It was the first day, actually, the first moment of my arrival in Ponyville. No one seemed to notice I was a new guy in here, or just simply didn't seem to care. I mean, I'm just a normal unicorn, there was nothing really special about me. I was staring at the ponies at the village, I felt weird, but I couldn't stop, there were so many ponies. Pegasus, unicorns, and earth ponies, together in such a small village. Canterlot was definitely different from this place.
I was surprised by the sudden presence of an orange pony, with blond hair and a brown hat, who was talking to me.
"Hey there, partner." The earth pony said. She had a weird accent. One of those accents you hardly ever get to hear in a such a big, elegant city like Canterlot.
"Hi." A small response from my part.
"Uh..." She did a small pause and looked at me. I guess she was trying to figure out if she had seen me before, she talked again, she noticed I noticed her, I suppose. "Can you do me a small favor? I know you're new and all, and you'll also gain some friends!"
Friends was not a weird word, but it was weird hearing it from just a favor. Guess friendship here is much easier. "I suppose... what do I have to do?"
"Sorry for bothering you." I think that had to go before she actually asked for the favor. "We're kind of running out of time for a surprise party for a friend, and you're exactly what we need to entertain her!" Kind of weird. I'm just a new pony after all.
"How does that work? I just came into town and all... I mean, I do have a house and all, I know where my house is..."
"Exactly, you just came to town. You see, our friend really likes new ponies, she's normally the one who welcomes you into town. However, we need her to be inside her house for a while. Will you be able to do that?" I looked at the sky and thought. The idea seemed easy alright. However, I'm not the best talker, even the most talkative pony couldn't last more than 10 minutes with me. I'm just that boring when it comes to talking.
"I'm sorry. But I'm not sure if I can entertain her for a lot of time."
"I'm sure you'll be able to! Just give us at least half an hour."
"Half an hour!? That's a lot of time!"
"You'll do fine!" Before I could notice it, she was pushing me towards a house, which was pretty close to where we were in the first place. The house looked small, it seemed like it was a normal house for just one pony, at least, for this village.
I turned back and slightly pushed the orange pony away. "I'm sorry, but I'm just not sure if I can mantain a conversation with such pony I don't know in the first place." Try to be subtle, not say anything really directly. "I'm just that non-talkative."
"You've been entertaining me for five minutes now. I'm sure you'll do fine!" The orange pony smiled at me, and before I could even notice, she knocked on the door. I tried running, but being new in town and knocking on doors of strangers' houses didn't seem like a reputation I could stand, and worse, in my first day. The orange pony ran away, and I had to stand there. A high voice was heard from inside "Coming!" I could hear more mumbling, and I would have bet I heard the words "Mr Turnip", but that couldn't be, unless that's a name in Ponyville... pretty weird village right now...
A pink pony opened the door. Her hair was straightned, it was pretty long, at least for me. "Hello!" She said, pretty enthusiastic unlike the looks she gave. "What brings you here... uh... pony?" Well, it's better than being called sir at my age, I suppose.
"Umm... they told me to come here to...umm..." Well, I should've though of what to say. "I think, they told me to come here to know you." That sounded pretty weird, but I think it worked, because the mare seemed to smile. She grabbed my hooves and dragged me inside, well, it was certainly sure that she liked new ponies. I ended up falling to the floor.
"Come on, take a seat!" She didn't seem to care about picking me up, she was sitting with... rocks? Not only that, but a bag of flour, a clump of lint, and a bucket of turnips. All of these objects had party hats. If the weirdness I felt upon talking to this pony wasn't enough, I felt even more weird around her, when I noticed the objects. "Let me introduce you to Madam Le Flour, she came first to the party after all!" The party? This was a party? How old was this pink pony anyways? She moved to her left, grabbed a big bag of flour, and started moving it and talking in a slight french accent. "Bonjour, visitor." I could only give a small, nervous smile, and keep on with it.
"Hello Miss Madam Le Flour" I stood up and gave a small reverence, it didn't matter if I kept playing along with her, after all, no one was looking at me except for the weird pony in front of me, if I had a job here, I should at least try to do it nicely. "How are you today?"
