Chapters It’s a sunny day. The sky is clear with winds up to 10 miles per hour (16 kph) . A white unicorn mare with different shades of pink hair, is seen boarding the train to Canterlot. She makes her way past an employee door. She then looks around and sees many cooks working in what seems to be an kitchen; mostly mares looking as though they hadn't sleep for days. She greets one of them as she heads to her working place at the next door over. She sits down on a revolving chair, and stares at the clock above her.
“4:55” She says, thinking out loud. “Well I guess I could clock in at 5:00. It’s not like I have a boss breathing down my neck anymore.”
She sits down at her desk, kicking her feet up, while leaning back on a rotating seat.
“Ahh…gotta love being the boss”
Of course she wasn’t the boss of the train employees. That privilege goes to the corporation of Canterlot. No, this mare was her own boss in the way that, she alone, was in charge of food given in the train.
Her previous job, before her boss quit of low pay, was that she would buy the supplies for the treats and catering of the food cart; so that her boss could pass them out to the customers. But now she has to do both jobs. To her, buying the supplies was extremely easy, but the job had low pay, so she wasn't happy. Her boss would even go as far as having her run to the store for useless demands the customer would never even think to buy. So she was now finally happy, getting just the right amount of pay. Though the job had become too repetitive, and she began getting sick of it little by little after 4 weeks into it.
Five minutes pass by. She sighs as she clocks in from the computer. She goes to the closet and pulls out a steel sweet with lots of baked goods like catering and candy. She pushes the cart against the door leading to the passenger entrance. She stops in front of the door as it closes behind her, and says her usual lines.
“Anypony want any candy or fresh caters” She said to the three mares occupying the room.
The mares are none other than Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy, behind them are there luggage, looks like enough to pack for a few days at least. Twilight trots to the mare appearing to be in thought, then stops in front of the cart.
“I would like one banana cupcake, and… Pinkie, what would you like?” Twilght added.
Pinkie Pie dashed toward the white mare, and stopped right in front of the cart.
“Ooh! Do you have corn cakes?” Pinkie Pie blurted out, sounding a bit too excited.
“Umm? Yes” Cabin responded.
The mare’s horn starts glowing red. A small box at the bottom of the cart starts to glow. She takes out the corn cake, and set it on Pinkie Pies hoof. Pinkie runs off, eating her goods as she goes.
“That’ll be three bits,” Cabin said with haste.
Twilight handed the mare her money. Then turned back and caght sigh of the hungry hungry Pinkie Pie enjoying her elf to her corn cakes.
“Fluttershy, don’t you want anything?” Twilight sounds concerned.
“… Umm… no it’s ok, I… I ate at home,”
“You sure?”
Fluttershy slowly nods.
“Will that be all?” She tries to get this over with, since they were the only ones on the train.
“Yes,” Twilight says to her.
She puts the bits into a small metal box, one by one. Then finishes, making her way out the door pushing the cart out in front of her.
Without saying a goodbye she heads out. A red glow covers the door handle, shutting the door with a loud noise. The three twitch from the loud noise. She puts away the cart. She sighs and sits back down on her chair kicking her legs up once as she did before.
“Wow, this job is so much easyer when royal gests come to viset. There’s like no one else here on the train.”
She pulls out a newspaper from her desk, and begins reading the head liner.
“Security increase in Canterlot”
She pauses for a bit, examining the title. She continues reading the story.
“Ever since the Canterlot wedding with Princess Cadence and the Captain of the Royal Guard, officials have spoken to Luna and Celestia about the crisis. Luna and Celestia recommend that guard enforcement, of special events, be made with unicorns who can I identify such changlings….In other news”-
Cabin loses interest and puts the newspaper away. She sighs with boredom and begins playing around with an old piece cardboard. She gets a box cutter and pretends to be an assassin by cutting her initials into the front of it.
“Wow! Am I really this bored?” She smiles to herself in disbelief that she just did that.
She puts away the cutter and cardboard under her seat.
“Is this what I’m going to do for the rest of my life?”- She shakes head. -“Of course not! I need to get myself a hobby.”
“Well, I could do stand up? Just think about the fans I’ll get for that!”
