"What's your cutie mark mean?"
"Is it a moon?"
"A circle?
"A pancake?"
Blackwing groaned trying very hard not to listen to them but they were so annoying that it was very hard, why he had ever agreed to take them off of Applejack's hands, he didn't know.
He'd been here a little more than a week and he liked this little town with its warm atmosphere and friendly ponies, he especially liked what this town called the Mane 6 or the Elements of Harmony.
Pinkie Pie was a very friendly person and incredibly hyper, Fluttershy was very shy at first but warmed up to him.
Applejack was kind and honest through and through, Twilight was bookish and obsessed with studying but always found time to talk and hang out.
Rarity seemed to adore his all black mane and fur and wings for some reason and said that black was definitely going to be her new line.
Then, there was Rainbowdash; he might've had the slightest crush on her, she was very pretty in a natural and tomboy sense.
Her talent was amazing with her Rainboom's, her speed and agility which he could never accomplish with his own wings due to their size.
He liked her personality and perseverance, she was kind, courageous, eager, confident, and simply everything he didn't have.
Anyway back to the question the Cutie Mark Crusaders are asking and the answer is 'I don't know', his cutie mark had to be the weirdest thing in the world because it was just a plane white circle.
Like someone had put a sticky note over it or blocked it out, he wasn't even sure what it meant or why on earth he got a 'CIRCLE' for a cutie mark but he had it.
"I DON'T KNOW!" he finally yelled and walked on with the three following him and they dropped the topic as he wanted them to, thankfully.
"Hey, do you fly fast?" Scootaloo asked a legible question this time, finally.
"Um, well I wouldn't say I'm slow" Blackwing replied as he walked into the Sugercube corner to get some cupcakes for the picnic.
"Hi Blackwing!" Pinkie Pie greeted then jumped up and down, she seemed to be on a pogo stick.
"Hi, um Pinkie Pie, why are you on that?" he asked as his eyes followed her up and down and so did the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
"Cause it's fun silly!" she told him like he was the crazy one.
"Oh, Blackwing, come to pick up the cupcakes you ordered?" Mrs. Cake asked, Blackwing smiled and nodded "yes please" he said.
"Cupcakes?" Applebloom, Sweetiebell, and Scootaloo asked simultaneously.
Blackwing took the cupcake box from Mrs. Cake after thanking her and paying then turned back to Pinkie Pie "bye, see ya later, Pinkie Pie"
"Bye Blackwing-eeeeee- ow!" Pinkie Pie fell off the pogo stick but still waved and Blackwing nodded and walked out.
"What are the cupcakes for?" Sweetiebell asked.
"They're for you and the others, Twilight was so nice to invite me to your picnic thing; I thought I'd bring the cupcakes" he replied.
"Blackwing is always so thoughtful" Applebloom whispered to the other three then.
"Yeah, maybe we can ask Zecora for a healing drought to help him heal his wings faster" Sweetiebell mentioned and the girl's nodded.
"Girls" Blackwing gestured for them to follow.
Later that day the group was together "wow, ya didn't have ta go out and by these fer us" Applejack told Blackwing who shook his head.
"Yes I did, you guys have been so kind to me ever since I came here and showed me around" he told them.
"Well, of course, you were also kind to us so we just had to return the favor" Rarity responded with smiling.
"Yeah, you're pretty cool Stallion, ya know?" Rainbowdash mentioned and Blackwing struggled not to blush.
Meanwhile, the Crusaders were hanging out at Zecora's and looking for the flowers that would heal outside of her house.
"I found one" Applebloom said pulling a blue flower with middle and a white strip in the middle of it.
"Zecora, I-" Applebloom fell silent when she heard something faint, she picked her ears to hear better.
"Applebloom" the voice yelled it was her sister, "hold on, I'm comin!" Applebloom ran off toward the voice and deep into the forest.
Later on Scootaloo, Sweetiebell, and Zecora went looking and called and called for Applebloom but she had disappeared without a trace.
Applejack and others looked for hours in that forest but with no avail only to come home empty handed and worried.
"Don't worry, Applejack, we'll search that forest for as long as it takes" Rarity told her.
"That's nice of you, Rarity, I don't know how she would just disappear though" Applejack sighed.
Meanwhile, Blackwing had just fallen asleep after coming back home and his dreams were clouded with premonition.
In a dark mine shaft a scared and teary eyed Applebloom backed up against the wall as the grey, evil looking unicorn smiled darkly.
"Easy, little gaerl, Raspony vil not ert you, not yet" he then let out an evil laugh, his voice had a heavy with a Russmare accent.
"Please, just let me go" Applebloom whined closing her eyes then back as far away as she could go in the mettle cage she was in.
"Now vhy vould I do zat?" he asked.
Blackwing gasped and breathed heavily then got out of bed and put many apples, a small blanket, and a few things he might have needed and put the pack on his back.
He wrote a little note for the others and left in the dead of night, his large wings not making a sound as he glided into the forest.
Blackwing had been walking for hours in the dark and now it was morning but he simply could not eat yet.
He felt like he needed to help her, to save Applebloom and his instincts were going to lead him right to her.
His hooves were covered in dirt and his legs and face were covered in scratches but he didn't care because with every step he felt his heart tell him 'this way' and he followed it.
Around afternoon he stopped and started to eat one apple, this was the most food he'd had since she went missing and he felt like it was his fault.
He was watching them and he didn't watch them close enough; he sighed to himself then allowed himself to close his eyes a moment then he got up and pushed on.
He finally arrived at a mine shaft, the same one in his dream and it was just behind a waterfall that would slow him down.
Blackwing back up then went at a run and crashed through the water fall that dampened his wings and mane but he managed to get through it.
The shaft was dark and damp but had fire lining around it, Blackwing walked slowly through the cave to listen for any sign of Applebloom or the guy from his dream.
A slow, rattling, breath stopped in his tracks and made him turn around to face a large red eye; only an eye which squinted at him, how does an eye breath? Then it started to glow and bright light blew him back and he blacked out.