//------------------------------// // Love and Hatred (updated) // Story: Forgiveness? // by Feather Guide //------------------------------// "Lorelei, you are to marry Prince Earl once you are an adult." Sweetie Belle said. "Why?" Lorelei ask. "Simple because I said so." Sweetie Belle said. "But I don’t know him.” Lorelei said. "You met him when you were younger." Sweetie Belle said. "Why doesn't Dolores or anyone else has a to get married?" Lorelei asked. "Dolores does, she's just reading one of her rulebooks." Sweetie Belle said. "Who's she marrying?" Lorelei asked. "Prince Lucius, he's Prince Earl's brother." Sweetie Belle said. "Bea, is the dinner tonight?" Shining Armor asked. "Yes, why?" Sweetie Belle asked. "We should probably cook a normal meal for our guests." Shining Armor said. "I got that covered." Sweetie Belle said. "What are you talking about?" Lorelei asked. "Your future husband and his family are coming for dinner tonight." Sweetie Belle said. "There's a dress for you on your bed." Shining Armor said. Lorelei left to go see her dress. "Lori, do you know why we have dresses on our beds?" Yarrow asked. "Apparently I'm getting married almost as soon as I turn eighteen. It might be the same for Dolores." Lorelei said. "Wait for what?!" Dolores exclaimed slamming her book closed. "I don't want to wear a dress," Yarrow said. "I think we have to," Lorelei said. Hours later... "You all look wonderful." Shining Armor said wearing a navy blue tux with a black tie. "You don't look so bad yourself." Sweetie Belle said wearing a light green dress and a bun. "I'll keep a lookout for our guests." Shining Armor said before going out of the cave. Twelve minutes later Blueblood, Fleur, Lucius, and Earl walked in behind Shining Armor. "Dinner is served." Sweetie Belle said. "Thank you for inviting us," Fleur said wearing a lilac dress. "No problem." Sweetie Belle said. "This is delicious," Blueblood said wearing a black tux with a blue tie. "Lorelei, you and Dolores should introduce yourselves to Princes Earl and Lucius." Sweetie Belle said. "Hi I'm Lorelei," Lorelei said. "My name is Dolores," Dolores said reading a rulebook. "I'm Prince Lucius," Lucius said wearing a gray tux and purple bow tie. "I'm Prince Earl," Earl said wearing a purple tux and a gray bow tie. Dolores didn’t pay anymore attention and continued to read. "Why did you cast an illusion spell on the food?" Blueberry asked. "I don't know what you're talking about." Sweetie Belle said. "Tell us the truth," Blueberry said. "We need to go sorry," Blueblood said looking at the pocket watch that he had summoned. "What am I?" Yarrow asked suddenly. "What do you mean? Fleur asked. "I don't feel fully like a filly," Yarrow said. "Go to your room now!!" Sweetie Belle yelled. Yarrow did as she was told and ran to her room. "Why did you yell at her?" Earl asked. "Earl, they're like our family. It's like your big sister. She identifies as a stallion when she's just a confused mare." Blueblood said. "We'll talk to her later." Sweetie Belle said. "She kind of reminds me of my sister who died when we were fillies. My sister identified as bigender and then she got shot by an arrow." Fleur said. "Hopefully Yarrow will realize she's confused before anything like that happens to her." Sweetie Belle said. "We really should be going they have both have a test tomorrow," Fleur said. "Farewell then." Sweetie Belle said. "It was nice to see all of you again." Shining Armor said. Fleur, Blueblood, Earl, and Lucius left the cave and teleported home. "I'm going to talk to Yarrow." Sweetie Belle said. Sweetie Belle went to Yarrow, Blueberry, Lorelei, and Dolores "bedroom". "Am I in trouble? Am I weird?" Yarrow asked. "You're just confused." Sweetie Belle said. "When will I feel normal?" Yarrow asked. "I don't know." Sweetie Belle said. "What if it never happens?" Yarrow asked. "Don't worry it will happen." Sweetie Belle said. "Thanks for taking care of me," Yarrow said