A week passed after Zeal announced to me that he was going to build a home in a nearby mountain for us, he said it would take him a week to finish or a few more days with it, but since an accident happened in there it would take another week. The training with Zecora went at a bad start, but now I'm starting to do better even managed to hold Zecora and the bamboo in the palm of my hand while meditating. I started reading on one of the books that Zeal gave me before he left to construct a home, the first book I'm reading in this past week was the Holy book from heaven's library. There were many light spells and a rare amount of dark spells in this book, the first thing I was teaching myself was healing hands, a spell that allows the caster to heal any creature wounds. When I first tried casting the spell on a dying flower I accidentally burnt it to ashes, I had forgotten the first step on the spell is to let my mana pool coverage into a life energy of healing and giving life, the second try was on a vine that was cut apart, it was a small success of healing back the vines together, but mana from me wasn't that much to hold it for a mere five seconds.

During that week I went to Ponyville whenever I had a chance of free time from my training and studying, the people at Ponyville didn't pay that much attention to me like the first day I went with Zecora. I had hung out with Lyra when I was in Ponyville on the third day of the week, she was an interesting pony to hang out with along with her marefriend Bon Bon. At the first time, she introduced us to both Bon Bon and me didn't talk much when we were near each other, but now we talk a bit more often at this point. Lyra talked more about herself along with Bon Bon about their past and how they met, I only talked only a little about me, but kept some personal and unexplainable parts out.

Right now my training for today is over and my time of studying was over as well, I had nothing to do for now. The time was probably two o'clock in the afternoon of today's time and it was cool, not too hot nor too cold it was somewhere between them around seventy degrees. I would be strolling around the Everfree to see new plants, animals, and new places to relax at, but it's a cool day and there weren't any cluster of clouds looking to rain only single amount ones were floating around.

Meditation is a helpful way to clear your mind from disturbing thoughts and to help plan carefully, no wonder why Zecora meditates most of the time. I opened my eyes to see my familiar surroundings around the pond, this became a routine for my wake up clean myself, train with Zecora, study magic, visit Lyra and meditate. I got up to my feet and walked off the watery surface to my cloak, gloves, earphones, and phone. Once I put on my glove and cloak I headed out to Zecora to see what she was doing at this very moment, she and I were close to being best friends like Zeal and me.

The trip to Zecora's home wasn't that long only took a minute to arrive at her place, I no longer had trouble making my way through the vines. The candles inside lit the tree inside and out through the windows showing that Zecora was inside probably making a potion for someone or meditating on a bamboo. I entered inside and looked around the place to see Zecora stirring a seventeen inches long wooden spoon in the cauldron, she poured in a purple liquid from a small wooden bowl in the green water cauldron.

"What brew are you creating Zecora?" I asked and shut the door, Zecora looked up at me with a smile as she kept stirring.

"The brew is for a certain pony who chew a puffer, she needs this brew to heal her puffy eyes; though I need seeds of one." Zecora had answered and pointed at a shelf full of various plant seeds." Would you be kind enough to find me those seeds, they are purple with a pink tip." I walked over to the shelf and looked through it for that seed she mentioned, once I found it I gave it to Zecora who tossed five in the cauldron. She stirred the green water in the cauldron that started to turn pink then into a brighter one. The potion was ready to be used for its purposes but other than that I have to deliver it to this unfortunate pony who had this puffy eyes.

"So who is this lucky pony that needs this?"

"She is Twilight Sparkle, a lavender pony that lives a tree full of books in Ponyville," Zecora said as she pours a couple spoon full in clay bottle after she filled the bottle she puts a cork in it and laid it in a satchel, and no it's not a purse. I grabbed the satchel from the table and waved my farewell to Zecora before leaving the tree to Ponyville.

I arrived at Twilight's tree to drop off the potion that Zecora made, the place was like Zecora's, but bigger and wider. Ponies around me walked around doing their own business, Lyra and Bon Bon were having their late lunch at a table with an umbrella giving them shade. They waved at my direction I waved back and knocked on the door. The door opened revealing a purple dragon with green underbelly and spikes. He was wearing a purple jacket with black pants nothing else more.

"May I help you?" He asked still holding the door with his left hand or claw.

"I'm here to drop off a remedy from Zecora about Miss Sparkles puffy eyes," I said and opened my satchel and pulled out the same clay bottle. He looked at me with surprise then snapped back into reality, he took the bottle from my right hand and thanked me before closing the door. I don't get paid for this because I won't use it for anything... Wait I needed to buy furniture nevermind I do need money. Since I'm in Ponyville I can just find a quick job and get hired, but I don't really know where to find the right place to work at.

