//------------------------------// // Kindess and Naivety // Story: Moonburst Chronicles // by Code Breaker //------------------------------// Morning rose on the little town so that the fellow ponies could enjoy the day ahead. It appeared to be Sunday as young fillies and colts went out to play and have fun in the sun all day, however today wasn't the day for a particular pony an assistant teacher named Cheerliee heading toward the Carousal boutique. The day before she promised to help Rarity gather some jewels since she ran out for a new fashion line she was going to make. "It's a little early for jewel hunting." She said but still continued onward "But I promised to help her find some and I'm more than willing to get my hooves dirty if need be." She said with some confidence as she knocked on the door of the boutique. The door opened to reveal a small filly that she already met "Oh hello there Sweetie Belle." She greeted the filly "Oh good morning Miss. Cheerliee. Can I help you?" The filly asked "Well I was wondering if your sister was up." She said "Oh sure I'll go get her." She zoomed off before Cheerliee could do anything "RARITY! CHEERLIEE'S HERE!" Sweetie hollered. What was heard next was the sound of something crashing from the upper levels of the boutique. Probably Rarity getting woken up from her 'beauty' sleep. "SWEETIE BELLE!" A more decorate voice yelled out. Sweetie Belle immediately returned to the front door "She'll be down in a minute." She smiled as she let Cheerliee in who wandered what the filly did to wake up the older mare. Kindness and Naivety It was still early so Coco was yet to arrive at the boutique. She heard a door slam and she saw Rarity come down the stairs with her mane and tail all frizzled and her sapphires eyes half opened. "Good…" She let out a loud yawn "Morning Cheerliee." She groggily said. "Is everything alright Rarity?" Cheerliee asked looking at the frizzled maned mare "Quite alright darling…" She then looked toward Sweetie Belle still sporting a bright smile "Just woken by a small filly." She added. Rarity then trotted up toward the back of her boutique "Just let me freshen up, get a bite of breakfast then we'll be off dear." Rarity said disappearing in the backroom leaving Cheerliee alone with Sweetie Belle in the front room. "Well I love to stay, but me and the other Crusaders have made plans for today." Sweetie said and she trotted out the door to meet up with her friends. Rarity being Rarity it took her over an hour just for her to get ready. The door opened again only this time Coco appeared "Oh hello Cheerlie." Coco greeted "Is there anything you need?" She asked "Actually no, but me and Rarity are about to head on a jewel hunt for another idea Rarity has for a fashion line." Cheerliee replied. "Okay, but maybe after while you could help me model, I've just figured out a design that could work for you Cheerlie." Coco said. Cheerliee pondered it but quickly found an answer "Tell you what after me and Rarity come back from gather up more jewels I'll be sure to give you a hoof." Cheerlie answered "Thank you Cheerlie." She thanked "What are friends for right." She said. Rarity now exited the backroom back in her former glory with her mane and tail back in its usual curly style "Well are you ready to go dear?" She said "Oh and good morning Coco." She greeted "We shouldn't take long so feel free to use all of the equipment if needed." She stated. "Of course Rarity." Coco said and disappeared into Rarity's inspiration room. "Now let us be off darling the more we wait the more those precious gems waste away in the dirt." Rarity stated. "Right behind you Rare's, but how are we going to haul all the jewels we do find even our saddlebags aren't going to be enough?" Cheerliee questioned. "Oh that's simple darling…" She paused and led her to the outside and behind the boutique. "We just use this." She gestured to a large moving cart used to haul heavy objects. "Well strap on darling we have a long way to go before we get there." Rarity said and Cheerlie strap on the harness off they went. "So where are we going to look?" She asked "There a nice patch of land in the mountains but it shouldn't take more than an hour to get there but it'll be worth the trip." Rarity said and of they went. Like Rarity said it took them about an hour filled with rocks all over the place. Cheerliee detach herself from the cart and began to look around and a little confused. "Um Rarity I thought we were looking for jewels not a bunch of rocks." She replied "Oh why of course darling we first have to find the gems first since there in the ground." Rarity concluded. "Which means we have to dig them up?" Cheerliee said and Rarity nodded. "Do you know why my cutiemark is three shaped diamonds; it represents my specialty in finding and