Location: Ponyville, Trainstation

3rd Person POV

Closing in on Ponyville's trainstation was a pink engine-powered train pulling on equally colorful wagons. The Friendship Express was used by ponies and other races to travel all over Equestria and was currently being occupied by both ponies coming to Ponyville for official business, but also ponies that were hoping to settle down and live in the not so small town.

"Arriving at Ponyville in five minutes!" a yellow stallion with a train conductor uniform, yelled through the com-radio.

Catching the passengers attention and either drawing them away from looking through the window, reading a book or taking a nap, they all grab their luggage and prepare to leave the train. All except one, who was sitting in a corner in the back of the wagon, covered in a large blanket that hid his body. The stallion was so deep in his slumber that the middle aged unicorn mare next to him had to wake him up. The mare in question was beach pink, with a long rose magenta mane with pink streaks done up in a pony tail that hung down to her right. Her tail was long and flowing, she wore makeup to make herself look younger, she had a pair of violet glasses on her muzzle that drew attention to her violet eyes and she wore a purple sweater with flower patterns sewed into the fabric that stopped just before her cutie mark, which was of a camera taking a picture of a flower.

"Kaoru, sweety, we're here now." Kaika Mountainflower said as she shook the stallion violently, causing others around her to shoot glares at her for how rough she was being to the poor stallion. But she knew him better than they did, she was his mother after all and she knew that he could sleep outside during a thunderstorm and still not wake up.
She took a deep breath and:
"WAKE UP!!!" She yelled loudly, causing others on the train to cringe from the volume and those that were still sleeping to jump off their seats and fall to the floor.

The stallion only grunted in respond and slowly opened his magenta eyes, the left one being slightly paler in colour compare to the right one. He looked towards Kaika with an annoyed look, but not in a threatening manner, more of a 'stop being so loud' manner.

"We already bought the house, now we just need to move in," Kaika told her son pleadingly, "I know you're tired honey, but can you please help me carry our luggage."

The other passengers started murmuring and wispering after she made that request. With hushed and quiet voices, they asked questions like: How could a mare be so cruel and force a stallion to lift her luggage? How heartless can she be? Who does she think she is? That poor dear just wanted to sleep and she had to wake up the little-

*CREEEEAAAAAKKKKK*

The planked floor of the train made a very audible noise of something heavy moving around, it became quite obvious what caused that noise as the stallion stood up and became taller and taller and taller, until the ones nearby began to feel pain in their necks from the strain of keeping their eyes on his face. Once he was up and standing on all four, the entire wagon was filled with slackjawed ponies.
With some help from his mother, he put on the three large and heavy saddle bags without trouble, showing no issue whatsoever in having to carry all that weight on his back. Kaika used her telekinesis to drag the two wheeled luggage bags that were left, one being pink with purple markings and the other being silver with violet markings. Guess which one belongs to who?

Ponies began making their way off the train, some reuniting with friends and family while others met up with acquaintances. The conductor stallion watch them all leave with a smile, but his eyes suddenly widened when he saw the last two that were about to leave. The unicorn mare made it past no problem, even with her luggage, but it was the stallion behind her that forced the conductor to leave the train for him to get out.

As the conductor got out to stand at the side, the creaking noises of the floor board caught the attention from all the other ponies near the station. Talks about catching up with family reunions or friendly gatherings, stopped as the one taking those heavy hoofstep finally revealed themself in the sunlight.

The one behind the noise turned out to be an earth pony stallion, wearing a white suit covered in lavender patterns shaped like exotic flowers, a purple dress shirt underneath the jacket that went far back, covering his cutiemark, and a white tie covered in similar flower patterns as the jacket, but violet instead.
The stallion had a light silver grey coat with a well-combed neck length mane that, at first glance, looked to be pitch black. But with the sunlight shining down on him, the mane turned out to be a dark violet colour that almost looked like it shimmered under the sunlight. The stallions eyes were a beautiful magenta colour, but the left eye seemed paler compare to the right. The cause of this became obvious once you notice the scar that went across the eye from his forhead and down to his cheek. Another scar crossed over the first and went down from the top left of his head, across his nosebridge, past the right of his lower jaw and down his neck. Then there was a third scar that crossed with the second on the right side of his face, it went down the side, missed his right eye and stopped at his jaw, creating an X on the right side of his face.
But what stood out about the stallion more than the scars, was his size. Compare to the other ponies on the station, the stallion was a giant, with the other adult ponies only reaching up to his chest. The stallion is without a doubt bigger than the other larger than average stallion that lives in Ponyville named Big Macintosh, and might just be taller than the recently returned Princess of the Night.
Once he was completely out through the doorway, he squinted his eyes as if he had difficulty taking in his surroundings.

