Rosario + Pony

Chapter 2

A Party and a Vampire

After Kurumu had gotten over the loss of her boobs, the six of them continued on their way along the forest path. Yukari still couldn’t keep herself from snickering. Kurumu noticed this, but she just let it go. She was in no mood to fight with Yukari right now.

The walk through the forest was quite pleasant. The atmosphere was quiet and peaceful. The wind blew gently, rustling the trees and blowing a refreshing breeze on to their muzzles. The path was clear and straight and led right to the exit.

After about ten minutes of walking along silently, they reached the edge of the forest. Once they saw that they were out, they all smiled, except for Mizore, and galloped forward, out into the fresh air.

Once they were out of the forest, they looked ahead at where to go next. They spotted a small town over in the distance and they were able to make out several ponies walking around.

Tsukune, who was at the front of the group, pointed his hoof towards the town. “Alright, we should first head over to that town and try to get some information about where we are right now.” He then lowered his hoof and turned his head around to look back at them. “With any luck, they’ll know the way back to Yokai Academy.” His face then slumped down a little. “Although, just to be safe we should keep our identities to ourselves. I don’t know how they might react to us being monsters.”

They all nodded in agreement. They then all faced forward and trotted towards the town.

They soon made their way into town. As they made their way along, they didn’t seem to attract too much attention. Their group didn’t look that strange.

The six of them; two earth ponies, two unicorns and two pegasi, looked around at their new surroundings as they walked along. The houses were all made of white rock and thatched roofs. There were many different types ponies walking around; some unicorns, some pegasi and some earth ponies. They were all a mix of bright colours and they all had a picture of something on their flanks.

Tsukune then looked back at his own flank as he walked, and he saw that it was blank. He then wondered why he and Ryō didn’t have any marks while everyone else did. All of his other friends did too and they all arrived here together.

Moka saw that Tsukune was worried about something so she asked him, “What’s wrong, Tsukune?”

Tsukune perked up at the sound of Moka’s voice. He then turned around to face her. “Oh, it’s nothing. I was just thinking about this whole situation, what with us being turned into ponies and all.” He then laughed slightly and Moka joined him soon after. “Anyway, we should probably ask one of these ponies if they know anything.”

Tsukune then looked ahead again, and he saw a pink earth pony walking towards him. “Well, I suppose that she’s as good as any,” he thought. He then walked up to the pink pony to talk to her. “Excuse me, I was just wondering if you could…” but before he could finish his sentence, the pink pony suddenly jumped up into the air and let out a loud and drawn out gasp. She then flew away quickly in the air, despite not having any wings. The group then all looked confused. “Well that was just weird.”

Kurumu walked up beside Tsukune, while keeping her eyes on where that pony had dashed off to. “I know. We don’t know anything about this place and that pony still seemed really weird.” She then stared at where the pink pony had gone for a little bit longer before continuing. “But still, there’s something about that pony that seems familiar,” she whispered to herself.

Once they had all forgotten about that pink pony, they continued on to find somepony else who could tell them something. Tsukune then saw a mint green unicorn, with a blue and white striped mane. She had an image of a lyre on her flank. He then approached her and said, “Excuse me, miss.” The unicorn turned to look at who had just addressed her. “My friends and I aren’t exactly from around here. Do you by any chance know where we can get some information about this place?”

The mint unicorn stared back at him. “Well, you could try the Golden Oaks Library down the street there,” she said as she pointed her hoof in the direction of the library. “It’s in a big oak tree; you can’t miss it.”

Tsukune looked at where she had pointed and then looked back at the mare and smiled. “Thank you for your help, miss.”

“It’s Lyra. Lyra Heartstrings, and you’re welcome,” she said with a smile. She then started to make her way along, but then she suddenly stopped and turned back around to look at Tsukune. She eyed him up and down for a few seconds and then just said, “No, it couldn’t be,” in a flat tone. She then turned back around and walked away.

After Lyra had left, Tsukune looked back at where she had pointed him to and said to his friends, “Alright, let’s head to the library.” They then all headed of in the direction of the Ponyville library.

They soon reached their destination. Lyra wasn’t kidding; the library was actually inside an oak tree. All six of them agreed that with what they had seen so far, this was definitely a strange world. Tsukune then approached the library and knocked on the front door.

A moment later, the door was answered by a small, purple dragon, carrying a stack of books in his claws. He grunted slightly from the weight before responding. “Can I help you with something?”

Tsukune was a bit taken aback at this site. He had seen a lot of strange things in the last two years, but he had never seen a dragon before. After a moment’s hesitation, he answered. “Oh, yes. See my friends and I are new around here and we were just looking for some information about this place.”

