"Hello?"

Brimstone just lied there with his hood and his hooves over his head.

"So you're the one Pinkie threw this party for?" The same voice questioned.

Brimstone looked up. Standing in front of him was a slanderer unicorn mare with... Wings? No that couldn't be... She would have to be a princess... He got up and examined her as five other mares gathered around them. He recognized Apple Jack and Pinkie who were smiling, though Apple Jack's looked forced. There was a cyan Pegasus with a rainbow colored mane who was looking at him suspiciously, a white mare with a purple mane who was giving a polite smile, a yellow Pegasus with a pink mane who hid behind the cyan one each time he made eye contact.

"I'm Twilight Sparkle." She gestured to the other ponies, "They're my friends, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity. You've already met Apple Jack and Pinkie Pie if I'm not mistaken?"

Apple Jack raised an eyebrow and nodded. She and Rainbow Dash were still suspicious of the mysterious, seemingly secretive newcomer.

"I'm Red Wing." Brimstone stated

Rainbow Dash perked up at this, though still apprehensive, "So you're a Pegasus then?"

Brimstone nodded trying to speak as little as possible.

"Riddle me this... Is that an alicorn?" He pointed to Twilight.

"Yes I am." Twilight answered.

"And she's also the princess of friendship!" Pinkie addled.

"So why didn't my map say there was a princess here?" Brimstone tried to hide his fear and annoyance as he held the map out. Twilight read the map.

"Well this is an outdated map... It was made before I became a princess." Twilight explained.

Brimstone grumbled and got up. "I'm leaving to set up camp."

Brimstone walked out the door, threw the map to the ground and stomped on it. Once it's now many pieces were thoroughly stomped into the ground he turned around breathing heavily.

"Stupid, old, outdated map! Led me to an alicorn princess! A bucking alicorn princess!" He continues to berate the inanimate object until he noticed six ponies by the door which had been open the whole time. All of them were giving him a look that clearly said 'what the buck.' Even the yellow Pegasus poked her head out to look at the scene and bore the same expression.

"What are you lookin' at!?" Brimstone spoke loudly in a voice that was just short of yelling, "All of you ponies are crazy! You're all insane!"

As he trotted away Rainbow Dash looked at her friends with an eyebrow raised. "We're crazy?"

The mane six sat in their respective chairs in Twilight's castle.

"Ah'm tellin' ya.' There's somethin' off 'bout that pony..." Applejack narrowed her eyes a bit.

"Well... he did seem a bit odd..." Rarity pointed out, "I mean, did you see how he reacted when he saw Twilight?"

"I know right! He punched a map," Pinkie Pie started to giggle, which quickly escalated into a loud laugh, "A MAP! He yelled at it too! I mean, craaaaaaazyyyyyyy!"

"Well... um... I don't know... maybe he's just nervous..." Fluttershy said barely above a whisper.

"He doesn't seem nervous to me! What nervous pony would purposely intimidate three innocent fillies and discourage them from getting their cutie marks!?" Applejack raised her voice unintentionally.

"He scared the Cutie Mark Crusaders?" Rarity questioned.

"Yup."

"Did he hurt them?"

"Well, um... No..."

"Then I see no cause to worry too much just yet, Applejack."

"But what ah'm sayin' is that we don't know anythin' about him, he could potentially hurt somepony."

"I agree with A.J. We shouldn't wait around to see what that pony might do we don't know anything about him, and he doesn't exactly seem friendly." Rainbow Dash added.

"Applejack, Rainbow Dash," The lavender alicorn spoke for the first time since the meeting started, "I think we all understand your concerns but we should give this pony a chance. As long as we keep an eye on him, everything should be fine."

"Wait, Applejack said he was saying cutie marks are bad right?" Rainbow Dash looked towards the earth pony.

"Yea he basically did." Applejack nodded.

"What if he was sent by Starlight Glimmer?"

"Well," Twilight spoke up, "we'll have to wait and see then, because it is our job to spread the magic of friendship, and we will not fail our job."

"But..."

"Also, since you two are so worried about him doing something bad, both of you are going to stay with him tomorrow." Twilight gestured to Applejack and Rainbow Dash.

"WHAT!?" They both yelled simultaneously.'

"We don't even know where that pony is!" Rainbow Dash stated.

"Then you can look for him in the morning, it's getting late. Maybe he'll open up to us if we are friendly."

"But for the time being we still don't know what he will do."

"Listen, I don't trust him much more than you do, but we have to give him a chance."

With a reluctant 'fine' from both A.J. and Rainbow Dash, the meeting was concluded.

Brimstone walked towards the gloomy forest settling deep enough in the forest to not be seen but close enough to the edge that he could see ponyville. He found a large normal looking bush that he could hide in and walked over to it.

"What is wrong with these ponies? I've never had friends, I've never wanted friends, and I've never needed friends!" Brimstone muttered to himself. "I've been fine without friends!" Brimstone yawned and lied down drifting off to sleep, "I'm better off... without... anypony..." Barely a second later, the pegasus was asleep. A cool breeze whistled through the forest and tickled his ear. He wouldn't dream tonight. He never did. But maybe he wouldn't have a nightmare. The smell of dirt, sap, and flowers was blocking everything out. It was peaceful and relaxing. The corners of Brimstone's mouth straightened instead of curling down in a seemingly permanent frown. Maybe he would hope for a dream.

Author's Note

WOO! It's done!!! Finally :P hope everyone enjoys, time to write the next chapter!