A/N: This chapter is to mostly show that this story won't be dread the entire time. There will be happy moments. Enjoy and don't forget to review J

Chapter 2: Heart of a crusader.

Heart's vision waited near the door half awake. "Why are we up this early?"

Rose Spade walked past her son and out the door. The first light of the day shined on Equestria. "I have to go sign those papers for Cheerilee. I forgot to do it Saturday so I have to do it today. There is no point in me go to the school house coming back and waking you up so I can go back again. You will be a little early so what? It will give you time to set your things up and meet some of the other children."

Heart followed his mother. ' Don't want to meet the other children if their anything like that pink pony I met Friday.' They continued walking tell they arrived at the school house. 'I hope today ends up better than last time.'

Rose and Heart opened the door to the school house. Cheerilee was behind her desk grading work. "Cheerilee I am here to sign those papers."

"You where suppose to come here Saturday. Not Monday." Cheerilee looked at Heart. "Did some pony forget to tell you?"

Heart didn't tell Rose about what happened Friday. "I am sorry. I was told. It slipped my mind is all."

The teacher turned back to the adult unicorn. "Oh. Well that is fine. Let me get the papers. If Heart wants he can go wait outside. The other children will be here soon."

Rose looked at her son. "Go ahead. You can't make friends if hang around the adults."

Heart's Vision went outside. There was enough light to see everything clearly. A ball was placed by the wall of the school house. 'Shouldn't play with other kids toys. There is nothing else to do though. I won't play with it I will practice with it.' Heart focus on his magic as he had done with Twilight. The ball became enveloped with his dark aura. He moved it left and right as fast as he could without losing control. He could see the ball blur as it gained speed. He tried something else that Twilight told him would be challenging. He tried to move the ball as gently as he could. It slowly floated down to the grass in a smooth movement. Not shaking or moving erratically. It took more focus than moving as fast as possible. Heart herd laughter in the distance. He placed the ball back where he found it.

A yellow earth pony, a orange Pegasus, and a white unicorn approached him. The earth pony was the first to talk. "You said that you don't have your cutie mark right?"

Heart wasn't sure where this was going. "Y-yeah?"

The earth pony looked at her companions with a smile. "I'm Apple Bloom."

The Pegasus in the center spoke next. "I'm Scootaloo."

The unicorn on the right was last. "I'm Sweetie Belle."

In unison the three ponies spoke. "together we're the CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!"

Heart cringed at the ponies yelling point blank in his face. "Owwww."

The CMC ignored the pony in pain. Apple Bloom continued their offer. "We want you to become a member."

Heart wasn't sure how to react to this. "What do you do?"

Scootaloo hit Apple Bloom in the side. "I told you we should have said what we do in the introduction."

Apple Bloom gave Scootaloo a mean look. "Every time we say it ponies still ask what the club is about. I thought he would ask. I wanted to prevent us from wasting our breath!"

Sweetie Belle butted in. "Both of you calm down. Your making us look bad."

Apple Bloom and Scootaloo turned back to there potential member. Apple Bloom proceeded to explain there club. "We are on a never ending quest to find our cutie marks."

Sweetie Belle pointed out Apple Bloom's flaw. "It isn't a never ending quest."

Scootaloo commented. "It seems like it."

Apple Bloom tried reassuring her friend. "Don't think like that. We will get them one day."

Sweetie Belle wasn't dropping it. "So it isn't a never ending quest."

Apple Bloom retorted. "Fine it isn't a never ending quest. Is that what you wanted to hear? There you go."

Scootaloo joined in. "Sometimes it seems like you read grammar books in your spare time."

"That isn't true. I like to…"

The colt sat in silence as the friends continued to argue. 'These are some strange fillies. Should I join there club? They seem to legitimately want me as a friend. Might as well. I don't want to be alone like before.' Heart interrupted the arguing "I will join."

The three fillies turned to him. Scootaloo took the lead. "Cool! After school we will take you to our head quarters. For now how about we play ball?"

Heart looked at the ball he had recently been messing with. "That ball is yours?"

Apple Bloom answered him. "It is actually mine but we always share it."

"I would like that." Heart smiled. 'Maybe it won't be so bad here after all.'

Apple Bloom ran for the ball. She was followed by Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. They began kicking the ball to each other. Scootaloo stopped and turned to the colt. "Come on new kid."

Heart trotted to them. "My name is Heart's Vision by the way." The CMC played with their new to be member until Cheerilee called them inside.

Cheerilee waited for the all the children to come inside. "Before we begin our lesson children we are going to change seats. I already have a seating arrangement planned out. I want all of you to grab your stuff and line up at the front of the class. When I call your name take your stuff to your new desk." She walked to the front right desk looking from the front of the class to the back. She tapped on it. "Heart's Vision." He grabbed his stuff and began to put it in his desk. Cheerilee moved to the next desk of the front row. "Diamond Tiara."

Heart didn't know any members of the class by name with the exception of the CMC. He paid no attention until she came close to him.

"I have to sit next to him? Eww. He is sick or something." She placed her stuff on the desk.

Heart looked at the snobby pony. 'Not her. Maybe I can ask Cheerilee to move me.' He finished placing his stuff in his desk. "Ms Cheerilee can I change places with a pony?"

Cheerilee gave him dirty look. "No. After how you acted Friday you have to be on the front row."

