Chapters I looked around the room in a desperate attempt to find something to do.
"Ugh," I groaned, "I'm so bored!"
It was if my mom had super hearing or something because just as I uttered those words she stepped into the room. My mom's short black and wavy hair rustled with her quick movement, her dark brown eyes looking at me, calculating.
"There are lots of things to do around here," She began. She then started naming off activities I could try on her fingers, though I wouldn't really call them activities for my such interests,
"You could read a book, go outside, clean your room, do more school work..."
I stopped listening after she listed off school work. I thought she was suppose to be listing off things that wouldn't make me bored.
I got up from the couch that I occupied, wanting to stop my mom in her tracks of suggested activities, "Okay I'll try to find something to do," I gave my mom a strained smile, at least she tried.
"I'm going to start by going for a walk," I told her, grabbing my music player and headphones while making my way towards the door, " Be back in a little while."
With that, I had walked out of the house and into the crisp fall air. I inserted the headphones into my ears, connecting them to the music player, then pressed the triangular button that universally meant 'play'.
"Life is boring," I tell myself, "there is nothing to do here. My friends live somewhere else while I'm stuck on this side of the planet!"
I started kicking a rock that was in front of me. "At least my cousin is coming and things are never boring when I'm with my sisters."
I was headed toward the park that was but merely five streets away from mine. The park had a track that I often liked walking around to just think to myself for a little while before entering back into my life with my family. In order to get to this track I had to walk down an alcove that made it seem like an alleyway, though there were two sets of sidewalks on either side of the street, as well as a road separating the two. Bushes cluttered the left side of the street, some nicely trimmed, others unkempt to the point that it made you wonder when was the last time it was taken care of. Though the right side of the street was the polar opposite of the left. All that lay on the right side of the street was a, a bus dropping off kids from school, and brick wall which opened up at points to reveal a field of grass sparsely laden with trees whose leaves were turning a greenish-orange from the fall weather. I decided to take a moment and "smell the roses" as they would say. I strayed into the field between the opening of the wall, away from where I was originally going to go. While I was admiring the trees and their beautiful leaves, someone walked up to me. Sensing this, I turned my head to see a woman with long, blue, ethereal looking hair wearing a blue t-shirt, jeans, and a dark blue sweater; around her neck she wore a necklace with a half moon on it. She looked up at the tree and spoke with curiosity.
"What is it about this tree that fascinates you so much?" Her voice was kind and soft.
"I just like the color of the leaves in the fall." I replied simply. I then turned around and began to head in the direction of the track again.
"Might I join you on your walk?" the woman asked.
I wasn't sure if I was okay with that, she might be a killer or a- "I don't mind." I started to curse my mouth for reacting without my brain.
"Thank you," She smiled and began walking beside me.
"I've had a long day, and being all by myself isn't helping at all."
"What happened?" I asked.
"My sister and I had an argument on something. Afterwards I went to her student to talk about our situation, and when my sister found out what I had done she wasn't too happy," She gave a sigh, "But why am I burdening you with this since we have only just met?"
I shrugged, "Maybe you'll feel better after a joke." I gave her a small smile.
"Go ahead." She said in anticipation.
"This one is my sister's favorite," I cleared my throat, "There are two muffins in the oven, one muffin says 'it's hot in here', and the other says 'AH! a talking muffin!'"
The woman started laughing. She laughed so hard she had to lean against the wall we were walking by to keep from falling over.
"What is your name?" The woman asked once she stopped laughing.
"I'm Joseph." I held my hand out to shake hers, "What is your name?" "I am princess Luna of Equestria, but Luna will be fine." she reached out and shook my hand.
When we touched hands there was a brilliant bright light that blinded my eyes for a few moment. When the light faded, my hand felt like it was burning.
"OW!" I yell.
Luna took in a sharp breath, her eyes widening, "Oh-my-gosh-are-you-alright?" she asked quickly.
"Yeah," I assured her, "It didn't even hurt, it just took me by surprise." I forced a smile. 'That really hurt!' I yelled inside my head.
After she made doubly sure I was okay she said she had to go back home, and looking at the time I should have been heading home as well.
"See ya around." I waved good bye. Luna waved back and started walking away, and as she did something dropped from her pocket. I reached down to picked it up, and upon examination It looked like a bracelet. The bracelet was a pansy purple with a maroon colored jewel in the middle, and eight tiny emeralds evenly distributed among the two sides of it. I look back up and turned my head in the direction of where Luna was walking.
