Scootaloo was trodding around Town square while searching for somepony that had been her coltfriend for about a month now.
She trodded toward AppleJack's barn, hoping that she knew where he may be. When Scootaloo reached the barn door she knocked. AppleJack greeted her as expected. "Hia Sugarcube! What can I do for ya?"
Scootaloo was a little hesitant at first, she gained up her courage and started talking. "Err...have you seen Pipsqueak any where?" AppleJack looked Scootaloo up and down carefully. "Wada ya need to find Pip for Hun?" Scootaloo hadn't expected this, she quickly looked through her mind for a excuse.
"I-uhh....err um.....I need to..." A thought struck her like lightning. "I need to give Pip his birthday present!"
She congratulated herself silently.
"No need for that but ok.." A voice in her head told her.
"Ohh shut up!" She told herself to where only Vinyl could hear.
"If ya insist Sugarcube....I saw him troddin near town hall... Heck almost everypony is gathered there for some odd reason!" Scootaloo's heart raced with joy and she raced off. "THANKS APPLEJACK!!"
She here AppleJack's voice barley audible over the rush of wind. "No prob Hun!" While running she passed Big Mac.
"Hey Big Mac! Can you tell AppleBloom I said 'Hi'?" Big Mac stopped for a quick second to reply to her just before she passed him.
"Eeyup!" Big Mac replied in his usual tone. "Thanks!"
She was almost to town hall now, so she stopped and caught her breath and trodded forward, slowly scanning the crowd that had gathered in front of the Town Hall. She searched all over for about 5 minutes, finally she spotted his white, brown flecked coat.
Pip sill hadn't noticed noticed her yet so she walked up beside him. Pip still didn't notice Scootaloo even when she was beside him, so she took it up to the next level. She then proceeded to lean against him carefully but fast enough to surprise him.
He turned his eyes on fire. "Hey wha-" he stopped short his eyes softening after he realized it was Scootaloo. "Ohh sorry Scoots..." She looked into Pip's eyes, they seemed to be mixed with a bit of fear and most of all love and compassion.
"It's fine Pip." She replied half cooing. "Hey I remembered something while I was looking for you." Pip looked at her and played along. "And what might that be?!"
Scootaloo acted stunned. "You forgot your own birthday?!"
Pip hugged Scootaloo for a brief moment then kissed her gingerly on her forehead. "So what's the meeting all about?" She asked Pip in a soft, loving tone. "We'll that's what I was about to tell you after the meeting was over, but you came instead so I guess she can tell you." He motioned to the mare on stage.
Scootaloo straightened up and listened to the meeting. A strange young looking pegasus was standing at the podium, the mare had a light tan coat and was wearing a safari hat and vest. One pony in the back raised their hoof to speak. "Miss Doo? Could you please speak up? You are barely audible back here."
He was right she, Scootaloo finally found oh it was THE Daring Doo, was very hard to hear over the hushed voices of the crowd. "Yes I can, is this better?" She was much clearer that before, plus the ponies that had been whispering had stopped and decided to listen instead.
"Today we start our journey to a new found island off the cost of Saddle Arabia, we have not yet found a name for the island, but with the help of a few of you we will dub it and see what we can find and bring back for Equestria!"
Everypony cheered and whistled. Everything made sense to Scootaloo now, Pip was one of those chosen to go with Daring Doo and the others to go to this island.
"So how long will you be away?" Scootaloo asked sadly. "A few weeks, maybe a month… I should be back by the Summer Sun Celebration, what's that 6 weeks away?"
She nodded. "Just another thing to celebrate!" They both looked into each others eyes. The both slowly leaned into each other and shared a deep kiss before they departed.
Pip was the one that ended it and slowly trodded toward the docks. All Scootaloo could do was stand and watch. She trodded home quietly, tears slowly building up behinds her eye lids. She slung open the door to her house and went to her bedroom.
She finally broke, tears rolled down her face like a river. She tried to keep it quiet but her tears and wails of sadness wouldn't end.
In the distance she herd the boat horn, she cried harder. The last time she cried like this was when RainbowDash had gone into a coma after a flying accident. She started pushing her feelings aside as usual. She got up from the bed and left her room only to go to the couch, there was a knocking at her door.
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BlackBolt had just reached PonyVille when he heard a bunch of commotion and clattering of hoofs against the cobblestone path. He trodded toward the Town Hall when a strikingly familiar pegasus ran by, tears starting to stream from her eyes, he could tell that she had either just broken up with her coltfriend or her one true love just went on a dangerous mission of some sort and wouldn't return for a long time.
He could also tell that she was trying to hide her feelings but it wasn't working very well. He looked up at a large paper sign hanging from the roof of the town hall: "Expedition to the New Isles Sign Ups."
He understood exactly why that one pegasus had run by him now, her colt friend, or whoever it was, had just signed up for the expedition and wasn't returning till the expedition ended. He decided to trod in the direction the pegasus mare had run to try and calm her down.
The boat horn sounded and he here somepony start to wail in fear and sadness, it was barely audible through the walls of the house but he could tell it was the same pony. He knocked at her door and he heard slow steps behind the door getting closer. The door swung open and the orange pegasus stood in the doorway.
"What do YOU want!" Her words were harsh and he flinched at the tone.
"Err..look I know how you feel....I'm sorry your friend left."
Her eyes burned through is coat and into his soul.
"You have NO clue how I feel! He might die!"
At that she slammed the door in his face. He was knocked back by the force she had slammed it. He got up, disgusted at how she had treated him. Her name immediately to his mind now, Scootaloo. He couldn't blame her for being mad at him but it was no way to act.
His nose was wet now so he wiped it only to find out that is wasn't wet with sweat, but with blood. He knocked one last time, she answered the door surprisingly. "Hey...look I'm so sorry for what happened a few moments ago...come in, please."
He walked in cautiously. "It's fine...let me get washed up."
All the houses were built the same so he could find the bathroom easily. When he was done he walked back to the main room and sat on the couch beside Scootaloo.
"Scootaloo, right?"
She nodded silently. "Yes..that's me.."
They both looked at each other for a moment and started talking about her coltfriend. By the time he had calmed her down he got up from the couch. "Better now?" Scootaloo no longer had that fire in her eyes, "Ya, much better." Black bolt left the room and went out the door.