Day 1 Arrival
As the train pulled into the station The Wraith’s presence was met with a mixed response, and by mixed response he meant eighty five percent ran away with screams of terror! The Wraith lifted his arm up and smelled himself!
Eh I probably should get this suit washed! He thought to himself.
Another eleven percent fainted while one mint green mare look like she just keeled over and died from what looked like excitement? Whilst being dragged into a house by a cream colored mare with a blue and pink mane...
Something ain't right about that, on a side note I wonder how health insurance works here if it even exists or is a thing at all, if it isn't then the princess and I may have to discuss over some concerns I have! He pondered.
The last four percent were three foals and spike that were left in the dust, one was a yellow filly with a red bow in her mane that had a slight discoloration to her eyes but he marked it up as probably allergies since the town was surrounded by plant life but he could shake the feeling that something was off. The other was a white filly with some interesting color choices in her mane.
Well ain't that the spitting image of lucky charms’s unicorn cereal, god damn it. He deadpanned
There stood spike waving his claw in the air with a goofy smile on his face and there was a small pegasus filly there with an orange coat and a purple ish mane, though her wings looked oddly too small for her body.
Hmm, must be some form of genetic disorder, might be something to look into however if the effects are not reversible then there might be a way around that I could fix! He theorized.
All six mares looked at the chaos and then at each other in the wake of their arrival!
Twilight looked up to Wraith.
“I’m sure they’ll warm up to you eventually!”
“It's fine, now where did you say town hall was again?” The Wraith sighed.
Apple jack pointed her hoof into the village.
“The center of town.” AppleJack stated.
“Lead the way.” The Wraith motioned his hand towards them.
As the girls and the Wraith made their way to the town hall they were met with the barren open streets. Along the way, even some of the vegetable stalls which were conveniently closed that made the trek a pitiful sight!
This is ridiculous, in a way it reminds me of kakariko village from twilight princess after the villagers were either murdered or fled to the safety of hyrule castle, but I don't see any shadow creatures around so I highly doubt that. However, what caused this village to have such, well… for lack of a better word PTSD around newcomers, something must have triggered for this to be a thing, well looks like I do have things to investigate in this town after all!
As they came to the front of the town hall, The Wraith had walked into his first issue, quite literally!
“Ah… Damnit!” groaned the Wraith as he walked into the door frame and fell flat on his ass.
“Wraith are you alright!” twilight asked.
“Yeah I’m fine, that's the last time I lose focus!” The Wraith remarked.
“When we get things settled the first thing on my list is to get a door frame that is friendly to my height!” the Wraith said as he pointed to the door.
“I can see that being an issue!” Rarity said from beyond the door frame!
“Well, while I am here, does anyone know why this is a thing to begin with?” The Wraith motioned to the deserted town behind him!
“Ah am sure it was sumthin that happened a while ago but ah can't rightly recall what it is!”
“Well nothing is gonna get done while I sit here like a fool, let's head inside!” The Wraith said getting back up.
As they came in the building there sat the receptionist, who looked as sick as a dog! The sight alone immediately got The Wraiths attention.
“Excuse me mam are you alright?” he asked with concern.
The receptionist looked up at the Wraith with a bit of a shock but didn't bother moving, which the Wraith concluded she was too sick to be scared at the moment.
“I’m trying to ... but it's hard!” she said while coughing in between her sentences.
“You sit tight I’m gonna go talk to your boss, you’re in no shape to be working right now.” The Wraith said to the receptionist!
“Thank you!” she said!
“It’s no problem, I’m just doing my job!” The Wraith said confidently!
Where's a union rep when you need one! The Wraith questioned.
The Wraith looked behind him to see the girls looking at him with awe, except Rarity whose eyes turned into hearts for whatever reason!
That doesn't look healthy, like at all! The Wraith thought with a bit of unease.
“What are all of you waiting for, lets go!” The Wraith said with a smidge of annoyance!
All of them shook themselves out of their state and went up stairs to the mayor’s office!
When all of them made it to the mayor’s door the Wraith moved his fist to the door to knock but was stopped by Twilight.
“Probably should let me do this so we don't have a repeat of the train station!”
Twilight took the lead and knocked on the door with her magic!
“Mayor Mare, its me Twilight, the girls and I have brought over somepony thats looking for a place to live here in Ponyville!”
Seriously she's called mayor mare, what's next stalin stallion? The Wraith deadpanned!
“Come in Twilight!” the Mayor called.
The door opened and the girls poured in with the Wraith the last one in!
“Mayor Mare, I’d like to introduce to you the Wraith!” Twilight motioned.
The Wraith entered the room to the absolute surprise of the mayor.
“Oh my, aren't you a tall one!” the mayor said with awe!
“Now that's a new one, I’ll have to write that down somewhere!”
“So your the one I have heard all the fuss about!”
“Fuss regarding what, exactly?”
“Oh that you are the one that flew into town on a black dragon late at night and had the town’s ponies in a panic!”
Wait dragon? He thought to himself confused.
“You can ride a dragon?” asked Rainbow Dash…
“You rode into town on a dragon!” stammered twilight!
“You’re friends with a dragon?” Rarity said in aw
“A wheel fell off the wagon?” Pinkie Pie shouted!
Everyone looked at pinkie who was humming a tune at the time!
Oh wait, she's referring to the night wing… The Wraith thought after putting it together!
I guess at a glance from a distance away it could look like a dragon! The Wraith summarized.
“Actually no that is something else entirely that came with me!” the Wraith explained!
“However, we are getting off track here Twilight told me that you could help me with finding a property that I could settle down in!” the Wraith explained.
The mayor shook herself out of her stupor and then spoke.
“Oh, right then…”
“Let me see what we have here!”
“What exactly are you looking for?’
“To be honest something that's not too far out of town but still within the border that I wouldn’t be able to bother anyone.”
“Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a house available at the moment, I’m terribly sorry about that!” The mayor said with a frown.
“It's fine, I was expecting as much but while I have you here is there some kind of flu going around?” The Wraith inquired.
“No, why?” The mayor answered back puzzled.
“Well your secretary is as sick as a dog downstairs!” The Wraith said motioning his hand to the door leading downstairs!
“That's preposterous. She was fine twenty minutes ago when she went on lunch.” the mayor stated making her way downstairs in disbelief that her secretary would be that sick!