As I walked from the brewery, the place I worked as a brewer, breathing chemicals all the time, I stopped to look how many bits I got as tips "15 bits in tip today, not half bad, heck, if I got this many bits a day, I might be able to get the 1000 bits I need." I said "If only my parents loaned me the money already and I didn't have to show my determination by paying one-tenth of the cost for a house, I still need bits I need for food until I get a job in ponyville. I will miss my friends when I leave though." I started trotting back to my house, "Maybe I shouldn't leave, I really would miss them" I said to myself, stopping as a raindrop hit the ground right in front of me, looking up I said, "Speak of the devil."
A orange Pegasus with a wild blue mane and tail landed was flying towards me at a very high speed, a cone starting to form around him. Using my magic, I slowed him down enough so that when he hit me he did minimal damage. "Ok, I'm all for nice greetings and all, but Blue Wonder, last 3 times I saw you, not including this time, you somehow managed to hurt me." I said, smiling a bit.
"Oh come on man, it was all in fun and games, I expected you to steer me off course so I would hit a bench or something." Blue Wonder said, his grin going from ear to ear "Or did you expect you to be good enough by magic to be good enough to slow me to a halt?"
"Oh, no, my magic isn't that strong, yet. And you know I would rather be hurt and possibly hospitalized with a friend, and minor injures, than a friend being hospitalized with a broken wing and leg."
"Yeah, I know you would never hospitalize a pony" he says, his voice oozing sarcasm "Like the time you where just a colt and you where playing with a filly and you broke her front leg, or when you caught your father's hoof on fire, or the time you-"
"Ok, ok, I get the point. No need to go overboard, the first example was enough, I Remember those moments still, a bit to well, if you ask me."
"Oh, remember the time you almost hospitalized me with a broken wi-"
"Don't you have clouds to clear? You are on the weather team now, right?"
"Oh yeah! Almost forgot, see ya later." He said, as he started to flap his wings and fly towards the nearest cloud.
~~~
As I neared my house, i noticed BlueWonder clearing the clouds nearby, seeming to threaten another crash land to talk to me. I walked up to the door, and I put my key in, the door suddenly opened, and a pony covered in black, from hooves to head, only leaving his(or her) magenta eyes uncovered. He/she suddenly stopped in front of me, and sat down on the floor. Looking at his/her magenta eyes, I suddenly realized who it was, an old friend. "Keris! Good to see you, I thought you where a robber there for a second... Why are you wearing that? And why where you fleeing my house?"
She slowly took her ski mask off, as if she wasn't sure if she was meaning to or not. "Do you not know what night it is?" Her neon red mane, a bit messy from the hat, flowed down, covering her eyes a bit, her coat was a mustard yellow. I must of had a weird face, as she touched my nose and then took her arm away fast, "boop," she said, "it is nightmare night tonight, and since you, or no one else our age, does it anymore, I thought It might be refreshing to do it one more time, atleast wear a costume and hang out together," her eyes pleading, "for old times sake?"
"Are any of are other friends doing this? Or did you come to try to convince me first?" I said, a bit harsher than I would of liked.
"I came to you first, and if you don't want to, just say no." She said, having a bit of a defeated look on her face.
Looking at her, I shrugged, "sure, why not. It could be fun." As I was saying this, she started beaming.
"Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!" She exclaimed, and tried to hug me.
Pushing her away, "no hugs, still."
"Ahh," she said, as she started to trot away, looking back, she said, "don't forget a costume." She started to trot, her pace slowly quickening until she started skipping away.
"I may of just did a bad thing," I said, thinking about it,"Oh well, nothing I can do about it now... How did she get I'm my house in the first place? The door is locked, the windows are closed, and even if she got in though a window in the second story, she is a earth pony... It's another Keris mystery."
I opened the door to my house and trotted up into my room, to add the 15 bits to my savings. Once inside my room, I quickly looked in my closet for a costume. Finding no costume, I put my bits into the pile and begin to count, "One, two, three, four... Six-hundred fifty seven, six-hundred fifty eight... Nine-hundred fifty four, nine-hundred fifty five... One thousand, one hundred, thirty nine... How? My parents won't loan me until I had a thousand, and I just gained nine hundred ninety nine... Did Keris do this? Either way, I can get the loan and maybe get to ponyville today!" Trotted down stairs, my parents both walked in the door, smiles on their face, as I was about to tell them that I got the bits, when my father went up to a cabinet, opened it, and pulled a bag of bits out and gave It to me.
Author's Note
So many grammatical and punctual mistakes.
