You are a stallion named Nature Cloud, a Pegasus with a dark green coat and chestnut brown mane and tail. Your tail was of medium length and came to a point at the end while your mane was short but also pointed on the end. Your Cutie Mark was a pair of wings inside a bubble.You earned your Cutie mark whilst in swimming lesson in Trottingham but you never liked it when you started. normally the swimming lessons started with you protesting and your father saying "Everypony must learn how to swim, it could come in handy in the future." But While pre-paring for a big race you pondered why your wings were useless during swimming and you only used your hooves, so during the race you turned your wings sideways and flapped them backwards which in turn propelled you further into the lead and to win the race. After the race your father pointed out your Cutie Mark and you felt ecstatic.
You were originally born in Cloudsdale and moved to Trottingham at the age of five, the only reason you stayed in Cloudsdale is so you could learn how to fly and use your wings properly at the flight academy. You trained your little hooves off you won the “Best Young Flyer Competition.” And the only reason you won that is that you've found out a secret way to train your wings. By swimming underwater using only them.
Once arriving in your Trottingham family apartment (2 bedroom, 1 bathroom)you took time to settle and calm down from the long trip. From the window you could see the Neighagra Falls and parts of Manehatten. You got sent to a new school for ponies your age, the school mainly consisted of Earth ponies and a few Unicorns, you were the only Pegasus. Whilst there you only gained a single friend and kept quietly in between yourselves. doing your work while your classmates got distracted by fillies and prank. You were never one to get involved in relationships. You got bullied everyday by both Earth ponies and Unicorns but you could tell these bullies never wanted a fight as being physically strong with boxing experience and with powerful wings they were no match for you.
Your mother, Flower Cloud. Was a florist who opened a store close to your apartment which sold many varieties of flowers such as roses, daisies and sadly memorial stuff that spelled "DAD" and other stuff like that on, you never enjoyed looking at them. She had a brown coat with a pure blond mane and tail, both of which curled slightly upwards at the end. Although her looks might deceive you, she was a mean filly. She pushed you beyond your limit at the flight academy so much that whenever she came to see you fly you always managed to end up with a sprained wing from her shouting and pushing.
You father, Swift Cloud. On the other hoof who did look like a “gruff” and “manly” pony, but behind closed doors he was the one person to keep your anger with your mother subdued he didn't know why you were angry and you wouldn't tell him so he Took you to boxing lessons to take your anger out on, which helped majorly. As a reward for trying so hard in boxing he took you to the best show in Equestria...The Wonderbolts! thanks to seeing these performers so much you idolized them and your room became a museum for memorabilia. Your father had a dark green coat along with a light brown mane and tail, which were both spiked at the end. Kinda like yours. His job was to manage weather patrols and maintain the clouds, he loved his job like he loved his family. He did not know of the pushing your mother was doing, she never did anything physical but it still hurt you mentally.
After graduating from the most wrenching school in history you decided to follow your fathers hoof-steps and joined the weather team and did a decent job, your pay was pretty good. Once you reached the ripe old age of 22 and after saving all your bits you looked for a place to live. Somewhere quite, new and somewhat the opposite of Trottingham. Yes, Trottingham wasn't that loud or busy but you still felt like it could be quieter. It took you months to find a town that met your standards and that town was Ponyville. The house pricing was on the down low since apparently it had just been attacked by “Discord” who apparently is the god of chaos but you could hardly believe that nonsense. You were hoping for a house with a pool since that’s how you train your wings.
Telling mother and father was the hard part. mother was happy to see you going, though she didn't show it but you knew, while father was practically on the verge of tears watching his little boy “Boggle,” yes Boggle. That was the nickname given to you by your father as your flight speed “Boggled” his mind. Oh Celestia! if anyone found that out you would just die on the spot or run away and hide yourself until doomsday. But his tears had to stop sometime as you closed the door to the apartment and with a heavy sigh, you set of on the road with just a bag of bits and a bundle that contained your family photo and stationary so you can write to them. You'd come back for you memorabilia.
The only friend you made throughout your life so far has been a Unicorn stallion called Magic Field. A Magically gifted unicorn who instead of focusing on what he was learning in school, spent most of it reading about magic and how to control it. Heck even his Cutie mark was a symbol of magic. But after graduation he went up to Canterlot to serve as a magic teacher and in his spare time, a researcher. You and him grew apart overtime but he is still well retained in your memory.
Hope the journey to Ponyville is safe...
Chapter 1 - A Surprise in the Night
“Well this is happening” you say to yourself as you reach the outskirts of Trottingham. Looking back on the town, remembering fond memories. The time you graduated, from the time you made a friend. As you look on with pensive eyes, you can see how busy the town is going to get with deliveries coming up-river and flying taxi carriages everywhere. Is this what i want? what will happen with my parents? i hope they’ll be alright. With a last look back you walk over the hill going the opposite direction from when you arrived in this town. "Well...goodbye."
