Imagine this. You arrive and move into a new town. Then later that same day you receive an invitation saying you're invited to a party for you simply because you're new in town. This new world is already off to great start. You know...besides being attacked by a Timberwolf and sent to the hospital.
"It's just a short walk away. In fact, it's just outside the castle. Come on. I'll show you," Twilight answered. As we walked, I thought back to my school back on Earth. For my entire junior year, I had to do it all online. Imagine spending 8 hours every Monday-Thursday just staring at a screen and learning. I know I'm a huge video game fanatic, but even I wouldn't spend that much time playing games. You know...except on the weekends. Speaking of school, I wonder how my friend are doing. I never really saw them in real life for almost a year now except 1-2 times outside of school, and that was during schoo-related activities. What about my gaming friends? How long will it be they realize something's happened to me? My family was away on a vacation trip, so I don't think they'll be too worried about me.
We exit the castle and Twilight turns left. I turn as well and my jaw drops at the sight. She wasn't kidding. Just down a pathway...was that the school?! It looked as big as Twilight's castle. There was a balcony, a lake surrounding it, and fucking waterfalls?! And it was on the side of a mountain?! WHAT THE FUCK?! I wished my school had waterfalls and was on the side of a mountain! I shook my head and proceeded to follow Twilight. We opened the doors and walked through the hallways.
"So Twilight, what do they teach at the School of Friendship anyway?" I asked.
"It teaches exactly that. Friendship!" Twilight said with proudness.
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"I'm sorry. What did you say it teaches?" I asked with disbelief.
"Friendship!" Twilight said proudly again.
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"There's a school...that teaches...friendship? That's just...strange," I said. Like seriously? Friendship? Though, what did I expect from something called "School of Friendship?" But still. Friendship? I have great friends, and we get along great, even though we make fun of each other. Well...except for one person, but...I don't really like to talk about him. Not anymore.
"What do you mean?" Twilight asked, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Teaching friendship? Friendship isn't something that needs to be taught. It's something that comes naturally. I would know, I have plenty of friends. Going to a school to learn about friendship is just ridiculous," I said. I admit, I might've gone a bit too far by calling it "ridiculous." And I was right when Twilight gave me a frown. In other words, I was fucked.
"Well if you're such an expert on friendship, then you're more than capable of getting along with everycreature at the party," Twilight said. We eventually reached a set of doors that were closed. Twilight opened the door with her levitation and walked inside, while I just stared at dark room in front me of. Now I'm not stupid.
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Ok yes I am, but I'm not the kind of person to just waltz into a dark room in a place I've never been to before just because I person I met a little over an hour ago did so. That's just asking to be raped or murdered. So I just stood there out at door waiting for Twilight to come back or at least say something. After a couple of minutes I waiting, I decided to risk it for the biscuit. I grabbed Zer0 with my mouth and held out the blade, making the room illuminate a bit. I carefully stepped inside the room, expecting something to jump out and ambush me. Well, what happened next was half of what I expected to happened.
"SURPRISE!!!"
The lights to the room turned on suddenly and dozens of voices from all directions screamed out. My response?
"GAH MOTHER-" because one: the surprise scared the shit out of me, and two: I was blinded by a bright light. Again. I stopped myself from cursing out loud in front of adults. I did not want an ass whooping after recovering from the hospital. I looked around the room and saw Twilight and Rarity among the crowd of ponies. I noticed streamers, tables filled various foods and drinks, including sandwiches, cupcakes, a cake, and dozens of red plastic cups with bowls of punch next to them, and a banner that read "Welcome to Ponyville." I was amazed at the amount of effort that was worked into this party. I honestly expected something small like a few ponies eating small sandwiches and talking to each other. But this? God fucking damn.
"Surprise!" a cheery voice said before a pink pony bounced towa-oh fuck me! It's the pink pony that was on crack from earlier.
"Were you surprised?! Were you?! Were you?! Cause I was so excited to throw this party! It's been too long since a new pony came to Ponyville, and I'm so excited to be finally throwing one! Hey, that's a neat sword you got!" Pinkie said. She was talking fast again, but at least she wasn't talking faster than Sonic the Hedgehog, to the point I couldn't unstanding a single word she was saying.
I put Zer0 away in my saddlebag. Gotta make a scabbard for this thing sooner or later because it's long and just sticking out there.
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Don't take that out of context.
"Oh. You put together this party? In that case, thanks so much. I really appreciate it, but how didn't you hand me the invitation 10 minutes ago? How did you put this together so fast?" I asked.
"Oh I never leave home without my party canon!" She suddenly took out a canon out of no where (not gonna ask by the way) and aimed it at me. I screamed and turned my head away with my hoof raised. Instead of hearing a boom sound, I instead heard what sounded like an air horn. I looked up and saw that I was covered in streamers instead of having a gaping hole in my chest with blood and ash leaking from it. I looked at Pinkie Pie with a bit of an angry look. She didn't notice it and instead with a happy smile yelled out "Let's party!"
5 minutes later
The party was now in full swing. Ponies were eating and talking with each other. Everybo...um everypony (really gotta be careful with what I say) had a smile on their faces. As for me? Well, I just grabbed some sandwiches and poured myself some fruit punch and sat in a corner by myself. The sandwiches had not meat though. Disappointing but understanding. The fruit punch was as good as Hawaiin Punch.
"DeffBwade, why were you just sitting in a corner by yourself? You should be conversing with the other ponies. Are you a social wallflower?"
Shut up. I'm not an introvert nor have social anxiety. I'm just...not very talkative, especially to those I've never met before.
"But you were kinda talkative to Nurse Redheart, Twilight, Rarity, and even Pinkie Pie-"
J-just shut up! Okay! I prefer for people to approach me and start a conversation rather than me going up to some random person and going "Hello there random stranger. What's your na-"
"Legion?"
I snapped out my of internal struggle and looked up to see Twilight looking at me with worry.
"O-oh hey Twilight. What's up?" I asked her.
"I'm a bit worried. So far you haven't been talking to anypony here, but instead sit here by yourself. Are you okay?" she asked.
"I'm fine Twilight. It's just...I'm not the kind of pony to just go up to somepony I don't know and start a conversation in social gatherings," I admitted.
"I see," said Twilight.
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The silence between us made me a bit nervous, so I decided to break it.
"H-hey Twilight? I-I'm really sorry for what I said earlier. You know? Saying that learning friendship was ridiculous? I shouldn't have said that," I apologized.
Twilight stared at me for a few seconds, then smiled before saying,"It's okay Legion. Not many ponies understand how powerful the magic of friendship can be."
The magic of friendship? Really? Forget about learning friendship. That's what sounds ridiculous.
"Maybe...maybe I still have a lot to learn about friendship. Twilight, if it's alright with you, I'd like to attend the School of Friendship. So I can not only make friends, but improve myself," I said.
"If that's the case, then you may refer to to me as 'headmare'," she said.
"Yes Headmare Twilight," I said.
"We'll get you settled in your dorm, and then you'll start attending classes tomorrow. But for now, it's a party," she said as she walked to where the ponies were partying, with me following.