//------------------------------// // Chapter III // Story: The Legend of Zelda: Friendship is Magic // by Multi Personas //------------------------------// Right, this had been edited so any mistakes should no longer be there. For those of you who have already read this chapter, skip down to the authors note. I have a question for you. ~~~ Chapter III We've been walking for about ten minutes. Link and Twilight have been talking, both a few steps ahead of me. I haven't been paying too much attention to them. They kept using very big words that were way past my vocabulary. Though I know that they have been talking about magic, how Link can and how Twilight can. Not really interesting to me seeing as how I can't use magic. Though I had no idea Link knew so much about how he could do magic. “So what's your input, Epona?” I heard one of them ask. “Huh?” “Your input?” Twilight asked. “On what? I wasn't paying attention,” I said. “You gotta give her credit for her bluntness,” Link commented with a chuckle. “Your input on the Hyrulian stock market,” Twilight said. “...Stock market?” I asked with a raised eyebrow. “Is that like the stock you put in soup or something?” Link started laughing. I felt insulted. “Um, no it's this thing where stocks and bonds are traded so ponies- er I guess, people, can make money. That is in it's simplest definition,” Twilight explained with a smile. Again I felt insulted. Specifically my intelligence. “Oh, that makes sense, I guess.” It didn't. I was just hoping she wouldn't get too into it. “I'm glad that you understand, and it looks like we are here,” Twilight said. We were no longer in the plains of Equestria but on a dirt road. “Well, on the road to Ponyville, at least,” Twilight said. She pointed down the part of the road that lead to what must have been Ponyville. “Right down that way is Ponyville, and down that way is the road to Canterlot,” she pointed to the other part of the road that got lost over some hills. “Ponyville,” Link said, pointing down the road to Ponyville, then to Canterlot, “Canterlot. Got it,” he said committing it to memory. He often times did this when he was told directions. I already had it down to memory. “Good. Now I think it's best to get to Ponyville and to the library, that is where the others are waiting. After that, we can send the letter to Princess Celestia and wait for her letter back,” Twilight said, already walking down the road. Link and I jogged to catch up. “Now, hopefully the ponies of Ponyville won't freak out or anything. They kinda tend to do that when they encounter something new,” she said with a sheepish smile. “Oh I’m sure it will be fine. Everyone loves me!” Link said cheerfully. ~A few minutes later~ “Well, at least nobody is running in fear,” Twilight said with another sheepish smile. We arrived in Ponyville a few seconds ago. The moment the ponies had seen Link, you could tell they were scared, they were very skittish. They gave us about twelve feet of room on each side of us. Link had a very big smile on his face the whole time, trying to appear as friendly as possible. I’m not too sure it worked. I just sorta shied away from everyone. “I suppose that is a plus,” I said. Ponyville really looked... weird. The houses all looked about the same. White walls with straw roofs. All different sizes. There were some buildings, that looked like stores and stuff, that were made from, what looked like, sturdier stuff. Another thing about Ponyville was the ponies that lived there. They were very colorful. Like extremely colorful. A little too colorful. “Yeah, I suppose so,” Link said. His smile fell, but not completely. “Come on, there is the library,” Twilight said, nodding forwards. The library looked... different as apposed to other libraries I’ve seen. It was a tree. A freaking tree. It had a door, a balcony, windows, an outside lamp and a sign. It seemed... wrong. Just plain wrong. Like mocking the books by putting them back in what they use to be. Maybe like warning the other trees that if they wronged the ponies, they would punish them by turning them into books... Damn these ponies are scary. “Epona? Are you coming?” Link asked, snapping me from my day dream. They were already at the door and I was still a few yards away. “Um, sure,” I said, running to catch up. I stood on Link's left, while Twilight stood on Link's right. “Well, let's go,” Twilight said, opening the door with her magic. It was pitch black in the room, and of course Link just waltzed in, paying to mind to his well being. I walked in but a little more cautiously. I couldn't see a thing. I heard Twilight walk in and close the door. Then silence. Silence and darkness for all of about one second. The lights flicked on and I suddenly could only see little bits of rainbow paper. “SUPRISE!” someone yelled. I shut my eyes and tried to clear them of the rainbow paper. When I opened my eyes again I saw only pink and only pink. “Hi! My name is Pinkie Pie I bet you are Epona! Am I right? Of course I’m right! Dashie explained that your name is Epona and wow I love your mane it looks all white and cool what do you do to it to style it like that, it kinda looks like Dashie's do you fly around to style your mane like her oh what a silly question, how could you fly around you don't have any wings well I guess you could fly around in a hot air balloon do you-” “Pinky, I think you are scaring the poor dear,” another voice interrupted this pink thing in front of me. The pink thing stepped back, but was still violating my personal bubble, and I could see that it was indeed a pink pony. It had a puffy, curly mane that was a darker pink that it's coat. It also had the biggest blue eyes I have ever seen. Then again all these ponies have big eyes and I’m sure that when I get the chance to look in the mirror I will see big eyes also. Another thing I should clear up right now, I was not scared. And I totally wasn't cowering on the floor, trying to make myself as small as I could while she stood above me. I really wasn't. “Oh I’m sorry, I didn't know I was scaring you, I know I'll make you an apology cake, that will cheer you right up!” this pink pony said. With the biggest smile I have ever seen. It looked like it hurt. “Terribly