A/N: Ok, sorry for the sucky title, but uh, I couldn't think of anything else T_T this is basically Lucky's point of view of what happened, now y'all get the full story. I hope y'all like this chapter :) oh, and it's a flashback chapter too, although as I said, Lucky's point of view, so her mama and papa are gonna be called "Mama" and "Papa" outside of her speaking.

Chapter 15: Lucky Fire's Story

Lucky looked at the other three, she sighed again. 'Well, I guess they would want to hear my story, they never found out how everything happened.', she thought to herself. "Well, this whole thing of me being in Everfree Forest and Applejack finding me started with mama and papa wanting to move to Ponyville. At the time we lived in Fillydelphia."

~flashback~

Lucky hopped all around the house, it's the day they move to Ponyville. "Come on mama and papa! I wanna get going. I'm too happy to move to Ponyville. Someplace different, new things are waiting for me to find out." Mama giggled. "Lucky, calm down honey. We're going as fast as we can. We have to wait for the movers to get here and bring our things to the station. I do understand how you feel though. New places are very exciting. New things to explore and discover."

Papa looked out the door. "Oh good, they're coming down the street right now." So, mama used her magic to levitate everything so when the movers got there and opened the back of their big box thing that 2 pegasi pull, she can just put everything in. That's just what she did too when they got there. So the big boss closed the big box thing's door and everypony went to the train station so they could go to Manehattan, which is not very far from Ponyville. (hehe, see The Cutie Mark Chronicles where Applejack was a bitty filly and she walked all the way to Manehattan XD so I say if she could walk there as a filly, Lucky and her parents could walk from there to Ponyville, with Lucky's mother using her magic to carry everything.)

They heard the conductor call "All aboard!", so they made it there in time. It was 4:58 when they arrived and the train left at 5. Lucky's mother opened the doors to the moving thing and bring them all in the train and put them all in the compartments, well, as much of everything that could fit. The rest she set under the bottom beds of the bunk beds, papa paid the movers then got on the train just in time. "I want the top bunk!", Lucky said, then the train got going, and that startled her, because she got jolted and fell onto her back. "Ow."

She got back up, then tried to fly but all she did was flap her wings like a hummingbird's and that didn't get her airborne (much like Scootaloo). Papa put her on his back and flew her up to the bunk when he got in their train car. She pouted. "I could have done it sometime. It probably would have taken forever, but I would have done it." Papa chuckled, "I don't think so, not within the time frame of today to tomorrow morning when the train arrives at Manehattan Station. It'll take quite a bit of time before you can fly, if you're anything like me when I was younger. I was a weak flier and you could be too."

"But I don't wanna be. I wanna be able to fly just like you very soon. I would love to fly, and mama, I wanna use magic like you. Were you a weak magic user?" Mama shook her head. "I was normal, meaning in my magic came to me when it was supposed to. Usually fillies' or colts' magic comes to them at the age of 8, although babies can fly, and use magic, they're only babies. They don't know they're doing it. When they get older however, they know if they do it, when they want to do it, they wouldn't be able to until they're old enough. Sometimes there are foals who can do it at a younger age. They're advanced in their magic or flight skills."

"Wow, I wonder if I'm ad-van-ced. I hope so, I wanna fly and use magic now." "Not in the train though, if something goes wrong with the magic, we don't want to hurt the train. It would take a lot of money to fix it and it would delay our schedule to arrive in Manehattan.", mama said. Lucky nodded, "What about... never mind. I already tried flying and I couldn't do it." Papa just smiled gently, "You'll be able to fly someday kiddo, you just have to be patient."

"Patient?", Lucky asked. Papa explained what it meant. "Oh, well, I can be patient, I think." Mama and papa laughed, "You can be patient. You just need to find something to do to occupy yourself while you get to the age where you can do magic.", mama said. As time went on, Lucky played games with her parents, and when it came to sunset, she watched it out the window. "It's so pretty.", she said. Mama and papa nodded.