"Here are your glasses sweety." Kaika said with a sweet motherly smile as she floated a pair of golden framed glasses with her magenta aura and gently placed them on his muzzle.

Kaoru Mountainflower smoothly with a single motion, lightly tapped the glasses with his right hoof and firmly planted them on his face and said with his deep baritone voice.

"Thanks Mom." he said with a light smile.

The mares and teenage fillies around the station could not stop themselves from gaining deep red blushes on their muzzle when they heard his voice. Even some of the few stallions on the station, including the conductor, couldn't help but blush once they heard him. All of them sharing the same two thoughts about the two new ponies that were moving in. The first thought was that, despite the nasty scars that covered the poor stallions face, he had to be the most handsome and beautiful stallion any of them had ever seen. With beauty that easily rivaled most noble stallions in Canterlot and combined it with the more muscular frame similar to those from places like Appleloosa. The other thought that they all shared, only registered to them once they got over the initial shock of hearing his voice.

"That's his MOM!!!"

Around an hour later.

Kaika Mountainflower's POV

"Thanks for the help with everything Mayor and Ms. Inkwell," I said to the two ponies gratefully as I walked outside, "it's been a while since I had to do so much paperwork." I finished a little sheepishly.

The Mayor of the town was an earth mare with a light grayish amber coat, dyed light bluish gray mane with lighter gray streaks and moderate phthalo blue eyes. Her cutie mark is that of a scroll.
Her assistant is another earth mare named Raven Inkwell. She has a whitish light gray coat, a dark brownish gray mane and moderate orange eyes. She wears black framed glasses and her cutiemark is of a pencil and an inkwell.

"Oh it was no problem at all," Mayor Mare said with a smile, "it's always nice when new ponies move into town. Since new houses are built almost every month or so."

"Out of curiosity," I said with some hesitation, "Is Mayor Mare your actual name? It sounds more like a title."

"That's because it is a title," Mayor Mare said with some pride, "but it's basically become like a second name for me. My actual name is Ivory Scroll."

"Well, it's nice to meet you officially then Ivory Scroll." I look over at her assistant, who seems to be zoned out at the moment.
"Erm, is she okay?"

The Mayor turns and looks towards her assistant and frowns slightly at seeing her with wide, zoned out eyes and some drops of drool falling from her mouth.

"Raven, what are you doing? You're drooling." she said sternly.

"W-W-Wh-ho i-is t-t-that?" Raven said with what I could best described sounded like... hunger?

Both me and the Mayor follow her gaze and I couldn't help but sigh in dissapointment from what caused her to drool.
Kaoru was sitting under a tree, hunched over and sleeping peacefully. Birds and small animals had begun to surround him and place themselves on him for security, he was also being surrounded by seven foals, three colts and four fillies, who were looking at him in a state of awe. A bit farther away from his sleeping form were more than a dozen of mares that stared at him with hungry eyes similar to Raven, as if he was a buffet of carrots just waiting to be eaten.

"That would be my son." I said with clenched teeth.

Both Raven and Mayor seem to shake themselves out of their trance and looked towards me with wide eyes, then back to Kaoru and back to me.

"YOUR SON!" both said loudly.

"But he is-" Mayor began but I cut her off.

"Huge, I know." I said unamused.

"What were you feeding him?" Raven asked with both curiosity and concern.

"Nothing that wasn't from a normal pony's diet, honestly I'm not sure why he grew to be so big since neither me or his father were like that or had relatives with similar physique." I said with a shrug.
"I believe the doctors from back home said that he might have a case of muscle hypertrophy. Which is a rare condition were body fat is reduced and muscle size is increased by twice or more the usual amount of muscle mass."

"Does he suffer any from it?" Mayor asked with clear concern.

I smile at her concern and shake my head.

