"Wow, Rainbow Dash, you're up very early." I blinked and yawned, then stretched out my legs, and looked at the feminine lavender-colored pony.
"Oh. Hey, Twilight." I yawned again, and looked at the earth pony in front of me. Twilight looked at me, her eyes quickly scanning my body, stopping on my forehead and staying there for a while. I frowned at the mare, and cleared my throat. She seemed to snap out of it, and I rolled eyes. She was always so stunned when she looked at my new horn, maybe because it was hers?
"Wait... Have you slept here?" She suddenly asked, swishing her hoof over her doorfront. I shrugged. "Well, I'm kinda homeless these days, since I can't sleep at my cloud house." I told her as a matter-of-fact, and ignored the tension in my back every time anypony, including myself, talked about clouds, weather or wings.
"You could have told me! I would have let you inside! I mean, I have a guest bed!" Twilight almost shouted, her purple eyes widening in worry and shock.
"Nah, I don't think so. I can't live with you for so lon-"
"That isn't an excuse!" Twilight cut me off quickly, and I frowned.
"Why do you care anyway? I am perfectly capable of surviving on my own, and I even like it!" I said, looking at her. Okay, I didn't like it. I couldn't sleep when I was at that meadow alone, I just thought about my wings and I... I... I cried. But, anyway, it wasn't like I couldn't survive there!
"If only you weren't as stubborn as Applejack..." Twilight murmured, and I snorted.
"...so Star Swirl the Bearded called it timespace, and by his theory and the formula it went-"
"Okay, okay, Twilight, I got it," I tried to cut her off, "the Bearded Starlight invented time. That's cool and all, but could you be more on topic?" I asked. We had talked about Canterlot library - and I had asked in which wing would the spells be. And then she had started blabbering about every wing, and yeah. Boring - did I have to spell it out for her?
"Eww!" I turned head, and saw a pink filly wrinkle her nose upon seeing us.
"Um..." I blinked, looking at her. A grey filly ran from the meadow behind the pink one, and I could see that a family was having a picnic. That explained why there were ponies so far from Ponyville.
"You see that, Silver Spoon?" I looked at gray filly, who was addressed to as 'Silver Spoon'. At first the filly seemed confused, and suddenly an expression of shock grew on her face.
"What's wrong, my little ponies?" Twilight asked, looking at the fillies, then looked at herself.
"Wow, we must inform the crusaders!" Silver Spoon said, looking at us.
"Yes, I mean, now that we know there is a possibility that they'll never get their cutie mark." The pink one continued, and I was disgusted and shocked at one time. Weren't these... the cruel abusers that Apple Bloom always mentioned? What was her name? Golden Crown? Something gem with crown.
"I thought that all adult ponies found their super special talent, even if it was as boring as a talent to do nothing." Silver Spoon cut off my thoughts, and I started getting annoyed and angry at the same time.
"Poor, poor crusaders. They'll be devastated at the news that they'll always be a laughing stock," the pink one chuckled, talking with her friend, and in the same time, with us. I looked at the purple earth pony behind me, and she was staring at the fillies with mouth agape, "just like you." The filly finally finished her sentence, looking into my magenta eyes with her light blue ones.
"That's it!" I shouted, and leaped at the two youngsters, but Twilight stopped me. "Rainbow Dash!" She hissed at me, then looked at the two laughing schoolfillies. "Where are your parents." Upon hearing this sentence, the pink one seemed to freeze, her pupils became as small as Rarity's needles. However, Silver Spoon continued laughing. "Like we care! Diamond Tiara's father is Filthy Ri-" I remembered everything Apple Bloom had told me about the filly, as Diamond Tiara put her hoof in Silver Spoon's mouth, visibly worried.
I smirked. Found that weak spot - she is terribly afraid of her father! "Okay, Twilight," I said, and started walking toward the distant figures in the meadow, where I thought Mr. Rich would be, "Let's go and talk about Apple Bloom's friends right here." I smiled, watching as Diamond Tiara became even more worried. She jumped in front of us. "No! It's... quite alright, he, he, I mean, you haven't yet found your super special talent but that's alright, nobody says we have to rush!" She started blabbering, and her friend seemed very confused.
"Mr. Fil- Uh, I mean, Mr. Rich!" Twilight shouted, looking at the family. One member shot his head up, and walked toward us.
"Hello there," the sophisticated-looking pony said, "oh, I see you have met my little angel, Diamond Tiara." He said, and the filly seemed awfully nervous.
"Well, we have come in concern about your daughter," Twilight said, and the brown pony in front of her seemed confused, "particularly about her attitude toward other ponies." I saw the brown pony shoot a warning glance at the pink earth filly, and she shivered.
"Let's get to the point!" I said, getting ahead of Twilight. Her overly long introduction bored me - why she couldn't just tell everything? "Your daughter constantly bullies her classmates, especially the ones without their own cutie mark," I continued, and watched the expression of shock in Mr. Rich's face.
"And today we... well, we had lost our cutie marks due to an accident, and these two fillies came by and started bullying us." Twilight continued from where I had left, and suddenly Mr. Rich snapped.
"What had I told you about cutie marks, Diamond Tiara?" He hissed at his daughter. "Th-that a pony has to motivate other ponies who don't have cutie marks, to discover them." She said, and Filthy Rich slapped her with hoof. "Yes, we have to motivate other ponies! But what did you do? You bullied them!" The earth pony slapped the pink filly again. "B-b-b-but I did exactly what you did to me when I didn't have-" another slap over Diamond Tiara's face. "How dare you, little bitch? I had taught you - cutie mark is the most important event of life!" Diamond Tiara started crying, as her father continued to beat her up. Silver Spoon screamed and ran away. Twilight grabbed my hoof and galloped back to the road, shocked. I was as shocked as her.
"I think... I think we just did the wrong thing," The purple pony said exactly my thoughts, "I have read that foals don't start bullying out of nowhere, I should've seen those looks they exchanged before I told him everything." Twilight said. "It's all my fault." I shook head, "No, it's not your fault Twilight. It's mine too. Both of us are at fault here." I said, but she didn't seem to thrilled about what I said.
We continued walking in complete silence.
We had done something horribly, horribly wrong.