Her blonde hair and green eyes were the same, but her body was that of a pony. Her fur was a pale violet colour; she didn’t know why until she remembered it was the colour of her shirt.

She looked at her back and saw a pair of feathered wings and her long wavy tail was the same colour as her mane. “I’m a pegasus!” She started jumping around, until she spied something on her flank.

She screamed.

“What’s wrong?” asked Discord.

“You tattooed my butt!” shrieked Violet.

Everypony laughed. “That’s not a tattoo, that’s your cutie mark.”

“My cutie what?”

“A cutie mark, everypony gets a cutie mark when they realised they’re special talent.” Violet looked at the picture on her flank. It was a picture of a violet and a rose, next to a perfume spray bottle.

“Oh, that make sense. I always did love making perfumes.”

“According to that picture on your flank, making perfumes in yerr destiny.” Applejack explained.

This made Violet excited, but she was more intrigued by her new wings. She poked the soft feathers with her hoof.

“Does this mean I can fly now?”

“Not so fast, we still need to work on your backstory. You grew up in a city, right?” asked Twilight.

Violet nodded. “Well, I grew up in Manhattan- “

“Wait a minute, that sounds like the city Manehattan.” Rarity pointed out.

“Manehattan and I thought you ponies had no sense of humour.” Violet saw the confused looks on the ponies faces.

“Never mind; I can pretend I’m from Manehattan and I’ve come to Ponyville to...”

“Open a perfume shop!” Twilight finished. Violet blinked. “But I’m only fifteen, how can I start a business at this age. I’ll need a building, supplies and money! Where am I going to get money?” Violet cried out, figuring her $2 would be worthless in Equestria.

“We’ll sort something out for you and in Equestria, you finish school in Grade 6. So you’ll be able to live on your own and start your own business.” explained Twilight.

This made Violet feel a lot better. She flapped her wings a little.

“So about the flying, how do these babies work?” “Leave that to the best flyer in all Equestria.” said Rainbow Dash, proudly.

“Can I plan the Welcome Party now?!” cried Pinkie. Twilght nodded.

“Yippee! I have to bake a cake, plan the decorations and invite everypony in Ponyville. Give me until this evening.” The party pony zipped out the house faster than Violet thought. “Is she always this hyper?” she asked, heading outside into the garden.

“Are you kidding?! That’s her when she’s stressed.” said Rainbow. The ponies and Discord headed outside into Fluttershy’s garden. Discord snapped up a stand for him and the other ponies to sit on. Rainbow and Violet headed out into an open field.

“Ok, the first thing you need to do with flying is open your wings.” Rainbow demonstrated by opening her own. Violet tried to copy her but the rookie pegasus only managed to make the wings twitch.

From the stand, Discord was eating some popcorn, he gave Violet an encouraging look.

“Violet if you want to fly, you’ve got to have a clear head. What I normally do is I imagine myself touching the clouds. Try and focus on your main goal.” Rainbow explained. Violet closed her eyes and focused on her goal. I want to fly.

She opened her eyes and saw that her wings had opened. “This is so freaky!” she said, poking the feathers.

“Great, now I want to find yourself a target,” Her coach glanced around and spotted a cloud.

“See that cloud up there, I want you to imagine yourself flying up there, focus. Flying is not a way of thinking, it’s a feeling.”

Violet closed her eyes again and tried to imagine herself flying. She pictured the cool winds and the lightness of her body.

“That’s it! Keep going!” cried Rainbows voice. Violet opened her eyes and saw that she was at least a hundred feet off the ground.

“I’m flying! I’m really flying!” Violet flapped her wings more and spun around in a circle, her friends were cheering her on from below. Discord had even dressed himself up as a cheerleader, pompoms and everything.

Violet flew around in a loop the loop. Rainbow joined her in the air. “Not bad for a beginner. It’s almost as if you were born to fly.”

Violet started to pick up speed, she was in heaven, literally. Finally, she flew down to the ground and landed. Her friends cheered for her.

“You were amazing!” cried Fluttershy.

Violet grinned, Rainbow slapped her on back. “You really are something Violet, for a human.”

“Thanks, I don’t know about you but my wings are tired.”

“Yeah, they’ll be like that for a few days. Wings take some getting used to, why I too got my wings recently.” said Twilight. Violet looked at the princess.

“You mean you didn’t have wings before?”

“I was born a unicorn, until Princess Celestia made me her mentor to study the Magic of Friendship, after a few months she gave me these wings and made me a princess.” said Twilight. “You should meet her; we could take you.”

