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// 1. Mud and Tiaras 
// Story: Perfect 
// by sapphiremelody 
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	"Today's the day cutie mark crusader! We're gonna get our cutie marks!" Apple Bloom exclaimed as she bounced up and down.

"How? Are we going to do pony roller derby?" Scootaloo asked starting to hover.  Scootaloo's wings have grown a lot stronger throughout the months. Though her habit of ignoring the fellow crusaders hasn't changed. She looked excitedly at Sweetie Belle and Applebloom as they backed away. 

"N-no Scootaloo I think we're gonna to do something else right Applebloom," Sweetie Belle pleaded ,not wanting to end up having her horn almost cut in half.

Apple Bloom made a sheepish smile. "Yeah! My sis told me that maybe we should ask each other what we think our talent is."

"Not cool but I guess I would like to hear what kind of awesome talent you guys think I have," Scootaloo answered.

"LAME," a voice cried out.

The CMC looked behind them to see Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon walking up to them. Tiara's face looking snootier then ever ,while Silver Spoon was smirking yet her eyes -yet looked at the Crusaders with worry.  She was getting actually nicer and nicer when Tiara wasn't around and now when Tiara is around Silver Spoon was showing that she was tired of Tiara's bullying.

"Oh ,hi, Tiara. Hi Silver Spoon," Scootaloo sarcastically spoke.

Tiara's eyes gleamed with smugness. "Oh hi Do-Do, Peabrain, and Scaredy Hooves." 

Apple Bloom looked down, tears in her eyes. She had gotten a B- on their last test ,and Tiara -as usual- told her that she's just a dumb Earth pony like her sister. Scootaloo stared at Tiara, her rage boiling. Sweetie Belle looked at Apple Bloom with a concerned face and turned to Tiara, her white coat crimson red from rage.

"WELL AT LEAST I WON'T GET A DUMB CUTIEMARK LIKE YOURS AND BE AS SNOOTY AS YOU," Sweetie Belle blurted out.

Tiara's eyes widened in anger but then her face became a smirk as Sweetie's coat became a even lighter white. 

"Looks like the kitty has claws.....Well I have sharper ones," Diamond Tiara spoke walking past Sweetie knocking her into the mud.

"Face it you're weak, you hang out with blank flanks, you're ugly, and to top it off you are an embarrassment compared to Rarity," taunted Diamond Tiara.  She walked off ,leaving Silver Spoon and the Crusaders.

Silver Spoon looked at the pink filly as she trotted away as she looked at Sweetie Belle who was getting up, coated in mud. She looked Sweetie in the eyes, the only part of her not coated in mud. "Sweetie, are you okay?

"Y-yeah, its alright," Sweetie answered, before running down the path in the opposite direction Tiara went. 

Sweetie Belle tried to go the way she thought was farthest from Tiara but the sky grew grey, fog rolled in, the dirt grew into more mud, and rainstorm started. Sweetie's head hung low as her mane got soaked.

"Are you? Are you? Coming to the tree," she quietly sang her mom's favorite song.

Her mom always told stories about a tree where the Headless Horse was buried when he died. Sweetie Belle's mom loved to hear this song because it reminded her of these storied.

"They strung up a stallion, they say who cursed 3," Sweetie Belle continued singing as she looked up to the sky.

"Sweetie Belle!" A familiar voice rang. Twilight Sparkle ran up to her in her purple raincoat and levitated a lateen ahead of her. "What happened to you? Never mind that, c'mon you'll get sick out here."

Twilight levitated the tired little filly onto her back and together they set out into the fog.