Quentin woke up particularly early the next morning. One would think that after help defeating a chimera from destroying the town, he would easily sleep in till noon, but that wasn't the case. The sun was starting to rise up when Quentin woke up and he couldn't get back to sleep so he decided to get up and make the bed. Quentin opened his door and poked his head out to see if there were any signs of anypony awake. The hall was silent and dark, and Quentin silently crept through the hallway. He passed Applebloom's room and Applejack's room. Applejack would be up in no less than an hour since she usually gets up at this time.

As quietly as he could, Quentin crept downstairs across the living room and as he approached the front door, Quentin saw Applejack's pet Border collie Winona sleeping peacefully next to the door. Her ears twitched as Quentin approached and she groggily lifted her head and let out a yawn. Quentin smiled and knelt down in front of her.

"Good morning girl, sorry if I woke you,'' Quentin whispered, stroking her gently on the head.

Winona smiled, her tongue hanging out and her tail wagging happily. "I'm just going to go out for an early morning walk, I'll see you later ok?'' Quentin added and Winona must've understood him, for she smiled and licked his face before letting out another yawn and curled herself up and laid her head down to sleep.

Quentin smiled at her and went out the front door, quietly closing it behind him. It was a cool morning and the skies where a dark bluish purple with a faint yellowish orange coming from the horizon as the sun was beginning to rise. Quentin inhaled the fresh morning air and smiled as he looked around the sleeping orchards and farm that was Sweet Apple Acres.

"Who'd ever guess that I would be so charmed by the farm life?'' dark brown earth pony admitted to himself.

But the truth was not only the farm had charmed him, but Applejack too. Ever since she kissed his cheek last night, Quentin couldn't stop thinking of her. He smiled, gave a yawn, and shook himself off of any sleepiness he had left.

"I guess I'll go look around town for a bit, to better familiarize it,'' Quentin muttered to himself and proceeded off the farm.

By the time Quentin was in the main part of Ponyville, the sun was halfway up but to his surprise, he found there were some ponies already awake. Some were getting their shops ready for the day, others were setting up their carts for selling and trading. As Quentin walked by, some ponied would wave and greet him good morning, and he would warmly return the greeting.

It was now seven o' clock am. Quentin passed by an assortment of different buildings as he gave himself a tour of the town. He passed one building that had two large pins and bowling balls across its high surface. Quentin's jaw dropped.

"A bowling alley? They seriously have a bowling alley in Equestria?!'' Quentin asked himself, surprised.

The stallion gazed at the building for another moment before grinning. "Wow, I guess Equestria really isn't that different from my world.''

Quentin continued with his walk. He came to an area that had large buildings that looked like overgrown tents, but with a solid exterior. He couldn't help but whistle at the site.

"Now these buildings look interesting,'' Quentin said as he walked passed them.

There was one in particular that really got his attention. It was a large, magnificent building about three stories high in the shape of a cylinder. Its main colors were violet, baby blue, light pink, and gold and had a few pony shapes in the center of poles that gave a reminiscent of ponies on a carousel.

Whoa,'' Quentin said in awe at the majesty of the building. "Whoever lives in a place like THAT must be loaded!'' After a few moments of gawking, he snapped out of it and proceeded with the walk.

Eventually, Quentin found himself walking by meadow with a small bridge over a creek that led to a path which in turn led to a rather large cottage. The cottage was two stories with a roof that seemed to be made of pure bush and leaves. There were also a lot of bird houses including on the trees that were close by the cottage.

Quentin chuckled to himself at the site. "Someone must really love birds,'' he said.

Quentin was about to move on until a blue bird chirped lovely out of nowhere. He looked towards its direction as it flew towards him and landed on his head.

"Well hello there little guy,'' Quentin said softly, not wanting to scare the little bid away.

He extended a hoof for it to hop on which it did and Quentin raised his hoof to his face. "You're a friendly one aren't you?'' Quentin smiled at the bird.

The bird chirped happily, giving off a smile, which Quentin admitted had no idea that birds or animals could smile. He whistled, imitated the bird and it chirped loudly and more beautifully. Quentin smiled and more chirping sounded around him.

