we never forget

When morning rolls around I spent most of it just lying on the ground telling myself it wasn't real. That I was just hallucinating or something. Sitting up I looked around at both camps to see that I was the only one up this early.

“Wow it's fucking quiet this early.” leaning for wards I put my hands on the ground and stretched by back trying to work out kinks from my dirt nap. Standing up I brushed dirt off my body and made my way to the cart to look for food to cook for breakfast. Digging through the cart I found a can of beans and a chunk of leftover manticore meat. After some failed attempts at restarting the fire I got it lit and opened the can placing it in the fire, we didn't have a pot to put it in but it works.

“Thank god for pull tops I don't even think we have a can opener.” I say to out loud but mostly to myself.

Hearing some noise inside of one of the nearby ponies tents I look in their direction to see if anyone was getting up. As soon as I did the rustling stopped replace by the replace by the familiar sound of a zipper being undone. Who ever it was hadn't left the tent they just left the door unzipped. Ignoring it I went back to cooking food for me and my friends.

Looking over my group I started to notice them tiring as the beans cooked. Cutting the meat up into four pieces and stabbed them onto the ends of sharpened sticks to cook. As that was happening I reached over and shook Alex gently to wake her up. as soon as she was awake I did it to Riley leaving tom alone because he was across the fire pit from me

“Morning guys how are you.” Riley said rubbing the sleep from her eyes

“I'm fine thank you Riley.”

“Alex you..o….k.” Riley started to trail off. Realizing what they were staring at I just sorta let It go for now.pulling some little dishes from the cart I put some beans and a chunk of meat on each of the trays and handed them to the girls well more like placed it in front of them.

Walking over to tom I shook him awake and placed the food in front of him. the box with the pups in it had been moved closer to the fire and near us but they didn't say all that warm I gave them a hand full of food and ate my food while I waited for them to finish. Once I had finished I noticed tom had finished but also was not staring at the tents like the girls where. Standing up I walked over to the box of puppies picked them both up paying my jacket in my lap I paced them both down and warmed them by the fire.

Hearing some rustling in the same tent as before who ever was sleeping in it finally started to come out. The noise stopped there as about a three second pause and then a very loud ear piercing scream from both the girls. Clutching my ears from the screams I let go to see both the girls and the yellow and pink Pegasus fainted and on the ground.
Tom on the other hand was just dumbfounded by the sudden appearance of a horse walking out of a tent.

Getting up from my sitting position near the fire i picked up the pony and carried it back into its tent leaving the girls on the ground. i placed her in the bed covered her in the blanket and started to leave but was tackled to the floor by something blue. I wanna say i blacked out but really i was just face down on the floor of the tent now with a bleeding nose.

Feeling the weight of a pony on top of me i grabbed a leg a pulled it to the floor pinning it below me along with the body attached. Spitting blood from my mouth and wiping it from my face i stared down at the rainbow maned baster how tacked me.

“You know if your gonna tackle a soldier knock him out it will make it easier on you.” i say while smiling at the pony below me

“Bite me!” the pony's voice was gruff but still feminine.

Standing up i wiped more blood from my face and walked back to the group now seeing more of the ponies were awake and the girls were no longer passed out in fact they were on the other side of fire hiding behind tom who was staring blankly at the ponies who were eating food. the one i had pinned to the floor was rejoining the group and started glaring at me.

“OK so where should we start this morning.” I say as I look over the group of ponies. The pink one in the group seemed to be bouncing on her haunches while smiling from ear to ear. the purple alicorn was taking notes on an old fashioned quill and scroll. The white one sate on a vary fancy pillow while sipping tea while. The orange one was standing up looking at we the same way Alex does when I make puns very similar distaste in my being. Ignoring the mix of emotions I was receiving I turned towards my group

“Guys relax there not gonna hurt you any more than a fly seriously I've got this I'll do the talking.” They nodded and started to relax a bit “thank you.”

“May I ask your names.” The purple alicorn asked.

“Umm sure I'm rick blacktail that's Riley quinn, Alexis June she like Alex or June no that's Tomas reinhart he prefers tom…. what's yours.”

“My name is princess twilight sparkle and this is applejack, pinky pie, rarity, rainbow dash and fluttershy is still in the tent.”

“Nice to meet you all.” I say giving a light bow in the presence of royalty.

“Such a gentle colt and here I thought you were just a brute.” Rarity says as rainbow dash and applejack stare at me in mild astonishment.

“Thank you?” I say not sure whether to take it as a compliment or an insult.

“So we're did you guys come from.” Twilight asked scribbling more notes.

“Umm I would love to answer more questions but were losing daylight and need to keep heading north. We're trying to find a good place to set up a base to live at.”

“Oh why don't you come back to only vile with us. You can stay at the castle until you can afford homes.”twilight said teleporting the scroll and quill away.

“Wait really you would let us do that we barely know each other I don't wanna feel like I'm free loading.” I was actually shocked she would let us do that with no consequences.

“Of course you can stay I have one hundred and thirty guest rooms and only five are being used.” She said smiling at me. I Believe I've just made some new friends.

“Thank you so much princess I will do work around the castle to help pay for the rooms.”

“No need the maids will handle any mess just be friendly and have fun.” Smiling at her I turned towards my friends group.

“let's pack up and put the pups back in there box and we'll make our way to ponyville asap.” They nodded and dumped some water on the fire sending ash,steam and smoke into the air.