What you call "Ponies" I call "Tuesday"

“Uhh, Harry, did you think of an apology, yet,” I inquired, curious as to if he was going to do something I would never expect.

“Uhh, no, no I haven’t,” Harry said, eyes still glued to the unicorn standing in the doorway.

Ahhhhhhhh, well, it was a nice thought while it lasted. However, I doubt we were going to last long if someone like Rarity stayed mad at us. Well, him specifically, I didn’t do anything wrong that I know of. What to do what to do, I could let her chew him out, and be done with it like that, or I could apologize for him… hmm… I dunno, which would work better?

Ohh ohh, pick me!

No.

C’moooooooooon, pick me pick me pick meeeeeeeeeee!

Absolutely not.

Pickmepickmepickmepickmepickmepickmepickmepickmepickme.

…

“You owe me big for this,” I whispered to Harry, and before he could ask why, I slid out of my chair and started making my way across the room.

Okay, now, how best to break this to her… I doubt she’d believe poetry would come from him, seeing as the last thing she heard wasn’t very… subtle. I could note her looks, and somehow link it to his behavior. That might actually work, but what if she calls me on it? No no no, can’t think like that, besides, I’m sure I can come up with something on the spot if she were to try. How to present it? Easy, she obviously thinks herself nobility, judging from her mannerisms. I got it, now to reveal my master plan.

I stopped right in front of her, and without hesitation, I bent one of my legs, and rested my knee upon the floor, while at the same time lowering my head, and closing my eyes.

“Lady Rarity, forgive my friend’s earlier rudeness, he was struck by your beauty so bad, he lost all rational thought, and began blurting out any random thing that would pop in his head,” I said, trying to sound as respectful as possible.

Everyone behind me gasped. Rarity didn’t say anything at first, however, I had the feeling she was boring a hole through my head all the while. It took every ounce of my willpower to not break this pose.

“That, makes sense, however, why doesn’t he just say this himself, if he were truly this sorry,” Rarity said, skepticism dancing heavily on her words.

Oh crap, think think think… I got it!

“He was afraid that if he were to try to apologize, he would lose control of his thoughts and say the wrong thing, again,” I said plainly. Come on… take it…

“I… suppose that makes sense, just make sure he controls his tongue, I might not be so understanding next time,” she said, letting out a brief sigh.

YES! You sir, deserve a cookie! Now, bring her on, home!

“That is very generous of you, now, I’m sure you have questions, if you come this way, we have your seats ready and waiting,” I brought myself up from the floor, and side-stepped, revealing the circle of chairs. I caught a glance in the corner of my eye, everyone was staring at us.

“Why thank you, sir,” Rarity said, giving a slight bow, and trotted off to join her friends.

I was just about to turn to follow her, when I felt something kick me in the knee. OW! Okay, that actually kind of hurt. I glanced down to see a very upset dragon fuming at me. Puffs of smoke escaped his nostrils, and it suddenly got 20 degrees warmer in this part of the room.

“You better watch yourself, buddy,” Spike said, before storming off to join everyone else. Honestly, I didn’t expect that to happen. I felt like there was a story I wasn’t quite reading, but I shrugged it off, and walked across the room, taking the last open spot in the circle of chairs.

While David was apologizing…

“What do you think he’s going over to say,” a curious Twilight asked, not sure of David’s motives.

“Ah’m not sure, sugar cube,” Applejack replied, tilting her head in thought was what the green earth pony could possibly be thinking of.

“Shhhhhhhhh, it’s coming,” Pinkie said, waving her hooves in their direction, but not taking her eyes off the scene in front of her. Everyone poked their heads up and tried to listen in on the conversation. They strained their ears to hear what was being said.

“Lady Rarity, forgive my friend’s earlier rudeness, he was struck by your beauty so bad, he lost all rational thought, and began blurting out any random thing that would pop in his head,” was the first thing everyone heard.