applying rare gems." Rarity added and lit her horn in a sapphire blue aura pointed her head toward the ground and began looking "What are you doing?" Cheerlie questioned confused of her friends action. "It's a gem finding spell I developed for just these occasions, it allows me to pinpoint where any gem is in the area." Rarity answered and her head jerked right pointing toward some scattered rocks. "Oh there must be plenty over there." She commented and Cheerliee went over and proceeded to dig with her hooves in the spot Rarity's horn was pointing to. When she dug enough down it revealed at least three sapphires, two emeralds, and two cobalt's. Rarity went over to inspect them and immediately eyed the cobalt's shaped into a jagged fang. "Are these jagged cobalt's?" Rarity inspected then gasped "These are jagged cobalt's! I've been looking for these for months!" She squealed. "Well we better put them in these in the cart." She said and placed them in. "Well we still got a lot to get darling so let's get busy." Rarity said as she continued to look around for more gems to add. Two hours quickly passed and the girls made their way back to Ponyville "You sure you can handle that darling?" Rarity asked a struggling Cheerliee trying to pulling the cart full of gems from their latest finding. "Yeah no problem this is a… cake walk." Cheerliee smiled but the sweat coming down her face and the dirt on her front hooves from all the digging says otherwise. "Well were almost home darling." Rarity assured and within a few minutes they were at the front step of the Carousal Boutique. Cheerliee let out a relieving sigh and detached herself from the cart. "You head on in and I'll take care of this." Rarity said grabbing some of the gems in her magic and bringing them in. Cheerliee headed inside and since she promised to help Coco with her modeling she went to go see her right away. She found where Coco was always; in the inspiration room making another dress. As always the room is a mess with an assortments of fabrics measuring tapes, but to some they would call it a mess, but to Coco and Rarity it would be considered organized chaos, but Cheerliee respected that and leave it at that. She knocked to get Coco's attention which made her flinch a little bit then realized it was just Cheerliee coming in. "So should we get started?" She asked and Coco nodded and gestured her to a medium size podium for Cheerliee to stand on. She got on the podium and stood there. "Okay just like that." Coco said she brought out the measuring tape and began her measurements. The measurements took only about five minutes and Coco began taking fabrics and began applying the measurements she took from Cheerliee onto the fabrics. The fabric she was using is a jungle green and relic gold. First the jungle green fabric would be the dress part which covers the flank but not so much that it would drag on the ground when the pony walks. Next the jungle green would have the relic gold vines that would travel around the dress and to the other side of it and branching out and curling into a swirl pattern. The relic gold is used for the saddle that would go around the ponies' waist so it wouldn't slip from the ponies back. A lime green trim went around the saddle to add some color to the dress. Relic gold strap shoes are used so it would tie in a cross pattern but not too tight so the pony doesn't lose circulation in there hoofs. To finish an amethyst necklace is held together with a bright gold chain to add some brightness that begs for attention. "And I think that should do it." Coco said finally finishing the dress and placing it on Cheerliee. Cheerliee stepped down from the podium and looked at herself in the mirror. "Wow Coco your work is getting better and better each time." She complemented and Coco blushed in embarrassment. "Oh it's not much." She said sheepishly "It's great Coco thanks." She thanked and took the dress off. Cheerliee's stomach growled "Well that took longer than expected." She said "This calls for some brunch, and a trip to Sugarcube Corner." Cheerliee said and she walked out of boutique with Rarity finished unloading the travel cart. "Thank you for the help darling, without you I don't know if I would've gotten all these here." Rarity thanked. "What are friends for." Cheerliee said and she trotted off to her next destination. She was on her way to Sugarcube Corner, however something else had plans for her, that 'something' or somepony crashed into her was Rainbow Dash. "Ugh…ow now that hurt." Cheerliee groaned and rubbed her head and spotted the source of her headache. Rainbow Dash had her head stuck in the ground trying to free herself from the grounds grasp. She groaned shaking her head at the pony "Hold on let me help." She said as she grabbed Dash's tail with her mouth and