THE TROTTING DEAD - Book One

Chapter 7: Emotion

It's only been only a day since the whole thing with Twilight happened... I can't believe she tried to kill me. But still, what's done is done. Right now everypony is packing up for the trip to Canterlot... hopefully it IS safe there, but we have to actually get there to make sure. Before we leave town I told Applejack we'd look for Big Mac, and I'm a stallion of my word, my face still kinda hurts from getting hit in the face with a fucking shotgun but hey, least I'm not dead...

"You okay?" I ask Scoots.

"Yeah..." She says in a monotone voice. Seeing Twilight almost shoot my wings off and kill me wasn't the BEST image to see... but we made it... my face is a little swollen up but Fluttershy said it would at least take a few days to be normal again.

"Okay... just checking on you..." I say to her. I walk over to Aj.

"Are you sure we'll find him Ash?" She says to me looking worried. To be honest I don't know if we'll find him, and if we do I don't even know if he'd be alive.

"Yes." I say confidently. I really hope he's alive. I don't know how much loss this mare can take... she lost her granny and little sister. She doesn't have to lose her big brother too.

"W-where do you think he'd be?" She asks me worryingly.

"No idea... but we're not leaving till we find him, I promise." For a while we walk around town, looking in houses, shops, etc. It started getting dark and we needed a place to stay, Rarity took us back to the Carousel Boutique so we could rest until morning. Everyone else was sleeping but I was just staying up looking out the window, I look in the mirror and I see dried blood all along my blue coat and sigh. I hear hoofprints behind me and I look back and it's Scootaloo. "What're you doing up?"

"Can't sleep... you?" I face her.

"Me neither. But you should probably try to sleep..." I say looking back out the window.

"Well, why don't you?" She says to me.

"Someone has to keep watch..." I haven't slept well the past few days, even before Twilight tried to kill me. My eyes are baggy and I'm covered in dry blood.

"Why don't you take a shower? I mean I can stand watch while you take one? I think the water here still works." She walks beside me to look outside. I sigh.

"Okay... I give, you stand watch and I'll try and shower. If it works, everyone needs one tomorrow." I say putting my stuff down, she nods. "If you see anything yell okay?"

"Got it."

I start going upstairs and get to the bathroom. It's probably the cleanest place I've ever seen since this started. I start the shower and I feel the water to make sure it's not too hot and I get in. I start thinking to myself... Scoots has been through a lot... she proved to me that she can handle herself and not be scared easily. Good.

The next morning I tell everyone that the shower still works and I expected no less, Rarity fought for that shower. But since it WAS her shower I guess it was fair to let her go first. Once Aj was done I pulled her aside.

"Look... I want to keep the search party small, just in case." I whisper.

"So? What does that have to do with me?"

"I want it to just be me and you."

"Why?"

"I want the everyone else to rest, especially Scoots." I say looking towards Scootaloo.

She nods. "Okay. When?"

"In an hour or so?"

"Okay."