The darker sides.

Now you may know Equestria as a fantasy land that ponies live in harmony and have no problem with anything they really do. In order for that harmony to go through, there has to be some sort of chaos being spread. Though the thought of Discord and Chrysalis come to mind, it's not what you would think. Lets just say that I have been to the one town called Ponyville, beautiful town I must admit, but staying there for about a month can kind of kill that for you. I shall introduce you to the darker side of this beautiful town.

It all starts on my train trip to this beautiful town called Ponyville. The packing and all, but let me get more into detail, if I am allowed to. The dreaded kind of ride to a place like Ponyville by train was nearly as dreadful as a broken leg, for sitting down for about 3 hours on a one way ticket to Ponyville, I never though it would take so long. The view of the mountain side and other beautiful sights made up for it though. I somewhat enjoyed the views and nearly fell asleep.

The moment the train stopped, I had just fell asleep, but I don't know why, I saw Ponyville from where I was sitting and I somewhat fall asleep? I was confused about it myself until I heard a voice on the intercom call out to those getting off here.

"All rider's aboard get ready to get off the train, we have arrived in Ponyville!"

I silently mutter to myself and get up, when I hear a mare's voice talking to me and I turn to see who it is.

"Uhhhh, excuse me, could you get my bag?"

I look down and realize the mare's bag is under my feet, I take a closer look and the mare is a pegasus, yellow with a pink mane that drooped a bit further down that I usually saw. She looked very graceful, and her voice was almost like honey to my ears, I get the courage and finally ask her.

"Uhhh, sure, I'm Musky, what's your name?"

The yellow pegasus takes her bagging and looks down and quietly mutters with her voice "Fluttershy....."

I look at her and by this point I'm bewildered. The yellow mare in front of me named Fluttershy, seems nice, kind, and even as I know it, she looks pretty. I go even further as to continue the conversation as I fix the cloth cuffs at the end of my hooves, around the hard part, but not really, just a bit above. I reach my hoof out and she begins to wonder why a pony like me is reaching out to shake hooves. I finally speak up and say.

"It's nice to meet you Fluttershy, I, um, am new to Ponyville, I am supposed to be moving in somewhere, but I gotta decide where first..."

She looks at me with a bewildered look and says back to me.

"Well, uhh, welcome to Ponyville I guess.... This town has been getting more popular by the month due to my friend Twilight becoming a princess and all..."

I am shocked to find out I ran into a friend of the Princess twilight Sparkle. I think twice before trying to say a lot more than that, I don't want to make this pony uncomfortable. and so I respond "Well, I knew of the town, but I didn't know Princess Twilight lived in town, nor did I know one of her friends was a yellow pegasus known as Fluttershy."

She looks at me and somewhat smiles at this fact. She responds quickly to that thought, and with pride. "Well, she was the element of Magic, still is, but I'm the element of Kindness, most of the people in town know me as the element I am, also that I handle most of the animal problems in town, but other than that, I really just live in a cottage."

I wasn't really surprised to find out she's the element of Kindness, seeing as she is very kind a lot of the time. The one thing that shocked me out of all of it, is that she lives in a cottage, and is able to keep her composure through helping with the animal crimes, but she doesn't seem like the strongest in Mentality. I would know only because I haven't gotten my cutie mark, but the reason is because I haven't quite perfected my talent, I can understand ponies through their sayings, text, and most likely their faces. It's not easy finding out the truth from them though. Some have good masks, good enough to keep me from knowing they're sad, depressed, or maybe even suicidal. The conversation continues on as I remember that she is still standing there a minute later wondering what I'm thinking, and so I begin off by saying. "Oh, sorry Fluttershy, I was just uhhh, thinking of something, I'll see ya around."

The mare I left behind trailed not too far behind me and flew above and landed in front of me lightly and gracefully. I stop and look at her unbeknownst as to what she is gonna say, do, or ask. and her voice suddenly gets a little softer than what I heard from earlier, and she hesitates to say it all in one sentence. "I was wondering i-if you wouldn't mind m-me walking with y-you...."