pulled hard. By the fifth pull she was able to free Dash's head from the ground. With her head free she spat out the dirt that was in her mouth and wiped away the dirt from her tongue with her hoof. "Okay now I know what they mean by 'eat dirt'." Dash joked the she saw Cheerliee and she spat out Dash's tail. "Are you okay Rainbow?" She asked concerned while Dash just put on a proud smile. "Oh I'm cool; just a jet stream got me off target that's all." Dash said with a smirk puffing her chest out with pride. "Well at least there's no actual head injury." She said swiping sweat off with her hoof "What were you doing anyway?" She then questioned. "Well if you must know; I was trying to pull off a double helix screwdriver to impress the wonderbolts when I get the chance." She replied as Cheerliee raised an eyebrow at her. "But as you can see it still needs some work." She let out a slight chuckle. Then an idea came to mind "Hey maybe you can help me perfect it!" Dash replied "I mean you've been helpful to most ponies in town. It'll be perfect." Dash explained "Maybe she suffered some head trauma." Cheerliee thought. "Well I don't know…" She paused "Please! Please! Please!" She begged making puppy eyes at Cheerliee "Oh c'mon." She thought. "…I guess it wouldn't hurt." Cheerliee answered with a sigh. "YES! I OWE YOU ONE CHEERS!" She cried out giving Cheerliee a hug in response. "But only after I get some lunch okay." She added. "Okayseeyouattheparkbye." Dash said quickly and before Cheerliee knew it Dash was gone. She shook her head "I'll never understand that pony." She said as she continued her way toward SugarCube Corner. She entered SugarCube Corner luckily there wasn't that many ponies in today "Hey Pinkie you here." She called out and Pinkie popped out from behind the register. "Oh afternoon Cheers, what can I get yah?" Pinkie asked as Cheerliee looked around noticing the bakery/sweets shop was practically empty. "I thought this place would be busy by this time." Cheerliee said "Well it's been rather quiet today and Mrs. Cake asked me to take over." Pinkie said. "Plus she's been rather moody lately if you ask me." Pinkie added muttering. "So what can I get yah?" She asked again "You have a salad?" Cheerilee asked and Pinkie bolted back to the kitchen and brought out one of the salad bowls that they saved. "There yah go, three bits for the salad." Pinkie said and Cheerliee placed three bits on the counter and took the salad bowl in her hooves. Cheerliee found a seat in a booth and dug into her salad. After a nice tasty salad she had to meet up with Rainbow Dash about helping with a new stunt she's been trying to perfect or something like that. Dash was tapping her hoof on a cloud she was sitting waiting for her to show up. She began to glance around for her then she spotted her approaching. She flew toward her and landed next to her "About time I was waiting for like twenty minutes." Dash complained "Patience's is a virtue Rainbow Dash." She stated "Now what is this trick you want to do again." Cheerliee asked. "Maybe you can help me out with it." Dash said pointing toward a piece of paper that is being weighted down by a rock. "So far this is the layout of what my trick is supposed to do." Dash said as Cheerliee scanned over the layout of Dash trick. On the top of the paper it read: Helix Screwdriver. It had Dash fly through the air gaining speed performing two loop de loops then bolting straight upward while spinning and the finale her shooting downward her wings spread while spinning and pulling up at the last second. "Well what's the problem?" Dash asked. Cheerliee took a second glance before pondering a thought. "Well for one there your spinning here will be make you dizzy and throw you off balance and this part here where you pull up at the last second while spinning will land you in the ground about ninety percent of the time." Cheerliee stated. "So I may suggest you try a brand new approach in this stunt." She then added "Okay I'll give it a shot." Dash said and took off like a rocket. She went straight into performing her loops then shooting straight into the air while gathering some great speed. She stopped about three hundred feet up gazing in the sun glow then shooting downward into a spiral coming down fast. At about one hundred feet she extended her wings so that they're straight out and wind was passing through them leaving a wind stream behind. Then she began to spin quickly have the wind streams cross each other forming a helix and Dash coming down like a drill. Luckily she managed to pull up at the second before she crashed into the dirt… only smack head first into a tree. Cheerliee flinched at the crash of her pegasi friend and went to check on her "You okay Dash?" She asked. "That was. Perfect!" Dash shouted "I mean when I tried