They gasped, this couldn’t be the same pony they had met just a few minutes ago, could it? He sounded different. His voice, his vocabulary, everything they thought they knew about him changed in the short time it took for him to cross the room. Even the princesses were shocked at how fast he gathered himself.

“Wow, he is goooooood,” Pinkie said, leaning on the back of her chair. Everyone else was just too stunned to speak.
They listened to the conversation, taking in every word that was said, but paying special attention to the stallion showing the best manners that anyone had seen from the two new ponies. When he turned and let Rarity pass, to get to her seat, they all blinked, and sat back down.

The princesses were the first to regain their composure, followed by Twilight and Applejack, and finally Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Harry. By the time Rarity got over, everyone had gathered themselves, and tried not to stare at the now smiling unicorn.

Spike and David followed shortly after, a trail of smoke following them across the room. Spike jumped into his seat, and crossed his arms, letting a huge puff of black smoke blow out, before calming down enough to stop the haze from escaping. David just slid into his seat, and began rubbing his leg.

Anyways, Story time!

Celestia cleared her throat before looking to see if she had everyone’s attention. Everyone broke their attention from Rarity, Spike, and David to look at the awaiting princess.

“Now, I think in order to answer your question, we must go back into our history,” Celestia said, giving a slight pause to glance at her sister. Luna nodded, and Celestia turned back, and resumed her explanation, story, whatever you’d want to call it.

“This story starts over a thousand years ago, Luna and I ruled over Equestria,” She said, puffing her wings out for emphasis.

“Whoah whoah whoah, hold up a second, you mean to tell me you’re over one thousand years old,” Harry asked, obviously not buying the whole immortal goddess shtick. I face palmed… err, hoofed…

“Well, yes, you see our lives are tied directly to the sun and the moon, and as long as they exist, so do we,” Celestia said ‘as a matter of fact’-ly… Great, he goes from hitting on them yesterday, to putting them on the verge of making us combust, or send us to a dark horrible nightmare world, or both…

“Yeah, well-MMPH!” Harry got out, before I crammed my free hoof in his mouth.

“Not now, anyways, please, continue princess,” I said, looking up from my hoof and giving her a ‘please don’t hurt us’ look. She nodded, and continued the tale.

“Anyways, about one thousand years ago, Luna became corrupted by jealousy and neglect, and became a dark entity known as ‘Nightmare Moon,’ and tried to bring about eternal night,” Celestia said, keeping her tone serious, and holding her gaze to focus the story to me and my friend. I was almost spellbound by it, Harry, less so…

“So, this ‘Nightmare Moon,’ I guess she didn’t succeed, right,” I asked, inadvertently swallowing from suspense.

“No, she didn’t, because I harnessed the Elements of Harmony, a powerful artifact that sealed her away in the moon,” My eyes widened. Okay, so they have two goddesses that move the sun and moon, and an artifact that can pretty much lock you into a spot for a century… umm… wow?

“But, the legend around her went that on the thousandth year of her imprisonment, on the longest day, the stars would aid in her escape,” Celestia’s tone turned grim. I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. There’s always a catch, isn’t there?

“And that day was the day of the Summer Sun Festival,” chimed Twilight. Harry and I glanced over to her, nodding in unison.

“Uh-huh… so what umm… what happened then?” we asked in unison.

Sparing you the details, they recounted their meeting one another, and the journey to the old castle in a place called the “Everfree Forest.” Twilight, AJ, and Pinkie told of the various trials that they went through along the way. I would never of thought that Fluttershy would have the courage to stand up to a manticore, when she ran away from me just a little while ago. But who am I to question what did and didn’t happen then?