'I might have Lyra and Bonny tell me," I thought to myself of them knowing a place that I could work at. I walked back towards where I last saw Lyra and Bon Bon at, they may know who could hire me for work. A job that can pay me some amount of money to buy furniture for my future home, but I don't know how much a single chair cost. Luckily for me, Lyra and Bon Bon were still at the table, but no food in front of them this time. They both notice me walking towards them, both them waved at me and gestured me to sit on an unoccupied chair. I sat down on the chair and rested my arms on the table, sometimes I do this and other times I don't.

"So what are you two ladies talking about?" I asked and looked at both of them. Lyra and Bon Bon both looked each other then at me with curious eyes.

"Well Bon Bon and I had been wonder have you ever been paid for the work you do?" Lyra asked, I now know what they were talking about when I passed by.

"No, I don't."

"Oh, then we may know somepony that would love to have a help from a stallion such as yourself," Bon Bon said Lyra nodded in agreement showing that she is telling the truth. This was unexpected on hearing that someone is hiring people for this job, I took my arms off the table and crossed them then started to think. The job could be easily taught and easy pay, but there is a chance that it would be a time thing on learning what to do. Once my thoughts were done I looked up at both the girls, I smiled and nodded my head in agreement.

"Okay, Bonny show me where this mare is so I could get hired," I said wanting to see why this pony is hiring someone for a job. Bon Bon rolled her eyes from the nickname and got up from her seat along with Lyra then me, we're sometimes an unusual bunch when we talk and stroll around Ponyville. Bon Bon and Lyra guided me through the town a ranch with apple trees littered everywhere in its acre, there was an orange mare with blond hair and tail wearing a cowboy hat, red and white pattern flannel shirt that's unbuttoned, a white t-shirt underneath the flannel, and a short Wrangler jeans. She was standing behind a stand with a sign above saying "Hiring hard labor worker." The orange mare looked at our direction and waved at us, both Bon Bon and Lyra waved back as we drew close to the mare.

"Howdy Lyra, Bon Bon what brought ya here?" The mare asked in a western accent, she leaned on the flat part of the stand then looked at me. I was glad I hadn't shown my actual face to anyone in town, it has its ups and downs.

"Our friend here needed a job, so we thought you would hire him," Lyra said as gestured a hand towards me, the orange mare looked at me with a raised eyebrow, she stopped leaning on the stand and walked over to me then looked around me observing my body. After the quick observation from the mare she nodded slightly, she looked up at me with a smile.

"Ah think I can hire you, but first ya have to beat me in arm wrestling," The mare said as she walked back to her stand and rested her right arm elbow on the wooden surface with her hand up. I walked over to the stand opposite side of the mare and rested my right arm elbow on the wood and grasped her hand, we both tighten our grip ready to start." Now!"

I was taken by surprise on how strong this mare was, she nearly sent me flying off the stand if I didn't put my own strength on pulling my hand up an against her pushing I would have lost. My hand started inching away from the wood and went back to the original place from the start of this match, we both struggled for another minute before I started losing my strength. The mare started pushing my hand down near the wood and then slammed my hand against the surface of the wood, I was leaning to my right from the defeat and force from this mare.

"Well, I guess I won't be getting a job here. Good game though," I said a bit sad that I lost and didn't get the job for money, I straighten myself up and rubbed my right arm with my left hand.

"Don't jump ahead sugercube," The mare said causing me to looked at her confuse." Ya may have lost the arm wrestle, but ya did okay and played a good sport too. Ya job starts at eight in the morning to four in the afternoon." Both Bon Bon and Lyra cheered for my success on getting a job and sandwiched mine in a hug, Lyra on my left as Bon Bon on my right. I was confused on why they hugged me, but I shrugged it off. If I knew having more friends would help I would have made some more, but again I'm not sure on how they'll react.

Another week had passed after I started to work for Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres, the job I was doing at that place was help carrying wooden buckets full of apples to a cart or to the barn, it wasn't hard to carry multiple buckets around the farm and help pull the cart around. Applejack's big brother wasn't a problem to work with on pushing the cart, fixing fences, and carrying buckets full of apples, we rarely talk whenever we are doing work or when we're on lunch break. When I first arrived at work with my cloak and hoodie on with no swords Applejack suggested me to take off my cloak so I could work without trouble, but I declined and worked with my cloak on for this entire week. I had talked to Zecora that I had a job at Sweet Apple Acres and that we could change when our training would start at four in the afternoon, she agreed on this decision of time change, but on one condition that we would train a bit more than usual.

My studying on heaven's book of a spell was going at a successful rate on using spells, but I had to read the book at break time at work and study where no one could see me. I can now use healing hands for a full five minutes before using up all my mana, but when I looked at the index to find another spell I found out that healing hands was an apprentice class type of spell. So it gave me a big boost of helping me hold and gather more mana than a novice studying would do, the next spell was lightning type magic called Sparks, it was a novice spell and might help me learn a different type of elemental kinesis. Healing hands would come in handy if anyone that is hurt I could just heal them.

