I woke up the next day and seeing the pocket-watch on my table that told me the time, it made me more aware that I can now learn the time from the moment I wake up. After getting myself ready with a breakfast and a clean up, I went on out to just enjoy the day until I started hearing wubs and booms coming from another house.

A window then opened at the top part of the house and a pony popped out.

"OH YEAH! GOOD MORNING PONYVILLE!" she shouted.

"Vinyl Scratch!" I yelled.

"Bond Racer, is that you?"

"Turn the music down please!" I demanded.

"Well dude, if you let me give you a hug, I will."

"Alright!"

The music then went off, the front door opened and out came a white mare with lightening-ish kinds of blue and purple shades.

I opened out my front legs to offer a hug.

"Aw yeah, hugs are the best." she replied as we shared a hug. "We should catch up."

"We will soon, cousin. I just need to go and talk to a few ponies, laters."

"Alright man, see you soon,"

Vinyl then walked back into her home whilst I walked into town to find five mares waiting outside Sugarcube Corner.

"Hey girls, what's going on?" I asked.

"Hi bond, I think it's time we had...the chat," Twilight answered.

This gave me a bit of a surprise, but I showed some courage.

"Alright, but not out here."

"It's okay darling, we're in Sugarcube Corner for the duration of the talk." Rarity assured.

"Good, then let's go on in."

We all gathered round the centre of the shop and they sat down, signalling me to sit down too.

"We're gonna be talking about how we got our cutie marks, since I don't think you or Twilight have heard about it yet and Rainbow Dash will be here as soon as she can." Fluttershy said to me.

"Ah guess ah should start with how ah got mine." Applejack then began her story. "Ah was just a little filly." Applejack sat down on the ground and brought us closer to hear her story. "Ah didn't want to spend my life at a muddy old apple farm. Ah wanted to live the sophisticated life, like my Aunt n' Uncle Orange. So Ah set out to try my luck in a big city. Manehattan! The most cosmopolitan city in all of Equestria. Ah knew Ah'd find out who I was meant to be in Manehattan. When Ah arrived at my Aunt and Uncle's, Ah knocked on their door. They let me in to the new life I was going to live!" she paused for a moment to catch her breath, "Although, Ah must admit the city noise took some getting used to. Where Ah'm from, nights are so quiet you seldom hear a peep until the roosters wake you.' My answer had frightened everypony, as if they had never seen or even heard a rooster before! As my Aunt began covering for me, Ah quickly grew nervous in my mind. What's he talking about? What do I say? Ah don't wanna look like a fool. That's what Ah was thinking until the food had finally arrived at our table."

'Thank goodness. Being a city pony's hard work. Ah'm so hungry ah could eat a...' The top was taken off of the plate to only show a disappointed amount of food on it! Ah couldn't believe it! That night in my room, as ah watched the sunrise, ah could only wonder what my family back at Sweet Apple Acres was doing. 'Oh, ah wonder what Granny Smith and Big Macintosh are up to. Ah bet they're applebuckin' their way through the Red Delicious trees. Oh, what ah wouldn't give for just one bite...' Ah never felt so homesick in all my days as ah did right then. Then all of a sudden, there was this loud explosion across the sky! It was amazin'! A rainbow pointin' right back to... home. In that moment, it all became clear. Ah knew right then just who ah was supposed to be. That's when this here appeared." She pointed towards her cutie mark. "Ah've been happily workin' on the farm ever since."

"That was quite good to start with, Applejack, now I know why you love apples so much." Twilight replied.

"Ah sure do...so who wants to be the next?"

"Oooh I gladly shall share mine." Rarity answered before clearing her throat."I was making the costumes for a play when I was your girls' ages. It was for the same school you three are attending right now. The costumes consisted of a group of fruit, a dandelion, a cake, a stack of hay, and a flower. However, I felt as if they could have still been much more fabulous! The next day, I tried every trick I could think of, but nothing seemed to work. The costumes just weren't right. And the play opened that night. When I was at the point of doubting myself in being into fashion, my horn suddenly began glowing and moving me! I had no idea where my horn was taking me. But unicorn magic doesn't happen without a reason. I knew this had to do with my love of fashion and maybe even my cutie mark! I knew that this was... MY DESTINY! At first, I couldn't believe that my horn had led me to a mere humongous rock. It wasn't until an explosion of rainbow flew throughout the sky. It had split the rock in half revealing many gems! There were so many gems, I could hardly stare away from their beauty! That night, at the play, I had coated the costumes with gems. Everypony in the audience was amazed at what an amazing job I had done! I looked at my flank and there it was! My cutie mark!"

"And you've been following your dreams of a fashion designer since then...despite a few hiccups along the way." I said.

