Alina and Daisy - Adventures

Ch. 1: The Librarian

Alina, a studious young unicorn mare, sat in the large Canterlot library reading books on magic.

“Miss Alina, it’s closing time” An older male librarian tells her.

“Already? But I just got here!” She demands, flipping a page.

“It’s been five hours…look outside” He says.

She looks out a window near her, sure enough it was dark outside, “Oh no! I’m going to miss the train back to Ponyville!” She takes her things and zoom out the library. The Librarian shakes his head a bit and chuckles.

Alina arrives at the station seconds before the doors start to close, hoping in, she presents her tickets to the ticket checker. He nods in approval, and she heads over to a seat, where she takes her place. Shortly after settling down in her spot, she takes out a book from her bag commencing to read it.

“You’re almost always late aren’t you?” A mare sitting next to her asks.

Alina turns to her, after reading another line, “Hmm? Yeah”

“Why’s that, are you studying in the school of magic?”

“I wish! That’d be so awesome.” She faces back to her book.

“I always see you with a bunch of books and scrolls”

“They’re for personal studying, and the novels are just for fun” Alina smiles, flipping a page. “I see you often here too, you work in Canterlot?”

“Sometimes, I do deliveries here, boxes”

“Boxes…?”

“For packing, storage, and moving hehe; My husband and I run it”

“Oh, okay. How’s that going?”

“Fairly well, everyone needs them, so I have a pretty good stock; do you need any boxes? Perhaps for your books?”

“Thanks, but I usually keep them on shelves, but if I ever need any when moving, I’ll be sure to ask you” Alina smiles.

“Perfect, you know, with all that reading you do, you should try to get into a school”

“Oh I will, I graduated high school last year, I plan to get into a good university one that has a lot of books!” Alina flips another page. The mare smiles.

She rides the rest of the journey home in silence, engaged completely by her book. As the ride come to a stop, the mare next to her pats her a bit, letting Alina know it’s time to get off. Alina goes to her house, a little place near the center of town. It looked nice, having a light yellow wall color. One light was on inside from the kitchen; it was her mother looking through the bills and letters.

“Hello there mom, everything good?” Alina asks, she puts her book in her bag.

“Yes…” She shifts through some more papers, “I was looking through how much it’d be to get you into a good school…”

“Oh mom…” Alina hugs her, “I did really good, my scholarships should be able to cover most if not all the cost”

“Yes…you’re right” Mother smiles, “How was your day?”

“The usual, spent it mostly reading at the library, how about you and father?”

“We went out to buy food after her came home at 5 P.M. I was here most of the day, washing clothes, dishes, and spent some time with the Blackbears.”

Alina yawns, “Oh okay, I’m getting the truck fixed tomorrow”

“Do you have enough hon?”

“Should be, I estimated the costs” Alina starts to head upstairs, “Goodnight mom”

“Goodnight sweetie” Mother says, resuming her bill checking.

Alina throws her bag in onto her bed, she stretches and goes to the restroom, undressing. She steps into the bathtub, lazily bathing herself. “School, college. I’ll do good, but the school of gifted fillies, that’s for young ponies that have shown to have special abilities in magic…I’m already old. I wish I could go there; the next best thing is a school for grown-ups. That’s okay, if I do my best I’m sure someone will take notice.” She thinks to herself. After her shower, she hops out, drying herself. She puts on a tang-top and some gym shorts, going to her room. She lays in her bed, turning on a side lap next to her and levitating her bag over to her side. Taking out a book, she continues on reading.

The next morning, Alina woke up not knowing how long she had stayed up. Her lamp was still on and the book was next to her left shoulder. Looking at the time, 9:15 A.M, she lets out a long yawn, “Uh…g...” She turns off the light that was hurting her eyes and closes her eyes for longer, snuggling in her sheets.

“Alina dear, are you ever getting up? Breakfast has been done a half hour ago” Her mom asks from the closed door of Alina’s room.

“No…I don’t want to…” Alina frowns placing a pillow on her own head.

