New Friend: Honey Scar, the Thief of Honey
It was a month after Discord's defeat, and Glittermind was still getting used to the intricacies of being an equine. For being thrown into the role, the once-human was adapting quite well to having four feet…hooves. Color Jam, Dung Red, Flawless, B-Pond, Catslave, Fairy Dust, Dragon Fly, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack and Princess Celestia along with her sister, Princess Luna all were her teachers. Rarity, Twilight Sparkle and Flawless taught her the etiquette of being a unicorn, Pinkie Pie, B-Pond, Applejack and Catslave taught her how it was to be an earth-based pony – a pony without wings or unicorn horn. Well, at least Pinkie Pie and B-Pond were more helpful than Applejack or Catslave; Catslave was too obsessed with chasing cats to be of much help. Applejack was just plain too busy to do much.
The last third of the equine species, the pegasi, weren't much for teaching physical habits to a unicorn. Color Jam, Rainbow Dash and Dung Red all had different enough physical habits of being able to fly through the air to have nothing really to teach Glittermind. Flying was a whole other magic than horn magic. The Mane Twelve, the holders of the Elements of Harmony, were all good friends though, and for that Glittermind was ever so grateful. This was the first dimension that she was fully animal and she had many exceptional teachers.
Today, Glittermind would have spent the day with her extra-dimensional friends, Fairy Dust and Dragon Fly, to feel more comfortable with the world of Equestria; but the two alicorns – virtually the neo counterparts of Celestia and Luna – were busy studying how to breach the dimensional veil. The two sisters, mysterious to all BUT Luna and Celestia, had arrived before Glittermind – but how to fully understand how that worked when Discord had admitted he simply pulled her into Equestria on an impulse was so very confusing.
Just how the twin-sister friends of hers wind up waiting for her in this dimension went unanswered. Glittermind just blamed Discord and left it at that. Not that seeing previous friends – albeit in pony/alicorn form – wasn't a relief; but to set them researching a way to move on to the next plane of existence. The Isle the twins lived on, Mystic Isle, was a new land feature in the ocean to the north of Canterlot, and had the mysterious quality of Avalon – the island surrounded by fog and mists. That was a whole other story, a story how just how a space-time
Catslave, like always was busy being queen of her own little world: Cat-World. The brown and tan pony was most likely harassing some poor Ponyville kitten or feline. Butterpond, also, was busy, helping her sister on the 'moo-moo milk-cow' farm. Glittermind only met B-Pond's sister, Milkshake, once and thought the pony was really too willowy and pretty looking to be a down-in-the-dirt kind of pony. But Milkshake was just as rustic and hard-working as Applejack and on HER farm. One would think a white and crème-colored pony would avoid dirt like the plague, but Milkshake grubbed in the dirt like a natural.
Color Jam had mentioned yesterday that she would be teaching her youngest brother, Red-Ace, on how to fly. Rainbow Dash had overheard this, and invited herself to the event – the flying racer couldn't keep away from anything flying; so Red Ace's flying lessons would have a professional overseer. As for her other flying friends, Fluttershy was too shy to come over and Dung Red had a clean-up job to do down in New Ponyleans.
Flawless and Twilight Sparkle were both over at Canterlot, still studying the six new elements of Harmony: Reliability (Glittermind), Courage (Catslave), Faith (Butterpond), Friendship (Flawless), Bravery (Dung Red) and Trust (Color Jam). The two knowledge-thirsty, studious, magic-based unicorns simply had to know all about the new Elements and their holders. Glittermind wasn't sure which pony was more a cliché bookworm: Twilight Sparkle or Flawless.
Pinkie Pie…who knew where that one-of-a-kind pony was; Glittermind sure didn't. So Glittermind was alone for the first time since her arrival.
"Hullo." A velvety voice came from her window.
Glittermind turned to her tree-carved window and blinked. In the month the turquoise unicorn had been living in Ponyville, she had been introduced to many ponies – Pinkie Pie's doing – but the face on this honey-colored pony was new.
"Uh, hi?"
"HIIII!" the honey-dun colored pony said very loudly. "I hope you don't mind if I hide in your house."
The pony, around the same height as Glittermind and her friends, shimmied into the tree's window. The yellow, golden honey-color of the pony's coat hid the fact that there WAS honey on the pony's coat. Her pale straw mane was sticky with honey; natural debris clung to her mane and tail – bits of leaves, twigs and tree-bark.
"Eeh, don't mind me, Sparkle Nose, I'm just hiding from Farmer Beesmith." The honey-covered pony squeaked in a smooth voice.
"Whu?" Glittermind stepped back in confusion, not quite wanting to get any honey on herself.
"I'm hiding, didn't you hear my honey-toned voice the first time?" The honey-messy pony giggled. It was hard to get mad at that giggle.
"I heard you the first time, uh…what is your name?" Glittermind carefully avoided the sticky pony stepping around on the wooden floor.
