//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Special Delivery for a Special Somepony. // by Onyxfire408 //------------------------------// Chapter 1 The Wrong Package You wake up at the crack of dawn, you get out of bed and fetch some clothes from the drawers and approach the much needed bathroom. You enter your shower and turn the valve as the hot steamy sprinkles of water showered all over your light gray coat. As you finish your shower, you dry off your coat and mane as you put on your set of clothes for the day. You walk to your living room and approach the front door, before the leave you quickly grab your coat and black and grey checkered fedora and leave. You walk through the nearly lit streets of Ponyville as you blow out each lantern along the roads one by one. After a couple of hours of blowing out tips of fire and a few tunes of the colt made whistle, you finish your job and head back home, you look over to Celestia's sun as it was about to rise. As you approach your house, you enter as you return to your bed and sleep the rest of the early morning off. *ding dong* You wake up feeling a little groggy as you rise from your bed and walk to your front door. As you approach the door, your eye glares at the junk mails that was mistakenly delivered to you. You've hated this spam as you give a heavy sigh and walked towards the door. You opened the door to find the local mailmare with her strange eyes as she pulled out a few letter from her mail bag. "Here ya go." she said in a beaming tone as you take the mail and look over it closely. You found that it was more junk mail, you become frustrated as you crumple the mail that you held in your hands, and you grind your teeth as you threw the junk mail on the ground and bark at the mare like a dog. "Again!? How many times do I have to tell you!? I Don't want this stupid junk mail, just get the BUCK our of here!!!" You barked as you slammed the door shut. Outside the mailmare flew off into the distance as tears of sadness ran down her cheeks. You furiously stomped your way towards the kitchen as you pull out a chamomile tea bag from the cupboard and brewed yourself a nice piping hot cup of tea. "Honestly, that's the sixth time I've received junk mail instead of my bit check." You complain as you take a sip of your tea and sat down on your couch. As you gulped the the rest of your tea you remember a slight curse that had struck your head as if a dark rain cloud started pouring over your head. Why did you yell at her? Because, she brought me my sixth pile of junk mail. So? Is money really that important? It puts the food on my plate, and pays the bills. True, but does she control where the mail goes? Well... She's just her job, and you have no right to yell at her for just doing her job. I guess you're right. You thought to yourself as you barge through your door looking around for the pegasus mare, she was long gone. Think Think Think! She's a mailmare, where would they go? After a quick thought a light bulb popped over your head, literally, you look up to find Pinkie Pie with a harmless and comedic joke. She always takes things too seriously, and how did she know? You shake your head into reality as you remembered that Pinkie knew everypony in Ponyville. "Pinkie Pie, just the mare I need, I need your help." "Sure, whatcha need?" She asks with a beaming smile. "Well, do you know any pegasus mare with a light grey coat and a blond mane, oh and she's also a mailmare." You add as Pinkie placed a hand on her head scratching as she searched her own archives. "Ah I know, that was Derpy Hooves, one of Ponyville's mailmares. Why did you want to see her?" "Well, I-I-I-I did something to her that made her cry." Pinkie gasped in horror as she gave a mean sour look at you. "You big meaning, go apologize to her right nao!" She barked as she extended her neck as her face was mere centimeters away from yours. You give a confused look at the pink mare as you saw her neck extend like a giraffe. "I-I am, just please tell me, what does she like and where do you think she is right now?" You asked nervously. "Well, first of all she loves muffins, and she's probably at the local post office crying her feelings out because YOU hurt her." You held your head in frustration. "Arggh I told you I'm going to apologize now. Now I must go, got any muffins on you?" "Yuperoo, got a fresh muffin riiiiight," She paused as she reached behind her back and pulled out a hot steamy muffin.....how did she do that? "HERE! Banana and chocolate chip muffin, go ahead and give this to her and she'll be happy." She said with a beaming smile as you take the muffin becoming confused as to how she did that, you turn back to the pink cotton candy mare but she was off in the distance hopping like a bunny. You weld the muffin tight as you quickly sprint down the street to find the mare known as Derpy Hooves. You reach the post office as you quickly walk through the door and fine several ponies trying to do their business with mail, packages, and what not. You walk towards the nearest available deskmare as she raises an eyebrow at you. "Hello, welcome to EPS, how may I help you?" The deskmare asked. "Yes, is there a mailmare here by the name of Derpy Hooves?" You asked nervously "Well, yes but she turned in early, she went home if you wondering where she went. Why do you ask?" "Well..." You scratch your head and create a fake smile across her face. "I kinda upset her and I wanted to apologize to her." "Oh, no wonder, I knew I saw some tears run down her cheeks." "Yea I felt really bad cause I yelled at her for bringing me more junk mail, I knew it wasn't her fault." "Yea, well if your looking for her, her house is just down the road, just head left when you exit the building. You'll find her mailbox with her name." the deskmare informs "Thank you." You nod at her in grace and swiftly run outside and down the road. You look around the multiple houses in your way until you found one with a mailbox with the name Derpy and Dinky labeled on it. As you walk up to the door, your heart pounded with pain and twists. Your lungs felt that they were breathing air of timid tree and blood of dead colt. You felt the sweat climb down your body as you reach out your hand towards the wooden door. As your curl your hand into a fist, you raise it up slowly in fear as you bring it down knocking on the door three times. As the door slowly creaks upon, you find that a small unicorn filly opening the door with a sad look on her face. She looks up at you in confusion as you let out a sigh of relief that it wasn't her. "Umm, is Derpy Hooves here?" "You mean my mommy?" You nod. "Yes, she is, but she doesn't want to see anypony right now." She states as she slowly starts closing the door. You place a food in the doorway stopping the unicorn's action as she retracts the door. "I believe I can help her," you state as the filly slowly nods and creaks open the door. You walk in as the unicorn gestures a hand indicating, 'follow me'. You nod at the filly as you follow her upstairs, as you come closer to the mailmare's location, you hear sounds of depression and despair as you heard the mare you treated poorly weep in depression. As the you and the filly reach her bedroom door, she slightly taps on the door causing the mailmare inside to pause and hiccup her sadness. "Mommy, you have a visitor." "O- *hiccup* -kay, you can let them in my room, it's *hiccup* unlocked." The sad mare states as Dinky slowly opens the door to you. As you enter her room, her mind races with thoughts that you didn't want to see, you step in as the sad mare's eyes widens as she looks at you. "Y-you" "Please, I just want to talk." You say as you gulp down a pill of guilt.