The sun rises as the stars fade, celestial embra-
Chatterjoy hit the snooze button on her Celestia alarm clock. She woke up and stretched. The clock said 6:00 and the pegasus groaned inwardly. It had been five weeks since arriving at this foal's camp. She was 'supposed' to be a camp counselor, but for the past few weeks her and her cohorts had been doing nothing but construction labor.
The pegasus didn't mind too much at the beginning, but now it was just getting taxing. Especially with the unicorn Vexing. Chatterjoy had once been in colt scouts so camping and the like were nothing new to her, but this stallion had refused to believe her. The pegasus had even overheard him saying that she had never been in the mountains before. He wouldn't even let her drink water in peace!
He was also favorited by the bosses. An older stallion with his wife. Vexing was a family friend of theirs and he could do no wrong. He always found someway to get Chatterjoy and her co-workers in trouble. During a gun safety training session he had even accused Chatterjoy and her new found earth pony friend Thunder Thighs of goofing off. For his information, they goofed off after the session.
The boss also didn't take Chatterjoy's colt scouting experience to heart. They had been preparing for a foals' camp last week. Vexing was in charge of the hike, and the boss all wanted them to go on the it. Chatterjoy loved hiking, but they didn't even start on the actual trail.
He left the trail, got confused a few times, and Chatterjoy had even pointed out that, if he had done this trail so many times, as he had claimed. How come he was confused? The boss told her that he was okay and everything was fine. They had eventually left the trail completely and had begun to mountaineer. Chatterjoy wouldn't have minded, if they had been prepared for it.
Their acting nurse hadn't been prepared properly for a mountaineering trip. She had tripped on her own hooves repeatedly. The mare had told them before the hike that she didn't do hiking very much, but nopony listened to her.
To be nice to her grounded co-workers, Chatterjoy didn't use her wings to escape the intensity of going straight up. Unfortunately, Chatterjoy had told them she was not very sure footed and would be a slow hiker. Vexing didn't listen and kept a fast pace. Chatterjoy snorted at the memory. He claimed to have had a bad hip, but the unicorn was sure running up a mountain pretty fast for a bad hip.
The pegasus had told him to slow down, but he refused to listen. In trying to keep up, Chatterjoy had slipped on a log they were using to avoid some thorn bushes. Her front right leg got cut from a sharpened end of the log underneath and was lightly bleeding. It wasn't too deep and she would be fine. Chatterjoy knew that much. Didn't stop it from hurting like Tartarus though.
On top of that her knee slightly hurt. Chatterjoy had just assumed that it was bruised and would be fine. They had barely stopped for water breaks as well. Chatterjoy had made it a policy to where if Vexing wasn't going to slow down, she would go her own pace and plop down for a drink of water when she needed it.
Thunder Thighs had stayed with her all throughout the hike. In the end, when they had made it to the top. Vexing had told the boss that Chatterjoy and Thunder Thighs were complaining the whole way.
'Liar,' Chatterjoy thought. Though it wasn't the first time. One day, getting prepared to clean a cabin, Chatterjoy had spelt pure bleach onto her leg. Not that it would matter so much with the color of her fur, but the chemical burn sure would. The pegasus had turned on a nearby faucet to clean off the liquid, when Vexing accused her of wasting water.
"Excuse me for thinking my leg is more important," Chatterjoy had irritably replied. After that Vexing had told the boss that she had gotten chemical burn, but he had helped her, so she would be okay. The burn he claimed was also on her back left leg. The bleach had spelt on her front right leg, and she had even told the annoying unicorn that she was preventing a chemical burn.
Over her five week stay many incidents like that happened. Chatterjoy and her friends would be accused of not finishing something or doing something else, while Vexing was going away scott free. Chatterjoy had become more like Ranting Grump. Oh well, after today Thunder Thighs and her would be leaving.
Chatterjoy had finished packing her saddlebags and looked over her shoulder at her new earth pony friend. "All ready to go! Are you ready?"
"I was ready to leave the day I came."