His heart sank. 'No pony can say I didn't try.' All the ponies were seated. Diamond Tiara was placed to his right. Behind him was the grey earth pony with the blue glasses. The only other pony in range of him was a short chubby colt. 'This is great. None of the ponies I met are near me.'

"Hey albino."

Heart looked at Diamond Tiara. "I already told you. I'm not an albino."

The grey pony behind him spoke up. "Don't lie albino. Lies don't get you anywhere."

Diamond agreed with the grey pony. "That's right Silver Spoon. Why do you deny it albino?"

Heart kept his calm. "I am not an albino. It is a coincidence, nothing more."

Tiara was not done. "It is not just Silver Spoon. The whole class knows." She looked behind her. "Snips. You know that albino here is an albino right."

Snips didn't catch on at first. "Huh? What are you talking about?"

Tiara gave give him a glare that foretold what would happen if he didn't agree with her. Snips knew what she wanted him to do. "Yeah, of course I know." Snips looked at Heart. "Albino."

Heart looked at the pony in disbelief. 'looks like school is going to be miserable, as always.'

The day went on. Every now and then one of the fillies would make a rude comment. It started to take a toll on Heart's Vision. The class ended and all the students ran out as fast as possible. Heart moseyed towards the door. He opened it to find the CMC waiting outside for him.

Scootaloo was on her scooter with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle in a wagon connected to the scooter. "Come on HV. We don't have all day."

Heart gave Scootaloo a funny look. "HV?"

"Your name takes way too much effort to say. So I'm going to call you HV."

"I've had worse." He jumped into the back of the wagon. "I have to tell my mom where I'm going though." They headed back to his house. He jumped out and ran inside. He was so happy to have some ponies to play with. 'I can't wait to tell momma.' He opened the door to see his mom passed out on the couch, again. 'I still can go play. I will leave a note explaining what I am doing.' He wrote down what was going on. He tried doing it by levitating the pencil. It came out messy but legible. He left and rejoined the CMC. "So where are we going exactly?"

Apple Bloom enlightened him. "We have a tree house in a secluded part of Sweet Apple Acres. It is the HQ for the Cutie Mark Crusaders."

"Sweet Apple Acres?"

"It is my family farm. We grow all kinds of stuff. Like red apples or green apples. Sometimes we get yellow apples."

Heart avoided that land mine. "What will we do once we get to your HQ?"

"You will take the initiation ritual. We will have an order placed for your member outfit and you will be a member."

"Who makes your outfits?"

Sweetie Belle took over the conversation. "My sister Rarity makes our outfits. She makes dresses. She is also wears one of the elements of harmony."

"Elements of harmony?"

"They are some fancy stones that have some kind of magic powers. I don't know much. If you want to more your going to have to ask some pony else."

"Who should I ask?"

"I would say ask my sis but I'm not sure she knows much either. Maybe Twilight can help you out."

Heart was going to press further but Scootaloo was faster. "We're here." The group dismounted and headed inside. The CMC initiated Heart into their group. Which was a lot longer than he thought it would be. He thought it would be a simple one or two line oath or something. They just kept going on with the synonyms for friends. It was seemingly never ending. Finally Sweetie Belle finished and all heart had to say was.

"Yes."

Sweetie Belle looked at Scootaloo. "Finally. I thought you were going to shorten it Scootaloo."

"I thought Apple Bloom was supposed to."

"I thought Sweetie Belle was going to change it."

Heart broke the circle of blame before it could escalate. "I could edit it."

The three looked at him. "What would you come up with?"

Heart thought for a minute. "How about…Do you swear to take the ideals of the Cutie Mark Crusaders in there entirety and accept them as your own? Do you swear to comment yourself wholeheartedly to its cause? Do you swear to help every brother or sister in their quest even after you have completed your's? By the power given to me by my fellow members I pronounce you a Cutie Mark Crusader."

The CMC stood speechless.

"Was it that bad?"

Scootaloo was the first to escape the grasp of shock. "That was so cool. Did you just make that on the spot? I have to write that down."

Sweetie Belle commented. "That was way better than Scootaloo's."

"Hey."

"Well am I right?"

Scootaloo gave a huff. "Yeah."

The four spent the rest of the day planning out ideas how to get their cutie marks. Heart wasn't that into it since he didn't really care about getting his cutie mark but he did care about having friends so he dealt with it. After an hour or two they had to separate and go home. Scootaloo was nice enough to give Sweetie Belle and Heart's Vision a ride home. Sweetie Belle was dropped off first. Scootaloo and Heart arrived at his home. Yelling could be heard through the thin walls.

Scootaloo was worried for Heart. "Are you going to be ok? It sounds like something big is going down in there."

Heart let out a sigh. "Yeah. I will be fine. Go ahead and go home. This is my problem not your's."

Scootaloo wasn't sure what to do so she headed home as she was told. Heart walked up the steps. By the time he reached the door the yelling had stopped and the crying began. He opened the door. As he entered he could hear the back door slam shut. Rose spade was sitting on the couch sobbing. He approached her. The note he left on the fridge was not moved. He grabbed it with his magic and crumbled it up before throwing it in the trash. He hugged his mother. Tears soaked his shoulder. "It's ok momma. Everything will be alright." Rose tried to say something but she was crying too fiercely to make since. "Shh. Shh. Don't try. Just calm down. I love you. Everything is alright. I am right here. It's ok. I love you and I will always be here for you."

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