I wonder what I should do here. I’ve always wanted to come to Canterlot, and it seems like a nice place. I think I’ll make friends here, I don’t look very different than the rest of the residents…
Mom always told me of the Grand Galloping Gala, it’s always something to look forward to. Apparently, it’s so posh that even the princess can’t handle all of the poshieness. If that’s a word, than I’ll be famous. I do this sort of thing.
Not everyone appreciates my existence. I really don’t know why, I’m not ugly or anything. I’ve come here to start fresh and hopefully find a home and settle down here with some friends.
I step out of the train, the station here is completely empty. The only things here are abandoned bags.
“Hello? Can someone help me? I’m new, and I need a tour guide!”
“Sorry, what’s your name?”
A young colt wearing a guard suit asked me.
“Oh, I’m Lilac. I’m new here, do you know the way here? I could use some help.”
“What’s your last name?”
“Why would you want to know that?”
“We have to extra careful around here, miss.”
“Why would you want to know me?”
“We never know, miss.”
“Okay? Are there any hotels or apartments here that are-”
“What’s your last name?”
“Oh. My name is Lilac Honeydrop Mary Cazing.”
“Miss Lilac, you are expected in the grand hall.”
“I am?”
“Well, the princess has called you on the list.”
I stand back in shock, and look at him with concerning eyes. He keeps his serious stare. I remember Fluttershy, my old friend. She had a stare to control her friends, the creatures of the Evergreen forest. I don’t have a stare, to control animals.
“I hardly even know the princess. Is she a friend of Princess Cadence?”
“Are you from the Crystal Empire?”
“Yes! I’m new here, and I need a place to stay!”
My forehead was sweating, and got my mane all wet. My horn ached so much with all of the luggage I was carrying.
“Ah, Miss Cazing, I-”
“Please. Call me Ms. Lilac Honeydrop Mary Cazing.” I looked deep in his eye.
He stood thunderstuck looking at my luggage.
“A-a-I’ll ta-t-take your luggage with me…”
“That’s better!”
He took me up the steps of a side castle and gestured me to the most magnificent hall.
“Third door to your l-l-eft.”
“Thank you. Your name?”
“I’ll get g-g-going now, h-heh heh…”
He dashed and galloped away down stairs. I looked out the window as he jumped into a bush. I think I’ll call that, sabushing. NEW WORD!
“Thanks for the help! Um…”
I unpacked my bags. I threw all of my clothes out and saw a picture of my sister, Andrea. Tears fell down my face and on to the cracked picture.
She died in an earthquake, while we were in a train to Ponyville, as a stop. The train fell of a cliff while everyone else jumped out before. Her leg was trapped, I tried to save her, but a pony pulled me out of the train car as the train fell down. I heard her scream. Then, the train exploded. I’ll never forget that pony. And I will never forgive that pony.
But, forgive and forget. I dusted of the picture and placed it by the bedside.
I run up to my bed and jump not forgetting to place a pillow under me. I hear a knock on my door.
“Hello? Who is it?” I yell out in a whiney way.
“Um, this is my room.” a muffled (quimufreserved) voice calls out behind the door.
“Hello, a guard just sent me in here, and plus, there is nothing in here.”
“Um, no. This is my room, there’s a Daring Do book on the bed.”
“Oh, you must have left it in here.”
“No!”
“Let me open the door for you, so YOU can retrieve it.”
The voice sounded so similar to a voice I heard before, but, I decided to open the door anyways. I turn the golden handle.
“What, is, wrong, with, this, DOOR!”
“I have the keys, Miss Smarty Pants...”
“B-but”
“Therefore this is my room.”
The figure walked in the door. I could only see two eyes gleaming at me. I’m gonna call that… walkinthedoorwithgleamingeyes look. I grab the coat and yank it off. But there’s another coat underneath!
She only spends a few minutes, then leaves. I am completely silent as the figure moves out. I quickly reach into her pocket and yank her second cloak off, but she makes it out the door. She slams the door, and throws the keys at me. I lose all sense of reflexes, and the keys come hurling straight for me.
They hit me so hard, I fall to the ground, yelling in pain. I am very sensitive. I cry in pain for the smallest things.
I look outside the window and the mysterious figure is nowhere to be found.
I take a glance at the small mini photo frame that I took from her. I unwrap the frame and see a picture of six ponies, all hugging each other. I look and see Fluttershy in the corner of the frame. Since the photo fell on the marble porch, the frame is slightly cracked. I wrap up the photo, and place the frame next to my bedside.
Yawn! It’s Saturday morning, and looked outside the window. There’s a fair going on here, and I step on the grass in front of the porch and a lilac pops out.
