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// Chapter 2 
// Story: The Birth of Ink Rose 
// by TheDukeMan5221 
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	The purple pink pony was acting suspicious as she bobbed her head up and down nervously. Every couple of seconds I could see a brief flash of white sticking out of her tail. Her violet eyes darted from me to Mom. Her nervous excitement was palpable as sweat beads streamed down her face, and her legs shaked and buckled. She nervously and shakily said
“ I see you brought your filly with you.”
“Yes, her name is Ink Rose. I just thought I’d show her around Ponyville. Do you think you could let her meet Rainbowdash and the others?”
“Sure! It’d be fun for her to meet my friends. Maybe Applebloom, Sweetiebell, and Scootaloo would like to show her their club!”
I bashfully hid behind my mother, trying to hide behind her tail. Twilight looked over at the place I once was with confusion as Mom turned over and gently said to me,
“Why don’t you go with your aunt-in-law to meet her friends? They’re the hero’s of Equestria!” 
“Do I have too?”
“Yes, you have too.”
I nestled up against my mom for a brief moment, not willing to let go of her. Finally she pushed me hard enough that I started slowly walking over to Twilight with my head down. She lifted my head up with a hoof and looked me in the eyes. Her eyes lit up and she warmly smiled down at me. “Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll love my friends.” She reassuringly said to me. She started walking off with her hoof around my neck as I waved bye to my mom who was slowly fading out of view. I sighed and looked back up at the mare. “So, where are we going?” I asked. “We’re headed towards Sugar Cube Corner.” 


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After a few minutes of walking and no talking being done between the two of us, I started taking in the sights around me. This town was quaint, unlike the extravagant polished buildings of the crystal empire. Only but a few ponies were in the streets. The ponies outside moved slowly and beads of sweat streaked their faces. The weather was unbearably hot and my mouth was already dry.  One thing that did distract me was the colors every building was, and there was a certain earthly charm to everything. The town was very quiet and I couldn’t hear much, only a few distant voices. The ponies that passed by had coats of all different colors, some brown or purple or blue. 

I guess I had always wondered why me, my dad, or my mother wasn’t crystallized. Although, I was told they were crystallized when Spike saved the Empire from King Sombra. I also never understood why my coat was Rose while my mom and dad’s was white and light pink. My dad always said I have a rose coat because his mom’s was white and Cadence's mom’s was red so mine was supposed to be a mixed color between white and red. Suddenly my mind snapped back to reality when I found myself standing in front of Sugar Cube corner. 


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Outside the shop there was a huge sign with text reading “Fresh Blueberry Muffins on Sale! 3 Bits apiece!”. There was a huge crowd outside of the door. I watched as a grey mare with blond hair walk out of the establishment with a huge box almost the size of me. She was struggling to pull the box, which I assume must have had muffins in it. I was amused by the mare for a bit until I realized I was staring and quickly turned my head back down towards the ground.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Twilight gesturing towards the entrance and she explained “This is Sugar Cube Corner. In here we should find Pinkie Pie at the cash register.”  We made our way towards the entrance and quickly burst through the door. I gasped as a sea of color and light invaded my eyes. The ponies with their bright shiny coats overflowed the entire place. The crowd was shouting and yelling out for their cupcakes. We pushed, stumbled, and bumped our way through the crowd. Their ear-splitting cries overtook our miserable peeps of  “Excuse me” and “Sorry”. Our efforts came to fruition as we ended up coming to the counter which formed a small island. The stallion and mare behind the counter weren’t really selling muffins as they were throwing muffins into the crowd and the crowd threw bits back. We quickly dived behind the counter and started shouting at the cashiers
“Have you two seen Pinkie around here?” Twilight shouted at the top of her lungs. 
“Pinkie? We sent her to the back to make more muffins.”  the orange stallion yelled back. 
“May we go and see her? I wanted to show her somepony.”  
They both nodded, and Twilight quickly stuck her head out towards the small wood gate near us as we rushed towards it. I galloped through the small hallway which led to a medium-sized kitchen. In the kitchen  a huge assortment of baking equipment lined the walls. Piles upon piles baking ingredients were spread across the room. Flour and other unidentifiable powdery substances coated the walls. Mashed blueberries were scattered all across the floor like a minefield. In the middle of this vortex of chaos and baking was a pink pony with a fuzzy bumpy mane. She was facing away staring intently at the oven. She spun around suddenly and in a split second she was facing us. Slowly her face lit up and a huge smile stretched from one side of her mouth to the other. I noticed that her face was completely blue, which made me chuckle a bit. She quickly galloped up to me and stopped only a couple of a inches from my face
“HI!” She yelled all a bit too loudly.
“AHH- !” was all that escaped from my mouth as tried to backpedal away from my assailant.. 
“My name is Pinkie Pie! This is Twil-”
“Pinkie, she already knows my name, I just wanted to show her around town and introduce my friends to her.” 
“Oh.” her ears drooped down and her head hanged low, as if she was incredibly distraught at the idea of not telling me Twilight's name.
“So, who are you?” she asked
“My name is I-Ink Rose.” I stammered.
I slowly raised a hoof expecting a light hoof shake from the pink mare, and instead I felt a jolt of motion shake through me. 
“My name’s Pinkie Pie!” she shouted.
“Uhm… yes… I could tell… since you already told me that.”  I wondered if the mare suffered from short term memory loss. She seemed excited and friendly enough, but she seems really unstable. Nor did the mare really care for keeping her voice down at a quiet tone. Quickly,  I braced myself for the rest of the conversation.
“Well, it was nice meeting you!” 
“You’re leaving already?!” 
“I still have to meet Twilight’s other friends.” I mumbled.
“Well, you’re welcome to join me here anytime!” she hollered as I slowly headed towards the exit. Twilight was already waiting for me.
“Are you coming?” She said.
I quickly galloped up to her nodding my head furiously.
As we walked out of Sugar Cube Corner, I saw Pinkie was wearing “see ya later” shirts and balloons. She waved goodbye and so did I.
“So, who are you going to introduce me to next?”
“We’re headed to the Carousel Boutique.” she replied. 
“Who am I going to meet there?”
“Somepony generous.”


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We trotted up a long hill to a curvy and lamp-shaped like building. Next to it was some colorful little trade shops for vegetables and fruits. In front of the house I saw some boxes full of multi-colored fabrics and a white pony with a blue mane rummaging through the boxes with a shorter filly sitting right next to her. The filly’s coat was also white and her mane was mulberry and a grayish rose. Me and Twilight slowly trotted towards them and Twilight tried to get their attention by clearing her throat. 
”Ahem”
They both immediately spun around looking directly towards us. “Hello! ” Twilight started, “This is my niece in-law, Ink Rose.”