//------------------------------// // A let down to the ground around town. // Story: A True Hater Of Equestria // by cheayhotbeef //------------------------------// "When your birthday?" Pinkie asked as she popped up on Jet as he mixed the metals he was smelting. "Dunno. Probably sometime around last week. Maybe the Friday." Jet said with a look of concentration on his task. "What!? Why did you not tell me that it was your birthday. I could have thrown you a party." Pinkie got sad as she was disappointed. She only started to talk to him because he made things up with Twilight. "My last birthday was 9 years ago, maybe 10. Who cares about my birthday anyway. I had no friends that would say, 'happy birthday' or even a family member that would remember me." Jet gave a sign as he lifted up the final peice of his second cap. "That's sad. Maybe I could help make you feel better by throwing you a birthday and welcome to Ponyville party. It will be so much fun." "On one condition, you make me laugh right here right now." Jet knew she couldn't do that. "Ok. A school teacher ask the class, 'who ever answers my next question, can go home.' A filly throws her backpack out the window and the teacher asks, 'who threw that?' The filly looks at the teacher and says, 'Me, I'm going home." Pinkie laughed at her own joke. "Heard it." Jet said. "You failed." "Okay, what starts with F and ends with K and means lots of excitement?" "Firetruck." "What pointy, penetrates, and comes with quivers?" "An arrow, this is getting boring. I'm just going to say you lose." Jet placed both caps on a table and walk outside along with Pinkie. "Can I just hang out with you if you don't want to have a party?" "K." Jet bent over to pick up a stick and examined it. "Not this one." He said aloud. He did the same thing to three more sticks. "What are you doing?" Pinkie asked. "Looking for a straight stick for the wand. Why?" Pinkie gave a smile. "A wand? What would you need that for? No wait don't answer that, lemme guess. Is it for magic?" "Yah, how do you know?" Jet said with pure interest. "What else do you use a wand for? Fetch with a dog?" Pinkie giggle. "Speaking of dogs," He picked up a stick and chucked it like 25 meters. "Go get it Pinkie, come on, go get it." "Okay" Pinkie ran to the stick and Jet ran the opposite direction. He lost her, for now. All he wanted to do was focus. He look back at his house and noticed Luna was there at the front door with some tree saplings. Jet walked behind her and tapped her shoulder area. Luna turned her head with a small jump. "You scared me, I thought you'd be inside. What's with the stick?" She asked "The wand handle." He said. They both went inside and Luna laid out the plants. "How and where do you expect to grow these?" Luna asked "I will ask sombody with magic that came speed up time." He said. "As for where, I was thinking in my backyard." "Ok, but how do you expect to hide it from any guards of this village to not notice?" "What do you mean?" "Silverwood trees are illegal to grow in any ponies backyard. I thought you just wanted the saplings for making the wand." Luna's expression became one of fear as she realized she was assisting a criminal. "Why? Does it have effects on ponies around it?" Jet ask "Yes, it makes then more colorful and vibrant. Consuming it's fruit could lead to the mare getting pregnant." "So what your saying is that it's illegal to dye ponies. Even if it's natural on them?" "It may sound silly, but the colors can effect there personalities." "Cool. I like your personaltitties." Jet said without thought. "What?" "Never mind" As jet capped the stick with his hands, he then it magically sealed itself. He then pointed it at object around the room. It was a mere 2/3 pound. "Can I hold it?" Luna held the wooden part as she moved it around. "I like it." "Noice." "So, about those trees, the only legal place you can plant those in would be in the Crystal Empire's gardens." Luna said with a smile on her face. "What's with that smile?" "We will be going together, it will be so much fun." Luna clapped her hooves together. Knock, knock, knock. Twilight was invited in as she unpacked her bag. It was filled with some of the things Jet had requested. "I got you now of the things you need. There's, a small table that I shrunk for easier travel. There a bit of gold, some pieces of glass, a red gem, also known as a ruby, a blue gem, or sapphire, a green gem, aka emerald, a yellow gem, aka pyrite, a white gem, aka quarts, and dark grey gems, aka cassiterite. It wasn't easy to get these ya know." Twilight said as she layed down the objects along the table. "Cassiterite? That tin. I can't use that." Jet spoke with care not to hurt Twilight. "Oooo. It's okay, I'll get a new type that would work. What rock are you looking for?" "Not a rock, a mineral or gem. Maybe some black sappire?" Jet studied Twilight's face as she gave a small surprised look because she always thought sappires were all blue. "Ok, I'll be back." "Come back tomorrow, I'm going out with Luna for a while." "Where?" "Somewhere called Crystal Empire to grow the silverwood trees." Jet saw Twilight bright up. "Can I come? I want to meet my brother and his wife, Princess Cadence." "Fine, but you have to grow the tree with a spell of something." "What?" "You must grow the silverwood tree with some type of growth spell that would speed up the process of growing. Maybe you make it grow to the age of 12 or something." "I can't do that directly, but maybe I can enchant a water can and make it grow a lot faster. And I could make the water never run out." "Cool." They all left.