//------------------------------// // Time in Ponyville // Story: The Dragon from Earth to Equestria // by Nemesis Sol //------------------------------// The pink pony just stared at the three. "Come on Twilight, just try." Said Spike. Twilight was nervous but she managed to make a small response. "Uh... Hello?" The pink pony gasped, and sped away from them, but accidentally bumped into Schwab in the process. She stared at him with awe, and fear before she screamed, and ran away. 'Great...' Thought Schwab. "Well that was interesting, all right." Said Twilight. Spike just sighed, and Schwab followed them without saying anything. He was still stuck in his thoughts, and tried to look around the place, trying to think of something else besides family. Ponies that they walked by either scurried away, or stared in awe at the large dragon, before resuming their daily activities as soon as the three walked passed. Soon they got on a dirt road that led to an apple farm. "Summer Sun Celebration's Official Overseer's Checklist. Number 1: Banquet Preparations! Sweet Apple Acres!" Said Spike reading a list of things they needed to do. They walked through a gate only to hear a "Yee haw" coming from a running orange pony wearing a cowgirl hat. She ran to a tree filled with apples, and kicked it, allowing the apples to fall into 5 baskets. She seemed to feel accomplished at the task she did. "A confident one." Said Schwab looking at her. Twilight gave a annoyed sigh. "Let's just get this over with..." The two dragons looked at each other, and shrugged following her, to the orange pony. They walked up to her, and Twilight introduced herself. "Hello. My name is Twilight Sparkle." She said gracefully, not expecting to get her hoof shaken so quickly by the orange pony greeting her back. "Well howdy do, Ms. Twilight! A pleasure making your acquaintance! I'm Applejack, we here at Sweet Apple Acres sure do love making new friends!" She said still shaking Twilight. "Friends?" Actually I uh..." She suddenly stopped being shaken, but her hoof was still going up, and down while Applejack asked: "What can I do ya for?" Spike grabbed Twilight's hoof to make it stop, and Schwab was shocked by how much force their was in a single handshake. Twilight glared at the two, while they silently laughed. She cleared her throat. "Actually I'm in charge of the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration, and your in charge of the food?" "We sure as sugar are! Care for a sample some?" Replied Applejack. "As long as it doesn't take too long." Said Twilight a little nervous. Applejack raced to a triangular instrument, to which she ringed, calling everyone from the farm. A table was set up, and Applejack introduced the whole family. During this a whole bunch of food, and put upon the table, and Schwab was shocked. 'Is is Thanksgiving? Wait... So they have that here in Equestria?' thought Schwab staring in complete shock. Soon Applejack introduced the last three members. "Big Macintosh, Apple Bloom, and... Granny Smith." Schwab took in their features. 'So the biggest guy is Big Mac? Huh, reminds me of McDonald's, Apple Bloom, a child, definitely adorable, and Granny Smith reminds me of my grandparents when we had family get togethers in my world.' He thought. Twilight had taken to much. "I'm sorry but we have to go!" Just then a sweet voice filled the place. "Your not going to stay for brunch?" It was Apple Bloom who had doggy eyes. "I'm sorry, but I have a lot to do today." Said Twilight. The whole Apple family did a big "Aww." In sadness. Schwab couldn't resist the doggy eyes, and Twilight felt bad. "Fine." During brunch several ponies took notice of Schwab, and I'm his grand stature. This time there was no fear. Simply awe, and some respect was in their eyes. Schwab was weirded out. "May I help y'all?" He asked. Applejack responded first. "It's just that, we've never seen a dragon such as yourself. Your stature is amazing! We never knew dragons could possess feathered wings like a bird, or pegasus. Then again they are rare." Schwab took in the knowledge to his wings. 