Ray
The last bell resounds through the corridors of Canterlot High, meaning the end of another day of school. I hurry as quickly as possible to the bus stop, expecting nobody can see me.
The cold winter wind hits my face; the little dots that were snowflakes are piling up on my coat waiting to become a white blanket. I get into the vehicle where I stay warm shortly until I can reach my home.
I climb the stairs to the entrance of my apartment after the routine trip from school. My bag is left on the table unceremoniously as I reach the edge of my bed. My body meets the sheet and mattress while collapsing, covering my face in the cotton fabric.
It happened again: The looks, the teasing, and the pushes on purpose as well the offensive text messages that aren’t stopping to arrive at my cell phone.
And you may be wondering, what was the cause of so many abuses against me?
A user of the MyStable page who calls himself 'Anon-a-Miss'. I’m not sure know who can be or when the activities started, but since he/she appeared, many embarrassing gossips about Canterlot’s students as well the most embarrassing pictures one can imagine has been posted.
At first, I thought that it was just someone who likes to make bad jokes, but it quickly began to gain followers and change the versions of such gossip in order to offend the wronged.
Then - in one of the publications - he or she decided to post a photo to their user profile that consisted of nothing more than a shadow with a resemblance to my appearance.
Based on that image the students concluded: I was the one who published the rumors and the photos.
Thus, I ended up in the same place I started: hated and alone; every single one of them started to turn their backs on me; instead, I became the object of their insults and their murmurs.
Save for Principal Celestia, Vice Principal Luna and Flash, nobody believed in my innocence and no one wanted to hear out my side of the story. Nobody. Not even my friends.
I still remember the look of indignation and fury on Applejack's face when a photo of her was posted to Anon-a-Miss's profile about how her family used to call her when she was very young. As well as another picture, the one I took with my cell phone in a sleepover we had at Rarity's house.
I can’t understand how that photo ended up on the damn page but that didn’t stop the girls from having decided to cut ties with me once and for all.
That was a huge blow right into my hearth. I keep hearing their words at my head as if it were a recording.
“It was you all along! You're ‘Anon-a-Miss’!”
“We trusted you, Sunset! We thought you were our friend!”
“How could you do this? After all we've been through together?”
"You secret stealer!"
"You're not our friend!"
"I'm sorry, but you did this to us. Tell whatever secrets you want, but we don't have to listen."
I lose myself in my thoughts in such anxiety until a soft whistle brings me back to reality. I hear some little feet climbing up my leg until before me there is a small leopard gecko with beautiful jade eyes and a calm look.
"Hello Ray," I greet him trying to mimic a smile with my lips. "So, how have you been? All good at home while I was at school? "
Ray answers with another whistle, nodding his head in affirmation. Of course, everything was in order; he’s very smart and knows how to take care of things in the apartment. His eyelids weigh him down; I notice he wants to fall asleep. It seems he was waiting for me.
"Aw, I took your sleep away. Silly of me, I'm not letting you rest as it should be."
Again, Ray answers with a quick blink; it seems that it doesn’t affect him in the least. Even so, I really should be more careful with loud noises while he takes his nap.
He places his paw on my hand, apparently concerned. Sure, Ray knows that something wrong is happening.
"Yes buddy; it was another tough day for me. They threw my lunch tray during the recess, I don’t know who put scribbles in my locker but I fear I can’t remove them - it seems they wrote it with a permanent marker.
I saw Tennis Match discussing with her friends about something very personal in the bathroom; and of course, she blames me for it. Still, Anon-a-Miss keeps publishing embarrassing things about others without anyone stopping him. What angers me the most is that people seem to be enjoying it at the expense of others. "
Sure, I try to ignore them as the usual but…” I couldn’t help but release a sharp snort, pressing the soft sheets with my fists.
"I really believed that I had finally cleared my past sins and I could move on from now, you know. I tried so hard – really hard – so everyone can see that I finally changed," I try to sound serene with Ray yet my voice starts to break while the tears are forming in my eyes.
"I really thought they were my friends. Those girls made me believe that I was like family - that I was part of their group - and yet it turns out that in the end I was a burden on them!
