The first thing to happen to me, a Pygmy Griffin living in Ponyville now, was to be greeted the mayor who just happened to pass by me and then notice my presence. She was a very loyal-looking Earth Pony mare and she seemed to be eager to accept me as a new resident of this here town.

"Hello and welcome to Ponyville sir," she said to me in a rather polite tone, "I'm the current mayor and I can tell right away that you are totally looking for a place to stay"

"You got it!" I said, "Name's Griffy, I am a Pygmy Griffin".

Pretty soon, the mayor started to tour me around a bit of the town. She never really seemed to ask where I was originally from, so I decided not to tell her.

"Oops!" said the mayor as soon as she spotted Ponyville's clock tower, spotting what time it was, "I got to do some paperwork now. I'll let you tour yourself around Griffy"

"Sure thing," I called as she started to trot away.

"I'll also sign a few sheets for you to be an official citizen!" she called back.

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I flew on top of one the building to get a good view of the town. Suddenly, just 2 minutes after I had reached the top, some blue, Pony-sized object zoomed through the air, with a rainbow-colored trail behind it, accidently getting me caught on this speeding thing.

"Whoa!" said the object, "Looks like I caught another bystander by accident again"

The object stopped and I fell off into a puddle of mud. I opened my eyes and looked up to see what that zooming thing was, a blue-colored teenage female Pegasus Pony with a rainbow-colored mane and tail.

"Name's Rainbow Dash!" she said to me, "What's yours?"

"Griffy, I'm a Griffin, Pygmy species," I said as I got myself out of the mud and shook the brown stuff off of me like a Dog.

That's when Rainbow (or Ms. Dash as I sometimes call her) started bragging about how cool her flight stunts were. She even told me of she was the 1# fan of the Wonderbolts. I told her that I was also a fan as well.

"Sure hope we can hang out again some other time Griff," she said to me in a rather pleased voice.

"See ya," I said, and continued my self-guided tour.

"Wait a minute!" said Rainbow landing on the ground in front of me, "You say you're a Griffin, yet you don't look like the Griffins I've seen before"

"That's probably you've seen Giant Griffins, the larger; more well-known variety of Griffin," I responded, "We Pygmy Griffins are a little rarer. Also, you can also see one big species difference; outside the body size, beak length and coloration"

"And what might that be," she asked, acting quite interested.

"Our ears," I said, twitching my ears to show her, "Giant Griffins have small, Bird-like ears and we Pygmy Griffins have longish, Mammal-like ears. You could say that Pygmy Griffin ears are Kangaroo-like in a way"

"Well, I got to go now," said Rainbow Dash and she flew off with me just sitting on the ground, watching her fly away. I realized that I made a friend finally and that made me feel so happy inside.

That's I realized that Rainbow was a lot like my older brother. That made me feel more at home here in Ponyville in a way.

To Be Continued