The statement out of her mouth confuses me for a moment, and then I think about it, she doesn't seem to confident in asking, but she had no problem in following me. I soon answer her question and I hesitate as well. "Well, uhhh, I don't really mind if it's o-ok with you. I don't really get a lot of people asking to walk with me anyway, so what harm is there?"

This seems to make her give a little smirk and she begins to walk with me around town, along the way we are already talking about our day. I don't really think Fluttershy minds listening, but she does have trouble choosing words to describe her day, and when she gets to where she meets me, I simply have a hard time believing it. "I was riding the same train getting back from an animal auction that was  held in Canterlot, and when we stopped in the station getting off the train, I simply had nothing else but the view of the Mountains in my head, and I realized my bag had slid into your seat. I wanted to just grab it and head out, but as my name has in it, I'm shy, and not just average shy, I am VERY shy."

She says very with a little bit of a drag to it, but not a serious one. The tone of it got the message that she was a lot more than just regular old shy, she was shy as to the point of getting an asthma attack from a lot of people staring. I accepted this and continued to listen, although she seemed shy, she wasn't so shy as I thought she would be, she treated me as one of her best friends. I found this weird, but when we got closer to her house as earlier I never mentioned that I said I would let her lead the way around town. The outskirts of town looked beautiful, and I saw why she loved them so much, a beautiful view of the scenery, but there's every place with it's cons. I could visibly see the entrance to the Everfree forest from where I stood. I waved bye to Fluttershy and headed back towards town after I had discovered that she was in heat and so her shyness was lowered to almost party pony status. The fact is, I headed back to town just to meet an actually party pony, which when the first sight of me caught her glance, I realized that she ran quickly and hardly stopped, barely stopped and she was already in my face by the time I even realized she was running.

"Hi there mister! I never seen you before in this town, who are you? Where ya from? I am just so excited at the moment!"

Those words she spoke within about, I can remember like 2 seconds, and she was really quick at speaking. The speed she was speaking would beat a good athlete's pace any day. I think that an invention that required talking instead of running would fit her just perfectly, she was able to talk like no tomorrow, but only con is, she needs something to talk about, and so sending a new pony to Ponyville would be a problem if it was required daily. I find her amusing though, and she gets a response she was hoping for.

"I am Musky, I'm from Trottingham, not like most ponies would expect though. I actually enjoy reading quite a lot of books with just about the right amount of partying on the side, and your name would be?"

This particular response amazes her and she simply stands there in bewilderment as to how I was able to speak almost as fast as she was, but a lot of the time she needed to think went towards the partying topic. I notice that her face has an expression I would have never expected. The jaw was dropped, her eyes were wide open, and she was getting ready to gasp. The first words to come out were not what I expected either.

"Oh, My, Celestia! You are a smart party pony!? I never knew that people who study go to parties! I mostly know this because my friend Twilight almost dreaded the first party I threw her. Although she didn't seem to enjoy the party, she is much more of a party pony these days. The thing is though, she is just like you, likes to study and parties at her own free will. I never expected to meet a pony with the same interests with Twilight, come to think of it, I don't think there is any other pony besides you and a guard at the crystal empire named Flash Sentry."

The moment that last part got through, I was completely shocked to know I had something in common with Princess Twilight.I had nearly forgotten that I was talking with the party pony, and then I get the courage to ask.

"I'm sorry to interrupt but, what is your name exactly? I never quite caught note of it."

This is the part where she just jumped to tell me. I was startled at how quickly she retaliates to it, and quickly answered.

"My name is Pinkie Pie, most people just call me Pinkie. I am a party pony, and I get really happy when a new person is coming to town, and don't begin to wonder why I know your moving to town, it's pretty obvious isn't it? Anywho, the reason I'm so well known around here is because I make almost anypony here smile, another reason is because I am the element of laughter, most don't really think it's gonna matter though."

