A newcomer lurksby FelixVerrichtChaptersEnter SnowSurprise partyA day with some colourEnter SnowA loud hissing noise filled the kitchen joined by the presence of steam as the water in the kettle reached the temperature correct temperature. Snow slowly walked over to the cupboard and one by one retrieved; some cheap instant coffee, a small pot of sugar . His house was a mess and he needed to buy sugar again. But disregarding these things he was happy. To other ponies his house would be classified messy but to him it was lived in and very functional. All the composed his house was his small bedroom, a kitchen and the required amenities. His life in Ponyville had been good so far no hitches of any sort. But so far he hadn’t made any friends; otherwise it was nice. He sat down at a small table near the kettle as he sat he accidently kicked his ice hockey skates which were under the table. “Oh yeah that’s right no ice in Ponyville until winter” Snow sighed heavily as he began to sip his coffee. Every week he had to take a train to Ponyval to go skating at their indoor centre. The train fee wasn’t expensive but going on it a couple of times a week was a bit pricey but definitely worth it. Finishing off his coffee he stood up and headed to the front door to walk to the store and retrieve some more sugar. Stirrup Street was as usual bustling at this early morning hour. It may have been a bit odd to other ponies. A young colt such as himself with his own house he did get odd looks here and their probably as for now he was a bit of a shut in. He was a very social pony but was a bit shy when it came to introducing himself. He was so busy with his usual day dreaming that he ran into a certain orange earth pony dropping the small bag of coins under the crook of his wing. “Oh I’m sorry miss I didn’t see you there” Snow said “Aw that’s alright sugarcube , just keep your head on the ground next time you looked like you were day dreaming.” Applejack said with a smile “Yeah I’ve been known to do that from time to time.” Snow said as he continued his route down Stirrup Street. “Hey how come ah don’t recognise.” Applejack queried Snow turned around to face her again “ I’m pretty new in town.” “Well that’s no reason to not introduce yourself” Said with a warm smile “Did yall move in with your parents?” Applejack queried “Heh, well the thing is” Snow said rubbing a hoof across the back of his head. “ I live by myself down the road there.” Snow was almost as tall as Applejack how could she tell he was not older than 16 ? Applejack realising she may have struck a nerve stopped her line of questioning “ Oh okay then. Well don’t be stranger okay. Be sure to say hello.” “Will do.” Snow said waving a hoof over his head as he walked away. “That’s a might odd. Ah’ll have to check in on him.” Applejack quickly snapped back to attention as a customer approached her stall carrying a basket of apples. Snow had spent more time than he had planned to. He’d reached sugarcube corner and purchased what he needed but couldn’t resist some sugary treats as he had a massive sweet tooth. ( Probably the reason his sugar disappears so fast.) With some suggestions from Pinkie pie he tried some of the delicious cakes and other decadent and chocolaty treats. The cakes sure did know how to makes some good, well cake. By the time he got home he checked his watch to see that it was 10:00 AM and he’d left at about 7:30. “Uh oh” Snow was all a fluster gathering up his hockey skates and running down to the station as he might miss his train if he didn’t hurry. As he rushed down he collided into a purple unicorn that was absorbed in a book. His hockey skates flew into the air and landed their laces getting tangled around her horn. “Oh god I’m so sorry.” Snow apologised for running into someone for the second time today “That’s perfectly alright” Twilight said staring at the tangle around her horn. “Hey these are ice skates aren’t they ?” Twilight said quizzically. “But what’s with their funny shape?” “What do you mean” Snow said “Shouldn’t they have a spike here?” Twilight said pointing towards the front of the skate that was exposed due to the covers falling off in the collision. “Oh. You’re thinking of figure skates. I have hockey skates they’re slightly different the blades aren’t as long and you can’t do as many jumps with these.” “Hmm interesting you’ll have to show me some time. Uhh wait who am I speaking to?” Twilight couldn’t see Snow behind the skates draped over her face she was confronted by the 16 year old colt with a multi coloured main and a dark blue coat. “I’m Snow.” He said before realising his train was leaving the station. “Blast!” “Well it was mighty nice talking to you but I gotta fly.” Snow quickly grabbed up the four hockey skates by the strings holding them in his mouth as he took to the skies hopefully he would get there in time. “Guh fhy dedn’t I fly to skhating behure.” Snow said face hoofing. He was easily getting there before the train would so he definitely wouldn’t be late. Both Applejack and Twilight met each other after their mishaps with the newcomer to town. “Hey Twi.” Applejack said “have you seen this new fella bout town, he’s bout yay high with a dark blue coat.” “Yeah I ran into him at the train station and he was carrying some odd looking ice skates even though it’s not winter very odd. “Twilight said with a quizzical look. “Yeah ah say we give him a visit. Even though he’s so young he lives by himself. Which is rather odd?” “Excellent idea it’s time to quiz this newcomer to town. But where does he live?” “That new house that sold down the road he said he lived near the end of Stirrup Street.” “Alright then we’ll pay him a visit.” Snow had tired himself out after skating he had returned home at about 4:00PM after a couple of hours of skating. He still had some ice in his mane and had some wet spots and small grazes on him from falling over on rough ice after being dared to do a cartwheel by one of the better skaters there that could do one which he still marvelled at the ability to pull on off. He could have easily done something more impressive by using his wings but it didn’t feel right to use them. And he was the only pegasus that ever went there but regardless he was welcomed into the group of people there and he still has friends there so he didn’t feel quite so estranged as he did in Ponyville. He was flying over ponyville but he was too exhausted to keep going so he landed at least two blocks from his house. He quickly threw his skates which were dripping with water from the recently melted ice over his shoulder. He slowly walked to the door and reached for the key finding out that it was already unlocked. Snow shrugged “I’m forgetful sometimes forgot to lock the door.” As he walked inside he noticed another peculiarity the lights were on. When he reached the dining room he was greeted by Twilight and Applejack. Much to both of the mares surprise he walked past them and grabbed and rag to dry off his skates with. After he’d finished he turned and issued the two mares. “Well what can I help you two with?” Snow said hitting the button on the kettle. The two mares looked him over with quizzical looks he had small grazes here and there and had water on him. The first question was issued by Twilight “Well things with you seemed a bit out of place to the two of us so we decided we’d come and ask you some questions.” Snow opened his mouth and let out a long yawn “shoot” he said grabbing a mug out of the cupboard and putting it down next to the kettle. The sugar was there and so was the coffee from this morning. He grabbed the coffee and put it away and replaced it with some tea. Applejack was the first to question Snow “Where are your parents. This morning you said you lived by yourself but you couldn’t be any older than 18.” “My parents are in Canterlot and you’re right I’m only 16 years old but I decided to move out here to; well it may be my sense of adventure or pursuing my future ambitions I’m not really sure. My parents were totally alright with it it’s just sort of a choice.” “There must be more to it than that.” Twilight persisted “Well I didn’t really fit in at school I suppose. I was never really myself always pretending to be someone else. Most people in my class earned their cutie marks years ago but I only earned mine recently as I was pretending to be someone I wasn’t instead of pursuing things that interested me.” “And what’s with the ice skates there’s no ice until winter.” Twilight said firing off another question. “You’re right so I went to Ponyval to their indoor ice skating centre.” Snow said shaking some ice out of his mane. “Actually that’s where I earned my cutie