Lovely Lifeby BioQuillFiction
Chapters
- On My Own
- Good Bye Old Life, Rest In Peace
- Bed Rest
- Recovery
- New Home
- Old life Horrer And A 'Normal' Family Home
- Work
- Shopping
On My Own
Home, it supposed to be a place of rest, a place of joy and a place where the ones who love you are. Today I'm searching for that place leaving my parents and their rules about not going outside and running as far and as fast as I can. I understood why my parents did what they did, but so what if the iris of my eyes are heart-shaped and pink and the pupils are as white as the sclera and so what if the iris' pulsate outward around the sclera... Damn it if they didn't have a point.
Physically I'm your average tan coated, blond-haired earth pony... well maybe a bit of a build smaller and my cutie mark is the same as my eyes (minus the pulsing) but I don't care I'm leaving, I am at the train station with a pair of sunglasses on my face and...
"Miss?" The ticket pony broke me out of my thoughts. "Miss, what is your destination?"
"Oh, uh..." Crap I didn't think of where to escape. "Don't suppose you would recommend any place small and isolated?"
"The only places that the train will stop like that would be Appaloosa, Ponyville and a small town outside of Trottingham called New spring."
Ponyville's all famous now because of the new princess. I've read about Appaloosa and its way to dry for me, guess I get lucky number three. "A one way ticket to New spring."
"That will be thirty seven bits."
Thank Luna I stole eighty bits from my parents. After the ticket pony gave me the ticket I waited on a bench next to the loading station, I saw a couple sitting across from me I saw their love, the beautiful colors floating around them mixing into one I felt jealous till the stallion noticed me staring and I turned away, pretending I was looking elsewhere. "Damn when will the train get here?"
I looked at a schedule somepony had thrown in the trash and saw my train was to come at six AM, it was ironically six minutes away and I was surprised that I couldn't hear the train... then again I was surprised I found the train station, Baltimare is a large city and I've never been outside until now. "Rumble, Rumble" What the hell is that!? The ground is shaking but it doesn't feel like an earthquake. Then I turned to the tracks and saw the giant metal engine of the train. Sweet Celestia that is huge and it's not done I can still see more!
When the train finally came to a stop it looked like hundreds of ponies came flooding out on to the station from the passenger carts. I honestly thought the train held an entire city on it. A pony dressed in a blue vest and hat came out last holding a stopwatch in his hoof then yelled out. "All aboard!"
Guess this is my train. Upon approaching the door a Pegasus mare, yellow with baby blue hair dressed in the same vest and hat as the stallion from earlier stopped me. "Ticket miss?" Oh right. I showed her the ticket and she took out a small metal thing gripped in her mouth and punched a hole in the corner of my ticket and let me pass. When I got into a passenger cart I was shocked that still so many ponies were in it despite the large amount that exited. I would have preferred sitting alone but that was clearly out the window, so I sat next to an elderly pony and his young, I assumed grandchildren. The young foals gave me an odd stare but ended up poking at each other for entertainment, that made the elderly pony laugh a little and I‘ll admit I gave a small chuckle.
"Everypony the train will be departing in two minutes, please take your seats." The stallion with the watch yelled out from the front of the cart. It was then that I remembered around six AM is when my parents wake up... Thank Luna Baltimare is a big city and that this train is leaving they are going to throw a cow.
Back in Baltimare a large Mansion that sits atop a ten acre slot of land is up and about with barking dogs and large earth ponies dressed in black suits running around the large estate. Within the kitchen of this large home at the counter sits a grey coated mare with tan hair hunched over crying puddles onto the counter, her cutie mark a pink diamond with a blue outline. A blond coated stallion with black mane and tail with a gold ring cutie mark torts across the room looking nervous and angry all at once. One of the ponies dressed in black walks in. "Sir Gold Trot."
"Have you found her?" The blond stallion asked.
"No sir, she is nowhere on the property, the men have looked it over eight times over."
The mare cries even harder at the news, the puddle turning into a large mess flowing over the counter. The stallion stomps on the fine tile floor, smashing one of the tiles into pieces. "Damn it, she has never left the estate and she has no knowledge of the city or where any place is! She could be lost in that modern jungle."
"I think she has an idea sir, bring her in!" On Queue two more ponies dressed in black walk in dragging an orange coated unicorn mare, green hair and tail with a cutie mark of an apple with the letters ABC in the center. "Miss Bright has taught Lovely more than just the essentials."
"Like what!?" Gold Trot demanded.
The pony places maps of the city across the floor with many roads and places highlighted. "Geography."
Gold Trot walked over to Bright giving a hateful tear filled stare. "You helped my daughter escape!"
"She can't live in this gilded cage you've forced her to call home her whole life! She is a pony like any other if the world accepts her or not depends on who she is not her family and I am not telling you which train station she went to so go ahead and kill me you mafia bastards! I always knew you were going to be the death of me anyway."
'Bang' With the sudden sound of gunfire Bright falls to the floor blood spewing out of her neck where a bullet has torn a small hole through her jugular, the ponies in the room look over to the mare, tears still flowing out of her eyes down her cheeks as she drops the smoking gun from her mouth and speaks. "Search every station in the city and access the security cameras recordings, Lovely must have been seen by one of them now go or share that bitches grave!"
The ponies in black exit the room quickly while Gold Trot walks over to comfort his wife. "Sixteen years since you have killed a pony Light Brade."
"I wanted to shut her up, she knows nothing about how ponies are in the real world Gold, for all we know Lovely could have been captured by a rival mafia already, you know the Manehattan Mafia has been looking for an edge, what if they!?"
Gold Trot places his hoof around his panicked wife. "No other mafia group knows about Lovely, that's part of the reason we never let her outside remember?"
"Yes I know but I still worry, they can plant spies just as easily as we can and leak everything we know."
"As true as that is it's our last worry at the moment darling, once we find the station that Lovely skipped town at we just have to get that trains list of stops it made. After that we just search every town and city it stopped at, as long as we look without making it look like we are searching for a pony she won't try to run out on us."
"But why did she run away! We gave her everything literally, so why did she leave!?"
"Did you forget? She is our daughter remember when we got married and ran away from our homes."
Light Brade gives a faint smile, still crying rivers from her eyes. "Yes... Maybe we shouldn't have told her all those stories about when we were young then?"
"Nonsense, after we find her and give her a good scolding we’ll hear her story and her bad experiences out in the world."
"I just hope she will be alright out there. By any chance did she take any money?"
"When I woke up my wallet was open and missing eighty bits."
"Why take eighty? She has around seven hundred bits in that allowance chest of hers."
"Beats me. Oh and one of the guards said his sunglasses were missing from the shelf before she was discovered missing."
"Well it's not much to go on but it's better than nothing I suppose, anything for her cutie mark?"
"All her clothes were still there, nothing from her room was missing... except her of course."
"Thank Celestia, we can track her down with that, we have the photos from when she got it so to avoid putting a face to her we..."
"What happened to making the search unnoticeable?"
"I'm a panicking mother I don't do unnoticeable!"
Gold Trot took a step back from his wife with a face of slight fear. "Right, well I'll look over the maps for the best possible places and you get the search parties ready."
Light Brade trots out of the room wiping the tears from her coat. Gold Trot gathering the maps together looks back around to the door then back to the maps. "I love that mare."
