Taking a tour

"Hey, quit it already!"

"Quit what?"

"You know what!"

"What? You mean this?"

Ember felt him prod her skin again.

"Sam, I swear to..."

This isn't exactly what Sam expected to happen in the morning, but he was currently prodding a very embarrassed and angry blue dragon.

"What? It's not my fault that you're so easy to wind up."

She blushed and turned around, mumbling something as she did so. "You're a dork..."

He smirked. "What was that?"

Ember thanked everything that was holy that he couldn't see her blush right now.

"You're a dork..."

"You're going to have to be louder than that."

Before he could even let his smirk get any bigger, he gulped.

"Oh shit."

Now, one thing Sam should have learned by this point is that you don't piss off a dragon. Ever.

If he would have learned that, he probably wouldn't be seeing Ember with smoke coming out of her nostrils, with her now staring directly at him. She was that close to his face that he could have touched her head with his own.

"I SAID THAT YOU'RE A DORK! JUST THINK YOURSELF LUCKY THAT YOU HAVE THAT SUIT ON RIGHT NOW, MISTER!"

To be honest, he probably would have been even more terrified than he already was if he hadn't had seen the massive red blush across her face. He quickly got over the surge of fear that had entered his system and gained the most shit eating grin that he'd ever put on his face.

"You know, you scared me there for a second. The smoke and all. But that went away as soon as I saw how red your face is."

Ember quickly turned around and covered her face with her claws. "Ugh..."

Then, the door slowly opened. They both turned around, now both trying to put on a serious face, to see that it was Twilight.

Sam was the first one to speak up. "Hey, Twilight. Sleep well?"

Twilight looked in his direction, giving him a warm smile. "Yes, Sam. I did, thank you. How about you?"

He nodded in response. "Yeah, I slept alright. Well...considering everything, anyway."

She giggled and nodded. She looked over to Ember. But...something wasn't right.

"Ember...are you alright? You look...red. Very red."

After hearing this, Ember quickly hid her face and mumbled again. She gained the courage to reveal her face once more, still as red as a tomato.

"Yes...I am fine, Twilight. Don't worry abo...."

Sam quickly put his hand on her shoulder, eliciting a glare from the dragon.

"Yeah, don't worry about her. She's just being a mardy ass because she can't take a joke."

Twilight looked at him in confusion and then noticed that Ember had started to produce smoke out of her nostrils. The now steaming dragon turned to Sam and grabbed his arm, making sure to get in his face.

"IF YOU DON'T STOP BEING A DICK RIGHT NOW, I WILL MAKE SURE THAT YOU DON'T HAVE ONE ANYMORE!"

Twilight pulled herself back at the sudden outburst, but started turning her attention to the now recoiling human.

"Alright, alright. Jeez. Don't have to get so antsy."

It looked like Ember was about to explode, but she put her head in her claws again, trying not to totally lose it. She took a deep breath and looked over to Twilight, who was now chuckling at the display. "Yes, I am fine. Ignore him. What have you got planned for today?"

She smiled and walked over to them, sitting down on the opposite side of the meeting table. "Well, I was thinking that I should give Sam a small tour around the town. Get him familiar with the place, considering that he might be staying here for a while. And also maybe pay a visit to all of my friends, letting them know what he is and why he's here. Don't need anypony freaking out because there's an unknown creature clad in an advanced suit roaming about the place."

Sam looked over at her with a fake expression of hurt spread across his face. "Wow, Twilight. Bit harsh. Unknown creature? I feel offended."

Twilight gasped and started to stutter, looking at him in horror. "No no! I didn't mean it like that! I'm so sor..."

Before she could finish her ramble, she heard laughter. She looked over to him to see that he was now laughing to himself.

"Don't worry about it, Twilight. I'm only fucking with you. Jesus...you guys are so easy to wind up around here. It's priceless."

Twilight sighed and cleared her throat, trying to hide her embarassment. "Well...now THAT is over with, we can get back to business. So, Sam, do you feel ready to meet some of the locals, including my friends?"

He looked at Ember, getting a smile in return. "Go on. Won't do you any harm to mingle."

And that smile then turned into a smirk.

"Or are you that much of a wimp, huh?"

That snarky comment elicted a chuckle from him as he took out a cigarette and his lighter.

"Do I have to start prodding you again, missy?"

He lit the cigarette and put it into his mouth, blowing his own smoke at her. She deadpanned at him and grabbed his face with both of her claws.

"If you ever do that again, I'll ram that thing right down your throat."

He gulped and pulled back, getting an incredibly creepy smile from her in return.

"Right...well, in that case, I think we better be off Twilight."

She looked at him and chuckled. "You want to go no..."

And with that, the human had bolted outside of the room, making Ember and Twilight laugh.

The pony princess then stood up and looked towards Ember, now adorning a warm smile on her face. "You want to come to, Ember? You two seem to get on well...I think, considering you've only known each other for a day or so."