mark ice skating. I found I had a real flare for ice skating and I only started last year that’s when I earned my cutie mark right there on the rink.” Snow began to pour the drink as both the mares gave each other these dumbfounded looks. “So no dark history?” Applejack said “Nope” “No running away from your family?” Twilight said “Not really just a feeling of social awkwardness then finding friends on the ice and finding my special talent. So I didn’t really feel I needed to stay in Canterlot and there’s not much to do there. Sure it’s fun for occasional visits but living there isn’t so great.” “Well don’t we feel a might silly setting this whole thing up.” Applejack said looking rather embarrassed. “Yeah sorry about this Snow” Twilight said with the same look “That’s okay. Well one good thing came out of this.” “What?” Both the mares said in unison. “I met some nice ponies. Things are looking up I’ve already made friends.” Snow said with a smile. “ Aww thank you Snow that’s mighty nice of you.” Applejack said wrapping a single hoof around snows neck. She quickly came into contact with a wet patch on his back and pulled back a bit. “Oh yeah ice skating isn’t exactly safe or clean so I have some scrapes and bruises from someone daring me to cartwheel.” Snow said with an awkward smile. Ignoring the wet patch Applejack just put her arm back down. “Well this has been a bit awkward and unnecessary. Sorry if we caused you any inconvenience Snow.” Both of the mares started heading towards the door leaving Snows cluttered home. “Oh and my names Snow Star. I’ll see you two around okay. I’ll try catch up with you tomorrow.” “That’d be nice Snow see you tomorrow.” Twilight said “Oh and Twilight is there a book store or a library around here when I left home I didn’t grab any books.” “Sure swing by the library tomorrow. It’s the big tree in the centre of town.” “Okay thanks bye” “See ya Snow” Applejack said exiting the building. “I’ll see you early tomorrow okay Snow” Twilight said. “Okay see ya.” Surprise partyChapter 2 surprise party Okay first of all this isn’t going to be an epic or anything, maybe in the future when I actually have some good ideas for a plot line but for now just my imagination running wild with potential ideas and some other things. And this is meant to be sort of a life in Ponyville story a plotline may come along as I continue but for now just an awkward pony meeting friends. Anyway welcome to chapter two. It was very early morning, the first glimpses of sun seeping through the window, the sound of a rooster cawing could be heard even this far from the farms. It was taking Snow a little while to adapt to this early waking habit but it wasn’t all bad. Snow rolled off the bed to get up and clean his face but as he rolled to the edge he collided with a pile of boxes sending knick knacks flying. “Perfect” Snow said with a less than pleased look on his face “I really need to unpack everything and tidy this place up.” But that would have to wait he had an appointment today he was to meet Twilight and retrieve some reading material. Unbeknownst to Snow he was in for a surprise when he reached the library. Pinkie pie being Pinkie pie had organised a party for him in the library complete with confetti cannon. But Twilight interjected when Pinkie was setting up. “Uh Pinkie I realise you want to throw him a party because he’s new but he’s a little shy and a surprise party may not be best.” “Gee you’re silly Twilight there’s nothing that makes a pony feel more welcome than a party. One with lots of confetti.” Pinkie said opening another packet of the colourful streamers and tossing them around Twilights nice clean library. The idea of a party had spike positively giddy, it meant he got to eat cake and other assortments of sweets without Twilight getting mad at him. “Ohh Pinkie are you going to bring some chocolate cake in?” Spike said trying to hold back a torrent of drool dripping from his mouth. “Spike!” Twilight said disapprovingly using her magic to grab a cloth to wipe his mouth up. “ You can be really messy sometimes.” But Pinkie had ignored the question and continued organising food and fixing balloons to chairs. “I need this party to be as good as the one I threw for you Twilight. Minus the incident with the hotsauce.” The mere mention of that incident made Twilights tongue burn. A loud knock came at the door of the large tree/library. “Oh goodie” Pinkie said jumping with glee towards the door. “That must be everypony else.” “You didn’t invite the whole town did you Pinkie?” Twilight said with a worried look. “Of course not you said he was rather shy so I just invited our friends.” Pinkie said with a smile opening the door. As Pinkie opened the door she was greeted by a conjoined hello from everypony outside. Applejack was last to enter as she was carrying some party supplies that Pinkie had requested. “There you go” Applejack said with a sigh putting the party supplies down. “So what or who is this party for?” Asked the cyan Pegasus known as Rainbowdash. “Yes I have to agree with Rainbow on this one even though I enjoy your parties as much as the next pony this one seems to have sprung up out of the blue?” Queried Rarity. “Yeah, actually Pinkie how do you know about the newcomer?” Applejack asked. “Newcomer?” Fluttershy, Rainbow and Rarity said in unison. “Yeah isn’t it great a new pony in town. Well Twilight I was working in sugarcube corner yesterday and a pony came in I hadn’t seen before he just came to purchase some sugar and was obviously a bit lost. But I sold him some sugar even though it isn’t supposed to be sold. But he was nice and all very courteous and he kept eyeing some of the baked goods in the window so we started chatting I suggested some of the delicious treats the Cakes make and he loved them he bought a couple and left.” “Oh okay makes sense” Twilight said looking a bit perplexed “Get a move on everypony we have to make this a good party to make our guest feel welcome.” Applejack said in her loud voice. There was a lot of bustling and a bit of franticness as everypony got everything right by about 8:15 everything looked ready to go and all they needed was for their guest to arrive. Twilight had been designated as lookout for when Snow was heading down the street towards the library. Snow didn’t realise exactly what was going to happen when he reached the library he thought it was going to be like the Canterlot library. Quiet, people telling you to be quiet at the slightest noise you made, even if it was an accident. Not realising there was a party of ponies waiting for him he was taking his time. Enjoying his breakfast, a cup of tea and one of those delicious pastries he’d bought from the shop earlier yesterday. Behind him on a pile of haphazardly stacked boxes sat a clock which read 8:20. “ Uh oh” Snow said through a mouthful of apple and pastry I’m meant to meet Twilight at the library at 8:30. “Better get going.” Snow gave a quick gaze around the room looking for his roller skates but they were nowhere to be seen “probably still boxed up” he said rolling his eyes. He looked back at the pair of wings sitting on his back “well I don’t use my wings as often as I should might as well.” It wasn’t that Snow was a weak flyer or anything it’s just he never really used his wings but when the time called for it he was a decent flyer. His father was a Pegasus so he taught him everything he knew but his father could never quite fathom Snows love for ice skating and roller blading. Either way Snow might be late, and he hated being late for anything he was pedantic about punctuality. So he quickly finished his food and headed out the door remembering to lock up this time before he left. Like yesterday Stirrup street was bustling with busy ponyvillians( Couldn’t decide if it had an E or an A. Went with A so it looks like pony villians. Anyway.) peddling their wares. Today the street was lacking an applecart “ must be Applejacks day off” Snow said with a shrug. The library wasn’t as far as Snow had thought about a 5 minute fly above the sort of main sort of shops in Ponyville. Snow landed just outside the library and knocked on the front door, there was no reply from inside “hello?” Snow said gently nudging the door open with his nose. The library was dark he kept walking until he reached the centre of the room as the lights flicked on and Applejack and Twilight and several other ponies unknown to him jumped out from behind tables that had all sorts of treats on them and yelled “Surprise!” in unison. At the same time he was blasted with a 5 foot long cannon that shot confetti the blast sent him rolling into one of the bookshelves. “Hi there” Snow said