Good Bye Old Life, Rest In Peace
I expected the train ride to be long, but I still thought it was taking too long. So far I passed Ponyville and Appaloosa so the train was on its way to New Spring. I spent most of that time staring at the changing landscape as the train passed by, within these few hours I had seen so much more than I ever did from picture books it was almost too good to be true... and it was.
"Freeze!" Everypony looked forward to the front of the car, two unicorn stallions dressed in black full body jumpsuits stood at the doorway levitating shotguns at us. "No pony is a hero alright, just place all valuables in the bag and my associate and I will be on our way." I saw the images on the bags, three bones lined up like bars on a window with a smoking gun behind them, the Baltimare mafias’ insignia (AKA my parents’ employees).
Of fucking course! This is just my luck it's been over four hours they probably have every member of the 'family' looking for me, but maybe not these two. Regular head hunts are sneakier maybe they're just... 'Working'?
"Girly!" I was snapped out of my thought bubble by one of the two ponies, he levitated his shotgun against the side of my head. I could feel the cold metal send a chill down my back. "Any and all valuables and no problems little miss."
"Right." I pulled out the remaining of my stolen bits, as I was pouring them into the bag I couldn't help but think of the humor, I stole them from my family and now I'm returning them not all of them but still.
"Thank you... hey!?"
Crap!
"Those glasses look familiar."
"They're um special; they're for controlling the levels of light that I can see." I could tell he was highly skeptical from how his eyes looked. "I have sensitive eyes."
"Prescription I bet?"
Gulp. "Maybe." Crap, crap, crap!
"Then into the bag they go!" He levitated the glasses of my face so fast I had no time to react. He saw my eyes and dropped all of his levitated items including his weapon. "Holy!... Lovely is that you!?"
Why in Luna's name did my parents show me off the whole family! Without thinking I punched the unicorn in his neck so hard he fell to the ground gasping for air. When his partner turned and saw me his reaction was the same which gave me time to pick up the first unicorns shotgun and pull the trigger, I didn't hit him since the recoil from the gun propelled itself from my jaws (and probably chipped my teeth) but I was able to graze his horn and that was enough to send him on the ground in tears. "Sorry!" I ran out the cart as fast as my legs could trying to escape or rather as the circumstances left me with hide.
"Get her! The bosses have got to be worried sick!"
I ran into a storage cart filled with boxes, luggage and piles of hay for transport. I was hiding on top of the hay just under some kind of escape hatch on the roof, when the two entered the room I panicked and jumped hitting my head on the hatch. When they heard I threw it open, I had just poked my head out and was almost thrown off from the wind pushing against me, I managed to stabilize myself and walked to the end of the train. When I turned around the two stallions were standing right there blocking the way to the rest of the train.
Of the two the stallion the one I had grazed with the shotgun stepped forward slightly. "Lovely you have to come home! Your parents are probably worried sick!"
"I'm not ever going back to that gilded cage!" I felt a small tear escape my eye.
"Your parents gave you everything! So why did you run away!?"
I noticed up ahead a small bridge that that lead the tracks over a deep ravine in the distance and although this plan was both suicidal and an overused movie cliché it was all I had. "You want to know why? I left because of the ponies the family lets in! The only reason you ponies are in this mafia is because you agreed to both never speak of me outside of the family and to accept me the way I am, no questions and I'm sick of it because you all lied, you never took that promise seriously and never even got to know who I am!" Got to time this jump just right.
"Of course we meant that promise Lovely! Otherwise we wouldn't be on the roof of a train trying to get you off and safely home!"
"Lies! Your just up here because you want to gain ranks in the family. I bet if you came back without me your heads will roll when they find out!" Almost…
The two looked at each other then back to me, the stallion I shot speaking again. "Find out what?"
When the stallion finished speaking I jumped. The distance was even longer than I thought and I was moving so fast I don't think either one had the time nor strength to try and levitate me up. I was scared but I also felt at peace while falling, I imagined this is what flying was like and I was wishing to be a Pegasus because the impact on the water's surface was going to hurt. When I hit the waters surface I got the wind knocked out of me, which didn't help since I was now Luna knows how deep in fast moving water. I remember kicking and trying to fight the current but I had no success the only other thing I remembered before blacking out was something tugging my mane and from the pain I felt it managed to tear a chunk of it off of my head, the pain made me scream the last of the air out of my lungs and all faded to black.
The air was thick and cold for a night with a full moon, Gold Trot and Light Brade frantically look around holding flashlights in their mouths followed by a dozen ponies dressed in black suits holding and levitating flashlights all around the ravine.
"Lovely! Where are you?!" Light Brade screams out into the cold air, her voice getting weaker with every scream due to hours of restless use. "Lov..." Brade's voice cuts off, she begins to cough yet despite the pain she still tries yelling only to cough up blood. Gold Trot runs over to Brade, aiding her.
"Sir! We found something!" Gold Trot walks Brade over to the lake where three of the ponies stand with flashlights pointed at a large fallen tree branch, where the light shines a chunk of Lovely's hair sits tangled in the sticks. Pieces of skin are still attached in a thin chunk with dry blood staining the bottom side of flesh. "I'm sorry sir. An injury like that from a fall this high..."
"No, its fine I understand." Tears start running down Gold Trots eyes; Light Brade drops to the ground her face in an unbelievable expression as tears come flooding out of her eyes. "Come now Light Brade we have a funeral to prepare."
Bed Rest
It's was dark. Am I dead? No, no I'm still breathing, but what happened. I opened my eyes only to be met by a blinding light. When my eyes adjusted I was in a plain white room lying on a bed with these plastic looking tubes in my arm just above my hoof. When I tried to move I suddenly felt a wing, feathers covering my chest and what was my reaction, I punched whoever it was that this wing was attached too. Instantly I heard coughing.
When I turned I saw a Pegasus stallion, blue coat and darker blue mane and tail with a cutie mark that looked like a plant sprout with wings. He looked around my age was coughing in the other direction. "Dear Luna... What the hell!?"
"Who are you!?"
He fixed himself, taking in a large breath of air. "Names Blue Jet and you're welcome."
"For what?" He probably has me at a hospital back in Baltimare.
"For fishing you out of that ravine! You were out cold and had a chunk of your mane and skin missing from your head, you were lucky I was flying by."
Right I remember feeling something rip some chunk my head off. I lifted my hoof to my head and felt bandages wrapped all around my head. "So wait? You don't know who I am?"
"As far as I know you were some mare that was half dead in a ravine with a case of Purus oculos."
... "Purus wha?" What the hell is he... shit! I covered my eyes.
"Purus oculos it means pure eyes. Ponies who have it can see things that if it wasn't for how their eyes looked everypony else would call you crazy for."
...Wait what!? I uncovered my eyes. "What do you mean?"
"My sister studied magical genetic defects and mutations. What you have is rare there are only eight known cases in all of Equestria."
"Eight?" Honestly I expected to be the only one. "My parents told me..."
"To be honest there might be more but from what I'm guessing your parents hid you away from the world didn't they?"
I pulled my sheets up to my face, they were instantly soaked in tears as I started crying. Blue Jet wrapped his wing around me, it felt nice to be comforted by another pony that didn't only did it from fear of my parents. "So Blue Jet where exactly am I?"
"New Spring, Celestia’s grace hospital to be exact."
Luna fucking yes! I still made it to my destination.
