The Trio's Trials

\Intro the Second/

Ponyville. I had to admit, I was a little excited. Every brony’s dream, right?

My Pegasus self was flying beside the chariot. It was instinctual, flying. Not to mention that it felt amazing, the wind beneath my wings, the breeze in my mane. It nearly brought a smile to my normally stoic faces.

About an hour after the departure, we were nearly to the town. I could see Twilight on a hill just outside of it.

And that’s when it happened. The most random thought to ever enter the empty black of my mind.

‘At least I can talk to myself now without seeming crazy.’

That was completely out of left field. Oh well.

The chariot was finally slowing to a stop in front of a confused Twilight Sparkle. That expression just looked too priceless. I began snickering in my silent way. Eventually I sat down and covered my mouths with a hoof each. She just looked even more confused.

“I thought the Princess was only sending one pony. Are you two her brothers?”

“Sure,” Black said. What? I wanted to have some fun with them for a while.

“*Sigh* Alright then, let’s get going. I’ve been instructed to show you to your house and let you get settled in. Tomorrow we start the magic training.” At this she seemed to brighten up a lot, nearly to the point of literally prancing with glee. “I’ve always wanted to be a teacher. Now I have my own personal student! EEEEEE!”

Talk about talk about excited. I hope she doesn’t act like this the entire time I’m learning.

After a little while we got to a large building that looked more like a hotel than a house. It was really too much. I could only hope I’d be able to do something with all this space. From what I could see, there were at least ten rooms on the front side of the house.

“I’ll let you take it from here. After you’re done getting settled in, come meet me at the library so we can set up a training schedule. It’s in the big tree near the middle of town.”

“Yeah, we’ll be there in a while,” Shadow responded.

“Right after we map the place out,” Night stated.

The house was even larger than I had thought. There were 12 bedrooms and a full bathroom for each, plus three halves for guests. In addition, there was a kitchen with a dining room separated by a peninsula counter, a large living room that could easily hold a basketball game, a laundry room with three washers and driers, and it was three stories tall.

It was way too much. I was NEVER going to find a use for all these rooms.

Thankfully, the house was supplied with my computers, iPod, and Kindle. I checked my backpack extensively, only to find it empty. I put my better laptop in my bag, along with my Kindle. I placed my iPod in the special pocket near the top on the side, which had a hole for headphones. You can probably guess what I did with that. I set my Skrillex playlist on a full loop.

After a few more minutes of “mapping” I decided it would be best to head over to the library.

I ended up getting lost somehow. I don’t know how it happened, but it did. I found the place eventually though. If my watches were still displaying the correct time, it was nearly seven in the evening.

From what I could see outside, all the lights in the library were off. This could only mean one thing. Pinkie Pie.

Before diving in heads first, I had to brace myself for the inevitable onslaught of Pinkie talking at the speed of light. I might want to brace for Rainbow Dash as well, just in case.

I opened the door, and walked inside. Immediately, I was bombarded with light and voices saying “Surprise!”

If I had not been ready for this, I would have been shocked, maybe even for a few minutes. As it was, I just stood there, looking around at everything. Eventually, Pinkie came over and spun up her minigun of a mouth as I pulled one of my earbuds out so I could hear. “So were you surprised? I was so excited when Twilight said that there were THREE new ponies in ton today and I was all like WHAAAAAAAT and she told me to not be so loud and then I baked you a party and got it all ready in my party cannon which is actually a little hard to do when it’s so small and the party is SOOOOOO big and I had to invite everypony in Ponyville because I know everypony and I mean EVERYpony in Ponyville except for you three of course but now we can get to know each other and you can meet all my friends and everypony in Ponyville. And that’s how Equestria was made!” Wow, that was all with one breathe. Then again, this is Pinkie Pie we’re talking about. Her lungs probably pulled air out of hammerspace.

Twilight walked up with a slightly apologetic look. “Sorry about that,” she said. “Pinkie’s a bit, well, Pinkie.”

“No, no, we totally understand. Everypony has to have that weird and/or crazy friend, right?” Shadow said. “I know we’ve had a few. Say, are there carbonated drinks here, mayhaps?”

“Yeah, next to the punch. As soon as you have something to drink I’ll introduce you to all my friends.”

“We’d be delighted to meet them.”

With that little exchange finished, I can finally get something to drink. I grabbed a few Sprite-esque drinks and walked back over to Twilight. They tasted quite good.

“Ok, Twilight, you wanted to introduce us to your friends?” Shadow queried.

“Shadow, Night, Black, I’d like you all to meet my friends, Applejack—“

“Pleased ta meet ‘cha”

“—Rainbow Dash—“

“Fastest flier in Equestria, in the flesh. Hold your applause please.” Twilight rolled her eyes.

“—Rarity—“

“Darlings, you look simply FABulous. You MUST come to my shop sometime.”

“—Pinkie Pie—“

“Have you tried the cupcakes? They taste like rainbows!” Dash flinched a little at this.

“—and Fluttershy.” All Fluttershy really did was squeak, but it was so cute. I had Night d’aww at that. Flutters blushed.

Then Big Mac walks up next to Fluttershy and whispers something in her ear. She blushes even more and nods. “Mac and I are going to go now, ok? We need to be up early tomorrow for the farm chores. Bye.”

As they were leaving, I looked to the others. “They together or something?” Shadow asked, receiving a few nods in affirmation.

The rest of the party went without a hitch. There was drinking, party games, and much talk. It was a fairly good end to the day. As I was lying in one of the bigger beds back at home, enough so to hold all three of my bodies, the last thought that ran through my mind was that I never had opened my pack there.

So, the long awaited chapter finally arrives. Go crazy. And I’m still looking for someone to make a new title picture if interested. PEACE!