Quentin looked around as one by one, colorful birds came out of their houses, some flying to him and landed on his head and shoulders. Quentin chuckled at the bird's openness especially to a stranger. The birds sang beautifully together, like a choir of birds. The chirping sounded like a song he remembered back on his world and before he knew it, Quentin had opened up his mouth and started to sing in his bass baritone voice.

Good morning birds.

Good morning trees.

Oh what a lovely day.

The suns so big it hurts my eyes

but really – that's okay!

A brand new day

with things to do.

So many plans to make.

I've had 6 cups of coffee so

I'm really wide awake.

I've always been a morning person.

A morning boy – hooray!

As Quentin sang, more animals had come out of their homes and approached him. Ferrets, rabbits, raccoons, badgers, and other little critters had come out and slowly approached the singing stallion. Quentin did not notice Fluttershy coming out of her cottage, ready to tend to her animal friends for the morning. She froze in her place as she saw her new friend with the animals and watched silently with an intrigued and bewildered look.

A rabbit twitched his nose curiously as it cautiously took a few hops towards Quentin. He smiled warmly and knelt down to pet it. At first the rabbit recoiled its head down in fear, but when he gently stroked it on the head, it smiled contently as it enjoyed the petting. Soon, the other animals smiled excitedly and came up to him, knowing that they had nothing to fear. Fluttershy smiled kindly as she saw her animal friends opening up so warmly to Quentin as he continued the song first singing shortly with a red bird.

Good morning deer.

Say have you heard?

Today's a lovely day.

I haven't found a way home yet,

but I'm hopeful anyway

I'll sing and smile,

we'll have a ball,

and dance forever more.

(dancing with scared deer)

Let's stand up tall with hooves in hooves

and spin around the floor.

I've always been a morning person!

A morning boy-hooray

As the deer and stallion danced happily with one another, Fluttershy came up behind Quentin and spoke. "Oh-good morning Quentin,'' Fluttershy said softly, smiling at him.

Quentin jumped slightly and whipped around, but sighed and smiled. "Oh, hi Fluttershy. Good morning,'' he greeted. "What brings you here?''

''Oh I was just coming out to tend to my animal friends,'' Fluttershy explained, pointing to her cottage.

Quentin widened his eyes. "Oh so you live there?'' he asked and Fluttershy nodded shyly.

"I hope I'm not interrupting you,'' she added quietly, slightly retreating behind her pink mane.

Quentin chuckled at Fluttershy's modesty and shook his head. "Oh no Fluttershy you're good. I'm just sorry for trespassing on your property.''

"You're not trespassing!'' Fluttershy responded quickly and a bit louder than usual, surprising Quentin a bit. "I'm glad I was able to run into you this morning.''

Quentin smiled warmly at his yellow Pegasus friend and she blushed. "A-and I'm happy to see my friends opening up to you so easily. They usually don't when around strangers.''

Quentin couldn't help but chuckle. "Yeah, I can't believe it either. I wasn't much of an animal person back home to tell you the truth, but here I have to admit the animals are so cute it's hard to resist,'' he responded, petting a raccoon.

Fluttershy smiled at this. "And I couldn't help but listen to your song. You really have a lovely voice.''

"That's nice of you to say. I've always loved singing and I loved performing on stage, but I guess I'm pretty decent,'' Quentin smiled shyly, feeling a blush.

"Oh but it's more than decent. It's simply divine,' Fluttershy complemented him again. The stallion blushed even brighter.

The two conversed for a few moments. Fluttershy was nice enough to allow Quentin to help feed her animals. They laughed and talked, growing closer as friends. It was obvious that Fluttershy loved animals, and could understand why her cutie mark is in the shape of butterflies. At one point, she found a short bamboo stick with some holes in it. It looked like a flute.

Fluttershy then began to play the flute like object, and to Quentin's surprise, a nice sound did came out the stick.

"Wow Fluttershy, you can play an instrument too?'' Quentin asked impressed.

Fluttershy smiled at Quentin with a soft, modest smile, 'Oh yes. When I was a filly I loved playing the flute and I loved playing it to the animals. It always relaxes me and made me feel better when something awful ever happened to me.''

