A lone soldier

It was a beautiful morning, the birds were singing, the sun was shining, and Scott had just waken up. He checked his pocket watch, it was early in the morning and he was seeing twilight reading some books downstairs, he decided to join her and also read something, it was a whole new world and he wanted to find out more about it.

“Mind if I join?” He said, picking up a book.

“Not at all!” She answered.

He sat on a chair next to her, reading a mystery novel he thought was interesting, it was titled "The Fears of the Night", he opened the book and started reading…

My job was a private investigator, it paid the bills and even got me a little extra money to play around with, but it wasn't always like that, sometimes I got so much money I didn't know what to do with it and sometimes I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread, but those times are over, now I've got money to sustain myself and even some more.

As I was thinking about calling it a day and coming home early, a mare entered my office, heading straight to my desk.

“Mr. Grier, is it?”

“I see my reputation precedes me” I said, smiling.

“Yes, but I am in need of your services” Said the mare in a more than worried tone

“How may I help you?”

“I need you to Monitor the activities of a certain pony”

‘Seems easy enough’ I thought.

“How much do you need?” She asked.

“How much do you pretend to offer?”

“6000 Bits”

‘Holy Dooley! Did I hear her right? Six Thousand?!’

“That’ll be enough” I said trying to conceal my surprise

“Thank you” She said putting some files in my desk

She left the room and I got to look into the files-

My stomach grumbled like the roar of a lion, getting Twilight’s attention

“Are you hungry?” She asked

“It seems so, I haven’t had breakfast yet”

“Then let’s fix that, and I’ll introduce you to my friends!”

“Good idea, let’s go before I starve to death!”

After walking we got to a house that looks like was made in an oven and then someone sprinkled too much sugar in it, and it smelled like that too! Then after entering the bakery I got some strange looks but I didn’t care too much about that, the smell that was filling the air was absolutely wonderful, it was like my mom’s baked goods, we stayed in line for about five minutes and then we saw a pink pony bringing some juice and cake to us.

“Hey Twilight, and who’s that behind you?” The pink pony said in a high pitched voice

“That’s Scott, he’s a newcomer here in Ponyville”

“Really!?” The pink pony gasped “That means I’ll have to arrange a party for him, does he like cake? I hope, because this party’s gonna have cake in it! And he’s from a different species entirely, this so exiting!” She said, in a speed so fast I almost couldn't understand her

“You don’t need to do that, I’ll be fine without one” I said

“But I always throw a party whenever a new face comes to town, it’s my job!”

“Your job?”

“Yeah!” She said, giving me a card

It read Pinkie Pie! Party thrower extraordinaire, Strange profession, but I was talking to a hyperactive, talking pink pony with a fluffy mane, I stopped questioning things a while ago.

I sighed “Alright, you can throw one”

“Yay!”

Me and twilight took the breakfast and searched for a table, we found one outside and we both started eating, the cake was absolutely delightful, the texture was soft and fluffy, and the taste, don’t even get me started on the taste.

Long story short, that was one heck of a cake, the orange juice was alright too, but compared to the cake it didn’t stand a chance, I finished eating before Twilight did so I looked around, the small town was pretty quiet, the town was calm and I could relax for a bit, this was a nice peaceful place, it kind of reminded me of home, but there was just something off about it, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but it may just be my imagina-

“LOOK OUT BELLOW” Screamed a blue mare above, coming right at me faster than a bullet.

My first instinct was to try and catch the pony, and so I did, but she was going too fast, so we both ended up against a wall, at least I absorbed some of the impact for her, I was a bit dazed, but after regaining my posture I helped her up.

“I'm soooo sorry, are you hurt” She asked worried

“I've been through much worse, no need to worry” I tried to calm her down

“Thanks for absorbing the impact, it think my skull would have fracture if it weren't for you”

“No problem”

“Are you two okay!?” Asked Twilight, just a tiny bit late

“I think so, do you know her?”

“Yeah, that’s Rainbow Dash-”

“The best flier in Equestria!” Rainbow said, with her ego higher than the sun itself.

“Yeah, but you need to be more careful” I said

“Sorry”

“Scott, Let’s go, I have to introduce you to Rarity!” Twilight said

“Let’s go then, see you later rainbow”

“You too!”

Ok, that’s two times I’ve almost died… this week, now taking that off my mind I followed Twilight to a place that was so high class, it almost seemed out of place in this small town.

And inside were so many articles of clothing, and they were beautiful, the pony who made this was not playing around, and the pony who made this was working on another piece of art in another part of the room, which looked as beautiful as the others.

“Hi Rarity!” Twilight said

“Oh, hello Twilight” She turned around, she had a pencil behind her ear, and was wearing red glasses.

“What brings you he- WHAT IS THAT?!” The white pony said pointing at me

“Oh, that is Sco-”

“This is simply preposterous!” She said, interrupting Twilight “Those clothes are simply horrid, who in the right mind would wear clothes like that?!”

I realized I was still in my Camouflage clothing

“I agree” I said

“I’ll fix that right away!”

“There’s no need to” I said

“But I simply must, you can’t just walk around wearing those clothes!”

“Well, I kind of need to wear these clothes”

“Why?”

“Because if don’t I get an assortment of bullets right through my vital organs”

Twilight and Rarity both stared at me in shock, but I just told the truth, if didn't wear that, I’d be Swiss cheese with extra lead.

“Well, I suppose that is a good reason, so what is your name darling?”

“The name’s Scott, at your service!”

“My name is Rarity, and if someday your life is not in danger, I would be pleased to make you some decent clothes”

“Thank you”

Me and Twilight exited that place and were headed to the golden oak library/her house, on the way there we talked a little bit

“What’s the story behind you needing these clothes to live?” She asked

“…I’d prefer not to remember those times”

“Alright” She said a little sad

We got back home pretty quickly, despite the distance between Rarity’s house and Twilight’s house, I guess I was too distracted with the scenery on the way home.

We got in, and we both went our ways, I got a history book about Equestria and read it on my bed, I did not want to miss out on important information that I could need, and also to avoid obvious mistakes on the history of this place and be awkwardly corrected, the history of this place is fascinating, and when I finished reading the book it was night already, I guess time flies when you are having fun, and I did have fun reading that book, and I learned a lot from it.

I got up and put the book in its respective place, and got back on bed, with my journal and pen in hand:

Day 2 in Equestria

Today I got to meet twilight’s friends and it was a pleasure doing so, each of their personalities is very unique and they are pretty nice ponies too, this place feels like home, but something seems off about it, but I’m sure it’s just my imagination. Another good day in this beautiful realm, may tomorrow be a good day, and that nothing bad happens to anyone.