The Crusader's clubhouse was normally a place of fun and creativity, but not today.
Today, sitting, lying, or pacing the floor of the tree house were three young fillies. Each wore a look of boredom and slight sadness. Yet another one of their schemes had failed. The three youngsters were still blank, and they had run out of ideas.
"Welp, Ah'm all out of ideas." Applebloom stated, noticing a groove starting to take shape in the floor from her pacing. "We've tried everything and we still don't have our cutie marks!"
"Yeah. Maybe we should just give up." Scootaloo sighed. rolling over from her stomach to her back.
"Let's face it. We'll be blank-flanks for life." Sweetie Belle groaned from her sitting position. The three sighed in unison, all hope of discovering their special talent fading away.
Suddenly, there was a noise outside the tree house. The Crusaders turned to the door in time to see it burst open, with a clearly upset Applejack entered, followed by an equally angry Rarity and Rainbow Dash.
"Ah can't take no more of this!" The eldest Apple sister yelled. "You've been at this for forever, when are you going to realize that you're special talents are right before you very eyes?"
"What do you mean?" Sweetie Belle cautiously interjected. Rarity placed a hoof on her sister's withers.
"Sweetie, did you ever wonder WHY I leave musical instruments all over the boutique, when I don't play one?"
"And Scootaloo," Rainbow Dash cut in, "Did you ever stop to think WHY I push you so hard with exercise?"
"Look around you, Applebloom." Applejack said, "You did this! All Ah had to do was show you a broken down tree house, and you turned it into a headquarters for your club!" The three elder mares watched as the looks of realization spread across the younger's faces. Three bright flashes of light followed, and they looked down at their flanks.
Applebloom was good at fixing things, so her mark was a wrench.
Scootaloo was athletic, so hers was a scooter.
Sweetie Belle was gifted in music, so a pink heart with a musical note had appeared.
The three fillies yelled in joy, then at once their faces dropped.
"Wait a minute..." Scootaloo pointed accusingly at the older ones. "You told us! That's cheating!"
"Wow, what a bummer." Sweetie Belle said.
"Great. That ruined that for us." Applebloom retorted. "Ya'll could have at least been a little more subtle."
"Oh you've got to be bucking kidding me." Applejack facehoofed and groaned. She turned around and stomped out the door, muttering about "ungrateful youth". The other two followed with similar expressions.
It doesn't matter if it's over 500 words, so long as it's anticlimactic, like its title says. And yes, I believe it was appropriately anticlimactic.
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The 500 word limit is my own little challenge to myself. I don't like not following a limit I set. I set them for reasons.
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I put a 1k minimum on chapters, and this last chapter of my 'Generosity of Loyalty' fell short by almost 200 words. It's really bugging me, but I can't think of anything to make it longer with, and I already posted it.
Am I the only one here who simply can't write anything shorter than 2k?...
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If I really tried I could, but the longer the content the more I tend sway off-topic and lose the original meaning of the subject. I hate doing that. That's partly why these are all 500 words or less.
3104936 My issue with longer writing isn't having enough content, its more losing focus on the purpose of the writing.
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I tend to ramble a lot, but most of the time it isn't noticible, since I'll tweak the story to work off of said (psychotic?) ramblings. Nopony has said anything yet, so I'm apparently doing a good job tweaking.
3106542 I only have so much mental capacity for writing and editing. Sort of like with time and space, when you move faster, you move through more space, but less time. Except when I spend more time writing I edit less, but when I write less I can edit more. Strange. Also, I gave you a free physics lesson.
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I have OCD, so I'll reread my chapters at least 4 times before I post them just to make sure all my grammar and punctuation is correct. Otherwise it'll bug me so much I'll take it down and retype it, no matter how long it is.
I'm mainly like AJ, RD, and Rarity on this story.