Inside Blueblood's Dream.
Blueblood is sitting in the center of his castle about to eat a giant salad. Its got all the toppings anypony could dream of for a salad, low fat of course. "How did you find this for me?" Blueblood asked his parents.
"Oh, it was nothing for you dear, just make sure you don't eat to much or we can't enter you in the next pony universe contest" his mother told him.
"I'm going to miss you both a lot while at that gross farm place. "blueblood confessed..
"We'll miss you too my colt but remember something alright? "said his dad..
"Yes father?" he asked.
"No matter what happens you should just look into your mirror for your-INCOMING DUDE!'.
"What?"
LOOK OUT! LOOK OUT!*wakes*
Outside Blueblood's dream.
Blueblood opened his eyes just in time to see a rainbow maned and blue-feathered blur strike his chariot. A large red ball struck Green Gust in the head a second later, sending all three falling straight to the ground.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" screamed all three as they fell.
"I'm to young to die like this, I'm still a virgin! "Cried the prince
Luckily for all of them, Green Gust was able to rotate them just enough to land them into a conveniently abandoned hay cart. Not very soft hay but good enough to save them from severe injury of any kind.
The blue pony with a rainbow mane recovered first rubbing her head from the sudden impact to it. She was so busy trying to catch the ball,she hadn't seen what she had flown into until the last second.
"Way to embarrass yourself in front of new ponies rainbow."she thought to herself.
Looking over at who she bumped into, she noticed one looked oddly like that prince unicorn guy, whom rarity kept "complaining not whining" about to. What was his name? Bluebeans or Bluebass? Whatever it was she'd think of it later. Right now she should probably be apologizing to them since they were waking up now. She floated over to help them up.
"Uh, excuse me. "she chuckled
"No problem but what was that-"Green Gust was cut off by a now very ticked off prince.
"What the hay is your dumb ass problem! "Blueblood screamed.
It was bad enough he had to work somewhere he did not want to be,while in a place he didn't want to go but now he couldn't even enjoy his own peaceful dreams.
"Hey, it was just an accident no need to act like a jackass about it!"The blue pegasus yelled back.
She knew he had a right to be a be a bit mad but he didn't need to be jerk and call her names. The stallion unicorn looked ready to give a nasty comeback but his friend interrupted him first.
"I'm sure she was to busy chasing whatever the hay hit me in the face to notice us blue."Said Green Gust
That hit to the head had given Green Gust a headache and all this yelling was not helping him or anypony.
"Oh, I'm sorry about that green dude that was my bad."said a new voice.
All three turn around to see 2 new ponies approaching them. One a light bubble gum pink earth mare with light blue eyes, a medium length curly matted mane.She was bouncing toward them with a wide grin that was somewhat freaky. Trotting in step with her hops was a slightly darker raspberry pink earth stallion with a short faint pink/white mane.He had a sideways baseball cap and relaxed expression on his face that reminded Blueblood of his "dear auntie" and her coat shade.
The dark pink stallion spoke first.
"Hi, I'm Slugger and you can probably guess I really love baseball, which is what me and rainbow dash here were playing. I kind of hit the ball a little to far off field and rainbow dash was trying to get it. "He explained.
"Its ok, no one got killed so it's not that bad, right blue? "asked green gust
*sighs*"He's got a point so alright for now."was Blueblood's mumbled reply.
"Yeah, he smacked the ball like bam, and I was in the crowd going go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! Then rainbow dash went flying extra fast like a bat on chili peppers! So me and slugger went to see where she went. Slugger saw you guys in time to scream "Look out dude!". That crash looked like hurt huh? I'm pinkie pie by the way. Who are you?. said the pink mare.
It amazed both Green Gust and Blueblood, that a pony could describe so much without pausing even once for a breath. They wondered just how much coffee and candy this pony must consume in a day. He had to admit though her bubbly presence and Slugger's relaxed demeanor amused Blueblood a bit and he felt slightly less tense for some reason."Its best I get the making new friends thing out the way now even if this pink filly's smile is freaking me out."though prince Blueblood.
"Hello, my name is Prince Blueblood, this is my friend and guard Green Gust." Blueblood introduced
"Nice to meet you all, though I wish it didn't have to be by crashing and screaming though."said Green Gust
"I'm rainbow dash and welcome to the center of ponyville" said rainbow dash with a grin.
"Wow, are you really a prince dude?" asked Slugger
"Yes"Said the prince.
"I hear being a prince is really fun! What do princes do all day? Do they fight dragons, ride flying sharks and have parties all day?" asked pinkie pie
"I'm not sure about the sharks or parties all day but I know the dragon part is mostly left up to knights, not certain princes like me. "said Blueblood. "Wait, are there really flying sharks around here? Are those even real? I hope I don't run into any."he thought. Despite his now worry of flying killer sea beasts he trained himself not to show his panic on the outside. All royals know how to keep a poker face in the presence of common folks.
"Pinkie, there's no such thing as flying sharks. I've been flying around these skies long enough to be sure." said rainbow dash
"So, what are you 2 guys doing over here?" asked slugger. He didn't know much about royal ponies but he knew a lot of them tended to stay in there own area leagues, so to speak.
