Dirty McDirtson was my best friend all through elementary. He didn't exactly live in Canterlot or even Ponyville. He was like in the outskirts of the different cities, much like a country side or farm life. None the less, he still went to my school in Canterlot as it was the closest school to him.
I of course was bullied continuously throughout elementary school. Not only was I not able to write like other ponies but I was always pretty clumsy as well. Worst of all, I was the last pony in my class to get my cutie mark. Actually, what's even worse than that, is that I can't even remember how I got my cutie mark! I have flashes of memories some times but I don't exactly know. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
I'm not exactly sure how Dirty and I became friends, it just sort of happened. I'm a unicorn and he's a land pony but much unlike the stories we had heard about the pegasi, unicorns, and land ponies on Hearts Warming Eve, we got along very well. Whenever he saw ponies picking on me, he'd come over and stick up for me. I was always really appreciative of him.
One day, in second grade, I thought it was all over. He came to school with a cutie mark. I thought he wouldn't care about me anymore because I still didn't have mine. He came over to me and started showing me it. I thought he was just showing off but then he said "I know you don't have yours yet but trust me, I'm looking forward to the day you do. Then we'll be ultimate best friends." I was very happy.
Much later, about in Summer of third grade, I was on vacation at my grandma's house. Thunder, Freezy, Aqua, Pyro, and Ivy were with me. Actually most of our family was there. Obviously like I said, our Grandma Gypsy Ball was there, my mom and day Humid Oasis and Abby Normal were there, my cousins parents Snake Eyes and Dark Shadow were there, and then my Grandpa Bee Sting was there.
While I was there, Grandma seemed to be getting a little dizzy. She also was very cold. Her eyes turned a bright color and began speaking to us. She was having another vision. That was her cutie mark ability. Her cutie mark is a crystal ball which gives her the ability to have visions of the future. Now, given the fact that you can choose your future, we always said that her visions wouldn't work but they tended to always happen. However, none of her previous visions were as bad as the one she had that time. She began speaking to all of us who were there "I see a power plant. And...Electro Spark. She's getting her cutie mark but...it's all blurry. I see a lot of electricity. There's a brown pony with you, with a cutie mark that looks like soil." She began gasping as her eyes turned back to normal and her vision ended.
Grandma looked at me and told me that although I was going to get my cutie mark, it wasn't going to be a pleasant scence. She knew I was going to be hurt somehow but she didn't want to scare me. I was very terrified, though, being only seven years old. I probably would have been terrified at any age... the one thing that I was confused about is why that pony with a cutie mark of soil was there. I asked if the soil had a little plant growing out of it and Grandma replied that there was. A brown pony with a cutie mark of soil and a plant. I knew exactly who that was. It was my best friend Dirty McDirtson. But what was he doing in my Grandma's vision? I had to figure it out.