I was never a very special pony. Everything in my life had always been average, that was until I met the two prettiest fillies in all of Equestria. In my adolescence, I grew up in Cloudsdale, but this particular story takes place in the summer I spent in Ponyville. I was fresh out of my first year of flight school, and I was looking for adventure and my cutie mark. My mom suggested that I get a summer job working in my aunt’s shop.
“Honey, are you almost ready?”
“Yea, I will be in a minute…ugh where is it?” I had everything I needed except for my lucky pair of goggles. They came from one of the Wonderbolts and were my most prized possession. After a long search in my messy room I sighed in defeat and trotted downstairs.
“Breezy Leaf, you forget your goggles on the kitchen table again!”
“Oh thank you mom, I’ve been looking for these everywhere!”
“So, do you finally have everything you need?”
“Yep I’m all ready to go,” My mom seemed pretty anxious to get rid of me at the time, mostly likely because my teenage hormones were beginning to develop. My mother and I entered the carriage while she made over how much she was going to miss me. I half listened to her and half fantasized about all the fun I was going to have in Ponyville. I had visited my aunt before and I always had a tremendous time. I was hoping that in the new town I would be able to make a name for myself and get rid of my mostly reserved demeanor.
The driver informed us that we had arrived. Ponyville was a small town, but it had a lot of commotion and excitement. Getting away from the cloud city was a breath of fresh air for me. Ponyville had buildings made from different materials rather than the light fluff I was accustomed too.
“I’m going to miss you so much! I’ll make sure to write you often and visit when possible.”
“Mom, I’m going to be alright. I’ll miss you too,” I hugged my mom good-bye and she got back onto the carriage. I had a basic knowledge of my way around town and was able to find my aunt’s tea shop easily enough. My aunt was actually my great aunt, but she doesn’t like to be called that, because she liked to act young. She is an Earth Pony with a dull green coat with a curly light blue mane. She needed me to work for her, because of a coffee shop that opened up in town. She told me all about how the young kids wanted coffee and not tea. In order to compete with the shop she started a new delivery service, but she was too old to be running around town, and that’s where I come in, and me being a Pegasus would allow for speedy deliveries.
“Breezy Leaf, you finally made it!” I was immediately and enthusiastically greeted by my aunt, Herbal Leaf. Although, she was old, she never once showed it.
“Hey Herbal!”
“I want you to know right off the bat, that you will be working hard this summer, but I also want you to meet new friends and have lots of fun. In fact I signed you up for the Ponyville youth club,” at that moment I was terrified, I never was the most socially active. Being forcefully put into an unfamiliar environment was not really my idea of fun.
“Thanks, I’m sure I’ll have a blast there,” I lied.
“No fun right now though, I have a delivery for you!”
“Already? Shouldn’t I learn where everything is first?”
“Oh this isn’t a hard delivery, it is just at the edge of town at Sweet Apple Acres, it shouldn’t be that hard to find.”
“Alright, I’ll take the package then.”
“That’s the spirit! Now this goes to Granny Smith,” I lifted up the small package and began to fly it to its destination. “Wait, Breezy! You are going the wrong way!” I soon realized that I needed some getting used to this small town. I quickly performed a midair U-turn to head in the right direction. The farm was very remote, separated from the rest of the town. It had a very peaceful and relaxing demeanor to it. The miles of fields peacefully rolled over the quite green landscape. The view was very breath-taking. I stood there for a few minutes just to admire the pasture. The old barn where I assumed the tea was to be delivered appeared very old, but still sturdy. I knocked for a while and assumed that no one was home.
“Oh, sorry I didn’t hear your knocks. You must be Breezy Leaf. You sure are a handsome young fellow, I tell you what. You know back in my day…” I began to sort of zone her out as I blushed from her compliment and she continued to mumble on about a story from her filly days.
“Well…um…here is your tea.”
“Oh thank you young man!” Overall, my first delivery was a success.
When I got back to my aunt’s home it was getting dark out. My aunt told me to get some sleep because tomorrow we are going to explore the town and later that day will be the first club meeting. The guest room was small and a little dusty, but it was comfortable enough.
The next day I woke up early, excited for my tour of Ponyville, however my aunt did not wake up early. I spent the next two hours trying to entertain myself. I made myself a nice green tea, I was never really that fond of tea, but I kind of forced the taste on myself. At this age I filled the tea with lots of sugar and honey, which made it a little too sweet and made me feel hyper. With my extra energy, I began practicing flying by doing simple tricks around the air above my aunt’s house. I still didn’t have my land-hooves and I would fly around whenever I got the chance. I guess my flying was pretty loud and I woke my aunt up.
“You seem like you are ready to go,” she laughed. I descended and landed next to her.
“Sorry if I woke you.”