“Well then, you came to the right place.” The dragon shifted some of the books in his grasp as he spoke. He then turned back inside the library. “Hey Twilight, could you help these ponies find a book about Ponyville?”

Tsukune poked his head into the library as the dragon spoke. He saw a purple unicorn, with a pink and purple striped mane sitting on a couch, reading a book. When she heard the dragon address her, she looked away from her book. She then placed a bookmark on the page she was reading and made her way over to the door.

“Thank you, Spike. I’ll take it from here.” The dragon then walked back into the library and Twilight turned to look at her guests. “So, you need book about Ponyville?”

Tsukune staggered for a bit. He needed more information than just this town, but he couldn’t tell her that he and his friends were from another world. “Uhhmm, yes. If you don’t mind.”

“Not at all,” she responded. She then turned her head to look into the library and suddenly her horn became enveloped in a magenta aura. Yukari’s eyes lit up at the sight of that. Twilight then turned back around and she was levitating a book next to her, wrapped in the same colour aura that was coming from her horn. “Here you go. ‘A Tourists Guide to Ponyville’. It’s a fantastic reference guide. You should check out the table of contents.” As she spoke, she sounded a bit too energetic about a book. She caught this herself and briefly collected herself. “Anyway, I’ll ring this up for you. Just bring it back before you leave town, okay?”

“Uhhmm, okay,” he staggered again. He then stared at the book hovering in front of him. After a few seconds, he just decided to grab it with his mouth. “Thank you,” he said, though his voice sounded a bit muffled with the book in his mouth.

Twilight stared back at him a bit strangely. “Uhhmm, okay. Well, I’ll see you later.” They both turned around to walk away, when suddenly Twilight remembered something. “Oh, you guys are new in town, right?”

Tsukune turned around to face her, but Moka answered for him since he still had the book in his mouth. “Yes, that’s right.”

“Have you by any chance run into a pink earth pony with a poufy pink mane?”

Moka looked back at her, wondering how she knew that. “Yes, we did.”

Twilight smiled. “Well, then you should definitely stick around for a while. I promise you that you will not be disappointed.”

Moka smiled back at her. “Okay, we will. Goodbye now.” She and the rest of them then turned around and walked away. Twilight gave one last look at them and then trotted back into the library.

The six of them then tried to find some place where they could sit down and read the book. While they searched, they noticed that Yukari was beaming. Kurumu looked down at her and asked, “What’s got you so excited?”

She then looked up at her and said, “Didn’t you see that unicorn? She’s a witch too.”

The six of them later sat together on a park bench and started reading the book that they got from the library. Aside from being mostly about this town, it also contained some useful information about this country. It’s called Equestria and it’s co-ruled by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. The three main types of ponies are unicorns, who have horns and can use magic. Yukari was excited that there were so many other ponies that could use magic like her. There are also pegasi, who have wings and they control the weather. There are also earth ponies, who don’t have wings or horns, but they are stronger than other types of ponies and they have a deep connection to the earth for growing food.

The book contained a lot of useful information about this world, but it didn’t include anything about humans, monsters or Yokai Academy. They had spent a lot of time reading the book and it was now getting late. The sun was starting to go down and the sky looked orange.

Yukari took hold of the book with her magic. She was now able to use her horn just like she would use her wand back at Yokai Academy.

When they were done reading the book, Moka then asked, “What do we do now?”

Tsukune looked at her and then at the rest of them. “I don’t know.” They all looked a bit worried; however, before they could react any further, a grey pegasus pony, with crossed eyes suddenly approached them, with a letter in her mouth.

“Hey, are you the new ponies in town?”

They were caught off guard by this pony’s question. No one responded verbally; they just nodded their heads.

“Oh, good. Here, this later came for you. It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this.” She then leaned forward for them to take it.

They were all still a bit confused; both at this pony’s weird behaviour and wondering who would be sending them a letter when they just got here. Yukari took the letter with her magic, enveloping it in a pink aura, and then the pegasus left. She then opened the envelope and suddenly, confetti shot out of it like a bullet. They were all taken aback by this. “I don’t know how much more weirdness I can take,” Tsukune said flatly. “What does it say, Yukari?”

Yukari then raised the letter to her face and started to read.

New ponies in town ---

Come to Sugarcube Corner as soon as you get this letter. It’s the big building that looks like it’s made out of candy. You can’t miss it. Just don’t try to eat it. It’s not actually made out of candy. You only make that mistake once.