"They say Princess Celestia of Equestria raises the sun and Princess Luna who is Princess Celestia's younger sister, raises the moon.", papa said. "Whoa, ponies who can raise the sun and moon?" Mama nodded, "Well, they're actually alicorns like you are. They're also taller than normal ponies." "Awesome, I'd love to meet them." Papa nodded, "We might. The mayor of Ponyville told us in the letter Princess Celestia's prodigy student lives there and sometimes the Princess comes and visits her student and sees how she's doing and what she's learned about friendship."

"A pony who doesn't know friendship? Who wouldn't know of friendship?", Lucky asked. Papa answered, "Well, sometimes there are ponies who aren't good at making friends. Sometimes they're too busy studying or preoccupied with other things than to worry about having friends. So some ponies might not know what friendship is like until they make some friends, if they ever want to. It seems like this particular pony, Twilight Sparkle, was always buried in books, not really for real though.

"It's a figure of speech, but it seems she was so busy studying, her teacher, the Princess, told her to go check on the Summer Sun preparations. So she did, with her baby dragon named Spike, and they went to Ponyville to check on the Summer Sun preparations. After meeting all the ponies who were preparing for the celebration, she became friends with them and the Princess let her move to Ponyville to learn more about what friendship is about." Lucky looked amazed.

"Isn't it special to have the Princess as your teacher? You'd have to be with the right ponies to be able to study with the Princess right? Oh, and what are her friends' names that she met?" Mama answered. "Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack. I'll bet you'll be able to make friends with them as well, all 6 of them and even the Princess if you're at the right place at the right time." Lucky bounced up and down in place. "That would be awesome." Mama and papa nodded.

"Ok, well. It's dark out now, I think we should get some sleep so we can get to Ponyville without getting sleepy tired.", mama said. Lucky nodded, and they all went to sleep. The next morning they all woke up and were slowing down just a tad bit. "It seems we're getting pretty close to Manehattan Station. We'd better get our things ready hon.", papa said. Mama nodded and got everything. When they pulled in the station and came to a full stop, it was 11:30. They woke up at 10:00. They got off the train, and Lucky looked around her.

"Manehattan is huge, and it looks a little bit different from Fillydelphia.", Lucky said. "Yes, it is a big city, and there are many carriages and big things being pulled by ponies, and at a very fast pace, so I'd rather you stay close to your father and I so you don't get hurt.", mama said and Lucky nodded and walked in between her mama and papa. Mama had the things floating a little above her head, enough so she could see where she was going. They were in the biggest area of Manehattan, so it was very bustling, especially at this hour.

All the work ponies in the big corporations were getting ready to go on their lunch breaks, and at noon is when everything got bad. As mama said, the carriages could go very fast, and 4 of them, all coming in at different directions, were coming towards Lucky and her parents, and at full speed. It seemed the riders were not very patient in getting to where they wanted to go and were demanding the carriage pullers to go very fast. Mama stopped her magic, making everything fall to the ground, and before papa could even move, for he was frightened to where he couldn't move, mama had erected a barrier around Lucky and raised her in the air.

Before mama and papa could hightail it out of there, they were too late. Lucky closed her eyes before the carriages got to her parents, too afraid to see what would happen. All she heard was a big CRASH and she started shaking out of fear, then she felt the barrier was gone, she fell onto the pile of carriages and the things that were hers and her parents' and she looked down. She knew, somehow, her mama and papa wouldn't make it out of this mess. One by one, 5 heads poked out of the rubbish. 2 of them the drivers and 3 of them the passengers. They all winced, seemingly hurt. Lucky hopped off the rubbish and looked around.

The ponies of Manehattan all looked at the mess in horror. One started galloping as fast as he could to get to the hospital and report the accident. Lucky dug through the mess and found some ponies. They were either breathing very slow or not moving. Lucky saw her parents' stuff and hers, she got all the stuff out but most of it was destroyed. A little bit of her stuff survived. A couple of her toy animals, she was very happy to see her black toy cat wasn't hurt, and her toy mouse that her grandmother from Baltimare gave her.

She saw a picture of all three of them and she was very surprised it wasn't broken, not even the glass. She couldn't figure out how it didn't break, but the rest of the stuff was broke. She grabbed her saddlebags out of the rubbish too. She packed her saddlebags of her things and the picture. "Oh, mama said something about important papers before we left. School papers so I can go to school in Ponyville and um... stuff for the doctors to see... I hate the doctors." Lucky rummaged through everything again and saw her mama's saddlebags.

