Ponies Are Animals Too

by Zurvan

Chapter 9: All The Small Things

Takes place during “Pinkie Apple Pie”

Chapter 9: All The Small Things

Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle sit on Scootaloo’s bed. The box of photos between them. Sweetie holds up a picture of a much younger Scootaloo in a bathtub, soap suds in her mane. "I am so going to show all these to any coltfriend you ever have."

"Hey! It's Fluttershy’s job to embarrass me."

"You like living with her?"

"Duh!" Scootaloo answers. "This is so much better than the orphanage."

"I'm sure she's happy to hear that."

Scootaloo nods. "I tell her every day how much better my life is now. You know I've been getting real meals on a regular basis? At the orphanage I was lucky to get fed at all. Fluttershy seems to think they maybe why I'm having trouble flying."

"Not enough food?"

"More not enough of the right foods. The mare who runs the place is an earth pony and fed me as such, but apparently pegasi diets at our age need to be a bit different."

"So does that mean you'll be able to fly?"

"That's kind of iffy, cause I didn't have the proper nutrients my wings didn't grow when they should've. There's a chance that if I keep to this diet when I hit my next growth spurt they may catch up."

"We'll just have to wait and see huh?"

"Yeah, but at least there's a chance."

Fluttershy comes in carrying a tray of vegetables. "I brought you girls some snacks."

"Thanks Fluttershy." Sweetie says as she puts down the picture and eats.

Fluttershy picks up the picture and chuckles. "Look how small you were."

"Yeah, yeah." Scootaloo says.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Sweetie says as she gets up and goes to her saddlebags and pulls a package out. "It's a house warming gift from Rarity and I."

"Housewarming?" Fluttershy asks confused. "I thought that was for when you bought a house."

"I moved into one, so close enough?" Scootaloo asks and Fluttershy nods. Scootaloo opens the package to find a empty picture frame clearly made to hold several pictures and one frame meant to hold one picture.

"Rarity says we're all going to meet up tomorrow and get our picture taken. She hopes you'll use the large frame to remember your family as it is, and the smaller one to remember it as it was."

Scootaloo hugs Sweetie Belle tears in her eyes. "Thank you."

Fluttershy looks in the box and pulls out the framed picture from when Scootaloo was born. "You should keep this one close too."

Scootaloo lets go of Sweetie and hugs Fluttershy. "Thank you for everything."

"It's fine, after all it's my special talent."

"I thought your special talent was caring for animals?" Sweetie asks.

“It is," Fluttershy answers. "But after all; ponies are animals too."

Author's Note:

And that's a wrap folks, thanks for reading.

Comments

[dream1990]

i love it and can you make a sequel for this story

[Zurvan]

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What would you suggest for a sequel?

[Luna Aeterna Solutae]

Title drop. Made me tear up a bit.
I wait with baited breath for our next scheduled loop of broadcast and response.

[Zurvan]

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I'm glad you liked it.

[Matt11]

"But after all; ponies are animals too."

so true and it explanes the name, good ending I hope for a sequel

[Luna Aeterna Solutae]

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If Zurvan is okay with it, I'll write a spiritual successor.

[dream1990]

4953453 I have a suggest it is Fluttershy and her adopted Daughter Scootaloo doing family/fun stuff
together with they friends with Slice of Life tag in it

[Zurvan]

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Go for it, I'd love to read it

[dream1990]

4953453 do you like my suggest yes or no

[Zurvan]

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Sounds cute, but at this time I have no plans for a sequel. Hence me having no problem with anyone who wants to write one, I just ask you drop me a pm so I can be sure to read it.

I'm in middle of writing an adventure story set in the world this story creates but it is not a sequel. The story is mostly about Sweetie Belle.

[Luna Aeterna Solutae]

It will probably show up in Shards of Utopia, which explores the stories of everypony that's not the main character of Memoirs of Utopia.

[Zurvan]

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Sounds good to me, let me know so I can read it

[dream1990]

4953931 ok

[Burning Ember]

MAKE MORE CHAPTERRRRRRRRRRRSSS PLEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! FOR THE LOVE OF FLUTTERSHY PLEASE MAKE MORE CHAPTERS.

[Zurvan]

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Sorry that's the end of the story.

[Zurvan]

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No he was a stunt pony, doing stunts was the only way he knew to make money. He knew there was a chance that the trick would fail and if it did it would be too late. He took the chance cause he needed the money. He arranged a signal the wave so Scootaloo would know to look away so she wouldn't See his end.

[Zurvan]

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yep, all my chapter titles are song titles

[Endlessshadow]

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yeah I kinda over reacted and lost control of normal think because of this prologue XD

[Zurvan]

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It's all good. I just wanted to go for tragic backstory.

[Endlessshadow]

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You did a freakin good job rhen if I start capitalizing all my text

[Zurvan]

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Good, then I did my job

[Zurvan]

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Thank you. That was the general idea I had when I wrote it.

[Zurvan]

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Yes, but it fits Diamond Tiara's personality.

[Zurvan]

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That was interesting

[Zurvan]

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What do you mean?

[Twinx]