“Thanks but I think I would like to see Ponyville first, since I’m going to be living here.” said Violet.

“Very well, why don’t you go with Dashie, Rarity and AJ, Spike and I will me up with you at the party.” said Twilight. Violet glanced over at Fluttershy and Discord.

“What about you two?” Fluttershy gave Violet an apologetic look. “Sorry Violet, but we have to run some errands, we’ll see you at the party this evening.”

Violet followed the unicorn and country mare. The town of Ponyville looked like something from the 19th century. Only the houses and shops were cream coloured and brighter. The two locals led Violet over to a fancy looking building.

“Welcome to the Carousel Boutique, I’m the owner so I’ll be assisting you.” said Rarity in a posh tone. “You own this place?” exclaimed Violet.

“She sure does sugarcube, Rarity makes all the dresses sold here.” Applejack explained. Violet stepped into the building and gawked at all the dresses in front of her.

“You made all these dresses!” she said, pointing at Rarity.

“Absolutely darling, I’m even going to make you a dress to wear at the party tonight.” The unicorn said, levitating a tape measure over with her magic.

“You’re going to make me a dress? You really don’t have to, Rarity.” Violet blushed, she had never anyone offer her anything before.

“Nonsense darling, this is your Welcome Party, you need to look spectacular.” The fashionista chimed.

Violet shrugged and let the unicorn measure her. Rarity wrote the numbers down in a notepad. Violet glanced over at Rainbow Dash, who was reading a book.

“What book is that?” she asked.

“Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone, Limited Edition if I do say so myself.” Violet poked her head around at the words.

“I didn’t think you were the reading type?”

“Not as much as Twilight, she even lives in a library.” Rainbow inquired.

“Alright girls, this might take a while, so why don’t you go down the Applejacks place.” Rarity chimed. The cowgirl slapped herself.

“Darn it, you just reminded me that we have to go help with the apple bucking, its Zap Apple season. Wanna come Violet?”

“Sure, but what are Zap Apples?”

“You’ll see…” Applejack smirked.

Applejack led Violet and Rainbow Dash to her farm. “Welcome to Sweet Apple Acres, Violet.”

The human/pegasus gawked at the sight of the farmyard. A small farm house was on the right side of the yard, next to that was a chicken coop. On the other side of the farm was a wide vegetable patch and sitting in the centre of the yard was a big red barn. Violet looked beyond the yard and gasped at what she saw. She was looking at a vast never ending stretch of apple trees. Applejack pointed to a grove of trees, filled with rainbow coloured apples.

“Those are Zap Apples, all ripe and ready for pickin.” Violet turned her attention to a red pony kicking a tree. “Let me introduce you to ma family.” said Applejack. The country mare whistled and the red pony and a small yellow pony with a red mane came running.

“Applejack, your back!” cried the yellow pony, who was clearly a filly. The filly turned its head to Violet.

“Who are you?”

“Ya’ll, this is Violet-Rose. She’s here to start up a perfume shop. Violet this is my little sister Apple Bloom and my brother Big Macintosh."

“Well howdy do Violet-Rose.” said Apple Bloom, holding out her hoof. “It’s great to see somepony new once in a while. Where are ya from?”

Violet tried to contain her squeal. She so fricking adorable.

“Manehattan, and just Violet is fine.” Apple Bloom gasped.

“Manehattan! That were my cousin Babs lives, have ya ever met her, Babs Seed.” Violet shook her.

“No, I don’t know of any Babs Seed in town,” Violet then noticed her blank flank. “Hey, how come you don’t have a-”

”A cutie mark, haven’t got it yet, same with my friends. We’re the only ones in the class who don’t have one yet and they pick on us because of it, especially Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.”

Suddenly Violet understood, getting a cutie mark must be some kind of rite of passage. A sign of growing up, like losing your first baby tooth.

“You know your still young, you’ll get your cutie mark eventually.” Apple Bloom frowned.

“That’s what everypony says,” The filly glanced at Violet’s cutie mark.

“Hey, how did ya get yours?” Violet looked at the picture on her flank. She didn’t want to tell the filly that she got her cutie mark that day, but she figured that she got it when she helped her mother make the perfumes.

“Oh, well I was always into making perfumes as a child, my mother taught me most of it. We would grow the flowers ourselves in flower boxes, then we’d make them into perfume. She even taught me how to make bath bombs and herbal remedies. I guess somewhere along the way, this thing appeared.

“Wow! That’s an interesting story, whatever happened to ya Ma?”

