It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood. In fact, it was the Summer Sun Celebration today. I woke up, and went to get my morning started. I had no idea that today was going to get real shit real fast. It was good for now though, and I was ready for my day. Twilight had apparently gotten up earlier, as had Spike, as they were in the kitchen when I arrived.

"So, what's today? Anything special?" Twilight looked at me incredulously.

"What? You mean you didn't know that today's the Summer Sun Celebration? Where have you been?" I deadpan.

"Really? You want me to answer that? I am not from this world. I have no clue your customs or holidays."

"Oh, sorry. I forgot. It's just that, today is one of the most important holidays. It is also the anniversary of our herd getting together." Spike snorts at that.

"Which means I'm sleeping where you are not tonight." I look at him as Twilight sticks her tongue out at him.

"Why, might I dare ask?" Spike chuckles at the nervousness in my voice.

"It might get a little rowdy tonight, just saying. If you want, you can join me. If not, better hope they don't come here. It gets super awkward." I stare at him, then turn to Twilight. Sadly, she answers.

"Me and the girls usually have a little FUN, during this specific holiday. It marks the start of the new year, so to say, and since it is the anniversary of our herd, I think you can guess what I mean."

"AND, that is where I am going to cut the conversation. I am all for lesbian benefits, but I would like to not be in the same place when it happens. Unless I was invited, but I would probably still decline." Twilight perks up for some reason, but I don't understand why. I shrug it off, and chock it up to her coming up with some idea for the day." Anyway, what are we going to do today. I was planning to go check out houses. Want to come along, or you got other things happening?"

Twilight nods. "Yeah. I'm getting some more flying lessons from Rainbow today. I might have got these wings a few months ago, but I still don't know how to use them efficiently enough to fly properly. Good luck on house hunting." I wave as I head out the door, paper of houses in my hand. First house.

I come to the edge of the town square. I look at the house in front of me. It doesn't look special, just like most the other houses around it. Single story, so slightly different, but still normal. The listing says it is a single story, two bed, one bath, full kitchen and living room. I look at it again, and I feel nothing about the house. I don't know what makes me say no to it, but my mind keeps telling me to move on, that this isn't the house your looking for. I move on.

The third house on the list, the second house being a little further out of town, towards Fluttershy's cabin, was near Sugercube Corner. It was just four houses down from the bakery, and I didn't like the location. I like quiet, and I could hear everything that happened outside when I stood in the house. I am not opposed to noise, but when you can hear everyponies conversation's that take place across the street, and it feels like everypony is coming through your house, then that isn't my house. I prefer more solitude than that.

The second house, I finally found it. It was a heavy duty fixer upper. I didn't want to spend all my time trying to fix up a house when I needed to plan for when all hell literally broke loose, so to say. I never got specifics from the Shaman. Was it only going to be the twelve demon lords, or was a but load of demons going to break lose. Anyway, I didn't have time for a fixer upper, so I moved on.

The fourth house. The fourth house was in the Everfree. It was apparently situated a quarter mile in from the treeline, and had been made recently, but the person who had it built had never moved in, and it had sat empty, and with all the furniture that the person had furnished it with, to this day. It said that the path was near Sweet Apple Acres, and that it would be noticeable. I found it easily enough, and went for a stroll. I walked for about ten- fifteen minutes and finally found it. The term house didn't fit properly. The term TREE house, did.

It was majestic. I didn't know how else to describe it. The house wasn't like Twilight's library. No, it was on the outside of the tree. it reached up and spiraled around, different levels with covered stairs to each landing. The house sat perched on thick, heavy branches. At the base, there was a door. I walked up to the door in the tree, and opened it, finding a small set of stairs, that down into the tree. In proceeded, and my arm started to glow brighter as I walked into the darkness. It light up the room with a blue glow, and I noticed the light switch on the wall nearby. When I flipped it on, the entire room lit up.

It looked to be a forge. It had a tanning room, with a heavy sealed door, for tanning hides and leather. The forge area was complete with anvil and hammers, pliers, tongs, grinding belts, power hammers, lathes, routers, and other things used to forge any type of weapon or armor, or fix existing pieces or weapons that become damaged. I leave the room after turning off the light, and walk back out. I walk to the front door, a set of stairs visible through the doors glass, and head into the house itself.

Up the stairs in the main room is a couch and multiple other sitting chairs, a TV, two game consoles, and a selection games and movies in a cupboard near them. The TV is roughly 55", and I see the remote on the coffee table, along with the controllers for both PS4 and XBOX 1, four each, on a two sets of shelves nearby. I look more at the living room, and look up to the ceiling. The ceiling looks like the roof of a log cabin, wood beams that go up to a low vaulted ceiling. I continue looking around, and I see a room off to the left of the living area. I head into it, and see it's a kitchen, with what appears to be a dining room curved off to the left through another door. I notice then that the kitchen had curved off left from the living room, and that the living room had a slight curve throughout it. I turn my attention back to the kitchen.

It looks to be a black brushed kitchen, the appliances having a brushed metal matte paint, colored to be just off true black, going into gray. A sort off dark gray. The refrigerator was large, and looked to be able to hold anything. The stove and oven was electric convection, and seemed to be in good shape, as did the dishwasher and fridge. the sink was a barn sink, which was a deep sink that sticks out from the counter slightly, and is very deep, more so than most sinks. I got a look of the counter top, and they looked to be made of obsidian. I looked around further and saw more of the usual kitchen appliances. Coffee maker, toaster, microwave. I finally stopped gawking at the kitchen and moved on to the dining room.

