rederici939 Lol, yup mystery dungeon it is. I thought it would be a great way to start the story off. Not trying to spoil the story but there will be alot of PMD scenes in here.
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Chapter Two
"The Return of Harmony (Part 1)"
I awoke in the moments of the early morning dew. Oh? Was that not exciting enough? Well, sorry all I did was wake up and lay there. "…I'm still the same." I said walking over to the river that surrounded the perimeter of my dome shaped home and looking into it. I spotted a pair of dark pink eyes staring back and I smiled. "The way I look…I'm still a pegasus. But why would I be transformed into a pony?" I took a deep breath and plopped down onto my rump, confusion overtaking me. "Hmm…I don't understand this at all…" I started feeling groggy and from my position on top of my hay-bed, I fell on my back and quickly fell back to sleep.
I woke a\up again, feeling rather more refreshed than before. I still looked like a pony, but…Something clicked in my head. "Oh, that's right. That pony…" The pony I met yesterday, I said I would meet her yesterday. I think her name was Twilight Sparkle? "Oh, no!" I said quickly scrambling up onto all fours and trotting out the door. "I have to tell her I'm sorry for not show-"
Was this really happening? "…Hunh? Oh, no!" I watched as the purple pony looked around and finally turned towards me. "Ahaha, sorry!" She said bursting out into laughter. "I was so excited about you coming to visit yesterday that when you didn't come I came rushing over today. I must have fallen asleep." I simply looked at her with slight smile on my face. Who knew she was such a klutz, it was actually fairly cute. Even though she was laughing I could tell she was embarrassed.
"You going to stare at me all day or are we going to get a move on?" She said snapping me out of my daze. I quickly followed her as we took the same path into town she had taken yesterday.
Once we arrived I was in simple awe at how vibrantly colored and bustling the town was. Ponies of all sorts, ones with wings, ones with horns, and even some ponies with neither walked around with smiles on their faces. It seemed a lot different from the world I came from. "Exciting, huh?" Twilight said chuckling a bit noticing my awe stricken expression. "This is Ponyville!" I followed her only to be awe stricken again by a large tree which dwarfed most of the surrounding buildings. I'm guessing Twilight sensed my awe stricken-ness because she gave another light giggle. All of a sudden she some how opened the door without using her hooves! My mouth opened even larger as I stood there, baffled.
"What? Oh! You've never seen magic before?" She started straining herself, closing her eyes in concentration as I felt myself being wrapped in some unexplainable warmth then lifted off my hooves slowly. I wanted to yell out, but strangely this feeling felt rather nice. Like there was only a kind heart and good intentions. I guess this was what Twilight's magic felt like. I was still at a loss for words as I now stood inside the large tree which was fully furnished and stocked with large sky scrapper like book shelves, and every inch of them was full of books!
"Well it is a library, Butterscotch." Twilight said with a proud look on her face. Jeez, could everyone read minds …wait, everyone? But, Twilight's the only pony I've met. "Okay, so we've gotten your housing taken care of, that just leaves…income!" I was surprised, in this world they had an actual monetary system? Well, I guess money holds a lot of society's together, even simple ones like this. I heard Twilight rambling on, then she stopped and walked over to me and suddenly started touching my butt! I quickly backed away, a little embarrassed and uncomfortable by her sudden…"advancement." "Oh, calm down. I was only checking for your cutie mark." My cutie wha? I looked at her, eager to know what this mark was that appeared on ones posterior. "It's a mark on your flank that you get once you discover who you truly are." I breathed a sigh of relief . I thought she was trying to- "I wanted to know what your's was so that we could maybe find you a job, but…It looks like you don't have one."
Who I truly was…that's the meaning of a cutie mark. I wonder, does my past maybe have something to do with my cutie mark? Twilight went on rambling again. I shook my head gruelingly and gave a few grunts of approval, but my interest was drawn else where. More specifically what looked like, cotton candy clouds raining down chocolate milk on everypony. Weird.
