Chapter 3

As soon as I entered Pinkie's house she popped up underneath me and yelled out "SURPRISE!" I jumped up and hit the ceiling with a thud.

"Ow! Jeez Pinkie… why did you have to yell like that?" I asked as I rubbed my head.

"Every party is better when it's a surprise," she answered smiling. I frowned slightly at her.

"But I already knew about the party…"

"Oh that's right, you DID know about it… hmmm… well then let's get this party started!" A boombox appeared next to Pinkie and she hit play. As soon as the music began the door slammed open and a light blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail floated in.

"Awesome! You got my jam going Pinkie," said the Pegasus.

"Dashie! You made it just in time!" Pinkie said starting to gesture to me. "Rainbow Dash meet Night Wing (we call him Ni), he's a Pegasus just like you." Rainbow Dash looked over at me like she was sizing me up.

"Hey, wanna race?" she asked with a challenging tone.

"Um, sure. Maybe later," I answered, not wanting to be rude and say no.

"Cool," she said smiling. "Hey? Where's Applejack and Fluttershy?"

"Right here," answered a southern drawl from the doorway. "Had ta drag Fluttershy all the way here but we made it." A pretty orange earth pony with a blond mane came in wearing a Stetson cowboy hat while dragging a pink and light yellow ball behind her. "Sorry about the wait y'all."

"That's ok Applejack, all that matters is that you're here now," said Pinkie while jumping up and down to the music. Applejack smiled and looked over at me.

"Well this feller must be the stallion you told me about Pinkie Pie, you weren't kiddin' when you said he was eye candy." I blushed and tried to look away without being rude, I wasn't used to having mares think of me as good looking. "C'mon Fluttershy, quit bein' rude and say hello to our guest." I looked over at the pink ball that Applejack had brought in and saw that it was slightly pony shaped. A small meep came from it and I moved over to see it better.

"Fluttershy…?" I said softly. "I promise that I'm a nice pony, I pinkie promise." An ear perked up through what I now saw was a mane and slowly she began to move her head up. She brought her head up at an angle to look at me and slowly opened her eyes. When her head was fully removed from her folded tail my eyes went wide at what I saw. She was the most beautiful mare I had ever seen; with her long pink mane that curled up at the ends, her slender light yellow body, to her even longer tail, she radiated beauty. The thing that caught my attention the most were her big teal eyes that seemed to sparkle on their own, I could even see myself reflected in them. For a few moments we simply looked at each other, not daring to move a centimeter. Then she took a small breath and spoke.

"You… pinkie promise…?" I almost collapsed at how sweet her voice sounded.

"Yes," I answered, not wanting to say more in case I scared her.

"Ok," she said and stood up. When she was standing at her full height she was still about three hooves shorter than I was. She smiled slightly and then turned quickly towards the punch bowl. I let go of a breath I had been holding unwittingly and decided that now would be a good time to talk with some of the new ponies.

After about an hour Pinkie stopped the music and sat all the ponies and Spike in a semi-circle in front of me.

"Alright everypony," said Pinkie. "Now we get to each ask a question to Ni, and you have to Pinkie promise that you'll answer them honestly ok?" I nodded my head. "Ok, Rarity you get to go first."

"Thank you darling, alright let me think… how did you get that old bag you're wearing?" I thought for a moment.

"I found it in a trash can in Canterlot, right after I had been kicked out of Cloudsdale," I answered. Everypony looked at me in shock after I said this.

"You got kicked out of Cloudsdale?" asked Twilight incredulously. I nodded my head.

"How many places have you lived in?" asked Pinkie.

"Just about everywhere. Been kicked out every time after people found out about my weirdness."

"What could be so weird about you?" asked Spike. "You seem pretty normal to me." I sighed heavily.

"I was hoping to avoid this but I guess I'll have to show you," I said as I moved back from the group. "Just… please don't shout…" They all looked at each other nervously and I took a deep breath as I laid my saddlebag on the floor. I closed my eyes and slowly began unfurling my wings. As my wings extended I could hear all of them take a breath in when they realized how big my wings were. I stretched my wings out as far as they could go to get rid of the stiffness that had built up in them from keeping them folded so tightly for so long. As my wings settled in flight position the room was silent until Rainbow Dash and Spike suddenly jumped up.

"That's so awesome!" they both said excitedly and rushed towards me. My eyes snapped open in surprise as they admired my wings up close. Everypony got up and made their way towards me, murmuring in amazement and curiosity. As they all examined my wings I noticed that Fluttershy was simply staring at me with impossibly wide eyes. I immediately thought that I had frightened her.

"F-Fluttershy…?" I stuttered. "Am I scaring you…?" I said with a sinking feeling in my stomach. She got up and walked straight towards me. My heart quickened as she got closer. She stopped only inches from my face, even closer than when we had met earlier. I saw a sad expression on her face and then suddenly she started nuzzling her face against my neck in a soothing manner.

"Oh you poor thing," she said with sadness in her voice. "You must have been so lonely going everywhere by yourself. Nopony to be your friend or love you… it breaks my heart to think of anypony that doesn't have friends," she said into my neck, her warm breath sending tingles down my back and a heat to build up in my nether regions. She pulled back and looked into my eyes. "You'll never feel lonely again as long as you're here Ni." I felt my eyes begin to water and a lump form in my throat as everypony moved in and hugged me. I wrapped my wings around them and we stayed like that for a few minutes while my tears fell freely. After I had stopped crying Rainbow Dash floated up while rubbing her nose with her hoof.

"Ok," sniff. "Enough with the mushy stuff, let's do something fun." She zipped into the kitchen and came back with a bottle in her mouth. She spit it onto the floor and positioned us around it. "Time for spin the bottle."

Author's note: I saw this a few days ago and I feel like I should share it.

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