“And then we all got there, and Dashie and Fluttershy flew up and got the orbs, and Twilight was all “I’m gonna use mah magic” and we were all like “okie dokie” and then Nightmare Moon came and we were all *GASP!* and then her and Twilight disappeared in a flash of light like all “poosh” and then we all ran to one of the towers where we heard Nightmare Moon laughing, and then when we got there, we were all “Grr” and then the orbs flew up and were all “pewewewewew” and then we had these necklaces, and then Twilight went all glowey and was all “Pooooooouuuwwwwww” and then we all shot light from our necklaces and it was all “Pooooosh” and then it hit Nightmare Moon like “BOOOOOFFFFFF” and she was all “Noooooooo!” and we were all like “Yay, we did it!” and then Celestia came out and her and Luna hugged and we were all “Awwwww” and we went back and had a big PARTY!” Pinkie said, acting out every little detail as she hit them. Really nice touch, even making sound effects! I give her an A+ for presentation AND going the extra mile for sound effects…

We all sat there, that is until I decided to get up and start clapping. Everyone looked at me with the biggest wave of confusion on their faces. After a few seconds of being stared at, I stopped and sat back down.

“Sorry, but that was a very good story, and assuming it’s all true, that is,” I said, giving a small smile.

“Well, believe it or not, it happened,” Twilight said, rolling her eyes at me. By this time, Spike had changed his posture completely. What had begun as an angry, cross armed, glaring demeanor quickly changed to one of amazement and wonder as the story was told. He was there for some of it, but when it went into the forest, his face wheeled and changed drastically.

“I hope that answers your question, David,” Celestia said, offering me a warm smile. I couldn’t really reply, my brain was still trying to fully wrap around the whole thing. Eventually I nodded, and almost shut everything else down to think.

“David, I have a question, if you don’t mind,” said a slightly concerned Rarity. I snapped back to reality and whipped my head back and forth a couple times, getting a quick look at my surroundings. Same as it was.

“Oh, right, yes,” I stumbled on my tongue as I was overloaded for a moment. After calming down, I gave Rarity a quick nod and listened for her question.

“Well, it’s just that, you don’t seem like you’re from around here, where do you come from,” Rarity beamed at me. Oh boy, here it comes. I opened my mouth to speak before someone cut me off.

“He doesn’t have to answer that, just know that they come from very far away, and they’re stuck here for the time being,” Celestia told everyone.

“Oh my, you poor things,” We heard Fluttershy chirp out. However, it still sounded like she was whispering. Oh well, as long as she wasn’t cowering from us, I guess that’s a start.

“Yeah, and we don’t have any money on us,” I said grinning sheepishly and patting my coat pockets. I looked around to see some confused faces staring back at me. What did I say wrong now?

“They don’t understand the word, you see, our currency here is ‘bits’ and we don’t usually call it money, we just use its name,” Celestia said, telepathically. Okay, that was just not fair, I don’t know how to thank her back without looking like one of the crazies you’d see arguing with an orange slice.

I looked at her and she gave me a sly wink back. Wait, did she hear my thoughts? That’s all I had to do? Ugh, now I feel like a total dunce.

“Just relax, you’re handling this better than I would expect,” I heard in my head again. Thanks, I guess? Oh well guess I got some confusion to clear up.

“Did I say ‘money’, I meant bits, yeah, we’re kinda dirt poor at the moment,” I said, rubbing the back of my head. Well, we just changed one set of problems for another.

“Well we can’t just send you out into the world, without anywhere to go, and without a bit to your names, come, we shall let you stay with us down in Ponyville, until you get a place of your own, and a job, of course,” Rarity offered, instantly getting up, and making an offering gesture with her fore hooves.

Wait, Ponyville? Did she really just say Ponyville?

Yeah, don’t worry, everypony down there is super-duper nice!

No, it’s not that, it’s just, the name sounds pretty funny, hahaha!

What’s so funny about it?

Hahaha, ahhhh, don’t worry about it.

Ooooookay… OH! You know what this means right?

What? What does it mean?

If you come down to Ponyville, that means I can throw you a super duper huge “Welcome to Ponyville” party! I’ll invite everypony in town and it’ll be great!

Oh. Joy.
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Author’s Note: Pinkie scares me. Anyways, sorry about the end. I would’ve had it go longer, but these two chapters were really just supposed to introduce our main characters to the mane 6… err mane 5/6’s. Anyways, the next chapter will be coming along shortly, and will be longer than these two were.