Chapter 20: hanging out with the cmc
EQUESTIRA may 24
It was a normal day in ponyville as everypony was taking care of there Daily work and other things. The main eleven were doing well after yesterday's little "fun", and they all showed to be ten times as happy then they were.
CUITE MARK CRUSADERS CLUBHOUSE
Applebloom, sweetie belle, and scootaloo were sitting on the floor thinking about what they should do next to earn there cutie marks, applebloom then raised her hoof in the air.
"what do ya think we should do to get our cutie marks?" she said.
"well. We could do digging?" sweetie belle said.
Scootaloo then turned onto her stomach and looked at her.
"nah that's boring. Hmm we could do Skydiving?".
The other two shook there heads, scootaloo sighed as she then had her hoof on her cheek "man...if only Clayton was here. He could help us", applebloom then got up and sat on her flank and looked at her friends "yea that would be nice. But sadly he can't. Although I have an idea. Why don't we make a fan club for him".
Scootaloo and sweetie belle both got up and stood "that's a great idea" sweetie belle said with joy in her voice, scootaloo then started jumping up and down "let's do that! Let's do that!". They both nodded at the idea as they then shouted in unison:
THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS MAKE A CLAYTON FAN CLUB! JUST WHO THE HAY DO YOU THINK WE ARE!
They then ran out of the club house to get started with there fan club.
PONYVILLE STREETS
The girls Ran through the busy ponies that were walking around the streets as they dodged them left and right as they saw the Yamato store in there line of sights, the girls stopped at the store doors as they then looked at each other. Scootaloo then spoke up "umm what are we looking for in here?" she asked.
Applebloom then looked up at the stores neon blue sign then back at her "were gonna get some outfits and stuff for our fan club". Sweetie belle then poked her side making applebloom look at her "but we don't have any money" she said in a sad tone.
The girls then looked down at the ground feeling defeated that they couldn't do there fan club. Suddenly a shadow then Appeared over there heads, sweetie belle then looked up to see that it was jack standing over them. She then had her ears flop straight up at the sight of him.
"hi jack" sweetie belle said as she then started to jump at his feet, jack smiled at her as he picked her up and held her in his arms as she wraped her hoofs around his neck. "hey girls. What are the three of you doing here outside of the store?" he asked them, scootaloo then walked over to him and looked up at him "we were gonna make a Clayton fan club. But we don't have any money to get the things that we need" jack then looked at her sensing that they were a bit upset "is that right. Well how about this. How about I get you the items that you need for your fan club. What do ya say?".
The three all then smiled widely at his offer "yay! We can now do are fan club!" applebloom shouted as she then tugged on jack's leg, "come on let's go inside" he nodded as he then scooped up applebloom and scootaloo in his arms as he carried them inside.
YAMATO STORE
As they walked through the doors the girls were stunned to see a huge array of clothes in front of them, they then looked at the types of accessories that they had in the glass windows. Jack was amazed by all of this, "wow to think that we only gave them a large amount of photos. and they have already made a huge amount of clothing" he said as he walked to the front desk.
"welcome to Yamato sir" a female pony said "and how may I help you today?".
"hellow. Umm I was wondering. Do you have any fan club stuff for my friends here".
The store clerk then looked at the fillies that were in his hands, she then smiled brightly "awww. Aren't they just the cutest things.*ahem* As a matter a fact sir we do have some things for a fan club. If you may follow me please", she then walked over to the kids section as jack followed her with the cutie mark crusaders in hand. She then stopped and pointed at the children's section.
"here we go. This should be enough for your fan club little ones" she said, the girls then jumped from jack's arms as they then ran around the room picking up anything that they could use for there fan club.
After a few hours of shopping the four then walked out of the store with a huge handful of bags in there hoofs. Jack was carrying a backpack, and six bags in his hands as they walked though the streets smiling, as they are walking while applebloom was trying to hold up the bag in her teeth she didn't know that she was about to bump into somepony.
