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Applejack put all of her weight onto her front hooves and struck back into the apple tree with a resounding thud. She planted herself back down to the earth and looked up into the branches to watch her work. Dozens of red delicious apples fell from the tree and landed in various buckets encircling it.Sparing herself a moment to enjoy her work coming to fruition, she smiled.
The low crack of distant thunder interrupted her reverie. She knew the rain had been coming in. The weather team had a lot of trouble keeping the larger storms at bay now. Applejack didn’t mind so much. The overcast let a cool wind blow through, making it a comfortable temperature without the sun bearing down on her while she worked. The promise of rain made her happy now.
She adjusted her hat atop her head as she could feel the slight drizzle coming on. It was time to get off the fields, no work would be getting done in the rain.
Applejack walked over to the farmhouse, in no hurry at all. The rain began to pick up, and her coat was filling in with visible marks of water dropping onto it.
With a sigh, she made her way up the steps into the farmhouse. She opened the front door to look around. No one was home at the moment except for maybe Granny, napping the day away. Applejack solemnly made her way to her room.
Opening the door, she found a bit of solace in the dark bedroom. Rain pattered against the roof with increasing intensity. The sound of the rain softly landing on her window and roof brought a gentle rhythm to the otherwise deathly silent room. She contemplated just sleeping through the storm, but she had something else she needed to do.
She walked over to a drawer next to her bed. The gentle knocking of her hooves on the floorboard mixed with the sound of the rain in the room. Applejack leaned in a grabbed the knob with her teeth, pulling the drawer open. All that was in it was a small metal tin, only about 3 inches wide. She looked at her possession with reluctance. It wasn’t every day that she took the tin out of its place. Even through her momentary uncertainty, this was something she wanted do.
Applejack picked the metal tin out of the drawer and set it on her bed. She ran a hoof through her mane, then back up again to her hat. With practiced ease, she tossed the hat onto the rack beside her bed, then focused her attention back to the metal tin.
With a single step, she grabbed the tin in her mouth and turned back towards the door.
She got to the front door of the farmhouse and spared a moment to look at the downpour the storm had turned into. Most ponies would turn away from it and simply go back inside, but that was part of the reason Applejack liked days like this.
She pushed open the door with a squeak muffled by the rain, and stepped into the torrent. Almost immediately her coat and mane were drenched, causing locks of blonde hair to stick to her face and neck. She didn’t care too much as she took her first step towards her destination.
The dirt path turned to mud, and the sky took an increasing turn towards darkness as the rain poured down with greater intensity. Applejack’s journey wasn’t a long one, but the effort of walking through the veritable monsoon had her thinking otherwise.
Mud stuck to the bottom of her hooves, and all she could hear was the sharp pangs of raindrops as they hit the metal tin in her mouth. She kept her eyes forward and focused on the road.
Finally, she reached her destination. a black metal fence and a small gate blocked her path, but it was always open anyway. Applejack backed into the gate and put it back in place when she passed through.
Being in the rain for so long had her feeling a bit sick, but she turned around with a warm feeling in her heart that eased her pain a bit.
This place was a popular spot for many Ponyville residents to rest, but Applejack was just visiting for now.
She knew this place well enough from frequent visits to know exactly where she wanted to go, even in the haze of the rain. Without a single slowed step, she found her favorite spot and sat down into the wet grass. She gently laid the tin out in front of her as she dropped it from her mouth. She hunched over it, careful not to let too much rain over her. With one hoof, she popped open the tin, revealing a small, laminated photograph.
Applejack picked up the picture in her hoof, looking at it with a fond smile. It showed a mare with a rainbow mane and a cocky smile pulling in a surprised cowgirl with a blonde mane and a freckled face that could only belong to her. The picture brought on a plethora of fond memories that made Applejack’s smile widen as she gave a couple of giggles at the situation in which the picture was taken.
Once she was done reveling in the memories, she turned the picture over to read the writing etched into the back of it.
Love you forever
-RD
Her smile quickly faded, and she tried uselessly to choke back an impending sob. Applejack pulled the picture close to her and huddled up in the grass.
Tears flowed down her face, and mixed indiscriminately into the rain pouring down it as well. Applejack leaned over and rested her head against a hard stone slab to her right and closed her eyes. Her whimpers became more prevalent and she let it all out into the grass of that solemn graveyard.
