(Drakalian’s POV)

As we walked into town, the first thing that I noticed was that it was very colorful. I’m not sure why it struck me as odd, but for some reason, I was expecting something…different. However, it was still a nice looking town and the people…well, ponies of the place seemed to be nice enough as well. Of course, the majority of them would stare at me as we walked by, some of them even stopping in mid speech just to gape at me before starting to whisper between each other. I began to feel a bit nervous from all the attention that I was getting, feeling myself starting to close in slightly to try and make myself seem smaller.

Twilight seemed to notice this and looked up at me with slight confusion. “Hey Drakalian, you ok?”

I glanced down at her before I returned my gaze in front of me, giving a slight shrug. “I…I guess. It’s just that…well, the constant staring is getting…a bit unnerving.”

The purple unicorn gave me a curious look before she looked around, seeing the large amount of ponies that where either staring at me or glancing in our general direction. After a few moments, she gave a small sigh and turned to face me again. “You know they don’t mean any harm, right? They are most likely curious if anything.”

I gave a nod of understanding. “Yea, I would be doing the same thing in their place, but it’s still…well, you know, uncomfortable.” I then gave a sudden shiver before I wrapped my arms around myself, causing Spike to give me a curious look.

“Hey, is the staring really affecting you that much?” He asked.

I gave a quick shake of my head. “I just remembered that it’s…r-really c-c-cold.” I said, my teeth chattering a little at the end. During our walk it finally dawned on me that it was rather cold outside…the snow being a rather big give away.

Twilight’s eyes widened in slight surprise before she lit her horn and opened her bag. “I’m sorry, I forgot about that part. I brought this back from the library to see if Rarity could fix it.” She said, before my hoodie was pulled from her bag and levitated to me. I quickly took it and opened it up, but before I could put it on, I was able to catch the entire damage that was done to it.

The entire left shoulder was in rags, a big gaping hole that would do nothing to keep me warm. As an added bonus, the hood was hanging by a thread, threatening to fall off entirely. I gave a small sigh as I simply held the ruined hoodie close to my chest, knowing that it was no different if I put it on at the moment. “Thanks Twilight, though I am going to have to find a way to fix this soon, otherwise I might risk freezing up.”

Twilight gave a nod of understanding. “Well, I was going to go to Rarity’s later today, but I guess we can go now to see if she could fix it for you.”

“We’re going to Rarity’s place now instead of later? Yes!” Said Spike, giving a small fist pump in the air. He then went silent as he realized that he said it out loud, causing him to clear his throat and adopt a more casual posture. “I mean…yea, that sounds fine.”

I raised an eyebrow in slight confusion before looking back at Twilight for an answer, only getting a small giggle as she led us to our destination. Soon, we reached what I assumed to be this Rarity’s place. It was a large carousal like building, white walls and purple roof, the windows adjourned with pony mannequins that had all sorts of fancy dresses on them. I was a bit curious if this Rarity was as good as Twilight said, and upon seeing those dresses, I had to agree that the quality of them was quite high class. Once we approached the front, Twilight knocked on it with a hoof, before getting a reply from inside.

“Just a moment dear.” The voice was rather…different from the others, at least with their accent. I wasn’t able to place what it reminded me of, but if I had to hazard a guess, I would say somewhere along the lines of the higher class. After a few seconds, the door opened and revealed the owner of the voice, her eyes were closed for a second and a small smile was on her face.

“Welcome to Carousal Boutique, where everything is chic, unique and magnifique.” She said before opening her eyes and seeing the purple unicorn standing in front of her door. The pony, whom I assume is Rarity, was a white unicorn with a stylized purple mane and tail. Another thing that I noticed was that she was also wearing some sort of…shading under her eyes and upon her eyelids. Upon seeing Twilight, she grew a smile and hugged the other unicorn. “Oh Twilight, how wonderful to see you again darling! I just got finished with my newest design line, and I was just about to come and search for one of you girls, but this makes it a whole lot easier.” She then looked down and saw that Spike was with her as well. “And you even brought Spikey-Wikey. How’s my favorite dragon helper doing?”

The dragon in question blushed as he gave a small wave of his claw at the white pony. “Oh, nothing much, Rarity, just helping Twilight as usual.” He replied, giving a sheepish smile.

“I’m glad that everything is going well so far Rarity, but we actually came here for some help.” Said Twilight.

