Love Completes Us

In the town of Ponyville everything was going smoothly, no monster attacks for weeks, no friendship problems and no little fillies causing havoc. The couples of this town walked side by side, of course most couples consisted of just mares, but that was to be expected with the male to female ratio. All were happy in each other's company, having their significant other at their side as they went about their daily routines.

All were happy, save for one stallion working at the Golden Oaks Library. Meet Pyra Flare, a tall, slim stallion with black fur. His electric purple and white mane matched his lavender eyes. He wore a small purple hat atop his head, resting behind his horn. He wore a pair of purple glasses that rested on the tip of his muzzle. His small purple cloak his his cutie mark which was a book outlined by purple flames.

Pyra adjusted his glasses as he sat at the counter of the expanded library reading a romance novel. Sighing he closed the book and placed it under the desk. "Why do you do this to yourself Pyra?" He asked himself this question every time he opened a book with a theme involving relationships. As he walked over to a cart filled with books and a few shelves with empty slots he began to organise that section of the library. He heard the sound of hoofsteps coming from the other room and his boss, Twilight Sparkle, walked in.

"Hey Pyra, I'm just heading out to visit my friends." He nodded to her and she began walking to the door. Before pulling the door open she turned around. "Oh and Pyra," he turned his head towards her, "Thank you for helping out around here, it's been pretty lonely since Spike left."

"It's no problem Twilight, I should be thanking you for letting me work for you and giving me a place to live." She smiled at him before walking out. After finishing his work Pyra walked over to the door and pulled out his smartphone, feeling it vibrate as he got a call from his best friend.

Hitting the answer icon he used his magic to hold it to his ear as he walked.

"Hey Zodiac, what's up?"

"Nothing much, just wanted to see if you were up for a drink at Berry's bar."

"I don't see why not, what time do you want me to be there?"

"Take your time I'm in no rush, be there some time around eight. See ya there."

"Ok, see you bud." He hung up and placed his phone back in his cloak pocket. Walking down the sidewalk Pyra looked at all the passing couples, a spark of anger lit within him. "I swear someone is making sure I suffer." Everyone else in the town had someone to call their own, even the now teenage CMC had special someponies. The only other single in town was Applejack, and he had already pulled the pin on that grenade, it just wouldn't have worked out. Applejack needed someone that could help out on the farm, and Pyra was not the fittest stallion and his magic was only a bit above average for a unicorn.

He approached town market ready to buy what he and Twilight needed at the library since Spike no longer did errands for his adoptive sister. Ever since he came of age he married his crush, Rarity and now lived at the Carousel Boutique. Walking up to the first stand he was greeted by the mare at the stand.

"Howdy Pyra, what can I do ya for?" Asked Applejack with a smile. Even after he had asked Applejack out on a date and had been rejected, the two remained close friends.

"Just picking up the groceries for Twilight and me." She nodded and pulled up a basket with his usual order.

"Here ya go sugarcube, as usual that's thirty bits." Pyra reached into his bit bag and pulled out three silver coins. In Equestria there was three types of bits, gold, silver and copper. Copper was worth one bit, silver ten, and gold one hundred. "Thank ya kindly Pyra." As he was about to walk away she placed a hoof on his shoulder. "Hey, I've been meaning ta ask, you find yer special somepony yet?" She asked him this every time she saw him.

"As usual, no." She gave him a sad smile.

"It ok sugarcube, you'll find her someday. Who knows, yer soulmate may even wander into the library one day." Pyra heard a mare sneeze not to far away when Applejack said this. Shaking it off he gave her a smile.

"Thank you AJ, I'll see you later. You'll be the second to know if I do find her." She raised a brow.

"Only the second?" She asked.

"Well if I don't tell Zodiac first he'll never let it go." Applejack just chuckled.

"Right, gotcha." Giving a small wave with his hoof Pyra walked off to finish his errands. "You'll find someone, ya just gotta wait, just like me." She said to herself as she watched him walk off.

Later that evening

Pyra sat at the bar of Berry Punch's Pub with his friend sitting beside him. The stallion sitting next to him wore a blue cloak that cover all of his body from his feet to the bottom of his face which. He also wore a beige wizard hat with a small red band at the base. His face was shadowed by his hat, only allowing others to see a black silhouette of his head with two glowing yellow eyes. The two sat in silence, mugs of cider in their hooves.

"Zodiac, if you have nothing to tell me then why did you invite me here? I mean I'm all for spending time with you but you're never this quiet." Zodiac placed his mug down on the bar top and turned to Pyra.

"Dude, I'm worried about you." Pyra rolled his eyes and took a huge swing of his drink. "You've been alone too long, you need somepony by your side."

"Who exactly am I going to find who is single in this town?"

"Look in other places, Canterlot, Las Pegasus, anywhere! You need to get out there, you can't expect a mare to just randomly walk into the library that so happens to be single and looking for her favourite book which happens to be the one you wrote. C'mon dude you really need to get out there." Pyra swore he heard another mare sneeze from outside the bar.

"Dude, I don't think I can. I've been out of the dating scene for a long time."

"Hey, I'm heading to Canterlot for a week with a room for two, my marefriend had to go visit her family in Manehatten and I can't get a refund for the rooms. You should come with me, see if we can get you a mare up in the kinder streets of the place, not those snooty nobles." Pyra placed a hoof to his muzzle in thought.

"Buck it, I'm in." Zodiac patted him on the back.

"Trust me bro, this won't be a waste of your time."