Follow Your Heart
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic © Hasbro & Lauren Faust
Dan is a character owned and used by TOOS0BER, if I have misused or he would like him removed I will do so imediately.
By: Blue Spark
/)\*Chapter 6*/(\
Rescue? Yes. Escape? Nnope...
"D-do you t-think you could put me down?" I whimper as I hung upside down looking at my captor.
"Please?" I add quietly as my last statement only seemed to make Dan's smirk wider.
I frantically try to pull myself up, gravity beginning to do a large number on me as I could feel all the blood rushing to my head, but I couldn't seem to get the strength to do so. Instead I opted for trying to cover my nether region and hope that they don't move me around too much. I was pretty much in full view for them which was, quite honestly, REALLY embaracing.
Especially when you have no idea what Dan is thinking.
Dan's cronies began to walk closer, inspecting me as if I was a fresh kill made on a hunt.
"Well what do you know, it's one of those horse things from the news!" Said Dan.
"I wonder how it wondered in here..." Inquired the bully to Dan's left.
"Hey look! I bet it's a female!" Joked the other, moving his hand closer to where my hooves were.
"Please stop, what to you want?" I plead as I try to swat the guy's hands away with a hoof.
"Ow!" He exclaimed as he brought his hands away.
Obviously I hit him pretty hard with the... well... hard part of my hoof... (Not sure what it's called.)
"You little bitch!" He said, bringing his fist back for a punch.
I flinch as I see it begin to come near me but it stops when I hear two familiar voices speak from behind me.
"Yo asshole, drop our brother now or else you'll regret it!"
I try to turn behind me from my position and my eyes go wide when I see my two younger brothers glaring at the three bullies.
"Jason! Paul! What are y-" I cut myself off as I my body begin to soon experience a feeling of weightlessness.
Looking down, or up in this case, I see the ground rushing up to meet me.
*CRACK!*
A large spike of pain go through my head as my vision flickers. I become disoriented for a second as I try to register what happened. Looking to my right from where I lay on my back I could see Paul and Jason looking at me in shock, Paul trying to rush over to me but being blocked by one of Dan's goons while Jason started shouting something that I couldn't understand.
A few seconds later I begin to make out words again but instead of Jason speaking it was Dan, though it was a bit disoriented and I was having trouble figuring out what the words meant...
"Hey, I did what you said and dropped her... Or..." He smirks and stares at me before continuing. "Do you mean to tell me that our favorite dweeb in the whole school is this horse!"
Jason just stared, anger in his eyes but also surprise for giving my real identity away...
You see, Dan didn't know who I was... I was just the blue girl horse that he decided to pick on instead of Spencer, his favorite target. Since he now knows that it's me... Well... He also knows that I'm a brony so the jokes are probably about to get worse.
"Heheheh, I knew you were a bitch on the inside all along, told yah!" Said the bully not holding back Paul.
I soon heard a motion of leg movement and I felt a jolt of pain through my gut and I doubled over coughing, trying not to feel sick.
Lucky for me he decided to kick me in the stomach and not my wing... I'm not sure yet how sturdy they are and it would be bad to get one of them broken.
"Bastard!" Paul yelled as he brought his arm back for a punch but stopped when I spoke.
"Stop! This as nothing to do with you!" I coughed again and shakily tried to get to my hooves but with a lot of difficulty without accidentally throwing up... God I don't feel so good but if this doesn't stop then some bad shit is about to go down.
I turned to Dan as I continued, hoping that he would listen.
"Dan, this has nothing to do with them... I've never seen them before here at school... *Cough*." I wheeze as I take a shaky breath.
Jason and Paul look at me in shock while Dan had an interested look on his face. His two cronies though had confused looks on their faces though, which isn't surprising...
"Are you sure Spencer? Last I checked, derp one said that you were their brother..."
"Spencer, what are you-" I cut Jason off as I glared at him for a second to be quiet.
I know this is gonna hurt... Probably a lot emotionally... But despite the fact that Jason and Paul are pretty popular they are only freshman. Their popularity isn't big enough for them to be safe from people like Dan and once you got him on your tail your life goes from being great to a living hell. Kinda why I stay alone, not only for the fact that I want to be left alone but anyone that does try to get close to me only gets hurt in the end. It might actually be a surprise to some people that I'm their brother, I'm polar opposite of them personality wise...
"We both know that I have no siblings... No family, no friends... You said so yourself every time we "meet" everyday." I stare flatly at Dan as if the beating I took never happened.
He huffs for a second while looking deep in thought for a second.
"But he said that you were their brother, right Dan?" One bully said while the other nodded.
"Shut up!" Dan shouted, glaring at them both while they flinched back.
