Deathmark1999

Silver Arrow and Gumdrop Swirl entered the borders of the Pony Pavillion. Such pity, a pretty name for a Town Square and hosting the start-ups of the bloodiest game in pony history. When the pink mint hued pegasus dropped down beside the rose gold unicorn, they stared at the huge stage afar: a huge wooden stage, a humongous television at the top right, and the whole big screen was a fat image of the new icon of the dictators here: Griffins. Even when Gumdrop denies from her shell, she herself can feel the freezing sensation of dread trickling in. "I guess their decorations suck. Even Feather Thrust can do better than that." Arrow muttered. "Well, Griffins aren't the first choice when it comes to designing Princess Celestia's ball gown." Gumdrop smirked bitterly.

Arrow and Gumdrop exited the house after a failed attempt to talk about anything but the Games. "What's the point of going out?" Arrow exclaimed, against Gumdrop's opinion that 'she needed city air'. There was no point of going out,actually. Either the view of Canterlot was filled with closed windows and doors with expensive patterns, or people walking, dragging around with the faces of fear, or black circles decorated their eyes. Well, we still have... 45 minutes left, so let's spend the rest of the time... looking around! Hey, what about let's go see Sugarcube Corner, I'm definite they're open!" Gumdrop exclaimed, and pulled the grumpy unicorn along as they galloped through the gloomy streets of Equestria.

Arrow leaped to the nearest artificial target, whipping in front of it, before stabbing it with her hind legs. Prst-crk. The whole dummy flew out of its position, hitting a tree like a baseball to a bat. The ragged statue then fell onto the grass, now in pieces. Arrow muttered a mild curse under her breath. "About time..." The dummy begin to levitate into midair to her magic's will, and as Arrow gritted her teeth, the statue's body glowed in a intense barricade of light, sparks igniting like a wild release of fireworks. When the light finally died, where the old, dirty dummy stood, there was a brand new dummy, alongside a new cloned version of it. She was too much in dread to be proud. Her heart beated so painfully, like a horse galloping with a lost leg. Before she could sink into all the fear that haunted her mind, a loud, obnoxious rap on the door woke her up. She blinked. "Coming!" She cried, and galloped to the front door to answer. When she opened the door, there was her friend, Gumdrop Swirl, standing at the front of her door still having that ridiculously wide smile that was too much for her. "How, exactly are you able to smile at the day you could be killed?" Arrow blurted with a mild tone of rage. "Oh, easy, there's like, thousands of thousands of ponies outside and its funny that everyone thinks that they're the one that's gonna be chosen. That's funny." Gumdrop stopped smiling and frowned. "And kind of weird." "Well, you never know." Arrow whispered. "It might be you. Or me." "Oh, c'mon, Arrow! You used to be so happy and optimistic, now look what this stupid game did to you?" Gumdrop moaned. "You need to cheer up and be even MORE optimistic! Besides, you're like, the daughter of the legendary hunting clan! And you're like, the most stressed out one here!" "Wow, how about when you're that incredibly lucky one being chosen and you have to kill your friends? Does that sound fabulous to you?" "Well, no... but probably won't be you! Nor me! Try to believe that way! I mean, its reasonable to stay happy while you're in a desperate situation, better than being all gloomy and fearful!" Gumdrop grinned, and begin to dash into Arrow's house. "So, are you ready for the selection?" She continued, staring at Arrow's simple yet cozy living room, at the goldfish she bought recently. "Not really...." Arrow sighed. "I wish I can just disappear into the woods until the reaping day is over." "You know they'll find you." Gumdrop huffed. "They have alicorns to chase you down. You'll be caught, by hook or crook." "How long till the selection?" Arrow turned around, tweaking the topic a little bit.

Saturday sunlight filtered softly as Arrow landed gracefully down to the floor from her bed. As usual the soft chirps of the birds sang like lullaby to her, but today, as all years are to be, she was leadened with fear. A fear a huntress is shamed to have. She trotted to get ready, brushed her silver locks, washed her coat of rose gold. Today is the day. Entering the kitchen, she simply whipped up a sandwich of juicy blueberries, but as she chewed it, it tasted no more than ashes, or probably nothing in her mouth. After that moment of silence, she reminisced the days when she was living a glorious life beyond Equestria, far from this mad daemon's game's grasp. At least her family had to live, to assure her that she won't be picked. Trying so hard to recognize this as a normal day, she went to the embrace of the woods, letting the trees welcome her back with their warm arms. She smiled at the canopy of leaves, letting soft seeps of sunlight glide in, ever so beautifully illuminate the whole forest with its morning call. They were the closest family they had ever since her family died. She sighed, and gathered her weapons from her back door, before getting into shooting practice. Arrow's horn glowed a steady silver, and her favorite bow rose from the grassy floor. Today is the day. I won't be picked. I won't be picked. She gritted her teeth as she shot her last arrow,hitting the bullseye on the tree trunk with incredible accuracy I didn't need those stupid food rationing to get myself into even more risk to be killed. I have the forest.The bushes give me everything I needed. I just need luck. A little bit of luck.

no bacon? ;-; nah, just kiddin. XD Welcome to mlp forums, where you'll spend a nice time here! I'm new here as well, and quite enjoying this place! Hope its buckin awesome for you too!

Well, its already really good for your first attempt on drawing ponies. My profile picture displays how terrible I draw for ponies in another style and it was my first try. Dunno why I put it as a profile pic though. 3_3

Ello c: Can I request a version of your style from my profile picture (my OC Silver Arrow)? It'll be so nice of you to make it, thank you! CX

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