• Published 12th Jul 2012
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Silver's New Beginning - Silver The Hedgepony



Silver was alone for almost a year. But soon he meets a voice who will show him a new world.

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Chapter 9: A Day Without Shyness

Silver had slowly opened his eyes. It was early in the morning. Around 7 to be exact. and Everything seemed very quiet. Silver took this time to brush up on his book of Equestria's history. He managed to get quite a bit of knowledge about the world of Equestria. Such as learning about Celestia and Luna. Also learning about Nightmare Moon which worried him slightly. He also had read about in some of the other books about something called the Elements of Harmony which had him interested in learning there were 6 of them. "The Elements of Harmony were used to lock Nightmare Moon away. there were six used by Princess Celestia who had passed them down to 6 other ponies. These elements were Kindness, Laughter, Honesty, Loyalty, Generousity, and a secret 6th element still unknown to the ponies... So... These were used to lock away Nightmare Moon.... I might have to ask Twilight about this later." Silver said as he closed up the final book.

Just as he had finished Silver climbed out of bed and was getting ready to start his day before Applejack had trotted in.
"Oh hey! Ahm glad your awake already." She said. "I have a favor to ask. Fluttershy needs a couple of apples for some of her animals and I was wonderin' if ya'll would like to go and take em for me. Ah got the trees to buck and Big Macintosh is going out to the market today to sell apples."
"Uhhh..... Sure." Silver said nodding politely. "But I have no clue where she lives..." Don't worry none to much about it suger cube. She lives not to far out from Ponyville. In fact you'd be able to spot her house a mile away." Applejack explained.
At this Silver shrugged and agreed as Applejack grabbed a saddle with two bags on each side filled with apples and strapped it on his back. "Ya'll just come back when yer done." She said as they walked outside together. "And be gentle with the dear. She's just so shy." Silver nodded as he began flying up towards Ponyville before running into Rainbow Dash. "Oh hey Silver!" She said passing by. "Where are you off to?" She said curiously looking at the saddle bags on Silver.

"I'm off to deliver these to a miss Fluttershy." He spoke. "She needs em for her animals apparently."
"Oh. Alright well do you know where she lives? Or do you need someone to guide you?" She said asking nicely. "No I think I'll be able to find my way." He said politely smiling.
"Alright then. Good luck!" She said as they began flying in different directions.

Silver had landed back in the center of Ponyville at around 8. Not many ponies were awake it seemed as it was still a little quiet. Silver had been looking around for any unique tree looking houses besides the library as Applejack had explained to him. "Great.... Maybe I should have accepted that guide Dash offered..." Silver said before flying back up and looking around.

It was another good 10 minutes of flying before Silver finally managed to find a nicely decorated tree shaped house. Silver had landed in front of it examining it closely. It had quite a lot of white small flowers and grass all over it as the sun reflected off the house fairly nicely. Silver approached the door hoping he hadn't arrived too early as he slowly knocked on the door.

Shortly after a small little rabbit appeared staring at Silver. More specifically, at his horn. Silver stared at the rabbit back as he was unsure what to say. "Uhhh.... Is a miss..... Fluttershy here?...." He said sounding completely stupid talking to a rabbit.
But to his amazement the rabbit gestured for Silver to come inside and keep his voice down. As he walked inside he could hear voices from outside. It sounded as though someone was talking to themselves. But he didn't really care too much. Silver just wanted to get this done as he was following the rabbit outside to an extremely large backyard.

It was the most beautiful scenery Silver had ever seen. There were animals everywhere running around carefree and happy. There was fresh clean in a pond where a couple of frogs were as some deer were lapping water from it. There were tree's that looked so very pretty with flowers in them and fruit that some birds were pecking at eating happily. Silver had never seen anything like it. He was astonished.

"Oh... H-hello Silver..." Said a familiarly soft voice coming from behind him. "I hope my animals arnt bugging you..." Fluttershy said walking out of the house with a bird on her back. "I'm sorry I didn't answer the door... I was nursing this poor little baby bird's wing back up." She said as the bird flew off of her back and nuzzled Fluttershy flying off to be with the other birds of it's kind.

"Wow Fluttershy... I didn't know your house was so... Amazing..." Silver said at a loss of words still looking at the many animals. "Th-thank you...." She said blushing a little at the compliment. "I work hard to keep the animals happy here... And we prepared a welcoming for you as well." She said quietly smiling.
"A surprise? for me?... Well.. I don't really like surprises that much to be honest..." Silver said reluctantly. "Oh... Please Silver?.... The birds and I worked so hard..." Fluttershy started to droop her ears and stare Silver in the eyes.
Silver wasn't heartless. And the face she had made was so unbearable he finally gave in and said "Alright alright... Fine...."

