“Welcome to Ponyville”

The school bell rings and the young boy lifts his head up and yawns. He had fallen sleep during class, it wasn’t a class that kept him focused. He was still drowsy and didn’t see his best friend Mallory coming up behind him, but before she could get close to him, she trips and falls on his back. Her breast went around his head. This only causes him to jump out of his desk and cover his nose. She picked herself up and giggled.

“Oh sorry Michael. I was trying to wake you up. It’s time to go home and you promised to walk me home today.” She puffed out her cheeks and looked him in the eyes.

“I know I did Mallory. Don’t worry, I was just getting up before you landed on me,” He grabs his bag that was lying beside his desk. “Are you ready to go?”

She nods and loops her arm around him, pulling him out the door, while he kicks and waves his arms around. She just keeps pulling him along as people in the hall just blink at the two of them. She giggles at his effort, and after a while he just gives up and she stops to let him finally walk with her.

“Will you come over to watch a show with me?” She gives him the puppy eyes that she's used every time she wanted him to do something.

“And what show will that be?” He asks, knowing that it would be some girly, little kid show.

“My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic,” She giggles as she looks at him. He takes a step back and looks at her like she was crazy or something.

“You have to be kidding me here Mallory. I’m not going to watch that little girls show,” He sighs, still walking with her. She nods and pulls him toward her house, making him wave his arms wildly, losing his balance as he falls to the ground, still being dragged along behind her. He grabs the doorframe, but Mallory was somewhat stronger when she wanted to be, and he was pulled into the house as the door closes after him.

He sighs as he takes a seat on the couch next to Mallory as she turns on the TV. She leans on him as the show begins to play, giggling as the show goes, seeming to really get into it. Michael was kind of liking the show as well, but he would never admit that to Mallory, because well, he is a guy and guys don't watch shows like this and like them.

As the show ends, he looks over to his side and sees that she has fallen asleep on him. He doesn't mind at all though, they had been friends for a long time and well, his feelings for her had grown. He didn’t know if she shared the same feelings for him though, so he just smiles and decides to let her sleep. She did spend about every weekend helping him keep his grades up after all.

Time passes and she lets out a yawn, throwing her arms out and slapping him in the face. He lets out a little whimper as she slowly wakes up and looks at him.

“Are you okay there, Michael?” She says, covering her mouth as she giggles.

“I was, till your hand slapped me across the face,” His nose was now bleeding from her hand hitting him, and not something else.

“Opps, sorry Michael. I didn’t mean to hit you. I… well thought you would have left when I fall sleep,” Her face began to show a light red as she blushed.

“Why in hell would I leave you, when you invited me over to watch a show with you? So I decided to stay and finish the show,” He said as if it was just the right thing to do, which in this case, it was.

“I don’t know, I just thought that you would be home before I woke up,” She says, puffing out her cheeks as they both got up off the couch. He just lets out a yawn and walks to the front door to put his shoes back on.

“Well I stayed and now I’m going to need to head home,” He was about out the door before he looks back, and smile at her. “Oh by the way, thanks for inviting me over to watch the show. It was really good.”

“You’re welcome. I hope that we can do this again sometime,” The smile on her face was warming, and he nods to her. He would really like to watch it again with her.

Michael's walk home was a slow one this time. His thoughts focused on how he could find himself liking a show like that. He just sighs, and brushes it up to being that Mallory was leaning on him. The bushes next to the walkway in front of him move a bit, catching his attention.

He gets to the bush in question, and looks around to see if he could see or find anything that would show what was causing the bushes to move like it was. Michael didn’t see anything that would explain it, so like most guys, he found a stick and began poking the bush to find out more.

After a few pokes with the stick, a loud meep sound came from the bush.

“What the hay was that for?” Came a female voice from inside the bush.

“Who’s there?” He yelps, jumping back and looking around to see if someone was just trying to play a trick on him. The bush moves a little more and he could swear that there was something with blue fur inside the bush.

“No… one is here boy… just go on home,” The voice sounds like she was getting kind of scared, like she didn't want someone to find her.

“Come on out. I can see you there in the bushes,” He says, trying to sound like he wasn’t scared as well.

“No,” He blinks at the response. He was a bit stunned to hear that coming from a person in a bush.

“Yes, you get out of there right now. A little girl shouldn't be playing in the bushes anyway,” He jumps, waving his arms up and down.

“Just get out of here boy,” She calls back, sounding like she was getting further away, yet the bush still moved. He was lost at what was going on in or behind the bush, there was only one thing he could now.

He jumps through the bush, trying to find what he believes is a little girl hiding in the bushes. As he falls through the bush and then a hole in the ground, his last thought before falling through the dark hole is, ‘there's a hole here?’

As he falls down, the world around him begins to grow bright, becoming so bright that he is forced to squeeze his eyes shut. He feels himself hitting the ground and blacks out from the impact. After a while he could hear voices around him. Slowly, opening his eyes to the world around him, blinking some more as, what appeared to be the ponies from the show he watched with Mallory, came into focus around him.

“What in the world happened?” He asks, slowly getting up on all fours. Blinking, he looks down to see that he had hoofs where his hands used to be. He slowly backs away to land on his butt, causing him to jump up into the air. It took a moment before he realized that he was flying in the air.

He had a scared look, as a few more Pegasus came to help him back down to the ground near the town. Breathing heavily, he looks around. A pony, with a green mane and light blue coat came up to him with a smile on her face.

“Welcome to Ponyville”