Blue Jet retracted his wing. "So what's your name?"
Crap should I give him my real name or a fake name... Aw what the hell. "Lovely."
Blue Jet just stared at me unresponsive till he started to chuckle and then hit the ground in laughter. "Oh my Luna are you serious!? Lovely, that's the most cliché name I ever heard!"
"Hey!? It's my cliché name!" I'm not going to lie even my parents thought it was cliché but it was appropriate, either way you look at it I was defending a rather ridiculous name, but it’s my ridicules name.
Blue Jet got off the ground after he finished laughing. He wiped the tears from his eyes, straitened up and began to speak. "So Lovely how did you end up in that ravine?"
Crap, excuses come on! "I uh was on the train." Now for the lie. "I went out to the end of the train for some air then some pony hit me and I fell over the side."
"Oh you were on that train that those robbers were on, they were arrested and imprisoned six days ago."
"Thank... SIX DAYS!?" Blue Jet jumped, his wings puffed up in shock. "I was out for six days!?"
"Did I forget to mention that?" Blue Jet gave a fear filled fake smile.
"Yes! Wait where you visiting me all those days?"
Blue Jet began to scratch the back of his head, his face turned pink. "Well I felt responsible for you since I found you so I checked up on you when ever I had the time."
Now I was blushing. "Well... thanks." The room fell with a heavy silence. This is very awkward, why isn't he talking? Why aren't I talking!? Oh please Luna something happen! And just like that the door was thrown open, Blue Jet and I looked towards the doorway, a yellow earth pony mare with a flat completely strait main and tail the same color as Blue Jets. Her cutie mark was a needle with a smiley face on it. She walked over to Blue Jet and stared at him for several seconds, her expression suddenly turned to anger, upper cutting him right in the muzzle sending him to the ground whimpering. "What the!?"
"Blue Jet I told you if she wakes up come and get me!"
Blue Jet was lying down on the floor, covering his muzzle. His voice was muffled but understandable. "I thought you were in the middle of Old Pony Ducks kidney surgery?"
"I finished early!"
"You can't just..." She placed her hoof on his back and started pressing down. Hard. "Finn.. Surgery early." A disturbing crack echoed throughout the room.
"I say I can so don't doubt me!"
This was getting violent. "Excuse me." She looked over to me. "I don't mind that he was looking after me while I was out." Her expression changed to a calm one. She then took the hoof she was pressing into Blue Jet’s back and used it to slid him across the room. When he hit the wall I swore I saw it crack. She then walked to my bedside and her expression gave a friendly smile, but after what I just saw I was ready to bolt.
"Sorry about that my brother seems to forget that any new developments with patients must be run by me."
Did my ears hear that right? "Your Brother!?"
"Not by blood. Thank Celestia, but we were adopted by the same couple so I have to look after him. I am the oldest and the first adopted."
"So you look after him by beating the living crap out of him?"
"She calls it 'tough love'." Blue Jet yelled from his curled up state against the wall.
"Yes it's the Bliss Remedy personal tough love for younger siblings." She sounded so proud of that. "When Blue Jet was old enough to fly I started it and haven't stopped." She gave a smile that matched her pride.
"And I've lived a quarter of my life in this hospital!" Blue Jet yelled and some how managed to get up without me noticing. He was limping out of the room.
"Are you going to be alright Blue Jet?" I was pretty sure on the answer but I had to ask.
"I'll be fine, just got to get to the third floor."
"Third floor?"
"It's the infirmary." Bliss answered. "Now as for you I heard your talk with my brother from outside the door and when you're wounds heal you'll need a place to stay."
Please no! "So I was thinking." Shit, shit, shit! "You can stay with me and blue Jet."
Fuck! "I... would... love... too." Fuck my life. If that ravine didn’t kill be Bliss might!
"Great! I'll let our parents know we'll have a guest."
Again did I hear right? "You live with your parents?"
"Yes, our dads Bulk and Grinder."
... What!? "Dads?"
"Yes. Wait do you have something against gay couples?
"No I just never heard of that."
"A gay couple with kids?"
"A gay couple in general, I was 'home schooled' and home raised."
"Right, I thought I heard you and Jet talking about something like that. Anyway when your all healed up you can meet them, they can't visit since they have to work from five Am to eight PM."
AM to PM! "What do they do?"
"Farm potatoes."
Potatoes? Well then I didn't expect that. "I look forward to it."
"Great and as for your mane." I blushed and covered myself in the sheets. "I have a unicorn friend that can fix that when you're all better. She’s a stylist so it will look good."
"Thank you and thanks for the place to stay, I'll try to get a job when I'm better." I answered from under the sheets.
"Alright, try and see if you can find a job using your Purus oculos."
"Right, so will I need sunglasses when I'm out in town?"
"No need, the day you were admitted and I found out about your Purus oculos word spread around town pretty quick, your our own town celebrity. Home town if you planned on moving here."
"I was and still am, not the type of move I was hoping for but I wanted to move."
"Oh the town will love to hear this! You'll be as popular as Blue Jet."
Did I hear that right? "Blue Jet is popular?" He did not look or act it.
"Right well he is kind of the only Pegasus in the whole town."
"The only one!?" I threw the sheets off.
"New Spring was founded by unicorns so magic is usually used for most everything, weather included. If you couldn't tell by his cutie mark he's a farmer like our parents but he works with seedlings and sprouts."
"That explains the wings on it."
"Yeah, the day he got it was the same day he learned to fly. Well I got to go, I kind of jury rigged a kidney surgery and I should go see it the patient is okay."
She ran out the door before I could say goodbye. "Later…"
I am so fucked, better that then home.
Recovery
Bliss told me that the recovery would take up to several weeks to a month or more depending on how fast I heal. Most of the injuries I got from getting thrown around in the ravine already healed, they were only several bruises and scratches, I even had a cracked rib and that's half way healed, but my major problem area was where my mane and some of my head got ripped off.
Bliss said it was a deep tear and that in some parts my skull was visible, all that and it only took me six days to wake up, not bad. Right now I’m in bed just laying down trying to pass time, reading Daring Doo books helped but all I wanted was for Bliss or Blue Jet to come by and visit. But Blue jet was Luna knows where right now and Bliss was working, mean while I'm stuck in a bed healing.
Damn I hate doing nothing. "Will any pony stop by!?" It was official I'm so bored I'm yelling in an empty room, at least a nurse or somepony might come and see what’s up. And just like that...
"Are you alright?" An orange mare with big possibly gravity defying neon green mane and tail walked in. "I heard you yell."
"I'm fine just bored." It was stupid but I had to ask. "You a nurse?"
"No." She walked in, closing the door behind her and took a seat next to my bed. I was able to see her cutie mark a beautiful crimson rose. "If you're bored I can help with that."
"You some kind of party pony or something?"
"Not quite." Her tone of voice changed and sounded perverted. I saw love start floating around her but I've never seen that color before it almost seemed, not dark more like... HELLO! I suddenly felt her hoof moving upward from my lower inner thigh. "This wont aid in your recovery but it will take your boredom away."
"I.. uh." Now I know the word, Lust! "I'm not."
She placed her other hoof across my muzzle and crawled onto my bed standing over me. "It's alright you don't have to be gay or bisexual to enjoy." SHIT, SHIT, SHIT! "You know your eyes may turn other ponies off but to me." She pressed her mouth on mine.
