-Third person view earlier that day Fluttershy's Cottage-

Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetiebelle quickly ran towards Fluttershy's cottage. After several minutes they arrived outside of the Cottage and quickly knocked on the door. Fluttershy slowly opened the door a crack and peeked outside quickly spotting the three slightly frantic fillies who began to talk over each other trying to explain exactly what brought them out to her Cottage.

Eventually Applebloom managed to be heard above the other two quickly saying "Fluttershy there's a weird creature in town!" This caused Fluttershy's eyes to widen as she opened her door fully before asking "What? What kind of creature?" She was hoping it wasn't an Everfree creature, while many of them could be very friendly others where impossible to talk to.

"Ah don't exactly know, it was inside a house that just appeared in town today." Applebloom quickly responded. Looking up at Fluttershy who's face had taken on a very concerned look. After a few short moments Fluttershy Asked "W-well has it done anything?" As her natural shyness returned.

Applebloom blinked several times and put her hoof to her chin in thought for several seconds before saying "Well no, it just kinda opened the door when we knocked and look around before slamming the door shut, we rushed here right after." Fluttershy nodded slightly before saying quietly "W-well maybe its shy? If I suddenly appeared in a new place I would be pretty scared." All three fillies looked between each other for several moments before looking back to Fluttershy.

Scootaloo asked "So what should we do?" This question stumped Fluttershy for a few moments before she looked towards the three fillies and said "We should see if it needs any help, I'll come with you girls." Shortly after that all four of them headed towards town at a quick trot.

-Third person view Golden Oaks Library-

Twilight Sparkle was a very busy mare. Earlier that morning an extremely strong magical surge had been detected in Ponyville. Twilight had quickly located the focal point of the magical surge and a building she hadn't seen before near the outskirts of Ponyville. She had decided to observe the seemingly new building from the balcony through her telescope quickly jotting down anything of note she noticed about the building and its immediate surroundings.

Eventually she saw the three cutie mark crusaders approaching the door. Twilight was unsure what reason those three where doing until she noticed Applebloom approach what appeared to be the front door and knock rather quickly at the front door. Twilight sat watching with bated breath as the door slowly opened and she saw a very strange creature looking out at the three fillies.

It appeared to be bipedal, had extremely pale skin, no noticeable fur to cover the majority of their body, a white mane on top of their head, two front facing blue eyes, a predominantly black and red dress, and most curious of all four long black appendages that appeared to sprout from somewhere behind it. Twilight's curiosity peaked when the creature slammed the door shut and the three crusaders ran off toward the southern end of Ponyville.

As twilight continued her observations of the house she noticed the creature seemed to be peering out from one of the front windows of the house before looking directly at her. After several moments the creature gave a small wave and crooked smile. The fact that the creature not only noticed her but had acknowledged her with a greeting similar to that of a pony caused Twilight to let out a gasp.

Suddenly she had to know more and her horn lit up as she pulled in arcane energy from her surroundings and quickly formed and cast a teleport spell to the small bit of interior she could see behind the creature. In an instant Twilight was grabbed and lifted off the ground by one of the four appendages on the creatures back. She let out a short squawk of surprise and was so surprised she forgot she could teleport out of the creatures grasp.

The creature quickly turned to her in surprise and simply stared at Twilight for several moments. Twilight may have been scared but her curiosity overpowered her as she rapid fired questions not giving the creature a chance to speak "What are you? How did you get here? Are you the source of the magical anomaly?"

After several moments the creature said something in an unknown language peaking Twilight's curiosity even further. An entirely new language no creature has heard before! Before twilight had a chance to speak again the creatures tentacle holding Twilight dropped her rather harshly to the floor.

Twilight decided to cast a scanning spell on the creature to try and learn more but as soon as her horn began to light up as she drew in arcane energy one of the black appendages shot out and wrapped around her horn unceremoniously cutting her spell off and blocking her from pulling in any more ambient magic.

This greatly shocked Twilight as very few things could cut off a unicorn from magic. As twilight stared up at the black tentacle like appendage wrapped around her horn it suddenly withdrew as the creature tapped it.The tentacle hovered close to twilight seemingly ready to strike.

Twilight quickly attempted to calm the creature down saying "I'm sorry if I upset you, I don't exactly know if I did something wrong." As twilight continued to speak the creature turned away from her and pointed towards the door before looking back at her. After several moments Twilight realized she had just entered this creatures house without permission but as the creature turned back towards the door and opens it Twilight spots Fluttershy and the cutie mark crusaders standing on the other side.

-Third person view outside of Dakota's home-

Fluttershy had raised her hoof to knock on the door before it suddenly was pulled open and she was face to face with a creature unlike any other she had ever seen before. After a few seconds Fluttershy noticed the slight withdraw the creature had done along with its wary expression and decided to try and reassure the poor thing saying "Oh, its OK please don't be scared, nopony here will hurt you." And smiling gently towards the creature.

After a few seconds the creature began to relax a little before suddenly a loud growl was heard. Fluttershy sharply tensed for a moment before noticing that the creature didn't look aggressive or defensive and in fact, it had begun to turn around and walk inside its home waving one of its arms as if to gesture for her to follow.

Deciding to follow the creature inside Fluttershy gently nudged Applebloom next to her with a hoof and gave her a small smile before following the creature inside. As soon as Fluttershy enter she noticed her friend Twilight Sparkle and asked "Oh, Twilight you came to meet the new creature as well?" Twilight smiled towards her friend and said "Ah, yes I noticed a magical surge this morning and was investigating this house when this creature noticed me."

Twilight rubbed a hoof on the back of her head blushing slightly before saying "I may have teleported inside and scared it when I saw it waving at me." The mention of the creature waving towards Twilight peaked Fluttershy's interest and Fluttershy asked "Oh, it waved towards you? Has it tried to communicate any other way?"