Violets face fell. “She…she…she’s missing; I don’t know where she is.”

Apple Blooms ears drooped. “What about ya Pa? Where is he?”

“He’s dead…” Violet explained.

The filly’s jaw dropped. “How old are ya?”

“Fifteen, you?”

“Twelve, same as my friends.” Violets ears shot up when she heard a loud whistle, followed by Applejacks voice.

“Come on ya’’ll! Get over here before these apples disappear!”

Violet glanced over that the grove of Zap Apple trees, Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Big Mac were already there.

“Race ya Violet, last one there’s a rotten apple core!” cried Apple Bloom, making a beeline for the trees. Violet giggled and ran after the filly. Apple Bloom was a fast runner for a twelve-year-old, Violet was also confused at the ages. In horse years twelve was equivalent to forty-three human years. Then it occurred to her that these weren’t normal ponies, so they must age like humans do. Violet made it over to the trees and stared confused at how they were going to pick the apples without hands.

“Um…AJ,” she asked. The southern pony looked up at Violet.

“What is it Violet?”

“Um…between you and me, how do you pick apples when you only have hooves?” Violet said the rest in a whisper. Applejack chuckled. “Like this!”

Applejack raised her back legs and kicked hard at the tree, the force from the kick sent all the apples falling into the baskets underneath.

“Wow! Yeah that’s seems a lot more natural for a pony.”

“Wanna give it a go?” Applejack asked. Violet blinked. “Um…okay?” The human/pegasus approached a tree filled with apples. She turned her back towards the trunk and kicked it with her back legs, however only half the apples fell into the baskets.

“Don’t worry sugarcube, you get the hang of it.”

“Thanks, but I think I’ll do it my way.”

Violet spread her wings and flew up into the branches, picking the apples with her hooves and tossing them down into the baskets. Violet poked her head out to the sound of two new voices coming up the path. Violet flew down to the ground and saw two other fillies, one was a white unicorn with a curly pink and purple mane and the other was an orange pegasus with a purple pixie cut. Apple Bloom beamed at the sight of the two fillies.

“Sweetie Belle! Scootaloo! You’re here! Come on, we have a new pony in town. Come meet her!” cried the yellow filly, dragging the other two over to Violet.

“Girls, this is Violet-Rose, she’s from Manehattan. Violet, these are my friends, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo.” Violet thought she was going to end up dead and buried from their cuteness.

“Hi, you must be the pony my sister was telling me about. Rarity said she was making you a dress for the party tonight.” said Sweetie Belle.

“You’re Rarity’s sister?”

“Yeah, I live with her too, because Mom and Dad are away a lot, so Rarity got custody of me.” Violet stiffened when she heard her say ‘Mom and Dad’.

Sweetie Belle saw this. “What?”

Apple Bloom whispered in her friend’s ear. “Sweetie, she doesn’t have parents.”

“No its fine, I’ve kind of gotten over it.” Violet lied, she then saw the other two fillies had blank flanks too.

“Don’t have your cutie marks either?” Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo nodded.

“Yeah, that’s why we’re helping each other. We are the Cutie Mark Crusaders, The CMC!” The three fillies said proudly.

“Well I think that’s a great idea to join forces with each other. What do you CMC do?” asked Violet.

“We try new things to see what our special talents are,” Apple Bloom hung her head.

“But we’ve tried everything; taffy making, pig herding, mountain climbing, potion making, hair styling and still no cutie mark on either of us!” The filly explained.

Violet felt solemn for the fillies, they really had been trying hard earn they’re cutie mark. Her thoughts were interrupted by Applejacks voice.

“Come on ya’ll! Soups up everypony!”

Violet then noticed that they were still standing in the orchard, the adults had all gone inside. As if on cue, Violets stomach grumbled.

“What do ya think girls, ready for a spot of lunch?” she asked, sarcastically.

The CMC grinned and raced towards the farmhouse, Violet followed after them in flight. Inside the house, there was a sweet apply smell coming from the kitchen. Violet peered in and saw that Applejack had made some apple fritters and put out some bread and jam. The CMC were already sitting on chairs next to Big Mac and Rainbow Dash, so Violet sat on the opposite side of the table, Applejack smiled and served her a plate of steamy apple fritters.

“I made these from the apples we picked today, so they are nice and fresh.” Violet took a bite of a fritter, her eyes widened at the taste. “These taste like magic!”

Applejack blushed. “Well that’s a compliment I’ve never heard before, would ya like some whipped cream to go with it?”