“What?”
That cloaked figure has got me thinking about Canterlot. Is this a thief rigged playground of matufaopie people? Mom never told me anything like that. Well, mom isn’t always right.
I received an invitation to a Garden party. What if its a trap! I can’t trust anyone, or anything.
Looking outside the door, I spot a young filly trotting along the side of the road. There’s nothing so suspicious about that? Right? I walk on to the street and quietly follow the filly. I take a small glance at her bag and I see a metal object in here bag. She takes it out, and it looks like a knife. I gasped horror as she smiled and place the knife carefully in her bag.
I quickly ran to my room and sighed while planting my face in a laced pillow. This place really is strange! Maybe I should move out of Canterlot, maybe I can move to Manehattan, no, Fillydephia? Ugh, Appleloosa? No way!
I looked down the map and spot a small village with the label “Ponyville”.
“Ponyville? I think I’ve heard of that town.”
I better pack up my things before things get scary here. I kicked the door with my legs and the door came crashing down.
“Oospy. That’s what you get for taking care of a creepy capital.”
I quickly gallop out the door and run to the train station. I fastymundo open my mailbox and grab the first mail in my hand:
Dear Ms. Lilac Honeydrop Mary Cazing,
You have been requested to research the
Evergreen forest. All expenses have been
payed, and you shall stay in a hut that has met
all of your preferences.
Wait, I’ll be staying in a hut? What research? I don’t know anything about plants! I mean, nothing that I know has to do with reseach!
I packed my things and set off on the train. I walked to the side of the station and I spot a squad of guards blocking a brick outhouse behind the bench. I walk up to one of the officers and ask him the directions.
“Excuse me, officer. Do you know the way to the Evergreen Forest?”
“Sorry, miss. May I ask why you dare enter the forest?”
“Here, I received a mail from the palace requesting me to go and research the plant there.”
“Ah, you need to take a train to Ponyville, and the residents there will help you further. If you need any help, send a letter back to Canterlot an we will send help.”
“Thank you, sir. And your name?”
“My name is Jade Apricot. And yours?”
“Lilac. I don’t need to tell you the rest, it’s quite long.”
“The train boards in 12 minutes. Until then, you can get something at the Pony Café.”
I skadoodled on to the Pony Café as I looked over my shoulder at the brick house. Sometimes, the guards that guard these places aren’t so bad. Stereotyping suggests that guards are serious and won’t talk unless you are royalty.
I stood at the door of the cafe and walked in. The door chimed and the pony inside slapped on a cheerful smile and walked quickly towards me. She was sweating as she was talking, and she was talking so fast that I didn’t hear a single word she said. I got a seat next to the window as ponies around me giggled and yakked their way around their food.
“Excuse me, what would you like?”
“Oh, um, I’m just waiting for my train.”
I constantly looked at the clock as my heart beat faster and faster. I wanted to get to Ponyville as fast as possible. 9:30, the clock blinked so slowly, I felt like time had slowed down and stopped, just to make me feel annoyed and nervous. 9:35, 9:37, 9:39, I started packing up my stuff and sleepily walked out the door. The train hadn’t came yet, so I sat down and wrote in this journal.
Finally, the train arrived in a gust of steam and smoke. My curly mane blew in the summer breeze as I walked in a cabin and sat down on the closest bench. Using my magic, I placed my bags on the luggage rack. I lay down on the bench, only to find that the bench was wooden, except in one spot. I hit my head on the wood, but soon after, while closing my eyes, I found the pillow and went to sleep.
I awoke to the sound a laughing fillies and foals. I stepped out of my cabin and saw the sign, “Welcome to Ponyville!”
I slowly walk towards the sign and rub the crust out of my eyes. The station is filled with ponies of all shapes and sizes. I step off the train lifting my luggage in the air and trudging along, trying not to attract attention. I stop in my tracks as I spot the colorful town with a mysterious forest in the background. That’s probably not the Evergreen Forest. I then turn to my left and spot a field of Apple trees. There! Research done. That’s probably the Evergreen forest.
I whip out my note pad and my quill and jot down:
Evergreen Forest Plants
Appletrees
Grass
I remember it saying something about me staying in a hut. I don’t think I see a hut, I see a barn, though.
I trotted down the road and plastered a smile on my face, preparing to greet the wild ponies that live there, in the forest!
I meet the sign on the gateway to this new place. I slip in the mud just outside the fence. Looking up, I saw a sign that read “Sweet Apple Acres”. I thought it would say “Evergreen Forest”. Oh well, the ponies that live in the “farm” must call it that.
