//------------------------------// // Three. // Story: Our Inner Demon // by BlueDiamond //------------------------------// Applejack woke up at sunrise. The farm girl always had woken up early, for chores, or for the simple yet luxurious pleasure of watching the sun rise up like a fiery ball of flame. She went to have a shower and a change of clothes. Yet, her mind kept straying to Anon-A-Miss. I wish and hope we can find whoever's doing this. I don't want my friends to get teased like me. She took her sleeping bag and put her pajamas and toiletries in it. Then she went to have breakfast. However, her phone rang with a notification, from MyStable. One glance and Applejack's mood tore down. ....wha... No, It couldn't be... She glanced out of the window, and saw a familiar mane of red and gold hair racing down Rarity's driveway. H-how...could she..? Rarity woke up with her hair in curlers. She liked to get up early and do a big makeover. After a hot bath with rose petals, she scrubbed her face with a yogurt face pack and washed it off. Putting on her soft fluffy slippers, she went to her wardrobe and began to rummage through it for an outfit. After about 15 minutes, in the time that Pinkie and Sci-Twi had woken up and went to the bathroom, she finally found what she was looking for. A white blouse with purple trimming, with a black pencil skirt, along with matching black stockings and purple heels the same shade as the detailed trimming on her blouse. The stockings had a criss-cross design on it, and the heels had a small, fake amythest just above the toes. Rarity thought it looked divine. "Girls! How does this pairing look on me?" She questioned to Sci-Twi and Pinkie, who had just returned from the bathroom, already in their school clothes. Rarity took the clothes and held them against herself. "Wowie! You look super-duper tastic!" Pinkie said, her mouth a comical O. "The colors do look quite nice together." Sci-Twi said. "On the other hand, have you seen Sunset?" "...No." Rarity said. "No, I haven't darling, sorry." Sci-Twi frowned. "Are you sure? I haven-" All of their phones rang at the same time. "It's a notification from Mystable." Rarity said. She frowned. Wait...what- She gasped at the post, then turned to the two girls. horror written on her face as well as Sci-Twi's and Pinkie's. No, there-there must be an-an e-explanation! At that moment, she heard a door close. She ran to the window and saw somebody with amber skin run down the driveway. I-i don't...understand.... Did-did she do this...? No, she wouldn't... But-But the pictures! It has to be her! I can't believe her! I have to talk to her... If she did this.... She will have a lot of explaining to do. Rainbow woke up after Rarity, yawning. She went downstairs to the other bathroom in the house, ruffling the carpet on the stairs as she did so. After quickly brushing her teeth, she put on her running outfit and shoes. She put on her blue geode and went to the kitchen for a granola bar. She saw Cookie Crumbles, Rarity's mom, preparing breakfast as she ran into the room. "Hi, Miss Crumbles!" Rainbow said. "Mind if I have a granola bar?" "Sure thing." "Sweet!" Rainbow took the granola bar and exited the house, closing the door as she did so. Where to begin running? Using her fingers, she traced a path from Rarity's house to the nearest park and back again. Grinning, she tied up her hair in a rough ponytail and jogged back and forth from the house to the park. She kept her geode on her trousers pocket as she ran. Having real superpowers as the heroes in her comics was beyond cool, but it just felt like cheating if she used her geode to run in record time. Besides, Sunset had told the girls the dangers to risking magic getting seen by some government agency so the only time they used their geodes now was in case of an emergency at town, which was about once every two months. After about 20 minutes had passed, Rainbow saw somebody wo looked like they were in a hurry to get away from Rarity's house running up the driveway. When Rainbow got close however, a red-and-gold blur shot past to the area the Rainbooms had parked their vehicles. "H-hey, stop! What're you-" But the figure was gone. He or she had took a motorcycle belonging to one of the Rainbooms and sped off. Huh. Wonder why she was in such a hurry.. Just then, her phone chimed, and a notification from MyStable popped up. She opened it, and she gasped. Very familiar, very embarrassing photos were their for the whole world to see. It was from the same blog that had posted Applejack's nickname today. The Rainbooms had scrolled through their social media accounts that day after classes just in case somebody posted about Applejack's nickname, and this