Chapter 14
I tried so hard to cope with my life. I lost my parents when I was young, lost my home, had to move here and have everypony hate me for my clumsiness, get tricked and shrunk by a wizard, almost stomped, munched, and mawled by the bigger world, and I can't go back to normal, because the wizard had his mind erased and his books and spells destroyed. I have to live the rest of my life like this, and there is no changing it.
I rode on Dash's back throughout the fly from Canterlot back to the library, trying my hardest to hold back my tears as well. I noticed it was also getting cloudy out as well. How wonderful, a nice gloomy day for me.
We landed in front of the library, and went inside. I looked around in there, and saw all the ponies from earlier talking to each other. Twilight Sparkle was there as well, so she told them about me before we got there. I could also tell she did by what happened as soon as we trotted in.
"HEY GIRLS, WE'RE BACK." said Dash in a calmer voice then usual.
All of the ponies stopped their conversations, and glanced over at us. Dash positioned herself to put me in their view. As soon as they all took a look at me, their expressions ranged from concerned, to just plain sorry for me. Fluttershy's look was the worst. I could've sworn that she was going to cry she had a look of sadness on her. But, she kept strong for me.
"VANILLA?" said Twilight. "WE'RE SO SORRY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU. IF WE HAD KNOWN AHEAD OF TIME...."
"WE WOULDA NEVER BURNED HIS SPELLS." Applejack interupted. "WE JUST DIDN'T WANT HIS EVIL TO BE REPEATED."
"I know, I understand you did what you had to do. I would've stopped him myself if I had the chance."
"OH VANILLA." said Fluttershy, as she stomped over to Rainbow, and lowered her maw to me and nuzzled me tenderly. "I PROMISE, WE WILL TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOU, ALL OF US. ESPECIALLY ME."
"AND I'LL PROMISE TO MAKE YOU LAUGH AND SMILE UNTIL YOUR SMILE CAN AT LEAST BE AS BIG AS IT USE TO BE." said Pinkie. That kinda made me feel better.
"I'LL MAKE YOU SOME NICE WARDROBES YOUR SIZE IF YOU EVER WISH TO GO OUT ONE NIGHT." said Rarity. By this time, I was so happy that all of these ponies I just met yesterday, are willing to help me get my life back together.
"YEAH, JUST TRY NOT TO GET STEPPED ON, OKAY?" Rainbow said.
"I won't." I replied. For the rest of that day. Things went well, until Dash said one thing that ticked me off.
"IT'S FUNNY, HE GETS US AS FRIENDS, WHEN HE HELPED OUR ENEMY. IRONIC."
"I WAS JUST TRYING TO HELP SOMEPONY." I said.
"YEAH, HELPING SOMEPONY TAKE OVER EQUESTRIA IS WHAT YOU WERE DOING. NOTHING POPPED IN YOUR MIND THAT HE WAS A VILLAIN?" she said.
"No........ I just wanted to be helpful for once............. I wanna be alone." and with that, I ran outside.
"VANILLA! WAIT!" I heard Fluttershy yell, nearly blowing my ears. But I kept running outside, all through the lawn. Now from what they told me, this was the conversation they had. Fluttershy flew over to Dash, and got right in her face.
"DO YOU EVER HAVE ANY CONSIDERATION FOR ANOTHER PONY'S FEELINGS?!"
"WELL, IT'S THE TRUTH SHY. HE HELPED HEXYL, AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED."
"It wasn't his fault. Did it ever occur to you that he is just a nice pony who helps anyone in need? Hexyl was a liar, and he probably lied about what he was doing until it was too late. He couldn't have known. And he can't return to normal because we didn't know he was out there because Hexyl lied about him fixing everyone. The least you could do is consider his feelings, because the first time you saw him, you laughed at him. And you haven't cared about him at all. Some loyalty you show."
Dash was so struck back by all that was said to her, she couldn't even breathe after a few minutes. Then, she finally spoke.
"You're right. You're absolutely right. I am a bad pony. This pony needs our help and friendship, and I just laughed in his face. I am terrible. I gotta go out there and find him." she took one look outside, and turned white. The sky was getting really dark, in the middle of the day. "Oh no. I forgot, we have a schedueled heavy rain today. We gotta get him out of there, NOW!"
They all nodded, and went outside to find me. And just as they started to look, it started raining, hard, and fast.