She smirked and stood up, stretching her back. "I guess that I should, for his sake. I admit, even though he's been incredibly annoying this morning...I've come to like him incredibly fast. Which is strange for me and my species in general as we don't usually take a liking to someone this fast. Especially another species."

Twilight smiled and giggled. "I'm glad to see that you two are already bonding in such a short amount of time. Anyway, we better catch up to him so he doesn't get lost."

She motioned for the dragon to follow and she did so, walking slowly behind her with a blush on her face. "I should be mad at him for earlier...but I'm not...I've only known him a damn day. What's going on with me?" She shook her head and kept following the princess, making sure to close the door on her way out.

"Right, where are we going first?"

Twilight looked up at Sam with a smile. Thankfully, when he had bolted out a few minutes ago, he hadn't run very far. He was waiting outside the castle for her and Ember, so she was glad that he hadn't gotten himself lost. She was also happy that the ponies hadn't run away from him yet. Well, the ones that they'd seen so far. Probably only because her and Ember were with him.

"Well, I'm thinking that instead of you meeting all of my friends individually, we can get one of my friends to organise a welcome party for you. Parties are her speciality. However, I must warn you...she's a bit...different."

He diverted his attention from the buildings to her, giving her a concerned, confused look. "What do you mean, different?"

Ember nudged him, getting his attention, only for him to receive a smirk from her. "She means that she's going to jump you and keep you tied up in her basement."

Twilight shook her head at Ember's antics and chuckled, knowing what was coming by this point.

He looked at her with clearly fake disgust and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, you'd like that wouldn't you, you sick fuck?"

She laughed out loud and continued walking next to him. "Maybe. What's your point?"

"That you're a sick fuck."

"And?"

"And that you need to stop trying to get to me because it doesn't work, mrs I blush every 5 seconds"

"Oh yeah? Well..."

A rather loud giggle cut them off, making them turn their heads towards Twilight, who was now chuckling louder than before.

"You two are already like an old married couple and you've only known each other for a day."

The two looked at each other and looked away, mumbling to themselves.

She giggled again, watching the two with interest. "They really are like a couple...it's so strange what with the amount of time that they've known each other." She let the thought go as she remembered the task on hand. She turned her attention towards the upcoming building, sugarcube corner. She smiled and motioned for the two to follow her in.

It wasn't a very eventful day at sugarcube corner. Pinkie was at her usual station, manning the register. She held her head in her hooves, sighing to herself. "Nopony has been here today. It's so borrringggggg.....maybe I should go and surprise Gummy?" She doubted anypony was going to turn up now, considering nopony had since yesterday. So it wouldn't hurt to go up and check on Gummy.

As she was about to walk to her room to surpise her pet alligator, a familiar sound suddenly echoed across the room.

It was the sound of the bell whenever the door opened.

She smiled, finally, she'd be able to serve somepony.

She turned around to the door, to see Twilight and Ember with some weird...creature standing next to them.

A look of horror struck across her face. "Oh no...it's going right for her. I need to do something!"

The pink pony looked around her, trying to find a weapon to scare the beast off. She saw something in her peripheral vision what made her smirk.

She grabbed the weapon and rushed towards the creature, screaming as she did so.

Sam was confused. When he saw the outside of this building, he thought that it was made of ginger bread. Basically, diabetes in building form. "How does it even stay up if it's really made of ginger bread?"

Did it really matter in the long run?

Probably not. He just didn't want to drown in ginger bread anytime soon.

He sighed to himself and turned to look at Twilight. "Well, hopefully, this friend of yours isn't too..."

He heard something screaming in front of him. He turned to look and felt a very soft impact on his chest area. He looked down to see that he'd been attacked by...

"Is this...?"

Cake.

He put a finger in the now splodgy mess, putting it to his mouth and taking a quick lick. His face lit up and he grinned. "Hey, that ain't half bad. But...where did it even come from?"

Sam hadn't been paying attention to his surrondings after he noticed the mess of a cake what had been thrown at him, so he didn't even realise until now that Twilight was raising her voice at someone. He looked in front of him and saw a pink, chubby'ish pony arguing with her. He looked to his side to see Ember chuckling to herself. She looked towards him, now full on laughing at him.

"I can't believe that just happened...but it was priceless. The confusion on your face..."

He mumbled and looked away from her, elicting a giggle from her in response. "Aww, what's the matter? Did I embarass little Sammy wammy?"

Ember suddenly felt a cold sensation on her shoulder. She stopped laughing and looked at the now annoyed human.

"Listen to me you lil shit, I don't care if you're cute as hell. If you so much as..."

She blushed and turned around, earning a confused stare from him. "What's the matter? I wasn't being serious you know."

The blue dragon turned back to him, a deep red blush on her face. "I'm not cute..."

He smirked, knowing instantly where this was going.

"What was that?"

She looked at him and smirked. "Not this time, dork."

