Silver Hooves, The Silver Pony

by The Red Chronicler

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, DJ P0N-3, Main 6, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Other, Original Character, Octavia, Tragedy
Length: 3051

Silver Hooves wasn't always you everyday pony. He has been among the rare few who are born with a cutie mark, thus leaving some to wonder what his destiny is. Not only that, but he's also born with silver blood.

This fic has been canceled and is to be used for learning experiences for new writers as well as a reminder on how not to do a character.

Hello my name is Silver Hooves, though you may call me Silver for short. I’m a unicorn stallion sporting a white coat, a silver mane and indigo eye color. I was born at Manehatten and, oddly enough, I’m among the rare few ponies to be born with a cutie mark, which resembles a silver scorpion’s tail. If that isn’t the strangest thing about me, I’m also the only pony born with silver blood. And don’t ask me how that’s possible because I have no idea. After living in Manehatten for 18 years I decided to move over to Ponyvile for reasons that I don’t want to go into detail. Anyway, here’s my story.

Published 2014-09-09 05:30:08 UTC
Last updated 2014-09-09 20:54:41 UTC

Ch1

I arrived at the town only to be immediately greeted by a pink earth pony who seemed to have come out of nowhere.

“Hi I’m Pinkie Pie. I've notice that you’re new in town and I thought I’d thought I’d go say hello. Ooooooh, since you’re new in town that means you get to have one of my signature welcome to Ponyville parties. I’ll go ahead and get it set up.”

With that she zipped off in a pink blur while I tried to process what she said, as it more of came out like this: HiI’mPinkiePie.I’venoticethatyou’renewintownandIthoughtI’dgosayhello.Ooooooh,sinceyou’renewintownthatmeansyougettohaveoneofmysignaturewelcometoPonyvilleparties.I’llgoaheadgetitsetup.

“Umm okay that was weird,” I decided to head over to the house that I am moving to and noticed a purple unicorn as I reached my new home.

“Hello there my name is Twilight Sparkle and who might you be?” I mentally sighed with relief that she didn’t ask me to go on a date like all the other mares back at Manehatten, which was another reason that I decided to move here. I think it has to be the mane.

“Hi, my name is Silver Hooves and I just moved from Manehatten. When I had arrived, I was greeted by a pony by the name of Pinkie Pie, who mentioned something about throwing me a party.”

Twilight giggled at this. “I would’ve thought so. Just so you know, Pinkie will always throw a party for newcomers. She even did one for me. She’ll likely set the party up over at Sugar Cube Corner.”

“Well, I guess I’ll have to wait and see what happens then,” I replied to the unicorn.

“I’ll come get you when the party's ready. She is actually really good when it comes to parties.”

“Well, I’ll just get myself settled in then.”

And so I entered my new home, which was already set with appliances and some furniture. I began unpacking when I heard somepony knocking on my door.

Now who could that be? I thought as I came to the front door.

As I had opened the door, I was greeted by two mares. One was a white unicorn with a bright blue choppy mane, and wearing some shades over her eyes, while the other was a grey earth pony with a black mane. The one with the shades had a pair of eighth notes for a cutie mark while her friend had a treble clef.

“My name’s Octavia and this is my roommate Vinyl,” the blue haired pony’s friend said.

“Yo, what’s up,” the one named Vinyl said.

“So what brings you two to my house? Don’t you two have any music that you need to work on?” I asked, clearly knowing that the two were musicians.

“We saw that you had just moved in the house next to us and we decided to say hi,” Vinyl replied.

“Well, actually, my friend Vinyl here just wanted to see who the new pony living next to us was. And you know, you’re a rather nice looking stallion.”

Oh great, there’s going to be mares like them here. This is going to be a pain. I thought as I made my response, “Why thank you. But, umm, could you not ask me out, I’ve had too much of that back at Manehatten and I really don’t want it to be here.”

“Oh, my apologies, I wasn’t aware that that was one of the reasons you moved here.” Octavia said, which made me feel a little bit guilty, “By the way, what’s your name?”