"I am a man of my word after all... And besides, if I say you have no family then it's true." He shrugs, smirking at my brothers, hoping for a reaction.
"But we- ouch!" Paul starts to say but is cut short when I silently buck him in the shin.
"They have nothing to do with this, they're just so random guys I met this morning." I said again, trying not to shiver as I see an expression of anger flash across his face at the chance to harm those close to me get taken away from him but it is soon back to his careless look as he glances my brothers up and down individually.
"They got in my way, that's enough excuse for me to pulverize them..." He smirks as my eyes go wide in fear.
I never wanted my brothers to get hurt.. This'll ruin their lives if they start getting targeted! There has to be something that I can-
"I think that's enough out of you, Dan." I hear a melody like voice speak up from behind him.
Despite how noisy the lunch room was at the beginning of all of this it was deathly quiet now. Before people were just watching or pretend that nothing was happening but all heads turned to the sound of what was our savior. The few that stood up to get a better looked cleared a path as not to get in their way.
"This doesn't have anything to do with you Karen." Dan glowered as he turned around to glare at the girl behind him.
Behold Karen Parker, Sunset High School's head cheerleader as well as prom queen for three years running, now entered for win number four. The girl of nearly every guy teenagers dreams, she's beautiful, smart, wealthy, athletic and one of the most popular people of the school.
Among the to five to be exact, or "Big Five" as the school calls them, and she was pretty much untouchable by Dan.
Doesn't exactly explain why she's currently saving my ass now, does it?
"I'm afraid what your doing to the young lady over here is a crime as well as a sex offence you know..." She spoke seductively as she swayed her hips left and right, circling Dan and his boys as if they she were a predator.
And they most certainly were acting the part of the pray, practically shaking in fear of what she could do to them.
Or at least the two that weren't Dan, but even then he still looked a little nervous but did a good job of hiding it..
She eventually came to a stop in front of me so that she was between the two of us. She twirled a hand through her hair before slipping it behind her ear. If it weren't for all the guys staring at her ass (and I think one even fainted...) they would have noticed her smirk at Dan's conflicted reaction.
Sure he could beet her up here but like I mentioned before, she was too popular to touch. Coupled with the fact that her boyfriend was the captain of the football team and you'd get a world of pain if you even looked at her wrong. He's that protective, but a pretty nice guy I heard.
Dan let out a huff and waved for his lackeys to follow, though before I could let out a sigh of relief he shot one last glare in my direction.
"Don't think that this is over yet Spencer, I will be back..." With that said he walked off though showved a few people out of his way in his progress.
Once he got out of sight I let out the sigh I was holding, only to cough a second later groan as I held my sore stomach. Paul and Jason were instantly at my side as I tried to wave them off somehow, mumbling I was fine.
"Hey, you okay there?" I glanced up and noticed that our savior was still there, though instead of the confident smirk she always wore she looked concerned.
"Y-yeah..." I sighed as I tried to stand up again.
"Hey, give the guy some space." Karen said as she looked at my brothers who looked at each other in confusion before looking to her again, a stern expression on their face,
"And why should we listen to you?" Paul asked suspiciously.
"Yeah, what if you plan on trying to make her sterile like the last guy?" Jason continued.
Karen was about to reply something, probably along the lines of how bad of a time that joke was and how she just saved our asses but I decided to step in despite how much I wanted to get rid of what was left of my breakfast.
"Jason, Paul, can't you see how much Karen just saved our fucking asses right now?" I accidentally swore due to exhaustion.
"You know her?" Paul asks.
I just stared at him in a "are you fucking serious" face while Karen just laughs.
"Well, to put it in simpler terms I suppose you could say I am one of the few people that Dan can't "touch"." She replies with a smirk.
"Oh yeah? We would've beaten the crap out of him and his stupid friends easily if you didn't stop us!" Jason challenged, cracking his knuckles as if preparing for a fight.
*Sigh* "Don't you guys get it? The reason you should be afraid of him is not the fact that he's an ass but the fact that he has almost a 5th of the school in the palm of his hand..." I take a glance around, noticing a few people who appear to be listening in closely. "Some of which are probably listening in on us right now."
I think the situation might have finally dawned on them because they suddenly grew quiet and looking around at all the stares that we've been getting.
Course, I only thought that, what actually happened was...
"So you mean to tell me that he actually has SPIES all over the school?"Jason asks, still acting serious.
"Uhhh... Kind of, yeah, what else could I-"
"You know I always wanted to be the main guy in one of those Call of Duty games, right?" He suddenly said, turning to Paul who was nodding enthusiastically.
