I stood on top of the cloud I had landed on and looked down at the small town below me. I could faintly make out the ponies below walking around, going about their daily lives. I don’t even know how to go down there or how to introduce myself. Heck, I don’t even have a house. All I have is the meager amount of belongs I had fit into my saddlebags.
I pawed at the cloud nervously and sighed. I had just gotten out of college, the most annoying part of anyponys life and I can’t even fly off my cloud and go down to a town full of ponies and get a job or a house. Ponyville had come highly recommended from some ponies in college. Something about very friendly ponies and such.
The ink on my degree probably hasn’t even dried yet. I shifted a bit on the cloud and brushed my watermelon mane out of my eyes. I could either say screw it and go down there or just stay up here for the rest of my days. I folded my forelegs under me, keeping my gaze locked down on the ground.
I faintly heard flapping wings and I glanced around till I found the cause. A turquoise pegasus mare and a lavender pegasus mare were nearby flying by. I pressed myself further into the cloud in hopes that they wouldn’t see me. Yeah that was further from the truth.
The lavender one glanced at me and gestured with a hoof at me to her friend. They started flapping over to me and I tensed up, getting my wings ready for flight.
“Why are you-” the turquoise one started to speak as I took off tearing through the sky. I’m not the fastest flyer by any means but I can handle my own when I need to run. I gave a smirk as I finally got away. I spun around and frowned when they were chasing after me.
“Oh joy,” I mumbled to myself as I started flying again at a slower speed to let the get close. I tossed a look over my shoulder as they were about to slam into me and grinned. I’m not the fanciest flyer either but I can do the basics. I flipped over them and stared at their surprised expressions as I dove toward the ground, tucking my wings against my body as the wind started going faster around me.
I spread my wings at the last second and flew over the heads of some fillies and a few colts in what looked to be a school yard. A few pointed and grinned at me. I flew back up into the sky and hide in a cloud. I poked my eyes through it and looked around for the two pursuing me.
“So what are we looking for?” A voice beside me asked. I did a double take at the lavender one in the cloud with me looking out. I hadn’t even heard her come in. I screamed and took off again.
“I am never going to get away am I?” I muttered to myself. I resigned myself to my fate when I realized they were still after me. I sighed and landed on a cloud, them following suit.
“You almost had me at the flip,” the turquoise one chuckled. “If it wasn’t for Cloud Kickers good eye, I’d have never found you again.”
The lavender one wore a small smirk as she waved a hoof. Or well Cloud Kicker I suppose. I can’t really keep calling her the lavender one now that I know her name.
“Some decent flying,” Cloud Kicker said with an impressed whistle. “Thought you were gonna be a ketchup stain for a second there.”
“Oh uh thanks,” I said and looked away.
“That’s Sassaflash,” Cloud Kicker pointed at her friend with two lightning bolts as a cutie mark. “And you are?”
“Blossomforth,” I introduced myself. “I’m kinda new here.” Sassaflash snorted and rolled her eyes.
“I figured. Mainly because I’ve never seen you here before and I know like all the pegasus in Ponyville. Why were you running from us?” She asked curiously.
“I’m not good at social interaction,” I admitted and kicked the cloud a bit. “I’m not shy or anything like that don’t worry. I’m just not the greatest at talking to ponies.”
“That would explain why you were on the cloud watching the town,” Cloud Kicker said as she drapped a wing over my back and I tensed up slightly. I’m not exactly against physical touch, I just don’t know her well considering I just met her about five minutes or so. “So where ya stayin?”
“I was just gonna sleep on a cloud to be honest,” I admitted. “I don’t really want to use the few bits I have on an inn. I don’t really have a house either. I will admit, I didn’t necessarily plan this move out well.”
“And where did you move from exactly?” Sassaflash asked with a warm smile.
“Cloudsdale.” The two gave each other a look.
“I’m from Cloudsdale,” Sassaflash commented and pointed a hoof at Cloud Kicker. “She’s from Canterlot.”