I haven’t done anything wrong to be treated that way! But they still preferred to believe in such stupidities instead of HER FRIEND - THE ONE WHO SAVED THEIR GUTS BY RISKING HER LIFE!
YET they have the nerve to point me as the responsible of all that crap? HOW ON EQUESTRIA IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE FAIR ANYWAYS?!!”
To put it simply: It wasn’t.
I drown my sobs on the cloth blanket, cursing Anon-a-Miss for all my sorrows with all my strength. Something touches my cheek stained by tears. Ray tries to dry my face with his little tongue hoping to erase the horrid trace of the tears through my face.
"I'm so sorry Ray ...” I hold him gently, “don’t be sorry for me… it’s okay. I didn’t mean to tell you such mean stuff... It just- *Sniff* I don’t have anybody to talk about it but you.”
I'm supposed to be strong in these moments of despair and the only thing I do is overwhelm him with my laments. After all, the poor thing has nothing to do with this disaster.
Ray begins to move out of bed. I see how it is climbing the surface of my bedside table and with its tail opens one of the drawers. From this he takes out the box of tissues from which he takes a few and quickly places them near my hand.
I cannot help but smile at the gesture. Always so good to me. I dry all traces of tears and saliva from my face with care, the handkerchief that I spare, I use to clean my nose.
Again, my gecko moves to the small kitchen, searching the cupboard until I find the filter tea box. He makes an effort to take out a packet and he gets it, only that he falls and the whole box with him.
I run to where Ray is, pushing the tea aside and picking it up carefully. I do not want him to get hurt in any way; and by the fact that it fell from a good height considering its gecko size.
Playful Ray. It's hard to get mad at that little face. "Did you want to prepare tea for me? Tell you what: how about if we prepare it together and also a delicious snack, what do you say?"
Ray responds with a cheerful whistle and so we put hands - and paws - to the work.
The hours fly by while Ray and I are preparing lunch, without realizing all the grief and sadness I was feeling suddenly had vanished; instead I replaced it with fun moments of play and cheerful laughter.
A while later I find myself resting on the couch, with Ray on my lap; he releases a yawn indicating he wants to go back to sleep. I take it to his enclosure as I place him on his bed with delicacy. I'm staring at him a couple of seconds with satisfaction.
Funny: I never would have thought that an animal like Ray would have been of great help in these difficult times.
I'm glad he didn’t know about the pain, neither the meaning of abuse nor grief. I do not want to imagine what things would have been like if it were not so.
Now that I think about it, Twilight wrote me something about it when I told her about what was happening at school. I still remember his words written in my diary:
"Sometimes the only thing you can do is stay strong. Stay yourself, and find your family."
Indeed, she was right.
Without being a person or a pony, this little creature was able to give me support when I needed it most; He didn’t need to use anything other than his innocent personality and his unconditional support to return the smile I lost and give me the peace that I need so much.
Maybe I should thank Anon-a-Miss in part: this pathetic experiment made me realize who my family really are is. And those girls are not.
Speaking of which. I didn't notice my cell phone since I arrived. I see that I got several text messages and voice messages; a particular pair from Rainbow Dash and Rarity. I bet they are planning to offend me again and make me believe that I’m just a freak.
Well, screw them. I had planned to go to Sugarcube Corner to try to reason with them one more time, but now I see that it's not worth it; in fact, I will not let the Rainbooms, the student body or Anon-a-Miss see that they have managed to hurt me.
May they believe what they want. If I stay in this world it’s not for them anymore; I only do it for myself. I do it for Ray. Because just as I need his sympathy, he needs my strength to take care of him.
Anyway, I have homework to do and start to review my notes but first I approach Ray carefully and whisper in his ear: "Thank you very much for having appeared in my life, little one. I don’t have enough words to thank every single thing you are doing for me. Please don't change."
I give him a little kiss on his head and I retire to my studio to finish the schoolwork. I do not know what will happen in the following days but I assure that I will stand firm against the adversities and machinations of whatever they dare to throw me at.
