//------------------------------// // Life is a party // Story: The new arrival in Equestria // by Blazer787 //------------------------------// "Fine I'll tell you all." I took the piece of paper out of my pocket and unfolded it. "I have no idea who drew this" I said pointing to the picture. "But it looks like my style of drawing, so I'll assume it's mine, not sure though. And on the other side it has a message signed by 'Ben'. Truth be told, Ben was my best friend back when I was a kid. But when he graduated primary school he went to a different school, he also moved houses. We didn't see each other a lot after that; I guess our lives just drifted apart after that. It's horrible losing a friend like that, your best friend." I felt an awful mix of regret, sadness, and somehow pity. "So now you know, I just hope this doesn't lead to even more questions on the matter…Now there's something I need to do." I said walking towards the door. "What's that?" Asked Twilight. "Let everyone else know I'm here, what else?" I looked back with a smirk. "Do you have a mayor or leader around here?" "We'll…There's Miss Mayor, but are you su-" "Then that's where I'll start. Any of you coming?" I said, looking back at them with a smile. "We'll all go, right girls?" "Oh…I'm not sure if" trailed off Fluttershy. "Yeah we will!" Encouraged Rainbow Dash. "Alright then," I replied. "Let's go organise a town meeting." As I casually walked through the town literally all eyes were on me, but I felt pride and confidence. Yet it wasn't real pride or confidence, it was the kind you feel when you've just admitted a secret and trick yourself into thinking its pride, but deep down your scared to death of what people will think. "So um…" I whispered to Twilight. "Where is your mayor's office again?" "It's that building over there" said Twilight, pointing to a big fancy looking building off to the right. "Let's do this" I confidently said to myself. I walked in the doors and past the receptionist, then up the stairs. I reached what looks like the mayor's office, Twilight stopped me and said: "Wait you can't just barge in there, she could be busy." "Sorry Twilight, but I think that finding out how I got here is more important than whatever she could be doing right now." "Well then at least let us go in first, she knows us." *sigh* "fine then." I waited outside the door as they explained that she needed to hold a town meeting. "Michael, come on in" Called out Applejack. I walked in with a friendly smile on my face and said: "Hey there," the mayor pony stood speechless, staring at me. "I expected that, let me explain." We all sat down with the mayor and explained…Well everything that's happened. "I see, very well then. The town meeting shall be at noon tomorrow. I'll get the word out to every-pony." "Thanks for that." I said back to the mayor. *GASP* "YA KNOW WHAT THIS CALLS FOR!" Said pinkie pie with a gigantic smile on her face while bouncing around the office like a trampoline. "What?" I questioned back. "A PARTY!" She yelled throwing her hooves up in the air. "Party? HELL YEAH!" I yelled as I threw my fist up in the air. "Ah, but we should really go now." We all walked out of the mayor's office and down the stairs again. As we walked out the door I asked them: "So…What currency do you guys use here? Dollars? Euros? Gems even?" "We use bits." Answered Rainbow Dash. "Bits of what? Gold? Diamond? Bits of lemons harvested by blowing up the trees?" Rainbow Dash looked at me with a 'da fuck?' look on her face. "Yeah, didn't think so." "They're just called bits; Twilight can show you one when we get back to the library." "Uh, I guess I could." Said Twilight. "Oh look we're already here." As we all walked through the door into the library, most of the ponies had to run off to someplace. "Actually, I'll catch ya guys later. I've got to go organise a big storm coming up. I guess I'll see ya later." Said Rainbow Dash, then flew out the door at an amazing speed. "Oh my, I forgot about angel at home, I'm afraid I'll have to go to" said Fluttershy with a smile. "I hate to run off as well but I have orders to fill, and I'm afraid I can't put it off any longer" said Rarity, walking out the door. "Hate to walk out on ya'll too, but I got an awful lot to do 'round the farm" said Applejack. "See ya tonight Michael!" She said running through the door. "And I need to go organise the PARTY!" Cheerfully said Pinkie as she bounced out the door. "I'll go upstairs and get some bits." "And then there were two" I said turning to Spike. "Uh…I'll go help Twilight" said the little dragon, running up the stairs. "Well then, guess I'm the highlander," I said to myself. I looked over on the table and my book was still there. "Okay what page was I on?" I said picking up the book. "What page, what page...Umm…Oh yeah, page 42." It was the page with the cloud walking spell on it. "Walking on clouds, dammit I wish I could do that. That'd be SWEET! Oh