Thanks to NightShader for editing and TexPony for proof reading.
Rider knew what Heavy Weight was planning to do. He grabbed all nearby stones quickly and handed them to his friend.
"Thanks," he said as he took to sky and began to pursue the fast moving raft with a large group of stones.
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"So how much longer if this gonna be?" Dim asked as he was speeding down the river, drops of water landing on his face.
"Not sure, probab-" Sweetie Belle's voice was interrupted with a swarm of rocks landing on her and the others. The stones nearly filled up the raft.
"Ahhh!" they all screamed as rocks fell on top of them. Everypony dropped their ores as they put their hooves over their heads, in doing so the ores floated for a moment before they sank to the bottom of the river. The others looked up to see the bright orange pegasus following them, laughing as if he just won a battle.
"I swear to Celestia that when I get out of this raft-" Dim was saying before Heavy Weight interrupted.
"If I were you I'd concentrate on the water rather than me," he said before he stopped following the raft and just hovered in the air. Dim looked forward to see a thick, fallen tree had been blocking their way, it stretched from one side of the river to the other; and they were speeding towards it with no way of stopping the raft.
"Brace for impact!" Dim yelled just before the raft hit the fallen tree. The raft collided and sent all four of them and a bunch of rocks flying through the air. They all screamed before they plummeted into the water. After a few seconds of being covered in the cold water, the current washed them up on the land. Dim spit out a stream of water, Scootaloo had some plant on her head, Apple Bloom had a small hermit crab pinching her and Sweetie Belle was getting sand out her mane.
"So, now what?" Apple Bloom said, hitting away the crab from her leg.
"Well, do any of you have a cutie mark now?" Dim asked, trying to hold in his emotions of rage and annoyance with trying to cover it with humor. Dim didn't like getting surprised like that.
They all took a quick glance at their flank, knowing their wouldn't be anything. "No," they all said simultaneously. They didn't care about not getting their cutie marks, they knew they probably weren't going to anyways, now they were more curious as to what Dim was gonna do.
"Okay, is anypony hurt?" he asked.
"No," they answered, Isn't he gonna do something? This is totally not like Dim. they thought.
Apple Bloom finally spoke up, "Aren't you gonna do anything?"
"Of course, they could have killed us, they made us lose the raft, we're all wet now, and frankly I didn't enjoy the water. So yes, but not now," Dim said raising his tone as the he continued. Dim shook his body to get the water off as the others did the same, they were still wet but it helped.
"So where are we?" he asked looking around. The area where they were was a mixture of sand and dirt with large weeds and plants. Other than that and a few trees Dim couldn't make out much else.
"I'm not sure, I've been in a lot of the woods and beaches in Ponyville and I don't recognize this place," Scootaloo said with uncertainty in her voice.
"Well lets get going," Dim said walking whilst he moved the tall weeds out of his way. After a few more steps he saw what looked like trimmed grass.
"Oh, it looks like a back yard, come on," Dim said as he ran forward to get out of the weeds. The three fillies walked out of the small patch of plant life, pursuing Dim who was already a bit ahead. They looked back at the place where they crashed, it seemed really out of place. The rest of what could be seen looked like clean cut grass that was kept that way, but it just stopped at the river's side.
"So we're still near civilization, good so that means we-" Dim stopped talking and just let himself fall on the ground. "Oh, come on! Why!?" Dim shouted flailing his legs.
"What is it!?" They asked staring down at him.
"Just look," Dim said, eyes closed, still laying on the ground without moving a muscle.
The Crusaders looked over the hill and were dumbfounded at the large structure in front of them, it looked like a house but it was enormous. Yet it was not enough to trigger anything suspicious for the three fillies.
"It's a big house... so what?" They asked clearly unaware of what Dim meant.
"this is either Diamond Tiara or Silver Spoon's property. I don't wanna go through there, I just wanna stay as far away from them as possible. With my luck they're probably gonna be right there too," Dim said, starting to standing up.
