Chapter Nine
It was just another day in Ponyville, You were walking back to sugarcube corner from getting supplies for Mrs. Cake, which you were caring in a bag. As you happily trot back from the store you couldn't help think that this has been the happiest that you have ever been in your entire life, You had a roof over your head, you had a legal guardian and you were away from the caretaker.
You finally made it back home and took yourself into the kitchen where Mrs. Cake was rolling some dough.
She sees you enter and smiles as you place the bag on the floor.
“Thank you very much, Silver,” Mrs. Cake said warmly as she came over to you took the bag, you smiled as she did so.
You walk back out of the kitchen and headed upstairs to finish off the homework that Miss Cheerilee had set. Once you open the door you see Pinkie sitting in the middle of the room with her back to you.
Something was off about this because her coat and mane looked darker. Once you fully stepped into the room the door slammed shut making you jump. You try to open the door again the but wouldn't budge.
Suddenly the whole room started getting darker like everything was losing its color, the objects sitting on the counters started melting, even the doorknob slowly disappeared. You were starting to get scared to the point where you were shaking..
“SSSssssSSSllllLLLLLiiiiivvvvveEerrrrrRRRR WWWWAAaaaaaaavvvvvveeeEeeeeE” A dark and eerie voice said which chilled you to the bone
You look around the room to see where the voice came from until you realized that the voice came from Pinkie.
“P-P-Pinkie?”
“SSSSSSSsssiiiiIIIllveEEERRRRRR”
You start to walk closer and closer to Pinkie getting more and more sacred as you do so. You stop until you’re close as you want to get.
Pinkie slowly starts to turn around. When she full turns to you a massive chill goes down your spine and you try slowly step back. Seeing Pinkies face you wanted to cry because of how demonic it looks.
Pinkie eyes were black with what looks like tears that have crawled down her face leaving tar-like lines. Her teeth her long and shape, like knives.
You jump back in total fear from the sight so Pinkie demonic face and try to unlock the door and the handle had disappeared.
“CCCccCCCCoooOommmmmEEE andDDDd giiiiVVVEee PinKKKieeeE PiEE a huGGGggg” She said opening up her arms
“N-N-NO!” you scream as you try and get as far away from her as you can, but there was no way to get away from her.
Pinkie then started advancing towards you very slowly as you try to crawl away until you were trapped into a corner. She started getting closer and closer. As your eyes start to fill with tears form terror you close them so I don’t have to look at her.
You open your eyes again to see that you're on a bed. You shot up into a sitting position and breath heavily and tears rolling down your face. Looking around the room you see that everything was normal and that it was all a dream.
“Silver?!” A voice came from beside you, looking over you see Pinkie rubbing her eyes “Are you okay?” she asks with concern, to which you nod while wiping away from tears “Did you have another bad dream?”, you nod again while tears still roll down your face a quick pace.
Pinkie quickly wraps her arms around you and pulls you closer to her so that your face is almost buried in her chest fluff. The hug is starting to get a little tight so you try a wiggle and squirm to try and get Pinkies attention, but it didn’t work so well. You finally stop crying and slowly drift off to sleep again.
Meanwhile, Pinkie was thinking to herself “This is the fifth bad dream this week.” She looks down to see Silver Wave now sound asleep and slowly stroked his mane. I wonder what might be causing them? she slowly laid her head on to her pillow and closed her eyes.
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“I just don’t know, Mrs. Cake. Every night he seems to have a nightmare.” Pinkie said as she sits at the table with a plate of pancakes and a cup of coffee in front of her.
“It curtained seems odd.” Mrs. Cake says as she takes a seat across from her
“Well he has been through a lot” Mr. Cake adds as he walks into the room, carrying the twins on his back “maybe all that torment he went through that at the orphanage is the reason for all the nightmares.”
“Mmm,” Mrs. Cake says after taking a sip of her coffee “I agree. That could be one reason for why he has a lot of nightmares. He could have Post-traumatic stress disorder”
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You hop down each of the steps of the staircase heading towards the kitchen. Thankfully today was a Saturday, which means no school!!
As you reach the final step the three adults stop their conversation and look over at you.
“Good morning, sleepy head!” Pinkie Pie, your now legal guardian, greets with her trade make smile
“M-m-morning” you say as you walk into the kitchen
“How did you sleep, sweetheart?” Mrs. Cake asks
Her eyes follow you as you make your way towards the table and jump up onto the seat Pinkie Pie.