“Name’s Silver Hooves, though you can just call me Silver,” I replied.

“Wow, cool. Soooo… what’s your special talent? Your cutie mark looks like a scorpion tail,” Vinyl pointed out.

“Yeah, I’m not really sure what my special talent is,” I replied, getting gasps from the two ponies.

“You don’t know what your special talent is?” Octavia gasped, “Then how did you get your cutie mark?”

I looked at both of them and sighed, “Do you two promise not to tell anypony?”

Both Octavia and Vinyl looked at each other and nodded.

“Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye,” they chanted in unison, also doing the gestures.

“Umm, is that a normal thing for ponies of Ponyville to do when making a promise?” I asked, completely clueless as to the reason of their chant.

“Yeah. It’s called a Pinkie Promise dude,” Vinyl replied, “You have to do one if you’ve got to make a promise to somepony.”

“Yes, and you can never break it,” Octavia added.

“Well, I guess I don’t want to find out what happens when you break a Pinkie Promise then. Anyway, I was born with a cutie mark.” I said, once again getting gasps from the two.

“Whoa, dude, that's like… the rarest thing to happen to anypony,” Vinyl said, awestruck.

“I would have to agree with Vynal. How is it that you were born with a cutie mark? It doesn’t make much sense,” Octavia chimed in.

“Look… I don’t know the details on my birth but... could you two please just keep this a secret. I really don’t want to draw too much attention to myself.” I said, worried that the word about my unusual circumstances would spread.

“We will uphold the Pinkie Promise,” Vinyl declare, puffing her chest.

Octavia rolled her eyes, “Well, it’s been a pleasure meeting you Silver. C’mon Vynal, we need to get going and let him get settled in.”

Soon the two mares left my home to go into the one next-door.

So they’re my next-door neighbors. This is certainly going to be interesting. I thought to myself as I closed my door and continued on with unpacking my things.

As soon as I had gotten myself settled in I heard another knock on my door.

Now who could that be? I thought to myself.

When I opened my door I was greeted by an orange earth pony mare wearing a Stetson.

“Howdy, just coming to let ya’ll know that Pinkie Pie is holding a party for ya at Sugar Cube Corner.” The orange pony said.

“Okay, I guess I’ll head over there then. Do you mind leading the way, I had just finished unpacking and I haven’t been able to really explore the town yet,” I said as I left my house, “Though I thought that Twilight was going to tell me about the party.”

“Well, she’s been busy lately, so she couldn’t come to yall’s house. So she sent me to send the message to you. By the way, name’s Applejack, you?”

“My name’s Silver Hooves, though you can just call me Silver,” I replied to her.

We walked together for a few minutes until we reached a shop that looked like it was made of sweets.

“This here’s Sugar Cube Corner, come right in,” Applejack said. And we entered the shop.

I was awestruck by all of the decorations that have been set up. And I assumed that most of the townspeople were in attendance.

“Ah’ll go visit with mah friends. Be free to enjoy the party.”

And so Applejack left to meet with her friends, whom I could recognize one of them being Twilight and the other three I haven’t seen before. The yellow pegasus seemed to be afraid of me when she saw me. The cyan one seemed to have taken an interest in me and flew by to greet me.

“Hey, so you’re the new pony in town. Name’s Rainbow Dash,” she introduced herself, “Sooo… what’s your name?”

“My name is Silver Hooves, though you can just call me Silver,” I replied, “This is a rather nice party.”

“Thanks, I love doing parties all the time. And I do it for anypony new that I meet,” Pinkie Pie said, jumping in out of nowhere.

“Jeez, don’t scare me like that,” my heart was pounding from the surprise attack that the pink pony gave me.

“Sorry about her,” Rainbow apologized, “She’s just being Pinkie Pie.”

And the pink pony zipped out into the crowd. That was when I saw the pony I had met earlier today coming up to what appeared to be a DJ setup.

“Yo, DJPon3 in the house,” Vinyl announced.

