Z42, or How It Continued?

Well if this day wasn’t interesting yet, then now it became the example of it.

And why? Because not much after my arrival back to Tavi and Justice, (and Justice led me around), Tavi of course invited him in our home.

“Tavi, can I have a few words with you?” I ask her, Justice is sitting on MY SOFA in the living room, sipping a cup of freshly brewed tea: she told him to sit there and she gave him the tea.

“Hm? Yes, sure.” I drag her in the pantry and close the door.

“Look, I believe that you found a fantastic conversationalist, but even I don’t know this house yet, why did you have to invite him?...” The reason for this reaction from me: I don’t like ponies in my home, only the close friends whom I know for a good while.

“Oh Zephy, he means no harm, and he will be away before you notice!” She tells me, caressing my cheek, it only makes me frown and furrow my eyebrows.

“You call me Zephy, and try to convince me with your charm. Fine, you won, but don’t count on this every time. You heard it Tavi?” I ask, only my mom and her can call me that...

“Yes sweetie. Now come, Justice must be waiting.” From this point forward I will call him Blindy. Heh.

We leave the pantry and go back to Justice. he is still sitting on MY SPOT, his eyes are closed. I have no idea if he really needs his eyes to be opened at all.

“So Justice, what was... the thing you spoke about, this moon and stuff?” I ask him as I take a seat on a less comfy couch.

“Well, it’s actually quite simple. We unicorns have the most evident kind of magic as you know, and as it was proven through history, my subspecies have the most knowledge about the general and exact kinds of science. Furthermore, we took the most observations about the world around us, and we discovered a certain thing.” He takes a big breath, my thoughts are about how he uses the plural form in his speech, ‘we’, pfh, unicorns... “The moon have a direct effect on an unicorn’s magical capabilities. And I can even prove it to you, tonight is a full moon.”

“Uhm... sooo... the moon is acting like an enormous conductor, channeling the planet’s magical field, am I right?” I ask, if anyone is surprised, I can create these theories quite easily.

“Yes, exactly!” See? “The moon is the biggest source of magical energy except the sun, but the sun is too far away for us to harness its powers. Now I must warn you, I will introduce a theory which might be against your views.” What now?

“Okay? I’m very tolerant to almost everything, just go on.” I reply, looking at tavi, she is sitting on the other couch and smiling, she nods when I look at her.

“Alright, in this case. I am a member of a religious community, which is based on the facts I presented to you.” What. “And this is not else, than Church of Luna, our deity of the night.”

“You mean... princess Luna?” I ask him, quite surprised.

“Yes. I assume you already guessed that she is our mental leader because of her connection with the moon.” Justice answers.

“Yeah... is she really in this business, or you all just hold some meetings and praise her?..” Like those little cults I was unfortunate to meet.... don’t ask.

“Actually, she joins us regularly.” And this is the point when it become serious.

“Okay, this is very nice and all, but... how am I coming in the picture? You see, I’m not an unicorn, nor Tavi is one. So?...” Well buck, I had a religious friend once, but he was different.

“Oh, nothing, actually it wasn’t me starting this explanation.” He chuckles, shaking his head “Don’t worry,  I am not trying to convert you or anything.”

“Yeah-yeah, I realized. Aaaaal-rriiiiiight.... so, you showed us the city, which we really appreciate, so you are welcome here anytime you want to visit a friend. And I have some questions to you, but that’s for later.” I say, then look at Tavi, she is staring into empty space, probably thinking about something.

“Hm, yes, I think I will leave now thank you for the tea Octavia.” Justice says and stands up, snapping Tavi out of her ‘trance’.

“Oh, uhm, it’s nothing, really. You are welcome.” She responds, standing up as well.

“I will see off our friend now, I will be back in a few minutes.” I tell her and walk in the exit’s direction, Justice follows me.

When we are outside the house, he takes a few steps forward, then turns around.

“Zephyr, I know I had some not wanted pressures on you, I apologize about it.” He says, making an apologetic expression.

“Uhm, actually, I wanted to say sorry... I.. I don’t know how to explain, you know we just arrived and I’m not completely settled in...”  I tell him, not really able to find the good words.

“I understand. Friends?” He asks, and holds up his right foreleg for a friendly hoof-bump.

“Friends.” I respond and bomp his hoof. “Hey, I wanted to ask.. what’s your cutie mark about?” He have a scale of some sorts as a cutie mark.

“Oh, it’s the Scale of Justice, I am the local judge.” He explains.

“Huh, this explains a lot of things...alright, have a nice evening... Scales...” Hm, I found a better pet-name for him!

“Uhm, excuse me?” He asks back, he probably didn’t hear me perfectly. Yeah, sure.

“Scales. Your cutie mark is a scales. Therefore, I will call you Scales. Sorry if this offends you, but it’s final.” I tell him, my trollish self is in the works again.

“Actually, I am quite okay with it. See you soon, friend.” He says with a smirk on his face, then turns away and leaves me.

“Yeah-whatever, seeya!” I say half-loud and head back inside my home.

/Back in my home.../

Tiredly, I drop myself on MY SOFA and sigh.

“Is everything alright sweetie?” Tavi asks motherly (or as a wife? I cannot decide, but whatever.). “Justice is a nice stallion, you really have nothing to be angry about.” She says and caresses my cheek, like she does every time when I’m tired of something.