It took me literally several seconds before I realized she was kissing me! I even felt her tongue move around in my mouth! My first kiss was with a mare and with tongue! I might be losing more that just my first kiss if something or somepony doesn't stop this fast.
Like Celestia and Luna themselves answered my wish she was thrown off of me. When I turned my head Bliss was there, she wasn't done with that mare though, she walked over to where she was laying down and struck her upside the head then continued to stomp on her back. I couldn’t tell if that sound was breaking bones or the tile under her breaking. "I told you never to come back here unless you were injured!"
"Aww but I was bored. And if you keep stomping my back I will need to be here!" Bliss stopped; the mare, Desire apparently, got up and looked rather pleased of herself.
Bliss spoke. "Lovely this is Desire, AKA the town slut."
"I prefer public entertainer."
"Entertainer my flank! You've screwed more ponies than I care to count!"
"All part of the list."
I had to ask even though I know I'll regret it. "List?"
Desire looked at me with a perverted grin. "Ever since I was old enough to legally fuck I made a list of ponies I want to have screwed in my life and when I heard about you Lovely I just had to add you to the top of the list. There only eight ponies with your 'condition' in all of Equestria so when one rolls into town one must take advantage."
I think my face turned red from blushing so much just now. I was also surprised she waited till she was old enough to legally fuck. "Well I'm not gay or bisexual so please leave. Now."
Her expression didn’t change but as she was exiting my room she stopped and spoke. "Hear this Lovely I will fuck you whether by free will or other means." When Desire left I was fearing for my virginity.
"She wasn't always like that you know." I turned to bliss. She looked rather sad. "She was such a nice mare before."
Now I was curious about her. "What happened?"
"About three years ago she left to see the summer sun celebration in another town, she was gone for eight days longer than she should have and when she finally came back she was like this. Whenever somepony asks what happened she either changes the subject or starts seducing and screwing them."
"Maybe it's not easy to talk about?"
"Maybe. Anyhow she didn't..."
"Just the kiss. My first kiss and it was..."
Bliss ran up to me so fast she was practically in my face. "She stole your first kiss!?"
"Yeah, it sucks but..."
"Now I'm going to kill her!" Bliss ran out of the room so fast I swear she left small flaming skid marks behind her.
... Well I'm not bored anymore at least. I think next time I'm bored I'll keep quiet... and sleep with a locked door from now on.
The mansion where Lovely had lived has never been so quiet, even with all the armed guards patrolling around or the city noises just outside the gates all seemed to be in a dead silence. Within the mansion in dark room, decorated in the finest furniture and architecture topped with a large decorated bed lined with hazel silk sheets rests Light Brade, mane in a mangle muzzle soaked in tears. Scattered on the floor are empty tubs of ice cream and wrappers of candy, included in the mess lay drained bottles of wine, whiskey and scotch on the bed and floor.
Gold Trot sits in a ebony chair staring at Light Brade emotionless and still. "..."
"Trot?"
Gold Trots expression changes to a surprised tone, this if the first Light Brade has spoken since the ravine. “Yes?”
"Where did we go wrong?"
"... I'm afraid I don't follow."
"Raising Lovely. Where did we go wrong? We cared for her, we loved her, we protected her from the outside world and all its judgment and cruelty so why would she do this?"
"I'm not sure, she gave no sign of..."
"I just... I just don't understand. What life could she have lived if she hadn't..." Light Brade started to cry again. "Why!? What did she want us to do!?"
Gold Trots eyes went down staring at the floor while Light Brade curled up almost into a circle under the sheets.
New Home
After two more months had passed all that was left of my head injury was some scars and missing hair. The day finally came when Bliss’s stylist friend was going to come and get me my hair back.
I was lying in bed, Bliss and I were talking when she finally came. When she entered the door I was amazed at how she looked. A sky blue coat with a beautifully styled Black mane and tail that spelled perfection.
"Glad to meet you Lovely, names Tulip."
"Nice to finally get a face to go with the name, actually nice to get a name for the name... Sorry Bliss never told me your name."
Tulip looked over to Bliss. "Not surprising, she likes to tease ponies." Bliss just rubbed the back of her head, a grin on her face. "This will be tough, but I think I can pull it off." Tulip levitated over a small glass jar filled with some kind of white cream. "This is a hair growth potion I developed, all I need is." She used her magic to pull out one of my remaining hairs by the root, opened the jar and placed it in their and shook it for a bit till it turned from white to the color of my mane and tail. "Now to just…”
Tulip used her magic again to spread the cream all around the bald parts of my head and smaller amounts on the spots that still had hair. When she finished her horn lit up bright with magic and suddenly all turned black and I felt something close to a heavy blanket fall on my head.
"Hey!?"
"Oh, sorry I think I over did it." When I was able to see I realized that the potion worked and I got my hair back but it was overgrown to say the least. "Glad I brought my styling scissors."
She snipped my extra hair. Okay more like most of my extra hair. When I got up and saw my mane in the bathroom mirror I was surprised she got it exactly the same as it was. "It looks amazing Tulip."
"Thank you Lovely." When I turned over to Tulip she was staring at Bliss with a rather mad expression. "At least some pony appreciates fashion." She turned back to me and smiled.
"Well If we're all done here can Bliss look me over to see if I can Leave the hospital?"
"Oh right, of course."
Tulip grabbed all her things and left the room. Even took the hair off the floor. Bliss checked my ribs and areas of my head that where once bald. After she was done Bliss escorted me out of the hospital where she then stopped me outside the door. "Lovely it's been a pleasure to be your doctor, but now you must go and explore the town and when your done go find my house." Bliss walked back into the hospital and once again I was on my own.
The hospital was surprisingly far from the rest of the town, I had to have been walking for at least half an hour before I finally reached the rest of the town. When I trotted into town it felt weird not wearing glasses over my eyes I even started thinking to run when ponies started staring at me, but that changed when Blue Jet jumped in front of me. I almost got scared when he did. Almost.
"Lovely glad to see you're out and about!"
"Thanks Blue Jet I needed a familiar face, some ponies have started staring at me..." I could still feel some of them staring at me.
"Aw relax ponies around here did the same to me when dad and... uh dad adopted me from the Canterlot orphanage, at the end of the week no pony much cared about me being a Pegasus any more."
That's a bit of a relief, so I just have too... wait? "Canterlot orphanage?"
"Yeah... Oh right well New spring doesn't have any orphanages so my dads had to go to Canterlot to adopt me. By the way aren't you, you know…"
What is he... Oh. "You mean the dads thing? Bliss told me about them."
"Oh that explains it! She gave you the bit?"
"Bit?"
"Yeah, the ‘glad I was your doctor now I'm your friend.’"
"She said she was 'glad to be my doctor now it's time for you to go and explore the town and when your done go find my house'."
"Well either way don't expect her to be as polite as she was in the hospital she's a bit more rough when it comes to her friends. Also she told me you had a run in with Desire."
I felt my face turn hot in blush. "How much did...?"
"Only that she took your first kiss and almost raped you." Blue Jet rolled his eyes like it was a normal thing to hear, and say!
Now I was feeling a bit faint. "Well I'd rather not talk about that; she’s not around is she?" I started looking around.
"Na she's running her shop around now and when she's working she don't leave till the day is done."
