My little oc a blacksmiths view

”So, you got everything that you need” a voice from behind me asked.

“I sure do”, I said as I turned around to meet my former boss.

Clonk. An anvil landed on the ground besides him. He grinned at me.

“I remember when you first started working here” he chuckled “you said that you always wanted a anvil” he slapped a hoof on the anvil “well here you go, lets call it a parting gift”.

I gave the old stallion a firm hoof bump and attempted to lift the anvil.

It took some effort and the help of my boss, but soon the anvil was on my wagon. Afterwards I strapped myself to the wagon and wished the others a good day and a happy future.

One day I was wandering, on my way to a small town called Ponyville. I stopped to look at the town from a hill, it looked like a nice and quiet town, one of those towns trouble rarely finds.

An orange mare came walking up from behind me, she had a yellow mane and a brown hat on, she seemed friendly.

“Heya, can I help ya” she asked.

I nodded “yeah, I was wondering if there was a blacksmith in this town, I’m looking for work”.

The orange mare placed a hoof to her chin.

“no, I can’t remember when or if Ponyville have had a blacksmith, we usually use wood for just about everything”.

She looked me up and down, examining me from head to hoof.

“You look mighty strong for an earth pony” she said, “I could use a strong stallion like you on my farm”.

I looked down at her, “uh you are probably stronger then I am, I’m not an earth pony”.

The friendly mare looked at me with obvious confusion plastered on her face.

“I’m a unicorn; my horn is just, well, short”. I moved my mane to show my horn.

She still looked confused “huh, but unicorns usually aren’t that big, why are you so tall and sturdy”, she poked me with a hoof while she talked.

“I have worked hard, my magic is weak, so I have to move metal by hoof and back”.

The orange mare nodded. “Aha, I’m Applejack by the way do you want me to follow you down to the town”.

I shook my head “thanks but no thanks”.

Applejack started walking the other way, and I realized that I had no idea where to go.

“Hold up” I yelled after her “is there some pony I can talk to about setting up shop here” I asked her.

“Sure, go to the town hall, mayor mare can help ya” Applejack said with a smile.

After she had given me directions on how to get there, I thanked her and trotted down the hill and towards the town.

The door to the town hall creaked open. “Uh hallo” I asked.

The town hall was dark, the only light came from a small window in the roof.

“How can I help you” a voice called from the shadows.

The voice sounded mildly depressed, or at least sad. A gray-haired mare stepped out from the shadows.

“Uh, I was wondering if you could help me, you see I would like to set up shop in Ponyville”.

The mare hang her head “talk to princess twilight” she said.

A single tear rolling from her eye. I stood still, uncomfortable with the situation.

“But Applejack said that you could help me” I said with my best not-feeling-awkward voice.

The mare walked past me “I can but the princess has more authority then me”.

I looked at the sad mare “remind me, who is this princess, are you talking about, Celestia?”.

The mare looked up at me as if I was stupid.

“You don’t know who Twilight Sparkle is, she is the newest princess?” she asked with mild announce.

My ears lay down on my head. “I haven’t been following the happenings in Cantorlot, I have focused on learning for years” I said hoping to be

rid of the awkwardness.

I followed the mare to a shack. She told me that I could rent it for 30 bits a month. I put out my hoof to shake on it, but the mare just looked at me.

“so it’s a deal then” I said.

She hesitated “sure”.

The shack was small, just each room for a forge and a bed. I sighed.

“My own little kingdom” I said smiling.

As I walked out I felt something rub against me, it felt like cotton candy and as I looked down I saw that it in fact looked like cotton candy. The pink cotton suddenly shot to the side to reveal a face.

“Who are you” the face asked in a loud and high pithed voice.

I flew up in the air and landed on my side with a thumb. I looked in shock as the cotton candy and face turned into a pink pony with a glee filled face.

I was laying on my side too scared to move. I had to force my brain to come up with an answer “wh-what the” I stammered.

“My name is Pinkie Pie, I want to be your bestest friend in the whole wide world” she jumped as she talked making a “duing” sound with every

jump.

I rose from the ground trying to process what had just happened. Pinkie suddenly stood beside me.

“Boy you are the biggest pony I have seen in a long time, are you as strong as Big Mac, uhh I know you can…“

I shot my ears, the pink pony was making a mess of my brain, she continued talking about a party she had to plan. There after, she bombarded me with questions about me, but they came to fast for me to answer.