before falling asleep. "No problem my little flower." Sweetie Belle said before getting up. "Bea, Blueberry really wants to go out into the world and go to school." Shining Armor said when he saw Sweetie Belle. "Most of Equestria knows that she was foalnapped." Sweetie Belle said. "Exactly most," Blueberry said. Sweetie Belle and Shining Armor looked at her then at each other and sighed. "Ok, you can go to school in the Crystal Empire. As long as you don't reveal too much." Shining Armor said. "Deal!" Blueberry said excitedly. "Go tell the others that the four of you will start going to school tomorrow." Sweetie Belle said. Blueberry rushed to her room so quickly that her glasses almost came off. Yarrow woke up. "We get to go to school tomorrow!" Blueberry said. "What exactly is school?" Yarrow asked with a yawn. "It's a place where we get to learn," Blueberry said. "I believe it's going to have lots of rules," Dolores said putting down one of her rulebooks. "Girls, do you want to take the train tomorrow or teleport to school?" Shining Armor asked. "Train," Blueberry said. The next day everyone woke up not long after two. "We have to go to a store for supplies." Sweetie Belle said. The six of them left the cave and went into town and entered a store. Sweetie Belle and Shining Armor were wearing disguises. "I want these four lunch boxes and these four saddlebags." Sweetie Belle said putting the items on the counter. "Anything else?" the mare behind the counter asked. "No that will be all." Sweetie Belle said. "That will be sixteen bits." the mare said. "There you go." Sweetie Belle said. Sweetie Belle and the others left the store and headed towards the train station. Shining Armor paid for the tickets. "I'm so excited!" Blueberry said. "I'm going to go put the soup in your lunch boxes." Sweetie Belle said before teleporting away. "I can't wait!" Blueberry said. Sweetie Belle teleported back and handed out the lunch boxes. "Put these in your bags." Sweetie Belle said. "Here's some money you can use but, don't use all of it before the end of school you need enough to come back." Shining Armor said then he summoned two maps. "Here are two maps of the Crystal Empire." Shining Armor said. "Good luck." Sweetie Belle said. "Bye." Shining Armor said. "I'm scared," Yarrow said. "It'll be fine." Sweetie Belle and Shining Armor said in unison. "The train for the Crystal Empire is leaving!" the conductor called from the train. "All aboard that's going aboard!" Blueberry, Yarrow, Lorelei, and Dolores got on the train. As soon as Yarrow, Lorelei, and Dolores sat down they fell asleep. Hours later they had arrived at the Crystal Empire after some delays and were trying to find the school. "I'm going to be late!" a pegasus filly said frantically looking at the time and grabbing her food. "Where's the school?" Blueberry asked the filly. "Follow me that's where I'm heading." the pegasus filly said. As they walked Blueberry had thousands of thoughts bubbling in her mind. They were at school before she knew it. "What's your name? Blueberry asked. "Ursula... Ursula Dash," Ursula said. "I'm Blueberry," Blueberry said. "Nice to meet you. I'm the restroom cleaner so that's why I have to get here early." Ursula said. "My sisters and I have never been to school before. Could you tell us what it's like?" Blueberry asked. "Wait you've never been to school before?!" Ursula exclaimed. "We rarely left our home," Blueberry said. "We can find out who your teachers are then you can help me clean the restrooms if you want," Ursula said. "Is there a library? That's the name for the place that has books right?" Blueberry asked. "Of course there's a library and yes that's the right name," Ursula said. Ursula walked Blueberry, Lorelei, Yarrow, and Dolores to the attendance office. "Are these the new students?" the attendance mare asked sitting down in her chair. "Yes ma’am ," Ursula said. "Blueberry you and Dolores will be in the same advanced classes