled reassuringly, and Dinky replied with a nod before tilting her head towards the clock above the simple cabinetry of the cottage to see the time was seven fifteen. Dinky bolted up, leaving her past emotions behind quickly. Ditsy smiled and flew after her, grabbing her mail bag. She landed next to her daughter on the yard, careful not to trample the flowers lining the grass patch in front of their blue bungalow. She kneeled down, saddlebag open, and dinky gleefully climbed inside, her head and two fore hooves poking out in a way that Ditsy always found adorable. With a nod, Ditsy took off, struggling only for the brief moment when the full weight of the two mares was on Ditsy’s wings. But soon she was stable, and flew over the rolling green hills of their small neighborhood. Dinky had come to peace with herself, she was going to prove to all those who thought she and her mommy were stupid and clumsy, she would prove them wrong, for her family.
Author's Note
I do not own anything from MLP
Dinky looked down at the scenery of ponyville, eyes wide as she gaped at the scenery before, sure, she had seen ponyville from above plenty of times, but it still made her struck with awe
Ditsy landed, and Dinky jumped out, shaking in her hooves with the anticipation of the events that were to follow. Disty calmly placed a hoof on her daughter’s shoulder smiling reassuringly as she tilted her head forward. Dinky was smiling, anticipating what was to come.
“I love you little muffin.” Ditsy said, facing tears, “you’re growing up, and I bet you’re gonna be the smartest filly in the class, just remember, tell if anypony is mean to, and make sure you learn.” She hugged her daughter, and winced when Dinky crushed her in the warm embrace of her daughter.
“I love you mommy, I’ll do the best I can.” She let go, to her mothers’ relief, and ran into the mass of fillies and colts crowding out of the front of the school. Ditsy realized the inconvenient time, and flew off to her job at the ponyville postal service. Floating off, leaving her daughter to a hopefully good day.
Ten fillies and colts jumped into the room, quickly claiming desks in the small cottage. DInky was the last inside, due to letting many fillies push past her to take their seats. She sighed, trotting into the room, bouncing with every step. She inquisitively turned her head to the walls, all covered in bookshelves and the drawings of students. It was very, warm and welcoming, she only hoped the teacher would be the same. She smiled, examining the walls and looking at the desks, there were a few empty ones, and Dinky chose one in the very front, so she could answer more questions. She sat down, drawing her books and pencils from the saddlebag. Her hoof shook as she felt the rough interior of the bag and pulled out her practical guide to basic magic. Placing it on top of the gigantic pile of books on her desk. She smiled, now she was ready to learn.
Just as she completed this task, a magenta mare with a kind smile on her face and pink hair trotted into the room.
“Hello everypony!” she said in a kind voice.
“Hello mrs. Cheerilee!” The class replied, some blanky, yet some enthusiastic. Yet one voice was elated, the voice of the small grey-purple filly. She had a bright smile and was literally shaking in her seat. Cheerilee smiled back, truly gleeful at a student who cared about her class. Cheerilee stood confidently at the head of the class.
“Now, I’d like to begin today with a little introduction, we have a new student!” SHe pointed at dinky, raising her hoof. Dinky understood this as a sign that she should stand, and she followed suit, actually getting a good view of the class. Everypony was staring at her. She could see the cutie mark crusaders in the second row, scoodaloo seemed to be drawing up plans for whatever cutie mark they were trying to find next. While applebloom and Sweetie belle were looking at her like all the other fillies. Also, two fillies were sitting next to her that she knew as Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, the two fillies who had gotten their cutie marks first in their class. Diamond Tiara made jewelry and SIlver Spoon was a good cook, at least her parents thought that, as well as her flank. In fact, everypony had their cutie marks, except for her and the crusaders. She gulped, feeling a mixture of satisfaction that she wasn’t the only blank flank, and yet she was petrified that all of these fillies were eyeing her up, looking at her as a lion examined its food.
“Ummmm...hello?” She murmured, sinking down. She avoided the gaze of the class, gazing at only her hooves. She could hear hoofsteps, and saw cheerilee coming towards her in her peripheral vision. The teacher laid her hoof on Dinky’s back, comforting the filly.
“C’mon, tell the class your name, there’s nothing to be afraid of, everypony is welcomed in this school!” She said, a calm reassuring voice gave dinky an ounce of courage and she looked at the glass again. She gulped.
