> A jar of ponyville > by _applejack_ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > old beginnings > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The sunlight on your eye lid's, stupid sun. The sound of bird's in your ear's, dumb bird's. The sound of twilight calling your name, "are you going to get up, or am gonna have to make you get up!" she call's. Ah yes, the morning, your least Favorite part of the day. "On it!" you call down the stairs as you hop out of bed, put on your clothes and leave the room. Twilight had let your stay in the spare room upstairs until you found your own place to stay, but everypony new you liked her and were not likely to leave her, As you walk up to twilight wile rubbing your eye's free from sleep you trip over a small pile of books on the floor. You fall face first on to the hard wood floor with a thump and a loud "OW SON OF A ...!" "hay, I just sorted those books. sorry, breakfast is on the table" twilight says with a small smile. You pull yourself up of the ground and dust yourself off.(for some reason)"Good morning to you to twilight." twilight giggles a bit"sorry, good morning" You sit down beside her and grab one of the books she is holding in her magic(witch kind of gives you an electrical shock but your ok with it) and read the tittle, it reads: 'staff magic' witch you raise an eyebrow at. "hay twi, whats this?" you ask as you hold up the book. Twilight looks at you and smiles "oh, its a book about a strange form of magic called staff magic, I don't need it because I have magic but some being's can use staff magic..."she takes the book from you and puts in the 'miscellaneous magic' pile "...the only problem is that the being has to find the rite staff in order to use that magic" "really?! so...if I find the rite staff I could maybe use magic?!" you say with a scary big smile on your face in witch you thought only possible of pinkie pie. "don't get you hopes up ok, I don't think its that easy, anyway were would you find a staff?" says twilight with a cheeky smile. Your smile fades and you slowly get up from your stop on the floor, "yea ... your rite ... I think i'll go eat breakfast" and with that you walk into the kitchen and start to eat you breakfast. "Is some thing wrong ..." you here twilight say as she walks through the kitchen door. You look up "yes im fine ... its just i have always wanted magic ever since I came to this world" "Hay, I think I may know somepony who can help you with that..."she leans in a little closer "...princess celestia" _________________________________________________________________________________________________ After a tasty feed of fruit, yea ... FRUIT, you put on you hat (witch looked strangely like a pirate hat ... huh) and set off down the lovely dirt road. Taking your time down the road you decided to re-cap your time here ... you had been in ponyville for around two months and living with twilight for around a month and a half... you stop your thinking at this point,hmmmm 'living with twilight' you smile as this skips through your mind like pinkie pie on a summers day. "hay man, whats up?" you hear as rainbow dash lands softly next to you. "oh hay dash, i'm just goin down to rarity's place to get my hat fixed up" Rainbow dash looks at you with an expression of confusion and shock, you take off you pirate hat and hold it in your hands for a moment before rainbow dash snatches it from you. "I don't see anything wrong with it, looks fine to me" rainbow says as she looks over it. "It's fine really, just coming apart a little at the edges, nothing rarity cant fix" you say happily. "yea but broken bits make it look 20% cooler, I mean, you can't have a hat like this and not have it look a little brokenish" rainbow dash give back your hat. "well I don't want it to fall apart completely do I?" a dum thing to ask rainbow dash "...yes..." she says with a smirk. Rarity's shop comes in to view and you walk up to it and knock on the door. "come in" comes a high class voice through the door, you walk in and see rarity is siting down at a table eating a biscuit and looking over a new dress on the ponyquin in front of her. She notices you and gets up from the table. "well good morning darling, how may I help you today,... or do you just want to talk" rarity smiles politely." "good morning rarity, I was just wondering if you could fix up my hat if that's ok? its just a little worn thats all." "of coarse darling, it would be a pleasure, I could do with a break from this dress anyway" "thanks rarity your a star" "oh your to kind, but as you know this isn't free ,dare" "yea yea, how much?" you ask rarity looks over the and works out a price "about 23 bits" "sure" you give rarity the full amount of bits and your hat. rainbow dash interrupted the conversation by clearing her throat and says "well we better get going, I need egghead here to help me with some stuff" "ok then, i'll have this done by this evening, ta ta" As you and dash leave the shop you look at rainbow in confusion, "so rainbow dash ... what do you need help with?" you ask wile turning to rainbow dash. "nothing" she replies "Ah so ... that was just to get me out of there?" you say with a smirk. "no need to thank me i'm just doing my job." rainbow hovered beside you with a hoof to her chest. "thanks ... I think?" you begin to think. "well I have to get back to twilight" you rub the back of your neck and groan. "she probably has some more tests for me" Twilight had been testing you on everything, and when I say 'everything' I mean 'EVERYTHING' ... but you were fine with it. "well i'll see ya round" and with that she shoots off in a flash of rainbow, you look up in awe. Twilight had explained how she did that but you still didn't understand how ... dumy. ... huh ... You knock on the door of twilight's tree and spike answers the door, "why do you still knock? ... you live here." he says with his normal sort of tone. "hay spike, you seem tired this morning. and I knock because it's polite ok?" you say as you walk past spike and into the tree. "whatever" spike groans. "twilight ... you here?" you tilt your head "In here" twilight calls from the next room As you turn the corner you are knocked down by a flying pink ball of pink pinkness (aka: pinkie pie) This catches you off gard and you hit the floor with (another) thump and a loud "AHHH GRRABBLEDDEKK" "what did ya say?" says pinkie as she gets off of you and helps you to your feet. you shrug. "hay there, are you ready for your last three tests?" askes twilight as she walks up to you. "sure are, just one question" "yes?" twilight tilts her head in a mocking manner. "why is pinkie here?" you say as you look over to pinkie pie who was sub-consciously hoping on the