Chapter Ten: New Friends
Dinky had a soft feeling within her; she moved her arms and legs lying on the most comfortable thing she had ever put herself down on. She nuzzled her own head back into the soft material that she wasn't able to see, tightening her grip on the soft object trying to achieve her own perfection on this material. It was great, really soft and Dinky felt like she was in absolute heaven.
A small nudging feeling poked into her backside, it was a small nudge that didn't cause any pain at all. The soft material kept Dinky happy and she kept her eyes closed for the time being, she knew that someone was trying to wake her up, but she didn't want to get up now. It was too good for her.
"Mommy... I don't want to get up for school..." Dinky groaned; her voice was weak from her fatigue and overall lack of sleep. She put her hand on her forehead and rubbed it from side to side, feeling like her loving and caring mother was trying to wake her up for another boring day at school. She had to get up, but on the other hand her blanket was so good she didn't want to wake up.
The nudging started to come back, but it wasn't the soft tap that she felt a moment ago. The nudge was amplified and Dinky was pushed from side to side in an attempt to wake her up.
"Okay! I'm awake!" Dinky slowly leaned up; she placed her hand on her eyes and started to rub them once again.
She opened her eyes and saw Scootaloo standing right in her face, standing on her stomach looking down at her with a strange curious expression. Dinky's mouth dropped, she paused for a moment and quickly grabbed Scootaloo and wrapped her arms around the orange filly.
"Scootaloo!" Dinky wrapped her arms around Scootaloo and hugged her as tight as possible; the orange filly dug her head into her chest and started to snuggle up with Dinky.
"It's so nice to see you!" Dinky kept the orange filly into her arms; the filly began to smile and wagged her purple tail from side to side like a dog.
As Dinky was hugging Scootaloo, Dinky felt another massive nudge in her backside, this time it really hurt. Dinky didn't let out any yelps or squeals of pain, she immediately let go of Scootaloo and turned herself around to look behind her.
"Hey! Now what's the big idea?" Dinky turned around as fast as she could, she turned around to see something that she did not expect, she thought during her little nap, she was resting her head on a very nice pillow. But it seemed that she was resting her head on Luna's side, Dinky's mouth dropped and she immediately moved away from the giant blue mare.
"L-Luna!" Dinky crawled away from the blue mare, trying her best to keep her distance from the angry horse. But Luna didn't look angry; she looked rather puzzled at what Dinky was doing.
"I'm s-sorry... I... uh... didn't mean to..." Dinky immediately apologized to the blue mare, she kept on crawling back until she bumped into something behind her, and she turned her head to see that she had bumped into Fluttershy. The yellow mare with the wings, Dinky immediately yelped in slight fright and backed herself off into a corner away from both Luna and Fluttershy.
"I'm s-sorry... I d-didn't m-mean... to bump i-into you..." Dinky put her hands across her face, trying not to look at the mares that she had bumped into.
Fluttershy and Luna looked at each other, both feeling sad for the child that they had scared. Fluttershy was the first one to slowly move over towards the child and she craned her head down to the ground and stood next to Dinky. Fluttershy nuzzled Dinky's leg and the child looked up and moved her hands out of the way so that she could see who tapped her.
"F-Fluttershy?" Dinky was scared, she didn't know whether the horses were going to do something bad to her, Fluttershy looked tall; she was standing in front of Dinky with her head craned down to look at her. Fluttershy slowly lowered her whole body to the ground and rested herself on the hay. She gave a small smile and a friendly look to Dinky, letting her know that everything was okay.
Fluttershy lifted out her hoof and placed it on Dinky's leg; she put her hand on the yellow mares hoof and used her fingers to slowly stroke her hoof.
"I-I'm s-sorry... I t-thought you w-were going to... uh... do something bad t-to me..." Dinky stammered, she didn't know what to say to the mare, she didn't know if the mare could understand would she was trying to say like what Ditzy done throughout her journey to the park.
Scootaloo slowly moved over to Fluttershy and Dinky, really curious about what they were doing and she obviously didn't want to miss any of the action at all. The orange filly moved over to Dinky and Fluttershy and climbed up on Dinky's lap. Dinky used her spare hand and placed her hand on Scootaloo's back, stroking her fur just like she was stroking a cat.
"C-can y-you all under understand m-me?" Dinky lowered her head next to Fluttershy and Scootaloo, she whispered to them not including Luna in the conversation.
Both Fluttershy and Scootaloo nodded up and down in unison, Scootaloo placed her head next to Dinky's stomach and nuzzled herself into her stomach and smiled at the child. Dinky smiled back as she gave both Scootaloo and Fluttershy attention, she made the decision and realized that both of them were very friendly, they seemed to enjoy her company.