“I s-slept well t-thank you” you respond to Mrs. Cakes question
“That’s good,” Cupcake says as the gets up from her chair “now, would you like some breakfast pancakes?
“Y-yes please”
With another one of her smiles, Mrs. Cake gets up from her seat and walks over to the oven and start to make a fresh plate of pancakes.
“So are you excited to meet your tutor today, Silver?” Pinkie Pie asks
Oh yeah… you were meeting your new weekend tutor this afternoon. Let’s just say you weren’t too thrilled to have two hours of extra learning on your weekends.
“I g-guess so,” you say looking up at Pinkie
“It’s okay, Silver. Don’t be nervous” your Guardian said while stroking your mane “I’m sure they’ll be super nice and helpful”
You nod slightly and smile at Pinkie, in which she smiles back. Turning your attention to the blue pony frying off your breakfast “M-Mrs Cake?” You call out
“Yes, darling?”
“W-who is my t-tutor?”
“Like I said before, Silver,” she says while turn toward you, carrying your plate of pancake “you’re just going to have to wait and see” she continues, place the plate in front of you “now eat up”
You thank her once again and start to dig into your breakfast
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The day went by pretty quickly. You pretty much spent the day helping around the kitchen and playing with Pinkie.
You currently sit at a table with your legal guardian waiting for your tutor to arrive. The tutor said that they would be here by half 2.
As the minute hand is 5 ticks away from the set time you start to get more and more nervous. Pinkie starts to notice this and wraps her arms around you pulls you in close to her warm embrace.
“There’s no need to worry, Silver,” she said in a comforting voice “you’ll do just fine” You smile at her as she gives you a small squeeze.
The bell at the top of the door rings and you both look over. You see a purple unicorn mare with a slightly darker mane. You instantly recognize this pony
“Hiya, Twilight!” Pinkie shouts waving at her friend
“Hello, Pinkie. Hello, Silver Wave” Twilight responds walking over “how are you?”
“We’re okay. We’re just waiting for Silvers tutor” Pinkie replies while squeezing you again
“Well you no longer have to wait,” Twilight said while taking the seat opposite to you
Pinkie tilts her head slightly and asks “Wait… you’re Silver Waves tutor?”
“That’s right” Twilight replies with a smile
“This is great!!” Pinkie shouts, making you jump a little “we don’t have to worry about a complete stranger teaching you” she continues squeezing you once again “you have the smartest pony in Ponyville tutoring you!”
Twilight giggled at the pink pony’s compliment and being to pull out some papers and some pens onto the table “now if you don’t mind excusing us, Pinkie. We need to get this lesson underway”
“Okie Dokie Loki” Pinkie chirped happily, she gives you only final hug and gets up from her seat “Have fun you two,” she says and bounces away to the kitchen
So you’re left alone sitting at a table with a pony that you’ve met by never really spoken too.
“So, Silver Wave” Twilight begins, you turn your head towards her, but trying your best not to make eye contact with her, “have you completed the homework that was set?”
You nod slightly and slide the homework over to her. Twilight picks up the paper with her hooves and her eyes start to scan it. The look on her face starts to worry you as you notice her face starts to turn into a confused stare.
“I’m sorry, Silver Wave” she begins, making you fold your ears “I can’t really read anything you have written down” she continues placing the paper down in front of her “I can’t make out any words or letters you’ve written down since they just look like wiggly lines” she continues on trying to put it as nice as possible
A hot wash of shame and embarrassment flows over you as you sink into your seat and fold your ears down even more.
“But that’s okay, Silver” Twilight says getting up from her seat and sitting on the seat next to you “Now we know where to start”
Using her magic, Twilight picks up a piece of paper and a pen and placed it in front of you. You look at the paper see that it’s an alphabet worksheet.
“Now what I would like you to do is to trace over each letter as neatly as you can” Twilight explains with a smile, trying to give you some confidence
“O-O-Okay” you stutter as you grab a pencil in your hoof and start to trace over the letter A.
After you’ve traced over every letter, uppercase and lowercase, you slide the paper over to Twilight. She takes the paper and smiles at you
“Well done. This is very neat” she said as she looks at your work “Okay now I’m going to get you to do the same thing, but you won’t be tracing them this time” she says while sliding another paper
This paper was another alphabet worksheet. This time under the letter was a blank space.