as Ursula. Yarrow and Loralei you will have Mr. Sunburst to start off with." the attendance mare said. "Have a nice day," Ursula said. "You too." the attendance mare said. Ursula brought Yarrow and Loralei to their classroom. "Mr. Sunburst these are your new students," Ursula said. "Perfect timing, we're starting a new unit today," Sunburst said. "Bye," Ursula said. Ursula cleaned the fillies restrooms until other foals started showing up. "Are these two new dunces or are they polymaths like us?" a purple unicorn filly asked. "They are polymaths but their other sisters aren't," Ursula said. "So we have two new dunces and two new polymaths are that correct?" the purple unicorn filly asked. "Don't call their sisters dunces," Ursula said. "As you wish Ursa." the purple unicorn filly said. "Can you take them to class I don't want them to be late because of me?' Ursula said. "Sure thing." the purple unicorn filly said. "Thank you Umbriel," Ursula said. "No problem," Umbriel said. Umbriel took Dolores and Blueberry to class. "Good morning," Stormy said. "Good morning, these are the two new students," Umbriel said. "They can sit near you and Ursa," Stormy said. "Ok," Umbriel said. Ursula walked in behind everyone else. "We have two new students joining us today. Dolores and Blueberry please stand up." Stormy said. Dolores and Blueberry did as they were told though technically Blueberry hovered in the air. "Hi," Blueberry said. Later at recess... "Hey, eggheads past the ball over. You know if you want to." Ursula's twin sister said quietly. "You should work on speaking up Thora," Ursula said throwing the ball to her sister. "I know and thanks," Thora said. "You forgot your lunch my little shadow." a mare with a purple coat and faded blue mane said. "Thanks, mom," Umbriel said. "No problem." the purple mare. "Blueberry, I forgot to give these to you and your sisters." Sweetie Belle said after appearing. "Thank you," Blueberry said levitating all of the bags. Blueberry gave Lorelei, Dolores, and Yarrow their bags. "I never thought Radiant Hope would be a family creature." Sweetie Belle seeing the purple mare. "I thought the same thing about you Belle." Radiant Hope said. "Looks like we were both wrong." Sweetie Belle said. "I'll see you later my little shadow." Radiant Hope said to Umbriel. "Bye," Umbriel said. Sweetie Belle disappeared without saying a word. Radiant Hope waved goodbye to Umbriel then left. "Bri, was that mommy?" Umbriel's twin sister asked. "Don't call me that dunce!" Umbriel yelled. "Sorry that I yelled at you I just hate that name and yes it was." "Why didn't she say hi to me?" Umbriel's' twin sister asked. "I'm sure she had a reason Shady," Umbriel said. "I bet she didn't come to me because I'm not an egghead unlike you," Shady said. "I'm sure that's not the reason. Don't be more of a dunce than you already are." Umbriel said. "You were always the favorite! You always got praised even for the simplest of things! When I never get any!" Shady said angrily. Shady horn started to spark and before anyone knew it she sent a blast at Umbriel. Her sister slowly dropped to the ground. "Shady, calm down," Thora said. "Go away featherbrain!" Shady said angrily with sparks flying out of her horn. "Don't call her that!" Ursula said. "What are you going to do about it?" Shady asked. Ursula punched Shady so hard that there was blood as Shady fell to the ground. "What happened here?!" Sunburst asked walking over to them. "Shady made Ursa mad," Thora said. "Thora, you and Loralei will take Umbriel and Shady to the Nurse. Ursula, you will tell Stormy what you did." Sunburst said. Ursula flew towards Stormy with Blueberry flying behind her. "Sis, I did something bad," Ursula said when she saw Stormy. "What did you do?" Stormy asked. "Shady, made me mad so I ended up hurting her," Ursula said. "What made you mad?" Stormy asked. "Shady called Thora a featherbrain," Ursula said. "She did what?!" Stormy exclaimed in