//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: The Gathering of Two Ponies, plus an Event Maker. // Story: Welcome to Equestria! Questing is Magic! // by ponystorylyh //------------------------------// My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust. Original Characters belongs to me. Chapter 1: The Gathering of Two Ponies, plus an Event Maker. After a few trips and several crashes later, Chrono Breaker was galloping towards the direction of Ponyville. Earlier on, he had taken flight to get his bearings, naturally finding the True North. It was also then and there he spotted signs of buildings to the west, tempting him to actually fly there. Still not confident in flying, he decided to take the hike across the grassland instead. Cresting the final hill, the pegasus jumped in joy on seeing civilisation. With renewed energy, he galloped toward the park, assuming there would be some ponies there who may be able to offer directions to the town hall. The evening had just begun and several ponies were at the park chatting and lazing about after a day’s work. The scene caught the ginger pelt pegasus off guard, for he never knew ponies had such bright coats of colours. “Hay there. You seemed pretty lost.” A mint coated unicorn with the cutie mark of a Lyre slouched on a bench waved to him. Another pony was sitting beside the unicorn waved as well. “Hello...” Chrono came up to the unicorn with an awkward look, “I didn’t know ponies could sit like that...” “That’s Lyra for you.” The cream coated earth pony with the cutie mark of three wrapped sweets replied, shaking her head, “She’s the only pony in Ponyville that sits like this.” “Aww, come on Bon Bon, there is nothing wrong sitting like this, you should try it.” Lyra leaned back grinning. “Anyways,” Bon Bon coughed, “This is my best friend Lyra Heartstrings, who likes to sit in weird positions. I’m Bon Bon...” “...who has a sweet-tooth for tasty sweets and confectioneries.” Lyra finished, receiving several prods by her blushing mare friend. “Chrono Breaker, please to meet you ladies,” The pegasus nodded to both of them with a chuckle, “I was given an invitation to come to Ponyville. Hope both of you are kind enough to direct me to the town hall.” So far, everypony he had met were open and friendly. “That’ll be easy.” Lyra replied, “Did you happen to see a largest, roundest building before coming here?” Chrono nodded, “That is the town hall. Flying there will be faster. However, if you wanna explore the town a bit, you can walk down the path,” the unicorn pointed a hoof to the west, “cross the bridge, turn left after hitting the street. You can’t miss it.” Lyra took another look at the pegasus, “You seemed rather beaten up. What did you do? Crash through Everfree forest?” “Got it! Thanks!” Chrono took mental note, “I’ll be fine, these bruises will go away sooner or later,” He checked himself, then back to Lyra, “Just wondering, are you really okay sitting like that?” “Feels natural to me.” Lyra replied with a mischievous look, “Wanna see other poses I can do?” She was promptly bucked off the bench by an annoyed Bon Bon. “Excuse us while I get her mind straight...” Bon Bon shook her head and proceed to ‘lecture’ the unicorn. “Alright then... I guess I’ll take my leave...” He muttered, silently left as the two mares ‘quarrelled’ on. Decided to enjoy the sights, he continued his walk down the park toward the town hall... Windie could not believe she had done it! Galloping was fun, but what made it exciting was the way her magic reacted to her thoughts as she whisked across the plains on her hooves, with the wind acting as a boost to her speed. Things around her sort of flew pass her as if she was on a high speed train... or whatever that was, which she shrugged off the thought. “Phew! That was exciting!” The unicorn giggled as she arrived at the dirt road just outskirts of Ponyville. In front of her was a huge plantation full of trees, and over at the right, along the road, a large barn. Currently the barn seemed to look empty, until a cow wandered out of it. “Mooo~ I mean, hello my dear.” The cow called out when it noticed her. “Evening Madam.” Windie returned the gesture as she trotted over, “I just came from the south, was wondering whether this is Ponyville.” She was mentally prepared this time. Since there were talking ponies, then there should not be any surprise with talking cows. “What a polite mare, especially from the far south. Yes this is Ponyville alright.” The cow nodded, “Just follow this dirt road and you will see the town hall soon enough.” “Thank you madam for your assistance,” The unicorn smiled, “I was also wondering, what a large barn you have. Do you stay alone?” “Neigh, my sisters are out grazing at the moment. I came back early as there was a last minute request for a jug of milk.’ “Uhh... ok... I see...” Windie gave an awkward smile, “I suppose take my leave now Madam. Nice chatting with you.” “Not a problem sweetie... Ohh, just a caution for you. There is a pegasus flying haphazardly around here lately. Careful not to let her crash into you.” “Will do. I’ll keep my eyes out for her.” Thanking the cow, the unicorn made her way up the dirt road. It did not take long for her to made contact with the certain pegasus as the dirt road branched to the left, where at the end of it, a large farm was situated. The unicorn’s eyes went back to the main road, Windie could actually see the large round building mentioned by the cow in the distance. Suddenly from her blind spot, a streak of rainbow dashed toward her at an incredible speed. “Incoming!” A voice shouted from her rear, startling her for just that two seconds before she shut her eyes tight, horn glowed brightly, hoping what ever was going to crash into her would be knocked back. PAAFFT! Windie heard a groan and turned around, seeing a blue pegasus mare with a messy rainbow cropped name and tail, had smacked face first against the wall of wind she had created out of instinct. The amusing thing was that the pegasus was literally sliding down the ‘wall’, landing on the ground with a soft ‘splat’, eyes spinning in a daze. “Are... are you alright?” The unicorn snickered, trying not to laugh out loud as she removed her wall of wind and helped the pegasus up to a sitting position with her magic. She was amazed, yet now concerned whether the crash had affected the latter mentally since there were no physical injuries seen. “Ugh... just let me sit here for a while...” The blue pegasus groaned, meganta eyes still spinning, “That was... guh... some wall...” “I’m sorry about that... I had to protect myself...” Windie replied with a slight guilt in her voice, “It wasn’t that painful... right?” The pegasus, with the cutie mark of a cloud with rainbow lightning bolt, shook her head, somewhat cleared her dizziness, “It was the rush that hurts... other than that... WHOA!” The pegasus seemed to have realised something from the experience, “That was awesome! A wall that could not hurt! Lets try it again!” A moment of silence followed, “Err... hehe...sorry... sorta had a Pinkie Pie moment.” She looked away, not wanting to let the unicorn see her blushing cheeks. “Are you sure you are okay? It looks like you are burning up in the cheeks...” “Nope! I’m definitely OKAY, FINE, HEALTHY!” The pegasus got up, recovering quickly and flapped her wings, “I’m not called Rainbow Dash for my quick recovery skills, as well as the fastest flier in Equestria!” “Okay... I’m Windie Breeze, just being curious on why are you crashing at other ponies?” “Err... well... YES! I was doing my stunt routines, and decided to try out something new. There wasn’t suppose to be anyone walking along the road during this time...” Rainbow clopped her front hooves nervously, “Anyways I could have pulled it off perfectly, if its not for this meddlesome unicorn...” She muttered. Unfortunately, the unicorn heard it. “Right... blame me for being here at the wrong time!” Windie huffed in annoyance, “I could have placed up a ‘harder’ wall so you can sleep off it for days!” “Ladies! Calm down! Ah could hear yah hollering from the farm!” A new voice was heard. Both ponies turned to see an orange pony approached them. Before Rainbow could reply, the orange earth pony with the cutie mark of three red apples promptly stuffed an apple into the pegasus’ mouth, “Now don’t start it Rainbow Dash, Ah told yah before to do yah crazy stunts at a higher altitude. Yah endangering ponies, especially yahself!” Her comment was clear cut, and true, making Rainbow feel guilty about it, admitting her mistake as she silently munched on the apple and nodded, “Now go apologise to her... HAY!” The orange pony caught the escaping pony’s rainbow tail with her mouth before the latter could take off. Sighing in defeat, the blue pegasus dropped back down. “I... I’m sorry...” Rainbow reluctantly apologised. Releasing Rainbow’s tail, “See, it ain’t so hard to...” Before the earth pony could finish, the blue pegasus took flight, turn around, and stuck her tongue out at Windie before flying off, “...apologise..” The former sighed, “Sorry about that sugercube, Rainbow can be rather stuck up at times. She’ll come around sooner or later. Name’s Applejack by the way, and mah family owns Sweet Apple Acres as yah can see here.” She tipped her cowboy hat, greeting the unicorn. “Windie Breeze. Came from the south, is going to meet up with another pony for an event in Ponyville.” The unicorn raised a hoof for a hoofshake. “Yah are from Fillydelphia? tTat’s mighty fine of you travelling here on yah own.” Applejack cheerfully returned with a hoof of her own, clopping against Windie’s and shaking hers, “If yah talking about events, that would be Prezzie Luv. She’s one fantastic pony by the way.” The orange pony nodded, “When Pinkie Pie suggested a party for her, she just waved her hoof over Pinkie. Guess what? Pinkie totally forgot about the party soon after that...” “You will bring me to Prezzie Luv...” The unicorn waved her hoof at the earth pony, her horn glowing dimly. Somehow, WIndie had to try it. “Yes Ah will... Hay!” Applejack exclaimed in surprise. It was followed by both of them laughing out for quite a bit. “That’s a good one Wind! Ah almost fell for that!” She chuckled as they finally calmed down. “I tried, but it seems like this unicorn mind tricks won’t work on you.” Windie giggled, “Anyways, I should be going now, thank you for the timely assistance Applejack.” She gave the earth pony a nod. “AJ will be fine. Yah sure you don’t need mah help to bring you to Prezzie Luv?” Applejack grinned, causing both of the to giggle out again. “No, I can manage. The town hall is just right ahead, and its pretty straight forward.” “Gotcha! Ah’ll probably see yah around town tomorrow then.” Both nodded with smiles on their faces before heading different paths... “Is this the town hall?” Chrono muttered to himself as he looked up at the large round building. A sign outside the closed door informed ponies that operation hours from 9am to 5pm. On seeing the closed door, he assumed that the building was closed for the day. There were still some ponies mulling around the building, however, one