Tears
Tears ran down her face and formed tiny wet circles on a small wooden table, covered with sawdust and small metal scraps.
Derpy Hooves sat by a small table with her head between hooves and a heartrending cry. She was so alone. In all Equestria there was nopony who would care for her. Her parents had left her and she didn’t have any friends. A lot of ponies make fun for her bad eyes, and so she became scared of them. Whenever it was possible, she stayed hidden in her small apartment.
She had nopony. Only that little doll which stood on a table next to her. It was a small unicorn filly, made from wood and metal. She made her with her own hooves and named her Dinky. She put all her love and desires into the doll's creation, but now when it stood finished before her, she had fallen into despair.
She wished for the doll to become alive, so she could play with her, care for her and more importantly be her beloved mom. But now she knew that her wish will never be real. And, so she lies with her head on the desk and cried with quiet sobs, deep into the night.
Somewhere from the darkest depth of her soul emerged a wicked and mocking voice. “Stupid eyes” it said. “Stupid and useless Derpy. Nopony loves her because she is so ugly. Who could love such an ugly filly with crossed eyes? Nopony of course.”
Derpy tried not to listen, but she could still hear the voice, until she fell asleep completely exhausted by her constant crying.
***
High upon the night sky on her majestic dark blue wings floated Princess Luna. Watching the sleeping landscape underneath and listening to the pony dreams.
But then she heard it. That awfully familiar voice. The voice she heard every day of her one thousand year imprisonment. The voice which transformed her into the Nightmare Moon. But this time it wasn’t coming from her, but from one of the dreams she was listening to. She immediately went on its trail.
She elegantly circled over the Ponyville and her mane full of stars flew behind her. She slipped quietly through the window into a small room.
Before her a small filly with a yellow mane slept, with her head on a table. On the desk beneath her she noticed few drying tears.
A cold night air drifted through the window and that small filly was shivering. Princess Luna grabbed a blanket with her magic and put it over that poor filly.
But she was still shivering. There was something that troubled her dreams.
So Princess Luna lowered her head, touched that filly’s forehead with the tip of her horn and entered her dreams.
They were full of fear, anxiety and evil whispering voices. Luna concentrated all her powers and drove all that shadows with one bright flash of white light. The little filly stopped shivering and a little smile appeared on her lips, as her mind started to fill up with much more pleasant dreams.
But that wasn’t all that Princess Luna must do. Once more she looked into her mind. It was like a big open book, but she had to be very careful not to change anything. She read for a long time, before she found what she was looking for.
She looked on little doll standing on the desk next to the sleeping filly and touched it with her horn. A bright flash filled the room for a few seconds.
When the light was gone Luna was quietly watching two sleeping fillies. One pegasus and one little unicorn lying next to her.
“I’m sorry for being here for you so late.” whispered Luna into the night and disappeared into the shadows.
***
Somepony talked and pulled Derpy’s mane. She yawned and slowly opened her eyes. There in the light of Celestia’s rising sun was a little unicorn filly with a curious look on her face.
“Ah.” shouted Derpy in surprise a jumped into the air. She stayed right under the ceiling hovering on her wings as far as possible from that strange, but somehow familiar intruder.
“W-Who are you?” she stammered finally.
“I am Dinky.” said the unicorn filly proudly. “And you must be my mommy.”
“W-what?” asked confused Derpy?
“Well, it was you who have created me,” explained the little filly “so you must be my mommy.”
“B-but t-this c-can’t b-be t-truth.”
“You don’t love me?” ask filly unicorn sadly and in the corners of her eyes first tears appeared.
Those words hit Derpy deep into her heart and at that moment she realized that whatever miracle had just happened this is her beloved Dinky.
She flew down and hugged her tightly. “Of course I love you, sweetie,” she said in a soothing voice.
Dinky looked upon her with a giant smile and whispered: “I love you too, mommy.”
They stayed in that embrace until Celestia’s Sun climbed high in the sky.
“I’m hungry a little, mommy,” said Dinky.
“Then we must go outside and buy something. I have nothing to eat at home right now.”
Then they went together to do some shopping. Somehow Derpy wasn’t suddenly afraid of anypony. Instead of it she just smiled at them and other ponies were nicer to her too.
Her heart had somepony to live for again.