//------------------------------// // Day 84, A New Beginning. (3) // Story: Quiet Days // by AlphaDidAlotOfThings //------------------------------// August 13th, 2015 Dear Journal, Today was the official founding of both our colonies! (Our one united colony? Insert dramatic medieval trumpets here.) We finished unpacking and setting up the very small amount of things we had, and the first thing to do was go into town and document EVERYTHING! Courtesy of Blake, he split our group up based on "work efficiency and relationships" in his words. Which somehow involved putting John and Joseph in the same group together. (Or the "oaf" as Joseph calls him) I'm just not even gonna say what's wrong with that, just not even gonna say it. Seriously, I don't get him, he's so weird… Did he just want to see them argue or something? So weird.. But uh anyway, we came back together for lunch later. (Thanks for that, Alyssa and Sky!) The town once called Paris isn't that big of a town, much like my group's old place. There's a couple machine shops here and some construction employer places(?) or whatever you call them. That's good, we're gonna need construction materials for everything we're gonna do here. So, we can (obviously) have John work on anything that requires heavy lifting, and maybe Adrian- No, he always keeps that wing of his in a wrap, it's probably injured or something. He can't help. It probably doesn't help that Pegasi aren't all that strong physically, me included. Maybe Joseph can help since he's so good at magic. And Alyssa and Moriah can too if they want to, I'll ask them later. So there's the construction crew… Cloudy Skies can work with the animals since she's good at that, and Oliver with plants… Blake can just do his thing. And me, and Day…. We'll do whatever we can. Ugh, I hate this. Oh crap, I got off topic didn't I? Sorry about that. There's plenty of housing here, we'll need that if we ever get more ponies. (We will.) And there's a primary and a secondary school, and a hospital too. God, this town is absolutely perfect for our colony. Baby, we're all set! We found barely any solar systems, maybe only a few. That's no good… Day says she's planning an expedition to get some soon. My god, I'm getting too into the "work mindset." Never thought I'd see the day where I'd do that. Setting everything back up is gonna be a pain in the flank, but in time we'll have ourselves a nice little village. (town?) In time… After all that we had a meeting, with all eleven of us. We needed a name for our new little community. Day came up with one of the most stupid and unoriginal ones yet "Nueve Angles." Seriously, and I thought my names were stupid… Alexandria. That's the name, or one of them at least. Day didn't like it. Personally, I think it's fine! It does seem kinda stupid to name something after her though… Everyone else liked it though, seriously even Moriah liked it. So that's one of the names. On the other hoof, I came up with something way better. Mimiris! Much better than Alexandria, right? It's a REALLY REALLY long story but it's named after Hoddmimis Holt, the wood Lif and Lifthasir survived ragnarok in and Mimir in norse mythology. So, without further ado, welcome to Alexandria and Mimiris! Our new home, and united colony! Alyssa thought the name was stupid, of course she did… But everyone seemed fine with it, for the most part at least. After all that I made everyone gather outside in front of the house and using a camera I stole borrowed from a store, I took a group photo of us! "Move over you oaf." Joseph said to Jonathan. The big oaf simply returned the favor by calling Joseph a similar dumb "nickname" and scooting over "As you wish, Glowjoe." Meanwhile Oliver and Blake were uh, getting along "well." As usual. Well, I can see someone's happy." Blake just looked at blankly. "You're weird." "Not as weird as you." "Here, let me just…" Madeline tried to make room for Sky as she stood next to her. "N-No no, it's okay. You're good." She replied with a bright smile. Alright, looks like everyone's in their places… "Is everyone ready?" "As ready as I'll ever be!" Moriah yelled, Alyssa added on a little "Yup!" onto it too. But wait, someone was missing! "C'mon, you too!" It was of course, none other than Adrian. "Wait, Wha-" unfortunately, he found himself cut off as both Bliss and Day forcefully dragged him into the group photo. "Alright, now for real this time, is everyone ready!" Most of them shot understanding nods or just said "yes." Alright, just gotta finish setting up the camera… "Okay, say cheese!" Bliss Flower and Lonely Day both quickly rejoined with the group's and stood in front so they actually get in the photo because of their heights. Now, 1,2,3… Snap! A group photo of everyone was taken, everyone smiling… That was probably the happiest Bliss- No, not just her all of them had been in their lives. And there… I took a group photo of all eleven of us. Let me just take that one off, and… Done, it's on the journal. Everyone looks so happy… After that we threw ourselves a huge party in celebration of our colony and our future! Got everything we need, courstey of the nearby Walmart we raided. (Sorry about that…) I had some alcohol during that. Joseph told me. "Kids shouldn't be drinking at this hour." But I don't care, I'm an adult, a fully fledged adult! And he's not my dad! John just HAD to say something about it, because he just HAD to. "He's right you know." Seriously, these two went from arguing every two milliseconds to ganging up on me! How??? I don't remember much of the party because uh… I may have gotten a tiny bit drunk… Okay, I lied. I got VERY drunk. God, I still have a headache. Maybe I'll have Oliver look at it tomorrow… Nopony would tell me what happened or what I did. Nopony, absolutely nopony. The closest thing I got to an answer was John telling me "You don't wanna know…" with a little chuckle. I think I should've listened to him and Joseph… But guess what Sky showed us after! She led somewhere with a decent amount of space and took off. She flew! She bucking flew! Woo! Go Sky! I guess my expert teaching got her somewhere after all. You wouldn't guess who also knows how to fly too. Blake! He went with us and showed us. It wasn't really flying, it was more like a flutter, like when I first started. But he's getting there! I practically threw myself in bed after all that, that was alot of action for one day. It was fun though… I liked it. Never thought I would see myself saying I like having friends but here we are. After four months, we've gone through so much from becoming a pony to having our lives threatened by a secret organization to going to another world… We've all been through alot. I might be a magical equine, I might not have my mom with me, but there's one thing I do have. Friends, friends who'll stick by our sides to the very end, no matter what. The least we can do is move on towards the future, for our the families we lost, for each other, and for ourselves. Press on, no regrets! This isn't just a new beginning for just us, the HPI, or Equestria, this is a new beginning for all of us! So, as always this is Bliss Flower, bye! I wonder what the future has in store for us… - Bliss Flower