As I walked from the brewery, the place I worked as a brewer, breathing chemicals all the time, I stopped to look how many bits I got as tips "15 bits in tip today, not half bad, heck, if I got this many bits a day, I might be able to get the 1000 bits I need." I said "If only my parents loaned me the money already and I didn't have to show my determination by paying one-tenth of the cost for a house, I still need bits I need for food until I get a job in ponyville. I will miss my friends when I leave though." I started trotting back to my house, "Maybe I shouldn't leave, I really would miss them" I said to myself, stopping as a raindrop hit the ground right in front of me, looking up I said, "Speak of the devil."
A orange Pegasus with a wild blue mane and tail landed was flying towards me at a very high speed, a cone starting to form around him. Using my magic, I slowed him down enough so that when he hit me he did minimal damage. "Ok, I'm all for nice greetings and all, but Blue Wonder, last 3 times I saw you, not including this time, you somehow managed to hurt me." I said, smiling a bit.
"Oh come on man, it was all in fun and games, I expected you to steer me off course so I would hit a bench or something." Blue Wonder said, his grin going from ear to ear "Or did you expect you to be good enough by magic to be good enough to slow me to a halt?"
"Oh, no, my magic isn't that strong, yet. And you know I would rather be hurt and possibly hospitalized with a friend, and minor injures, than a friend being hospitalized with a broken wing and leg."
"Yeah, I know you would never hospitalize a pony" he says, his voice oozing sarcasm "Like the time you where just a colt and you where playing with a filly and you broke her front leg, or when you caught your father's hoof on fire, or the time you-"
"Ok, ok, I get the point. No need to go overboard, the first example was enough, I Remember those moments still, a bit to well, if you ask me."
"Oh, remember the time you almost hospitalized me with a broken wi-"
"Don't you have clouds to clear? You are on the weather team now, right?"
"Oh yeah! Almost forgot, see ya later." He said, as he started to flap his wings and fly towards the nearest cloud.
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As I neared my house, i noticed BlueWonder clearing the clouds nearby, seeming to threaten another crash land to talk to me. I walked up to the door, and I put my key in, the door suddenly opened, and a pony covered in black, from hooves to head, only leaving his(or her) magenta eyes uncovered. He/she suddenly stopped in front of me, and sat down on the floor. Looking at his/her magenta eyes, I suddenly realized who it was, an old friend. "Keris! Good to see you, I thought you where a robber there for a second... Why are you wearing that? And why where you fleeing my house?"
She slowly took her ski mask off, as if she wasn't sure if she was meaning to or not. "Do you not know what night it is?" Her neon red mane, a bit messy from the hat, flowed down, covering her eyes a bit, her coat was a mustard yellow. I must of had a weird face, as she touched my nose and then took her arm away fast, "boop," she said, "it is nightmare night tonight, and since you, or no one else our age, does it anymore, I thought It might be refreshing to do it one more time, atleast wear a costume and hang out together," her eyes pleading, "for old times sake?"
"Are any of are other friends doing this? Or did you come to try to convince me first?" I said, a bit harsher than I would of liked.
"I came to you first, and if you don't want to, just say no." She said, having a bit of a defeated look on her face.
Looking at her, I shrugged, "sure, why not. It could be fun." As I was saying this, she started beaming.
"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" She exclaimed, and tried to hug me.
Pushing her away, "no hugs, still."
"Ahh," she said, as she started to trot away, looking back, she said, "don't forget a costume." She started to trot, her pace slowly quickening until she started skipping away.
"I may of just did a bad thing," I said, thinking about it,"Oh well, nothing I can do about it now... How did she get I'm my house in the first place? The door is locked, the windows are closed, and even if she got in though a window in the second story, she is a earth pony... It's another Keris mystery."
I opened the door to my house and trotted up into my room, to add the 15 bits to my savings. Once inside my room, I quickly looked in my closet for a costume. Finding no costume, I put my bits into the pile and begin to count, "One, two, three, four... Six-hundred fifty seven, six-hundred fifty eight... Nine-hundred fifty four, nine-hundred fifty five... One thousand, one hundred, thirty nine... How? My parents won't loan me until I had a thousand, and I just gained nine hundred ninety nine... Did Keris do this? Either way, I can get the loan and maybe get to ponyville today!" Trotted down stairs, my parents both walked in the door, smiles on their face, as I was about to tell them that I got the bits, when my father went up to a cabinet, opened it, and pulled a bag of bits out and gave It to me.