Diamond Tiara walked along side her father, Filthy Rich. They were heading towards the town square, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were coming to Ponyville to give a speech, and being a very important pony in the town, Filthy Rich had to be there. Diamond Tiara smiled deviously, she might get a chance to talk with the Princesses, this was a once in life time opportunity and she was not going to let it slip by. Her plans were knocked from her head when she saw her best and only friend Silver Spoon, she picked up her pace to catch up with her friend, turning, she waved to her father who waved in return and then strode to Silver Spoons side. The two fillies talked about the latest gossips, their plans for what to do to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, their manes, and basically just boasting. They continued to walk and talk until they came across three very familiar fillies, the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
"Well what do we have here, Silver Spoon?" Diamond asked her friend.
"It looks like a bunch of blank flanks to me Diamond." Silver Spoon replied.
"Really? 'Cause it looks like a bunch of blank flank losers to me." Diamond Tiara corrected Silver Spoon.
"Why can't you two just leave us alone?" Sweetie Belle asked with a sigh.
"Why would we do that?" Silver Spoon asked in reply.
"Because it would be nice!" Scootaloo shouted.
"Now calm down Scootaloo, there ain't no point in gettin' angry at 'em, clearly they can't help their spoiled selfish selves." Apple Bloom said calmly.
"We are NOT selfish!" Diamond huffed. "We're sophisticated!"
"Sa-fist-i-kate-ed?" The Cutie Mark Crusaders spelled out together.
"What does that mean?" Scootaloo asked.
"Maybe you should check a dictionary. You DO know what a dictionary is right?" Diamond asked mockingly.
"As a matter of fact, we DO!" Sweetie Belle declared. .
"Wow, I'm impressed!" Silver Spoon laughed.
"Me too Silver, I would have thought they were still learning to walk." said Diamond.
"Ha! I learned how to read and write BEFORE I could walk!" Scootaloo proclaimed.
"Said the flightless Pegasus." Silver Spoon recoiled quickly.
"Good one Silver." Diamond praised her friend.
"Yeah, I thought it was pretty good myself." Silver Spoon replied.
"Well I think its time to go, the Princesses will be here any minute now and if we keep laughing at these losers we'll be late." Diamond said.
"Bye, blank flanks!" The two chimed in unison. Then they took off to the town square, leaving the Cutie Mark Crusaders to follow with fallen faces. They pushed through the crowds that were gathering until they got to the front, there they found Diamond Tiara's father and Silver Spoon's parents. After awhile of waiting they heard the trumpets, signaling the arrival of the Princesses. Pushing in between their parents to get a better view, the two fillies looked to the sky and saw the royal chariot gliding through the air, the crowd erupted in applause and cheers. As the Princesses landed, everypony quieted down, Celestia stepped forward and began to speak, Luna walked to her side and put on a smile, Diamond could tell that it was forced, she had seen a lot of fake smiles.
Celestia kept talking and talking and talking, Diamond was getting bored and began looking around the crowd, for no reason really, just so she wouldn't have to listen to Princess Celestia's boring speech anymore, out of habit, she looked to her father and noticed him staring intensely at this one shifty stallion, he was a Unicorn with a smoky gray coat, purple eyes and a blood red mane, his cutie mark was covered by a cape and he definitely wasn't from Ponyville. She looked back to the stage where the Princesses were, then she looked back to the stallion just in time to see him launch a volley of black fire, some kind of spell, at the stage? No they were aiming for something more specific, they were aimed at Princess Luna. Diamond didn't even blink before the screams started, she looked back to the stage but the the Princesses weren't hurt, then she heard the sound of something hitting the ground, she turned, the guards had tackled the stallion, she looked back at the stage but this time looked at Princess Luna's face. Diamond didn't understand, if she wasn't hurt then why did she look so horrified.
She followed Luna's eyes to the body. Diamond jumped onto the stage and charged through the guards, she stopped and threw herself into her fathers warm coat, she looked into his face and saw that he was still breathing, his mouthed moved but his words were so soft that she couldn't hear him, she leaned in and heard him say "I love you.", and then their was silence. Diamond didn't know how long she sat there but she was vaguely aware that Silver Spoon had come to her side, and she was silently grateful for that, tears streaked down her magenta coat and mingled with her fathers blood, suddenly she turned and pulled her friend into a hug and began crying into her soft silvery fur, she wasn't expecting it, but Silver Spoon returned the hug and even cried with her. Then it began to rain and Diamond closed her weary eyes and drifted into the darkness of sleep.