Violets grin answered her question. Applejack served the CMC some fritters as well as her brother and friend.

“So Violet, how are ya liking Sweet Apple Acres?” she asked. Violet swallowed the cream topped fritter that had been in her mouth at the time.

“It’s great, so much better then boring old city life, are all your family in the apple business?”

“Yep, except for my Aunt and Uncle Orange, but they’re from the distant side of the family.” Applejack explained. Violet then reached for the jam jar and noticed that it was the same colour as Rainbow Dash’s mane.

“What kind of jam is this?” she asked.

“Zap Apple Jam! Try some, it’s delicious.” said Apple Bloom. Violet spread some jam on a slice of bread and bit into it. Her eyes widened at the taste and wonder of the jam.

“It’s like every fruit in the bowl, in a jar.” She shook the jam jar for emphasis.

After everyone had finished eating they all sat down in the living room, except Big Mac who had gone on a date with his girlfriend Cheerilee, who was also the local school teacher.

“Must be weird for your teacher to be dating your brother.” said Violet.

“At the start, yes. But then I got used to it.” explained Apple Bloom. Violet then saw an old guitar sitting in the corner.

“Hey, I used to play guitar,” she looked over at Applejack. “do you mind?”

Applejack beamed. “Not at all, just be careful with that old thing, it was our Ma's.”

Violet walked over and picked up the guitar, the CMC crowded around to hear her play. Violet sat down in the middle of the group and positioned the guitar and looked down at her hooves. Hooves! Oh no, she completely forgot that she wasn’t a human anymore, how was she going to play without fingers. She saw the keen looks on the fillies faces and sighed. She didn’t want to disappoint them, but she figured that the guitar was designed for hooves so she strummed a few cords. She then tuned the guitar slightly because it sounded like it hadn’t been played in years.

Violet then remembered a certain song she heard on the radio back in her old world, she figured she should play that to give the fillies more confidence. She strummed the first few chords to the song and began to sing.

Song 'Try Everthing' Shakira

When Violet strummed the final chord, everypony stomped their hooves in applause.

The CMC were awe struck, they had never heard anypony play that well. “That was amazing Violet,” cried Apple Bloom.

“I recon you just gave us a new idea to getting our cutie marks!” Violet set the guitar down and faced the fillies.

“I’m glad, what idea would that be?” she asked.

Apple Bloom grinned and faced her friends. “Guitar Playing!” The rest of the CMC screamed at a volume that could rival Godzilla’s howl.

“YAY! CUTIE MARK CRUSADER GUITAR PLAYERS!” Violet cringed at the volume, same as Applejack and Rainbow Dash.

“Alright ya’ll, quiet down now, your gonna wake up Granny Smith.” said Applejack. Violet couldn’t help but giggle a little. She was interrupted by an elderly groan and an old green pony with white hair tied up into a tight bun and an apple pie for a cutie mark came downstairs.

“What’s all the racket, I was trying to sleep.” she said in a country grandma accent. Apple Bloom shrank and her bow drooped.

“Sorry Granny, Violet just gave us an idea to getting our cutie marks and we got carried away…” said the red head filly. The old pony glanced around the room, until she spotted Violet and gasped.

“Posey?! Is that you? Ya gone and turned purple, and what did you do to your mane!”

“Granny, this is Violet-Rose she’s just moved here from Manehatten.” Applejack explained. The old pony sat down confused.

“But I recognize those eyes anywhere, I may be half blind but I’m not colour blind!” Applejack faced Violet with a sheepish look.

“Please excuse my Granny Smith, she gets a little confused in her old age.” She explained. Violet shook her head. “It’s fine AJ, it happens.”

“Can we go play Applejack?” Apple Bloom asked. “Sure, just don’t get hurt or lost and no running into the Everfree Forest.” said Applejack. The CMC jumped up and ran outside, taking the guitar with them.

“What should we do now, AJ?” Violet asked.

“Why don’t you and Rainbow go for a fly, ya know keep an eye on those silly fillies.” said Applejack. Rainbow Dash closed her book that she was reading.

“Sure AJ, come on Violet.” she said.

Violet followed the rainbow maned pony outside into the farmyard. In the distance they heard the sound of a guitar playing, but whoever was playing it was doing a terrible job.

“Guess playing guitar isn’t their special talent.” said Rainbow Dash.

“Special talent?” Violet questioned.

“Oh didn’t anypony tell you, a cutie mark not only shows your destiny, but also what your good at.” Rainbow explained. Violet glanced down at the perfume bottle on her flank.

