Chapter 2
"NEXT STOP PONYVILLE"
You slowly open your eyes to a blurry sight. You rub your eyes so that your vision goes back to normal and wipe the saliva off your chin.
Looking out the window, you see that the train is approaching to a small town that is overlooked by Canterlot in the distance. With a quick stretch, because the train seat was terrifyingly uncomfortable, you grab your saddle bag and you trot over to the nearest train door.
"So, you’re moving to this place?" a stallion asks while he walk up next to you
"Yeah" you answer "But I'm a little bit unsure on what I need to do"
"Just go over to the town hall and ask for the mayor, that's what me and my wife did"
"Alright, thanks"
"No problem kid"
The train comes to a stop, making you lose your balance a bit, but quickly regaining it. The door opens up, exposing a whole new train station. You step off the train and walk to the front of the station.
Once you step out of the station, your eyes widen as you take your first look at this town that is soon to be your new home.
Once you realise that you’re blocking some ponies way, you walk into the town and look around as you're walking. Different colored ponies walking past you with smiles on their face without a care in the world. A unicorn, a pegasus, and an earth pony suddenly run past you laughing with each other. Just seeing that alone makes you smile.
OKAY! let's go over our list of things to do……...
1. Locate town hall
You stop walking and look around to see if you can find the town hall. After looking in nearly every direction, you see the tallest building with the Ponyville flag on it.
1. Locate town hall.... CHECK!
You start walking to this big building. You could’ve flown over there, but you wanted to see the town instead of missing it from the sky. After looking around while walking, you reach what you assume is the town hall.
"Excuse me" you call out to two mares passing by you, in which they then stare at your direction. "Is this the town hall?" They respond with nothing but a nod and start to walk away "Okay thanks!"
You push open the door and peek around to see a grey-maned mare sitting at a desk focusing on a piece of paper. She looks up, sees you and smiles
"Come in" she says
"Err... Hi. Are you the mayor by any chance?" You ask as you slowly walk towards her.
"Yes, I'm Mayor Mare" She declares with pride. "What can I help you with?"
"I'm looking to buy a house that's 500 bits" you explain
"Ah yes!" She says and then walks over to a cabinet that was filled with files. Once she returns back to the desk, she places a piece of paper with a picture of the house paper clipped on it in front of you "This is the only house we have for 500 bits"
You take a closer look at the picture. The house didn't look that bad. Sure it was only one story in it, but you were going to be living on your own, so it didn't really matter. You also looked at the address and the number of the house, number 276
"I'll take it" you say pulling out a bag of bits and place it on the table, you had plenty of bits in your bag so there was no worry of going broke from buying a house
"If you just sign this then the house will be yours"
You happily sign your name on the dotted line. Once you finished, Mayor Mare gives you the key and the deed to the house, which you place in your saddle bag.
"Thank you Mayor" you say before turning around and walking towards the door
"It will be nice having you here..." She pauses and looks at the paper "Mister StarGazer"
Mister StarGazer. I like the sound of that
Once you shut the door behind you and look out into the town, only one thing crossed your mind……. You have no idea where your new house is.
With a frustrated sigh, you walk off in a random direction, hoping that your luck plays right.
After wandering around, having no idea where you're going, you come to a stop. Beside you is a building that’s shaped like a gingerbread house with a sign above it that reads “Sugar Cube Corner”
Sugar Cube Corner huh? I guess I could go for a little treat... and directions
You push open the doors that make a bell noise. You walk over to a counter and wait for someone to take your order, but no one comes. You walk to the other side of the shop looking for someone.
"Ya' lost their sugar cube?" a southern voice said, catching your attention
You look over where the voice came from. You see six different mares looking at you.
"Yeah I am"
Suddenly the Pink pony comes flying towards you stop right at your face
"I'VENEVERSEENYOUAROUNDHEREBEOFORWHICHMUSTMEANTHATYOU'RENEWINTOWNANDIJUSTLOVEMEETINGNE-"
She was cut by an a purple pony pulling her away from your face. The Pink pony runs off faster than you've seen anypony move, which left you confused for a moment.
"I'm sorry about her" she says with an embarrassed smile "She gets all over excited when some new pony comes to town"
"It's okay, I had a classmate who was like that once"
"Well, It's nice to meet you. I'm Twilight Sparkle" she says introducing herself to you
"Nice to meet you too"
"Howdy, I'm Applejack, the proud owner of Sweet Apple Acres." The orange pony said, tilting her hat. "Feel free to come by if you want to get some good tasting apples in your stomach"
"Will do!"
