I finally made it. Ponyville, a nice place according to some of my friends in Cloudsdale. It took me such a long time to fly here because of all my luggage was weighing me down somewhat. I decided to move to Ponyville for some peace. I landed, and being that I knew nothing of the place, I asked the nearest pony I could; a gray coated pegasus mare with a blonde mane with seven bubbles as her cutie mark.
“Hi there, My name is Thunder Roller, I’m new here and I was wondering if you know where I can find and buy a house here?” I asked. I was a pegasus, as is probably obvious, from Cloudsdale with a brown coat and a black mane, my cutie mark a game controller. It was getting late and I needed a place stay for the night or get a house to stay.
The blonde pegasus looked over towards me and smiled. “Yeah,” said the gray-coated blonde-maned pegasus with . “You’re gonna want to go to Town Hall, it’s down the street and to the left.” Though I have met many ponies on the move from Cloudsdale to Ponyville, this one mare seemed unique. And not because she has a wall-eyed stare.
“Thanks,” I said.
“Wait, did you say that you are new here?” she asked.
“Yes, I did,” I replied. “
Well,” said the blonde pegasus. “Let me be the first to say welcome to Ponyville. I’m Derpy Hooves by the way, but my friends call me Derpy. So where are you moving from?” she asked.
“How did you know I was moving?” I asked. I was kind of surprised that Derpy knew I moved here recently. Derpy then pointed her hoof at the four bags of luggage behind me, and I knew it was obvious from there.
“Oh right,” I said, rubbing the back of my head with my right fore hoof. “Well I’m moving here from Cloudsdale.” I then added. “Cloudsdale is cool but it’s too noisy,” she said.
Something must have kicked in my mind then because I remembered something; I needed to find somewhere to stay and sleep. “Hey Derpy?” I asked. “Do you know where a hotel is or something close to that? I’m kind of tired from flying all day and it’s getting late.”
She looked at me and then my luggage and said, “Yeah, just grab your stuff and follow me.” I grabbed my luggage and started walking with Derpy to somewhere. After a few minutes of walking, we came to stop at a house. It was a quaint little home, with a door that had a muffin-shaped window on it.
“Whose place is this?” I asked, wondering why we stopped.
“This is my house,” she said. She then added, “You can stay here for the night.” Thanking her for letting me stay, I walked in with my things and set them next to a couch.
“So, where do I sleep?” I asked. She pointed to another couch in the living room.
“I’ll get you a few blankets and a pillow,” she said as she walked upstairs.
“One blanket will be enough I’m sure,” I said. “It gets pretty cold here in Ponyville sometimes,” she replied. “So just take these blankets in case you get cold.” I then thought, ‘she’s got a point there.’
I took the blankets and the pillow and laid them down on the couch. She went back upstairs. And by the way she’s walking on the hardwood floor upstairs, she sounds like she’s ready to hit the hay as well. I got into the makeshift bed and began drifting off to sleep.
I woke up to the smell of good food. I thought to myself, ‘What’s that delicious smell?’ I get up with a yawn and and my wings start flapping towards the smell, leaving my muzzle sniffing in the air. When I got to the kitchen I saw Derpy baking something.
“What are you making Derpy?” I asked.
“I’m making muffin-flavored muffins,” She replied.
I stared at her with a confused look. “But don’t muffins taste like muffins already?” I asked.
“That’s not what I meant,” she replied. “Come here and look.”
I walked over to where the oven is and inside was something that made me even more confused. There were little tiny muffins ON the muffin itself.
“How did you-” I stopped myself because I think it’s more complicated to put it into words.
“Here, try one,” She says as she hands me a muffin and I take a bite of it.
“Mmmmmmmm,” I said aloud. “This is good, Derpy.” I finished the muffin and grabbed my stuff and began to head out to find a house. I then stopped and said, “Thanks letting me stay here Derpy. See you around.” I said.
“You’re welcome,” she replied. “And good luck, friend.”
‘Wow,’ I thought. She called me her friend and I barely knew her.
With that I headed to Town Hall with a smile on my face. Town Hall was a biggest building in town I'm guessing. When I got there I was greeted by a blue earth pony. This pony was wearing a vest with a name tag that read ‘Crystal’ on it.
“Hi there! Is there anything I can help you with today, sir?” she asked.