'maybe all the dragons here have batlike wings, and I only have feathers because of my death?' he thought sadly. "Well... I am a unique kind of dragon." He said hoping it would satisfy their curiosity. "Cool!" Said Apple Bloom. Soon after they left, and Schwab was happy that he actually had a conversation with other ponies even if it was small. He had never really had a conversation with Twilight besides their quick meeting at Cantorlot, and he, and Spike just did gestures when one other took notice of something, and told the other about it through those gestures. They arrived back in town. "Foods all taken care of. Next is Weather." Said Spike going back over the list. Schwab just nodded, and Twilight groaned. "I ate to much pie." She said. "Well, you could have just stopped when you got full enough." Said Schwab reasonably. "I didn't want to be rude!" "Fair point." Spike looked at them, then at the sky. "Mm. There's supposed to be a Pegasus named Rainbow Dash clearing the clouds." He said. Twilight looked to the sky. "Well she's not doing a great job is she?" Schwab was unlucky in this as soon a dash of rainbow crashed into both him, and Twilight, sending even his massive body into a mud puddle nearby. He groaned in pain. "Ouch..." Twilight looked annoyed, and a blue pegasus, with a rainbow mane, and tail laid on top of them. She looked around and below her noticing, she was on top of Twilight, and Schwab. All three of them covered in mud. She laughed. "Uh... Excuse me?" She giggled some more. "Here let me help you!" She flew away. Twilight laid on top of Schwab, and slid off of him, before Rainbow Dash came back with a dark cloud, and jumped on it releasing all the water. Schwab was completely free of mud, and only had water running down his scales, it felt good, like a shower. Twilight on the other hand was even more annoyed. Rainbow Dash giggled again. "Oops! I guess I over did it, hang on!" She exclaimed before circling the two in a rainbow colored tornado drying them up. Schwab was annoyed as well, but not as annoyed as Twilight. In fact his own thoughts were: 'She's a Tomboy.' Twilight had her mane, and tail all puffed up in which Schwab, Rainbow Dash, and Spike all laughed. "Let me guess. Your Rainbow Dash?" Said Twilight. Rainbow Dash caught on, and proclaimed herself. "The one, and only! Why you heard of me?" She said flying up to Twilight. "I heard your supposed to be keeping the sky cleared." She sighed. "I'm Twilight Sparkle. The Princess sent me here to check on the weather." Rainbow Dash laid on top of a cloud lazily saying: "Yeah yeah, the weather I'll have that done in a jiffy, as soon as I'm down practicing." Twilight was confused. "Practicing for what?" She said. Rainbow got excited as she told them. "The Wonderbolts! Their going to perform at the Summer Sun Celebration tomorrow, and I'm going to show them my stuff!" "The Wonderbolts? The most talented fliers in all of Equestria?" "That's them." Twilight scoffed. "Please, they'll never let a Pegasus who can't clear the sky for one measly day join them." Rainbow Dash took notice in change of attitude. "Hey! I can clear this sky in ten seconds flat!" "Prove it." Rainbow Dash got a look on her face, as she sped across the sky clearing every single cloud until there was non left. "See? Ten seconds flat!" Twilight, and Spike were shocked, and Schwab just looked at the clear sky not really paying attention to the three. He stared at the wonderful blue sky, and the sun. The sun was the object of majesty in his eyes. A massive ball of flame, that could shallow the earth if it could. The first one here, the one that gave us life, and the one to end us in due time in 5 billion years when it turns into a red giant. Truly an object that fears nothing, and has no equal. He saw Rainbow Dash zoom past his vision, and he looked around. He saw Spike, and Twilight walking to another building, and he followed suit. There they met Rarity, who was a fashion designer with extremely good taste. Twilight approached, followed by the two dragons. "Um. Excuse me?" Rarity didn't look at her at first still deciding over ribbons. Soon she looked at them, and stared in complete horrific shock. "Oh my stars, Darlings! What happened to your coiffure?" She exclaimed. Twilight was confused at first until she caught on. "Oh, you mean my mane? It's a long story. I'm just here to check up on the decorations, and then I'll be out of your hair." Rarity was still shocked. "My hair? What about your hair?" She said pushing Twilight behind some curtains, with a room for dressing behind them. Schwab, and Spike followed with Schwab noticing Spike having hearts in his eyes. "Ohh. Someone has a crush." He said. Spike stuttered. "Huh?" Rarity, and Twilight spoke for a while about Cantorlot, and were preparing to leave the other be. Spike was still hypnotized by Rarity's beauty, which Schwab couldn't lie was beautiful. 'Wait... Is it bad if I find a pony attractive? I mean they are sentient and I'm a dragon now so... I guess it doesn't matter.' he thought. They left, and Schwab asked Spike what was next. "Music." He said. The three of them began to hear beautiful singing. They peaked around a bush a noticed a cute yellow pegasus singing with the birds. "Snow White?" Said Schwab aloud. Spike, and Twilight looked at him. "Huh?" They both said. "What? Oh it's nothing, it's just a Mo- Book I read a long time ago!" He said. 