//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: New pony in Ponyville // Story: Through the Amulet // by TasteTheSun //------------------------------// Stopping at about half a mile outside the village, I began getting second thoughts about this. I had to plan my approach. If there were people in the village, there, how was I going to communicate and tell them what's wrong. And plus, what will they think when they saw some random pony in their village. This was going to be a problem. Suddenly, I saw two objects walking up in my direction. I didn't want anyone to find me like this, not yet that is. I still haven't come with a way to formally present myself. Frantically looking around, I found a nearby rock large enough to hide behind. In doing so, I took a quick peek at those who were walking by. Once they were close enough to dully make out, I was surprised at what I was looking at... more ponies. When the two ponies were out of sight, I climbed up the rock so that I could look into the village to catch a glimpse of the residents there. I then saw more and more ponies alike. "whoa, what kind of weird place is this?" I climbed down from the rock while also thinking of a new approach. "Ok, so as far as I know, it looks that village is a village filled with ponies, which means I don't have to worry about my current appearance. Now, I can't go in there with this amulet around my neck or else the ponies there will probably get suspicious about it. So I'll just hide this here, go into town, act natural, and wait things out while this thing is resetting itself. Easy enough! I took the amulet off my neck, dug a hole next to the rock and then planted a blue flower on it that I picked close by so that I'll know where to look for it later. I headed on towards the village. ••• Of all my 16 years of living in Scottsville, I've experienced some pretty weird stuff in that little town, like the time Mike and I accidently clogged the the park fountain and flooded the whole town, or that time back at the zoo when I dared Mike to wrestle an alligator and the next thing we know, there's a stampede going through the streets! So you can say we are VERY well known there. Good thing Jenny hasn't been around that much to know that. But looking and even being in this village full of ponies probably toped all the weird things that happened in my home town combined. The reason why to me this place looks weird is because, from the design of most of the cottages and all the multicolored talking ponies, this place looks as if it were from a cartoon, although sometimes I feel like my life is one. As I trotted down the street, I started thinking about the pony folk here. "It's kinda strange because they seem so civilized, I mean they build houses, run stores, and even seem to have a whole economy of their own. These ponies aren't actually that different from the people back in Scottsville. You know, I wonder-" "oof!" Lost in thought, I bumbed into someone. I should really start paying more attention to where I go cause this is starting to get annoying, and painfull. I laid there on the ground in pain from the collision. "Oh my, are you OK?" I heard someone say to me as I had my eyes closed tightly trying to work through the pain, but when I opened them, I was met with a wide pair of blue eyes starting right in front of me. "Aaahh!" I shrieked scooting away, trying to make space between us. "Aaahh to you to, but not really the answer I was looking for" said the pink mare with a really poofey mane. "Oh uh sorry, I'm fine, thank you, are you alright?" I asked, despite noticing how gidy she was, but I didn't want to seem rude. "Oh I'm fine, but you should really be care full, nopony likes getting knocked over by a mister Mc bumpypants!" she chirped as she started bouncing off, until she stopped in mid bounce and let out a huge gasp. She turned and stared at me wide eyed. "I've never seen you before, which means that your new here right!?" she said so excitedly and rapidly that I barely caught up with her. "Uhm yea why, what does that mean?" "It means that your a new pony, and new ponies always get a welcome to Ponyville party, but first, I need to give you the very special welcome package!" The pink mare said and then fled in a blink of an eye and returned pulling a cart behind her. She parked the cart right in front of me and pressed a button on it. All of a sudden, the cart burst open and began playing music, and the pony started singing along to the music. Oh no. ••• "Wait for it!" She said when she finished her song. An oven from the cart then burst open releaseing a strong wind with confedi and then a canon shot what looked like cake batter into the air and then falling to ground, covering both of us in a battery mess. "Oops, silly me, I acidently put the confedi in the oven and the cake in the confedi canon, again!" She said as she licked all the batter off of herself in an instant. I really didn't want to lick myself clean like her, so instead I shook all the batter off of myself, which did cleaned me of any batter I had on me. I turned to look at the pink pony who was jumping up and down excitedly. "Ooo, I really hope you liked it, considering the fact that it was from your new best friend!" "Well it was pretty good and-... wait, what? New best friend?" I asked confusedly in hope that I misheard that. "Well duh, of course I'm your new best friend! I always become instant best friends with new ponies!" "Well not to sound rude, but isn't that taking it a little too fast? I mean we don't even know eachothers names." I said trying to slap some reason in her without hurting her feelings. "Oh yea, I mean what kind of a friend doesn't know their friends name?" She said as she cleared her throat. " My name is Pinkie Pie, and you are?" "Oh uh, well, my name is uh st-Steven, Steven Marks. B-but my friends just call me Stevie." I said nervously. "Wow, I never heard of a name like Stevie before, its funny though." Not as funny as yours. "Well come on Stevie, we have a welcome to Ponyville party to get to. There's going to be games, cake, ice cream and punch, and it won't be the same without the guest of honor" Pinkie said excitedly. "Uhm, well I'm not sure," I honestly didn't know if I was in the mood for a party, but then I looked at Pinkie Pie and she greets me with a frown across her face and big puppy dog eyes.I look up at the sky and I see that the sun was at its highest peek in the sky, so I basically had all the time in the world. Not to mention the loud rumbling in my stomach. I turned and gave a weak smile to Pinkie. "Eh, sure, why not," and with that, Pinkie jumped up in the air cheerfully. "Well then, let's go to Sugarcube Corner and I'll invite all my friends over cause it's gonna be an amazingly fun party ever!" "I sure hope so." ••• Questions, comments, complements, Any errors are accepted, Always room for improvement! Be sure to like and follow both here and twitter (@Pony3T)