Rarity cocked her head slightly to the side. “Why, what do you-” She started to say before she saw me out of the corner of her eyes. Once she finally looked up at me, she froze in her place in what I assume was fear. Well, I was half naked from the waist up with only some bandages covering my chest up while I was wearing my shorts and holding my torn up hoodie close to me like a blanket in a vain attempt to keep me warm.

I gave a shy smile and a small wave to the surprised unicorn. “Uh…hi?”

As soon as I said hi, the unicorn placed a hoof to her forehead, wavered around a bit and then promptly fainted.

I blinked in surprise as the pony just fell to the ground, kind of expecting something like this to happen, though not this extreme. Twilight however was already helping Rarity back up, lifting the fainted unicorn with her magic and carrying her into the store. With nothing else to do, Spike and I followed behind her, closing the door behind us. Well…Spike mostly ran into the building, leaving me behind to close the door.

Once inside, I started to give a quick look around the place, wanting to get a lay of the building as it were. The main room was rather large, with a round stage in the center of it. There were pony mannequins around the place as well, a few of them had some rather amazing dresses…at least, they seemed amazing to me.

I looked back at Twilight who was gently placing Rarity onto a nearby couch, putting a pillow under her head before turning to face me.

“So…is she going to be fine?” I asked.

The purple unicorn nodded. “Yes, I think she should be. You’d be surprised with how many times she does faint. Anyways, it should just take a few moments before she is awake.”

I gave a small nod and right as I did so, the white unicorn seemed to already be slowly waking up. “Ugh…that was an…interesting dream.” She said, slowly raising her head up, rubbing her forehead with a hoof.

“Um, Rarity? Are you ok?” Asked Spike, who was standing right next to the couch, making sure to not leave her side anytime soon.

“Spike? Why, what are you doing here? Is Twilight here too?” She asked, a bit confused.

“Hey Rarity, over here.” Said the librarian, waving a hoof to get the white mare’s attention.

Once Rarity noticed her, she got up and quickly walked to the unicorn, her eyes wide with surprise as she grabbed the pony’s shoulders with her hooves. “Twilight, darling. I just had the most horrendous dream about some bipedal creature walking to my front door and-” Before she could continue, she noticed me standing behind Twilight, causing her mouth to hang open as she released the purple unicorn and slowly trotted up to me.

I was a bit nervous, not sure if she was going to faint again, or do something else like it, so I just held onto my hoodie while she just stared at me. “Um, hi Rarity, my name is Drakalian…at least, I think it is…anyways, I came here to-”

"That clothing! It's... it's simply hideous! Why, the wear, the tear, my stars! What have you done to this poor thing?!" she shouted and before I could do anything, she yanked my hoodie out of my hand with her magic as she started to examine it in closer detail. I simply blinked in surprise, not sure how to react to what she did.

“Don’t worry you poor, poor thing, mama’s here to help. Everything will be all better.” She said, hugging my hoodie like it was her child. I simply raised an eyebrow and looked at Twilight, who had a small smile on her face and seemed to be trying to hold back a giggle, with limited success.

“Um, is she always like this?” I asked.

Twilight nodded. “When it comes to clothing, yes, but this exact reaction is a bit new, though not quite unlike her.” We then turned our attention back to the white pony, who had at this point opened the hoodie up to better examine the damage.

“Hmm, this is going to be a rather difficult one, especially since I never fixed clothing for a bipedal, let alone made clothing for one. However, it seems that it only requires a little stitching and some patchwork and then it will be good as new!” With an excited grin on her face, she turned to face us, her eyes sparkling with the challenge ahead of her. “Don’t worry dear, I promise to have this done within the next hour.”

I raised an eyebrow at the rather short time it might take. “An hour? I think it might take a bit more then an hour to-”

Rarity silenced me with a wave of her hoof. “Oh, nonsense…Drakalian, was it? I’m an expert when it comes to fashion designing and fashion repair, so have no fear. Now, if Spike would like to help me out, then I’m sure I could cut the time rather quickly…” She said, looking at the young dragon and leaving the sentence unfinished.

Spike’s eyes went wide and he zoomed up right next to the unicorn, his hands clasped in front of him as he nodded vigorously. “Why I would love to, Rarity!”

Rarity giggled at the reaction from the purple drake before she started to walk into one of the separate rooms, my hoodie floating behind her. “Well then, come along now, Spike, let us see what I can do to fix this poor thing.” With that, both Spike and the Unicorn left the main room, Spike following close behind her.