it the first time I was dizzy and lost my focus but this time around was way different, and I managed to keep my focus without losing control. Great idea Cheers." Dash commented. "Well happy to help." Cheerliee said "Let me know if you need anything else okay." Cheereliee added feeling like so far today had been a great day for her. She trotted back to Ponyville to check on its residence and maybe lend a helping hoof if need be. She looked to her right and notice Sunset working with a few fillies and colts with their magic. "I see Sunset still busy as ever." She said to herself then looked to her left to find Spike carrying some books with Trixie carrying some too. "Maybe I'll see what there up to." She said and trotted toward them. "Hey Trixie, Spike!" She called out to get their attention which it did as they both looked at her when their names were called. "Oh hello Cheerliee can we help you with anything?" Spike asked "Actually I was about to ask you two that same question." Cheerliee replied. "Huh?" Trixie and Spike said. "I've got plenty of time on my hooves, so I could help out with anything you need." Cheerliee added. Trixie paused for a second to consider what to say. "…Well we're donating some of these old books to an orphanage that's down a ways." Trixie said "But we don't know where the orphanage is anyway." Spike added struggling to hold the stack of books. "No problem I know just where it is." Cheerliee smiled and took about half the stack Spike was carrying and place them on her back. "Just follow me." She added and the two followed Cheerliee to their destination. It was a rather quiet twenty minutes as no pony or dragon said a word until Trixie spoke up. "So everything going great for you Cheerliee?" Trixie questioned "Oh everything is fine, today I promised Rarity a while back I would help her gather some gems today, of course it took about two hours but we made quiet the haul, and Coco wanted my help to model for her afterward for a new design, and to top it off I've help Rainbow perfect a brand new stunt she been working on." Cheerliee smiled. "You've managed to help with all that… in a few hours." Trixie said a bit surprised. "Actually it was two hours and forty minutes if I'm right."Cheerliee corrected. "I do this all the time Trixie; it's nothing new to me." She added. They continued walking for another ten minutes until coming into view of a large two store brick building with a light red roof. Also on the side of the brick building is some playground equipment that young fillies and colts could play on. The place on the outside looked well kept and not messy or run down. They approached the front door of the building and knocked on the front door. The door opened to reveal an earth pony mare with completely gray coat and a darker gray mane with a flat mane and tail style. She also had violet eyes and her cutiemark is that of an array of round marbles of different colors. "Hello again Cheerliee." The mare answered seemingly to know Cheerliee well. "It's been awhile Marble." Cheerliee answered. "So what brings you back here to the orphanage? Wanting to adopt another one?" The mare now known as Marble asked. "No I'm just helping a friend of mine finding this place since she didn't know where this place was." Cheerliee said and gestured to Trixie and Spike to follow inside. "Marble let me introduce some of my friends." Cheerliee started "This is Celestia's student Trixie Lulamoon, and her assistant Spike. They're also kind of the local librarians now for Golden Oaks." She introduced as Trixie waved and placed the books down and Spike practically drop his stack from all of the walking. "And this is Marble Pie who's the caretaker of the orphanage." She added. "Pleasure to meet you both." Marble said. "Wait a minute. Cheerliee did you say her name is Pie?" Trixie asked "Yes. Why?" Cheerliee said "Then wouldn't that make her related to Pinkie Pie." Trixie added. "Oh you must mean my sister Pinkamena Diana Pie, but we just call her Pinkie for short." Marble said. "Your sister!" Spike shouted. Marble then shushed him. "Please be quiet some of the other fillies and colts are sleeping and I don't have to wake them up until another twenty minutes. So please no shouting." She whispered. Spike let out a slight chuckle "Sorry about that." He whispered. Trixie took a quick glance around the inside of the place, and as expected it looked very well kept and neat. There was a small play area for the everypony to play if it rained. A small book shelf for easy access to the books, and a kitchen in the back to help with the baking. A staircase that leads to the upstairs bedrooms is in the back half of the building "It looks just as good inside as it is outside." Trixie commented "But how are you able to keep up with this place?" Trixie asked. Marble