The Not So Quiet Town of Ponyville

by Night Hex

Chapter One: Welcome To Ponyville

You know there is nothing like just waking up in the morning grabbing a cup of coffee that tastes divine and relaxing for a moment as you take in the sights of the town from your window when the sun is JUUUUST right. It's enough to make anypony feel truly content. That is until you realize that for some reason the streets have become gold and are now currently truly to burn through your retina's with their luminescence. One might think that the first instinct one would have to seeing their streets change so drastically would be more of a panic but that was not the case for this pony to be honest she was just thinking how it was just another Saturday.

The pony at the window gave a deep long sigh as she closed her eyes trying desperately to keep the glare from making her see spots muttering to herself in a cursing tone before she turned back to the house

"ROSELUCK!!! WHERE ARE MY SHADES?!?!"

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~~~Four Years Ago, Ponyville~~~

Ponyville was all a bustle today was a very very special day, after all it's not everyday that you get a princess coming over to perform the greatest event of the year? The summer sun celebration was just days away and everything had to be perfect at least that is what the mayor going on about. To be 100% honest even a certain somepony was excited and even she didn't like big parties too much. And that certain somepony was going to get a rude awakening... Roseluck dumped the bucket of water over top the sleeping mare without a care as she waited and watched as a mare bucked out of bed and begin hopping next to it

"AHH!!! Cold! coldcoldcoldcold!" turning her angry mismatched eyes on the calm pony in front of her. Meanwhile Roseluck just sat there with an innocent smirk on her face.

"I told you that if you didn't get up by noon Wisp you were going to be awoken by the bucket, its 1:30 now what on earth were you doing that kept you up so late?" The mare to be more particular the earth pony mare sat there now drenched as she glared daggers, Wisp was so so very angry but grit her teeth and snorted. Which only provoked a bigger smile from Roseluck who was doing her best not to laugh before slowly approaching the other pony "Well at least you awake now... I even brought you a towel" handing over the fluffy white towel she had been carrying this entire time over to Wisp who took it and quickly began drying off her curl mess of magenta and violet. Finally deciding to speak up rather then trying to just murder Roseluck with her glaring which seemed to be a fruitless endeavor.

"I shall have you know that I was making sure that you and the rest of Ponyville had a safe place to be" with that Wisp stuck her tongue out quite foalishly to get a rise out of Roseluck. The elder rose haired mare rolled her eyes before moving up to her.

"Wisp~ this is PONYVILLE nothing ever happens in Ponyville, you were just out frolicking weren't you?" Roseluck chided as she looked at her still wet mare before shaking her head.

"I was not! I was..... " Wisp huffed "I was patrolling the forest"

"The EVERFREE?! Wisp! I know your special talent is parading around in the night but those creatures are dangerous!" Wisp cried out in surprise and worry. Wisp couldn't help but roll her eyes before taking a deep breath as she shook her head.

"Duh Rosey~ that's kinda why they are called WILD, I'm not the cute little Pegasus mare at the edge of town I mean sure if I find some injured animal ill give them over to her but somepony has to make sure that no timberwolves eat people, you know it's my job to be the first warning call in case anything big comes out of the forest. Well and pick the odd herbs for other pony's but its still important" Wisp said with a nod, only to see her friend shiver at the mere mention of timberwolves. Taking at moment to huff "And my talent isn't frolicking, its guiding and protecting all lost things wild beast or not"

"The horror.... the horror," Roseluck shuddered her voice wavering in an overly dramatic way not even hearing what Wisp had said. Letting Wisp just finish drying herself off as she watched her friend, to say the pair were quite different from one another was an understatement. Wisp was so used to running headfirst while Roseluck? much better at running away and over exaggerating. Personally Wisp blamed Roseluck's other friends for that one but there was nothing to do about that, after all Wisp had some eccentric friends herself especially if you counted the dangerous animals. Leaving her friend to her thoughts and muttering Wisp moved down the stairs of her home going to the kitchen as she moved to fix herself up a sandwich. Soon enough joined by Roseluck who moved to the door looking back at Wisp who was mid way through trying her first bite of a daisy sandwich, "I have to help with the decorations, you better hurry and report in soon to the Mayor for your task".

"Yah yah, ill get on... after lunch!" Wisp said with a grin as she bit down on her sandwich enjoying the taste.

"Ewww, why do you have to be such a messy eater?" Roseluck muttered mostly to herself as she moved out the door and closed it behind her. Wisp just continued munching down her sandwich content in the fact that her empty belly was now filling up, soon enough though the edible piece of joy was gone and she was forced into a war of wills. Staring at the looming door leading out to more hard work and long hours or the sweet sweet embrace of a soft bed waiting for her upstairs. Then again she could always return to the forests or fields around Ponyville full of areas for a pony like her to just get lost into nature. The clock ticked the sound compounding the need for a decision till it began to sound like a gong in her ears.

Wisp groaned before getting up and going to the door, yep time to go get ready for the big night.

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Prancing around Ponyville it was hard not to love the the small town, it was quiet and peaceful... with the exception of Pinkie Pie it was hard not to know that name around here if you had a birthday or any kind of event there was only one pony that you could go to if you wanted the best party around. Then as if the gods of fate had conspired to hurt her today, as Wisp crossed the street she was suddenly caught in the backlash of what could only be described as a pink missile that caused her to spin around like a top only to tilt and fall over on the ground.

"Owwww," groaned Wisp as she stayed there in the dirt, only opening her eyes when she heard a chuckle above her looking up at the tall dark pegasus who now was towering about her. Wisp frowning deeply at the stallion as she just lay there finally speaking, "Oh yah some friend you are Thunderlane"

"I wasn't the one who decided to take a moment to become a spinning top", chided Thunderlane as he shook his head before offering his hoof down to the fallen mare "I take it you had another late night? I don't see how you manage it personally one day I think you will go running off with the deer". Wisp reached up and took her friend's hoof as she was pulled up back to her own hooves glad for it. While she smiled Thunderlane leaned in "Sooo~ what got you all in a spin?" wiggling his eyebrows at his pun thinking himself quite clever. Meanwhile Wisp wanted to face hoof at what he had just said instead going for a small half hearted groan at the bad pun.

"oh great.... I literally walked into that one, Thunderlane must you?" murmured Wisp only to be greeted by Thunderlane's cocky grin as he simply lifted his head and puffed out his chest like some flamboyant bird. The thought though gave Wisp a small inner chuckle to the idea of Thunderlane as a bird.

"yes, I must for it its... my destiny," said Thunderlane with a grin which just made Wisp grown harder.

The pair crossed the street together sharing their quips as they walked, this Summer Sun Celebration would certainly be something, of course she didn't know how big it would be just yet.

Author's Note:

so XD this is my first fanfic.... ever.... in advance I apologize for the crappy writing as I try to settle in, to be honest if you people have any notes or advice? i'd like to hear it. All the art you see in the chapter is mine so I hope you like that too.

and well I thought I'd break the ice with trying background ponies (except for big mac) instead of main cast for my first try, I hope you like my take on them forgive me for the OC but I couldn't find a pony quite like the one I wanted for the story.

Comments

[Baby Rhino]

Looks like a solo start, ill certainly be following this to see where it goes. Th character of Whisp is intriguing.