2 Fresh from the waters

Breeze was numb. He couldn't feel his body and the water was cold. However he could hear ponies giggling in the distance. Giggling and talking to be exact, but he couldn't make out anything. It wasn't long however, before the laughing stopped and he felt himself being pulled out of the water, with wind blowing at him, cooling him further down. Soon after, he was lying on solid ground. As he could open his eyes a little, he was looking upwards, with six spots of different colours blocking the view of the sky. Before he could do anything, he passed out again

The next time he woke up, he could hear a constant beeping sound coming from nearby. The six spots were at the end of the bed he was lying in. As he opened his eyes more and his vision got clearer, he saw the six spots were actually six mares standing at the end of his bed.

"Are you alright?" - came from a purple unicorn with a stripe in her mane.

"I... I am a little woozy, but I do feel okay besides that. Where am I? What happened?" Breeze rubbed the back of his head as he sat up.

"You're in Ponyville hospital. We saw you floating down the river as we were leaving from our party and brought you here," she said.

"Thank you, but why are you all still here?" he asked curiously.

"Oh, we were all worried about you..." came from the yellow mare with pink mane, as she hid one of her eyes behind her mane.

"Why? I must be a complete stranger to you," Breeze was trying to figure out what the six mares wanted from him. He thought it was likely they wanted something in return for saving him.

"A fellow pony's life is important to us, be it a closest friend or a pony we never heard about before," said the purple one with the striped mane.

"I'm Twilight Sparkle, and these are my friends, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie.

"I'm Breeze Wake," he introduced himself.

"Seriously tho', How in tarnation did you end up in the river like that? Seeing a pegasus sleepin' with the fishes is quite the rare sight." Applejack lowered her hat.

"Yeah! What were you doing in the water anyway? I mean, helloooo! Don't you have wings?" said Rainbow Dash

"Rainbow Dash! This poor stallion barely got to his senses and you're bombarding him with questions! That's not how you treat an in-patient! Excuse her, my dear, delicacy is not one of her strongsuits...." Rarity gave a stern look to Rainbow Dash who rolled her eyes in return.

"Hold on a minute there, pard'ner! Breeze Wake you said? Well, I'd be! You're the stallion Babs Seed was talkin' 'bout! From what I heard, you went through quite some trouble to help her catch her train. It was a nice thing to do, not what you'd expect from Manehattan people... duh! Um no offense o' course," said Applejack

"So you were on the train from Manehattan, but what happened?" Twilight raised a hoof as she was thinking

"Well, I-"

"just went into a car and were deep in your thoughts when you saw a ticket inspector coming and you tried to hide in the end of the train but while you were looking around the train ran over a bump on the bridge near the waterfall making you lose your balance and fall down into the river where a rock hit you in the back of the head and then you drifted with the flow until you ended up where we found you?" - Pinkie Pie asked, interrupting Breeze

He was awestruck with his mouth left open.

"Just a hunch though!" Pinkie smiled.

Breeze broke the silence "Wow."

"Don't worry about her, it's just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie. Anyway, you're from Manehattan, right? In that case, we will get you a ticket for a train back when you can leave the hospital. We will even pay for it ourselves. It's the least we can do after you-"

"You shouldn't rush it though," Breeze interrupted Twilight. The six mares quietly said "Huh?" in unison.

"I'd like to take my time and look around here. I haven't been to another town before."

"Well, the nurseponies said you'll need to rest for today, but you can already leave tomorrow. We'll be happy to show you around, right girls?" - asked Twilight

The other five agreed

"I'm sorry girls, but Breeze must rest now, he had a tough day - Nurse Redheart walked up to his bed

"See you later girls" Breeze waved at them.

They all told him goodbye and left.

Breeze just stared at the ceiling, thinking about his past, and what his first day in Ponyville will be like, as the sun was slowly going down. The clean view of the sundown was also something he didn't see before. All these new experiences were signs. Sings of the beginning of his new life.

It wasn't long before evening, as it got dark, exhausted from his day, he easily fell asleep, looking forward for tomorrow... for the first time.