rather sarcastically “Sorry darl” Applejack said “this here party was Pinkie pies idea she throws parties for every new pony.” Applejack continued and gestured towards the pink earth pony standing behind the cannon. “Hey didn’t I see you at that bakery yesterday?” Snow said his head still spinning slightly from the impact but he could make out the fuzzy pink mane and coat and the over exuberance. “Yeah you were the silly billy buying sugar from the bakery.” Pinkie said with a large smile “Oh yeah.” Snow pushed himself up and stumbled around on his back hooves for a sec before returning to all fours and looking around the room. “Okay so I recognise you Twilight, and you Applejack, and misses confetti cannon over there, but who are the rest of your friends. I recognise them but very vaguely. Hmmm” Snow scratched his chin with one of his front hooves. “Ah now I remember.” Snow said pointing at Rainbowdash “You were one of the competitors in the best young flyers contest in Cloudsdale.” He announced triumphantly “Oh wow someone who actually recognises me.” Rainbowdash said a touch of pride in her voice. “I wasn’t too interested in the whole contest but my dad made me come along. But it wasn’t all bad I suppose.” “The rest of you, nope. Maybe from somewhere it’ll come to me later” Snow said scratching a hoof across the back of his head. Snows face had a look of awkwardness like last time Applejack and Twilight talked to him. Applejack nudged rainbowdash and gave her a look and to the others to introduce themselves. They all came around and shook hooves with the newcomer. First Rainbowdash. “Hey their names Rainbowdash we should talk flying later.” “Okay” Snow said looking awkward again. Next was Rarity she came around and very delicately shook his hoof. “It’s nice to meet you my names Rarity.” The white unicorn said accentuating the Rs in here name. “Oh dear” Rarity said “What?” Snow replied “Your coat you’ve got grazes everywhere.” “Oh yeah that. Ice skating, things happen.” Snow said very nonchalantly “Oh no dear we can’t have this” said Rarity trying to tend to the very small wounds. “Come on Rarity move it along.” Applejack said shoving her out of the way. The next one to come up was just as timid as and even shier than Snow. Fluttershy came up shook his hoof and whispered her name very quietly “I’m Fluttershy” “I’m sorry could you please repeat that” Snow said in a voice almost as quiet as Fluttershys “I’m Fluttershy.” She said a bit louder. “Hey names Snow Star” Snow said as Fluttershys hoof dropped to the ground. “It’s time for a party.” Pinkie pie said from somewhere behind Fluttershy popping some party poppers and turning on some loud portable speakers. As everypony started dancing Snow walked over to a small chair next to the food table and sat down he started nibbling on bits and pieces of food sitting by himself. After a while Pinkie noticed the rather glum looking Snow sitting by himself she walked over “what’s wrong Snow?” “Oh nothing you keep having fun.” Snow said waving a hoof. “No tell me.” Pinkie persisted. “I’ve never been to a party in my life.” Snow said with a shrug. “Nobody really invited me to their parties, never danced before. Not that I didn’t have birthday parties I’ve just never been to a party like this one actually thrown for me. Only parties have been birthday parties which I usually did what I’m doing now as I didn’t feel welcome. ” “Well it’s different now come on I’ll help you.” Pinkie pie said pulling Snow out of his seat and to the dance floor. When they reached the dance floor Snow just stood there frozen and looking awkward as the other 5 ponies danced around him. “ Come on Snow just go with the music. Just think if it as ice skating go with it.” “Ok that’s easy enough.” Snow said looking down at his hooves. “Just go with it” he reassured himself. Snow began to slowly do some spins he found familiar when he ice skated and went from there and slowly he got into the swing of things and began to genuinely enjoy and for the first time in years a real smile spread across his face. “There you go” Twilight said to him. And for the first time in years he actually laughed. ‘Actual friends’ Snow thought to himself. ‘ And for the first time in years that mask he’d worn pretending to be someone else had slipped somewhat revealing the true Snow. A day with some colourChapter 3 A day with some colour Wow I really am powering through these chapters. 2000 words for each one and the other kids in my English class are complaining about a 1000 word assignment we have to do. (Uh oh was meant to work on that. Oh well procrastination wins this round, and many other rounds before and after this, oh well.) Umm this chapter I suppose I needed to establish some sort of back plot for Snow. You know why he’s shy maybe why he doesn’t fly as much as he should. I don’t know enjoy chapter 3. Rewatching the whole season one while I’m writing the last bit of this. YAY! It’d been a week now since Snow had arrived in Ponyville. Things had gone without a hitch. Except for a minor incident involving a surprise party and confetti cannon. Snow was still pulling the occasional confetti square out of his mane two days after the party. Snow was again lying in his bed this morning he’d decided to ignore the cawing of the rooster and sleep in a little. The comfort of his blankets and mattress were very convincing to make him stay in bed but his dreaming and comfort was disturbed by a knock on the door. “Uh who could that be” Snow said through a yawn. He managed to get his footing after rolling out of bed and stumbled to the door bumping several things on his way. He quickly reached down and opened the door, bad idea, the combination of a head spin and looking at the sun after being in darkness for hours disoriented him to the point where he lost his balance and fell backwards nearly hitting the table. As Snow lay there rubbing his head he could hear laughter coming from the door way, he recognised the voice, Rainbowdash. “Gee you sure are clumsy” Rainbow said hovering over him still giggling “Haha very funny” Snow said with a less than pleased look on his face combined with a sort of half smile. “And what are you doing knocking on my door at this early hour?” He said slowly regaining his footing. “Oh you being a sporty sort of Pegasus and all I thought you’d like to help me clear the skies this morning?” “Sure, but just so you know I don’t fly much.” Snow said giving Rainbow a sort of half smile. “That’s okay I’ll teach you.” Rainbow said wrapping a hoof around his shoulder. “It’s not that I’m a bad or weak flyer I just don’t fly much. My dad taught me everything he knew about flying from when I was a little kid until I got into ice skating.” “Oh okay well then you should be alright. “ Rainbow said bolting out the door. “Are you coming?” Rainbow said peeking her head back in the door. “Alrighty then let’s go.” Snow said following her out the door and taking to the skies As they reached a decent altitude Rainbowdash gave Snow some instructions. “Okay Snow you go and get those cumuli out of the way and I’ll take care of the stratocumulus.” Snow gave a mock salute which was returned by Rainbow as they went off in opposite directions to take out the clouds that were cluttering the sky. They both returned to the small cloud they had been sitting on maybe an hour later. Rainbow was the first to arrive, “Feew that was a good exercise got all the clouds in record time.” Rainbowdash said wiping a couple of beads of sweat of her forehead with her hoof. “Hmm wonder where Snow is?” She said gazing out into the now clear sky. Her answer was quickly answered as Snow came rocketing through the sky next to Rainbow smashing through one last stray cloud that was slowly floating past. “Got the last one.” Snow said with a smile and a nod. He turned around to see Rainbow sitting on a cloud with a smug smile on her face “you’re quite the flyer Snow.” She said flying over to him and putting a hoof on his shoulder “I haven’t flown that hard in a while I’m glad I haven’t lost my touch.” He said with a smile “Why don’t you fly more often then?” Rainbowdash said with a quizzical look as they sat back down on the cloud. Snow gave a shrug “not sure, I like going fast and everything but, I really just don’t know I just never did. Much to the dismay of my father he wanted me to be the best but instead I took to other things that kept my hooves on the ground.” “So that’s really it you just didn’t, there must be something else?” Rainbow said pushing the subject “Well..” Snow said rubbing a hoof across the back of his head. ‘I’m surprised that pony hasn’t scratched a divot into the back of his head’ Rainbow thought