She always wanted a small job, and to live in a small home, but now that she had those things, she wanted more.
“Maybe I could use my quick puns with the audience…Yeah that’ll be a cinch.”
She begins to daydream picturing a scenario in her head where she’s on stage in front of a community theater, holding a microphone with her magic.
“So anyways, these kids where throwing dirtballs at me that they got off the ground beneath them, and guess what I told them… Those who throw dirt are sure to lose ground.”
“Ok try this one on for size. As I left the club, I fell down, next to the exit. And when I woke up I didn't have the faintest idea as to why I passed out.”
Before the crowd could react she woke up with a snap. The train had stopped and her seat was pushed against the wall.
“Oh well…Fantasies will have to wait.”
Author's Note
Well this is my first short story. Hopefully you liked this short thing I put together here.
It’s noon now, and Cabin Wood finally finishes her 7 hour job. Not very long huh? Well if you were Cabin Wood, you would know how her job really is. When it’s busy, ponies tend to be picky about what they want, not to mention the fillies who want their parents to buy them every-thing.
Cabin wood clocks out of work, waving goodbye to her fellow employees. Cabin steps out of the train, looking at the three passengers trotting off in the distance. She grabs her bags with her magic, taking them off the train. The train sets off, she sighs with relief as it leaves her view.
She trots out the exit of the station, looking at the many buildings entering her vision. She sees mostly one story building, but some were two. The buildings resembled a fancier version then that of the one in Ponyville. She looks around some more, still trotting slowly forward. She could also see the hustle and bustle of the Canterlot, what with the ponies there acting so busy, taking cups of tea and communicating to each other, talking about the latest fashion. This all seems odd to her, with the ponies being all oddly postured here, but she ignores it, just like she would ignore other things she doesn’t want to make a big fuss about.
She comes upon a strange sight. It’s a hotel with big white letters labeling it Flopple Top Motel. It was a small but relatively large, two story motel building, She looks side to side for incoming carts as she heads toward the entrance. The entrance is rotating glass doors, with silver rims along the edges. She enters, coming upon a magnificent sight; all around the square white office are magnificent paintings of medieval ponies that discovered Equestria. Look! There’s commander hurricane, with the other two pony race leaders. Look! There is the setting of the Equestrian flag, representing the start of the start of this magnificent empire.
An unfamiliar tan mare trots to her; bestowing the cutie mark resembling a stopwatch. She also wears a name tag labeling herself the Hotel Owner.
The mare stops right in front of Cabin Wood, having a worried look upon her face.
“Hey! I know we don’t know each other, but can you watch over my establishment for me? I’d be happy to pay you,” She grins nervously at Cabin Wood.
Cabin was quite taken back by the offer. But she thinks about it, thinking about gathering money to live here, to start a career perhaps.
“Sure I’d be happy to,” She grins back.
“Awesome I’ll be back at 11 pm,” She heads to the door in a rush, without saying goodbye.
She stops to think about what she had just done. “Until 11? Why so late?!”
Then she trots to the head desk, which was the only desk in the room, being in front of the doors. She examines the desk and its surrounding, looking at each detail. Not much to see, the desk was really bland, having no pictures or knickknacks on the flat parts of it. She pulls out her bag, pulling out her name, plated on wood. She sets it on the front of the desk, having a feeling of satisfaction.
“Ahh, now you really are the boss…of a hotel apparently.”
She kicks her hoofs up on the desk, smiling as she lay back on the cozy chair. Her eyes widen as she realizes she should be focused at the task at hand. She drives her attention before the door; she examines it, expecting a rush in of customers.
Five minutes go by, and Cabin is at her desk, still expecting the rush of customers. She starts wondering to herself how she would take their questions and answer them well. I mean, she doesn’t exactly know this place or how it works.
Ten minutes pass, and still no customer has come to her desk or in the building for that matter. She starts developing a bore to her new job.
“Hmm…”
She looks around trying to attract her mind to something more appealing.
She grunts. “Why isn’t any pony coming?!”
She eventually gets tired of sitting. She hops out of her seat, stretching out her limbs as she walks away from the desk.