smirked "Well most of the time Cheerliee helps out with all of this." Marble said "And the way she's around the fillies and colts here, they always comment on how nice and kind she is." Marble added. Cheerliee blushed embarrassed "Marble you're embarrassing me." Cheerliee said "Oh right sorry." Marble added. Trixie let out a cough "Well back on topic, we were wondering if you would take these books off our hoofs. Since I have no room for them in my library." Trixie stated. Marble nodded "Of course I'm sure the foals here will much enjoy them." Marble said as Trixie levitated them over to the bookshelves. "Speaking of the kids; how's Emerald Jewel fairing?" Marble asked. "She's doing great, but at times I still worry about her when she goes off with the Crusaders." Cheerliee stated. "But I'm sure she'll be fine." She added. Trixie and Spike were making their way outside "Well I would like to stay and chat but we better be getting home before it gets late. It's been a pleasure to meet you Marble and maybe you can stop by Ponyville some time." Trixie replied. "I'll be sure to stop by whenever I can." Marble said "Maybe I'll make it field trip for the foals here." She added. "Oh and Trixie." She said stopping Trixie for a moment "I've got to say that you have the kindest friend like Cheerliee. Don't want anything to happen to her." Marble said. "It'll be fine Marble." Trixie assured "Well we better be going Cheerliee." She said as both Trixie, and Cheerliee walked the path back to Ponyville as Spike rode on Trixie's back the rest of the way back. About ten minutes into the walk back home it was completely silent most of the time till Cheerliee breathed in some fresh air. "Ah always a good day to take in some fresh air." Cheerliee stated a smile on her face. "Yeah but; I have something I feel I should tell you Cheerliee." Trixie replied. "Sure just say what's on your mind." Cheerliee said "Well Cheerliee what you've told me from what you did today. I think you've been coming off, and don't take this personally. A little naive." Trixie stated. Cheerliee stopped a moment and stared at her azure colored friend "Naïve. What do you mean by that?" She asked. "What I mean is that your being easily tricked or being too kind for your own good." Trixie explained "I'm just being who I am Trixie. Nothing bad about that." Cheerliee said. "I know but sometimes being too nice can get you into a lot of trouble Cheerliee." Trixie said. They made their way back to Ponyville; Trixie went back to the library and Cheerliee back home thinking about what Trixie said today. She was back to grading papers for tomorrow being a school day. "So what I help out around town." She stated "Plus it never hurts to lend a helping hoof once in awhile to a fellow pony." She added. She stopped herself in the middle of her grading thinking over what she just said and what Trixie had told her. "Maybe… I am being naïve." She said but only shook her head "C'mon Cheerliee you need get that negativity out of your head." Cheerliee said and continued her grading. Three hours later; her grading finished two hours ago and the sun almost ready to set with the sky turning a deep orange with a mix of yellow and red as well. She was relaxing in her home along with her daughter Emerald eating dinner when a knock at her door disturbed their dinner. "A pony at this hour." She thought as she walked toward the door and opened it only to find an exhausted Lightning Dust with a lot of muck and dirt on her. "Lightning Dust what happened to you. You look like you've been through Ghastly Gorge." Cheerliee said. "Actually… that's where… I was." She said between breaths. "Why were you out there for anyway?" Cheerliee asked. Lightning Dust took in a breath of air before speaking and calming herself down before she spoke. "Fluttershy wanted me to go to Ghasty Gorge to help feed some of the animals there and she had Angel Bunny follow me just to make sure everything went okay." She began. "Then well something got all the creatures into a frenzy and they started attacking us and nearly causing a rockslide. I got out as quickly as I could but when I looked behind me Angel Bunny wasn't there. So that's why I came back to find you." She finished "Why not go to Fluttershy?" Cheerliee asked "Are you kidding, she'll kill me if I didn't bring Angel back with me and it's not a pretty sight if she gives you 'The stare'." She shuddered. "But isn't a little late to be going out I mean it is almost dark." Cheerliee said glancing back to her daughter. "I know that, but it's either getting Angel now or suffer Fluttershy's wrath later." Lightning Dust said. "Couldn't we just wait till tomorrow where it is lighter instead of in the night?" Cheerliee questioned. "Fluttershy expected me to be done by now and to make sure Angel’s