"They're probably not even home," Sweetie Belle said. By the tone of her voice Dim could tell she didn't want to go through there just as much as he did. Although she didn't want to go through there for different reasons.
Dim shut his eyes and let out a strong exhale, "You're probably right, but just in case... Lets try to sneak around the house for if they are," Dim paused and changed the tone from an annoyed 'I don't wanna do this', to a more serious tone. "And on a more serious note, this is private property so if we get caught we'll be in big trouble," he said quickly. Dim was gonna say more but before he could continue, Scootaloo began to speak.
"Okay Crusaders, we're about to have some fun," Scootaloo said, "We can try being ninjas again, kinda-sorta," She turned and looked at Dim, "So, how are we gonna do this?" she asked.
"It should be easy enough if we just stick to the side of the the lawn and move quickly. On three just run and follow me. Got it?" he asked, sounding very official. The Crusaders responded with nods. "Also, stay quiet," Dim looked over the small hill and looked left and right.
"Okay, one, two, three!" Dim dashed to the nearest tree which was rather far from them and wouldn't be wide enough to hide all four of the ponies behind it. However, it was the only thing that could be used as a form of cover.
The others were slower than Dim so he made hoof motions telling them to hurry up. When they finally got to the tree Dim was relieved, leaving the area of the house wasn't far. "Okay good, if we just make it over there we'll be in the clear," he looked left and right and waited a few seconds before he said anything. "Okay, I don't think we'll have to run this time. I think we'll be able to walk it. Wait, where are we gonna go after this?"
"Back to the orchard," Apple Bloom answered.
"Okay," Dim replied. "Lets go now," Dim began to walk away from the house with the others. "Well that went better than expected."
"If having rocks dropped on you and crashing is your idea of 'better than expected', then yeah I guess it was," Scootaloo said sarcastically. The group turned down the road to head back into town.
"You know what I mean, we didn't have a run in with those two or anything. So I'd say it went okay even though we could have drowned or gotten a concussion," Dim joked, well not really joked since that all could have happened to them just earlier. He was more less making light on the situation. "So, what are we gonna do when we get back?"
"We're not sure, but we'll think of something," Scootaloo said.
"Okay, so I guess," Dim's face shift from happy to dammit when he saw two figures in the distance of silver and pink. "Girls, stay quiet and just walk, don't make eye contact," he said quickly, then just stared dead ahead.
"What?" they asked confused to Dim's sudden out burst.
"Look, it's them," he said, but then suddenly Dim had a change in mind, Actually, maybe I can play around with this, he thought, a small grin starting to form. "Actually, scratch that. Do whatever,"
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"Well I think it's safe to say- Silver Spoon, look!" Diamond Tiara shot a hoof outwards pointing up the street to the four ponies walking down it. "The only reason to come up this road is to get to your house," she said. "What are they doing here?" she said narrowing her eyes. "Should we check it out?"
"Why are they here?" Silver thought for any valid reason. "They couldn't have done anything, could they? Would they even dare?" Thoughts were racing through her head as to why they were there. "Lets find out, shall we?"
The two fillies now shifted to the other side of the street and approaching the group of three fillies and a colt with mixed emotions in their eyes.
"Just why are you on this road? The only place this road goes is my house, explain yourselves, now!" Silver Spoon demanded, getting in Dim's face.
"Take it easy," Dim couldn't help but let out a laugh. "Nothing went wrong, we just crashed our raft and landed in your backyard," Dim let out. "I swear, we just made our way through your backyard and nothing else,"
"Figures you fools would crash a raft," Silver said, lowering her glasses.
"Can we go now?" Dim asked.
"Get out my sight and don't come back here or else there'll be trouble for you. Real trouble ," Silver stressed to make sure to get the point across.
"Oh no, what are you gonna do?" Dim said, trying to mock her and see how mad he could make her. He then just walked away with the girls following him.
