//------------------------------// // Playing Mail Pony // Story: Continuing the Dream // by Blue Breeze //------------------------------// The mare crashes into me before I can finish my thought. I'm knocked off my hooves and onto my back. After lying on my back and mumbling under my breath, I get up and dust myself off. The mare does the same. "Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry! Are you all right?" she asks in a worried tone. She's a grey pegasus mare with a blonde mane and tail and has bubbles for a cutie mark. "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine." I say in an annoyed voice. I notice that she's cross-eyed. "Better question is: are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine. I was just delivering the mail like normal and because of my eye condition, I sort of lost control. I'm really sorry about crashing into you." she says, picking up the scattered mail. "It's cool. I'm Blue Breeze, by the way." I start helping her pick up the mail. "I'm Derpy." "Derpy?" "Yes. Have you heard of me?" "Rainbow Dash told me you used to be on the weather team before they let you go." "Oh... yeah." she hangs her head in sadness. "So, you work on the weather team?" "Sure do." I finish picking up the mail and hoof it to her. "Well, there's all of your mail." "Thanks a lot for helping me, and for not getting mad at me." "Hey, it's no problem. You couldn't help it." I reassure her. "Well, I gotta go. See you around." she says, waving good bye. She then tries to take off again. "Ow!" "Is something wrong? Are you hurt?" I ask, concerned. "Yeah, I think I sprained my wing." she looks at her wing in distress. "How am I going to deliver the mail if I can't fly?" she begins to tear up. Call me a softie, but I hate to see a mare cry. I've gotta do something. "Hey, why don't I deliver the mail for you?" I happily suggest. "Really? Are you sure?" "Yeah, I didn't have any plans today anyway." "Well, have you ever delivered mail before?" "Sure, I delivered mail for a few years back when I lived in Cloudsdale." "Hmm, okay, if you think you're up to it." she hoofs me her mailbag and I slip it over my head and under my wings. "Think I'm up to it? I KNOW I'm up to it." I say with a determined look. How hard could this be? "Now, you go get that wing taken care. I'll worry about the mail." She nods and strolls off to take care of her wing. I take out a large envelope from the bag and see who it's adressed to. ""To Twilight Sparkle." That'll be easy. I know where Twilight lives." I begin to take off towards the library. I shortly arrive at the giant tree. Why they decided to build the library inside of a tree, I'll never know. I walk up and knock on they the door. "Coming." comes a voice. The door is then answered by Twilight. "Hey, Blue." "Hey, Twilight." "So, what can I do for you?" "I came hear to deliver this to you." I pull out the envelope and she immediately takes it in her magic. "Oh, this must be the new issue of Magical Mysteries. I've been waiting for this!" she says excitedly. "Wait, why are you delivering the mail? Isn't that Derpy's job?" she asks quizically. "Yeah, but she crashed into me while I was walking and she sprained her wing. I offered to deliver the mail for her." "Oh, that was nice of you." "Thanks. Well, I've got more mail to deliver, so I gotta go." "Alright, bye." I take off. Time for the next one. Luckily Derpy already delivered a good chunk of the mail, so there wasn't that much. I take out a small package. It reads, ''To The Doctor". The Doctor? That's not a name. Oh well. At least it has an adress. I head toward said adress. I come to the house where the package was adressed to and knock on the door. The door is answered by a light brown stallion with an hourglass cutie mark. "Yes, can I help you?" he asks. He sounds like he's from Trottingham. "Yes, I came here to deliver you this package." I take out the package and hoof it over. "Ah, fantastic. Sure did take its sweet time to arrive." he says happily. "Wait, doesn't Derpy normally deliver the mail?" "She crashed into me and hurt her wing. I offered to help by delivering the mail." "Well, that was very kind of you. I do hope Derpy gets better." "Why? Do you like her?" I ask him. May not be any of my business, but I don't care. I feel like asking "Well, let's just say our relationship is... complicated." he says with a nervous smile. "By the way, whom do I have the pleasure of thanking for delivering this package." "I'm Blue Breeze." I extend my hoof. "And I'm The Doctor." "The Doctor of what?" "Just The Doctor." "Alright, well, it was nice meeting you." I say before taking off. I reach into my bag and pull out a letter. ""To Lyra". Huh? There doesn't appear to be any adress on this one." I say, confused. How do they expect a pony to deliver this stuff without an adress? "Oh well. Gues I'll just have to look around." I begin to descend and land in town square. "Hey, is anypony here named Lyra?!" I shout into the open, hoping for a response. "Yes! I'm Lyra!" I hear a pony shout. I look over to see a mint green unicorn and a cream earth pony sitting on a bench, the unicorn sitting on her rump with her hindlegs hanging out. That's weird. I walk up to the two mares. "So, which of you two is Lyra?" I ask them. "I'm Lyra." the unicorn says. "What do you need?" I pull the letter out. "I have this letter for you. Before you ask, yes, this is Derpy's job. I'm just helping her out." Lyra takes the letter in her magic. "Well, thanks for the letter." she says with a smile. "Oh, this is my marefriend, Bon Bon." she says, pointing to the earth pony beside her. "Hello there." says Bon Bon. "I'm Blue Breeze. Well, it was nice meeting you both, but I've gotta go." I tell them. I pull out one last letter and read it. Oh no. Berry Punch. It doesn't have an adress either. "Hey, do either of you two know where Berry Punch lives?" "Berry lives just two blocks east of The Sleepy Stallion bar." Bon Bon says. "Of course she does." I say sarcastically. "Why? Do you know Berry?" "Let's just say, we both happened to be at the bar yesterday, and she was drunk." "Oh." they both say understandingly. "Well, wish me luck." "Good luck." "Oh, and Bon Bon owns a cafe here in town. You should come by sometime." Lyra tells me. "I'll make sure to do that." I say, taking off to go deliver a letter to the mare that nearly raped me the other day. Celestia, help me. I shortly arrive at the alcoholic mare's house, accidentally knocking on some other houses prior to this. Like I said before: all the houses in this darn town look the same. I hesitantly knock on the door. 'Please no rape. Please no rape.' I worriedly think. The door opens to reveal a surprised Berry Punch. "U-Um, h-hey, Berry." I say nervously. "Oh... hey." she replies, looking at the ground. "Look, I'd like to apologize about the other day. I know I have a bit of a drinking problem." "A bit?" "Okay, a big drinking problem. I'm really sorry about chasing you though. Do you think we could still be friends?" she asks, extending a hoof and giving me a hopeful smile. I think it over to a see a shake her hoof. "Sure" We break the hoofshake. "So, why'd you come here?" "Oh, that's right. I came to deliver this letter." I say, hoofing her the letter. "So, you're a mail pony?" "No. Lets just say, I'm helping out a friend." I tell her with a smirk. "Well see you, Berry." I say, making my way back to my house. "Bye!" Berry shouts. I get back to my house and walk inside. I throw off the mail bad, gotta remember to give that back later, and lay down on the couch. 'Aw, feels good to be home.'