Eclipse

I think about what I could do as a job and I automatically think of a job at some sawmill, why a sawmill you ask? Well. My family has blood in the lumber part of the business. So why not give it a shot? Only problem is I have no idea how to check for jobs like that. So I go to the library, and open up the door.

“Hey Twilight. I’m back”

“Welcome back Colton. you done already?”

“Yep I was told to come back tomorrow to pick my stuff up. But there’s just one problem…. I don’t have a job, is there any job listing posts around here?”

“Ummmm.” She pulls out a map “I’m pretty sure there is one right over here” she points to the side of the town hall.

“Ok, but just before I go…. Do you have any job placements?” I could probably do some librarian work.

“Well, I guess there is always room for one more….”

After asking twilight if she had a slot for a worker, she asked me to sit down and have a small interview asking how to stack books and treat books with care, excreta. I asked her if she knew the dewy decimal system, she said she heard of a decimal system just not the DDS so I explained to her how it works, and of course she was fascinated and had her book and quill in her magic.

“This dewy decimal system sounds great! I just may have to implement it myself!” like I said, fascinated.

“Yeah don’t thank me thank” I retrieve my phone, open google because Siri sucks and say “Ok google” it makes that infamous ding. “Dewey decimal system” while google loads the words I had said twilight asks “what are you do-“ google finally loads up and responds to my ‘question’ “According to Wikipedia. The Dewey decimal classification, or the Dewey decimal system is a proprietary library classification system first published in the United States by Melvin Dewey in 1876” google finished I turned to twilight and she had the most surprised look yet so fascinated. I said “you can thank Melvin Dewey for the DDS.” At this point I blew her mind, mouth wide open and all. “So…uh can I get the job?” as soon as I ask that she shakes her head and falls over.

“Oh shit! Umm Spike???” I yell for Spikes name and he comes running

“What? What happened?” he looks to twilight on the floor “What did you do?!?!?

“I don’t know, but I think I just blew her mind with my technology

“Whoa, even that’s a new one for me.”

“I bet. I’m just trying to show off technology in a useful way, unlike some people….” I slowly look towards your direction and say “You filthy animals.”

“What?” ill deal with you guys later….

“What? Oh right. Clean up in the library needed!” I scream. I scoop her up and throw her on the couch in the living room.

“So looks like I’m the only employee in the library today.” Spike sighs

“Actually. I got a job here now. Mind showing me how stuff works around here?”

Spike looks at me and says. “Sure!” finally! The story behind equestria!

“Yes! I mean ok…..” I say showing at least a little appreciation

“Well, let’s get started.”

As we get ready. We grab a bite to eat, I had an apple and Spike had a gem, I think it was a ruby…. Anyways we walk back to twilight in attempt to wake her up, in a very nice and calm matter…

“HEY TWILIGHT WAKE UP WE GOT JOBS TO DO!!!!” I scream as loud as I can, she jumps and starts to panic. I run over to the screaming and panicking twilight, “Whoa!!! Calm down!” she is still wigging out, me just getting tired of it, I calmly handle the situation.

*SMACK*

I slap the shit out of twilight, getting her in order immediately. “OK!!! YOU CALM NOW!?!?!” she nods. “Alright. Now that you’re conscious, it’s time to work.”

“Right.” She walks over to the front desk and begins her session. Spike walks off to the other room. And I’m just standing in the middle of the room, getting use to the order of the books, it more or less went like this, the first cabinet on the left was history, the second was language, the third was magic and potions, the fourth was, science, the fifth was the children’s section and the sixth was the fiction section. Each row went in alphabetic order. I look specifically at the books in the history section. I starting to look at the deep past the history as Equestria Knew it! Anyways, it started off by telling stories about Starswirled the bearded and the legends that help defeat just about every evil there was out there. The rise of equestria’s empire and the fall of changeling army, and Crystal Empire. Discord, and Nightmare Moon. And there is a couple of hiccups like *&!@#(!* (!*@#! *!#@!@, oops. Looks like I can’t talk about that…. Sorry….. I put down the book satisfied by the knowledge I gained, it’s pretty much enough to make a story, I’m goanna note that. The doorbell rang as soon as I put the book back..

I look over to the door and see Lyra. Now, I was expecting her to flip her shit. But… She didn’t. Guess that was bullshit about her studying humans. Unless…. She hasn’t started studying on us yet.

“Hello, is there anything I can do to help?” I opened and also hoping for a response.

“Hi. Um yes I do believe you can help me.” Alright let’s see what she needs help with.

“Ok, what do you help with mam”

“Do you have any books on mythical creatures?” oh. I guess we could become studied.

“I’m not certain but I can look.” I look up top. Looking for the title on the neck of the book, and sure enough. I found it. “Alright, here you go.” I say with a smile on my face.

“Thank you... uhhh Mr.?” oh shit.