“Yes, I need to buy a house because I just moved here and I need a place to live.” As I say that she begins to look through some files and then says to me,
“Ah yes I have three houses for sale right now.” She turned back to a file cabinet and pulled out a map and marked three spots on the map. “Here are the houses that are for sale. Go check them out then come back when you have found the house you want,” She said.
“Thank you very much I will be back later today then.”
I said as I left the Town Hall and began my trek through town. I reached the first house. It’s near the middle of town and I think that it’s a pretty good house. I thought about buying this house but I still had two houses to look at.
So, I headed to the next house. This house looked like a river house on the edge of the Everfree Forest. From what I have heard since I got here a day ago, the Everfree Forest is a dark and mysterious place filled with evil creatures. I also heard, however, that a friendly zebra lives there.
I don’t want to live in river house anyway because it’s on the edge of town so this house is a no. And the other house is IN the forest so I wasn’t even going to bother with that house. It was still mid-day so I went to a restaurant to eat. After I was done eating I went back to Town Hall to get the house. Crystal sees me walk in.
“Welcome back, did you find a house you like?”
I checked back at the map she gave and then said, “Yes, I want the one that is near the middle of town.”
“Alright,” she replied. “That will be 1,250 bits.”
I checked my saddlebags and found the bits, but I also found that was all the money I had, which meant that I would have to find work to buy a bed. I sighed then gave the bits to the receptionist. She put the bits in a safe, then went into a backroom, then appeared minutes later she came out with a key.
“Here is the key to the house. Have a great day!” she then said as I walked out of the Town Hall and look around and decided that since it’ll be few hours until it gets dark, I would go take a walk around town.
As it began to get dark I headed to my new house. It was a two story house, so I might have somepony rent the bottom floor to help with rent since I don’t have any money. As I laid down for the night I began to think of what to do to get a job. But sleep took over and so I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep.
When I woke up it was a nice, peaceful morning. I could hear the birds chirping and the sun was shining. I went to the window and looked outside and saw that most of the town was still sleeping. I walked downstairs to the door and walked outside. ‘It was never this quiet in Cloudsdale,’ I thought to myself. Then I saw somepony walking out of their house. I decided to be a little friendly.
“Hello there.” I yelled. The pony looked over to me and saw me. When the pony got closer I could tell she was a mare. She started walking towards me, and I was able to get a good look at her. She had a white coat and a blue mane with neon blue highlights. She was also wearing a pair of purple shades. As for her cutie mark, it was a double note.
“I haven’t seen you before. Are you new here?” she asked.
I replied, “Yes, I am.”
She looked at me for a while and asked me, “Tell me, do you like music?”
I gave her a questioning look. “What kind of music?” She grinned then turned around back to her house.
“Wait here,” she said. She then continued back to her house, leaving me to think ‘Okay. What just happened?’ About five minutes later she came back out the door with what looked like a big stereo.
There were four little speakers on the corners of one big speaker in the middle with a red button on the top of it. She smacked the red button and the big speaker split into three directions. A blue charge filled the middle of the speaker and then it fired a big blue beam at me. I jumped out of the way of the beam. She fired another one and I barely dodged it. ‘Is she trying to kill me?’ I thought to myself in what seemed to be certain doom for me.
“Stand still, it wont hurt you. I promise.” She yelled. I sighed, I have trust issues with certain ponies, but I will try and trust her. So I stood still and waited. She fires one more beam a me and I brace for what is coming. When it hit me all I could hear was dubstep, and it was pretty good dubstep. So I embraced the music.
When it was over I felt good, she walked up to me and said, “Whoa, you’re the first one to ever withstand the force of my bass cannon. Most ponies just fall over but you, you just stood there not even flinching. Are you ok?” she asked.
I started to grin wildly. My head suddenly popped with questions. “Yeah I’m better than okay! that was incredible! I have never experienced music like that before! how did you manage to do that!? And what is that anyway!?” I asked excitedly.
She smiled at me, and laughed at all the questions. “It’s a bass cannon. I made it myself.” she said. “Hey listen, sorry I didn’t tell you what I was doing. I should have got you prepared for what was coming.” she said. “By the way, my name is Vinyl Scratch. I’m the town’s DJ. But just call me Vinyl. Here, come by the house later this evening.” she said. “Alright then, I will see you later.” I said.