“Oh, it’s alright, it’s no good for me to be sleeping in.” We then began to walk around the town. Everything Ponyville had to offer amazed me. I was especially was interested in the bowling alley, swimming hole, and plant life. These were all things that we didn’t have in Cloudsdale. I was very excited for the summer, but still extremely scared that I wouldn’t be able to make any friends. I had to pay close attention to streets and the houses of usual customers. Even working would be fun, because of being able to explore the town and be able to meet new interesting ponies. I wasn’t afraid of any of the ponies I’d be delivering to, because the majority of them will be older and I’m only nervous around ponies my own age.
Later that day, I stood in front of a mirror in the bathroom of my aunt’s house. I spent an extended period in the bathroom fixing my short turquoise mane. I was especially nervous about any fillies I would meet at the club. My hair was too messy and I couldn’t get it to a point where I thought it looked presentable, so I just put a cap on. I threw on a dark jacket to try to hide my blank flank. My small tail didn’t look too good either, but there wasn’t anything I could do about it. I also couldn’t do anything about my gray eyes that I had always thought were dull, compared to other ponies who had such marvelous colorful eyes. The only thing I wasn’t worried about was my bright blue coat, which I always liked the color of.
The club was being held at the school house, since the grade-school ponies weren’t using it at this time. I could have easily walked there, but I wanted to fly. That was a mistake. First off, when I accelerated upward my hat fell off and fell into a well. Then, the humid summer air, made me start to sweat, so I had to remove my jacket, to reduce the amount of perspiration. My plans for hiding my flaws were an instant failure.
When I arrived at the school building there was a paper sign on the door that read “Punch and Pie” with pie scribbled out with pen, but you could still make out what it said. I thought that someone forgot to bring pie or I was later that I thought I was. When I walked in, mostly everypony was already there. A rainbow of all different kinds of ponies starred at me, when I walked in. I backed up, my body began to tremble, and blushed intensively. I got a glance of two cute fillies that were standing close to each other way in the back who were looking straight at me. I tried to make a run for it, but I suddenly got bombarded by a light blue colt who began talking with stumbled words.
“I AM SO SORRY! I DID IT! YOU JUST GOT HERE! I COULDN’T HELP MYSELF, I’M SO SORRY I DIDN’T MEAN TO! IT’S ALL GONE, YOU GOT NONE I GOT IT ALL I’M SO SORRY!”
“What? What did you do,” I was immediately frightened by the frantic pony.
“I ATE ALL OF THE PIE!”
“Oh, that’s all? It’s no big deal.”
“NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL, NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL? I DEPRIVED YOU OF DELICIOUS PIE!”
“Seriously, I don’t mind if you ate all the pie.”
“You don’t?”
“No. It’s all good, man.”
“Oh thank-you!” The colt abruptly lifted me in the air and hugged me, “You are so forgiving of a selfish soul like mine! By the way my name is Soarin!”
“Hey Soarin, I’m Breezy Leaf,” Soarin then brought me down from the ceiling.
“I like you Breezy, me an’ you will be the best of friends!” I guess I had nothing to worry about; I had already made a friend in the first minute and just because I didn’t care that he ate all of the pies. “So Breezy, I see that you still don’t have a cutie mark.”
“Oh, yeah I still just don’t know what my special talent is.”
“That’s alright! You still have so much potential! I got my cutie mark for flying; I am going to be a Wonderbolt!”
“Oh, do they have a flight school here in Ponyville?”
“Well no, I’m actually from Cloudsdale.”
“Me too! How come I’ve never seen you at the academy?”
“Well I’m in an advanced flight school, but I’m a probationary student there, because I technically haven’t passed primary school yet. That’s why I’m here; I have to take summer classes on the land, so I can officially join.”
“Oh well you know, we all have strengths in different areas, so why do you need to take classes on the land?”
“Well the dumb members of the Cloudsdale school board don’t want my flying skills to interfere with my teachers decision to pass me through, so they want me to go to school in Ponyville where they don’t care about my flying,” Soarin and I continued to discuss things such as flying, the Wonderbolts, and pie when a colt Pegasus with a near black coat approached us.
“So you guys are the two from Cloudsdale right? Well my names Thunderlane, I am so jealous of you dudes! I’d give anything to live in Cloudsdale, Ponyville is just not a good place for a flyer like me,” Thunderlane had a cutie mark of a lightning bolt in a storm cloud, most likely for weather control, which would make sense for a Pegasus living on land.
“Cloudsdale isn’t that great, I think Ponyville is so interesting. Everything in Cloudsdale is well, clouds. Here there is so much diversity everywhere you look, even in the ponies,” I responded to him. Thunderlane still seemed uninterested in his home town however.
“Either way, I still want to be able to go to Cloudsdale someday. For now, let’s us three Pegasi stick together,” Thunderlane declared, and I suddenly made another new friend.
“Are we really the only Pegasi here?” I wondered.
“Well no, there are some others, but we are the only cool ones. Well there also are my two cousins.”
“Hey guys, I think the meeting is about to begin,” Soarin butted in. A gray filly, who only looked a little older than us, took the stand. Although young, she appeared very mature and strict. Just her appearance alone and announcing, “Ahem” was able to get the entire room quiet. She firmly straightened her pink bowtie.