“I’m D....Dinky Doo, and I ummm...I like reading and magic and learning.” She mustered, saying the words as quickly as she could to get this awkward moment over with. Cheerilee nodded, letting Dinky sit again.
“Well now that we’re done with that, let’s get to math, now can anypony tell me what eight times eight is?” Dinky’s Hoof shot into the air.
“Yes, Dinky.” Cheerilee said, smiling at the prospect that the little filly had the courage to raise her hoof to a difficult question.
“Would you like to come up to the board?” She asked gingerly, hoping that Dinky would forget her embarrassment. Dinky nodded and trotted to the board, picking up the chalk in her hoof as she drew the numbers out on the board. After she was done, she stepped from the board to admire her work. She closed her eyes, and enunciated how she solved it.
“So pretty much, what I did was do eight plus eight eight times, and got sixty-four!”
“ Yes everypony, that is exactly what you do, Dinky did a wonderful job. DInky blushed, and sunk into her seat, afraid of all the attention she was getting. A small purple hoof raised into the air, and cheerilee called on it.
“Yes Diamond?”
“I don’t get what’s the big deal, multiplication sounds just like adding, it seems just seems really easy.” She said in a posh voice, yet the voice held bitter shards of cruelty and jealousy.
“Well if it’s so easy, why don’t you tell me what twelve times twelve is?” Diamond sank into her seat, sweating nervously. She ran up to the board and began scribbling random numbers.
“Ummmmmmm...” She contemplated, writing all over the board.
“Twenty four?” She said reluctantly, setting her chalk on the front desk.
“I’m sorry Diamond, that isn’t correct, maybe try listening instead of trying to make others look bad.” Cheerilee glanced daggers into Diamond Tiara, as she walked to her desk, ashamed.
“Now then, may I elaborate on Dinky’s lesson?” She asked, the class nodded, and she broke down the problem down on the board, and explained the problem Dinky just completed.
“Man, Diamond totally got her flank kicked by that new pony!” She heard Scooldaloo say as she talked to the rest of the cutie mark crusaders. Diamond winced, that stupid filly had made her look bad, just because she was trying to make sure she just knew her place among her betters who actually had cutie marks unlike those stupid blank flanks. Ugh, she shuddered at the thought of not being special of being one of those stupid blank flanks, that’s what her father told her, that she had no buisness even talking to those filthy things , they weren’t even regular ponies. They were mistakes , celestia should just banish all of their, filthy, lowlife, scumness to where nopony would have to associate with them. After all, it was their fault they weren’t special, their fault that they didn’t deserve to even touch someone the likes of her. After all, she was a pure earth pony, not horrific monsters like the pegasi and unicorns, they were all freaks in her eyes, and her father’s. She would teach that stupid dinky that she was superior, and that she would never be as good at anything as her, after all, it was just the natural order of things. AT least that’s what her father had told her.
Dinky trotted out of the schoolhouse, beaming with pride at her achievements. She had answered a question the other fillies didn’t know, what fillies did that? That purple pony with the fancy tiara had tried to make her look bad, but in the end she looked bad instead of her! Dinky hopped up and down with elation, but stopped after hearing her lunch bounce around in her bag, she wanted to eat lunch that wasn’t messed up by her careless hopping. The grass tickled her hooves as she trotted around the yard, looking for anypony to eat with. But she decided against it, talking would just make her eat slower and she really wanted to study up on that magical guide. So she sat down on the wall of the schoolhouse and unloaded her lunch, a dandelion sandwich. She opened the bag and grabbed the sandwich, taking a small bite. The delicious flavors of dandelion filled her mouth, and the bitter yet oddly sweet flavor sang to her a chorus of joy. She was very hungry from her valiant effort at magic and her nervousness in front of the class, so she devoured the sandwich in a few minutes. She sat rubbing her belly, satisfied with the meal now digesting. She yawned and removed her dilapidated book from the saddlebag. She flipped the pages with her hoof until she reached the first spell in the book, page turning. She looked down at the book, imagining the magic within her connecting to her horn, she focused on her bony appendage, and braced herself against the ground, grunting slightly. A few fillies were watching her, but they soon turned back to their conversations. She could now feel the magic pulsing through her veins and going to her horn, circulating back to its origin. She then focused herself, and imagined a yellow tentacle turning the page for her. She looked down at the book, watching as it slowly became enveloped in a magical yellow aura. The aura became stronger on her page, and, just as the book depicted, the page turned, and the yellow aura faded. Dinky raised her hooves in silent celebration, then stuck her nose into the welcoming pages, reading again. Wishing to vastly increase her knowledge. She was sweating from the spell, but she tried a different one, in which she would lift a small pebble in front of her and throw it against the wall. She strained, her magic circuit completing once again, but she was interrupted by her magical tome fly out of her hooves. She looked up, puzzled, to find that Diamond tiara was now holding the book.
