As I walked along the path towards town I heard something in the distance. It was thunder, the weather pegasi were bringing in a storm, and by the darkness of the clouds it was bound to be one hell of a storm.

I looked around to see what kind of cover I had, all that was immediately available was trees and the option of going back into the forest. Ok option B wasn't going to happen. I looked into the distance and saw Sweet Apple Acres ahead. I ran hoping to beat the storm there, and that someone was home.

I had guessed wrong on the speed of the storm. By the time I reached Sweet Apple Acres it was pouring rain like there was no tomorrow, I was soaked to the marrow, and just my luck there seemed to be nobody home. Either that or the thunder was drowning out my calls and my knocking on the door, which I was practically beating the door down. I looked around and saw the door on the barn was ajar and quickly ran inside to escape the onslaught of the rain.

After snooping around and finding a cellar with jars of clear liquid that smelled like apples, I climbed into the loft and made a place to sleep. I had also grabbed a few apples along with a couple of jars of the sweet smelling liquid. As I lay there in the hay, I ate the apples and drank the liquid; it reminded me of the moonshine from my home world. I downed the jars I had and went to the cellar and grabbed a few more jars then returned to my spot in the loft and began to drink a few more jars. The last thing I remember for that night was the rain lulling me to sleep.

The Next Day

Sweet Apple Acres

I was awakened in the morning by a kick to the torso, I quickly came to and realized that I had been moved to the ground level and tied to a support beam. My vision had yet to clear enough to clearly see what had caused the pain when another blow hit me, this time it was hard enough to fully wake me up and I heard a feminine voice.

"That's enough Macintosh he's comin to"

"Nope" I heard a deep voice say and felt another blow, this time it was to my stomach.

I grunted in pain and tried to talk, but between the drinks from last night and the previous blows my speech was slurred.

"eymuuhwaek "I said

"See" the voice said "he's awake now let's get some answers from him"

"eeyup" The deep voice said.

I presumed the deep voice was Big Macintosh, which meant the beautiful feminine voice I heard had to be his oldest sister Apple Jack.

"Great…I'm getting beaten up and it's not even been a week since I got here. And of all people it's one of the ones I kind of have a crush on. My life keeps getting better and better" I thought to myself

"HEY!" Apple jack said "WAKE UP!"

"I'm up" I managed to say.

"Good" she said "Now start explainin what you were a doin in our barn and drinkin from Mac's cider stash along with eatin our apples."

"Is that why he keeps hitting me?" I asked wincing with every breath; I think he broke a rib or two.

"Eeyup" I heard Mac say

I stifled a laugh and instantly regretted doing so, not only did my sides start to burn, but Mac saw that as his cue to hit me again.

"Dammit would you quit that!" I said "if you would untie me I'll explain everything."

After being untied I explained what had happened the previous few days, excluding the whole death thing.

"I'll help out around the farm to help repay you for the things I took." I told them, Mac just stood there and grunted "I'll even help you make more cider Mac, how about that?

He remained silent yet his sister spoke up for him

"That'll do fine; after all you were only trying to get somewhere warm and dry. But ah have a few more questions for you"

I shrugged as I told her that if I f keeps him; motioning towards Big Mac, from hittin me again I would do anything she needed.

She nodded and smiled while trying to hold back a laugh, she was unsuccessful and burst into laughter rolling on the floor. Mac just stood there, he didn't even grin he just glared and walked out. I guess he might have been a lil bit angry that I had drunk almost half of his stash.

Later That Day

After doing a whole day worth of work I was invited to stay with the Apples family for the night, I have to admit that I was uncomfortable at first but after dinner I began to relax a little bit. And then something happened that I didn't want. While sitting in the living room chatting with Apple Jack her little sister Apple Bloom walked in and happened to see my bare flank when I stretched my wings.

She stood there and gasped, drawing attention before shouting out "HEY! Where's your cutie mark?"

I facehoofed, I really didn't want to have to come up with an excuse to cover my story.