“You’re going to have to copy the letters onto to the space here” she explains pointing to the blank space, “you think you can do that for me?”
With a small nod, you try your best to complete this sheet
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Another two hours, what seemed to go by pretty quickly, you finished all the worksheets that Twilight had planned out for this lesson. During that time you did get a little stressed from time to time.
“Well Silver Wave, that is our lesson done for today,” Twilight says as she started packing away her stuff
“The lesson is done already?” a happy voice said from the kitchen doorway “boy that went quick”
“Yes Indeed it did” Your tutor replies as she still continues to pack
“So how did he do?” Pinkie Pie asks as she bounces over
“He did very well” Twilight responds as she ruffles your mane a little “he does find it difficult to write words and sentences, but that something we can work on next week”
“So how much do we owe you, Twilight?” Mr. Cake asks from the counter.
“Oh don’t worry about money, Mr. Cake,” The purple unicorn said putting on her saddlebag “I just want to help little Silver Wave here get the best out of his education,” she said giving you a happy smile, in which you smile back “Well I best be off”
“T-Thank you for t-today” you speak up, working the courage to look at her
“You are very welcome, Silver Wave,” Twilight says giving you another one of her sweet smiles
As Twilight leaves the bakery with everyone saying their goodbyes. Pinkie comes and scoots up next to you and wrapping her arms around you once again. “So how was your first lesson?”
“It w-was o-okay” you answer, looking up at her “I learned h-how to write the a-a-alphabet p-properly”
“That is super duper great!” Pinkie yells fully wrapping both of her arms around you and pulling you into a tight embrace “I’m so proud of you”
You rush of heat goes to your cheeks as Pinkie pulls you in tighter and a proud smile comes to your face
“Yes, well done, Silver” Mrs. Cake says coming over to the table “How about we bake you up some treats huh?”
“O-okay,” you say happily
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Now that the night has fallen upon Ponyville it was time to get some rest. You currently stand in the bedroom with Pinkie in front of you.
“Okay Silver, time for bed!” Pinkie Pie said while looking down at you “did you brush your teeth?” She asks, in which you respond with a nod “are you sure?” You nod again “Show me your pearly whites!” She said in a happy tone.
You make a big toothy smile at Pinkie to show that you have Indeed brushed your teeth
“Ummmmmmmm…” Pinkie hummed while getting down lower to your height so she can inspect your teeth “let me smell your breath” She said while bringing her nose closer to your mouth
You breathe into the Pinkie's nose in which she replies with a “Mhmm minty!” with a small giggle at the end
Suddenly Pinkie picks you up and throws you onto the bed. You land of the marshmallow-like bed, bouncing as you do with a small giggle escaping your mouth.
With a RAWR!! Pinkie jumps onto the bed, sending shock waves through the mattress making you bounce up and down again, which of course make you giggle once again while your eyes are closed.
You open your eyes to see Pinkie stand over you with a smirk. She suddenly takes a deep breath and falls, but where does land? On your tummy. She then blows a raspberry on your belly.
The ticklish sensation sends through your body and making laugh uncontrollably. You try to push Pinkie away but it’s no use since you’re laughing too hard.
Pinkie stops blowing on your tummy and starts to laugh with you. She then gives you another hug while nuzzling your cheek.
You turn into Pinkie's hug and try to hug her back. But this pink pony is far too big and fluffy for your small size to fully hug.
The pink pony then eases up on the tight hug, but still holding you in her arms. She looks down at you with her big loving blue eyes and leans down to give you another nuzzle on the cheek, along with a small kiss.
With you still in her arms she pulls the covers over the two of you and snuggles you closer to her.
“Goodnight, Silver Wilver” Pinkie said whilst stroking your mane
“G-Goodnight, Pinkie” you reply snuggling yourself deeper into her fur
Pinkie watches as you slowly drift off to sleep while stroking your mane. She then leans down and whispers in your ear.
“I will be here to protect you from anything you dream about. Any monsters that attack you, I will scare them off. Any dark place you find yourself in, I will brighten it up. Any sad moment, I will do anything to put a smile on that face” she places a kiss on your head “I love you so much”
With that, she places her head on her pillow and drifts off to sleep with your in her arms.