//------------------------------// // I'm Just Saying // Story: When I Cry // by Brony Hectic //------------------------------// "Are you coming?" Sweetie shouted from the end of the ramps. "Yeah... yeah," Dim shut the door behind him. He noticed that Sweetie Belle was getting ahead of him, so he trotted quickly to her. That "rest" Dim took did help his leg a little, it didn't hurt to walk now, but he was sure that if he ran or stretched his leg too much, that it would start to hurt again. He now caught up with Sweetie Belle. "Hey, um... I have a question," Dim said uneasily. "What is it?" Sweetie replied. "Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, are they usually like that?" Dim didn't know much about those fillies but he didn't think that they were type of ponies that would go these great of lengths just to embarrass him, or whatever they were trying to accomplish. "Like what?" "You know, like, making traps and stuff?" "Well, no. Not at all actually, they've never tried to hurt us, other than calling us names, and they never set a trap like that either. You must have made them really mad or something." she answered. "Also, I forgot to ask, why did Diamond punch you?" "Wait, you saw her punch me?" Dim's tone changed slightly. "Yeah, that's when we decided to come help you. We all thought you could take them both." she replied. I could easily take them both, he thought. "Okay," Dim said. "Well turns out they almost fooled me twice..." Dim began to blush a little. "What do you mean?" They continued their way through the woods. "Well, first she asked if would...." Dim took a breathe. "Kiss her-" Dim didn't get to say another word. "WHAT!" Sweetie's voice cracked as all the birds flew out of the trees in a panic of crowing and chirping. "Wait, wait, wait I didn't kiss her of course calm down. Now, I didn't believe her at all so I started to look around to see if she was up to something. After looking around I realized they were trying to do what they did last time, only they were gonna take a picture or something. Silver Spoon was gonna take a picture, she was hiding in the same bush. Tell your friend to put a bear-trap in there by the way." Sweetie laughed at his joke. "Anyway, I threw a rock in the bush and it hit her." Before he could start his next sentence, Sweetie spoke up. "Wait a minute. You threw a rock at Silver Spoon?" Sweetie's mouth fell open. "Yeah, why?" Dim asked, but was answered with a hug. "Um..." A tear came to Sweetie's eye. "I've been wanting to do that forever." she said while hugging him. "Glad I could help-" Just as Dim began to close his eyes and enjoy the moment, Dim's breath was stolen when 10 feet away from him, was the creature from his nightmare. Just standing there, menacingly. It continued to only stare at Dim. "AHHHHHHHHHH!" Dim shoved Sweetie away, she stumbled. He himself fell to the ground in a panic. "What is it!" Sweetie said with an angry and annoyed expression. Dim, eyes closed, whispered so softly. "Be-behind y-you." Sweetie slowly turned her head, sweat beginning to drip from her forehead. She finally completely turned around. "There's nothing there you whack-o!" Dim slowly opened his eyes, shivering. He looked at where he saw the demon. "It was right there a second ago!" Dim was in disbelief, mouth a gap. Dim, in a flash was now next to Sweetie Belle. "Can w-we just get out of these wo- woods?" Dim stuttered. "You're such a fraidy cat Dim," Sweetie sighed. "We're almost out anyway." Sweetie continued to walk with an annoyed expression. "I'm sorry, I'm probably just seeing things," Dim said. "Okay," Dim calmed down, "do you want to know more about what happened?" "Of course." "Okay where was I? Oh yeah! Okay, so after the I threw a rock at Silver Spoon," a smile came back to Sweetie Belle's face, "she jumped out with the page-" Dim just realized something, he didn't have the page on him. "I left the page in the club house!" "Do you wanna go back and get it?" Sweetie asked. "No, just, whenever one of you three gets your hooves on it, bring it to me. Keep it in a safe place until then." There's no way Dim was gonna stay another un-need second in those woods, not even for the page, plus he trusted those three to keep it safe. "Okay, so anyway, after she jumped out with the page I ran over to her to grab it and long story short I chased her down and got it back." Dim finished his summary of the previous events. "Well anytime that those two ever tried something like that on us, they would send somepony else to do it. They've never done something like that one their own." Sweetie told Dim. "They send other ponies to do their dirty work for them?" Dim questioned. "Well yeah," "I'll keep that in mind." he noted. The two ponies were now out of the woods and back at the farm. "So, where are your friends?" Dim asked as looked turned his head left and right. "They were in the barn last I checked." "Okay," Dim Shadow said. They began to make their way to the barn. Dim opened the barn doors to find many animals, pigs, cows, chickens, etc. "Help!" a voiced cried from above "Help!" Dim looked up but couldn't see anypony. "Over here!" Dim looked up even further, to see Scootaloo and Apple Bloom hanging from a support beam with a single piece of rope suspending them from the waist. They were slowly spinning. "How did you even manage to get up there!?" Dim shouted from below. "Just get us down!" Scootaloo yelled in response. "What the hay?" Sweetie Belle said, entering the barn. Dim pointed to her swaying friends up above. Sweetie burst out in laughter. "Gee, thanks Sweetie Belle. We're glad to see you here to help." Scootaloo sarcastically said, unamused. "How are we suppose to get you down?" Dim asked. "I don't know, think of-" The support beam was starting to crack, unable to hold the fillies much longer. "Oh dear." was all they both could say, before they began to fall, screaming. "I got you!" Dim quickly looked at Sweetie, "get Apple Bloom!" Dim positioned himself under where Scootaloo was falling just in time to catch her, heart pounding. Sweetie Belle also got to Apple Bloom just in the nick of time, catching her. Scootaloo opened her eyes slowly, now realizing that she was okay and not hurt. "Nice catch." Scootaloo said laughing to hide her embarrassment for the stupid thing she did. "I can't believe y'all caught me Sweetie Belle. I didn't think you were strong enough to do that. Thanks." Apple Bloom said. "What were you two even trying to do?" Dim asked confused. He had no clue how it was even possible to get up there. "I don't wanna talk 'bout it." Apple Bloom said rather slowly. "Scootaloo, what were you trying to do?" Sweetie asked tilting her head to the right. Scootaloo swiped some dust of her. "Uh, it doesn't matter, so what you wanna do?" she asked Sweetie Belle. They all thought for a second, Apple Bloom was first to speak out, "We could go back to the tree house and-" "No!" Dim shot up almost instantly. "Why?" Apple Bloom questioned. "Just... just because." Dim replied looking at the ground. "Tell us why." Apple Bloom said "Does it matter?" Dim said, avoiding eye contact with her. "To me it does, now tell me." Apple Bloom started make it sound more like a demand. Before Dim could open his mouth to say no again, Sweetie spoke. "He had a bad dream about a monster, and now he thinks it's real and following him." Sweetie rolled her eyes, then Apple Bloom began to laugh. "Seriously?" she kept laughing. "Y'all scared if a 'lil nightmare." she paused for a second. "Stop," Dim Shadow was getting annoyed. "I just can't believe it, out of all the things you could get scared of, a silly bad dream has got your tail in a twist." "Stop," Now Dim was getting frustrated. "I'm just sayin' you was almost beaten up by those two colts, and this silly little thing is the worst that's happened to you." "You know, I could," he stressed the word "could". "put you back up there, dangling and somepony might not catch you next time if you were to fall." Dim said, looking Apple Bloom dead in the eyes. He didn't like being made fun off, no matter who it was. All three of the crusaders now looked at Dim with the did he just say that? face. "What? I'm just saying."