It was just after breakfast that Aerin left to meet his friend, most griffons in his age range would hang out at the often plentiful bars or pubs. Aerin and his friend Phoebe, would hang out in the only bowling alley in the whole city. They would sit and chat while griffons came and left, their drinks being topped off every so often, sometimes they would talk about sports, sometimes about people at school and the likes of them.

Phoebe herself was a short and rather boyish and uncouth girl, always fitting in with boys rather than girls. She had Navy blue feathers, which was in and of itself, a rare occurrence in females. Her right eye was a brilliant shade of emerald green, while her left was a dull gray, she was often instructed by her parents to wear something to cover it or comb her feathers over, which of course, she almost instantly removed or undid, as Aerin had learned after meeting her. It was an accident at birth caused her to be half blind. It was one of the reasons he had befriended her in the first place. She was being teased when they were in grade 4, Aerin could not stand the sight of her being hurt.

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"One eye! One eye!" Shouted one child.

Another covers her good eye "how many claws am I holding up?"

"You should just go home you freak!" yells a third rather rude kid

That last one made up Aerins mind, "don't...!" He kicks the first bully in the chest, "hurt....!" He punches the second in the beak, "MY FRIEND!" He hacks his claws at the third child, not deep enough to cut, but deep enough to sting. Aerin helps up the crying girl "my name is Aerin, whas' your name?" He asks

"M-my n-name is Phoebe... Don' look at me..." She cowers behind her dark wings, not wanting the world to see her

"My names Aerin," he looks at her "don't hide yourself..." He was quickly jerked around by one of the teachers, the bullies looked at Aerin with a smirk stare, knowing he would be in trouble.

In the detention hall, Aerin sat alone... Waiting for the clock to arrive at five o' clock, when a tapping on the window caught his attention, it was Pheobe coming to keep him company. And both Aerin and Pheobe knew from that point, they would be friends forever.

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And the rest ended up being history, Aerin and Pheobe were almost inseparable, most Griffons thought they were brother and sister the first time they met, they would always share interests and dislikes, talk about the usual movie or the unusual book they came across. In their little corner of the little known bowling alley, 'Third Strike'

"Oh that's a load of bull Aerin there is no way you caught a fish that big!" Pheobe stated as Aerin dramatized his catch being 'like a million feet long' "we both know the only thing you caught in camp was a bad case of the... Well... I won't say here, but It was lucky we had some large garbage bags so you didn't have to be condemned to the outdoors" she giggles.

"Well I might have gotten sick but at least I didn't still need-" Aerin was promptly punched in the gut to silence his retort. "During... The... Night..." He manages to wheeze out. "That was not called for..." As Aerins face clunks onto the table, Phoebe orders him a bacon wrapped hot dog, the specialty of the diner attached to the alley, and subsequently Aerins favourite food product.

Pheobe uses her ever reliable tactic to ensure the awakening of Aerin.

Threatening to eat his food.

"Aerin if you don't wake up, I'm eating this, in three, two... her claw is stopped in front of her mouth as a tail is wrapped around it.

"No one eats a fat griffons food and gets away with it" and besides, we need to talk Pheobe. "It's important" she looks at him inquisitively, "now that I have your attention, I-"

Before he can begin talking, Phoebe cuts in, "is this about that time we hung out at your place and I left a used... 'pad' in your pillow? I swear it seemed funny at the time"

"You did what? Nevermind... We can talk about that later" Aerin looks at her with a glare of 'what the shit?' "Anyway, Phoebe, I'm leaving, I'm going to Equestria, I think I can make some real coin in the jewellery business out there."

"But Aerin you can't-"

"I've already got a ticket, one way to some town called... Pony... Ville..." 'remember when you ponies used to be original? I don't. he thought when reading the ticket. "Don't worry Pheobe, I'll get you over to my place for a party, I'll pay your trip and everything" Aerin never was one to go back on a promise, "now I've got to go."