Signed --- A friend

They all looked over the note and they thought that it was really strange. Although, if someone else from Yokai Academy was here as well, they should be able to help them get back. They then all got up and made their way towards Sugarcube Corner.

The six of them then made their way over to Sugarcube Corner. While they were walking down the streets, Tsukune accidentally bumped into a blue unicorn mare with a striped mane that looked like toothpaste and had a picture of an hourglass on her flank.

“Oh, sorry about that. I didn’t see you there,” Tsukune apologized.

The blue unicorn just brushed it off without saying anything. She started walking away, when suddenly she stopped in her tracks. She then turned around to face Tsukune again and she stuck her face in close to him. Kurumu groaned in the background, but the other four held her back.

Tsukune was beginning to feel a little uncomfortable at this breach of his personal space. “So… uhhmm, is there anything I can help you with?” he asked nervously.

The unicorn continued staring at him for a few more seconds and then it pulled away again and walked away.

The five mares regrouped with Tsukune after the blue unicorn had left. Kurumu then said, “Well that was weird.”

“I bet she’s a stalker.”

After a while wandering around the town, they eventually found Sugarcube Corner. The note was right. It was easy to find, as its architecture stood out from all of the other buildings in town. It really did look like it was made out of candy. If not for the warning, they might actually try to eat it.

The Sun had now gone down and the streets were deserted. They were now standing in the closed doorway of Sugarcube Corner. Tsukune, Moka, Kurumu, Yukari, Mizore and Ryō all looked between themselves before they went in. They all nodded and said, “Right.” They were prepared for whatever or whoever was waiting for them in there. Tsukune stepped forward and opened the door.

“I wasn’t prepared for this,” Tsukune thought.

As soon as they had entered Sugarcube Corner, it was pitch black. They all stepped inside and searched around for a light switch. However, as soon as they were all inside and they had shut the door, the lights came on and dozens of ponies jumped out and yelled, “Surprise!”

“Surprise!” the pink earth pony from earlier repeated when she was right in front of Tsukune’s face. This sight made Moka slightly jealous, so she stepped in and gently pushed the pink pony away from Tsukune. She didn’t seem to notice anything off about Moka at all and just continued on, completely oblivious. “Were you surprised? Were you? Were you? Were you?”

“Uhhmm, yeah,” Tsukune responded nervously. “But, what’s the occasion?”

“Well, duh. It’s you guys very own ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ surprise party.” She then threw some confetti in their faces.

While everyone was trying to get the confetti out of their mane, Kurumu addressed this pony. “So…”

“Pinkie. Pinkie Pie; party planner extraordinaire.” She then smiled back at her.

“Uhhmm, Pinkie Pie. You mean you threw this party just because we came to town?”

“Of course. I knew that you guys were new around because I know everypony and I mean everypony in Ponyville, and if I didn’t know you then that must mean you’re new around here, and if you’re new around here that means that you haven’t met anyone yet, and if you hadn’t met anyone than you must be lonely and that made me so sad, so I decided to throw you all a big surprise party to introduce you to everypony. Surprise!” She spoke all of this in a matter of seconds. “Now let’s go.” She then wrapped her hooves around all of them and pulled them into the centre of the room.

Kurumu noticed something strange when Pinkie grabbed all of them. “Wait, did she just…”

Pinkie Pie placed them all down in the centre of the room, where everypony could see them. “Now then, why don’t you introduce yourselves to everypony?”

The six of them all looked a bit embarrassed, but after a moment’s hesitation, they each stepped forward one at a time to introduce themselves.

“My name is Tsukune Aono.”

“My name’s Moka Akashiya.”

“I’m Kurumu Kurono.”

“I’m Yukari Sendo.”

“… Mizore Shirayuki.”

“And my name is Ryō Sakurano.”

After they had all introduced themselves, Pinkie put a hoof to her chin and pursed her lips in thought. “Hmm… those names? Sounds Neighponese.”

Everyone ignored Pinkie’s randomness, and when they had finished introducing themselves, Twilight walked up beside Pinkie. “Well, it’s nice to meet all of you. I never properly introduced myself before. My name is Twilight Sparkle.”

Pinkie once again bounced back to her usual self. “Well, now that everyone knows everyone… Let’s party!” Pinkie then ducked down beneath everyone and reappeared on the other side of the room. She then pulled out Vinyl Scratch. A disco ball then lowered from the roof and they started playing records.

While everypony else in the room started partying, Kurumu just stared wide eyed at Pinkie. “She did it again.”

