Behind his Mansion Door

by PoeticMoon

Rating: everyone
Tags: Main 6, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Sad, Romance, Original Character, Cutie Mark Crusaders
Length: 1924

This is a story about a young stallion who was named Shymane, who got a mansion from an old 'friend'

Shymane came from a small Apartment in Manehatten, used to the boring, lonely life he had there. Moving to a Mansion in Everfree, not far from the town itself, will be a big change. How will shy handle the weird things that happen here in this County Town? (Hey guys, this is my first story and is a test story. Please tell me if you want me to continue and how you thought it was!

Published 2015-01-07 21:00:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-03-06 21:17:40 UTC

Chapter 1: How it started

It all started on a normal Friday, which like the last week, was just a rainy day in general. Shymane was unpacking his boxes into the new mansion that he had been given for a low price from his 'friend' who we will refrain from giving a name at this time. Shy had just finished unpacking his last box, not that he had many to begin with, as he had gone from a small apartment of Manehatten to a large mansion in the center of the Everfree Forest, right by a nice lake which had a path leading to it. Shy sat down in a recliner that he had brought from his home, it was the one item he REALLY liked as it was the last thing his parents had given him before they unfortunately passed away from sickness and old age. He just sat there for a good couple hours, seeing what was on the TV that his friend had left him as a memento of him as he was leaving Equestria for good, it seemed. Flipping through the channels, Shy sighed to himself as nothing was on, so he decided it was a good time, be it a little early, to get a drink. When he got to the kitchen, he gave a slight smile when he saw that he had a bit of whiskey left, and grabbed the bottle, opening it and taking a nice sip before going back to his chair with the bottle in hand.

Shymane lived a lonely life, and it stayed this way for a good few weeks in his new mansion. Things never changed for him, he lived alone in his apartment, and he lived alone in this large mansion, the only difference being the space. This, though he didn't yet know it, was going to change very, very soon.

A knock came to Shymane's door on a late Thursday, and Shy sighed as he stood and walked to the door, opening it "U-Um, hello...?" he spoke silently, seeing a mare with bright, white fur and a flowing purple mane standing there with 4 fillies behind her.

"Yes, hello darling. My name is Rarity. My sister and her friends saw this nice Mansion here while playing one of their little games an-" she started.

"HEY! Crusading isn't a 'little game'" a small filly who looked a lot like the older mare squeaked, glaring at Rarity.

"Okay, okay, sorry Sweetie. Anyway, we were wondering why someone would be living in such an out of the way mansion, darling." Rarity managed to finish while the one named Sweetie and her little friends looked past Rarity at the deep blue stallion and the room behind him.

"Well... I was just never really fond of other ponies, so I feel like this is a good place for me." Shy answered in short, scratching the back of his head.

"Well, darling, seeing as you are new to Ponyville and all, my sister, her friends and myself felt it would only be right for us to invite you to Ponyville's Sugarcube Corner. Our friends would really like to give you a warm welcome." Rarity offered, smiling.

"Well, beats what ever the hell I had planned for today" Shy answered, grabbing his coat and walking out the door with them. Little did Shymane know, he had just taken his first step into a brand new life and adventure full of chaotic beings, weird love, and amazing friends.

Chapter 2: Sugarcube Corner

After a good thirty minutes, Shymane, Rarity and the 4 fillies arrived at Sugarcube Corner, where a bouncy mare with a cotton candy like mane was bouncing. She looked at Shy and grinned, "Oh my Celestia, you must be the new pony I haven't heard of yet! Hi my name is Pinkie Pie, and I work here at Sugar Cube Corner, what's your name. No wait don't tell me, I bet I can guess what it is.... Mister Bluinstein?"

"A-actually it's S-" Shy tried to cut in.

"Ocean Scent? Ocean View? Aquamane? Oh wait I got it!" she cheered, pulling a cord that was on the ceiling as a banner fell down, reading 'Welcome Shymane!'.

Shymane was about to open his mouth to ask how she knew, before the young filly, Sweetie Belle stopped him "It's best not to question her..." she sighed, which had Shy nod.

Rarity was doing her best to muffle a giggle "Well, now that the introduction to Pinkie is out of the way, allow me to introduce you to my friends, darling." Rarity said, smiling as she gestured to 5 mares who were in the small food place. "The one wearing the unladylike shorts and top is Rainbow Dash, our local daredevil. The one hiding behind that beautiful pink mane is Fluttershy, our animal enthusiast. Then we have Twilight, our local magical expert. Applejack, the mare in charge of Ponyville's own Sweet Apple Acres and sister to my Sweetie's friend, Apple Bloom. Last, but not least, you met Pinkie Pie."

"Pleased to meet you all. My name is Shymane, and I have nothing to say about myself really. I'm just a stallion who lives on his own away from everypony else." Shy greeted with a slight bow.

