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// Chapter 1- The Band of Idiots (Emerald) 
// Story: An Emerald in the Wind 
// by Emerald 
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It was a hot Summer’s Day in Ponyville. It just felt like the day kept dragging on and on. For me, this was awful. I  just wanted this awful Summer’s day to end like any other day of my life. You see, I am homeless, and that just means that those stupid bullies have to punch me in the face every time they walk by. 

Today was just like any other day, I sat at my bench reading some magazine that somepony had dropped. When, of course,  three ponies start walking towards me. One of them looked really mean, the head of the three. His name was Tough Buff,  (I know, “Tough Buff”, you would think his Mom would do better at picking names.) He was a gray coated stallion and had a yellow main. His cutie mark was a hoof punching a pony’s face.

The second one to the left was named Shark Bait. His coat was shimmering blue, and his green main swooped down over his left eye. There was a huge chunk out of his green tail, his cutie mark was a hoof punching a shark’s nose

The third pony nopony else seemed to understand why he was even hanging out with these guys. His name was Molecule. He was short, about half the size of his companions. His face was very pimply, and his mane resembled that one filly named Snail’s hair. Very messy and out of place, just like himself. The only one thing was somewhat clean about him was his cutie mark, a Molecule.  

They glared down at me, I winced. Shark and Buff’s beatings always hurt the most. Molecule it was just embarrassing, I could take down the nerdy kid! 

“It’s time for your 5:00 beating, Emerald.” Tough Buff said proudly, lifting me up upside down off of my bench. I dropped the magazine I was reading, and turned to glare at the guys, mainly Molecule, because he is so dumb for joining in a band of idiots like Shark Bait and Tough Buff. I struggled to get out of Tough Buff’s grasp but it was no use. Shark Bait, Molecule and Tough Buff started slapping me, punching me, and hitting me. Well, sort of. 




Molecule’s lame attempt of hitting, slapping, and punching didn't hurt at all. It just felt like somepony was poking me. Otherwise though, I was in a pretty sticky situation. I was being hung upside down while all the blood rushed to the top of my head and idiots who probably couldn’t read beat me in places I already been beaten in. Too much blood was rushing to my head. My vision was blurring and my eyes were starting to droop. The last thing I saw before she closed her eyes was a red pony-shaped blur running towards us. 



I woke up, and blinked twice to get the water out of my eyes. I looked around, I was in the Ponyville hospital, the only place where I have ever gone inside and not gotten a negative response. I sat up in my hospital bed and looked around. Beside me on a small table lay a plastic- wrap of chocolate truffles. Dangling from the ribbon which was tying the plastic- wrap, was a small card. I cut it off with some nearby scissors and read aloud “Don’t let those bullies get to you. I love you! From-Aunt Redheart.”  I smiled, and used the scissors to open the plastic-wrap. The truffles were delicious. Still, I wondered if I had imagined that red pony-shaped figure.

There was a knock on the door. I got out of the hospital bed and went to answer the door. I opened it, and the pony surprised the hell out of me.

“Are you Emerald?” A red pegasus said to me.