“So, making perfumes is my special talent.”

“That is correct, just like my talent is fast flying. I hope to join the Wonderbolts sometime.”

Violet raised an eyebrow. “The what?”

“The Wonderbolts! They are the fastest, most daring, most extreme aerial show team in Equestria! I’ve been trying to get on their team for years.” Rainbow Dash explained.

Violet was about to answer when the CMC came up to them, each with a sad expression and a blank flank. “No luck?” asked Violet.

Apple Bloom shook her head and set the guitar down against the walls of the barn. “Well, at least you girls tried.”

“Violet’s right, you girls will get your marks soon.” said Rainbow Dash.

Violet glanced over at Scootaloo, the orange pegasus filly was staring up at the sky, watching the birds fly far. “Scootaloo, why are you staring up at the sky?” she asked.

Scootaloo turned her head around at the blonde maned pony. “I wish I could fly.” Violet blinked in surprise, then she noticed that the filly’s wings were tiny. Wings of that size would never get her off the ground.

“Oh, are your wings not ready yet?” she asked the filly.

“Yes, and there is nothing worse than a flightless pegasus.” Scootaloo pouted. Violet felt her heart break slightly, if there was one thing that made her sad it was seeing children cry or be sad. She put her arm around Scootaloo.

“Don’t worry Scoots, my mother always told me that ‘Good things come to those who wait.’ And even if you don’t learn to fly, you’ll still have your awesome scooter tricks.”

Scootaloo smiled. “Thank you Violet.”

Violet then spotted two blue birds on the fence, they looked like they were fighting about something. Violet didn’t know why, but she got up and walked over to them.

“Excuse me? What is going on here?” she asked, sternly.

The birds stared at her and Violet was shocked to hear them talk. “Gladys said that building nests out of sticks is old-school, but I think that building a nest of buffalo grass will make the nest stronger.” One of them said.

Violet raised an eyebrow. “Well, your both your own bird and you have different opinions. So what if Gladys says that sticks are old school. But maybe building a nest out of both will make the nest stronger than ever.” Violet said.
The birds looked at each other.

“You know, that’s a really good idea. Thank you Miss!” And they flew off into a nearby tree, leaving Violet stunned at what she just did.

“Since when can I talk to animals?!” she thought. She turned her head and saw that the two mares and three fillies were staring at her. Violet felt her face turn as red as a tomato.

“You can talk to animals?!” piped Apple Bloom.

“I thought only Fluttershy could do that.” said AJ.

“Yeah, how long have you been able to do that?!” asked Rainbow.

“I-I just found out…” stuttered Violet.

The five other ponies gapped at her, until Rainbow Dash spoke up.

“Suns going down, we gotta get back to the boutique.” Violet looked up at the sky and sure enough the sun was close to setting.

“Let’s go then. I can’t to see what my dress looks like.” Violet exclaimed.

A minute later Rarity was guiding a blindfolded Violet to the mannequin which had her party dress on it. Applejack and Rainbow Dash were there too, watching anxiously to see Violet’s reaction.

“Okay,” said Rarity.

“Now!”

The unicorn used her magic to yank the blindfold away from Violet’s eyes. Violet gawked at the dress in front of her. The skirt was a beautiful mint green, the bodice had the same colour only darker and the shoulder length sleeves were the same colour. Along the hem of the shirt and around the middle was a white ribbon, with mini violet roses sewn onto the dress.

“Rarity, it’s beautiful.” Violet murmured.

“Let’s get you in it then.” exclaimed Rarity. Behind the dressing curtain, Rarity was helping Violet into her new dress. The teenage girl twirled around in the dress for a bit before letting Rarity style her hair.

When Violet opened her eyes she saw that Rarity had tied her hair into a loose ponytail and let it hang freely over her left shoulder and Rarity had placed a single white rose behind her left ear.

“Rarity, it’s beautiful.” she uttered.

“Your beautiful, I only made you better.” said Rarity. A voice called from outside the curtain.

“You girls finished in there! We are waiting.” called Rainbow Dash.

“One second!” Rarity chimed. Using her magic, the unicorn pulled the curtain back, revealing Violet. The two tomboy ponies gapped at her.

“Violet, you look beautiful.” Applejack exclaimed. Violet blushed.

“Come on, let’s get to this party!” cried Rainbow Dash.

Author's Note

I used the song 'Try Everything' because it fits the CMC so well and I loved how they are willing to do anything to earn they're cutie marks.

'Try Everything' belongs to Shakira