She looked through and she read "School papers" and "Doctor's papers". "These are folders though, I wonder if they have the important papers in them?" So she looked though them and yes, they were what she needed. She put the two folders in her saddlebags as well. Then she heard a siren. She looked for her parents then. "Mama, papa!" she found them, at the bottom of everything. Her eyes got big, it didn't look like they were moving or breathing.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no. I don't think that's good. Mama papa!" Then she felt somepony pick her up. "Hey!", she said, then looked back. There was a sophisticated looking mare holding her. Lucky looked back behind both of them to see more ponies coming and out of the corner of her eye she saw an orange cutie mark on the mare's flank. "An orange?", she asked out loud, not meaning to. "Yes, my name is Aunt Orange, well, at least my nieces and nephew call me that. I have a husband named Uncle Orange, and he works in an orange orchard. Our one niece and our nephew live and work in an apple orchard. Our niece's and nephew's names are Big Macintosh, Applejack, and Apple Bloom. My mother is named Granny Smith."

"Ooo, my papa told me of Applejack. She's friends with the Princess' pro-di-gy student." Aunt Orange let Lucky down because they were now off the pile. "Really now? Who's the Princess' student?" "Twilight Sparkle." Aunt Orange looked impressed, just at the news of somepony being the Princess' student. "Hmm, well, Applejack must be special enough to know the Princess' prize student. It's not everyday you get to meet somepony who's in with the right crowd." Lucky looked at Aunt Orange funny, she started not liking the way she spoke. "Yes, well. I wanna see if somepony needs my help moving something, please excuse me."

Aunt Orange nodded and Lucky left. When she was out of Aunt Orange's sight, Aunt Orange then realized that Lucky was only a tiny filly, she couldn't help move things. She scolded herself for being so foalish as to believe that filly. Lucky was then swept up again and then she sighed a bit annoyed, "Who's got me now?" A male voice answered, "EMT. I need to see if you're hurt." Lucky rolled her eyes. "I'm fine. If I wasn't I wouldn't be walking around, especially if I was under that big mess."

The EMT rose an eyebrow. "You probably wouldn't be alive if you were under all that. You're just a tiny filly." Lucky huffed, she was tired of being called a 'tiny filly'. The EMT looked her over and said she was indeed fine. "I don't know how, but you are in good shape, not even a bruise or a scratch." "I do have one sore bottom, but that's because I fell on top of all that after my mama's barrier went away. I don't think that was good, it might mean something very bad happened to her because if she was ok, her barrier would still be around me."

The EMT then looked at her, "No wonder why you're ok. Well, where are your parents?" Lucky looked at the pile, which was mostly gone. "Under everything." The EMT looked at her, his jaw dropped, then he said, "Kid, if your parents are underneath all of that, they probably didn't make it. We'll see after everything's off of them." Lucky nodded, so when the time came and all the rubbish was gone, her parents were there. Lucky stood up, because she was sitting down watching everything being taken off. The ponies who were working on the pile tried waking them up, like they did with the other ponies who were in the rubbish. Some woke up, although they were very weak in speech, and some didn't wake up.

Lucky's parents were ones who were among the ones who didn't wake up. Lucky then started to cry, then she went up to them slowly, her head bowed. She looked at them, the other ponies were very sympathetic towards her. Time went on and everything was cleaned up. Lucky was still at the place where the accident happened. She had laid down, crying on and off, and then as the sunset came, she looked up at the sky. "The Great Green Pastures in the sky. I hope they went there. It's where my grandpa is. I never met him and when I was old enough, mama told me that he was already there. I understood. But why mama and papa? What did they ever do to have this happen to them? Why?"

A female voice behind her said, and it sounded a bit elderly, "You can ask why, but you can never get an answer. It never fails. I had asked that myself when my husband passed on when we were younger. Our three young ones were 14, 10, and 9. Older than you were by the looks of it. How old are you young foal?" Lucky looked at her. "I'm 5." The elderly pony nodded, "Too bad it could happen to one so young. I'll bet you're traumatized by what happened, and it's terrible you had to witness it and the aftermath." "Oh I didn't see it happen, I just saw everything after it happened."

