Guardian of Equestria-Rise of the Blue Sun
Chapter 6
Live to Earn/Earn to Live
A new day had come upon Ponyville and our hero has once again found himself in a tight spot, after what he had realized what he had to do.
He had to found a job.
Upon discovering this, Hawke has been to Twilight’s home to see if she can help in anyway. Lucky for him, she did. She told Hawke that Applejack was more than willing to let him work for her at the farm at Sweet Apple Acres. He went to found Applejack and sure enough, she was willing to hire.
Applejack said, “I’m glad that you decided to work at the farm with us, there’s always so many things to do around here and we have so little hands to do them.”
“It’s no problem Applejack, I’m glad to be working with you too,” Hawke replied.
Applejack then said, “Now I warn you. It’s not going to be a picnic. It’s real hard work and there’s going to be a lot of sweat. You think you can handle it.”
Hawke then replied, “Don’t worry about me Applejack. I’m a Texan and most Texas people know the value of a good hard day’s work.”
“That’s good to hear…….by the way, what’s a Texan?” Applejack asked.
“We’re best described mostly as cowboys,” Hawke answered.
“Well shacks, Texas are my kind of place,” she replied.
“I thought you would like that,” he commented
“Does that make you a cowboy too?” she asked.
“Well, not really, I mostly live in the city side of Texas, but on mom side of the family, their mostly country folk there. I visit them from time to time,” he answered.
Applejack then said, “Well, after I’m done with you, you’re going to feel like a cowboy.”
“That I would like see,” he remarked
As Applejack and Hawke were walking, they saw Sweet Apple Acres in plain view. Hawke was surprise to be on such a large farm. He had seen large farms in his world, but he never was on them before. The land was covered in nothing but apples. He was able to see a large building that was both a home and a barn to the Apple family. As Markus was looking around he saw three other ponies that were there. They approached them and Applejack said, “Well, it’s time for you to meet my Family. This is Granny Smith.”
Granny Smith was in her rocking chair sleeping and didn’t hear what Applejack said.
“Um….ah….Granny?” Applejack said to Granny as she was trying to wake her up.
“WHAT? WHO? Oh hey there Applejack, when did you get back?” Granny asked.
Applejack answered, “Just got back, I wanted you to meet Hawke, his going to help us around here.”
“Oh really? Let me look at him,” Granny replied
Granny Smith was walking towards Hawke. She was looking at him with a serious look. She grabbed him and tries listening to his heart, and then she checked out his arms, after that she pulled out a magnifying glass and used it to check out his ears. When she was done she said, “Well he checked out and ready to work and quite handsome too if I do say so myself.”
“Awww, your making me blush,” Hawke said playfully
Everyone laughed for a minute and Applejack got back introducing the family.
Applejack said, “Next is Big McIntosh, my brother and we also call him Big Mac.”
Big Mac then said, “Eeeyup”
“Nice to meet you”, Hawke greeted.
“Same to you,” Big Mac replied
Applejack then continued, “And this little filly here is my sister, Applebloom.”
“Hey there little lady,” Hawke said.
“Well tar nations, I remember you, you’re the one that saved my friend Sweet Belle from that rock monster,” Applebloom said.
“Yes I was, in fact, now that I think about it, I remember seeing you there as well,” he replied.
“Wow! Oh, I also heard that you got your cutie mark after that night. Is it true?” she asked.
“Well, I prefer to call it a hero’s mark, but yes I did,” he answered
“Cool, can I see it? Please!!!!,” she asked excitedly.
“Alright sure,” he replied.
Hawke removed his coat, lifted his left should, and showed Applebloom his mark. Applebloom looked at it and was amazed by the way it looked.
“You’re so lucky; I wish I had my cutie mark,” Applebloom said.
“I’m sure if you give it time it’ll come,” Hawk said
“I guess,” she said with an impatient look.
Applejack then said, “Alright there little sis, time to let Hawke get to work. Are you Hawke?”
“Ready as I’ll ever be,” he replied.
“All righty then, let’s get to work,” she said.
