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The Diary Of Twilight Sparkle

by Splat

Chapter 21: Over A Barrel

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Dear diary,

I'm keeping the diary, I don't care what I learned about friendship in my last entry, it still has it's purposes, for instance , it can help me get rid of my rage because of my friends being total jerks or doing something stupid.

Anyway, I got up early today to go to a newly built town called Appaloosa. My friends and I got the morning train. We didn't to much for most of the trip, we got on the train early in the day and we slept on the train, so it was a long trip. We didn't do much. Mostly talking. But there was a rumour that Rarity caught Applejack telling a story to an apple tree. She has finally lost her Granny Smith apples... Ha! Get it? Ugh never mind, I need to stop with my really bad jokes, thank Celestia that I am the only ones that can read them. It was early in the morning when we all went to bed. About one in the morning and Rarity and Spike were trying to get to sleep while the rest of us all talked, they were getting very annoyed. Spike started being aggressive, he started moaning about he was fire roasting the popcorn we were eating and he was very tired from it and he wanted to go to sleep. Then, Rainbow Dash had to make it worse and point out that some of the popcorn didn't get popped. Spike tries to do her a "favour" and pop them for her, he ended up blowing fire, burning the popcorn and almost killing Rainbow Dash. He almost killed a pony over sleep. He's worse than Rarity! I decided to get all of us asleep before Spike or Rarity snapped again. Finally the lights were out. Then, just after, when no pony was asleep yet because we had just shut our eyes. Rainbow Dash started whispering to Pinkie Pie. It was entertaining since Pinkie Pie asked if Rainbow Dash was asleep yet, even though Rainbow Dash spoke first. It was defiantly entertaining, and I wanted to join in the fun. I asked what was going on and Pinkie Pie said that Rainbow Dash thinks Fluttershy is a tree. Rainbow Dash denied it. Soon, this weird and wonderful argument was created between Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. She said it sarcastically but still she said it. I don't think Pinkie Pie quite understands sarcasm. I decided to join in and tease Rainbow Dash a bit, telling her that Fluttershy isn't a tree. What made it even more random was that Fluttershy joined in saying she would like to be a tree. Spike couldn't take it anymore and decided to sleep in the back with the Fluttershy tree. He was a bit angry and acted like a baby. I don't know why he couldn't lighten up and take a joke. He needs to stop being a baby and stop crying over small things like a few hours of sleep lost. It wasn't going to kill him. Somepony else will probably do that before lack of sleep, probably kill him for being a douche all the time. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet. Then suddenly, Rarity screamed at us at the tip of her voice to tell is to be quite. She had a mud mask on and it looked horrifying. Something that was more terrifying than Nightmare Moon. We all went to sleep and we were as quite as we could be.

The next morning, we were woken up at the crack of dawn by a buffalo stampede. Everypony thought it was amazing, until we found out their plans. They didn't look ok though, maybe they needed one of Rarity's mud masks to make them look nicer. Their plans were to get close to the train, attack the train, steal the caboose of the train with the tree and Spike inside and leave. I didn't know why.

We finally arrived at Appaloosa, where we were greeted by Applejacks cousin, Braeburn. Applejack tried to tell him what happened, but he was to caught up in showing us around town. After the tour around town, and when Braeburn wouldn't stop talking, Applejack finally lost it and shouted at him for not shutting his muzzle for three seconds. We all explained what happened. The stampede of buffalo and what they did, they stole one of our friends. Two of our friends according to Lost-her-applesjack. He explained the buffalo. The buffalo wanted all of the ponies at Appaloosa to get rid of all of the apple trees that the ponies at Appaloosa had planted, and they didn't want any new ones added in. When he explained it, it wasn't fair on the Appaloosians.

The next day, we set off to find Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Poe and Spike, we were all packed and ready to go. We finally set off to find them, but to our surprise they escaped the buffalo and were able to meet us at the entrance of Appaloosa. It turns out that they didn't escape the buffalo, they brought the buffalo to Appaloosa to give them a chance to talk. Talk about reasons why the Appaloosians should move the apple trees. Then, Applejack butted in and said that she wanted to talk about the reasons why the apple trees should stay. Rainbow Dash was on the buffaloes side and Applejack and the rest of us (at the moment) were on the Appalosians side. Pretty soon, an argument, a real argument, unlike the one on the train with Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash, broke loose between Applejack and Rainbow Dash. That was when I stepped in to stop the childish debate. Both sides had good reasons to why they should have the land. There must be a peace to be broken there. Pinkie Pie had a "great" idea. To sing about the situation. Oh great, this will go well. Because we all know that Pinkie Pie's singing always resolves everything.

Later on in the day, everything was set for Pinkie Pie's, predicted awful performance. Spike was ready on the piano ready to play while Pinkie Pie sang. So, the song started playing and it was about sharing and caring, it was completely bazaar, there wasn't anything much to say about it, until the chief of the buffalo and the sheriff of the town reviewed it. What they said made my prediction correct. It was awful and it did make things worse. Good job Pinkie Pie. Only Spike likes it. With the way she sings, how bad it is and how often she does it, I'm not surprised that the Ponyville musicians, Vinyl Scratch and Octavia, hadn't moved out of town yet to get some peace from the bad singing. But anyway, thanks to Pinkie Pie, the buffalo are going to stampede through the The town if the apple trees weren't moved.

It seemed that the Appaloosians weren't going reason, and neither were the buffalo. It looked like they were going to go to war and we saw that they were boarding up everything and making defence barriers. We also found out that their main defence for their "war" was... Apple pies... Well, we could see who was going to win this battle.

It was the next day, and it was also noon, the stampede had begun. Until the young buffalo, Strongheart, looked at the chief of the buffalo. He wasn't going to do it. Thank Celestia. Until Pinkie Pie started singing that song again and it filled the chief with rage and he started the stampede. Looks like Pinkie Pie ruined it again. The buffalo changed towards Appaloosa all because of Pinkie Pie. Appaloosa's main defence had gone and it was time for the pie's. Surprisingly, the apple pies actually worked. Somehow... I don't know how , but they did. Apple power! The chief saw the sheriff and went for him. But unfortunately the sheriff was out of ammo, or apple pies. The chief leaped for him, but luckily, one apple pie saves the sheriff as it hit the chief. He was down and everypony gathered round. Both sides cried as the chief lay still... But not dead. The chief tasted the apple pie and got up off the ground, he loved it. The chief then came up with a much better idea than a battle.

The buffalo decided to let the Appaloosians plant their apple trees as long as they create a small track for them to roam around so they had space to stampede on. But also if the Appaloosians have the buffalo a share of the apple pies that the chief loves so much.

That was pretty much it. I learned that even the worst of enemy's can become friends. Also what I loved about these few days, was that I didn't have to feel like writing anything bad about my friends in this entry because they didn't do anything stupid. Isn't that great?! Except for Pinkie Pie's bad singing of coarse. It almost made my ears bleed. What I also learned was that Spike obviously had a bad taste in music because he actually likes Pinkie Pie's singing! He's a strange dragon. I think he might have hit puberty at a very early age and is going through a stage of bad music.

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