She looked up to the tombstone before her. A large, bold inscription read ‘RAINBOW DASH’.
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I need to stop reading these. I keep saying that but I keep coming back to them.
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The feels are a powerful force.
3351318 Your profile pic made me d'waa
I regret reading this, not because it was bad, but because I need to stop reading all these sad stories. You did a good job on writing this.
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You had me worried for a second. Thank you.
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You should check out the blog it came from.
3352072 I did. Gilda needs another episode on the show. Even if she comes back an antagonist.
Very enjoyable and it gave me a good cry.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Ow, my feels.
Knew it was coming, knew what it would do to me but sometimes I just can't stop myself. Very well done.
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Sometimes we hurt ourselves for what seems like no reason at all. But that pain is what makes us feel alive, tells us the we still can feel, you know? The rush of emotion, it's like no other.
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Happiness and sadness, two side of the same coin. Can't feel truly alive without both.
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Exactly.
Well, I did not see that one coming. This is definitely good, although I have one question.
I'm assuming this takes place in a graveyard due to the ending. However, it is referred to as "a popular spot for many Ponyville residents." I know that it adds that the spot is to rest, but I'm confused as to why ponies would want to rest in a place where bodies lie - UNLESS THAT WAS A PUN! Y'know, because dead people/ponies are 'resting'?
I'm laughing way too hard at that probably unintended pun.
Dead Luna, what is wrong with me?
Anyway, I like it, take a thumb-up.
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No, that was intended. It is a final resting place after all.
Oh God no, I thought. In my heart, I already knew.
My feels... why must you hurt them so...? Well done, dear fellow. Well done.
I was feeling too happy anyway.
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3352741not enough build-up, but good otherwise.
Celestia, that ending.... I admit that I didn't see coming.
Thumbs Up and favourite earned.
Very sad! And I'm am not a very sappy person.
Spoiler:
"The weather team had a lot of trouble keeping the larger storms at bay now." I knew. I knew but I didn't stop. Good story, I think I could have done with a little more at the end but it's nice the way it is. Good job!
I've read enough stories involving Twilight`s immortality for this not to faze me...
Only problem I had with it was... It needed some other character(s) sharing the sorrow - not in the way that that character cared for Rainbow Dash the same way Appljack did, but in the way that they lost a true friend respectively...
I really hope this helps you
Dang.... It was well written and all but... dang...
You have my up-vote, but I'm sad now
You bastard... my feels... how could you?!
Pretty decent sad bit for your first try, but it seems frightfully short. True that any decent one-shot should leave options for the reader's imagination to fill in the blanks, but so much of this seems far too open-ended.
That's just my opinion though.
All in all, it's a good start if you're going to dabble in this genre. Hope to see you reach the feature box in the future.
May I ask why Rainbowdash is in the cover art if she is not actually in the story?
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*Sobbing*
there's one thing you can't lose
it's that feeeeeel
Oh... Good job, hon. Fantastic, really. I'm gonna putter around for a while and try not to think about it.
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That's just what was going through my head as soon as the feels started. The style fits Applejack perfectly, doesn't it?
Oh, and just because I can...
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4238957 Tom Waits is my god
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And a finer god there could not be. His music does more for me than most gospels you hear about.
for the most part it had no effect on me
then I reached the end and I wont lie I shed some tears
nicely done it hit me in the feels all at once
4242336 quite so
Not as sad as some stories I've seen, and it was fair predictable... but I did like it all the same.
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I wish to know what happened
Sweet Celestia, so sad loads of feels!!!
At 1st I honestly suspected it would be AJ's parents not RD
Its really hard to pay with emotions like fear and sadness because it takes so long to write them down that you get over them or forget what emotions are (for me anyways). For a first attempt at sad you hit this on the head, short and cutting. Could have used a little more suspense at the end though. I had to cover the last sentence with my hand to keep from spoiling it for myself.
Meh.
You, sir, have an invisible top hat taken off to you! Great job with this story. It's brilliant!
Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me SOB GROSSLY
Why did i read this
I'm not sappy.... so i didn't cry
It's still sad though... great story!
I was guessing that the picture would be of AJ's parents, but I stand corrected. Nice work with that. You write a simple, sad AJ, from what I can tell, and I like it.
Wait what!!??? How did rainbow die? I honestly thought it was going to be a photo of the apple parents and rainbow sees apple Jack and comforts her based on the picture.