wait, I guess I can ask Twilight. Don't know how hard it is though. I wonder if Twilight could turn me into a pony for a day…THAT would be weird. Still, fun to try. I wonder what it feels like being a pony. Or walking on clouds, would it feel like cotton candy or something? Maybe you could make cloud roller-skates, or a cloud skateboard. Could you paint clouds? I wanna be the cloud highlander!" "Found some" said Twilight, coming down the stairs along with Spike with a small purse levitating in front of her. "Sweet lemme see." I put out a hand and as the bag landed in it I felt a shiver go up my arm. "Don't think I'll get used to that, at least not any time soon." "Get used to what?" "Well the feeling of magic. When I pick something up that has something to do with magic, I feel a shiver go up that limb. Does that normally happen to ponies?" "Well I don't think so, maybe unicorns can't feel it. You can ask one of the others about that." I opened the purse Twilight had…umm…magiced me? I guess…The interior was completely filled up with shiny golden coins. I picked one up and examined it. On one side was a detailed carving of a large Pegasus pony, but it looked like a unicorn as well. "Is that possible?" I thought to myself. I flipped the coin over and on it was a carving of the sun. "Uhh so who's this pony here? Looks like-"something came over me at that point. "Wait…I feel something…I feel a sense of…WINING! Let me see what was going on before I came here...Um…oh yeah the Rugby world cup. I guess we won that then, call it a kiwi's sense…anyway who's the pony on the coin?" "Yeeaaah, umm…That's princess Celestia, she raises the sun in the morning, she's my teacher, and is the ruler of Equestria, well apart from princess Luna that is. "A better question is what was that about a world cup and a something's sense?" Asked Spike. "Never mind, I'll explain that later." After that we talked for hours about…Well, everything. The princesses, spells, history, ponyville, clouds dale. Everything, even the elements of harmony and nightmare moon. I was extremely envious of how that turned out; I'd always daydream about that kind of stuff. (Well not as ponies but you get the idea.) As you could imagine it fascinated me, mostly all the magic. When I tried asking her how magic worked she told me it resides in every pony's heart, but only unicorns could use it. We talked until it had started to get dark, then Twilight pointed this out. "Oh, it's getting dark. You should head back to the barn." "Oh man your right. But uh…Do you mind if I take some books with me? This whole magic scene is really great stuff. We did have it on earth but none of it was real, it was all just smoke and mirrors." "Sure" she levitated some books over to me. The book I was first reading which was rather large, are in the moon story, and a small magic handbook. "Here ya go." "Oh boy" I said to myself. As she dropped the books into my hands a shiver went up my arms again. "Urrgg thanks Twilight. I'll have these back by…the day after tomorrow I guess? I don't know." I turned and walked out the door "g'night!" "Bye" she called back to me. I shut the door and walked back through town, luckily almost everyone was inside by now so I could just walk straight through town without anybody noticing. But I did have the feeling that I was being followed, or watched. But every time I turned around nothing was there, either the paranoia was finally getting to me or there really was something there. I didn't believe that though. Every time I turned around I tried to catch a glimpse of what was there, the most I could get was a white blur disappearing behind a crate or barrel. I tried to lure the creature out; I went to Pinkies bakery, opened the door and slammed it shut again. I saw it poke its head around; I saw it was another pony. The pony was black with a white mane. "Wow, I didn't think anyone would fall for that old trick." The pony instantly took off into the sunset lit sky. "So you're a Pegasus are you?" I said to myself. "Hmmmm…" The way back to the farm I wondered; "who was he? And why was he watching me? Or was it a she? Hell I don't know let's just get back to the farm." I went back into the farm; Applejack was just going to bed. *yawn* "G'night Michael." "Night Applejack." I had no idea how long I stayed up that night, there wasn't a clock or sundial anywhere. But no matter how much I wanted to go to sleep, another part of me just wanted to stay up all night reading the books. By the time I finally gave into my lust for sleep I had read the mare in the moon, the entire magic handbook, and half of the advanced spells book. So I put the books on the ground and went to sleep. When I woke up I was completely thrown off the bed, I literally woke up on the ground entangled by the sheets. "Dammit, I've had restless nights before but this. This is a new low for me." I guess it was an hour I spent reading the rest of the advanced spells