What a relief. "Where does she work so I can avoid it?"
"Just a few blocks down the road, can't miss it, it’s the brick building with the rose and three X's."
"Great ta... wait three X's as in the..."
"Yeah she runs the only adult pony store in town."
Now I think my blush is permanent. "I don't want to know anymore." My voice cracked a bit but I quickly straightened it out. "But I do want to know about the rest of town."
"Well sure, I'll give ya the grand tour."
The next hour or more Blue Jet gave me a tour of the local shops; of them all my favorite was the spa and an apartment complex, called Peaceful Village. Awesome name right?! The manager pony there said since I'm new I can work there and stay in an older room in the back of the apartment rent free as long as I work. I was very grateful for the offer and I rather enjoyed the idea of actually having a job rather than doing nothing and getting sixty to eighty bits from my parents every week.
Most ponies would think that a dream come true but I just felt lazy doing nothing and getting paid for it. After it got late Blue Jet walked me to entrance of the complex. "Well thanks Blue jet, tell Bliss Remedy that I'll be over for dinner with your family later alright."
"Sure thing Lovely." Blue Jet flew off into the air and out of view. I felt sad he left but I was more excited to see my new apartment, I ran into the front desk room was and I called for the manager. "Mr. Swiss!?"
"Coming, coming!" When he entered the room a smile broke across his face. He was a middle aged earth pony with a brown coat and a white mane and tail (Not to be offensive but probably from age) and his cutie mark was a key. "Lovely! Glad to see you back, I take it you would like your room key?"
“Yes please."
"Such mannerism is rare these days." He pulled out and opened a metal box on the front desk, placing a slightly rusted key on the table. "That rooms been empty since I was a young buck back when my father was still running this place. Last time I saw it there should be a fridge, stove, and bed in their, might want to dust the place first especially the bed."
He passed me the key. "Why was the place empty for so long?"
He looked hesitant to respond. "Well... I'm not sure to be honest. I asked my dad that one time and he just said ‘it's bad for business.’"
I felt a chill run down my spine. "Well I hope whatever it was isn't still around."
As I walked down the hall I became less and less enthusiastic about my new room. Perhaps I should have stayed with Blue Jet and Bliss after all. It was too late now I’m at the apartment. It was a plane tan painted door the room number was 7A. "What could Mr. Swiss's dad have meant by bad for business?" When I unlocked the door it opened by itself with an eerie screech. Shit that’s creepy! "Hello?" The room was pitch black, I felt around for a light switch, after a minute I found it and turned them on.
The living room and kitchen were fused like they were the same room, and they were. The kitchen had an old gas stove and a fridge that was small yet looked durable. Releasing myself from some of my fears I went off into the small hallway to find out what was beyond the three other doors. The first one was the bathroom with a bathtub/shower combo, it was surprisingly clean, near spotless.
The second door held a small broom closet behind it and finally I was at the third door of what must be the bedroom. I opened the door and flipped the light switch, on the bed covered with a dusty sheet was what looked like a body. "Oh crap! Uhhhh excuse me?" Shit please just be a homeless pony that broke in! Suddenly the body sat up on the bed still covered by the sheet, I let out a yelp.
"Oh Lovely." I know that voice! "I see you got a bed, lets try it out." Desire! The sheets came flying off revealing Desire lying in a seductive position. "You ready to feel at home Lovely?"
Fuck my luck!
Old life Horrer And A 'Normal' Family Home
I had over a million thoughts racing through my head at that moment but only one managed to escape my tongue. "What the fuck!?" I realize I should have said 'Get the fuck out!' but that position Desire was in was just... How is anypony that flexible!?
"Like what you're seeing Lovely? If so, stop staring and start..."
Hell no! "Desire get out of my apartment!" She looked at me with a cocky smile. "Now!"
She got out of that position and off my bed still giving that smile. "You'll come around Lovely, they always do."
How about. "No. Now get out." I pointed my hoof to the door and Desire started walking out. "Next time you break into my home I'm calling the cops!"
"If you say so, but I'll say this once my brothers the chief of police." She has a brother!? "So I'll get out quick." Why does she make it sound like that happened before?
She trotted out the door and to my surprise closed it behind her. "Thank Luna! Now I can... Uh... clean up I guess. Is there even any soap in the bathroom?"
I went to the bathroom and started looking through the storage under the sink. Luckily I found a single bar of dusty soap. It had to have been sitting here for a while, all the dust it had was as thick as a note book. Thankfully the hot water worked and even though I didn't have any shampoo or conditioner the soap would be enough, even still had its sent. Roses.
After I let the hot water run for a few minutes and dusted off the soap I jumped in the shower. It felt amazing, the baths at the hospital were nice but this was my first shower in my new home, the feeling of joy and independence was too good for words. Once the soap got wet the smell of roses instantly filled the room.
Screw shampoo this soap is all I need! I had lost all track of time when I got out. It was then that realized I have no towels. Oh well. I shook myself much like a dog does in the bathroom and got most of the water off but I still had dew drops left on my coat and mane. Improvising I used the sheet that Desire had covered herself with to dry the rest off of the water.
Then I noticed a small box under the bed under the side that Desire was on. It was a small cardboard box, didn't look like much but when I lifted it up it had to have weighed over thirty pounds. How is a box this small so heavy!?
I tossed it on the bed and the springs ached under the weight. "What the hell?" I opened the box and inside was an envelope and something that almost filled the box, wrapped in paper. "Okay..." This is creepy. I placed the envelope aside and unwrapped the heavy object. My jaw dropped and eyes went wide when I unwrapped it. A gold bar!? Who, How ,What, When!? What!? "Uhh, How!? How did this gold brick get here!?" I covered my mouth and looked around for a bit before I started thinking.
Okay Lovely calm down there's a random gold bar in your room this isn't illegal... right? MR. Swiss's words rang through my head, 'Bad for business' Oh fuck me! I took one look at the envelopes seal and my blood turned ice cold, It bore the Baltimare mafia symbol on sealing wax. Fuck my life! No wonder this place was bad for business it was an old Baltimare mafia hide out! "Why!? Why me!?" I heard a knock at the door and nearly had a heart attack. "Okay away with this!" I hid the box back under my bed and headed to the door.
"Hey Lovely you ready yet?" Blue Jets voice sent a flow of relief though my body.
I opened the door. Surprised it didn’t open by itself like when I got here. "Hi Blue Jet, you come to pick me up?" I gave my best effort to look casual.
"Yeah, it was Bliss's idea... You seem kind of jumpy Lovely. You alright?”
Crap! "Oh uh just Desire gave me a bit of a scare when I got here."
"Let me guess she was in your bed under some sheets?"
How did he!? "How did you?!"
"She's in the lobby talking with her uncle. Telling him how she almost had this mare, I assume that was you?"
"Yeah, she was no where near... Wait her uncle lives here?"
"Lives here, he runs the place. You know MR. Swiss?"
Say what!? "MR. Swiss is Desire's uncle!?"
"Yeah, raised her too after the... accident." Blue Jets face looked sad, like having a bad memory come up.
"Accident?"
"Well... Do you know that her brother's the police chief?"
"She said that before I kicked her out, yeah?"