“H...hey...give that back you meanie!” She shouted, trying to wrench the book from Diamond’s hands, but the filly only tsked, moving the book out of reach of Dinky.
“Oh isn’t that cute, little foal blank-flank wants her wittle book back!”Silver spoon interjected, laughing at the filly desperately trying to reach the book.
“I love how you little blank flanks think you actually deserve books like this, or cutie marks, or to even be in the same rooms as us higher beings.”
“Yeah, all you idiots are just stupid mistakes.”
“I...I’m not a mistake, I just want my book back!” \
“You think you deserve a book, just so you can feel a little bit better about being a freak .”
“What do you mean?”
“You’re a pointy-head, and a blank flank, you are like soooo below me!” Diamond tiara jabbed, pointing to her horn.
“HEY! Just because I’m a unicorn or a blank flank doesn’t mean I’m below you! Give me my book!” She shouted angrily at the pair.
“Awww...now wittle pointy-head is getting upset!” Silver spoon cooed at Dinky.
“Stop it! You two are being mean! Just give me back my book!” Dinky shouted angrily. Now most of the fillies were watching, but they could not stand up, due to the fact that if anypony touched one of the pair, they would just go crying to their rich daddies. Dinky braced, hoping to use her newfound knowledge of magic to try and get her book back. She felt the connection between her horn and her magic, but something was...different. While her magic before had been much like a trickling stream, but she had activated the link quicker, now it was like a surging river. Some blockages she had before were cleared, and her power was no longer restrained. A yellow aura erupted from her horn and began to envelop the book, and it began to float from her hooves back into Dinky’s saddlebag. The two fillies stood in shock and silence, as Dinky bolted from them. She ran off, tears spilling from her eyes. She swallowed her tears and gazed around her. All of the fillies were looking at her, some speechless, others with faces of simple admiration. She gazed towards Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, who just walked off, accepting their temporary defeat. And she saw a small hoof waving towards her. She trotted towards it, happy to see someone who actually wanted her. She gazed at the three fillies in front of her, she knew them, they were the cutie mark crusaders. And they were famous over ponyville for their crazy antics. She sat down, expecting somepony to say something. And Scoodaloo was first to speak.
“That was awesome! You totally showed those two!”
“I just took my book back, nothing big.”
“You kidding, those jerks get whatever they wan’ It’s time somepony took a stand.” Applebloom said, smiling at the filly.
“Hey, you wanna join us, I can see you don’t have your cutie mark either!” Sweetie belle said, pointing at Dinkys empty flank.
“Y...You guys wanna be...friends...with a freak like me?”
“Y’all ain’t no freak, Diamond just has these crazy delusions that earth ponies are the pure race or whatever.”
“O...okay, you sure?” All three fillies nodded and smiled.
“Now I have a plan t-” Scoodaloo began, but was interrupted by the sharp cry of a school bell, lunch was over. The three fillies sighed and trotted back to the door with Dinky trailing.
Dinky ran into the bright schoolhouse, which was now extremely welcoming to her after only her first day. She bolted in, the door closing behind her in a thud. Oh how she loved the warm feel of the schoolhouse, the feeling of glazed wood as her hooves slid upon the floors, the bookshelves lining the halls, and even the blackboard gave her an odd sense of comfort. She trotted between the desks, only a few fillies in the class due to her earliness. SHe plopped down on a seat, enjoying the feel of the wooden chair against her rump. She loved everything about school, and learning, she loved learning. Some people said it was boring, but it was new information, new ways to see the muddled and confused world around her. She wanted to know how the sun worked, how chemistry worked, how the world worked, what the word “Macerate” meant. She wanted to know , and she absorbed knowledge like a sponge. How good it felt, she felt a tingling in her horn every single time she learned something new. She had a voracious hunger for knowledge.