I stepped back little by little, but the pink blabber machine followed me step, by step. Soon I found myself back in the middle of Ponyville.

“Leave the poor stallion alone, can’t you see that he is overwhelmed” a feminine voice called out from behind me.

The voice belonged to a white mare with a purplish blue mane and tail. Pinkie stopped suddenly.

“But he is new here and I want him to be my friend” Pinkie cried, tears running like waterfalls from her eyes.

The white mare walked closer to me. “I am sorry, Pinkie can be a bit much for some ponies, she has the best intentions I assure you”.

I nodded.

“You seem familiar, have we met before” the white mare asked.

I shook my head “I don’t think so, I have been traveling for most of my life”.

The white mare put a hoof to her cheek, “hmm, but your features look so familiar, oh where are my manners, I’m Rarity I run the carousel boutique here in Ponyville”.

I bowed my head lightly, “I’m Blazing Forge, I’m from Manehatten”.

Her face lit up with glee as if she had been my filly friend and I had just asked her to marry me. “Manehatten!” she asked “oh tell me more”,

she fluttered her eyelashes.

“Well, my real name is Clinking bits, I had it change after I got my cutiemark” I said.

Rarity almost fainted “you are from the Bits family?” she asked with her face close to mine, to close in fact.

“Uhh yeah”.

I couldn’t move, what was it with these ponies and overreacting, well apart from Applejack.

The White mare probably sensed that she had invaded my personal space “oh I’m terribly sorry dear, I haven’t met somepony from the bits family before, they usually keep to themselves”.

I nodded sadly “yeah, but I’m not a Bit anymore”.

I looked towards the spot that the pink hyperactive party machine had been occupying, but she was gone.

“Uh is Pinkie going to be okay” I asked with concern.

“Oh yes, Pinkie just overreacts, it’s just how she is dear” Rarity assured me.

“Would you care to follow me for tea in the park, I think that my friends would love to meet you,” she asked.

Wow that was fast I thought, “uh sorry maybe another day, I have to move in to my shack”.

Rarity’s ears dropped “oh, well I’ll see you later then”.

A few minutes later, I was wrestling with my anvil, when it floated into the shack.

“uh” I exclaimed.

The anvil was suddenly, and unexpectedly surrounded in a purple aura, as it floated to the ground. I turned to see a purple unicorn with her horn active.

“Uh thank you” I said as I rubbed my neck.

The purple unicorn smiled and stood aside, to reveal five other ponies, they were all carrying tools and supplies.

“Rarity told us that you were moving in and we wanted to help you” she said in a calm yet assertive voice.

I smiled and thanked them “you don’t have to” I said keeping my smile and a slight blush.

“That’s what friends are for” the purple unicorn said.

As things were brought into the shack, I noticed that the purple Unicorn had wings.

“By Celestias mane” I gasped and fell to the floor in a deep bow.

“I’m so sorry princess, I didn’t know” I begged, as the purple mare just stood there.

“You must be princess Twilight Sparkle” I asked keeping my head on the wooden floor.

The princesses face looked like she was in distress “no, don’t bow” she said.

I sprung up hitting my head on a big hammer that had been hung from the sealing. I landed on the ground, head spinning. A yellow Pegasus pony came to my aid in getting me on my hooves.

The six ponies looked around at the swords, hammers and armors that I’ve had, had in my wagon, that now hung on the walls.

“What a cool blade” the rainbow haired mare yelled.

She held a huge blade I had made when I had been taught by a griffon blacksmith.

“yeah, it’s one I made after master sword smith Sparrow had taught me all that he knew”.

The blue furred and rainbow maned pony held the sword with both her hooves.

“Come at me you beastly dragon” she yelled as she swung the massive blade.

“I say, ya got talent” Applejack said, lowering the blade from her throat, that the blue mare still held.

I blushed “yeah, but I still have a lot to learn”, I paused “thank you, all of you, I’m Blazing Forge”.

The alicorn stepped forward “I’m Twilight, this is Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash” she pointed around as she spoke.

After a bit of chatting they invited me for tea, again, but this time I couldn’t refuse.

We had tea by a pond near Applejacks farm, the grass was soft, so I just sat on the ground, but Rarity insisted that I should sit on the blanket.

