Fate's Aria

Arrival in Ponyville

“Wow, the landscape looks really cool, I never seen the countryside from this angle before.”

“It’s your first time with the train, young colt?” a pony dressed in an official clothes said to the infant earth pony with red coat sitting in the seat next to the window, “It must be quite exciting.”

“Yeah, I never imagined it would look like this.”

“I believe Ponyville was your stop, young colt? We will be arriving there shortly.”

“Thank you kind Sir, I will get ready to go out then.”

“Sir?”

The conductor smiles and nods at the young colt before he walks to the next wagon.

“Sir?”

Huh?

The tired unicorn with the red coat opens his eyes slowly, seeing the train conductor from his dream in front of him, “Excuse me Sir, I believe Ponyville was your stop? We will be arriving there shortly.”

Rubbing his eyes, the unicorn replies, “Huh … Ah yes, thank you kind Sir.”

The conductor smiles and nods at the unicorn before he walks to the next wagon.

The unicorn smiled and said to himself, “It’s good to see ponies who can be happy doing what they love for so many years. Makes me wonder what my special thing will be …”

The train comes to a stop at a station, a few passengers get out, including the red coated unicorn, who has his books in his saddlebags and a pouch filled with bits as his baggage. He walks off the station and looks around.

“I have seen Twilight Sparkle before, let me see if I can remember it properly,” Chrono says to himself, “She had a light purple coat, dark blue mane and tail with two streaks in them, purple and pink. Of course she had a unicorn horn, with violet eyes below them. And ... What was her cutie mark again ... Aah I remember, it was a violet star with five small white stars around it. I guess I can see if anypony knows where to find her.”

He starts to walk along the dirt path laid out before him. Along the path he spots a pony picking flowers, a cute yellow Pegasus with a long pink tail and mane, having baskets hanging on either sides to put the flowers in and a cutie mark of some pink butterflies positioned slightly behind them.

“Excuse me, may I ask you a question perhaps?” the red unicorn asks the yellow pegasus, to which she turns around, revealing gentle, cyan coloured eyes before she replies, “Uhm, a question? Sure.”

“I’m looking for a unicorn named Twilight Sparkle,” the red unicorn speaks politely, “Might you know where I can find her?”

The yellow pegasus looks down for a moment before answering in an equally polite manner, “Uhm, well, I guess Twilight would be at the library right now, I could show you the way if you want.”

“Thank you, I would really appreciate that, can I perhaps ask your name?”

The yellow pony looks away slightly, saying in a soft voice, “My name is …,” followed by a mumble that the unicorn can’t understand.

“Excuse me, I didn’t quite catch that.”

“My name is …”

“Hey Fluttershy!” an energetic voice calls out from another direction. The unicorn and pegasus look at where the voice came from. A purple coloured mare approaches the two, which the unicorn can identify as Twilight sparkle.

“Oh, hey Twilight,” the yellow pegasus says gently, looking at the purple coloured unicorn.

“Are you Twilight Sparkle?” the red unicorn asks excitedly as he bows courteously, “It’s a pleasure to meet you.”

“And you must be Chrono?” Twilight asks, to which the red unicorn responds with a nod, “Celestia already sent me a letter, sorry I was a bit late though, SOME dragon didn’t give the letter to me in time.”

“Well you wouldn’t listen because you were reading that book on naturally made potions that you borrowed from Zecora,” a small dragon riding on Twilight’s back replies.

“Oh well, you know, let’s not point hooves when we have a guest here,” Twilight continues, sounding slightly nervous.

Spike chuckles as he jumps off Twilight’s back, showing his purple coloured scales and dark green spikes going down his back, his eyes matching the colour of his spikes and with dragon ears in a lighter green shade, “Hey Fluttershy.”

The yellow pegasus replies with a kind smile and a kind voice, “Hi there Spike.”

“So, this is the guy that Celestia wrote about? I gotta say, I was expecting him to look more … Impressive,” Spike says, looking at the red unicorn Chrono.

“Spike! That was awfully rude to say,” Twilight says in a scolding tone as she nudges Spike the dragon in his side, “Anyway, I see you met my good friend Fluttershy already.”

“Oh, I didn’t know she was a good friend of yours,” Chrono says, before taking a courteous bow towards Fluttershy, “It’s a pleasure to meet you.”

Fluttershy blushes slightly at Chrono’s display of courtesy, stuttering a little before she can get a proper reply out, “Uh, it’s nice to meet you too.”

