AN: Hello readers! Thanks for clicking this story and turning to this chapter. I appreciate every read I get. I do need to make a quick announcement though. I'm currently suffering from a bit of writers block, but this chapter needs to be done. So I'm only doing Starlight for this chappy, sorry Solar and Morphine, I'll get to you two soon, but right now, this is the best I can come up with. Big thanks to Colton, or Cdude1777 as he's more formerly known. He's pretty much the reason this chapter isn't late. So thank you man, I appreciate your help.
-Starlight's POV-
Perfect, it's absolutely, perfect. I looked around the empty garage and admired its potential. Once I had finished breakfast, I had decided to explore the house a little bit. It was nice, the rooms were spacey enough, and my room was fairly well furnished. Although the big surprise waited for me in the backyard; it contained a grassy area, a dirt area right by the door with a couple of chairs, and what looked like a small garage.
I pondered why there was such a large building in the backyard. It was about the size of a two car garage, leftover material was strewn about, like metal and wood. I looked and found a workbench almost beckoning me over. I trotted over and sat down on the wooden stool to find it surprisingly comfortable. I scanned the paper, quill and ink in front of me, I slid a piece of paper over and tried to pick up the quill with my magic, struggling, I managed to hold it steady, and started drawing up some plans.
I looked at the product of my labor, to see an elaborately drawn chariot. I drew every curve, every mark of this perfect. I looked at the trashcan to see dozens of my failed designs. This one though, this one would definitely make a chariot built for the Princess. I smiled, back on earth I was a mechanic, it wasn't the best paying job, or the most prestigious, but it's what I loved to do. Here, I could pursue my passion and make chariots built for gods, or goddesses.
I stepped outside to stretch for a moment and get a breath of fresh air. I soon realized that it was a bit past noon based on the suns position. I walked inside to see if there was anything to do there, but I quickly found a red mare talking to the turquoise unicorn called Cloudchaser. I walked past them and nodded friendly like at both of them. The red mare glared daggers at me, while the turquoise unicorn nodded back.
"Scored already I see." I said in a friendly tone to Cloud.
"Not necessarily" He said to me, a sad look coming to his eyes for a moment before he recovered "I am trying to have a private conversation though, so could you leave us be for a moment."
I gave one last smile to the red mare who continued to stare at me, before making my leave through the front door. I briefly wondered what to do next, I thought about paying a visit to one of the five that came here with me, but I quickly dismissed that, they probably all wanted to go after their love lives as well. I then decided I might as well pursuit my love of Rarity as well. I thought her dainty ways were very attractive. I imagined the boutique in my mind and prepared the teleport spell. I transferred into the strange, world full of colors I've never seen before. I then started to walk towards the boutique. I did figure that I would have to ask Twilight about how the spell worked and what this world was, but for now I would use it as I pleased. The weird thing about this strange world was that sometimes, you could walk a single step and you would travel a couple hundred feet. Others, the opposite was true, and a hundred steps in one direction would take me fifty steps backwards.
I did manage to get to my destination last time, although it was in a wall. I then stopped as I saw the sort of colorful silhouette of the boutique. I sighed; glad I had chosen the right direction to travel in. I lowered my head to drop the spell, and let the magic flow from my body, feeling the still unfamiliar tingling feeling of heading back to my normal colored world. I then started to raise my head to walk into the boutique.
I felt my head stuck in something; I tried to raise my head again and found my head refusing to move. I looked around, but instead of seeing the outside of the white boutique. I was inside of what looked like a small living room, but it was overwhelmed by plants and animals of all types. Most of the later still staring at me, I looked at the top of my head and found my horn stuck into the wall opposite a short hallway.
"Goodbye Morphine" I heard a quiet voice in the hallway that sounded extremely familiar.
I panicked, whoever pony was outside would be freaked out if they saw me just standing in the middle of the room. I tried to wrench myself free, but it was in vain. I looked behind me just in time to see a certain yellow mare walk in and look at me.
"Er… hi…" I said awkwardly smiling.
She still just stared blankly at me. I tried waving at her and whistling, but she just stood there; lost in a deep trance. Then she collapsed to the floor in a heap.
I sighed and started to work my way out of the wall. The good thing was is that, the wall was only made of thing wood. So after a couple minutes of awkward twisting and pulling, I managed to tear myself out of the wall. I briefly wondered about the hole, but decided I wouldn't be much use trying to patch it up, so I just moved a small picture so it covered the hole. Then I turned around to tend with the heap of pony that was lying on the floor.
I cleared of the couch of all the animals and bread crumbs that were lying around, before trying to lift her with magic. I found lifting a quill and lifting an unconscious pony were two totally different things, as I could barely wrap my magic around her small frame, much less lift her up. I decided to grasp her in my hooves and carry her to the couch that way. Once that was done, I put a blanket over her and wondered what to do next.
I didn't have to wait for long as the pegasus's eyes fluttered open and looked around for a bit before settling on me.
"Please don't freeze again." I said a little quickly "I promise I won't hurt you."
She quickly sat up and began to hide behind her mane.
"Um… what's your name" I asked to be polite even though I knew the answer.
I heard her mumble something incoherently, so I leaned a bit closer and asked again. She mumbled a bit louder, but it was still inaudible. I leaned a little bit closer.
"Sorry, could you speak a bit louder please?" I asked.
"Flutte…" I heard before her voice trailed off again.
"Fluttershy?" I asked
She nodded her head.
"I guess you're wondering why I'm in your house huh?"
She nodded her head again.
"Well, um, I was trying to get to Rarities boutique and I accidently showed up here."
"Oh, you're a friend of Rarities" She asked in a barely audible whisper.
"Well, I've heard of her designs and would love to meet her." I said blushing. "I'm a bit of a designer myself…"
"Oh, do you sew as well?" she asked getting a bit more confident with every word.
"Um, well actually no, I build chariots, or I'm starting to anyway." I said
"Oh…" She said before looking at her hoofs.
We sat in silence for a little, neither of us really knowing what to say.
"So, um, I guess I should go now." I said standing up.
"Wait" Her soft voice called out to me, causing me to turn around. "If you want to impress Rarity, I could help you…"
"Really!" I asked turning around to face the pegasus who refused to look me in the eye.
"Um, sure, I could teach you a bit about sewing and fashion and…"
"Oh thank you thank you thank you!" I said grasping Fluttershy in a tight hug.
"Um… I can't… breathe…" I heard her soft voice say even softer than usual.
"Oh, sorry" I said chuckling awkwardly as I let her go "Are you sure you'd be willing to do that for me?"
"Sure, it's no problem at all" She said smiling kindly at me "I can see you every other day starting with today, if that's ok with you…" I heard her say.
"No problem" I said smiling at her "Does that mean we can start today?"
"Yeah, I just have to get my sewing machine and fabrics. I'll be right back," She said before turning down another hallway "You wait here… if that's ok with you…"
"Don't worry about it." I said giving a friendly smile, she then left out of my sight and I couldn't help but giving a small cheer for myself. I could build chariots all day one day, and the next, become one step closer to loving the most beautiful pony in Ponyville, no Equestria. Nothing and I mean nothing… would stop me!
AN: Grr, it feels so short with only one characters backstory, but I quite like this one. All that's left is Solar and one other secret character I've failed to introduce. Thanks again to Cdude1777 for all his great help. He was the guy who got the ball rolling, and then kept me from falling off the hill of my wandering imagination. So basically, I can only take 50% of the credit for this chapter, Starlight takes 10% for it being his OC and Cdude takes 40%, without any of these guys, I'd have no story, so thanks guys. I appreciate all of you. Peace out!