"I'm Rarity" The white unicorn speaks up. "I own the Carousel Boutique, and I just have to say that your coat is absolutely stunning!!!!! Who does it for you?"
"My sister. She wanted me to look nice on the first day here"
"If it's not too much trouble. could you ask her how she does it?" Rarity asked,which you just respond with a nod.
"And I'm Rainbow Dash, the best flyer in Equestria and a future wonderbolt at that" The skittle-maned pony says, flying in the air. You liked her confidence and her style
Best flyer in Equestria huh? you'll be fun to race against, that's for sure
You then notice that there was one pony that hasn't introduce herself to you. That pony was the yellow and pink mane one trying to hind behind her friends.
"And what's your name?" you ask
She doesn't say anything... well at least you think she didnt, because all that came out of her mouth was a squeak.
"That's Fluttershy" Twilight said "She's kinda shy"
"Ah okay, anyway my name is StarGazer"
"So, what's a handsome stallion like you doing here?" the white unicorn says in a regal accent while fluttering her eyes
WOAH………. back off sister, you can't hit on me that fast
"Well I'm actually looking for my new house"
"What number is it? Maybe we could help you find it" suggest Twilight
"It's number..." you stop and think what the number of your new house is "Number 276"
"Oh those are the new house that were built" Twilight chirps
"I could show you where is it" Rainbow Dash adds
"That would be great, thanks"
You and Rainbow Dash head out Sugar Cube Corner. As soon as you set a hoof out the door you and Rainbow Dash fly up into the air.
"Try to keep up!" Dash says before flying off
"Challenge Excepted!"
You fly off after her. She was pretty fast but it wasn't too much for you to handle. As soon as you caught up to her, she looks at you with a slight look of disbelief, but she then starts to fly faster. You took this opportunity to show off a little, so you then start to fly with you back facing the ground and your hoof behind your head. Again you caught up to her and gave her a little smirk.
"We're here!" she says stopping
It took a second for your brain to register what she said. You stop just before you carried on flying. You and Dash fly down to your new house while flying down to pick out the key from your saddle bag.
Once landing on the ground,you place your key in the keyhole and unlock the door. When the door was fully open, your eyes widen at the style of the house. It wasn't exactly what your mind excepted, but you have your very own house now.
"Wow, very fancy" you say walking in
"Hey if you need any furniture, Rarity could hook you up" said Dash
"That would be great... which one was Rarity again?"
"The white unicorn" Dash said with a unimpressed tone
"Oh yeah, the gorgeous one"
"Well I'll leave you to get used to the place" says Dash
Just as she was about to fly away you grab her attention.
"Wait Dash!"
"Yeah?"
"Do you think maybe you could give a tour of the town? Just so that I get to know the place" you asks
"Yeah sure" she says happily "I'm come by later"
"Alright, see ya then"
She then flies away, leaving the door wide open. You close the door then take a little tour around the house. You take off your saddle bag and lean it up against the wall and explore each room and plan out what you're going to do with it in the near future.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. You trot over to it and open it, expecting a rainbow-maned pegasus. Instead, it was a middle aged unicorn couple, standing there with smiles on their faces.
"Hello?" you say
"Hi" the mare starts "We noticed you just moved in and we thought we would stop by and introduce ourselves"
"I'm Westfall" the stallion introduces himself "And this is my lovely wife, Pearl Light. We live next door and we figured that we’d give you a little house-warming gift"
"Ohh, you didn't have to"
"We know" said Pearl "We wanted to. We know for a fact that some of these houses don't have beds"
"So, from saving you from the trouble of buy one, we would like to give you one of our spare ones" Said Westfall, as his horn glowed, making a bed appear from behind him
"Has this one been used?" you ask
"Only once" Pear Light answers
"Well thank you very much" you say with a smile
You move out of the way of the door so that Westfall can place the bed into your house. You thank them again the close the door as they head back to their house.
You drag the bed into the room that is soon to become the bedroom. When you place the bed in the center of the room against the wall, you flop down onto it. The bed was comfortable enough for you, so you decide that you would take a quick nap.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
You lift head off the bed and rub your eyes. You never liked being woken up by loud noises, because it can put you in a bad mood. Sitting up on the bed, you stretch your arms and stand up.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
"I'M COMING!" You shout as you walk toward the door
You grab the handle, twist it and open the door to reveal the cyan mare.