"Good to meet cha!"RD said, with a smile as she smacked shy on the back in a friendly manor.

"Well howdy, parner. Good to meet another friendly face." AJ smiled as she spoke.

"Hello there, Mister Shymane. If you need to know anything about Ponyville, please don't hesitate to ask me" Twilight spoke, smiling as she fixed her glasses.

"U-um hi...."Fluttershy softly said, hiding behind Pinkie a bit.

"Hi! It's always amazing to meet new friends! I know everypony, except for the ones I haven't met yet, but will meet soon!" Pinkie cheered, bouncing a bit.

Shy rubbed his head as Rarity ushered him into a seat for him to get a drink "Come on darling, you look like you could use something nice to drink, maybe to eat too." Rarity slightly purred, before looking to Pinkie "Pinkie, darling, could you get our guest a nice cola?" Rarity asked, and Pinkie nodded, walking behind the counter to pour him a nice glass of Cola with some ice in it and a straw, handing it to him. the 4 fillies from before sat beside shy, getting shakes as the mares moved away to get on with what they were doing before hand.

"Howdy! Ah'm Apple Bloom, and these are the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle. The Black furred filly is our friend Heat Desire, or Heaty! She may look young but she is about as old as you." the young yellow filly told Shy, smiling.

"Well hello, girls. Pleased to meet you."Shy said, a bit more at ease then earlier that day. "It's so nice to see how kind everypony here is."

"Yea!" Scoots cheered, "Ponyville is full of cool ponies. Sorry that we had Rarity knock on your door, I thought it be better to get the coolest pony in Equestria to knock, but we happened to find rarity first."

"Oh well that's more then okay" Shy said, smiling.

The rest of the day went by fast, and Shy waved to the ponies he had met today before walking home. "You know...." he said to himself, "maybe living here wont be so boring."

Chapter 3: Sweet Apple Acres

Chapter 3: Sweet Apple Acres

As the next morning came, Shy yawned as he got out of bed, stretching his arms as he walked to get a shower and such. after about an hour, he looked at the clock and saw that the time was about 9 in the morning and he decided to look around town, so he grabbed a shirt and his jacket, stepping out the door and going down the path from his mansion. After a little while, he came across a rather quiet Sweet Apple Acres seeing a lone male, who had red fur and a yellow mane, who was pulling a cart of apples.

"Hey there, can I help you please? It looks like you are working alone and Applejack said I could stop by and help." Shy called out to the male, who simply nodded in response. Shy ran over and helped him pull the cart, which was a lot heavier then he expected. "So whats your name?" Shy asked, looking at the stallion as they went to get more apples to bring in.

"Big Macintosh" Big Mac said simply, pulling his shirt off since it was getting to be about mid day and the sun was beaming down on them.

"Big Mac? Nice to meet you, my name is Shymane" Shy said with a slight smile as they got down to the trees, starting to pick the apples of one tree while Mac went to another. The day went on pretty quickly and when they had 2 more carts full of apples stored in the barn, Big Mac sat down with Shy, handing him a glass of Sweet Apple Acres patented home made Hard Cider, taking a drink from his own glass.

After about 3 glasses each, Shy saw the 4 fillies run into the barn, as it had started to rain before they could get to the club house, and they were talking about some plans to get cutie marks for the CMC, with the black furred filly wanting to help.

"You know, that Heaty, as your little sister named her, is actually really cute" Shy whispered to Big Mac, who just kinda laughed.

"Hey, 'long as it ain't mah sister an' Ah don' gotta beat yer ass, have fun." Mac whispered back, becoming kinda talkative when he had Cider in him.

"Hey, she said she was about my age, right? How does that work? She looks so young." Shy asked, kinda confused now.

"Eh, she does this kinda hoodoo that lets her change 'er form when shes wantin' to." Big Mac explained, a bit confused by the magic the small pegasus used to do that.

Shy nodded, able to at least slightly understand it "So she has a normal Mare sized self?" he asked, to which Big Mac nodded "Okay, I might have to see her mare form at some point so I can decide what I wanna do." Shy said, and after about an hour of rain he stood, stretching his full body.

"Thanks for the Cider, I might have to come back and help again at some point" Shy said with a slight chuckle, walking towards the door.

"Eeyup, take care of yer self." Big Mac said, going into his house to get dinner as he and AppleBloom had been called.

Shy nodded to what Big Mac had said and walked off, heading home since it was getting pretty late. When he walked in he made a sandwich, ate it with a glass of milk, and went upstairs to sleep. He decided that he would try to see Heaty in her grown form, and then would see about asking her out or something. He laid down in his bed and dozed off fairly easily from how hard he had worked, boy he was going to be sore in the morning.

Author's Note

Hey, hope you don't hate me for taking so long :P I got no feed back so I had to decide on if I was wanting to continue and I decided I would, and if I got feed back, I would continue faster.