“Ahem,” she repeated. “Hello fillies and gentlecolts my name is Octavia and I will be your activity director this summer. We will partake in several events and my main priority is for you all to act in a mature manner. I will now go over the rules that you will all have to follow at all times. Rule number 1: You should never wander off alone and should always---”
“Oh Tavi, don’t be such a stick in the mud! Hello Ponyville youth! I am the one, the only VINLY SCRATCH! And I will be your assistant activity director. I will make sure that this summer is the most awesome ever! Now who’s ready to rock?”
“Vinyl! I told you that I was going to go over the rules this meeting and for you not to interrupt me.”
“Fine, you can over your little rules, but I’m still going to make these young ponies have the time of their lives despite your rules!”
“Don’t you mean, while still following my rules?”
“Sure, let’s go with that,” the two high school ponies created a good balance to where it would be fun, but not out of control. Octavia went on with reading the rules in a stern matter, and I didn’t really care to listen. I was too busy thinking about how awesome it was that I made two new friends already, and I was worried I wouldn’t make any. I looked around at all of the ponies there, around 15-20 showed up. I noticed the two cute ponies that I saw when I first walked in. If I was any kind of brave, I would talk to them, but clearly I wouldn’t be able to make any straight sentences. If Soarin and Thunderlane hadn’t of approached me, I probably wouldn’t be able to talk to anypony. After a long boring list of rules we were supposed to follow, Octavia announced that we could get back to getting to know each other.
I tried to go back to my friends, but Soarin was way over at the punch bowl already, and I wasn’t sure what happened to Thunderlane. I swiftly turned around and my head slammed straight into a bluish-lavender blur of fur. My body was momentarily paralyzed and I felt a rush of dizziness and I still couldn’t see straight. A second pony pulled me up and all I could see was snowy hair going into every different direction.
“Hey dude be more careful next time you ran right into my lil’ sis,” the pony who pulled me up yelled, but I still didn’t see her. As my vision soon regained, I saw the lavender pony lying on the ground, blushing a bright shade of red. She was one of the ponies that I was looking at earlier and when I looked next to me I saw it was the other that had helped me up. Her white-cerulean hair continued to be the focal point of her. It was very messy, yet still styled. In a spark of confidence I picked up the lavender pony who was still on the ground.
“Th…thank…you,” her blush rapidly became a deeper red.
“Hey kid, name’s Cloudchaser and the little gal you knocked down is my sis, Flitter.”
“Cloudchaser! I was only born a few minutes after you. Stop acting like you’re so much older,” I grinned when she said that and she backed off and blushed some more. Flitter was clearly a lot shyer, while Cloudchaser was very outgoing.
“Oh Flitter you know that I only kid you! So new kid what’s your name? I haven’t seen you round these parts before.”
“Um…hi I’m uh Breezy Leaf,” I finally spoke to them.
“I like you Breezy! We are gonna be the best of friends this summer, maybe even break rule 18!”
“CLOUDCHASER! You just met him,” Flitter scorned her sister. I didn’t understand Flitter’s reaction, because I wasn’t listening to the rules. However it turned out rule 18, was the no PDA rule.
“Come on Flitter, you know I’m just teasin’ him,” she then placed her hoof around my head and my entire body tensed. I had always been afraid of girls and this was the first time I had ever been so close to one.
“I apologize for my sis…I really am,” Flitter looked like she was blushing even more, although she was trying her hardest to hide it. I didn’t think much of it, because I just thought she very shy like me.
“Oh it’s alright, I really don’t mind,” that statement seemed to make Flitter a little sad. “Oh no! Look at the time, I have to go!” It was about an hour later than when I was supposed to be home, most likely due to the large amount of rules. “I guess I’ll see you both later.”
“Bye Breezy, don’t cha forget ‘bout us,” Cloudchaser yelled.
“Uh…bye breeze,” Flitter shyly whispered.
Before leaving I glanced back to get another look at the two fillies. They looked so pulchritudinous. Cloudchaser was waving high, rapidly in a back and forth motion, while Flitter was waving exactly opposite, very low, slowly in a forward and back motion. They both had a grayish coat, but Cloudchaser’s was slightly darker. They both were Pegasi, like me. They also had their cutie marks, Flitter’s being three dragonflies and Cloudchaser’s being a shooting star. Their hair could perfectly describe both of their personalities. Cloudchaser had a pretty, wild mane with highlights, and Flitter had a cute, straight mane with a pink bow in it.
I flew home full of excitement. I was already so happy about making two male friends, but now two fillies wanted to be my friends. Although I was pretty shy by nature, I knew that I would have to keep my confidence in order to keep the friends I was so lucky to meet. In that moment I knew that this truly was going to be the greatest summer ever!
Author's Note
If anypony is wondering about the age range, the main characters are older than the CMC, but not as old as the Mane 6. They are somewhere in a middle school grade.
