The Green Phoenix

“Well, what do you think?”

In front of me I see a young stallion, large and robust, with light green fur and brown eyes. His light brown hair begins to form small ringlets, needing a cut. His thick curly beard of coppery red joins his mustache that covers part of the corner of his fleshy lips.On his chest, hairier than the rest of his body, rests a pendant of lapis lazuli and steel with a hexagonal pendulum shape.On his left front leg there are three bracelets.The first is made of black rubber with drawings of white lions and the word Lyon in the same color. The second is a synthetic rainbow colored ribbon, with a badly made knot that forms two ringlets. The last is a thick cloth tape with 4 red stripes on a yellow background and a blue line at the top, forming something similar to the flag of his homeland. Behind him, covering his rear flanks is a small leather and cloth belt with two large pockets on each side, covering his lack of Cutie Mark. Finally, moving from side to side, a tail of the same reddish color as his beard, smooth at the beginning and forming large curlers at the end.I smile and the reflection returns my smile.

“It's perfect ,It covers my flanks discreetly and is also practical for carrying things”

“Doing practical things is not my forte but I think I have done a good job” Rarity say

“ I think we should go back to the cas..” the ring of a bell interrupt Spike.

3 little ponies come in the room running and talking all at once. They are a pegasus with orange fur and very cool purple hair, an earth pony with yellow fur and a long red mane decorated with a pink bow and finally a pearl white unicorn with a pink and purple curly mane. All three have a very similar cutie mark, something like a shield.

“sis sis, we need help” Say the white one to Rarity

“The people of the city say there is a new stallion in the city without Cutie Mark “ say the yellow one.

“ And Lyra has told me that it is the same one Twilight is hosting in her castle!” exclame the orange one “Do you know anything about that mysterious pony?”

Why so much commotion with me ? I'm not so much.

“Rarity, you know this filies?”

“Oh, hi mister! Sorry for no introducing us . Im AppleBloom , the pegasus is Scootaloo and the unicorn is Sweetie Bell, sister of Rarity and we are the CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!”
They exclaimed at the end with a smile from ear to ear.

“Im Mercury, nice to meet you all” I love childrens “and why are you three so interested in found that mysterious pony ?” let's have fun

“To offer our services of course!” I don't like where this is going

“We're going to make her feel so much better with her life” stop , stop

“Yea , w`all never face a challenge with someone so old” nonononono

“This is gonna a be a new experience for us and her” AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

“We are gonna help her to get her Cutie mark!” Ufffffffffffff, i fear the worst

“Are you all right sir? Why do you have that face of relief?”I have to regain my composure

“I'm fine AppleBloom, and plis , don't call me sir or mister, i'm barely an adult”

“Ok, well sis, you know about that pony?” SwettieBelle ask his sister.She looked at me, not knowing if she could tell her sister the truth or not.

“Don't worry Rarity, you can tell them” They seem nice ,and the worst thing that can happen is that I find my goal in life.More calmed, Rarity say

“Girls, Mercury is the stallion you are searching”

“And I will be happy to hang out with you” Maybe i can relax a little and think in other things apart of being immortal in a strange world and that stuff. The three fillies look at me smiling.

“What are we waiting? To the club house! Follow us mister i mean Mercury” yell Scootaloo and the crusader run outside the shop.So young, so happy, so innocent.I'm dying of envy.

“Your sister seems a very nice girl Rarity, seems i need to go.Nice to see you again, see you soon, and thanks for the belt”

“Before you go, can ask you a question?”

“Of course”

“Are you.. ok? with what happened in the forest I mean..”She look at me with a genuinely worried face .My face got dark for a moment

“No, but I will be”I gave her a fake smile to try to reassure her.I hate seeing people, o ponies in this case worried about me, like i don't deserve that atencion ,I know it's a horrible though, but .I've been without my antidepressants for almost a week, what did you expect?
“No need to come with me Spike, go back to the castle”

“Are you sure?”

“Yep”

I gave Spike and Rarity one last goodbye and left the store to follow the three overexcited ponies that were waiting for me outside. The four of us headed to the outskirts of the city on a road flanked by hundreds of apple trees. we deviate from the main road and follow a path that went through the fruit trees

“We have arrived! Our operations center.”

Sweetie Belle pointed in front of me and I saw a tree house. Not like the shacks of four old woods and ropes taken out of the garbage that I made in my mother's village with my cousin in summer as a child, it was a little house on top of a tree, with its red gable roof, its staircase , its glazed windows, its door and its balcony with railing.

“It's perfect, i wish i could have one of those when i was a child”

“What is a child?”AppleBloom raise an eyebrow

“I mean, a foal”

“ Let's go inside and start the crusading “ O boy

The inside of the treehouse is even cuter, with a lot of pictures, drawings, schemes and little filly size furniture.

“Let's start, first we need a bit of information about you.Where are you from?”Scootaloo ask me.Fuck.I don't want everyone to know that I am literally an alien, especially these little ones. I don't know how they would react.

“I'm from a very far away city “ A half truth is not a lie

“Ok, what's it's your age”

“19”

“You are our oldest customer by far”I'm not old

“What are your hobbies ?” In a world without video games, cartoons, or the internet, I have few options left. Besides, I am half-amnesic.

“I like to walk, learn things and make bad jokes”

“Ok” The crusaders write something down on some papers and mutter among themselves. It seems they have done this a hundred times.

“Do you have any special talent?” Is being alone a talent?

“I do not know. I've had some memory problems lately and I don't remember very well, hehe” I scratch my head with half a smile on my face,a little embarrassed.”Well, a few years ago I was quite good at playing rugby and I've always been very good at geography and history”

The youngs fillies wrote a little more.

“All right, I think we know where to start, first we need”A flash of bluish light interrupted AppleBloom and suddenly in front of us there was a unicorn. She has very light purple fur, almost pink and a hair style like the decade of the fiftys, purple dark blue with a blue stripe. Her tail follows the same pattern of colors and her Cutie Mark is a small purple star with a bluish aurora. She has a tired but victorious face.She look at me

“I've finally found you, I've been looking for you for hours. Quick, the princes is waiting for you”

“Wait what, what princess?, Twilight? “

“NO, Princess Celestia”

And she teleported me with her