//------------------------------// // Ponyville // Story: The Weeping Pegasus // by ihaveofficiallyretired //------------------------------// It was about the time of day when Ponyville was bustling with ponies going here and there. Occasionally ponies would stop and chat, but then resume their business. Some were doing their grocery shopping for the week. There was a small crowd around a street musician, listening intently, enjoying the sweet sounds emerging from the instrument. It was an ordinary day in Ponyville, at least to the knowledge of the town’s inhabitants. Not one of them noticed that there was a new stone statue of a seemingly generic pegasus. “Well I noticed! You just said it was there!” exclaimed Pinkie Pie. Tnuyum looked at the computer screen in disbelief. Really Pinkie? Tnuyum typed. Can you at least pretend that the fourth wall exsists? You aren’t even in this story! “Well fine then.” Nopony noticed the statue now that Pinkie Pie left the story. It wasn’t exactly in the most noticeable location but it was always in somepony’s view, whether they realized it or not. Anypony who walked past just took it in as a part of the town’s décor. It looked harmless enough, just a plain old pegasus statue sitting in the middle of Ponyville. Slowly the day progressed, and the number of ponies meandering throughout the various streets began to dwindle. By the time the moon was up, there was nopony left looking at the peculiar statue. Surely enough, the Weeping Pegasus came to life. Off it went into the heart of Ponyville, looking for its next victim. “Oh, how lovely this night is,” muttered a light purple earth pony. Her name was Wisteria. She was a local florist, and thoroughly enjoyed taking a stroll in the night air. She would never tell anyone, but since Princess Luna had returned, she usually preferred her over Princess Celestia. She casually strolled down the street, pleased with how her day had gone. She was even further pleased with the fact that there was nopony out to disrupt her walk. She liked that. Snap. The sound of a twig breaking startled Wisteria. She spun around. The pony screamed in absolute terror. Behind her was a stone pegasus, seeming to leap out at her. “It…It’s just a statue…right?” She seemed unsure of her words. Where could this mysterious statue have come from? She looked away, for only a moment. She only wanted a moment to figure out what it was. Though she didn’t realize it, that was her biggest mistake. She eventually woke up in Canterlot almost one hundred years before she was even born, never to be seen by her friends and family again. The Weeping Pegasus continued to hunt, careful not to draw attention to itself. There weren’t to many ponies roaming the streets at night, so it was easy for the Pegasus to travel without drawing unnecessary attention. It planned to ravage the population of Ponyville, but not so quickly that anyone noticed until it was too late. Besides, there was something of the utmost importance that needed to be taken care of first. The Doctor had, of course, heard Wisteria’s scream. Unfortunately he and his companions were on the other side of town, so by the time they got to where the scream originated it was far too late. There was no sign of the Pegasus anywhere nearby. “This is not good,” stated The Doctor. For hours they had been searching for the Pegasus to no avail. Somehow the creature had managed to continue to elude them since they were inside the giant worm. Somehow the Pegasus had managed to sneak onto the TARDIS sometime after having been trapped in the stomach of the worm. The Doctor, Ditzy, and Colgate had been distracted with trying to escape from the worm that they had forgotten (mostly) about the Pegasus. Upon returning to the TARDIS to leave, the discovery of the open door meant that it had to have snuck aboard and escaped. “Doctor, where do you think it has gone?” asked Ditzy. “Who knows? Probably off to find another victim.” “So what do we do?” “We keep looking. We absolutely have to find that Weeping Pegasus. Right now the entirety of Ponyville is at stake.” “Hm….That’s bad,” muttered Ditzy. Colgate looked at Ditzy with a slight amount of frustration mixed with a hint of sarcasm. “Oh, you don’t say.” “Hey, hey. Stop it now. We have to focus on the task at hand.” “Sorry Doctor,” spoke Colgate and Ditzy in unison. “Now then. We have to find this Pegasus.” The trio of time travelers hurried along the winding roads and paths of Ponyville. Somepony was now lost to time, quite possibly dead in present day. It was up to The Doctor, Ditzy, and Colgate to find and defeat the Weeping Pegasus. Unfortunately, they had no idea where to start. They weren’t entirely sure they would find anything out until Wisteria screamed in fright. “Who do you think it was?” asked Colgate nervously. She lived in Ponyville and spent most of her time there. The town was just large enough that there was somepony knew to meet every day, but small enough that nopony felt lost or out of place. “Hmm…My best guess is that florist…Oh what’s her name…” The Doctor thought for a moment as they continued the hunt. “She always liked to take an evening stroll after everypony had gone to bed. Less disturbances that way.” “I know who you’re talking about. I used to pass her stall in the market all the time. Never said anything to her, never even knew her name. I suppose now I never will.” “Aw, cheer up Colgate! At least it wasn’t Berry or one of your other friends!” remarked Ditzy, in an attempt to lighten the mood. ‘Yeah, I guess.” Colgate felt responsible for what happened. It was her who decided to go exploring Malum Lupus Cave. It was her who stumbled upon the Weeping Pegasus. It was her who had sent a distress call to The Doctor. In her mind, she was to blame for the whole ordeal. Whether or not she truly was mattered not. Colgate indirectly caused an innocent pony to essentially get murdered. The Doctor and Ditzy didn’t feel that way, not at all. However, it was not the time or place to be throwing blame at anypony. Beep beep beep “Ah-ha! That’s fantastic! The sonic picked up the trail of the Pegasus. We may yet catch this stone-cold killer.” The Doctor paused. There was an awkward silence. “C’mon. That was funny.” “Um….hahaha?” “What Ditzy said.” “You guys are no fun, you know that?” At that, The Doctor focused on the beeping coming from the sonic screwdriver. Now that they had a lock on the Pegasus, they should be able to track it down. Time was not something that was to be wasted, and there was little of it to waste. The damage that the Weeping Pegasus could cause would be catastrophic to Ponyville. The group continued after the incessant beep beep beep of the sonic screwdriver, getting ever closer to locating the Pegasus. They had come across a problem though. As soon as they would get close, the Pegasus would get farther away again. It knew they were chasing it. What The Doctor didn’t know was the Weeping Pegasus’ true plan. “Blast. It keeps getting just beyond our reach. Time to track it down again.” “Alright, Doctor. Let’s get moving.” “Doctor? I see it. The Pegasus.” Ditzy was desperately trying to focus on looking at the Pegasus. It was probably about fifty feet away, in a dark alley between buildings. “No, that can’t be. The sonic says it’s that way,” replied The Doctor, motioning a hoof in a completely different direction. It was Colgate who spoke next. “Doctor, I think we have a serious problem.” “Colgate, we’ve had a serious problem for some time now.” “No, I mean that I think that I’m looking at a different Pegasus than the one Ditzy’s looking at.” “What?” The Doctor turned to face his companions. Down the alley that Ditzy was facing was the ever recognizable Weeping Pegasus. On the roof of a store a few buildings away was another Weeping Pegasus, only frozen in stone because of Colgate’s never ending gaze. “What?!” The sonic screwdriver suddenly came to life, beeping crazily. The Doctor spun around to lock eyes with the Weeping Pegasus that had stowed away on his TARDIS a few short hours ago. Their original problem had now tripled. Three Weeping Pegasi were now loose in Ponyville.