White Hawk's Fate

Chapter 8: Clubhouse Renovation/Review

<<------- Gavin ------->>

You wanna know what I woke up to after that dream?  I felt weird I couldn't really tell what position I was in, I was in that state of sleep and consciousness where you just can't really feel anything yet. I could make out the faint feeling of fur, I was hoping to be on my side having my face buried into Fluttershy's fur. Sadly when I was able to open my eyes I found that Sweetie Bell was atop my face. This sent enough of a shock through my brain so I would be completely awake. I hope she never farted last night. I just lay there though, I didn't want to disturb the filly. I moved my hand around searching for Fluttershy's mane.

Upon my search I accidentally grabbed some... Ponies tail, fortunately I didn't grab any higher then I did. If I had my hand would have been on their rump, and I don't think whoever's tail I grabbed would like that. After a few more moments and accidentally running my hand along Scootaloo's face I concluded that Fluttershy was up already. Apparently whoever's tail I grabbed was too.

"Now why the hay did ya grab my tail?" I tried to answer but my words were muffled by Sweetie Bell's fur. I pointed at Sweetie Bell hoping that Applebloom would get the message. Apparently she did. "Don't worry she's a heavy sleeper, one time me and my sister lead a group of stampeding cows right by her and she didn't even stir!" I carefully lifted her up and moved her to be atop my chest.

"I was looking for Fluttershy, I'm sorry I accidentally grabbed your tail. Think of it this way, a little be higher and my hand would have been on your rump, luckily that didn't happen. Because that would have been very awkward." I said imitating Pinkie Pie in the way that I said this all with one breath. Applebloom craned her neck and gave a weird expression that I couldn't quite tell what it meant, she turned back to me before she said.

"Fluttershy went downstairs to start making breakfast, by the way, you were sweating like you stepped into an oven. Did you have a nightmare?" There was concern in her voice when she asked. I simply shook my head in response, she raised a skeptical eyebrow at me. I mentally shrugged and went back to staring at the ceiling. After awhile I sighed and said something just to keep her from pestering me about it.

"It was an unsettling dream at most, but I have to say it gave me some insight." Applebloom shrugged as if she didn't know what I meant but was not going to press further questions. I would love to get up at this point but again, sweetie bell looked so comfortable. I was tempted to pet her like a puppy, I settled with myself for just placing a hand on her side and feeling the soft fur. Though it wasn't as soft as Fluttershy's, it felt more like that of the cat I had when I was hunger, it was an orange mackerel tabby and his name was Buddy. I was going through memories of the cat when I heard hoof steps coming upstairs.

"Oh good you're awake, can you help me wake up the other two?" Fluttersy asked this as she entered the room. Applebloom and I both nodded. An idea popped into my head instantly.

"Are either of these two ticklish?" I asked as I moved Sweetie Bell into my lap so I could sit up straight.

"They both are, their stomachs and hooves is where it's the easiest to get em laughin." Applebloom answered me as she walked over to Scootaloo. "Fluttershy can I borrow a feather?" Fluttershy nodded before she craned her neck so she could pluck a feather from her wings, she handed the feather to Applebloom.

"Does that not hurt at all?" I asked after thinking about it. I suspected it would feel like pulling out hair.

"No not really." She answered simply, I shrugged as I flipped Sweetie Bell towards she'd be lying on her back. I then got to work very lightly tapping my fingers across her belly as if they were the legs of a spider. After a bit of time I concluded that it would not work, so I went to just lightly dragging my finger tips across her belly. This worked perfectly, at first she was just mumbling and shifting around trying to ignore it. Very soon she was giggling, then laughing her flank off.

"Ok, ok! *haha* I'm awake! I give!" She screamed as I stopped tickling her. I had one more dastardly thing to do though, I picked her up from under her fore legs. After being about eye level with her chest I pulled her closer and gave her a raspberry. By now Scootaloo was awake and laughing as Sweetie Bell released her own breathless laughter. Fluttershy had a hoof covering her mouth as she tried not to giggle. Sweetie Bell was panting for air when I stopped. "That... Was... Not nice!" Now it was my turn to join in the laughter.

