A/N: Hi there everyone, nice to see you all here, welcome, have a cookie, want juice?
Sorry, I'm not trying to patronize you or anything; I'm just trying to make a joke…and probably failing miserably.
Anyways, back onto more fiction-related topics, this is an idea that I got from looking around on the net a bit, and something I've been devising since I wrote my last story in this section.
I know it's been done a couple times, but I wanna give a shot at doing my own version of it, just to give it that kinda spin only you can give.
Hope that you guys enjoy this story as much as I enjoyed working on it.
Disclaimer: All content belong to their respective owner.
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She was completely ecstatic; her mind was running a mile a minute as she ran down the street, her smile never wavering, and a letter tucked under her arm, already open and probably the sign of her elation.
The girl in question was wearing a pair of faded and ripped-up jeans, as well as a large Cyan pull-over hoodie, with the design of a fluffy white cloud, a rainbow colored lightning bolt shooting down from it.
Her red eyes were trained ahead of her, trying to keep focused on the goal as she hurried towards her friends place, wanting to share the good news she had received just a few minutes ago.
Continuing to run as fast as she could, the girl ended up stumbling and basically pulling a mid-air dodge to avoid an oncoming youngster, not wanting to crash into them.
Landing unceremoniously on her bottom, she groaned, feeling her sore body crying out from the bad landing, using one hand to brush the multicolored bangs out of her eyes, so she could get a good look at what child she had almost barreled into.
"Oh, hey there kiddo," She said once she put a name and face to the person.
The young girl let out a squeak as she was found, her cheeks going a light shade of red as she looked down at the older girl, nervous butterflies in her stomach starting to build up.
"O-oh, good evening miss Dash," The girl said politely, trying weakly to give the older woman a smile despite her nerves.
The older lady frowned at this response, and started to lift herself back off of her bottom, saying off-handedly as she rose, "How many times do I have to tell you kid, it's not this miss Dash thing, call me Rain."
The young girl squeaked again and gave a small nod of understanding and confirmation, "O-okay miss…Rain," She said, managing to just barely catch herself.
The woman smiled as she rested a hand on the child's head, mussing up her hair affectionately, "See, not that hard, right kiddo?"
"I-I guess it's not that hard, I'll try to do better next time," The girl said while swatting her hand away and trying to fix her disturbed hair.
"Do your best kiddo," The lady reminded, a bright smile on her face, before she folded her arms and leveled a patient glance at the younger child, "Now, what brings you out here so late, shouldn't you be home?"
The girl was still busy trying to fix her hair when she heard the question, and Rain noticed with a bit of dismay and confusion that she seemed to stiffen up when she heard it.
She eventually managed to give the older lady an answer to her question though, after a full five-minute silence between the two.
"Umm y-yeah, I was just on my way home now, me and the girls were just hanging out a bit late, don't worry about me Rain," the girl in question took note of the stutter and nervousness, filing it away to review later.
"Well okay, but don't stay out too long kiddo, we don't want your parents to get worried about you," Rain reminded, patting her on the head again before turning on her sneakers heel and starting back on her original path.
The younger girl offered a question that stopped her in her tracks, and brought back her elation, "Oh, where were you off to in such a hurry anyways Rain?" She asked innocently.
The girls smile grew even further as she turned back to face the girl, holding out the letter to her, intending for her to take it.
The girl did, with shaking hands, not sure what could exact so much happiness in the young lady, but as her eyes scanned over the letter, everything started to make sense.
"Y-you got…accepted into the Wonder bolts?" She asked, not entirely believing the letter.
Rain nodded eagerly in response, not able to voice her excitement, but completely ecstatic obviously.
The younger girl gave a small smile and handed back the letter to her, "I'm really happy for you Rain, I'm guessing that you're on your way to tell your friends now?"
"Course, I can't wait to share this with them, this is so awesome!" The girl said, actually letting out a squeal of joy at her success.
"Then by now Miss Dash, I really should be getting home, hope your friends all are as happy for you as I am," The girl said, before running off down the street, leaving just the happy lady.
The lady frowned as she remembered the younger girl's strange behavior and shifts in body language, but didn't think too long on it before she dashed off herself, back on the path to her friend's house to give them all the good news.
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Of course her friends were completely excited for her when she arrived and passed around the letter she had received. She had been dreaming about joining the Wonder Bolts for years now, always working hard, always trying to make herself better, just so she would have the slightest chance of joining them when she was older.
The Wonder Bolts were after all the premiere and top ranking athletics team in the league, and the skills needed to join them were incredibly high, so the members were generally hand-picked individuals, the best of the best, per-say.