to herself. “Come on spit it out” Rainbowdash said slight irritation in her voice. “My dad didn’t teach me from the beginning the first people I was taught by were the pegasi at the Cloudsdale flight school. In my early years I flew heaps until an accident occurred. I was flying at full pelt like usual weaving between clouds and other ponies but I didn’t see a large brute of a pony, I ran into him and knocked him out of the sky and he really didn’t appreciate it. He beat me, and broke one of my wings. He was never seen again and I left Cloudsdale my parents encouraged me to go back but I was afraid of flying for years I only regained my nerve about 6 years ago. My dad put me through intense training flying every day so I sort of lost my love for it at that stage as he forced me. I was forced to do that for four years then I found ice skating and found my cutie mark there.” Snow winced as if he was feeling what he was put through again. “I’d been going to school the whole time I was doing this training. But I was the only Pegasus in my class at Canterlot I passed all my classes with flying colours and tried blending in with group never being myself hence why I only earned my cutie mark last year. So I left I wasn’t enjoying Canterlot one bit so I wanted a fresh start.” Rainbow has a look on her face as she mulled over the information Snow had given her. “Well no wonder you never liked flying I was always teaching myself most stuff I wanted to know and I didn’t break anything till this year. So I suppose I’m lucky compared to you.” Everything went pretty silent after that Snow had opened himself to a mare he barely knew but he felt closer to her all the same. ‘This must be what real friends are like I can tell them anything and never be ashamed’ “Let’s get something to eat” Snow said “Definitely I’m starving” Rainbowdash said her stomach rumbling “I got some food back at mine. Let’s go grab some then I don’t know just hang out I suppose.” Snow said shrugging. “Sure sounds like a plan to me” Rainbow said jumping off the cloud. “Follow me.” Said Snow They reached snows house relatively fast they landed Snow turned the knob and they entered the house. Not watching her footing Rainbowdash stepped on a dustpan and brush losing her footing and careening into a pile of boxes sending another stack of thingy flying. Rainbow had a less than pleased look on her face as she blew a tea towel out of her face, she looked down to see four shoes sprawled across the floor in front of her with wheels attached to the bottom. “Hey what are these Snow?” Rainbowdash asked as Snow walked around the corner with some assorted bit of food on his back. “Hmm. Oh you found them. Those are my rollerblades I’ve been looking everywhere for them.” As he said this he placed the food down onto the table and walked over cleaning up some of the spilled items. “What do you do with them?” Rainbow said standing up and shaking herself off “You’ve never seen rollerblades before?” Snows question was met with a blank look from Rainbow. “They’re pretty much just ice skates but with wheels here let me show you.” Snow fiddled with the skates for a while sliding them onto his feet, tightening the laces and doing up the clips. He walked to the front door and started rolling around on the small paved area out the front of his house. “See like ice skates” “Ah I getcha now.” Rainbowdash said watching him roll back and forth on the pavement. “Good but nothing compared to flying.” Rainbow said leaping into the sky “Hmm” Snow said observing his surroundings he noticed several miscellaneous object making a sketchy ramp sort of aiming at Rainbow. Snow began picking up speed he came around in a sharp turn and went full pelt at the ramp. He hit the ramp at amazing speed and did a horizontal spin over the mare who could only gape now as Snow landed gracefully on the other side of her. “Okay that’s pretty cool” Rainbowdash said shaking her head in disbelief “Well not according to my dad he despises them, I had to scrounge money by doing odd jobs for neighbours to buy these.” Snow said looking down at his skates. “Same with my ice skates. My ice skates and my roller blades are getting too small. These are beginner’s roller blades and same with my ice skates. But I don’t have any money to buy them so I kind of need a job.” “Wow so you’re that good on roller blades and they’re only beginner ones” Rainbow said incredulously. “Yeah but that was probably the only aerial trick I can pull off. And I’m a lot better on my ice skates than I am on rollerblades.” “Well I’ll have to come see you ice skate some time” Rainbow said her jaw hitting the ground “Well then we’ll just have to see if you’re any good at skating as you’re extremely good at flying.” “Thank you Snow you’re not so bad yourself. But let’s just hope I’m not as bad as Twilight with ice skating.” Rainbow said suppressing a snigger. “Twilight doesn’t strike me as the skating type?” Snow said sitting down and undoing the laces on his skates. “She’s not during the winter wrap up she tried helping Pinkie who was scoring the lake and Twilight tried helping her and she failed hard.” Rainbow Dash started laughing again as she recalled the skating incident. “So Pinkie is a good skater?” “Yeah she is but she does all the frufruey twirling and what not.” Rainbow said sticking her tongue out. “Ah a figure skater. I do hockey skating which mostly just speed, turns and cool stopping.” “Definitely got to see that” Rainbow said keenly “Alright next time a session is on I’ll get you in. And you won’t have to pay a bit I’ve done some favours for some people there and they felt it appropriate after all the times I’ve gone that me and any friends I have get in for free.” Snow said smugly. “Never gotten a chance to get a friend in for free until now.” Snow said looking down sadly. “Better get used to it.” Rainbow said punching one of his front legs. A big grin spread across Snows face as he sat there talking with Rainbowdash. They were both rather athletic ponies. They started talking about other sports aswell apart from skating and flying. Rainbowdash was quite the ball player she is very adept at any sport that involves a ball like soccer. “So Rainbow you ever played Volleyball?” Snow said waving away a fly “Yeah I have that’s why I’m so good at juggling a ball.” Rainbow said standing up on her back hooves. “Well then how about we get us a game together just a little 1v1 between friends.” “alright you’re on” Rainbow said with pride. After an hour of searching around Ponyville for a ball and getting themselves a net the two ponies set up in town square which drew the attention of several other ponies. Snow wasn’t very comfortable with every one watching but he just tried to ignore them he hadn’t played a game of volleyball in ages. Even though Rainbowdash may have experience on him he still liked his chances against the mare. The first to serve was snow he walked to the back corner of the roughly drawn court and stood on his back hooves. “Here comes the serve” He said trying to intimidate Rainbow. He threw the ball into the air and hit it as hard as he much to Rainbows surprise it went rocketing into her side of the court and he scored the first point of the match. A smile spread across snows face but displeasure spread across Rainbows. As Snow served again it was quickly hit back by Rainbow since they only had one person on each team they were allowed three hits each when it was on their side. A rally went on for a while them constantly returning the ball to each other’s side until finally Rainbow spiked the ball and scored a point now it was her serve. They were playing for about ten minutes before Snow realised they had drawn a rather large crowd with their little competition. The match went on for hours several hard out rallies Rainbow had amazing spiking but Snows defence could hold it off. After about an hour the match came to a close with Rainbowdash winning by one point. “That was a great game Dash you gave me a real run for my money.” Snow said panting “Same here Snow I didn’t think you’d be that good. You didn’t look that athletic to me but hey looks like I was wrong.” Dash said likewise panting. “Oh and I’m going skating on Friday if you want to come but if you have another appointment I won’t mind.” “Hey Snow I’ll come I never leave another pony hanging. Never have never will." Dash said slapping Snow on the back. 'Hmm Snow thought I've never really had a friend I could entirely trust. They'd always tell me it was alright to come over or something along those lines then tell me I couldn't. A friend I can really trust for the first time' A wide genuine smile spread across Snows face as the two began disassembling the volleyball kit.