The pink pony let out a small giggle, maintaining her french accent for some reason. "Well, I am quite well, thank you for asking." She moved quickly, hiding in the cloth on the table, towards the rocks, did the same thing that with the bag of flour, but with a lower voice, imitating a colt, I suppose. "Hey you colt, don't get silly ideas with Madam Le Flour!"
"I'm not, sir." Why would I even try, in the first place? "May I ask your name as well, sir?"
"Yes. My name is Rocky, and quit the 'sir'." The pink pony went to her seat again, like if I didn't notice her. "Well, to put it simple..." She pointed her hooves towards the clump of lint and the bucket of turnips which were placed next to an empty chair. "That is Sir Lintsalot and that is Mr. Turnip." She smiled at me and had a small eye twitch.
"Well... umm..." The awkwardness of every object having names finnally got me. "H-hello?"
The pink pony moved towards the bucket and talked a bit slow. "Don't be shy! We won't hurt you!" Then she went to the clump of lint. And talked in a sophisticated accent, not like the flour, but... something sophisticated. "Do not fear of us. We're friendly! Take a seat, stranger." The pony went back to her seat. I decided to take a seat as well, like the clump of flint said.
"What is your name... pink pony?" The pony looked at me awkwardly, and then smiled, her eye twitching again.
"Oh, how silly I am. My name is Pinkamena Diane Pie, but my friends here..." She smiled at the inanimate objects around her. "Call me Pinkie sometimes."
"Really? I really like Pinkamena, do you mind if I call you like that?" Trying to make conversation. How much awkward minutes have passed since I entered the house? Twenty?
"No, I really don't mind. I actually like it!" She smiled again, this time, not twitching her eye. "And what's your name, unicorn?"
"My name... is Cobalt Thunder, though I'm not blue colored in any way, and I don't know any electricity spells. But it's a long story." Well, that had to do with my name, better tell her where I come from. "I used to live in Canterlot, but let's say my parents didn't want me to stay with them and I came here. But I have a house here, which my uncles used to own before they moved with my parents..."
"Well, that's a nice story, Cobalt!" She quickly moved towards the bag of flour. "And your name is nice, no matter if it doesn't have a reason to have it." Then towards the clump of flint. "And I see your Cutie Mark is exactly like your name. But we'll leave that story for sometime else, right?"
"Right." I said as I saw Pinkamena from under the table, moving the clump. "What are you doing?" I asked to her. She quickly moved to her chair.
"Doing what? I was just looking." Okay, this pony is definitely crazy. "Maybe you're seeing things." She smiled again, with a twitch. She moved to the rocks again, and talked in the same low voice. "Hey, maybe we should change places. You must feel awkward with those two guys over there."
My space was okay, but probably I would find myself better next to something alive. "Okay then." Pinkamena grabbed the rocks, with the chair, and started walking past me. I carried my chair as well. This whole thing was pretty weird. Completely weird. When I got to the place where I had to sit, I found Pinkamena already on her seat.
"Do you want some tea?" The pink pony asked. "Some cupcakes, muffins?" I didn't know what to say, what if the tea was just imaginary, and the cupcakes where horrible? Well, I couldn't just figure it out without saying anything, so I nodded. The mare gave me a muffin, and filled the teacup in front of me with tea. Well, at least it looked real. I took a sip at the tea, it was, surprisingly, sweet, I took another one and burned my toungue, I had that thing when drinking something hot, but it didn't matter, it was delicious. "Oh, did you burn your toungue, silly?"
"Yea, kinda." I took another sip of the tea, a smaller one, to not burn my mouth again. "So... what is the party for?" I just remembered this was supposed to be a party.
"Oh, it's just a little party I decided to do." The pink pony moved towards the bag. "We were going to have more visitors, but they're just assholes." The pink pony returned to her normal position, and looked at the bag. "That's not proper, Madam Le Flour." She quickly moved to the rocks. "Well, I think that is very, very proper. If not super-proper." She then moved to the bucket, which hasn't talked since Pinkamena "introduced" me to it. "Well, maybe not that much, but they're still idiots." She started moving the clump of flint. "Idiots, idiots." Pinkie moved to her seat and put on a sad face. "Well, maybe they're idiots, but-"
She, still with the sad look on her face, went to the bag. "Idiots, idiots!" Then to the rocks. "Idiots, idiots!" It was weird, since she was moving the things. Kind of disturbing, if you ask me. I had to say something to stop her.