'do they have movies here?' He thought. Twilight left the two, to greet Fluttershy. "Hello?" She said. The birds dispersed, and Fluttershy looked at Twilight with fear hinted on her eyes. "I was just coming to check on the music, and it sounded wonderful!" Fluttershy landed, and didn't say anything, looked away, and back at Twilight. Awkward silence came into play. "Uh... My names Twilight.... What's your name?" Said Twilight. Fluttershy looked away. "Um... My name is Fluttershy." She said in a low whisper. "I'm sorry what was that?" "Um my name is 'mumbles'." "Didn't quite catch that." Said Twilight trying to understand her. Fluttershy was whimpered. Twilight bid farewell, Schwab, and Spike coming up to her. Fluttershy noticed Schwab, and sunk in fear, then noticed Spike. "A baby dragon!!" She exclaimed excitedly. She flew over Twilight sending her flying, and stood where Spike was. "I've never seen a baby dragon before. He's so cute!" "Well, well, well." Said Spike proud to get attention. "Wow he talks! I didn't know dragons could talk, that's just so incredibly wonderful!" Twilight grabbed Spike with her magic, and walked away, Fluttershy following them to adore Spike. Schwab was just curious on how this even happened. He was walking behind all the others eventually they reached a library, carved into a tree. "Hmmm. That's some amazing craftsmen ship, to build a library in a tree." He said. He noticed that Twilight was starting to get rid of Fluttershy and felt kinda bad for it. Soon Twilight, and Spike went inside, and Schwab followed suit. "Excuse me, Fluttershy... Please? I'm so sorry for getting in your personal space." He said getting inside. "Your excused." She said. "Thank you sweetie." He said before closing the door. One's inside it was dark, and he couldn't see anything beside Twilight talking to Spike. "I need to let Celestia know Nightmare Moon is coming and I can't with a bunch of ponies trying to make friends all the time! Now where's the light?" After she said that, the lights came on, and a whole bunch of party items appeared. Kazoo sounded, and Schwab got annoyed real quick. He groaned but nopony noticed. The pink pony from earlier appeared, and greeted them talking rapidly, Twilight seemed to be half paying attention, and half not. The more Pinkie Pie talked, the faster it seems to be getting, and soon Schwab couldn't handle it. For the first time he roared. "Quiet! Please!" Every pony went silent, and feared kicked in. "Thank you... And sorry for yelling...." He said once it got reasonable. Twilight turned around, with a red face, and she seems to get caught in fire. Spike went to a bottle. "Hot sauce." Pinkie Pie took the bottle, and poured its contents on a cupcake shocking everyone. "What? This is good." Soon the party stopped, and everypony left. Leaving Schwab, Twilight, in the library alone. Twilight groaned and looked at the clock. Schwab was beside her seemingly asleep. Spike busted in. "Come on guys! Pinkie Pie, is playing Pin the Tail on the Pony!" Schwab opened his eyes, and looked around confused. "No!" Said Twilight. "Come on, it's the Eve of the Summer Sun Celebration. We all have to stay up, or we'll miss the Sun rise!" "No! Because everypony here is crazy!" Said Twilight. "Lighten up Twilight, after all it's just a party..." He said leaving. Twilight mumbled, and Schwab got upset. He sat up, and looked at her. "If you have something to say to him, just say it!" He said. "No! Here I thought I would learn more about the Elements of Harmony, and I couldn't because of all their friend making!" She retorted. "I don't know what your talking about, but ok." Said Schwab. Twilight looked out the window. "Legend says on the night of the 1000th year the stars will aid with her escape. I hope the Princess was right... I hope it is just a old ponies tale." She said. Spike came through again. "Come on guys, it's starting!" They all gathered in a decor building, waiting for Princess Celestia to appear. Pinkie Pie greeted Twilight again... Schwab was perched on top a piller ponies looking up at him confused. He looked outside to the moon. He saw a silhouette of a mare on it, four stars seems to collide with it, and the mare disappeared. Schwab got worried, he looked down at Twilight who was worried also. The Mayor appeared, and told the crowd to be prepared to witness the magic of the sunrise, while talking wonderfully about Celestia. Once she gave the gesture to open the curtains above her, the whole crowd was shocked, and worry began to spread. Celestia was gone... Schwab, and Twilight spoke in unison. "This can't be good..."