Dear Apple Bloom,
Wow, that sounds serious. I’m glad you and Scootaloo made up, but I’m not sure how I feel about getting pushed into this promise without me knowing so. I’ll still keep it, even though I have no idea what a Pinkie Pie Promise really is.
Do you want to know something funny? When I read the part in the letter about the Pinkie Pie Promise and how serious it was, something pink popped out of my dresser drawer shouting “FOREVEEEER!” And then it disappeared. It really freaked me out. I immediately looked in the drawer, but nothing was in there that shouldn’t have been. I have no idea how it happened, but I took it as a sign to not reveal what Scootaloo had said.
Enough about that, you probably want to hear about us Cutie Mark Crusaders here in Manehattan. We’ve gone on quite a few crusades. Roller had us go to the skate park, which was a ton of fun, even if the rest of us fell down a lot. Rocky Road had us help his father serve ice cream one time. I think some of us ate more of the ice cream than we actually served though. So his father might not let us do that again anytime soon. They were both very fun, but we didn’t get out cutie marks.
I really wanted to go to Central Park, but I couldn’t think of a reason for us to do a crusade there, which is weird because it is so big and there are plenty of things to do. Then both Tomato and Flower Patch came up with the idea to help their aunt walk dogs, since she’s an animal caretaker, or something. To be honest, they were more interested in playing with the dogs than actually caring for them. Rocky, Roller and I had to do that part, which meant we also had to clean up after the dogs. It was gross! But it was still fun, even though we still didn’t get our cutie marks.
Also something really weird happened in the park while we were there. When we started to walk the dogs and did the Cutie Mark Crusaders cheer about being dog-walkers, some pony in the park went nuts. She shouted something about “the curse of the crusaders” and that they were here in Manehattan too. Then she ran off screaming, telling everypony to run for their lives. A lot of ponies stared, but otherwise just ignored her.
It was really odd, but it got me thinking. Other than us, the only other Cutie Mark Crusaders are you guys in Ponyville. I didn’t get a good look at her so I couldn’t describe who it was, but I guess she must have been from Ponyville too. Do you have any idea what she was talking about? We would really like to know.
Anyways, we are all doing great here, and I hope the same for you.
Your cousin,
Babs