Rainbow Grove ![]() |
Then a shrill giggle comes from somewhere above you, causing you to look upward
into the branches of the nearest tree. You are almost afraid of what you might
find; the giggle sounded unstable somehow.
It's too late to run, anyway. The pony leaps out of the tree, landing gracefully
right beside you. She is smaller and thinner than Minty, and you recognize her as
one of the new MLPs that only recently came to live in Ponyland. Her symbol is a
confused-looking flower, and her eyes are a flashing, bright red. She is holding a
paintbrush in her mouth; obviously, she is the one who has been so painstakingly
decorating the trees. "Ia," she says, "Ing Engnd Aei. Ow ohh?"
Wonderful. What is she, a pony from outer space?
Then she spits out the paintbrush. "Sorry about that," she emotes, quite clearly
this time. "I forgot that was there. Hi, I'm Demented Daisy. Who are you?" She grins
a grin too wide to be considered anything but insane.
You begin to introduce yourself, but before you have time to say more than your name,
Demented Daisy starts talking again. "This is Rainbow Grove, my own part of the
Fields. Minty insists its real name is Green Grove, but it's not. Look how
colorful the leaves are! I was just touching up a couple of them!" She twirls
around on one hoof. "I love it here!" Then she happens to glance up, just in time
to see a tiny bluebird land in a nearby tree. She screams. "Get out of my tree!
Get out!" She runs toward the tree, scaring the bird away. Then she turns back to
you, the wide grin back on her face, as if nothing odd had just happened.
"I'm not the only pony who lives in Rainbow Grove," she tells you a moment later.
"There are a lot of us here. We're all newer MLPs. Our cousins, like LightHeart and
Ivy, live in Friendship Gardens, but there's a whole group of us here, too. We
don't, um, exactly fit in with the Friendship Gardens bunch." She begins to grumble
to herself. "So I said I was going to throw Sky Skimmer into a volcano and contaminate
Clever Clover's food with Pony Fever. So what's wrong with that? No reason to banish
me..." Then she seems to remember her visitor, and she looks back at you.
"So, I suppose you're wondering just who exactly lives here, huh? You've got to understand...
We misunderstood ponies can be a little shy." She turns away and peers deeper into the grove,
and suddenly hollars, "Hey, Spatula!!! Sloppy!!! Come on out and meet someone!!! Spppaaatttuuulllllaaaaaa!!!!!" When there is no
response, she shrugs. "I guess no one's in the mood for good conversation right now. Anyway,
even if you can't meet everyone, I have an idea!! You know those irritating little backcard stories
Hasbro slapped on the packages of the new MLPs they sold? About Sugar Belle, the Shopper,
and so on? I bet you didn't know that we at Rainbow Grove have our own backcards, with equally
irritating, inane little stories!!! It's true!!!" By now Demented Daisy is hopping around,
tossing handfuls of leaves into the air and splattering paint in all directions. "You
can see some of those backcards now, with more coming soon!!!!!!!" Then she collapses in a
fit of laughter. "Go!!! Now!!! Go see!!! Seize the day!!! Go now!!!" You leave her
chewing on the brush end of her paintbrush and staring intently at a sliver of tree bark.
So, would you like to see the backcards of some of the more interesting new MLPs? One note:
Some of these ponies I thought up on my own, and some were created in Dream Castle's chat room with the help of
Cool Breeze, who knows of some other interesting new MLPs, too. And a disclaimer: THIS IS NOT
INTENDED AS AN INSULT TOWARD MY LITTLE PONIES. I LOVE THE NEW PONIES! BUT THOSE BACKCARD STORIES ARE EASY
TARGETS. hehe...
Demented Daisy comes running back up to you, a bucket of paint balanced carelessly on her
head. "Ooh, wait, wait! I almost forgot! The backcards at Rainbow Groves have been deemed
officially weird enough to qualify for an award from Baby Rainribbon's Pony Site! Look!"
This award was given
to the recipient by Baby Toilette of the Fecal Family!
Ta-Da! Thanks to Baby Toilette!
"Wait again!" Demented Daisy screams as the bucket of paint topples from her head and
spills all over the ground. She steps in it as she gallops up to you, and leaves colorful
hoofprints all over the place. "We now have another resident here in the Grove! The infamous
and legendary Little Hyper has chosen this as the place for her page. You can visit her here:
"Just click on the button!
"Or, if that doesn't interest you, why not visit
The Groom of CloverFlower Fields?
"Or, you can just leave and go back to the rest of the Fields. Fine, I don't care. Get out
of here. See if I come running after you." Demented Daisy climbs up in a tree and pouts.
You stroll through the fields until you happen upon a small grove of trees. It looks
like an opportunity for some welcome shade, so you continue on into the miniature
forest. Soon, however, you notice strange things about the trees. For one thing,
their leaves are not all green; some are red, some blue, some electric pink, some
purple. And some of them seem to be actually dripping color. In fact, one bright
orange leaf drips right onto your nose! Wiping the color away, you realize that it
is actually paint. Someone has been hard at work painting all the leaves of the
trees.
Soon enough, you spot the source of the odd laugh. There is a lime-green pony sitting in the
tree. She sees that she has been discovered, and she giggles again. This time the
giggle is almost a shriek. You wonder if you should run away, back to the more
normal parts of CloverFlower Fields. Then again, is there anywhere in the Fields that
is actually normal?
Awarded to: Lady Minty
for a MOST Crap-tacular Pony Page!