The world was consumed in pain. Oh the exultant pain. How come had it never experienced this kind of feeling before?

It was blissful, it's mind was muddled by the excess of agony and pleasure.

Its lungs burned. Oh how sweet that burning pain was, how enjoyable, delectable. The euphoric burn felt like a blazing bonfire was lit in its very lungs. Only when it felt that it's lungs were on the brink of collapse did it lift its head from the water.

It wanted more. No, it needed more. This water wasn't enough. It needed something more than this.

It craved something red, viscous and simply delectable.

The all white fur of the once majestic animal had turned a grayish pink. Large patches of fur were missing from its once beautiful figure.

Water dripped down from the creatures face, a face once elegant, now marred with hideous mutations.

Its once gorgeous eyes now spoiled a deep pink, slit pupils frantically gazed over the surrounding woods, like a predator hunting for its next meal.

Its once flat herbivore teeth now mutated into a maw of razor sharp canines. It's previously flat tongue slithered between its teeth in a snake like fashion. As the split tongue liked over it's canines, a deep black sludge slowly dripped down its maw.

The once small critter had grown. Now standing as tall as a pony. Its torso had grown into a bulky mass of muscle, the legs had elongated to thrice the size of what it once was. The feet of the creature now sported sharp claws, that it dug into the dirt.

A deep guttural growl escaped the hideous creature's maw. A sound that hadn't graced the ears of any creature of this world before.

But in another it was an omen of the terror to come.

It breathed in deep before a screech of pure blood lust escaped its vocal cords.

It was time for a hunt.

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The small group of two had been walking for about fifteen minutes. Twilight had taken the long way to sugarcube corner in order to show more of Ponyville to Valgith.

Pinkie had stayed for a bit and talked to the two until realising that she needed to head back to her shift.

Twilight had shown the locations of the most important places here in Ponyville. Like the marketplace, town hall, the Ponyville schoolhouse and the general direction of Sweet Apple Acres.

As they were nearing sugarcube corner she pointed to another sweet shop to her right.

"And that's the shop that Bon Bon runs." The average looking two story building had a sign just above the door. Inside it held a picture of some kind of wrapped up piece of candy. "She mostly just sells hard candy."

"But this" She then pointed at the huge gingerbread house that aesthetically clashed with the surrounding town. "Is sugarcube corner, they sell all kinds of pastries here. It's Ponyville's bakery, they sell a lot of baked goods here. You have to try some."

Valgith hummed in acknowledgement. He had stayed relatively quiet during the tour. He had been observing the town and it's multiple shops. To say that he was unimpressed was an understatement.

The very first thing he noticed was that there was an abundance of recreational businesses. There was at least five different candy shops within this one town. Not to mention the concerning lack of blacksmiths, armouries, defensive walls and guard posts.

He had seen a single smithy in town but it was very small and the few glances that he took inside, he didn't see any armour, weapons or defensive equipment being made. Only farming tools and some building equipment. In all honesty he was disappointed with the lack of any military equipment.

Not to mention the non existent guard. Usually there was at least a few squads of guards posted in even the safest towns.

By his estimations this town should have at least twenty or thirty guards patrolling all around the day. Only fools would leave their towns unguarded.

"How about we take a quick snack before finishing the tour? I'll pay for it of course." Twilight turned to look at Valgith, a small smile on her muzzle.

"If you so wish." In all honesty he wasn't that hungry even though he had only eaten an apple in the morning, which he had thrown up.

As the two walked into sugarcube corner the sight of the pink ball of cotton candy, also known as Pinkie Pie greeted them from behind a counter.

The inside of the shop shared the same theme as on the outside but had more elements which reminded Valgith of a normal building. It was filled with various candy decorations that he had never seen before. Underneath the counter was bunch of foods that he had never seen before, each topped with a swirl of some kind. All behind a thin layer of glass on display.

"Heya Twi! Heya Vallie! How are you doing? It feels like we haven't talked in weeks!"

Valgith raised his right eyebrow in a questioning manner. "Didn't we just talk?"

"Well of course we did silly! But I just want to talk to my new alicorn friend, I've been thinking of so many things to ask you when we met again. It felt like foreeever." She elongated the word forever, and spread her forelegs wide above her head.

Valgith turned his head to Twilight, who in turn simply shrugged.

"I wanted to know if you've ever eaten that Ghyranek cheese? I want to know what it tastes like." An innocent smile was plastered across Pinkies face.

