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// The apple farmer 
// Story: A Pony for a Day 
// by phillipphoenix 
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I didn’t have more unpleasant dreams that night. In fact I had a very nice dream, though I can’t really remember it, like most dreams disappear when waking up. Fluttershy woke me, by opening the windows, so the sun shun upon me and I could hear all the birds sing their songs outside. It was a beautiful day outside. When I opened my eyes Fluttershy greeted me with a smile (one of the small cute ones). She was slightly hovering next to the bed.
“Good morning sleepyhead.”, she said.
I smiled back at her.
“I don’t hope you’ve had anymore bad dreams.”, she said
“I haven’t. I have been sleeping tight.” I said.
“I took the liberty of making some breakfast for you, if you want any?”, she asked.
I nodded and smiled again, while she placed a plate full of white flowers on my lap. At first I looked at it, with a frown on my face. But everypony ate things like this, I reckoned, so I might as well give it a try. I did and it tasted good. I didn’t think that plants of such sorts could taste good, but this one did. Maybe it was, because I was a pony, but at the moment I couldn’t test that. I was hungry as a mule (no offence) and I quickly emptied the plate.

Fluttershy had landed next to the bed and stood watching, while I ate. When finished she took my plate and went downstairs to the kitchen. When she came back up, she asked me:
“The weather is nice. Would you like to sit outside, while I go shopping?”
“Sure”, I replied
She was about to pull off the blanket, but I held it back, because I noticed, I hadn’t any clothes on. Fluttershy looked and me and asked:
“Don’t you want to go outside? It’s all right if you just want to stay here you know.”
“It’s more like... I have no clothes on, and humans have no mane or coat, so we always go in clothes to not show our... stuff”, I said with a low voice, feeling embarrassed.
“I see”, she said, “but you are a pony now, so you have coat.”
I couldn’t disagree, so I let her pull the blanket off. She helped me out of bed. I still felt naked without clothes, but nevertheless “nothing” was visible. I just had to get over it. I leaned against her, as we went down the stairs. She felt warm. In the garden behind the house, Fluttershy had a small table and a pair of chairs I was placed there.
“Here is the book you wanted to read”, she said.
I had already forgotten about the book, but gladly took it, when she handed it to me. After all, I couldn’t just sit here doing nothing... But then again. Everything was new. This was the first time, I could really sit and look at Equestria. I leaned back in the chair and Fluttershy waved me off, as she set off from the ground and flew towards the small village in the distance.
“It must be Ponyville”, I thought.
I looked a long time at Ponyville. There was so much to see. I also watched Fluttershy’s animals. Many of them jumped about freely. They must be happy to be here, since they don’t go away. At first many of them seemed as shy as their caretaker, but as time passed, some of the bunnies came closer and looked at me. I also looked towards, what I thought to be the Everfree Forest. It seemed so quiet, but I knew from the series, that many dangerous animals lived there. I sat back and closed my eyes. I felt the wind gently passing by and the sun warm my face. It was a beautiful day.

I hadn’t been sitting with my eyes closed for more than a few minutes, before I could hear hooves against the dirt road. I opened them and looked towards Ponyville. I soon saw two ponies coming towards Fluttershy’s cottage. Of course one of them was Fluttershy, but she had taken one of her friends with her. I soon recognised the other pony as Applejack. She had her bright orange coloured body and blond mane. She walked alongside Fluttershy and soon I could also hear them speak. Or rather I could hear Applejack speak, since Fluttershy was first heard, when they were almost at the house. She said something to Applejack and pointed at me and went indoors. She probably wanted to put away the shopping wares. Applejack went straight for the garden gate and went to greet me:
“Howdy!”, she said, “Mah’ name is Applejack! What’s your name?”
“Hi, my name is Phillip.” I said, “A pleasure to meet you”.
“The pleasure is on my side.” she returned.
She placed herself next to me on the other chair and sat there for a moment before asking:
“I heard that you ain’t a pony for real. Is that the honest truth?”
“It is, or it definitely was. It really looks like I have become a pony.” I answered.
“Any idea how that could happen?” She asked.
“No idea, but Twilight is on the case.”
“Well she’ll find a solution for sure. She always does.” Applejack said and then continued,
“Anyhooves, you’ll be welcome at Sweet Apple Acres at any time, if you want to pass by.”
I thanked her and showed my appreciation with a smile. She smiled back and then looked around at the small animals.

We sat there for a few moments just slurping the sun and enjoyed the good weather. Fluttershy came out of her cottage with a tray with three cups. Se put them down on the table and fetched another chair, so she could sit down herself.
“I made you all a cup of tea. I thought you might like that.” She said.
Both Applejack and I thanked her for the tea and took our cup. I with a lot more difficulty than both Applejack and Fluttershy. Applejack saw me struggling with the cup and released a little laugh before she noted,
“You need help with that?”
“No thanks.” I added, “I’m just usually used to having hands to grab things. I still have to get used to not having hands and fingers.”
“So ya’ll serious about you not being a pony?” She asked.
“Yeah. I have been here for a little more than a day and before that, I were a human you see.”
“Geee I thought ya’ll were playing tricks with me.” She added.
I could see on Applejack’s face that she was surprised to get it confirmed. But I think she took it alright. She seemed very kind and honest, which were also her main traits according to the show. Fluttershy and I hadn’t drunk more than half our cup of tea, before Applejack finished her last drop and said,
“I have to get back to the farm for now. I have some apple trees to tend to.”
She nodded as a gesture of goodbye and went away. (Twilight also nodded as to say goodbye, so I thought it was best to remember this for later use).
I looked at Fluttershy. She just took a sip of her tea, when I said,
“Applejack seems like a nice friend to have.”
“She is.” she said, “She oftens help me out, with my little animal friends. They sometime tends to get... excited... and often during springtime.”
I couldn’t resist smiling. It was a little weird to hear the ponies talk about mating (even if it weren’t between ponies or humans). I myself had only read very few of the shipping stories on the Internet. I hadn’t quite gotten used to the connection between romance/sex and ponies.

Some time had elapsed and we had eaten a nice lunch, which went a little better than beforehand. It still took long for me to eat anything other than soup, since I could just drink that. After lunch I asked Fluttershy, if we could go see Twilight, to see if she had found an answer. But only if she would be willing to take me, since I still needed someone to lean against, to really walk. She was okay with it and she told me, that she had had a nice time talking with me. Also she said that she might ask Twilight about, where I would be staying, since we didn’t know how long I would be here, or at least not before we had visited Twilight.