She grabbed the beginner’s guide to practical magic and propped it open, looking up a new spell. She strained and focused, beginning to turn the pages. She stopped at a spell that interested her, and she began to read.
Before Dinky knew it, cheerilee walked into the class, repeating her usual mantra of introductions, and Dinky pushed her book into her purple saddlebag and rested her hooves on her desk, ready to learn. Cheerilee smiled again, gleeful her new student was so curious and ready to learn. She turned to the class, beaming.
“Hello my little ponies, now today we’re going to learn about history! Specifically, the poniecians, or, later in history, the colthageinians!” Dinky raised her hoof.
“Yes Dinky?”
“How does a civilization have two names?”
“Well... the Poniecians were an empire on the other side of the ocean, but then they were overtaken by the Colthageinians. They are different civilizations who inhabited the same place.” Dinky nodded understandingly, and Cheerilee carried on with her lesson.
“Now class, can you tell me what large empire fought against the Colthageinians?” A small purple hoof raised into the air again.
“The Romponians?”
“Yes Dinky, that is correct, now the Romponians were an interesting empire, much of their art was in the style of pegasi. Now, the Romponians were predominantly made up of pegasi, while Colthage was mainly made up of unicorns and pegasi. The Romponians were very brutal and warlike, after all, they had descended from captain hurricane. Now, Colthage was a very intelligent empire. They developed the first apartments, and devised gigantic air frigates powered by magic and pegasi. There were three wars, and in the end, Colthage won the wars, destroying Rompony. That is a basic overview, but we’re going to go much more in depth. Anypony have questions?” A yellow hoof raised into the calm air.
‘Yes applebloom?”
“Didn’t the Colthaginians cross over the great air divide while riding on phoenixes? Even though it was a huge blizzard and the pheonixes were armored for warmer climates? I learned that from Twilight telling me history was cool.”
“Why yes, that was one of the greatest military feats ever done, and it was the Colthageinians. Now let me begin-” The lesson carried on, with many a question curious and wise. Dinky was dumbfounded, phoenixes, over freezing mountains! That was so cool! She became very engaged, hanging on every word spoken as a token of vast knowledge. And became engrossed in the lesson. Diamond Tiara, glanced over to the filly, disgusted at her interest. I always hate it how those freaks think that they can compensate for their mistakes by trying to study, don’t they know they can never be as great as us higher beings? She thought as she grimaced at the thought of any mistakes being successful. Meanwhile Scoodaloo simply drew out plans for a trebuchet so she could try and fly. As well as fling bananas for banana catching cutie marks.
After the mind-blowing lesson, Dinky skipped outside of school, going back to her corner to read. She plopped down, and grabbed the tome. Feeling the smooth paper cover, she inhaled the beautiful aroma of paper that reminded her of Twilight’s library. She propped open the book, and began to read, lost in a sea of words. This was euphoria for Dinky, this was home , among her books, she could read for eternity. But then, an orange filly blocked her view.
“What are you reading?” Scoodaloo asked, eyes shining brightly in the midday sun.
“Ummmm... A practical guide to basic magic.” The filly scanned the pages, but then grimaced.
“Looks complicated.”
“Not really.” Scoodaloo sighed and trotted off with the rest of the CMC. Dinky began reading her book again. She strained, attempting to take a pencil from her saddlebag and write on the back page of the book. She surrounded the pencil in a strong yellow aura, and placed it on the book, she strained, moving the pencil. But it dropped after her concentration was interrupted by a sharp CRACK. She looked down at the pencil to find it’s lead broken. She sighed and put the book down, instead switching to a Daring Do book. She propped it open, and began to immerse herself in the pages once again. The rough texture of the paper welcoming to her hooves.
Several minutes later, she found the book lying out of her hooves. She looked up, once again to be met with the face of Diamond Tiara.
“What do you want?” Dinky asked, a hint of fear in her voice.
“What do you think freak .” Diamond tiara replied, grabbing Dinky’s magic book from her bag.
“Why are you trying to take my book again?”
“You showed me up yesterday, made me look like an idiot because of you, you don’t even deserve the same air as me, but you think you can actually touch me with you freak magic. Now is the time I really show you.”
