A Soul's Power

As they made their way to Sugarcube Corner Frost took her through the beautiful park. She was almost overwhelmed by the smell of blooming flowers and that just made her love this world even more. It was just so clean and pure that she could picture herself living here full time if she got the chance.

There were couples and families in the park walking or playing games, and some were sitting and just enjoying the day. Though she did get a few stares she didn't feel out of place and some of those stares seemed friendly and curious. It was an odd feeling since she was trained to assume that the citizens of a world would most likely not accept her.

While she knew there were a few like Long Shot, it seemed they were far and in between in this magical land. Granted she knew she only saw an extremely small fraction of this world and its people but she wanted to try to look on the bright side of things. It was peaceful here and that's what mattered even if she knew she would eventually run into some issues, so she knew she had to enjoy it while it lasted.

"You look at home right now," Frost said breaking Rie out of her thoughts.

"Yeah, it's so clean and fresh here that it's unbelievable. Not to mention how friendly everyone seems." Rie responded returning a wave.

"I think a big part of it is that word has probably gotten around about you. That is the best thing about Pinkie, she knows how to talk somepony up." Frost gave her a smile which she returned. "So, about this Tera..."

"Don't know much about her, personally I mean. I know her career and all that she's accomplished but just not personal stuff, at least not yet." Rie quickly stepped in.

"Well, I wasn't gonna ask about her. That would be a bit weird and not my place, but what I was going to ask is that you said she was an Ama..." Once again Rie spoke up.

"An Aomazian, as I explained earlier they look like humans except they're taller and have different natural hair and eye colors. Though another thing is they are far less scared about going for what they want, which does lead them into getting into trouble. But sometimes it can be good," Rie said getting a little smile.

"Oh, I see so this Tera, she must have eyed you and had some instant attraction and decided to ask you out," Frost said with a knowing smirk.

"Yup, pretty much how it went down though she did ask me out on my very first day and in front of the entire team," Rie said getting a little blush.

"Hey, whatever works. I mean you seem to like her or else you wouldn't be acting a little bit like a school filly with a crush. Not that it's a bad thing, and from what you've told me so far about yourself, it means you're healing. Though just be careful with those little crushes, because now and again as it turns out it wasn't real and you were just fooling yourself..." Frost gave a sad sigh.

"So, from that, I'm gonna guess you've had some experience with it?" Rie asked.

"Y-yeah, not with Dusty of course, but before hoof. In truth, if it hadn't been for her I don't think I would have ever felt what true love felt like." Frost took a deep breath trying to calm herself.

"Wish I could've met her," Rie said trying to avoid looking at the bat pony out of fear of asking too many questions.

"Maybe sometime I'll introduce you to her, I think she would have loved you. But anyway, we're almost to Sugarcube Corner," Frost said making Rie look around, which it didn't take her long to figure out which building was Sugarcube Corner.

"Well, that certainly screams sweets to me," Rie said looking at the building they were approaching.

"I know, gives me a toothache just by looking at it," Frost said making Rie nod in agreement. "But you'll be hard-pressed to find a better bakery anywhere else in Equestria."

"I don't doubt it, but do they always have welcoming parties here?" Rie asked.

"Not always, most of the time it's in the ponies home and before you ask I don't know how Pinkie gets inside. Even if I did I would probably have to arrest her. But since you don't have your own house here she probably decided to throw it here," Frost replied and as they got closer the smell of baked goods started to get a lot stronger.

"Mmmm, that smells good though," Rie couldn't help it as her stomach seemed to agree. "Gee, it's like I haven't eaten in years."

"Well, I mean you haven't since you're actually just a day old now..." Frost laughed as she avoided a jab from Rie who just settled for rolling her eyes. Though the mare stopped laughing to take a deep breath to calm herself down as they got to the front door of the bakery.

"Hey, before we go in is there anything I should be worried about?" Rie couldn't help but ask.

"Hmm, well just duck when you walk in is the best I can do for you. Now, you ready?" Frost replied before the mare opened the door and stepped inside making Rie follow.

As soon as she entered the building she instantly hit the floor as this cannon fired confetti right where she was standing. Part of her knew it probably wouldn't have hurt but that didn't matter as she was glad she didn't have to take the brunt of the blast. Though in a flash the lights were turned on and ponies yelling surprise.

"You have some pretty good reflexes! You don't have Pinkie sense do ya? Huh?!" Pinkie asked suddenly by Rie's side helping her up.

"Um, no not that I'm aware of. Just... trained is all." She replied, which was true even if Frost hadn't warned her she would have been able to avoid the confetti blast.

