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LordOfTheFeathers — Chapter 2 - It Says Scarlet... My name is Scarlet

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Commit: www.deviantart.com/lordofthefe…
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Last night was hard to forget, after what happened. Usually a lot of nights are just the same with Commit peacefully painting or reading under a tree or just in that makeshift shelter if it was raining. But for some reason this night was different. He couldn't get that night out of his mind. That pony he met and even spoke too. Who was she?

It was noon when Commit decided to go out, only bringing a couple of brushes and pots. He stepped out his door and closed it behind without making a sound. From there he took off as not to disturb the village folk from hanging out as he glanced at the group in the center of town. The blue pegasus smiled a little and flew off into the woods.

The afternoon wasn't as cold as the last since the sun was still visible over the horizon, but not for long as some clouds came rolling over the sky to claim their spot for the night. A lot of trees had lost their leaves as well as some where still holding on to them, so the ground looked like a damp brown, more than a dark green. Flying over the tallest trees, Commit spotted the small opening with the lake and came to land. The first thing he did was look around to see if there where any missing pots of paint after he placed his extra supply, but they where all there, like there weren't touched.
"Good..." Commit said in reply and set up a canvas stand, planning to finish up his painting he was doing last night as he stopped him his tracks. Confused at first but, then memory stuck he gave that painting to... To that strange pony he met right here. Commit turned to the bush where he first saw her and looked back at his stand with some other blank canvas on it. He placed his hoof on a brush and slowly picked it up thinking about that pony he saw last night.

After the sun had fully set, it did stay quite warm and with out any wind it was very peaceful to just sit back and do nothing. All was quiet until Commit could here a slight russel in a bush which led to another being russled. He stopped what he was doing and slowly approached the busses, thinking it was the same pony before. The bush stopped moving and out jumped a bronze rabbit which made Commit jolt back a bit in shock, as it hopped out and into another bush. Commit gave a huff and looked back at the bush, where suddenly a large figure jumped out and onto him, pinning him to the ground. He tried to kick it off as he struggled to get his hoofs free from their grip, but it was no use.
"Hey! Hey, stop, its ok" A voice came from above as Commit has his eyes shut tight.
"You?" He said looking up at the same purple maned, grey coated, yellow eyed pony. He looked up and down at her with wide eyes as he remembered it was indeed the same pony that he saw last night.
"Yeah... Say, Are you following me?" She asked suspicion, tilting her head as she asked.
"No, I - I think you are" Commit replied, narrowing his eyes. "When are you gonna let me go?" He added with a tone.
"Not until you state your guilty" she answered, smirking as Commit just stared at her.
"What?"
"You're guilty of following me" she filled in lowing her head. "I Commit, am guilty for following fellow lady ponies" she mocked in a lower voice like she was trying to mimic Commit's voice. As Commit just frowned.
"OK, one: I don't sound anything like that. Two: You're the one that's following me. And three: I don't feel like spending my night on the floor. So, can you get off of me?"
The pony just giggled and sat on Commit's stomach with her hoofs still on his. "What's the magic word?"
"Look, are you trying to piss me off? Cuz you're doing a brilliant job at that." Commit said, grunting as the pony just kept repeating the pronunciation of the letter "p" over and over. Commit finally caught on as he gave a huff. "Please." The pony stepped off of Commit and helped him up.
"You're really no fun at all, are you?" She said, with a sigh.
"I have my own kind of fun" Commit replied brushing off dead leaves off his back and wings. "I mean, if you want to play with someone then you can just go to my sister, I think you both have the same level of energy" he explained walking back to the opening where the art supplies are, leaving the pony.

He stopped to look back but, she was gone, as he turned back he saw her next to the stands and paint. Confused at first he approached her as she was looking around the area.
"So... This is where the magic happens" She said, in slight amazement looking at a blank canvas. "Where you paint... Where you painted that picture you gave to me" she added touching the canvas with her hoof leaving liquid white on the tip, as her eyes widened. "Oh sorry! I, I didn't know it had paint on it" she apologized rubbing it off with her other hoof, as she afferently bumped her arm into another pot.
"Its fine..." Commit quietly said, as he gathered some pots of paint to start on a new piece.
"Can I watch you?" She asked sitting down. Commit just looked at her with an awkward feeling.
"Um... I really don't like others watching me... Paint, y'know" he tried to explain as she just sat staring at him with lighten up eyes, eager to watch how he paints. "Ehh... Sure, why not" Commit stuttered as he turned and started to paint. After a while he forgot that anyone was watching him so he began to paint more with confidence, as he reached for a new pot he noticed that the other pony was just inches away from him, looking over his shoulder. He pretend to finish and he just held up the painting.
"Whoa! That's amazing! Can you teach me?" She said excitedly looking for another canvas which was in a pile on the floor. She picked one from the pile causing them to fall over and placing her chosen one on the same stand as Commit's so that they where placed next to each other. "Where do I start?" She asked looking at Commit as he was visibly uncountable of the pony touching his stuff without his permission.
"Ehh.. Well, I - You do... Um... You use" he stuttered trying to form a sentence. "Just paint... Really. Grab a brush" he tolled her. As she picked up a brush out of a used pot as Commit snatched it out of her hoof. "Not that one!... Ehh another one..." He snapped, rubbing it down himself, to dry it.
"Oh, err how's this one?" She said, picking up a big flat brush, as Commit just nodded and he watched her paint with this huge brush, purple, green and blue strokes making some sort of picture.
"Done!" She announced as she held it in front of herself to show Commit as he look at it with slight confusion. "Go on, take it!" She said happily as he slowly took it from her hoofs and looked at a very crude, almost stick pony with purple hair and blue wings, it had a title as well messily written with that big brush, Commit couldn't quite make it out as he looked at the pony, behind him. "See? Do you like it?" She asked him smiling. "Its me!" She said, she was covered in hues of paint and her hoofs was coated in yellowy-greeny splotches.
"Scrollt, Scarolt..." He tried reading as the other pony just lathed
"It says Scarlet... My name is Scarlet." She explained as she looked down at her painted covered hoofs. "Its hard to write with a brush. Heh" she added. "You can keep it!" She said happily lifting her head, as Commit smiled.
"You're not bad, really" Commit said to lift Scarlet's mood. "And that's a nice name" he added as Scarlet liked at him with wide eyes as she looked over at the lake.
"I - I have to go now..." She abruptly said, Commit was a little confused as he watched her walk to the bushes but, just as she disappeared into the woods she turned and looked at Commit with a smile. "Meet here again tomorrow?" She asked.
"Ehh... Sure, yeah" Commit replied as Scarlet flew off into the darkness.



This took longer than expected but hope you guys like this one!

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CryptotheChangeling1 [2020-03-24 22:04:59 +0000 UTC]

SOOO CUTE!!!!

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LordOfTheFeathers In reply to CryptotheChangeling1 [2020-03-24 22:47:53 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ^^

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