book. I really wanted to try out the cloud walking spell. I'd always day dreamed about walking on clouds, and flying, it seems to make someone so…free. So I devised a plan, if Twilight could use the spell and I could get my hands on some cloud. I could make a solid base by stuffing some under my shirt, and then make a propulsion system by trying some to my feet. Hell I'm probably ruining all the fun of it. I picked up all the books and went back to Twilight. "At least this'll be the last time I have to sneak through town again" I thought. I snuck back into the library; I noticed Twilight wasn't inside so I just laid the books down on a table. "Is some-pony there?" I heard a voice come from upstairs. Down came Twilight, she was surprised to see me. "Michael! What are you doing here? The town meeting starts in five minutes!" She warned anxiously. "What? Oh damn you physics!" I cursed to no one in particular. "Don't you have some sort of spell that can get us there?" "Well I could teleport us but I'm not sure if-" "I just don't wanna be late, that'd lead to even more explanation." "Well, okay then." Twilight closed her eyes as her horn started to glow and shine. There was a light emitting from it growing and growing. I saw a bright flash, then darkness for a few seconds, after that it's like I was zooming back into reality. The glare from the flash faded after a second or two. "Woah!" I said with a thud as I fell flat on my ass. "I think my legs have fallen asleep, um hold on." I put my right leg out straight and slammed my fist down onto my knee. I felt a little feeling come back, two more slams and all feeling was back in my right leg. "Uhh…What are you doing?" Asked Twilight. "Oh it's a little trick we humans have for getting feeling back into our body after say…an arm's fallen asleep or gone numb." I proceeded to beat my left knee until all the feeling was back in my left leg, I stood up and said: "So where are we?" "Uhh…umm…" Twilight took a quick look around "I think we're behind the town hall." I looked around the corner and saw a huge crowd of ponies all talking to each other. "Looks like it. We're going to be appearing in front of the building so I think we should go through here and wait." Twilight followed me through the back door of the town hall and walked into the first room with the receptionist's desk. "Looks like she's already been sent out" I thought. An awkward silence hung in the air between me and Twilight. You could literally feel the awkward. Eventually we heard a voice coming from outside. "Today we have a very…Unusual visitor in ponyville. Please give a warm ponyville welcome to Michael." At that point my heart just stopped, after the words 'warm ponyville welcome' I felt like I was going to pass out. *gulp* "Might as well get this over with… Here goes nothing". I swung my body around and I was standing outside on the front steps of the town hall, everyone was staring at me. Then talking started to rise up in the crowd, as the mayor was about to stand up to hush them I stopped her. "Don't worry; they'll quiet down soon enough. And it's less awkward if I don't have to start right away." The chatter lasted for almost five minutes so I said: "Yeah I guess you can go ahead and stop them now," she stepped up to the pedestal and said: "Ponies, everypony please quiet down." After that the chatter quickly subsided. "Our new friend here will explain everything to us." I didn't bother to pay attention to it but as I was walking up to the microphone my knees were trembling like earthquakes. When I spoke I noticed a stutter in my voice: "Um *cough cough* okay first thing you should know, I've been living in hiding for about three days now, with applejack at the farm. So I hope I don't appear as a threat, and yeah that was me running through town yesterday, heh heh. Two, I know absolutely NTOHING about this place, I woke up under an apple tree in sweet apple acres and I can't remember much from my past. Three, I might be a bit cranky cause I haven't had much meat, and we're omnivores. Five, no wait…Four If you want to stop me and ask me a question I probably won't mind, depending on how much sleep I've gotten. Five: I'll tell you the story up until so far, just so I don't have to repeat it again 'cause it's getting annoying." So I told them all the story of how I got there and I was relieved when it was over, last time I was telling THAT story! "WHEW! That's was a mouthful! Okay then, since that's all sorted out I think that I'll go now. It's getting REALLY awkward up here." As I stepped down from the pedestal a thought came to mind: "Oh man, I haven't even told them my name yet have I?" So I stood back up and said: "Also before I forget, my name's Michael, that's probably important… Oh yeah, and to the black and white pony that's been following me: Stop it would ya! It's creepy…" Suddenly Pinkie bowled me off my feet and I tumbled to the ground. "I'm having a party