"I am glad it was Applebloom was the one to wake me up!" Scootaloo had scooted onto my lap to sit besides Sweetie Bell. Fluttershy released a fake sounding cough to get our attention.

"Children breakfast is waiting for you at the table downstairs."

"What about me?!"

"I said children, didn't I?" Fluttershy had a teasing smile on her face as realization of what she just said dawned on me.

"Haha." I said sarcastically as I tried to get up, but I was pushed down by three fillies. I looked down at them as I asked. "Is there a reason you won't let me get up?" They all nodded and pouted as Applebloom spoke up.

"Carry us?" ... why am I such a sucker for ponies? I thought this as I ducked so Scootaloo wouldn't get knocked off my head as I went through the door. Sweetie Bell and Applebloom were on my shoulders chatting to each other about some "crusade" they went on last week. Fluttershy said she made something she thought I would like, which upon seeing what she made I would have to say she was right. There were pancakes, eggs, and biscuits, I have had lots of pancakes since I was here so I didn't really care about them. What I was paying attention to was biscuits and the eggs, I love biscuits! Most people would be like whatever they're basically just weird shaped bread, but I am crazy for them. I bolted to sit at the table when I saw what was made, almost dropping the three fillies.

"I take it I was right?" She asked with a smile. My mouth was full so all i could do to reply was nod my head as the fillies bounced off me. Fluttershy sat next to me and started eating her own breakfast. "Good, you're going to eat up before you help the crusaders." I deadpanned as I looked at her and said.

"With what exactly?"

"We are making some additions to our clubhouse!" Scootaloo said through a mouthful of pancake.

"When did you decide that I would be helping them?"

"When you fell asleep, I thought it would be better then being cooped up in here for the rest of the week." Applebloom was the one to answer this time, I shrugged she was right.

"Where is your clubhouse, and how would we get there without getting seen?" I asked after a moments thought.

"It's on the edge of Sweet Apple Acres, and nopony will see ya if we take the long way around town." That plan sounded logical, plus it would actually have me working instead of staying here getting fat. I nodded before I said.

"Ok one thing first." Everypony raised their eyebrows at me. "Sweetie Bell would you care to tell me why you slept on my face?" Sweetie Bell looked at me with a sheepish grin.

"W-well me and Rarity's cat Opal always fall asleep on my face, I wanted to see what she found so comfortable. I didn't mean to actually fall asleep." I chuckled a little.

"That's alright, but if you haven't noticed my head is not shaped like a ponies, heck even spike's head would be more of an accurate representation... Where is Spike?" I had just realized we hadn't seen Spike this morning. Fluttershy looked at the clock as she thought.

"He left about an 45 minutes ago, he was muttering something about hallucinating." This struck me as odd, but considering how he was acting last night it didn't surprise me.

<<------- Twilight ------->>

I was woke up before Celestia even rose the sun, somepony was knocking on my door. I forced myself to get out of the comfort of my bed. This better not be a game of knock, knock, ditch. I thought grumpily as I headed down the two flights of stairs to get to the actual library portion of my home.

"Coming!" I shouted as there was a second round of knocking from behind the door, when I opened the door I found Spike standing there with bags under his eyes.

"Twilight, I think I'm hallucinating."

"Why?"

"Well I went to Fluttershy's cottage and" That's all I needed to hear to guess what the rest of his sentence was going to be. "well Fluttershy was being carried up the stairs by a human, after we had attacked him he took Sweetie bell and tossed her in the air and caught her. He kept doing that for awhile, after Applebloom asked what the hay was going on the human talked!" Yep something about Gavin, even though I knew basically what he was going to say I couldn't help but laugh. "What's so funny?!"

"That wasn't a hallucination, that was just Gavin!" I said this in between two bursts of laughter.

"But, but, but how?!"

"Don't worry about it Spike, not EVERYTHING needs a logical explanation." Spike looked at me and deadpanned.

"This coming from Twilight Sparkle, who freaked out about Pinkie's little signs into the near future?" I glared daggers at him as he stepped inside and went upstairs.

