//------------------------------// // Day 3 // Story: Winning her heart // by BronyZone //------------------------------// It was very early in the morning. Luna was lowering the moon while Celestia was rising the sun, some ponies were opening up their shops, Mr. Worm had just risin from the ground to sing its earthy song, only to be swooped away by a bird. Ben was sleeping peacefully on the couch with his puppy sleeping on his face. The puppy was dreaming of wonderful things a dog would dream of, chasing squirrels and chew toys. The puppy's legs started moving as if running and this woke Ben up. "Hmm?" Ben couldn't see anything due the pup being in his face and took him off his face. "Now when did you get on my face?" Ben placed down the pup on the couch, making sure not to wake him up. He looked at him and watched as the pup dreamt of running in a field of squirrels. "Aww he's so cute when he's sleeping." Ben got up and went to the kitchen. He got himself a muffin that he bought from his best friend Ditzy. "Man Derpy makes the best muffins ever." Ben said as he was chewing. He took another bite and saw his puppy walk in and drink some water from his dog bowl. "I have got to think of a name for you, but what would be a good name for you?" Ben thought as he grabbed another muffin. Ben accidentally dropped the muffin and the pup went to it. The pup sniffed at it and ate it "Hey I was gonna eat that." Ben said as he watched the pup eat the muffin. Ben got another and took a bite out of it. The pup barked at Ben because he wanted the muffin he was holding. "What is it?" Ben looked at his muffin then back at the pup. "Oh no, this is my muffin." The pup gave him a face no pony could resist. "Alright fine take it." Ben gave the pup his muffin. The pup barked with joy and proceeded to eat the muffin. "Boy, you sure do love muffins, hey that's a good name for you, muffin." Muffin looked up at him and barked with joy. Ben proceeded on with his morning routines, and went to the shower. He finished his shower, dried himself off and fixed his mane. He went downstairs and saw Muffin running around. "Well I guess your a little ball of energy, maybe I should take you for a walk." Ben got a leash he bought for Muffin and placed it on him. "Alright boy let's go." He and Muffin for a walk in the park. -----25 minutes later----- "Muffin, how did you even get yourself stuck in a tree? I only turned around for 3 seconds." Ben then flew up and grabbed muffin, however muffin wiggled a bit. because he didn't wanna go down. Muffin instead wanted to "chat" with his new squirrel buddies. However Ben managed to get muffin off the tree and back onto the ground. "Now, I hope that this doesn't happen again." Ben placed muffin down, Muffin looked back at Ben with a annoyed face. "Hey I was just trying to get you down the tree and away from the squirrels, for all you know they might have rabies." The squirrels threw their acorns at Ben along with some rocks they had collected. "Ow, ow ok I take it back" the squirrels stopped at went back to chewing on acorns. Ben brushed his mane which was full of acorns and pebbles. Muffin ignored Ben and started walking. "Hey wait up." Ben grabbed the leash and followed muffin. As they continued to walk along the path they heard birds chirping and rabbits rabbiting and the trees were......treeing, in the nest behind them, Mr. Worn had escaped the baby birds and went back to his home. In the distance Ben and muffin could see a cottage on a small hill. "Hmm, you know muffin, I've lived here for a while and I've always wondered who's lived there." Muffin looked back at him and barked. "You know what? How about we go find out." Ben took Muffin to the cottage on the hill unaware, it was fluttershy cottage. When he reached the door of the cottage he knocked. Ben heard some latches unlock and the door opened, and was greeted by fluttershy. "Oh hello Ben, what brings you here?" Fluttershy asked, right before she saw his new puppy. She gasped in excitement and picked Muffin up. "He's such a cutie, what's his name?" Fluttershy asked. "His name is Muffin" Ben said, hoping it wouldn't make him seem like an idiot for naming his dog after a food. "What an adorable name for him" Fluttershy nuzzled Muffin and gave him a biscuit. Muffin licked Fluttershys face in joy and ate the biscuit. "Oh um, I'm sorry if you came to visit me but I'm leaving in a few minutes. Twilight called me over to her house. You're welcome to come back later, if that's ok with you I mean." Fluttershy said as she placed Muffin down. "Ok then, I'll see you later then" Muffin didn't wanna leave Fluttershy. "Come on Muffin we gotta go, Fluttershy is leaving in a bit" Muffin turned to Ben and walked to him. They then continued their walk around town. -----45 minutes later----- Muffin was sitting next to Ben who was eating a Muffin at a table, at Sugar Cube Corner. Mr worm was rolling down the street with a apple while a orange mare was chasing after him. "Y'all come back here with that!" She yelled as she continued to chase Mr worm. Ben handed Muffin a muffin and took a sip of his coffee. "Well that was random" Ben grabbed another muffin but Muffin jumped up and snatched it from his hooves. Before Ben could say anything, Muffin had already gobbled it up. He sighed as he got up to go order another muffin. He walked over to the counter and ordered another muffin from Pinkie. He never really knew Pinkie that well but to him something always told him don't go into the basement. After waiting a few minutes Pinkie gave him his muffin. Ben went back outside only to see muffin had managed to get off his leash and run away. He dropped his muffin and grabbed the leash in shock. Ben looked around trying to find Muffin. What he didn't know was that Muffin was actually inside Sugar Cube Corner's kitchen eating all the muffins and other baked goods, minus the chocolate.