Chapter Five
Pinkie circled around Sugar Cube Corner with a bead of sweat running down her forehead and a worried look plastered on her face.
"Pinkie, please calm down, he'll be here soon," says Mrs. Cake watching Pinkie pace around the shop.
"But I told him to be here before it gets dark, and it's starting to get dark and it's nearly seven-thirty," Pinkie replies while chewing nervously on her hoof.
Little hoofsteps could be heard walking through the doors of the sugar shop. Pinkie stops walking and quickly runs towards the sound and stops a couple of centimeters in front of the origin of the steps.
"THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE BACK I WAS GETTING SO WOR-," Pinkie stops mid-sentence and does a head count. After counting, she realizes that there are only three heads instead of four. "W-Where is Silver Wave?!?!?!"
"Wait, he's not here?", asks Scootaloo.
"No, I thought he was with you girls?!"
"H-He was... 'till he ran off crying," says Sweetie Belle while looking down.
"WHAT?!", shouts Pinkie.
"We thought he was here so we could apologize," adds Apple Bloom.
"What did you girls do?!?!"
All of their ears fold down to their heads as they recoil from the question.
"We.. kinda tried to get information from the orphanage out of him," says Scootaloo, trying to not look at Pinkie directly.
"We kinda pushed it too far and he ran off," Sweetie Belle replies from beneath her hooves.
"Oh no, oh no, oh no," the pink mare chatters in anguish, "We need to put together the only party I don't like organizing, a search party! We have to start searching like, now! There is no time to dilly dally!", Pinkie exclaims, dashing out the shop doors to find others to include in her search party.
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You open your eyes slowly, your eyesight immediately starting off blurry, making it hard to tell where you are. You try to stand up but your head hits something hard. You look up to check the source of the object to see it's a tree root. You crawl out from under the tree root and look around your surroundings. You conclude that you are somewhere in a deep, dark forest. You tuck your tail between your legs and start to shiver violently from the fear of being in such a frightening and unknown location. "I-It's okay Silver, you've been in a forest before, except this one is a lot darker," you say to yourself, "Pinkie will find you. Everything is going to be fine." You hear a noise from behind you and, without thinking, you bolt off through the forest without looking back to see what the noise was.
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"WHERE IS HE?! WHERE IS HE?!", Pinkie shouts with a worried tone.
"Don't worry Pinkie we'll find him," says Twilight trying to calm down her friend.
"But we've check everywhere from the alleyways to every nook in the trees," replies Pinkie, grabbing hold of Twilight's shoulders, "And it's getting darker and darker by the second, the only place we haven't checked is.... the Everfree Forest"
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You slowly walk through the forest, ducking under each branch, looking for a source of light. You suddenly come to a stop when you see a hut smacked on the edge of a clearing. You're not sure if it's worth knocking on the door because it could've been abandonded for years... but why is it in such good condition? You take a couple of steps towards the hut, trying to not make a sound, but your hoof steps on a twig and make a loud snap sound, causing you to freeze in place, not trying to move a muscle. A pair of yellow glowing eyes ominously appear in the window at the sound of the crack of the twig. They turn their gaze directly toward you and you, as instinct, turn the other direction and gallop away as fast as you can.
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The six Elements of Harmony and Big Mac walk through the forest looking high and low for the missing colt. Pinkie was look under every bush, under every rock, and up through every tree.
"Perhaps we should ask Zecora if she has seen him," suggests Rarity.
"I agree with Rarity, she might have seen him and she can give us the directions to find him," adds Twilight.
"Good idea!", shouts Pinkie and quickly runs off to find Zecora's hut.
"PINKIE!!", shouts Twilight.
"WHAT!?!?"
"Zecora's hut is this way," says Twilight, pointing her hoof in the opposite direction. Pinkie turns around and zooms off at the direction Twilight was pointing.
