A sailor's tale in Equestria

by Cadances Paladin

A place to stay.

Previous Chapter

Jimmothy and Twilight had left the hut in the middle of the forest, and ran straight back for town. Once there, Twilight began to ask herself "Where would be a good place for you? Where.... Pinkie, Applejack, Fluttershy's?" Twilight began, then looked back to Jimmothy "Do you know anypony here?"

Jimmothy facepalmed and said "If I knew anyone here, do you think I'd be questioning this place?" then looked for his phone. He found his IPhone, but soon realized that it wouldn't work with all the water that it was in, so he just put it back into his pocket and kept walking through the town.

Jimmothy and Twilight had walked for what felt like hours, meeting mares and stallions that Jimmothy didn't feel anything good about, and every time the two had walked closer to somepony Jimmothy hadn't liked from the look of them, Jimmothy would ready his cutlass, as he always assumed anypony to be an enemy unless proven otherwise. This was short lived, as Twilight told him to not take it out when they went to the next five places before heading back to her library.

The two had went virtually everywhere! They firstly went to Sugar Cube Corner, where Jimmothy met a crazy pink pony with pink poofy hair, and three balloons on her sides, named Pinkie Pie, who gasped for air when she met Jimmothy, then dashed out of the bakery. "Probably trying to find a place to hide from me... Zecora was shocked when she saw me, who knows about that chick..." Jimmothy thought when he saw Pinkie Pie dash out of the bakery.

They then went to a farm outside of town, and met a family of apple farmers. They met a small filly, with a red mane and tail, the mane held up by a bow, and a light yellow coat, who then in turn introduced Jimmothy to her brother, sister, and grandmother. The pony Twilight introduced Jimmothy too was the little girl's sister, Applejack. Applejack was an orange earth pony mare, with a blonde mane and tail that were both held by red bands, three apples on her sides, like the pink mare from earlier, skin and everything, and wore a Stetson atop her head, symbolizing she was the head of the household. She was... rather annoying, her thick country accent had pushed this onto Jimmothy, and Jimmothy declined the invitation.

They then kept on moving, and met a cyan pegasus with a spectrum mane and tail, who flew faster then a jet! The three talked for a while, but Jimmothy didn't need to decline the invitation on living with the rainbow headed mare, as she lived in a bunch of clouds, something Jimmothy could never do.

Jimmothy and Twilight then went to the edge of a forest, where Jimmothy saw a light yellow pegasus mare, who had three pink butterflies on each of her sides, again skin and everything, who seemed a bit timid of Jimmothy. He tried to talk to the mare, who said her name was Fluttershy, the best he could, but when ever he asked a question, she'd whimper a bit and whisper an answer. Jimmothy decided, though he felt rally bad about doing so, to not live with this mare.

They arrived back in town, and Twilight saw her friend Rarity, who said to Twilight as she walked over to her "Twilight, Darling, how are you? And who's this?"

Twilight smiled at her friend, happy to see another of her friends was happy to meet Jimmothy, and said "This is Jimmothy, I found him back at the lake, passed out nonetheless, and I brought him to my house, then later took him to see Zecora." as she extended a hoof towards Jimmothy.

Jimmothy extended a hand to shake Rarity's hoof, and said "Hi, I'm Jimmothy. It seems no one, not even this 'Zecora' could tell I'm human." as he shook Rarity's hoof "Now, we're looking for a place for me to stay at, till we can find me a way home at least."

"A way home, are you lost Jimmothy?" Rarity asked, as she set her hoof on the ground, then turned to Twilight and said "Also Twilight, he could stay with me if he'd like!"

Both Twilight and Jimmothy replied. "Well, I know one thing, this isn't Earth, my home, so I'm either dead or in a different universe." Jimmothy told Rarity. "Well, Jimmothy can if he wants to... Do you want to live with Rarity, Jimmothy?"

Jimmothy turned to Twilight, and said "I'm not sure, I think I'll stay at the library with ya,"

Rarity raised a hoof and said "Nonsense! you're going to live with me! Besides, Twilight gets busy with her studies everyday, and she needs to focus on them. Well, she says so, but my work isn't as hard as hers! You're going to live with me, OK?"

Jimmothy took note of Rarity's persistence, and said "Well, aren't you a generous soul? Definitely worth protecting and saving my friend! Please, let me go get my things, and then once that happens, we shall depart to your home of residence. Are we at an agreement?" as he stuck out his hand again, wanting a hand shake to symbolize Rarity's agreement to his plan.

Rarity put her hoof into Jimmothy's hand, and for her, even though Jimmothy seemed to be a tough... whatever he is, his hand was soft to the touch, like a foal when you hugged it. Rarity's face turned a shad of red, and said "Well thank you Jimmothy! And yes, darling we're at an agreement." And the group was off to the library.

Once at the library, Jimmothy picked up the things he had with him that were left at the library while he went to Zecora's with Twilight. Jimmothy picked up the one thing that seemed to have com along with him, besides his sword.... his wallet, with everything he had about him in it. "OK, let's head out Ms. Rarity." Jimmothy said, before heading out the small front door of the library.

The walk was long, for Jimmothy at least, since he didn't know where to go, but the Jimmothy and Rarity finally made it to Carosoul Boutique, the place Jimmothy would call home. Rarity opened the door, then walked inside with Jimmothy following her inside. "So, this is your place? A tailor's shop?" Jimmothy asked "Well, beggars can't be choosers all the time."

Rarity giggled at what Jimmothy said, for a reason even unknown to her, then said "Come with me Jimmothy, I'll show you your room." then took Jimmothy upstairs to the guest room, conveniently the room closest to hers, and opened the door, showing the room with just a bed and dresser. "I'm sorry if it's a bit under decorated Jimmothy, I don't get a lot of overnight visitors that stay a while."

After Rarity told Jimmothy the truth, she heard the front door open, and also heard a filly walking in and saying "Rarity! I'm back from mom and dad's!" then went downstairs to greet her little sister. "Sweetie Belle! I'm glad to see you Sweetie. Jimmothy, come down stairs please!" She lastly said to the young male upstairs in the guest room.

Jimmothy walked downstairs, where he saw the alabaster unicorn mare with a purple curled mane and tail with a young white unicorn filly, with a curly light pink and light purple mane and tail, and said to the filly "Hey, the name's Jimmothy. What's your name?"

"I'm Sweetie Belle!" The eager young filly replied, as when she said her name, she also jumped into the air "What kind of pony are you?"

Jimmothy laughed a bit, and said "I'm not a pony, I'm a human. So," Jimmothy continued, before turning to Rarity "What are the plans for today?"

"Well, it's getting awfully late." Rarity began, as she headed for the kitchen "I'll go make us some dinner. Would you like soup, or a salad Jimmothy?" Rarity offered, as she got down the needed ingredients for both soup and salad.

"A soup for me please, never enjoyed eating salads..." Jimmothy began "Besides, I've had soup for the past couple weeks now, being on my ship I had low choices on food, so soup was the major choice. Yeah, so having soup for dinner has become a custom thing for me." Jimmothy said, walking into the living room with Sweetie Belle following him. Jimmothy hadn't been wearing his hoodie this time, nor his shirt, and he just waked into the living room casually, not wearing a shirt at all. Jimmothy also didn't have his sword with him, something that had been a major change for a while.

To be continued...