Valgith fought the urge to groan. "Morrslieb isn't made of cheese, and there is no such thing as Ghyranek cheese."

Pinkie simply shrugged and continued on as if she didn't ask that question. "So what can I get you? A cupcake? A cake? A bunch of cookies? What will it be?

Twilight pondered the question for a few seconds before answering. "I think I'll have a blueberry muffin." She then turned her head to address Valgith. "What would you want?"

"I am not entirely sure. I've never had any of these-" He paused for a second, as if thinking of what word to use. "Pastries before."

Both of the ponies froze. But neither did for the same reason.

Twilight had a look a surprise on her face before she slowly turned her head towards the pink mare. Valgith followed her gaze and what he saw made him ponder if he had said something very bad.

The hyperactive pink ball of cotton candy now stood eerily still, her pupils the size of pinpricks. There she stood for nearly a minute. She didn't even blink once, as if the earth shattering information that she just heard made her brain forget the fact that her eyes needed moisture.

"Did I say something wrong?" A puzzled expression spread on his face.

Twilight didn't take her eyes off Pinkie. "She's never reacted like this. I'm not entirely sure how long she'll even be stuck like that."

"WHAT?!" Pinkie finally shouted, her pinprick sized eyes getting slightly bigger. Her entire body jumped into the air. Her bouncy hair seemed to morph into spikes that jutted out in every which way, as if she had just been hit by lightning. And just as fast, they morphed back into the bouncy mass that they once were.

Then without a word she vanished into a room behind the counter and reappeared just as fast, this time a plate of multiple different colored food items resting upon a plate.

"You have to taste every single one of these cupcakes, and then we move to cakes, then eclairs, donuts, pies-" It was a miracle that anyone could make out any coherent words at the speeds she was talking. It was as if she was trying to brake the world record for the most words said in a minute. In the middle of her ceaseless talking she shoved the pastry plate so close to Valgith's face that it was a miracle that none of the cupcakes splattered on him.

"Uhm..." He didn't even get to say anything before a cupcake with red frosting was shoved into his mouth.

The taste was indescribable, the cupcake was so sweet that it overrode any other taste it might have had. Accompanying the overwhelming sweetness was a sensation he had never experienced before, tooth ache. His back teeth ached from the amount of sugar he was forced to ingest.

Valgith turned his head and coughed up parts of the cupcake. Bits of cupcake flew out of his mouth and splattered on the floor.

After trying to clear his throat of the blockage, he glanced at Twilight with watery eyes.

As Twilight met his gaze she realized that his left eye had changed once more, this time it wasn't a slightly glowing blue, but a red slit pupil that had appeared in the black eyeball. She also noticed that while the blue one seemed to be erratic in its movement, this one seemed to be locked on to Pinkie Pie, no matter which way his head turned the eye seemed to only be fixated on her. She decided that now wouldn't be the best time to ask him about the changes in his eye, she had all the time in the world to question him later.

"What-" He coughs again. "By the ruinous-" Yet another round of coughing takes over him. "Iakash-"

"You don't like it?" Pinkie physically wilted at the sight of him coughing to clear his throat of the invading cupcake. Seemingly somehow not noticing the change in Valgith's eye.

Twilight walked next to Valgith and patted his back. "I don't think he even got to taste it Pinkie. You really shouldn't shove food down other ponies mouths. It could be dangerous." She gave a sympathetic look at him. She saw that the red slit pupil had vanished, leaving his eye void of a pupil once more.

Valgith breathed in deep. "I think I've had enough of these cupcakes."

"B-but you didn't even get to taste all the flavors, or the other pastries. " Pinkies lower lip trembled and her eyes watered, something about her face reminded him of a puppy.

"Pinkie, he'll have all the time in the world to taste all of your pastries. He doesn't have to eat them all now." Twilight saved him from the pink mare.

And just like that, the seemingly sad Pinkie smiled, all traces of the tears in her eyes were gone.

"And I have the perfect plan on how to get him to eat all of my pastries." She whispered while rubbing both of her front hooves together.

Twilight turned to face Valgith once more. "So, what do you want? You need to eat something." Valgith was about to say that he wasn't hungry until he remembered the delicious apple he had this morning.

"I'd prefer an apple."

"Well, we can go to the market. I think Applejack is there right now, she's been awfully worried about you too."

"Who?" Valgith wiped some moisture off his brow.

"Oh right. I didn't tell you." She shook her head. "Me and my friends were the ones who found you in the Everfree forest a few days ago. Applejack was one of them, so was Pinkie."

