A Day of Fun & That Orange Pegasus
“Right, well if you’re sure.” Spike said and he began to walk with Sweetiebelle.
“Don’t worry about me, Spike... Lyvia’s right, it’s not my fault so I shouldn’t let it get to me.” she smiled positively and led both him and Lyvia to her friends house.
None of them spoke on the way there, but Spike did hold Sweetie’s hand tightly and was watching her closely, and after watching her for a while he came to the conclusion of; ‘she’s very good at hiding he feelings’. Sweetiebelle wasn’t baring any tears nor did she even look sad, she had a smile upon her face and she acted like she hadn’t cried at all. She was being strong, but not the good kind of strong, she was being the weak kind of strong as she chose to ignore her feelings and bury them instead of facing them.
However, Spike slowly convinced himself that she was going to be okay. After all, Spike knew that she was a brave girl; she had gone on tones of adventures with Applebloom and Scootaloo before that sure, she may have gotten hurt on some of those adventures, but that never changed her. Just because she had her cutie mark now, didn’t mean that she would stop being brave.
Within no time though, the three of them reached the park where they would be meeting Scootaloo. And, with no surprise, the orange Pegasus was laying high up in a tree with her scooter on the ground. She wasn’t moving but she was breathing, so most likely she was taking a nap.
“Hey Scoots!” Sweetiebelle yelled out in order to wake her sleeping friend.
And it worked, Scootaloo woke up with a start and slowly flew down the grass below. She was wearing a purple, shirtless top and white shorts with no shoes. She also still had her helmet on from when she was riding.
Scootaloo was a simple girl; yet, she appreciated the fast and intense things in life that made her adrenaline levels soar. Due to these interesting desires, Scootaloo was nearly constantly covered in cuts, scratches or bruises and it was rare to see her nowadays with completely clear skin.
“How’s my favourite dare devil?” Sweetiebelle asked eagerly. It may have only been five days since they saw each other last, but that was five days too long.
“I’m alright I guess. How are you?” she replied and asked.
“Umm, things have been eventful... yeah, you could say that.”
“Like what?” Scootaloo questioned curiously, eager to hear the stories.
“Well... Spike here is my boyfriend now!”
Scootaloo squealed in excitement. She had Sweetiebelle always had bets to see who could get a boyfriend first and it looks like that challenge was finally over for her.
“Oh. My. GOD!!!” Scootaloo hugged both Spike and Sweetiebelle simultaneously. “When did this happen!?”
“Just a few days ago actually.” Spike answered. “We were on the train to Canterlot.”
“That’s so adorable!” Scootaloo squealed again and let go of Spike and Sweetiebelle to allow them to breathe. “But why aren’t you guys still in Canterlot?”
“Umm well... we uhh... kinda got expelled...”
Scootaloo burst into laughter upon hearing this. She thought that it was hilarious that someone could get expelled within a week. She couldn’t help but wonder what they did in order to receive such a punishment.
“So what did you guys even do?” the orange Pegasus laughed with a little chuckle.
“We dated.” Spike replied simply. He didn’t like it at all that just because he loved someone that they wouldn’t be allowed to receive a good education. To him, old people were stupid.
“You dated? Really, was that the reason?” Scootaloo was utterly confused.
“Yeah, that was the reason, and it’s fucking stupid!” Sweetiebelle grumble as she answered her puzzled friend.
Scootaloo felt kind of angry, she didn’t understand any of this. She just didn’t thing that it as right that to expel someone from such an expensive place because they loved someone. Anyway, she didn’t come to meet Sweetiebelle and Spike here just to talk, no, she wanted to do something; she wanted to have fun.
However, before she could even think of doing that, she couldn’t help but keep noticing Lyvia. She felt as though she needed to know her name.
“So are you going to introduce me?” Scoots asked, nudging herself forward.
“My name is Lyvia Sounds...” she replied simply. She kept eye contact with the overactive orange Pegasus but her stare was cold and uninviting. She had no intentions with making friends with her.
Scootaloo gulped a little and quickly moved her questioning away from Lyvia.
“So what to ya wanna do?”
“Oh I thought you’d never ask!” Sweetiebelle sighed in relief. “I’m feeling energetic, so lets have a race.”
“You where?”
“First one to the other side of the woods is the winner.”
The park that they were currently in was bordering a small forest. It was not, however, the Everfree, it was a small section of forest planted not too long ago and the growth was enhanced with magic. The forested area was only about kilometre long with a small, dirt path going through the middle of it.
However, the path was extremely rocky and so it would be dangerous for Sweetiebelle to go because she would hurt her feet once more.
“But Sweetiebelle, you’ll hurt your feet again.” Spike stated; expressing his concern
“Oh Spiky... I don’t have to run when I have a strong dragon like you to carry me.” she giggled slightly, hoping to charm Spike in to carrying her.