"Oh, ok! Well, what are you waiting for? Come on and let's get this welcoming party started!" Pinkie yelled before dragging Rie into the center of the room. "Alrighty, party ponies! Let me introduce you all to the guess of honor! Let's all give a big welcome to Ponyville Rie!"

"Welcome to Ponyville!" The entire room of ponies, some Griffins, and a few other races all shouted at her.

"Now, come on cause I've got plenty of creatures to introduce you to personally!" Pinkie said and before Rie could say or do anything she was being dragged along. Not that she minded as the mare seemed to know who would be the friendliest towards her.

"...and I think that's every-creature!" Pinkie said on a single breath after being introduced to the last guest personally. Which only took about a minute at most, but it felt like less.

"Man, that mare makes my head spin...." Rie said as she took a cup filled with what she figured was some kind of juice. Which once she gulped it down she realized it was, in fact, Fruit Punch.

"Yeah, she can be quite the hooffull if you're not careful," Frost said giving her a little smile as she got herself a drink.

"At least it wasn't boring," Rie said sipping down the last of her juice.

"True, so have you meet Lyra? Heard she has a thing for creatures with paws like yours." Frost mentioned which did bring to mind a weird mint green unicorn.

"Umm, might have met her, but it's a bit tough to remember. Now I am loving this party, how about you?" Rie asked looking at the bat pony for her response.

"Please, anycreature that doesn't know Pinkie parties are the best obviously never had a good party before!" Frost replied with a twinkle in her eye.

"Yeah, really I haven't had this much fun since I was young! I mean younger than what I am of course," Rie said.

"Which by the way, how old are you and how long does your kind live?" Frost asked.

"Well, I'm actually fourty-one. As far as how long we live, don't really know. The oldest living human is still six hundred and thirty-two. But it's thought our natural life span has been expanded to about two thousand years now, give or take." Frost gave an impressed whistle.

"Okay, so before you ask bat ponies can actually live for about three thousand and Alicorn's have a lot longer lifespan," Frost said.

"So, does that mean no one really knows how long an Alicorn lives?" Rie asked.

"No, not really since there's only been five in total. Granted two of them are over a thousand years old, two of them are fairly new, and one was recently born." Frost responded taking a bite from a cupcake.

"Huh, well that really is cool to know. Which reminds me, we'll probably have to leave a bit early since it's about time for me to get that care package." Rie said which Frost just nodded to.

"Alrighty then, how long do you think we have?" Frost asked.

"Well, I say probably another hour or two. Probably closer to the two-hour mark," Rie replied as she took a bite of cake.

"Good, but back to you only being forty-one, which by the way I'm only forty-three myself, but I was just wondering what is your kind legal age?" Frost asked as Rie finished off her piece of cake.

"Let's see, you can move out and drink at about twenty-one. That's our milestone for becoming an official adult in my world anyway, how about here?" Rie replied.

"Well, for your average pony it's about the same age except for moving out. You only have to be eighteen here to do that, but for bat-ponies, it's about thirty." Frost said before stuffing her face with her own piece of cake.

"That's cool, and before you ask the ages I said were set a long time ago. Back before we lived so long," Rie said eyeing another piece of cake.

"You know it's your party, so you can eat as much as you want. Besides, Pinkie will probably have extra just in case," Frost said making Rie's decision a lot easier.

"Good, because this cake is the best I've ever had!" Rie proclaimed getting not only two more slices of cake but also five pieces of brownies.

"Remind me never to get in your way of sweets," Frost said watching as Rie devoured everything she grabbed. Though she did make sure to leave plenty for the guest.

"MMMmmmm, that hit the spot!" Rie said as she patted her stomach and looked at Frost who was just staring at her. "I know, I have a huge appetite okay? I can't help it, I"m just hungry! Besides I want to enjoy as much as I can on my first run, even if I do only have a month."

"Yeah, which by the way something I've been meaning to ask, how are you speaking Equestrian?" Frost asked making Rie think about it for a second.

"Well, it's a bit difficult to explain. But just think of it as me being attuned to the languages like a radio...." Which only made the mare look at her with a raised eyebrow. "I know it's not the best explanation! But okay, pretty much our souls just become attuned to the energy of a world and for whatever reason it allows us to speak the native tongues. I'm sure a magician or someone like that could explain it better."

"Huh, but like a radio?" Frost couldn't help the laugh.

"Yeah, yeah, by the way, would you like to join me for a dance?" Rie asked with an overly posh and proper voice making them both crack up.

"You know what? Let's see what you can do! Yo, Pinkie can you get the Dj to turn things up cause we got a dance-off coming up!" Frost yelled, and though the pink mare was across the room with music blaring she nodded and did as she was asked.