A sheepish smile spread on her lips. "I kind of promised to bring you to all of my friends when you woke up. They all have been worrying about you but couldn't come to see you at the hospital. The tour was supposed to be an excuse for them to meet you."

"So you're going to show off your new pet are you? I can't wait." Valgith's voice dripped with sarcasm.

"Pet? No no no, they just want to know that you're okay." She looked like she might have taken slight offence to his statement.

Valgith sighed. "How many of these friends do you have?"

"Five. There's Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Applejack and Pinkie Pie. But you've already met one so we have four left." She sheepishly smiled.

"Well, let's get this over with then." Valgith nodded towards the door.

As they turned to leave Twilight faced Pinkie one last time. "Bye Pinkie, see you later." Pinkie simply waved at them from behind the counter before quickly disappearing into the room behind her.

The walk didn't take long, Twilight had shown Valgith the general layout of Ponyville which meant that he didn't have any trouble walking into the decently sized marketplace.

"Who are we looking for?" Valgith turned his head to face the mare next to him.

"Her." She pointed her left front leg towards an orange mare with blonde hair and a stetson, who was currently running an apple stand. Multiple apple based foods rested atop the stand, and a cart full of apples was parked next to it.

Applejack handed a small bag of apples to a customer before she saw the two, a smile spread on her lips.

"Hey Applejack! Hows business?" Twilight stopped next to the stand.

The farm mare tipped her stetson at the two. "Ah can't complain. Business as usual." Her eyes slowly turned towards Valgith who was deep in thought, trying to remember if he had heard such an interesting accent before.

"Happy tah see that you're all healed up. Me and the girls were getting mighty worried." Valgith's brow slightly furrowed, why would they be worried about him? They barely even know him.

Putting his inquisitive thoughts aside, Valgith replied with a simple nod.

"Now, ah doubt that all y'all wanted to do was to say hi. So what can ah do for y'all?" She moved forwards, slightly leaning on the stall counter.

"Valgith here said he wanted an apple, so here we are. "And with a small pop and a purple flash of light a small bag appeared in her magic, the sound of coins clinking inside told him all he needed to know about the bag.

Two gold coins floated out of the bag and landed atop the counter. With another flash, the bag of coins was teleported out of sight.

Applejack turned around and grabbed two delicious looking red apples from the cart next to her, and handed them over the counter.

During this Valgith had been eyeing the stall, a question had popped up in his mind. Why would Applejack sell apple based pastries here, when there is a big bakery just a few hundred meters away?

"I cannot help but ask, why would you be selling these pastries just outside of the bakery? Isn't that just bad for business?"

"Now that I think about it, I don't think you've ever sold anything else than apples here, except on special occasions. Is there some holiday I've forgotten?" Twilight teleported a calendar and started going through it.

"Zap apple season is coming up, but it should be ah few weeks away." Applejack took a few glances around the small group, as if checking no one was listening. She leaned in a bit closer to the duo and whispered. "You see, Its Granny Smith, she's been up all night for the past few days just bakin pies. Ahm not sure what's gotten into her but shes been makin two dozen apple pies each day. We couldn't just keep on eating em' so we had to get rid of em' before they went bad. Its like she's gotten addicted to makin em'."

"Addicted to making apple pies?" A very confused look crossed Twilight's face. "I've never head of something so weird. Is she okay?"

"Ahm not sure. She talks a lot more about them pies than normal, while ah know that its not that weird, but its not healthy to be making that many pies a day. Just yesterday Big Mac and ah had to drag her out of the kitchen just to get her into bed. Not gonna lie, ah am kind of worried about her." Applejack sighed. "We really need her for the comin harvest. She takes care of the whole jam part of the zap apple jam, and without her we wouldn't be able to make enough jam for everypony. Ah just really hope this won't effect the harvest, we really need that money this year, the barns been creakin somethin fierce."

'A sudden addiction.' Valgith hummed in thought. 'She could have come into contact with chaos recently. I cannot do much more than speculate right now, I would have to see her to confirm it myself.'

"You can ask me and the girls for any help you might need. We would be happy to help." Twilight offered a sincere smile towards her friend.

"Ah appreciate it." As the conversation ended it was as if Applejack suddenly remembered that Valgith was standing right there, next to her. She slightly chuckled. "Hey uh, Val-gith was it?" He nodded once. "Ah hope that you won't tell anypony else about what y'all just heard."