“Wha-” Dinky was met with a pink hoof in her stomach. She doubled back, gasping for breath on the ground. She felt as if all breath and air and been pushed out of her in a single breath. She gasped for air, an action which sent creeping tendrils of pain up her torso. She gazed up at a smirking filly.
“Good, now you know your place, below me .” She said creully laughing as she walked off with the book.
“Well, isn’t this a precious little book. It tells you exactly how to be a freak .” She said as she turned towards the sobbing filly. She grabbed one of the pages with her hoof and pulled abruptly, sending several pages spiraling to the ground. For Dinky, the soft sound of paper hitting the ground was the sound of an elephant stomping. Diamond tiara was manic, laughing as she sent more pages to the ground. A symphony of stomps singing a song of despair to the unicorn. Her magic, the one book she could use to actually hone her abilities, was gone. Diamond was shouting now in rhythm of the ripping.
“ THIS IS WHAT YOU GET OR BEING A STUPID, BLANK-FLANK, FREAK, YOU DESERVE TO DIE IN THE PITS OF TARTARUS!” She yelled in frantic mania, planting another hoof into the now bawling filly. Pain shot into her as she gaped on the ground between sobs. Her book her precious book that taught her everything about her abilities, gone. She cried out with tears of utter desperation and sadness, and her red eyes were met with the sight of all the pages of her beloved book. She scrambled forward, feeling the shredded paper in her tender hooves.
“Nononononononono...my...my...book.” He muttered between sobs, stuck in the utter futility of her magic.
“See... all that freak magic and look at what you are, nothing .” She laughed, ckicking the downed filly again. Pain shooting up her side again.
“P...please...stop.” At this, Diamond giggled.
“STOP, STOP, YOU THINK, AFTER YOU TOUCH ME WITH YOUR DISGUSTING FREAK MAGIC AND YOU REFUSE TO ACCEPT ME AS A HIGHER BEING, NOW, WHEN YOU GET WHAT YOU AND YOUR KIND DESERVE, YOU ASK ME TO STOP!” Dinky looked up in horror as she was met with a hoof in the jaw. She felt a burst of blood running into her mouth as she gazed up, now unable to move her mouth. She was in agony, the scratching of her now moved jaw pestering her every time she made a small movement. She submitted, wallowing in a pool of a mixture of blood and despair, she submitted. However, just as she gave up, something clicked inside of her, something, connected. She stood up, the pain now dulled to the point that it was nothing, even though she would be writhing in agony at any other time. She stood. Her eyes slowly parted, revealing her yellow eyes to be gone, and instead, it was replaced by pure white. Her horn was gleaming. and she began to hover in the air. A celestial aura surrounded the filly as she lost awareness of everything around her, her body becoming a puppet of greater magic within her. All attention was now on Diamond as she gazed nervously at the filly floating next to her.
In a burst of pure, unfiltered arcane energy, Diamond Tiara was lifted into the air three meters, she struggled and fought against the force, but it was far beyond the foal. Suddenly, all force dropped, and she plummeted to the ground. Pain shot into her leg, and she cried out, sobbing and bawling on the ground. She looked down at her cut, it was about a centimeter in width and five in length, it could have been mistaken as a paper cut. A small drop of blood fell out, and she stared in agony.
“NO, OH GOD IT’S BLEEDING!” She said as she wailed, crying and crying, but nopony came to her side. She looked up, finding dinky floating. That was when it began to rain. The fillies gazed up, as the storm became torrential, the pattering of heavy rain became so loud one would have to shout to even have a chance to be heard. All only in a matter of seconds. Diamond looked up, finding her breath foggy. Goosebumps popped on her skin, it was freezing, but it had been twenty degrees moments ago. The rain itself turned to hail. And it began to pelt all of the fillies. They ran into the schoolhouse, sopping and hurt. Cheerilee gazed up from her grading to find a soaking class in her room.
“What is going on?” She asked in an inquisitively kind voice. Applebloom stepped forward, breathing heavily.
“Dinky.” Was the only word she muttered as Cheerilee ran outside, investigating the hail.