During their talk, a small part of my mind was wondering about Spike’s attraction to Rarity, which was rather obvious that he liked her. However, my mind was rather confused as to why one species would find another one attractive. As that part of my brain was thinking this, my eyes wandered across her body, seeing if maybe I could see what Spike was seeing. As I came across her flank (NO) I noticed that there were three blue diamonds there.

“Hmm…three diamonds…” I muttered to myself, wondering what they meant. Twilight, however, heard my muttering despite how quiet I thought I was being.

“Hmm? You say something Drakalian?” She asked, looking up at me.

I blinked a few times to clear my head before I looked back down at the purple unicorn. “Oh, sorry, I was just wondering what the three diamonds on Rarity’s flank meant.”

“Oh, well that’s her Cutie Mark.”

I raised an eyebrow at the name of the markings. “A…Cutie Mark?”

Twilight nodded. “Yup, all ponies gain a Cutie Mark when they figure out what their special talent in life is. For example, mine’s about how I’m good with magic.” With that, she turned around a little until I could see the side of her flank better. True to her words, there was indeed a Cutie Mark upon her flank, though hers was in the shape of five small white stars surrounding a larger red star.

“Oh…interesting.” I said as she turned back around to face me. Of course, I made sure to avoid her eyes when she did so, still not comfortable for some reason to look her in the eyes.

“You know, since we have some time, why don’t you ask me a few questions about Equestria?” She asked, sitting down on one of the cushions and motioning for me to join her.

I give a small smile and a nod, sitting down next to her. “Ok, well how about we start with…”

We talked there for what felt like hours, discussing about how the country works and some of the things that has happened in its history, ranging from the banishing of a certain pony to the moon to the present, when she and her friends helped to save a place called the Crystal Empire, though she did say that Spike was the one who saved them in the end.

During this time, I felt a small nagging sensation in the back of my mind, though I only notice it when we started to talk about the rulers of the land, a couple of ponies called Celestia and Luna. When she mentioned their names, I gave a small wince and rubbed the back of my head as if someone slapped me there.

“Hey, you ok?” She asked, giving me a slightly concerned look.

I give the back of my head a few more rubs and then the pain subsided, allowing me to grin back and answer her question. “Yea, it just started to ache a bit when you mentioned those names, but it’s gone now.”

Twilight became deep in thought, placing a hoof under her chin as she thought over what I said. “Hmm…interesting. Maybe they have something to do with your amnesia, though I have no idea why they would cause such a thing to somepony like you.”

I was about to reply to her pondering, saying that it was most likely not their doing or something along those lines when the doors to the side room opened and Rarity walked back out, along with Spike who was holding the folded hoodie in his arms, all repaired of tears and wears.

“Here you go, darling, completely fixed.” She said, levitating the hoodie out of the dragon’s grasp and floating it in front of me.

I smiled as I grasped the hoodie and opened it up, taking in the repairs of my only top part of clothing that I had. To my joy, it was amazingly fixed; I couldn’t even tell if there was a rip in it before it was repaired that good. I smiled as I put my hoodie back on me, pulling the hood over my head once I did so. When my head was covered, I started for some reason to feel a lot better and a lot calmer. Before I could say anything, Rarity spoke.

“I must say, darling, but I think I did a rather decent job at fixing your clothing, even though I don’t find the particular style to my taste.” She said, giving me a once over with my hoodie on.

I give a small chuckle and a nod in her direction. “Well, in any case, thank you for doing this and I will make sure to pay you back when I get the chance.”

The white unicorn shook her head. “Oh nonsense. I did this because I wanted to. This is on the house as it were.” I blinked in surprise at the sudden generosity of the mare before giving her another nod of my head.

“Thank you very much then, Rarity. However, if you do need anything, then please don’t hesitate to ask.” The unicorn nodded in understanding.

“Well, now that your clothing is fixed, how about we go to the library now?” Offered Twilight. “Spike, you can stay here and help Rarity if you want to.”

“I can? Yes!” Spike exclaimed before taking a deep breath and saying, “I mean, yes, I would like to help Rarity.” In a more calming tone, causing the rest of us to either chuckle or giggle at the young dragon’s reaction.

With the clothing taken care of, as well as the rest of Spike now staying with the fashionista planned out, Twilight and I both opened the door and left the building, making our way towards the library and what I assume will be my new home for a long time to come.

Sorry for the short chapter, but I don't know how long I can make the meeting of each of the mane six long, plus I'm kind of running low on the old inspiration, so it is going to be a while until I can get back into the swing of things. Until then, the chapters are going to be a bit short until I get into the real nitty gritty stuff that I like. For now, enjoy.