okay." Lightning added "C'mon Cheerliee please." She pleaded "Well I don't know." Cheers answered "Please?" Lightning pleaded giving Cheerliee the puppy eyes and lip quivering. "Oh for crying out loud." Cheerliee thought to resist them but she eventually caved and gave in "Alright just let me get Emerald to bed then I'll help you." She said. "Sweet, thanks Cheers I owe you one." Lightning said as she waited by the door. With some coaxing Cheerliee manage to put Emerald to bed so that she can be ready for school the next morning. With that settle Cheerliee took off with Lightning Dust to get Angel Bunny out of Ghasty Gorge. Cheerliee followed Lightning Dust even despite it being late at night now. "Are you sure you know where you're going?" She called out to the pegasi above her "Trust me I know where it is." Dust called back. They went like this for about twenty five minutes where now Luna's moon was high in the sky over head. They came to a wide rocky valley that had large gaping holes near the top of the valley. "It doesn't look that dangerous to me." Cheerliee said. A tiny bird flew in and landed on a branch near one of the holes. When out of nowhere a large mouth that could eat an apple tree whole shot out of the hole and clamped it's mouth shut on the bird swallowing it whole and then retreating back into it home. Cheerliee stood there wide eyed at the sight of where the small bird and what was left of the branch. "Maybe we should come back another time maybe when it's daylight." Cheerliee said obviously not wanting to become tonight's dinner "Oh come on we'll go in grab Angel Bunny and get out in no time flat." Lightning smirked "Couldn't you just go and grab him." Cheerliee retorted "Hey I need somepony to watch my back just in case anything goes wrong." Lightning said. "So you only got me to come with so I could… be a lookout." Cheerliee said "Yeah pretty much." Lightning stated bluntly. "Are you kidding me?!" She shouted "Ugh! Trixie was right that my kindness was going to get me in trouble one of these days and it had to be today!" She shouted. Lightning was taken aback by her sudden outburst "Hey you know you could've just said no and I could've got RD to help me." She stated. "I know but it's too late to turn back now is it." Cheerliee said a bit annoyed at her. "Okay then, you watch from there while I find Angel then we're out of here." Lightning said as she flew straight down the valley avoiding the large holes to she doesn't become dinner. Once down there she began searching quickly and accurately looking under every rock… literally for the small bunny. Lightning kept this up for ten minutes without any success, but still kept at it. Then she heard a squeal from a tiny hole in the ground and went to check it out. "Did Angel dig this hole?" Lightning asked herself "Lightning! Did you find him?!" Cheerliee called. "I think so!" She called back, then stuck her muzzle down the hole "Angel you down there?!" She called down the hole. First there wasn't any response but a moment later Angel popped its head out of the hole "Hey there buddy good to see your okay." Lightning Dust said but Angel had an angry look on his face. "Okay sorry for leaving you in a hurry, but now let's get out of here before anything else happens." She said. Angel hopped on her back and she took to the sky. She was about half way up when the same large mouth came out and tries to eat them only to realize that the mouth had a whole body attached to it. The monster was red with bright yellow eyes that could go right through you, and sharp scales that was there armor and of course pearly white teeth that could eat a pony whole. "Oh ponyfeathers." Dust said. Then the monster tried to strike at her again but Lightning avoided it only losing an eight of her tail "Hey no touchy on the tail." Dust said as it tried to strike her yet again "Okay maybe we should get." Dust said and Angel nodded in agreement "Cheerliee move your flank so we can get out of here!" She shouted back. Cheerliee said and quickly moved out of the way as Lightning dust landed in front of her. They both heard a loud roar and the monsters head came out of the valley. "Okay now this is getting old." Dust said looking up at the monster with a really long neck. "So you want to challenge me huh?" She said with some cockiness in her tone but the monster just roared again "Cheerliee take Angel I've got some unfinished business with this thing." She said as Angel got off her back and onto Cheerliee. Dust shot straight to the air "Booyahcasha!" She cried out landing a right hoof to the side of the monster. It shook it off and attacked her again but couldn't hit her. Cheerliee and Angel looked on seeing Lightning Dust holding her own. However no matter how fast Lightning Dust is she's still one pony and one pony verses