As I wave Vinyl goodbye, I head into town to hopefully find a job or some work to buy a bed. I reach the busy part of town fairly quickly considering that I live near the middle of town. I start looking for ‘help wanted’ signs.
Twenty minutes pass by as I look for the sign and then I see one. It’s a flyer for work. It says they need a pony with strong legs… The rest of it was smudged. so I take the flyer to Sweet Apple Acres, which is where the flyer said to go. When I got there, I was greeted by an orange earth pony with a blonde mane and three red apples for cutie mark. “
Howdy sir, is there something you need.” She asked. “
Yes I saw your ‘help wanted’ flyer and wondered what I would be doing for work.” I replied
She gave me a puzzled look and takes a look at the flyer. “I didn't make this sign. But I sure could use somepony’s help tomorrow for Applebuck Season though.”
I asked, “What’s Applebuck Season?”
She looked at me wide-eyed. “How do you not know what Applebuck Season is? … Actually, now that I’m thinking about it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you round here before. Are you new to Ponyville?”
I wonder how many times I’m gonna be asked that today? “Yes, I actually just moved here. I got here yesterday., bought a house, now with no money left, I was looking for work so I could get some bits and now, here I am."
She looks at me with what looked like she was going to burst. “Oh, well then howdy! I’m Applejack, and since you asked; Applebuck Season is time for bucking the apples off of apple trees, and when I said I didn’t make this sign, I meant my friend Pinkie Pie was trying to help out so she put signs all around town asking for help with tommorow.” I
look around at the big orchard around me. There must have been thousands of rows of trees and they expected to get all of THAT done tomorrow. “How do you expect to get all the apples down by the end of the day? And many ponies are gonna be helping?” She took a minute to think about it.
“Well mostly with the help of my friends, we managed to get the the apples down lickety split.” She said.
That’s a word I’ve never heard before. “How long do you think it took?” I asked, giving her a questioning look.
“Are you calling me a liar? ‘cause if you are then you’re wrong, I’m the Element of Honesty for cryin out loud!” She sounded a bit angry, which also scared me a bit.
“The Element of what now?” I ask curiously with fear. She gave me the most questioning of looks and then started laughing uncontrollably.
“You don’t know about the Elements of Harmony?” she asked as she continued to laugh.
“What’s so funny,” I asked, getting irritated.
“It’s not you sugarcube, it’s just that I ain’t heard of a pony who don’t know about the Elements.” She stopped her laughing and tried to take control of herself. “So you’ve never heard about the Elements huh, well I don't know much about ‘em but Twilight will probably know. She lives in a library in the middle of town, looks like a big tree that’s impossible to miss. Go see her and ask her to catch you up on what the Elements are. Twilight loves questions.”
Well I guess I’m going to the library. Applejack stopped me as I begin to leave. “Hold up, I never did catch your name,” she said.
Oh right, why am I so rude. “My name is Thunder Roller.”
I made it to the library and was astounded at the big tree in front of me. How somepony could live in there? I asked myself. I walked up to the door and right I as I was about to knock, somepony opened it and I accidentally hit a purple unicorn mare in the face.
“Oh my gosh! Are you okay?” I asked the purple mare with concern.
“Yes, I’m alright. Why’d you hit me, though?” she asked.
I looked at her face just in case she was hurt, and I noticed that she was an Alicorn! I stared at her for a while then she looked to me.
“Why are you staring at me like that?” she asked agian.
I was too lost in thought to hear her. ‘Is she a princess?’ I thought. ‘Did I hit a princess in the face? Am I gonna be thrown into the Ponyville Jail if they even have one. Wow I feel horri-’ My thoughts were cut short with a whack. “Ow, what was that for.” Whatever hit me got me out of my thought.
She looked at me with a big smile on her face. “My name is Princess Twilight Sparkle, sorry that I just hit you in the back of the head with a pan. You were kinda weirding me out with you staring at me. Why were you staring at me anyway? And who are you?” It took a minute for me to understand what she was asking.
“I was staring at you because I’ve never seen an alicorn before. I'm really sorry for hitting you in the face, though. And my name is Thunder Roller, Please don't throw me in jail.” She looked at me and began to laugh. Why is she laughing?