Enter SnowA loud hissing noise filled the kitchen joined by the presence of steam as the water in the kettle reached the temperature correct temperature. Snow slowly walked over to the cupboard and one by one retrieved; some cheap instant coffee, a small pot of sugar . His house was a mess and he needed to buy sugar again. But disregarding these things he was happy. To other ponies his house would be classified messy but to him it was lived in and very functional. All the composed his house was his small bedroom, a kitchen and the required amenities. His life in Ponyville had been good so far no hitches of any sort. But so far he hadn’t made any friends; otherwise it was nice. He sat down at a small table near the kettle as he sat he accidently kicked his ice hockey skates which were under the table. “Oh yeah that’s right no ice in Ponyville until winter” Snow sighed heavily as he began to sip his coffee. Every week he had to take a train to Ponyval to go skating at their indoor centre. The train fee wasn’t expensive but going on it a couple of times a week was a bit pricey but definitely worth it. Finishing off his coffee he stood up and headed to the front door to walk to the store and retrieve some more sugar. Stirrup Street was as usual bustling at this early morning hour. It may have been a bit odd to other ponies. A young colt such as himself with his own house he did get odd looks here and their probably as for now he was a bit of a shut in. He was a very social pony but was a bit shy when it came to introducing himself. He was so busy with his usual day dreaming that he ran into a certain orange earth pony dropping the small bag of coins under the crook of his wing. “Oh I’m sorry miss I didn’t see you there” Snow said “Aw that’s alright sugarcube , just keep your head on the ground next time you looked like you were day dreaming.” Applejack said with a smile “Yeah I’ve been known to do that from time to time.” Snow said as he continued his route down Stirrup Street. “Hey how come ah don’t recognise.” Applejack queried Snow turned around to face her again “ I’m pretty new in town.” “Well that’s no reason to not introduce yourself” Said with a warm smile “Did yall move in with your parents?” Applejack queried “Heh, well the thing is” Snow said rubbing a hoof across the back of his head. “ I live by myself down the road there.” Snow was almost as tall as Applejack how could she tell he was not older than 16 ? Applejack realising she may have struck a nerve stopped her line of questioning “ Oh okay then. Well don’t be stranger okay. Be sure to say hello.” “Will do.” Snow said waving a hoof over his head as he walked away. “That’s a might odd. Ah’ll have to check in on him.” Applejack quickly snapped back to attention as a customer approached her stall carrying a basket of apples. Snow had spent more time than he had planned to. He’d reached sugarcube corner and purchased what he needed but couldn’t resist some sugary treats as he had a massive sweet tooth. ( Probably the reason his sugar disappears so fast.) With some suggestions from Pinkie pie he tried some of the delicious cakes and other decadent and chocolaty treats. The cakes sure did know how to makes some good, well cake. By the time he got home he checked his watch to see that it was 10:00 AM and he’d left at about 7:30. “Uh oh” Snow was all a fluster gathering up his hockey skates and running down to the station as he might miss his train if he didn’t hurry. As he rushed down he collided into a purple unicorn that was absorbed in a book. His hockey skates flew into the air and landed their laces getting tangled around her horn. “Oh god I’m so sorry.” Snow apologised for running into someone for the second time today “That’s perfectly alright” Twilight said staring at the tangle around her horn. “Hey these are ice skates aren’t they ?” Twilight said quizzically. “But what’s with their funny shape?” “What do you mean” Snow said “Shouldn’t they have a spike here?” Twilight said pointing towards the front of the skate that was exposed due to the covers falling off in the collision. “Oh. You’re thinking of figure skates. I have hockey skates they’re slightly different the blades aren’t as long and you can’t do as many jumps with these.” “Hmm interesting you’ll have to show me some time. Uhh wait who am I speaking to?” Twilight couldn’t see Snow behind the skates draped over her face she was confronted by the 16 year old colt with a multi coloured main and a dark blue coat. “I’m Snow.” He said before realising his train was leaving the station. “Blast!” “Well it was mighty nice talking to you but I gotta fly.” Snow quickly grabbed up the four hockey skates by the strings holding them in his mouth as he took to the skies hopefully he would get there in time. “Guh fhy dedn’t I fly to skhating behure.” Snow said face hoofing. He was easily getting there before the train would so he definitely wouldn’t be late. Both Applejack and Twilight met each other after their mishaps with the newcomer to town. “Hey Twi.” Applejack said “have you seen this new fella bout town, he’s bout yay high with a dark blue coat.” “Yeah I ran into him at the train station and he was carrying some odd looking ice skates even though it’s not winter very odd. “Twilight said with a quizzical look. “Yeah ah say we give him a visit. Even though he’s so young he lives by himself. Which is rather odd?” “Excellent idea it’s time to quiz this newcomer to town. But where does he live?” “That new house that sold down the road he said he lived near the end of Stirrup Street.” “Alright then we’ll pay him a visit.” Snow had tired himself out after skating he had returned home at about 4:00PM after a couple of hours of skating. He still had some ice in his mane and had some wet spots and small grazes on him from falling over on rough ice after being dared to do a cartwheel by one of the better skaters there that could do one which he still marvelled at the ability to pull on off. He could have easily done something more impressive by using his wings but it didn’t feel right to use them. And he was the only pegasus that ever went there but regardless he was welcomed into the group of people there and he still has friends there so he didn’t feel quite so estranged as he did in Ponyville. He was flying over ponyville but he was too exhausted to keep going so he landed at least two blocks from his house. He quickly threw his skates which were dripping with water from the recently melted ice over his shoulder. He slowly walked to the door and reached for the key finding out that it was already unlocked. Snow shrugged “I’m forgetful sometimes forgot to lock the door.” As he walked inside he noticed another peculiarity the lights were on. When he reached the dining room he was greeted by Twilight and Applejack. Much to both of the mares surprise he walked past them and grabbed and rag to dry off his skates with. After he’d finished he turned and issued the two mares. “Well what can I help you two with?” Snow said hitting the button on the kettle. The two mares looked him over with quizzical looks he had small grazes here and there and had water on him. The first question was issued by Twilight “Well things with you seemed a bit out of place to the two of us so we decided we’d come and ask you some questions.” Snow opened his mouth and let out a long yawn “shoot” he said grabbing a mug out of the cupboard and putting it down next to the kettle. The sugar was there and so was the coffee from this morning. He grabbed the coffee and put it away and replaced it with some tea. Applejack was the first to question Snow “Where are your parents. This morning you said you lived by yourself but you couldn’t be any older than 18.” “My parents are in Canterlot and you’re right I’m only 16 years old but I decided to move out here to; well it may be my sense of adventure or pursuing my future ambitions I’m not really sure. My parents were totally alright with it it’s just sort of a choice.” “There must be more to it than that.” Twilight persisted “Well I didn’t really fit in at school I suppose. I was never really myself always pretending to be someone else. Most people in my class earned their cutie marks years ago but I only earned mine recently as I was pretending to be someone I wasn’t instead of pursuing things that interested me.” “And what’s with the ice skates there’s no ice until winter.” Twilight said firing off another question. “You’re right so I went to Ponyval to their indoor ice skating centre.” Snow said shaking some ice out of his mane. “Actually that’s where I earned my cutie mark ice skating. I found I had a real flare