Its been 1months since the gala and Celestia decides to help her nephew change his attitude
Its been a month after the grand galloping galloping gala and prince blueblood is still in canterlot. Other then still feeling embarrassed about the whole thing,blueblood hasn't changed much. He has no idea how his aunt plans for that to change. With the help of the main six and his guard friend Green Gust,blueblood will be going in for many new challenges.
It was a relaxing and quiet day to be a prince in ones castle in Canterlot. It might not technically be his place or his land but Prince blueblood enjoyed these silent mornings to himself. It was just him,a mirror, and the one thing in all of Equestria that mattered the most right now,his soft pretty amber colored mane.
Beautifully quiet mornings like this one were the perfect times to groom one's self after all. It took his mind off of how only a month ago that crazy unicorn mare embarrassed him in front everypony at the Gala. He still didn't get what caused her to go from sweet as a deer to ugly as a donkey so fast. Was it just the little cake accident?
*knock knock*"Blueblood, are you up yet?"said the familiar voice of one of his guards from home. Since his parents were to busy to pick him up even after hearing of the Gala disaster, they sent one of their guards to look after him.
"Yes Green Gust I'm just doing my morning grooming." Unlike the Equestrian Canterlot guards, Green Gust was a forest green pegasus stallion with an all black buzz cut,orange eyes, and silver armor. Him and Blueblood had been what the prince thought of as real friends since they were both little colts.
Green Gust opened the door. "You really should get out of this room more often."said Green.
"It not like theres anything important going on. Plus I've just started my grooming just now ."Blueblood replied.
Green just rolled his eyes at this remark. That was practically his answer everyday this past week. Not that he didn't still exercise and eat his royal dinner but he wasn't as social as he use to be. Likely from being around the upper class ponies he didn't like.Gust knew despite his self centered ness, Blueblood was a good social guy to those he knew well enough.
"Don't you wanna at least go out and meet a pretty mare, play some checkers,or something like we use to?"asked the green pegasus.
His only reply was a shake of the head no from the prince.
"Well in this case that's both good and bad for you because your dear aunt Celestia ordered me to get you."said Green Gust.
"Why is that a bad thing?"Blueblood asked his friend.
"She used the the special tone."said the green gaurd. The special tone was what anypony that ever worked for the princess or at least knew her long enough,learned to fear. It meant you were about do or hear something she wanted you to do whether you like it or not. No argument. Period. Philomena the Phoenix got this tone often for pranks.
"But this is suppose to be my vacation from doing stuff!"Whined the unicorn stallion.
"Its your aunt my brony and I wouldn't get her mad with waiting If I were you." advised Green Gust.
Knowing his friend was very right about this,Blueblood got off his flank and made a quick trot toward his aunt's throne room with green guest flying ahead of him.
"Princess Celestia, I got a message! A message for ouch!"exclaimed a cross eyed grey Pegasus.She accidentally crashed into the throne room window rather than through it.
"Are you OK ditzy doo? "asked the princess.
"Yes princess,just got a little head lump hee hee."Ditzy said giggling
Using her unicorn magic, the princess lifted Ditzy and the letter she was carrying. She also healed the clumsy mail pony's head wound. "Thank you for your service Ditzy." Celestia thanked her.
"Oh! No problem at all your royal-ness ."With that Ditzy doo zoomed off almost hitting the window again on the way. Celestia sometimes worried for that pony's mind at times.
"Auntie,did you wish to speak with me?"said her nephew Blueblood
Celestia turned to see both her nephew and his guard walking into the room. The guard bowed his head as she got up and she flew over to them.
"Yes, nephew blueblood I wish to speak with you about something important and you've arrived at a good time to." She turned her head to the green guard. "You stay for this to since you'll be a part of this as well."
Green gust did as he was told and stayed beside his friend. Prince blueblood had a sudden very very bad feeling about what his aunt had to say.
"First off I want to hear what happened between you and the unicorn Rarity you were with."she demanded.
This definitely took him off guard. Green Gust,who wasn't at the Gala at the time,kept a poker face but was curious to hear. The only thing that blueblood told him was he met bipolar mare at the gala.
"What about it?"he asked confused
"Start from beginning to end for me."Celestia replied
"OK,well the night started off quite nicely. I was just walking around when I saw this very pretty grayish white unicorn with a gorgeous dress on in the garden. She introduced herself as Rarity and I put the flower she was sniffing on myself so she'd admire me more. Things seemed OK to me from there. She put her dress cape on a puddle so we could get across the room at some point. It was odd how reluctant she was to open a simple door for me and then she tried to make me pay for carnival food from a cute earth pony mare in a hat. I didn't realize it was fatty sugary carnival food she was selling until the pony offered it to us for free and I ate it. Do you know how much fat I've heard are in them? A LOT!So I spat it out and told them both I didn't like that greasy junk food. Then we went inside and she was really quiet for some reason. Then out of no place this pink blur of hooves went flying through the air and into some cake. The cake went flying everywhere and I panicked and grabbed what I thought was a nearby chair for a shield but it was Rarity and she got really really mad at me. Before I could say sorry she started screaming at me and called me the most non princely prince she'd ever met. Like its my fault cake decided to come raining that day."he finish.