anger. Ursula backed away in fear with wide eyes. She had never seen her big sister angry before. "Sis, calm down," Ursula said with a shaky voice. "That little she-devil needs to learn a lesson," Stormy said. "Think happy thoughts," Ursula said. Stormy took a few breaths and thought about the top ten best things in her life before looking at Ursula again. "We are going to tell mom when we get home," Stormy said. "Ok," Ursula said. "Blueberry, Yarrow is crying!" Lorelei said walking up behind Blueberry. "Where is she?" Blueberry asked. "This way," Lorelei said. Blueberry, Ursula, and Stormy followed Lorelei. They stopped in front of a tree. "What's wrong?" Blueberry asked seeing Yarrow. "I feel so confused. I don't feel fully like a filly." Yarrow said. "There are a few possibilities for what you might be," Stormy said. "What do you mean?" Yarrow asked. "Is there anything else you feel?" Stormy asked. "I think I sometimes feel like a mix of a filly and a colt and other times either," Yarrow said. "That sounds like bigender," Stormy said. "My mom said that I was confused," Yarrow said. "She's wrong. You're not confused." Stormy said. "What do I do?" Yarrow asked. "Just be yourself," Stormy said. Hours later on the train ride home... "Lori is a lesbo," Dolores whispered to Blueberry. "Yarrow is very confused," Blueberry said. "You know we can hear you right?" Lorelei asked. "Also what's a lesbo?" "It means you like other fillies," Blueberry said. "Oh," Lorelei said. "Yarrow is double confused you can't feel like both a filly and a colt then either. You also can't like fillies and colts." Blueberry said. When the train reached their stop the four of them got off. "How was your first day?" Shining Armor asked when he saw them get off. "Good." Blueberry and Dolores said in unison. "Anything you want to tell us?" Sweetie Belle asked. "Lorelei is a lesbo," Blueberry said. "Hopefully Lorelei's marriage to Prince Earl will fix her." Sweetie Belle said. "Why can't I love who I love?" Lorelei asked. "It's wrong." Sweetie Belle said "Yarrow is super confused," Blueberry said. "I'm not confused," Yarrow said. "Let's talk about this over dinner." Shining Armor said. The six of them teleported to the cave. Sweetie Belle started cooking magic right away. "Can I help?" Blueberry asked. "No." Sweetie Belle said. Blueberry walked over to where the others were and sat down on the floor. "Were there any colts that you thought were cute?" Shining Armor asked. "Not really the closest one was a nerd with scars," Blueberry said. "You should invite him over." Shining Armor said. "Dinners ready." Sweetie Belle said levitating six bowls. "It smells delicious." Shining Armor said. "I did nothing new." Sweetie Belle said. "That doesn't mean it doesn't smell delicious." Shining Armor said. Everyone grabbed a bowl and sat on the ground. "So what's the name of this colt?" Sweetie Belle asked Blueberry. "His name is Taka," Blueberry said. "Doesn't that translate to trash?" Shining Armor said. "Yes, his sister's name translates to war and his dad's name translates to scar," Blueberry said. "What do you think of Salem?" Yarrow asked. "Meh." Dolores said. "Why can't I like other fillies?" Yarrow asked. "It is wrong to like someone that is your gender." Sweetie Belle said. "I bet my real parents would except me!" Yarrow cried before teleporting to their room. "I'll go talk to Yarrow," Lorelei said. "No, you won't." Sweetie Belle said. "Why?" Lorelei asked. "You and Dolores need to pick out your wedding dresses." Sweetie Belle said. "Can I help?" Blueberry asked. "Sure. Here's the money I'm allowing you to go to Ponyville to buy the dresses." Sweetie Belle said. "Why aren't you coming and why Ponyville? Isn't that the place you took me from? If it is then won't they recognize me?" Blueberry asked. "Shining and I are going to talk to Yarrow and Ponyville have a great designer just don't raise any suspicion." Sweetie Belle said. "Ok," Blueberry said