//------------------------------// // Quartz // Story: Sweetie belle alone // by Reactception //------------------------------// “Oh my head” Sweetie muttered as she woke up in the damp cave. “Oh crabapples how long was I out?” Sweetie exclaimed/asked to no one in particular. “About 5 days” Quartz responded nonchalantly “5 days?!! No no no I need to keep going. I need to leave before my sister finds me and takes me home!” “And why is that?” Quartz asked in a sage tone of voice and as he gave her a clinical stare that creeped her out. “Cause she will drag me back out of obligation and I’ll hurt her again” Sweetie squeaked softly sniffling. “Do you wanna hurt her again?” Quartz asked still staring at her with those piercing eyes again. “No? no of course not!” She exclaimed frustrated and confused. “And why do you care about this I’m a pony and your a dragon. Why would you bother to even talk to me ? Sweetie exclaimed frustrated. “Oh it’s complicated” Quartz muttered and then turned away from her in a huff. As the dragon and the small filly sat there in utter silence they both stewed about there problems and why they were there in a damp cave with a dragon/pony and why life was so unfair. Meanwhile back at the search party : While Sweetie Belle was sleeping the girls with the help of Winona had tracked sweeties footsteps and smell into the bog. “Rarity we have to head back it’s raining to hard the bogs gonna flood.” Twilight yelled over the storm. “You can all head back I’m finding my little Sweetie“ Rarity exclaimed with a hint of anger and insanity in her voice. “Rarity we’ll never find her out here in this here storm” Applejack tried to reason. “No I’m finding her” Rarity yelled back. And then muttered “I don’t know what I’ll do if I don’t.” Rainbow Dash flew up into the pouring rain and bucked at the clouds till they were gone and then flapped down sopping wet. “I gotcha Rarity. I mean it’s the least i could do after dumping that rain on Sweetie and her friends” Rainbow exclaimed shivering every other breath. “You did what??” Rarity and Applejack both shouted in anger. “I know it was petty and I’m sorry if Sweetie’s gone partly cause of me” Dash shivered. “Wait Dash won’t you get in trouble with the P.W.P. Association for messing with the clouds and the weather schedule” Twilight butted in trying to settle everyone down. “Yeah so what those losers can sue me for all I care” Rainbow scoffed haughtily. “The what association?” Pinkie questioned as oblivious as ever. “The Pegasus weather patrol association” Fluttershy quickly responded because being Pegasus she actually knew. “Dash should put the clouds back. Can’t you lose your flying license for interfering with the weather schedule” Twilight insisted. “Oh please Twilight that hasn’t happened in decades and even if they tried my friendship with Rarity and making up for what I did to Sweetie Belle matters more” Rainbow responds somberly with a somewhat cheery tone. “Quite right darling Sweetie Belle matters more” Rarity haughtily responded in righteous indignation. The girls continued there search for Sweetie running through the bushes and tracking her scent. 1 day later at the Quartz’s cave : After a whole day of awkward silence Quartz had begun to hum lightly to ease the tension. It wasn’t working...... So instead he tried to talk to Sweetie Belle again instead. “So little pony I have an idea” he said grinning at his own cunningness. “Yeah what is it?” Sweetie questioned quietly just above a whisper. “You tell me your story about how you ended up here and I’ll tell you mine” he concluded flicking his tail in the air in excitement. “Fine” she sighed to exasperated to continue hiding what she was running from. So she told him the tale of Gabby Gums and how her sister hated and berated her now cause of her own stupidity. He opened his mouth as if to speak but shut it just as quickly as he has opened it. “What?” Sweetie muttered “I was just gonna comment how funnily familiar that story sounds” Quartz commented “Let me tell you my story” Quartz started. “I was a little tike for a dragon and always a little odd never really fit in. Never liked fighting never was that strong just a smart wimp” he mused about his past. “I used to go to the closets pony towns and burrow books and read about the future and psychology and the power of our mind’s” Quartz continued. “Wow! I’ve never heard of any dragon except Spike being interested in reading or pony things” Sweetie replied intrigued by this dragon and his story. “Small purple and green? About yay tall” he asked raising his tail to a certain height. “Yeah about that” Sweetie replied instantly. “Hmm met him once... he stole my crystals and hid in my old cave tried chatting me up when I caught him.” “But I decided to teach him a lesson anyways and then the darndest thing happened a small owl came in and scratched at my eyes never saw him or that owl again.” Quartz declared annoyed. “Whoa doesn’t sound like something spike would do” Sweetie Belle seemed suspicious. “Never mind that” Quartz’s said as he shrugged it off. “Now back to my story” Quartz continued ignoring Sweetie Belle’s suspicious gaze. “And one day having read to many heroic pony fiction I decided to oppose the dragon lord and say dragons could be so much more.... even tried using my psychology terminology and ideals from the books to explain the ecological traditions mistruths.” “They banished me for it claimed I was crazy I’ve lived in the caves near your Ponyville ever since.” He concluded. “That’s awful” Sweetie Belle declared. “My point is you can’t let life get you down. Now tell me more about this Rarity.” Quartz continued “Wait What ? Why?” Sweetie Belle asked confused. “I need to hear about your family to determine what you are really scared of” he said in a serious tone. “What? I told you what happened and why I left.” She insisted. “No I don’t think you did” Quartz questioned smugly. “What do you mean?” Sweetie questioned pretending to not get what she knew he had figured out. “How long have you been jealous and bitter towards Rarity?” Quartz asked.