"Oh goodie...!" Fluttershy said grabbing Silver's hoof and pulling him to a small tree that had several birds on it. "Please just sit there and enjoy what we put together for you..." She said smiling and turning to look at the birds as she started to hum a sweet little melody and the birds slowly started to chirp in one by one.

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It was a beautiful song sung by the birds and Fluttershy. They had sung so perfectly in sync that Silver couldn't help but have his jaw drop. He never thought that animals could be tamed to sing as well as they did. And Fluttershy with her well toned and soft humming constructing the birds Silver couldn't help but slowly applaud as Fluttershy blushed and giggled. "I-I hope you liked it... We had been working on it since I first met you. We didn't really get off on the right way.. So.." She looked away a little bit. "A-side I asked Applejack if she could convince you to come visit me somehow...."

At this Silver realized that Applejack didn't need him to bring apples at all. It was just a trick. Although very clever Silver thought as he smiled and untied the satchels on his sides and laid them down. "So I guess.... You didn't actually need apples at all?" He said as he pulled one out of the bag chewing on it. Fluttershy had blushed again and shook her head. "No... I didn't... But I am happy she was able to get you to come see me." She said smiling. Silver couldn't help but smile as well. He didn't take a second look at Fluttershy. She seemed somewhat lonely to him. But with a good heart. And he regret being to quick to judge. "Actually" Silver thought to himself. "Maybe I should take a second look at these ponies.... It seems I was very hesitant and judged them very quickly." He sighed and smiled at Fluttershy as he saw her feeding some of the birds. She seemed to cared a lot about animals and he respected that. "Hey Fluttershy!" Silver started. "Maybe I could help you out with some of the animals?" He asked as he flew up to a small frog that was staring at him back with beady black eyes.

"Oh. If you don't mind I'm sure the animals would love a new face feeding them." She said with a smile as she trotted over to silver handing him a slice of what appeared to be a peach. "Just give this to one of the deer." She said as Silver used his magic to slowly hover the peach to a small deer that looked up to him with big eyes. He didn't seem scared of Silver at all. In fact he even walked up to Silver quite happily taking the peach slice from him and hugging him before walking back to his patch of grass.

"Wow Silver have you taken care of animals before?" Fluttershy said giggling a little. Silver thought about it.
Hmm.... Maybe me being a hedgehog still rubs off on the other animals...
"Uhhh... I might have delt with animals before.. Maybe.. If I could remember.." He said as he sat back under a shady tree putting his front hooves behind his head and throwing one leg over the other. Fluttershy finished feeding some fish in a pond and flew over to Silver sitting next to him. "I appreciate that you have the ability to coax animals like I do... It's not something many ponies can do.." She said slightly blushing. "It's nice to know someone else cares for the animals like me."

Silver sighed happily as he looked at now almost setting sun as he and Fluttershy had been talking for what felt like hours. Luckily Silver was able to talk about some things of his past without revealing to much. He managed to talk about Blaze to Fluttershy telling her that he was deviated after her "departure" as Fluttershy sat there uttering a sad "oh.."

"Well.... I think I should be off before the Apple Family locks me out for the night." Silver said with a chuckle and he stood up dusting himself off. "Oh.. Well... Umm... Maybe... If you want to... You could spend the night here... I wouldn't mind..." Flutters said getting a little quiet hiding her face behind her hair. "Oh.... Well.... I mean...." Silver was hesitant as he looked up at the sun which was now nearly gone but in a beautiful sunset. "I.... I guess if you really don't mind..." Silver said reluctantly.

They had walked inside as Silver threw himself onto Fluttershy's couch and let out a sigh of relief as he closed his eyes. it was so soft compared to the bed he was sleeping on in the Apple family household. "Umm... Silver.... You know.... It would be much more comfortable if you.... Slept... Upstairs.... With....me... if that's.....ok....." She said getting now very quiet. However Silver managed to hear this last part as he felt the color flush from his face and his eyes shoot open as he slowly turned to look at Flutters who was slightly red from having told him this.

Silver wasn't sure if she was serious but as he slowly walked towards the stairs she smiled a small smile and they both walked upstairs together.