Valgith blinked, he didn't think that information was that big of a deal to hide it from everyone, but then again he has only been a pony for a few days, he sure as hell didn't know what was socially unacceptable around these parts. Maybe talking about someone else's obsessions was frowned upon.

"I won't." The orange mare looked like she wasn't entirely convinced.

"Ah'd feel a lot better if you did a pinkie promise, but you don't have to if you don't want to." Valgith rolled his eyes.

'A pinky promise? The childish thing children did to attest the truth?' But he doesn't have fingers to do a pinky swear. What else would they mean by a pinky promise?

"What is a pinky promise?"

"It's ah promise you never brake." Then suddenly Pinkie Pie appeared out from behind the stall with an uncharacteristically serious face.

"Never." She menacingly whispered.

Valgith was about to say something before Pinkie spoke again. "Never ever ever." She then slowly disappeared beneath the apple stand. All this happened while Applejack had a smirk on her face, it might have been due to the flabbergasted colt in front of her trying to comprehend how he hadn't noticed Pinkie following them.

Valgith rubbed his forehead with a hoof before sighing. "And how do you perform this pinky promise?

Applejack went through the motions of showing how a pinkie promise is made. The well known words accompanied her actions. "Cross mah heart, hope tah fly, stick ah cupcake in mah eye."

Valgith had a feeling that he had heard a different version of this pinky promise, but for some reason couldn't remember how it sounded. He chose to ignore that feeling for now.

After applejack was finished she looked like she was waiting for something. He sighed and performed the pinky promise, motions and all.

Applejack smiled. "Ah appreciate it pardner."

Twilight took both of the apples that now rested in a brown bag and handed them to Valgith, who in turn took them in his telekinesis. "Thanks for the apples Applejack, but we need to get back to the tour. I'll see you later."

"Ah right. Bye now." Applejack tips her stetson and leans a bit back.

The next hour passed like a breeze. Twilight showed the remaining shops and important buildings that they didn't see earlier. Including Carousel boutique, an antique shop, a bookstore, something called a fan shop, quills and sofas, the spa, a simple cafe and the train station. The more Valgith saw of this town the more he was on the lookout for any kind of security. To his disappointment he saw none. It was as if the whole town didn't have even a single guard.

"And this is Fluttershy's cottage. She is one of my friends who found you in the Everfree." She pointed at a small cottage near the Everfree forest's treeline. It looked more like a bush that was converted into a house than a normal structure. Many a creature was casually lounging around the house, from bunnies to birds. Valgith also could have sworn that he saw a glimpse of a bear behind one of the windows of the cottage. At least one pony in this town had some kind of protection.

Valgith hadn't met any of Twilight's friends yet. They all were strangely absent from their homes. He didn't know if they were all avoiding him or if they simply didn't know that he was awake and had other plans.

"Good to know." Valgith slightly nodded, his gaze drifted from the cottage to the forest near it. "Did you find me in there?" He pointed his front leg towards the gloomy looking forest that aesthetically clashed with everything surrounding it. Its like the sunny and happy terrain ended the moment it made contact with the Everfree's treeline, and was turned into something one would see in a Sylvanian forest, if the Sylvanian trees had more leaves.

Twilight seemed hesitant to answer him. "Uhm, well yes. But nopony is allowed to go there. Its very dangerous." She then turned to fully face him. "And I hope you never go in there again. It is very very dangerous in there. Do you understand?"

Valgith snorted. "I won't."

He turned his head towards the town. "Is the tour over now?"

"Yes it is. But we need to head to sugarcube corner one last time before we can head home. I need to pick up a few things from there first."

Valgith agreed, Its not like he could just say no. He could be overpowered easily in his current state, so he had to play nice for now.

The walk back to the overly sweet looking building took around ten minutes. A time which mostly passed in near silence, occasionally interrupted when Twilight tried asking him about his past.

He only answered with vague one sentence answers as to not reveal too much about himself.

While all of this was going on he was also looking around the town. It seemed like something was off, it was too quiet. The kind of quiet that reminded him of the moment before battle. It was as if the whole town rigged some sort of ambush. This realization had the effect of his nerves increasing. His gaze meticulously focused all around himself, but he could not spot even a single pony out and about. It was as if the whole town became a ghost town in the few minutes that he was on the outskirts. The endless questions that Twilight threw out were not helping either.

"Is it supposed to be this quiet at this time of day?" The sudden tone shift from mild dismissiveness to a completely emotionless voice spiked a surprising look from Twilight.

"No, not usually." A slight smile tugged at the corner of her lips. A fact that didn't go unnoticed by Valgith.