“Now now, I’m going to re-heat your food, you better be down here in five minutes.” Mothers says, going back downstairs. Alina rolls in bed, taking the pillow of her face. Hesitantly she nearly falls off the bed. Going over to a mirror she looks at her tired eyes; she combs her short hair that was longer in the front than back. It was a mix of purple and a dark to light blue. Alina puts on a skirt and keeps on her tang top, proceeding downstairs. Her mother instantly looks Alina’s clothes.

“Alina dear, don’t you think that skirts a little too small for you?”  Mother asks.

“Eh, I just randomly picked it out, I’m too lazy to change again” Alina takes a seat.

“Okay dear.” She places her meal on the table. Alina teleports her bag onto the table.

“Dad’s gone to work today right?” Alina asks.

“It’s Saturday dear, no he just went out with a couple of friends”

Alina nods, eating up her eggs and waffles, “K mom, I’m going to go now for the truck repair!” She gets up and burps, “Excuse…*burps* me” She swallows the rest of her food.

“Goodness Alina, take some time to eat!”

“Hehe, no time right now mom! If I arrive at the shop earlier, maybe they’ll fix it faster” Alina says and heads off outside, her books bouncing on her side. She quickly gets in her old flakey red truck that was now more of a faded pink. As she turns it on, it struggles to maintain an idle, shaking the entire truck body. “Piece of shit” Alina says smacking the dashboard. The truck stabilizes suddenly; Alina is in surprise. “Guess no repair shop, might as well go get some new pencils to write!” She squees, driving out of the parkway and going away from the house. She taps her hoof lightly humming along to a random song on the radio. She goes on for a while until her truck starts to choke up, causing a dark cloud of smoke to puff out from the exhaust. The truck stops in the middle of the road, luckily she was on her right lane and could steer it to the side. “Dammit!” She turns on her emergency lights and hops out. She looks around her, there was a repair shop not too far away; she goes there to front counter. “Hey, can you guys repair my truck please?”

The stallion at the front desk looks at her oddly, “Uh, well yes. Do you have it with you?”

“Yes” Alina teleports her truck to the outside front of the shop. The stallion gets up quickly.

“Impressive!”

“Yeah I know; it’s pretty broken” Alina says.

“No I mean you teleporting it here to that spot”

“Oh…hehe” Alina smiles. “So what do you think?”

“We’ll have a look at it…is that stallion in the truck with you?” He steps out to look at it. Alina rushes out.

“What?? No! Who the hell is that?!” Alina goes to truck the stallion inside stares blankly at her, “This is my truck dammit! Get out!”

“Oh uh...it is? I thought it was free since it was on the side of the street” He jumps out and falls, a beer bottle in his left hoof, smashing, “Nooooooooooooooo!”  He cries out.

Alina and the stallion watch him as he licks it off the ground and crawl away. After he’s gone, the stallion from the shop checks out the truck, “Hmm, okay we can bring it in. It’s having some minor engine problems and…” He sniffs the air, “I think it needs a change of oil.”

“Oh, okay so do I put it in the shop?”

“Yeah, sure. The garage door to your right.”

“Got it!” Alina teleports it there, causing the workers inside to jump up with surprise. Alina walks over to the hood and pops it open, a mare behind her smiles, going over to her.

“What do we have here?” She asks Alina.

“It doesn’t work” Alina responds placing the metal rod to hold up the hood.

“Well…there’s no engine in the truck…” The mare states.

“Oh, must have left it behind!” Alina poofs it onto the roof of the truck, denting it, causing the windows to shatter. “No! Dammit! I thought I had it right!” Alina cries.

Some of the workers’ chuckle, “Ha, I’m not fixing that!” Someone says. Others agree, resuming their work.

“I’ll do it” The mare says.

“Oh okay, I was about to take it to another shop.” Alina says, not really caring of the other workers’ feedback on her truck.

“Good job Daisy” The stallion that guided Alina there says, “That’s the kind of spirit Miss Viola likes here at the workplace.”