Twilight began walking behind the creature following it into what appeared to be a kitchen as she said "Well, it seems to speak a language but its not one I've ever heard of. Maybe you can speak to it?" Fluttershy followed behind twilight and gently rubbed a hoof under her chin and said "W-well maybe, I feel like I can read some of its body language but I haven't heard it speak."

Both go silent as the creature suddenly speaks in a high pitched yet soft voice towards the four tentacles and each one moves to do something different, two heading towards the fridge in the room, one heading towards a high cabinet, and the last moving towards the oven.

As the tentacles go about doing whatever it is they are doing Fluttershy says "Oh, I think it might be a she. It sounded rather girly." Twilight looked over to Fluttershy for several moments before saying "Oh? I guess that makes sense considering she is wearing a dress." Both ponies go silent as they watch the four appendages quickly moving around ingredients and setting the table.

As they watched Twilight noticed that the two tentacles providing ingredients to the tentacle using the stove seemed to be pulling magic from their surroundings. At the same time Fluttershy watched the tentacles with interest and she noticed each seemed to operate independently of the creature almost like they where separate beings.

After a few minutes the tentacles placed a massive plate of what appeared to be pancakes on the table and the creature sat before speaking in her language again. Twilight watched closely as one tentacle moved towards the fridge and saw a brief flash of light as it returned with a container of what appeared to be syrup.

The creature poured the syrup over several of the pancakes on its plate before taking a bite and letting out a rather loud moan before quickly biting into the pancake again. Seeing this Twilight's curiosity was peaked again and she gently floated over one of the pancakes giving it a small sniff.

It smelled like a chocolate chip pancake and looked like one so with only a small amount of hesitation Twilight bit into the pancake before letting out an even louder moan and gasped before digging into the disk of delicious. Seeing this Fluttershy and the cutie mark crusaders decided the food must be safe and took seats at the dining table with the creature before digging in themselves.

As all of them where mostly distracted with eating Applebloom noticed the creature get up and wonder towards the main room of the house before one of the tentacles suddenly had a doll shaped like a dog in its grasp and lowered it into the creatures hands and another patted the creatures head.

As Applebloom watched the creature it wandered towards what looked like a book shelf as one of the tentacles pulled out something that she quickly recognized as a photo album. As Applebloom watched curious as to what the creature was doing while it sifted through the pages of the photo album she was shocked to see that tears where slowly trailing down the creatures cheeks.

"Twilight I think something is wrong with her, she's crying." Applebloom quickly said her voice having a tinge of panic in it. Twilight, Fluttershy, and the other two crusaders quickly looked up toward the creature and noticed that yes, indeed the creature was crying. Twilight quickly stood and looked over to Fluttershy saying "What do you think happened?"

Fluttershy was concerned, nopony cries for no reason and she looked over to Twilight saying "I have no idea, one second she was sitting here eating and suddenly she's crying on the couch." Deciding to investigate Twilight quickly walks towards the creature but slows down as she notices the bookshelf behind the creature. She has to stop herself from imagining all the books she has never seen before and focuses back onto the matter at hoof.

As Twilight approaches the creature she notices what appears to be a photo album sitting on the coffee table in front of the creature. Suddenly the creature shrugged towards her and stood up stretching out and looking around the room. Twilight decided to investigate the photo album and quickly flipped to the first page, It showed a creature similar to the one in front of her but lacking the tentacles, it had brown hair and seemed much less pale. As twilight examined the photo she noticed more of the creatures standing next to the first all much taller.

As Twilight flipped through the pages she noticed that each photo had less and less creatures standing next to each other until it was only the small creature and the smallest of the tall creatures. The tall one was seated in a wheelchair looking much paler and thinner with a small smile, the smaller creature was smiling but had a look Twilight had never seen before in her eyes. It felt like the look of a child who knows they are lost and will never be found and is heartbreaking.

The next photo was just the creature standing next to her alone, pale with white hair and the four tentacles coming from behind it. But it had a bright smile like that of someone who had been saved from the worst fate imaginable. Realization struck Twilight like an arrow through the head as she realized the two taller creatures standing next to the smallest one must have been her parent's and she had lost both.

Twilight looked up to the creature as tears threatened to spill from her eyes. Twilight looked over to Fluttershy and shakily said "I-I need to send a letter to Princess Celestia." Twilight levitated the photo album up to her and quickly walked outside towards her home determined to inform the Princess.

After several long seconds Sweetiebelle suddenly spoke up "Well since Twilight went home maybe we can show her around Ponyville, we might even get our cutie marks!" Scootaloo and Applebloom looked between each other and quickly nodded while Fluttershy looked between the three fillies and the creature unsure.

Fluttershy decided to say "G-girls maybe its not such a good idea, I mean she must be pretty confused right now." The cutie mark crusaders simply ignored Fluttershy and animatedly talked about where they should take her to first before finally Sweetiebelle said "Well if my sister finds out that she wears clothes like these and we don't bring her there first she will be pretty peeved with us." Scootaloo and Applebloom nodded sagely before all three looked towards the creature.

"Well how are we supposed show her around if she can't understand us?" Scootaloo asked looking back towards Sweetiebelle. Sweetiebelle took several seconds to think before confidently saying "Well I'm sure if we just bring her there she will understand!" All three looked towards the creature again before rushing towards her shouting "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS TOUR GUIDES!" And quickly began to drag the creature by the legs towards the door ignoring Fluttershy's concerned protests about being too forceful.

None of them seemed to notice the tentacles gently bobbing up and down as if chuckling.

Author's Note

This will probably be the last thing I can post until after the 14th as some stuff is happening at my work.