"You're lucky kiddo. You didn't see it happen and you made it out alive and unhurt." Lucky grinned, "Well, my name is Lucky Fire." The elder rose both eyebrows. "Well, you live up to your name. You're very lucky and you seem to have a fiery aura about you. You do cry, yet you're very strong at heart and will face everything head on." Lucky nodded, "I get that from my papa." The elder smiled, "I also see you're an alicorn. Very rare." Lucky nodded again, "Mama was a unicorn and papa was a pegasus. I got mama's horn and papa's wings, but I didn't take them from them, I was born with them, the horn and wings."

"I understand what you meant young one. Well, I must get going. I'm very sorry for your loss." Lucky thanked the elder and then she went to sleep. She woke up to a lot of clopping on the ground, and it sounded kind of close. She opened her eyes and saw ponies in front of her and around her, waiting for her to move. "Come on kid! We have places to go.", one of them said, a stallion. Lucky hopped to her feet and bowed her head, now she's scared. She didn't mean to make anypony mad at her. In the morning crowd, she kept bumping into quite a few ponies, only because it's a tight squeeze to walk through everypony.

She kept getting yelled at, ponies saying 'watch where you're going' or 'quit bumping into me' and things like that. More and more ponies said that, more and more Lucky either got mad or she would get sad. Then she decided she wouldn't say anything, in fear of saying something she might regret if she retorted to their complaints on her. She started galloping towards where her and her parents were walking to, hoping it was going towards Ponyville. When she was out of the crowd, she slowed to a trot then a walk. She looked back at them, ticked off, then looked in front of her again. She has her saddlebags on her and she made sure she had everything she recovered from the rubbish.

She did, so she put them back on and started out again. Time went on again and she cried sometimes, remembering her mama and papa and then she would go strong and keep toward her goal. It took her 2 months to get to Ponyville. Her being so small and not having much to eat on the way, not really having much bits, she finally made it, slowly but surely. But she saw a lot of ponies, and she got scared. It kind of a little bit reminded her of Manehattan. She didn't want to take the chance of ponies being mean to her, so she scattered. She went into the forest she saw at the edge of Ponyville.

On the way, she saw a house with all kinds of animals. She stopped, amazed. "Wow.", she said, then she realized the house could be somepony's house, then she started back to go into the forest. She went through the trees and as she got deeper into the forest, it got just a little darker. She passed a hut further on, she thought that odd, but she ignored it and kept going, ten trees past the hut and she stopped, laid down and caught her breath, she didn't realize she was galloping until then. Then her tummy growled, she groaned. She looked around, got up and sighed.

All she could see for miles around was grass and flowers. She started eating the grass and flowers. Then she got thirsty. "Ugh, where's water when you need it?" She started walking around and eventually she came up to a river. She looked skeptically at it. "I hope this water's safe..." Then she started drinking. She did this for two months straight. She knew she wasn't getting enough to eat and stuff, but grass and flowers was all she had. Last month, which was the first month, she had made a makeshift teepee. She also saw blue flowers near the hut in the forest. She thought them pretty, but she didn't trust them for some reason she couldn't explain, so she never touched them, literally.

Tiny sticks and huge leaves she found stuck in the ground. This month, which was the third month, she decided to try to go into Ponyville. She chickened out though. Once a week she'd try, same thing happened every time. She chickened out. Sometimes she saw a zebra, but was scared to talk to her, so she quickened her pace either going past her or him or she went back to her teepee. A month later she went to the edge of the Everfree Forest, she went a little further out from the forest. When she first started going to the edge to try to go to Ponyville, she made sure she steered clear of the house with the animals.

This time she went further away from the forest, but she chickened out again, but this time it was later in the evening and she didn't want to go all the way back to her teepee because on her way it would get dark and she didn't want to walk back in the dark. So this time she went to the edge of the forest, but in where the trees line the edge of the forest. She laid down, yawned, and fell asleep. Then when morning came, the sun was bright, and she woke up.