Quentin frowned slightly at her answer. Something awful, happens to her? He wondered how anything could bad ever happen to a gentle and sweet pony like Fluttershy. However, not wanting to pry on her personal life, Quentin decided to steer away from the subject by responding.

"Well they certainly seem to like it,'' he said, pointing to some of the animals who seemed to be excited by the sound as they chattered.

"Do you think maybe you can play some more, if you don't mind?'' Quentin asked.

She looked at him with large, surprised eyes, but then smiled with a warm expression. "I would love to. I love seeing my animal friends happy.''

She blew softly into the bamboo flute, with her hooves holding on top of the holes as she played. Fluttershy was playing the flute beautifully as Quentin and the animals watched o with excited smiles. Fluttershy smiled and giggled as the animals began to dance to the music. Eventually, Quentin couldn't help himself and he stood on his hind legs and began to tap dance so to speak on the ground.

The animals circled around him as he danced, with Fluttershy watching in surprise. Quentin tap danced, his love for music completely taking over. Fluttershy giggled and kept playing the flute, not once losing her place and going along with the sudden dance. Soon, Quentin urged some of the animals to join him. Amazingly, the deer, rabbits, raccoons, and other critter stood up and tap danced.

Fluttershy rocked her body in glee as she watched her friends. Quentin then did an impressive tap dance solo, soon followed by one critter, then two, then all of them joined in, and after a few moments of tap dancing, the performing stallion continued the song, with Fluttershy flying beside him in the middle, beaming as the critters continued dancing.

A brand new start.

A palette cleanse.

As fresh as lime sorbet.

At first I was dishearted

but this morning…[Quentin then started to tap dance vigorously, followed by the other animals]

this morning…

this morning…[Quentin finally stopped and embraced Fluttershy in a warm hug, both of them singing and the animals held paws and hooves together as they did a 'Ring Around the Rosie like dance around them with Fluttershy singing along with Quentin]

I'm/You're okay yeah!

This morning I'm/You're okay!

As they finished the song, Fluttershy played the flute a bit more, and she and Quentin watched the animals danced. And finally a blue bird and Fluttershy played a last note together, and finally ended the song. Immediately the animals chattered happily with each other and Fluttershy and Quentin again embraced each other in a warm hug.

"Wow I must say Quentin, this has certainly been the most lively morning that we've ever had here!'' Fluttershy said with a wide smile.

The animals agreed and chatted loudly.

"I know right?!'' Quentin responded, absolutely invigorated by the rather spontaneous song and dance number. "Nothing beats singing to loosen up your vocal chords for the day.''

Fluttershy giggled and looked away before looking at Quentin sweetly. "Are all humans as kind as you Quentin?'' Fluttershy asked innocently.

Quentin thought for a moment. The last thing he wanted to do was lie to any of his new friends, especially one as sweet as Fluttershy. Quentin sighed regrettably.

"Well I'd be lying if I said they were Fluttershy. But the truth is, some humans can be pretty cruel and rotten.'' Quentin looked away in shame as he thought about some of his species that are capable of doing horrible things.

Fluttershy just looked at him with a confused, saddened face, but then smiled kindly. "Well at least we're lucky enough to be able to know one of the kindest humans we could meet,'' she said sweetly.

Quentin chuckled slightly, but touched by the compliment. "Actually Fluttershy, now that I think about it, I might be the lucky one.''

Fluttershy giggled, and then surprised him by wrapping her forelegs around Quentin's neck in another warm embrace.

Quentin blinked a few times in confusion. "Fluttershy?''

Fluttershy nuzzled her face against his. "I know that you came to Equestria by accident, but I'm glad that you did came here anyway,'' she said softly.

It took Quentin a moment to process what Fluttershy said and he smiled softly and put his forelegs around her. "You know what Fluttershy, I'm glad too,'' Quentin replied softly, embracing his friend.

Author's Notes:

The song that I used for this chapter was Morning Person from Shrek the Musical. I hope this was an enjoyable chapter for everyone, one's imagination is limitless and I just write down what comes to me. Until next time!