Chrono gets up with a smile just as Twilight starts to talk again, “Well then, Princess Celestia asked me to introduce you to some of my friends, Fluttershy, do you want to come along with us?”

“Uhm, I guess I’m not busy, I will go with you,” Fluttershy responds, sounding more excited than she has so far.

“Only if I can ride the new guy!” Spike says in an excited voice, “I need to know how comfortable he is.”

“Spike, stop being so upfront to Chrono,” Twilight says, sounding harsher on Spike than before.

“Aww, but Twilight …,” Spike replies in a very disappointed voice.

“I don’t mind it, I’m used to carrying a lot of things around,” Chrono interrupts.

“Really? Awesome!” Spike quickly jumps up on Chrono’s back and makes himself comfortable.

Twilight rolls her eyes with a smile as she moves to lead the group into Ponyville, “Well, let’s go guys, I think I know where to find our other friends.”

With Twilight leading in the front, followed by Chrono with Spike on his back and Fluttershy trailing behind, the group is walking along Ponyville’s main street, leading past the market leads the group towards Sugarcube corner, a sweets shop run by local pair of earth ponies, who are parents since quite recently.

Not a lot has changed over the many years, since the last time I was here, I remember getting some sweets at that shop, they were much tastier than those in Canterlot.

“Oh, hey, there’s Pinkie Pie!” Twilight says, as she calls out to a pony leaving Sugarcube Corner.

“Twilight!” the mare calls back before hopping over, “I didn’t expect to see you here, are you here for something special? You must be or else you wouldn’t be here! Well unless you came here to buy some candy. But then again candy is special …”

Suddenly, the pony bouncing energetically around Twilight gasps deeply as she sees Chrono and moves quickly over to him, “Oooh, I haven’t seen you around here before, are you new? You must be new here if I haven’t seen you before because I know EVERYpony in Ponyville! Ooh, ooh, is he your friend Twilight? Or is he your friend Spike?”

The energetic pink pony finally seems to somewhat stop moving, making her dark pink curly mane and tail clearly visible, along with her light blue eyes and her cutie mark of some balloons.

She gasps deeply again, before continuing, “Is he your … Very special somepony?”

“Oh no Pinkie, he got sent here by Celestia, just like I originally was, he will be staying in Ponyville for a while with us,” Twilight answers, trying to hide a slight blush from the absurd suggestion, “This is Chrono, and Chrono, this is Pinkie Pie.”

Before Chrono can do his customary bow and greet Pinkie Pie, she starts to jump around him with a big grin on her face, “Oooh, a new friend, he looks tough, Celestia sent you? That means you must be special if you know Celestia personally, just like Twilight was, ooh I remember the day I first saw her in Ponyville, it was the most exciting moment ever!”

How can a pony have so much energy, she’s bouncing around faster than a bunny!

“Pinkie, are you at it again?” a confident voice says from above.

Looking up, there is a pegasus floating above with a light blue coat, having fuchsia coloured eyes, a cutie mark of a lightning shaped rainbow coming from a cloud on her flank but most amazingly her mane and tail, which are coloured in all six colours of the rainbow.

“Oh hey Rainbow Dash, I was just so excited for this new friend that Twilight brought over!” Pinkie says, looking straight up at the light blue pegasus.

“New friend ey?” the pegasus dives down, landing on her four hooves with a certain finesse, landing in front of Chrono with a proud look on her face, “Hiya, I’m Rainbow Dash, come to me if you want to see my awesome flying skills.”

“I will remember that, my name is Chrono,” again, Chrono wants to bow, but he is cut short by Rainbow Dash.

“Yeah yeah, you seem pretty cool, where did he come from Twilight?” she asks, looking over at Twilight, Pinky still bouncing around excitedly as Fluttershy stands at the back and watches calmly.

Twilight takes a step to put her in front of the group again, “Well, I was going to gather all of you, together with Rarity and Applejack. Celestia asked me to do so to introduce Chrono to all of you.”

“I can get Applejack quickly, no problem,” Rainbow Dash says, boasting her speed a little.

“Ooh, ooh, I wanna get Rarity then!” Pinkie Pie says enthusiastically.

Spike jumps off Chrono and jumps on Pinkie’s back, “Let’s go then Pinkie!”

Rainbow Dash flies off incredibly fast, confirming that she does live up to her boasting as Pinkie Pie and Spike hop in the other direction, Twilight yelling after them, “Make sure to bring them to the library then! … I hope they got that. Anyway, let’s go to the library now.”

