The last crusade
Prologe
A Morning full of Changes
It was a nice day in Ponyville. The sun was rised by Celestia and the bird were singing like they always did. In Sweet Apple Acres, the rooster had just waken up the Apple family. Even though they were incomplete, they were happy. Very happy
In one of the rooms of the barn, a filly with a red mane and a creamy coat was just waking up. Her flank was blank and her mane messy. She open one eye and then the other reveling her orange iris.
She stech and get out of bed. She rubbed her right hoove against her sleepy eyes and go to a bareau where she had a mirror and a brush. She started brushing her messy mane. Today she strarted school and she wanted to make a good first impression.
Even though, she was still feeling a little uncomfortable about that. She would not be with Miss Cheerlee anymore. And she was her teacher since she first started school. Not to mention she once was his big brother, Big Maccintosh, true love. At least what she and her friends tried to.
Today she was going to enter to the classroom and there would be another pony insted of Cheerlee. What if he was a bad pony? What if he did not like her? But most important, what if she enter the classroom and her B.F.A.C.F were not there?
She trien to let that though apart. She would not know what to do if her best friend were not there. She was too shy to make new friend. And even if her big sister was an element of harmony and the most confident pony she had ever known, she was not AJ. And her granny told her ones that she did not have to be AJ, she had to be herself.
She finished with her mane, she went to her closet to look for a stong pink bow. She put it in her mane and look herself at the mirror. She sigh at her blank flank but then smile. She would not let that put a long face on her.
She continued looking, remembering what AJ told her yesterday. And she didn`t lie about it. She was growing, she was not more 8, but 12. And AJ said that thats the time when the mares start changing.
She was now more tall and her head was more bigger then her bow. She also started to think in another thing like fashion and accesories. AJ said it won`t take long until she started to think about colts, but Big Mac didn`t want her to do so. He sometimes could be a little overprotective with them. Both her and her sister.
She was already getting out of her room without noticing it. She go down the stares and walked to the kitchen where her granny was making breakfast. Soon after her brother and sister appeared behind her.
-Good mornin`- she said smiling-How did ya sleep?-
-Very well, thanks for askin` Applebloom- her sister answered her by giving her a smile also.
-Eeyup- her brother told her going to the front door to get the newspaper.
They started eating their breakfast loudly. Apple pancakes. Applebloom was deep in though until she listen up a tiny burp from her brother. He made a chuckle. Then, AJ made another more louder. Then was her granny, but it was as the one her sister made. She started to drink her milk fast, she took a deep breath, waited and... the loudest burps over her relatives was made. They clapped a few time until an alarm clock sounded. Everypony standed up and left the room. Applebloom and applejack walked to the hall and grab their saddlebags. AJ`s one was green with an apple while AB`s one was white with ann apple also.
They walked across Ponyvill until a path were it divided in two. Applejack before taking off, hugged her sister.
-Good luck suga` cube.- she whisper while applebloom hugged her back.- Ah really proud of you. Ah bet Ma and Pa would have also.-
A tear roll over the filly muzzle. The two let go and take each their path. AJ go to one on the left that lead her to the castle of Twilight and applebloom take the right one that made it`s way to the school.
Meanwhile that happened, inside town another filly was waken up by her alarme clock. She open her grape green eyes and let a groan. A song started plying through her clock when she shut the alarm. Being lead by the music she started brushing her pink and purple mane while she looked at herself with a round mirror stuck at her wall. In it, she had photos of, what she think were handsome, colts and pop singers.
She continued blushin her mane, while singing (without noticing it). When she finished brushing her mane, she took her lavander saddlebag with a heart with her magic and put it on her white coat. And her flank was blank.
She leaved her room and walked down to the kitchen, pasing through her sister boutique still singing. Today was the first day in school and she was really looking forward to it. Even if she was a little shy, she knew how to make friends and thats why she had her B.F.A.C.F. she knew that they were in the same school but if destiny didn`t put them together in a class they will still crusade until they had their cutie marks.
She enter the kitchen. Inside there was another unicorn. She was white with a purple mane which was messy right now. She had a pink robe and was making breakfast.
-Good morning Rarity- Sweetie Belle said taking a sit.