While the party was underway, the six of them were split up so that they could all socialise with the other ponies. Pinkie led Yukari over to where the other foals were standing so that she could talk to them. She then quickly dashed away so that she could attend to the rest of the ponies here.

After Pinkie had left, Yukari turned back around to face the other little ponies that she was with. There were three of them. One was a yellow earth pony, one was an orange pegasus and one was a white unicorn. She had to admit that the unicorn looked really cute. She also noticed that none of them had a picture on their flank.

“So…” the yellow earth pony finally spoke up. “Nice to meet you, Yukari. Ah’m Apple Bloom. These here are mah friends, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo; and together we’re the Cutie Mark Crusaders.” She shouted out those last three words and the three of them raised their hooves in the air.

Yukari looked at them in confusion. “The Cutie Mark Crusaders? What’s that? And how come you three don’t have any pictures on your flanks?”

“Well,” Scootaloo started. “Like AB said, we don’t have our cutie marks yet, so we decided to form a club so that we can discover our special talents and finally get our cutie marks.”

After hearing Scootaloo’s explanation, Yukari looked back at her cutie mark. “Special talent, huh. Okay, now everything makes sense.”

“Huh,” Scootaloo asked. She then looked at Yukari’s cutie mark. “A magic wand, huh. Is your special talent magic?”

Yukari turned back to face them. “Yep. I’m the best magic user in all of Yokai Academy.” She closed her eyes and placed her hoof over her chest as she spoke with pride.

“Wow, that’s amazing,” Sweetie exclaimed. “You’re still just a filly and you’re great at magic. I wish I was that good at using my magic.”

Yukari blinked at this. “You mean you can use magic too?”

“Well, a little,” Sweetie said as she raised her hoof to her lip.

Yukari stared at her for a few seconds and then she smiled. “You can use magic too, and you’re really cute.”

Sweetie Belle suddenly lowered her hoof again and blushed in embarrassment. “Oh… uhhh, thanks.”

Yukari then reared back and pounced on Sweetie Belle, burying her in a glomp. “I’ve decided then; you’re gonna be my girlfriend!”

Sweetie Belle’s eyes widened. “What!” she squeaked.

Mizore stood near the snack table, not eating anything or talking to anypony. She just stood there, sucking on her lollipop. She then noticed that her lollipop was drying up. She cast a glance over to the snack table and she saw a whole bowl filled with lollipops.

She then walked over to the snack table. She then spit out her lollipop and put a new one in her mouth. As soon as she did, Pinkie suddenly appeared behind her. “So, are you having fun Mizore?”

Mizore, not being taken by surprise at all, just rolled her eyes to glance over at Pinkie and then she just glanced away again. However, Pinkie just moved over so that she was in her sights again. “Aww, come on, Mizore. Turn that frownie upside downie.” Mizore just stared back at her with stoic expression, unblinking.

Pinkie’s face then went serious. “Wow, tough crowd.” She then quickly reverted to her usual self. “Come on Mizore, give a smile.”

Mizore just looked at Pinkie like before and simply said, in a straight tone of voice, “I don’t feel like smiling.”

Pinkie was shocked. “What? How can anypony ever not feel like smiling?”

Mizore still kept her gaze locked on Pinkie. “What’s the point in smiling?”

Pinkie felt like she was knocked back she was taken by so much surprise. “What’s the point in smiling?!” she parroted, only louder. “Smiling is only the most funnest fun thing in the entire world. A smile can always brighten up even the saddest of days. So what do say, Mizore; feel like smiling yet?”

“No.”

Pinkie pursed her lips together again. After another five seconds, she then smiled and put her hoof in the air. “Challenge accepted.”

She then started pulling at her own face, making all sorts of silly faces. However, Mizore didn’t even move a muscle on her face. Pinkie then pulled her face back again and looked serious. “Now THIS might be a challenge.”

Ryō was over by the punch bowl, drinking some punch and conversing with Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash raised her cup of punch to her lips and took another drink. “So Ryō; if you don’t mind me asking, how come you don’t have your cutie mark yet? I mean, you look like you’re my age?”

Ryō was in the middle of drinking her punch when the cyan pegasus in front of her asked her the question. She didn’t know what she meant. She then lowered her cup and asked, “What do you mean?”

Rainbow Dash looked at her quizzically. “Well, I mean, ponies usually discover their special talents and get their cutie marks when they’re fillies and colts. How could you not have yours yet? You a late bloomer or something?”

When Rainbow Dash was finished speaking, Ryō looked back at her bare flank. “Special talents, huh. I guess that makes sense. It must be a pony thing.” She then turned back around and faced Rainbow Dash again. “I’m a girl of many talents,” she spoke with pride.