By the time he was done,Celestia was shaking her head in at the prince's behavior. She heard all this from Rarity and it seemed her thoughts were confirmed. Her nephew needed to learn how to be more helpful to other ponies and behave kinder to the less rich. Not that he was cruel or mean on purpose to anypony but he needed to be more considerate to others.What she had in mind would definitely be for his own good.
Green Gust on the other hoof was trying not to bust out laughing at his friend's ignorance.
"Nephew,that mare's name was Rarity and she was expecting you to be a gentlemen and do the simple things for her out of politeness.That pony's food you spat out was a friend of hers and you insulted her by doing what you did".Celestia told him with a disappointed tone.
"Gentlemen? The last time I tried being a gentlemen to a pony she nagged me about not letting her be an independent mare and blah blah about her mare rights." he replied.
"Thats because you were overdoing it and you under did it this time and then some, so I've got no choice but to send you on your first mission to a place that helped a certain student of mine. Hopefully it will help you as well."she was using the special voice now.
No need to be psychic to tell where this is going. Like I said this was made way back after S1's final.Now that the characters and ponies have a bit more background this can go a lot more places.I dare declare myself the one who first came up with the whole pro-redeeming of blueblood thing that I've been happy to see poping up more in stories lately. If not as much redeem at least not make him out as Satan's pet in every story.
There were rare times that Prince blueblood could ever count himself wanting to ever rebel against the wishes of his elder family members,and this was one of those times. "How can my own aunt do this to me?Out of all things to make me do, surely my mother and father couldn't approve of this."If it was something as minor as writing the psycho unicorn an apology for the cake or whatever,the prince could understand but right now this whole thing felt completely unnecessary. Only good thing about it was Green Gust was going as well to make sure they weren't mugged during the stay or something.
His friend Green Gust on the other hoof,was practically giggling like a school filly at the thought of this adventure. Guards don't don't get to travel much unless they're escorting somepony in such a case as this one.Theres not a lot of socializing aloud and most ponies who see the armor on him get intimidated and avoid him like a mad dragon.
"Cheer up BB,this might whine up being good for us both in the end if you just stay positive."Green Gust could tell he was going to just make this whole thing worse for himself if he kept acting so childishly upset about it.
"First off you know I hate the nickname BB and I can't see how you expect this be good by any definition. This is going to be the most tortuous and horrid 5 months of my life. I'll have no more giant fluffy pillows to sleep on, imported brushes from Tarpan France for my mane,and those tasty 4 star boiled cabbage with spinach you know I can't breath without! If thats not bad enough we're going to be living with common savage pony hell with ponies that likely carry worms,fattening nasty food,and evil birds."Blueblood shivered at the thought of it all.
Green Gust mentally shook his head at his friend imagination and behavior toward the whole thing. It was moments like this he was happy his parents let him go to a public pegasus flight school and not a private one. He knew that blueblood's real fear was being someplace new to long from what his stuck up parents spoiled him in. They made a big deal out of him being perfect for Mr. show pony contests all over Equestria and product modeling as well. It was amazing to Green Gust that the prince was even able to achieve his cutie mark by accident when his little cousin Ace went missing. It took guards hours looking through every build but blueblood did it in mere minutes with his navigating and tracking talent,just by following the scent of one of ace's toys.
"Your exaggerating way to much now. They may not be rich but from what I hear from guards who've been there before its a pretty decent place with with very friendly ponies. Equestria Daily gave it an award for most in shape community also and I'm sure you can't get any kind of health award like that if you have worms." He then made sure blueblood was strapped in securely to the chariot before starting to flap his wing to take off for the sky. A question then crossed him mind.
"Since when are you scared of birds anyway? You play with Philomena all the time when you visit here."Green asked.
"Thats because Philomena is a tamed bird not a wild one and I know its easy for you to say how sweet things will be since you've made no enemies."replied Blueblood with a pout on his muzzle.
"You're not even going to live near that Rarity mare and shes the only pony you ticked off. Why do you think the others will dislike you,the great nephew of Celestia?"Green Gust wanted his friend to at least try to be be positive throughout the ride.
"We're going to be living with one of Rarity's friends aren't we? She could have them all behave crude to me out of spite or just for their own twisted amusement! Especially whoever it is I'm going to be working for.There has got to be a law against this someplace." Blueblood pouted some more.
"Thats just you exaggerating the whole thing out of proportion again. Trust me its all in your head,your own aunt wouldn't send you out someplace that she thought you'd get mistreated,sick,injured,or killed. Plus she is the law so I'd think she'd know or not. Don't you remember what Celestia planned?"Green smiled at the memory.
"How could I forget?"Blue grumbled thinking back to what his auntie Celestia said.
_flash back 15 minutes ago
"Ponyville. I'm going to have you and green gust live with one of my most trusted pupils named Twilight Sparkle in the Ponyvile Library for 5 months. I've sent a letter already letting her know of your arriving"declared his one millennium year old aunt.
"But!Wha-Wha What am I suppose to do in such a place?"he ask although he knew no answer she gave,he'd agree to liking.
"You'll be doing the following as I've listed here"she then used he magic to lift a piece of numbered paper to him.