“But you said that you were feeling energetic, so how is me go running for you going to use up your energy?” Spike asked. He didn’t know how fast he would be able to run with Sweetie on his back, even if she was really light.
“It won’t but, but at least I get to ride a dragon for the first time.”
“Sweetiebelle, you do know that I won’t ever be the size of an actual dragon and that I’ll never have the personality of an actual dragon ever again. I’m only taller and stronger than you because of how I was raised.” Spike said, crossing his arms.
“Oh come on Spike. Don’t be a buzz kill...” Sweetie pleaded, and she gave Spike the most adorable look that she had ever given.
Spike gave in, the look that she was giving was just too precious and so it seemed that he didn’t have a choice. “Fine. Get on.” He turned around so that she could climb on.
Sweetiebelle did, and as she was on his back she held onto his shoulders and his waist to hold on to. “Thanks Spiky.”
So once Sweetiebelle and Spike were ready, they lined up next to Lyvia and Scootaloo who were standing at the entrance to the forest. Along side the path run a think and rapid river and on the other side were dense and thick tree that were perfect for climbing. Sweetie and Spike were in the middle of the others, while Scoots was near the riverside and Lyvia was nearest to the trees. Each person had his or her own strategy for winning.
“Three...”
“Two...”
“One...”
“GO!!!” Scootaloo yelled and the three of them rushed off.
Spike was so glad that Sweetiebelle was as light as she was because if she were any heavier than he wouldn’t be able to run as fast. Thankfully, his draconic legs were able to carry him up to fairly high speeds, but he was hindered slightly and so he could only run as a fast as Scoots.
The three of them stayed pretty much neck and neck the entire time, every now and then though did Spike fall behind a bit due to Sweetiebelle’s shifting and wriggling.
Lyvia didn’t use the path as she felt that it wasn’t good enough for vaulting her to the front. Instead, she ran along the tall rocks and tree branches, which only further proved her athletic superiority over all the others.
Scootaloo however, may have had flying lessons with Rainbow Dash and was now pretty good a flying, did not use her wings at all. But she was also able to run fast since Rainbow had trained her in all that too.
Thanks to all of their athletic talents, the race wasn’t decided by how fast they were, but who Sweetiebelle wanted to win; and she wanted Spike to win.
To do this, she tried to distract Scoots by tricking her into believing that Rainbow Dash was in the forest too. It worked and her orange friend stopped right in her tracks to look around eagerly.
Distracting Lyvia though was going to be a lot harder and so after she failed countless to time to distract her. She ended up resulting in throwing rocks.
Lyvia was swinging along branches, jumping from rock to rock and scurrying up trees and she still managed to keep the lead. She was displaying absolutely beautiful parkour skills and it mad Sweetiebelle feel slightly bad when she finally succeeded in hitting her with a rock; causing Lyvia to slip and fall a metre or two onto the floor.
In the end, thanks to Sweetiebelle’s sabotage, did her and Spike end up winning the race as they reached the end of the forest; showing the other side of Ponyville.
Eventually, after a moment or two did Lyvia finally reach them, and she growled at the laughing unicorn. Not too long after Lyvia, Scootaloo caught up with them and she didn’t look too happy either.
“That wasn’t fair, Sweetiebelle!” she pouted and leant against a tree.
“You never stated any rule, Scoots. So I didn’t break anything for it to be unfair.” Sweetiebelle replied with a smug face.
“Yeah... well... UGH!!!” Scootaloo gave up already; she was too puffed out to put up and argument.
Lyvia didn’t say anything, but instead she rubbed her shoulder, which was where the rock had hit her. She just sat adjacent to Scoots and glared out into the beautiful town of Ponyville.
Spike looked at her curiously; he was wondering why she was still here and not back in Fillydelfia where she lived.
“Lyvia, why are you here. In Ponyville I mean, and not in Fillydelfia?” he asked.
“Because I came here to help Sweetiebelle, I’ll be leaving tomorrow whenever I can.” she replied simply, sounding almost happy to be leaving soon.
“Oh well, that’s sort of a shame...” Spike admitted coldly. “but anyway...” he looked a Sweetiebelle who was laying down on the grassy ground looking up at the sky, “...do you wanna go on a date tomorrow night?”
Sweetiebelle didn’t even hesitate to answer. “YES!!!” she replied in full excitement. She didn’t even care if Rarity would let her, she wanted to go out on a date at night with Spiky.
She was sure that it would be a beautiful night, full of kissing, cuddling and partying no doubt. The mischief that they could get up to was endless and it was going to be an unforgettable night... maybe even better than the last date that they went on, and that was going to be hard to top.