To say that he wasn't on edge would have been a lie. His eye gazed all across his surroundings at lightning fast speeds, even the blue slit pupil had shown up in his blackened eye. Both of his eyes seemed to be scanning the area, his slit eye didn't align with his normal red one even once, making him look a little silly but he couldn't care less about appearances right now. For all he knew his relatively new life could be in danger.

He wasn't sure why the ponies of this town would plan to ambush him like this. He hadn't done anything to them. Except if they suddenly knew what he was. His eyes narrowed, did they finally catch on?

He slowly turned his head up towards the mare next to him. The small smirk that was on her lips was gone, replaced with a kind looking smile. She was looking at the building ahead of them, a familiar one. The bakery where that Pink menace worked.

Valgith saw that the lights were off, strange. He doubted that the bakery would be closed in the middle of the day.

He grew even more suspicious at the fact that Twilight didn't stop after noticing the seemingly closed bakery.

Perhaps the ambush was inside the shop? Not the place he would have picked but he's certainly seen worse places to set up ambushes.

His walking speed slowed down, now trailing a bit behind Twilight. She didn't seem to care or notice that fact.

The space between them grew even more until Twilight stopped in front of the building and turned around.

"What are you doing? Come on, its just a few minutes." Twilight beckoned Valgith towards the slightly ajar door of the bakery.

Before he could even take a step a purple glow surrounded him and he was picked off the ground once more. His horn lit up just like it did the last time he experienced this. His magic fruitlessly tried to overpower the purple aura but in the end his level of magical power was no match to his purple executioner.

As his slightly limp body slowly floated towards the building his face turned emotionless. He steeled himself for his inevitable death. If this is how he died he wouldn't give them the satisfaction of seeing his reaction to the pain, he will take it in his stride and go out like a true warrior.

In no time at all he floated past the purple mare and was deposited onto the wooden floor of Sugarcube Corner. Somehow it seemed that the interior of the building was pitch black. This however did not block him from seeing inside, as a small blue glow emanated from his blackened eye. The blue slit eye appeared once more, it frantically gazed all over the dark room, instantly spotting the multiple tens of ponies simply staring at him.

"SURPRISE!" Each and every one of the unknown ponies yelled at the top of their lungs. Accompanying the ear shattering screech was the act of someone turning the lights on. These two near instantaneous acts made Valgith shut his eyes, and his ears practically glued to his skull in a vain attempt to block out the loud sounds. This was accompanied by a high pitched ringing in his ears.

The moment before he was completely blinded he had grabbed a chair in his telekinesis and quickly brought it in front of him, using it as a makeshift shield from all the ponies.

He then slowly opened his eyes, squinting at the bright light. What greeted him was the pink mare he had met earlier that day. She was currently sitting on the upturned chair that was levitating in front of him. It also looked like she was talking but he didn't hear a word that she said, the ringing in his ears deafened all other sounds.

He rubbed his ears for a few seconds, the ringing slowly faded away, being replaced by a lot of talking. He placed the chair back down when he realised he wasn't going to be viciously attacked.

"- you were like." She pulled off a face that looked as if someone had blinded her completely. "And I was like." She then mimicked what she did the moment after the lights had been turned on.

Twilight stuck her hoof over Pinkies muzzle, muffling her rambling. "Pinkie, you blinded the poor colt. I'm starting to think that having a surprise party wasn't all that good of an idea after all."

Pinkie then quickly rushed over to Valgith and gave him a tight hug. "I'm sorry Vallie! I didn't mean to. I was so exited on planning all of this that I didn't even think if you wanted your party to be a surprise or not."

'This was all a party? My party? So I worried for nothing.' His tense shoulders relaxed and he sighed in relief. Then his eyes narrowed slightly in response to a warm feeling sprouting from his chest. He quickly glanced at where the feeling originated but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. 'Again with this feeling. What is it?'

Just as quick as it came, the feeling left. Deciding that it wasn't anything of note he ignored it for now and looked at the pink mare still hugging him.

"Wait, my party?" While trying to push the pink mare off him, his gaze drifted towards the crowd behind Pinkie. Practically the whole town was here, he honestly wondered how this many ponies could even fit inside of this building.

"Well duh!" Pinkie gave Valgith one more squeeze before letting him go. "It's your welcome to Ponyville and it's so good to see you all better party!" She then pointed towards the far wall where the name of the party was written in pink cardboard letters. It read "We come to Ponyvi e."