Applejack's friends came one of the days in this week while I was working in the fields with big Mac on carrying an apple carton around the field to the barn. Four out of the five friends of Applejack gave me curious looks, but the white one gave me a disguised look. Twilight out of the five caught me studying my magic, but luckily I didn't do any spells while I was reading, she was a lavender unicorn with dark indigo hair and tail with a pink and purple strand of hair wearing a white short sleeve work shirt and black jean pants. She kept questioning me about the book I was reading about, I just told her it was a book about plants for studying, she bought the lie and left me alone. Pinkie Pie a pink earth pony, like Applejack, she was a weird one out of all of them, she was mysterious on how she disappears or how she bounces like a rubber ball. She wears a blue T-shirt with a pink heart in the middle and pink shorts that go down to her knees, her hair and tail color were pink and nothing more. The pink mare tried to make me her friend quick when she first saw me, but it she didn't successes until on the fifth day of last week.

I'm gonna stop right now before I regret something from my poor choice of what they did last week. My training with Zecora was going well in a success rate after I managed to balance a bamboo with Zecora on top while meditating, I felt calmer at my own decision I made after the training from Zecora. Now our training came to hand to hand combat of her own tribal fighting style, to say the truth I didn't manage to deal a single blow on Zecora nor get a hold of her, she just kept dodging each time I tried to hit her until she took me down with ease.

Zeal was able to finish constructing inside of a mountain nearby Zecora's home, but still a great distance away from her tree. He said he finished the main part of an ordinary inside of a house two bedrooms, a kitchen, bathroom, and a living room, but I bet he's going to build more rooms to make it like a mansion inside a rocky mountain. Now with home build and hand to hand training going, all I have to do is earn enough bits to buy furniture. Yes, bits it's the name of money in Equestria.

Work is hard when you're in a cloak meant for cold temperature and protection from flames, but people can manage through difficult ways. Big Mac and I were on our lunch break after Applejack went with her friends about helping Twilight reshuffle her library, we didn't complain a single bit as our break continued.

"Hey Big Mac, how long still we're done hauling the apples?" I asked still reading my book and learning the spell sparks, yes I know I'm still on a novice spell, my eyes drifted off my book to the red stallion by my side. Big Mac pointed at the field of apple trees with buckets full of apples." Just that one row what about the others?" I looked at the other fields of apple trees around the barn to see none of them had buckets underneath of them nor apples in the tree." Never mind."

Our break ended with me keeping my book in my cloak and tied up in the rope around my waist, why I did this was because of Twilight wanting my book so much, she was very intrigued in the book of what's it about. One time she tried to search for it where I usually left it only to be displeased that she didn't find the book and curious on why I keep the book, there is one reason why and that reason is it's Heaven's book of angels spells she can't learn anything from it and it would bring suspicious to me. Work didn't last that long after two hours of hauling buckets full of apples and loading them into the cart and pulling it back to the barn wasn't that hard to do. After work was done I got paid with ten bits of my hard work, to be honest, it wasn't that much, but with the other bits I had saved I would be able to buy five or ten furniture for the home. I was an hour earlier after my job was done today and now I could spend it either on buying some furniture or hang out with Bon Bon and Lyra, it was one of a choice pick, but with Bon Bon's and Lyra's help on picking out which bed to buy is best they would know.

I made my decision of what I was gonna do for my hour and it was to find the two girls and asked for help on buying and probably hang out a bit. The girls should be around a restaurant or Sugercube Corner to have something to eat, it's usually where I find them after my work is over and when I walk back to Zecora's home. I strolled through Ponyville to Sugarcube Corner not that many people were walking around Ponyville due to some special event, but there are a few around the town. My walk was cut short by a minted mare that jumped up onto my back and nearly caused me to lose my balance, but I managed to regain my footing and wrapped my arms around my passenger's legs. This sometimes happens when Lyra sees a chance to get a piggy back ride, I don't really mind because I think it's a friend thing even Bon Bon does it sometimes.

"High ho Heartless!" Lyra commanded giggling at this act, I let out a small chuckle as well and hoisted her up for a bit comfortable way. Lyra may weigh a bit, but it wasn't a problem to carry her even though she always leans forward to rest her C cup breast on the back of my head. I am glad that I was heartless to feel any sort of emotions, like love, or I would have been blushing right now.

"Aye Captain Lyra," I said and began to walk to the nearest destination which is Sugarcube Corner." Hey, Lyra do you know a shop that sells furniture like a bed?" I asked her and glanced up at her, she was looking at the sky probably thinking of a shop. A snap of her fingers told me she knew a place that does sell furniture.

