Pinch of Earth Dash of Canterlot

by khandmlpfan

Chapter 1: Start of the Seventeenth Birthday.

It has been seventeen years since that day, and not a day went by when I thought of my parents, part of the upper class, some of the richest ponies next to the Royal Sisters, had showed their love for me.

Sure I had my bad moments, like when I accidentally had set a mare's mane ablaze with one of the human fireworks called a Roman Candle or when I was young and my parents mistakenly gave me markers, not expecting me to draw on the wall, floor, and somehow the ceiling as well. Never got my parents to explain to me how an infant got onto the ceiling, but I just chalked it off to it being Discord's doing since he still does some basic chaotic situations, but only to release the pent up chaos energy within him.

Not even a God can keep a bottle on their powers forever...I think at least that is the case.

Anyways besides those situations, I also went through the usual rebellious phase at a younger age then most people, which soon ended after a week and well I started to be who I am now.

Which slowly comes up to this day, my seventeenth birthday and when I promised my parents that I would get a job.

------James' house 6:00 a.m., Monday------

I was getting ready inside of my home, well really my parent's house. They often had many people and ponies over, talking to them and discussing the various plans for money gain, which is what was happening now in the kitchen as I got ready.

The reason I know that, is because my father put up a special cam system for me to look through to see where they were, and if they were talking to ponies or humans.

And if you are asking, yes I had to pluck his strings a bit.... literally a collection of strings in his office....

But in the end it was worth it. Also taught me to work for what I wanted.

And that is what I was going to find today, a job, and also some breakfast outside of the house. Since with my luck they would be speaking to those humans and ponies for a while.

Anyways, I decided to check inside of the mirror in order to see what my appearance was, if it was professional or not. Besides for the lack of a red tie with the black jacket shirt, which was buttoned over my white under shirt while tucked into my black pants, I was good.

My blue and green eyes looked from my clothes, to my thin frame of a body, to the black dress pants, then to my dark brown hair.

With a satisfied smile, I decide to take the fast route out of the house and walks to the window. After unlocking the inside latch, I would open it up and gets ready to jump down to the yard below.

After jumping out the window, I landed on my feet onto the grounds, probably officially destroying the blades of grass below. Then again it probably didn't matter much since it was such a small patch of grass compared to the garden in the royal garden.

I have to admit, I did see it once and it got you thinking of great places to relax if you were the lazy type of person or pony around these parts.

Anyways, after I stood up straight I would step onto the nearby sidewalk and starts to head down towards the nearest cafe. It was a nice British/Bitish hang out, designed on the fad of black and white walls, red chairs with brown tables, and a mural of the Eiffel tower just covering one wall.

It WAS a cheesy place, but the biscuits and coffee there is very nice compared to the other places who were just selling out to the newest fads like rock n roll, or dubstep. Now those were only up at night, but I would rather stay with the classic appeal of a cheesy cafe compared to those two.

After a bit, I would reach for the door and open it, hearing an even cheesier *ding a ling* as I walked in. Going up to the counter, I would quickly order two blueberry muffins and then a vanilla cappuccino to go. The nice mare gave me the items and we exchanged goodbyes before I left, heading to the job interview that I had set up for later today.

Then I stopped in my stride, just realizing it was 'later' today, like around 5:00 p.m. Quickly taking a look at the time, I would groan, seeing as it had just turned 7:30 a.m. The interview wasn't for another nine and a half hours.

Besides that, I was in my best suit. How am I to keep it clean for the rest of the day if I go around doing things!?

"Dear Celestia, why didn't I check the time when I left!?" I managed to say it in a normal tone of voice, but couldn't help but toss the coffee and muffins behind me in exaggeration, causing an audible yelp of surprise to come from behind.

Wincing a bit after hearing the yelp, I would slowly turn around and see a grey pegasus mare with a blond mane standing there, clad in what seemed to be safari gear and was now soaked with my ice coffee and muffins.

She would be wiping the muffins and the coffee off of her head and shirt, grumbling a bit and she glares at me with some cross eyed, yellow eyes.

Taking a deep breathe, seeming to try and calm down before speaking to me.

I stood there before her, gulping a bit. "Um uh, I am really sorry about that ma'am. I didn't mean to toss them behind me, it just sort of slipped out of my ha-"

Slowly her glare would soften as I speak, and she stopped me near the end and gave me a smile. "It is fine, my name is Derpy hooves, it is nice to meet you um..."

"Oh my name is James, it is my pleasure to meet you miss hooves." I replied before holding out my hand, which she took in hers and we shook.

"Well I accept your apology and all, but mind if I trouble you to treat me to breakfast?"

Shaking my head, I would give her a smile. "Sure, just tell me where you want to go."

She did tell me, and well, it was ironic to say the least I was going to be passing some time within the cafe I had just exited a while ago...with a really nice mare to boot.

Author's Note:

Sorry it took so long to get it up, but school and stress have gotten hold of me these past few weeks.
Anyways I hope I did better than the prologue.

Also I would like to see votes to see if this should take a turn for a trip with 'the doctor'. Right now, I can't think and need some help with ideas.

Comments

[Blaze]

Why isn't Ditzy, I mean Derpy, in the tags?

[khandmlpfan]

3788220 This is one of those stories where there are too many to list, so all the other characters, not related to my oc James are listed under 'other'. There are many other stories with similar situations.

[Blaze]

3788282 Mm-Hmm.

[zyr1987]

Noticed a typo or two, listed below. Aside form that and the slow pacing, I'm still interested

"Dear, Celestia, why didn't I check the time when i left!?"

You forgot to capitalize the second I, and I'm not sure the first comma is supposed to be there.

[khandmlpfan]

3789830 Thanks for telling me this, I did not see it my first time around.