I got Twilight's attention and showed her what I thought might have been common weather in this world. "That's definitely NOT normal." Twilight said. "Spike. Spike!" She called out and a purple and green-um…dragon? Dragon! I ducked behind Twilight expecting the dragon to begin some type of fiery onslaught. "Oh relax, Spike's only a baby dragon and he wouldn't hurt anypony." The dragon walked over to me and held out a scaly fingered claw. "Hey dude, you must be Butterscotch. The pony Twilight found yesterday." Not sure how the exchange of greetings was suppose to go. I simply held out my hoof, which Spike took in his own claw and shook. So that's how that's done. A hand- I mean- a hoof shake.
"You guys! This is no time for idle chit-chat." Twilight said. She actually looked like a super hero about to spring into action. "Spike, find that book, 'Strange Weather Conundrums and How to Fix Them." I watched Spike grab a wooden ladder and climb three stories up one of the book cases, removing a black book with golden stripes on the spine. Twilight retrieved the book using her magic, scanned the book, and closed it. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how she found what she was looking for so darn fast, but I guess she had what she was looking for as she gave a small 'humph' of triumph.
"Alright, Spike, Butterscotch - you guys ready?" Spike hopped on Twilight's back and I appeared beside her as we both galloped out the door although I was clueless as to our destination, simply following Twilight.
We soon arrived at what looked like an apple orchard. Although it seemed to do a lot more then simply apples. There was a large red barn in the distance and I could hear cows and other farm animals. "There they are!" My focus was directed forward as I spotted several other ponies scattered throughout the orchard. Although I saw more than simple ponies, there were three-feet high bunnies and the corn fields had popped into a field of pop corn. The cotton candy clouds had even come back to haunt me. "Don't worry everypony. I've learned a new spell that'll fix everything!" She sounded rather confident seeing as she just learned it. There was a spark and a light erupted from Twilight's horn blanketing the area in hues of purple. I was about to take back my previous statement, until…
Twilight's mouth dropped once she realized the chaotic scene had not changed. "My fail safe spell…failed! What do we do?" "Uh, give up?" Spike half heartedly suggested as Twilight bucked the dragon off her back. All I could do was watch. I didn't know how I could be of assistance, then again, with no knowledge of this world I doubt I would be able to do anything to help. Another unicorn appeared, this time with a white coat of hair. "Spike, Twilight will come up with something." She placed her umbrella on to Twilight's back, blocking the chocolate milk rain from raining down on her anymore. "Hmm, time for plan B. Rainbow, can you coral all those clouds into one corner of the sky?" I watched as the pegasus she called 'Rainbow' zoomed around the pink storm clouds condensing them together into one giant mass.
"Applejack, I need you to bring those high-strung storm clouds down to Earth. "The orange pony quickly lassoed the clouds and tugged them down to just a few feet above the ground. I theorized that she was the one who was in charge of the apple farm. She had a bit of a country flair about her. "Hey, what happened?" A pink pony yelled rather annoyed that the chocolate milk stopped falling into her mouth.
Twilight walked over to a sheepish looking yellow pony and whispered in her ear. Yet I could slightly make out what she said. "Oh dear. I hope none of these animals see these delicious chocolate filled cotton candy clouds. I'd hate to have to share." Although there was obvious sarcasm in her voice the animals came rushing towards the mob of cotton and began devouring it. Even knocking the pink pony out the way who was also snacking on the clouds.
"And when y'all are done with that, feel free to have some popcorn for dessert." I was shocked. Even after her initial plan, Twilight still managed to rally all her friends to stop these strange phenomenon's. "You see, Spike? You should never give up. There's nothing we can't overcome if we all work together." I smiled about to congratulate Twilight, but there was a loud burping sound and when I looked there was a scroll appearing from Spike's mouth. Twilight read over the letter and gasped. "Come on girls. Princess Celestia wants to see us all in Canterlot immediately!" All the ponies rushed off leaving me behind. I wasn't sure what to do, should I follow Twilight or just go back home. I mean, she was the only pony I knew in this world. "Hey, Butterscotch!" I was about to go home until Twilight called my name. "Come on with us, I'm sure we could really use you help!"
I smiled at the fact of being needed and eagerly followed her.