And if for some reason I start to fail again, I have the security that I will always be counting on Ray for everything.
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Could we possibly get a continuation where the girls realize their mistakes and the ones with pets try to use them for support? It could work out pretty well. Rarity has Opal, AJ had Wynonna, RD has Tank, Pinkie has Gummy (don't know how he works), and Shy has Angel (Little demon)
Love to see this continue. the idea suggested in comments would work.
The CMC were going to fess up or maybe get caught, either way seems Sunset given up on them, be a bitter time for them
Well you actually wrote it, and I must admit it was really pleasant to read. There's so much branching potential here it's almost unfathomable. If you choose to advance this story I'd gladly read it/them, if not then know it does well as a solo act.
Okay first this needs a sequal and second this is beautiful.
Really love the background in the picture. It looks like something out of Don Bluth.
Interesting
Though nicely written, I have to downvote this as another piece of writing that centers around the trash that is Anon-a-Miss...
Seriously people, that fic needs to die...
Other than the fact that Sunset doesn’t get Ray until after the Friendship Games, this is a very enjoyable story and I agree with the other commenters that this story has the potential to be expanded upon. This story also gave me a crazy Anon-A-Miss story idea where the girls pets try to convince their owners that Sunset is innocent.
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Interesting concept. I'd be curious to see how you pull off Pinkie
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I think you mean the holiday special
I think I know what those texts were, Rarity and Rainbow Dash trying to apologize
my guess the CMC confessed
Not bad but I'm wondering a few things.
What did the girls want to talk to her about?
Does anon a miss get caught?
Id like to see a part 2 were all this is explained lol
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Pretty sure I know what I mean... Anon-a-miss is just character torture, which is the cheapest way to write a story. You just make the character as miserable as possible without actually killing them off. (Unless thats your intention in the end to do so.)
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well to be fair you kinda threw me off with:
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I can agree with you about the special. Season 8 already had a Heartswarming Eve episode and it was far more enjoyable than the special
This was so good I'm in love with this story
This was a nice change and a cut above most of the rubbish that inhabits the AaM genre.
Really good write! Would love to see a follow up from this.
This was rather sloppy. First, you should double-check the colored text at the beginning. Second, when you continue dialogue over the course of multiple paragraphs, it should look like this:
Beyond that, there was a scattering of other grammatical mistakes. And because of those mistakes, it was more challenging to enjoy the story than it should have been.
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Yeah. i really need to improve my writing - and check out what I'm writing at. Thanks for the remark.
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It is completely understandable, yet I I enjoyed doing this story a lot. Thank for commenting anyways.
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Hi everyone! First of all: thanks a lot for the reception of the fic. I'd never expected many positives views in part as well the constructive criticism - I need to fix some parts at the moment of writing - but I feel satisfied with this story.
Now, I'd originally intended to make this plot as a solo act. I'd never considered to make a sequel by your comments (by the way, those are pretty cool ideas) as well by reading parts of the plot - So yes, your guessings were right: the Crusaders confessed and the girls were trying to contact Sunset in order to apologize. If I am disappointing you in any way with this comment I ask your forgiveness.
BUT. It doesn't have to end at this point. If any of you guys wants to make a sequel or a side/alternate version from this fic then go ahead, you have my permission to do it. I'll be glad to read them.
In the same way, whatever you want to say or write to me I'll be hearing or reading. The again, thanks a lot for your appreciation and for following this fanfic. See you next time!
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No problem.
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Hmm I just might do that, I have a scene in mind involving Applejack and Winona.
Oh Ray...
Wait... so... in this time line they don't do amend eventualy?
And Sunset actually claim her friends are no longer worth fighting form?
That actually horrible. That kinda spoils this fic to me. I mean Sunset's relationship with Ray is great and beautiful and it's still very, very enjoyable fic, but that one thing really bugs me...
I know that what Sunset friends done was horrible... really believing she would to this? That make no sense... Actually it's very weird that whole school... no... that anyone fall to this Anon-a-Miss scheme... (that was actually very well used in one fic I read recently, in which Diamond Tiara deduced not only that Sunset isn't Anon-a-Miss... but also who really was...)