I quickly realize that I spoke to the element of Kindness, and I am just now meeting the element of Laughter. I serously wonder why I am not abashed around them, is it natural causes? The moment she was done with that she looked up to me, and quickly grabbed my hoof dragging me somewhere unbeknownst to me. I take my other hoof she isn't dragging me by and fix the cloth cuffs on my hind legs. the hair was flowing through my rather spiky mane, something you would've found in an anime, but not exactly like it, it has the standing up feature, along with a second color, the ponies I saw before were monotone, so is the one dragging me. I quickly see a couple ponies siting on a bench in front of a tree, which I figure out is a library. I see that they both have two colors in their manes, and they look at my strange furry dark blue coat. I figure out that I can stand again because the pink pony lets go of me and I can stand on my hooves again. I turn around surprised at what I see. I came to the lair of none other than Princess twilight herself, though she wasn't wearing her crown, didn't wear any sort of special clothing at all, she looked just like every other pony in town. I also take notice of some other mares, one wearing a cowboy hat with an orange coat and yellow mane. Another pony with a white clean coat, and purple elegant mane. I take heavy surprise but hide it pretty well with only a simple eyebrow being raised, I see a drake living in the residence, he doesn't seem to mind anyone but the white coated mare herself. I seem to rub my eyes at the fact that I see the ponies hanging around the princess so casually. The princess takes note that I'm here and walks over to me. I soon take the assumption that I'm gonna have to bow, and it seems that she has gone through this process a million times. I tilt my head down and politely introduce myself.

"Hello princess, nice meeting you today, I didn't think I would meet the princess. I met the element of Laughter and Kindness, and now I'm meeting the element of Magic as well. I am very honored to even meet any of you."

I guess I struck a note because as soon as I finished that sentence the princess' cheeks turned quite a shade of crimson when I finished. I guess that I somewhat show a friendly vibe like every other pony in this town, but they noticed that how I said it was not as sophisticated or snobby as they thought I would've said it. The way I saw their expressions I guess I was somewhat a pretty impressive colt, though my looks decieve a lot of the ponies I meet. I guess my introduction had caused princess twilight herself to need to clear her throat and introduce herself to me, but I didn't think she would have much trouble topping what I had to say. The hard part is how it came out.

"Well, uhhh, flattering things to say there mister, but uhhh, I-I guess I never thought I was that much of a honored person. I was usually just one of the ponies that occupied the library, in fact the only pony to occupy the library. I am very flattered that you would consider it an honor to meet my friends as well, they all helped me learn the things I needed to become a Princess, so most people don't really see that and regret hearing from me, but I thank you for the introduction you pulled off, I haven't seen an introduction quite so great except for about a year ago."

The information she lays down upon me strikes me with heavy confidence, and so I keep my composure and don't do anything else besides stand and tilt my head forward thanking her for gracefully exquisite introduction. I then continue to introduce myself further.

"If you are one of the kinds of ponies back in Trottingham then one thing you will notice is that my coat, mane, and tail are all pretty much colored the same as Luna's fur, mane and the dark part of her cutie mark. I don't really blame people for almost wanting to assume I'm her son, though I am not, I seem like a mare, so most people think I'll be a mare, but in reality I'm a Colt. Just not really shaped and built as one."

This seems to strike Twilight with little impressiveness. I noticed that she began thinking about it all and noticed it made sense. The color of my mane, coat, and tail were all colors from Luna. The moment she realizes this she begins to ponder even more about why I look like a mare and not their average Colt. I am about 14, teen years, but they don't think I really am that much of a Colt looking like a mare. I notice one thing that a lot of the time really never interested me, and that was when they began to do something like a magnifying glass. but instead she pulled up some papers and asked me to sign them. I quickly do so and she explains why.

"If you wonder why I asked ya to sign them then you're really gonna enjoy this, but by your attitude I'm assuming you can find a job easily. Pinkie founds hers at Sugar Cube Corner. Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres. The last one is Rarity's boutique, she lives and works there. I am the librarian, but earned a new title known as the Princess. I however, did not like it when I first came here, so I usually help newcomers with their  basic needs and more advanced needs if they want help."

