Laughter.....it's all I hear these damned days...foals, mares, and stallions...the ones that I encounter just laugh, and walk away. The cyan unicorn was laying curled up in a ball, remembering the times she had before...her. That blasted mare....she ruined me...drove me out... That specific mare is Twilight Sparkle. She had defeated the Ursa Minor that those two idiot ponies, Snips and Snails, awoke to try to see her skills right up close. Thinking of it...made her sick to her stomach. "I need fresh air. Perhaps I'll go out to the lake." Trixie stood up, and trotted out of the dim cave. It looked as though it might rain, and she was starting to get a headache. She decided not to stop and smell the roses. She walked to the trail that little creatures had worn from traveling to the body of water.
Trixie had arrived at the lake after a miserable walk, but that was all her life was now. Miserable. She looked up at all the stars in the sky and named all of them. Her mother taught all of them to her, so she knew them by heart. The stars were pretty to look at...but utterly, utterly useless. Trixie went to splash some water on her face at the body of water. She stared at the reflection. Who is this ugly pony, standing here before me? She can't be me...can she? Trixie got onto my stomach, still looking at the reflection. An image of her former glory appeared in the water. She felt tears in my eyes, looking at the once beautiful form of herself. "I'm still The Great and Powerful Trixie.....right?" After that, her voice cracked, and she started sobbing. She started screaming at the stars after they took the image of the face of the one pony she loathed the absolute most. "I HATE YOU, TWILIGHT SPARKLE! YOU RUINED ME! I WILL GET MY REVEEEEEEEEEEEEENGE!" Trixie knew that she couldn't hear her...nopony could...it was all a waste of time, just like her life now.
Twilight Sparkle drowsily looked out the window. She had been up way too long researching how to make her own spell. She raised to her hooves, knocking down a lamp as she did so. She cringed as soon as it hit the floor. "Oh....crap." The lamp hit a bookcase, and it fell down as well, and Twilight just knew that there would be a chain reaction. Sure enough, another shelf fell, crashing into another. Once all the bookcases were on the ground, she facehoofed. "Once again... Oh crap!"
"Twilight! Could ya keep it down! I'm trying to sleep!" Spike woke up, of course, and shouted at the mare. He would most likely be cranky in the morning. She decided to go to bed. When she was about to set a hoof on the stairs, she heard what sounded like a pony screaming. Spike was enraged. "Twilight!!! What is wrong with you?!?!?! I ask you to keep it down, and so you scream at me?!?!?!"
Twilight decided to use her magic to force the baby dragon to sleep. She flopped onto her bed, and fell asleep.
Fluttershy was jolted awake by the sound of an animal screaming in pain. "Oh, no....a poor little animal is hurt! I'd better go find it, poor thing!" She galloped towards the screaming, but wasn't expecting what she saw. It was the bedraggled shape of Trixie, a mare who had came to Ponyville, showing off her magic. She embarrassed her and her friends with it, but Fluttershy found it impossible to hold a grudge against anypony. She even forgave Discord for what he did. She walked over to Trixie, her sobs still breaking into the night. Fluttershy was bigger than her now, as she had lost a lot of weight, and her ribs and spine stuck out from her coat. She tucked her hooves in, and laid down beside Trixie. "There, there....it's okay....you don't have to be sad anymore....it's okay..."
I looked up, my eyes puffy, and tears streaking my face. It...it was Fluttershy! She was actually comforting me! After all I did to her....she forgave me? The thought made me cry more. "I-I-I'm so so-o-o-orry! I was such a terr-i-i-ble p-p-pony!" She had a gentle smile, and despite how I'm a fully grown mare, I put my head on her side, and cuddled with her, as if I were her filly. It would be hard for me later, but right now, all I cared about was this motherly mare, and how she went and walked out here just to comfort me. Is this really what some ponies would do for me? I didn't know...but the way she was treating me made me feel so safe and secure. Just like when I was a foal, the feeling I got from my mother. Before...before she died. I had never thought about it until now. But with Fluttershy snuggling me, it brought back memories. Memories that were...lulling me...into sleep...along with....the sweetest voice..I'd ever...heard...
Fluttershy looked down at Trixie, and started to sing a lullaby for her. "Hush now, quiet now, it's time to lay your sleepy head. Hush now, quiet now, it's time to go to bed~" Once she noticed that she had fallen asleep, Fluttershy carefully lifted the cyan unicorn onto her back, and started carrying her to her own cottage near Ponyville. She set the unicorn on her bed upstairs, and tucked her in. She smiled at the sight. "I always wanted my own filly...even if I can't, though, I can still practice. Goodnight, Trixie." She rubbed her nose on Trixie's forehead in the form of a kiss, then turned on a nightlight, and left the room, ignoring Angel's presence. Angel's jaw was actually on the ground, and he was staring at Fluttershy, then back to Trixie, and to Fluttershy again.
Fluttershy brought a small blanket to a couch in her living room, and curled up under it. Little animals wound around her, and fell asleep.