Pinkie shrugged, as a small smile spread on her lips. "I didn't have any L's, so I had to go with what I got."

Valgith's eyebrow rose in a questioning manner but he decided to say nothing.

"That's enough of talking. Lets get this party started!" Suddenly music started playing, and the crowd that had formed near him and Pinkie started to disassemble, as many of the ponies went to mingle with other guests or headed towards the snack tables.

In a flash he noticed that Pinkie Pie had left him for the snack table, chomping down on a few cupcakes.

Valgith felt something touch his back, turning his head he saw Twilight nudging him forward. "Go and have some fun. It's your party after all."

He breathed in deep before taking a single step forward. And that was all he could take before he was swarmed by a crowd of foals. Instantly many of them started asking him questions. Ranging from how he got his scars and all the way to if he was the first thestral alicorn. A look of surprise was written on his face, he didn't even notice any of these foals approaching yet here they were. He tried to look back at Twilight but noticed that she was gone. He scanned the room and quickly spotted her, all the way at the other side of the building, by the snack tables. With a sigh he started answering the questions of all the foals without telling too much about himself.

While answering all the endless questions he noticed two fillies at the back of the crowd, whispering to each other. One was pink with a light purple mane and tail with a white stripe flowing through them. He also spotted the tiara that she seemed to be wearing. He wondered if she was royalty of some kind. An image of a tiara rested on her flank, now that he looked at the other foals he noticed that a good chunk of them didn't have these images on them.

The filly next to the tiara wearing filly was gray, with a mane and tail of slightly lighter shade of gray, a pair of glasses rested on her muzzle. Light blue necklace made of beads rested on her neck. He also noticed the image of some kind of spoon on her flank.

Most of the foals had left him alone at this point, running away to play or to ravage the snack tables. Only five other fillies remained, three of which he hadn't seen before, and the other two who were the two seemingly royal or otherwise rich fillies, that had sat at the back of the crowd.

"Hey you don't have a cutie mark!" A high pitch voice exclaimed. Turning his head towards the sound he saw a white colored unicorn filly pointing at him. Her mane was a mix of pink and light purple. Next to her were two other fillies one a pegasus and the other a normal pony. The pegasus was orange with a purple mane and tail. And the normal pony was yellow with a red mane and tail. A red bow sat atop her head.

"Oh no you don't." A slightly bratty voice came from opposite to the group of three. Turning his head he saw the filly with a tiara walking confidently towards him. "I saw him first. He's going to be my friend, and he wont join your lame club."

"Our club is way cooler than anything you've ever had." The orange pegasus shot a glare towards the pink filly.

"I highly doubt that." She sneered before turning her head towards Valgith and offering him a smile. "I'm Diamond Tiara, and this is Silver Spoon." She nudged the grey filly next to her. Valgith could see that she was staring at the scar on his face.

"Wow." Silver Spoon muttered under her breath, her eyes were locked on to his scar, it was as if she couldn't look away.

"Valgith D'avenirr. A pleasure." He gave the two a cordial nod.

Diamond Tiara smiled. "At least somepony here has manners. Unlike a group I know." She then shot a slight glare towards the three fillies, who in turn matched hers tenfold.

"Ah don't think joinin' them is a good idea Val-gith." The red haired filly had a bit of trouble saying his name. "They're just trouble."

"Don't listen to them friend. We are angels compared to them." Diamond Tiara gave the best innocent look she could pull off at Valgith. "Now how about you become our friend instead?"

Valgith could feel the tension between the two groups of fillies. His eyes narrowed a bit as he looked over the group of three. From a cursory glance he didn't spot anything extraordinary about them, just simple commoners. He would gain more if he became friends with these two fillies next to him instead.

He cleared his throat. "I must apologize but I am not interested in your club." He then turned his attention towards Diamond Tiara. "Sure, we can be friends."

The group of three visibly wilted at his words. Diamond Tiara had a huge smile on her face as she watched them leave, eventually stopping by the snack tables on the other side of the building.

She then turned her attention back towards Valgith. "Now that they are gone." She started walking around him, as if inspecting him from all angles. "I sadly have to leave. I have some things to do at home, I have my own birthday tomorrow and I have to make sure daddy gets everything right for it. You are invited. Be at my mansion at twelve tomorrow. I have to go now, bye." She started walking towards the door before she realized that Silver Spoon wasn't following. Turning around she quickly walked next to her friend and whispered into her ear. "Come on Silver Spoon, stop staring at him."

