The sun had just began to rise over Ponyville, and all the ponies had begun to wake up to get ready for the day ahead. One of these ponies was Ditzy Doo, but called Derpy Hooves by everypony in town. She woke as the sun's rays hit her face, making her squint to see. She got up and looked in the mirror so she could fix her mane. She was a light grey pony with a bright yellow mane.
She was a little different from most ponies. She was much more clumsy than everyone else, and even though she was a mailmare, she didn't have a letter, or even a satchel as a cutie mark. Whenever a pony gets their cutie mark, it is based around what their special talent is, but her cutie mark, for a reason nopony could understand, were bubbles.
Also what made her different from most pony was her eyes. Since the day she was born, her eyes have always faced different ways, one eye off to the left, an one off to the right. It's what gave her the nickname 'Derpy Hooves.' She sighed, I bet most ponies don't even know my real name. She thought to herself.
There were also many rumors going around about her. One of them was that she had a little foal, Dinky Doo, but really it was a big misunderstanding. A few days a week, Derpy would always look after her friends little foal, who's name was Dinky Doo. Dinky was a filly unicorn with a lavender coat, but she also had the same mane and eye color as Derpy, plus they had the same last name, even though the were not related. Anyway, some of the folks around Ponyville once seen Dinky with her, and the rumors started that Dinky was her daughter. These ponies and their silly rumors.
After Derpy was ready, she opened her window and flew outside. She always had trouble flying, since it was hard for her to see where shewas going because of her eyes, but she always practised to try and fly in a straight line, and it had actually worked, because that day she only ran into one pony by accident. But sadly, it was not the pony who you should run into. Rainbow Dash.
"OW! Derpy! I was trying to set a new flying record, but know I have to start all over again." Rainbow yelled.
"O-oh, I'm sowrry Rainbow Dash. I was just trying to get to the post office on time."
"Well next time, PLEASE try to not get in my way. I mean, you clearly can't fly as well because of your eyes."
"Yeah, but I've been practising," Derpy said happily, "Wanna see?"
"Uh, not now Derpy Hooves, I gotta jet." Rainbow brushed herself off and dashed towards her cloud home.
Derpy sighed. Everyday it was the same thing. Everypony always treated her with now respect, just because she was a little different. It was that way ever since she moved to Ponyville from Cloudsdale. With her head held low, she decided to jut walk the rest of the way to the post office.
I can't help that I'm different, she thought to herself, I just wish the other ponies would appriciate me more.
Then she got a splendid idea. Wait, whenever Pinkie Pie throws a party, everypony is happy. So maybe if I throw a party, everypony will be happy and start to like me, and maybe even be my friends.
With that she raced to the post office, careful not to bump into any other pony, but she did ocassionally ran into a tree, and after her mail was a delivered, she raced home to plan the best party Ponyville had ever seen.
For the next week Derpy spent most of her time when she wasn't delivering mail planning her party. She decorated her house with balloons and streamers, came up with fun party games, and made lots of snacks, and of course she also made muffins. The day before her party, she decided to go around Ponyville and hand out all the invitations she had made.
The first places she stopped to were Twilight's, Rarity's, Fluttershy's, Applejack's, and Pinkie Pie's houses to give them their invites. Pinkie accepted right away, since everypony knows how much she loves to party.
"YAY A PARTY!" Pinkie had screamed as she bounced up and down.
Fluttershy and twilight also agreed to go, too, since they didn't want to be rude and hurt Derpy's feelings. But Applejack and Rarity were harder to convince, since they were both behind on work, but eventually gave into Derpy. Everpony knew how easily her feelings could get hurt, so after she begged and pleaded, they both finally agreed to go. She then went to other ponies houses and gave everypony in town an invitation. The last pony she went to see was Rainbow Dash, since she knew they had gotten off on the wrong hoof last week.
"RAINBOW DASH! IT"S ME, DITSY!" SHe yelled as she pounded on the door of her floating cloud house.
"Who?" Rainbow replied back.
"Um, I mean, it's Derpy." She remembered that Dash didn't know her real name, like most ponies in town. "I have something for you."
"Ughh." Rainbow sighed. "What now, Derpy?"
"Um, it's an invitation to my party I'm having tomorrow." She held out the letter.
"Um, well...uh," Rainbow stammered. "I might have something going on tomorrow, I think."
"Please Rainbow Dash? Everyone else is coming, and it won't be the same without you there."
"Well..." She thought about it for a bit, "Ohhhh...why not. But just as long as the party is cool. It has to be the best party ever. At least 20% cooler than any of Pinkie's parties, and everpony knows how good of a party she can throw. Promise me it will be awesome."
"I croos my heart and hope to fly, stick a muffin in my eye." Derpy promised.
"You know it's 'stick a cupcake in my eye', right?"
"Yeah, but I just love muffins!" Derpy had a giant grin on her face.
"Uh, okay, bye Derpy Hooves." She closed the door on Derpy.
"BYE RAINBOW DASH!" Derpy jumped for joy.
Myabe I can make some friends after all. She flew down from Rainbow's house and rushed back home, happy that she could finally show everypony the real her, and maybe they may even remember her name.