for ice skating and I only started last year that’s when I earned my cutie mark right there on the rink.” Snow began to pour the drink as both the mares gave each other these dumbfounded looks. “So no dark history?” Applejack said “Nope” “No running away from your family?” Twilight said “Not really just a feeling of social awkwardness then finding friends on the ice and finding my special talent. So I didn’t really feel I needed to stay in Canterlot and there’s not much to do there. Sure it’s fun for occasional visits but living there isn’t so great.” “Well don’t we feel a might silly setting this whole thing up.” Applejack said looking rather embarrassed. “Yeah sorry about this Snow” Twilight said with the same look “That’s okay. Well one good thing came out of this.” “What?” Both the mares said in unison. “I met some nice ponies. Things are looking up I’ve already made friends.” Snow said with a smile. “ Aww thank you Snow that’s mighty nice of you.” Applejack said wrapping a single hoof around snows neck. She quickly came into contact with a wet patch on his back and pulled back a bit. “Oh yeah ice skating isn’t exactly safe or clean so I have some scrapes and bruises from someone daring me to cartwheel.” Snow said with an awkward smile. Ignoring the wet patch Applejack just put her arm back down. “Well this has been a bit awkward and unnecessary. Sorry if we caused you any inconvenience Snow.” Both of the mares started heading towards the door leaving Snows cluttered home. “Oh and my names Snow Star. I’ll see you two around okay. I’ll try catch up with you tomorrow.” “That’d be nice Snow see you tomorrow.” Twilight said “Oh and Twilight is there a book store or a library around here when I left home I didn’t grab any books.” “Sure swing by the library tomorrow. It’s the big tree in the centre of town.” “Okay thanks bye” “See ya Snow” Applejack said exiting the building. “I’ll see you early tomorrow okay Snow” Twilight said. “Okay see ya.”
Surprise partyChapter 2 surprise party Okay first of all this isn’t going to be an epic or anything, maybe in the future when I actually have some good ideas for a plot line but for now just my imagination running wild with potential ideas and some other things. And this is meant to be sort of a life in Ponyville story a plotline may come along as I continue but for now just an awkward pony meeting friends. Anyway welcome to chapter two. It was very early morning, the first glimpses of sun seeping through the window, the sound of a rooster cawing could be heard even this far from the farms. It was taking Snow a little while to adapt to this early waking habit but it wasn’t all bad. Snow rolled off the bed to get up and clean his face but as he rolled to the edge he collided with a pile of boxes sending knick knacks flying. “Perfect” Snow said with a less than pleased look on his face “I really need to unpack everything and tidy this place up.” But that would have to wait he had an appointment today he was to meet Twilight and retrieve some reading material. Unbeknownst to Snow he was in for a surprise when he reached the library. Pinkie pie being Pinkie pie had organised a party for him in the library complete with confetti cannon. But Twilight interjected when Pinkie was setting up. “Uh Pinkie I realise you want to throw him a party because he’s new but he’s a little shy and a surprise party may not be best.” “Gee you’re silly Twilight there’s nothing that makes a pony feel more welcome than a party. One with lots of confetti.” Pinkie said opening another packet of the colourful streamers and tossing them around Twilights nice clean library. The idea of a party had spike positively giddy, it meant he got to eat cake and other assortments of sweets without Twilight getting mad at him. “Ohh Pinkie are you going to bring some chocolate cake in?” Spike said trying to hold back a torrent of drool dripping from his mouth. “Spike!” Twilight said disapprovingly using her magic to grab a cloth to wipe his mouth up. “ You can be really messy sometimes.” But Pinkie had ignored the question and continued organising food and fixing balloons to chairs. “I need this party to be as good as the one I threw for you Twilight. Minus the incident with the hotsauce.” The mere mention of that incident made Twilights tongue burn. A loud knock came at the door of the large tree/library. “Oh goodie” Pinkie said jumping with glee towards the door. “That must be everypony else.” “You didn’t invite the whole town did you Pinkie?” Twilight said with a worried look. “Of course not you said he was rather shy so I just invited our friends.” Pinkie said with a smile opening the door. As Pinkie opened the door she was greeted by a conjoined hello from everypony outside. Applejack was last to enter as she was carrying some party supplies that Pinkie had requested. “There you go” Applejack said with a sigh putting the party supplies down. “So what or who is this party for?” Asked the cyan Pegasus known as Rainbowdash. “Yes I have to agree with Rainbow on this one even though I enjoy your parties as much as the next pony this one seems to have sprung up out of the blue?” Queried Rarity. “Yeah, actually Pinkie how do you know about the newcomer?” Applejack asked. “Newcomer?” Fluttershy, Rainbow and Rarity said in unison. “Yeah isn’t it great a new pony in town. Well Twilight I was working in sugarcube corner yesterday and a pony came in I hadn’t seen before he just came to purchase some sugar and was obviously a bit lost. But I sold him some sugar even though it isn’t supposed to be sold. But he was nice and all very courteous and he kept eyeing some of the baked goods in the window so we started chatting I suggested some of the delicious treats the Cakes make and he loved them he bought a couple and left.” “Oh okay makes sense” Twilight said looking a bit perplexed “Get a move on everypony we have to make this a good party to make our guest feel welcome.” Applejack said in her loud voice. There was a lot of bustling and a bit of franticness as everypony got everything right by about 8:15 everything looked ready to go and all they needed was for their guest to arrive. Twilight had been designated as lookout for when Snow was heading down the street towards the library. Snow didn’t realise exactly what was going to happen when he reached the library he thought it was going to be like the Canterlot library. Quiet, people telling you to be quiet at the slightest noise you made, even if it was an accident. Not realising there was a party of ponies waiting for him he was taking his time. Enjoying his breakfast, a cup of tea and one of those delicious pastries he’d bought from the shop earlier yesterday. Behind him on a pile of haphazardly stacked boxes sat a clock which read 8:20. “ Uh oh” Snow said through a mouthful of apple and pastry I’m meant to meet Twilight at the library at 8:30. “Better get going.” Snow gave a quick gaze around the room looking for his roller skates but they were nowhere to be seen “probably still boxed up” he said rolling his eyes. He looked back at the pair of wings sitting on his back “well I don’t use my wings as often as I should might as well.” It wasn’t that Snow was a weak flyer or anything it’s just he never really used his wings but when the time called for it he was a decent flyer. His father was a Pegasus so he taught him everything he knew but his father could never quite fathom Snows love for ice skating and roller blading. Either way Snow might be late, and he hated being late for anything he was pedantic about punctuality. So he quickly finished his food and headed out the door remembering to lock up this time before he left. Like yesterday Stirrup street was bustling with busy ponyvillians( Couldn’t decide if it had an E or an A. Went with A so it looks like pony villians. Anyway.) peddling their wares. Today the street was lacking an applecart “ must be Applejacks day off” Snow said with a shrug. The library wasn’t as far as Snow had thought about a 5 minute fly above the sort of main sort of shops in Ponyville. Snow landed just outside the library and knocked on the front door, there was no reply from inside “hello?” Snow said gently nudging the door open with his nose. The library was dark he kept walking until he reached the centre of the room as the lights flicked on and Applejack and Twilight and several other ponies unknown to him jumped out from behind tables that had all sorts of treats on them and yelled “Surprise!” in unison. At the same time he was blasted with a 5 foot long cannon that shot confetti the blast sent him rolling into one of the bookshelves. “Hi there” Snow said rather sarcastically “Sorry darl” Applejack