“Heh, thanks Fred. This shouldn’t be too much of a problem, at least, nothing I can’t fix” Daisy smiles.

“Very well” Fred turns to Alina, “Well Miss-”

“Alina, oh and I have my insurance papers here, and the money, I.D”

“Yes of course Miss Alina, I’ll take care of that inside the lobby, if you’ll follow me please” Fred says politely.

Alina follows him, Daisy watches her as she goes, snickering to herself. In the lobby Fred attends to Alina’s billing information and other paperwork. After doing that, she returns to the shop where Daisy is struggling to carry the engine off the top of the roof, she nearly slips but Alina catches her with her magic.

“Thanks Alina!” Daisy says as she’s being placed onto the ground.

“No problem, so how long will it take?”

“A few hours”

“I need it right now though…I thought it’d get repaired instantly with magic”

“What for, you need to be somewhere?” Daisy asks.

“Yes, The Canterlot Library”

“I could take you there on my break if you’d like”

“Hmm, okay what time’s the break at?”

“Whenever, just have to checkout” Daisy says.

“Nice! Let’s go now! Which car is yours?”

Daisy points to a yellow 71 Dodge Challenger. “That one”

“The mini-van?”

“No the Challenger!” Daisy sighs.

“Oh…I don’t like color…”

“Just get in” Daisy says, Alina smirks seeing if Daisy got a bit mad.

“Hmm looks nice, what’s it made of?”

“650 horses baby”

“Woah…what…horses!?” Alina looks disgusted.

Daisy facehoofs, “Like me times 650.”

“Oh…uh, I guess your wings can be pretty strong…” Alina says, still confused.

“You mean these?” Daisy spreads them out.

Alina looks at them in awe, “y-yeah…those…”

“Welp, let’s go” Daisy hops in, Alina stays outside, still in awe. “You getting in Alina?”

“Yes…um, oh yeah” Alina giggles, stepping in gasping as she falls into the racing seat. “These are low!” She didn’t notice her seat placement due to being distracted by Daisy.

“Yeah, that’s why they’re…racing seats?” Daisy clips on her seat belt and begins to drive. Alina struggles to put on her belt.

“How do these things work??” Alina tangles the top and bottom straps.

“Like this…” Daisy stops the car, not yet having gone onto the road. She leans over Alina and helps her put the specialized seatbelt on. Alina can’t help but blush as Daisy moves on her. “There done” Daisy looks at Alina, “Something…wrong?”

“N-no uh not at all thanks! So, you know where the library is?”

“Not the main Canterlot one, never had reason to go there myself”

“Oh okay, so just head to the north on the main Canterlot road, it will be on your right eventually.”

“Alright Alina, got it.”  Daisy put her hoof down, power sliding. Alina holds onto her belts tightly.

“Gah Daisy!” Alina closes her eyes, “Maybe I should’ve gotten a taxi!”

“Oops, sorry, forgot. That’s how I usually drive when, um I don’t have company” Daisy snickers, doing it again.

“D-Daisy!” Alina nearly pees herself.

“Oh fine, hehe” Daisy stabilizes the car. Alina breaths heavily, she holds onto her bag.

“You could’ve killed us!” Her eyes are shaking.

“Don’t worry, I built this car, I know it’s limits.”

“…” Alina says nothing, just sits there, scared. Daisy sighs and continues driving at a normal rate.

Within five minutes, they arrive. “Um…thanks for the...ride”

“Hey Alina, sorry about…my driving” Daisy says.

“It’s…okay. Can you pick me up too?”

“Sure thing, what time do you want me to?”

“6 P.M.”

“Hey, that actually works, it’s the time I get out from work”

“Perfect” Alina smiles, giving her a quick hug. “Bye!”

“B-Bye...!” Daisy says, a little delayed. Alina runs up the library’s steps, Daisy gets a strange feeling as she watches her go off. “Hu? Oh well, back to work…” Daisy says, driving off.

End of Chapter 1.