“Now what kind of welcome would that be to a new pony. And no I'm not going to do that.” she said.
Relief filled my body. “So what brings you to Ponyville?” she asked.
“Well I had just recently moved here to get away from all of the noise of Cloudsdale.”
She nodded her head in agreement. “So what brings you to the library, do you want to check out a certain book?”
I was supposed to ask her something Applejack was talking about… Urg I can’t seem to remem- Wait the Elements of Harmony. “Actually, I was going to ask about the Elements of Harmony.” I think I surprised her with that question.
“What do you mean? You’ve never heard of the Elements?”
Was everypony supposed to know about them? “No I haven’t.” Why won’t she just tell me already?
“What do you want to know?” she asked.
I didn't know how to actually answer her question. “How much can you tell me?”
With that she started explaining the Elements. It was starting to get dark when she was done explaining and I remembered that I had to go meet Vinyl at her house.
“Thank you for your time and telling me all you can about the Elements of Harmony.” I said.
She smiled at me and said, “Glad I could help.” With that I head to Vinyl’s place.
It took about 15 minutes to get from Twilight’s house to Vinyl’s. The light was on and so I knocked. But It wasn’t Vinyl who answered. Instead, it was a gray earth mare with purple eyes and a hairpin note cutie mark. “Who are you?” I asked the mare.
“Question is who are you?” she asked back.
I thought only Vinyl lived here. “My name is Thunder Roller. Now yours.”
She blinked. “My name is Octavia Melody.”
Weird, now where have I heard that name before. I thought for a minute and remembered that I once saw her at a symphony.
“You look familiar, have we met somewhere?” she asked. Wow she took the words right out of my mouth.
“Yeah we meet at a symphony a while back. I think it was in Canterlot during the Grand Galloping Gala.” I said.
A smile crept onto her face. “Did you like the performance.”
Honestly I didn’t like it, but I didn’t want to hurt her feelings. “Yes, I enjoyed the performance very much.” I’m glad I made somepony happy but I can’t believe I lied to somepony either.
“So Vinyl told me to come by the house tonight to make up for shooting me with her bass cannon.” She had a disappointed look on her face.
“I told her not to do it.” she said.
SANDWICH, I thought suddenly.
“Anyway come inside, Vinyl’s working on some new music.” she added.
‘I wonder what music she’s working on,’. I went inside and saw vinyl at a desk with a computer and headphones on. She looked up from her laptop and saw me.
“Hey, you made it. Also you left without telling me your name.” she said.
‘Why do I keep forgetting to say my name to everypony?’ I thought. “My name is Thunder Roller. Probably should have told you that when I met you.” I chuckled. “So whatcha working on Vinyl?” I added.
She waved me to her laptop and put some headphones over my ears. Then she clicked a button and music began to play. The song started out with soft beats, then a heavy beat dropped which made my entire body shake. When it was over I took off the headphones, and just sat there. Honestly I think I might gone deaf for a minute or two because it looked like when Vinyl was trying to talk to me, all I saw was her lips moving, so I point to my ears and shook my head. It looks like she understood me and left me there. I could tell the sound was coming back when I heard a sneeze in the other room. "Bless you," I yelled.
"Thank you," said Octavia.
I could hear my stomach growling. I wonder if I'm eating here or at home. Octavia calls for Vinyl and I for dinner. Whatever the food was it smelt good. “Something in here smells good, what is it?” I asked Octavia.
“It’s Hay-fries with grilled cheese and daffodil sandwich.” she replied.
Mmmm, I thought to myself. We waited for Vinyl to come downstairs.
“Whatcha make Tavi.” Vinyl asked.
Octavia, obviously not too happy about the nickname, grunted before saying again, “Hay-fries with a grilled cheese and Daffodil sandwich.”
“Mmm, sounds good.” Vinyl replied.
We ate the amazingly tasty food in peace. After dinner, Vinyl wanted to show me something on her computer. So I go to her room upstairs. I think her room was super soundproof because before I opened the door I heard nothing, Then once it was open, a blast of sound and bass filled the hallway. She turned down the music and gestured me inside. I closed the door so the music could resume quietly. I then look out the window and looked at the view. She also came over to the window.