Jack spots this as he calls out to her "applebloom watch out in front of you!". She looked at him as she then bumped into the other pony in front of her, she falls on her flank Dropping the bag out of her mouth as she then looks up at the pony that she bumped into, she then Saw that she had ran into silver spoon who had a few white and red flowers in a glass box in her saddlebag.
Applebloom then help her up to her feet as she helped her dust off, "hey. Sorry about that".
Silver spoon then adjusted her glasses after she finished dusting herself "oh no it's alright. I was just walking out of the flower shop. I wanted to get some flowers to put at clayton's grave", she then looked at there bags that they got from the Yamato store.
"oh. What's with all that stuff?".
Scootaloo then dashed right in her face pointing her hoof at her.
"look. We were not gonna tell you. We don't want you or diamond tiara to mess with us".
Silver spoon then lowered her hoof down.
"I understand how you feel. Seeing as we only made fun of you and bullied you three in the past. But I have stopped doing that. In fact I would kinda like to join what ever it is that your doing".
The girls then looked at her then at each other, "hold that thought" applebloom said as she then huddled scootaloo and sweetie belle together.
"well. What do we do?" scootaloo asked.
"ah don't know. If what silver spoon says is true. Then I guess we could let her in on our fan club" applebloom said.
"but. She is friends with diamond tiara. What if she is just pretending to be nice to us so that they can make fun of us?" sweetie belle said.
The girls then looked over at silver spoon who was looking at her flowers. They then went back to huddling "ok we'll let her join us. But if she causes trouble then will just ignore her and work on our fan club without her or diamond tiara. Deal girls" applebloom said. The other two thought about it for a bit and nodded as they then broke the huddle and walked over to her, silver spoon was still looking at her flowers.
The three then stood next to her as she then looked at them, applebloom then started to speak.
"ok were gonna let ya join" she said to her.
Silver spoon smiled as she then walked over to jack and looked up at him, "umm may I ask you a question?" she said to him. Jack looked down at her with a smile "sure. Ask away", silver spoon then moved her hoof in a circle on the ground "um well you see. Clayton promised to play with us when he said that he would come back to ponyville. If it's not too much trouble. But could you volunteer to play with us?".
Jack then leaned down to her holding out his arms as he held on to the six bags "I would really I would. But I promised pinky pie that I would go on a picnic with her today. But I think that dillon could be able to play with you guys", silver spoon smiles more as she then looks over at the cutie mark crusaders. They all then walked over to abandoned house as sweetie belle opened the door as they all walked into the house, everyone dropped the bags on the floor gently as scootaloo then began to look through one of the bags while applebloom and sweetie belle looked around the house.
"ok this is perfect. This will be a great place for our fan club" applebloom said. Sweet belle then looked at some of the furniture And saw that it was covered with dust, she then blew some of it off of the couch as some of it flew into the room and made applebloom cough a little bit.
Jack was sweeping up the floor as he looked at them as they then started to clean up some of the furniture in the room. He looked over at silver spoon and saw that she was having a little trouble trying to reach the large bookcase in front of her, he then walked over to her and lifted her up in the air as she then dusted off the bookshelves. A few minutes later they were finished.
"whew. Man I'm happy that were done with this" jack said as he sat on the couch with the fillies, sweetie belle whipped her forehead "yea. I'm happy that we got it all done. Now we just have to get some ponies to join the club". As soon as she began to think of who would join the club silver spoon then taped on her shoulder, "yea silver spoon?".
Silver spoon gulped as she then began to speak "well i would like to be a member" she said with a small hint of glee. The three then looked at each other and then at her "you think you got what it takes to be a member?" scootaloo said, silver spoon nodded as applebloom grabbed her hoof and shook it.
"well congrats. Yer now an official member of the Clayton fan club" applebloom said making silver spoon smile, "oh wait. Can diamond tiara join as well? I mean if that's ok with the three of you". This made the three's smiles fade into frowns. "awwww. Do we have too?" sweetie belle said, scootaloo then placed her hoof on her "yeah. She'll just make fun of us again" she said.
