Chapter 1 - A New Scenery
TUESDAY, 5:00 PM
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“You are a young twenty one year old, decent looking stallion Pegasus with decent looking features I mean c’mon, I’m taller than most stallions. Well I take that back I hate my eyes.”
“Anyways let me continue. You have a mother, Rosemary Feathers who is gentle and kind.”
Your mother has a Rosemary colored coat and sported beautiful emerald colored eyes. Her cutie mark is a bunch of different flowers next to each other. She loves gardening.
“Also a father, Sunny Feathers who is abusive and just a general piece of shit.”
Your father has a lemon colored coat and sported cyan colored eyes. His cutie mark is two 2x4 planks making a X symbol with a hammer in the middle upright. He's a carpenter
“Let’s not forget about your dear and loving sister Lilly Feathers.”
Your sister has a magenta coat and sported emerald eyes. Her cutie mark on her flank is a bunch of cookies because she like baking.
You look down at the sink and and turn both faucets towards you. You start washing your face with warm water. Once finished you grab the towel hanging and wipe any water off of you.
“Everything has been going to shit lately and now I’m looking at a fucking mirror talking to myself.” You sigh quite loudly.
“I wonder if our next door neighbors can hear me talking through these paper thin walls.” You groan and walk out the bathroom.
As you were walking you got to thinking about what’s been happening the past couple of days
Many things haven’t been going so well lately. With having to move out of the house temporarily and now living in a musty smelling, dirty looking hotel for the time being.
I mean why couldn’t we just kick him out instead. But no, the authorities decide it’d be best to rent a hotel for a few days. It just makes no fucking sense.
You were lost in thought and didn’t contemplate what’s going on in front of you and end up bumping into something, rather someone.
“Uhhh Plat, you gotta pay attention to what’s in front of you little bro.” Lilly exclaims.
“My bad I was thinking about something.” You answer while looking down in the dumps.
Your sister looks away and sighs.
“I know how your feeling but aren’t you at least glad we’re away from him?” She reassures.
You look at Lilly and lightly push her as if a foal tried there hardest to let out there frustration on something.
“Of course I’m glad you bozo why wouldn’t I be happy knowing we’re away from that abusive bastard.” You chuckle lightly
As you and Lilly were laughing a door opened to your right.
“Hey! What did I say about swearing?” Your mother yells.
Both you and your sister stop laughing and look over towards your mother’s direction.
She isn’t angry it seems, because as of right now she’s smiling.
“Whaaaaat, mother you know I couldn’t have possibly swore knowing you could hear me through these paper thin walls.” You say in a posh accent.
All three of you started laughing in unison for a couple of seconds and once the laughter died down your mother spoke.
“Did both of you already pack up your things?”
You look at your sister knowing you already packed so you decide to answer first.
“Yeah I finished packing a couple of hours ago, how about you sis?” Asking Lilly who seems to be lost in her own world.
“Um well you see, the thing is, I had to go hang out with a few friends before telling them we’re going to be moving to a new place.” She looks at mother scared of a response.
“Lilly go pack your things right now. I told you to pack before you decide to even do anything yesterday.” She says while staring daggers into your sisters soul.
“Wait, wait, hold on just a minute. We’re moving into a different house? We’re not going back home?” You ask, a bit shocked from your sisters accidental announcement.
“Did Lilly not tell you Plat? Well we’ll be moving into a little town close by known as Ponyville. It’s within flying distance so we won’t need to take any type of transportation.” She says quite happily.
You look out the hotel window or what seems to be a window and talk out loud.
“I really don’t want to move but if it’s for the best, then onward we shall go.”
Lilly looks at you and snickers.
“That’s probably one of the dorkiest things you’ve said this month ha ha.”
You look towards your sister and and snap back softly.
“Well at least I packed all of my belongings bozo. One point for team Platinum.” You smirk.
Your sister looks at you with a more menacing smirk.
“Well at least I packed all of my belongings. Shut it you dolt, and stop acting like a colt. Ha, two points for team Lilly you loser.” She snaps back harder
“How am I acting like a colt when you just moc-.”
You were cut off.
“Lilly Feathers go pack right now! And platinum Feathers stop acting like a baby.” Mother smirks
“But she- I didn’t- she started it!” You retaliate but fail miserably.
“No excuses, stop acting like a foal and get ready to leave soon. You’re not even acting like your age, and you wonder why you haven’t found a special somepony. HaHaa, three points for team Rosemary.”