This woke the gray filly up from her daze and her cheeks flushed a deeper shade of gray. Then both of them left sugarcube corner in haste.

'Well, that sure was something.' Valgith rubbed his forehead, he had not expected any of this. This day felt like it was an entire week. He furrowed his brow, he felt a headache coming along.

He sighed. 'Well, better get this party over with.'

He turned his attention towards the party. The most notable things he could see were a few party games that many of the foals were playing. Games like pin the tail on the pony and something called Twister. There was more games but Valgith didn't really pay them any mind.

His stomach grumbled, a feeling that he wasn't all that used to having back. It would seem that the apples that he ate weren't exactly enough to satisfy his hunger.

He passed by a few groups of ponies to get to the snack table. Just as he arrived someone called his name.

"Valgith dear, it's good to see you all well." A voice he didn't recognize spoke. Her voice was smooth and had an air of nobility in it. Though by the sound of multiple hoof-steps he had a hunch that whoever approached him wasn't alone.

Turning around he saw a group of four consisting of three unknown mares and a small lizard like thing. It kind of reminded him of a skink, only less ugly and somehow smaller.

The mare who he thought spoke had a white coat and purple mane. Her fur looked like it was very well kept. His nose slightly stung from the perfume that he could smell off her. She didn't smell bad at all, however the amount of perfume that followed her made his new nose scrunch up slightly. His eyes also spotted the horn on her forehead.

The two other mares were both pegasi, one was butter yellow with a pink mane and the other was cyan blue with a rainbow mane. Valgith doubted that the rainbow coloration was natural. The yellow mare stood a bit behind the white unicorn, peering at his face from behind her mane. He could see that her eyes were locked on to his facial scar.

"Friends of Twilight I presume?" He cocked an eyebrow at the group.

"We all are. We also were the ones that found you in that simply dreadful forest. Well, minus spike." The white unicorn replied, slightly turning her head towards the purple and green lizard.

"I think proper introductions are in order then. I am Valgith D'avenirr." He put his right hoof to his chest as he introduced himself.

The white unicorn smiled. "My my, what pleasant manners. I am Rarity, the owner of Carousel Boutique, if you ever need any custom made clothes come and visit."

The lizard waved with his small clawed hand. "I'm Spike, Twilight's number one assistant and the only dragon around here." Valgith's eyebrow rose at the information, this small little lizard was a dragon? He'd have to be extra careful around him. More so when he grows up.

The cyan pegasus that was hovering in the air flipped her mane back a bit and struck a heroic pose in the air. "Rainbow Dash, the coolest pony in all of Equestria." Valgith simply rolled his eyes at her antics.

"I'm Fluttershy. I do hope you're okay." Her voice was barely above a whisper, he had to strain his ears a bit to hear her speak. It was obvious that she was concerned about his scars.

"I can assure you I am perfectly fine." Fluttershy nodded at his words, her head peeking out a bit more from her mane than what it previously was.

"We're sorry for not being there when you woke up." Fluttershy's whispered.

The image of 6 unknown ponies and a small dragon staring at him the moment he woke up in an unfamiliar room entered his mind, in all honesty he was glad nothing like that had happened.

"It is fine." He courtly replied.

A pink mare suddenly emerged from behind a small group of ponies, she hopped over to Valgith. "Vallie! Come play some games!"

In all honesty he didn't feel like playing some nonsensical party games, all he wanted was to be left alone for a while. "Pinkie-" He didn't even get to finish his sentence before he was pulled through a crowd of ponies and deposited onto a white square mat with four different colours.

He sighed and robbed his forehead. "What is this?"

Seemingly not noticing the small amount of annoyance in his voice she happily replied. "Twister!" She then picked up a small circular object with images on it. A single clock hand was attached to it. She spun it once and waited for it to land on a colour.

"Right front hoof on yellow." She looked up to him expectantly. Valgtih simply looked at the huge smile on Pinkies face and then at the white mat. He had never played this kind of game before but he quickly picked up on how it was played, with slight reluctance he placed his right leg on to the colour yellow.

"Great now it's my turn!" Pinkie spun the clock hand once. Then a sudden ghasp escaped her lips. "I almost forgot." She then quickly disappeared behind a crowd of ponies, and appeared back right where she left in just a few seconds. This time a small lizard was sitting atop her puffy mane.

Pinkie then hopped next to Valgith and presented the small lizard that was lazing around in her mane. "This is Gummy! Say hello to Valgith!" The green lizard slowly blinked at him.