"Stop!" I yelled. She was just about to move the bucket. She went for the rocks instead.
"And who do you think you are to yell at us that loud?" I backed off, I knew it was stupid to try and argue with unliving things. Pinkamena moved the bucket of turnips towards the rocks, careful not to make them fall. "Wait, Rocky. He's right. We should probably tell him about what happened." I was confused. But I decided to ask.
"What happened?" Pinkie was already on her seat, and looking at me, sad.
"Well, let's just say... they kind of dumped me." She went quickly to the bag. "Dumped you? Dear, they treated you like trash." Then to the bucket. "Let Pinkie talk for once, Le Flour" Then back to her seat. I kind of looked at her half sad-half nervously.
"Dumped you? What did they do?" I asked, in the most calming voice I could ever do.
"I invited them to a party. They didn't want to come and... well... they lied to me. They're hiding something, but I don't know what it is... they don't want to come to my parties. They don't want to be with me, I'm completely alone." She looked down, and I could swear I saw a small tear coming from her eyes. However, she cleaned her face and smiled at her other "friends". "But at least I have you guys!" She went to the rocks. "Yea, Pinkie. You have us!" Then to the clump. "Don't fear, we will never leave you!"
I decided to talk to the unliving things, for a change. Just so the rocks don't attack me or something. "So... who're these ponies you speak of?"
Pinkamena went to the bucket. "First of all, there's Twilight." She quickly went to the flour. "Oh, that girl. Let this be the last time we talk about her." She returned to the bucket. "She's a magical pony, also known as unicorn." I looked up, at my horn. "But don't worry, she's different than you. She just goes everywhere and tries to keep them in order or something. She's very sensible about those things."
Twilight Sparkle... I heard her name somewhere in Canterlot. She was something like Princess Celestia's best student, she wasn't really that famous, she was just... a common topic between my family, who has some ponies in the royalty. "Any other pony?"
This time, the bag of flour talked. "Well, continuing... There's also that other unicorn, who almost copies my style." Pinkamena laughed under the table, still in her french accent. "She models and does clothes, she loves fashion. But you wouldn't believe how whiney she is!" Pinkamena moved to the rocks. "She whines about everything possible!"
My family is whiney, so I kind of understand what she feels. "Yes, I suppose that is... really horrible, to stand people like that."
"It is" The rocks said. Pinkamena moved to the bucket. "Then there's the pegasi. Starting with Fluttershy, she's a very shy girl. But she can't do anything by herself! She's normally pushed around, even by her own pet bunny!" I found that really funny to imagine. I let out a silent giggle. "We can stand her, but it's really annoying sometimes." Pinkamena moved to the clump of lint now, who hardly ever talked. "Then there's the farmer. Applejack. She's an orange pony-"
"-with a pig-tail, freckles, a brown hat, and a blonde mane?" I completed. So the pony I saw before was really a friend, huh?
"Yes. We really don't have anything to say about her, unless you want to point out that she wants to do everything by herself. Which isn't a bad thing, I mean, anything that doesn't involve us!" Kind of rude, if I had an opinion. Pinkamena now went for the bag of flour. "Then there's Rainbow Dash..."
"Yes?" A voice interrupted, which was coming from the door. A blue pegasus, with a rainbow mane stood there. She flew towards the table, she was kind of angry, and she landed on top of the table, dropping the tea. She was facing the bag of flour. "You were talking about me, pal?" Madam Le Flour looked pretty decided to keep talking, even if she had this pegasus right in front of her. I had to save her somehow.
"You must be Rainbow Dash." She faced me, and kind of looked puzzled, like trying to recognize me.
"Are you the one Applejack sent to keep Pinkie busy?" She asked. "You must be, your work is done, you can go now. Leave it all to me!"
This pegasus looked far more annoying than any other pony that the inanimate objects AKA Pinkamena told me about. "How do you expect me to leave it all to you if you're arguing with a bag of flour?"
The pegasus looked at me quite annoyed, then looked at the bag of flour, the inanimate and unmoving bag of flour and blushed a bit. Then shook her head. "Okay Pinkie, we're heading out now!"