You look at your mom in defeat and sigh. As you turn around to go and grab your luggage you hear your sister yell In another room a bit muffled.
“NICE ONE MOM!”
“What am I gonna do with you two.” you say while smiling.
After grabbing your luggage you walk towards the front door and open it. Stepping outside you’re hit with a slightly cold breeze. You stand next to a run down fence and take out a cigarette.
“I guess moving isn’t such a bad idea.”
Taking in a puff you slowly let it out with a sigh.
Looking at the horizon you can’t help but feel relaxed. Leaving this place behind is gonna be a bit hurtful but hopefully a better life awaits in a town known as Ponyville.
Hearing a door open you look over and see your mother and sister. Finishing up the rest of the cigarette you toss it and step on it.
“Are you ready to go Plat?” Mother asks.
“Yeah I’m ready.” Answering her while grabbing your luggage.
Stretching your wings you slowly take flight. Your mother and Lilly follow suit and start taking flight as well.
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ONE HOUR LATER
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Up ahead you see ponies littering the roads of Ponyville. Living normal lives you wish you had. Approaching a bit closer you hear a few ponies laughing with each other.
“I wonder if there’s a bathroom nearby.” You mutter under your breath.
You really need us the restroom. Like really badly. Never the less, landing in front of a normal, peaceful looking town, you can’t help but feel like you’re at home for some odd reason. Hopefully ponies around here aren’t as bad as the ones in Manehattan.
Your mother looks around and her face lights up. She then looks at you and your sister and speaks.
“My beautiful daughter Lilly, and handsome son Platinum, I want the two of you to meet up with me in an hour at the mayors office up ahead over there.” Mother say in an angelic and soothing tone.
“I’m not handsome mother, I have two different colored eyes and one just so happens to match the color of that deadbeat of a father’s eyes.
Mother replies a bit angry with what you just said.
“One eye color may be different, but it’s what makes you, well you my dear son. You’re unique in a good way.”
She smiles and rubs a hoof across your face.
She seems to be in quite a good mood with all that has happened this past month.
Mother grabs both you and your sisters attention. She points in the direction of a huge looking building.
“That is where we will meet up. For now, during that hour, I want the two of you to look around and enjoy yourselves a bit, alright?”
You and your sister look at each other then reply in unison with hoofs across your foreheads.
“Yes MAM!”
You and your two family members laugh a little and once finished you and Lilly look at mother and she speaks.
“Alright you two, I have to go figure out where the house is and I’ll be back with you two in a bit.”
You look back at the huge looking building and in both directions you locate several stalls filled with foods and other essential needs. Farther up ahead to the right side you spot something. Not having super vision kind of sucks, regardless, you squint your eyes. Is that a flower shop? Definitely have to go to that shop in a little bit.
Thinking about all these stalls and stores has you lost in thought when suddenly you feel a little nudge in the right side of your body.
“Let’s split up for now, I see a few places I wanna check out already.” Lilly says in excitement.
“I do too, see ya then sis.” You reply.
Lilly walks towards a shop with a huge sign reading Sugarcube Corner’. It’s probably a little bakery shop. I doubt they cook cookies better than Lilly. You chuckle lightly at the thought of Lilly being one up’d in cooking her specialty. I mean c’mon she makes them almost every day.
Removing these funny thought out your mind you tilt your head upwards and look up into the sky. You see the sun start setting just a little bit. Along the horizon towards the shopping area you see multiple colors shining the stalls with a magnificent glare of rays. It’s quite the beautiful site to behold if you do say so yourself.
“Guess it’s time to go exploring in my new hometown.”
Author's Note
I know what your thinking and I know. My story isn’t that good but listen. This is my first time ever writing an actual story. If there’s anything wrong, or something that just doesn’t make sense please let me know. Criticism is welcome. Oh and chapters may come slowly because I’m currently busy with college things. It’s stupid of me to even write while I’m busy with college but who cares. Things will start to make sense in later chapters so please bear with me. Never the less please enjoy the read. :)
Chapter 2 - A Change of Pace
TUESDAY, 6:00 PM
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Taking a step out of a public restroom, you inhale at a reasonable pace and exhale at the same pace. You look to the side and grab your luggage that was waiting outside for you.
‘Nice I didn’t get robbed. But anyways, it’s amazing how clean these bathrooms are. I wonder how clean the mare’s restroom is.’