sorry about that, dear,” said the voice that came to my rescue. I turned to look at the newcomer and saw a pure white pony with a purple mane that had big curls in it. She stepped forwards and presented her hoof. “My name is Rarity, it is a pleasure to meet you.” “E-Epona,” I said, I cautiously shook her hoof, wary if she was going to pounce on my like the pink pony did. “Pleasure to meet you. And hello to you,” Rarity said, looking up at Link. “Hi!” Link said with a big smile, he held out his hand to Rarity, who took it. “I'm Link!” “And I'm Pinkie Pie!” Pinkie said again, this time jumping into Link's face. “Hi!” Link said cheerfully. “Ahem,” a voice from off to the side said. I turned and saw three other ponies. One of them was Rainbow, one was orange with a blonde mane and tail with a stetson sitting on her head, and the other one had yellow fur and she had long pink hair, which she was trying really hard to hide behind. “This is Applejack,” Rainbow said, hovering over the orange pony. The orange pony trotted forwards and took my hoof and shook hard. Really hard. I swear she almost broke my hoof. “Howdy, partner!” she greeted. She sounded like some of the people who came over to the ranch sometimes... I always lost a friend when they came over. She moved onto Link. “And this is Fluttershy,” Rainbow said, hovering over the yellow pony. The pony didn't move. Rainbow let out a big sigh and started to physically push this 'Fluttershy'. It was kinda amusing. Fluttershy didn't say anything and when I tilted my head questionably she let out a very adorable squeak. Er, I mean a very, unadorable, squeak. Yeah. Totally unadorable. “As you can see, she is very shy,” Rainbow said, as she landed next to Fluttershy. “Well, now that you too have meet everypony- wait. Where is Spike?” Twilight asked, looking around. “Here I am, sorry I had to clean up the mess you left last night,” a voice said from behind me. I turned around and saw a little purple thing. It looked like it had scales and it stood on it's hind legs, like Link. Only shorter. “Ah, there you are. Link, Epona, this is my number one assistant, Spike. He's a baby dragon,” Twilight explained. “Hi!” he said with a big smile. “A dragon, huh?” Link said. He knelt down to Spike's level “You know I once befriended a baby dragon. He was a Subterranean Lava Dragon, named Volvagia.” Link had a sad sort of smile on his face on remembering Volvagia. I met him once or twice when Link brought him over to the ranch. Mean little bastard, but he still didn't deserve what happened to him. “Really? Was he big?” Spike asked. “Oh yeah, I'd say about, ten or eleven, of me long? Probably longer. That is when he was an adult,” Link said with a smile. “Wow, that is so cool!” Spike said with a big smile. “I hope to be that big when I’m an adult.” This made the ponies in the room laugh. I don't think I get the joke. “Right, shouldn't we contact your Princess?” I ask. “Oh right!” Twilight explained. “Spike, I need you to write a letter.” “Right,” Spike said, pulling a quill and scroll from behind his back. “Dear Princess Celestia,” Twilight began, “It would seem as though we have some rather unexpected guests, here in Equestria. They are no threat as far as I’m concerned, in fact they are standing in front of me now. One of them is a pony named Epona who says she use to be a horse, and the other is a Hylian male named Link. A Hylian is a close relative to the human, a fantasy creature that I’m sure you are familiar with. I await for your letter as to what to do next. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle. Did you get that all Spike?” “Yup,” Spike said. He rolled up the scroll and blew fire on it, the smoke escaping out the window. Seeing as nobody reacted differently, I assumed this was normal. “So, what now?” I ask, sitting down. “Now, we wait!” Twilight said excitedly. … Silence. Just silence. “So, how about that weather,” Link said, trying to start a conversation. Ah, Link. The master at small talk. “It's good.” “It's nice for the apple trees.” “Good light for reading.” “I love it!” “...” “Could be sunnier.” … Silence again. Even Link seemed at a loss for words... then again he usually was when he was in a room full of girls. Well, one girl, really. He was always sort of shy around Malon. Seems odd for him. “Burp!” Spike burped up a letter. I really hoped that was normal. “Ah, she wrote back!” Twilight said, excitedly. She used her magic to unroll it. “Dear Twilight, I must say that this is a rather curious situation. One that I have never encountered before, though I must say I have read about them in stories about a human coming to Equestria, or a pony going to the human world. All of them seem to be sent by one Lyra Heartstrings, and they range from a rated E story, to a rather, mature, story, like one might find at a 'Night Shop'. You may want to talk to her about that. Back to the Hylian, have him come to see me sometime this weekend. I would love to talk with him and, the once horse, now pony, Epona (love the name by the way). Signed, Celestia.” “And that's that,” Twilight said, rolling up the scroll. “Any questions?” “What day is it?” Link asked. “Wednesday, so that means you have about three day until we can get you to Canterlot,” Twilight said with a smile. The smile soon fell however. “Which means you will need a place to stay until then, huh?” “Well, if they don't mind sleepin' in a barn, ah'm sure they could say with me us,” Applejack offered after a few moments of thinking. “I don't have any qualms with it,” Link said with a smile. “Me neither,” I said. I wasn't too sure as to what a 'qualm' was, but if Link is ok with it, then I am too. “Great, just let me tell the others and prepare you a bed,” Applejack said. “Oh, dear, it seems as though I must get going. I have orders I must fill,” Rarity said. “I have to get back to my napping,” Rainbow said. “I have to plan the party!” Pinkie exclaimed. “...” Fluttershy said, putting up a valid argument. “Oh, well ok, I’ll see you girls later. I'll take Link and Epona to your farm a little later, ok Applejack?” Twilight asked. “That's fine, bye!” Applejack said as she left. The rest of the mares left also and soon it was just me, Link, and Twilight.