Silver spoon then held up her hoof "acutely your wrong. In fact she has been really upset in the past few days and hasn't come out of her house nor has she talked to me" she finished which caught them by surprise, "really. Think we should go and see her?" jack spoke up. The four then nodded as they then all walked out of the house and over to diamond tiara's house.
DIAMOND TIARA'S HOUSE
The five walked up to diamond tiara's house which looked like a mansion go figure a big huge house for a rich little brat. As the four fillies walked up to the door step jack they all turned around to see jack a few feet away from them. "jack what in the hay are ya doing over there?! The front doors over here!" applebloom shouted, he then shouted back at them "sorry girls but I have to go on my date with pinky pie. Sorry that I can' hang out with you all today maybe next time. But like I said go find dillon he might be able to hang with you guys" he said as he then walked away from the house as he turned and waved at them as he left.
They waved at him as they all then turned to the door as scootaloo knocked on it hard, they then heard it open to see filthy rich on the other side.
"well hello girls. What brings you by today?" he said.
"howdy there " applebloom said "is diamond tiara home?".
Filthy rich then let his smile fade.
"yes she's in her room. But she won't come out of her room. I've tried everything but she refuses to come out" he said sadly, this was upsetting him very much. He had never see his little girl so upset like this in all of his life, the four then looked at him with sad looks on there face "when did this all start?" silver spoon asked him.
Filthy rich sighed "this started after the funeral a few days ago. She has been crying non stop and locked herself in her room. I just don't know what to do" he said as he sighed again "I swear if I could get the person for that man's death I would" he held his head down a bit, "if only he had survived". He then shook his head "but I shouldn't let my sorrow bother you girls. Please follow me" they then came inside the house and followed him upstairs to her room.
When they got to her room they saw that the door was open, they all walked into the room to see that the curtains were shut and then bed messed up. They walked around the room looking for her as they all then heard a noise from the hallway, they all walked out and looked over to the right side of the hall to see diamond tiara walk out of the bathroom he mane mess up and her face a little wet from washing it from were her tears had stained her face.
Filthy rich then ran over and held his daughter in a loving hug, he looked down at her as he straightened her mane as she looked over at the four fillies in front of her.
"sniff...w-what are you all doing here?".
"were here to see ya" applebloom said.
"why?".
"because we want ya to join our fan club".
"why would I want to do that?".
"because it's a fan club for Clayton".
Hearing this made her sad and happy.
"it is?".
"yea. Were tring to make a fan club in honner of him and we wanted to see if ya wNted to join. Silver spoon has already agreed to join our club" she finished, she then looked at silver spoon who was looking at her with a small smile on her face hoping that she would join. She looked at the floor until her father spoke up "I think that you should join".
She looked up at him her eyes a little watery "but".
Filthy rich then whipped her tears from her face "I think that it would make them very happy" he said with a heart warming smile, she kept looking at him as she then at the four as she then looked at the floor for a bit before she looked up at her father, "ok. ll'l do it" she said.
Filthy rich smiled at her as he hug her gently as she then walked over to them as they all then walked downstairs and to the front door. Filthy rich followed them to the door as he then opened it for them as they walked out talking to each other about there fan club and how they needed to get more members, filthy rich kept looking at the group walk down the street as he looked at his daughters face he saw that she was starting to smile and laugh something that he wanted to see from her in a long time.
He whipped a single tear from his eye and smiled as he walked back into the house.
PONYVILLE STREETS
The five fillies were walking down the street talking among themselves enjoying each others company which was extremely rare considering that the cutie mark crusaders and diamond tiara and silver spoon never saw eye to eye. Diamond tiara explained to them the reason why she was so upset for the past few days, she was upset about losing a new friend and she wanted to tell him that she took up his offer about being nicer to eveypony the same went for silver spoon.