“Oh,” Rainbow responded, almost like she was challenging her own pride. “You got a lot of things that you’re good at, but you just haven’t found that one thing that you do better than anypony else. I guess I can understand that. Not everypony can get their cutie mark as fast as me. I got mine in ten seconds flat.” She sounded like she was trying to match Ryō’s pride as she spoke.

Ryō giggled a bit at what she said. “You’re pretty funny, Rainbow Dash.” She then lifted her cup to her lips again, however, she was suddenly afflicted by a sudden fatigue that she knew all too well. She dropped her cup and the punch spilled out on to the floor. She started wobbling a bit, but she stayed standing her hooves, barely though. “I guess it’s been a while since I fed.”

Rainbow Dash looked at her worriedly, “Hey, are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine,” Ryō said as she waved Dash off, though as soon as she lifted a hoof off the ground, she almost fell over again.

“Are you sure? Is there anything that I can do to help?”

“No, it’s oka… Wait.” She stopped her thoughts for a moment and looked closely at Rainbow Dash. “Maybe I could get some love off of her. Who knows, maybe she swings that way. I mean, her hair is dead giveaway. But then again, what if she’s not like that? Hmmm, wait that’s it. Actually, there is something you can do.” Rainbow nodded back at her, like she was with her so far. “I need you to close your eyes.”

Rainbow Dash blinked in confusion. “What? Why do you need me to close my eyes?”

“Just do it, okay?”

Rainbow Dash was still confused, but she closed her eyes anyway. “So, what do you want me to do n…” The rest of her words were cut off when she suddenly felt Ryō press her lips up against hers. Rainbow Dash opened her eyes in shock. She was still trying to comprehend what just happened, so it was a few seconds before she pulled away.

Ryō felt Rainbow Dash pull away, but it was alright. She already felt invigorated. Rainbow Dash then blurted out, “What the hay was that for?!” She looked like a cross between angry and confused while she spoke.

Ryō didn’t seem to visibly react to her outburst. She got what she needed. She just simply said, “Never mind,” and walked away with a smile on her face.

As she watched Ryō walk away, Rainbow Dash couldn’t draw her gaze away from her. “Well that was just weird.” She then went to pour herself some more punch, completely unaware that she was blushing hard.

Tsukune, Moka and Kurumu were all standing together, speaking with Twilight and Rarity.

“Kurumu, I must say that you look absolutely ravishing. Is that your natural look or do you style it? Oh, you simply must give me the number of the pony who does your hair.”

Kurumu was honestly having a nice time talking to Rarity about fashion and style. Her other friends weren’t exactly into stuff like that. Looking good is a part of who she is. Succubus powers aren’t always enough. You have to look good as well.

Twilight, Tsukune and Moka watched as Kurumu and Rarity talked to each other. “Wow, I’d say that you’re fitting in here quite well,” Twilight said as she turned back to face Tsukune and Moka. “Although, I can’t say that I’ve ever heard of this ‘Yokai Academy’ that you told me about. Is it a special school?”

Tsukune laughed slightly as Twilight said this. “You could say that.” He then looked serious. “So you’ve really never heard of it?”

“Sorry, but I haven’t, and I consider myself an intellectual.” She blushed. “Err… not that I’m bragging.”

“That’s too bad,” Moka spoke up, sounding a bit disappointed.

Twilight looked back at the two of them. “Well, if you don’t mind me asking; where exactly is...” She was suddenly cut off by a loud roar.

RRRRAAAAWWWWRRRR!!!!

Everypony at the party suddenly stopped what they were doing in response to what they just heard. Twilight had a terrible sinking feeling. “Oh no.”

RRRRAAAAWWWWRRRR!!!!

The roar came again and now ponies were beginning to panic. Pinkie took a break from trying to get Mizore to smile and looked up. “Hey, what’s the matter everypony?”

Twilight was now lost in her own worry. “No, it can’t be.” She spoke so quietly that only Tsukune and Moka, who were standing right next to her could hear her.

Tsukune and Moka both saw how worried Twilight looked. Tsukune then asked, “What is it?”

As she turned to face him, Applejack and Fluttershy both ran up to Twilight. “Hey Twi, that roar; you don’t supposed that it’s really a…”

RRRRAAAAWWWWRRRR!!!!

Twilight looked back at Applejack again. “Yes, it is. It definitely is.” Tsukune and Moka both leaned in closer to Twilight. “It’s an Ursa Minor.”

To be continued…