> The Color of My Heart is Orange
>  by Shadow_Drake95
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> A New Start for Dark
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A New Start for Dark


Celestia's bright, warm sun rises signaling the beginning of a new day, especially for a certain young colt. Today is a special day for the main colt of this story, today is his first day in a new town and his first day of school. Who knows what kind of day today will be like for the black Pegasus colt, sporting a flaming red and orange mane and tail.

"Dark. It's time to get up" Yells a happy mare as she cooks a delicious breakfast, the sweet aromas can be smelled even down the road. Upstairs the mouth watering scent of breakfast coax the sleepy colt from his ever so comfortable bed. Getting out of bed the black colt stretches and yawns as the leftover drowsiness leaves him. Making his way down stairs, his stomach grumbles telling him that his hungry and that the food smells divine. Downstairs Dark's mother and Dark himself enjoy a satisfying home-made breakfast of pancake's hay and apple juice. Once down eating, Dark helps his mother with cleaning the dishes and putting them away. Throwing on his saddlebag full of books, paper, and pencils, Dark nuzzles his mother goodbye and head off to school.

Dark walks down the road that he learned leads to his new school and greets every pony that he passes by with warm smiles and hellos. Dark quite like this town better than his old one, the ponies are so much more friendlier here that there, something that he took notice of his first day moving here. A short walk later Dark arrives at the bright red schoolhouse where the other colts and fillies are gathered at playing or talking. Dark reaches the school just in time as the bell rings signaling the little ponies to head inside for today's lessons. The young colt hurries inside and to his seat so not to be tardy on his first day of school. The other foals take their respectful seats and await for the teacher, shortly after a dark pink mare with light pink mane & tail with with a white streak through the middle, walks into the room and sits down at her desk located at the front of the class room. Every pony quiets down as the teacher begins to speak.
"Good morning class." the teacher mare greet in a warm happy tone with a big warm smile.
"Good morning Miss Cheerilee." responds the class in sync.
"Today class we have a new student." states the teacher looking over to Dark,"Can you come to the front and introduce yourself please?" requests the miss Cheerilee.
Dark nods, stand from his seat, and walks to the front of the class, turning around to face the others. He takes a deep breath to calm his nerves. 
"Hello my name is Dark Fire, it's a pleasure to be here, I hope to make friends with every pony here." the young colt introduces himself with a slight bow of his head. The class responds with hello's and welcomes.

After introductions, Dark returns to his seat and the teacher begins today's lesson. In the middle of class a note lands of Dark's desk, curious he opens it to see a message,


Meet us at the picnic take during recess.


He looked around the classroom in hopes of see the one who sent the letter, but to no avail. He decided to wait until recess to find out who wanted to meet him, so he returned his attention back to miss Cheerilee and the lessons. But he could stop thinking about the message the entire time. Recess rolled around and all the foals went outside the play and chat, while Dark looked around for the picnic table, once spotted he made his way over to it only to find a group of three fillies waiting there.
"um...Hello? Are you the ones who sent me that note?" he asked, getting the attention the three fillies.
"Yeah. Hello, my name is Sweetie Belle." responds the white unicorn filly with purple and pink curly mane & tail.
"Howdy, ma name's Applebloom, nice ta meet ya." greets the yellow filly with red braided mane & tail, wearing a red bow atop her head. Dark noticed a strong accent from her, but ignored it for the time.
"And my name is Scootaloo." says the orange Pegasus filly with medium length purple shaggy mane & tail. The moment Dark lays eyes on her his heart skips a beat and he loses breath. He can't stop looking into her deep purple eyes, they were like amethyst gems shining in all their glory. He quickly shakes is head to snap him out of his fervor so he could hear what they had to say.
"How would you like to join he our group?" Sweetie belle asks in her hyper squeaky voice
"Your group?" Dark asks back confused. The three fillies look at each other and nod, he had a bad feeling about this.
"THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS." They yell in unison nearly knocking Dark off his hooves, but he recovers none the less.
"You want me in your club?"he asked baffled by all this, he thought about this proposal. This was his chance at making friends and his chance to get closer to Scootaloo.
"Hahaha. So the blank flanks are recruiting another blank flank, how hilarious." calls out a voice from behind Dark nearly causing him to jump. He looks behind him to see a pink filly with purple and white mane & tail wearing a tiara encrusted with diamonds, on her flank his a cutie mark of a tiara like the one atop her head. 'At least her name isn't Diamond Tiara.' dark thinks to himself.
"What do YOU want Diamond Tiara?" asks Sweetie Belle staring death glares.
'Wait, so her name IS Diamond Tiara?' Dark thinks to himself while holding back his laughter.
Diamond Tiara takes notice of him snickering, "Whats so funny?" she asks in irritation.
"your name is Diamond Tiara, you wear a diamond tiara, and your cutie mark is a diamond tiara. That just silly." Dark says, unable to control his laughter. The CMC join him shortly and laugh with Dark causing Diamond Tiara to fum out of irritation as her cheeks gain a tint of red from embarrassment. She storms away with her silver friend follow close behind, the laughing dies down as the four foals hoof bump. Dark takes in a lung full of air and exhales, returning his attention to the three fillies who await a reply.
"I think I would like to join your club." Dark replies with a big grin on his face,"So are we friends?" he asks a cautiously, unsure about the answer.
"Of course we're friends!" exclaims Sweetie Belle in her high pitch voice.
" So, who wants ta go crusade'n?" asks Applebloom looking to the others for an answer.
Everyone agrees and dash off on another adventures to discover their cutie mark, but for Dark it's the beginning of a great childhood 'I think this will be a great year for me.' Dark will sleep tonight content and happy, he will look back on this day and smile knowing that he made the best choice.