“Say, Twilight, uhm, where would Chrono be staying?” Fluttershy asks, trying to carefully move more to the head of the group as they head towards a large tree, which is the library, and Twilight’s home.

“He will be staying with me at the library for now, so he can send letters to Princess Celestia through Spike as well,” Twilight answers, trotting along carefree.

“Oh, uhm, I get it,” Fluttershy replies, slowly slinking back to the tail of the group, but stopping as she notices something and walks alongside Chrono to ask him something, “Oh, uhm, I couldn’t help but notice, if you don’t mind me asking, you don’t have a cutie mark?”

“It’s okay, it’s a long story though, I’m not completely comfortable talking about it here,” Chrono replies with a kind smile.

“Oh, okay …,” Fluttershy starts to drag a little, moving faster again when she’s behind Chrono.

She’s really shy, more than anypony I’ve ever met.

The three ponies go across the town, passing over the town square, past the town hall, which has been renewed since the last time Chrono has visited, or at least from what he can remember. They approach a large oak tree, which seems to be a house.

“There’s the library, it’s where I live. What do you think of it, Chrono?” Twilight asks, looking back at him.

Chrono is examining the library intently, reacting without looking away from it, “It’s amazing ...”

Suddenly, Chrono’s concentration is broken by something flying by fast, causing some wind to unbalance the group.

“Rainbow, wow that was quick,” Twilight says, looking up at the light blue flash that stopped right above them.

“Well duh, you know I’m the fastest pegasus in Equestria,” Rainbow Dash answered, crossing her front hooves.

“How did you get Applejack to come so easily?” Twilight asks, seeming a little sceptical at Rainbow Dash.

“Well, uh ...,” Rainbow says, looking away slightly as a voice calls from behind.

“Twilight!” the voice comes from the same direction as Rainbow Dash came, seeming to have an accent that sounds all too familiar to Chrono. He turns around to see an orange pony with green eyes, her abundant mane and tail tied into a knot and freckles on her face. Not to mention she’s wearing a somewhat typical cowpony hat. Combined with a cutie mark of some apples, she must work at the apple orchard. She arrives at the group, panting as she says, “Twilight, Rainbow said there was an emergency, so I came as fast as my hooves would let me.”

“Emergency, there’s no ...,” Twilight turns her head to Rainbow Dash, “Rainbow!”

“Hehe, I might have exaggerated just a little ...,” Rainbow says, trying to smile innocently.

“I’m sorry Applejack, I hope you weren’t busy, we did need you but your work is more important,” Twilight apologizes in Rainbow’s stead.

The orange pony sighs slightly irritated, but replies with a smile, crossing her front legs, “That’s quite alright Twi, it was a quiet day at the farm anywho.”

“Well alright then, come on, let’s go inside,” Twilight turns back to the library and takes a few steps before the orange mare responds.

“Say Twi ...,” she says, making the purple unicorn turn around again.

“What is it Applejack?”

“Aren’t cha gonna introduce me to your new friend?” the orange pony faces Chrono.

“Oh, yes, excuse me, Applejack, this is Chrono,” Twilight holds a hoof up at Chrono, putting it down again as she looks over to him, “And Chrono, this is Applejack.”

“Pleasure to meetcha Chrono,” Applejack says, taking off her hat and making a polite bow to Chrono.

“The pleasure is all mine, “ Chrono bows equally courteous, “I presume you are from the Apple family?”

“Sure am, how d’ya guess?” Applejack asks as she puts her hat back on.

“I have travelled a lot and met many members from the Apple family,” Chrono says with a smile, thinking back of the variation he’s seen to the family, “They are always very friendly.”

“Ain’t no Apple family if they ain’t friendly,” Applejack continues, before Rainbow lets out a noticeable grunt.

“Ugh, can we go inside already? I wanna know what all this fuss is about!” she says impatiently.

Applejack smirks slightly, having annoyed Rainbow Dash for over exaggerating to her, “ I guess we can talk more later.”

Chrono nods in agreement, Twilight opening the library to let everyone in. Everyone complies, moving into the open door one by one before Twilight follows and closes the door.

“Well now, Princess Celestia sent me two letters, one was meant for you, let me just go get it,” Twilight says as she trots up the stairs to the living quarters of the library.