"Um…" I stuttered "Well I've never bothered with trying to find my special talent because if I do then I'm just another bit in the bag, but without it I'm unlike the rest of the ponies, I guess you could say I'm unique"

"Good lie, now try not to mix it up" I thought

"Well I'm a goin ta find mah special talent no matter what; I don't wanna grow up a blank flank." She said this with a disappointed look on her face "I don't wanna be a nobody all mah life"

Ouch…thanks for being kind about it

"Well it's not always a bad thing" A.J said

She apparently noticed that her sister's comment had hit a nerve.

"Yeah it's not always a bad thing, it just means that I get to experience life a little bit more" I said trying to end the conversation.

Apparently A.J. noticed what I was trying to do and said something to Apple Bloom about it being past her bed time, which then caused Apple Bloom to start ranting about how it was unfair that she had to go to bed when everyone else stayed up.

I tried to help her out by telling Apple Bloom that when she sleeps her heart tells her what it wants and that if she listened to it she would be able to find her special talent in no time. This instantly perked her up and she ran upstairs smiling the whole time saying "I never thought about that, I wonder if Sweetie Bell or Scootaloo knows about this yet"

I laughed as her voice became muffled as she shut her door. The whole time Apple Jack had been sitting there shocked at how easily I had gotten her sister to listen.

"I never thought about trying that" she said "I can't believe that pack of phooey worked"

I laughed and told her that where I was from there were people (ponies) who were paid to interpret dreams and to tell the person what it was their heart truly wanted. I did however manage to leave out the part about most of them being frauds and scamming people out of money.

I yawned as I realized that I had been awake since dawn, not noticing that my wings stretched as I did tickling Apple's nose causing her to sneeze. I was the cutest thing I had seen her do, even on the show, we both laughed and she laid her head on my shoulder and began to fall asleep. My heart nearly lept out of my chest when she did this, I couldn't believe it; one of the mane six had her head on my shoulder, MINE, and was starting to doze off. I couldn't help but to smile.

I gingerly stood up and picked her up, placing her on my back, and carried her up to her bed, while climbing the stairs she started to wobble and slide off and I felt her front hooves softly wrap around my neck trying to hold herself up.

"This night just keeps getting better" I thought to myself

As we reached her room I laid her in her bed and went to leave, but instead of letting me go she tightened her grip like she didn't want me to go, I nudged her with my snout.

"I'm just going to be downstairs on the couch, if you need me you can come get me" I said smiling

She opened her eyes enough to have that look on her face that almost makes it impossible to say no

"You can sleep here" she said "it's been a while since ah have had anyone to cuddle with"

I almost dropped dead right there, I couldn't believe what I had heard.

"I don't wanna be rude …" before I could finish the sentence she had tightened her grip around my neck determined not to let go.

"It seems I have no choice" I said with a smile as I lay next to her, she would never know how ecstatic I was at that point

She smiled and closed her eyes, pulling me closer to her like I was her favorite teddy bear. I couldn't help but think how soft her pelt was. Next thing I knew her lips were pressed against mine. I could have died a happy stallion then and there. I kissed her back and she opened her eyes again and smiled, we kissed again this time out tongues wrestling each other for space in each other's mouths. When we pulled apart I could see that beautiful smile on her face, I was happy knowing that somehow I had made this mare happy by just being here…if only I could tell her the truth of how I had gotten here, and who I really was. She nestled her head under my neck and before long I could hear the slow paced breathing telling me she had fallen asleep. I smiled as I laid my head above hers and slowly drifted to sleep, smelling the apple shampoo in her hair.

Ok didn't know how to end this chapter so I did it this way…lol I know some were expecting a clop scene but hey it's only the second chapter, why spoil something early when you can have someone wanting more I might be a little late on my updates for this weekend due to me having to fix my truck but I'll try my best to keep a daily update going…and also welcome Bahamut Crisis Core to the story team glad to have you on board buddy