a big pony eating monster isn't going to be good. The monster let out one final roar which the shockwave from it sent Lightning Dust swirling to the ground with a loud crash. She picked herself up shook off the hit "Man this thing doesn't give up." She snarled "Lightning Dust I would like to help if you'll let me." Cheerliee said. Lightning dust looked at her companion in confusion. "What can you do?" Dust questioned "Oh this school teacher might have a few tricks up her hoof." Cheerliee stated "Just follow my lead." She added. "Angel I'm afraid you'll have to wait here so that you don't get injured okay." Angel complied and hopped off Cheerliee's back as she took off with Lightning Dust. The monster was still trying it's best to capture its prey but when it saw another pony along with the previous one it thought I would be easier to catch the one on the ground. And so it focused its attention on the other one. Cheerliee saw it change direction to follow her instead of Lighting Dust "I hope this plan works." She whispered to herself and continued running. She saw a small large enough boulder to hide herself behind to avoid a large bite from the monster. "Okay time to put my plan into action." She said taking a breath before stepping out behind the boulder. The monster tried to look for its prey but got a whistling sound as in to look in the direction where it came from. "Oh monster." Cheerliee said in a more seductive tone. Cheerliee posed so the monster could see her. Her eye only half opened as if to get it to come over. The monster eyes had hearts in them and was apparently attracted to her and lunged toward her as if to hug her. Cheerliee knew it was working and when the monster was five feet away she quickly moves out of the way and the monster hit the boulder she was in front of. Cheerliee took this chance to stand on the monsters mouth and stared him down with a very stern look on her face. "Now you listen to me you jerk, all we were doing was looking for a friend of ours and know your probably angry for getting on your territory but that still doesn't give you the right to attack harmless and defenseless ponies." She sternly stated. "Now I'm going to have to ask you to go back into the hole you crawled out of before I get one of friends down here who knows how to take care of animals like you." She stated firmly "Do I make myself clear?" She added. The monster nodded quickly as if it understood her and quickly retracted into its hole. Lightning Dust looked on at what Cheerliee did with her mouth wide open "Wow Cheers I thought you were a pushover at first but now I know not to get on your bad side."Dust said with a laugh. "Well sometimes it takes some tough love to get through to them with just a slight touch of kindness." Cheerliee said. Angel got back on Cheerliee’s back "Besides I couldn't let it hurt you Lightning Dust." She added. They made their way back to Ponyville then to Fluttershy’s cottage where they dropped Angel off. Of course Fluttershy was very happy that Angel was safe and that they came back without any injuries. Lightning dust walked Cheerliee back home "Hey Cheers I got to thank you for your help, and sorry for tricking you like I did." Dust apologized "There's no need for that I'm just glad I was able to help in some way." Cheerliee assured "But maybe it's my fault I should have gone to Trixe for more and not just jumping in the fray without wondering." She said. "Well this has been a lesson for me then. I'll see you tomorrow Lightning Dust." She waved goodbye and Lightning Dust flew off home. Cheerliee went inside her dark home and went to grab a paper and pencil for her to write on. She began to write: Dear Princess Celestia, Being kind to other does give you a sense of achievement when you know you've done something right for a pony in need. However being kind all the time can land you in some dangerous circumstances. I've learned that I come out a little naïve but being the element of kindness doesn't mean that I'm an embodiment of kindness, but if a pony ever needs a help hoof I'll try the best of my abilities to help out. Your local assistant teacher of Ponyville, Cheerliee." She wrote. She looked at the time and headed straight for to bed afterward. She proceeded upstairs and into her room where her bed laid. She was about to get into bed when she heard a knock at her door. It was Emerald with tears running down her face. "Is something the matter dear?" She asked in worry "I had a bad dream momma." She said sniffing a little. "Would you like to sleep with me tonight?" She asked and her daughter nodded. She ran to her mother's side of the bed and snuggled in with her. "Goodnight momma." She said and went to sleep "Goodnight my little jewel." Cheerliee said as they both went to sleep without a care in the world.