Ch 23. An owl on my head.
There must be one hell of a lot of bits in this bag, but I shouldn’t get my hopes up. Even if there is a lot in here I’m still going to use most of it to pay of my debt. What I am going to is use some of the bits to buy a couple of treats for myself.
I walk towards Ponyville, already hearing the sounds of the small town. I would like to meet Twilight too, but she’s got a thing for staying in Canterlot. Maybe I could ask Spike when she would be returning.
I enjoy the sounds of nature, ponies and other things I can’t quite place as I walk into Ponyville. Walking past many carts I play a little game with myself. I try to name as many of the ponies I see. I get far and can name a lot of the ponies, but different to the show, I don’t see to many duplicates.
I walk into Sugar Cube Corner and sit down into one of the booths. Sugarcube Corner consists of a counter, manned by Pinkie, and a couple of booths, most of them occupied by other ponies.
Pinkie hops over to me. “Hi, Leo, what can I do for you?”
I haven’t been here before, so I have no idea. “Surprise me.” I say to her. Immediately I can see the gears turning in her head. She thinking of something and I am either going to regret it or love it. She looks baffled for a second and then goes back to her cheery self as she hops back to the kitchen.
I sit there, looking at ponies pass by, waiting for my food to arrive. I occasionally see some more ponies that I recognize, but I don’t think that I can go up to them and talk with them. I would like to see if the fancanon is right, but getting stuck in a time vortex isn’t my idea of a nice day out.
As I stare out of the window I feel a tap on my back. I turn around and see a bouncing Pinkie with a large platter of food on my back. “Here is your food.” She places the large platter in front of me. “Enjoy!” She says to me as she hops to the booth next to me.
The plate in front of me consist of 7 bananas, 21 scoops of ice-cream, 3 ounces of chocolate sauce, 42 cacao beans, 17 ounces whipped cream and one cup of coffee. It is a lot; how am I going to finish this all by myself.
Luckily there is help in the form of Rainbow who flies against the window with a loud bonk. She gives a sheepish smile as she walks into the store and notices me.
“Hey, Wings, what are you doing here?” She says as she sits on the opposite side of the booth. I shove the platter aside so that I can look at her without having to look around it. “Aren’t you supposed to be bucking apple trees?”
“Nah, she let me off the leash. She even gave a small bag of bits to get something for myself.” I say as I put the bag on the table.
“Nice, but why did you order all of this.” She says as she points to the massive amount of food in front of me.
“I guess that I was a mistake to say, surprise me, but at least I don’t have to eat it all alone.”
“Huh, what do you mean?”
I grabbed the two spoons that she gave with the platter. “I think Pinkie has a foreseeing eye.” I hoof her a spoon and she starts digging in almost immediately.
After a few minutes she emerges, her face covered in ice-cream, and she wipes the ice-cream of off her mouth with a hoof. “This tastes good.” She looks at the large cavern she had dug in the ice-cream mountain. “Would you like some too?”
“Nah, I’ll stick to the coffee and bananas.” I say as I grab the cup and start dipping the banana in it. “You can have the ice-cream, beans and cream.”
She grins and ditches the spoon. She plants her face in the cave and starts eating away. A lot of ice-cream flies away from out table and we get a couple of mean looks from the other customers. Rainbow doesn’t care and continues to spread ice-cream throughout the store.
When all the ice-cream is gone and the bananas have been dissolved in the coffee I take the empty platter back to the counter. “Thanks for the food, Pinkie. Rainbow and I enjoyed it a lot. How much is it?”
“You silly filly. You don’t have to pay.” She says as she grabs the platter and puts it underneath the counter. “It’s another Welcome-To-Ponyville-Party gift.”
“Wow, thanks, but I would like to do something for you in return.” I look around the store to see if anything needs to be done. The large amount of ice-cream tingles my common sense. “Maybe I can help clean up when the shop is closed.”
“Sure, see you this afternoon.” She chirps as she walks towards another booth, helping some other customers.
I walk over to Rainbow, who has cleaned her face by now, and say that I’ll go visit the library. She says that Twilight still is in Canterlot, but I still want to visit. So she gives up and flies off, probably to sleep in a tree.
I walk through the town, glad that I didn’t eat all of the ice-cream otherwise I wouldn’t be able to do anything, but lay somewhere.
I walk up to the library and discuss with myself if I should knock or not. I knock a couple of times and Spike opens the door of the library.
“Hey, Leo, how are things going?” He says as I follow him into the library.
“Good, I just had lunch at Sugar Cube Corner with Rainbow. Pinkie gave us a jumbo platter of ice-cream, so there was enough for the two of us.”
“Typically Pinkie.” Spike says as he puts a couple of books in the bookcase. “So what are you looking for?”
“Something on basic magic. I need to freshen up a bit on the basics.” I say, a bit nervous. I hope that Spike will fall for the ruse; otherwise I will have to expand on the network of lies.
I hear a hoot coming from behind me. I feel something on my head and look up. Owlowiscious is sitting on top of my head.