//------------------------------// // When Anxiety Strikes // Story: Your Adventure Continues // by My Only Weakness //------------------------------// Chapter 15 After you finished your work at Sweet Apple Acre you and Dash went to go a pick up Scootaloo from school. Scootaloo really wanted to have another flying lesson so of course you and Dash didn't give it a second thought, the three of you went running to the field. As soon as you get the usual training spot you and Dash toward Scootaloo. "Do you remember what we told you yesterday?" Dash ask "Yes, clear my mind and breathe easy" says Scootaloo "Good, do you remember what starting technique?" you asks "M hmm, Start of slow then build up speed" "YES! now start flapping those wings" Dash says acting like she's a drill Sargent "YES MA'AM!" shout Scootaloo with a salute Scootaloo closes her eyes start starts to flap her wings slowly and gets out light breaths as she slowly starts to float up from the ground. "That's it Scootaloo" say Dash happily Scootaloo starts to get further way from the ground as her little wings buzz. Scootaloo opens her eyes and her face beams with pure joy. Even though she was just 25 feet of the ground you could be any more happy for her. "Alright now fly and fly towards us" says Dash She slow fly turns her wing and start to fly towards you and Dash without any trouble "That's it Scoot you got it!" you say excitedly She slowly descends the the ground because her wings could lift her up anymore. As soon as her hoofs hit the ground and starts to jump around you and Dash happily. "Way to go Scoots that's a new record " you say watching her jump around "And you know what, I think Scoots getting a new records deserves a Pinkie shake, what do you think Star?" Dash say looking at you "What do you think Scoot?" you ask You didn't get a response so you look around to see if Scootaloo was still running around you and Dash "Scoots?" You see Scootaloo already running across filed "Last one there is a dirty griffon feather" Scootaloo shouts You and Dash laugh and case after her. You quickly catch up to Scootaloo but you keep behind her as she starts to giggle. The three of you run through the town dodging everypony in the town. You, Dash and Scootaloo finally reach sugar cube corner. Dash just about beat you and Scootaloo just beat Rainbow Dash by a tail. You stand in the middle of the bakery shop and catch your breath back. "Did you three just run a marathon?" a happy voice say complete with a giggle You look over to see a pink mare standing behind the contour "Hey Pinkie, No he just had a little run" said Dash walking up to the counter "I can tell" Pinkie say with another giggle "What can I get you three?" "Well since Scoots here just beat her record for flying, we thought she deserves a Pinkie shake" you ruffling Scootaloo's mane "Wait to go Scooty, I'll make this one extra-" "SCOOTALOO!?!" a voice says from the entrance of sugar cube corner You all look to the door to see an clearly drunk orange coated stallion with a red mane. Scootaloo ear fall to her head at the sight of her father, she then hinds behind you and Dash. He wobbles over to you and Dash. "Where have you been for the last 2 nights?" he asks stopping in front of you "She was staying with us" say Dash "What? why was she staying with you?" he asks "Because she doesn't need to go back to a drunken and abusive father!" Dash shouts You can also hear Pinkie give out a little gasp "Oh, what you think you can go a better job of taking care of this filly?" he say pointing to Scootaloo "We've been doing alright so far" you say "What makes you think you've been going a good job!?" Sky Rider says now looking at you "We've fed her, given her a roof over her head, given her a bed to sleep in" "What? and I haven't?!" "Judging by the state you're in right now and the millions of beer cans in your home, I'm going to go with a no" you say "How dear you!" "NO! how dear you! you have a great little filly as a child and you treat her as dirt! you're lucky we don't turn you in to the Princess for child abuse!" you say getting in his face "And how would turn me into the princess?!" He asks with anger "My friend is the personal student of the princess herself, and all we need to do with make one letter and BOOM you're gone!" say Rainbow Dash Sky Rider looks in to your eyes with rage filling him "Come on Scootaloo we're going home" say Sky Rider turning around and facing the door "No" says Scootaloo coming out