Chrono looks around the library, seeing books he’s seen before in the libraries in the Canterlot archives, but also books he has never seen. It makes sense though, since Chrono hasn’t been to the libraries in Canterlot since he was just a young colt, before he started his journey across Equestria. Twilight comes back down, a rolled parchment being carried along with her by her magic, which glows around the letter and her horn in the same colour, “I found the letter, here it is.”

Chrono uses his magic to pick up the letter, unrolls it in front of himself before he starts to read it. While he focuses on reading the letter, the door to the library suddenly slams open, and Pinkie Pie hops inside, cheering excitedly, “Hey everyone, I got Rarity, now we can start the par-ty!”

Behind Pinkie Pie another mare enters, standing out clearly from the rest as being classier, having an elegant white coat, indigo coloured mane and tail curled up. Just under her shining unicorn horn are a pair of azure coloured eyes, topped by some eyeliner. Her cutie mark shows three diamonds, but more noticeably is that her walk is that of a Canterlot pony. Spike seems to be tailing this unicorn, focusing intently on her.

“Well hello everyone, I heard somepony from Canterlot came here and Pinkie was throwing him a party, so I couldn’t help but come along with her,” the unicorn says, walking proudly along.

“Yes, that would be Chrono over here,” Twilight responds, holding out a hoof to Chrono.

Chrono turns to the elegant unicorn and bows courteously, “Good afternoon, my name is Chrono, it’s a pleasure to meet an elegant unicorn such as yourself.”

The unicorn returns the bow in the same fashion as Chrono, “My name is Rarity, it is an honour to meet a unicorn with class such as yourself.”

“Actually, I’m not really a unicorn ...,” Chrono continues, picking up the letter and rereading it quickly.

“Whadda ya mean, you’re not a unicorn?” Rainbow Dash says in the same impatient tone as before, “Don’t tell me you’re really a pegasus, hahaha!”

“No, I’m not a pegasus either, nor an earth pony,” Chrono responds, smirking a little.

“Then ... May I ask what you are?” Twilight says, sounding a little confused.

“No, Celestia wants me to show you all, hehe,” Chrono’s horn starts to glow as his body is enveloped in a light. While he is glowing, his horn grows longer and pointier, wings spout out from his back that are larger than regular pegasus wings and, when the glow starts to fade, his coat reveals to be a much more deeper red colour, shining like rubies. His mane and tail grow more abundant, and reveal to look like amethysts, while his hooves are clearly divided from the coat with a topaz coloured glow. He finally opens his eyes to show eyes in the same colour as his mane, a beautiful amethyst colour.

Everyone stares, not sure how to react to the transformation, except for Pinkie Pie, who is bouncing around excitedly and Rarity, whose eyes widen at the new sight. She exclaims in a slightly overdramatic tone, “Oh my, you look simply AMAZING!”

Twilight regains her composure after Chrono turned into what could easily pass as a prince, “You are really an ... Alicorn?”

Chrono nods, while Rainbow gets closer to get a better look, “What the heck is an Alicorn?”

“An alicorn is a very rare breed of ponies, almost exclusive to the royal family, which Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and Princess Cadence belong to,” Twilight continues, thinking of a book that might give a description about alicorns.

“So he’s a relative of Princess Celestia then?” Applejack says, looking a little confused.

“The complexion of his coat ... the texture of the mane ... It is very different from that of Princess Celestia, and that of Princess Cadence as well ...” Rarity says, examing Chrono in great detail.

“Rarity knows what she’s talking about, I’m not related to Princess Celestia in any way,” Chrono holds a hoof up so Rarity can examine it well.

“Then, how do you know Celestia?” Twilight asks curiously as she pulls a book on alicorn history out of the bookshelves.

“Celestia found me when I was a baby, and took care of me ever since,” Chrono’s head follows Rarity as she goes around him to examine his tail.

“But then, why did I never hear about you before?” Twilight questions him, flipping the pages of the book to see if there are any other known alicorn families that should still be alive today.

“She wanted to keep me hidden from the public, since I wasn’t related to her.”

“I can’t find any other alicorn family that would have lived in the last ... 200 years ...,” Twilight gets more confused again.

“I don’t trust this... what if he’s a changeling?!” Rainbow Dash says in a suspicious tone.

“Yeah, they were really sneaky back in Canterlot, imitating Cadence and such,” Applejack continues.