This route is probably going to be unorthodox, You thought to yourself whilst look at the map of Equestria with your drawn out route on it. It took a couple weeks to figure out the safest route to Ponyville, "since there are very little roads that come from Trottingham and go to Ponyville, i’ll have to stick very close to my route," you said as you thought out loud and poked the map. This route is long and will take at least two days to travel on hoof since you liked looking at scenery and flying would be too fast to look.
You were now closing in on Cloudsdale, or rather closing in on the shadow of Cloudsdale. It had only been half a day but heck, you could see Cloudsdale from almost anywhere in Equestria. To your left you could see Canterlot, home of the upperclassmen and the princesses, high up in the mountains. Shining, gleaming and imposing. The city was a marvel to look at, with spires that almost reached the top of the mountain it was built from and tiny Pegasus pulled carriages in the air going from location to location from within the city. The only reason Pegasus pulled carriage was better is that the air didn't have traffic and was much less busy.
It was now starting to get dark, your favorite time of the day/night cycle. The stars looked as if they had been hoof-picked and placed in their places with purpose. The night's often varied from one to another, some night's you could see patters and some you swear you could see images of some ponies in the sky. Since you had no knowledge of the ponies that showed up in the sky it didn't matter, but it was strange.
You searched for a dry patch of land, since apparently it rain's under Cloudsdale quite frequently. Once you had found the perfect patch of land and gathered up some fire wood you tried to light a fire the "old fashioned way," which is useless. you resorted to flying up and getting a storm cloud, one hoof smack later a bolt of lightning hit the campfire and set the wood on fire. Pushing the cloud aside you began setting up the bed and by bed you meant you bindle pillow and no blanket. Living the life, with a big thump you landed on the ground and started to fall asleep.
As soon as you went to doze off a loud crash could be heard coming from behind you. Jolting awake, with just your hooves for protection, which seemed a good idea at the time but... you learned how to box and only did so in self defense. You probably would be able to see what was making that noise but the fire had died down after a while and you could only see 1 metre in-front of you. "If your here to rob me i'll have you know, i'm trained it twenty one and a half fighting techniques." You lied hoping the pony would buy it and since you added the extra half he would know you meant business. This robber must be clever, as he responded you your blatant lie with a "Help me..." WHAT!? that's not what i was expecting, i doubt a robber pony wanted help robbing me when he would be armed.
The moving and shuffling from the other pony died down so you thought you were alone. Closing your eyes to go back to sleep, after laying down of course. after about five minutes of trying to sleep and still be shook up about the prospect of fighting another pony that doesn't know boxing you felt something warm against you stomach. "I'm not that hungry am i?" looking down you could not only see your stomach but you see the strangest thing you've seen ever travelling the road. A small colt cuddled up against you.What in the world, this has to be a dream. Why would a small colt be out here.
The colt himself was an Earth pony with a coat of chocolate brown and a mane of beige. Strange colour combination but whatever. Guess i'll see to him in the morning, his parents mustn't have gone far. After that you dozed of into dreamworld, hoping no more weirdness would happen.
You wake up once Celestia's sun has came upon the horizon and now beam's of light are starting to hit your face. You open your eyes slowly and wipe away the crust within the corners. The sun's ray's make full contact with your eyes and it earns a squeal in surprise "eep." With your eyes now stinging and the day beginning you swivel your head and neck around to see if you can spot the colt from before. There lays a tiny colt, curled up into a ball next to you. A warm chuckle leaves your lips as you try to get up without disturbing the guy.
The camp was still relatively neat from before except a few branches and leafs of tress are now scattered around and your fire is now just a pile of smoldering wood. By your judgement you estimate it has just gone 6 am going by the sunrise and the sun is now rising slower as time goes by. I suppose I better wake him up, you think with a hint of uncertainty. "Hey little guy, you awake?" you say in a hushed tone and kneel down to his height so he wont be intimidated by you.
The colt slowly stirs from his sleep, doing the same routine you did as you awoke. "Who....who are you," the colt says as he points toward you with a hoof, still shaking a little.
"Me, my little fellow am Nature Cloud. The most talented pony i know" you say. though you don't gloat often you thought now would be a good time to say something good about yourself to give the little guy confidence in answering your questions. "Who are you?."
"Er...uuh...i'm Earth Stopper" he says. You can tell his still shaken up about waking up next to some guy he doesn't know anything about.
You give him a concerned look, "so... wotcha doing out here. When you stumbled upon my camp you were busted up and bruised to hell."
"I...err...well..you see..." with those last words the little colt darted off in the first direction he thought of. Luckily it was towards Ponyville. Yes, you could catch him but no you thought, let him go. It's obvious he wasn't comfortable talking about himself. Going to have to find him once i get settled in, you thought.
