Big dark brown eyes suddenly expanded and saw a bright light. Further in this light changed the brightness till other colors and tangible subjects. A brown small chair, golden oak floor, the big disk and a shaped window who bleated light that dazzled him. Cecilio raised his upper body and sat up in the small comfortable bedtick filled with plume. His eyes were still dull, contrasts were mixed with each other, but he could instead feel a distinguished smell. An odor mixed with ink and old paper filled his nostrils and as expected - the room was crowded with books. Great old shelves filled with books, the table filled with papers, ink and candle stubs, brown feathers mixed with dust on the floor, where even more piles of books were.
"Where am I?" Cecilio muttered while looking confused around him.
Then it hit him.
A delighted look infected his face and spread through his body. The rigid muscles became more relaxed and he fell down with a happy sigh. The memories and emotions jumped around in his heavy head and the nervous excited feeling that he had when he had met Pinkie Pie wrapped up his mind.
"Good morning, did you have a good sleep?" asked a slightly nervous voice.
The wooden door across the room got carefully open and thus entered a lavender unicorn with a mane colored in purple, dark indigo and pink wisps. The human got startled and moved a little further into the bed corner. Cecilio was once again very surprised for seeing a pony and simply answered with a silent nod.
"Well... I'm Twilight Sparkle and your name was Cecilio, right?" Twilight continued with a more secured voice while moving slightly closer to him.
"Yes." Cecilio replied while he met her innocent big violet eyes. "Is this Ponyville?"
A small sparkle flashed before Twilight's eyes.
"Pinkie Pie probably mentioned about Ponyville for you. By that brief information was you able to comprehend your location even though you have lost your memory of your past, am I right?" Twilight asked with an important but still sweet voice, while she went around for herself.
Cecilio looked both frightened and surprised over how knowledgeable the pony was.
"So then... you are a friend of Pinkie Pie? Where is she and why am I in your house?"
" Yes we are good friends" Twilight continued with a cheerful smile."At the moment is she in the town, probably preparing a welcome party. She has been eager to throw a party for you. Even though, she was a bit worried for you since you have been sleeping for almost two days now..."
"For that long?!" Cecilio interrupted surprised with a loud voice. He saw how he startled Twilight and felt how his cheeks got hotter and noticeable more colorful.
The unicorn giggled over the humans weird reaction.
"Don't be worry though. I have timidly you with nutrition with the help of my magic and Nurse Redheart has advised me, as good as she could ... well, our anatomy is slightly different." Twilight said while looking curious at Cecilio's hands.
Cecilio saw the glow in her eyes and therefore lifted his hands in the air and started to make different movements with his fingers. He also tried to explain as good as possible how other part of his body functioned. Until he realized how strange it was that he remembered such information but nothing about him as a person. Even Twilight pointed that out, which started the beginning of several hours long conversation about anything and everything. During this conversation learned Cecilio so much more about his new world. Everything from the structure and history of Equestria to what a cutiemark is. Eventually also some hot - topic gossip about certain characters in Ponyville, which was rather hard for Cecilio to grasp since he didn't knew about anypony in Ponyville. Even though, she tried to explain every character, every street in the town, was it a tremendous amount of information which got forgotten the second he heard of it. However, some aspects of her "lecture" such as the beginning of the mane six and all their battles so far was very exciting to hear.
Cecilio smiled with the thought how exciting their lives had been.
That smile quickly turned into a more sad frown when Twilight asked about how much he remembered about his life. He was surprised when Twilight seemed pleased with what little information he could provide with. She even wrote down everything he said, saying "Information is maybe not knowledge, but to a certain extent an important tool in order to understand more."
Cecilio had perhaps only known this pony for merely a few hours but her hospitality and awareness truly did ache an impression on him. She filled him with such joy and even more: A new life
After awhile invited twilight him downstairs and it wasn't until now he saw how beautiful the house was. Cecilio praised the idea of her living in an old oak tree. "Even your own house represents what kind of character who lives there" had Cecilio remarked . Even though Twilight made a silly joke of it, she still couldn't hide her sparkling expression.
"Don't be too sad I will do my best to help you. I'm sure there exist some sort of spell which will be useful for you." Twilight continued in yet another conversation while serving him some more tea.