"There's nothing to worry about, Kaoru's completely healthy, more than healthy in fact." My words seem to calm them down slightly.

"Well, I'm glad to hear that, would be a shame otherwise." Mayor said with a smile, though I could sense a bit of hidden meaning behind her words which brought some concern.
"Hope the both of you will remain as respected townsponies of Ponyville."

"I hope so too," I said with a satisfied smile, "thanks again, Mayor Mare."

"Oh please, call me Ivory Scroll," Ivory said with a wave of her hoof, "Celestia knows not enough ponies do that."

With that said, I began making my way towards Kaoru to wake him up for the second time today.
So far I have to say that this town seems promising compare to previous ones we've been too. Ponyville seems to be the best option for both me and Kaoru in terms of careers. My mainline of work is being a nature photographer, specifically taking photos of exotic flowers, which the Everfree Forest is filled with. In fact, many of the flowers in the Everfree are still unnamed which means I can possibly discover and take photographic samples of something new and make a name for myself with it. My second line of work is being a part-time fashion designer, I actually designed both mine and Kaoru's outfit for today and I'm hoping to show it off for the local boutique in town so I can get hired. Earning bits from taking photos of flowers can only get me so far after all.
As for Kaoru, he can easily use that big body of his to get work as a construction worker or work at the local Applefarm. I know it's more of a mares job to do those kinds of things, but they are honestly the best options for the simple life that Kaoru seems to want. It's not that he's dumb and can't do other lines of work, he's actually above average in terms of intelligence, at least according to the IQ test we took. The problem lies in his social skills, since he isn't the most talkative pony around.
He can also help me when I want to explore the wildlife like I usually do, it is partially my fault that he's gotten some of his scars. But it's not like I'm forcing him, he seems to actually get a kick out of fighting beasts and monsters across the country. This of course doesn't make me any less worried for his health, but at least I know he can defend himself. I still can't believe he took down that bugbear, I'll never get used to seeing him fight.

I was about 2/3rds near Kaoru when suddenly a butterfly landed on his muzzle and tickled him. He began taking some rapid breathe ins, signifying that he was about to sneeze. I got a sudden feeling of dread as I remembered the last time he sneezed. The foals began to approach him instead of running away and my motherly instincts kicked in at full force. With adrenaline pumping through my veins, making the world around me slow down to a standstill, I quickly expanded my telekinesis and grabbed all seven foals, pulling them away from the shooting range that was about to explode. Which it did.

"ACHOOO!!!"

It was less like a sneeze and more like a sudden hurricane just appeared out of nowhere. The birds and squirrels were sent flying, turning into blurs and dissappearing beyond the horizon. The dust cloud that formed was so strong that it felt like running into a cardboard wall, not necessarily painful, but definently disorienting. The grass around Kaoru was torn from the ground, leaving a half-circle crater of dirt in front of him. I'm pretty sure the butterfly on his muzzle was reduced to nothing but atoms. While me and the foals were sent flying and landed in a pile, with me at the bottom of course because that's just my luck today.
Grunting from under the pile of children, I asked.

"You kids okay?"

"That...was...AWESOME!" one little orange filly with a purple mane shouted and began bouncing with joy on top of the pile.

"Well, I'm glad you're okay." I grumbled, still under the rest of the foals that were getting off of me and followed the fillies example with similar comments.

The noise of heavy hoofsteps aproaching drew me out of my grumbling fit as I saw the outline of the colt me and my herd sisters raised into a monster of a stallion.

"Are you wide awake now?" I asked, still lying on my back.

"...Yes." Kaoru answered with his usual deep voice that transforms a pony's legs into wet noodles.

"Good." I said with an amused tone.
"Now help me up."

He does as I say and proceeds to grab my hoof with his, but I give him a knowing smile and he does the same. Now, a normal pony would help another get back on their hooves by gently helping them stand. But my son, my Kaoru, is anything but normal. He proceeds to quickly raise his hoof and launching me skywards, causing the others around us to gasp in shock. Again, a normal pony would in this situation panic, but like my son, I'm anything but normal and this experience does nothing but give me an adrenaline rush. Deciding to put on a bit of a show, I begin to spin mid-air and do back flips, before beginning my decent back down. Kaoru meanwhile just simply sits down and reach out with both his front hooves, waiting for me to come back down.
I do so and he gently catches me princess style without either of us getting hurt from our little show. Our stunt cause the foals to cheer and stomp their hoofs in joy while the adults stared slackjawed, not sure if it was because of my sick moves or because of Kaoru's strength. Maybe both.