Pretty soon the entire room was filled with loud music. And all those in attendance danced to the beat.

“Wow, I hadn’t realized that I moved in next to a DJ.” I said, enjoying the music that was playing.

“So you’re living next to Vinyl Scratch?” Raindbow yelled.

“Yeah, and she also has a roommate,” I called back.

“I know. I think her name’s Octavia. Well, see ya later.”

And so Rainbow flew off somewhere else while I went to get some food from the snack bar. That’s when I met Twilight along with a white unicorn with a curly purple mane.

“Hi Silver. Sorry if I couldn’t come to your house earlier, I ended up having too many things to do back at the library. Anyway this is my friend Rarity.” Twilight said, introducing me to her friend.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you,” Rarity said.

“The pleasure’s mine. And I assume Twilight or Pinkie Pie had already told you about me?” I said, making sure to bow my head in a polite fashion.

“Why yes of course. Though I must admit, your mane is simply marvelous. And you’re such a gentlestalion too,” Rarity commented.

“Thank you. So who’s that over there?” I asked, pointing to the yellow pegasus sitting out in the corner.

“Oh, that’s just Fluttershy. She’s very shy among newcomers.” Twilight replied.

“I think I’ll go say hi to her.”

And so I went over to Fluttershy, “Hello there, my name’s Silver Hooves.”

Fluttershy squeaked, “Oh… umm… h-hello.”

Real smooth Silver, real smooth. I chastised myself.

“Why are you sitting over here?” I asked her.

“I’m not so good at parties, primarily ones with so many ponies.” Fluttershy replied.

“Want me to get you something?” I asked, gesturing to the snack table.

“O-o-oh…n- no I’m good,” She responded.

“Alright then, see you later,” I said, going back to the snack bar.

About two hours past and everypony started heading back to their homes.

“Yo Silver,” I looked behind me to see Vinyl and Octavia coming over to me.

“Do ya mind if we walked home with ya?” Vinyl asked.

“I don’t see why not,” I replied.

And so we walked home together. Occasionally talking to each other while we walked, mostly talking about what music each of us liked as well as the party. Soon we made it to our separate homes. As we said goodnight, Vinyl and Octavia went into their home while I walked over to mine. And I noticed that I already had mail in my mailbox.

Hmm, that’s strange. I wasn’t expecting anything to come until tomorrow. I thought as I opened up the mailbox. When I did, there was a single letter inside. I looked at the envelope but couldn’t find who sent it to me. I went inside the house and opened it up and read the letter.

Beware; the Shadows are coming for you.

I couldn’t figure out who would’ve sent this to me so I decided to set it on the table. I went upstairs to my bedroom and prepared to go to sleep. That’s when I saw a silhouette at my window.

“Who’s there?”

Whoever was there disappeared into the night. Deciding that it was nothing I went to sleep.

Author's Note

I hope you guys enjoyed this story of mine so far. I've had this chapter sitting unfinished until I finally got to it. It's been rather interesting writing this down, considering the other fics that I've already done. I will try and get to each one as best I can.

Edit: Fixed the error I made with Vinyl's name.

Ch2

I woke up the next morning feeling refreshed. Though, the feeling left when I heard Vinyl call out from outside, “Yo, Silver. You might want to check your living room.”

Oh no, it better not be what I think it is. I thought as I raced downstairs. And sure enough, I found that my living room was a complete wreck. All of the furniture was thrown everywhere, and even some of my trinkets have been destroyed.

“Oh no, not again!” I cried, picking up the mess that somepony made during the night.

“Uh, don’t mind me asking, but, does that happen to you a lot?” Vinyl asked.

“Oh yeah,” I said solemnly, “I've had this problem since I was living with my parents back at Manehatten. It didn’t matter where in the city we lived at, we would always find our home completely trashed after we had gone to bed, even when we locked the doors and windows.”

“Wow, talk about bad luck.”