from behind Dash's leg "What did you say to me?!" Sky Rider say turning towards Scootaloo "I said No" Scootaloo repeats "I don't want to go back with you, these two have been more of a family to me you have EVER been" "Alright FINE! say with them, I don't care! it will be a load of my shoulders!" Sky Rider shouts "Fine!" Scootaloo shouts back "Fine! goodbye and good riddance!" Sky Rider shouts and walks out the door and flying away You, Dash and Pinkie all stand there in shock of what happened. Scootaloo has tears forming in her eyes but she try's to stop them from falling out. You know that Sky Rider has to be feeling some pain. Scootaloos eyes are locked on the front door of sugar cube corner. "Do you still want that Pinkie Shake Scooty?" asks Pinkie pie, but she her tone of voice wasn't happy, it was more of a sad tone "No" Scootaloo says and then looks up at Dash "Can we just go home, I mean can I call it home?" "Of course you can, I mean what else are you gonna call it" You, Dash and Scootaloo walk out of sugar cube corner. Dash lowers herself down so that Scootaloo can get on. Scoots gets on Dash's back and hold on tight. You all fly up into the air and towards to the cloud home. You and Dash who has Scootaloo on her back land out side the front door. Dash unlocks the door and you all walk in. Scoot gets of Dash's back and walks towards her room. "You okay Scootaloo?" you asks "Yeah, I just want to be alone right now" She say as she walk closer to her bedroom door "Come out when you're ready" Dash says You walk over to the sofa and sit down letting out a sigh.Dash comes and sits next you and places her head on your shoulder, you start to stroke Dash mane as you sit there quite. "What a terrible end to a prefect afternoon" you say "I know, I don't think things can get-" You cover Dash mouth before she says the full sentence. Dash lifts her head of your shoulder an pushes your hoof away from her mouth "Why did you do that?" she asks with annoyances in her voice "Because when you say that something worst happens" you say "You're such and idiot" Dash say crossing her arms "That's not very nice" you say pouting which cause Dash to giggle "But I would have you any other way" she says then places her lip onto yours You and Dash lay on the sofa making out for what seems like five minutes. You both brake away from kissing and look into each others eyes and smile at each other. Dash smiles seems to fade with get you a little bit worried "What are we gonna do with Scoots now?" Dash asks "I don't know, I guess we could always...you know" "You...you mean, adopt?" Dash say quietly You nod your head "We can't be parents" Dash say still keeping her voice down "I not saying we become her parents, I'm saying we should become her legal guardians" you suggest "A-Are you sure" You nod your head again "What else are we gonna do? leave her out in the cold?" "Are you sure you want to do this?" "Yes I'm sure" "Alright, I'm with you" You smile at her and then connect your lips onto hers. "When do you think she should tell her or the others?" you asks "Lets just keep it to ourselves for now" "Keep what to yourselves?...if you don't mind me asks" a little voice asks from behind you You look over to see where the voice came from to see Fluttershy standing at the door way trying to hind behind her hair. "I can't believe I left the door open again" you say in a whisper "Hey Fluttershy, what brings you here?" Asks Dash as she gets of the sofa and walking towards her "Oh, well...me and the girls were gonna have a get together at Twilight Library and I wanted to ask if you two and Scootaloo wanted to come along....but if you don't want to then that's fine" "Sure we'll come, I'll just go get Scootaloo" Dash say walking away to Scootaloos room Dash opens the door to Scootaloo room and disappears into the bedroom "So how have you been Fluttershy?" you asks "I've been okay" she say hiding behind her hair "And how are your animals?" "Oh, they've been doing well, they're happy, healthy and well fed" she say coming out of her shy shell "That's good to hear, found any new animal recently?" "Yes, I found a cute family of parakeets just outside the everfree forest" A door opens from down the hall and Dash walks out with Scootaloo behind her "You okay Scoots?" you asks getting up from the sofa "Yeah, I'm okay now" She say with a smile You, Dash, Scootaloo and Fluttershy walk out to the house. Scootaloo gets onto Dash's back, You all spread your wings and fly