“Oh, no-no, we are friends, it’s just... this day was long. And I’m hungry. Can you?...” I didn’t finish my sentence intentionally.

“Make a vegetable soup, your mom’s recipe? Yes, I will make it.” Tavi continues my words. There are no words that can express my thankfulness and love to her.

“You are the best.” Well, I have to say something, no? Before she go to make the dinner, I stop her. “Hey uhm, I should take a look around town before the sun sets,I don’t want to be in a disadvantage when tomorrow I sign up for the Weather Patrol.”

“A little flying around? Hmmm.... alright, but don’t get lost.” She answers. I know I’m near to the border when she will just not let me go, I play with fire..

“Thank you. I’ll be back soon.” And so, I get up, walk to the nearest window, open it, look at Tavi and wink at her, then fast as lightning, I’m away.

/5 minutes later, above Trottingham.../

“Will ya look at that...” I say to myself, looking down on the city below. The whole town is still full of ponies doing their everyday business, though it’s going to be night soon. Some streetlights are already lit. After the moment is over, I land on a small cloud nearby and try to memorize the city’s map. After only a few minutes I already have the basics in: my home, the marketplace, the Major’s office, the train station, the Weather HQ (Weather HQs are very striking in appearance) and the RED base that filly, Private Cupcake showed me. Though it’s a school or what. Whatever.

I should pay them a visit tomorrow, but of course, only after I was in the WHQ.

For now I continue the setting up of the map in my mind, I should remember this. Actually, I will remember it, not like the other things I’m used to NOT remember.

My memorizing is disturbed when I hear the flapping of a pair of wings. The next second I see a pink and blue streak flying up /right in front of me/, startling me to say the least.

“Whoah-whoah-whoah, what the heck?” I half shout in an annoyed tone. “Ever heard of manners?” I ask the unknown pony, if it’s a pony at all.

“Heh, sorry, didn’t want to frighten you~!” I hear a very familiar, tomboyish female voice from behind me,  it have a good amount of mockery in it. I turn to face her.

The mare hovering in front of me is indeed a tomboyish pegasus, and she reminds me to somepony so much, my jaw drops.

She have light pink coat, blue mane and violet eyes. And most important. She is the exact copy of Rainbow Dash. Well, except for her colors and her cutie mark, which is two blue lightning bolts.

“He-he-he-helllooo!” I say, barely able to hold myself back from grinning like a creep.

“Hi.” She replies simply, then tilts her head. “You aren’t from around, are you?”

“I just moved here today... with my pregnant wife.... “ I reply. ‘Holy Mackerel, this is impossible!’ My mind shouts to me.

“Uhhuh, and what are you doing up here?” She asks. Darn, even her voice matches Rainbow’s.

“Uhm, you see, I was a weather pony back in Ponyville, so I plan to join the local Weather Patrol, so I thought to memorize the city so I won’t get lost...” I explain while trying to fight off the fact, that there is the ‘twin’ of Rainbow Dash hovering right in front of me.

“Weather Patrol? You wanna join?” She asks and her slightly suspicious expression turns into a grin. “Awesome, finally I won’t be alone with all this job!” She exclaims and does a double-backflip, combined with constant spinning clockwise.

“So I saw you earlier, huh? It must be tiring to be out all day.” I tell her, finally, my logical min

d won above my hormone driven parts.

“Yeah... and almost no job is done, frustrating as hay.” She responds, frowning.

“Then cheer up, tomorrow morning the first thing I do will be visiting you! Oh sweet Luna, this sounded better in my head.” I facehoof, this was a REALLY big mistake.

“ *snort* Bwaa-hahah, this was funny, heheheh!” Even her laughter is the same. Whaaaaaaa?

“Eheh-heh-heh, yeah... anyway... my name is Zephyr Verve, yours?” Manners, never forget the manners!.... Nah, screw manners, I gotta know her name.

“Firefly, the one and only.” She replies, she calmed down while I was asking her.

“Pleasure to meet you Firefly. Well, it’s getting late, I would return to my home if you don’t mind.” I tell her, flapping my wings.

“Yeah, sure you would, big boy!” She mocks me, and she earns an expression from me which says ‘ha-ha-ha, very funny’. “Off ya go~!” She exclaims, then KICKS MY CLOUD IN PIECES, making me fall.

“What the buuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-” And I crash in a biggger cloud.

Looking up I can see her laughing her flanks off, then she flies down to me and pulls me out of the cloud.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I couldn’t leave this out, sorry..” She apologizes, wiping a tear out of her right eye. “Oh Celestia, I didn’t laugh this hard in AGES!”

“Mrmph...” Is the only thing I ‘say’, she got a bad mark from me.

“Oh come oooon, don’t be grumpy!” She says and pokes my side with an elbow.

In response, I flap my wings once, then turn to face her completely.

“Don’t tell me you can’t take a joke!” She says, arching her eyebrows.

I only raise my left foreleg, then slam it down on the cloud HARD - the cloud evaporates under her and she falls down.

“HA-HA!” I shout after her, then smirk evilly. “Let this be a lesson for you!” I shout again, then take off, flying home.

Huh... if she will be my colleague, then I will have hard times working....