As I was about to get on the train to ponyville, I saw a royal chariot heading in the direction of ponyville, seemingly caring two figures, a lavender pony and something else. I got on the train, looked around for a spot, and then sat down next to somepony who was seemingly blue wonder, stallion, orange coat and a wild blue mane and tail, but a earth pony, and a gaming controller as a cutie mark. I sat down next to him, and as if starting any small talk, "hi"
He looks at me quizzically, "hi! How are you? What's your name? I'm spark! I don't know what it means, but that's my name!" He says really fast, almost as if he was trying to finish this conversation quickly.
"Need a bit more coffee?" I said jokingly, "My name is Aurora, nice to meet you."
"Aurora? That sounds like a mare's name. Is that your entire name? No that isn't your entire name, I can tell! What is your name?"
"My full name is Misty Aurora, but I prefer to just go by Aurora."
"You never answered my question." He says, slower than normal, seeming calmer, more relaxed.
"Oh, I'm doing good, heading to Ponyville, how are you, and where are you headed?" I said.
His voice seemed to speed up agian ever so slightly, "Oh, I'm also headed to Ponyville, lived there my entire life, and I'm also doing well."
"At least I'll have one friend when I move to Ponyville." I said, smiling.
"Who?" He said, quicker than ever talked before, "Is it... Knittiva? Harmonic Flare? Octavia? Vinyl Scratch? No, you don't seem very musical. By your cutie mark, you seem magical... I don't know anyone magical in Ponyville."
"They sound like interesting people, but no, it is you."
"Oh," he said, seeming kinda depressed.
"Ya know, you look a lot like one of my other friends, except he is a Pegasus."
"Blue Wonder, I know."
~~~
When I reached Ponyville, it was nearly midnight, and the ponies where asleep, so I checked my saddlebags to make sure I still had the bits and the advanced spell book my parents gave me. I magically pulled out the advanced spell book and began to read up on how to draw magic out of the environment and use it to my advantage, as I heard a large gasp come from town hall, and and a large flash of light came out of the tree that had a loud, and slightly annoying, party in it about an hour ago. I also saw a thick, pure black smoke fly out of a window, thinking It must of been a failed magic trick. The smoke seemed to pool over a forest, but that may be my imagination. I flipped a couple of pages in my spell book, to find the map of Equestria. Once I found Ponyville, near the bottom of the map, I saw the smoke went into either the everfreee forest of slightly evil things... And hydras, or whitetail woods. I got up, put my book away, and went to the out skirts of town, not to fix the problem or anything.
~~~
As I woke up, I realized I fell asleep on a hill, and immediately checked my saddle bags for the bits. I had a sigh of relief as I learned that either no bits where stolen, or so few it didn't matter. I quickly checked the other saddle bag for the spell book, knowing it was there, but checking for reassurance, and then quickly set off to go buy a house, and hopefully, get a job I enjoy.
~~~
When I went into my house, I went to my bedroom, took off my saddle bags, and went to checkout the rest of the house. The bathroom was just that, a bathroom, the kitchen had a oven, microwave, sink, cabinet, blender, and coffee machine. As I saw the coffee machine, I said, to myself, "somethin' I'm never gonna use." When I opened the door to the living room, a bucket full of chocolate milk landed on top of me, and I heard a little laugh. I saw a tail, yellow on the bottom, with blue then purple then blue the purple on top, and a brown curl. As quietly as I could, giving I was soaking wet, went next to the corner. I used my magic to levitate the pony, so they where in front of me and upside-down. I saw the mane was a lot like the tail, the cutie mark was a cookie, her eyes where a mustard yellow, and her coat, a brownish red.
"Let me go!" She squealed, "Who do you think you are?"
I believe I own this house, and you are trespassing, is what I wanted to say, but instead I said, "Who are you? And why are you in my house?"
"I'll tell you, if you let me go, let me go!" She pleaded, desperation creeping into her voice.
I dissipated my magical field, "Who are you?"
Shaking herself, she replied, "I'm cookie crumble, and I was in your house because I heard you where new in town, as for the bucket, you can blame my friend, Color Wonder, what is your name?"
I found myself wondering, should I tell her..."I'm Aurora, Misty Aurora, nice to meet you." As soon as I said that, an aqua Pegasus with a wild, multicolored, purple, orange, brown, and red mane and tail, blue eyes, and a cutie mark of a art pallet, brush, pen, and scroll. She walked behind cookie crumble so they where both facing me.
"Ah'm color wonder," she said, her accent not being very western, "and I know who you are."
