A Simple Wish

by IronSpark

This is the story of Mark, a new yorker who is transported to Equestria and begins life anew. These are his adventures in Equestria and in love. A story I was inspired to write after reading some other fan fiction. I'm a brony, and wanted to write as such. This is purely for my writing enjoyment and I hope you enjoy it as well. Rated M for some Adult content later on

8. Chapter 8

Hey everyone! How is everybody doing? Fantastic? Fantastic!

This chapter is a little on the shorter side (~700 words) not short short, but short for me.

I decided to make this a, for the most part, Storm Cloud centered chapter, it's not exactly filler like the last one seemed.

Hope you enjoy!

UPDATE 10/1/12-A Simple Wish has just hit 1000 views. It may not be much but it feels like a good milestone. Thank you everyone!

UPDATE 10/3/12 - Just not in the mood for writing right now...sorry. Might be up by Sunday. Sorry Ladies and Gents

Applejack and I arrived at Sugar Cube Corner a little later that I had expected, the walk was a little slow and a bit awkward.

It was nearing closer to lunch than breakfast. I opened the door for AJ and followed her in. I looked to see Dash rolling on the floor laughing and that blue pegasus from earlier, Storm Cloud I think, covered in pie. I couldn't help to laugh.

"Hey Pinkie!" I called out. "I think you need to identify your victims first." Pinkie stuck her head up from behind the counter and responded by hurling another pie at me. This time is was apple, damn it was good.

"Wow Pinkie, these are getting better and better." I complemented while licking my lips. Hm, tasted just like Applejack did. I just looked at AJ and she just smiled at me, my heart got all warm.

"So Cloud," I say breaking eye contact with Applejack. "How are you liking Ponyville so far?" Cloud was wiping his face off on his orange wing. That was a good idea, I followed suite and soon had a clean face and an apple covered wing.

"Oh hey Spark!" Cloud finally answered. "Free food and seeing old friends and meeting new people. It's not too bad." I nodded in reply

Dash say me and quickly looked away blushing a deep purple. Applejack saw this and went over to her.

"Hey Rainbow, I need to talk to ya'll" when both Dash and Cloud starting moving Applejack added in "Alone." Cloud froze. The girls went outside and left the three of us alone. Cloud reached into his saddlebag and pulled out some coins and placed them on the counter. "Thanks for the pies Pinkie. Hey Spark, want to go for a walk?" I nodded and headed out of the shop with him.

We headed west from town, mainly because neither one of us had ever been this way before and I needed to know the area.

"So Cloud" I ask him "How do you know Dash?"

He smiled a bit "Dash and I go way back, we met in flight school in Cloudsdale. We were friends for a while and even started dating."

"What happened then?" I ask him, figuring he was skipping some details.

His smile disappeared, "I hated flight school, I'm not sure what exactly it was, but it just got under my fur and I hated every second of it. One night I left a note for Dash and I ran away from home." I was surprised.

"Where'd you go?" I asked him

He just shrugged "I explored, I flew all across Equestria seeing all walks of life and sampled the best of the best of everything." I nodded as he finished, it didn't sound too bad. "Eventually I ended up in Canterlot and opened up a map shop."

"A map shop?" I asked him.

He smiled and continued "Yeah, I had been all over the place. So when I finally picked a place to settle I found an old house and made it my shop. I drew everything from pictures to maps. Business was pretty good, and I kept getting better and better. Eventually word spread around about my skill and one day Princess Celestia walks into my shop." I stop him

"Wow! A princess! What'd you do?" I asked

"I bowed and we started talking about maps and the like, I showed her my work, and eventually she invited me to the castle and offered me the position of Royal Cartographer. It was a dream come true, I handed the shop off to a friend of mine and moved into the castle. It was great, I got to do what I loved and never had to worry about making money. And somewhere along the way this little baby showed up." He gestured towards his cutie mark.

I lifted my wing to show where mine should be. "Yeah, hopefully I get one soon, people keep giving me strange looks."

"Don't worry about it dude! You'll get yours eventually." He said with a smile

"Yeah, I just hope its something cool, I mean what's worse than a la-" I was cut off by a scream coming from down the road.

"Cloud! Let's go!" I yelled and we took off towards the scream.

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Next chapter will maybe be up in the next 3 days so keep an eye out. No promises