Aerin starts walking to the exit, and from the other end of the Alley a whimpered and unheard, "goodbye..." Was spoken.

At the train station, he met with his parents, he gave his mother a hug, and his father a clawshake. They said their goodbyes and farewells, Aerin gave his ticket to the rail-pony and packed his luggage onto the rack, as the train went on many griffons waved goodbye amd went about their business. This didn't feel right for Aerin, some thing felt off...

"All passengers please excuse me we need to stop for a moment, there is a griffoness sitting on the rails and she doesn't appear to be moving"

Bingo

Aerin made his way to the front of the train, only to see his one and only Pheobe, being the ever diligent nuisance she was, sitting on the tracks. "Pheobe what are you doi-" he was suddenly and abrubtly, bitch slapped, "sigh... I forgot to say goodbye?" She nods in confirmation "goodbye Pheobe." Aerin silently returned to the train, and Pheobe flew home. Happy that she could be an asshole to her Aerin at least one last time for a long time.

----- 6 hours later ----

The train slowly pulled up to the Ponyville train station, as it did thrice a day, every day. Aerin walked down to the platform, looking at a picture of the building he would be staying in, it looked like a large gingerbread house, how hard would that be to find?

"E-excuse me?" Aerin stopped a random pink pony "do you know how to get to this building?" the pony just stared, and started breathing heavily, and promptly disappeared, breaking most if not all laws of physics. "I have no comment..." He decides to go towards a large tree in the venter most part of town, so he could use it as a land mark, but as he got closer he realized that it was in fact, a library, and a library means a librarian, who probably could give him directions.

knock knock knock "hello how can I help... You?" A purple unicorn looked up at Aerin with fear on her face, Which was seen by one Rainbow Dash... Who's first thought was 'friend danger, me fight danger and be cool' and in doing so, attacked.

Aerin could hear in the distance a voice saying "get away from her!" But the pony saying it was fast, very fast, as she closed the gap in about four seconds, tackling Aerin to the ground."don't even try to attack my friends you griffon Jerk!" She had bitten off more than she could chew, and she knew it, Aerin stood easily a third-meter taller than her, she cowered almost instantly.

"Rainbow Dash?! That is no way to treat a new citizen!" Twilight shouted at her 'friend' "I was just shocked at how tall he is!"

"But Twi! you looked like he was about to... He just...look at him! He's a griffon" she points at the now dusty and filthy figure of Aerin. In tandem, Twilight gasped and Aerin looked at Rainbow in anger.

"Wow, racist much? I've been in ponyville not one quarter hour and I've been blatantly ignored and attacked!" Aerin stated matter-of-factly.

"Um sir? My name is Twilight Sparkle, and I am very sorry for my Friends actions, and I'm sure she will apologize to you, mister...?"

"Aerin, Aerin Silverfeather"

"Well mister Silverfeather I am sorry if I offended you

"I think I will survive if it doesn't happen again miss Sparkle, the same goes for... Rainbow Smash? Was it?"

"I don't hear him apologizing for scaring you Twilight!" Rainbow retaliates.

"Thank you for your apology miss Sparkle, and to you miss Dash," Rainbow Smugly smiles,

"No I don't really need an apology..." She lies

"Good, Fuck off." Aerin turns to see the building he was looking for in the distance, and leaves Rainbow Dash in a confused stupor.

As Aerin arrives at the building, he notices the sign in the door reading 'Sugarcube Corner' "wow" he mutters before opening the door "the first creative name I've seen today..." As he enters it is very dark, he was hoping he didn't walk into the closed shop with an accidentally unlocked door...

Aerin could hear giggling, and almost the instant he did, he spoke to himself, "oh what fresh hell is this..."

Author's Note

Sorry guys... And Herbal... I'm only a bit late right? Who left these bones here?

So yea... This takes place before the crystal empire comes back... Just in case your wondering why purple smart doesn't have wings

Also I didn't leave the story to be eaten by buzzards, it's alive and well,

And Per usual, don't be too mean.