Chaos Origin

The sun was setting again upon the city of Manehatten. As it beamed into the windows of hotels, many ponies closed their curtains. One of those ponies was an earth pony named Shadow Cloak. He had a brown coat, dark brown mane and tail with a short mane cut, and he wore an olive headband that matched his eyes. Shadow Cloak had just finished writing a poem for his sweetheart, Summer Palette.

"How did I even write this?" Shadow pondered aloud to himself," Should I even give it to her, will she find it overbearing?"

Shadow looked over the poem again, but his thought was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Mail!" shouted the mail courier through the door.

Shadow went to the door and received his mail, with an advertisement catching his eye. it read 'Lovestruck's dating service: Need relationship advice? Ask Lovestruck!' As he finished reading, a smile crept upon his lips.

"Hold on, I'm going to answer an ad." He said as he began writing a letter. He put the return address as the Ponyville Inn, and gave the letter to the courier. "Now, I must wait." He said to himself.

The next day he packed his research papers and equipment into a belt with olive saddle pouches and checked out of the hotel. Shadow then traveled to the train station, but not to board a train. No, he began to run beside the tracks leading out of Manehatten, and all the way to Ponyville.