The pink mare had paid me twenty bits for thirty bags of sugar, I hoped this would be enough to buy some travelling gear, or at least a bag for all my paper.
A yellow pegasus walked over to me with the gentleness of a butterfly. "Oh my," She said, with equal levels of gentleness, "Were you running this stall all by yourself?"
"Yes, but I'm more than capable of running my own market stall." I said, tying the pink bag of gold coins to my torso.
"Pardon me, but won't your parents be upset at ya for selling all that sugar for such a low price? Ah don't know exactly how much Pinkie Pie had, but ah know it wasn't much." The orange one replied, gesturing over to the pink one, which was being shaken by the rainbow-maned pegasus.
"I doubt they'd mind, they don't mind much of anything anymore. Besides, why would they have cared in the first place. It was my sugar, I can sell it for however much I want." I said, walking off to what appeared to be a hat store.
"I know darn well that sugar couldn't have been easy to get a hold of around here, it was likely shipped here from Las Pegasus." The orange pony said, getting closer.
Instead of answering, I instead forced a tree to grow from the soil around and cut off enough thin slices of wood from it to make a paper bag. The white, orange, and yellow ponies watched, and the purple one watched with her mouth open.
"Pinks, speak to me." The rainbow-maned one said while gently shaking the pink one.
"Isss shooo... goooood" The pink one slurred out, mouth dripping with drool.
"What was even in that sugar, anyway?" The rainbow-maned mare said as she turned back to me.
"Too many food enhancement runes, it seems that she likes it, but maybe she likes it a little too much." I said, scrawling down more notes while I forced some sugar cane to grow. The soil began to glow a neon green and soon a fully grown sugar cane plant burst from the dirt.
With a flick of my horn, I harvested the sugar cane, refined it into sugar, enchanted the sugar only three times instead, and put it into the bag before entering the store.
A stallion stood at the counter and smiled as I walked in. He had numerous outfits in stock, all of which were western themed. "Howdy, young'in," He said to me, tipping his cowboy hat.
The door opened as the four of the mares entered behind me. The pink one burst through a window, a crazed look on her face as she reached for my newest bag of sugar. She grumbled something incoherent at me before I blasted her head with a dispel magic spell.
The purple one and the dragon remained outside, the mare was reading something as the drake wrote something down.
"Dear Princess Celestia, We found the creature using this green magic you warned me about. It turns out, the creature is just a young colt, and when I say young, I mean really young, he shouldn't even be able to walk or talk, let alone use magic." The mare dictated to the drake.
The two continued while I grabbed a set of bags, as well as a cool vest and hat. The white mare gushed as she saw me posing in the mirror with my new apparel. "Oh look at him, he's so precious."
"Rarity, that colt is the creature that Princess Celestia sent us after." Said the purple mare as she rejoined her friends, the drake stayed outside as he set a scroll aflame.
"Mmm, green dragon fire," I said, watching him before noticing a wisp of magic shoot into the sky from the flame. "No, not just dragon fire, a dragon fire delivery service?" I said to myself, rubbing the back of my head in confusion.
The bags served me well as I stuffed them with all my paper. The hat would keep the sun out of my eyes as I travelled, and the vest ... is stylish. I wasted money on the vest, I see that now. The six mares and drake were staring at me, I realized.
"What?" I asked, confused.
"That magical surge the Princesses felt from the desert beyond Equestria's border, was that you?" The purple mare asked.
I thought about it, and I couldn't think of anyone else who would be capable of causing a magical surge powerful enough to alert the rulers a country away to their presence. Hindsight is always 20/20, as they say. Who could've guessed enchanting a bunch of farms underground would be akin to ringing a dinner bell for other powerful wizards.
"Yes, I suppose it was me who did that." I said, straightening my new hat as the drake burped out a letter.
"So it is like a dragon fire delivery service, I'll need to look into that eventually." The possibility of safely transporting goods from one location to another without having to transport it had intrigued me.
"My faithful student, stay close to the colt, and don't let him leave Appleloosa, I'm on my way." Said the drake, reading the scroll out loud.
"The Princess is coming here?" The purple mare asked.
"Just because of a magical surge?" I asked, sitting down on the wooden store floor.
"You didn't just have a magical surge, you used a large quantity of a magic that nobody has ever even heard of." The purple mare replied.
"So I need to leave town then." I said, moving to the door of the shop, only to be stopped by the orange one.
"You ain't goin' nowhere." She said, blocking the exit.
I covered my eyes with my new black cowboy hat and knew that I could probably get away from them.
"Alright, I'll come quietly." I pretended to surrender as I felt myself being picked up in a purple magic field.
The six mares and the dragon brought me outside as I planned out potential escapes.