“Yeah, well, I don’t intend on letting this get me down,” I said as I finished cleaning up the mess, “And I’m going to have to get that door replaced now.”

“Yeah, well, I think I’m going to go now.”

And with that Vinyl hastily fled to her house as I made my way out of mine.

You know what, I think I’ll just go and explore the Everfree Forest. I thought to myself as I made my way over.

“Beware of the shadow hounds,” I heard a voice whisper. I looked around to see if anypony’s there, but found the street to be empty.

“Oh, great, now I’m hearing things.” I said to myself as I continued on.

As I was heading on my way, a brown earth pony stopped by and said, “Excuse me, but are you the one involved with some shadow creatures?”

“Uh, I don’t think so,” I replied, rather confused about the question that I was given.

“Blast, well, tally ho,” he said, running off to meet with a grey pegasus.

Okay, this place is certainly filled with strange ponies. Least this place is better than Manehatten, that’s for sure. I thought to myself.

After an hour of walking I made it to the Everfree Forest.

“Now let’s see what you've got,” I said to nopony.

As I entered the forest, I could see all of the strange plants that lived here. As I went further into the forest, I encountered a pack of Timberwolves.

“Now let’s see how much fun you can give me,” I said, getting ready to run as they spotted me.

As soon as they started to go after me, I dashed among the trees, easily keeping my distance. The one thing about me that I love is that I don’t tire easily. In fact, I could keep going twice as long as any normal pony. I was having the time of my life until I was stopped by a pack of some sort of dark, smoky-looking wolves with yellow eyes.

“Whoa, I don’t recall hearing about you guys living in the Everfree.” I said, stopping in my tracks.

The Timberwolves caught up to me and both wolf parties started snarling at each other, although the Timberwolves were snarling at dark-looking ones while they snarled at me.

Oh, this is not good. I thought to myself as I realized the mistake I made.

Immediately, the two packs pounced on me. I was able to find an opening to escape while the two wolf packs started battling it out, though, one of the dark looking wolves started going after me, and to my surprise, it was able to keep up with me as two of the Timberwolves trailed behind.

“Ugh… what are you. Some sort of wolf species that we haven’t found yet,” I yelled as I tried to get away from the wolf as best I could, only to find myself at a dead end.

As I turned around, the dark smoky-looking wolf began to creep up on me. I thought I was a goner when something out of nowhere struck the wolf on the side, leaving a small cut, and immediately left. As soon as it happened, I watched as the wolf panic as it started to turn to silver.

“Wha… What the hay just happened,” I said to myself, completely taken by surprise at what transpired.

When more of them showed up, they saw that one of their own had been turned to silver and they turned tail and ran.

“Okay, this definitely has gotten interesting. I’m so glad that I moved here.”

And so I continued on my way. I didn't encounter anymore of those weird, dark wolf-looking things, but I still got to have some fun with the Timberwolves, which had gotten tired after trying to catch me for several hours. As the sun was starting to set, I made my way back home. As soon as I came to my house, Octavia showed up.

“Hey, where have you been?” She asked, with a worried expression on her face.

“Why do you want to know?” I inquired.

“Vinyl had told me what happened at your house, and I was just wondering if you were okay.” She replied.

“I just went out for a walk okay,” I lied, “Can’t a pony just go out for some fresh air.”

“I guess, but why would anypony want to try and harm you?”

“I don’t think they’re trying to harm me. I think they’re just trying to make my life miserable. I still don’t know who’s doing it, but I was hoping that it would stop as soon as I moved here.”

“Well, I hope you have a good time tomorrow.”

I've got to start barricading my house during the night. It’s becoming ridiculous having to replace all of my stuff every time this happens. I thought to myself.

I looked in my mailbox to find a package from my parents as well as some other mail.

“Well, time to see what I've got then head to bed,” I said as I closed my door.

Author's Note

And here's the next chapter. Hopefully this let's you guys know what my character is really like, though I don't expect it to make up for the last chapter. With this in mind, you guys will probably get a better understanding of what my character really has to deal with.