taking the buying. "I'm going to teleport the three of you there. Make sure you get a dress for Yarrow as well." Sweetie Belle. Sweetie Belle teleported Blueberry, Lorelei, and Dolores to Ponyville after making sure they had enough money. After walking or flying in Blueberries case for eight or so minutes they came across Carousel Boutique. "Hi, can my sisters and I get three dresses for a dance?" Blueberry asked upon entering. "What kind of dance?" Rarity asked. "One for school my sisters here already have dates they just need dresses," Blueberry said. "What about you?" Rarity asked. "There's a colt I like but I don't know if he likes me," Blueberry said shaking a little. "Than I think I have the right dresses especially for you." Rarity said. "Follow me." Blueberry, Dolores, and Loralei did as they were told and followed Rarity. "I almost forgot we need a dress for our sister who couldn't come with us," Blueberry said. "Yarrow might not want a dress through," Lorelei said. "Mom said to get Yarrow a dress which we will do," Dolores said. "Look over here." Rarity said to Blueberry. "Ok, thanks," Blueberry said. "No problem, the others follow me." Rarity said after a few minutes of walking Rarity stopped and turned to Dolores. "Look over here." "Ok, thanks," Dolores said. "No problem." Rarity said then she gestured to Lorelei. "Follow me." "Can we look at tuxes for my sibling that couldn't make it?" Lorelei asked. "Sure thing. Out of curiosity is this the sibling that one of your sisters referred to as a filly?" Rarity asked. "Yes, Yarrows actually bigender but doesn't have the support they need," Lorelei said. "Make sure you're there for them." Rarity said. "I'm being forced to marry a colt which is why I need a dress," Lorelei said. "No one should force you to get married." Rarity said. "It's an arranged marriage," Lorelei said. "Oh." Rarity said. "I really want to be with this filly that I have a crush on," Lorelei said. "Go ask that filly out and ignore anyone that tells you it's wrong." Rarity said. "Thanks," Lorelei said. "No problem, and here try this one." Rarity said levitating a gray tux. Lorelei was confused and grabbed it. Rarity pushed her towards the changing room. Lorelei closed the door and put on the tux then looked at the mirror and smiled before opening the door. "I love this," Lorelei said. "Then take it off and I'll disguise it as a dress." Rarity said. "Thanks, will you do that for Yarrows as too?" Lorelei asked. "Yes." Rarity said. Rarity took Lorelei back to the tux section. "I think green would work best," Lorelei said. "Like this one?" Rarity asked. "That's perfect," Lorelei said. Rarity used an illusion spell on the two tuxes to make them appear to be dressed. Lorelei walked over to her sisters to got check out well Rarity headed towards the cash register. "That'll be four bits." Rarity said. Blueberry gave Rarity four bits before levitating the bag with the items in it. "Farewell," Lorelei said. "Hope to see you again." Rarity said. Dolores teleported the three of them home. "Let's see the dresses." Sweetie Belle said. Blueberry gave the bag to Sweetie Belle. "You can probably guess which one is mine," Blueberry said. "The blue plaid one is yours, I'm guessing the pink one is Dolores, the green is for Yarrow, so that means the grays Loreleis." Sweetie Belle. Lorelei walked to her room and sat on Yarrow's bed. "I got you a tux it's under an illusion spell so it looks like a dress," Lorelei whispered. "Thanks, did you get a tux too?" Yarrow asked. "Yes," Lorelei said. "Why?" "Just wondering. Can you get my glasses?" Yarrow asked. "Sure," Lorelei said grabbing Yarrow's reading glasses. Yarrow teleported a book in front of them and began to read it quietly but loud enough for Lorelei to hear it. Blueberry and Dolores walked in whispering to each other before seeing Yarrow and Lorelei. "Freaks," Blueberry said."You can only like colts and be a filly," "Can you two be quiet?" Yarrow asked.