Kaoru places me back on the ground and we both give a quick bow before I turn to address him.

"Come now son," I say loudly with the intent of others to hear, "let's go and look for work."

"Yes mom." Kaoru say, simple and straightforward like always.

Judging by everypony's wide eyed reaction, our quick conversation seemed to have the wanted effect as they realised our relation to eachother. Which is good, since neither me or Kaoru would want another missunderstanding like what happened in Manehattan.

"Wow, that was impressive. If not a bit over the top." Ivory Scroll commented about the new townresidents.

"Yeah." Raven said simply.

"That Mrs. Mountainflower seemed like an intresting, yet serious mare, if not a bit of a thrill seeker judging by the stunt she just pulled. I can hardly wait for the 'Welcome to Ponyville Party' that Pinkie Pie will without a doubt throw for the both of them."

"Yeah." Raven said again.

"She's kind of like an odd combination between Rainbow Dash and Rarity now when I think about it. A thrill seeker with a sense of fashion, what a wierd combo. Though I can't help but feel like I've seen her somewhere before." Ivory Scroll pondered as she scratched her chin.

"Yeah."

"..."

"..."

"Oh would you stop being such a virgin and slurp up that drool already! If you want a chance with a stallion like that, you need to get your act together girl."

The Mayor's outburst seemed to finally shake Raven out of her trance that she returned to after seeing Kaoru's display of strength and she quickly cleaned her mouth with her legs while gaining a deep red blush from realising just how much she must have lost it. She also realised that she got a bit excited, as she could feel some moisture between her legs, making her even more embarassed and praying to both Princesses that others around did not notice.

Unknown to anypony, a pair of magenta eyes had seen the display and was more than impressed at seeing a stallion with that amount of strength and a mare that seemed so prim and proper being able to pull off moves like that without ruining her outfit.
From a cloud above Ponyville, a pegasus mare with a sky blue coat, rainbow colored mane, stared with newfound energy and could not help but get excited over the idéa that there exists a stallion like that in Equestria.

"Hmmm, might have to reconsider forming a herd with Spitfire and Soarin," Rainbow Dash pondered, "because I like what I see.~"

Author's Note

First of all... WHAT!!! This story blew up!
I honestly did not think this story would be that popular. But here I am, featured on the second day and on the popular story list. Guess I suck at reading the audience.

It was a bit difficult for me to describe Kaoru's scars but I hope I did a good job.
If not? Then tell me in the comments. I based it on the scars he now has in Baki Dou 2, but excluded the scar that goes horizontally across his nose.

This chapter had I bit more focus on Kaika than Kaoru, but she is pretty much the second MC of this story so I wanted to give a proper introduction of what type of mare she is.
She works as a photographer for exotic flowers, hench her cutie mark, but she also uses her photos as inspiration for clothes designs.

If you're curious about Mayor Mare's real name, it isn't anything canon as far as I know. I found the name when I searched if Mayor had a 'real' name and found a discussion thread on mlpforums were someone said that they read a fanfic were her name was Ivory Scroll. I don't know were the original fic is, but I liked that name so much more and think that it fits her character perfectly. It always bothered me that she didn't have another name except Mayor Mare, which is more of a title than a name.

To help with the size comparison, I used this chart for Kaoru's height as a pony.

Without counting the manes, the average pony is about 4ft tall, with Big Mac being 4'6. Kaoru, according to this chart, would stand around 5'6, being half a foot taller than Luna and half a foot shorter than Celestia. But unlike the princesses, he would still have a build similar to Big Mac, so he would probably be heavier than the princesses, if you don't count Celestia's massive flank. LOL

It isn't the most accurate chart, but it doesn't matter that much, it's just to help give a better picture of just how big Kaoru is compare to the rest of the ponies. Kaika is only a little taller than Twilight in this picture, but still shorter than Big Mac since he's also meant to be larger than the average pony.

So yeah, Kaoru's HUGE.