Nova

by Yoh's girl

Her long flowing tail wrapped tentatively around her flank, her back arched gently, head bowed, mane falling in front of her face covering her blue eyes sparkling with tears. Alone. Alone again. It seemed somehow fitting, that the oldest blank flank, have no friends, no family, for who could ever love somepony who has no talent, somepony who has nothing to offer?

1. Chapter 1

The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the ponies were playing. A new town, of course for her new start, the small town of Hoofington, seemed less threatening than the big busy city of Las Pegasus. Her wings were smaller than any alicorns' but, awkwardly larger than a normal Pegasi wings, soft almost snowy white to most people her wings looked almost like they sparkled when she flew, the sun reflecting of her silken coat and pure feathers. Her coat was indeed the purest of white, the only splashes of color being a wavy mass of multi-shaded hues of blue mane, almost like a river of many blue hues flowing down her neck, falling over her shoulders and sometimes even brushing the ground. The same blues swirled in her eyes, large and doll like they contained no pupil.

Just a mass of slightly darker blues gathered at the center of her eyes. Though the contrast between her plain white coat and her bright and multicolored hair was easily thing to distinguish her from a group, her larger wings not really helping, the oddest thing about this mare was none other than her bare flank. Most times she could keep it covered with a bit of skirting or wearing her tail just the right way but, more often than not there was no sure fire way of hiding her shame, her blank flank. It had been so long, she had given up hope of ever finding her talent. She enjoyed many things, painting, writing, reading, crafts, design, and even volunteer work with the local homes shelter, in her old town. But, she did not excel in any of these things, and more often than not just ended up making a mess of things and a fool of herself, bringing shame to her family, and her community.

Shortly after being the last in her class to not gain her mark, the pressure began to mount, her family had always been a proud herd of Pegasi, Each earning a mark in something wonderful. Her Grandmother, AlpineDelight, had been in given charge of any new foals in Las Pegasus. Her mother RippedGrace had taken a bit of a downfall in life and after about a decade of dragging her name and the entire families name through the mud they decided the only way to make up for Ripped's mistakes was for her little Filly to be a shining example but, the poor little filly never seemed to be what the family expected. She was never very good in sports, her ability lacking caused a great amount of embarrassment to the group until they convinced her to stop try, she would only fail in the end. She tried music, but her chello did little but give her already suffering mother a head ache. So locked away the chello would go, until they eventually tossed her from her classical music classes, for never practicing. Her families head's all hung in shame, wasted money, wasted time, for this little filly would never do anything but fail them.

They had taken to calling her Nova, a cute name she thought, until one day in class she learned that a Nova was simply a destructive force ending a bright and shining stars life. Even her name was a disappointment. Each year passed and with its passing, it would leave with her the loom of despair and dread, her next failure. She gave everything she could, or so she thought, giving all of her heart for it but, it never seemed to turn out alright. She wanted so badly to be somepony they could be proud of instead of the greats shame a family could be forced to end up with. A few ponies had pointed out to her, the coloring of the clouds that she worked on were beautiful but, the unexpected comments confused her and turned her into a bumbling mess causing her to make a complete mess of the next cloud she worked on for the sun's setting. Her bumbling's would undo anything good anypony thought of her, for who else could make a mess of something so easy?

So removed from sunset décor, she was reassigned to something a bit more suited to her "talents" surely she could shape the cloud's into something that anypony could tell what it was right? Th first few went alright. Bunnies, a puppy, one that even looked like a cookie but, the more creative she tried to get the more abstract the shapes where getting. Soon nopony could tell what the white masses in the sky were even supposed to be. A failure again. They sent her home not knowing what next to do with her, having no other options available. She was already well beyond a filly almost a full grown mare and she had not even gotten her cutie mark yet. When she arrived at her home her mother and grandmother had been waiting for her, they had heard the news.

They could no longer stand by and let the shame of the eldest blank flank failure stay in their home so they banished her, from their home, from the family, from Las Pegasus. They did not have to do more than tell her that just being seen with her or others knowing that she was part of their family was shameful enough, and they hoped over time the other ponies would forget about the worthless pegasi that they had brought up. Her heart ached, she had worked for so long, she wanted to make them proud but, only succeeded in proving she was nothing more than a mere worthless waste, whom made everything around her worse no matter what she tried.

It did not matter that everything she did was for them, to make her family of proud high flyers be able to hold their heads high once more. They just wanted the sore of their family gone, to never return. So she left heading towards the nearest town, Hoofington.

What could await our blank flank mare in one of the older towns of Equestria?