Three bundles of mischief woke me to a dark and rainy day in FlutterShy's Cottage. While I was glad they woke me, I was not glad of how they did it, although they did have my best interests at heart, there was more subtle ways than jumping on me and shouting in my ears.
"I assume you are the CutieMarkCrusaders Rarity was talking about?" I mumbled in a pause between the jumps, already in a bad mood.
"Ooh! you got your voice back!" Squeaked the mandarin coloured pegasus with a bright purple mane. I let out a squeal of delight and sat up abruptly, accidentally pushing the troublesome three off the bed. The trio let out a jumble of 'oof's' as they met the hard boards on FlutterShy's floor.
"Ooh! Thank Master! Say, little ponies, where are we? When I was flying over the forest, Everfree, you call it? Well when I was flying over EverFree I had no idea where I was, I've just always called it the forest, and I knew not to go down there because I've seen bad things down there, crossing over before, and I-" the yellow earth pony with an enormous bow shoved a hoof in my mouth, causing me to stop.
"Woah down there Filly! Take a breath!" I did as I was told, automatically matching the accent to Applejack's.
"Yea, you're almost as fast as Pinkie when you do that!" Said the white unicorn.
"Now, let us introduce ourselves! I'm AppleBloom, this is Scootaloo" the filly politely removed her hoof from my mouth "and this is SweetieBelle." And then, out of nowhere, they broke into song.
look here are three little ponies
ready to sing for this crowd
listen up! 'cause here's our story
I'm gonna sing it very loud!
when you're a younger pony
and you're flank is very bare
feels like the sun will never come
when your cutie marks not there
so the three of us fight the fight
there is nothing that we fear
we'll have to figure out what we do next
till our cutie marks are here
we are the cutie mark crusaders
on a quest to find out who we are
and we will never stop the journey
Not until we have our cutie marks
"Is she allright?"
"She hasn't moved in a while!"
"Why does she have that expression on her face"
"Well you were a little off key."
"Was not!"
"Was so!"
"Quiet down hooligans!"
"Don't call me things I don't know the meaning of!"
"STOP IT!" I surprised us all by shouting, and when my eyes finally focused after the heart-stopping experience, I saw the three Ponies, the mark Cutie Crusaders piled on top of one-another.
"Do you always fight like this?" Two no's and a yes. Scootaloo and Applebloom both turned on her, and she shrugged.
"We do." This is going to take a while, I thought despairingly.I skipped right to the case.
"So what do you have to offer?" I immediately got an answer from all three.
"Did you not hear our song? Do we need to sing again?" all three took in a deep breath.
"No no no, absolotely no need to ever, ever sing that again!"
"Oh" they looked so downcast that I immediately had to raise their spirits.
"But it was... It had... a lot of potential!" Their big eyes brightened and turned back on me.
"Sooo, anyway, what is a cutie mark?" Three gasps, three jaws drop and then three fillies screaming at me.
"How could you not know?"
"What the hay?!"
"In the name of RainbowDash!" While I wondered what RanbowDash had to do with this, they carried on, until SweetieBelle hushed them with a hoof in each face.
"A CutieMark is part of who you are, it shows you your special talent."
"Yea, where have you been in life, in a cave?"
"Yes." My comment was met by silence.
"Well... Any way, we are trying to get ours too! So we can help you! Although you might not get it because your cutie mark might be something that we have already tried and if it is then well, we'll just have to tell you and then you will have to do them." The three fillies looked at me hopefully.
"I did not understand that at all." I said as my brain kept trying to make some sense from that..
"Basically you have to catch up to us by trying all the things we have already tried."
"Yea! We wrote a list!"
"We had to leave it by the door though because we couldn't carry it." Yay. I thought sarcastically. All I really wanted to do was get back to Master, but as I was bed-ridden, I decided to humour the ponies. But first moment I get I am going home to Master! I promised myself this. I glanced over to the door and watched as the three fillies dragged in this huge list. On and on they dragged. I wanted to help them to speed up the process but it hurt too much. My jaw dropped as they kept dragging it in. The fillies talked to me as they worked, as ponies so young they were it would be boring otherwise.
"So what do you do for fun in this 'cave' you live in miss?" I looked at the pegasus and replied,
"I read or practise flying."
"Why don't you have your cutie mark?"
"I've never even heard of one until today."
"Oh." The conversation stopped there. Finally the fillies stood there, panting from the whole process. I picked up one end of the scroll and began to read. I was surprised at the small and tidy handwriting, and commented.
"Oh yea, Twi did the writing while we talked." Twi must be a nickname for Twilight.
Thank you for reading, but if you don't like it, then please say why because I have been getting a lot of dislikes, and no one is saying why. this is making me sad. :(