Pinkamena got out of the table, sat on her seat, and crossed her arms. "I'm not going! I'm having fun with my friends here!"
"Pinkie!" The pegasus started dragging the pink pony, but the pink pony rejected, she tried moving the other objects, but she couldn't. I decided to do something, so I moved the rocks with magic, with chair and all, simple levitation spell, but hard to do because it was kind of heavy, the rocks attacked the pegasus. "Hey! Leave me alone!" I kept moving the rocks towards the pegasus, hitting her kinda, until she let go of Pinkamena. "You got a problem with me, pal?" And then she grabbed the rocks and started hitting them, like if they would feel any pain. Pinkamena began crawling under the table, and hid in there. When the pegasus stopped hitting the rocks, she looked for Pinkamena, but didn't find her. "Dang, she got away." She then looked at me. "Did you see where she went?"
"No, but she's crazy, you should really go look for her." Of course I was lying, the pegasus looked like it would hit Pinkamena if she didn't obey. The pegasus rolled her eyes and went out of the house.
Pinkamena went out of the table and looked at me. "Why did you do that?" She didn't even care to move the objects anymore, it looked like if she was getting out of her weird attitude, and I faintly noticed that her coat and mane turned a bit brighter.
"I didn't like the rainbow pegasus, besides, she killed Rocky." Just to be sure if she was still there. She moved towards the rocks and stared at them, with a sad look on her face.
"Poor Rocky..." I walked next to her, it was an imaginary friend, but it was a friend. She then smiled a bit. "But he'll be okay, he's just sleeping." She turned towards the other objects. "Okay friends, you stay here and tell me if Rainbow Dash comes back again, if she comes, tell her I went to Sweet Apple Acres." She then pounced towards the bag of flour and talked one last time in the french accent. "But Pinkie, where will you go?" And then came back to where she was before. "We'll just have a walk somewhere. We promise not to take too long!" With that, she headed towards the door and waited for me to go outside. I kind of waved goodbye to the objects and walked next to Pinkamena.
We walked for a while, in complete silence, every other pony just stared at us, like if we were new ponies, I didn't like that, I really dislike attention. I broke the awkward silence. "So that pegasus is your friend?"
"Oh, not anymore, she has always been like that, and I kind of was with her because she went to my parties and, well, I thought she liked me as a friend, but then she started hiding me the fact that she disliked me." Pinkamena gave a sad look, while she looked down, she seemed to be pretty serious about this, I even felt sadness for her. Feeling sadness for someone you just met is something that's not very common, or so I think. Her smile came back before saying something else. "However, I have my other friends, and well... you, kind of." She smiled awkwardly at me, expecting to hear something from me.
"If you really think we're friends... I guess it's okay." I really expected we were anyways.
"Say, do you have a place to go here in Ponyville?" She asked. "Or were you just passing by and ended up in all this whole incident?" I actually had a house, if you all remember, I didn't talk about it, it was from an uncle, but he's sort of changing from place to place, since he can buy a lot of houses, he just lend me the one in Ponyville.
"I got a place to go, I suppose. Why? Are you inviting me to your place?" I giggled a bit, but stopped since the pony was blushing a bit, was she inviting me to her place?
"Just... if you didn't have a place to go. You know, since we didn't really eat much in the whole party, I had planned to like... cook you dinner or something. You might take it as a thanks for saving me from Rainbow a while ago." Well, if she was offering her place... "However, since you have a house already, you won't need mine, am I right?" Well, that's true, besides, I would prefer to sleep on my new home in the first day of my arrival. "So how about just a dinner at my house? I don't only bake, you know." She gave a confident smile at me.
"If you really feel like it, I guess I'll accept. But why did we came here in the first place?" We were no longer at the Central Square, more like a park, Pinkamena just smiled at me and went to sit by a tree, waiting for me to sit next to her, however, being the awkward pony I am when it comes to these things, I sat on the other side, the tree separating us, she didn't seem to care much.
"We came here to see the sunset, you didn't notice it, didn't you?" She was right, I didn't notice it was this late. "I decided to come here to hide from Rainbow, the tree won't allow her to see us, so we're safe until night falls." Well, that's nice.
"You're still taking me to dinner, right?"
"It will just be a Thank You Dinner, it won't be anything special."