“Hey!” Cloud Kicker said. “I was born in Cloudsdale. I only moved to Canterlot as a filly because of my parents.” I sat quietly and watched the two as I settled onto the cloud and folded my forelegs under me.
“Oh right. Sorry I kinda forget about that fact,” Sassaflash said in a tone that made me think that was anything but the truth.
“Well since you have no where to go, you could stay with me,” Cloud Kicker said with a grin my way. “We can get nice and warm in bed together.” She winked and gave me a sultry look.
“I uh don’t know about that,” I said nervously. I looked around cautiously as Cloud Kicker removed the wing.
“I was joking,” Cloud Kicker said in a serious tone. “I do that. Anyway, it’s gonna rain tonight. You can sleep on your cloud. I’ll be at my house.” The two took off into the sky and started flying away. I watched them go and sighed.
I flapped my wings to get off the cloud and followed the two.
I looked around the one bedroom house in mild curiosity as Cloudkickers blonde tail disappeared around the corner into the kitchen. I’ll admit I was a tad uncomfortable being in her house. I don’t like feeling like a burden I guess.
“So what ya got there?” Cloudkicker asked as I jumped slightly. The pegasus was sitting next to me with two bowls of stewed potatoes and other vegetables. I hadn’t even heard her return.
“Oh uhm books,” I answered as she pushed a tray with a bowl over to me. “Some other things.”
“Like what?” Cloudkicker asked as she wrapped a hoof around a fork and stabbed a potato.
“My college degree, some engineering projects the like.”
“You went to college for engineering?” Cloudkicker asked curiously as I picked up a fork and nodded my head.
“I went for weather pattern studies and engineering,” I answered with a bit of pride. I was personally proud of my engineering degree. I never knew my parents so I felt like a blank slate. Able to forge my own future with no pony giving me their own ideas of how I should turn out.
“Nice!” Cloudkicker smirked as she drank some lemonade and sighed contently.
“Did you go to college?” I asked curiously as her face fell and I internally worried if I overstepped some boundaries.
“For a bit there. I had other more important things going on,” Cloudkicker admitted as she pushed some vegetables around in her bowl.
“Oh,” I said and a silence fell over us. I wouldn’t call it uncomfortable or anything, just silence. I took a bit of my potato and my eyes slightly widened. “Wow. You can really cook.”
“Heh, thanks,” Cloudkicker blushed slightly. “While you eat, I’ll go get you a pillow and blanket.”
I wordlessly nodded as she carried her own tray away and trotted into her kitchen before she came back, trotting into her bedroom as I continued eating.
I finished eating and bit onto the tray, trotting into the kitchen and placing it next to the sink. I reached out with a hoof to turn the sink on to clean my dishes as I listened to Cloudkicker trotting in.
“You don’t have to wash your dishes. I’ll do them.”
“No I got it. It would be rude of me to not do them,” I insisted as I squirted some soap into the sink and watched it fill up enough to my satisfaction as I shut the faucet off.
“Okay. You wash and I rinse them,” Cloudkicker smirked as she stood next to me at the other sink and hoofed over a wash cloth. I gave a sigh as I realized I couldn’t argue my way out of this as I cleaned the bowl and tray, sliding them over to her as I washed my fork. “I also took the liberty of setting up your spot ont the couch. It’s a pull out bed so you should get a decent night’s sleep.”
“Thank you. Really,” I said softly and brushed my watermelon mane away from my eyes. “Why are you being so nice to me? You just met me today.”
“You look like you needed a friendly face. And besides,” Cloudkicker said as she grinned wickedly as we trotted to the living room where true to her word, she had pulled out the couch bed and put a pillow with a few blankets on it. “You’re adorable and we could have some fun.”
“Uhm no offense but I’m well a you know,” I said sheepishly and scuffed my hoof on the ground, turning a bright red. “I’m not entirely into that. I’ve never really you know.”
“Relax girl. I’m just teasing you don’t worry. And I didn’t mean sex, I meant watch some reels of movies I own,” Cloudkicker clarified as I slowly turned back to my normal color.
“Oh,” I said simply and sat down on the couch. “Maybe tomorrow? If you want me here still of course.”