“So, do you always invite newcomers for tea” I asked looking around the six mares.

They all smiled, “yeah, well we doesn’t get many newcomers, so we do it in order to keep the town alive” Applejack said.

“And it’s always nice to meet new friends” Pinkie said.

The next few seconds felt like minutes, it felt awkward, to be surrounded by six friendly mares that I only met that day.

I was saved by Pinkie who suddenly steered at me and asked “lemonade or cider”.

I felt a cold shiver crawl down my back from the sudden outburst from Pinkie.

“Uh, I, I prefer cider” I stammered.

“okie dokie” she said grinning, before she was pulled back by Twilight.

“Easy Pinkie” she said with a light frown, “you are making him uncomfortable” she said as she levitated two sandwiches from a basket, one for her and one for me.

She levitated it in the air in front of me, probably expecting me to grab it, so I did, with my mouth. Twilight tilted her head.

“Rarity said that you are a unicorn, so why aren’t you using your magic to levitate the sandwich,” she asked with a curios facial expiration.

I put the sandwich down and began to explain, “well, you see, I am neither unicorn or earth pony, I’m sort of a hybrid. I don’t have the strength of an earth pony, or the magical properties of a unicorn, well I can use magic, but I draw from a finite pool of magic, if I use it too often I will drain it, and then I can’t work as effectively as if my magic is fully replenished”.

Twilight steered at me “amazing” she whispered in a tone that made me concerned for my health.

I took a bite out of the sandwich and looking around at the mares as I chewed. Was this an all mare herd, it wasn’t unheard of. What was

Ponyvilles mare to stallion ratio, I decided to ask.

Applejack pulled her head back, Pinkie looked up from a checklist that she was writing, Rainbow fell over laughing, twilight turned her head, Fluttershy blushed and Rarity seemed unfazed.

“Uh, I’d say it’s about seven to eight mares per stallion” Rarity said “why do you want to know” she said lifting an eyebrow.

It felt like I was shrinking, it felt awkward and it didn’t help that Rainbow was heaving for air in between laughter.

“Well I was just wondering” I said as I forced a smile.

Rainbow wiped a tear from her eyes “oh, you are as random as Pinkie” she said.

The pink pony looked up “is that so” she said in a slightly disturbing voice.

I backed away, “no I just thought you were an all mare herd, and then I wondered how many mares and stallions there is in Ponyville”.

Applejack lay a hoof on my shoulder, “calm down, no we aren’t an all-mare-herd, we’re just friends, we don’t belong to any herd,” she said, not looking at me.

I sat, “I’m sorry, I hope I didn’t offend you”.

The six shook their heads, “not in the slightest” Rarity said flinging her hair back.

The rest of the picnic went fine, Pinkie asked me more questions about how I wanted my party, Rainbow kept asking about blades and swords, Rarity was mostly quiet, so was Fluttershy and twilight and I talked about what magic I could do.

The day of the party rolled around and I stood in my shack trying to make myself presentable and failing, my cloths was too small, to dirty or too torn up to attend a party. I sighed deeply, I wondered if it would be okay if I came as I were, all natural, it was my only option anyway.

I walked up to Twilights castle, the entrance was empty, the floor felt cold and uncomfortable to walk on.

“Hallo” no answer.

I slowly ascended up the stairs, a cold feeling running down my back, this felt wrong, it didn’t help that the halls made me feel small and insignificant. I spotted a piece of candy wrapped in pink paper. I walked closer, picked it up and unwrapped it. The candy was green and tasted like apples. Soon after, I found more candy lying around the corner. I followed the trail. It lead me to a big door. Oh, I get it it’s a surprise party, they’ll jump out when I walk in, I thought. Well would Pinkie have asked me what I wanted if it was a surprise, well no, what is this then, I stood for a while pondering Pinkies logic and mental stability.

Finally I desisted to walk in. the room was empty. Black and only black filled the room. A purple light startled me. It came from one side of the room. The light came closer. I looked to the other side, a similar light, but blue.

“Oh what is this” I thought

As the lights got closer, a million thoughts spun around in my head, varies scenarios played in my panicked mind. They were not having a party for me, the party was after they had sacrificed me, and they would sacrifice me to the two entities floating towards me. I fell to the floor with my front hooves covering my head. I looked to my left and saw the purple light, it seemed stronger then the blue light. Little by little I could make out a muzzle, it was smiling.