“Beautiful view, isn’t it?” she asked me. I could only nod as I looked out at Ponyville. “Do you like it here in Ponyville,” she added, looking at me.
“Great ponies here, even Tavi. Though she does tend to be a little uptight.”
At first, I wanted to protest. But then I realized that Vinyl’s probably been a roommate of Octavia’s for a while, while I just came here yesterday. After a moment or two, I realized I was dead tired. So I said my goodbyes to Vinyl and Octavia, thanking them for having me as a guest. I then headed home. As soon as I entered the house, I fell asleep on the floor.
‘Its another bright day again,’ I thought to myself. I got up and noticed it wasn't as late as I thought. It seemed to be the crack of dawn. I heard a knock at the door below. ‘Now who could that be,’ I wondered. I open the door and in front of me was a pony I didn't even know. “So, what’s up,” he said to me. “I heard about you from Vinyl. Says you’re pretty cool to hang around with.” I stand in the door staring at the complete stranger in front of me.
He was a light brown coated pegasus with a ruffled dark brown mane. He had brown eyes and freckles across his muzzle. Along with that, he wore a dark gray cargo vest and headsets were around his neck. His cutie mark, I noticed, was a heart with a hairpin note in the center of it.
"Hello? And who might you be?" I asked. He tilted his head, then his mouth opened as he realized something.
“Oh! Vinyl didn’t tell you about me, huh?” He asked. He then replied by saying, “I guess I shouldn’t have assumed there. Well, my name is Music Within us, But you can call me Ian.” He then came close and whispered, “That’s my real name. I’ll explain the details later.”
‘His real name what in the hay is he talking about?’ I thought. Before I could say anything, a cyan blue pegasus with a rainbow colored mane came out of nowhere and smashed into Ian. He got up and shook himself off and then he started laughing.
“Rainbow Dash, really!?” Ian asked. “Did you step into some poison joke again?" Rainbow Dash got back up on her hooves and laughed, saying back, “No. I just couldn’t stop fast enough.”
After a while, I started to laugh, because it was kind of funny that this mare-Rainbow Dash apparently crashed into Ian out of nowhere. "Who are you?" I asked.
"Who, me?” asked Rainbow Dash in response.
"Yes, you." I said. She stood there, slack-jawed, and so did Ian. "Am I missing something here?" I asked.
Ian nodded and Rainbow Dash told me, “Only Ponyville’s fastest flyer! And soon to be newest member of the Wonderbolts!" She said excitedly.
"If you crash into things like that, they might think twice." I stated smartly.
Rainbow Dash then looked at me angrily and exhaled through her nostrils, saying “You want to see me crash into things? Fine, then. How’s about I crash into you!” And as she’s about to charge me when Ian gets in between me and Dash.
He momentarily gets up on his rear hooves and holds out his fore hooves at RD, saying, “Whoa, take it easy. Here,” he says, taking his headsets of and putting them over RD’s ears. “Just listen to the music, and let it go.” He took out something plugged into the headsets from one of the pockets in his cargo vest and presses a button. Suddenly, RD stops flapping her wings as she calms down. She started to dance to it.
"How’d you do that?" I asked him as he put the device in his pocket.
He turned to me and said, “What, the calming RD thing?” he asked.
I nodded.
“I’ve been making music for a while, working with Vinyl and Octavia and all. I finally got them to work together and made the very music Dashie is dancing to. Plus, my music tends to also be soothing,” he added.
"Hey Ian, do you think that was a rude comment?” I asked. “Because I had this anger problem back in Cloudsdale, and I don’t want that to happen again. Do you think I should apologize?” I added.
He laughed and said, “Buck yes, I do. Had I not stepped in, she’d have probably sent you to the hospital."
I look away from Ian and watch in awe as the once angry Rainbow Dash started dancing to whatever was playing through those headphones. She stops dancing and takes the headphones off.
“Better?” Ian asked Rainbow Dash. Rainbow breathed in and nodded. “Good,” he said.
“Hey, Rainbow Dash? Look I'm sorry I was being mean, I didn't mean to say that remark earlier.” I said apologetically.
Rainbow Dash looked at me and said, “Nah, it’s okay. I tend to get angry easily, so it’s also partly my fault.”
I looked at both of them realizing I had no idea why they were here. "So why are you guys here?" I asked.