<<------- Gavin ------->>

"Applejack isn't going to be showing up while I'm there, will she?" I asked as we walked, according to Applebloom we were almost to there clubhouse. I had asked Fluttershy if she could come but she said she has chores to do around the cottage. Ahead I could see acres upon acres of apple trees, I wondered how much work it would take to harvest all of these.

"Not for long, she's out bucking trees. She might stop by later to check in on us." We had reached the first apple tree and a bit in the distance I could in fact see a tree house, it looked better then the one I made when I was young, well besides for the girly paint/decoration. Me and three of my friends would always hang out in the tree house I made, two of them were guys the other one was a girl. Her name was Stephanie, she would later become my girlfriend. We were together for 5 years, then I was sent to Equestria. My mind floated in thoughts of my past, it stopped on the little black box in my apartment that held a ring meant for Stephanie.

That last thought brought a single tear to my eye, I quickly wiped it away before the others could see. I relished in those thoughts of my old tree house the rest of the way to the Crusaders club house. I was brought back to reality when Scootaloo tugged on my pant leg trying to get my attention. It took me a few minutes to even respond to the constant tugging, I finally looked down at the orange filly as she said.

"Are you okay Gavin? You spaced out on us, and you have a weird smile." Her usually playful or teasing tone was replaced by one of concern. Ignoring that she said my smile was weird I said.

"Yeah, looking at your club house reminds me of some old friends." The three fillies smiled at me, awws came from Applebloom and Sweetie Bell, Scootaloo smiled and instead of awwing she said.

"Never forget your friends dude, they're what inspire you to be you." That was strangely the least tom boy like thing I could imagine Scootaloo saying. I was about to say "I won't" but Applebloom decided to speak up.

"Ahh that was sweet Scootaloo, I think that could be considered as poetry!" Scootaloo's face went from orange to red.

"Oh shut up! I can be soft sometimes, preferably only once a day." This made the other two laugh, I looked at her as a smile spread across my face.

Before long I'm testing the ramp to see if it would hold my weight, because obviously it was not built thinking about a human's weight. Surprisingly though it held my weight, a little creak here and there but all in all it was pretty stable. As I looked inside the clubhouse I could see various diagrams spread across the room, they seemed to be depicting the clubhouse accept there were three more rooms. Two to the right and left, each held up by support beams connecting to the ground. The third was on a second floor, the railing that went all the way around the house now only went to the walls behind them were the new rooms making it look like a normal porch.

"How long are you borrowing me for?!" I asked as I looked at all we had to do, it looked like this was going to take at least a week and Celestia would probably find me by then.

"Well usually a quick montage will get anything done in at most two hours." I Blinked at Sweetie bell processing that. A montage? Are you kidding me?!

"You mean like... In a TV show or movie?" They gave me confused expressions.

"What's a TV?" Oh right, I forgot their whole technological situation was behind that of Earth's.

"Do you have movies?" They nodded. "Well it's kinda like that accept you wouldn't watch it at a movie theater and it wouldn't be on a large screen, it would be on a small screen in your home and you could watch it anytime you want." They each gave an ohh as they walked into the club house, which taking a second glance around there were red dotted marks here and there, even on the ceiling. They looked as if they were marking where they were going to take out the wall, which is probably what they're for.

"Ok then kind of like a TV show." Sweetie Bell said with a smile touching her lips. Applebloom looked around for a moment then she jumped as if she just realized she forgot something.

"Ok girls and Gavin I'll be right back, just have ta get the tools from the shed." She said before she ran out the door, this left an uncomfortable silence among me and the two fillies still here until she came back. She came back with Applejack in tow, ugh they each had saddlebags filled with various tools. Hammers, screwdrivers, saws, and pretty much any tool you could need for building a tree house.

"Howdy there Gavin, if you worked for me you would have been paid." Applejack said this dryly. I shrugged although really I wanted to roll my eyes at her. I really do not like that pony. She sat down her saddlebags in a corner of the room where Applebloom had set hers moments before. "So girls how did you get Gavin ta agree to help ya?"