said “this here party was Pinkie pies idea she throws parties for every new pony.” Applejack continued and gestured towards the pink earth pony standing behind the cannon. “Hey didn’t I see you at that bakery yesterday?” Snow said his head still spinning slightly from the impact but he could make out the fuzzy pink mane and coat and the over exuberance. “Yeah you were the silly billy buying sugar from the bakery.” Pinkie said with a large smile “Oh yeah.” Snow pushed himself up and stumbled around on his back hooves for a sec before returning to all fours and looking around the room. “Okay so I recognise you Twilight, and you Applejack, and misses confetti cannon over there, but who are the rest of your friends. I recognise them but very vaguely. Hmmm” Snow scratched his chin with one of his front hooves. “Ah now I remember.” Snow said pointing at Rainbowdash “You were one of the competitors in the best young flyers contest in Cloudsdale.” He announced triumphantly “Oh wow someone who actually recognises me.” Rainbowdash said a touch of pride in her voice. “I wasn’t too interested in the whole contest but my dad made me come along. But it wasn’t all bad I suppose.” “The rest of you, nope. Maybe from somewhere it’ll come to me later” Snow said scratching a hoof across the back of his head. Snows face had a look of awkwardness like last time Applejack and Twilight talked to him. Applejack nudged rainbowdash and gave her a look and to the others to introduce themselves. They all came around and shook hooves with the newcomer. First Rainbowdash. “Hey their names Rainbowdash we should talk flying later.” “Okay” Snow said looking awkward again. Next was Rarity she came around and very delicately shook his hoof. “It’s nice to meet you my names Rarity.” The white unicorn said accentuating the Rs in here name. “Oh dear” Rarity said “What?” Snow replied “Your coat you’ve got grazes everywhere.” “Oh yeah that. Ice skating, things happen.” Snow said very nonchalantly “Oh no dear we can’t have this” said Rarity trying to tend to the very small wounds. “Come on Rarity move it along.” Applejack said shoving her out of the way. The next one to come up was just as timid as and even shier than Snow. Fluttershy came up shook his hoof and whispered her name very quietly “I’m Fluttershy” “I’m sorry could you please repeat that” Snow said in a voice almost as quiet as Fluttershys “I’m Fluttershy.” She said a bit louder. “Hey names Snow Star” Snow said as Fluttershys hoof dropped to the ground. “It’s time for a party.” Pinkie pie said from somewhere behind Fluttershy popping some party poppers and turning on some loud portable speakers. As everypony started dancing Snow walked over to a small chair next to the food table and sat down he started nibbling on bits and pieces of food sitting by himself. After a while Pinkie noticed the rather glum looking Snow sitting by himself she walked over “what’s wrong Snow?” “Oh nothing you keep having fun.” Snow said waving a hoof. “No tell me.” Pinkie persisted. “I’ve never been to a party in my life.” Snow said with a shrug. “Nobody really invited me to their parties, never danced before. Not that I didn’t have birthday parties I’ve just never been to a party like this one actually thrown for me. Only parties have been birthday parties which I usually did what I’m doing now as I didn’t feel welcome. ” “Well it’s different now come on I’ll help you.” Pinkie pie said pulling Snow out of his seat and to the dance floor. When they reached the dance floor Snow just stood there frozen and looking awkward as the other 5 ponies danced around him. “ Come on Snow just go with the music. Just think if it as ice skating go with it.” “Ok that’s easy enough.” Snow said looking down at his hooves. “Just go with it” he reassured himself. Snow began to slowly do some spins he found familiar when he ice skated and went from there and slowly he got into the swing of things and began to genuinely enjoy and for the first time in years a real smile spread across his face. “There you go” Twilight said to him. And for the first time in years he actually laughed. ‘Actual friends’ Snow thought to himself. ‘ And for the first time in years that mask he’d worn pretending to be someone else had slipped somewhat revealing the true Snow.
A day with some colourChapter 3 A day with some colour Wow I really am powering through these chapters. 2000 words for each one and the other kids in my English class are complaining about a 1000 word assignment we have to do. (Uh oh was meant to work on that. Oh well procrastination wins this round, and many other rounds before and after this, oh well.) Umm this chapter I suppose I needed to establish some sort of back plot for Snow. You know why he’s shy maybe why he doesn’t fly as much as he should. I don’t know enjoy chapter 3. Rewatching the whole season one while I’m writing the last bit of this. YAY! It’d been a week now since Snow had arrived in Ponyville. Things had gone without a hitch. Except for a minor incident involving a surprise party and confetti cannon. Snow was still pulling the occasional confetti square out of his mane two days after the party. Snow was again lying in his bed this morning he’d decided to ignore the cawing of the rooster and sleep in a little. The comfort of his blankets and mattress were very convincing to make him stay in bed but his dreaming and comfort was disturbed by a knock on the door. “Uh who could that be” Snow said through a yawn. He managed to get his footing after rolling out of bed and stumbled to the door bumping several things on his way. He quickly reached down and opened the door, bad idea, the combination of a head spin and looking at the sun after being in darkness for hours disoriented him to the point where he lost his balance and fell backwards nearly hitting the table. As Snow lay there rubbing his head he could hear laughter coming from the door way, he recognised the voice, Rainbowdash. “Gee you sure are clumsy” Rainbow said hovering over him still giggling “Haha very funny” Snow said with a less than pleased look on his face combined with a sort of half smile. “And what are you doing knocking on my door at this early hour?” He said slowly regaining his footing. “Oh you being a sporty sort of Pegasus and all I thought you’d like to help me clear the skies this morning?” “Sure, but just so you know I don’t fly much.” Snow said giving Rainbow a sort of half smile. “That’s okay I’ll teach you.” Rainbow said wrapping a hoof around his shoulder. “It’s not that I’m a bad or weak flyer I just don’t fly much. My dad taught me everything he knew about flying from when I was a little kid until I got into ice skating.” “Oh okay well then you should be alright. “ Rainbow said bolting out the door. “Are you coming?” Rainbow said peeking her head back in the door. “Alrighty then let’s go.” Snow said following her out the door and taking to the skies As they reached a decent altitude Rainbowdash gave Snow some instructions. “Okay Snow you go and get those cumuli out of the way and I’ll take care of the stratocumulus.” Snow gave a mock salute which was returned by Rainbow as they went off in opposite directions to take out the clouds that were cluttering the sky. They both returned to the small cloud they had been sitting on maybe an hour later. Rainbow was the first to arrive, “Feew that was a good exercise got all the clouds in record time.” Rainbowdash said wiping a couple of beads of sweat of her forehead with her hoof. “Hmm wonder where Snow is?” She said gazing out into the now clear sky. Her answer was quickly answered as Snow came rocketing through the sky next to Rainbow smashing through one last stray cloud that was slowly floating past. “Got the last one.” Snow said with a smile and a nod. He turned around to see Rainbow sitting on a cloud with a smug smile on her face “you’re quite the flyer Snow.” She said flying over to him and putting a hoof on his shoulder “I haven’t flown that hard in a while I’m glad I haven’t lost my touch.” He said with a smile “Why don’t you fly more often then?” Rainbowdash said with a quizzical look as they sat back down on the cloud. Snow gave a shrug “not sure, I like going fast and everything but, I really just don’t know I just never did. Much to the dismay of my father he wanted me to be the best but instead I took to other things that kept my hooves on the ground.” “So that’s really it you just didn’t, there must be something else?” Rainbow said pushing the subject “Well..” Snow said rubbing a hoof across the back of his head. ‘I’m surprised that pony hasn’t scratched a divot into the back of his head’ Rainbow thought to herself. “Come on spit it out” Rainbowdash