//------------------------------// // Chp1. Arrival // Story: New guy in town // by DarkShadow95 //------------------------------// It was a very dark day in Ponyville. Rain was pouring from the heavens, followed by the wrath of lightning and thunder. It was a storm that the local weather team set up to make up for lost rainfall. But not a pony was outside, avoiding the downpour and lightning. But even with heavy rain, all the local businesses were still going, but it was a slow day with no customers. That was apparent in Sugarcube corner café, all the seats where empty, not a pony in sight. In the kitchen however was a different story. Two old ponies were rushing around place to place trying to bake, while a younger pink coated mare was trying to keep two fillies occupied with laughter. The air was filled with the dust of flour and the scent of fresh baked goods. "Pinkie? Be a dear and take Pound cake and Pumpkin cake upstairs for there nap could you?" One of the elderly pony's asked. "Okie dokie lokie!" Said Pinkie pie, the pink mare smiled. She gathered up the two fillies blowing raspberries at them as she placed them on her back. The now loaded pink mare stepped out of the kitchen, into the serving area, still talking to her passengers to keep them giggling. It was dark since the Cake's did not think a single customer was coming in today, hence why they were working in the kitchen. The darkness did not bother pinkie as she had seen the café in the dark before on similar occasions. "Now you two need to go sleepy time, so I can help mommy and daddy with Vinyl's big party order!" This made the cake twins frown from their once happy faces, to ones that were eyes started to swell and their lips tremble. Pinkie sensing what was about to happen intervened, she grabbed an open bag of flour and poured the contents over her head. sticking her tongue out as she did so making the babies giggle with delight. With her mission complete, the pink pony carried on taking the twins off to bed. As she was walking up the stairs she heard the door slam open behind her. She turned around to see who it was, but no one was in the doorway. She shrugged and assumed it was down to the storm opening the door. she went back down and closed the door, while trying to battle the resistance from the wind trying to keep it open. She eventually won shutting the door shut. She did wonder how the wind managed to open the heavy door, but she then noticed all the leaves on the floor so she would have to brush all of them up later. Pinkie went back to what she was doing, taking the fillies to sleep. She carried on her escapade and eventually got them both to sleep after singing them a very silly, yet effective lullaby that her sister used to sing to her when she was young. Once finished she made her way downstairs to start to brush up all the leaves blown in by the door. If one of those leaves got into the cupcakes, who knows what may of happened. Then again a leaf flavoured cupcake would be a new kind of cake for Sugarcube corner. She went over behind the counter and picked up a broom in her mouth. Just as she made her way around the counter something caught her eye. As one of the lightning flashes hit nearby, light poured in through the window revealing a hooded figure sitting at one of the dark booths across the room. She jumped at the sight of the single figure, just sat there with a menu in its hooves. She could not pick out any detail of the pony in question, only that it was a pony from the hooves. It sat perfectly still, with its cloak still soaking from its time out in the rain. Pinkie came to assume it was just a pony sheltering from the rain. "Ill just be with you in a minute!" Pinkie shouted when she spat out the broom. She then started to brush up the scattered leaves from the wooden floor. Once she was pleased with the leaf free floor she brought her attention to their unusual guest. Bouncing over cheerfully as she normally did, as she got closer she could see more about the hooded guest. At the base of where he was sitting where two saddlebags, which looked like the type Pegasus uses. She could still not however see from under his cloak, she could however see his dark grey fur from the hooves that still clung to the menu. "So what brings you to Sugarcube corner on a gloomy, dark, miserable, wet, boring day like today?" Pinkie quirked. But her question was not answered, The figure just stood still, It was like a statue, sat there still gazing at the menu. Eventually though the figure seemed to move under his cloak. It looked up from the dark showdown of its hood. Pinkie could tell it was now paying attention to her. Without looking the dark pony began to close and put down his menu. Pinkie now felt cold and a little scared in the way this pony moved. She started to shiver out of fear or pinkie sense, she did not know. The pony then raised both his hooves slowly and reached for his hood. It gripped on the sides, pinkie was now shivering uncontrollably. I one fluid motion the hood was swept back and the face of the dark unknown pony was reviled. Pinkie stared at the face of the pony in question. It was a stallion with a grey coat and a blue mane, but it was not the scruffy hair that made the pony look odd. It was his eyes, they were not like pony eyes they were like that of a cat. with slits for irises. Pinkie did not know what kind of pony would have such eyes. The only pony she had met in the past to have these eyes was, nightmare moon. The creature stared at her and smiled, revealing his pointed canines. Canines that could be used to eat meat, or ponies. "Hello, I'm Light Bite. Can I place an order please?" The canine pony said in a friendly manner. Pinkie stared at the pony for a second unable to react to such an unusual pony. Her light or flight response screamed at her to react, but she stayed still waiting for something to happen. "Are you okay?" The pony across her asked, outreaching a hoof to check if she was not having a complex seizure. Pinkie saw the hoof reach out for her, but her ears did not hear the words the male pony said before. Her mind was too preoccupied processing what she was seeing. Was this another nightmare? No they defeated the nightmare long ago. Her mind then screamed at her to run as the hoof edged closer slowly. Her mind came finally to one thought that added all of it up, just as the hoof made contact with her shoulder she jumped up and took in one large gulp of air and shouted "Vampire pony!" The 'vampire pony' winced at her sudden and extreme outburst, slamming back into his seat. Seeing the pony some how hold in mid jump