“Oh! Right. The name’s Colton, I need to get myself a name tag.” I say as I laugh.

“Yeah you might want one so people can thank you.” She walks off towards twilight to check out the book, she takes the book in her magic and envelops it in a spell (probably a return spell.) and tells her she can leave. Lyra thanks her and walks out the door. “Hey, twilight.” I call her name.

“Yes Colton?” she responds. In a cute little way.

“Can I get a name tag?”

“Of Course!” she magiced over a little clip that I can put a piece of paper on. I write my name on this paper and clip it to my shirt.

“Thanks Twi.” Ok I might have fucked up there.

“What did you call me” oh shit.

“I made you a nickname… is it alright?”

“Uh, yeah! Its fine! There’s nothing wrong with it.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes I’m completely sure.”

“Oooh Kay” after that little piece of dialogue, I decided to go back to the books this time I look for the dates.

“Hold up a second. Twilight, when am I?” which is a really good question.

She looks at me quizzing and asks. “What do you mean by that?”

I look back at her and say “what month, day, and year is it.”

“Oh, in that case its… August 21, 2017”

“Hmmmm.” I think back to what date it was back on earth “that’s weird.”

“What?” Twilight asks

“That’s the exact same date as it was on my planet.”

“Is that a bad thing?”

“I don’t know, but it’s interesting to look into.”

“Well, I guess we can start off with one question. How.”

“Yeah, but we need to theorize latter.” We got back to work after we talked.

5 hours later…

We worked and saw numerous ponies, like Octavia, Doctor Whooves, Berry Punch, and Apple Bloom. With our job finished. We sat down after a long day.

“*sigh* that was fun.” I say exhausted by the day.

“It was, I suppose.” I look down at my phone and the time reads 7:12 Pm “Woah, it’s been that long? It only feels like it’s only been a couple of minutes.”

“Yeah time flies when you’re working.”

“Where has spike been?” I haven’t seen him since he parted into the other room.

“Doing chores. Oh, also cooking.” I give twilight a confused look.

“He cooks?” I mean I know he can cook. Anybody can cook, but spike making supper? That’s slave like.

“Yeah, I can’t cook decent as he can.” Oh well I mean that dulls the slave comment….. by a little.

“What do you mean?”

“Every time I cook something like dandelion soup it ends up tasting nasty. And a little burnt majority of the time.”

“How do you even make dandelion soup?” I think it would be like “our” vegetable soup?

Spike walks in the room and starts talking. “Well first you start off with cooking the dandelions for about 2 minutes, then add the tomato, corn, green beans, and carrots. Add some salt and pepper, and let them simmer at a medium on the stove.”

“Wow… that’s actually not that much different from my kind’s soup. Only difference is we can’t really eat dandelions and say it tastes good. So we eat…. Beans, yeah it tastes better to us.” I don’t want to gross them out right before they eat.

“Well I don’t know about you but I’m starving, let’s eat!” Well another world’s food…. Let’s give this a try!

About 20 minutes later

I, twilight, and spike had a relatively nice conversation whilst eating. (Accept for the part forgetting the dandelions in the soup. I picked them out afterwards.) Spike and I, were talking about pony-friendly foods. And verbally it seems spike really knows his stuff when it comes to cooking. Twilight just can’t seem to grasp that subject. Speaking of Twilight. Twilight and I, were talking about science-y stuff like humans’ findings on laws of the universe.

“Thanks spike. That was some fine cooking! Tastes like mine from back home!” spike looked much appreciated at the fact I said his cooking was great.

“Thanks Colton! I don’t get very appreciated for cooking very often anymore.” It made me feel pretty pleased with what I said to spike, but something caught my mind. My face pretty much drained of emotion, and just left a blank sad canvas.

Twilight noticed, and said “Is everything ok Colton?”

I walked outside. And twilight followed suit. “Colton? Are you alright?” I look up at a now unshaded white circle called the moon.

“Hey twilight.” I ask in a monotone way

“Yes Colton?” she sounds very worried.

“Have you ever been far away from home before?”

“Yeah.”

“I’m getting that feeling.” I take a deep breath “You know, homesick? Only difference is this time I’m unable to return home.” As I shed a couple of tears, I turn to see twilight’s empathetic face

Twilight sighs and says “I’m sorry, I wish there was something I could do.”

“Nah, I think after a while I’ll get used to it.” I say trying to make myself happy.

“Are you sure Colton?”

“Yeah. I think I can deal with it.”

“Can you tell me who you left behind?”

Thinking back makes me a little bit sadder but I forced this question out as best I could. “My little sister. Katie, my older brother. Dale, my father. James and my mother. Jacky.” I took a deep breath. After revealing my family’s names, I began sobbing a little remembering every bit of memory I had with them. Twilight tried her best to comfort me. After all… It’s what friends do.