tonight! And EVERY pony should be there because there'll be dancing, and games, and snacks, and even Michael's going to be there! Right?" She turned to face me. "Um…okay sure." I said back to her. "WOOHOO!" I couldn't be bothered to think of any way for Michael to get away and back to the library, so I'll just skip ahead of time, to when the party is starting at around…let's say around 9:00 PM…Now where's the remote? Ah here it is! At the library we all met up to go to Pinkie pie's party. "So that pink pony, Pinkie pie. Are her parties any good?" I asked Rainbow Dash. "Are you kidding? They're the BEST!" She said doing a little loop in the air. "Any good music?" "Scratch usually does the music, she has AWEOSME BEATS!" "Any dub step?" I asked with a smile. "Dub-what? You'll have to ask her at the party." I noticed that a lot of construction sounds coming from outside, hammers, drills, saws. "You guys having renovations or something?" I asked them as I opened door. SMACK! A wood 2x4 hadoken'd itself into my FACE! Flat on my back with my nose bleeding I joked: "So uh…This is a normal day for you, you don't seem very surprised by any of this now do you?" I dabbed a finger under my nose and saw the blood on it. "Oh great, I'm bleeding, again!" I got up stepped outside making sure to DUCK this time and I saw the whole marketplace set up for a huge party. "So uh…what's everyone working…Oh." I caught on as soon as I saw Pinkie in a hard hat, still bouncing like she was at the meeting. I turned to go back inside, call me crazy but I didn't trust a hypo pink pony and power tools. I almost got hit over the head again by a Pegasus "WOULD YA STOP THAT!" I yelled, it looked back and I noticed that it was the same Pegasus that had been following me. "Hey…HEY! COME BACK HERE!" I lost track of it almost instantly, he seemed to disappear into the night. "That sneaky little…Well he's got skill I'll give him that…" I managed to get back inside without another whack at the face. I took attention to my nosebleed, the blood almost dripping off my chin now. "Has anyone got a tissue?" I asked, wiping the blood off my face. "Oh don't worry Michael," said Twilight "now hold still." "Woah, woah, woah! More magic?" "Well, I've been reading up on a bit of first aid magic. I haven't really tried it yet though" she said with a nervous smile. I sighed "fine go ahead, it can't be anything worse than what happened back stage." I kneeled down to our heads were level. Her horn started to glow; I shut my eyes to block out the light. Once again the tingling feeling from magic, then nothing. I dabbed my finger under my nose again and the blood was gone. "Dammit Twi, you're a fast learner. I bet I know what your mark thingy is for." "A cutie mark?" "Yeah, that." I took a second to look around the room, it was still amazing how well the architecture is in there, and I noticed a lot of the carvings are of hearts and flowers. "A little girly but hey, it's their library." I thought. "Oh quick question, do you by any chance have wolves here?" "Oh, yes but they're in t-the…Everfree forest." Said Fluttershy with an obvious tone of fear in her voice. "Sweet, we should go check them out some time, always wanted to see wolves but my country never had them. Lucky bastard Nick and his wolves in America." "Oh no, it's much too dangerous." "Well, we don't have to get close to it, I just wanna see one." "There are much more dangerous creatures than wolves in the Everfree forest." "Ahh fine fine. But I WILL find one! Probably my only chance as well." Music started to pound through the walls of the library. "Sweet, party's started!" I ran out the door, and noticed that the whole market place was already set up for a huge party, looked the whole town was there as well. Streamers, balloons, food, punch, DJ, even a karaoke machine. "How in the name of meaningless battle did she get this set up so fast!" "That's Pinkie for ya!" Said Rainbow Dash flying next to me, "come on!" She darted off into the crowd as I ran after her, after around a minute of looking I couldn't find her anymore, I did noticed that everypony was staring at me though, that was awkward. As I stumbled through the party trying to get to the DJ booth to see what songs she had lined up, I came across a pair of arguing ponies. One was grey with a golden mane, the other brown…Chesnutt more like with a dark chocolate brown mane. "Oh! Oh! Let's do this one, I love this one!" Said the grey and gold pony. "Erm I'm not really the singing type." Said the brown pony. "C'mon you need to try and relax a bit!" "I told you I don't sing! Uh, here ask Michael to sing." He jogged over and pushed me towards her. "Okay! Come on Michael!" "Woah hey, gaah!" By the time I could say something I was already up on stage nervous as hell because the whole town was starting to stare. I bent down and told her "Hate to break it to ya but, I'm not the singing type either." "Don't be silly mister, of course