"Hey, you dropped this!" I called out as I tried to get over to her, but the bus from earlier got between Luna and I. When it passed, Luna was gone.
I looked around a bit to find her, but she was nowhere to be found.
'I'll give it back the next time I see her.' With that, I started my trek home again.
Once inside my house my younger sister looked up from her computer.
"Come here!" she exclaimed, "I found this game that I think you'll really like!"
"Nooo," I whined playfully, "I need to sit down, I'm tired."
I trudged toward my room.
"I'll take a shower later," I tell myself with a yawn, "For some reason I'm really tired."
While in my room I take off my shoes and climb into bed, putting my music player on the nightstand. After I close my eyes I felt the cat rub up against me, move across my bed next to my pillow, and I smiled as I went to sleep.
Author's Note
Tell me what you think, comments are always welcome =D
"Hey mister," a voice called out to me,"Are ya okay?" The voice sounded like a country accent.
I blinked, my eyes trying to adjust to the light. All I could see was a blurry image that turned into two others.
"Ya'll go get some help, I'll stay here 'case he wakes up." The voice seemed far off, as if it was an echo.
My vision slowly returned, the blurry images turning into three little girls who were standing over my body. I sat up. The first girl wore blue jeans, with a green shirt, and a bow that adorned her red hair, what stood out amongst her appearance though was her tangerine colored eyes. The second girl had purple hair and lavender eyes, she wore a gray zipped up hoodie and moss green shorts. And the last girl wore a white and pink striped shirt, a light maroon jacket, and a yellow knee length skirt, with yellow-green eyes and a stripped cameo-pink and purple hair.
"Do I have something on my face?" the second girl asked.
"Scootaloo," the third looked over at the girl with purple hair, "Only you could walk around with food on your face."
"Hey!" Scootaloo protested, "whats that supposed to mean?!"
The two started to throw insults back and forth to each other, "Sorry 'bout ma friends," the girl with red hair apologized, "I'm Apple Bloom, that's Sweetie Belle," She pointed over to the girl with the striped hair, who was still insulting her friend, "and that's Scootaloo, It's nice to meet ya!"
I looked over and waved at Scootaloo and Sweetie, "Um... Hi?" I said questionably.
The realization that I was in the middle of nowhere laying on the ground, out side of a creepy looking forest, with three girls that looked like they were thirteen, finally hit me.
"Um, sir?" Apple Bloom raised her finger, "We didn't kidnap you."
"Yeah," Sweetie Belle added, "We just found you lying in the grass here sleeping" she pointed to a patch of grass with the outline of a person.
"What would a kidnapping cutie mark look like anyway?" Scootaloo rubbed her head in thought.
"I don't know," Sweetie remarked, "Who would even do that in the first place?"
"So if you didn't kidnap me, then why was I laying on the ground, and not in my bed?" I asked, "And why are we outside a forest?"
"I don't know 'bout you mister." Apple Bloom replied. "We were gonna go see our friend Zacora."
"What? Does she live in the forest?" I inwardly laughed at my joke.
"She sure does!" Scootaloo exclaims proudly, "And it's not just a forest, it's called the Everfree forest for a reason."
My face turned serious, "Wait... she actually lives in a forest? for what reason!"
"Well, the Everfree forest just ain't natural." Apple Bloom began, "The plants grow on their own."
"The animals are wild, and eat other animals," Scootaloo added, "and the clouds move all by themselves."
"And, um." Sweetie looked to the sky in thought, then back down to me, "What they said," she smiled.
I looked at the forest, fear of the place starting to build, "Doesn't sound like the kind of place I want to live," I turned to the three girls, and looked at them like they were crazy, " Why do you guys want to go in there? I've seem to have forgotten that part."
They were about to tell me again, when a voice from behind me caught their attention, "There ya' are Apple Bloom," the voice was also a country accent, like Apple Blooms, " I was lookin' fer' ya' at Pinkies party,"
"Ah horse apples." Apple Bloom sighed.
I turned around to see who was talking, the girl stood there with her hands on her hips, she had long blonde hair that had a rubber band at the end of it, keeping it from going all over the place and beautiful green eyes, she wore an orange plaid shirt, blue jeans, and a brown hat that I believed was called a stetson. I shook my head when I noticed I was staring.
"And you brought this poor man out here with you too?" she extended her hand out to me, "I'm very sorry sir." she apologies as she shook my hand.
