Dear Babs,
The first thing you’ll notice is that I got my pencils back. Yeah! They’re so much easier to write with! Plus it doesn’t taste like wax in my mouth.
I should probably tell you what happened. So after Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo came over, we talked about what I could do to get Applejack off of my back. It was then that I noticed that she still hadn’t made her pie deliveries yet. So I decided to do it for her and prove that I was a big girl and look after myself. Then Scootaloo pointed out the one problem with that plan, mainly that Applejack was always checking up on me and would realize that I’m gone. But she had a great idea that they would each wear one of my bows and take turns pretending to be me sleeping in bed. It was perfect!
So I jump out my window on the hay bales that Applejack stacked out there so I wouldn’t fall. I have to admit, that one was actually helpful since it allowed me to get down from the second floor of the house. I hitched myself to the wagon and started on my way to deliver Applejack’s pies.
Granny Smith wasn’t kidding when she said the routes were long and dangerous. I was walking for hours and found myself in some fiery swamp. But the worst part was that some strange creature came up to me. This thing was scary. It had three heads. One was a tiger and the other a goat. Its tail was a snake and it also had a head on it. It also kept arguing with itself, and called each of the heads sisters. It was like it couldn’t stand itself, but it still managed to decide to come after me. I have no idea what this thing was, but it wanted to eat both the pies and me. I tried to run away, but fires kept shooting up everywhere. I managed to hide the pie cart away safely, but this thing wasn’t going to let me go. I thought I was done for.
Then Applejack jumps in out of nowhere wearing some sort of fireproof boots. Suddenly the creature went after her and she gave it the runaround. She pulled out some strange flute which put the snake head to sleep. Then she somehow pulled a chair out of her saddlebags and stuffs it into the tiger head’s mouth. But the tiger head broke the chair and the creature chased after her. Yet she managed to trap it as the snake head got stuck in a branch and the tiger head’s teeth were embedded into a tree. AJ then threw some ricotta cheese into the goat head’s mouth left.
Applejack than came over to me and was happy that I was alive, but then mad that I had snuck out on my own in this dangerous situation. Looking back on it now, it was very dumb. I did have one surprise for her though. I went and got the cart from its hiding place and AJ was shocked that I managed to pull it all the way here through the fire swamp and past the monster by myself. She figured that since I did all that, maybe she didn’t need to look after me so much anymore and would let me stay on my own in the future.
We delivered the pies to the town with some very interesting folks and didn’t get back to the farm until the next day. Granny Smith and Big Mac beat us home and they weren’t too happy with everything both of us did.
I got grounded for about a month, and I hear that Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle did too. Granny also wasn’t very happy with Applejack for babyproofing the whole house and not trusting in me to look after myself. She even wacked her on the head with a wooden spoon for tying down the rocking chair so it couldn’t move. I wonder if Applejack can still get grounded. Anyways, she unbabyproofed everything and now everything is back to normal, although Applejack does look at me like I’m a big girl now. That’s all I ever wanted!
So that’s the story of what happened. I’m just glad that I’m still around to even tell you about all this. I hope to hear from you soon like always.
Your cousin,
Apple Bloom
p.s. I asked Applejack what that monster was exactly and she said it was a “ki-mare-a.” At least that’s how it sounded.
p.p.s. I asked Big Mac to look it up and this is how it’s spelled “chimera.” It almost reminds me of that cockatrice that Fluttershy stared down once, causing it to stop turning her into stone. That was awesome! I wish you could have seen that.