“Well since I’m here might as well get to know this place,”
She starts exploring the entire hotel starting by going thru one of the two doors behind of the desk. She goes to the door to the right, hoping to find something interesting. She trots thru a long passage way, having lots of identical wooden gray doors on the left and right walls.
“One…two…three…four…” She kept counting until she reached room 17. This room was different than the other ones, being the only room bestowing yellow lettering, instead of white.
“How odd…” She wonders why this room door differs from the others.
She smiles, trotting back to the desk, taking notice of the outside door. She sits down, not kicking her legs up, but drawing attention the door. Two ponies, one brown and the other tan, look at the open/closed sign next to the door. They both shrug their shoulders, and walk off to the other direction.
Now this really attracts Cabin Wood what is happening. She jumps of her seat wondering as to why the ponies didn’t come inside, and why they’d stopped at the door. She looks at the open/closed sign.
“It says OPEN” She could clearly see that the sign did indeed say open.
She stops in front of the rotating glass door, and starts making assumptions.
“Does this hotel have a bad reputation or something? Wait, is it haunted?…no that can’t be right,” She smiles to herself.
“Do you know what? I’ll just see for myself.”
She pushes on the door and starts making her way outside the building. She turns back looking at the entrance of the building; she searches the surrounding area of the door. Her eyes start looping around the door, like some kind of critic, examining a new dress or something. She draws her attention to the open/close sign, her eyes widen once she saw it.
“Oh Celestia! Did I just…I did…ughh. Oh well…I guess she just wanted me to watch over her paintings.”
Author's Note
I really wanted to finish this sooner but as you can probably guess i didn't have time to.
Anywho, I'm probably gong to finish the entire story on the next chapter. I'm trying to make the story as funny as I can without making it bland, but as you can read this chapter is pretty bland. I don't think a could change any more to the capter to make it more entertaining (I probabaly can, but I can't think of any), so yeah.
Wow look at that, first costumer.
Cabin Wood look around.
"Did she really want me to just stay here and admire the paintings? But then again I am still a complete stranger to her" She raised her hoof to her mouth in thought. "But I don't think she'll mind me running it for at least a little..." She put it back down. "Well then," She opens the door joyfully and came close to the sign. "I'll just switch it like that" She flips the sign so where it says OPEN on the other side of the glass. "He he, if she says anything I'll just say 'I tripped on it! But I felt bad about just leaving it on the floor so I just picked it up and placed it on the glass. But surly not knowingly knowing that the building was supposed to be closed Ma ‘me. Hehe yeah I COULD just say that." She smiled as she trotted back to her desk. "Ahh," She said sitting down, getting comfortable. “NOW the customers will come"
She closed her eyes, expecting to open them shortly. She began to daydream as to how she would approach them. "Well Sir. Can I get your dressings? 'Why yes you can, how may I be of service to you Sir. You could help me to my room, as I do carry many luggage. Why yes, let me get the, uhh, big cart thing that carries luggage. Of course Ma ‘me' . “She returns to the real world as she tripped in her dream on an idle pencil. “ Well uhh...” She looks at the front pat the glass doors, and noticed it was getting late. “Wow was I really daydreaming that long?” She thought.
She noticed that there were no signs of anypony ever coming in. “The sign does say ‘open’ this time right? She gazed at the sign, it said closed at her viewpoint, I guess that means yes” she frowned and placed her hooves out onto the desk, feeling bored. “I’m so boooorred…” she said as she moved her hooves around in circles on the desk.
The door began making noise. One, no two, uh, three ponies came in the building much to her surprise. One came in casually; this one was lavender, with purple and pink mane, a unicorn apparently. Another came in slowly and behind the lavender one; she was yellow, with a pink mane, a Pegasus. The last came in bouncing apparently; this one was all pink except for the lighter and darker shades, an earth pony. “Well,” The unicorn said. “I’m sure princess Celestia, made reservations” she said to them. “Princess Celestia sure is nice!” The pink one said bouncing in place as the rest stopped in front of the desk. “Well, I just hope that she gave us a well lit room, the last time we went out the room was…dark…and, scary…” the yellow Pegasus said to the lavender unicorn.