and wave her hooves around, her limbs finally got a bearing and began to gallop away from the grey pony. She ran for the doors leading towards the kitchen. She burst through the doors now hitting hard on the breaks, she skidded across the floor heading towards a large sack of flour. She collided with the sack, sending out a cloud of flour that covered all over the kitchen. Mr and Mrs Cake looked in awe as a flour now covered all of their work, all those cakes now ruined thanks to Pinkies antics. "Pinkie!" Shouted Mr Cake. They have been used to Pinkies moments but this, crossed the line. They now had nothing to give to Vinyl's order, now they were going to lose profit. Mrs Cake then decided to have her say in the incident "Pinkie what has got into you!? I know you have your moments but this is way out of line! Even for you! what has caused you to act in such a way?" Pinkie emerged from the flour cloud, still frantic from her encounter "There is a vampire pony in the café!" She shouted. "What?" Both Cakes shouted in unison. "There is a vampire pony in the café!" Pinkie screamed, waving her hooves in the air sending more flour everywhere. The Cakes frowned at each other. They had not seen Pinkie this frantic before and she was the most strangest pony in all of Ponyville. "Pinkie there is no such thing as a vampire pony. You of all ponies should know that." Sighed Mr Cake, face hoofing himself at all of this inconvenience. "I saw him! I did I did I did!" Protested Pinkie "He is right there, in the café! He has fangs and evil eyes, like nightmare moon! We need garlic, crosses and wooden stakes, maybe silver no wait that's ware..." "Pinkie!" Interrupted Mrs cake "For the last time we are fed up of your Pinkie moments, there is no such thing as vampire-" Ding "-Ponies" The sound of the bell on the front counter broke Mrs Cake mid speech. The married ponies turned around to the swing doors that lead into the café. That was odd, a pony visiting in this weather. Maybe Pinkie did see a pony but just got a fright at the sight of the pony in the dark. Mrs Cake accepted the explanation in her head and proceeded to trot to the door when pinkie ran in front of her blocking her path to the door. "You can't go out there! He is there he will suck your blood and turn you into one of them! The pink mare blurted at a thousand miles an hour. The elderly earth pony placed a hoof on Pinkies side and swept her gently out of the way. Mr cake stepped in to contain Pinkie by holding her back. Mrs Cake resumed her trot and left Pinkie hooves in mouth, chattering away. Pinkie gasped when Mrs cake went through the doors. Mrs cake closed her eyes and put on a cheerful welcoming smile like she did to all the customers. "Hello and welcome to Sugar cube corner, how can I help you?" She cheerfully said. She did not open her eyes to see the pony she only did that when the unknown pony spoke. "Hello, can I have a apple tart and erm... an apple juice please?" The pony spoke. Mrs cake finally opened her eyes and finally looked at the pony. Soon as she got a good look at his fangs from his mellow smile, the slits in his eyes and the scruffy mane. She put all the features together and concluded in the same way as Pinkie did, that there was indeed a vampire pony in the café. Which also followed on with the exact same reaction as Pinkie. "Your a... your a..." Mrs Cake stuttered. "Bat pony, I-" started the pony. "Vampire pony!" Mrs cake then made a dash for the door barging through, making an awful racket. She slumped against the doors sealing them and was left gasping for air from her immediate physical exertion. She still had the shock running through her mind, there was a real vampire in her café! She allowed her mind to organise itself, looking now at Mr Cake who looked terrified at her wife's reaction. while Pinkie was sat down calmly smiling in victory. "See I told you so" Pinkie mused. Meanwhile in the main part of the café Light Bite the bat pony, was now slumped against the counter. This was the exact response he got from other towns. All the other ponies terrified of him, all the way from Vanhoover to Manehattan. Ponyville was the last place for his chance for his hopes and dreams. But no, all the ponies in Equestria minus his hometown, where all scared of bat ponies. Light wanted to scream there on the spot, but he could not. All the sorrow in him was so much he could not even cry, all he could do was lay there with his head on the wooden counter and let the tears roll down his cheeks. His dream of setting up a fruit salad bar was in pieces. He came from a dark place where only bat ponies could be found, Hollow shades. He grew up there with his parents and as soon as he got his cutie mark from making his triple mango volcano fruit salad, his dream had always been to start his own business. Once he was old enough he set out from home to set up his new business, but all the other bat ponies in his area warned him what may happen if he left the safety of the town. However like any young mind, he ignored their advice and set off through the forest, in search of his dream. Whenever he got to a town though all the ponies ran from him or ignored him, he search around Equestria looking for the best place to start his business without being persecuted but to no success. One day however he had overheard ponies talk of Ponyville and how friendly everypony was. It was his last chance to make a dream reality, so he set off walking day and night all the way to Ponyville. Only when he got there it was just the same as all the others, fear and loneliness. So Light Bite slumped there, crying confused what to do next. He had no purpose now. He slowly got up and went back to where he was sat before. Put on his still wet cloak and saddle bags letting tears drip a small wet path behind him. He made his way to the door outside, he opened the door. He was not welcome here, he was welcome no where. Now it was just time to go home, quest over. Just as he was about to step outside, a pink head popped out of the double doors of the kitchen. Pinkie had been sneakily watching the pony for a few minutes now and saw how sad he was. Even she had felt sad, she knew no pony should be sad. After all she was the element of laughter, so it was her duty to make everypony happy but now she may of made this pony sad, even if he was a vampire pony. He did not deserve to be unhappy or sad. Pinkie's mane deflated slightly and she frowned at what she may of done. She returned to the kitchen once she saw the sad pony step out into the pouring rain and shut the door behind him. She had shattered a pony's dream.