"Well I came to ask Music if he knows where this new pony is, I think his name was Thunder Rumbler or something like that." She said.
I had a twitch in my eye. “It's Thunder Roller,” I said.
“Wait do you know him?”asked Rainbow Dash.
“Know him? I am him!” I stated.
Ian heard the anger in my voice, and turned towards me, saying “Chill, bro. I think now you need some music.” He then took his headsets and put them on my ears. He took out the device, and pressed play.
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After the song ended I felt a bit more relaxed.
“Thanks Ian, I needed that.” I said.
He smiled, then replied, “No prob, bro.” Ian then asked, “Anyways, are you also going to help with the Apple bucking today?”
“Yes I am, that’s where I was about to go before you guys showed up.” I replied.
Rainbow got a look as if she remembered something. “Oh my gosh, I almost forgot, Applejack told me to tell everypony that’s helping to get on over to the farm, Pronto.” Rainbow said quickly. “I gotta go, catch up with you guys on the farm.” She added.
Ian turned to me and said, “Well, that was unexpected, but oh well. Anyways, I’ll go with you. I just need to go see this pony who has my new orchestra sample at the ready. Okay?” Ian asked.
“Sure.” I said.
“Awesome. Okay so, this dude told me to visit his music shop by the marketplace. Follow me,” he said, motioning his hoof for me to come along.
“Alright, lead the way.” I said.
So, he lead me to this music shop called ‘Beats and Strings and Pon-3, oh my!’ He trotted up to a stallion with a saddle bag of Records packed. “Hey, what’s up! Do you have my sample?” The stallion nodded and went behind the counter, pulling out a disc with the words “academy all-sample” written on the top in black marker. The stallion then put it in a disc case and handed it to Ian, who put it in his cargo vest. “Thanks, bro,” he said.
“What’s that,” I asked.
“The sample for my newest music. I think I’ll call it; Sounds of the Academy of Music.” he said.
That was an awesome title, I thought to myself. “We good to go to the farm?” I asked.
He looked at me and nodded. We then headed to the farm, where Applejack was handing everypony a bucket for the apples to go in. Ian took his and went up to the nearest tree to start bucking. I took mine and followed his example. “Ouch” I complained.
He stopped and came up to me, asking, “What happened?”
I replied with, “I think I hurt my leg or hoof or something.”
Ian then hands Applejack his bucket, helping me get to a spot to rest. He tells me to watch him as he walks up to a tree. He turns his tail towards it, gets in bucking stance, and kicks the tree the correct way. “You can’t just kick without getting into position first, otherwise you’re asking for a trip to the Ponyville hospital. Just saying.”
I stand up and walk to a tree, try to get in a stance, then I look to Ian and asked, “Is this right?”
He simply nods as apples fall into the bucket. I then prepare to buck the tree when something hits me in the head. “What the heck?” I looked down and saw an apple. ‘Did someone chuck an apple at me?’ I thought as I look around for who could have done it, but had no luck. I got back to bucking the tree correctly and got back in my stance and bucked the tree. It didn’t hurt this time and I managed to get half of the apples into the bucket. “Hey Ian, I did it.” I said happily.
“Great!” He replied.
I moved from tree to tree within minutes. It took about 2 hours for us to finish ¼ of the orchard. I was amazed at how much progress we made. Applejack called us in for a break which I needed because my legs felt sore. I go over to Ian who was sitting near the barn drinking some cider. “We got a lot done today didn’t we Ian.” I said.
He raised his left fore leg and wiped the sweat off his head. He then looked at me and replied, “Yeah. Haven’t worked this much since I had to vacuum the house once.”
That surprised me, because I’ve never heard of a ‘vacuum’.
He realized what he said, then sighed. “Okay,” He said. “I’m about to tell you something, but you have to promise - I mean the Pinkie Promise type promise - not to tell anypony. AJ already knows, so it’s okay to tell her.”
I started to get a little scared, because it sounded like this stallion was speaking gibberish and nonsense.
He then said, “I’m not from Equestria.”
I stared at him confused. “What’s a Pinkie Promise? And what do you mean you’re not from Equestria.” I asked Ian.