1" Work at Sweet Apple Acres every 3 days a week,Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday"
2" Help Twilight with her studies and organizing if she needs it 2 days a week on Thursday and Friday "
3" Make some new friends whenever you can"
4" Report all you've learned once every week either by Green Gust or Spike the Dragon who is also Twilight's friend."
"PS- Green Gust-Make sure he stays safe and out of danger but don't hover him. Some challenges he'll have to take on his own."
"What do you mean by take on challenges on my own?"Prince Blueblood asked.
"You'll know when the moment comes but don't worry my nephew,I think you'll come out alright in the long run of things."was her only reply before she sat up and flew out the door.
End flash back
"I do suppose she could of been a bit more clear with that last part but I'm sure she knows you'll be ok for the most part. Things could even be fun if you stay positive and take a nap to relax yourself before we get there."Green Gust told him
"I really hope your right "said blueblood as he started to drift of against the breeze wind of the ride.
Mean while somewhere in sweet apple acres
"So your saying that Princess Celestia's nephew blueblood is gonna be working here for 5 months?"questioned applejack
"Thats what the letter told me. He'll be living with me though so you won't have to worry about making a new room for him." Twilight replied
"Well thats good in all but I reckon I'll have to deal with a lot of complaining either way if I remember him right from the Gala."said Applejack
Applejack could be patient with most new ponies that had a bit of trouble but constant complainers,who did nothing for themselves made her loose her temper faster then she'd like to admit. The prince complained about her food when he was at her booth from what she remembered. The way he fainted from a little messy caked coat told her,he was one of those germ phobia things that Twilight once told her about. He'd seemed like the colt version of Rarity to her only lazier and pickier. She wouldn't treat him unfairly for any of that stuff but she wouldn't go easy on him either.
"He was a pansy from what I remember and even though hes Celestia's nephew I don't plan on letting getting away with not respecting my farm."the cowpony informed twilight.
"She told me hes mostly decent but just needs to learn some better work ethics.After the gala,Celestia realized how bad his social skills with non-rich ponies has become also,but I can handle that part. Since his parents have him enter a lot of those Mr.pony Universe Contests and had part time tracker duty with the guards for a of them is his only friend,haven't helped either."Twilight explained
"What the hay is tracker duty?"asked Applejack.
"From what I've read its a job for ponies with advance tracking magic skills.They detect and search for wanted criminals or missing ponies,pets,etc. I think I'll ask him about it more when he gets here. Maybe he'll be helpful since you could use a helping hoof around the farm now." said Twilight.
Last week Red Delicious got 2 of his legs broken and a head cold from hang-gliding into a lake on a dare by Scootaloo. He'd be in the hospital for a while and was the the second strongest to Big Macintosh with plowing the fields.Part time workers like Caramel and his brother Clover were good also when they came on time but Caramel's forgetfulness and Clover's dozing off mid work,could be a hassle.
Blueblood is sitting in the center of his castle about to eat a giant salad. Its got all the toppings anypony could dream of for a salad, low fat of course. "How did you find this for me?" Blueblood asked his parents.
"Oh, it was nothing for you dear, just make sure you don't eat to much or we can't enter you in the next pony universe contest" his mother told him.
"I'm going to miss you both a lot while at that gross farm place. "blueblood confessed..
"We'll miss you too my colt but remember something alright? "said his dad..
"Yes father?" he asked.
"No matter what happens you should just look into your mirror for your-INCOMING DUDE!'.
"What?"
LOOK OUT! LOOK OUT!*wakes*
Outside Blueblood's dream.
Blueblood opened his eyes just in time to see a rainbow maned and blue-feathered blur strike his chariot. A large red ball struck Green Gust in the head a second later, sending all three falling straight to the ground.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" screamed all three as they fell.
"I'm to young to die like this, I'm still a virgin! "Cried the prince
Luckily for all of them, Green Gust was able to rotate them just enough to land them into a conveniently abandoned hay cart. Not very soft hay but good enough to save them from severe injury of any kind.
The blue pony with a rainbow mane recovered first rubbing her head from the sudden impact to it. She was so busy trying to catch the ball,she hadn't seen what she had flown into until the last second.
"Way to embarrass yourself in front of new ponies rainbow."she thought to herself.
Looking over at who she bumped into, she noticed one looked oddly like that prince unicorn guy, whom rarity kept "complaining not whining" about to. What was his name? Bluebeans or Bluebass? Whatever it was she'd think of it later. Right now she should probably be apologizing to them since they were waking up now. She floated over to help them up.
"Uh, excuse me. "she chuckled
"No problem but what was that-"Green Gust was cut off by a now very ticked off prince.
"What the hay is your dumb ass problem! "Blueblood screamed.
It was bad enough he had to work somewhere he did not want to be,while in a place he didn't want to go but now he couldn't even enjoy his own peaceful dreams.
"Hey, it was just an accident no need to act like a jackass about it!"The blue pegasus yelled back.
She knew he had a right to be a be a bit mad but he didn't need to be jerk and call her names. The stallion unicorn looked ready to give a nasty comeback but his friend interrupted him first.