"Well her parents practically ran the police station. Both were the best of the best and were always keeping the peace. Well one day they get a tip off that some gang called the Baltimare mafia has a hideout somewhere in town." I felt a surge of pain run through my heart. "They found them in this apartment complex and arrested them, confiscated several thousand bits worth of pure gold bricks." That explains that but why is that one still here? "Then a week later a fire broke out in their home and when investigators arrived they found the bodies were tied to the bed each had a coin shoved in their mouths with that mafias symbol engraved on one of the sides, on the other both had some kind of warning."
An overwhelming surge of guilt and sadness flowed into me. I can’t help it I need to cry! "I have a few more things I need to take care of, mined waiting in the lobby?"
"Fine by me." Blue jet walked off to the lobby.
I closed the door and ran to my bed crying in the sheets. I felt responsible for the deaths of Desires parents. I don't care that I was a little filly back then, my family murdered them and left Desire and her brother without a family! To make it worse, all revenge tactics for imprisoned or killed family members have to be approved by My Parents! My parents sent the order to kill Desire's family! I kept crying until my tears ran dry. When I got strength I stumbled to the bathroom to wash my face off.
My eyes now showed red blood veins close to my heart shaped irises. It looked surprisingly demonic but my attention was still focused on the horror of what my family had done to Desire and her brother. My eyes went back to normal after a few minutes and I left my apartment, locking the door. I met Blue Jet in the lobby and Desire was still there talking with her uncle on the other side of the counter.
"What took so long Lovely?"
Blue Jet spoke but Rather than responding I walked over to Desire. "Hey."
"Hi Lovely, you seem in a better mood." I felt like I wanted to drop down crying. "You alright? You seem sad?" Damn it, it's showing! "You need a tissue or..." I leaned in and placed a quick kiss on Desires lips. I meant for it to be on the cheek but if I didn't react fast I was going to drop to floor in tears.
Then ran out of the building, I heard Desire yelling ‘Yes’ at the top of her lungs. Blue Jet was flying just above me somehow without me seeing him follow me out. "So... What was that about?"
"She has been through more than I would ever go through. She deserves something good to happen to her every now and then." I looked above me and Blue jet gave an understanding nod. "And it's my family's fault she’s had to go through that."
"What was that?"
"Nothing, nothing. Now come on either fly ahead or walk next to me so we can get to your house."
Blue Jet flew down and landed next to me smelling the air. "Hey you smell like roses." I laughed, almost forgetting my sadness and we walked the rest of the way to his home.
It was dark when we arrived at Blue Jet's home. His house was rather plane, a two story wooden building. Not even any paint or signs that paint was once there. I saw massive fields behind the house, at first they looked barren but then I saw vines and heads of large potatoes sticking out of the ground. Yup they farmed potatoes. When we entered the inside was beautifully decorated in exquisite furniture and paintings. Not even my old home looked this good and we were rich!
"Dad! Ma! Our guest is here!" Blue Jet’s yell almost made me jump.
Wait Dad I get but Ma? "I thought you had two dads?"
"I do, Bulk we call Dad and Grinder we call Ma."
"Why?"
Blue Jets face turned red. "I'd rather not say."
I still didn't get it. Then I saw a grey coated earth pony stallion enter the room, his mane and tail were purple and his cutie mark was a bolt or is that a rivet? "I take it you're Lovely?" His voice sounded scary intelligent. Seriously does his voice have its own brain!?
"Yes."
"I'm Bulk, pleasure to make your aquatints." I might be stereotyping here but I did not expect a pony who farms potatoes to sound so sophisticated.
"Same. Pardon my asking but is your cutie mark a bolt or a rivet?" If I didn't know it was going to bug me forever.
Bulk looked at me in confusion. "Sorry I just didn't expect that to be your first question. If you must know it is a rivet, do you wish to know why?"
Blue jet turned to me with an expression that clearly read don't answer that. “I would love to." Blue Jet face hoofed.
"It's because I am not so different from a rivet. Just as a single rivet can hold over a thousand pounds I can pull and carry over four hundred pounds alone."
"Thanks amazing!"
"Thank you for saying so."
Just then another stallion, unicorn, Twice Bulks size entered the room. His coat was a shade of green, both his mane and tail were pitch black and his cutie mark was a potato... That answers that. "Bulk I told you to wait up." His voice was deep and boomed throughout the room but it held a gentle nature to it. He spotted me and gave a small smile. "You must be Lovely."
"Yes I am." Guess we go through this again.
"Pleased to meet you, I'm Grinder and I see you've already met my husband Bulk."
Bulk scratched the back of his head while giving a mischievous smile. "Yes I have. So Blue Jet and Bliss haven't really talked all that much about you two and I would love to get to know you two."
"Perfect." Bulk spoke. "We can get acquainted at dinner, now is Bliss done cooking yet? If no pony knows I'll go check."
Both Blue Jet and Grinder Tried to speak but Bulk had left the room leaving nothing but a puff of dust. "Dammit ta hell Dad."
What did Bulk do? "Why?"
"Dad loves to try and help Bliss when she's cooking but she don't like his kind of help."
"How so?"
"Bulk try's to take over the kitchen and work on everything at once. I'm not even sure if he means well when doing it." Grinder responded.
If his own husband can't even guess his intentions then it must be bad.
"DAMN IT DAD GET OUT!" Bliss's voice boomed throughout the house. That time I did jump in shock. Bulk came running into the room covered in what looked like pasta sauce.
"I'm gonna go get cleaned up."
Bulk left the room then Blue Jet and Grinder let out a few laughs. "Wow that was bad." Blue Jet spoke in between chuckles.
"Was that dinner?" It was a stupid question but it was the only thing I could think of saying.
"No, no that was last weeks leftovers." Grinder responded. "Honestly I can never figure out what is up with that stallion and the kitchen. Every time I try and ask him he just say's it's old habits and when I try and pull more out of him he moves to my crotch and well end of discussion."
"Oh..." Now I'm blushing. And I think I now understand why Blue Jet didn't want to talk about his parents nick names.
"DINNERS READY!" Once again Bliss's voice boomed throughout the house. I didn’t jump that time.
"Is she normally this loud at home?"
"No." Blue Jet responded. "She just got stuck in the nursery at the hospital for an hour and well... around that department ponies call her the baby detonator." What? "Whenever she's near a baby they just don't stop screaming until she's gone. And she was there for an hour before the regular nurse came so she's kind of hard on hearing right now."
"Why do baby's hate her?"
"It's more the reverse."
What!?
"She don't hate babies she's more afraid of them. As a doctor she keeps ponies alive and aides them when they're sick or hurt, but to her a baby is a whole other field that scares the living hell out of her."
"Why?"
"Unlike a patient you can't really tell them what to do and what not to do to keep them healthy, it’s all up to the parents to make sure they’re alright and that they don't hurt themselves. Honestly I think she just can't handle all that responsibility."
"That's... I don't really know what to say to that."
"YOU PONIES COMING OR WHAT!?" Bliss's voice yet again boomed throughout the house.
"Fer the love of, WERE COMING!" Blue Jet yelled out at the top of his lungs almost gasping for air when he stopped. "Come on if we don't go now she'll yell again."
I couldn't help but laugh at how Blue Jet and his family acted. Even though Blue Jet and Bliss aren't related they are still brother and sister. Their parents aren't traditional but they raised them just fine. Despite the visual differences they aren’t any different from any other family. I'm almost jealous.