"Well Fluttershy kinda dropped it on him, he didn't Question it much." Scootaloo answered. Applejack Hmmd as she looked me over, something sounded odd about that hmm. The look in her eyes looked as if she was scheming. I didn't get much time to think about what she might be planning before she dumped the tools out of her saddle bag.

"Well I got to get back to tree bucking, I'll check in on you gals later." She said this before she walked out the door. In my head I was thinking about possible punishments for murder or ponynapping. Silently chuckling to myself I turned my attention to the blue prints that were floating in front of me, surrounded by a green aura. I reached out and yanked the the blue print out of the aura, when I did Sweetie Bell released a loud yelp.

"What's wrong Sweetie Bell?" I asked wondering what had surprised or hurt her.

"That hurt!" She said as she rubbed her horn.

"What hurt?" I asked being slightly confused.

"You yanked the blue prints right out of my magic!" I was now completely and utterly confused.

"So it hurts to have something forcibly taken from your magic?" I asked my confusion turning into curiosity. She simply nods after a quick sigh, I take it that the pain in, I'm guessing, her horn has left. Sweetie Bell looked at me expectantly, she wants me to apologize doesn't she? I give a little sigh. "Ok, I'm sorry I did not realize it would cause you pain to take the blueprints out of your magic." I say this in a semi sarcastic tone. The other two fillies were looking at us like we were the weirdest things they ever saw.

"Anyways... We got work ta do girls, and I would like to be done with at least one room before lunch." Applebloom broke the silence that had settled for about 3 minutes. I went over to the saddle bags that were full of tools and started pulling them out. Most of the tools looked just as you would expect them to, yet others looked familiar but more equipped for hooves then hands. Which actually looked quite interesting, what I assumed to be a one handed saw. (shush IDK the actually name for it!) Instead of the usual handle, it looked like a small plate where a pony would put their hoof. I assumed that, because of how Fluttershy's hoof felt kind of like a suction cup, that the pony would just put their hoof on it and it would stick, again like a suction cup.

"Where do we start?" I ask after I chose to wield a hammer and nails.

"Well after Sweetie Bell    She pauses for a moment and points to Sweetie Bell.    is done preparing her spell, we are going to take out the walls, and ceiling, where there are the red dotted lines." She confirmed what I thought earlier.

"Ready!" Sweetie Bell shouted before she released the magic that was building up in her horn, the magic flowed out like a bubble. Looking out the window I saw that the bubble expanded several yards from the clubhouse. I don't know how hard it was to perform magic in this world, but it looked like it would be hard to keep a constant flow of magic for this bubble. There were no saws that had actual handles so I couldn't help with this part of construction, so I went to sit down where I would be out of the way. Doing this I freaked myself out, I mean, I was going faster than any human should! What the hell?! Was this the spell? I couldn't even see my hand waving it in front of my face, looking up at the girls they were doing their work at super fast speeds.

(Insert large amounts of small talk as they build the clubhouse.)

I always wondered what it would be like to be IN a montage, and by that I mean... Ugh, never mind you probably get what I mean. Anyways... It was really weird, there were moments, like, if I was running fast enough my body would be blurred. Again, anyways, we had gotten one and roughly a half of the rooms finished. We were currently taking a break to eat as we worked past lunch time, it was currently nearing 2:00 P.M.. Applejack had stopped by again to drop off some apple pie, she ignored me as she chatted with the other before she left. Now I may not like Applejack but this pie was, and I'm Atheist mind you, heavenly!

"If I get the chance to go home, and take it, remind me to get a few of these from you before I leave!" I said this as I finished off my pie. Even with how active the ponies are around here, I have no idea how they eat entire pies themselves without gaining the slightest bit of weight. I have questioned Fluttershy on a ponies eating habits, according to her ponies do eat a lot of sweats. I also learned that all adults have jobs, and even some children.

"Sure will, nopony should have to go without a good apple pie for more than a week!" Applejack said this in a good humored tone. I couldn't say my smile could compare to Pinkie's, but it was big none the less. This was one of those calm moments were you just tend to reflect on something. I decided to reflect on the time I've had in Equestria, I think it's been a week. Ok, let's start from the beginning.