“Awesome! You three are my first customers!” Cabin said out loud. The three lean back in surprise. “Well…that’s good… congrats. Did you just get hired recently?” The unicorn asked.
“Why yes! How did you know?” she said, surprised that she was able to figure that out.
“Well, the hotel is quite popular among the rich” the unicorn said casually.
“The rich huh? Boy I wonder how that is. So I assume the rooms here are very comfortable then right?” she asked.
“Yes I think so. We haven’t come here for a year now so I had forgotten just how comfortable it was” She responded.
“Huh, so how can I help you three?” Cabin asked.
“Well, you may have over heard me, but Princess Celestia had giving us a room to stay in for the night”
“Oh you three are only visiting then?” Cabin asked. “Whatever for?”
“Why it’s the Canterlot Race tomorrow! Didn’t you know that?” the unicorn said surprised.
“No, uh… I don’t really follow sports. Mostly because I don’t have time” she said.
“Well the Canterlot Race is second to the Equestria Games. You’ve heard of that right?”
“Yes” Cabin said. The pink one stopped bouncing and came to join the others.
“Ok, the Canterlot Race is just like that, everypony from every kingdom and city can enter. Only differences are, that you must race without magic and flight, there also isn’t teams. Only one can be in first”
“Oh, okay then, when is this event taking place” she asked. Cabin knew this was dragging on, but she wanted it to none the less.
“It takes place at 3 am tomorrow” She said with confidence.
“3 AM! What pony would be eager enough to watch a game at those hours! Heck I would still be sleeping!” she said shocked.
“3 AM is a bit early. But we want to see our friends Apple Jack and Rainbow Dash compete at the games. So we are eager to wake that early and watch them” She smiled, and then she looked back, realizing it was getting late.
Cabin began to daydream about how tired somepony at those hours would be, she pictured them with giant eye boogers, with their breath smelling bad and lots of moaning.
“Well then,” She said getting Cabin Wood’s attention.
“Uh…yes” She snapped back.
“Could you check us in?”
“Ah yes. You said Celestia already appointed you three a room?” The lavender unicorn nodded. “Well if I’m correct you two should be on this giant list” she goes down onto the floor and looks under the desk. After a few moments of moving stuff around she pops back up with a list in her magic. “What did you say your names were again?” she asked.
“Well, we didn’t yet, but my name is Princess Twilight Sparkle, and that there’s Pinkamena Diane Pie-” “Pinkie Pie for short!” pinkie yelled. “-And my other friend here is Fluttershy.”
“Oh, neat names” she complemented. She checked the list, many names were in here, and all of them were checked except one. This one had all three of their names. “Oh it must be this one!” she showed Twilight the list. “Yes, hehe…that’s us” she chuckled.
“Ok your room is number 50”
“Ok then, where is that at?” Twilight asked.
“It should be down the hall to the right” Cabin said.
“Okay, come on girls”
The trio left as Pinkie Pie bounced once more. Cabin was left alone once more.
Cabin grunted as she sat back onto her seat. “Well, I guess that was the last of anypony…I wonder if that’s why she wanted me to close? All but those three were already here in the hotel. Well if she doesn't come in 20 minutes then I’ll just switch the sign to close again. No point in it being open with it being night.
After a long while of waiting she switched the sign to ‘closed’. She would sit down and look at the darkening sky, daydreaming once more. After a while she got a soft tap on her shoulder, it was the owner of the building, she said thank you to Cabin as she rose from her seat. The owner followed her as she slowly made her way out the door. Cabin stepped outside feeling the cold midnight breeze.
"Do you know what?" the owner said to Cabin, "Dooo you have a place to sleep tonight?"
Cabin thought for a bit. She was never counting on staying at a hotel for such a long period of time. But instead had to stay watch at one to her surprise.
"Well the next train to canterlot doesn't come 'till to tomorrow. So I guess I don't" she said to her realizing that it was foolish of her to take the task handed to her.
"Well I have a room open, mine to be exact. You're welcome to bunk with me if you want" she smiled as if this exited her.
"Thank you" she smiled.
Why did I take the job???
Author's Note
Hope you enjoyed reading!!