"Yea, I just kinda said it, like, 5 seconds ago." I said.
"I know," Color Wonder said, "but you didn't know I was here then."
"And that makes a difference how?" I pointed out.
"It doesn't."
"Now, if you excuse me, I have to get chocolate milk out of my mane and coat." I said, glaring at them.
"Ok, bye now." Cookie crumble said, "And I guess you want us to leave."
Leaving the room, I replied,"Very much so."
~~~
As I tried to fall asleep, I heard music coming from the streets. Unable to ignore it, I got up, and walked outside to see who was making all the noise. When I opened the door, a green Pegasus with a orange and blue mane, a cutie mark of some musical notes, playing a flute at my doorstep. "Hello," I said, "who are you, and why are you playing the flute on my doorstep?"
"I'm Harmonic Flare," Harmonic Flare said, putting his flute down, "my friends said you where new, and you lived here."
"Cookie Crumble is your friend?" I said, a bit surprised, Cookie Crumble seemed like a slightly insane pony, with a serious side, that I don't want to meet that side, very often at least. Harmonic Flare seemed like a pony who doesn't know what to do, so he does what his talent is, make music, at least that's what i think, meeting Cookie only once, and only saying one thing to him.
"Don't forget about Color Wonder," Harmonic Flare said, seeming like he never wants to forget her, "There both really nice ponies, they wanted me to tell you sorry for the chocolate milk prank."
Ohh, that's what this is about, Cookie and Color thought I would still be mad, them being right, I'm still mad, so they sent they're friend that I didn't know so I would get less mad, naturally. "Tell them to meet me near town hall tomorrow, noon."
He coughed, then said, "They want to see you sooner, about, now." he stepped back, showing Color Wonder and Cookie Crumble.
Sighing, I said,"Fine, come inside." Opening the door, Harmonic Flare and Color Wonder came inside and sat down in the living room. "You coming?" I asked Cookie.
Seeming to mull it over, she said, "Wait here, I'll be back." Moving so fast, she might as well been teleporting, she galloped away.
Closing the door, doubting she will come back, I trotted to the living room to talk to Harmonic Flare and Color Wonder. As I was about to enter the living room, there was a knock on the door. Walking to the door, I had no idea who it might be, execpt Cookie Crumble, of course. I opened the door to see Blue Won-Spark. "Hi, Spark. Surprised to see you here."
"Hello Aurora. Mind if i come in? Cookie Crumble told me you where here."
"Uh, sure." I said, opening the door, letting Spark in, "Harmonic Flare and Color Wonder are in the living room."
"Thanks." Spark said, entering my house. I looked left and right to see if Cookie Crumble was near. Once I made sure she isn't, i closed my door and trotted to the living room.
Entering the living room, I saw Spark, Harmonic Flare, and Color Wonder seeming to wait for somepony.
"Cookie should come again, soon." Spark said, calmly.
"I hope she brings Knittivia." Harmonic Wonder said, looking at Color Wonder, looking to be reassured.
"She probably will, knowing her." Color Wonder said, calmly.
"She will, she said something about bringing the last friend, and as far as i know, only us and Knittivia are her only friends." Spark said, bringing a small light of joy to Harmonic Wonder's eyes.
"It's sad when you think about it," Color Wonder said, her voice sounding a little depressed,"Cookie is a really nice pony. Very charismatic, its just, most ponies don't like her, and her own personal issues."
"Personal issues?" I asked, suddenly intrigued. as soon as I spoke up they suddenly realized I've been listening to them talking.
"How long have you been standing the-" Harmonic Flare asked, interrupted by the door bell.
"I got it," I said, avoiding the question, walking up to the front door, opening it with my magic, Cookie fell into the house, while a unicorn mare, light yellow coat, neat, flowing, light blue mane and tail, with pink tips, her eyes are purple and her cutie mark is a spool of yarn and knitting needles.
"H-hello," I said," I'm Misty Aurora, you can call me Aurora, you must be Knittivia."
"I am." Knittivia said, walking inside.
"The rest are in the living room." I said, shutting the door and picking up Cookie Crumble.
~~~
"So, you want us to become friends, by touching a moss that almost nopony knows the cure for," I said, the conversation going late into the night,"and can physically change us?"
"Uh, Yeah!" Cookie Crumble said, a bit to hyper for the time of night,"That's what we've been talking about for the last, what, 30 minutes?"
"Fine," I growled, to tired to argue,"but first, I'm going to sleep... and then getting a hat. Oh, and you all should get some rest to."