The cutie mark crusaders were very happy to hear that and they hoped that they would be very good friends, as they kept talking to each other sweetie belle glanced over to see dillon walking out of a store. She then ran over to him and hugged his leg "dillon. Oh man I'm I happy that I found you" she said dillon looked down at her "oh hey sweetie belle what's up?" he asked her.
"oh nothing much. The girls and I are making a fan club".
"oh. And what's the name of this fan club?".
"the Clayton fan club".
Dillon couldn't help himself but laugh. The thought of his cousin getting his own fan club was as a matter a fact the most funniest and cutest thing that he had ever heard of, if he told this to Clayton he would have laughed as well. This made sweetie belle look at him with a confused look.
"what's so funny?".
He stopped laughing as he then leaned down to her "hehe I'm sorry about that. It's just kinda funny".
Sweetie belle then titled her head at him "how is it funny?".
Dillon then rubbed her head "well sweetie belle. It's funny because I never thought that I would see the day that one of us would get a fan club. To be honest we made a bet that one of us would have our own fan club in the future" he said with a small laugh. Sweetie belle didn't get what he meant by what he said as she still looked at him confused.
He saw this and stared at her with a small smile "you don't get it do you?".
"not really".
"well you'll understand it in future time" he said as he rubbed her head again making her smile, as he was doing this the other four ran over to him. "dillon. We have been lookin all over for ya" applebloom said as she stood next to sweetie belle "yea we need to ask you something" scootaloo said.
Dillon looked at them with a playful look on his face "ok girls what is it that you want to ask me?" he said, silver spoon then walked forward to him "we kind have two things we want to ask you" she then pulled out the glass case holding the flowers that she had bought. As soon as dillon saw them he knew what she was going to ask him, "we wanted to know if you could play with us today" she said as she then looked down at the flowers then back up at him "and...we wanted to know if you could take us to see Clayton".
Dillon looked at her then at her flowers, he knew that they wanted to see his cousin and he would have gladly said yes but the problem was that he didn't know how to take them to see him. He thought about this long and hard until an idea came to mind "girls. as I would love to take you to see him it's just not in my power to do so. I don't really know how to get back to earth but I think I might know someone who can", this got the girls smiling as scootaloo started jumping up and down.
"who is it?" she asked him.
Dillon calmed her down as he then stood up "follow me. That is if you can keep up with my speed" he said in a joking manner, the girls then jumped up and down excited about wanting to know what dillon was up to. He then started to jog over to twilight's house as the fillies ran after him.
TWILIGHT'S HOUSE
Dillon and the group soon stopped at the front door of the golden oaks library. Dillon then gently knocked on the door and waited for someone to answer, the door opened up as spike looked at them.
"oh hey guys. What's going on?".
Dillon held out his hand at spike as he gave him a high five "hey spike. Is twilight home?". Spike nodded at him, "yea. She's just in the other room reading with max. They have been reading all day" he said in a bored tone, dillon then followed spike to the den as be then walked over to the study room.
"twilight. Someone's hear to see you" spike said to her while he was standing at the foot of the room. Twilight then walked out of the room as she then stretched her body. "ahhh hey spike" she said in a sheepish tone as she then looked over to see dillon and the fillies, "hey dillon. What brings you by?".
He then looks at the girls who look at him with excitement in there eyes as he then turns to twilight "well twilight you see. I was wondering if you knew of a spell that could take me back to earth", twilight was a little stunned to hear what he had asked her as if she was hurt by what he had said.
"w-why would you need to know of a spell to take you back to earth?".
"it's something personal for the girls" he then pointed down at the glass case holding the flowers that were in silver spoons saddlebag. As soon as twilight saw this she instantly knew why he need the spell, she then walked over to her book case and started using her magic to find a book on teleporting to other planets. "well to be honest dillon. I don't think I know of a spell that can teleport you to other worlds" she said as she kept looking through her books "but I think I know of another way".
She then pulled out a white book and laid it on the floor as she opened it and looked though it, "let's see here. No that's not. Nope. No. Ah ha! Here's one. How to travel to other worlds using a magic embedded accessory" she said in a excited tone "let's see. Hmm it says here that one can only travel to other worlds using a type of magic amplified object such as a amulet or a ring for example".