"I'm sure she was to busy chasing whatever the hay hit me in the face to notice us blue."Said Green Gust
That hit to the head had given Green Gust a headache and all this yelling was not helping him or anypony.
"Oh, I'm sorry about that green dude that was my bad."said a new voice.
All three turn around to see 2 new ponies approaching them. One a light bubble gum pink earth mare with light blue eyes, a medium length curly matted mane.She was bouncing toward them with a wide grin that was somewhat freaky. Trotting in step with her hops was a slightly darker raspberry pink earth stallion with a short faint pink/white mane.He had a sideways baseball cap and relaxed expression on his face that reminded Blueblood of his "dear auntie" and her coat shade.
The dark pink stallion spoke first.
"Hi, I'm Slugger and you can probably guess I really love baseball, which is what me and rainbow dash here were playing. I kind of hit the ball a little to far off field and rainbow dash was trying to get it. "He explained.
"Its ok, no one got killed so it's not that bad, right blue? "asked green gust
*sighs*"He's got a point so alright for now."was Blueblood's mumbled reply.
"Yeah, he smacked the ball like bam, and I was in the crowd going go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go! Then rainbow dash went flying extra fast like a bat on chili peppers! So me and slugger went to see where she went. Slugger saw you guys in time to scream "Look out dude!". That crash looked like hurt huh? I'm pinkie pie by the way. Who are you?. said the pink mare.
It amazed both Green Gust and Blueblood, that a pony could describe so much without pausing even once for a breath. They wondered just how much coffee and candy this pony must consume in a day. He had to admit though her bubbly presence and Slugger's relaxed demeanor amused Blueblood a bit and he felt slightly less tense for some reason."Its best I get the making new friends thing out the way now even if this pink filly's smile is freaking me out."though prince Blueblood.
"Hello, my name is Prince Blueblood, this is my friend and guard Green Gust." Blueblood introduced
"Nice to meet you all, though I wish it didn't have to be by crashing and screaming though."said Green Gust
"I'm rainbow dash and welcome to the center of ponyville" said rainbow dash with a grin.
"Wow, are you really a prince dude?" asked Slugger
"Yes"Said the prince.
"I hear being a prince is really fun! What do princes do all day? Do they fight dragons, ride flying sharks and have parties all day?" asked pinkie pie
"I'm not sure about the sharks or parties all day but I know the dragon part is mostly left up to knights, not certain princes like me. "said Blueblood. "Wait, are there really flying sharks around here? Are those even real? I hope I don't run into any."he thought. Despite his now worry of flying killer sea beasts he trained himself not to show his panic on the outside. All royals know how to keep a poker face in the presence of common folks.
"Pinkie, there's no such thing as flying sharks. I've been flying around these skies long enough to be sure." said rainbow dash
"So, what are you 2 guys doing over here?" asked slugger. He didn't know much about royal ponies but he knew a lot of them tended to stay in there own area leagues, so to speak.
"Celestia sent us here so the prince could improve his work ethic and manners as well."explained Green Gust
"Not that I really need work on either mind you. "Blueblood grumbled.
"Anyway, we're looking for a unicorn named Twilight Sparkle any of you know where she lives? "Blueblood asked
"Yeah, she isn't to far from here. She lives in the town's library right over there. "Rainbow dash said
She lead Blueblood and Green Gust along with slugger, pinkie pie to Twilight's home. After a brief 10 minute walk and pinkie rambling about setting up a welcome to your first job party for the prince, they were there. It was the tallest tree in town it seemed. Not as bad Blueblood first imagined but the bees on the side of the roof somewhat worried him.
Slugger knocked on the door first.
*knock knock*
Twilight dudette, there is this prince guy and his guard friend here to see you!"slugger yelled.
"Wait just a minute please."Said a voice from the other side of the door. She at least sounded like a more polite pony to be around, from what Blueblood thought of her tone. A few second later, the door opened to reveal a lavender purple unicorn with a straight dark indigo mane that had one dark purple and one pink streak in her mane.
"Hello, I'm Twilight Sparkle and sorry to keep you waiting Prince Blueblood.I was making some last minute adjustments to you and your guard's room. I hope you both like it. She said.
She noticed he seemed to have a bad scratch on his ear.
"How did you get that scratch on your ear if you don't me asking? "Twilight asked
"There's a scratch? It must of been from when the chariot crashed, now I'm going to get some type of ear infection. I just know it!"he whined.
"Don't worry, I've got plenty bandages in my emergency kit. Come inside and I'll take you to your new room."Twilight said.
The first thing inside that,Green Gust noticed was a small green and purple dragon on the top of a very high ladder. It seemed to be shuffling books around.It seemed like a friendly looking creature. Him and Blueblood once found a dragon's nest while playing hide and seek so both were familiar with what they looked like.
"Hey, spike! Come down to say hello to our guests and one needs a bandage. "Twilight called to him.
"That's Spike,hes a baby dragon as well as both my friend and assistant for me in this library." She told them.
Spike walked over to them with a pretty neutral look on his face.Prince Blueblood would of almost peg this dragon oddly friendly except there was a slight mad glint in his eyes as he looked in his direction as he forced a friendly face. A look like, he had something nasty to say to him in particular but was holding his tongue.
