Our World

The next day, the whole group woke up to a faint scream coming from the other room. Hulio and Julie stumbled over things to see what the trouble was. The ponies had already gotten to the situation before they did, though. Fluttershy was crying over the window, her eyes pouring out salty tears as the group frantically came to comfort her. Hulio was the first to speak.

"W-what's wrong, Fluttershy? What happened?" He asked. The yellow Pegasus looked up at him, tears still rolling down her cheeks. She stuttered a bit before answering in a soft yet hiccupping-like voice due to her cries. "I-I saw a man outsi-side...he s-saw me last night wh-when I sang with th-the squirrels and bi-birds..." She stumbled into a long sob afterwards.

Hulio had his mouth open in awe, staring as she cried. Why was she getting so upset about this? Why would she be crying about somebody seeing her?

"Why are you crying about that?" Hulio asked in a soft yet serious voice, letting Fluttershy look up at him in surprise.

"Y-You aren't afraid of me being t-taken apart?" Fluttershy asked with a bit of worry - Hulio realized what he said and quickly tried to re-say what he was trying to say before.

"N-No! I didn't mean it like that, Fluttershy! I meant to say that you don't need to cry over that! I'll take care of everything, and if I meet that man again, I'll be sure to tell him it was his imagination or something." Fluttershy smiled, sniffling as she wiped her eyes and got up to sit on the couch.

Whew, Hulio thought in his head. That was close... The other ponies had faces on that looked like they were thinking the same thing - up until a knock on the door made them shriek. Hulio's face became sweaty, looking between the ponies and the door. After a few seconds he began walking to open the door - the same man from yesterday had a stern look on his face, and Hulio knew he meant business.

"W-Why hello, John! What're you doing he-"

"I don't have time for this! Yesterday, I saw a flying horse with long hair in your backyard! Explain the meaning of this, Hulio!"

"Uh...w-what flying horse? I don't know what you're talking abou-"

"YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, HULIO! TELL ME NOW!" John screamed.

"Oh, that one," Hulio said with a bit of sarcasm in his voice. "I think that one was in my backyard yesterday to give me 3 wishes, then to fly awaaay!" Hulio waved his right hand towards the sky, yet John frowned and grit his teeth before yanking his hand mid-air and pulling him outside so he could come in.

"W-wait! Sto-" Hulio began before he looked inside, and was as confused as John was - instead of pegasi and unicorns, there were pony plushies placed where the ponies used to be. Smiling, he acted as if he were crying, just to let John think nothing was here but plushies and he'd soon leave.

But he didn't.

Instead, he stuck around and messed with every plushie - ranging from messing with AJ's fake, wool-made hat to feeling how soft Rainbow's wings were. When he was done, he jerked his head around at Hulio and frowned even more.

"What's the catch?" He asked before staring at Fluttershy's area. Hulio looked taken aback.

"Excuse me?"

"I mean," John scooted closer, which made Hulio feel a bit uncomfortable. "why were you trying to trick me with that, huh? Why'd you swing that doll over a tree and play a radio with a lady's voice to make me think it was real?"

"Uh," Hulio was trying to hold back a bunch of laughter from coming out, especially because if he laughed John wouldn't think they were plushies anymore. You could practically hear his voice trying to sustain a load of giggles from exploding from his mouth! "because I wanted to play a p-prank on a friend, but you saw it instead!" he lied.

John seemed to loosen a bit before grunting and leaving the house with a slam. He wiped the sweat from his head with the back of his hand before his sister jumped out from behind a couch, making Hulio jump in surprise as his sister trampled him for a hug - he fell over. A bunch of popping noises told Hulio that the ponies were trying to get into the large group hug as well.

A few minutes passed before Hulio couldn't breathe and the ponies let go. Evantually, the group got very hungry and decided to go for a snack - however, Hulio quickly realized all Julie had in her fridge was loads of cake and the apples Hulio brought in.

"Sis, is this all you have?" Pinkie quickly skipped to the fridge before her mouth dropped open wide - all the way down to the floor - and licking her lips as she yanked a cake out a started eating it like a pig. Knowing Pinkie for a few days, he shook his head at his confused and surprised sister, letting her know that it's just Pinkie - Pinkie is just plain random, nothing more and nothing less.

"I still don't understand why she had to eat my whole fridge of cake," Hulio's eyes went wide as she jerked his head around and saw the whole fridge was empty of it's sweets, besides the apples. "Cake hog." Julie muttered.

Hulio looked at Pinkie in surprise - her belly wasn't even full apparently, because her stomach groaned as if she hadn't eaten for months.

"I don't understand either." Hulio said with a laugh as Pinkie licked her hooves.