"But sis we were just gonna' see if Zecora wanted to come to the party, and we found this guy on the ground." Apple Bloom said, Apple jack didn't seem to buy her excuse.
In that moment I had a small surge of confidence, "Thay're telling the truth," the blond girl looked at me, her eyes looked like they could spot a lie a mile away, I gulped hard confidence gone, "I was laying here, and they told me that they were going to see, what ever her name was," I said sheepishly, "Sorry, I'm bad with names."
The blonde girl's eyes scanned me, It was as if she was studying me by looking into my soul, it sent shivers down my spine, after a moment her face returned to normal " Well I guess any friend of my sis is alright, it's mighty nice to meet ya', my name's AppleJack what's yours?" she asked,
"My name's Joseph." I asked, a little surprised at her sudden friendliness.
"Are ya new to ponyville?" she asked, "Because if ya are, then y'all are in for a big surprise when you actually enter ponyville."
'Ponyville? who would name a town Ponyville?' I asked myself "Why, what's going on there?"
"Our princess is visitin' ponyville, so mah friend, Pinkie, decided ta throw her a party." Applejack sighed, "Honestly, I don't know why that girl has ta have a reason to have a party."
"What do you mean, 'has to have a reason'?"
"Pinkie can't seem ta have a party, just for the heck of it, don't get me wrong, I like her party's, but there is always some reason for it."
"Wait, so what is this party about?"
"This one is a "Welcome to ponyville again Celestia" party, and everyone in ponyville is invited."
My eyes grew bigger with surprise, "The whole town?!" I exclaimed.
"Yep, and I heard on ma way over here that Celestia's sister, Luna, is in town too."
'If this is the same Luna I met while walking, then I have a few questions for her,' I thought, I tried to think of an excuse to see Luna, and ask her were I am when I remembered, "Can you take me to Luna please, I saw her drop this and I wanted to return it." I reached into my pocket, and pulled out the bracelet, how it got in my pocket I'll never know.
"Well that's mighty kind o'ya, sure I'll take you to her," Applejack looked at her sister, and her friends, " Y'all are comin' along to, don't need you guys runnin' off an gettin' into trouble." Applejack began to walk back in the direction she came from, with Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie Bell, and I following behind, " And ta make sure that doesn't happen i'm gonna leave y'all with Granny and Big Mac."
Author's Note
Sorry for the long wait guys, college was kicking my editors but, and I'm about to enter college
Just a little heads up chapters may be short until I get into the habit of writing. Please enjoy the chapter =D
Applejack and I left Apple Bloom and her two other friends at the front gate to Sweet Apple Acres. I waved good bye to the three girls as we headed down the road in the direction of town.
My curiosity about this place was beginning to grow little by little as we walked along. "What's this country called?" I asked, still gawking at the world around me, "I don't think I have ever seen it on any of the maps of the world."
"Huh," Applejack huffs, "that's funny. Equestria is usually right next to the griffin kingdom." She looked up in thought.
My mind was spinning from all this new information. The fact that I didn't know anything about this place scared me a little, so I tried to get my bearings. "So then which way is it to the United States?" I asked.
"Sorry, couldn't tell ya," I began to sigh in relief at her words, "because I don't know what the United States is." Then, panic built up inside of me again.
Everyone knows where and what the U.S. is. "You know Manhattan right?"
"Ya'll sure do pronounce things funny," she said chuckling. "It's not said man-hat-in, it's manehattan, and it's the stop before Appaloosa."
"That's it," I thought, "My life is over."
"Cheer up." Applejack gave me a smile. "I'm sure the princesses can send you back home." I slowed a little.
"How did you know I'm not from here?" I asked.
She then turned around and smiled. "You can say it's because of all the weird questions ya ask." She chuckled some more, then gestured for me to keep walking. "Now let's get going. Don't want ya to miss the princesses." She ended up getting far enough ahead that I had to jog to catch up to her.
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After a while of walking through the town, Applejack and I came upon a building that looked like a gingerbread house. Inside was a girl with pink curly hair. She was holding a silver tray. Her mouth dropped when she saw me, then she ran off further into the building with the tray. "What is this place?" I asked.
Applejack was about to say something when someone burst out of the building and picked me up in a huge hug, a different voice replacing Applejack's, "Thisplaceissugarcubecornerthemostfantasticalplaceinallofponyville!!"