Walking away from the magnificent restroom you slowly move towards the market. You eyeball a few stalls worth looking at.
There’s quite a selection they have here.
‘gurrrrr’
Feeling a wave of a pain in your abdominal region you place your hoof on your stomach.
‘I guess I’m quite hungry. Almost forgot I haven’t ate all day, well besides those cookies Lilly made this morning.’
They’re good sis don’t get me wrong but. . .
Is that an apple stall?
Approaching the stall you stop in your tracks midway. From here you can see an orange mare with green looking eyes. Atop her noggin you see she’s wearing a Stetson, is that what it’s called? It’s a cow mare’s hat for celestia’s sake who cares what it’s called. She looks good wearing it.
My oh my she is quite the looker. To bad you don’t have the guts to actually start a conversation with her Plat.
I’ll just grab an apple, ask for how much it is, and give her the amount of bits she’ll want.
Stepping in front of the stall, you can see she’s about the size of a normal mare. Looking at her directly you are greeted with a beautiful smile and oh my celestia. The way those lips curl up adorn her beautiful cheeks. Those beautiful emerald eyes that go together with how wide they are. Everything about this mare is just amazing. Sheesh, you could look at her all day long.
"Ahem!"
Snapping out of your trance you realize what you've been doing.
"Let me try this again. Well Howdy there! Ah' don't think I've seen you around here before. Are ya new in town?" She asks gleefully.
‘That accent, could this be... Love?’
Looking away while rubbing the side of your neck with a hoof after that embarrassing scene you decide it’d be best to act casual.
"Yes I am actually. I'm moving into Ponyville with my family but I don't exactly know where we'll be living. At the moment I'm just exploring the town a bit." You answer in an embarrassed tone.
Well there you go plat, you ruined yet another oppurtunity. Why is talking to somepony in the opposite gender kind of hard.
"Well if thats tha' case, let me introduce ma’self. The names Applejack, nice ta meet ya. Oh and here ya go. On the house for a new resident of Ponyville. Just so ya know, these are the best tasting apples you’ll ever taste in all of Equestria." She says while smiling even wider.
Wanting to test her theory out, you accept the apple from her hoof and take a medium sized bite from it.
*crunch*
*munch* *munch*
You chew a little more than you need to. Enjoying every taste you could get out of this amazing substance. You can’t help but close your eyes and let out a moan.
“Mmmmmm”
You swallow
*gulp*
You breathe in and out but before you could open your eyes you hear an adorable giggle coming from in front of you.
“Aha ha ha, I told ya! One of the best apples in all of Equestria!” She says with a smile full of confidence.
Not only did she just have a confident smile, she also wore a smile that said “I told you so” and “You know I’m not wrong”.
Not knowing what to say you look at her and and let out a small giggle. You don’t realize it yet but your cheeks now have a slight burning sensation.
Returning to your usual self, you breathe in and out once again. Before even uttering a single word you notice she’s looking at you with extreme concentration.
‘I wonder what she’s looking at. Is there something on my face?’
“Um is there something wrong Applejack?” You ask in marvel.
‘Well ain’t he a handsome feller’
She utters something under her breath but you can’t hear what she said. Not wanting to just stand there looking at you like you did to he earlier. She clears her throat and speaks.
“Ah’m sorry sir but those eyes of yours. Ah’ve never seen anything quite like that before. Are ya perhaps blind in one eye?”
Realizing what she’s saying you answer back.
“Oh these?”
You point a hoof towards your eyes.
“I have heterochromia iridium. It’s when you have multicolored irises. Thankfully I’m not blind in neither of my eyes. I see pretty clearly. Twenty twenty vision. Oh and my names Platinum, but you can call me Plat, nice to meet you too.” You answer with a smile.
She’s seems incredibly friendly for a stranger. Well she’s not much of stranger now that both you and her just exchanged names. Hopefully other ponies here are just like Applejack.
Looking at applejack once again you notice she’s blushing a little bit and looking directly at you. Wondering what’s wrong with her you speak.
“Uh you okay Applejack?”
She’s a bit alarmed at your question probably because she was lost in thought but soon after, she answers.
“Well ya see, ah’m not goin ta lie Platinum er uh Plat, you’re quite the looker. Not only that but you’re also quite tall. Probably as tall as my brother Big Macintosh.”