"Does it get lonely in here?" Dinky asked Fluttershy, whispering to her as if it was a very private question.
Fluttershy didn't respond; she just nodded up and down.
As Dinky tended to Scootaloo and Fluttershy by giving them some attention, she looked over Fluttershys shoulder and saw Luna in the corner of the stable. She was lying down looking at Scootaloo and Fluttershy, her head was rested on a small pile of soft hay and her whole body was rested down the same way. Dinky noticed that Luna looked very sad, she didn't like being around the others for some reason, just like what the Ranch Owner said to her earlier this day.
She picked up Scootaloo by placing her fingers underneath her belly and placed her down on a nearby pile of hay and then gently picked up Fluttershy's hoof and placed it down onto the hay. Dinky stood up and slowly walked over to Luna, the large blue mare looked up at the child and saw that she was walking over to her. Luna immediately got up and sat herself down on the hay, waiting for what Dinky was going to do.
"H-hello L-Luna..." Dinky began to blush; she waved a little to the blue mare and stood in front of her.
Luna didn't respond, she looked up and inspected the child, taking a look at her clothing. The gray t-shirt and the strange undergarment that she was wearing in between her legs with the images of flowers and butterflies scattered around the front of it. Luna craned her head down towards the child and used her nose to poke and inspect the strange clothing that the child was wearing. Dinky didn't move, she watched the blue mare inspect her clothing until Luna craned her head upwards and looked at Dinky in the eyes.
"I-I'm sorry... for... uhh... you know... being scared... of you... and I... just want to... ask you something..." Dinky felt like a stone statue, she didn't move a single muscle. Luna's eyes were like a hypnotizing trance.
Luna waited for the child to speak.
"D-do y-you want to be... uhh... my friend?" Dinky blushed, she stuck out her arm and handed it to Luna, hoping that she was able to understand what she was saying, more importantly wanting to be a friend for the moment.
Luna paused for a moment, she didn't respond, but she instead lifted herself up properly and began to walk over to Dinky, letting various pieces of hay and all sorts fall to the ground. Dinky took a small step back from just the sheer size of Luna, she was bigger than Dinky. But she wasn't that tall by a mile like a regular farm horse, but she was still an impressive size.
Luna craned her head down to Dinky's level and stared back into her eyes once again, Dinky kept her hand still held out and she saw that Luna placed her hoof on Dinky's little hand, her hoof was huge, but Dinky didn't comment about it.
Dinky tried to wrap her fingers around Luna's hoof and she shook it up and down, Luna moved her head away from Dinky and noticed that she looked rather happy. Luna was smiling, she couldn't get around that. Dinky walked up close to the blue mare and wrapped her arms around Luna.
Bon-Bon and Derpy stood at the entrance to the Rumsville Park; they stood outside the park entrance sitting down on one of the benches next to the cobblestone road. Derpy had taken up nearly all of the room on the wooden bench by lying down on it as if it were a bed, she fallen asleep with Bon-Bon digging her hand into her hair, rustling it and calming Derpy down.
Bon-Bon looked at her watch and saw it was time for everyone to regroup, she hoped that Berry Punch and Cheerilee were called along by Lyra to speed up the entire search. Bon-Bon looked from side to side constantly checking that either Lyra or Carrot Top would return with good news or either Dinky in hand.
"Bon-Bon!"
Bon-Bon turned her head to the left to look at where the voice came from, she saw Lyra on the other side of the road walking towards the entrance to the park. Bon-Bon stood up and waved her arm, gesturing Lyra to come over to where she was. Lyra looked left and right in the road and quickly crossed it to the other side.
"Did you find her?" Bon-Bon walked over to her partner, leaning forward and kissing her on the cheek.
"Nah, I tried knocking on for Berry Punch and Cheerilee, but they wouldn't answer." Lyra returned a kiss back.
Bon-Bon crossed her arms, frowning a little at Lyra.
"What?" Lyra shrugged, confused at what Bon-Bon looked angry about.
"Tell me, now." Bon-Bon demanded an answer from Lyra immediately, she wasn’t messing around.
"Oh okay..." Lyra groaned. "I saw Cheerilee lying in bed with that cute farmer guy from up the road; I peeked through the window trying to see if she was in." Lyra blushed.
"It's their personal business." Bon-Bon scolded Lyra.
"Hey! At least Berry Punch wasn't there, that would have been worth watching all the way through." Lyra playfully giggled.
"I'm going to have to talk to you about this sooner or later about peeking through peoples windows..." Bon-Bon placed her hand on her face and quietly groaned.