"Yes dear, you and everypony else have done wonders in helping me." Rarity assured. "So, who's turn is it now?"

"I will." Twilight answered proudly.

"As a young filly in Canterlot, I always wanted to go to the Summer Sun Celebration, where Princess Celestia raises the sun." Twilight spoke. "And I saw the most amazing, most wonderful thing I've ever seen. After seeing Princess Celestia's spectacular appearance, I poured myself into learning everything I could about magic. Thus, I spent every day and night reading through my books, learning many new things! My parents decided to enroll me in Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns. It was a dream come true! Except for one thing... I had to pass an entrance exam! I had to hatch a baby dragon from an egg! I knew this was the most important day of my life, that my entire future would be affected by the outcome of this day and I was about to blow it! After trying so much, I finally gave up. All of a sudden, this explosion sounded from outside! It scared me so much that magic shot out from my horn and towards the egg! The egg broke, releasing a baby dragon. I screamed as I suddenly lost control of all my magic! I had no idea what was going on! I had never been more scared of anything in my life! It wasn't until the Princess placed her hoof on me. When I saw her, I instantly calmed down. All the bad magic I had caused was undone. I felt my excitement fall, but the Princess pointed her hoof towards my flank revealing such an amazing gift. My cutie mark!"

"So, you've learnt tons of spells and magic ever since." I replied.

"I have, but am I not done and not for a long time."

"So what about you, Bond? Do you wanna say your story?" Applejack asked me.

"I wanna hear two more and then I'll tell you mine." I said.

"Oh oh oh" Pinkie exclaimed, "leave it to me, I'll tell you how I got my cutie mark!" she began telling us her story. "My sisters and I were raised on a rock farm outside of Ponyville. We spent our days working the fields. There was no talking. There was no smiling." She sighed. "There were only rocks. We were in the south field, preparing to rotate the rocks to the east field when all of a sudden... BOOM!" She shouted. "This huge rainbow exploded in the sky! When I saw it, I was so happy! I never felt joy like that before. It felt so good. I just wanted to keep smiling forever. And I wanted everyone I knew to smile too, but rainbows don't come along that often. I wondered, how else could I create some smiles? I spent that whole night and morning making a huge party for my family! When the sun rose up, I looked out the shed where the party was going to be at. I screamed out to my parents, excitedly. When they came in, I shouted to them, 'Surprise! You like it? It's called... a party! 'I made a huge grin! After seeing them tremble with fear, I lost my smile. I continued to see them shake, seeing all the party stuff I did. Suddenly, they smiled like never before! 'You like it! I'm so happy! And that's how Equestria was made." Pinkie finished oddly.

We all sat in silent after hearing Pinkie's story.

"Remind me to not do this with Pinkie again." I whispered to Twilight which caused her to giggle.

"Okay all, I'll tell you my story," Fluttershy said as she took a deep breath, "

"It all started at Summer Flight Camp. You'd never guess, but when I was little I was very shy. And a very weak flyer. When I was practising my flying, I accidentally messed up and got myself tangled in one of the flags. These two other boys saw me and began making fun of me. And then, out of nowhere... Rainbow Dash had flown to my side and told them to leave me alone. Eventually, Rainbow Dash got into a race against them. I was the pony who was starting the race. As soon as I waved that flag, they began flying at top speed, making me fall off the cloud I was standing on top of. I could see myself falling straight towards the ground. I thought that was the end of me since I could hardly fly…but then the most wonderful thing happened! All these butterflies caught me! I had never seen such beautiful creatures. Butterflies don't fly as high as my cloud home. And I've never been near the ground before. There was this large burst of rainbow in the sky, causing a very loud boom which scared all the animals. However, I walked over to each one of them and told them it was okay. Somehow, I had the ability to communicate with the animals on a different level."

"And that's why you are incredible with the animals, but of course I've learnt a bit about it from my work experience too." I said. "But what about Rainbow Dash, what happened to her?"

"Oh. Well, I wasn't there, so I don't really know what happened."

Just then, we heard Dash fly in.

"Sorry I'm late, I had a raincloud issue." Dash said.

"Alrighty, let's hear your story, Bond." Pinkie said to me.

I was about to start when the Cutie Mark Crusaders suddenly turned up.

"We're here at last..." Scootaloo said before noticing Dash was present. "Rainbow Dash!"

"Hey you three fillies, would you like to hear my cutie mark story?" Rainbow Dash answered as she walked over to the three little girls.

Scootaloo sighed. "You have no idea what I've been through today to hear that story." She immediately sat down to hear it.