"Hey, you ready?" She asks
"... for what?"
"The tour of the town, duhh"
"Oh, yeah"
You grab your keys and shut the door. You and Dash started flying up into the air and fly over the town, getting a bird's eye view of the town. Dash pointed out all the main building on where you get some food and home supplies. During the flights where there was nothing interesting below you, Dash would ask question about your life. It wasn't long until the tour was finished
"Thanks for showing me around Dash" you say thanking her "I guess I'll be heading-"
You were cut off by the sound of your stomach growing
"Sound like you're hungry" Dash says with a little giggle
"What gave it away?"
"Come on, let's go to Sugar Cube Corner" Dash says before she descends to the ground
You follow her to ground and land in front of the sweet shop. Dash opens the door and you follow her in. When you're inside you see that it's not very busy. Behind the counter was a blue mare with a pink mane.
"Hello Rainbow Dash" She greets as Dash walks in "And who is this?" She asks obviously talking to you
"This is StarGazer" Dash says introducing you "He just moved here"
"It's nice to meet you, StarGazer. I'm Mrs Cake, and I own this shop with my husband"
"It's nice to meet you too"
"So what can I get you kids?"
You look over at the menu that's place next to the cash register.
"I'll have a strawberry cupcake please" you say placing your order
"And I'll have a chocolate cookie" says Dash
Mrs Cake smiles and then trots to the back into the kitchen leaving you and dash in a awkward silence until she came back placing both treats in front of you.
"That will be 6 bits"
You were about to pull out some bits to pay for it but Dash stops you
"It's okay. I got this" she says smiling
She then places the 6 bits on the counter and you grab your strawberry treat. With a thank you, you walk out of the sugary shop eating away at you cupcake. After finishing it off quickly you realized that you have forgotten your way home
"Umm... Dash" you say with a slight embarrassed tone
"You don't know how to get home, do you?"
"No. I don't"
With a little giggle from Dash, she flies up into the air. She waves her hoof at you as a signal to follow her. You fly up and follow her through town up till you reached your house. Once landing back on the ground, you turn to Dash
"Thanks for the tour Dash" you say thanking her, which she returns with a smile
As you grab the handle of the door and then...
"SURPRISE!!!!!" a bunch of voices says in unison
This sudden shock makes you lose balance and fall to the ground. As you hit the ground you can hear some ponies inside start to laugh, including Dash, who you just landed in front off and you're now looking up at her. But suddenly, a Pink pony looks down at you with a big smile
"WERE YOU SURPRISED? WERE YA? WERE YA? HUH? HUH? HUH?" She says quickly "YOU MUST OF BEEN SURPRISED BECAUSE WE WERE LIKE 'SURPRISE!!!!!' AND YOU WERE LIKE 'AHHHH' AND FEEL ON TO YOUR FLANK"
You were still in shock from what happened. so you stay silent
"OH I ALMOST FORGET! MY NAME IS PINKIE PIE!"
"Err... Hi I'm-"
"OH don't worry!" Pinkie says cutting you off "I already know your name. Your name is StarGazer"
You finally get back onto your hoofs and only one question swims into your head.
"Pinkie, how did you get in my house?"
"Oh! You left your door unlocked"
You were stunned from your foolish folly that you were not sure that your door was unlock.
"Anyway don't just stand out here, let's get this party going!" Pinkie shouts before grabbing your hoof and pulling you inside.
During the party you pretty much met everypony in town, you still wonder how everypony was able to fit inside your house, but you didn't really mind because a party is a party.
You certainly didn't get bored because you nearly had a interesting conversation with everypony. Heck, even some of the mares invited you to dance with them.
After the party was finished, the only ponies that were left were you, Rainbow Dash, Apple Jack, Rarity, Twilight, Fluttershy and the one who made this party possible, Pinkie.
"So ,he just picked her up and threw her?" you ask
"Yep" Twilight confirms "She snatched the crystal as well as Spike in mid air"
"It was one of the most awesome thing I've ever seen" Adds Rainbow "You know, it's was almost as awesome as me"
You rolls your eyes at that statement with a little chuckle.
"Ah think we should be headin' home" Says Applejack
Everypony agrees with her. You say goodbye to them all as they each head out the door one by one. After they have all gone you shut the door and look around the empty house. You sigh and decide that you're going to clean it all up tomorrow. You head back your bedroom and fall down onto the bed and slowly drift off the sleep.