Work
Sunlight hit my eyes hard. Blue Jet walked me home last night and kept me from falling over, we ended up drinking hard cider with our meals. Soon as I got home I fell into Luna’s dreamland and refused to leave. I was rather embarrassed since I only had one cup and got drunk off my rocker.
Wasn’t all that bad though, the food was good. I especially liked the hash browns, I might ask Bliss for the recipe. Getting up I walked straight to the bathroom, my mane was wild. I don’t have a brush so I wet it and carefully dried it off with the bedsheets.
Note to self, buy towels.
I began wondering if the fridge had anything. Opening it I was surprised to see a brown paper bag with a note taped to it. I read the letter.
Lovely, I figure you don’t got any food yet so I flew back home and got ya some leftovers. Better than nothing, right?
Blue Jet.
That’s so sweet! I got to thank him next time I see him. Opening the bag, there were three tin foil wrappings. I opened one and was happily greeted by seven hash browns. I put the other tin wrappings in the bag and in the fridge, then greedily gobbled the seven hash browns. They didn’t taste the same but that’s probably because they’re cold.
Second note to self, buy a microwave.
Finishing breakfast I left the apartment and went to Mr. Swiss at the front desk. “Morning Lovely.”
“Morning Swiss. I’m ready to work.”
“Glad to hear, your uniform is here.” Mr. Swiss went under the desk and came back up with a hat, it was blue with a gold stripe in the middle. “Here.”
I took it and put it on. “So what do I do?”
“Jet told me about how hard you can hit, so I figured you can be the security guard.”
“Don’t you have to be a cop first?” I couldn’t help but think of the irony. I’m a mob daughter working for, or as rather, the law.
“Not really. Cops and security are two different things. All you need to do is walk around the hallways, roof, and outside. Anything suspicious happens you investigate or deal with, alright?”
“Yes sir.” I saluted.
“One more thing.” He went back under the desk and came back out with a pouch. “I know there’s not much in there so I’m giving you some bits to start you off.”
“Mr. Swiss, I-
“Don’t worry, this is the bits you’re supposed to earn today, so I just took it out of your paycheck.” He gave a sweet yet clever smile.
I thought for a moment. If They’re the bits I’m earning It’s not free money like what my parents always gave me, I’m earning them. Plus I need a few things. “Thank you Mr. Swiss.”
“Don’t mention it, also your shift ends in eight hours. Keep yourself busy.”
“Okay, I’ll patrol the halls first then.”
I walked to the other hallway away from my apartment. It didn’t look all that different from my hallway, but it did seem more… empty. Shouldn’t ponies be waking up by now?
Reaching the end of the hall, I was greeted with a stairway. Walking up I finally heard somepony.
“Going to school dad!” A young colt's voice yelled.
“Be safe!” “A raspy older ponies voice replied.
Four doors away from me a young colt exited one of the apartments. He was a sky blue unicorn with a cloud white mane and tale. As he closed the door he spotted me and remained still.
Pure fear and awkwardness filled my body. The colt didn’t look afraid or startled, but him not doing anything was scaring me even more than it should.
“Is… Is your name Lovely?” He asked.
Startled the colt knew my name, I backed up a bit. “Y… Yes. How did-“
“Cool!” The colt ran up to me and began jumping in joy. “My class hasn’t stopped talking about you since you came to town! We learned all about your DNA magic thing! What do you see!? What do you see!?”
“Slow down kid.” The colt stopped jumping but his tail was wagging like a dogs. “What do you mean you learned about my DNA?”
“When word got around somepony with a rare magical genetic disorder came to town the teacher decided to teach us about how it affects a pony.”
I’m actually intrigued. Blue Jet only told me a brief description of my… disorder. “What did you learn?”
“Purus oculos is a disorder that affects one in eighty thousand ponies,” That is rare! “From current understanding it’s cause is believed to be because the gene for race starts off as one thing, specifically unicorn, but changes to another before the pony is even a foal.”
“Wait, you’re saying I was gonna be a unicorn, but my DNA nope'd and switched to earth pony?”
“Something like that. They think the magic from the unicorn DNA was active long enough for pony to absorb and produce magic but not enough for the horn to grow. So the magic goes somewhere else, mainly the eyes.”
“Why are mine hearts then?”
“It’s different for everyone. But one theory suggests that a ponies special talent is a factor, but it’s nothing solid.”
“You’re a really smart kid.”
“Well I am sixteen.”
What!?! “But you’re so… young looking.” I failed at not making that sound insulting.
“Dwarfism meets Foal face, that’s me. I guess the way I was acting didn’t help either.” He grinned while scratching the back of hos head.
“So you’re in advanced schooling?” Ponies normally have eight years of school then take on apprenticeships once out.
“Yeah, the class really interested me because it’s all about genetics. I’m pretty sure you can guess why?”
“Yeah, I have an idea why.” Life can’t have been easy for this ki- Guy. And I thought my eyes were a handicap.
“Well, nice meeting you Lovely, I gotta go or I’ll be late again.” He started running but stopped at staircase. “Oh, names Gene Pool!” With that he was gone.
I never did tell him what my eyes let me see, did I? I’ll tell him next time I see him…. Me as a unicorn, huh, must be from moms side of the family, aunt Summer Dance is a unicorn.
After that ki… Gentlecolt Gene Pool left I managed to kill time by exploring. The apartment building is MUCH bigger than I expected. There’s even a pool on the roof! Granted it’s dirty and probably hasn’t been used in… forever possibly. I’ll ask Mr. Swiss about that later.
“You fucking bitch!” That sounds like I’m needed.
“Can’t take it? To bad!” The buck? That was a mares voice.
I knocked on the door the noise was coming from, F6. “I got it!” A colt’s voce yelled. The door opened and a young earth pony colt greeted me, and dropped his juice box when he saw my eyes. His coat was yellow, and his mane grey. “Mom, dad.” The colt moved to the side, letting me enter.
Once inside I spotted the mare and stallion. They both were earth ponies, had grey coats. The mares mane was orange while the stallions was pink. When they saw me they both dropped something they held in there hooves.
“Who are you?” The mare asked.
Wow, somepony who doesn’t know who I am. That’s refreshing actually. “My name’s Lovely, I’m the new Security guard. I heard shouting.”
“Oh, that. My sis here just beat me at Immortal Combat: Royalty Edition. For the twelfth time.” The stallion replied.
“Oh, well that’s-“ SCREECH. My brain froze as something the colt had said. He called them mom and dad, but the stallion just called her his sister… “You two are siblings and have a kid!”
“NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONO!” The two yelled in a panicked unison.
“It’s not like that!” The stallion yelled.
“Brawler is my brothers son but I’m not the biological mother! We had a surrogate mother! We don’t even sleep in the same room!” The mare blurted out.
I stood frozen in thought for a bit. These two definitely didn’t mean to let their relationship slip out. “Story. Now. Please.”
The stallion scratched his front leg with the other. “Well, my sis and I are twins, identical, except for gender of course. We wanted to have families of our own but everypony we tried just never clicked.”
“We became good friends but could never seem to let them in more, like something removed or blocked off that spot for spouse relationships.” The mare cut in. “I’ve dated dozens of stallions and more than a hoof full proposed but I just never could say yes, not to marriage or sex.”