spot. "well I thought pinkie could help with test, we could use her energy" That comment both puzzles and kind of scares you. "yea, twilight is testing your strength and energy levels to see how long you can go before ya kind of break down!" pinkie says at at a rate of knots "yes, I am wanting to test you by ... well, placing you in a everlasting party, heh heh" twilight seemed a little embarrassed at this comment and turns her head. You think to yourself 'this ... cant ... end ... well' *** > late nights and new friends > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8.30 ... sugar cube corner ... pony's dancing ... yup, you're at a party that just won't stop, deal with it. You can hear a count of three sounds, one being the sound of all the pony's raving around you, two being pinkie pie laughing and three being the mean beat's ringing through your ears. (gotta love DJ pon3) "I gotta say twi this doesn't seem like a test to me!" you can just say over the music. "this is more of a 'congratulations, your tests are over' party than a test, but I thought I would take the chance to make this a test as well" call's twilight into your ear. Three hour's later 11:30 ... half the ponies have left the party ... you're still wide awake, but your legs hurt from dancing so how you’re just leaning on a wall and panting. (I can do better man get a grip) Two and a half hour's later 2:00 in the morning .... it's just you, pinkie pie, twilight sparkle and this one pony you met about an hour ago, you're starting to get a little drowsy and you're still groovin to the broken beat. pinkie pie is dancing beside you more awake than you are and twilight is using a spell to keep herself awake, you look over at the pony you met and see him passed out on the ground with one leg twitching, you look back to twilight who is trying her best to stay awake, you look to pinkie pie who has begun doing the pony poky. Right as you sit down for a break a song that you could swear was a trap starts to play, the sort of song that is made to put you to sleep. blasted song the next thing you know you're sitting down next to twilight and falling asleep. Five hour's later ... I think You can tell its early morning because the sunlight is yet again on your face, the sound of birds chirping is yet again in your ears ... but hold on ... no twilight sparkle telling you to get out of bed? hmm. You look down and notice you're still in your clothes from the party(aka: your only clothes ... you should ask rarity to make you some clothes) you get up off the bed and walk down stairs, as you walk down the stairs and into the living room you notice twilight coming out of her room and following you. "morning twi, how'd ya sleep" you ask as you sit down on the sofa. "pfffshhhh" is all you get from Twilight. "okay?" you rub your eye. Twilight sits down beside you and puts a hoof to her forehead. You look around the tree in a bit of a haze, while gazing around you see a grayish brown blob on the other side of the room. "hey Twilight,..." twilight looks up at you. "who is that?" you ask pointing to the pony in the corner. "oh, him, he's the stallion you were talking to last night. I didn't know where he lived so I brought him here." twilight yawned. "hmm" you get up and walk over to the pony on the other side of the room, you give him a sharp jab in the side and he groans making a small noise. "dude, you gotta get up" you shake him lightly. The pony on the floor rolls over and looks at you, he has a grayish brown coat and a black mane with a purple streak through it. ( oh and look he's a unicorn. ) You help him up onto his hoofs and he thanks you. standing up he kind of looks like this... (...huh...) You gesture over to the sofa (not twilight ... the sofa ... THE ... SOFA ...OK?) so you and the pony walk over and sit down on the sofa. After a few moments of sitting in silence the gray pony speaks up. "my name is Titan, and you two are?" he extends a hoof out to greet you. You shake his hoof and tell him your name "... and this is twilight."you point to twilight who shakes his hoof. "hay? could one of you please tell me how I got here?" he chuckles a little. "uhhhh...-" you start "you were asleep on the floor when I went home so I brought you here." twilight finishes your sentence. ( yea, cause theres no way he might be a RAPEST! ) "oh, well, thanks uuhh ... Twilight is it?" "yes" Twilight add's. 'POOF' a letter appears in front of you and Twilight, Twilight picks up the letter "I'll be right back" as she exits the room, you are left with just you and titan. "she's hot, you hit that yet ... or are you too much of a 'not a pony'? he ask's. "WHAT?!" you scream at him "You bucking perve! ... *sigh* ... no, no I have not" He seem'd to consider what you just said, "can I ?" You look at him and clench your fist as if to say 'I'm going to rip you limb from limb and feed you your leg's' and he seems to notice it. "sorry man I didn't know." "It's kool ... just, if you touch her i'll kill you ...ok? "duly noted." At this point Twilight walks back into the room, she looks a bit nerves. "you OK there twi, you don't look too good." you ask concerned "The princess would like to see us at the palace in canterlot tomorrow, she would like to talk to you about your staff." ( Here ... let allow me to remind you. yesterday twilight sent a letter to princess celestia telling her that YOU were interested in getting a staff ... remember? ... no ... well too bad it happened.) "sound kool." says titan. "very cool." you and Twilight say in unison titan look at the both of you a bit confused "have.. you two been practicing saying that or something." Titan smirks. "ha! nah i'm just kind of excited that I might be getting a badass staff" you say with a (massive) grin. "ya I can see that." says titan with a mocking grin AND a mocking a slant. ( ok, time to get witty at this bum. ) " ya well, you have had magic all your life, me, my home world doesn't even have magic" "well, that's all about to change isn't it. then you'll be only human in history to wield a magic staff." Twilight comment's You laugh at Twilight comment and go to tip your hat ... but its gone. "oh what, where's my hat?" you ask a little angry. "what hat?" titan ask's "I don't think you picked it up from Rarity's boutique yesterday." ( ha! you have no mind. ) "darn, I gotta go get it, that's my Favorite hat. You wanna come with new guy?" You get up off the sofa and look at titan. He get's up and shakes his head furiously. ( bed head I guess. ) "sure i'll go, I could do with some fresh air." you look over to Twilight, "twi?" "no thanks, I have something to do. You two should go." Twilight waves her hoof towards the door. "c'mon dude, what the worst that could happen?" ***