I walk in and spot a young filly with a pink bow on the back of her mane. I waved to her and smiled.
“Yoo hoo! I’m supposed to stay here for um, research on the Evergreen forest!”
“Who are you? Are you from Canterlot?”
“Um, no sweetie, do you know where I can stay?”
She bounced around and around me, making me dizzy.
“My name’s Applebloom! Ya haven’t come around here? Where do you come from? Are you from Manehatten? Can I call you posh?”
“What? My name is Lilac Honeydrop Mary Cazing, and I need a place to stay!”
“Okay!”
She galloped up to the barn and called out in the barn house.
“Sis! There’s a newpony here and she’s supposed to stay here and she’s really nice and she is really posh but she’s not from Manehattan or Canterlot so can she stay here, please please please???”
“Wait a sec, Applebloom.” her sister sounded just like her, just older.
A young pony stepped out from behind the barn. She had a blond mane with a brown cowboy hat on the back of her head. Her eyes were emerald green and she smiled with content, as if she meant it. I knew I was gonna have a great time with her!
“Hi there! My name’s Applejack. Sorry about my sister Applebloom. I think she ate too much Apple pie. I hear you’re stayin’ here for a research project assigned from Canterlot.”
“What? How did you know?”
“Oh, the whole Ponyville knows.” she smiled slyly.
“Well, this is the Evergreen forest, no?”
“What? Who the hay told ya that?”
“Oh, uh…”
“This is Sweet Apple Acres. But you can still stay here if you want. The Evergreen forest is that one.” the sweet pony pointed to the mysterious forest I rejected later.
“It’s okay. You can stay here, right Applejack?”
“Oh, I have to properly introduce myself, am I right?”
“Um.”
“My name is…” I took a big breath as Applejack shrank her nose at me.
“...Lilac Honeydrop Mary Cazing.”
“Yes. Missy, you need to get cleaned up. Let me show you your um, room.”
She took me upstairs and asked me to stand outside the room door as she slammed the door. She came out with a pile of things.
“This is your room...sorry if it’s a little messy.”
I walked in and my eyes widened as I gazed around the room. It was so beautiful! Better than the room in Canterlot, at least!
She took the pile downstairs, then walked out the door and into the barn. I was getting hungry for lunch, and the air smelled like apples. The rug on the floor was decorated with the most beautiful tapestry ever. I dare not touch it.
Applebloom kicked my door open as she placed a vase of apple blossoms next to my door. Then she jumped out my window and landed in the grass.
I went downstairs to have some lunch with Applejack. Then she took me outside the barn house and we walked towards the center of town.
When we arrived there, the streets were teeming with laughing ponies and stallions. The little ones were running around flying kites and playing jumprope. This was such a happy town! I think I’ll stay here instead of Canterlot.
I’ve never seen such a happy town, with all types of ponies living together in harmony. I’m gonna head to the library because I can research. If I don’t find something to research, I think I’ll move here. I open the wooden door.
“Hello? Who’s the care taker here?”
“Oh, I am. Can I show you around, or…”
I eagerly prance around the room feeling very dorky. The pony there smiles and whispers something to herself. Then she walked up to me and tapped me saying:
“You know, you don’t look like a bookworm.”
“Do I have to…”
“No, silly! My name is Twilight Sparkle. I’m like the only bookworm around here. Are you new in town?”
“Yes, I am. I came here to research the Evergreen forest. But I don’t really want to go in there. Can I just stay here?”
“I know a friend named Fluttershy that lives quite near the forest. She can let you stay there when you come to the point when you need to go there in person.”
“Fluttershy? Here?”
“Do you know her?”
“Yes! I do, I met her when my family visited Ponyville. I don’t remember much about this place, but I remember her.”
“I had no idea! Here. You can look at this book, it has all kinds of information about plants in the Evergreen forest.”
“Thanks!” I smiled and sat down hugging the book, then looking up at her and smiling all posh-like.
She smiled back at me and cheerfully said:
“If you need me, I’ll be here.”
I pick up the book eagerly and flipped open to a random page.
The Evergreen forest fills with all kinds of wildlife. Manticores, strange snakes, dragons, and other species. There are plants that cause you to have strange things happening to you. You might shrink, grow, lose your voice, grow extensive hair, etc.
Slowly closing the book, I get up and walk towards Twilight.
“I think I should be going now.”
“Hope you had a good time, I didn’t get your name, may I?”
“Oh. You might need to write it down. Well, here it goes.” taking a deep breath, I rapidly speak….
“Lilac Honeydrop Mary Cazing Enchita Iris Rosedove”
“Um…”
“Just call me Lilac Honeydrop Mary Cazing.”