Cecilio nodded while enjoying the sweet green tea in the living room. They sat in a circle surrounded by candles and fluffy pillows while relaxing from the pleasant atmosphere and cozy feeling. Twilight showed some of her magic to Cecilio who were utterly impressed. Until she magically gave him a black smooth mustache. She showed him the result and quickly corrected her silliness, unsure if her joke went a little too far. Cecilio on the other hand burst into laughter and started rolling around in the cushions. His conspicuous mood spread also to Twilight who joined with a cuter laugh. Yet, another memory which would forever be sealed as a beautiful memory for Cecilio.
"Wow, look at the clock, she's already 8.00 PM. We have been talking to each other for over four hours huh?" Twilight interrupted suddenly.
"Sorry. Maybe you are busy with something else or-" Cecilio excused himself, while feeling guilty of being the reason of her time loss.
"No no, it's not that, actually it's the opposite. Not too often my other friends actually enjoys talking to me about history and science and-" She stopped her sentence suddenly.
"Ehm I mean, Cecilio, not friend but - I mean, we have only been knowing each other for a fe-"
"You can call me a friend, if you want, at least I see you as a friend of mine now. You have done so much for me, at the same time, I love to hear about everything you know about" Cecilio replied gaily.
Twilight smiled to him and threw an apple towards Cecilio with her levitation magic while calling him a liar. He smoothly dodged the apple but instead got hit by two pillows. "Are you still going to lie to me?" Twilight repeated smirking.
"I don't remember anything, I don't even know what that word means" Cecilio announced while sending back both a pillow and a foul smile.
The game had a sudden turn when the door suddenly opened.
A pink pony flew towards Cecilio and knocked him over. When he opened his eyes saw he those two happy-going eyes while she whispered merrily:
"Now it's time for you to party - Pinkie Pie style!".
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The inside of the barn was cleaned of all hay and dirt. It's soil was adorned by conjured colors which reflected off of the mirrored disco ball that hung on top of the roof. The ceiling was also filled with balloons, streamers hanging down to the floor and giant overfilled piñatas. The tables and chairs on the floor enhanced the room with its neat and luxurious tablecloths, glasses and plates. At the same time was the room filled with candies, such as: Cupcakes and muffins in different colors, different pies and apple desserts, sarsaparillas, spearmints, sugar cubes, sugared strawberries, crunchy honey-peanuts, toffees, fudges, chewy treats, boiled sweets, coconut candies, sweet pumpkin juice, carbonated sugar water and a huge birthdaycake covered in chocolate, white frosting and hundreds of candles. The most amazing though, was all the guests who arrived. As Pinkie Pie said before - it seemed everypony in Ponyville had joined.
"Welcome to Ponyville, Cecilio the human!" the party guests screamed when he entered the building.
Silently fell small silvery droplets down on his cheeks while he hugged Pinkie Pie, whispering "Thank you... Thank you..." She wiped away his tears with her smile and grabbed his hand, where he got led further into the room where the party started in full swing.
Obviously was the ponies mighty interested in this strange being and he got flooded by questions and sentences. Cecilio tried his best to acknowledge everypony, a hard task when meeting so many for his first time, however: Truly an interesting and fun experience. After hundreds of questions, cake's and candies stepped Pinkie Pie in as a host and started a dance competition. Ponies started to dance to the music, mixed between light, sweet melodies to electronic harder tones which together achieved heavenly music. Most ponies were dancing together with somepony or in groups, while Cecilio tried to find an empty seat. He wanted to join the competition aswell but since he didn't knew anypony too well, he rather wanted to sit then dancing alone.
"And where do you think your going?" asked a rather serious voice while patting him on the shoulder.
Pinkie Pie was standing in front of him in a weird, colorful dress decorated with candies. Cecilio looked on his shiny silk trousers and was relived over the fact that Rarity had made such a suit for him in merely two days. Another pony he was interested to know more about...
"Quit your thinking, it's time to move your body and be my partner!" Pinkie Pie declared suddenly and escorted Cecilio forwards.
Against his will was he dragged to the floor but still overjoyed that just Pinkie Pie brought him to the dance floor.
