Hey everyone! This chapter is a fair bit shorter, but I like this one so much! Anyways, I do not own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Hasbro does.
Chapter 2: The Cutie Mark
Once the two got to Sweet Apple Acres, the Cutie Mark Crusaders came running in. Scootaloo had been practicing her flying and Sweetie Belle had just started with her magic.
"Storm Chaser!" Apple Bloom screamed and ran to Storm.
"Woah there, she is still recovering from a nasty fall." Applejack quickly warned. Apple Bloom skidded to a stop and gave Storm Chaser a gentle hug.
"My, it's been so long since I've seen all of you. You're all getting so big." Storm Chaser said happily. It made her feel better to be around young mares, just reaching their prime. The Cutie Mark Crusaders we're no longer crusading. Apple Bloom, of course had an apple related cutie mark, a large apple with blossoms around it, Sweetie Belle had become a wonderful singer, and her cutie mark was a magenta heart with a music staff and some notes on it. , and Scootaloo still loved her scooter, and her cutie mark was a scooter wheel with wings and a lightning bolt coming out of the wheel. She had two talents, flying and scooting around on her scooter.
"It's been so long, I didn't even get to see all of you get your cutie marks!" Storm Chaser had just noticed how tall they were, they were getting to be full grown mares.
"Want to hear?" Sweetie Belle asked in her sweet voice. Storm nodded.
"I would love to hear that." Storm Chaser answered.
"Awesome! Let's go to the club house!" Apple Bloom yelled. The Cutie Mark Crusaders still acted like children, but their antics were more adultish. Their voices have also changed so much.
"Hold up Apple Bloom. Are you done with your chores?" Applejack yelled after her sister.
"Yes Applejack!" Apple Bloom quickly responded and ran off. Storm waved to Applejack and ran after the children.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders and Storm Chaser got to the club house. It was still very well kept up.
"Okay, who do you want to hear first?" Scootaloo asked loudly. Her voice was scratchy, like Rainbow's voice, but with more femininity to it. Storm Chaser didn't want to choose.
"How about alphabetical order? Apple Bloom first, then Scootaloo, and finally Sweetie Belle." Storm Chaser offered. Storm thought that if she heard how children got their cutie marks, it would make her feel better about her own cutie mark. Apple Bloom stepped up as Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle sat next to Storm Chaser. Apple Bloom took a deep breath and started her tale.
Apple Bloom got her cutie mark while helping Applejack with taking care of the apple blossoms. Sweetie Belle was in a school musical when she got hers. Scootaloo was on her scooter scooting through town when she got hers.
"Storm Chaser, how did you get your cutie mark?" They asked in unison. Storm smiled She remembered when she first got her Cutie Mark. Her age was in between that of the mane six and the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
"Let me think. Well, I'm not that much longer than your sister is. So, Rainbow Dash had learned to fly before me. She taught me how to fly, and as she learned, I learned. I got my cutie mark when racing Rainbow Dash after she had performed her first Sonic Rainboom. Of course, she won that race. But, I was able to beat her once in a while when she was out of practice. When she became the lead weather pony in Ponyville, she made me the second in command." Storm Chaser said gently.
"Scootaloo! Sweetie Belle! Time to go! Super time!" Apple jack yelled. Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle waved good-bye and left. Apple Bloom and Storm Chaser also left the club house. "How was the club house?" Applejack asked Storm Chaser.
"Fine. Talked about cutie marks." Storm immediately responded. "How about we go eat? I'm starving."
"Yeah, what's for super?" Apple Bloom asked.
"Apple stew. Granny Smith's recipe." Applejack responded happily. The trio returned to the house, ate dinner, and went off to bed. Apple Bloom offered to share her bedroom with Storm, as Storm's house was like Rainbows, in the clouds.
Storm Chaser had trouble sleeping, she constantly though about her cutie mark. Will it change? Or…would it disappear completely. Storm loved flying. She loved weather. She wanted to be one of the fastest ponies in Equestria. She had no other skills. She wasn't the best mare in school, and she loved kids, but didn't want a family for care for foals. She was horrible at any of the arts. And with being a Pegasus, her bones were weaker than a hardy earth pony, her hallow bones would crack if she bucked apples. Pegasi are strong, and are very helpful in many situations, but the harvesting of food tends to stick with the earth ponies. Storm had one other talent, persevering.
"I just need to keep my hope. If I can do that, I will be able to get back to the skies. I'll be just as good, no, I'll be better than I was. It's what my cutie mark is trying to tell me." Storm Thought to herself. She looked at Luna's moon one last time and drifted off into sleep.