“Or…”
“Lilac.”
“Okay, Lilac, you must be on your way, it was nice meeting you!”
I really need to upgrade my wardrobe. I look at the map and walk towards the most beautiful castle-room. I slowly walk towards it, smiling big and fluffing my curls.
“Hello!”
“Oh, dear, you are in need of a new dress! Here, what color? Ah, you would look dashing in silver, your curls are so perfect! I love your highlights, did you do that by yourself.”
“I-”
“I think magenta would suit you, your eyelashes, how long did you take to curl them so perfectly? Oh! You’re a unicorn!”
“EXCUSE ME!”
“Oh, sorry, I do get carried away with my chatter. May I help you?”
“I need to update my wardrobe, it’s empty of your, um, dresses.”
“Ah, tell me your pre-”
“Make it full of flowers, gold silk, rainbow cloth, and cotton undercoat. Make it engraved! You probably can’t looking at these excuses for dresses! I’d like to buy some for cleaning my sink! That works! You know what? I think you’re too poor to even have those materials! Well too bad! I ain’t given you any money! I need some simple skirts, tops, and make it quick!” I stubbornly stomped out the door as she looked at me, almost in tears.
I don’t know why I was so harsh with her. She seemed really nice to me. I think I was just a little jealous of her awesome mane. Her dresses looked so nice! I would buy all of them if I could. I walked back in smiling and said sweetly:
“I’ll take the lot. I’m sorry I was so mean. Hi, I’m Lilac, and I’m moving here. I see you have a sense for fashion, I love fashion! I’m also a bit of a book worm.”
“That’s okay! Have you met someone called Twilight?”
“I’ve met two people. Twilight, and Applejack.”
“Really? They are my very best friends!”
“What’s your name?”
“Rarity. I make dresses for folks around here.”
“Well, Rarity. It was nice meeting you.”
“Bye!”
I walked out the door with a heap of dresses. I trudged on down the lane. I saw a old stallion with a cane putting up a sign on a building saying “For rent”.
“Excuse me? Is this place for rent?”
“What?! Is this maze torrent? No sweetie, that’s down the road!”
“No! Is this place really for rent?”
“No, sweetie, my mother is not cheesy, she’s in a better place…”
“Sorry, CAN I USE THIS BUILDING?”
“Speak up, honey…”
I irritably look at him and breath so heavily that I think steam came out of my nose! I stared at him and told him one more time. Strangely, he immediately responded and ran off in the distance. I opened the door as the bells on the top chimed. The place was empty, with nothing except for a business card on the top shelf in the corner of the room. The display window was cleaned and shiny. I looked to the right of the window and there were some parts of a flower stand with some dryed out leaves and petals near it. There were three of these piles.
Suddenly, I came to an idea of which I dreamed since I was just a filly. I grabbed the hammer next to it and started building.
Three hours later, I had finished making all of the stands. I began wiping and dusting everything and preparing my shop. I picked up the business card and started reading it…
Glassworthe Shinette John Saturn
Glass blower and vase maker
3049 Weather Street, Ponyville, EQ
This person lived right opposite to this store. I could use these vases, that he makes. I head out the door with my purse and gallop out the door.
“Hello?”
“Hi, I’m-”
“Glassworthe, right?
“Wha- how did you know my name?”
“Your card.”
“Oh”
“I just moved in the building opposite to yours.”
“Oh”
“We should meet more often!” I looked at him, his flowing mane, his feathery wings. I could get used to this.
“U-uh, m-may I help you?”
“I’d like to look at some glass vases.”
“Oh...ok…”
“Are you okay?”
“N-yes! I’m fine!”
“Okay, so do you have tinted glass?”
“Uh, yes!”
“Ok, can I-”
“Here are all the glass vases, here are tinted ones, and here are non tinted ones!” he quickly said, then smiled nervously and ran behind the curtain and sighed.
“Thanks?”
I looked at one vase. It was blown to a perfect sphere and tinted pink and blue with a flower pattern. I loved it so much! Making something like this would have taken a whole week!
I go up to the counter and a short snobby pony walks up, adjusts her glasses and shrinks her nose and squints at me.
“Sorry mister, but I can’t help you.”
“Um… I never asked for…”
“Sorry, my mother-in-law sometimes is a little cranky. Mom? I’ll handle this.” a beautiful pony with mascara said.
“Oh! I’m so sorry, who’s your husband?”
“Honey? Can you help her? She doesn’t know who you are…”
The stallion who I talked to walked out with a nervous smile on his face.
“Uh, hi...um…”