"It all happened during the race at Flight Camp, where I stood alone against all odds to defend Fluttershy's honour. As soon as the flag flashed, I began with an amazing burst of speed! I've never flown like THAT before. That freedom was unlike anything I've ever felt. The speed, the adrenaline, the wind in my mane... I liked it A LOT. Turns out the only thing I liked more than flying fast... was winning! Most ponies thought that the Sonic Rainboom was just an old mare's tail. But that day... The day I discovered racing... I proved that the legends were true. I made the impossible happen! And that, little ones, is how you earn a cutie mark."

"Wooooow..." was all the Cutie Mark Crusaders could reply with.

"Well, I guess it's time I told you all about how I got my cutie mark." I said to them. "But I want no interruptions, please?"

"We promise and whenever you're ready, sugarcube." Applejack encouraged.

I cleared my throat and began my cutie mark story, "It all began the second day after I moved to Ponyville nearly three years now, after Pinkie gave me a welcoming party, I still felt that I had no pony else to talk to...that was until I met Vinyl Scratch, she told me that I was her cousin that my parents or my auntie which was Vinyl's mother, never told me or my sister about. I got to know her and her background story about how she got her cutie mark by being a DJ. She had a gig coming up but a partner of hers had to pull out due to an infection, so I volunteered to take her partner's place, so during the next few days, so gave me a tour of Ponyville and that was when I met you all one by one, except for you Twilight but you understand what I mean?"

Twilight nodded with a smile, so I continued.

"When the time came, there was a summertime DJ gig and Vinyl and I were working on the stage and halfway through, we had the crowd going. But suddenly, Vinyl started to tend to her head before she collapsed. I then realized that she forgot to take her bottle of water whereas I did. So I did the brave thing in keeping faith in not allowing the gig to stop there, but I was a little unsure of how to handle it...until I and the crowd noticed a sonic rainboom appear out of nowhere, suddenly I began to feel a lot of faith glowing inside me, so I learnt quickly and I took over all control for the rest of the gig which went down a storm. After it was done, Vinyl had woken up and I gave her a hug to let her know that despite her fainting, it was amazing...that was when a small flash appeared by my flanks and on it was my cutie mark, a pair of headphones."

"That is so awesome!" Dash commented, "But how come you haven't shown us your DJ moves yet?"

"I guess I've been neglecting that talent for a long while because of what we've gone through since the past year or so." I answered.

"Wait a second!" Fluttershy intervened, "I heard that explosion. And I saw the rainbow too. Rainbow Dash, if you hadn't scared the animals, I never would have learned I could communicate with them and gotten my cutie mark."

"I heard that boom! And right afterwards there was this amazing rainbow that taught me to smile." Pinkie Pie added.

"When I got my cutie mark, I saw a rainbow that pointed me home." Applejack included. "I bet it was your sonic rainboom!"

"There was an explosion I could never explain when I got my cutie mark!" Rarity now exclaimed as well.

"This is uncanny! If that explosion didn't happen when it did, I would have blown my entrance exam. Rainbow Dash, I think you helped me earn my cutie mark too!" Twilight brought up.

"And when that rainboom appeared from my view, I suddenly found my faith in carrying on DJing for my cousin who couldn't continue for the rest of that night." I added.

"We all owe our cutie marks to you!" Pinkie Pie had tackled Rainbow Dash playfully to the ground.

"Do you realize what this means? All of us had a special connection before we even met." Fluttershy said happily.

"We've been BFFs forever and we didn't even know it!"

"Come here, y'all!" Applejack exclaimed and pulled all seven of us in for a group hug.

"Awww." Applebloom and Sweetie Belle commented

"Ewww..." Scootaloo protested, "Gimme a break. Come on, Crusaders! Maybe we just need to try zip-lining again."

The three fillies then left as we all shared a quick giggle.

"Well, I think it's time we all head off." I suggested.

"Good idea, I'll see you all tomorrow." Pinkie said as she waved at us leaving Sugarcube Corner.

"Oooh, all five you, huddle together." Twilight said to us as we left the shop completely, "It's Pinkie's birthday in a few days, so we're going to need to be discreet when the day arrives."

"Oh yes, we must give her a fabulous party." Rarity added.

"And we can have it in the barn, Granny Smith won't mind at all." Applejack said.

"Alright, got it." Dash replied.

"Oh and later tonight, there's a meteor shower event taking place, we should all meet up then just to throw Pinkie off the party scent." Twilight added.

We shared a quick group hug before waving, knowing we'll see each other again later in the evening. Heading into my home, I made my own dinner as I was vanished after revealing my cutie mark story today. Resting on the sofa and waiting until nightfall, I realized that this was the first time I revealed a part of my past to the other girls...it gave me faith that in time, I will reveal all of it. Then, my random side summed up what I learnt today...prepare to meet your future friends...I guess. Next Chapter: Owl's Well That Ends Well Estimated time remaining: 24 Hours, 9 Minutes