When I first came here I broke my arm when I crashed through the roof of the zebra's hut. Fluttershy 'adopted' me, I flinched at the amount of times she accidentally hurt my broken arm, though it had healed inexplicably quick. Then there was the collar, the general idea of wearing the collar was annoying. The collar though, was not that uncomfortable, though I wish it wasn't as girly as it is. The new collar is much better, a bit degrading I would have to admit. The only reason I did not voice my complaints the moment the collar was put on me, was the thoughts of what Discord could do to me if I did anything against his wishes. By the way he was acting when Fluttershy did find out, he wanted to hide my intelligence MUCH much longer.

Thinking about my collar brought the thoughts to my clothes, getting them was a bit of an experience. An embarrassing experience, walking through a town of ponies naked as they stare at you as if they expected you to go rapid at any moment. Though the ponies with humans didn't pay much attention to us, I wish I could say the same for the humans as well. Of course I ignored there growls at me for the most part, but some of them acted quiet strangely towards me. I'm not just talking about the humans that stopped to sniff me. Though that is pretty weird. No, they seem especially angered towards me, at the time I just dismissed it as me being a human they weren't used to.

Then there was that night, the night I THOUGHT was a dream. I had turned into a hawk and flew to a palace and caught a conversation between two ponies, one being princess Celestia, the other being Luna. When they noticed me Celestia started talking about a prophecy/legend/thing. Then there was the day that the beast appeared in the market, and the secret was basically ruined. Then that night was almost weird enough to match, but something in the back of my mind told me it was right though. Not to mention that something being even stronger in my heart, that night Fluttershy admitted she liked me. I may have refused if Twilight hadn't brought a bit of logic into the situation.

Apparently it was normal for people/ponies/whatever to have relationships with different species as long as they were intelligent. Since I was in their world, logic from mine may as well be thrown away, right? Later that night I was also told that it was normal for a pony to be sexually attracted to humans, just not emotionally. (If you know what I mean.) Again I was brought out of my thoughts by a tug, though it was on my arm this time.

"You okay sugarcube?" Applejack asked as I looked towards her...

"HOLY FUCK!" I screamed as I jumped several feet away from her, my mind had just caught up to the present, it was one of those things when your looking at the scariest thing ever, but your mind hasn't processed it yet. I clenched my fist to my heart, my mind just process that her face was right in front of mine, so it felt like she just appeared out of nowhere. My heart, for one, did not like this surprise.

Of course my out burst surprised the pony and she also jumped back, though not as far as I did. "Dangit sugarcube, don't scare me like that!" She scolded, she got up and after a little bit her expression changed from one of shock, to one of concern. Is she really concerned about me?! Until now the only look's I have gotten from her where, lust, annoyance, impressed, (When I beat her at wrestling.) occasionally hatred, in that order, from most to least common.

"Gavin that is the second time you have spaced out today, and I don't want to have to be soft again!" Scootaloo half joked. I rolled my eyes at her, though I couldn't help but chuckle a little bit. My thought were starting to turn into a jumbled mess of alphabet stew, you have every letter but T and the rest are out of order. I let out a deep sigh.

"Can we finish tomorrow? I would like to go home and take a VERY long nap. Preferably cuddling a sleeping Fluttershy." I started heading for the door, the three fillies following close behind. I was starting to feel a drain of energy, along with it came a sense of being watched. I ignored the rising dread, I was ignoring basically everything.

"Can I come with ya'll? I need to talk ta Fluttershy?" I let out another sigh before I replied to Applejack.

"Fine, just don't talk to me. I need to stay inside my metaphorical thought bubble for a moment."

When we reached the cottage I only managed a depressed sounding 'Hi' when I passed Fluttershy. I didn't even pay attention to what Applejack and Fluttershy were talking about, I just headed upstairs to bed. I wasn't even tired, hell it was barely 3:00, but something in the back of my mind was nagging at me to sleep and prepare for tomorrow...

I'll give you guys one clue for the next chapter, Sol