When Pinkie reaches Zecora's hut, she begins to knock on the door with both hooves, making so much noise it could probably wake up the next town. The door opens revealing the zebra.
"Ah Pinkie Pie, what are you doing nearby?", asks Zecora.
"HAVEYOUSEENALITTLECOLTABOUTTHISBIGBECAUSEIAMSOSOSOSOSOSOWORRIEDTHATWERENEVERGONNASEEHIMAGAINANDIREALLYWANTTOSEEHIMAGAIN-", Pinkie's mouth is immediately covered by a cyan hoof.
"Zecora, what Pinkie is trying to say, is have you seen a little blue and gray colt come by here?", Twilight asks.
"There was a little colt I did see, he toke off toward the trees," explains Zecora, pointing her hoof over at the trees across from her hut. As soon as Zecora told them this, Pinkie pushed the cyan hoof away from her mouth and gallops towards to the trees.
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You walk down a dirt path covered in leaves and twigs, with your head down low and your ears folded. You sit yourself down on the dirt and give out a big and heavy sigh. "I should've stayed at the hut, at least I would've had a roof over my head. You're such an idiot Silver," you say to yourself. Suddenly you hear some hoofsteps coming from the left of you. You start to think that it's the caretaker coming back to finish the job so you stay perfectly still. The bush starts to shake and a big red stallion's head pops out. He takes one look at you and bellows out, "Ah found him!"
You turn around and run as fast as you can once again, too frightened to glance if the stallion was following you or not. The only thought racing through your mind was, "RUN! RUN AND NEVER LOOK BACK!!", but your running come to a stop as you approached a cliff face. You had nowhere else to run, so you laid on the ground and prepared for the inevitable.
Hoofsteps drew closer and closer so you closed your eyes and try to hide your face, wishing to be invisible. But the next thing you know, you feel a soft pair of hooves wrap around you and pull you into a cuddly embrace.
"Thank Celestia we found you!", exclaims a voice you easily recognize.
You open your eyes and look up to see Pinkie hugging you and with tears streaming down her face. She looks down at you and says, "Let's get you out of here." She then places you on her back and you grab onto her neck and close your eyes again, thinking how grateful you are that she found you, as she and her friends trot through the forest.
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It was finally over... you were finally out of the dark forest that you were sure was to be your grave. Pinkie and the group finally exited the forest and met up with another group of familiar ponies on the edge of the forest. You are immediately greeted by a pair of blue hooves that wrap around you and you get pulled into another hug by Mrs. Cake.
"Oh thank goodness you're okay," Mrs. Cake cheers, hugging you tighter and tighter.
"We thought you were going to be lost in that forest forever," Pinkie says joining into the hug.
The hug got tighter and tighter that you were finding it hard to breath. They finally stop and Mrs. Cake places you onto the ground where you are then tackled into another hug by three fillies.
"We're SOSOSO sorry," says Scootaloo.
"We thought we were gunna loose a crusader forever," adds Apple Bloom.
"And that's a really scary thought," Sweetie Belle exclaims.
"Y-You were worried?", you ask.
"We were all worried little dude," Rainbow Dash replies.
"But not as worried as Pinkie," says Applejack, "She ran around the whole entire town just lookin' for ya'"
You look over at Pinkie. She has a small little smile and some tears in her eyes and comes over to you and gives you another one of her many hugs.
"Let's get you home Silver Wilver," she says sweetly, then places you onto her back again. You instantly close your eyes and snuggle into Pinkie's fur sleepily. Pinkie notices your gesture and smiles as she starts to trot back home.
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After a couple of minutes of riding back to the bakery shop with Pinkie, Pinkie pokes you and wakes you up.
"Do you wanna go to bed Silver?", asks Pinkie with a smile. You are too tired to reply, so you just nod your head while rubbing your eyes drowsily. She walks you upstairs and into her room and then lays you in her bed.