A slight look of confusion graced Valgiths face as he looked upon the lizard. It reminded him of a smaller version of the creature on the cover of the book he read earlier.

"Hello." The lizard blinked once more, not reacting to his greeting. Seemingly taking that as a good enough introduction Pinkie hopped back to the circular object and placed Gummy next to it.

"Gummy is on spinning duty." She then looked at the spinner and checked what she had to do on her turn.

"Left back leg on blue." She happily stated.

The next half an hour or so was spent playing multiple party games with Pinkie. Every time he was about to say that he had enough the mare had pulled him to yet another game. They played twister, pin the tail on the pony and a few other games, until Pinkie thought they had played enough, and had pulled him back to the snack tables.

Valgith sighed as he approached the multiple tables with food. His stomach grumbled yet again, reminding him of the fact that his attempt at getting food earlier was interrupted. He eyed the multiple different kinds of baked goods that rested upon the tables. A pleasant sweet smell entered his nose which in turn elicited yet another grumble from his stomach.

He had never seen this many different pastries at one place before. Then again he didn't need to eat for decades so this was the most food he might have seen in years.

A small pastry was enveloped in a dark blue aura as it slowly floated towards him. It looked like one of the cupcakes that Pinkie had tried to feed to him earlier but this one didn't have anything on top of it. He took a small bite out of it and a slight smile formed on his face as the taste spread on his taste buds.

Valgith saw two large blue eyes peeking from behind the snack table, a mass of pink surrounded said eyes. As soon as Pinkie saw that Valgith had spotted her she jumped out of her hiding place. "Do you like my chocolate chip coffee muffins? I wasn't sure if you liked coffee or if you liked something a little more sweet so I made both." She pointed at a few other muffins on a different tray next to the coffee muffins.

"You made these for me?" He asked with a look of surprise. A warm feeling yet again bloomed in his chest.

"Yepperoni! I always make something for the celebrated party pony." She then hopped around the table next to him and whispered into his ear. "If you want any more muffins just ask Gummy. He'll make more." She then hopped off to join some other group in playing some party games.

Valgith looked back towards the table and he spotted the small lizard looking at him with one eye, the other eye was looking at some of the baked goods near him. His tongue slithered out of his mouth and it unceremoniously landed on his own eye.

A small smile tugged at the corner of Valgiths lips.

The rest of the party went by quickly. In all honesty he had gained some modicum of enjoyment from it. He had started the party on a negative mood but slowly he had grown to like it. The atmosphere had brought his mind back to a time long lost. A short period in his life where there were no worries.

Soon the party ended, and many ponies headed for their homes. He had said goodbyes to each of Twilight's friends that came to visit him before leaving the party with her and the small dragon.

The small group of three arrived near a house made out of a tree. A sign with a book icon stood out of the dirt next to the entrance. If Valgith had to guess it was the town library, and the place he presumed he'd be staying at for the time being.

His guess was proven right when Twilight opened the door and let the small group inside. Instinctively Spike headed up the stairs, he gave a slight wave and a "Goodnight." as he disappeared behind a door.

"There's a spare room next to the kitchen for you. I'm sorry if it's a bit messy, I haven't had the time to organize all the books that are in that room." Twilight sheepishly smiled as she led Valgith through the kitchen and into the spare room.

It was a relatively spacious room but the many books that laid in huge stacked piles made the room appear smaller than it should. Past the books a lone bed sat in the corner. Next to it a sturdy wooden desk sat, many a book was resting atop it. A single window rested above the desk, letting moonlight shine into the room.

"Thank you." Valgith politely nodded at the purple mare.

"Goodnight Valgith." She smiled back and slowly closed the door.

'What an eventful day.' He thought.

His eyes gazed across the books that were laid all across the room. He didn't feel all that tired so he decided to see if he could find any useful books that could answer his questions about his current predicament.

He spotted a few books that piqued his interest. Mostly books about geography and a few books of pony history. He took them all to his new bed and he laid down, and he prepared himself for a long reading session.

Author's Note

"Iakash" means "Lock or obstacle"

Holy mother of god. This took way longer than I thought.
I also think I could have done better with the dialogue in this chapter but oh well.

I've planned some more interesting stuff for the next chapters so look out for that.

Also sorry for the slow updates, school/work has been kicking my ass recently. I should be able to write more consistently on summer vacation. Anyway hope you enjoyed the chapter and criticism is always appreciated, as long as it isn't out right mean.

I'll see you all next month. (Or in two months )