Once packed (not that there was much to be packed) you headed out in the direction the foal went. Breathing slowly as you calmly walk your way down the dirt path you looked up to see Cloudsdale. Tough the only thing you could see of it was the floor, which is just a huge cloud and some rainbow falls that came of the side of the mainly Pegasus only city.
Just as the sun passed mid-day in the sky you were on the outskirts of Ponyville. You could see what it looked like from the position of the hill. Straw thatched roof's with a wooden frame and walls, smoke coming out of chimney stacks and a few unique buildings. A giant tree, a carousel looking building and a big gingerbread house. "What in the world is with the strange building's" you mumble out to no-pony in-particular. Just then you swear you could hear a faint scream.
"Looooooooook......OOOOOOOOoooouuuut..." it said before you felt like you had just been crushed by a bear.
"Owww...what the heck" you say as you rub the back of your neck. You try to get up but to no avail, something is holding you down. Opening your eyes you see the second strangest thing you've seen thus far, A Pegasus mare with rainbow hair and a sky blue coat sprawled out on top of you moaning and mumbling to herself. Before you had time to react, she opened her eyes which revealed a lovely pool of pink staring at you.
"uhh...sorry about that dude." she says climbing off you. "I kinda got carried away with a new trick and it got out of control...you know the rest" she says rubbing the back of her neck and looking around nervously.
Getting back to you hooves as your finally able to respond "No problem, I've been hit with worse things. plus i got to meet you didn't i?" you say, oblivious to the fact she was now blushing, "my name is Nature Cloud, what might yours be?"
"My name's Rainbow Dash, winner of the best young flyers competition and future Wonderbolt!" she says with pride while striking a heroic pose.
"Really? I won the best young flyers competition also" you say with a big smile while trying to intimidate Rainbow's pose.
Rainbow starts eyeing you up, as her gaze concentrates on your wings you start to feel nervous. No she's not implying anything Cloud, she is just seeing if you good enough to win. "Well...i guess you could have won but i doubt it" she say's as her gaze finally goes off your wings, which she spent way too much time "analyzing."
"I could prove it to you now, but i have to get going. i'm moving to Ponyville and i don't want to camp out anymore" lightly laughing at the end of the statement.
"Ah well, i don't want too keep you but..."she say's sizing your wings again. "You have to promise to race me sometime" and with that she spits on her hoof and holds it out for you. Disgusting as it is you have to make friends so you spit on your hoof and bump hers. The second your hoof touches hers she nods and flies away within a blink of an eye.
"She's going to be tough to beat" you say with a grin. After watching Dash fly away you turn and scan the town for what looks like a town hall, taking several minutes to look around you spot a very tall building next to the river that looks like a town hall. "Well, i guess that's it" you say as you start to trot up to it. Arriving at town hall a little later and getting strange looks of ponies, presumably because your new. You open the doors and trot inside.
Making note of the secretary you ask her the most obvious question. "Can i see the mayor, i'm looking to buy residence within this town." She snorts a little at your attempt to talk in a very polite accent which she obviously wasn't buying.
"Okay, give me one moment" she says turning around and walking through a door. She quickly returns and says "she'll see you"
"Thanks miss" nodding in appreciation too her. Following the path she took you find your self in the mayors office, looking around you see various diploma's hung on the wall with filing cabinets along the same wall. Her desk was facing the door and behind it was a large window with a view of a farm of in the distance.
"Why hello there, i'm Mare Mayor and i'm the mayor of Ponyville. I just received message from my secretary that you wish to move here?" she says with an inquisitive look.
"Er...yes, Miss Mayor. The main specification i would need is that there would be a pool within the house i buy" you say while gesturing with you hooves.
"Well we just happen to have a house with a pool in, i don't know why most ponies don't like swimming, it's lovely. Anyway the house your interested in is just across the bridge from town hall. It has 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (1 on-suite), kitchen, living-room, pool room with a 15 metre pool and a garden. I hope you will find this to your liking. As for the price... i'd say with stuff that goes on in the town the house should be 2000 bits to purchase and 500 bits a month. How does that sound?" she says that quite calmly and with a hopeful glimmer in her eyes.
"That sound's perfect. Thank you Mayor" you say just above normal tone and grasp her into a hug.
"Yes...well you'll just need to sign these document's and you'll be off. and before i forget. Watch out for a completely pink pony as she usually can tell when somepony is new in town and will throw you a huge party"
"Thanks for the warning Mayor and i will keep a sharp eye out."
After signing the papers and saying goodbye, you're about to take a step out of the town hall as a home owner and you realize. Finally, I've done it. Got a house by myself, going to be living in a new town, hiding from a pink pony as i detest party's and I've made a friend. what can be better than this?
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