Oh buck, it was the princess, she was the one I would be sacrificed to. Where were my hidden dagger when I needed it.

A tear formed from my defenselessness, rolled from my eye and landed on the cold hard floor. At this point I had accepted my fate, well accepted probably wasn’t the right word, more a knowing that I wouldn’t be able to protect myself from her, so why fight.

I looked up again. Her hoof almost touched my muzzle, I looked further up, she was frowning. It made me hide my face. I didn’t want to see what she would do to end my existence.

“Uh, you okay, somepony turn on the lights”.

The lights flickered to life and I could see a large horde of ponies against the wall in the circular room, most looked chocked, others giggled and some tried to shut up the giggling ponies.

Twilight reached a hoof towards me “I’m sorry, hope we didn’t scare you too much”.

I took her hoof and tried to get on my hooves, but they were shacking, so I fell to the floor again. I caught a glint of Rainbow Dash, she tried desperately to hold in her laughter, she only made occasional grunts, when air escaped her mouth that was covered with her hoof.

I finally got to my hooves. So that the party could begin.

I sat on a couch when the blue Pegasus Rainbow Dash flew over and reached a hoof forward holding a mug of cider.

“Sorry, I couldn’t help it, you looked so silly on the floor” she said bluntly.

I raised an eyebrow “thanks” I said as dryly as I could.

“Oh come on, you’d think It’d be funny too if you could see yourself”.

She still held the cider mug in front of me, I slowly reached for it, grabbed it and slowly pulled it back. She sat beside me with a mug of her own. She took a swig and exhaled in sheer bliss. I looked at the cider swirling it around with a flick of my hoof, finally I brought it to my mouth.

The first mouthful was orgasmic; my tongue had a party in my mouth, and all tastebuds were invited. After bringing the mug down, I smiled down at the cider.

“Good, hah” Rainbow was grinning “you almost can’t taste the alcohol”

I smiled back at her “wow, it’s amazing, thanks” I said licking my lips. “Did you make it”, I asked.

“Nah, applejack and her family made it”.

The party slowly lost velocity and little by little everypony left, but the six mares I had met and me. We sat around a table, to my left lay three empty barrels. I had a good buzz going, I couldn’t stop smiling at the three mares. My drunk mind convinced me that I could score them, but from a corner of my brain a single brain cell objected, the single brain cell was right.

“Oh I could go for a flagon of mead now” I said flowing down the chair.

The yellow Pegasus winced “did he say meat” she shrieked.

“No, no, mead, with a d instead of a t, is an alcoholic drink brewed with honey” I said hastily. “it was the drink of choice for the Viking ponies” I

grinned pointing to my goat beard.

“Oh so you think of yourself as a Viking” Rarity winked.

I blushed and tried to hide it, “well sort of”.

I looked around the trashed room, wondering how Pinkie and the others had put a party together and invited the whole town. I decided to ask.

“Well Pinkie did all of it” Twilight said, her answer puzzled me.

“Uh, by herself” I asked.

“yup, yup, yup” Pinkie squeaked.

I tilted my head “but, how” I asked.

“Because of Pinkie” Rainbow said, “she is faster than me”.

I nodded. “Okay, so you are fast” a hiccup made me pause “as well” I asked.

Rainbow grinned. “Here we go” Applejack said.

“Have you ever heard about the sonic rain boom” Rainbow asked.

I put a hoof to my chin, “isn’t that the flight stunt, where a pony have to fly five times the speed of sound, causing the visible spectrum to shatter into a rainbow ring and the doubling the Pegasus speed?”

Rainbow and Twilights jaws hung to the floor. “How could you possibly know that”, Twilight asked.

“I’ve done it and I didn’t even know that” Rainbow added.

I sighed, “well just because I’m a work pony, doesn’t mean I’m not well-read” I scoffed.

“She didn’t mean it like that darling” Rarity defended.

“I’m so sorry I didn’t mean it like that, it’s just” Twilight paused “most work ponies aren’t that well-read”.

I nodded “I know” I said looking at my empty mug, “I’m just faster to take offence when I’m drunk”.

After a bit more chatting, we decided to call it a night. I declined the offer of sleeping in one of the guestrooms and headed home.

As I left the others waved at me wishing me a good night’s rest.