Author's Note

Hello anyone who gives this the time of day! I'm sorry I haven't written a chapter in so long. But I have been doing school exams, work related problems, family problems and, to be perfectly honest, no motivation to write anything. I hope I can make it up to you guys soon now that I have more free time on my hands AND motivation. Thank you for reading. -ForgottenBackgroundPony

Chapter Six - Watch out for that tree!

Yawning I sat up on my bed- BED? I twist my head around frantically trying to take in as much of my surroundings as possible.
1, I'm on a bed
2, I'm thankfully still wearing clothes
3, smelling pancakes? -Ooh I'm hungry!
4, able to see a photo of Twilight and... a little lizard boy who's kind of chubby. Huh. It was obvious to me that I was in someone's home and judging by the photo beside the bed I'd have to guess it was Twilight's. Damn, she took me in my sleep. If I woke up anywhere other than here I would be worried. Although I did wake up in her bed I decided to get up and see if I couldn't get outside. I walked around to the only two doors in the room, one was the shitter, and the other was stairs down. I followed them down and found I was in a library of sorts.

"Oh, Paul you're awake!"

"Thanks for bringing me here I guess... I would ask where I am but I guess I am in your house... Library?" I looked around and it was almost like I was inside a tree "Wait are we... in a tree?"

"We are in my home. I live in the public library as its librarian and owner, strangely enough it is inside of a living tree. I don't know how, I always chalked it up to magic that the founders of Ponyville did." Twilight explained to me.

"So you brought me into your home while I was sleeping?" The little lizard boy I saw in the photograph walked out of a room adjacent to where Twilight and a dining table laid out for three with two plates of pancakes God I LOVE pancakes!" However before I could voice my concerns about Twilight essentially kidnaping me I had an idea on how to fluster her.

"I thought you said I shouldn't sleep in a tree?" I grinned.

"Wha- That's- It's- I..." *Sigh* "You said that to mess with me didn't you?"

"Yep." I laughed "However I need to-"

"Oh!" Twilight interrupted me "I forgot to introduce you to Spike." The little green and purple lizard boy turned to me with his slitted eyes with a smile.

"Hey, I'm Spike. Twilight asked me to make us breakfast. Y-you do like pancakes right?" I grinned

"I love pancakes. I pretty much LIVED off of them for a few months I love them that much." Spike started dishing out stacks to both Twilight and myself. My smile soon disappeared "Twilight," She turned towards me with half a pancake hanging out of her mouth. "While I appreciate you bringing me here, feeding me and all but..." *Sigh* "You do know how scary and disorienting it is to go to sleep somewhere and then you wake up in someone else's bed?" Twilight just looked at me until it dawned on her and she feverishly apologized. "It's fine, Twilight." I cut her off "I just wanted to make sure you don't try to help someone in that way again because you can seriously unsettle someone." I then started to eat. I soon noticed that she calmed considerably after I ate. Now don't get me wrong, I really did appreciate what Twilight and Spike were doing for me but these pancakes were... terrible. I decided instead to look around the room and take in my surroundings. I was sat at a medium size mahogany table with seven chairs set around it. on the other side of the table whee I was sitting was a view of a large circular room But that's to be expected we are inside a tree after all. All around us were bookshelves filled to the maximum with books. some shelves were carved into the walls while others seemed to be melded onto the walls

"Paul? Is something wrong? You've hardly touched your pancakes." I just waved it off saying I was fine. "So there is something wrong with the pancakes..." Twilight stated. "I'm sorry Paul, Spike's never cooked pancakes before. For that matter neither have I." I just smiled and told her to relax. I soon noticed a clock and remembered I was to meet Applejack at her farm.

"Twilight I'm going to head to Applejack's farm for my punishment. I'll show you and spike how to make pancakes when I get back." I stated as I stood and began to leave. For some reason I wasn't even hungry in the first place. It was as I left through the door I realised I didn't know my way to the farm, facepalming I returned and asked for a little help. Twilight sent Spike to lead me to, as The little lizar- This is getting annoying

"I just realized I have no bloody clue what you are, Spike?"