"I was just making sure..." I closed my eyes, not to sleep, just because I wanted to close them. "So what about your ex-friends? That rainbow pegasus didn't seem to know you weren't her friend anymore."
"Well, I still have to tell them, but they'll know eventually. Besides, why do you care about them anyways?" She looked at me like saying 'seriously?', with her face, but I just gave her a smile.
"I just wondered, so they aren't your friends anymore?" I asked, not looking at her.
"They aren't..." She was silent for a while, I looked at her and saw a sad look on her face, as in she was returning to reality... "But now there's my only, most loyal friends, Rocky, Madam Le Flour, Lintsalot, and Mr Turnip!" Well, I was kind of sure she was going back anyways. "And of course, you, Cobalt!" It took me a while to process what she just said, when my mind finnally processed what she said, a small blush appeared on my cheeks, and I was also surprised.
"M-me?" I just didn't find it really... believable, I'm just the most anti-social pony ever, or so I knew. Maybe this is why my parents brought me here? Because on Canterlot I didn't like anyone as a friend? "Well..." Come on, think of something... "I was a bit worried I wasn't your friend after what happened." Well, it was something...
Pinkamena could just giggle. "Of course you are! Maybe not as much as like... Rocky, but you're still considered a friend!" She was actually happier... I felt a small, warm feeling in my heart... Is this how having a friend feels?
"Well... let's just go back, it's getting dark..." The sun was set and the brightness of the day was gone. A small light could be noticed from a near lamp post, who just turned on.
"You just want to eat dinner, right?" She giggled another time. I noticed her giggle was really high, not really that high as to annoy... just high as in... well, kind of cute. "Well, to be fair, I am hungry as well." She stood and began walking, I decided to do the same and hurry to her side, not really close, of course. "So what do you want to eat for dinner?"
However, somewhere else, located in a nearby apple farm.
"Dang, how much will Rainbow take?" A orangeish pony asked, just as she said that, a cyan pegasus with a multicolor mane entered by the door of the barn.
"She's nowhere to be found! She's lost!" The pegasus yelled, angrily. "I don't have time to look for her!"
"Rainbow, calm down. I'm sure Pinkie won't forget her birthday, she can't forget it! It's her birthday, for Celestia's sake!" A purple unicorn said from the bottom of the room, she had a small cup of apple juice, empty, at her side. "Are you sure you looked for her?"
"Yes! I'm sure! I searched for every little inch of Ponyville from air, nowhere! She's nowhere!" The cyan pegasus yelled, yet again. She then took a deep breath. "Well, I actually did found her... but she escaped to pony-knows-where!"
A small, yellow pegasus with a pink mane entered, silently, through the room, hoping that no one had noticed her. The orange pony looked at her. "Hey Fluttershy, how did'ya go with the searching?" The yellow pegasus was startled at the question, but then negated with her head.
"I... I didn't found them e-either..." The pegasus looked somewhere else.
"Them?" The other pegasus asked.
"I- I mean, her!" It was obvious she already said it.
"Who's them?" The orangish pony asked, calmly.
"Pinkie is with someone else?!" The pegasus asked, yelling. The purple unicorn rolled her eyes and threw the cup at the blue pegasus, with magic. "Hey!"
"Rainbow, calm down, Fluttershy will tell us, you're just making her feel more nervous!" The unicorn crossed her hooves. "Now come over here, take a seat, and listen to Fluttershy!"
"G-girls, don't fight." The yellow pegasus muttered.
The blue pegasus headed towards a nearby couch and sat, her hooves crossed as well, the purple unicorn just stared at her for a while and looked at the yellow pegasus again. "So Fluttershy, what do you know?" Asked the unicorn.
The yellow pegasus just nodded and started talking. "Pinkie looked pretty changed, but it was her, she had her hair straightened, instead of all fluffy and cotton candy like. She looked a bit more darker in her colors too, she was also-" The cyan pegasus stood up.
"Get to the point!" She yelled. The purple unicorn stood as well and made the pegasus sit, then sat again.
"Continue, Fluttershy." The purple unicorn calmly said.
"O-okay. She was with a brown unicorn, she seemed to have fun with him, so I didn't want to bother them..." The yellow pegasus looked to the floor. "I- I'm sorry..."