you are! It's already too late now anyway, the whole town is watching." I look out to the sea of faces and it was true, every eye was on us two. I looked over to the brown pony by the steps and glared, then back to the grey pony. "Son of a-"I sighed "fine let's do this. Hit us with a song DJ!" I'll admit I was almost going to piss myself thinking about how much I'd suck, but I just wanted to get it over with. Halfway through the song and I couldn't believe it, I was pretty good at singing not as good as the grey pony though she was fantastic, and that these ponies actually had decent music! We will come to save you True friends won't desert you You know we will help you When we're done We'll go our separate ways When the song had finished everypony was cheering for us, and she told me her name was ditzy doo. "Daaaaaaaamm! You're an awesome singer!" I said as we both stepped off stage. "Thanks mister, c'mon I want you to meet somebody." "Ya know I thought I told everyone my name's Michael." "Oh yeah, I forgot." She said with a bubbly smile. "How the hell can she forget, I'm the only human in the world!" I thought to myself. "This is the doctor" she said still as bubbly and cheery as before. "Uh, doctor who?" "Ha ha! Exactly!" He said jokingly. "Uh…Okay so are you a mental doctor or a medical doctor…Forensics even?" "Umm…No not exactly…I can explain to you later, why not go off and enjoy the party." "Uh…okay…Nice meeting you two. I'll come and find ya sometime." As I walked off through the party I heard a faint "Why didn't you-"I couldn't really make out the rest. I made my way over to the DJ booth and asked the white pony what music she had, I also noticed that she had goggles on and I thought "hell, whatever." Before I could ask she said: "Hey man, you rocked up there." "Thanks, so what tunes ya got up here?" She showed me some of the names like scratch needle, Pink party remix, and danger zone. "Just as I thought" I told her. "Huh?" "I know NONE of these songs; you should really get some dubstep on here. Anyway keep up the good work; I'll look ya up sometime." I walked over to where the punch and food was, I took a couple of cupcakes and as I was eating them I thought "daaaaam these are good!" I poured myself a cup on punch when: "HEY MICHAEL!" I heard Pinkie yell out. "AHH!" Some of the punch spilled from my cup. "Jesus Pinkie, don't do that." "Sorry. So anyway Fluttershy mentioned you wanted to see the wolves!" I took a sip of the punch; it tasted sweet…Too sweet, but delicious. "Cause you and I could always-" I coughed and hacked as I chocked on the punch, interrupting Pinkie. "Dammit Pinkie how much sugar did you put into this!" "Oops, I might have added too much." "Nah, its fine, its fine. Well, I'm going to go check out the rest of the party, seeya around Pinkie." After that I wandered around the party pretty aimlessly, but I found I keep coming back for more of that punch. It was the best drink I'd ever tasted. Next thing I knew Twilight was shaking me awake on her couch. I had a massive headache, felt more like a migraine. "Michael? Michael! Wake up." "Argh, shit. What the hell happened?" "Well, you sort of went crazy at the party, heh heh." "Oh HELL NO! Argh!" The waves of pain were already starting to kick in. "So what'd I do that was so 'crazy'?" "Well, let's see." She said as a scroll floated over. "You made a list?" I said with a 'really?' tone of voice. "Well, there were a lot of them. Let's see…You kept shouting out space, you called Spike Spyro and Toothless, you spun around in a circle singing-" "You spin me right round?" "Yeah, something along the lines of that." "Thought so, so what's next?" "You were singing about someone named Wheatly, said that we should break the fourth wall, said you wanted to thumb wrestle somepony, went around screaming 'whoo evolution!', you were going on about somponies named Trace, Flora, and Keith, said that you want to go to the moon, said something about somepony named Rhea, said that we should go to Armageddon, said something about ponyception, said something about 'Ed Edd and Eddy' I think, screamed this is Sparta and almost kicked somepony, and A LOT more." "Oh man, last night sounded fuckin' AWESOME! ARGH!... I just wish that I could remember some of it…All I remember is singing and talking to the DJ." "Well, let's hope it doesn't happen again, I had to use a sleep spell to get you out." "One thing you should know about me Twilight, you NEVER give me sugar. Strangely enough I can handle caffeine just fine but sugar, that makes me go off like a freakin' FIREWORK man!" Just then a pony from the party last night walked in, it was ditzy doo. "Is he awake yet?" She asked. "Yeah he's awake now." Replied Twilight. "Wow, you did some craaazy stuff at the party last night." "Wait…What time is it Twi?" I asked in a hurry. "It's the day after the party, in the afternoon." "Aaaaah this has to stop!" I said falling back into the couch.