She looked over at dillon who then pulled out a small box from his pocket as he waved it at her. She walked over to him as she looked at the box in his hand "well dillon it says that you need some type of wearable accessory for this spell to work" she said, he smiled at her "that's good because I just got something like that today" he said with a small blush on his face.
Twilight looked puzzled at his blush as he then showed her what was inside the box, as she looked inside she was shocked and in awe as she saw a gold peace sign necklace with the words: to my loving joy in graved in black around the ring. He then closed it as he put the small box back into his pocket and pulled out a tiny silver box, as he opened it he pulled out a tribal red and blue ring with white letters that said: just who the hay do you think I am written on the outside and put it onto his finger.
Twilight looked at him and at the ring "you want me to use the spell on this?".
He nodded at her "yea I do".
She then smiled at him as she walked over to her book and examined it carefully as she then looked at him, she then started to make her horn glow as a purple blast of energy came from her horn and flew over onto the ring making it glow from purple to then yellow.
He then clenched his fist as he looked at the magic embedded ring before him, twilight then looked at him "dillon now that your ring is now amplified with magic you can use it to teleport to what ever world that you can think of. But there is a catch to it. Since your new to magic you can only use this spell three times a day. Until you are able to work with your magic more it is only limited to three uses. Also this spell can also amplify your other magic abilities as well. Like summoning or transmuting" she finished.
"got it. I promise to watch my limit twilight. And that thank you for this" this made twilight blush "oh stop you. Just be sure to watch over the girls ok dillon", he did a salute to her as he then looked at the girls who looked up at him with big smiles.
He then snapped his fingers as a blue warp gate then opened as they all then walked through it as it closed behind them. Twilight smiled seeing that the spell had worked as she walked back into the study room, she then blushed a little bit as she walked into the room "I know that fluttershy will love that gift dillon" she thought to herself.
NIGHTINGALE PARK
the six walked out of the warp gate onto the dirt and torn up ground. The clouds were still grey but only in this area as if this place was not to be touched by the blue sky, dillon walked in front of the five and looked at them giving them the signal to follow him. They walked going west as the grey clouds above them roared thunder and wind blew against them.
The five fillies looked at there surroundings and were frightened by the sight, "dillon. What is this place?" diamond tiara asked him. He turned his head as he kept walking "this is earth. Well a small part of it. This is a park and what used to be our hang out for my friends and I" he said, they kept walking for only a four minutes until dillon stopped "here he is", they leaned there heads on the side of him to see a pile of rocks on the ground and clayton's Yamato katana stabbed into the ground with his brooklyn express jacket tied around it blowing in the wind.
Scootaloo didn't hesitate as she started to run over to the grave site as she then looked up at his jacket that was blowing. The others walked over to her as they saw her lie down next to his sword as she laid her head on the sheath, the other fillies then looked at the pile of rocks "what are the rocks for?" sweetie belle asked him.
Dillon looked at her "those rocks are were my cousin's body is" this sent shivers down her spine as she then regret asking him. Silver spoon then pulled out the glass case and laid it down on the pile of rocks and stood back, the fillies all then lowered here heads as they paid there respects to there fallen friend. After they all finished praying they looked up at dillon.
"were ready to go back home" applebloom said, he nodded as he then snapped his fingers making the warp gate open again as the girls all walked inside everyone except scootaloo who was still laying down next to the sword, dillon walked over to her and kneeled down to her as he gently touched her "scoots" he said in a gentle tone. "come on. We have to go home" he didn't get a response from her, he then leaned down to her and started to hear her breath quietly.
He smiled at her "I don't believe it. She fell asleep that fast" he thought as he then carefully and gently picked her up into his arms and walked over to the warp gate, he then turned around and waved to the gave site "see ya latter bro. I hope to talk with you soon". The warp gate then started to close leaving only the wind to be heard blowing in the grey sky park wasteland.