“Wow, I really do get in the zone when I grade papers.” She muttered as she ran to the incredible sight of Dinky floating in the air. Hail pestered her at every moment, and she was already feeling pain. She gazed up, wind blowing her mane this way and that. She looked down, finding Diamond tiara sobbing as she gazed at her paper cut. Cheerilee stood imposing over the filly.
“What in the name of celestia happened?”
“It was her, she did it, she hurt me, and then just went crazy!” Diamond yelled in a non convincing voice.
“Is OW that OW what OW really OW GOD THAT BURNS Happened?” Not even getting an answer, she picked up Diamond and ran away, following the fillies and colts that already fleed the site without her knowing.
Meanwhile, in twilight’s library, twilight was interrupted by loud thudding on her roof. The purple mare stepped up from her couch, gazing up at the roof.
“Usually the pegasi would tell us when they make a malestrom like this, well, at least I get to stay in and re-” She was interrupted by knocking at her door. Twilight sighed, trotting over before she opened the door with a magical aura. She was surprised when she was met with Cheerilee herself.
“What is going on?” Twilight asked, truly vexed at the situation. Cheerilee only muttered a single word.
“Help.”
Twilight Sparkle stood dumbfounded at her door, it was hailing, during summer! She looked down at the exhausted teacher below her, wondering whatever situation was assaulting the teacher’s stamina.
“W...what happened?”
“I don’t know! I was grading papers, and Dinky Hooves was having a magical, whatever it is, like nothing i’ve ever seen before. I think it had something to do with Diamond tiara though.” The name sparked a keen interest in Twilight.
“Diamond tiara, that’s the one that Applejack keeps hearing about from Applebloom, she’s the one who keeps bullying those three about their cutie marks.”
“Really, I’ve never caught wind!”
“You should probably have more parent teacher confrences.” Twilight said, before realizing that there was a worse issue at hand.
“What’s going on with Dinky?”
“Something bad happened, and her magic is freaking out, she’s hovering in the air and her eyes are bright white.” Twilight’s eyes nearly fell out of her skull in surprise, she felt a sense of vertigo, a dizziness unparalleled.
“What!?”
“Yeah it’s rare, what’s so special about it?”
“Rare! It’s not only rare, it’s only ever been seen in one other pony in all of equestrian history, she has incredible magical talent, talent beyond anything most unicorns could comprehend!”
“Wait, who else had this, starswirl the bearded, Celestia?”
“No...” She gulped down, her stomach churning at the very thought.
“Me.” Cheerilee nodded, her sopping wet mane dripping on the warm wooden floors as her eyes widened.
“Oh... well, you know how to stop this, right?” Twilight only nodded, sighing as she was sucked in her deep contemplation. However, she was happy, but still immersed in deep thought. She knew this untamed power had to be harnessed for the good of equestria, just like hers many years ago. Without a word, she rushed out of the door, mud splashing her purple coat as she ran towards the school. Meanwhile, she began to feel bruises and jolts of pain continually assaulting her. He sighed, summoning a purple bubble around herself. She relaxed, no longer pelted with sharp globs of ice. But soon her ears were instead assaulted with an incessant pounding. She continued on her run, the thatched hooves of ponyville slowly falling victim to to the maelstrom. Soon, she reached the schoolhouse, where she was met with the sight of a celestial light bleeding from the filly. She looked up, stricken by the briuses and cuts adorning the filly’s body.
“Hmmmmm...If she was hurt, that would have triggered a response in her nervous system, opening the magical boundaries in her bloodstream, she truly does possess immense power.” She gazed up again, and tapped the filly’s hoof, calmly stroking her wet velvety fur. The blinding light receded, and the filly’s eyes began to revert to their original colour. Twilight sighed, smiling kindly as she floated down to the ground. The pounding on Twilights shield stopped, and the temperature immediately reverted to normal.
Dinky retained her consciousness, finding a wet-maned librarian gazing down at her. She felt weak, all of her muscles were sore, her head was splitting, and she could barely hear Twilight over the loud pounding in her ears.
“W...what?” She muttered weakly, confused at the events that just took place. Twilight smiled, and slowly receded from her shaky vision, and was replaced by her mother, tears streaming down her red face. She took up her daughter, crushing in warm embrace. THis sent tendrils of sharp pain through Dinky’s weak body as she gazed up at her mother. Ditsy let go, kissing her daughter.
