//------------------------------// // So much work for one letter // Story: Through lonely eyes // by Gildor Surion //------------------------------// Questi looked over the building that he was sure belonged to the Mayor. Just as he was about to knock on the door, it opened and out came the Mayor. He was just about to say something when he suddenly heard somepony yell "TWITCHY TAIL!" This caused Questi to panic and without much thought dove towards the Mayor, pulling her back into what he hoped to be a safe area. As the two landed inside the house, there was a loud thud as a huge mound of snow had fallen off the roof of the building and now blocked the doorway. Questi looked at the now snow covered exit and let out a bit of a sigh as he realized he had just trapped himself with the Mayor. His attention now came to the Mayor and the tangled mess their hooves were in. After a an awkward moment of silence and blushing, they finally untangle their hooves. Questi is the first to stand up and he looks at the snow blocked door once again. "Looks like the pink bad luck charm has struck again." The Mayor chuckled a bit as Questi remarked about Pinkie Pie. "Oh Questi, your the only one who refers to Pinkie Pie as a bad luck charm." Questi let out a bit of a sigh as he looks back at the Mayor. "How could I not think of her as one? Something is always falling down or crashing into me whenever that crazy pink pony is around. I'm lucky that my horn is still in one piece after all that chaos." The Mayor lets out a bit of a sigh. "So I take it your not here to apologize to Pinkie about missing the cheer up party she tried to throw for you the last time you came to Ponyville? She was so heartbroken when you didn't show up. She changed the cheer up party into a search party. Everypony was so worried when you weren't found." Questi's head drooped down. "I'm sorry, but I just needed some time alone to try and answer all these questions in my head after getting that letter about my parents' deaths." "You're normally good with answering questions. Why did it take you a year to finally come back to Ponyville?" The Mayor asked as she walked closer to Questi. "Why wasn't I there to help save my parents?" Questi let out a deep sigh. "Even though I knew the answer for so long, I couldn't fully come to terms with accepting it. But that has nothing to do with why I am here now." He raised his head as he changed the subject. "The main reason I came back here today was this letter a mailpony had dropped over my house." He pulled out the letter and showed it to the Mayor. She looked over the letter. "Oh my, a letter for Derpy from her daughter! She normally keeps this with her at all times. The poor mailmare must be worried sick." Questi tilted his head. "The letter is addressed to a Ditzy Doo, not Derpy." The Mayor facehoofed. "Derpy is Ditzy Doo, everypony calls her that because..... Well once you meet her you can understand." He was now more confused. "That is a very strange name to give somepony. Can you just tell me what she looks like?" "I can actually do something better then that." She went off to some sort of cabinet and quickly pulled out a file. She happily trotted back over to Questi. He levitated the file once the Mayor was next to him and opened it. Inside had a bit of information about Ditzy and a picture. {Sorry for the lack of photo here, it is hard to find a photo the right size I want with Ditzy's eyes being normal.} "So she is a grey Pegasus with a blonde mane and gold eyes. Nothing out of the ordinary. I guess if this picture explained why her name was Derpy, you would have brought it out then." Happy with the info he got, Questi returned the file to the Mayor. He turned to look back at the snow blocked door. At least that is what he thought he was going to look at, but instead of snow there was now a bouncy pink pony. "I finally found the two of you! Hurry up the Welcome Back party can't start without you!" And before Questi or the Mayor could protest, Pinkie quickly pulled them to Sugar Cube Corner. "Let the 'Welcome Back Questi' party begin!!" Just about everypony in Ponyville was there. The crowd of colorful ponies started cheering, a few even yelled 'Welcome back Questi!' plus one barely audible 'yay' This left Questi speechless as he looked around at all of them. He watched as the Mayor went off to mingle with a few ponies. He suddenly saw a pony that matched the picture of Ditzy. Suddenly everything went black. "AH! I HAVE GONE BLIND!" He started to panic as he felt everything spinning around him. "Your not blind silly, you just have a blindfold on." Pinkie Pie said with a giggle as she spun Questi around. "You can't play pin the tail on the pony without it." She handed him the tail and started to guide him toward the picture of the pony missing a tail. "Your almost there, just keep walking this way." There were giggles all around the room as they watched Pinkie walk a wobbly Questi through the room. "Just a few more steps. There now put the tail on the pony!" Questi felt a bit better when he knew he wasn't blind, but following Pinkie Pie was one of the last things he would ever do. But it seemed he didn't have much of a choice at the moment. When she said that they were at pony he lifted his head up and place the tail on the picture. Suddenly the room was filled with laughter. He