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// Chapter 4: A Party? For Me? 
// Story: Silver's New Beginning 
// by Silver The Hedgepony 
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"Well seeing as your new it looks like I'll have to give you an official Ponyville welcome!" Pinkie said giggling and she hopped around in circles around Silver.
"Oh I... Don't think that will be necessary thank you Pinkie..." Silver said shyly standing back up on his hooves and dusting himself off. "Don't be silly! I have to be friends with ALL the ponies in Ponyville!" She said quickly pulling a cannon from behind her.
"What?.... May I ask.... Is that?" Silver said with a greatly confused look on his face. "It's my party cannon! I never leave home without it!" Pinkie said still as giggly and happy. Silver soon started thinking to himself "I hope not all of the residence here are like this.... I don't think I'll last.."
Just as soon as he tried gathering his thoughts however a loud shot from the cannon went off and Silver was soon covered in confetti.
"Look miss Pinkie im sorry but this really isn't necessary... But... It's nice to meet you... My name is Silver the..."  Silver soon cut himself off realizing he couldn't call himself a hedgehog anymore.
"...Pony." Pinkie giggled at this.
"Well of course your a pony silly! were all ponies! well... except for the rabbits, squirrels, birds, falcons, eagles, turtles, frogs...." Pinkie continued naming off animals and at this Silver took his time to try and sneak away around a building corner and sighed. "I don't think I can take living like this if all the ponies are like this..." He said to himself. 

Just as soon as he started to trot away Pinkie was right in his face once again still naming off animals. "And FISH! Fish are so quiet... I always wondered if fish could throw parties under water! Anyway Silver Silvy." Pinkie started to burst out laughing at this. "Haha there's your nickname! Silvy!"
Silver blushed at this. He hadn't been called Silvy in ages. And he wasn't too fond of the nickname either. But he decided not to be rude by telling Pinkie this. "So im going to throw you a super amazing fantastic party! So you get to meet ALL the ponies in Ponyville and they can all be your friends!" She said beaming.
"Oh I am just a simple pony Pinkie no need to throw a party thank you." Silver said slowly backing away as Pinkie kept hopping towards him. "Oh no no no no no! I have to throw this party! Everypony is going to want to meet you! We don't meet many ponies like you and im sure you don't want to be stuck without knowing anypony!"
Silver started thinking at this. It's true he didn't want to be alone. However he also didn't want everyone knowing about him already. "Uhmm perhaps you can throw this party tomorrow Pinkie. maybe that would be better..." Silver said nervously. "The sooner the better! It is going to be tomorrow in the evening! And you better be there Silvy! Or I'll find you and drag you by your hooves to meet everypony!" She said now in his face their snouts nearly touching.
Silver couldn't help but blush and nod in agreement and Pinkie giggled and happily hopped away.

Silver sighed in relief at her leaving him alone. "She's sweet." He said to himself. "If a bit... Clingy... What was that she was saying? EveryPONY? I guess that's how things work around here..." Silver said to himself feeling slightly awkward but laughed at it. "everypony." He said quietly realizing he was laughing at this now.

Silver soon after found himself wandering to a fountain in the middle of the whole area. "This must be the center of town.." He said to himself looking around. "I see ponies around here are quite modern.. It's actually very quaint around here..." At this however Silver noticed that most of the ponies who he had seen had stared at him with without much being said. They glanced looks at each other then back towards Silver. They whispered to each other looking at him. Silver felt very uncomfortable at this and tried to find out more about this place. He had seen a pony walking by with a blue and dark blue colored mane and a tail to match as well as some rather large glasses and music note on her rear.
"Uhmm... E-excuse me.." Silver had called towards the mare.
She had turned around and taken off her glasses staring at him with wide eyes. "Woh.... Dude.... That's a pretty awesome horn you got there... Not something you see on the average pony.... In face we don't see many alicorns around here. My names Vinyl! What's up?"
Silver smiled a bit knowing not all ponies were as rude as he thought and felt slightly at ease knowing all of them weren't like Pinkie. "I was wondering if there was any place around here I could perhaps get a few books.. I would like to know more about where I am."
"Well your in Equestria for starters." Vinyl said with a small smirk on her face as though to tease him. "More specifically in Ponyville as im sure you know. She had pointed in a direction to the East where a large tree was standing. Rather the most unique building out of the rest. "Over there is where you could get those books you wanted. You'll meet a pony named Twilight. Your new here arnt you?" Silver nodded. "Well don't be intimidated by the pony folk here. Im sure that they're  just getting used to seeing a unique pony such as yourself." She gave him a warm smile. "Im the DJ of this place and maybe one day you could come out and watch? It would be awesome." She said with enthusiasm. "Uhmm.... Maybe one day..." Silver said not as enthusiastic but smiling. "It was very nice meeting you miss Vinyl. I hope to see you around." He said with a smile on his face. "Oh you will believe me!" She said putting her glasses back on and walking away. "She had a horn.... So... there are others with horns as well... She was a unicorn.... Does that mean that there are ponies with wings here as well?... hmm interesting.." Silver said before walking towards the fairly large tree before bumping into what was most likely another pony. They had both fallen down and Silver had heard a thud. Looking at it he saw it was a book. several books actually. And as Silver looked he saw a purple glow surround the books as they started levitating.

"Oh! Im sorry! I was just heading back to my library and I didn't see you there. I just got some new books I was going to read and... Woh..." She was cut off before saying anything else Silver looked up to see another unicorn. This one was Purple. With a light and dark purple mane and, once again, A tail to match. "I.... Haven't seen you around before.... I actually have never seen an alicorn like you before.... My name is Twilight Sparkle." She said helping him up.
"Would you like to come back to the library with me and talk? I would like to know more about you. I didn't know there was another alicorns out there!" She said with great happiness in her voice.

At this Silver got up. Nodded and they walked towards the large tree like library together.