"It's alright, sugarcube." The orange pony said. "We'll go an' talk with 'er tomorrow." She looked at the whole inside of the barn. It was completely filled with balloons, some of them were even popped and lying on the floor, with no air. There was even a cake in the center, which was eaten already, since no one could wait any more for Pinkie. They were waiting for Rainbow, but after a while, they decided to just look for her and tell her about another birthday party for her, maybe next week. "Too bad all we did today was for nothing, though"
"It's all that stupid unicorn's fault!" The pegasus jumped from her seat. "I just can't believe he, a pony that just came in Ponyville, had lied to the best flyer in whole Equestria!" The pegasus began yelling.
"Well, maybe I should've asked someone else to help." The orange pony muttered, the cyan pegasus quickly headed in front of her, facing her.
"You're right! This is your fault!"
"No it's not!" The orange pony got angry as well, if that pegasus was going to yell at her, she should yell at her too! The yellow pegasus let out a small, very silent scream upon sensing a long fight coming, however, it was then completely silenced by another yelling.
"Girls, girls, stop!" The purple unicorn separated the two ponies, to avoid them from fighting, making them float in the air. "We won't get anything if we fight like this! Tomorrow we're going to talk with Pinkie Pie to make her realize what she did today!" The unicorn was breathing angrily, but she calmed herself after a while, still holding the pegasus and the earth pony in the air. "I'm not sure what Pinkie was thinking, but if we don't know, then we can't get anywhere."
The pegasus looked around the room, still floating in the air. "Hey, where's Rarity?"
"Rarity said she had some dresses to make for tomorrow." The orange pony answered. "And that she didn't want to waste any time waiting for someone who wasn't even going to come. That was like a hour ago or so. Seems like she was right after all." The unicorn let go of the two ponies.
"Well, all of you, go to your houses and stay away from Pinkie's. If she didn't want to come with us, it must be for a reason, it might even be our fault! So don't get her any more angry!" The unicorn said. "Especially you, Rainbow Dash!"
"Who? Me? I didn't do anything! I just kind of want to drag her here! It's her fault for not cooperating!"
"Wait, so you mean she didn't want to come? Why didn't you tell us that?" The unicorn yelled. "That could've saved us a lot of time!"
"Well, d'uh. I had to bring her here, remember!?" The cyan pegasus yelled louder.
"Girls." The other pegasus muttered.
"But if you had told us, we could've all looked for Pinkie, and maybe, found her!" The unicorn kept yelling.
"Girls..." The yellow pegasus muttered a bit louder, but not much.
"Well, I give you that, but who would've taken care of the cake and the party?"
"Girls, girls." The orange pony looked at the pegasus, the poor thing was doing her best to gain attention and stop the fight.
"I don't know, that became the least of our worries two hours ago!"
"Girls!" The farmer yelled, her yelling could be heard all the way to the Cutie Mark Crusaders base. All the ponies looked at the orange one. "It's no use if we keep fighting, remember? Let's just head home and call it a day. Calm yourselves down and maybe, just maybe, we can earn Pinkie's trust yet again." The orange pony went and opened the barn door. "Now, all of you, go!" And so, the cyan pegasus rolled her eyes and went away to her house in the clouds. Followed by the unicorn, who stopped just before heading outside and then, she turned her head to the earth pony.
"Thank you Applejack... I guess I'll head home now." With that, the unicorn headed outside, she was followed by the other pegasus, but the orange pony closed the door before the pegasus even put a hoof outside.
"Wait a bit there, Shy." The pegasus backed off in fear. "Can I ask you a favor?" The pegasus nodded. "Can you make sure that neither Dash and Twilight enter Pinkie's house?"
"Why?" The pegasus asked, it was kind of weird that she asked for such a thing.
"If one of them enters there, I'm not sure if Pinkie will allow it, she seemed to have a bad day today. I want to know why, but that has to wait. However, Twilight and Rainbow seem to be a bit stubborn about knowing this. I know it's a bit too much, but it's just a favor I'm asking." She opened the door of the barn after saying this.
"Don't worry, Applejack, I'll do my best." With that, she headed towards the house.
The orange pony sighed. "Well... I guess tomorrow we will know about this..."