Luke was still having so much fun going down the ski slopes on his snowboard. The human’s skills never ceased to impress his friends who were all watching him shred the snow away. “Whoo! If only Shaun White could see me like this!” He Said with joy. It went on and on for a long forty five minutes, then he decided to have enough of this, and grew bored with the snowboarding.
Coming down the hill, Luke suddenly tripped on a small rock hidden under the white, cold blanket of snow, and landed face-first in the ground. The landing was in a rather awkward position, and his friends couldn’t help but laugh.
They all came up to him and gave him a helping hoof back on his feet. “I’m sorry, Luke.” Fluttershy remarked with a cute giggle from her. The human immediately spat out some snow from his mouth, and thought it tasted disgusting.
“Well, at least it wasn’t yellow snow, that would be so god-awful.” And he grabbed hold of his snowboard once again. “No need to worry about me. I’m just fine, everyone.’ And he gave the master of chaos a mildly cold stare. “Discord, was that you?”
“Moi? Oh Luke, I can assure you that was not me this time, I promise.”
Luke just raised his eyebrows in a skeptical expression. “Are you telling me the truth?”
“He is. I can tell.” Said Applejack.
Luke still felt a little skeptical, but a small smirk appeared on his face. “Okay okay, That was kind of funny.” Then he cleared his throat a little bit. His smile turned into a rather sneaky one now. “Let’s see if you all laugh at.... this!” And he threw a snowball at Pinkie Pie’s face, knocking her to the ground like a lone bowling pin.
At first, everyone was surprised to see this little outburst, but Pinkie, being quite clever created a snowball of her own while using her mane, and said “You’ll lay for that, Luke!” In a playful voice.
Covering his face, Luke felt the snowball hit his back, a bullseye to be exact. “Oh ho ho. So that’s how you want it to go down?” Like Said with a teasingly evil smile on his face. Then he hit Pinkie in the fact again while she was too busy laughing in victory.
“Two can play at this game!” Pinkie said.
“Snowball fight!!!” Rainbow shouted boldly. Just like that, an all out battle ensued, and many snowballs were being thrown all around. Everyone was having so much fun with this snowball fight, especially Spike, who promptly threw one that landed on Pip’s head.
“What was that?” Said the colt.
The baby dragon couldn’t help but snicker at his reaction. “He doesn’t know what he’s up against.” He thought. However, he felt a snowball hit his face, knocking him radically out of balance.
“Come on, Spike. Don’t get too overconfident.” Twilight Said, helping her little brother back up. Luke dodged many incoming snowballs that were mostly coming from Pinkie, for he was fast, and quick to dodge.
“Is that the best you got, Pinkie?” Said Luke. “My grandma throws better than you do!” And then he immediately dodged a snowball that was about to hit his face, landing on a tree instead.
Fluttershy was more than happy to assist Luke in this little fun game with her friends. “Uh oh.” She noticed. There was a snowball coming to his eft side, But Fluttershy took it upon herself to take the hit for him.
Luke gasped and went to see if she was alright. “Flutters, speak to me!”
“Don’t worry, i’m Just fine.” She said with a warm smile on her face. “Just helping a good friend.”
“Oh ho, nopony does that to My Fluttershy!” Said Discord. Then he conjured a mini gun that had snowballs as ammunition. “Let’s try this on for size.” The master of chaos made a wicked chuckle, and cocked the large mini gun.
“Uh oh. We’re screwed” Big Mac muttered with a gulp.
Discord too the heavy pleasure of shooting his snowball mini gun at everyone he would come in contact with, except Fluttershy of course. The drancequus laughed maniacally as he kept on shooting.
Luke hid behind a tree so he wouldn't have to get hit. His other friends were all piled with all the snowballs that Discord threw at them. The human was rate frightened, even though this was fun.
At first, when it was silent, he decided to one out from the tree he was hiding behind. It was just then his luck ran out when he bumped into Discord.
"Heeeere's Discord! Mwahahahahaha!" He cackled maniacally again. He pulled the trigger, but then he realized no snowballs were coming out, for he was already out of ammo. "Oh poo."
Luke smiled triumphantly, and joyously threw a big snowball to his face in revenge. "Whoo! I win the match!"
Everypony cheered for him and Discord pouted on defeat. At first he was mad, but then he said "alright alright, that was really clever Luke. Good job." Ad he patted his head like a dog.
"You know back home, my buddies call me the snowball king."
"Can't blame them. You have such an awesome aim back there." Rainbow Dash agreed, giving the human an elbow jab on his right arm.
"Oh stop it, Rainbow Dash." Luke said, flushing a little. "I don't really like to brag like you do."
"What? I don't brag that much, do I?" Rainbow said defensively. She looked at her surroundings and saw her friends whistling and having their eyes looking at another direction.
"Do we really have to be honest about that?" Pinkie said.
"Oh you guys." Rainbow said with a laugh.
It was just then, Luke suddenly felt something weird within him. He didn't really know exactly what it was, but it had something to do with Fluttershy, probably because after she saved him from getting hit with a snowball. He honestly didn't know what it was, but it was all warm and fuzzy. Not only that, but he was thinking of hearing Nox Arcana’s version of the infamous song “Scarbourough Fair”. It was not as famous as the Simon and Garfunkel’s version but it was a beautiful cover.
"Luke?" Fluttershy said, snapping him out of his train of thought. The Human nodded his head rapidly in a foolish manner, and looked at Fluttershy with a concerned look on her face. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah i’m Just fine. Why do you ask?”
“Well, you were just standing still for a minute, like a garden statue.” The yellow Pegasus stated plainly.
“Sorry, I was as just thinking about something. Nothing to worry about. Sometimes, I would be in a standstill. Come on, it’s what happens when I think of something interesting.”
“Oh, okay.”
“What were you thinking about, Sugarcube?” Asked Applejack.
“Well, it was thinking of a song to fit this weather.”
“Ooh, what kind of song?” Asked Pinkie with an eager smile.
“It’s an old folk song called “Scarborough Fair. I don’t really know who originally made it, but this cover is from a group called Nox Arcana. This version is so beautiful and haunting at the same time. Oh you guys would love to hear it.”
“What kind of place is Scarborough?” Asked Twilight. “Sounds peculiar. Something Old Ponish maybe?”
“No, it’s from Great Britain. It was sung by many singers and bands for decades, but the most famous one is from Simon and Garfunkel. But honestly, Nox Arcana has the most beautiful version of it like I said.”
“That does sound interesting.” Said Fluttershy. “Do you think you can sing it to us?”
“Yeah, I always been fascinated in music like that.” Lyra said.
“Well not now, maybe later or tomorrow.” Luke said. “For now I want to try looking around some areas near Ponyville and see how they look in the winter.”
“We understand, Luke.” Said Twilight. And they all went down the snowy fields for a little winter sightseeing around town for the rest of the day.
The Next Morning
Luke awoke, looking well rested as always. He looked outside and it was still snowing a little out there. All of a sudden, he had a quick realization that those thoughts and the song to go with it meant something.
“Uh-oh,” He thought out loud. “I think i’m In love with Fluttershy.” And his heart dropped to his feet. “What am I thinking? She’s just a good friend to me. Trying to get his head straight, he decided to go out for a little stroll in the snowy plains to think things through.
He wanted to tell Fluttershy, but he realized that the best way to not think about this whole so-called love for Fluttershy thing was not to look or talk to her at the moment. He hated to leave without telling Fluttershy knowing, but he was feeling embarrassed about this foolish thoughts.
The human humbly went out the front door in his winter garments and walked down the snowy fields.