Twilight and Rarity seem to start doubting him too. Even Pinkie Pie gets on edge as they all start to discuss the possibility, remembering how much trouble the changelings caused at the recent wedding. Though the discussing sounds more arguing. Chrono’s spirit seems to fade quickly as they discuss him, feeling this might not be a place where he would belong, until Fluttershy steps up and talks to Chrono amidst the ruckus, “Ehm, excuse me, would it be okay for me to ask about your cutie mark now?”

“You’re not doubting me?” Chrono asks, surprised by the completely different reaction from Fluttershy.

“Well, you said you didn’t want to talk about it on the streets, so maybe you want to talk about it here,” Fluttershy continues, talking in a very gentle and sincere voice.

“I guess ... Sure, if you really want to,” Chrono smiles again at the kindness that the yellow pegasus shows.

“Hey, if you’re going away from this,” Spike interrupts, “Take me with you, I don’t like it when they argue like that, it gives me a headache.”

“Is there any place we can go that’s a little more ... Quiet?” Chrono asks, looking around a little.

“We could go to the balcony, we won’t hear them from there,” Spike suggests.

Chrono smiles, “Lead the way, Spike.”

Spike starts to walk up the stairs, followed by Chrono and Fluttershy at the tail of the three again. Spike opens up the door leading to the balcony as he lets the two ponies out as well before closing it behind them, blocking most of the noise from the arguing out. Spike gets Chrono and Fluttershy a cushion to sit on and sits on a third himself, putting the three in a small circle.

“So, uhm ... Where to start?” Chrono says, not really sure where to begin telling the tale surrounding his cutie mark, since he never talked much to anypony other than Celestia.

“Well, uhm, you said Celestia found you when you were a baby, I do believe?” Fluttershy says, seeming somehow more relaxed than before.

“Yeah, she raised me when I was a baby until I was able to walk, which was surprisingly fast in itself I recall her say. She started teaching me magic at that point and seeing how well I could fly.”

“So you were taught magic at such a young age?” Spike asks, “That was even younger than Twilight, at least before she got taught in it.”

“She seemed to think that I would be able to handle it, and she was right, in a year I already learned most of the basic spells, and mastered some,” Chrono says, sounding very neutral while telling it.

“Wow, that’s pretty impressive,” Spike says amazed, “Learning spells so easily would make anypony jealous.”

Chrono nods in agreement before continuing, “But my cutie mark didn’t seem to be magic related, so Celestia wanted to explore other paths before sending me onto one.”

Spike holds out a claw as he says, “But wouldn’t you need to spend more time to know if magic was related to your cutie mark?”

“It’s true my magic abilities were above average, but Celestia also tested my flying skills, which were also above average in every area.”

“So you were really good at both? Then your cutie mark wouldn’t be related to them, or can alicorns have more cutie marks?”

“Nopony has ever been confirmed to have more than one cutie mark, under normal circumstances, that’s all I could find out,” Chrono says, thinking back of the many hours he spent in the Canterlot archives.

“So it’s really like ... You are good at those things, but they don’t give you your cutie mark?” Spike concludes, sounding a little proud of himself.

“Exactly, it was that way with other things I tried as well, so Celestia decided to send me on a journey across all of Equestria, to find my home or find a different way to find my cutie mark,” Chrono says, looking between Spike and Fluttershy, who seems to just listen.

“How long have you been on that journey? Maybe you haven’t seen everything yet if you didn’t find your cutie mark that way.”

“Well,” Chrono starts to grin, “I would say I have been on that journey since before you were hatched from your egg Spike.”

“Wow ... Really?!” Spike sounds very surprised, pulling a chuckle from Chrono and an amused smile from Fluttershy.

“Well it would be around ...,” suddenly, noises from the other side of the door could be heard, against the door rather than further away. Chrono starts to speak in a more whispering voice, moving his head closer so the other two can still hear him, who also move their heads a little closer, “Are they eavesdropping on us?”

“I think they are, I can’t hear them arguing anymore,” Spike whispers back.

“What are we going to do about it?” Chrono says, looking from one to the other.

The two start to think a little, before Spike comes with a suggestion, “Hey, can you use teleportation magic?”

Chrono nods in agreement, to which Spike continues, “Let’s teleport right behind them and scare them!”

“Hehe, that sounds fun, are you okay with that too, Fluttershy?” Chrono asks, looking over at the quiet, yellow pegasus.

“Oh my, yes, that sounds fun,” she replies, sounding a little excited.

“Wow, you sound excited about it Fluttershy, “Spike says to her, picking up on it.

“Well, they did say mean things to Chrono,” Fluttershy smiles as she continues, “And I’m sure they can laugh about it too.”

