//------------------------------// // Vol. 2 Pt. 1 // Story: Pipsqueak the Valiant's Adventure Journal! // by Casca //------------------------------// 34th Kindness, Rising Sun Dear Adventure Journal!, It’s been really, really long since I last wrote you. It’s been really busy because we have to get stuff done, like buy furniture and food and tables and bedsheets and paint and clay for Mummy’s pots and this thing called sure-rence, which took the whole day at the mayor’s office. But at least that’s done and so that’s that. Nightmare Night was really fun and I got to meet PRINCESS LUNA which was SUPER COOL! She talks like really loud and is almost black all over and her mane is wavy with stars in it. I wanted to touch it to see what it feels like but I was too scared to. Nightmare Night is scary, but it was so much fun. And there was the PRINCESS so that made it even more awesome! Ponyville’s school is a lot different. We use different books and I have different classmates and a teacher named Miss Cheerilee. She has a cutie mark of 3 flowers because... something that I forgot. She talks about history and arithmetic and writing, but not like Miss Buttermilk, because her voice is higher. She seems more happier than Miss Buttermilk, but then again she’s younger as well, so maybe that’s the reason. Maybe old ponies get less happy. But Applebloom’s Granny is more old than the both of them and she seems happy when she’s not asleep so maybe she’s a special case. Or Miss Cheerilee is, or Miss Buttermilk. I don’t know. Applebloom’s a really nice pony. I like Applebloom. She’s friendly and has this really big bow on her head. And she reminds me a bit of Cherry Pip but not really because they’re different colours, and Cherry Pip doesn’t talk funny or loud like Applebloom does. Actually they’re not alike at all but she still reminds me of her anyways. On the first day of school she and her friends came up to me and told (Miss Cheerilee says it’s “told”) me a lot of things about cutie marks. They called themselves the Cutie Mark Crusaders and were looking for their cutie marks by trying alot of things. They asked me if I wanted to join but I said I have to ask my Mummy. When I did and I told her about what they did Mummy said “It sounds dangerous”, in that tone which really means “No”. So I didn’t join them but we are still friends. We don’t play together that much, though, because they do their crusading most of the time and Mummy said I couldn’t join. There’s no bullies in Ponyville which is really good. Applebloom said that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were bullies but they didn’t bully me because they said they liked my ack cent, whatever that is. I don’t know. I don’t talk with them much. But then we were split into groups for reading sessions and I was paired with Dinky Doo. She isn’t very friendly. She just reads by herself all the time and hardly smiles. I did try to be nice, but we don’t have much to talk about except for homework, and I don’t think anypony likes talking about that. Since nopony else plays with me, because they have stuff to do, I asked her if she wanted to play with me but she said no, she’s busy, and she always rushes back home when school ends. Diamond Tiara says that I shouldn’t try to hang out with her because her Mummy is funny, and it might spread. I told her that if her Mummy was funny, I’d want to meet her because funny ponies make you laugh, and there weren’t that many funny ponies back in Trottingham, only serious ones. But then Diamond Tiara rolled her eyes and said that her Mummy is funny in a bad way, and when I asked her what she meant, she just shook her head and walked off. I haven’t seen Dinky’s Mummy, or if I have, I don’t recognize her. But I’d like to. I asked Dinky about her daddy and she wouldn’t talk to me for the rest of the day. I did tell her that my daddy’s missing too, and that maybe we could go find our daddies together one day on an adventure. She looked like she was going to shout at me, and it was really scary. Then she said that her daddy wasn’t missing. Then I didn’t know what to say next. But I did try, and that’s what matters. 