said slight irritation in her voice. “My dad didn’t teach me from the beginning the first people I was taught by were the pegasi at the Cloudsdale flight school. In my early years I flew heaps until an accident occurred. I was flying at full pelt like usual weaving between clouds and other ponies but I didn’t see a large brute of a pony, I ran into him and knocked him out of the sky and he really didn’t appreciate it. He beat me, and broke one of my wings. He was never seen again and I left Cloudsdale my parents encouraged me to go back but I was afraid of flying for years I only regained my nerve about 6 years ago. My dad put me through intense training flying every day so I sort of lost my love for it at that stage as he forced me. I was forced to do that for four years then I found ice skating and found my cutie mark there.” Snow winced as if he was feeling what he was put through again. “I’d been going to school the whole time I was doing this training. But I was the only Pegasus in my class at Canterlot I passed all my classes with flying colours and tried blending in with group never being myself hence why I only earned my cutie mark last year. So I left I wasn’t enjoying Canterlot one bit so I wanted a fresh start.” Rainbow has a look on her face as she mulled over the information Snow had given her. “Well no wonder you never liked flying I was always teaching myself most stuff I wanted to know and I didn’t break anything till this year. So I suppose I’m lucky compared to you.” Everything went pretty silent after that Snow had opened himself to a mare he barely knew but he felt closer to her all the same. ‘This must be what real friends are like I can tell them anything and never be ashamed’ “Let’s get something to eat” Snow said “Definitely I’m starving” Rainbowdash said her stomach rumbling “I got some food back at mine. Let’s go grab some then I don’t know just hang out I suppose.” Snow said shrugging. “Sure sounds like a plan to me” Rainbow said jumping off the cloud. “Follow me.” Said Snow They reached snows house relatively fast they landed Snow turned the knob and they entered the house. Not watching her footing Rainbowdash stepped on a dustpan and brush losing her footing and careening into a pile of boxes sending another stack of thingy flying. Rainbow had a less than pleased look on her face as she blew a tea towel out of her face, she looked down to see four shoes sprawled across the floor in front of her with wheels attached to the bottom. “Hey what are these Snow?” Rainbowdash asked as Snow walked around the corner with some assorted bit of food on his back. “Hmm. Oh you found them. Those are my rollerblades I’ve been looking everywhere for them.” As he said this he placed the food down onto the table and walked over cleaning up some of the spilled items. “What do you do with them?” Rainbow said standing up and shaking herself off “You’ve never seen rollerblades before?” Snows question was met with a blank look from Rainbow. “They’re pretty much just ice skates but with wheels here let me show you.” Snow fiddled with the skates for a while sliding them onto his feet, tightening the laces and doing up the clips. He walked to the front door and started rolling around on the small paved area out the front of his house. “See like ice skates” “Ah I getcha now.” Rainbowdash said watching him roll back and forth on the pavement. “Good but nothing compared to flying.” Rainbow said leaping into the sky “Hmm” Snow said observing his surroundings he noticed several miscellaneous object making a sketchy ramp sort of aiming at Rainbow. Snow began picking up speed he came around in a sharp turn and went full pelt at the ramp. He hit the ramp at amazing speed and did a horizontal spin over the mare who could only gape now as Snow landed gracefully on the other side of her. “Okay that’s pretty cool” Rainbowdash said shaking her head in disbelief “Well not according to my dad he despises them, I had to scrounge money by doing odd jobs for neighbours to buy these.” Snow said looking down at his skates. “Same with my ice skates. My ice skates and my roller blades are getting too small. These are beginner’s roller blades and same with my ice skates. But I don’t have any money to buy them so I kind of need a job.” “Wow so you’re that good on roller blades and they’re only beginner ones” Rainbow said incredulously. “Yeah but that was probably the only aerial trick I can pull off. And I’m a lot better on my ice skates than I am on rollerblades.” “Well I’ll have to come see you ice skate some time” Rainbow said her jaw hitting the ground “Well then we’ll just have to see if you’re any good at skating as you’re extremely good at flying.” “Thank you Snow you’re not so bad yourself. But let’s just hope I’m not as bad as Twilight with ice skating.” Rainbow said suppressing a snigger. “Twilight doesn’t strike me as the skating type?” Snow said sitting down and undoing the laces on his skates. “She’s not during the winter wrap up she tried helping Pinkie who was scoring the lake and Twilight tried helping her and she failed hard.” Rainbow Dash started laughing again as she recalled the skating incident. “So Pinkie is a good skater?” “Yeah she is but she does all the frufruey twirling and what not.” Rainbow said sticking her tongue out. “Ah a figure skater. I do hockey skating which mostly just speed, turns and cool stopping.” “Definitely got to see that” Rainbow said keenly “Alright next time a session is on I’ll get you in. And you won’t have to pay a bit I’ve done some favours for some people there and they felt it appropriate after all the times I’ve gone that me and any friends I have get in for free.” Snow said smugly. “Never gotten a chance to get a friend in for free until now.” Snow said looking down sadly. “Better get used to it.” Rainbow said punching one of his front legs. A big grin spread across Snows face as he sat there talking with Rainbowdash. They were both rather athletic ponies. They started talking about other sports aswell apart from skating and flying. Rainbowdash was quite the ball player she is very adept at any sport that involves a ball like soccer. “So Rainbow you ever played Volleyball?” Snow said waving away a fly “Yeah I have that’s why I’m so good at juggling a ball.” Rainbow said standing up on her back hooves. “Well then how about we get us a game together just a little 1v1 between friends.” “alright you’re on” Rainbow said with pride. After an hour of searching around Ponyville for a ball and getting themselves a net the two ponies set up in town square which drew the attention of several other ponies. Snow wasn’t very comfortable with every one watching but he just tried to ignore them he hadn’t played a game of volleyball in ages. Even though Rainbowdash may have experience on him he still liked his chances against the mare. The first to serve was snow he walked to the back corner of the roughly drawn court and stood on his back hooves. “Here comes the serve” He said trying to intimidate Rainbow. He threw the ball into the air and hit it as hard as he much to Rainbows surprise it went rocketing into her side of the court and he scored the first point of the match. A smile spread across snows face but displeasure spread across Rainbows. As Snow served again it was quickly hit back by Rainbow since they only had one person on each team they were allowed three hits each when it was on their side. A rally went on for a while them constantly returning the ball to each other’s side until finally Rainbow spiked the ball and scored a point now it was her serve. They were playing for about ten minutes before Snow realised they had drawn a rather large crowd with their little competition. The match went on for hours several hard out rallies Rainbow had amazing spiking but Snows defence could hold it off. After about an hour the match came to a close with Rainbowdash winning by one point. “That was a great game Dash you gave me a real run for my money.” Snow said panting “Same here Snow I didn’t think you’d be that good. You didn’t look that athletic to me but hey looks like I was wrong.” Dash said likewise panting. “Oh and I’m going skating on Friday if you want to come but if you have another appointment I won’t mind.” “Hey Snow I’ll come I never leave another pony hanging. Never have never will." Dash said slapping Snow on the back. 'Hmm Snow thought I've never really had a friend I could entirely trust. They'd always tell me it was alright to come over or something along those lines then tell me I couldn't. A friend I can really trust for the first time' A wide genuine smile spread across Snows face as the two began disassembling the volleyball kit.