cream pelt unicorn pony caught his eyes; her long emerald green mane and tail fluttered about as if there was an aura of wind surrounding her. Somehow this peculiar unicorn noticed him as well, and started to approach him. “Hi! I hope I did not mistaken you for someone else, but...” The unicorn paused with light tint of pink on her cheeks, “...are you the very weird but nice pegasus Derpy was talking about?” Chrono absent-minded scratched the side of his head with a hoof, “I’m nice, but its weird to be called very weird.” He chuckled, “And yes I did met the mail mare before coming over here.” Nodding to the unicorn, “Please to meet your acquaintance. I’m Chrono Breaker.” He held out a hoof. “Windie... Windie Breeze...” The unicorn shyly held up her hoof and clopped with the ginger pegasus’ hoof, giving it a light shake, “For a moment, I thought I’ve got the wrong pony... you are the only pony in the area that looked like he had travelled quite a bit.” She indicated by pointing at his bruises. “We will find out soon enough.” Chrono replied as he reached under his wings and pulled out the letter, “Have a look at this letter, and no worries about these bruises, I got them uneventfully...” Windie nodded and accepted the letter with her magic, “You seemed to trust me fully... Why is that?” She began to open the letter and unfold the contents. At the same time, her own letter magically appeared and was being unfolded. “All the ponies I’ve met are friendly enough. They don’t have that sense of insecurity around them.” He shrugged noting how proficient Windie weld her magic. “Fair enough...” She giggled and held the letters for Chrono to see, “Same letter, same content.” “Awesome! So are we a team?” He asked, only to receive a blush from the unicorn, The both of them were silent, feeling each others uneasiness. It was then Chrono decide to break the ice, “Okay how about this, lets meet up with this Prezzie Luv, then we decide on our next course of action?” “That... that would be a better option...” She acknowledged, still struggling with the awkwardness. With the mutual agreement made, the ponies approached the fountain where a peach coated unicorn in a red beret and cloak was busily writing stuff on her large notepad. “Hello and welcome to Ponyville!” The unicorn cheerfully announced to the duo as they approached, “You must be the two ponies I’ve been expecting!” She put aside her notepad and quill in the large saddlebag under her cloak, revealing a wrapped present as her cutie mark, “There be others coming soon, but since both of you are our early birds... or rather ponies, here is an incentive!” She magically held out two small bags filled with coins. “Thanks?” Both ponies replied with a puzzled look as they accepted the bags of coins. “Each bag has one hundred bits exactly. So it should last both of you a few days worth of food and lodgings.” The peach unicorn paused a moment the gasped out, “Seems l’ve forgotten to introduce myself... Name’s Prezzie Luv, Event Maker from Canterlot.” “Thanks for the bits Miss Luv.” Chrono nodded, “Perhaps you can tell us what the event is about before we can officially accept these bits.” “A good question!” Prezzie smiled, “As you know, ponies tend to be satisfied with their everyday routine. I’m here to research on how ponies react when they are tasked to do things not in their daily scope.” Her notepad flew right out of her saddlebag, which she started browsing through, “I’ve tried talking to the ponies in Canterlot, and then Ponyville, but it seems they are not in the mood to do so, thus I had to find other ponies from other places.” Her quill came out and she jotted some notes down, “As of right now, both of you fit the requirements.” “And the requirements are?” Windie enquired as the bag of bits floated above her head. “Both of you are not from here, and you do need some bits at the moment.” The peach unicorn look up from her notepad, “Also, you ponies sort of think differently from others.” These pointers did hit the spot on their situation; They are ‘lost’, bit-less, and having some strange outer-worldly thoughts they could not understand. “For the event, I’ve already planned out the tasks to be done. Each task you complete I’ll dole out more incentives, so no worries, it’ll be fun!” Prezzie seemed to had a eureka moment and began furiously jotted something down. Once she was done, she happily look up from what she had written, “Right now, it seemed to be pretty late to start anything proper...” Both participants agree with Prezzie. The sun was already setting into the horizon, and ponies around them were now making their way home, “Shall we meet you here tomorrow then?” Chrono suggested. “No hurry. Like I said there are still other ponies whom I’m waiting to join in the event, you know, the more the merrier. However, if both of you are eager to start, we can start tomorrow,” Prezzie grinned, “I’m a flexible pony, thus if you two want to have some pony time exploring the town, go right ahead. I’ll be here daily from sunrise and dusk.” Satisfied with her notes, she began to pack up for the night. “That’s pretty hardworking of you.” Windie praised the event maker, “We hope this event you have made will be a great success.” “Thanks!” The peach coated unicorn beamed at the comment, “I’m beginning to like you both, Windie Breeze, Chrono Breaker. I’ll check back with you two when you are ready. See ya!” Having finished packing, Prezzie’s horn glowed and in a blink of magic, she was gone. Author's Note: Appearances of two of the Mane 6, Lyra and Bon Bon, plus the third OC.