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// Entries 4 & 5 
// Story: The Legend of Derpy 
// by AdrianJNovelle 
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Entry #4

Dear Diary,

The next day, after a long, sleepless night, I gathered the population of Ponyville around Town Hall, on the same stage the Mayor used to announce that Applejack was going to compete in that rodeo. I tried to hold back the tears.
“Attention everypony,” I began. “I am terribly, terribly sorry about last night. It is clear to me now that I do not belong here. If I don’t leave those thugs will keep coming back and threatening us and hurting me. And I don’t have the heart to put you all through that. You guys mean the world to me. You are all my friends. This is the toughest decision I ever have to make, but I am leaving Ponyville, and I will find the Gallopers, and give them what they want: me. They don’t want me to be a Mane Cast member, and that’s ok. I just wanted to thank you all for attending my party, and making my last moments here in Ponyville the best I’ve ever had…I love you all…goodbye.”
Everyone in the audience was crying, tears falling, even from Rainbow Dash’s pink eyes. Everyone started pleading out: “We love you too, Derpy!” and “Derpy, don’t go!” and “We will miss you, Derpy!” Behind me I left a trail of tears as I slowly wandered off from my friends. I was so depressed, I did the one thing I never thought I would ever do: remove my cutie mark. I couldn’t physically remove it, so I did the next best thing and I covered it by seating myself and taking a black marker and scribbling over the bubbles, censoring it in the same way the Gallopers censored me out. From this day forward, I am no longer a Ponyville pony. I’m just a drifter, carelessly wandering this world until the Gallopers hunt me down and tarnish what is left of Derpy. My only possessions are my heavy, beaten heart, and this diary. Scribbling on my flank made me lose some ink, but I won’t need it: my story ends here.





After what felt like days of trudging through Equestria, I finally came to Fillydelphia, where I heard the Gallopers were going to be for a spell. I found them there, giving some innocent fillies a hard time. They looked so big and mean with their soulless shades and expertly quaffed manes, as Rarity would say. I was one single pony going against the gang of four large ponies all at once. I was doomed, but I had no choice but to get what I deserve for speaking out and trying to just be accepted by the many who love me. I was loved in Ponyville. I walk away knowing that if I go down today, I will go down with love in my heart: from Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and everypony in Ponyville, Canterlot, and the rest of Equestria.
“Hey, look who decided to return,” said one of the Gallopers. “Guess somepony wanted us to finish the job.”
“Yeah! After all, there was no reason for her to come and find us unless she just wanted another beating!”
I seated myself in front of the Gallopers. “I don’t want another beating,” I said, tears dripping from my eyes, “I just came for forgiveness from you guys, for ever trying to become a Mane Cast member.”
“Huh, well you ain’t gonna get forgiveness if you cried yourself a river for it!” shouted the lead Galloper.
I turned my head to the trail of tears I left behind me on my way to Fillydelphia, a pony stumbling and landing on her back from not noticing all the freshly made water on the ground. “Sorry,” I mumbled.
The Gallopers approached me and gathered around on all sides of me, readying their hooves for the beating which will finally end Derpy, instead of giving me the forgiveness I have begged for. I closed my eyes, and thought about my friends. Then, out of nowhere, I heard the sound of what appeared to be Rainbow Dash soaring through the air, making my mane sway heavily from the wind she picked up. I opened my eyes to find her and the rest of the Mane Cast, right behind me.
“We’re here for you, Derpy!” Twilight exclaimed, she and her friends gathered whole. “Just because you started out as a nobody does not mean you deserve to return to that low-life way of living. You’re an idol, Derpy, as much of an idol to the citizens of Ponyville and Equestria as any one of us! We are honored to have you speak up and become the seventh member of the Mane Cast. Just because you’re visually impaired and can hardly see straight does not make you any less of a Pegasus. It only makes you more unique. You are who you are, Derpy, and nopony can ever change that. You do not have to apologize for offending anyone – not even these guys! You have done nothing wrong!” Twilight then turned her attention to the Gallopers. “If you’re gonna pick on her for being her, then you might as well pick on me for being me too!”
“And me!” Rainbow Dash roared, raising a heavy hoof.
“And me!” exclaimed Pinkie Pie.
“And me!” Rarity excited spoke.
“And me!” Applejack beckoned.
“And me,” whispered Fluttershy.
“Alright, girls, formation!” Twilight raised her head high. “Magic!”
“Loyalty!”
“Laughter!”
“Generosity!”
“Honesty!”
“Kindness!”
The necklaces and big crown thingy appeared on the necks and head of the ponies, which, combined with my newly acclaimed element of Acceptance, a huge rainbow-colored wave of magic swept across the land of Equestria, sending the Gallopers away in a huge, explosive wave of color and unimaginable strength as they magically perished into thin air, never to be seen again.

Entry #5

Dear Diary,

I owe my life to the Mane Cast. They saved me from the evil Gallopers, and brought me back to the streets of Ponyville, everyone in town thrilled to see me back, this time with a smile on my face. Pinkie Pie gave me a bath to wash the ink off my flank. Afterwards, she threw a “Welcome back, Derpy!” party. These friends are completely inseparable. They are all like the one-of-a-kind pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, and they unite together to illustrate the true magic of friends. All six seven of them us.
I just hope that one day, I earn the love and forgiveness of everypony: in Ponyville, Equestria, and the rest of the world.