"Celestia sent us here so the prince could improve his work ethic and manners as well."explained Green Gust
"Not that I really need work on either mind you. "Blueblood grumbled.
"Anyway, we're looking for a unicorn named Twilight Sparkle any of you know where she lives? "Blueblood asked
"Yeah, she isn't to far from here. She lives in the town's library right over there. "Rainbow dash said
She lead Blueblood and Green Gust along with slugger, pinkie pie to Twilight's home. After a brief 10 minute walk and pinkie rambling about setting up a welcome to your first job party for the prince, they were there. It was the tallest tree in town it seemed. Not as bad Blueblood first imagined but the bees on the side of the roof somewhat worried him.
Slugger knocked on the door first.
*knock knock*
Twilight dudette, there is this prince guy and his guard friend here to see you!"slugger yelled.
"Wait just a minute please."Said a voice from the other side of the door. She at least sounded like a more polite pony to be around, from what Blueblood thought of her tone. A few second later, the door opened to reveal a lavender purple unicorn with a straight dark indigo mane that had one dark purple and one pink streak in her mane.
"Hello, I'm Twilight Sparkle and sorry to keep you waiting Prince Blueblood.I was making some last minute adjustments to you and your guard's room. I hope you both like it. She said.
She noticed he seemed to have a bad scratch on his ear.
"How did you get that scratch on your ear if you don't me asking? "Twilight asked
"There's a scratch? It must of been from when the chariot crashed, now I'm going to get some type of ear infection. I just know it!"he whined.
"Don't worry, I've got plenty bandages in my emergency kit. Come inside and I'll take you to your new room."Twilight said.
The first thing inside that,Green Gust noticed was a small green and purple dragon on the top of a very high ladder. It seemed to be shuffling books around.It seemed like a friendly looking creature. Him and Blueblood once found a dragon's nest while playing hide and seek so both were familiar with what they looked like.
"Hey, spike! Come down to say hello to our guests and one needs a bandage. "Twilight called to him.
"That's Spike,hes a baby dragon as well as both my friend and assistant for me in this library." She told them.
Spike walked over to them with a pretty neutral look on his face.Prince Blueblood would of almost peg this dragon oddly friendly except there was a slight mad glint in his eyes as he looked in his direction as he forced a friendly face. A look like, he had something nasty to say to him in particular but was holding his tongue.
"Welcome and here's your bandage prince blueblood."said spike as he simply tossed the bandage. He knew he'd get scolded for not waiting for the prince to take it later on but he didn't feel like being friendly to a pony that made rarity so upset.
Blueblood didn't expect spike to wait in giving him the bandage sure, since he seemed busy but why did he say prince funny and pause like that while saying his name? It was as if he was holding a grudge over something when they just meet now. He noticed twilight's slight glare at spike and her apologetic look to him.
"I'm sorry about spike, he's a bit upset he has to share a room.Plus when he heard the pony that made rarity upset was staying over, well he didn't get any happier." Twilight told him
Blueblood gave green gust a look that said: "I told you something like this would happen."
"I never meant to make your friend rarity, so upset on purpose honestly. She didn't speak to me much other then introducing herself and said nothing much after other then her owning a clothing line. I was kind of hoping even if she told her friends here about it they'd all, along with her would of gotten over it by now."the prince said truthfully
"Well I and everyone here care for each other like family and when something makes one of us feel bad,we all do for a little.After she told us though, some stayed upset slightly longer then others. It mostly just spike and rarity herself though so you don't have to worry to much. I just hope you'll try to be more helpful here with me then you were at the gala with rarity. I know its not my place to tell you what your own title means."Twilight said
"Give, me some credit I've got a cutie mark for my position. I know my own title thank you. "Blueblood replied
"I'll be here to make sure he honors it so no worries "said green gust beside him.
-------The next day----
After a short meal of cucumbers and cabbage the now 3 ponies plus spike, took a 25 minute walk to Blueblood first working say the sight of a dirty farm up close made Blueblood queasy would be an understatement.
"Applejack should be around here someplace. I told here you were coming here." twilight said.
"Yeehaa!"yelled a southern voice up ahead of them.Prince Blueblood notice an earth pony running to a large tree in the distance before kicking it. Apples fell around her and into what looked like 4 large buckets.
"That sounds like applejack over there "Twilight said. She then waved the earth pony over to them.
Getting a better look at her there was something familiar he couldn't put his hoof on about her. She was an inch taller then twilight, with an orange coat, a long light yellow mane, green eyes, and six freckles. Ponies in his society would look at such facial marking as disgusting and one part of him wanted to believe this was so here but how they almost touched her eyes when she smiled over at twilight, made him dare call them adorable somewhere in his head.He sure as hell going to say that out loud though.
"Howdy, there prince blueblood, I'm applejack and I'm going to be your new boss for the next few months." applejack greeted.
He wasn't sure why because he knew it was just his mind giving him a sense of false security but now things seemed like they wouldn't be so bad.It didn't last long with his worries kicking him in the back of his mind. "I'm probably going to be stuck doing the dirtiest job here first"
he thought to himself.
"Your first task, for today will be plowing the fields "applejack said.
"Dam it!"Blueblood said under his breath. He hated being right sometimes
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