“Stay as long as you need. I can help you find a job if you want to. Sassaflash and I both work for Rainbow Dash as a weatherponies so I can butter her up. I have a collection of apple cider specifically for this purpose and plus we went to flight school together,” Cloudkicker explained as she yawned.
“She likes apple cider?” I asked with a raised eyebrow as Cloudkicker nodded sagely. “Apple cider isn’t even that good.”
“Don’t let Applejack or Rainbow hear you say that,” Cloudkicker warned as she turned serious once again. “And you haven’t had Applejacks apple cider.”
“Applejack?”
“Apple farmer on the edge of town. She lives with her brother, sister and Granny Smith. Nice family after I convinced them I wasn’t entirely interested in sleeping with Big Mac. Well, again I suppose I should say but don’t tell them that please.”
Oh, she could trust me that I wouldn’t. I could barely even say sex or go through health class without instantly blushing. I still can’t even think about it with out blushing.
“Is there anything else to worry about?” I asked cautiously as Cloudkicker pressed a hoof to her chin.
“The Everfree forest,” Cloudkicker decided. “Oh and Pinkie Pie. Berry Punch is a nice mare, bit of a drunk but I don’t judge. Cheerilee is serious about education but cool. Uh, that’s about it really. Ponyville is a pretty calm town.”
“What’s wrong with Pinkie Pie?” I asked innocently as Cloudkicker gave me a flat look that made me nervous.
“Trust me on this one. She’s nice and all but well she can be a bit much at times,” Cloudkicker said finally. “Decent mare. Hope you don’t mind parties because she will definitely throw you one when she meets you.”
I was okay with parties I suppose as long as they didn’t get too loud or anything. I don’t know if this Pinkie Pie knew how to not cross that line but I guess I would find out. Maybe I could avoid her and just stay away from the problem in general.
“I’m off to bed,” Cloudkicker commented as the first drops of rain started to patter on her windows. “Sleep well Blossomforth.”
“You too Cloudkicker. And thanks again,” I said as she lazily waved in reply as she trotted into her room and her door closed softly.
I yawned as I shifted a bit to slid under the blankets and curled up a bit.
Cloudkicker had a bit of a dirty mind but overall seemed nice.
I gave a yawn as I rolled over on the bed and stretched on my legs a bit as I winced at the sunlight shining through the window, placing a foreleg over my eyes.
“Good morning.”
I rolled my head to look over at Cloudkicker sitting in a chair next to me with a newspaper and two cups of coffee along with a plate of toast and eggs sitting on the coffee table.
“Hey,” I mumbled as I forced myself to sit up. “What time is it?”
“About eleven in the morning,” Cloudkicker answered as she turned the page of her paper. “The eggs and coffee are for you. The left cup is mine though. Has a splash of extra strengh tylenol to make my day go by easy.”
I raised an eyebrow but decided not to question it. Being a weather pony was stressful on our works, especially after eight hours which was a normal shift for pegasi.
I took a sip of my coffee and recoiled as Cloudkicker chuckled. I hadn’t expected my coffee to be that strong. I smacked Mt lips as I faintly identified the taste of hazelnut and took another sip.
“Hopefully you like hazelnut coffee. That’s all I got at the moment unfortunately,” Cloudkicker said apologetically as she folded up her newspaper and stood up. “I gotta get to work. You can come with and I’ll introduce you to Dash or you can stay here or go explore town. Whatever you feel like doing.”
“Okay. I’ll probably go explore the town. And try to avoid this Pinkie Pie,” I said as I pulled the eggs to me and Cloudkicker gave a laugh as I watched her leave.
I practically inhaled the rest of my breakfast before going to clean my dishes. I’m not too worried about avoiding this Pinkie Pie. I’m a pegasus and if I remember correctly, Cloudkicker said she was an earth pony. Easy to get away from.
Or at least, I hope so.
I dropped to the ground and just observed. Observed the environment I guess. This town was completely different Cloudsdales Orphanage. Multiple different types of ponies all mingling together honestly surprised me. Sure, we had visitors sometimes from the ground but mostly it was just pegasi.