But it wasn't bad enough to spoil pleasure from reading.)
(Also I noticed some mistakes in text here and there... but I readed in on cellphone and now not so much have time to seek them again
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I would much more want continuation in which Sunset's friend actually manage to make amends with her... but well that theme with pets could work for before it happen I think,
Anyone realize or wonder why ray hasn't made an appearance in the show since first seen in 2017?
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Actually, Ray does made a brief cameo in Forgotten Friendship, near the final scenes.
ISO tvOS recall ever seeing ray at all in the final scene of the special I just rewatched the last scenes and I didn't see him anywhere
just re read this and now i really want to work on my own story from this XD
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And I would totally read it.
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Grow up. The only real reason people hate it is because almost every fic that involves AAM makes no attempt at improving what was in the comic, leaving a half-assed story.
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So it had nothing to do with the BS levels of characters going OOC and the original itself being trash?...
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Not really, no. It's not the best comic IDW's put out because the MLP staff has never handled stories about bullying very well, but it's far from complete garbage.
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IDW is throwaway BS defense. They are not canon and are published through a third party means with no connection to the source material other than being authorized to make up what is essentially fanfiction about the brand. Hasbro confirmed IDW is not canon. If they stuck in character in Anon-a-miss, Rarity would have spotted all the BS from Sweety Belle due to her master detective eye for detail (canon), Applejack would have spotted all her sister's lies and articals and that Sunset was being honest. The entire story would have been over in five chapters with the CMCs being friendless, ostracized, and alone, just like Gabby Gumms episode.
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And yet IDW is producing the canon 10th "season", so you go ahead and keep being wrong.
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That is just a gimmick to sell issues to idiots who can't accept the series is over. They can claim it, but they are not, and never will be, "canon"
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Production crew be like: S10 is official canon.
IDW writers/artists be like: S10 is official canon.
You be like: S10 is a gimmick to make less money off the franchise than if was produced as a TV show.
A+ logic right there. Comics are never as profitable as the shows they're based on, so why would Hasbro even make the switch if it was for revenue purposes? No, S10 exists because the production team from the show still had plot points they were unable to fit into any episodes to give the fandom closure on some questions we've had for years. Case in point: the first issue dealt with Zecora's homeland, which we've been asking for since S1. Other examples include the Equestria Girls comics and the Pillars of Harmony comics, each of which is supplemental canon due to time constraints and overall narrative requirements for the show.
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Sorry, but the logic of a comic book being canon to other media is like the comics made for the Michael Bay Transformers films. They are a gimick to cash in on a finished product that have no overall significance to the source material. I really don't give a rats ass for anything you've had to say and I'm really getting tired of talking to someone with BS arguments who is more concerned with being right than respecting the comments section he is posting in to hold an argument.
I am done talking to you and really want to move on with my life. Goobye and please stop responding.
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Talk about irony.
You're going to completely ignore that it's the production crew of the show who said S10 comics were still canon, I see.
Have a great day.
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I'm going to ignore that you don't recognize an obvious cash grab from a product that only exists for the sole purpose of making hasbro money.
You too.
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Also ignoring the part where comics don't generate as much money for Hasbro as a TV show, I see.
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Your ignoring that I don't care...
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And yet you keep replying. If you truly didn't care you wouldn't continue arguing.
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And you are a moron who has to have the last word, has to be right, and can't take a hint when a conversation is over unless the other person tells you to go jump off a building and make the world a better place without you...
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lol
Ray may be a gecko, but in this he was the GOAT.
Ray is a character i feel needs more acknowledgement and mention by the community.
The little guy is pretty much the only thing that will always be positive in Sunsets life.
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You are right. Maybe if somebody can create a group about him.
Cute.
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Thank you.
This Story Was Good, But The Only Flaw Is The Short Film In Which Ray Appears Is Set After The Friendships games, After All Sci-Twi Also Appears In the Short Film And The Story Of Anon-A-Miss Takes Place Before, I'm Sorry For That, But I Liked The Story Nonetheless