Endure and Continue

My Body felt warm as I found everything to be normal. When I looked at myself as if my adventures never happened, my human form was back as for my room, house and life.

everything was back.

"I guess I'm done then." I said as I arrived to my front yard. There was a car that belonged to my dad and my house was empty so that was a sign he was not there. I looked at my hand and the keys were right there. "Oh! I guess i am dreaming."

Things were more interesting now. chances were that I was still a pony but right now, I'm dreaming so I might as well enjoy this.

As I drove my dad's car, I came to a stop in front of some random house. All I was doing now was following where my dream takes me. I then saw...HER! A gorgeous woman around 5,8. stepping out, she was blonde and had blue eyes and her face was not smothered with makeup. She then walked toward "my" car and just stepped in. "I think I saw her in a magazine before. " I thought before I took her where I can start having fun.

Some guys would assume I would take advantage of this opportunity and I will say I'm ahead of you. "I have always wanted to do this, in this dream, I'm having dinner with a nice girl." I shouted in some restaurant I made up. Everything looked set up and I was in complete control.

I looked into her eyes and she looked back into mine. After a few seconds, I heard a noise behind me as I looked behind to find nothing there which was bizarre. As I turned around, I expected to see the blonde but instead, I saw a familiar face that scared me. "Princess Luna?! Why are you here!?"

I saw the dark blue mare right where my date was suppose to be. "I did not expect you to be the guy who just wanted a girlfriend." she said to me.

"I am just a simple guy with simple goals." I told her as I was returning to my calm manner.

"I'm sorry we had to separate but there's a lot of things that I have my hooves full with." she said with a smile.

"Well, I'm kind of doing fine in Ponyville, I kind of met Rainbow Dash, I rescued someone and I fell asleep in front of the mayor." Luna was in surprise.

"Oh my, I'm afraid you falling asleep was because of me. I wanted to communicate with you somehow." she told me.

"I think I'll be fine but there still my unanswered questions." I said leaning back on my chair.

"It's more than fair for you to know, one thing that I should tell you is that your exit home is prepared, it will take time though, that's why I mentioned this task will be long." she told me.

"As long as I have one, I'm okay now..." i said

I paused and told Luna about my heroic rescue. "My big question though to you is what's my special talent?" I asked, hoping she knew what I meant.

Luna looked down for a minute and her horn started glowing. "Stay still Wes." I saw my body form into the pony, I could only stare at her hoping this was part of her explanation. "What your good at in Equestria is what you've been good at your life." she said which made me confused.

"Good at life? All I've been doing for the longest is kicking a football." I responded a bit annoyed.

"That's not true Wes, you have been to lots of places and endured the harshest lands." Luna said with a smile. Was she talking about my hiking trips? it's true I've been to a few places but not enough for me to become a man of nature, I thought. Luna noticed my confused expression. "You seem doubtful, have you forgotten what would happen on those occasions?" she asked me.

I realized a few details that were important once she asked. "Whenever I did go to those places like the deserts or mountains I would get tired in less than an hour." I said while looking somewhere else.

"But despite that, you never complained." said Luna.

"How'd you know?" I asked her confusedly.

"Your dreams sometimes carry important memories or ones that you hardly think about." she said. It makes sense that she is in charge of the night and how she put me to sleep, i thought again. I felt like telling her more.

"Well because I hardly spend time with my parents I didn't want a reason for us to stop. I was worried that if I did complain, then they would not take me anywhere anymore."

Luna seemed a bit upset. "But despite all that, they ended up working more and not being around." Luna said.

"Yea, By the time I get back, my attendance and grades will take a toll and my parents might talk to me." I said trying to smile.

"I am sorry I spoke about it." Said the princess.

"Things happen and I chose to come here so it's fine." i said with a smile.

Suddenly, Luna's horn glowed again. "It seems you will be waking up soon, then I must leave again." she said

" If anything happens just vist my dreams again, just not when I'm on a date." I said, making her laugh.

"Wes, one thing you should know is that since you special talent is to endure, that means you don't need as much sleep as other pony's. You need at least three to four hours of sleep, which is good because I need someone to appreciate my night skies." as Luna said that, she vanished.

"If that's true then, I'll be needing to find a lot of hobbies to fill in the time I'm awake."

HR

Like when anyone wakes up, I felt my eyes opening slowly as I breathed in a large amount of air and rolled over the comfortable surface i was in. I then landed on something else. "Its the bag the princess gave me." I said as I tried to grab it but there was a large blanket wrapped around me. I then took a look around at my surroundings and it did not look like a quite corner in the city hall.

Instead, there were balloons, confetti and a banner but I could not tell what it said since it was dark in this room. In fact, almost everything was dark, the only thing I could see was outside since it was lit up by the moonlight that came through a near by window. It seemed like the storm was over as I looked outside.

I took off the blanket I was wrapped in, despite how warm it was and I then noticed something about it and the rest of the supplies I saw. "They're pink..." I said as all of these Balloons and stuff is put by me so when I wake up, a certain pony can welcome me. I could definitely tell who is the owner of this house was.

As much as I would like to meet her now, it would be rude to wake up someone around this time. So I saw a couple of stairs that where a sign of an exit to me. I grabbed my bag and slowly made my way out of here, I only left because I was not sleepy anymore and I felt like grabbing some air.