The flawless beings moved their bodies energetic in a rhythmic pace against, beside, around each other while the music gave them even more vibrant. Their flowing movements was a perfect duality - the perfect mix between the graceful to the more wild. Merely from the dance of these two individuals could the spectators almost feel the friendly harmony they created. With little surprise, was Cecilio and Pinkie Pie nominated as the winners.
Exuberant happy with tousled hairstyles, sat they down at a large table with five other ponies where Cecilio at least recognized Twilight and Rarity. However, these mares were actually the representation of harmony, the mane six. As Twilight had explained earlier to him, all had their own unique characters. A lot of laughs, games and candies ravaged the table while he learned and understood more what Twilight meant. Applejack, the honest farmer did a pretty bad job during poker but was still a good loser and somepony you could easily talk to. Rarity, was as Twilight described her, beautiful and quite generous since she insisted on making even more cloths to Cecilio. Fluttershy was described as a shy pony however, her shyness was significantly more subdued and a lot more talkative this evening. The only one in general Cecilio met who was more suspicious of him than happy was probably Rainbow Dash but even she was agreeable towards him. The table conversation ended with a balloon war which Twilight and Rainbow Dash conquered everypony in, an upset Rarity who got her dress somewhat dirty because of Pinkie Pie's excellent pie throwing skills and Fluttershy who for some reason flew outside, carried away by a beautiful bird song.
The party continued in high spirits throughout the night, celebrating the splendor of the new man in the magical land of Equestria.
******
"I want to show you something" had she said and thus leading him on a long and large grassy hill slightly outside the city.
The smell of sweat and sugar swirled around Cecilio while he struggled with his tired legs and deep breaths. His sight was concentrated on his pink friend who withstood the acclivity with ease. While walking, existed a natural stillness between them, where words were not necessary without suppressing the atmosphere between them. It was an ambrosial feeling which increased the closer they reached the top. When finally being at the top could Cecilio understand why Pinkie Pie was so enthusiastic about taking him up there. The night sky was in a transition between light and darkness, which slowly got illumed by a stronger light in the distance. The beautiful stars was getting more obscured by every minute and slowly was the sun raised in the background.
"It's beautiful Pinkie Pie. So, is Celestia raising the sun now?" Cecilio stated while sitting down on the cushioned grass.
"Mmhmm" Pinkie Pie answered and placed herself next to him.
Cecilio uttered another "wow" while continuing looking at the mystical event. He simply couldn't grasp everything he had seen, learned, smelled and felt during this day. Every friendly face and soul he met made such an impression on him.
"Did you like the welcome - party?" Pinkie Pie asked still, with her usual high pitched voice. Her smiling frown met Cecilio who just laughed at the question.
"Liked? I LOVED it. Seriously, I don't remember anything about parties but I'm still pretty sure this was the best one I've ever been on before" Cecilio almost howled excited.
Pinkie Pie twittered while she carried out a victory dance.
"Join my after - party dance!" she humorous commanded Cecilio who happily joined.
They jumped around in the grass without purpose and meaning until they finally landed on their backs next to each other. This incident reminded Cecilio about the first time he met Pinkie Pie - same warm anxious butterflies were in his stomach then as now.
"When you fainted back then, you almost dropped your red stone." Pinkie Pie said unexpectedly "Don't you think it looks like a heart that have been split up?"
Cecilio raised his neck slightly and looked at the weird artifact. "Yes, maybe it does..." he mumbled while inspecting it. "But when I was fainted, did you carry me the whole back home to Twilight's house or..?"
"Oh no, Twilight found us and teleported us home to herself"
"But how did she-?
"Her owl Owlawicious had seen me entered the Everfree forest at night alone and said that to Twilight Sparkle." Pinkie Pie interrupted unperturbed.
"I see..." mumbled Cecilio once again while he stretched his body on the grass
"I'm really glad I met you though" Cecilio spoke while concentrating on the sky."All of you, of course" he added quickly. For some reason a bit nervous.
Her soft hoof touched his fingers while she gave Cecilio back his stone.
"I'm also really glad that I met you" Pinkie Pie replied with a slightly deeper voice while she looked up at the clear morning's sky.
From below, where the hill ended, peered two yellow eyes on these figures. Especially one of them seemed to interest the entity. He quickly headed back to the Everfree forest as when the morning-light sprouted to the soil.