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// Streets of darkness 
// Story: Meet OliveDrab 
// by OliveDrab 
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Some say the streets of cantarlot are walked upon by heroes, it may be true but those same streets are walked upon by criminals and rejects too. These streets are where I noticed my cutiemark: a spade with a lightning bolt through it supposedly denoting extreme luck. These streets are where it began and almost ended for me.
So I was alone, I had no food, home, or friends I was completely and utterly alone. Hopelessness was beginning to set in when I noticed a large pack just sitting in the street. I checked the contents, illegal rainbow tabs and that's when the light blue unicorn struck. She was still a filly about my age but before I could put the pack down she had her horn to my throat menacing me as though I was a threat to her. "So the guards sent a young buck to bust me. Who are you?" she asked.  I could have bluffed my way out but instead I tried my luck at fighting for my life.
I ended up on the ground getting kicked by multiple young bucks and fillies when I caught a glimpse of purple. "Twilight!?" but there was no reply, rather loose bricks started flying towards my assailants with collateral landing on me. After a few seconds the gang ran taking their evidence with them. "Twilight?" she stepped out of the shadows "Olive!" she exclaimed as she ran to embrace me. "Two months and you've already gotten tangled up in gangs." I let my head hang low. "It was an accident I was trying to survive" "Olive" she hushed me gently "Its okay Olive what you did was brave I saw your face when you opened the pack."
I noticed then that she had a pack on and realized what she was trying to do. "Twilight you know you cant come with me." She looked down and sighed. "Please Olive we could do this together." I sternly looked at her. "No twilight I love you too much to let you throw away your future like that." She looked up crying. "I know I just wanted to be with you." I embraced her. "I'll come back I promise" and that was the last I saw of her for years. I spent two more months on the streets of cantarlot, and then I walked out of the city for the last time.