“Then let’s do it,” Chrono’s horn starts to glow, the glow surrounds Fluttershy, Spike and himself as they are teleported to the centre of the library. The three sneak upstairs, spying on the eavesdropping mares.

“Twilight, move over dear, I can’t hear anything with your mane in my way,” Rarity says, trying to push Twilight away subtly.

“You move over Rarity, you can hear it much better than me,” Twilight answers, slightly agitated.

“Both of you shush now or none of us can hear a thing,” Applejack says, shoving both unicorn aside.

“I can’t hear anything anymore at all because all of you are being so loud!” Rainbow Dash interrupts a little rudely.

“Well of course silly, that’s because they are right over there,” Pinkie Pie says, looking at the group peeking around the corner.

The three come out from around the corner, smiling and chuckling a little as they see the faces of the embarrassed mares.

“Oh my, this is embarrassing,” Twilight says, blushing slightly.

A few minutes later, all the ponies and Spike are sitting below in the library, Spike still chuckling a little, “You, you all had to see your faces, hahaha!”

Twilight nudges him with her hoof, “Come on Spike, enough laughing,” she says, trying to keep a straight face but still giggles a little from feeling a little stupid.

“It was very unlady-like, please forgive me Chrono,” Rarity says, sounding sincere in her apology.

“That’s quite alright Rarity,” Chrono says, still chuckling a little inside his head.

“Ya didn’t seem like such a bad guy when we were, ehh ...,” Applejack continues, not knowing how to call it.

“Eavesdropping,” Rainbow Dash adds.

“Yeah, eavesdropping, we shouldn’t have assumed you were bad just ‘cause we didn’t know ya,” Applejack continues.

“Don’t worry, I guess I came on a little strong, hehe,” Chrono says, calming all the nervous mares down a little with a warm voice.

“Will you tell the rest of your story? You kind of got me curious,” Twilight suggests.

“Sure, where did I leave off ... Ah I remember now,” Chrono starts talking, continuing his story from before, “I went on a journey across Equestria, meeting many ponies and seeing many places, but none of these were related to my cutie mark, I came back to Canterlot this morning and got send here right away by Celestia,” Chrono picks up the letter from Celestia, which was addressed to him, “Celestia wants me to help work with the ponies in Ponyville, to learn from others and maybe find my cutie mark that way.”

“Well I can’t deny you from working at the farm with my family,” Applejack says.

“And you can help out with the weather,” Rainbow adds.

“I’m sure the animals would like you too,” Fluttershy says with a gentle voice.”

“And you absolutely MUST let me make you something fashionable,” Rarity waves her hoof as she talks, adding to her class.

Pinkie starts bouncing around again as she exclaims in her excited voice, “Ooh! Ooh! You can help me set up surprise parties! Or help me bake pastries!”

“And of course you’re free to practice magic along with me,” Twilight says with a smile.

Chrono nods to everyone’s suggestions, smiling as he says, “Thank you, everypony, I really appreciate it.”

Eventually, the ponies started to go home, one by one, until only Twilight, Spike and Chrono were left. The conversation was about books that both Twilight and Chrono had read when they were younger, in the Canterlot archives, until the sun set and it was time to go to bed. Twilight led him upstairs, where there was an extra beds for guests, which would have to do for the time being. Spike crawls into his basket, while Twilight shows Chrono to the guest bed, used when someone is staying over. She gets into her own bed, and Chrono to the guest bed. Before going to sleep though, Chrono uses his magic to get the book he wrote in earlier that day and a quill.

“What are you going to write in that, Chrono?” Twilight asks, a little curious since she loves books.

“A journal of my time here, I used to do that on my journey as well,” Chrono opens the book and turns to the page after where he wrote the last time, “It’s gotten to be a bit of a habit.”

“You should let me read your works sometime, I love reading,” Twilight says, giggling as she catches herself sounding a little like a nerd.

Chrono smiles and replies with a simple, “Sure.”

Using his horn for a dim light, Chrono starts to write in his book.

Arriving at Ponyville today, I got to meet a number of interesting ponies. Twilight Sparkle, who Celestia originally told me to contact, was much nicer than I imagined. She seemed like a normal pony, not like somepony that would be vain. Her friends were very varied, but they were all good ponies. The pony that surprised me the most was Fluttershy, when everyone was doubting me, it was her kindness that changed all their minds. I’m looking forward to working together with each them.