The table was a heavy table. It looked to be a piece of the tree that had to be cut off, and was re-purposed to become a table. It was a resin covered table, that had stones from the little stream outside. They were put in the table and then covered with different colors of resin and epoxy to make it look like a river was in the wood table. The legs were wrought iron bars, that twisted and rested on polished stones from the river, with pads on the bottom to prevent them from scratching the floor. I counted seven chairs. After I finished with the dining room, I looked to the right and saw a small hallway that connected to the living room, and in the hall was stairs to the next level, along with a small restroom for doing the obvious. I headed up the stairs to the second level.

As I reached it, I noticed that it was guest rooms, set out along a curved hall that circled the trunk of the tree. I then thought, Wow, this tree is thick as fuck. It also seems to be pretty tall as well. The house is three levels, and the top level is the largest.

After finishing that thought, I continued touring, looking at all the rooms. There was only seven rooms, and one of them was the master. All the spares where decorated plain, to allow whoever was in them to decorate it in their own style. The master was decorated different. It had pictures of places that I have only seen in some dreams. The picture I like the best was a picture of a sakura tree, standing on a mountain, and all around the living tree was lava flows, and ash covered everything, and the vegetation around was dead. The sakura tree was the only thing living. I found it very beautiful. I continued through the hall and saw that it had two bath rooms, one for everyone, and a master bath. It had accommodations for all needs. I found the stairs to the third and final level of the house, and went on up.

The final level was the biggest. And it was Twilight's dream. It was filled with books. I looked around in amazement. The room was large, with a high ceiling. Around the edges were bookshelves, filled and labeled with what genre is held in that section, such as mystery, history, and science. Each genre section contained a vast amount of books. I looked and saw tables around near the corners, and towards the center was a large couch that wrapped around the main feature. And the main feature took my breath away.

The architect who had sculpted the house from the tree, had done a grand job hollowing out the center of the tree and building the room and everything into it seamlessly, and when he did, he carved another whole tree into the center wood. What I mean is, the entire center of the library was dominated by a skeleton tree, shaped from the center of the large tree that the house was built into. I looked around the tree, and saw spots that had cushions set on a few branches near the trunk. I figured that those were for whoever wanted to read in solitude. i saw a placard on the tree, with an imprint of a right hand next to it. I walked up to the placard. It read.

"Cameron, this house is yours. All the books in this library are from the human world. They do not exist naturally in Equestria. You will find almost every book from Earth here. Also, I have left a tablet, for Twilight. On the tablet, she will find EVERY book from your world. To access the tablet, place your right hand in the indent, and it will open the tablet's case. I hope this will help, and I thank you for your service.
The Shaman

I read it over one more time, before placing my fake hand on the indent next to the placard. When I did, my hand pulsed once with a purple glow, and the placard swung open, on hinges I hadn't seen previously. I saw inside was a small tablet, no bigger than an iPad. However, I could tell that this was much more advanced than that product. I pulled it out, and powered it up. When it finally turned on, I saw that it had several files, one labeled with each genre. I opened one, labeled historical fiction, and saw that it had sub files that was the alphabet. I guessed that they had been alphabetized, and proceeded to turn it off and put it back, closing the panel. I then noticed that the writing had changed. It now read.

"Cameron, the two consoles have all the games that have been created for them, on them. I have also put games that happen to have been only for a computer on them as well. They will also play the DVD's that I have provided. Each console is plugged to the TV, and is ready to go. I hope that you enjoy them, but do not spend to much time on them. The final thing I need to say is, be good to the Elements. They see you as a friend, and it would do you harm to lose that friendship. That is all.
The Shaman.

I smiled. I wouldn't think of hurting the girls. I liked them to much as friends to do so. I headed outside once again, and took a breath of the wet stream air. I listened for a few moments to the stream, and looked around one more time. In doing so, I found a small rise near the house, and dug into it was a small cave. I took a look inside, but saw nothing for several feet back, and assumed that it was for storage. Then it hit me, Utahraptor's lived in caves near the end of their reign. It must be for my pet. I chuckled, and didn't bring out my pet yet. I was saving it till I could properly bring it out. I continued my final check of the surrounding clearing, and saw something shining on a tree. I went and got a closer look, and saw it was a hand print, much like on the trees around Kratos' home in God of War. I looked at more trees, and saw that they did indeed go around the forest clearing about the house in a circle, like a protective ward. I just sighed, and started towards town.

It was nearing the end of the day, and I had reached town. That was when I noticed the vines. They looked to be black vines that grew from the ground, and had sharp blue thorns. I pulled out my Leviathan axe, as it was used for cutting trees in the game, and I hacked at a vine that was trying to grab Derpy. When I hacked into it, it continually got colder and colder, freezing the vine and allowing me to shatter through it. I pointed Derpy to the nearest building, and went further into town. I eventually found Twilight and the gang, and the scene I saw had me in awe.

They had some badass weapons.

Author's Note

I'm just going to leave this cliff here. I think it's a good place to leave a cliff. NOBODY is going to get mad at ALL, about this cliff.

Have a Jivin day!