When I left what seemed to be a bakery I wondered, "How did they carry me here?" i asked myself as I closed the door. I looked at the dark skies above with over hundreds of stars gleaming brightly and even a few shooting stars, I was in awe. I guess this explains what Luna meant. I trotted around the town and saw what the storm left.

There was a lot of debris left near homes and loose wood around the floors, I wanted to see a better perspective of the town so I headed to a hill I was close to.

I made my way up without trouble and saw just as much junk the storm left from here than I did around the streets. I'd figure the pony's would have their hands or hooves full with all this cleaning up so that would means my house would have to wait awhile. I was planning on lying down on the soft grass of this hillside and look at the stars but a light from a distance that caught my attention.

I turned to my left and on a higher level there where few ponies with work hats. I had no idea what i was that they were doing this late at night but whatever it was, it must be important. I wanted to see what they would tell me if I went up there, if they said scram I would leave but this world is nicer so it interested me.

I had to take careful steps around here since there was a lot of gravel around I could have slipped on. I got a better look at the work ponies and they were putting sand bags around. It made sense to me now, the upper part of the hill could cause a mudslide so to stop it they were putting a blockade. One of the pony's noticed me.

"Are... you one of our.. guys? " he asked with a rugged and lazy voice. I noticed this guy was tired actually, they were all tired. I wanted to see if I would pass as one of his co-workers so i said ,

"Yea man, I got a call about helping you guys out and stuff." I said while laughing in my mind.

The pony stared at me for a moment or two before saying," Well there's several bags on that platform, just get one, fill it up and stack it on that pile you see in front." he said before yawning.

It was a bummer that I had to work but it looked like it would take an hour or two and I wanted to do something to pass the time. "I could watch the stars later anyway." I thought as I heard the work pony's voice again.

"I almost...forgot, if you get tired there's a few sweets and coffee on that table just around the platform." he said then left.

I looked just around and there was cake, cookies and a huge pot of coffee. It looked real appetizing and i was going to grab a sweet until...

"You can grab one when were finished!" snapped someone, the voice sounded deep and as I turned I saw a larger pony than me, he was red and had freckles. Was he the boss or something?

"Sorry about that, let's get to work." I said while grabbing a bag with my mouth.

"Your not really a work pony are you?" the red colt said to me. there was no point in lying to him so i said,

" I'm not,I'm just here to pass time." I said as he then nodded his head sideways at me.

"Well, I don't mind the extra help besides I still have to clean up Sweet Apple Acres." he said as that surprised me. That's where Applebloom and she lives, I thought. By the look of this guy, he must be the older brother of the two I'd figure, but why was he here?

"Hey, um, I'm Weather Buckler, what's your name?" i asked politely.

"I'm Big Mac, nice to meet you." he said as he extended his hoof at me. I took his hoof as it was a sign of a handshake and my hoof was completely crushed just kidding... still hurt though.

"Big Mac, I wanted to ask why are you helping here and not on your farm right now?" I asked as Big Mac filled up three bags and placed them on the stack.

"Well, one reason is because my sister is helping out with a lot of the problems left by the storm, so if I help out with some too, she won't overwork herself."

I then asked, "Just how many problems did the storm leave?"

"Far too many to count, partner" said a new voice, I turned around and saw a mare with a cowboy hat. I recognized her immediately as she was the pony that represented honesty out of all the mane six. I was actually envious of her since she was so close to her family, something I would like to have, but I still thought she was a cool character.

"Applejack, why are you here?" Big Mac asked surprised.

"That's my question to you, you should be resting, Sweet Apple Acres won't clean up itself." she said as Big Mac just rolled his eyes. Applejack was going to say more but then saw me. "Hold on, aren't you the pony that saved Scootaloo?" she asked me before Big Mac responded,

"Eeyup."

I'm guessing he knew who I was the whole time, I thought since they are related to Applebloom and she must have bragged about me while I was asleep.

"Partner, Aren't you suppose to be asleep at Sugar Cube Corner?" Applejack asked confusedly

I had to give some explanation to them. "The short story is that I don't sleep that much so I went to get some fresh air and I ended up here" I said before Applejack raised an eyebrow and said, "Is that right now? I guess that means you can help us clean up all this mess." she said while cracking a smile.

I did not like that I was going to be used as a janitor but I did not want to argue. Plus, its not a big deal to me anyway. "Now Big Mac, I know you want to help me but your sister has this under control. It won't be like last time ok?" Applejack asked as Big Mac had a questioning look on him but after a few seconds, he nodded.

"I believe you but I'm in charge of this here job, so you can go help somewhere else while me and Buck finish here ok?" He asked to her. Did he really Just call me buck?

Applejack looked at us then sighed. "Well... ok, I'll leave this up to you two, also Buckler it was nice meeting you and as soon as your done here you should probably go back to Sugar Cube Corner, the last thing you want to do is miss out on that welcoming party." she said and left the working zone. I took her words seriously the rudest thing a guest could do is leave the host's house without saying goodbye.

An entire hour passed by as me and Big Mac were almost finished. "Just a few more bags." i said.

"Eeyup." said Big mac responded back and suddenly we heard something from downhill.

"Can anypony hear me? If you can, I'm stuck in the mud down here, so please help me out!" cried a voice.

"Ah shucks, why can't somepony's learn to take the proper road?" Big Mac said irritated. I then looked at the skies and the sun looked close to rising which meant that I had to hurry helping this guy out before I miss my welcoming party.