He rolled his eyes and stuck his tongue out at her. "You're no fun."

She smirked and pointed behind him. "They're looking at us, you know."

His face now had a look of horror plastered all over it. He spun around as fast as he could, nervously chuckling, to see Twilight and the pink pony giggling at him. "Sorry about that..."

He cleared his throat and collected himself. He turned his attention towards the pink pony. "Anyway, can I ask, why did you throw a cake at me?"

The pink pony just giggled and snorted. "Cause silly, I thought that you were a monster what was trying to get Twilight and Ember so I grabbed the nearest weapon near me and I lunged at you and threw it at your chest but Twilight just told me that you weren't a monster and that you seemed nice so that's my bad also did it taste any good because I just made that this morning and if it was good then I might make another one with the same flavours and frosting but I don't know because I have so many other..."

Twilight coughed and put her hoof on the pony's shoulder. "Pinkie, this is Sam. Sam, this is Pinkie Pie. Now, Pinkie, I want you to listen very carefully and I want you to promise that you won't freak out at what I'm about to say. Okay?"

Pinkie nodded.

"Okay. His species is not from this planet. He's an alien."

Pinkie looked at him with a deadpan stare, then back at Twilight, then at Ember, then back to Twilight. She giggled, which got a confused stare from Twilight. "Pinkie, what's so funny?"

She put her hoof on Twilight's shoulder and kept giggling. "It's funny that you thought that I'd freak out when you told me that he was an alien. I've met aliens before, Twi. Don't worry."

Twilight looked at her in confusion. "Wait...what?"

The pink pony returned the confusion. "What?"

She shook her head and looked towards Sam and Ember, the latter of which was giggling to herself. "Never mind...anyway, Pinkie, could you throw a welcome party for Sam here? Get him introduced to the town so everypony can get to know him?"

Pinkie's face lit up at this and she jumped into the air, confetti forming around her. "A PARTY?!"

Twilight shook her head. "Pinkie really does concern me sometimes..." She looked up at her, now being back on the ground with the confetti gone. "Yes. A party. Make sure to invite everyone in ponyville. Say...later this evening?"

She saluted and nodded. "Sure thing, Twi." She looked over to Sam and Ember, waving at Ember. "Hey, Ember. We should catch up at the party later."

The now giggling dragon nodded and smiled at her. "Sure thing, Pinkie."

Sam turned to Twilight and whispered to her. "Where did that confetti come from and where did it go?"

Twilight looked at him and shrugged. "Don't ask. It's Pinkie Pie. Let's just leave it at that."

He nodded slowly. "Okayyyy then..." He turned around to see the weird, pink pony now standing in front of him, staring at him with a really creepy, wide smile.

"I'll see you at your party, Sammy!"

He deadpanned at her. "It's Sam."

She chuckled. "Whatever, Sammy. See you all later!"

Then, before he could correct her again, she'd bolted out of the door as fast as he did earlier back at the castle. He looked towards Ember, who was now chuckling at his confusion. He shrugged and looked at Twilight. "You certainly have an...'interesting' friend there."

She chuckled and motioned for the two to follow. "Sure do...anyway, let's get back to the castle and grab something to eat before the party."

That reminded her of something. She gasped.

"Oh my...I'm so sorry, Sam. How rude of me. I forgot to ask what type of food you eat..."

Sam chuckled and waved his hand. "It's fine, don't worry bout it. I'm an omnivore, so I can eat veg and meat. I need both to have a decent diet, though."

She nodded and smiled. "Well, Ember here is a carnivore, as you could probably already tell..."

Ember looked towards him and showed him her fangs, even though he'd no doubt seen them already.

"And the ponies are herbivores. But, I can have meat ordered for you from the Griffon kingdom if you'd like?"

He nodded and smiled. "Yeah, thanks. That'd be great."

Only seconds after did it hit him what she just said.

"Wait...Griffon empire? You have Griffons here too? If I remember my myths correctly, aren't Griffons those creatures what look like a lion and an eagle?"

She nodded. "Yes. We made peace with them quite a while ago now, thankfully. So, say if a meat eater ever comes here to visit or to see me, for example..."

She pointed her hoof towards Ember, who in return smiled.

"Then I can order meat from the kingdom."

He nodded and smiled. "I see. Well, thank you, anyway. I appreciate it."

She smiled and opened the door, motioning for them to follow. "It's no problem. Anyway, we better be getting back now."

Ember and Sam nodded, following behind her. He looked towards Ember and smirked.

"Should be fun tonight, eh? I hope that you're tagging along? I could use someone fun to keep me company."

She smirked in response and stuck her forked tongue out at him. "Of course I'll come. I need to make sure that you don't end up freaking out and making a fool of yourself."

He rolled his eyes and smirked. "Yeah, in your dreams."

He pulled his 2nd cigarette of the day out of his suit, along with his lighter and lit it. He took in the smell of it before sighing.

"I hate parties."