"Oh, you are so on!" Rie said with a huge smile as another song began and a circle started to form in the center of the room.

Soon, ponies stepped up facing off against each other and she couldn't help but be a bit impressed by some of their moves. It wasn't long before she was pushed into the ring though and as she looked she saw Frost looking innocent but still with a tiny smirk. After shaking her head she faced her opponent and stared her dance and soon enough, somehow ponies formed groups between the two, and then the real dance-off began.

"O-oh man that was great!" Rie huffed as she plopped into a chair.

"You weren't that bad," Frost said as she sat down next to her.

"Neither were you, I can't even remember the last time I was in a dance-off like that!" Rie said gulping down some punch.

"Probably never since this is the first time any of your kind has been here," Frost gave her a big smile as she rolled her eyes.

"So, who do you think they'll claim as the winner?" Rie asked.

"I think your group honestly, I mean some of those moves looked like you guys have been practicing for months!" Frost yelled and it wasn't long before Pinkie grabbed the mic.

"Alrighty, party ponies! It's time to see who you all vote for in the dance-off! We narrowed it down to the last dance groups of The Gallopers and The Humination!" Pinkie practically didn't need the mic but the name of Rie's group made her raise an eyebrow as she didn't remember giving her group a name. But Frost just shrugged making them both think the naming was probably Pinkie's doing.

"Hey, it's about time for you to get those supplies," Frost said making Rie raise her hand.

"In a moment, I'm actually excited to see who the winner is," This just made Frost shake her head but she still had a big smile which she really didn't know why she always noticed the mares smile. Though she did get the feeling this was the most the mare had smiled in a while.

"Alright, you all know the drill! When I call the name of the group you all stomp your hooves and the ones who get the loudest stomps wins! Now first up The Gallopers!" At that, there were a lot of stomping and whistling. "Alrighty, how about we hear it for The Huminations!" Which with as much stomping they were lucky the ceiling didn't collapse.

"You know you could at least try to hide the smile," Frost whispered making Rie almost jump. "Heh, sorry didn't mean to scare ya."

"It's fine, so you ready for me to summon the supplies?" Rie asked after taking a breath to try to calm her heartbeat, which she still thought it was weird knowing where her actual body was.

"Yup, but are you sure you can handle it?" Frost asked making her roll her eyes.

"Yeah, now let's go before you know who finds me and drags me on stage," Rie said as both of them saw the pink mare looking around.

"You're right, let's go, or else we might have to wait until tomorrow..." Though as Frost spoke she looked at Rie and sighed. "I hope you don't get into trouble."

"I won't, you got a pen or something?" Rie asked making Frost quickly look around and saw a quill and an ink bottle, which she passed to Rie who quickly wrote something on a napkin. Which she quickly made disappear into thin air.

"There, that'll give us until tomorrow. Probably until noon, and then yes I might get into a little trouble after that," Rie said.

"So, can you really do that trick with any object?" Frost asked keeping an eye out for Pinkie.

"Pretty much, I'll have to send my pictures at the end of the week. Why you ask?" Rie asked though she could understand that even in a world of magic it still can be something that can be a bit weird to wrap their heads around, especially when it came to doing it across universes.

"There you are!" Pinkie said coming out from under Rie's chair. "Didn't you hear? You guys won so that means that you have to dance for everypony! Then you'll be able to take this trophy with you!"

"What..." Though before she could finish Pinkie pulled a huge trophy out of her mane, though Rie figured not to ask because she was sure she wasn't gonna get an answer. "Yeah, I could go for another dance. Also, is this something I can keep?"

"Of course silly! It's your trophy, now let's get down!" Pinkie said before pulling Rie with her, which Rie managed to grab ahold of Frost.

"H-hey!" Frost complained but the mare couldn't hide the smile.

They danced for most of the night it seemed, ponies came up and talked to her and made jokes with her as well. It really was the most fun she's had in such a long time. Soon though ponies began to leave and soon it was just a few of them and she couldn't help but yawn.

"Hey Frost, before we head back I'm gonna go ahead to get those supplies here," Rie said.

"Cool, do you guys mind if we leave them here until later on once somepony over there gets some shuteye?" Frost asked as the Cakes were cleaning.

"Oh no, that's fine dear but can you put it in the back?" Mrs. Cake asked.

"Sure can, let's get this over with before I pass out from exhaustion.

Which Pinkie showed them where though the pink mare did wonder where the stuff that Rie was talking about. Frost had to settle the mare down so Rie could concentrate which was really important since she really did feel like she would pass out any second. After a minute all the medical supplies, books, and other things suddenly appeared making the pink pony's jaw hanging open.

"I know, anyway Frost y..." Before she finished everything went black.