"Can't." I gasped "Breath!" I gasped out. Right after I said that, I was dropped on my hands and knees, gasping for air.
"I'msorryit'sjustyournewandit'ssoexcitingwhenyoumeetnewpeopleyaknow?" I looked up, still taking in air, to see the girl with pink hair standing over me. She took something from her tray. "Cupcake?" she asked with a beam.
"I'm afraid he's not here for the party," Applejack said. The girl didn't seem to be phased by this. "I know that, silly!" she said, fanning her hand at Applejack, "I just came out here to tell you guys that-" She stopped mid-sentence and put on a helmet that was white with red dots all over it, "-the princess is in another castle."
"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked
"It means she's not here," Applejack replied. She then turned to the girl. "Y'all have any idea where she went?"
The girl gave Applejack a smile, "Yep!" We stood there in silence for a bit. "Well?" I asked. "Well, I can't tell you!" the girl exclaimed. "Why not?" Applejack asked.
"She said that it was a secret and that she was looking for something, but I don't remember what," the girl tapped her chin with her finger. "Well, can't sit around here all day thinking about it. I have guests to host!" She picked me up off the ground and gave me another hug, but this one was a bit lighter. "It was nice to meet you, Joseph! I'm Pinkie. Have a fun time in Ponyville."
She stopped hugging me and started skipping off. "How did she know my name?" I asked, looking at Applejack.
"Little word of advice for ya, never question Pinkie; it just makes life simpler," Applejack smiled at me.
"Oookay?" I still wanted to know how Pinkie knew my name and why we were here. "Now what do I do!"
"Calm down," Applejack said.
"Calm down!" I repeated, now agitated. "How can I calm down when the princess is my only way home?!" I throw my arms up in the air.
"Granny always said, ya can't think on an empty stomach, and the princess might come back to the party, so we'll talk to her when she arrives." She gave me a smile and gestured toward Sugarcube Corner.
"Ok," I said with my head facing toward the ground. "But as soon as we see Luna, we talk to her," I said as I raised my head and pointed at her.
"Deal." Applejack then turned and walked into the gingerbread bakery, with me behind her.
Author's Note
HI GUYS!
I just wanted to let you guys know that in the next chapter of the story I am going to switch from first person to third person. (Maybe after Joseph meets every pony, I don't know.) The reason why I am doing this is because, I have something planned for later that will only work if the story is not told in first person. and it would help me in my class.
Also, thanks goes out to Princess Sparkles for editing this chapter
Luna began her walk from Twiligh's library back to Sugar Cube Corner. 'What is sister thinking?' She asked herself. Earlier that day Luna and her sister, Celestia got into an argument about the safety of Equestria again, and again her sister told her she'll take care of it, 'What kind of princess am I to her?' Luna asked no one in particular. The rant continued on in her head untill she heard what she thought was one, but found out there were two, voices she recognized, they both were coming toward Sugar Cube Corner. Luna ducked behind the wall of a house to conceal herself as she peaked around the corner at the two voices. The owner of the first voice, Luna recognized as Apple Jack, but who was she talking to? Did her sister send a royal guard to check on her? She wondered. It wasn't long before the owner of the second voice came out frombehind the building that was blocking her view of him. The boy had dirty blond hair, he wore a plain green shirt and a pair of jeens. His hazle eyes were looking at Apple Jack as they were heading into the candy house building, containing a party.
Apple jack said something to the boy, then his head looked down for a bit, as it came up from looking at the ground with what looked like renewed determination, replied then they both walked in together.
"Haven't we seen that boy before?" Luna asked herself. She followed the boy and Applejack inside Surger Cube Corner, she had to go in to talk to her sister anyway so why not, she thought. As she walked in, Luna looked to her right and saw DJ-Pon3 in her DJ stand playing music, with people on a flashing floor doing what looked like dancing. Luna thought if anyone came in to the candy house, they wouldn't recognise it, and (to Luna's surprise) her sister was in the DJ stand with DJ-Pon3 mixing music and dancing. Luna rolled her eyes, "The strange habits my sister has" she said with a sigh as she began her walk towards her sister.
