//------------------------------// // Let me explain...no, too much. Let me sum up. // Story: Not the Afterlife I Signed Up For // by inoeitall //------------------------------// We've been at this for quite a while, haven't we? Ya know, if what you've said is true, they'll be coming for us both pretty soon. *sigh* I guess that means I had better hurry along with the story. If we still have time after I bring you up to speed, we can go back and I'll tell you a few more of the funny anecdotes. Anyway, back to the story... Where was I? Oh yeah, the party, right? OK, well the party was a ton of fun. Got to introduce several new types of music to the pony-folk, and I also managed to snag a few dances with Annabeth. I think that some of the more...energetic songs may have been a bit much for some of them, but all in all, everyone had a lot of fun. Vinyl Scratch loved the drum and base and other electronica. Now, you know I don't drink, but it seems that after the younger ponies left, somepony *cough cough*Berry Punch*cough cough* spiked the punch. It may seem hard to believe, but Alkaios is actually quite the light weight. He and Fang Hua had a few drinks too many and got...close. I don't really think it is normal for people to get together that quickly, but they look happy together, so who am I to stop them? Now, I'm sure you're wondering what other interactions I had with the ponies, especially a few particular ponies. First off, Doctor Whooves was really evasive. He slipped up a few times, but I don't have any real proof that he is The Doctor from the show...yet. Derpy/Ditzy (I never did catch her real name), seemed really happy to meet all of us, but she was still in full control of her mental faculties. She just has a really bubbly personality. As for Lyra, Bon Bon kept on dragging her away before I could catch her. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that Bon Bon may be a just a teeny bit racist...well I guess it would be more like xenophobic, but I digress. I finally did catch up with Lyra after Bon Bon had a few drinks, and she was really quite reasonable. She had all sorts of myths about humans from thousands of years prior. Apparently, we are like unicorns to them. Rarely found, but it's a big deal when we show up. It also explained why neither of the princesses freaked out upon seeing us and why Twilight didn't want to dissect us to study our internal workings. So the party was a ton of fun and all the ponies accepted us for the most part. Next day we got up and went out to Sweet Apple Acres. Despite not being able to eat any of the apple stuff, I still helped out with picking apples. It was OK, but I took the first opportunity I could to pop over to Sugarcube Corner instead to help Pinkie with baking. I miiiiiight have also baked a few things special for Annabeth. Turns out ponies have never had cheesecake before. Mr. and Mrs. Cake were flipping out over their first bites of cheesecake. I also gave them my sister's old buttermilk pie recipe, but I did have to warn them how sweet it was. So our third day in Equestria was spent working, baking, and eating. After a bit of planning with Twilight, I managed to figure out how to combine my laptop with her magic for a huge floating screen. To be honest, I didn't miss having internet all that much because I know that if Twilight had internet access, she'd find Wikipedia, and no one would ever hear from her again. I did not let her have too much time on my laptop because I didn't really want her to come across my MLP stuff. The whole point of the giant screen though was a little plan that I had. The entire day, and most of the night, we had a movie marathon. Pick your jaw up off the floor already. Yes, we had a movie marathon. For ponies and humans alike. Again, while I would like to go into more detail, we lack the time. Let’s just say that their faces upon finding out that Darth Vader was Luke’s father...I can’t even begin to express how priceless that was. Fang Hua’s reaction to western mythology was pretty interesting while we watched the Lord of the Rings. Of course Twilight was scribbling notes the entire time no matter how often I told her that these movies were nothing like actual life where we were from. What are ya gonna do though? Well, we stayed up pretty late watching movies, so the next day started kinda late. I ended up getting roped into keeping an eye on the CMC. Sweetie Belle came back from her parents that day and wanted to hang with her friends. Anywho, we ran around town. Shenanigans ensued. After cleaning up the last of the toffee from the local blacksmith’s forge (don’t ask how it ended up there), the three little devils took it upon themselves to set up a date with Annabeth for me. I doubt I’ll ever know how they managed it, but 7 o’clock that night, Annabeth and I were all dressed up and having a candlelight dinner in a local cafe. The choices for dining were salad, salad, or salad. After a delicious meal of salad, we ended up taking a stroll through the park at night, talking about all sorts of things. I had to dodge several questions involving my past, but she didn’t choose to push the topic, thank goodness. You know what I’m talking about when I say that. She came from a nice, fairly high class family in England, but her father, mother, sister, and two brothers all died in the first days of the blitz. Instead of wallowing in sorrow, she became a saboteur, working behind enemy lines for the allied forces. We talked a bit about what would have happened in her future and how technology and culture changed. Actually ran into Fang Hua and Alkaios in a meadow there too. Apparently she was teaching him how to meditate. After our lovely date, I walked her back to Rarity's place and we parted ways. No I didn't get a kiss or anything! It was our first date for crying out loud! What kind of girl do you think she is!? Though I DID hang around a little bit after she went inside. Her and Rarity started talking a million miles a minute. Couldn't hardly make out a word they were saying, so I headed back to the library. Chatted with Twilight for a bit about some aspects of human life. Cars, was it? Ah, I don't remember. All in all, it was a pleasant day aside from the debacle with the Cutie Mark Crusaders... On the next day, YOU showed up. Author’s Note: I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I know I haven’t written in ages and I could offer tons of excuses, but that wouldn’t change the fact that I just did something horrible. It’s been over a month since my last chapter, and you were expecting something big to make up for the fact, but instead, I did THIS. CLIFFHANGER! Don’t worry too much. I am working on the next chapter RIGHT NOW. It’ll be up either later today or sometime tomorrow. Have fun raging and going insane from the amount of stuff I skipped over. If I do end up having time, I do fully plan on going back and writing about the days that I skimmed over. See ya soon! BTW, I have started an OC pony ask-blog. It’s still pretty fresh, and I don’t have any pictures yet, but I hope that you guys will follow it or at least ask me some questions! http://ask-trail-blazer.tumblr.com/ I’ll be drawing a lot, but it shouldn’t slow down my writing. Video games are what do that. >.>