"There is a place, it's by Quills and Sofas," Lyra pointed forward at quills and sofas, there was a shop near that useless shop. I pick up my pace into a jog with Lyra still laying on me, the small pick up speed shorten my time of arriving at Beds and Notebooks? People really don't want a store that sells different types of furniture in one store so they just probably agree on owning a shop that sells one type of furniture and another type of random items. I stopped in front of the shop door and knelt down on one knee, Lyra got off the ride and stood up to her full height, It sad to say for Lyra height is five feet six inches tall as mine is seven feet nine inches.

"Thank you, Lyra, after I'm done here wanna grab something to eat at Sugarcube Corner?" I asked and stood back up to my feet and looked at her. Lyra nodded with a smile and grabbed my right hand with her left and dragged me in the shop. It didn't last longer than seven minutes for me to buy two beds, both of the beds were small double size, it was the only thing I could afford for eighty bits both beds cost thirty bits. After buying the beds I told the owner I'll pick them up at three forty-five, he said no later than that so it was a win-win on my side. Lyra and I had already arrived at Sugarcube Corner and order our own desert, mine a rose frosting cupcake, the frosting is vanilla just color changed with food coloring, Lyra's was a cupcake with vanilla frosting and smashed chocolate cookie crumbs in it. Pinkie Pie wasn't working today because she was helping Twilight reshuffle her library along with Applejack, I'm starting to think Twilight and the rest of her friends are helping her reshuffle the library.

Lyra and I had talked a bit during eating our treats, it really sad to hear that a few people accept Lyra as the rest just find her insane because of her thinking of humans how we're advanced in our own ways, I wish that I could pull down my hoodie in front of her to prove she isn't wrong, but I still don't want anyone else to know about Zeal's and mine existence in this world. The only thing I could do was believe what she says and cheer her up, it is the only thing I could do for now. When the time hit three forty-one Lyra and I said our goodbyes and went our separate ways.

I couldn't help on a troublesome thought on how I can get the bed to home since it's in the Everfree forest full of dangerous creatures that might rip the bed apart. There were two ways I can get the beds to home, one is turning into my demon form and carry one at a time to home, and two I get a wagon that could fly along in the sky with me. Being deep in thought that I didn't see a mare walking in my way, we both bumped into each other the mare fell on her rear while I was knocked out of thought because of the bump.

"Sorry I was in deep thought that I didn't see you," I apologized to the mare I knocked down and helped her up to her hooves. The mare I knocked down wore a purple muscle shirt, and blue shorts, she had headphones hanging on the back of her neck. Her hair and tail were two types of electric blue, one is darker and the other is lighter, they were the hair color of the mare.

"Na, it's okay man I should be the one apologizing," The mare said as she looks at me with her bright red eyes, I couldn't help to find them interesting to look at. The mare placed her left hand on top of her head and started to look sad." You think of me as a freak because of my eyes?"

"No, I just find them interesting to look at," I said still looking this mare's eyes, the mare's cheeks turned crimson and looked away, I snapped myself out of a trance and looked down to see purple lens shades on the down. I picked up the shades and gave it to the white mare in front of me." Again sorry, here's your shades miss?"

"Vinyl Scratch, but everypony calls me Pon-3," Vinyl said and grabbed the shades from my hand and puts them on.

"It's nice to meet you Vinyl, I'm Heartless," I said then remembered that I was in a hurry to get the two beds." Sorry if I sound rude, but this conversation is going to be cut short because I'm in a hurry so I'll see you tomorrow." I ran around Vinyl to Beds and Notebooks, the owner of the place had the two beds in a wagon by the shop. He saw me running towards him and gestured towards the wagon before going back inside his shop, not really wondering why he loaded a wagon with the beds I bought. The people around here are like horses that needed harnesses to pull a wagon or cart, the harnesses are straps that go around the waist and chest. Working for Applejack has its perks for carrying and pulling heavy weight along the farm and around the area, I still can't beat her in arm wrestling, but sooner or later I will.

POV Vinyl

After Heartless left me to Beds and Notebooks I looked back at the stallion to see him pulling a wagon with two beds in it, the beds made me wonder why he had them, but it wasn't my concerns. I took a single hoof step forward to feel something underneath my right hoof, I moved my hoof to the right and glanced down to what I stepped on. The thing that I stepped on was a black rectangular thing with four red tips and four side one it wasn't anything I have seen before in my life, I looked back to see if Heartless was still at Beds and Notebooks pulling the wagon, but he was gone. I looked at the black rectangular thing and picked it up with my left and looked at it better, the front of it was black tinted glass with word on top of it saying "SAMSUNG" weird name for something. The black tinted glass flashed into a picture of a weird creature with wings in the darkness, the rest was hard to tell because only the wings stuck out nothing else.

"Heartless what in Celestia's name is this?" I asked to myself wondering why he has this and what it is.

Author's Note

Hello sorry to say this everyone, but this story is going to take long because of school. Don't worry I won't give up on it just it's going to be a slow progress.