lifted up the blindfold to see why everypony was laughing. He then saw that he had placed the tail on the chin of the pony. Pinkie was laughing so hard that she fell to the ground laughing. "That is the silliest bearded pony I have ever seen!" Questi looked at Pinkie and then at the picture of the now bearded pony. "Any pony with a beard like that should be proud of it." He started to help Pinkie get back up when suddenly her ears flopped, her eyes fluttered, and her knees started to twitch, knocking Questi back towards a door that suddenly opened, squishing him between the door and the wall. All the ponies around the area flinched as they saw the painful slam. A purple unicorn started walking in through the opened door. "Sorry for being late, I had to organize a few things before..." She stopped when she saw all the ponies looking like they had just seen something horrible. "Why is everypony staring at me like that? Is there something wrong with my horn?" She quickly reached her hoof up to feel her horn, and let out a sigh of relief when she felt her horn was normal. The door suddenly closed behind her and a thud sound soon followed. "Oh....." The unicorn blushed as she realized just what happened. "Bad luck charm strikes again." Questi mumbled out as he slowly regained himself. The pink pony bounced happily towards the two unicorns. "Twilight, I'm so glad you finally made it!" she gave the purple unicorn a big hug. During the hug she suddenly realized something. "Oh, Twilight, you have never met Questi before!" She turned Twilight around to face Questi. "Twilight meet Questi Mark, Questi meet Twilight Sparkle." "It is very nice to meet you Questi. I'm sorry about hitting you with the door as I came in, I know just how painful that can be." Twilight said with a blush of embarrassment . "Nice to meet you as well Twilight, and don't worry too much about it. When Pinkie starts twitching in some way, I know I'm going to be hit by something." Questi laughed a bit. "This is actually the third time today that the bad luck charm has struck." Pinkie frowned at being called a bad luck charm. "Will you STOP calling me THAT!" "It does seem rude to call Pinkie a bad luck charm." Twilight said as she stood next to her pink friend. Questi shuffled his right front hoof as he looked down and sighed. "Sorry, I've just been so use to calling her that since I always end up getting hit by something every time she is around me." Pinkie shook her head. "Hey, enough of this mopey~wopey nonsense. This is a party, so lets PAR~TAY!!!" She pulled out her party cannon from out of nowhere and started firing it around, shooting confetti everywhere. The last shot ended up firing right at Twilight and Questi. "Oops..." At first Twilight and Questi glared at Pinkie, then they looked at each other and started to laugh at out silly the other looked covered in confetti. Questi suddenly had an idea. He used his magic to levitate most of the confetti off the two unicorns and started to carefully fold them into one another until it was a nice party hat. He then noticed there was a small blonde maned unicorn filly watching in amazement at his work. He smiled as he magically lowered the party hat onto the little unicorn's head. She said a quick thank you before running off to show her new hat to her mom. "Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw." Both Pinkie and Twilight said in unison. Pinkie Pie then jumped around Questi as she said "That was amazing and Dinky Doo looks so happy." Questi giggled as he heard the two go 'Daaaaaaaaaw'. He was a bit shocked to heard the name Dinky Doo. He turned his attention to where the little unicorn ran off to. Just as he suspected, she was showing her new hat to the pegasus that he has been looking for. "So that must be Ditzy Doo." He turned to the two girls. "You will have to excuse me for a moment, as I am going to finally do what I came to do in this crazy town in the first place." Twilight and Pinkie both smiled. "We have to see this." The three ponies walked over to where Dinky and Ditzy where. Questi took a few extra steps ahead of Pinky and Twilight as he stopped in front of Ditzy. "Ditzy Doo I presume?" Ditzy looked up at the strange unicorn that called her name. Only one eye came to look at Quest while the other seemed to look off at the ceiling. "Muffin?" Questi was thrown off by how Ditzy's eyes looked in two different places at once, and then by when she just said 'muffin'. "What? No, I don't have a muffin. But I do happen to have something that belongs to you." He dug through his bag and handed Ditzy the letter that had found its way into his house that morning. Ditzy was shocked when she saw that Questi had the letter she had lost on her route today. She then gave him a big hug as she said "Thank you!" over and over again. "I thought I had lost this letter forever. Thank you so very much." He was a bit shocked to be hugged, but he felt a special kind of joy that he hadn't felt for such a long time. "You're very welcome." He blushed a bit as she released him from the hug. "I must thank you as well." He smiled as he looked around the room before returning to looking at Ditzy. "If you didn't drop that letter, I would still be a very lonely pony in a tree." Ditzy looked at Questi a bit confused. "Muffin?" Questi laughed a bit. "Sure, I would love a muffin."