He face-hoofed in an odd fashion, the bottom of his hoof meeting his face. He then explained the Pinkie Promise, and afterwards told me, “I’m from a different dimension where there are beings that can walk on two legs. They also have these things sticking out of the ends of their arms called fingers. They don’t have tails, they have a mixed diet that I don’t want to tell you, and most of all; their dimension is called Earth. These group of beings are called humans. I’m a human.”
I was staring at Ian as though he was crazy. “Yeah, sure you are. Ha ha, for a second there you sounded as though you were serious.” I said.
Ian sighed and stood up on his forelegs, leaving me wondering how he did that, as he took off his cargo vest. I saw a strange marking on his back, and a blue aura swirled around it. The aura continued to swirl, but it then moved all around his body. It engulfed him, and when the aura died out, he was an oddly shaped being standing on two legs. I stared at Ian with wide eyes. ‘How did he do that,’ I asked myself. Ian then began to turn back into his original form. “See I told you, I am a human,” Ian said.
“Yeah you did,” I said with surprise and defeat at what I have just seen. “We might as well continue working and help AJ get this done.” I said.
“I agree.” Ian replied
And with that, we got our buckets and began bucking again.
It was beginning to get late and we had finished about ½ of the orchard and everypony else finished the other half. I said my goodbyes to everypony and started my flight home. I stopped on a nearby tree to watch the sunset over the mountains and it was breath-taking. So after the sun went down, I was on my way home again and I had the eerie feeling that I was being watched from the ground. I got home about 5 minutes later, went inside, sore from applebucking, I went to sleep immediately.
I woke up at about 3:00 A.M. hearing a knock on my door. “Now who could that be?" I asked myself. I walked downstairs and looked through the peep-hole. Nopony was there, so I opened the door and sure enough nopony was there. I closed the door but about 4 seconds later, there was another knock on the door. I opened the door again only to be a silent shadowy figure. “Who are you?” I asked with surprise. But instead of a response, it was just silent. I was extremely confused because it was just standing there, staring at the ground. Then it looked like it took a glance at me, flared it's wings, then dashed off.
I stood there still confused, watching it fly to a nearby cloud. I decided I wanted some answers. So I spread my wings and took flight after it. But as soon as the figure saw me it dashed away to another cloud, then another.. And it kept doing this for about maybe 30 seconds before I just decided I’ve had enough of this, but it looked like it anticipated this because it zoomed from the last cloud to the open sky not stopping. I tried to catch up to it, but in a failed attempt I lost control of my wings and started falling. Panic filled my body and I realized I was really high up and that it was cold. I then recognized a somepony else was speaking. He was my other personality, Brian.
“Way to go Thunder.” Brian said.
“Shut up Brian, you’re not helping.” I said.
“Well i’m not the one falling out of the sky, now am I.” Brian stated
“No, your not.” I said sadly.
“Open your wings bro.” Brian said.
“I can’t. They feel like they are glued to my sides.” I replied.
“Well, we have about 15 seconds before we hit the ground, so do something.” Brain said, stating the obvious.
“I’m trying.” I said, still panicking.
We were 50 feet from the ground when something hit me, launching me further into the air. After a few seconds I realized I was being carried by another pegasus, I couldn’t tell who it was because of how dark it was.
I felt as though I should be flying on my own, so I hopped out of the pegasus’s grip and began falling again and then after a few seconds, I opened my wings and started flying again. I noticed the silhouette of the pegasus that saved me, sitting on a cloud. I flew to the cloud and took a seat near the silhouette.
“Who are you?” I asked again hoping to get an answer, but all I was silence.
The figure then stood up and walked towards me and sat down next to me. At that moment I noticed it had a horn on its head. 'Another alicron?' I questioned myself.
It seemed like it could not talk. So we sat there for maybe 30 seconds before something just didn’t seem right. I then noticed that there was no other clouds in the sky and that there was no ground, not even a moon, but only… Darkness.
I couldn’t tell if this was a nightmare or a dream. But then the figure stood up and looked at me. That’s when I realized it had eyes. They were sky blue. They reminded me of somepony from a story that my mom told me when I was a colt. The figure then opened it’s wings and flew upwards towards the moon which now shone light.
“I BID THEE FAREWELL, THUNDER.” It yelled in a loud voice. Then flew into the moon and disappeared. The moon disappeared a few seconds later. I was trapped in darkness when a bright light flashed before me and I realized it was sunlight.
