//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 // Story: Who's King // by Muffinz 4 Life //------------------------------// Who's King By: Kitty Pony "How was school darling?" Diamond Tiara processed the question her father had just asked. How was school? It was bad, but Diamond already knew that. The real wonder was what to tell her father about it. Was he even listening? Or was it one of those times when he just asked because he needed to say something? After a small bit of thinking, Diamond responded primly, "It was okay." Rich didn't even bother to look up from the newspaper he was reading. Yep, definitely one of those times. Diamond sighed and dragged her hooves down the golden halls to her room. Realizing what she looked like, her head immediately shot up. The pink filly straightened her tiara and pulled her hooves high. She still had her dignity. The Diamond Tiara would not be seen without her head high or with her hooves dragging. Even if the other ponies from school started to underestimate her power, Diamond would never give them the satisfaction of bringing down her or her place. "Hmph!" Diamond sniffed proudly and continued on her way to her room. Her walk had her nose high in the air, and with each step she took, Diamond brought her dainty pink hooves up to her chest. Yes, this was the Diamond Tiara that everypony feared. She still owned the school, and there was nothing any of the other fillies and colts could do about it. "I now officially announce this CMC meeting to begin!" Applebloom's sweet voice rang all through the wooden clubhouse. The large group of fillies and colts that sat in all different spots on the floor, eagerly gazed upon the small pony. Each one of them wondered what had brought Applebloom to be so persistent on bringing all of them here. "Umm," A small voice from the back of the crowd spoke up. "What is this meeting even about?" Applebloom smiled. "Ah'm bout to tell ya!" The beige filly trotted of the stand that she had stood on when announcing the start, and made her way to a projector attached to the wall. She tapped the wooden wall twice, then the projector fell from it's folded stance. The screen displayed a photo of a very familiar pony... "DIAMOND TIARA?!?" The entire crowd gasped in shock. Applebloom nodded with satisfaction. She had gotten the response she had hoped for. "I'm gonna assume that means y'all know her." Applebloom saw a few nervous shake of heads and a quiet, "Yes." "I'm also gonna assume that means y'all know how she acts too." Another round of nods were seen. "And any sane pony would hate to have to be treated like that!" More nods from the crowd, this time more stable and sure of themselves. "What are we gonna do bout it?" No nods this time, just scared questions. A small hoof shot up from the back. "Yes, you in the back." Applebloom said while pointing to where the raised hoof was. "We can't do anything, I mean this is Diamond Tiara we're talking about!" A wave of agreement statements rose from the group of foals. "We can't do anything!" The pony repeated. Applebloom stomped her hoof for silence, which was ignored. She tried again, which this time, just made the protest louder. "QUIET!!!" A orange filly ran up in front of Applebloom, which after seeing, the foals immediately shut up. "Applebloom, you were saying?" Applebloom took a few steps forward now that she had her audience's attention. "Thanks Scoots." She said while nodding to her friend. "Now, back on topic." The filly continued. "We can do something. We just need to start slow." Small perks of heads came up to Applebloom's hopeful words. "Little baby steps." The voice from the back popped up again. "How can we start?" Applebloom smiled grimly. "By giving Diamond her own treatment..." "Silver Spoon!" Diamond Tiara trotted angrily over to where the grey filly stood alone in the playground. "I had to go get my mane done all by myself! Why weren't you there to pay for me?" Diamond flipped her white streaks with frustration. Silver Spoon shuffled her hooves. "Well, maybe you could pay for it, you know...by yourself..." Diamond's sapphire eyes glared at Silver like daggers. "What did you say?" "N-nothing..." "That's what I thought!" Diamond sashayed passed Silver. "By giving Diamond her own treatment..." Silver Spoon poked her lavender eye through a small hole in the wood of the clubhouse. The grey filly saw Applebloom standing at the front of the club, giving some sort of speech or something... Behind Applebloom there was a projector showing a picture of...Diamond Tiara? Silver Spoon blinked her eyes, then put on her glasses, making sure to clean the lenses. She couldn't be seeing right, but after putting on her glasses, she saw it, a photo of Diamond. Lots of angry looks were cast at the picture, and Silver could faintly hear rude remarks about her. Finally, she put the pieces together...a speech, a picture, and the CMC haven't been giving in to her bullying recently, it was all making sense. A rebellion against Diamond had started-or at least it was being formed. Silver scooted closer to the hole she was hearing out of, and tried her best to make out what Applebloom was saying... Agreeing with every word she said. Silver Spoon looked up angrily at Diamond, about to say something harsh, but soon thought better of it. I'll get my revenge soon enough she thought. After all, this was only the start of something great.