//------------------------------// // Scootaloo's Past // Story: The Party Adoption // by Matt11 //------------------------------// A family of three were on there way home. The father, with an orange coat and blue mane’s name was Foggy Drop. Along with him was his lovely wife, Rainy Gust, who had a brown coat and purple mane. She was occupied holding her five year old daughter, Scootaloo, who was snoring softly and was starting to grow into a strong filly. They had just finished with a party in canterlot. The couple turned to the corner on there way back home when Foggy Drop stopped near the entrance to the Everfree Forest. The sign that was normally there, however was gone. Foggy Drop let out a small sigh. “Hey, I got an idea. Let’s take little Scootaloo here in the forest. I hear there are some beautiful flowers in there that she would love to see,” Foggy said, smiling at his wife. Rainy Gust, however, was shaking uncontrollably. “B-But isn't that forest is dangerous and aren't ponies not allowed to go in there?” she asked shuddering. She noticed her husband had already gone in ahead. She sighed and went on in after him. She followed slowly behind, also being sure to keep a strong grip on her daughter. “Don’t worry, honey. Momma will protect you and let’s hope nothing bad happens….” Rainy Gist felt something touch her shoulder. All the fear was boiling up inside she, swung her hoof back then turned around and slapped whatever was behind her. She gasped, realizing it was her husband. She frowned. “Not funny,” Rainy said, while patting her daughter on the head. “Heh. She's still asleep. That must of been one heck of a party for my little Scootsie.” Foggy fell on his haunches and rubbed his chin repeatedly he started to groan. “Dang, honey, you can super hit hard.” After several minutes of rubbing his chin he got up. “Okay, let’s continue. These anchin flowers I heard of should be around that corner,” Foggy said in a nice way. The two and their daughter, who was still asleep, walked onto the next road up in the Everfree Forest, but they were unaware of the timber wolf pack of that were following them slowly to get there prey. Soon enough the family arrived to the flowers. The mother placed Scootaloo on the ground next to some of the flowers and nuzzled her, whispering, “Time to wake up, sweetheart. We’ve got a surprise for you,” She smiled, as Scootaloo was starting to wake. She rubbed her eyes a little. At first, everything was a blur to the five year old filly, but then she noticed she was in a flower field and smiled. Scootaloo stretched her small wings and said “T-There beautiful, Mommy. I love them.” Scootaloo sniffed them a little while dancing around just being plain silly. “And thank you for taking us wherever we are, Daddy,” Scootaloo went over and hugged both her parents. “Thank you,” Scootaloo said again. While observing the willed lives, however, there lovely hug was disturbed by the sound of a small crack that sounded like a small piece of wood cracking. “W-W-What was that?” Scootaloo asked, starting to get scared. Tears were forming in her eyes. Rainy Gust picked her daughter up and pulled her into a small hug. “Aw, it’s okay, sweetheart. You're dumb dumb of a father thought it be nice to take us to this forest. Now, let’s get out of here—” She stopped moving as she saw what was the most frightening thing ever; a pack of timber wolfs. “H-Honey, we got a problem.” She back up and hid behind her husband. She did not want her daughter to get scared over this. “What do we do now? Foggy could only think of one thing. “Hmm, they’re going to try and kill us, so do me a favor: run just run as fast as you can. Don’t look back. Please take care of Scootaloo. If I dont make it back...” She nodded in response. the only words he was about to catch before she left were, “I love you” before she hurried off. He took a deep breath and said, “Come at me, you sons of a—” he never finished as he started charging at the bests. e grabbed a small rock whacking one of them with it on the back of its head, hoping to buy his wife some time to escape, but before long he met his fate. The screams of Foggy Drop could be heard throughout all of the forest. Rainy Gust stopped, her eyes wide. “Oh no, honey. He must not’ve been able to stop them.” Tears started falling from her face. She then looked at Scootaloo and kept holding her tightly. “I-Is Daddy….. is he gone?” Scootaloo asked, tears welling up in her eyes. She brought her face into her mother and started crying her eyes out. Rainy Gust didn't want to tell her the truth so she half-lie. “No, honey. He just went to a vacation in the stars. We will see him again, someday.” Rainy Drop hated to lie to her daughter, even if it was only a half-lie, but she didn't want her to be scared. She patted her daughter on the head a little. The growling of a timber wolf could be heard behind her. She gulped and started booking it. Rainy Gust held her daughter tightly while running. She turned her head around and saw they were rather close behind her. She turned back around and saw they were near an edge of the forest. She placed her daughter on the ground and started patting her. “Scootaloo? Sweetheart, I want you to do me a small favor. Run. Please I… I... I want you to live. I won’t be able to make it and well… you will. I promise someday we'll meet again, Scootsie. Just fly out of here, like Mommy’s been teaching you.” She turned around and faced the timberwolves. “I'll distract them for as long as I can!” She started running a different way and called “Momma loves you, sweetheart.” “I love you mommy Scootaloo started to tear up but did as she was told. Sure she wasn't a good flyer yet, but she started flapping her wings. She got some good air and she flew in the air, leaving her mother, still crying. Scootaloo’s eyes were starting to close and she slapped her small wings, trying to get out of there. She opened her eyes again just in in time. She shifted left and then yelped in surprise as her wing hit the tree. She was still able to fly a tiny bit but after thirty minutes passed, Scootaloo landed face first near a small town with a sign that said “Welcome to Ponyville”. “P-Ponyville. M-maybe I can try and survive here until Mommy comes back to get me.” Scootaloo tried to fly, but was unable to. She finally thought that she would never get to fly again. About three years passed and Scootaloo met Sweetie Belle. Besides the fact she was living in an alleyway behind sugar cube corner Scootaloo thought her life was decent. Another year passed by and the Cutie Mark Crusaders were made. Scootaloo even had a pretty sweet clubhouse as her home now. Her life was….. great…..