Surprised from her sudden compliment you can’t help but blush a little. Well not a little because you can definitely feel a strong burning sensation going on within your cheeks.
“Wow um, thank you Applejack, I uh- I don’t even know what to say.” You answer her quite awkwardly.
But someone as tall as you? That’s quite rare to see. I bet I’m taller than him.
Both of you are quiet and not a word was said for more than a few seconds.
Not being able to handle this tension you decide it’d be best to compliment her as thanks.
“I think you’re quite the looker yourself too Applejack.” You answer while blushing profusely.
“Gee um uh-, thank you as well Plat.” She answers right back also blushing profusely while looking away.
Not wanting this situation to get any more awkward thank it already is, you speak up a bit loudly and rather quickly.
“Well it’s been nice meeting you Applejack, Ima head out to view the market a little more before I have to go do what I actually came to do here soon. See ya around.”
You wave a goodbye to her and she replies with one back.
“See ya around Plat. It’s been nice meeting you too.”
Looking at the watch on your left hood you see it’s 6:30 PM.
‘Was I really talking to her for that long?’
Returning to your usual self you start hitting up other stalls. There was a stall for bread, another for alcohol. Would you look at that, a candy stall.
‘All the foods here smell wonderful. Is that a burger joint? That apple was good but it wasn’t enough to fill me up’
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TEN MINUTES LATER
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“I haven’t had a hay burger in awhile.” You announce to no one in particular.
Looking around you, you realize something. Most of the ponies here are mares. Just like most cities and towns, the stallion to mare ratio is always down to the mares but this town. This town has a majority population of mares.
‘Well that’s quite weird.’
Now that you think about it. Maybe that’s why Applejack was a bit awkward towards the end of our ahem, awkward conversation.
“Well that’s interesting.” You mutter under your breath.
Looking at your watch you see it’s 6:45 PM.
‘Almost forgot, I still need to hit that flower shop down the market.’
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TEN MINUTES LATER
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You exit the flower shop with a small bag hanging onto your luggage. You look at your watch again for the third time today. It’s 6:55 PM. You open your bag and view the contents you’ve bought from the store.
‘Some lilly flower seeds, and some Rosemary flower seeds. Mother is going to love this. Guess it’s time to head to the mayors office.’
Looking ahead you realize you’re pretty far from there. Like across town far.
Spreading your wings to take flight you fly at an extremely fast speed toward your destination.
Looking at your watch once again for the fourth time today you can see it’s still 6:55 PM. You arrived here pretty quickly.
‘I wonder what my mother and sister are doing.’
Thinking about what they are doing you hear something.
‘FWOOSH’
You are hit with a strong unexpected gust of wind. You turn towards the direction the wind came from and don’t see anything.
‘What was that wind about? Is it always like this here?’
No longer alarmed, you turn to the direction you were previously looking at. All of a sudden you were alarmed once again when somepony yells somewhere above you.
“WHERE DID THAT PONY GOO! Do they think there faster than meee? Faster than THE RAINBOW DASH! NOT ON MY WATCH!”
Shocked on what the cyan mare hovering up above was on about, you get her attention by somewhat yelling in her direction.
“HEY miss, is there something the matter?” You ask In bewilderment.
She zooms towards you at an exuberant speed and stops in front of you. A foot from where you were standing. Suddenly A gust of wind with a mixture of dirt also flies towards you causing you to start coughing a little.
She’s definitely the one that caused that huge gust of wind to hit me.
“Hey mister uhh- I don’t think I’ve seen you around Ponyville before.” She states.
She shakes her head left to right numerous times.
Before you could answer talks.
“Wait, wait, wait, I don’t have time for greetings. Anyways, have you seen somepony flying in this direction? They zoomed past me while I was laying on my cloud bed and ruined my nap!” She yells.
Thinking about her question, you don’t think anypony zoomed in this direction. Unless they were really fast and you happened to not see.
“I haven’t seen anypony fly in this direction.”
‘Oh wait hold on, that was me.’
Realizing now that you just so happened to ruin her slumber, you can’t help but feel a bit apologetic.
“Actually that was me who ruined your nap, my apologies miss umm, what was your name?” You ask in wonder.
She looks at you dumbfounded as if you were supposed to know who she is.
“You’re telling me you don’t know who I am? I’m THE RAINBOW DASH! Up and coming wonderbolt.” She says loudly with a cocky grin.