"Welcome and here's your bandage prince blueblood."said spike as he simply tossed the bandage. He knew he'd get scolded for not waiting for the prince to take it later on but he didn't feel like being friendly to a pony that made rarity so upset.
Blueblood didn't expect spike to wait in giving him the bandage sure, since he seemed busy but why did he say prince funny and pause like that while saying his name? It was as if he was holding a grudge over something when they just meet now. He noticed twilight's slight glare at spike and her apologetic look to him.
"I'm sorry about spike, he's a bit upset he has to share a room.Plus when he heard the pony that made rarity upset was staying over, well he didn't get any happier." Twilight told him
Blueblood gave green gust a look that said: "I told you something like this would happen."
"I never meant to make your friend rarity, so upset on purpose honestly. She didn't speak to me much other then introducing herself and said nothing much after other then her owning a clothing line. I was kind of hoping even if she told her friends here about it they'd all, along with her would of gotten over it by now."the prince said truthfully
"Well I and everyone here care for each other like family and when something makes one of us feel bad,we all do for a little.After she told us though, some stayed upset slightly longer then others. It mostly just spike and rarity herself though so you don't have to worry to much. I just hope you'll try to be more helpful here with me then you were at the gala with rarity. I know its not my place to tell you what your own title means."Twilight said
"Give, me some credit I've got a cutie mark for my position. I know my own title thank you. "Blueblood replied
"I'll be here to make sure he honors it so no worries "said green gust beside him. -------The next day----
After a short meal of cucumbers and cabbage the now 3 ponies plus spike, took a 25 minute walk to Blueblood first working say the sight of a dirty farm up close made Blueblood queasy would be an understatement.
"Applejack should be around here someplace. I told here you were coming here." twilight said.
"Yeehaa!"yelled a southern voice up ahead of them.Prince Blueblood notice an earth pony running to a large tree in the distance before kicking it. Apples fell around her and into what looked like 4 large buckets.
"That sounds like applejack over there "Twilight said. She then waved the earth pony over to them.
Getting a better look at her there was something familiar he couldn't put his hoof on about her. She was an inch taller then twilight, with an orange coat, a long light yellow mane, green eyes, and six freckles. Ponies in his society would look at such facial marking as disgusting and one part of him wanted to believe this was so here but how they almost touched her eyes when she smiled over at twilight, made him dare call them adorable somewhere in his head.He sure as hell going to say that out loud though.
"Howdy, there prince blueblood, I'm applejack and I'm going to be your new boss for the next few months." applejack greeted.
He wasn't sure why because he knew it was just his mind giving him a sense of false security but now things seemed like they wouldn't be so bad.It didn't last long with his worries kicking him in the back of his mind. "I'm probably going to be stuck doing the dirtiest job here first" he thought to himself.
"Your first task, for today will be plowing the fields "applejack said.
"Dam it!"Blueblood said under his breath. He hated being right sometimes ___________________________________________________________________________________
Sweet apple acres was no larger than any other orchard in equestria but for anypony no matter how experienced they were, the job of plowing a field here could be a very tiring job. For a prince with very little experience with this particular type of task, it was even more tedious. Not that Prince Blueblood was completely alone. Applejack was nice enough to have one of her other part-time workers attempt to show Blueblood how to plow. Now the problem wasn't Blueblood himself but the helper he was stuck with, by the name of Caramel.
"Now I think for today we're suppose to comb the corn field.Then again I might of done this one already so maybe it was the field over by the crab apples,but again I could be thinking of the golden delicious apple's field."said Caramel
Blueblood found Caramel's mane style terribly ugly but he was at least nice some form nice company what with Green Gust not there. Like his name suggested, he had a caramel colored coat and a toffee brown mullet with a split front. He had 3 blue horseshoes as a cutie mark. Only bad thing about him was that he seemed to either forget or lose track of things that you'd think he'd remember. They had been walking around for ten minutes now just trying to find extra plows. Luckily, his twin brother Cherry Coke helped them find both find the blows and some things called horse collars but now they were stuck at where to even begin.
"I know I'm new to all this but don't most things like this have a duty list?" Blueblood asked
Cheery Coke suddenly ran up to them.
"You left your schedule in the barn Caramel, here you go. "said Cherry Coke.
"Thank you very much cherry coke."replied Caramel as he checked the list.
"Do I really have to do all these dirty fields myself?" the prince asked.
"I'm tired of just standing around this messy farm. Sure it's trees are nice to look at but the muddy smell here is no doubt going to stick to my fur. Maybe its just a little reflex from my Beauty colt pageant coach's scolding when it comes to being near so much filth but this is uncomfortable. Green Gust said: "look at the bright side". The only good thing I can think about this is it'll be over in a few hours."Blueblood thought.
He want to voice some complaints but didn't want any bad news of his behavior to reach his aunts.He knew somepony would tattle and exaggerate what he did. After the gala many rumors where made that he actually bucked the mare he was with into the cake rather then just duck.Same might not happen here but he wouldn't take the chance.