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Joseph entered the candied building and followed Apple Jack unconsciously through the crowd, music filled his ears whether he liked it or not, the room was dark except for the flashing lights of the dance floor, and the ball above it, there were two people in the DJ stand, and one was visibly taller then the other, but it was easy to tell that the shorter one was running the show. Joseph was paying so much attention to his surroundings, he ran into Apple Jack when she stopped, she turned and looked at him, "sorry." He said plainly, she turned back around adressing the person in front of her, Joseph looked around Apple Jack at the person. The man was huge, with muscles rippling through his body, the man had blond hair, an earing in his left ear, and a tattoo of a dumbbell on both shoulders, he wore a white tank top, with plane blue jeens and boots. "Do y'all know where I can find Princess Twilight?" Apple Jack asked.
The man though for a moment then yelled "YEAH!" And pointed in the direction behind the counter and though the double doors, that looked like the entrance to a saloon in the western days.
Apple Jack regarded the man again, "Thank you, and can ya tell Rainbow that our re-match will have to wait?"
"YEAH!" Joseph jumped this time, he didn't expect the man to yell his response, 'just a nod or something, but yelling?' He thought.
Joseph followed Apple Jack to the back, they went through the double doors, and entered the kitchen of the establishment. As they entered the room the woman began to face the newcomers who stepped into the room, the woman was shorter than Apple Jack by an inch, her hair was multiple colors of purple that reached down to the middle of her back, her eyes were maroon, and she wore a purple, long sleeved, shirt with a magenta colored star in the middle, which had many smaller white stars around it, she was wearing capris. "Hello Apple Jack, what can I do for you." The woman asked with a smile.
"Good'ay Twilight, " Apple Jack said with a bow, "Have you seen princess Luna today?" Apple Jack asked. The woman, whose name was apparently Twilight was about to answer Apple Jack, when a voice came up from behind her.
"Were you looking for me?" Everyone turned around to see Luna in the doorway to the kitchen, with someone else behind her.
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Luna walked up on stage to her sister, who was in the DJ booth and pull her a side, she returned to the mic for a minute, "My sister shal be right back" Luna said, and went off the stage again. Her sister was still partying, no surprise though, she had a lamp shade on her head, and the music was still going. "Sister," Luna began, "I mu-" her sister held her hand up.
"Hold up," Luna's sister began to touch Luna's face, "this is... umm," she was still touching Lunas face as Luna rolled her eyes.
"CELESTIA!" Luna yelled
Her sister jumped, "Jeez, you don't have to be so loud," her sister said in a whiney voice. Her attitude didn't seem like her, and now that Luna thought of it she didn't recall being four inches taller than her sister. The lamp shade was raised, and under was certainly NOT Celestia, "if you're looking for the princess, she is talking with princess Twilight in the kitchen, and asked me to fill in for her."
"And you have done well," a voice from behind Luna said, she turned around and saw the real Celestia, "I have been looking all over for you Luna, we need to discuss something, Twilight is waiting for us." Celestia motioned her arm toward the other room, as Luna took the lead stomping, she was a little upset that her sister was bringing Twilight into this, the poor girl has already been through so much and needed a break.
They walked through the double doors, and to Luna's surprise, she found the boy from earlier in the room with Apple Jack.
"Well we found her" Apple Jack said with a smile.
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Luna looked at Joseph for what felt like hours, she probably wasn't to happy to see him, "I just have to ask him something real quick," Luna took Joseph aside, "Who are you?" She asked, "you follow me to this party, and now to a meeting my sister sets up!"
It was clear to Joseph that Luna hadn't slept in a while, and she seemed very paranoid, "I'm Joseph, don't you remember me?" He asked, "I have been trying to find you to return this." He reached into his pocket and pulled out the bracelet.
Luna's face softened as she looked from Joseph to the bracelet, then she realized what she was doing. She had accused the boy, of something she only assumed was the truth. And the last time she did that, she was banished to the moon.
Twilight and Celestia began to approach them, "If you don't mind Luna, we have some things we must talk about." Celestia said.
Joseph took that as he cue to get going, but he remembered he was no where near home, Joseph faced Luna "How do I get home from here?" He asked her, "I don't know where I am, and I don't live in this land."
Celestia looked at Joseph questioningly, then she replied to his question instead of her sister, "I'll have my guards escort you to a place you can stay until we can get you home." She smiled at him, as a couple of guards came in and took him out of the gingerbread looking building.
It wasn't that bad of a walk, 'it actually was a nice town' Joseph thought, he was now able to enjoy the sights because he did what he came to do, and he took comfort in the fact that he was going to be going home sometime. He then saw a shadow move out of the corner of his eye, but when he looked nothing was there, so he shrugged it off as nothing and kept on going.
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