"You've had a rough day Silver, rest well," Pinkie says softly as she tucks you in. After you're all snuggled into the bed, you quickly drift off to sleep. Pinkie strokes your mane until she notices you are asleep, then she whispers in your ear, "Good night", and gives you a little kiss on your cheek.
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After Silver Wave was placed into the bed; Pinkie went back downstairs with her friends and the Cakes who were sitting around talking. Mrs. Cake then asked Pinkie to take one of her plants back to the kitchen and place it into the sink, which Pinkie did so. As she came out of the kitchen Mrs. Cake asks, "Pinkie, can you check on the twins for us, please?"
"Okie dokie loki," Pinkie replies cheerfully and bounces upstairs. She then trots through the hallway to the twins room. She opens the door slowly and peeked her head through to see the twins sleeping in there cot. Pinkie gave a little smile and closed the door slowly. She walked back down the hallway only to stop at her bedroom door. Because of what happen today, she decided it was right to check up on the little colt, even though she only put him to sleep a few minutes ago. She opens the door silently to see the small colt laying in the bed. Her heart instantly melted as well as a small "d'aww" escaped her lips when she saw that Silver Wave was sucking on his hoof.
She backed out and looked down the stairs to see Fluttershy walking out of the kitchen.
"Fluttershy," Pinkie called out quietly, but loud enough for Fluttershy to hear. Fluttershy looked up at Pinkie to see that she was waving her hoof for her to come up the stairs. Fluttershy headed upstairs towards Pinkie; and when Fluttershy reached her, Pinkie pointed to the room and Fluttershy peeked through the door and a little squeaky "aww" escaped her mouth from the sight of the little colt.
After giggling about the adorable colt, Pinkie and Fluttershy headed back down stairs to join their friends.
"We just saw the cutest thing," said Pinkie jumping up and down. "Silver was sucking his hoof."
"You really love that kid, don't you Pinks?", Rainbow Dash said with a smirk.
"Yes I do!", Pinkie exclaimed loudly while bouncing.
"So why don't you become his legal guardian?", suggest Mrs. Cake.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?", Mr. Cake asks cautiously.
"Of course I do dear, think about it. She obviously cares about the colt deeply, so why not," Mrs. Cake responds to her husband's question.
"That's a super duper great idea Mrs. Cake!", Pinkie says jumping up and down again. "Pinkie Pie, the guardian of Silver Wave! That has a good ring to it, don't you think?"
"But first things first Pinkie, you need go to the orphanage and fill out the forms," Twilight explains.
"Okie doki, I could do that first thing tomorrow."
"Do ya' know what orphanage he came from?", Applejack questions.
"No," says Pinkie.
"Why don't you ask him?", asks Rarity.
"If I ask him, he might think that I'll send him back."
"Then, I guess we have to go over to Canterlot and speak to the Princess," Twilight decides.
"How long will it take?", asks Pinkie.
"Two to three days at the most," Twilight replies.
"Oh okay."
"Also, if you want to, we could ask Miss Cheerilee to enroll him into the school," suggests Twilight.
"That sounds like a good idea, the kid could use some good education. Who knows if the orphanage actually sent him to a school or not," says Mr. Cake.
"Alright, so we'll leave first thing tomorrow?", asks Twilight.
"Yes!", shouts Pinkie excitedly.
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After a couple more hours, everypony went home and the Cakes went to bed. After Pinkie finished up cleaning the mess left over, she headed back up to her room and opened the door slowly to see the little colt still sleeping safe and soundly, though Pinkie was little disappointed by the fact he was on longer sucking his hoof. Pinkie trots over to the bed and lays down next to him and starts to stroke his mane. A cute little smile appears on Silver's face which makes Pinkie "D'aww" inside. Pinkie leans down and whispers into his ear, "Don't worry, you'll be safe with me."
Pinkie curls her body around the colt and squeezes a pillow under her head. She then closes her eyes, and smiles as she drifts off to sleep with her little Silver.