blog, Anon-A-Miss, was the one who had commited this crime. But the photos.... No. No! She would never But the photos..... Argh!! I don't know what to do!! I'll have to ask her... there must be an e-explanation... Turning around, however, a pink-haired girl was running towards her, panting. Fluttershy woke up to the sound of rummaging clothes. From the corner of the room, Rarity was digging for clothes to wear. With a yawn, she went to the bathroom where Pinkie was combing her hair into a fluffball (don't ask), and Sci-Twi was pulling her straight hair into a ponytail. "Hi, Flutters!" Pinkie chirped from the pink mass that had become her hair. "Hi," Fluttershy said in her usual timid voice. After combing her rose locks, she picked up Angel, who had been in her backpack for the sleepover, outside for a bit of fresh air. Fluttershy sat down on a bench in the backyard of Rarity's house, enjoying the breeze and warm sunshine on her face. Places like these were her favourites to just relax, and think about the day ahead, and what had happened before. Posting about Applejack's nickname like that was just so cruel, she wished that she knew who it was. As she began to finally rest, however, her phone chimed. "Huh?" The notification was from MyStable. Fluttershy opened the social media app and her confusion quickly morphed to horror. The photos... Fluttershy was in one of those horrible images; she was wearing a silly bright neon pink dress made of polyester with platform boots that had silver studs on the heels. Her hair was tied up in two hideous braids trailing down her back like rat tails. What hurt Fluttershy most, however, was not the photos itself, but the caption: Tears fell from the rose-haired girl's eyes when she read the repulsive comments: Then, she thought she knew exactly who Anon-A-Miss was. She stood up suddenly, stuffed Angel unceremoniously into her yellow backpack, then ran down to where she saw a certain sky-blue skinned girl with hair in various colors. Sci-Twi arose from bed with her hair a tangled mess. Next to her, Pinkie had already begun rolling up her sleeping bag. "Hi, Twily!" She said. "Gooooood morning!" "Good morning, Pinkie," she said with a yawn. Both of them went to the bathroom together. Pinkie somehow managed to get the curls out of Sci-Twi's hair using a toothpick from the toiletries jar in the sink, but the nerd didn't question it. She had long since given up finding out how Pinkie does what she... does. Fluttershy came in a few minutes later, looking a bit tired, but happy all the same. "Hi, Flutters!" Pinkie said. "Hi." the buttercream-skinned girl said quietly. Fluttershy quickly combed through her silky rose tresses, took Angel, then went out of the bathroom. "She's gone?" Pinkie questioned. She had been humming a song Sci-Twi didn't know while brushing her hair in it's usual pink mass. "Yes," Sci-Twi replied. "Come on, let's go." As both of them exited the bathroom, they were greeted by the sight of Rarity looking amazing in a pencil skirt and blouse. "W O W I E!! you look so awesome ohmygosh can I have your autograph-" "Now, now, Pinkie, it's just a dress" Sci-Twi said. Thankfully, Rarity had her back turned and so didn't hear what Sci-Twi had said. At that moment, all three phones chimed. "Wha?-" Sci-Twi clamped her mouth shut when she saw what had been posted. All of the photos from last night, and I mean All of them, had been posted for everyone and anyone with a MyStable acount to see. No...No! There's only one way that these can be posted!! But... she-she wouldn't... HOW COULD MY LOVE DO THIS TO ME?!! She fell on her knees and cried, without caring that Pinkie's hair had immediately gone flat and greyish seeing the poset, or that Rarity had run to the window, for some reason. How could the girl she admired and loved the most do this to her? Later that morning... Six angry, hurt girls waited for their friend in a separate classroom, to escape from prying eyes, and waiting for the girl who had supposedly ruined their lives. One was twirling her hat in an angry fashion, two were pulling on their hair as if it was the last thing they will ever have, One was looking at her feet, still heartbroken that her crush would do something so foul. One pacing around the room, not believing this was true, and waiting for the so called 'perpetrator' to come to the room and have an explanation. And the last one had her hair completely straight, as if she had lost all love and joy in the world. "Hi guys! Why did you want me to be here?" A girl with red-and-gold hair said, have been just entered the room. Closing the door behind her, she asked. "What's going.... A glance on their faces, however, made her say the last word, a bit hesitantly. ...on?"