Everyone went there ways and got ready to work. Granny Smith was just sitting on her rocking chair knitting, while Big Mac was carrying a cart full of apples towards town, and Applebloom was helping getting the animals all the food they need. Applejack and Hawke headed for the apple trees and were sitting up buckets for the apples. Applejack turned to Hawke and said, “All righty then partner, all you have to do is buck this apples down from the trees and pick up any apple that don’t go into the buckets any questions?”
“Doesn’t it make more scenes to pick the apples from the trees, then bucking them down?” Hawke asked
“Well yeah, but that takes time and its lot easier to buck them down,” Applejack answered.
Hawke then said, “And another thing, the trees are very hard and I doubt that you actually buck them down. I’m beginning to think you’re tricking me.”
“Oooooh Really?” she replied
As Hawke was watching, Applejack kicked the tree hard and all the apples came falling down. Hawke felt completely dumb after what he had seen. Applejack was smiling and Hawke was lost for words. Then he thought that if Applejack can do it, so can he. He got himself ready to kick a tree with apples on it. He then kicked the tree with everything he got and apples came coming down. He couldn’t believe what had happened; he actually kicked a tree and brought the apples down. Applejack crept right behind him and said, “I thought you said it was impossible?”
“Maybe in my world or we just never thought of it before,” Hawke replied while he was still scratching his head with what happened.
“Wow! Seem like we ponies are doing something that your guys never thought of,” Applejack commented
“Yeah looks like it,” he replied
“By the way you mentioned your family before, what are they like?” she asked.
“Well like I said my mom side of the family is country folk and on my dad side are mostly city folk,” he said.
“What about your parents?” she asked.
Hawke’s smile went away quickly; the mentioned of his parents gave him a sad look. Applejack felt like she said something that she shouldn’t have. Hawke noticed and got back his composure, looked back at Applejack and said, “I ……. never had a chance to know them.”
Applejack then said, “I’m sorry to hear that.”
“It’s ok, you didn’t know. From what I can tell though, they were good people,” he replied
Applejack felt sorry that she mentioned Hawke’s parents and felt like that she gave him some bad memories.
As the day was near its end, Applejack and Hawke collected all the buckets of apples they had and put them up for store for when Big Mac takes them to town. After everything was packed up and put away, Applebloom, Granny Smith, and Big Mac went in the house, while Applejack was giving Hawke his first payment.
Applejack said, “Here you go partner, 21 bits and that’s just doing work for 7 hours. Try coming here every 8 o’clock every weekday morning and you’ll be getting 150 bits a week. Not a bad deal if I say so myself.”
“Thanks Applejack I really appreciated it,” Hawke replied
As Hawke was about to leave, Applejack stopped him and said, “Wait!”
“Yeah?” Hawke said as he was turning back towards her.
Applejack said, “I wanted to say that I’m sorry about mentioning you about your parents, if I had known…..”
“Applejack, Its ok, you didn’t know. I’m the one who didn’t mention it at all, if anyone had to say sorry, it was me. I’m sorry,” Hawke said.
Applejack then said, “Well …. That’s very sweet of you Hawke, but you don’t have to apologies to me and I know away to make it up to you.”
“Like what?” he asked.
“I’ll tell you my secret,” she said.
She walked up to Hawke and gave him a hug. She then said to him, “I know that it’s hard to lose your parents, but if you ever need to talk about it, you can come to me or any of the other girls to help you out.”
Hawke smiled at her and hugged her back and said, “I really appreciate that.”
Back in the land of Shadows Lord Tirek and Monnark prepare for their phase of their plan.
“Are the newly born disciples ready for battle?” Tirek asked
“Yes my master, they are ready give them the orders and they will obey,” Monnark answered.
Tirek then said, “Excellent, bring them in.”
Monnark called for the former disciples. As one by one came in, each was deadlier than the next. Some were insect-like creatures, others were made from extinct parts from long forgotten creatures, and the other were simply abominations.
“Good, good,” Tirek said with amusement
Tirek looked over at the magical orb and said, “Rest now hero, soon you, Equestria, and the whole world will FALLLLLL!”
“AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!”
End of Chapter 6