"Oh, how rude of me…" the debatably crazy pony sniffed the air and neighed with happiness. "HONEY!" Then, as the mare reached back to the gooey substance on her back and began to lick it vivaciously. It was then that Glittermind saw the pony's talent-mark: three hexagonal honeycombs.
"Your name is Honey?" Glittermind asked.
"No, you silly unicorn…" the honey-colored pony stopped her back-licking and faced Glittermind. "My name is Honey-SCAR. Honeyscar."
"Oooookay. That is a different name." the turquoise unicorn smirked to herself. The snark coming from Honeyscar was amusing.
"Well, then Missy smarty-pants, what is YOUR name." Honeyscar inquired.
"Glittermind."
"Duh." Honeyscar smiled brightly and then went back to licking the honey off her back. Glittermind watched for a few moments and then shook her head, turning back to her dining area.
"Why are you here again?" Glittermind sighed and remembered her thoughts prior to Honeyscar's impromptu entrance.
"I'm hiding for stealing honey." Honeyscar answered. "Ponies hate me when I steal their honey."
"I'd say…" Glittermind muttered.
"Say whut?" The honey-loving pony stopped licking her back and looked at the unicorn.
"Nothing."
"Whatever." Honeyscar shrugged and sat down on Glittermind's purple couch.
"Um…make yourself at home?"
"Thank you very much!" Honeyscar beamed brightly.
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"OH Glittermind!" Color Jam's voice echoed into the tree house in which the unicorn was housed in. The black-flanked flier flew a double loop before landing a perfect landing in front of the wooden door. Lifting a black hoof, Color Jam knocked on the door.
However, before the flier could knock twice, the door burst open and a golden figure raced past Color Jam.
"YOU NASTY LITTLE THIEF!" Color Jam heard a very angry Glittermind shout at the golden figure. "YOU GET BACK HERE AND CLEAN YOUR STUPID MESS UP!"
"HAHAHAHAHAH, I will not, you stupid neat-freak!" The golden figure taunted back. "You said to make myself at home and I did! It's not my fault you live like such a neat freak!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGH HHH!" Glittermind was now standing – fuming – next to Color Jam, looking very angry.
"Oh my…" Color Jam moved her flight goggles off her pale blue eyes and shook her mane out. Breathing in deeply, the smells of trouble wafting into her nose, Color Jam exhaled. Honeyscar was causing trouble once again. Looking over to her turquoise-colored friend, Color Jam gave a lop-sided smile. "Hi Glittermind, I see you've started having fun without me."
"Ugh. You call THIS fun!?" The unicorn, finally taking notice of her flying friend, stepped to the side and waggled a dark-teal hoof inside to indicate the problem.
Color Jam, leaning over and looking inside Glittermind's abode, quickly zipped her flight goggles into her mouth in order to stop her laughter. Inside the spacious tree house, the furniture was all pushed together in the middle of the room. Couches, chairs, tables and cushions were jumbled together into a make-shift fort.
"I see nothing wrong with a furniture fort." Color Jam giggled to the unicorn.
"Yea, but I didn't build it, and the pony who DID ran away with all my food!" Glittermind again pointed to the refrigerator whose doors stood wide open.
"Oh my…let me guess…" Color Jam smirked to Glittermind. "Honeyscar stole your honey?"
"Well, yea." The unicorn stated matter-of-factly. "And all my food."
"Well, it's a good thing I'm here then, Glittermind. Because this gives me something to do! Let's first put your furniture back in the right place, then go food shopping. See, nothing to worry about, Glittermind."
"Ugh, I suppose you're right, but still…I can't believe I let that Honeyscar get away with making a mess in my house."
"Don't worry about, Glittermind, Honeyscar makes messes all the time, and ponies know how to direct the honey-loving pony's weird habits. You're new here, so you didn't know to not let that crazy pony into your house." Color Jam placed her flight goggles back over her neck and walked into Glittermind's house. "I'll help you with this problem right now!"
"Oh, very well, and thanks, Color Jam. You're a big help." Glittermind finally smiled and shook her head at the furniture mess. "I didn't know that pony was a thief of ALL food. I…I didn't know what to expect of a pony who entered through my window."
"No problem!" Color Jam smiled again as she moved the outer most tables at the jumble in the room's center. "Honeyscar is normally alright, but gets hyped up on honey and does childish things."
"Could've told me that BEFORE hand." Glittermind snorted. "She was wacked out in moving my stuff." Glittermind helped Color Jam start setting the furniture back in the right places. "I'd prefer Catslave's Cat world than Honeyscar."
This comment made Color Jam laughter loudly. "Glittermind, girl, you are really funny!"
"Gee, thanks, Color Jam."
"You're welcome!"
XXX
Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned to be careful when making new friends. Some ponies have to be handled with special care, such as getting to KNOW the pony beforehand. Otherwise, making friends on the fly isn't that bad a thing. (Honeyscar better give me back my food or otherwise next time I see her, I'm going to bop her on her silly old head!)
Your new student,
Glittermind