"I might as well give it a try," Cloud Chaser said, "I could live my new life out there in Ponyville where nopony would disturb me."
Cloud had moved out from his foster parent's house to live independently and away from the cruel things that his foster parents did to him. He was always lonely and afraid. He never had friends from New Hayshire.
Cloud walked and walked for miles to find a settlement. When he needs sustenance, he almost always begged anyone he comes by for food. But there is one thing, he stole half of his bits from his foster parents and half were from his own. Cloud never intended to spend a single bit even if it was for food. He saved it for the three more months of the down payment of his newly built house. One thing, he still has not reached Ponyville to see his house.
Days had gone by Cloud could no longer bear his hunger. He looked at his wallet but he was sure that his money was only enough for his house and house only. So he tried looking for the nearest town on his map. By his sense of directions and his knowledge of the star and the moon, he predicted that the nearest town was Ponyville but it was about three days ahead.
Cloud tried to all of his strength to keep up and keep walking. He did walk for a couple of steps. Cloud's vision was getting blurry as time go by. Two and a half minutes later, Cloud collapsed.
Cloud woke up facing something. That something was a ceiling.
"How in the world did I get here? For all I know, I collapsed somewhere in the road having three days of travel as the nearest settlement," Cloud thought. Cloud raised his head a little bit so that he could see damp towels on both of his hind legs. This was the first time Cloud had felt something good for a long time.
As someone trotted near the room, Cloud pretended to be unconscious once more but only allowing his right eye to peek a little bit. He saw a yellow pony with pink mane. The pony went to Cloud and replaced the towels with fresh ones. As Cloud glanced at the towels, he saw redness all over the towel.
Cloud panicked mentally and tried to make a run for it. He stood up and saw all his packed things in the chair right next to him. He grabbed everything and went to the front door only to be met a by an orange pony. While Cloud was galloping away from the cottage, the orange pony and Cloud exchanged glances for a matter of seconds and Cloud broke the contact.
As the orange pony went in, the pony carefully laid her basket in a table and talked to the yellow pony.
"Hey, 'Shy, what's a stallion doing in your cottage and by the way, I dropped off the apples you'd ordered," the orange pony said.
"Oh! No, no, no, no! Applejack we need to catch up with him, both of his rear legs are terribly bleeding. I fear that he might lose blood!" Shy said.
Cloud still galloped as fast as he could. He failed to notice that he was bleeding and he was leaving blood trails wherever he went.
As Cloud carelessly galloped Cloud suddenly tripped onto a rock and thus paralyzing his left hind leg. He couldn't move any longer. Cloud grew weaker and weaker as the blood from his legs bled vehemently.
Out of luck, Shy and Applejack was able to trace Cloud and find him just before he passed out.
Two weeks had passed since the incident (well at least for Cloud) Cloud woke up in the same place where he woke up two weeks earlier.
"Thank you for saving me," was all that Cloud could muster.
"You're welcome…" said Applejack, "Mr…."
"Chaser," Cloud said in a weak tone, "Cloud Chaser. You may call me Cloud for short."
'I'm Applejack and this here's Fluttershy," Applejack said, "Fluttershy and I had been so worried 'bout you getting healed all by yourself. But you can go now if you want to."
"Then I must be heading off. Thank you again for letting me recover from my wounds. How far is Ponyville away from this place?" Cloud asked.
"That's a fifteen minute walk. Why don't I take you with me?" Applejack offered.
"Thank you for the offer but I might quite as well refuse," Cloud replied
Cloud had finally reached Ponyville. There, his life begins anew.