"Oh, I'm a baby dragon." he said flippantly as though it was the most natural thing in the world. It might be for all I know... I decided to press the matter further at a later time considering I was able to see the main gates of the farm. Soon after crossing the threshold it seemed Applejack was able to sense me because only half a foot through the gate and she was already there smiling at Spike

"Hey Spike, got a del'vry fer meh?" Spike just chuckled and nodded before walking, no, waddling away I turned to Applejack and she lead me into the orchard. She explained where I would be working as well as what was expected of me before she left to do her quarter with Mac and 'Bloom already working on theirs. I looked over it and decided to play some music on my headphones while I worked. Pulling them out of my pocket I set my song list to shuffle before playing the first song that came up, an R.E.M song called Radio song one of my favorites.

After working for a good four an a half hours I decided that my phone must never run out of battery due to the world I was now because it was still 100% after all the time I had been here and a good four and a half hour use. But I had managed to complete almost the whole work area. It was when Losing my Religion also by R.E.M that Applejack came over to talk so I removed my headphones. she was about to say something but seemed to hear my music

"That music comin' from you?"

"Yep." she looked as though she wanted me to elaborate. Instead I paused it and looked at her as expectantly as her to me.

"Well, you've done more than was expected 'uv ya and i can see that ye' didn' hear us callin' ya so I came to tell ya that yer invited to dinner with us if'n ya like?" after running that through ApplejackToPaulTranslate.org I declined wth the reason of I promised to teach Twilight and Spike how to properly cook pancakes so we said our 'see you later' s, she gave me a small brown sack with some litle gold coins within. A short explanation on the philosophy she wouldn't make me work without paying me even though it was a punishment and I started to retrace my steps from the tree house Heh, tree house. The walk back was, almost un-eventful aside from the deep thought I was in. How the hell am I not hungry right now? Working that log without feeling hungry is just wrong... I'm not even thirsty. What the hell is wrong with me? It was about that time I walked into the door of the tree library I guess I was currently staying in. Spike opened it and let me in. I was asked how it went by Twilight and I explained I wasn't really even paying attention to which she just sighed.

"You should have been. It was your punishment for hitting Pinkie after all."

"Yeah, all though I did get this from today." I showed her the money which she counted it to be about fifteen 'bits'. Twilight asked why I wasn't still at the farm for dinner looking like she was shocked to think Applejack didn't offer me to eat there so I reminded her of the pancakes and she 'squee'd and in a POP she had a quill, ink and paper. I just stared at her She just fuckin' 'squee'd how the hell did she even..? Just move on Paul. No point in shaving a few years off of your life trying to figure this crap out. "So, Spike show me the recipe for them you used please." He held out a piece of paper which I took and read

6oz plain flour,
1/4 pint of milk,
3 large eggs,

Oh that explains why they were so dry and almost brick like I walked over to the sink and washed my hands and arms. "The recipe I will teach you will make a batch of ten pancakes. So, first off you don't need that much flour, Spike can I have something to write on/with." Twilight just passed me her quill and paper. "Okay now I'll start with 4oz plain flour, can you get that for me Spike?" He nodded "Good Twilight could you put half a pint and two eggs into that glass jug please?" She started doing so "Thanks, I'm writing all this down for you guys too so you can do this without me. Thank you Spike," He passed me the flour and I mixed it into the eggs and milk "Mix this a little at a time, not all the flour at once or it'll be a lumpy mixture. You want a mixture that is smooth and will run over the edge of a ladle with little resistance. Now how to cook them, first get the frying pan warm and put this much oil in the pan..."

Celestia was sitting on her throne readying to 'lower the sun' as her subjects believed she did. However Celestia didn't raise and lower the sun, nor her sister with the moon. What Celestia really did was stop the planet falling into the sun, while Luna held the moon from crashing into their planet. The sisters didn't want to be forced to do this but they had no choice. However something that brightened up Celestia's day was the letter she had just received from her student.

Dear Princess Celestia

Today thanks to my new friend Spike and I have learnt how to make pancakes! While Paul, my friend, says he's not the best at cooking he was able to tell when one was ready from the next room as shown by when Spike was trying to get the hang of it himself Paul called from the book he was reading to turn the pancake because it was starting to burn and to our surprise when spike turned it it was only starting to burn Paul it's like he has a sixth sense for pancakes or something! I'm going to ask him about it tomorrow. Since Paul soesn't have a house I offered to let him stay in the guest room of the library. It toke some convincing but he accepted, now I don't have to worry about him trying to sleep ~~in a tr~~ on a tree branch.

Your faithful student Twilight sparkle