"Wait, what does this have to- why are you on the table!?" I said surprised as they both hopped up on the table, grasping each other in a way that held each other up both physically and mentally.
"Hey you assholes!" Shouted Paul.
"Yeah, we got a message for you all!" Continued Jason.
I only stared mouth open as they did the exact opposite of what I wanted them to do right now, Karen watching form the sidelines with a smirk on her face as she seemed to know what they were up to.
"Those of you who decide to mess with our little sister!" Paul began as he leaned down and grabbed my left hoof.
"Hey what are you-"
"Have to answer to us!" Jason continued as he grabbed my other hoof and pulled me up.
And I don't mean pulled me up on the table, they each put their hands underneath my arm pits and hefted me up much like they did Simba from that Lion King movie.
"We are the brothers who will pierce the heavens, and Dan's reign of terror will end!!!" They spoke together now, as one, but the way they were going on about this was getting the crowd into it as well, some even voicing their agreement.
"FOR LIBERTY!" Shouted Jason.
"FOR EQUALITY!" Shouted Paul.
"FOR FUCKS SAKE PUT ME DOWN ALREADY!!!" I yelled panicking, flailing my limbs around though flinched as they aggravated the bruise in my side.
"For the dethroning of Dan!" Karen added, walking in front of our table.
At this, the crowd was so riled up that everyone cheered, clapping their hands in agreement though I could see a few whispering and some even giving me dirty looks. More then a few of their owners eventually leaving in the same direction the Dan went. A pit formed in my stomach as they now know who we were for sure and were probably more then willing to pound our face in when they got the chance.
"Hey get down from there!" I hear a voice yell as I see one of the teachers suddenly in the cafeteria pointing at Paul and Jason.
"Whoops, looks like it's time to act like Batman and disappear!" Paul announces as he and Jason get down from the table and set me down.
"Stay safe big sis, we got yah covered!" Jason said as he pats me on the head as he and Paul run down the hall, laughing like madmen with the teacher following them shortly after.
"God dammit, how many times to I have to say it that I'm not a GIRL!" I stop my hoof at the last word for emphasis.
"You got some neat brothers." Karen said as she walked up behind me.
"More like insane..." I mutter under my breath as I just realized something.
"Anyway, why'd you save my ass anyway?" I ask curiously.
She frowns a little at the use of my foul tongue but continues to hold her head high to try and ignore it.
"You see, you aren't the only person who got turned into a pony at school, though I think you are the only one that had their..." She stops when she sees my ears fall back a little and skips that part. "Anyway, some of the girls from the squad have fallen ill as well. You're either pretty brave or really stupid to make it to school in your form."
"I don't need your pity." I dislike it when others treat me lower then them, even when they I am...
"It's also not just pity you know, the rest of the girls plan on coming to school tomorrow and if bullies suddenly started targeting random horses and one of them were from my squad, I don't want to even think about it." She states before she sits down on one of the benches at my usual spot.
I join her as I see her reasoning. Again, nobody at the school is really ever willing to out right help me unless it involves them in some way.
"So... You're not gonna tell the rest of the school who I am, right? I mean, most of them already know about me since that big scene but..."
"Hey, no prob, I understand when someone doesn't want something that they keep secret to get out."
"Thanks." I smile a little.
"Don't mention it. Now, I'd love to stay and chat but I need to go eat with my friends. Good luck." And with a quick pat on my back she's gone.
I sit down contemplating what just happened in the last 10 minutes.
On one side my worst enemy just found out who I am and now has more cannon fodder to throw at me.
On the other I may have gained a powerful ally...
"God I hope there aren't anymore surprises today..." I sigh as I dig through my backpack for my lunch.
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I spent the rest of the day restless, always watching my back in case I see Dan round any corners. It was also difficult to pay attention in class what with everyone staring at me. One of the teachers even called the office to check to see if I was "legit" and that they weren't "imagining things". Truthfully, the last few hours of the school day felt like years but I was glad when I finally heard the bell.
I had all my tings packed up and was making my way to the buses. Hopefully nobody will sit next to me as usual and I can live the rest of my day in peace and quiet.
Usually people would say "enjoy the rest of their day" but I doubt that I'll be having any fun today...
I finally make my way to the door through the hundreds of teenagers trying to get out of the school when I stop in my tracks.
About 20 yards from the door I was in was Dan, as well as around 30 other school bullies just happened to be "hanging around".
Course the moment I open the door our eyes lock, both of us looking at each other in surprise. I on the other hand was lucky enough to get out of my shock fast enough and bolt through the door before it closed, barely able to hear Dan shout to his fellow bullies that I have arrived.
The chase was on!
Oh sweat Jesus I just hope I get out of this okay...