“Top of the morning to ya!” A pink earth pony with a green mare chirped and waved as I looked over at her. She stood behind a stand of flowers with a cream colored mare with a red mane and a rose for a cutie mark alongside a blonde raspberry earth pony with a lily for a cutie mark.
“Oh hello,” I said casually as I examined their flowers.
“Do you want a flower? Only three bits,” the cream colored mare offered as I shrugged.
“I don’t really know much about flowers,” I confessed as they looked at me in confusion.
“But your cutie mark is a flower,” the raspberry one pointed out.
“It just displays my talent for growing so to speak in difficult spots. Like Cloudsdale or here,” I explained as they all three nodded.
“I’m Lily,” the raspberry one pointed to herself before switching to the cream mare. “Roseluck.” She quickly pointed to the first one to have spoken to me. “Daisy.”
“Oh uh Blossomforth,” I answered as I pointed to myself. “And uh I guess I’ll take a flower. Got any poppies?”
“Yeah,” Roseluck said as she nosed around the stand and placed one on the table. “It’s perfectly suitable for eating. It’s not the Papaver Somniferum species of poppies, so it’s safe.”
“Though we don’t usually appreciate ponies eating our flowers. They’re for decorating. Lots of work go into growing them,” Lily chimed in as my eyes flicked to her.hee.
“Why is the Papaver Somniferum dangerous?” I asked curiously as I plopped three bits down from my saddlebag.
“It’s the source of the drug opium,” Daisy explained as she slid my bits into a register. “Which contains powerful medicinal alkaloids such as morphine and has been used since ancient times as an analgesic and narcotic, medicinal and recreational drug.”
“Can also be used to chemically produce heroin and other synthetic opioids,” Lily added as I raised an eyebrow.
“And you three uh don’t supply drugs to Ponyville for extra money?” I asked curiously as Roseluck shook her head adamantly.
“No of course not!” Roseluck laughed and pushed my flower to me. “That’s illegal in Equestria. It can farmed I suppose but it’s only allowed with a doctors prescription. I do hear Rainbowshine has a special crop of medicinal plants in her greenhouse.”
“And I take it you use them?”
“No we don’t but we send work her over way if she needs it. But you didn’t hear that from us,” Lily commented and I had a feeling she was telling the truth. I was pretty decent at reading signs of when I was being lied to.
“Alrighty then,” I chuckled and bit down on the flower. “Thanks for the flower. Nice to meet you.”
“Likewise!” The three said in unison and waved as I turned around, coming face to face with a all pink earth pony with a pink mane.
“Hi!” She chirped as I jumped.
“Gah!” I screamed as the three flower mares behind me hid. I watched as my flower fell and I caught it in one hoof.
“Hi I’m Pinkie Pie!” She exclaimed as I stepped back nervously. Now I could see what Cloudkicker meant by Pinkie being a bit much. “You’re new here. It’s my personal mission to greet every new pony in town, get their personal information such as birthday and name, where they live, backstory, and throw them a welcome to Ponyville Party. You’re Blossomforth, right?”
“Uh yes,” I said slowly and nodded my head as three mares behind me peeked out from the stand nervously. “While the idea of a party right now sounds fun, maybe we can do it later? After I’m all settled in and stuff?”
Pinkie paused as she pressed a hoof to her chin and I inhaled quietly, preparing to flee. I mentally chastised myself for not already running away for my life.
“Okay, that works!” Pinkie announced happily as I let out my breath. “I Pinkie promise to throw you the best party ever!”
She bounced away as Daisy stood next to me.
“I’ve never met anypony who could reason with that mare,” Daisy commented incredulously as Lily gave me a stunned look.
“How did you do that?” Lily asked finally.
“I’m just that good I guess,” I said with a shrug. “But what’s a Pinkie promise? Should I be scared?”
“Very,” Roseluck confirmed as I gulped nervously. “Have a good day!”
“Oh I’ll try,” I mumbled as Lily chuckled. I bit the flower again and fled to the one safe place I knew.