“Oh Celestia, was so worried about you little muffin!”
“M...Mom? What happened?” She muttered again weakly.
“I’ll tell you later, we have to get you to the hospital Dinky!” Her mother said worriedly, handing the rough plastic stretcher she was currently laying on. They loaded her into the ambulance, and Dinky felt vertigo overcome her as she was lifted. Up and down became muddled, her vision spinning wildly, she became overcome, and drifted once again as the cascading sirens crescendoed into nothingness along with her vision.
Dinky awoke with a start, sweating profusely and gasping for breath in her empty lungs. Her gaze shot around the sterile, white room as she felt the soft sheets enveloping her. She sighed, tired and sore, as she laid back, gazing at the white ceiling. She sighed, the hospital, she was okay. She gazed about, finding a desk and several machines beeping to the rhythm of her heart. She gazed at her torso to find several white sups attached to wires, they stuck to her with a odd-feeling adhesive. It tickled her chest as she moved, and she felt as if some kind of slime was stuck to her. She giggled, but was interrupted by the invasive creaking of the wooden door. A white earth pony walked in, smiling as she saw the filly. She began to adjust dials on one of the machines and gazed back at the confused filly.
“Hello dear, it’s good to see you up.”
“Ummm...Hi? How long was I...um...out?”
“Several days, it seems that your body was overexerted to them maximum, you were so strained after your amazing little feat that you fell into a short coma.”
“Wait...What did I do?” Nurse redheart cocked her head in vexation, but remembered what Twilight had told her.
“You see, while you were exerting yourself, you were unconscious, and primal magical ability took over.”
“What happened, One minute, I’m cowering from bullies, the next, I wake up with a librarian examining me!” Nurse Redheart nodded and finished adjusting the Cardiograph. She turned to Dinky, sighing.
“I’m afraid I cannot tell you, you’ll have to wait.” At that, she briskly trotted out of the room, and came back a moment later with Twilight and Ditsy trailing her. Ditsy ran towards the bed, crushing her daughter.
“Oh thank celestia! You were out for two whole days, do you know how worried I was!” Pain invaded DInky again, and she cringed. Ditsy let go, seeing her daughter’s blight. She wiped away her tears, flowing like fierce rapids down her gray cheeks. Twilight stepped forward, smiling kindly at this heartbreaking sight.
“Dinky, you have a very special gift, Do you know what you did back at the school?” Dinky frowned, shaking her head.
“That’s what I expected, now, what happened before you got knocked out?” Dinky preceded to tell Twilight all about the events of that day, and before. Twilight nodded slowly in realization, but her eyes widened when she told about Diamond. Ditsy leaned forward, eyes angry as she heard of what the Filly had done to her precious little muffin.
“That little monster! I swear, I’ll give Filthy a piece of my mind!” She sighed, realizing she had interrupted her filly.
“Go on.”
Dinky continued, her story ending when when blacked out.
“You see, Dinky, your incredible dormant powers activated, and you changed the weather itself, as well as the temperature, this incredible feat of magic tired you, and used your body as a catalyst.” Twilight turned to Ditsy, who was shaking her head in disbelief.
“Now, Ditsy, do you know any incredible magical outbursts when Dinky was a filly?” Ditsy cringed, her memory going back to rears ago. She nodded, turning to Twilight.
“Her eyes would glow when something happened that came as a surprise, but not only that, sometimes weather would, change. I thought it was just regular magical bursts, sot anything special. Once, when her favorite book was missing, she floated into the air, and the entire house was lifted off the ground.” Twilight gazed in surprise at this revelation, but nodded slowly.
“This is certainly an...interesting case, however, her raw abilities must be harnessed for the good of equestria, I ask, may I teach her not only magic, but also in the same subjects she must study now, I would send her to princess Celestia’s school, but it is the middle of the year, and entrance must be at the beginning of school. I would also hate to see her leave you, Ditsy.” Twilight turned to Ditsy, a serious gaze blanketing her face.
“Will you allow me to teach your daughter?” Ditsy Nodded vigorously, happy as could be.
“Yes! I’ve always wanted somepony to teach her magic, she felt so left out, and I couldn’t help her!” Dinky also wore a bright smile, and nodded, still too weak to speak. She nodded off again, fading slowly as consciousness drifted from the filly.