Silver simply ignored his comment but not for long. What will I do, what will I do! Does he even know who I am or who my family is?! I could do so much. she angrily thought to herself, hell, all the fillies and colts knew that you wouldn't want to get on her or Diamond Tiara's bad side. They may have not done anything drastic to anypony ever, but they could and they knew it.
"You know what?!" Silver turned around viciously, like a wild animal who was being poked with a stick. Dim turned around to see Silver Spoon angrily trotting to him. Dim didn't do anything but watch as Silver Spoon was only two centimeters away from touching him. "You've done it! You're gonna wish you'd never met me," she began to push him, but with not much force, though Dim still moved back a bit. "Trust me on this, you. Will. Regret. Everything!"
The Crusaders and Diamond Tiara just watched this hissy fit unfold. Diamond liked where this was going, though she didn't know what Silver Spoon would do, she liked what was happening. The Crusaders just watched as this wave of hatred fell on Dim Shadow and Silver Spoon.
"Will I? Will I really? There's nothing you could do, nothing you could buy that would make me regret coming here or doing what I've done. Prove to me that you can do something," Dim stared into Silver's cold eyes as the the fire of hatred continued to burn.
"Oh, I will. And sooner than you think, loser. You better watch your back," Silver huffed out then run up the street, Diamond Tiara followed seconds after.
"Sorry you had to see that," Dim Shadow said under his breath. Dim was a like antsy now, he's had to issue this challenge once before but that never went anywhere, he was curious as to what Silver Spoon would do; and honestly he wanted it to happen. He was enjoying that fact that somepony was taking their time to think of ways make him feel bad. It made him feel special in his own little way. He felt flattered.
"I-it's fine, but aren't you scared? She can do a lot of things, really bad things," Sweetie shuttered at the thought.
"What's the worst she could do?" he asked.
"Let's just get back to the orchard, when she said 'sooner than you think' that could be at any time, so I wouldn’t recommend staying here for too long," Scootaloo said, a little shaken about what had happened
"Yeah lets go," Apple Bloom began to walk in front of Dim and take the lead of the group, Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle also went in front of Dim and now walked with Apple Bloom. Dim didn't say anything to it and followed them back to the orchard.
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The rest of the day went by pretty nicely, there was no sign of Silver Spoon, there wasn't anymore crusading for the day because the girls were paranoid that something would go wrong because of Silver Spoon. Dim Shadow didn't mind it. For most of the day they played games talked about random stuff, but now the day was ending and it was time for Sweetie Belle to head home, Rarity didn't like her staying out at all when it was dark. Scootaloo didn't have to be home for who knows how long, and Apple Bloom could stay out in the orchard all night if she wanted.
"Hey Sweetie Belle, mind if I walked you home?"
"Of course not," she blushed.
Dim didn't want her walking home alone after what happened with Silver Spoon. Dim knew that at some point in the yelling he told her to leave the Crusaders out of this however she never actually agreed to that.
"Okay let's get going,"
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Dim and Sweetie Belle finally arrived at Rarity's house. During their time walking there they talked about how the day went, but mostly about Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Sweetie was really concerned about what would happen, she knew that they weren't joking around. Dim didn't mind talking about them at all.
"Well, see you tomorrow, Sweetie Belle," Dim said as he was walking out the door.
"Wait, do you want to stay for a little while, maybe," she said rubbing the back of her head with a half smile.
"Sure," he said turning back around. But shouldn't we ask-" and on cue Rarity walked in the room.
"Good evening Sweetie Belle, hello Dim. You were intending on staying?" she asked.
"Yep," he answered.
"That's fine with me, but one thing. In case I need to contact your parents for any reason, what may your address be?" she kindly asked, knowing that in the wrong tone, that could sound a little distrusting.
"Do you have a pen and paper I may use?"
"Of course," Rarity walked over to an end table and took out what looked like a pad of sticky noted and a pen then placed it on the top of the table. Dim walked over and scribbled down his address. Rarity looked at it, "Hmm, quite a walk away," she said. "Well, then have fun you two."