"Of course you won't be doing all of this work yourself with me here! According to this you'll just be doing 2 fields to plow since your new, until you get used to this though you'll have a few to do a few errands to run for Applejack afterwards. "said Caramel
"Faaaantastic."said the prince sarcastically
"Ok, the schedule says: Plow the center field near the golden delicious trees, in a horizontal pattern."said Caramel
They only began for about 10 mins on the fields when blueblood's back started to complaining from the unfamiliar work pressure.
"This plow is kind of feeling heavy; these things don't come any lighter do they? "Blueblood asked.
"Is your back hurting already? Don't worry, this kind of thing hurts everypony on the first few days but eventually your mussels will grow use to it. Think of it as a free work out plan where you don't have to go to one of those scamming yoga/gym places spending 60 bits just to use the equipment."Caramel replied
Even though green gust nor any other pony dared utter it in front of him, Blueblood knew that he'd somewhat let himself go in the last month. Not like the size of a Ursa major big but Celestia's guest room bed was a little more bent then when he first started using it. How couldn't he be to mad about something getting him back to top princely shape and for free to top it off.
"I didn't think about it that way but I guess that'll kinda make getting a bit dirty worth it. "the prince agreed
"It definitely will be pal "said Caramel
"Pal? I guess working together with Caramel kind of makes him another "friend "of sorts I've made here in just ponies here seem pretty quick to want to be friendly, minus that dragon. As nice as that is I hope all my friend making is over for today."Blueblood thought.
It took them 30 minutes and a few redoes but the fields were looking pretty good by farm standards. Now it was time for a snack break. Applejack had a salad with apple slices for blueblood and a slice of apple pie for Caramel.
"Eat up boys, y'all did a good job today out do say?" said Applejack
"Thanks Applejack "said Caramel
Blueblood just stared at the food for a moment not sure if the apples in his salad would hurt his diet. Despite being able to exercise it off he was unsure. He always had a thing about avoiding things that were to sweet out of habit from being in so many pageants.That and the last apple he'd ever eaten as little colt had such a nasty waxy taste to it.
"Something wrong there sugar cube?" Applejack asked
"Yes, can I have a salad with less apples? My modeling dietitian says apples are to fattening a fruit for me." blueblood said.
Applejack didn't know what to say to such an odd comment though she'd guessed this guy didn't know much about how farms worked to begin with. Kind of made sense that he would not know a lot about the type of foods regular ponies commonly.Her uncle and aunt orange's rich friends didn't even know what a rooster was after all.It was still insulting non the less. She kept her temper but sent him a slight glare as she spoke.
"Is that why you spat out my apple fritters at the Gala? I don't know what kinda fancy doc you've been talking to but I can tell you for a fact apples are the least fattening fruit you'll ever eat.Our apples are grown the right way unlike those weird farms that try and play Celestia by creating quicker growing fruits.Here at sweet apple acres, we keep our fruit clean and healthy the natural way.Plus unless you tried to eat your own weight in it,you won't get sick from anything here."she explained
Prince blueblood wanted to say something for the sake of arguing but he knew there was nothing to say. She was the farm pony here after all,so he had to trust that she must know what she was talking about.
"Since when did farms make weird quick growing fruits?If I ever become a ruler king of someplace I'll have somepony look into that"he thought
Wordlessly, he used his magic to lift a bit of the apple slice wrapped in cabbage leaf to his mouth and took a little nibble with eyes closed. To his surprise, it had a slight honey sweet taste to it and crispy crunch. The leaf was also quite nice and like Applejack said, he could taste this was healthy. Before he even realized it he'd eaten the entire dish but still had a bad taste in mouth for his comment to Applejack.
"That was very tasty and I want to say sorry for what I said before Ms.Applejack." Blueblood apologized
"No need to be so formal or apologize sugar cube, just call me applejack or AJ if you wanna."Applejack smiled proud as she said this.
"What kinds of apples were in that salad? "asked the unicorn
"Oh, those are called Honey Crisp. Here we have almost an A to Z of apples. Though my brother Big Macintosh takes most account on what they are, along with they other crops and the financial stuff. That reminds me, I need somepony to get the watermelon seeds from my friend fluttershy and give her some carrot seeds.Could you go get them for me Blueblood?" AJ said still smiling
Blueblood wasn't sure why but the way her freckles moves close to her eyes when she smiled was kinda cute.Shaking off the random thought,he answered her calmly.
"I guess I could do that for you since its part of my magic gifts to track and I haven't done that in a while now." Blueblood said
"Oh, can I come with you? "asked Caramel
"Sure, why not?" agreed the prince unicorn
Somewhere near fluttershy's place
It took a few minutes since he was pretty rusty at it but he was able to get the location path for fluttershy using his magic. They were half way there when Blueblood heard a familiar yell from above.
"GET BACK HERE WITH MY TAIL COWARDLY COLT!"screamed a very mad and sure enough a tailless Rainbow Dash seemed to be chasing some pony through the near by forest.
Looking closer they saw she was chasing a dark slate blue unicorn stallion with a wavy baby blue and white mane. He was using a teleporting spelling to get out the way just before she could get close enough.
"Fly, fly as fast as you can, none can catch the prank king Pokey pierce! Hahahahaha!"The self-titled prank king cackled as he dropped her tail hair and teleported somewhere into the distance.Rainbow hugged her now very dirty cut tail hair with frustration with rage clear on her face.