"I'm really glad that you got picked Rain, but how do you feel about all of this?" Twilight asked, a bit curious about her friend, knowing that things were only going to get harder for her from this point.
The girl in question shuffled her feet nervously over the carpet as she tried to decide how to answer, before finally letting out an intake of air and beginning.
"First of all, I'm super-nervous now. I mean, I got asked to come try out for the top-ranking team, but I'm so scared that I'm not good enough to make the cut, yet so happy that they even consider me a pick," she tried to explain to the best of her abilities, "In all, I guess the best word would be content."
"That's a good way to put the pure elation you had when you came in, and it's an understandable thing," a blonde girl stated, sitting nearby in one of the many armchairs that decorated the sitting room of her friends large, library like house.
"I can't help but feel happy, I mean, this is it, this is my dream come true, it's what I've been working so hard over the years to achieve," She reminded them.
"We're all really happy that you've taken that first step," A rather shy-looking pink-haired girl said, sitting on one of the few couches in the room, leaned up against a much taller pinkette.
But the girl seemed to snap out of her happy daze as she returned to a neutral expression, looking at her friends with a bit of worry showing through her features.
"Something wrong Rain?" The purple-haired owner of the house asked, glancing up from a book she had been reading.
"It's just that, on my way here, I almost ran into, literally ran into I mean, Scoots, and something seemed a bit off about her mood," The blonde-banged girl explained.
"What do you mean by 'off'?" Twilight repeated the question.
"Well, she seemed really depressed about something, and it seemed like when I mentioned her parents, she got even more depressed, like it was a touchy subject with her," The otherwise black-haired girl replied.
"Y'know that is an odd thing," the blonde girl started to say, "My little sister has mentioned she seems to get down whenever family is mentioned, almost like it hurts her to think about it."
"You don't think her family harms her, do you?" The smaller of the two pinkette's asked.
"No, I don't think so Flutter, it was more like they didn't exist, or they were gone," Rain replied as she put some more thought into that outcome.
"You mean that she might be an orphan then?" Twilight asked, once again diverting her focus away from the book, closing and putting it aside after marking her page.
"Well maybe, can anyone else think of any times when she has shown any kind of reaction to the mention of parents or family?" Rain asked, looking around the room.
"Well she does always seem down whenever she sees me and Flutter together on the street," The taller of the pinkette's pointed out.
"And when I come to pick up Bloom," The blonde added in, a frown marring her features.
"Or when my cousin is here to visit and he helps me to sort through my collection," Twilight mentioned, knowing the young girl liked to come in and read from time to time.
Rain bit her lip in concentration as she added together all of the facts they had said about the girl's behavior, before coming to a conclusion.
"Guys, I think that Scoots is an orphan," She announced finally.
"Oh the poor thing," Flutter said; whimpering at the thought of her being alone all the time crossed her mind.
"Well that leads to another question, does she live at the orphanage, or has she been living on the streets all this time?" Twilight asked, turning to Rain for answers.
"I dunno, but I'm going to go and find out," The girl replied, getting up and stalking towards the door.
"And what are you going to do if she doesn't want to answer your questions Rain?" The blonde girl asked, tilting her head and waiting for a response.
"I'll think of something guys, I always do," The girl replied casually, before making her escape from the room, leaving behind four very worried girls.
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Rain ran through the streets once more, this time with a more important mission in mind, to find one of the people she cared about most, and find out more about her.
She had already checked out the local orphanage, and unfortunately, the young girl was confirmed to not have ever shown up there, which meant only one thing as she felt her stomach drop into her feet in despair.
Now she was trying to comb the streets for any signs of the young girl, hoping to find her and hopefully offer her aid, and maybe a place to stay for a while, and if not, to at least get her into the care of the orphanage.
Finally she slowed down to a jog, then a walk, before finally sliding down against the wall of a shop, trying to catch her breath as her stamina gave out on her.
"How can it be so hard to find one little girl in such a small town as this one?" The girl asked herself, panting quietly as she tried to recover quickly, wanting to get back to the search as soon as possible.
Just then she heard a gasp of shock, and thought that she saw a flash of red-brown hair from the alley beside her, and she quickly rose back to her feet and darted after it, not wanting to lose her only clue to the possible whereabouts of her young friend.
"Scoots, wait a sec, it's me, come back please, I just wanna talk!" The girl cried desperately, but didn't manage to get very far into the alley before she fell to her knees, still out of breath from her earlier pace.
She laid there for a few minutes, arms parallel to the ground, head down, taking in deep lungful of air to try and speed up the process, but it wasn't needed, the young girl hadn't gotten too far.
"Miss Dash, w-why are you looking for me, shouldn't you be off with your friends?" The young girl's voice questioned from around the corner.
