Second story of the Human In Equestria series! Yay!
Rise of Solstice
Chapter 1 - Happy Birthday
It had been a year since I found myself in Ponyville , the noises I heard at night stopped interrupting my sleep anymore, maybe it's because I've grown accustomed to those noises that many find annoying. Honestly, I've begun to enjoy Equestria, just one problem . . . you see everything - my world - changed one day, and it started on my birthday.
Ponyville, Equestria
2:19 PM
Educate St.
It was a normal day I was doing my usual thing as Diamond Tiara's foalsitter. Much like when I started, we only had a love-hate relationship between each other. I looked down at her, she had done wrong. "Diamond, what you did was wrong, the only reason I came pick you up was that Rich was too busy," I said walking by the dirt roads. Finally, her bullying was taken too far to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, the only three fillies of which don't know their talent in Ponyville. "You deserved what you got. It was your fault after all."
Diamond's jaw dropped like she saw something startling. "It was not my fault, those whiny-baby blank flanks are to blame!" she defended herself, not wanting to get in as much trouble as she was in already.
"Diamond, you provoked them, you showed them weakness, they realize now that you can't hurt them, and I respect them for that, they realized their true power," I saw her head turn down to the ground. She was taken out of school for the day, as well as tomorrow, and so were the Cutie Mark Crusaders. "Diamond, they may have teased you for something as petty as Silver Spoon leaving, but that doesn't give you the right to punch any of the three. You deserved to get hit back, you hit one of them, so they hit you." My logic was sound to me, but to her it was nothing more than gibberish to her ears.
"You're supposed to be my foalsitter, not my bucking father!" she growled, she was still angry, and I couldn't blame her, it wasn't right what the Cutie Mark Crusaders said to her. I admitted that, but for Diamond to fight them, she's forgot one thing, Sweetie Belle had recently learned magic, Scootaloo had strength as did Apple Bloom.
"Diamond, please, there is no need for language like that. You're still just angry, I get that, but please no fighting," I was called to get Diamond Tiara by not Rich, but by Cherilee she called and informed me the situation, I've still yet to tell Rich about this, though I put it in her mind that I had. "Look, I'll tell you this, anger is just emotion, you need to use that to do something constructive. I don't know what you could do, but find something."
I wanted Diamond to live a normal life as a filly of her age, but becoming the school bully wasn't what I had thought she would become, but she did and always has been to this day she is still a bit of a bully. But I pay no mind to it.
But enough of the sad "Diamond's the victim" story, you want to hear how my world view was changed forever. Well, like I said, it started on my birthday.
Ponyville, Equestria
2:30 PM
Haystreet, my house
I took Diamond to my house, given its now fully furnished and how her father is still yet to come home. I opened my door to the house and found myself walking blindly to the switch which is a little ways away from the door. I turned on the lights and of course, given the day being my birthday, the entire town jumped out and yelled the same words: "surprise!"
I wasn't shocked but I did jump back just out of a sudden shout of a word from many voices. Pinkie jumped out of the crowd who suddenly burst into talking amongst each other. "Wereyasuprisedhawereyawereyawereya?!" Pinkie laughed and jumped about. I just walked around her, not much else to do really at the party other than mingle with the guests, in their minds I was older, much older. their banner said: "Happy 55th Birthday". I later told them of their mistake and told them I'm only fifteen in my years. To them I acted older than I was. I didn't care one way or another, the rules in Equestria are linnet, however, there are extra rules that only apply to me. But, those extra rules I can bide by if meant I could continue on living.
I sighed and looked back to the bouncing pink mare who smiled widely. "Yes, Pinkie, I was surprised," I wasn't. I was lying. "Now, why don't you and your friends go off and enjoy the party, I can catch up later. As the pink mare nodded she bounced away and was engulfed by the crowd of ponies.
I felt sick, not sick to stomach but like someone had stabbed me, I walked into the bathroom to investigate the pain, and as I entered the bathroom I found myself thrown to the floor, unable to move and unable to say a thing. I looked up and felt as something stabbed at my back yet there was nothing there. I coughed but not my normal sudden over in a second cough or my brief fits of coughing, no this was a loud, mangled gasping for air kind of cough. I felt as though I couldn't breathe,
I found myself unable to stop myself from blinking repeatedly. After many blinks I felt as though the world was normal to me, like Equestria is my new found home, like I never had a home before I was in Equestria. Like Indiana and Alaska were just houses meaningless houses that meant nothing to me. I felt like I . . . belonged to some extent. The world around seemed not so bad anymore, this was what I wanted, I wanted to feel like I belonged and that was I hardly wanted to take Rich's offer to foalsit Diamond Tiara.
I began hearing echoes of what sounded like Rainbow Dash's voice. "Hello!" she shouted into my ear and just then I found myself on the ground able to get up and able to . . . breathe normally. I didn't say anything after that attack of . . . what I wanted to believe was panic I was given the ability to breathe like I never could before, like I . . . never had asthma.