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// Chapter 3 
// Story: Maybe for the... 
// by Fat1thatyoulove 
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Chapter 3 – This is my …WHAT!?

As the big marble building comes into view you’re again amazed at what you are seeing. There are two flights of stairs leading up to a large glass opening doors, to each side of the walk way up there are four sets of large columns that reach up to the overhang of the building. On the second flight of stairs there sits a large stone figure of a unicorn reading a book.  You look over the outside of the building one last time before you follow Twilight and Spike inside, you can’t believe ponies can build these things, you feel a little embarrassed that sometimes you still have trouble walking but yet ponies can build well this.

As you follow Twilight into the building you again feel your jaw drop, to your right there is a normal checkout counter with a yellow unicorn behind it. But in front of you there is a two floored vast array of books and shelves everywhere, each aisle has a moveable ladder to reach the top of the self, which makes you wonder how many books are actually in this library. As you wall to the middle of the room you turn your body around to see that the top floor hangs over the entrance. You look straight up to the circular sunroof that sheds light in, you can’t tell if it’s the light reflecting off the clear stander Contort marble floor or the vast amount of colored ponies around the room but the library gives off a joyfully atmosphere.

Twilight gives you a nudges, “ya, Ponyville library does not even compare.”  You look over her face as she stares around the room, you don’t like books and a library is not the first place you would have picked but this place is nice.

Twilight pulls out a list from her bag, “Ok, time for business, we need to find any and all books about magic and magical side effects.”

Your thoughts drift from the beauty of the room as the words sink in…I’m going to be a statue pony in a book by the end of the day. Your mouth feels dry just thinking about it.

She folds it back into the bag, “Ok, Spike you two start down here, I’m going to go upstairs and look around.” She playfully taps you as she talks, “Don’t worry these books are probably not enchanted.”

“You can count on me Twilight.” Spike dips into the bag and takes the list from it as he studies over it.

You watch as Twilight walks away and you think, thanks Twi because a probably not cursed kind of thing is always reassuring. As you watch her walk away your eyes drift down to her backside, you’re quick to hike them up as Spike talks at you, “Ok seeing as how I am the number one assistant I am the boss ok?”

You look over the two foot purple dragon in front of you, “Rainbow’s right you did look better pink.”

Spike gives a nervous laugh as he scoots away from you, “Come on.”

You follow Spike down the aisles of the bookshelves as he calls out names of the books you should be looking for. But you’re too focused on commenting on the titles of the books you walks past, after a few moments Spike’s voice becomes a distant call. But this only seems to help your mind as you look over the books in front of you.

Babe the sheep, you give a laugh at the title “HA, spin off.” Road to nowhere, read it. You continue to glance at the titles, Time shiftier you hoof the book to yourself as you read the back, The evil scientist known as Lab Rat has made a time machine and is now treating to overthrow the empire by using the past against the future….  “What section am I in?” You look up to the sign above the aisle, fiction.

You put the book back and continue to read the titles you pass by, Dr. Sass's the pony in a boot, you chuckle a little at the title. Small stallion is small, you stare at the book for a moment, “Ha, Great name.” you continue down the aisle, First impressions, Fading Rainbow, The return of a Prince. You give a glance in front of you as you talk, “Hey Spike what are we…” It’s at this moment you realized Spike is no longer near you, “Spike?!”

You hear a famine voice behind you, “Shhh.”

It’s the yellow unicorn from the front of the desk.

You sheepishly slink out of the aisle as you enter the next one, this time you are a bit more quiet as you call for Spike, “Spike?” As you poke your head in and out of each aisle the ponies in them give you a dirty look, and each time you have to awkwardly apologize, which in all honesty you don’t know why you are doing this.

At the start of the sixth aisle you stop calling out for Spike and decide to go back to staring at book titles. You glance at the first book, Magic for derpys… your face losses it’s enthusiasm as you look at the tile again…why are you everywhere? You look up to see what section you’re in…fiction, “yep seems legit.”

You continue to study the tiles as you move past them, Demon days, MAybe always… as your eyes meet the next book The Three Little Ponies. You jump back at the titles name. But as you jump back you hit something and crash into the bookshelf behind you. The books from the shaken shelve all seem to find their mark atop your head as they fall one by one leaving a sharp jabbing pain in your head as you rub it after the assault of the suicide books.

“You okay?”

Your left eye is closed as you look to the male voice beside you, “Ya, I’m fine.”

A Blue unicorn stands next to you holding his hoof out waiting for you to grab hold, when you grab hold of him he apologies as he brings you to your hooves, “Ya sorry about that I was trying to put a book back but I seemed to have let the ladder to close to the walk way.”
You continue to rub your head as the blue pony talks, “Sorry where are my manners, my name is Night Light.” 

You hold back a laugh as you say your name.

He looks at the mess around the floor for a moment, “That’s an interesting name for an earth pony.” He looks again at the mess around you both,  “We should get out of the aisle before Ms.Worldly sees what we did to her book self. “

You follow the blue unicorn to another aisle just as the yellow librarian enters the aisle behind you, you hear a small yell from the aisle but you and Night Light have already ducked into another hallway. The unicorn stops as he talks, “I got to ask why is an earth pony messing around in a library of all places.”

You find the comment kind of weird but you answer anyways, “I’m here getting some books with my special somepony.” You give a little smile to your sentence, you don’t know why you wanted to say that but it makes you happy you did.

“Special somepony?” he gives a laugh before he continues talking, “Hearts and hooves day is over.”

You stare at him a little confused.

He stops his laughing for a moment, “oh ya, sorry I keep forgetting that stuff doesn't mean the same thing as when I was a colt.” He floats a book out from a blue satchel that hangs around him and places it on the bookshelf behind you, “Back in my day special somepony only meant that for the night.”

You feel a little uncomfortable at the turn in the conversation, great Night Light is some perv pony…should have guessed from the two moon cutie mark. You give a smile to your thought as you listen to the pony talk.

“Where did you say you were from?”

Your thoughts don’t immediately drift to Ponyville but you blurt it out figuring it would be easier to explain then a place with two legged apes, “Ponyville.”

He laughs before talking, “Oh well you should know all about special someponys there.” He nudges you what’s the ratio like five to one?”

You swallow as you think about it, you never did see couples until hearts and hooves day. “ya something like that.”

“Hey if you live there then you probably know…”

“Dad!”

You hear Twilight’s voice behind you and in a moments time the bolt of purple that is her dashes over to Night light into a hug.

“Twilight, your brother said you were in town, what took you so long to come to the library?”

Twilight breaks her dads hug as she walks closer to you, “we have been in the castle ever since Discord broke free again.”

Night light looks at you then back to Twilight, “Who’s we?”

Twilight clears her throat as she hoofs to you, “dad I would like you to meet my…” she pauses at the word, and your heart skips a beat as your mind screams oh shit don’t say it. “…colt friend.”

Your heart jumps back into place at the sound of the word…wait what does that mean? You give a quick look to Night light; his smile has faded as he stares at you. You smile back to him and give an awkward wave as you think to yourself, great this is how I die.

End of chapter 3