“Can’t say that I have no. My names Platinum though. Nice to meet you Rainbow Dash and again, I’m sorry about what I did.” You reply flatly but with a sincere tone.
She looks at you embarrassed and see a blush forming on her cheeks.
“Oh I see, heh. Wellll I guess I can forgive you. That is, if you race me.” She says with another cocky grin.
“Sorry but no can do, I’ve got stuff that I need to do with my family and I can’t spare time to race at the moment. I just moved here recently and by recently I mean about an hour ago. Alrhough I don’t know where my house is. How about this weekend?”
She looks at you with a frustrated yet calm expression.
“I guess that’s fine, but you BETTER show up to race me. I’ll be above the burger spot on top of a cloud most likely taking a nap. Come see me whenever your free. Oh and another thing, you might wanna be careful because my friend Pinking Pie is gonna wanna throw you a party. And with the way she acts you definitely can’t miss her. So be warned. See ya soon hot stuff.”
You look at her with surprise and she does the same towards you but instead, her cheeks are extremely pink.
“I mean I’m- uh- you- I’LL SEE YOU SOON DOOD! DOMT BE LATE!” She yells loudly as she trails off.
What a weird mare you thought. With adrenaline from what she just said you say something without realizing what you’re about to say as she’s flying away.
“THANK YOU FOR THE COMPLIMENT! I ALSO THINK YOUR KIND OF HOT TOO!” You reply.
‘Did I really just say that? Gosh that’s embarrassing.’
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TWELVE MINUTES LATER
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“HEYA PLAT!”
You hear a familiar voice scream near the direction towards the market.
“Oh hey Lilly, did you enjoy your time here?” You ask with wonder.
“You bet your sweet bippy I did!” She replies.
Lilly shows you a bag filled with a bunch of pastries and a ton of cookies to the side of them.
“So I went to sugar cube corner and met the Cake family. There were two adorable foals trying to make cupcakes. It was soooo adorable. Oh and I also bought these goodies while I was there. For a discount because I’m a new resident of Ponyville.” She says really fast with excitement.
‘Sheesh she seems pretty hyper all of a sudden. What’s gotten into her?’
To your left you hear hopping. The hopping noise seems to be approaching rather quickly. Turning your head you see a pink mare, earth pony with poofy pink hair. She’s standing right in front of you a few inches from your face.
“HI THERE! IM PINKI PIE! NICE TO MEET YOU! YOUR SISTER HERE SAYS YOU, HER AND YOUR MOTHER WILL BE MOVING HERE TODAY! AND since you three are going to be new residents here in Ponyville. IM GOING TO THROW A SUPER DUPER OOPER WONDERFUL PARTY ON FRIDAY!” She yells very quickly with excitement.
Surprised and shocked at the sudden friendly, funny outburst from this pink mare. You can’t help but laugh a little.
“Nice to meet you too Pinkie Pie. My names Platinum Feathers. But you can call me Plat.” You reply to her very first statement.
“I can’t wait to throw you three a party! I’m going to make everypony an invitation and I’ll be preparing a ton of stuff. I’ll set up a ton of food and games and special drinks and other amazing funtastical stuff. Guess I’ll be seeing you three this Friday! See yaaaaa!” She says while also zooming off quickly just like that beautiful cyan pegasus.
‘Pinkie Pie is quite attractive too. All the mares here are attractive. Thank you celestia for allowing me to live during a time like this. Wait a minute, that’s Rainbow Dash’s friend isn’t it.’
Turning towards your sister you see that she’s laughing very loudly. Once her laughter dies down she looks at you and speaks.
“That’s Pinkie Pie, she’s really friendly. Not only is she friendly Plat, she’s also really really attractive.”
“Yea I noticed.” You reply giggling
“A mare like her is way out of your league.” She says plainly while smiling.
‘I don’t think she’s out of my league but she’s a little to hyper for my liking it seems. I gotta tell Lilly about those two beautiful mares earlier. She’s gonna be in for a surprise.’
Author's Note
This story is going to be quite long and I’ll be updating each chapter slowly to fix mistakes. Chapters will come out probably every week but who knows. If I’m feeling good I’ll realize one early. Like I said in the story description there will be two routes you can choose from. The question is, who will you choose??? But anyways I hope you’re enjoying the read so far and I hope you’ll enjoy the upcoming chapters as well. Enjoy!!!
