//------------------------------// // Chapter I // Story: You're Okay // by TheKing2001 //------------------------------// I trotted down the somewhat dark path on the outskirts of Sweet Apple Acres. I had just come from Canterlot and made a lot of bits during the music show. I love my job, just like Bonnie did with hers. While running the Sweet Shoppe did take a lot of bits, seeing my marefriend happy made me happy. I pulled my coat tighter around me as the rain poured down and a bolt of lightning illuminated the distance. “See the ponies trottin’ down the street. Equestria is where they wanna meet, they all know where they wanna go,” I sang quietly to myself as I continued trotting. This song was one my mom used to sing to me when I was a filly. The oldies are the best. I froze when I heard movement and my head slowly turned to where it came. While I wasn’t afraid of the dark, I was afraid of what hid in the dark. Ponyville is right near the Everfree forest and that place was bucking crazy. “Hello?” I called out nervously. “Anypony there?” The movement stopped before a filly with an orange coat and purple mane took off running out of a bush. She was carrying some saddlebags bulging with food. I recognized the filly immediately. She came into the shop often with her friends. “Scootaloo?” She didn’t stop running, she only sped up. I don’t think she focused on my voice otherwise she would have stopped. All she knew was a pony found her in the dark and she was afraid. Why, I don’t know but I wasn’t about to let her disappear. I used a spell to make my hoofsteps quieter and galloped after her. “Where the hay did that filly go?” I stopped galloping and looked around. My eyes slowly fell on a tree house and I knew I found her. I slowly worked my way up the stairs and knocked on the door. “Anypony in there?” Nothing came from the other side and I sighed. Maybe I was wrong and she had hid in a bush and watched me leave. I turned to leave when I heard a cough come from the side. It had been covered with a hoof based on how muffled it was but it confirmed what I knew. She was in there. “I’m coming in,” I called out as I turned around. I grasped the door handle with my magic, slowly opening it and I stepped inside. Scootaloo sat on the floor, shaking with her face hid in her hooves. “It’s okay,” I soothed as I got closer and brushed her mane with a hoof as a yellow puddle grew under her. “You’re okay.” She looked up at me and her eyes were filled with fear. Almost like she didn’t recognize me and was afraid I’d hurt her. I kept stroking her mane and smiled warmly down at her. “Let’s go to my house. You look starving girl,” I levitated her saddlebags on. I levitated her on my back under my coat so she didn’t get wet. I glanced back at her to make sure she was secured and smiled at her closed eyes as she slept. I let out a sigh as I trotted out the door and shut it softly behind me. This was going to be complicated at home. ------------------------------------------------------------- I opened the door of me and Bon Bons house and stepped inside with the sleeping filly on my back. I shut the door and set the saddlebags down at the door. I lifted a blanket onto the couch before placing her on it. As sympathetic as I was, I didn’t want her urine on our couch. I placed a blanket over her and a pillow under her head as I stared at her. “Lyra?” My marefriends sleepy voice came from behind me as the hallway light switched on. Bon Bon stepped next to me. “Uh why is Scootaloo asleep on our couch Lyra?” “Found her hiding in a tree house on the edge of Applejacks farm,” I answered as we both looked at the filly. “Why bring her here? Why not to her parents?” Bon Bon rubbed an eye with a hoof. “I don’t think she has anypony Bon Bon. She was in there with saddlebags filled with food. She was shaking and peed her self when I stepped inside the tree house and got closer to her. Almost like she was terrified I was going to hurt her Bon Bon.” “I’m proud of you Lyra,” Bon Bon smiled at me. She slowly reached out with a hoof and stroked Scootaloos mane. “Are you seriously making her sleep on the couch?” “I didn’t know how to get her in our bed without waking you,” I admitted. “Looks like I didn’t have to worry about that.” Bon Bon gave me a tired smile as she slid the filly onto her back and grunted. “Got that right,” Bon Bon agreed. “We can take her to our bed. We can figure this all out in the morning. Come on Lyra.” She started slowly walking to the bedroom we resided in. “Okay. Let me sort out this living room and lock the door. You sort her out and I’ll be right there,” I promised as I locked the door with my magic. I lifted the blanket and folded it before carrying it to the laundry room across from our room. I quickly tossed it in the dirty laundry basket before trotting into our room. Bon Bon had cleaned Scootaloo up based on the wet towels and placed her in the middle of our large bed. She laid with her back facing the wall as she stared at Scootaloo. “You could have saved her life Lyra,” Bon Bon glanced at me as I laid in the bed, pulling a blanket over the three of us. “You did a good thing.” “I know. I’m just glad I was in the right place at the right time. We need to ask her about this in the morning,” I sighed. “I agree one hundred percent. It’s going to be a hard conversation but it has to happen,” Bon Bon shut off the light on her side as I did the same. “Goodnight Lyra. I love you.” “Good night Bon Bon. I love you too.”