-Good morning, Darling- Rarity respond- Are you exited? Today is the first day of school... Oh you are turning into a beautiful mare... One day you`ll became as fabulose as i am-
-Thanks... I guess-
Rarity levitated two plates with her magic; one with toas bread, and the other with mermalade. They started eating, meanwhile Sweetie Belle keep on humming. Rarity noticed it but she did`t care at all. She liked the way her sister expresed herself with her music, and the fact that she had a great voice make it more enjoyable.
Sweetie noticed what she was doing when her siste started moving her head at rhythm with her humming. She clear her throat and stoped.
Even though everypony told her the same, she didn`t like to brag about it. She though that the ponies would star to thing that she only cared about herself, and she didn`t think it neither. She liked to sing with her friend or when she was alone.
The two of them finish their breakfast and head off the boutique. The went across the center of Ponyville and the street market until they reached a path that divided in two where Applejack and Applebloom where waving to each other.
Sweetie give her big sis a quick but tight hug and run off. It was so quick that Rarity didn`t have time to give a hug back.
-APPLEBLOOM-Sweetie shout troting to catch.- Wait up- Applebloom turn her head round and smile when seeing her B.F.A.C.F.
-SWEETIE- she say giving her a hug when she catch up with her –Ah have missed you so much- they ended the hug.
-Me too- they keep walking towards the the school
In another part of Ponyville that same morning: an old orange pegasus with an apple green mane, that was starting to loose it`s bright was knocking in a brown door.
-SCOOTALOO- she shouted- WAKE UP... YOU GONNA BE LATE FOR SCHOOL-
-I`m awake granny WHeels- said an orange filly with a purple mane.
Her flank was blank, unlike her granny that had the cutie mark of a green lime wheele. Scootaloo streched her wings that where now more big. Her granny rolled her eyes and walked with her toward the kitchen of the house.
Scootaloo, as Sweetie and Applebloom, also had grown. She was a little bit more tall and her mane was more large. Her wings had grown and now she could fly, but she didn`t do it much. She was more concern in practicing with her scoter. Unlike her two besties, Scootaloo wasn`t interested in colts nor in her appearance, but she did have hints that puberty was hitting her.
Now, she was tring to find who she was. Was she the there-devil-aventurose mare? Was she the tomboy-skater-burp-winner-contest? Or the revelius-against-the-law-prankster? She was confused, and she hated it. And she hated hating something about her. "You are a complecated mare, going through a complicated phase. It`s common to be confuse at the start". Her granny would always said that. And make her more confused.
In the table there was a plate with some waffles. Scoots make a noise of hungriness and started devoring her waffles like an animal. Her granny smile nostalgic and chuckle. Scootaloo raised her head to see her granny. She gluped the food she had in her mouth and say:
-What`s so funny?-
-Oh... nothing- she sighed- It`s just that you act as your mother when she was younger- she sniffed a little.
-I miss her too- she said-Heck, I never even meet her- there was a moment of silence while the two pegasus ate their breakfast.
Scootaloo never meet her mother because she died when she gave birth. For a long time she blamed herself for her mother`s death, but she overcome it with the help of his father and her , even if they had helper, she still felt useless and alone.
Her lack of ability to fly due to a growing problem made her a easy victim of bulling. It wasn`t fair, her father was a great flyer (he even had a great position in the Royal Equestria Army and her mother had won a lot of trophies for races she had participated in. Her granny always told her that she didn`t have to fly to be awesome as she wanted to be. Luckily, after a lot of time of waiting, she grow up and her wings too. She was able to fly. And she liked it.
For a long time, Scootaloo has feel alone. His father was rarely home and her granny was too tired. Sometime she would just be in her room seeing old photographs of her mother and her granny when they were young and alive.
But, when her father was home, there were always laughs and joy. She loved the moments they shared together. Every year would been the same: drepressed when his father wasn`t home, happy when he was. That until she meet her B.F.A.C.F. and her new big sister and fling tutor: Rainbow Dash.
She finished her food and clean her muzzle with her hoove. She get up from her chair and say good bye to her granny and thank her for the break fast. She go out of the house and took her scoter and her helmet.