"That pranking dweeb is going to really get a flank kicking from me one of these days."complained rainbow dash before flying off.
"What was that all about?" Blueblood questioned Caramel
"That's one of Ponyville's top prankers next to Pinkie pie and Rainbow dash. He loves playing pranks on whomever he can every few weeks. They can be particularly mean sometimes though and lately he's been aiming at Rainbow Dash with some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why, but its like he just likes getting her the most angry lately. "Caramel explained with a shrug
After that little episode, they kept walking for a few minutes before making it to a comfy looking little cottage with animals all over and corralled in spacious fences.They could hear a soft singing voice with in the building as they got closer.
"In the forest, the quiet forest the baby raccoon sleeps snug and tight.
"In the for forest, the quite forest the baby raccoon sleeps alright.
"Laaaaaa, La La La La,
"Oh, it rests it cares away.
"Laaaaa,La La La La
"Oh,it naps most of the day.
It was a very beautiful voice.
"Fluttershy must be home now" Caramel told the prince with a goofy look on the earth pony's face.
The look made Prince Blueblood think of himself when he use to sneak mom's chocolate cookies and then eat to many."Is he sick or something?"thought Blueblood. He then knocked on the door and a few seconds later, the owner of the pretty singing voice appeared slowly peeking her head through the door.
She was a pegasus like Rainbow dash, with a yellow coat, strong cyan colored eyes, and a light pink long mane that almost touched her front legs.It seemed kind of like she was using the door to hide herself for some reason.
"Wh-Who are you? "she asked in a quite voice while looking at blueblood with an unsure look on her face and a slight shiver in her stance. She seemed almost frightened of his presence and that's not usually most fillies reaction to meeting him.
"Why is she shaking? Do I look scary suddenly or something?"Blueblood wondered.
Seeing the confused look on his face, Caramel whispered in his ear."She tends to be really shy around ponies she doesn't really know well. "he told the prince. Caramel then stepped in front of Blueblood a bit so Fluttershy could see him.
"Hi there Fluttershy, its me Caramel. This is Applejack's new worker Prince Blueblood. I came with him to get those pumpkin seeds. "Caramel said.
"Don't you mean watermelon seeds?" Blueblood corrected
The shy pony in the door suddenly gave a surprise-greeting hug to Caramel. "Hi Caramel,I haven't seen you since when you pulled me and friends back from Canterlot." Fluttershy said now with a small smile on her face.
"Great another pony with mood swings like rarity. I wonder how many ponies here have split personalities like this? At least this one seems to have positive ones and seems pretty friendly too. "the prince thought. Not one to like being ignored too long, he decided to speak up now that the shy pony seemed less shy.
"We came here to pick up some watermelon seeds not pumpkin, and deliver you some carrot seeds in return." blueblood explained.
"Oh, ok then I've got them somewhere in the back. Can you two wait here for a second if that ok with you?" Fluttershy asked
With a yes nod from both, the yellow pegasus flew back inside. The prince noticed that Caramel seemed grinning wide for some reason and starring at the Fluttershy's door as like lost puppy.
"Caramel are you ok? Equestria to Caramel do you read me?" blueblood asked while waving his hoof in the light brown pony's face. There was no response for a moment till a little white ball of fuzz hopped between his front legs and bit him on the wrist.
"AHH! What the hay kind of hello is that Angel! "Caramel now out of his trance, questioned the bad white bunny.
"Eww, that's a nasty little creat-ouch! "Blueblood wasn't able to finish his comment when the little rodent seized his own royal shin with it's little nasty teeth.
"Oh my goodness stop that right now! Bad Angel bunny, you know better then to bite guests like that.Let go of them right now little mister."A now present Fluttershy scolded it. It didn't seem to want to obey until she gave it a surprisingly intimidating gaze. This made it back down and rush into the bushes from whence it came.
"I'm really sorry about Angel; he's been acting strangely more aggressive to ponies lately. "she apologized.
"I won't get an infection from that things bite, will I"? Blueblood asked.
"No, you don't have to worry about that. I make sure no animals here that I look after carry viruses or something nasty contagious.That's part of my job as an animal caretaker here. Here are your seeds, I'm sorry again about Angel." Fluttershy said with a sad face.
"As long as I'm not getting sick, I'm fine so its quite alright fluttershy."said the white unicorn.
After dropping off the seeds to Applejack and finishing the plowing with Caramel,Blueblood felt too exhausted to do much else then nap for the next 8 hours.
Back at Twilight's place
"How was your first day of work Prince Blueblood? "Twilight asked, as he came through the door.
"Yeah, I'm gonna need a report on your first day to fly to Princess Celestia"said Green Gust from above the guest room door.
"It was tiring and I got bit by a little demon rabbit but you were right about it not being as nasty as I imagined in my head. I even like apples now a bit better then before. The company of some of the ponies here is kind of entertaining. "Blueblood said while thinking of how Rainbow dash chased around that nutty prank king pony.
"Ok, I'll have that all written down as soon as I'm done with my own report."Twilght said.