towards the library. After a couple of minutes of flying you land in front of the door of the library. Fluttershy knocks on the door while Scootaloo gets of Dash's back and you all wait for the door to open. The door opens to show a purple unicorn stand at the other side. "Hello everypony come on in" Twilight says then walking back into the library You all walk in to see the rest of your friend sitting in the middle of the room talking and drinking some cider and tea. "The rest of the crusaders are in the other room Scootaloo" say Twilight looking down at the orange filly "Oh, Okay" Scootaloo say with excitement and then runs into the other room "Well Hello, Dash and StarGazer, It's nice to see" says Rarity string her cup of tea "Hey Rarity" Dash says as you, Fluttershy and Dash walking over the rest of the group You take a sit and start to talk Time - 7:30 After a couple of hours of talking, laughing and having a happy old time while the cutie mark crusaders are having fun in another room. Dash pokes you in the side and you look over to her and she whisper in your ear "Do you think we should tell them?" she asks "Yeah" you whisper back "Er guys" Dash say which catches everypony attention "Me and Star where talking earlier and we deiced on something" says Dash "You two are getting married?!" Rarity asks with excitement for some reason "WHAT!? NO!" Dash shouts with a blush "Then what is it?" asks Twilight "Well earlier today Scootaloos and her dad had a fight and Scootaloos dad doesn't want anything to do with her" Everypony face is filled with shock, even Pinkie Pies face was filled with shock and she was there when it happened. "So anyway she's got no one to look after her, So me and Star came up with the idea so maybe adopting her" "YESYESYESYESYESYEYSYEYSYEYSYEYSYESYES!!!" Shouts Pinkie jumping up and down "You two will make good parents" "No, we're just gonna become her gardens" you say "Still, you two will make get gardens, and you have my full blessing" say Rairty "I think it's wonderful that you two are doing this, you got my support" adds Twilight "Its a grate idea" says Fluttershy "Oh please, ya can't be serious" say Applejack All of you look over to Applejack with different emotions "W-What do you mean Applejack?" Asks Dash "You two can't look after a filly full time, You two are the most irresponsible pony I know" she explains Your hearts starts to beat hard "But, we-" "No! don't have to do this!" Applejack continues cutting Dash off Your heart starts to beat harder that it starts to pulsate in your throat and you notice that your arm starts to shake "We do Applejack, she got nowhere else and her Dad just left" says Dash "Her dad was drunk! He probably wasn't think straight!" Your stomach and chest muscle start to fell really tense and breathing starts to get faster and more shallow "And you do realize he could come back and take her since she is his child!" Applejack says You start to glance around the ponies near you and you start to feel dizzy. You feel a hoof touch your arm and you look over to see Fluttershy with a worried look. "Are you okay?" She asks quietly The confusion and fear and you feel start to send you into a panic, the sensation intensifies. You get up and run towards the front door. You open the door and run outside and then fall to your knees. You start to breath harder and take in the fresh air and you start to calm down. Every pony runs out of the library and rush to your aid. Rainbow Dash is the first one to come to you. "Star are you okay?" she asks with fear "Yeah" you say look up at her "What just happen?" asks Pinkie "Star, I believe you just had a anxiety attack" say Twilight walking over and standing next to you "Anxiety attack?!" you asks with fear "Has anything like this ever happened before?" asks Twilight "No, not that I can remember" you say getting back to your hoofs "I think you should go to a hospital" say Applejack "No! I'm fine it was probably a one time thing" you say look towards everyone "StarGazer dare, you should really go get this checked out" adds Rarity "I'm fine" "StarGazer you-" "I SAID I'M FINE!" you shout which cause everyone to look at you with worried looks "Sorry, It's just that I don't want anything like this to happen again and you where all poring question out the ass and it kinda got me stressed" you continue "We're sorry two" say Applejack "Can we go inside now, Its getting a little cold" Say rainbow dash You all agree and walk back inside the library.