//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: The Move // Story: Moving to Ponyville // by RexAlpha10 //------------------------------// "Come on Red, open the door, we gotta talk." says Wind Breaker. I was lying in my bed looking at the ceiling. It was two weeks after I caught my marefriend making out with some random stallion in front of her house. I didn't want to be bothered so I just tried to ignore Wind. "Okay Red if you don't open this door then I'm breaking it down." he says in a threatening voice. "Not happening." I says as I get up and walk over to the door. I heard him walk away from the door and one minute later I heard him flapping his wings. I didn't really think he was really gonna try to break down the door. I waited until I could hear that he was close enough to the door and threw it open. Two seconds later a light blue pegasus with a black mane and tail crashes into my nightstand. I helped him get up with a chuckle. "Here." he says as he hands me a sheet of paper. I gave the paper a quick skim and looked at Wind with a serious face. "Okay why are we being evicted?" I ask. He gave a sly smile. Great he did the one thing I told him not to do. "You just couldn't leave the landlord alone ,could you?" I say a little pissed. I had to admit that our landlord did look pretty hot but I knew not to mess with her because I didn't want to get kicked out. "Okay bro pack your things we're moving somewhere far from Manehattan." he says in a cheerful voice. "I've got two places to choose from," he says handing another paper with two names on it. Ponyville or Cloudsdale. "Ponyville." I say tossing the paper. There was a reason why I didn't want to go to Cloudsdale. My mom was a Wonderbolt. She was pretty good at her job too, even though she wasn't the best on the team. She passed away saving somepony in a storm. I didn't want to go because I didn't want to get pity from the other team members children. I was friends with one of them, but we didn't talk much. "Um, okay." Wind says a little confused. "Before we go, we both have to agree on something." I say. "What's that?" "For one you can't go fooling around with anyone unless that's what they want." "Wha- fine. What do you have to do?" "I'll promise to forget about the things that happened in Manehattan and MAYBE find another marefriend." once I finished he gave me a big smile. "Deal." "Okay I'll pack and meet you at the train station." I say grabbing my saddlebags. Since all the furniture belonged to the house I only packed all the bits I had, some pictures of my parents and my phone. I brushed my mane but it didn't really help since my red and black striped hair was naturally messy. After locking up the apartment I quickly flew down to the office. Standing there was a rather upset looking mare that was my landlord. I gave her the keys and flew to the train station. Wind and I boarded the train to Ponyville and fell asleep on the way there. *** After the long train ride and pretty good nap (if my back didn't hurt so much) I took a good look around to see our new home. Wind was pretty happy and so was I because I've always wondered what it was like to live in a small town like this. Ha. Wind if you try anything, everyone in town is going to know about it. "So wait, where was this house you where talking about?" I asked Wind as we flew through town. Wind told me that his dad owned a house here and that we could have it since he was living in Cloudsdale. I think the thing that got me most excited was that I didn't have to pay for a place to live. "Here we are." Wind says as he descends to the house. I quickly follow behind him. Once we got inside I walked to the couch and set my stuff down. "Pretty nice place. We have everything we need here." he says with a smile. "I call the master bedroom."I say getting up. I go inside the room and hop onto the bed. "Fine, but only since you payed for the last place we stayed at." he says standing in the doorway. "Alright you done getting comfortable because I think that we should look for a place to eat." he said as he walked away. Now that I thought about it I was really hungry. I got up and grabbed a few bits and we both headed out the door. Looking for someplace to eat was actually pretty easy. We found ourselves in front of a building that was made out of candy. The sign next to the door said Sugar Cube Corner. I looked at Wind and he looked okay with it. I was the one that had a sweet tooth so I was okay with the place we came across. "Dude I'm way too hungry to argue with you about this place." Wind said. Like I said he wasn't the one with the sweet tooth but I knew what he was talking about. We walked through the door to meet a pink mare with a puffy pink mane. She seemed energetic like she was hopped up on cider. I asked her for a few cupcakes. Once she gave them to use she said something about a party but I kind of just ignored that part. "So what do think of this place?" Wind asked smiling at me. "Well the ponies we've met so far are questionable but the food is good, if you can call cupcakes food." I say finishing my last cupcake. I hear the bell to the shop door ring and I turn my head to see who it was. It was two ponies that had entered the shop one was a purple alicorn and the other was a cyan mare with a rainbow mane and tail. "Look Rainbow all Pinkie said is that there was two new ponies in town and we, oh." the alicorn was looking at us. "Hello." was all she could say. "Hi." Wind said in response. The two mares take a seat at our table. "So you two are the new pegasi that will be living here, right." the alicorn said. "Yea, I'm Red Bolt and this is my friend Wind Breaker." I say. "I'm Twilight Sparkle and this is Rainbow Dash." she said. Rainbow Dash had a puzzled look on her face like she was trying to remember something. I just ignored it and asked Twilight a question I had on my mind since we got here. "Hey quick question, are there any jobs available for us here, we don't exactly have tons of bits with us." I say. Rainbow was quick to answer. "There's a spot on the weather team." "That's cool." I say. I was the one who worked, Wind just got money from his parents but I worked better without him around anyway. "Well you guys may want to get back to your house now so we won't keep you any longer." Twilight says.