She wasn't used to getting up with the sun, so it took her a bit to wake up. She looked around, then remembering she fell asleep at the edge of the forest. She got up, decided to try this morning to go into Ponyville, by this time she was really hungry and she wanted something to eat other than grass and flowers. She went to Ponyville, she was in town now, but then ponies started coming out of their homes to greet the day. She backed up, slowly, trying not to hightail it out of there, but she almost did. Then she tripped.

She fell to her bottom and made an oomph sound. She sat there for a bit, then an orange pony with a stetson hat on her, she could see it was a female pony by how small the nose is, and a cutie mark with three apples on her flank. She stayed still, hoping the orange pony wouldn't notice her. Failed. The orange pony looked directly at her then came over to her. When the orange pony spoke, she talked a different way than Lucky herself did.

~end flashback~

"And that's when I met Applejack at the edge of Ponyville. That's also my story before I even came here. Now I have friends and even a family again. Applejack and Rainbow kinda as parents and I got my real cousin here." "Wow Lucky, that really sucks. You had it rough from the day after your parents died to before you came to Ponyville. Ponies were really horrible to you.", Rainbow said.

Lucky nodded. "Yeah. What can ya do though? I just had to take it like a mare and tough it out. Suck it up, that's what papa said. I did too. I ignored them, though what they said made me mad, but I ignored it and walked on." Rainbow grinned, "Atta girl. You're already made of tough stuff, I guess I don't have to teach you anything like that huh?" Lucky smiled and shook her head, "Nope." Rainbow nodded, ok with that. At least there could be other things to teach the little filly. Lucky turned the music back on for Fire had turned it off before Lucky told her story, and Lucky started dancing again, Fire Dancer and Luna joined, but Applejack went up to Rainbow, who wasn't dancing again yet either.

"Well, that's one heck of a story ta tell and one heck of a situation to go through. I'm real sorry she had to go through that, and also real upset at the ponies who was mean to her. It wasn't really nice, especially if they knew what happened the day before. I'd like ta give them ponies a real stern talkin' to." Rainbow chuckled lightly. "You really sounded like a mother when you said, 'I'd like ta give them ponies a real stern talkin' to.' ya know that?" Applejack chuckled as well, "I guess. Seriously though. It's just not right fer them ta have done that ta poor Lucky." Rainbow nodded.

"True, I wish they didn't either, but that's just the way it is sometimes. When somepony's in a hurry, they mean business, they're either nice about it or cranky about it." Applejack sighed and agreed, wishing it really weren't true. "Well, I suppose we should join back in with the others, ok Rainbow?" Rainbow nodded, and the two danced with the others again. Lucky smiled and joined her two role models/parental figures. "I'm really glad I met all of you though. I don't know what I'd do or even if I'd be in Ponyville if it weren't for you Applejack." Applejack and Rainbow shrugged, "We don't want to think about that Lucky, we're just glad you're here, that's all we'd rather think about.", Applejack said, and Lucky and Rainbow agreed.

A/N: Yes I'm horrible, but it could happen and trust me when I say, I was not really liking myself when I wrote how Lucky's parents died, but it happened for a reason. There is a method to my madness. One to get Rainbow and Applejack together, because like Rainbow said, it would have taken them both forever for them to tell each other their feelings, and without a little push from a friend, or "daughter" in this case, they would have taken forever for them to tell each other their feelings and it would have been either Pinkie Pie to push them or probably no pony whatsoever, well, maybe Rarity or Twilight, but still, if not them then no pony else would have.

Hehe, and Lucky's freaky and unusual knowledge of love as Rainbow put it, brought them together, plus they both are attached to the little filly and they both have motherly feelings towards her. Rainbow needs a soft side to her sometimes and if it takes a bitty filly to bring it out the so be it XD eh, whatever you guys think, but I like my idea. Y'all can bring out Rainbow's soft side however you want, but I love my little filly I created. She's so cute right? How can you not love her? Well, I should stop rambling about my idea for this story and write the next chapter. 4:30 in the morning but I'm wide awake and raring to write lol. I'm on a roll right now. See ya next time :D