She scoted for less than ten minutes when she arrived at the divided path. She could see her B.F.A.C.F. finishing a hug. She was going to shout their names but decide to do something more special.
She perched her scoter to her schoolbag.(she had a pocket on the back side that let her do it. Her granda had done it for her.) and took off to the air. She fly a few meters until she pass her friends. The two were so distracted in there chat, that they didn`t even noticed her.
She landed on a cloud and waited till they pass below her. When they arrived, Scootaloo on the cloude raised her hooves and throw them down instantanealy. From the cloud, the sound of a thunder burst into the scene, making the two filies scream from the shock.
Scootaloo started to roar with laughter from the expression of her friend. The two other filies sigh in relive to hear that it was her and not a real storm that was coming. They look up and the orange pegasus above the m hit the cloud and it dissapear.
-Scoots!-said Applebloom, while she decended from the sky.-Long time since the last time Ah see you-
-Yeah- she said rubing the back of her head-I have been busy... I went to fly camp this vacacion-
-Really-said Sweetie exited- And? How was it? Did you go to Cloudsdale? Did you find a S.S.P?-
-S.S.P?-the two other ponies asked her friend clueless while they continue walkig towards the school
-Yeah- she said –S.S.P... Special Some Pony-
-No-Scootaloo said with a little shade of pink appearing in her checks- I`m not interested into that sort of things. I`m not the romantical type.. but I did learn a lot of tricks and how to treat well my wings so they would be more healthy. And I also went to Clousdale and saw a Wonderbolt show-
-Looks like you have fun... All Ah have do through the vacacion is learn the history of Apples, buck all the apple tree and cook apple delicious sweets for an orphanage-
-I accompany my parents for a week to Filiedelphia- Sweetie said- We pass all our time in fairs. But I entered a music competicion, just for the fun of it. I don`t even know what the prices are. All I know is that Sapphiere Shores heads the contest-
-Sapphiere Shores!- the two other ponies shout
-Woah- it was hear from up the sky- Never took you two from the crazy-fan-mares –
Then, a purple and green dragon with a pair wings decends from the sky. He had a line a spikes from the top of his head to bottom of his tail. He was standing in two legs and he had a bag at his back. For Applebloom, the world started to slow down as Spike aproached near them.
-What do you thing AB?- The voice of Scootaloo snap her out of Spike`s trance
-Huh!?- she said- What?
-We asked you if you think it`s good that Twilight send Spike to the school instead of her teaching him?- Scootaloo told by pointing her hoove to Spike.
-Ah think it was a great idea- She said turning around to hide her blush
-Why?- he asked as they keep on walking toward the School that was raise from above the horizon.
- Cuz... Cuz Applejack says it`s good to have a good education, she says it`s the key to greatness- She said to hide the fact that she was more than happy to know she would be spending more time with him, but she doesn`t know why that makes her happy.
-But she could teach without putting any effort in it- he said
-Maybe she is too busy, she is now an Princeses- Sweetie Belle said a little nostalgic- She had to cancelled to our Twilight Time because of that-
-Yeah I know- Said Spike feeling bad for the three filies- but now she get`s distracted really easily. She keeps and keeps and keeps staring at that guard that Cadance trade her from the Crysrtal Empire-
-Ah think she want ya to socializa a lit` bit- Applebloom told him chucking from his last remark- She isn`t the Princeses of friendship for nothin`-
-But am sociable- the three give him a look- it`s true... I have a lot of friend: you three, the other Princeses, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie and – he sigh and started daydreaming- Rarity-
-Have you notice that all your friends are MARES?- Scootaloo pointed out by mocking at him and snaping him out of dreamland
-What do you mean by that?- he said getting angry
-That maybe what you need is a friend who isn`t a mare, for example a colt- said Sweetie Belle- So you could talk withhim about sports or video games or whatever colts talk about-
-Guys- Applebloom called them
-I have Rainbow or Scootaloo for that- Spike remarked pointing to Scootaloo behind him.
-Guys!-Applebloom tried again
-Hey- Scoots said in a threatening way- What`s that suppose to mean?-
-GUYS- Applebloom shout losing her patience
-What?- the other three responded
-We `re here- she said. All of them looked amazed as they saw a huge building in front of them