"Hey, what's with Derpy?" Lyra tried to change the subject, she pointed at her friend who was sleeping on the park bench.
"She's tired; all that walking worked her out. Plus, it's also late out. She sleeps and snores in the most adorable way, just a like a little child." Bon-Bon explained, moving her hand off her face.
"She's always been a kid Bon-Bon, what makes you think she'll ever do something that a grown-up would do? Also, why did you give her my spare green hoodie?" Lyra walked over to Derpy and leaned down to Derpy's level, she took a look at how Derpy was sleeping and she had the hood up as a pillow on the rough hard bench.
"She was cold; I had to give her your spare hoodie, which was inside the candy shack." Bon-Bon crossed her arms; she knew that Lyra was going to complain about Derpy using her clothing.
"Well... as long as she doesn't wear any of my trousers or something stupid like that, I couldn't care." Lyra got back up on her feet turning around to Bon-Bon. "But hey, maybe one day I could let her borrow one of our French maids costumes, how about that?" Lyra stood next to Bon-Bon and leaned against her side, wrapped her arms around Bon-Bon.
"She has to look after Dinky; I don't think Derpy isn't that type of person." Bon-Bon wrapped her arms around Lyra, just like how Lyra wrapped her arms around her.
"There's nothing wrong in experimenting once or twice." Lyra childishly giggled.
"That maybe so, but we still have to wait for Carrot Top now." Bon-Bon said.
"You mean ginger?" Lyra corrected Bon-Bon.
"Let's not get our aggressions ahead of us; we still need to look for Dinky." Bon-Bon reminded her partner of the situation at hand.
"Speaking of aggressions... look over there..." Lyra pointed to the other side of the road. Bon-Bon turned around to see Carrot Top walking towards them, seemingly displeased, but Bon-Bon and Lyra always knew that Carrot Top would never be happy.
"I take it you haven't found Dinky." Carrot Top walked up to Bon-Bon and Lyra.
"Well... I saw Cheerilee and Big Ma-" Lyra spoke first; she was immediately blocked by Bon-Bon as her partners hand stopped her from speaking.
"No, we haven't found her. And Derpy has fallen asleep on that bench over there." Bon-Bon replied.
Carrot Top turned around to see Derpy lying down on the wooden park bench asleep, she rushed over to Derpy and inspected her.
"Is she alright?" Carrot Top turned around back to Bon-Bon and Lyra.
"She's just tired ginger, calm down." Lyra yelled out.
"Oh, I am sorry, lesbian. I'm just caring for Derpy as I always do." Carrot Top yelled.
"Just calm down, she is just sleeping, nothing to get worried about." Lyra giggled, playing to Carrot Top's obvious anger.
"I should take her home; she is too tired to keep up with us." Carrot Top turned around to Derpy and began to walk over to her. Lyra immediately reached out and grabbed Carrot Top's arm, stopping her in place.
"Dinky is Derpy's daughter, she should be looking for her. Not waiting at home." Bon-Bon strangely interrupted, Lyra was a little happy to see that she had joined in on the small argument.
"I'm sorry, but I am going to disagree with you. Derpy is going to slow our search down if we let her sleep; it's best I send her home and put her into bed." Carrot Top explained to both Bon-Bon and Lyra.
"Hold on a moment." Bon-Bon paused everyone, she silently walked past Carrot Top and over to Derpy. She lowered herself and tapped Derpy on the shoulder, causing her to wake up.
"Bon-Bon?" Derpy meekly replied; rubbing her eyes in the process, feeling tired as ever. "Did we find Dinky?" She yawned.
"No sweetie, you just fell asleep, it's time to go into the park and look for Dinky." Bon-Bon whispered to Derpy, rubbing her arm to keep her warm.
"The park?!" Derpy immediately shot up like a bullet, quickly leaning up and energetically leaping off the bench and onto the stone floor. "We need to go in the park to find my muffin!" Derpy pointed towards the entrance to the park, she looked back and forth making sure her friends were looking in the same direction as her.
Carrot Top stood there, awed. She couldn't believe that Bon-Bon had just woken up Derpy like that, how disrespectful. Bon-Bon and Lyra walked past Carrot Top as she stood on the stop trying to comprehend what Bon-Bon just did, she was never able to wake Derpy up in such a hurry before.
As Derpy, Bon-Bon and Lyra set foot into the park, Lyra turned around without Bon-Bon knowing and raised her arm up and stuck out her middle finger while also sticking her tongue out of her mouth at Carrot Top in a very childish manner, Carrot Top's mouth couldn't get any wider from what she had just saw.
To be continued...