With his first day over the only real worry he found himself thinking, was if he'd wake up in the morning with his mane.He didn't want to be this pokey pierce prankster's next victim. _________________________________________________________________________________________________
A fancy meeting( Read author notes before commenting)
Aside from waking up once in the middle the night screaming that pokey was shaving him, nothing to troublesome had happened to the prince. His mane was all their and so was his tail. Despite what Green Gust said about them not planning anything sinister while he stayed,he had a little itch of paranoia that something bad was going happened if he got comfy.
After choking down some rather overcooked eggs courtesy of spike,Blueblood found himself standing under an apple tree with a big red earth pony known as applejack's brother Big macintosh or Big mac for short. He was suppose to show him how to buck apples and bake an apple pie.Unlike with caramel,big macintosh remembered to bring a list of what areas to buck for the day and even though it wasn't a complex task it was a bit tiring after just a few trees.
Can't I just use my magic to get them down? I know I don't have as much magic as Twilight but I could definitely get most of the apples off one tree at a time if I tried."Blueblood asked "Eenope,sorry partner but your guard told me you had to do things the same way we do here by the princess's orders and that means the traditional apple family way."replied the Big mac. Unlike his sister big macintosh had never really traveled to any major places outside ponyville or at least not any big cities. He'd seen pictures,read books about them of course and listened to the adventures of his sister and her friends when they came back from such quests to places like them. Since prince blueblood was a city pony he wanted to know how it was like living in one from him,plus talking might make the prince less irritated. He lined some more buckets around the trees they'd buck next as he talked.
"So what's living in Canterlot like?"Big mac decided to ask first. Prince Blueblood found the question random but since he had nothing better to do other then this dull and tiresome bucking he thought he might as well pass the time with talking.
"Well I don't actually live there but its a nice enough place to visit.I'm actually from a big city in Delimare. Its so big there its pretty easy to get lost even if you lived there for years. I've always been good at finding where I've been so its never been to much of a problem.Compared to here though the nights can be a bit loud with all that goes on at night."Blueblood said.
Suddenly a thought about something other then travel to the city entered big mac's mind.
"Do you think ponies in Delimare or Canterlot would like our apple? We pride ourselves on selling the best quality apples in Equestria but after nopony at the last gala bought any of our products we're not sure how expanding sells to other big cities might work out.Big Mac asked unsure.
"Well I do admit after trying them yesterday they're a lot better than I gave credit but if your talking about expanding to big cities then you need a famous endorser.Some high class ponies will and I've heard have worn perfume mixed with skunk odor if its endorsed by a well known big name."He replied.
"Do you know anypony who would want to or that's looking for something new to endorse?" asked big mac.
The prince paused from bucking his 8th tree to think about this question. He may not be genuine friends with the elites that he'd met but he knew they'd advertise just about anything they thought they could milk a bit more money off of. On the other hoof they also wouldn't take a chance on a product from such a place like ponyville. He knew before becoming a guard,Green Gust took up odd jobs advertising the products of companies that even though seemed silly or hardly heard of that later became popular like the snuzzle blanket and powdered juices with a creepy cup mascot. Helping advertise the apple family's apples might be both good for them and likely good in the eyes of his auntie in his next letter.
"I'm not 100% sure but I might be able to check with somepony I know and see it would be possible."the prince finally said. "Thanks! I know you don't wanna be here but we really would appreciate it."said Big Macintosh with a smile.
The smile like with applejack reached his freckles and the genuine joy to it made him feel happy but for a different reason he couldn't pin with applejack. Big Macintosh's reminded him of the time Green Gust burst through his window at 6 in the morning while wearing his uniform for the the first time to tell him that he was just recently sworn into the guard while cackling like an excited school filly. The rest of the day was mostly Big Macintosh and Prince Blueblood swapping their cutie mark stories and before either one knew it,it was time to leave.
The day wasn't over but Prince blueblood felt like just resting his hooves up on his favorite pillows that he brought with him and taking a little cat nap.Unfortunately for him the fates had other plans in mind for the day as he opened the door to the library.
"SURPRISE! A pair of surprisingly strong pink fore hooves suddenly pulled him into the library with a dozens of random ponies from around town inside already.He had forgotten about her mentioning throwing him a party at some point and he didn't really feel like talking to any new ponies right now.
"Welcome to your belated welcome party! I even invited some of the ponies you've already made friends with."Pinkie said as she pointed to the punch table where applejack,fluttershy,slugger,and caramel all stood to talk.
At least it seemed Applejack and fluttershy were talking while slugger spun a ball on a bat and caramel was once again looking at fluttershy hidden behind slugger with that odd look again. It was neither of these things that caught his attention as much as the off white mare with a familiar curly purple mane behind the table seeming to try to avoid looking at him and pretending to drink a clearly empty cup of juice.
I don't mind if you want to change the concept of how the the story goes either. I'd just like to see this pairing idea be done in a creative way. I also wanna thank all those who showed this story so much interest,I really do feel bad this wasn't something I could finish myself for those who added this story to your favorites and commented on my errors. For those who added me to their watch because they wanted to see other stories from me,I do have a story idea I plan to think on that may turn out good if I can think it through well enough.