50th Kindness, Midday Sun Dear Adventure Journal!, Today Diamond Tiara tole me I was rich. I tole her that I didn’t know that. Then she said that I was playing dumb, which I wasn’t, and then we got into an argument and Applebloom and her friends came in and sided with me. Diamond Tiara called them blank flanks, then Applebloom said that she was calling me names too because I was a blank flank, and so she had to stand up for me and then we all got into a fight. Eventually Miss Cheerilee heard the noise and had to break it up. Anyhow, Miss Cheerilee asked us for our sides of the story and Diamond Tiara said that she had heard that my mother had a stash of pirate gold, enough to buy half of Ponyville. I said that I didn’t know about it and that it was a lie because it isn’t true. Then Applebloom said, “Diamond Tiara called us blank flanks again”, and Diamond Tiara said, “I only called you three blank flanks because that’s what you are.” They almost got into a fight again but Cheerilee yelled, and then everypony stopped fighting and she explained it to us. She said that the news about me being rich was just a silly rumour,  we shouldn’t believe it, and if I said that it wasn’t true then it wasn’t true because I was the member of my family, not Diamond Tiara, and a lot of other things that I can’t remember. Cheerilee says a lot of things that I can’t remember, but really I do try. When I went home, I asked Mummy about it and she didn’t reply me directly. She said, “You don’t have to worry about anything. Don’t think about it anymore and let me handle it” and then sent me outside to go play. But I didn’t have anypony to play with so I went exploring because that’s what you do in a new town, even though I’ve been here for a while so I’m not sure whether the town still counts as new. I went into Sugarcube Corner and Mrs Cake gave me some cake. Then Gummy (that’s Pinkie Pie’s pet alligator) followed me all over town. I think he was bored, or he wanted to play, but alligators can’t climb trees. Do alligators get bored? He just looks at me and blinks. He doesn’t say anything either, but that’s okay. I don’t think anything that lives with Pinkie Pie gets bored. She’s a nice pony but really jumpy and sometimes it hurts my eyes to look at her so I just blink a lot. There are so many ponies in Ponyville that aren’t like anypony in Trottingham. It’s more happier, and warmer, though I don’t like the heat. And there isn’t any wind or sea which is dissa disapo really bad. Because then if daddy comes to port I won’t be able to find him, and I can’t go out to sea if there’s no sea to go out to. Why would anypony think that Mummy would have pirate gold? She’s not a pirate. Only pirates have pirate gold, and normal ponies have normal gold, and we don’t have much of that, either. Diamond Tiara is just being silly, I guess. And like Miss Cheerilee said, it’s all just a rumour. 57th Kindness, Midday Sun Dear Adventure Journal!, Today was Market Day! That means a lot of ponies come from towns all over to Ponyville and open stalls, and that’s why it’s called Market Day, because there’s a big market. There were ponies from Cloudsdale selling cloud sculptures, cloud pillows and other cloud things, and Applebloom’s family had a stall selling apples. There were so many things like fruits and vegetables and cheese and toys and handicrafts and things. There wasn’t anypony from Trottingham though. I would have recognized them. There wasn’t any school today so me and Mummy went shopping. We went and looked at all the things. There were really a lot of ponies everywhere and it was hard to walk. Luckily Mummy was close to me or I would have gotten lost. We saw Mayor Mare alot. She looked really worried. You can figure that out with some adult ponies because they bite their lips, and walk around everywhere for no reason. Or maybe she was just hungry and nibbling on her lip instead of food. She should have bought something to eat then, unless she didn’t have any bits. Then she should have looked for a friend to share food with. Mummy got me an ice cream and a muffin and a new pen for writing! So I’m using the new pen now and it’s larger than my old one. It’s harder to hold but writes better because it has more ink. There were a lot of new ponies from other towns, and some of them were really big. They had a lot of muscles and didn’t look very happy. They were in a group of five and the other ponies made way for them because they were so big. I wonder if they’re bullies. How do adults deal with bullies, anyway? Because if the bullies are adults then you can’t get an adult to talk to him because they’re the same age. Maybe you get a granny or a grandfather to talk to them. I don’t have one so when I grow up and if I get into an adult fight I’ll have to borrow Applebloom’s.