I suddenly feel weird inside by the princess, she made me feel like I was about to fall backwards and nearly crack my head open. The reaction she got instead was a tiny grin that I usually have, which made her tilt her head sideways a bit and she smiled. I then told her I was moving into town, and she told me that there was one out on the outskirts of town, she remembers her friend Fluttershy lives there and said that it's about 2 blocks away from Fluttershy's cottage this seems to have made her curious as to what Fluttershy has been up to these past few days since her trip to the animal auction she was invited to in Canterlot. I then tell Twilight (she said just to call her that) that Fluttershy returned today. I met her at the train station and she wasn't really as shy as most people usually see her. The fact startles Twilight as  I finish the last sentence and Applejack who was the Orange furred mare comes in and comments on what twilight looks like.

"Geez, Twilight, ya almost look like mah cousin Braeburn when he was trying to make peace with the buffaloes."

The comment made twilight snap out of it and she looks at me, her look almost makes me weak as I hear what she says next.

"I think Fluttershy is in the same cycle again. I also think that this time, it's You."

The reaction I had from that sentence nearly creeped me out, but I wasn't all that confused considering I kind of liked her, but it also confused me as to what they were talking about by cycle, I knew she was in heat, but she never really showed any signs of a cycle. This seems to amaze Twilight as she examines me closer and then nudges me a bit on the chest.

"Not too bad Fluttershy, not too bad." She mutters under her breath as she knows something is up with Fluttershy and that I was somewhat the target.

I give her a confused look as one eye was more open than the other and that my eye brows followed the same rule as my eyes. My wings kind of twitch a bit, and also, I never mentioned I was a pegasus did I? The wings had metals bands and some feather holders that barely defied gravity, in which I was genetically proven to have been partially a drone, or as most will probably say, I was a cyber-pony. I had human looks, and the reason I had some colors from Luna was because I was her creation. The reason I have mechanical wings is because she created me in a lab, and the scientists didn't have the great kind of power to create all natural wings, and so they took some feathers from her and put them in the feather holders, which actually surprised a lot of ponies. I was born a pegasus yet act like an earth pony.I confuse people with that story and they question why I know Luna did it.Twilight herself asked that same question, and this was always what I got asked so the usual response was this.

"I know that because I saw her myself when I was inside that tube, not completely dark in one you know, it's not one way. I was able to see her and she was ordering them to create a Colt version with her colors on him, and so the result was me, a natural being but mutated enough to seem like a mare, but have colt things, which you probably won't want to hear about. I have explained this many times, so yea, I get used to it, and add more detail each time, so either way, like I said, it's been explained many times, so yea, I await the process."

The explanation stuns Twilight and her friends, Pinkie Pie gasps at how easy it was for me to explain it. Rarity shows somewhat confusion and disgust. Applejack was the first one to speak up.

"So let me get this straight, your a cyber-pony?"

I reply without the kind of reaction she expected. "I am, not much shame to it either, I don't know why but mares and Stallions alike both love to tease me about it, though I just act like a regular pony to blow it off. I never really get offended by cyber-pony things. I only get sick of the name calling and attempts to make my wings short-circuit."

The conversation continues on and I get questioned on many topics before Twilight finishes the paperwork and hands me the keys from the mayor to the house I now own, I wonder what they meant when they say that I am somewhat the target. I forget it and say my farewell's to the princess and her friends, heading to my new house to unpack and relax a bit. The end of my day was drawing near I fall asleep with a knock on the door, and I realized the basic requirements were to be able to answer questions, keep a conversatiuon, and to be unabashed by information I share. I was about to fall asleep, but I heard a knocking at my door and answered it, finding Fluttershy with a pie and she handed it to me saying "welcome to the neighborhood Musky." I took the pie and realized Fluttershy was waiting because she kissed my cheek as soon as I returned to say have a good night to her. I finished my day with just how it sounded, I fell asleep and awoke the next day.