"I-I realized your predicament, a-and came to find you," The girl said, coughing at overexerting herself.
Finally she caught sight of the young girl again, and everything clicked into place as she took a look at her.
When you really focused on the young girl you could easily see that she wasn't cared for by anyone. Her clothes were un-tucked and torn in some places, as well as being far too big for her small body, and her hair was a complete tangled mess.
"Scoots, c-come here, w-we need to talk," She said, and the girl was slightly hesitant, but finally stepped in front of the older girl, waiting for her to say something.
Once she caught her breath, Rain moved up into a sitting position, legs folded over each other to get comfortable, and motioned for Scoots to do the same.
She now found herself staring down at the girl that seemed to idolize her entire being, though now she wondered if it was because she saw herself in the older girl.
"Scoots, why didn't you tell anyone that you were an orphan in the first place?" was the first question to come to Rain's mind, and probably one of the most important ones she could have asked.
The girl squirmed nervously, obviously afraid to answer for fear of retribution, but Rain just gave her a small smile, letting her take her time in answering.
After taking a few more minutes, the girl finally spoke up, locking eyes with the athlete nervously, "I-I didn't want any of you to worry about me, s-so I kept it secret to protect you all," She explained.
Her heart felt like shattering already from the honest answer she received from the young girl, and she frowned as she crawled over and in a moment of unpredictability, scooped the smaller girl into her lap, holding her close.
"Scoots, kiddo, you shouldn't have kept this from us, we all really care about you, and we don't want anything bad to happen to you," She reassured the small girl, one of her hands rubbing the younger girl's back soothingly.
"I-I know you care, b-but I didn't wanna be a burden and make you think you needed to take care of me," She replied, relaxing into the older girl's impromptu embrace.
"Sweetie, you would never be a burden, to any of us, and as far as taking care of you, it's what family does," The girl explained.
Scoots looked up at the older girl in confusion, but kept silent, since Rain had already begun to speak again.
"Now, why didn't you go to the Orphanage, and how long have you been out here on your own for?" The rainbow-banged girl asked.
Once again she was hesitant to answer, but worked up the courage far fasted this time then the last, now that she knew the older girl cared.
"I-I didn't go to the orphanage because I actually didn't think about it," She admitted sheepishly, "And as for how long I've been out here, I think it's been around 3 months maybe."
The older girl gasped at her explanation, hugging her tight, "Oh my god Scoots, you really should have come to one of us soon, we would have made sure to take care of you," she once again reassured her.
The younger girl bit her lip before she cuddled up against her heroine, listening to her words of encouragement.
"Now Scoots, I have a very, very important question to ask you, one that I hope you will think through carefully before you offer me an answer," The girl stated, trying to emphasize the importance of the upcoming question.
They sat in silence for a few minutes, just building up for the question, before finally Dash just came out with it.
"Scoots, sweetie, I was wondering if you might wanna come and live with me, since you don't have anywhere else to go, otherwise, I'll help you get set up at the orphanage, or try to see if one of the other girls will take you in," She explained, careful to articulate to make sure she understood her choices.
The girl just sat there for a while, looking up at her as if she was crazy.
Once she came back to her sense, she launched forward, wrapping her arms around the older girl, giving her a bone-crushing hug.
Rain didn't mind the hug, in fact, she really loved it, and it made her feel good to be offering help to someone who really needed her.
"I would love to life with you Rain, if you really want me to stay with you, it's like a dream come true for me," the girl said, and Rain could see tears falling from her eyes as she spoke.
Rain lifted up a hand and patted her head once more, reassuring her further, "I would love to have you in my home kiddo, I really care about you a lot, and I don't want to see you wasting away anymore on the street.
The older girl pulled her new charge in for another hug, resting her head on top of the younger girl's.
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And that's part 1 of this new story, part 2 and 3 should be out hopefully within 24 hours of each other, I'm working on them pretty much right after each other, it only matters when I eventually upload them.
I know, I know, no sign of Rarity so far, and well, here's the thing, I don't like rarity much.
I think that she's a bit stuck up, and I just don't see her as good character material, more of a foe if anything, and if you've seen any of my other stories, you would know what I do to selfish and stuck-up people (please refer to Kairi).
Of course, if there's anything you'd like to comment about, feel free to leave a review if you have the time, no rush or pressure, I enjoy those reviews, but really, I don't care all that much about how many I get.
Part 2 should be up soon, perhaps sometime tonight, if not tomorrow, and then part 3 should be out not long after, making up the whole story.
I debated making it just one-chapter, but I think that it flows better as three parts.
Anyways, see you all next time.
Bye for now everyone.