“Same went for me. After a few hundred bits spent on psychologists we found out we’re A-sexual. Meaning we don’t care for, well relationships. But we still wanted a family and kids, so after a long talk and a few bottles of whiskey we decided to find a surrogate for my child and now we’re looking for a sperm donor for my sister.”
I was at a mix of thoughts and a loss for words. My brain was still processing the information. Part of me felt the need to walk out of here and forget everything this just happened, another wants to hear a bit more, and the rest is struggling to make a decision.
“Uh, miss?” The mare spoke and broke me out of my train of thought. “Don’t take offense but do you need to see an eye doctor?”
I burst into a suffocating fit of laughter. After a while I got up, still giggling like a school filly. “No, no. I was born like this, it’s fine. I’m actually kind of happy someponies don’t know who I am.”
“Are you new to town then?”
“Yeah, but I spent most of that time in the hospital. Got knocked off the back of the train when I was moving here.” I almost paused. I said that lie like it was the truth. And I almost believed it.
“Oh, well we don’t go out all that much. We usually like to properly examine our work.” The stallion said.
“What, you’re shouting?”
“No, we’re beta testers for Bearthesda game studios. They send us a copy of a new game and we send back a review about quality, bugs, and replay value.”
“I never played that many games.”
“Not most adults do, but Equestrias youth has certainly picked up the pass time. Our… my brothers son enjoys them as much as we do.”
“I beat dads high score last week.” The colt replied from somewhere, I couldn’t see where.
“And couldn’t be prouder.” The stallion replied.
“Well thank you for explaining this to me, and sorry to disturb. Glad there wasn’t an actual argument.”
“Sorry about being so loud, we’ve been meaning to soundproof this place.” The mare said.
“Well, thank you foe your time… sorry what was your name?”
“Oh, I’m level Up, and my brother’s name is Experience Points.”
I gave a nod and left. They were nice, odd, but nice. Then again who am I to call ponies odd, I have hearts for eyes. I looked at the clock, I only have an hour left of my shift. What to do?
I heard a shuffling behind me. Turning, I didn’t see anypony behind me, turning back forward I was met at eye level, by a bear!
I yelp, falling backwards in terror. How did a bear get in here!?! The sound of laughter rang behind me and bear disappeared. “Wow, that was way to easy.” I was suddenly surrounded by a magic aura and brought back to my hooves. Looking up I saw the unicorn responsible.
He was young, purple coat with a hair color similar to mine. “Who are you?” I asked.
“Well ponies call me asshole, but I prefer J.P.” He replied.
“Well J.P, was that you’re magic that had a bear appear in here?”
“Yes.”
“You do know I’m the new security guard right?”
“Oh, I’m fully away of who you are Lovely, mystery mare rescued from near death in Steady Ravine, discovered to have a rare magical genetic disorder… thought to be dead daughter of Gold Trott and Light Brade.”
I froze, my heart dropped to the deepest pit of my stomach. My breathing became rapid. “How… did… you?”
“Now that’s my special talent. See my cutie mark?” He shifted so I could see it, it was a clock with an eye in the center. “I see past and future, with a little magic I can see some impressive things, hear to, but that makes the process even more tiring. I saw you run away, saw your parents worry, your old teacher get killed…”
I started backing up, only to stumble and fall on my own flank. “Y… you’re lying!”
“Am I now? We’re the same you see.” His horn lit up and when a flash came and went I dropped my jaw. His eyes looked like clocks. “The only difference between you and I is that I was lucky to be born a unicorn, illusion magic is a fun trick of mine.”
“Y… You’re like me.” I stuttered.
“Yes, but I only want you to know this because we share these cursed eyes. I envy you actually, I see any and every point of time of the timeline of a specific pony, you only see love when it is present.”
“Why? Why only tell me?”
“I’m a wanted pony, my gift/curse makes me valuable to military and royals alike. Figured a fellow runaway can keep a secret.” His horn flashed and his eyes became like normal ones.
“Wait!” I yelled as he started to walk away. “You said my teacher…”
“Killed by your mother, she was a loyal friend till the end.”
He left. I broke down. The floor beneath me became a puddle in seconds. First Desire’s parents, now my first real friend from within that cage! I… I’ll never forgive them! NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER! “NEVER!”
Shopping
My encounter with J.P. had left me rather shaken. I now hated my parents more than I ever knew possible. All those moments I thought they could do no wrong are meaningless now. So many happy memories of them now felt wrong, I honestly felt sick. My skin didn’t feel right anymore, I always knew my parents did bad, but I never thought they’d do something so cruel. I don’t think I’ve ever felt this angry and sad all at once before, is there a name for this emotion?
I walked slowly to my room to clean up quick, technically I’ve been off the clock for little over an hour, but I ran straight to the roof and cried the last hours of my shift away.
Entering, I saw a letter on the floor, J.P. written in marker on it. What else does that ass hole want to tell me? Despite my mood I opened it, and was rather surprised to read what I read.
Lovely, I saw how upset you were going to get an hour before I told you, seeing time has advantages and disadvantages. Much like you can’t see your own love (yes I know that too), I can’t see my own timeline. This event you’re currently playing out has two outcomes. One, you move on. Or two, you never see your own love. I’m not spoiling anything but I personally suggest you move on.
It’s for your own good, I’ve seen all your outcomes, please! I’ve tried so many times to make good with this ability of mine but it always ended one way or another as I saw it. After so many failed attempts I gave up, I lost probably one of the most important thing for a pony, I lost my compassion. I’m dead inside and there’s nothing I can do about it. I don’t want what happened to me to happen to you, you were destined for amazing things, I’ve seen them all.
The goddess gave you those eyes to see the love of ponies for a reason, don’t let your own love die.
J.P.
Never see my own love? What? He just wrote that… I’m too tired to-
Knock, knock, knock.
“J.P.?”
“Wha, no Lovely, it’s me, Blue Jet.” I opened the door and Blue Jet immediately took notice of my depression. “What happened to you?”
“Just… got some… bad news.”
“What?”
“I can’t really tell much, just somepony I knew before I moved here died.”
I almost jumped when Blue Jet suddenly hugged me. I finally broke, crying into Jet’s chest. I felt weak, vulnerable, and bitter. Yet, in Blue Jet’s embrace, I feel safe. I felt like nothing could hurt me, why does being with Blue Jet make me feel like this?
White, for a brief second, I saw white.
“So how many bits does a day’s work earn you?” Blue Jet asked as we walked to the store.
After my… episode, Blue Jet hasn’t left me alone. It ended up pretty good since didn’t know where the stores were.
“Eighty. I need home appliances and other things first before I buy food, at least a microwave.” I replied feeling strangely better now that I wasn’t alone. Guess other ponies help you forget… I won’t ever forget Miss. Bright, she was my teacher and my friend. “How much will that cost?”
“More than eighty, but used it should cost less.”
“Any place like that?”
“Old Pony Duck’s repair shop. He always has stuff he pulls from garbage there that he fixes or repurposes.”
“I remember something about him when I was still in the hospital,was he the jury rigged kidney surgery?”
“Yeah, Honestly surprised he’s still walking with that piece of work Bliss did on him. His shop is little further ahead, come on.”
Walking I took mental notes of shops that looked like I should head back there afterwards. I need to start remembering the town so I can do this alone.
“We’re here.” The shop was old and that was putting it lightly. Parts and, to me at least, junk littered the exterior like crazy,. It looked like somepony just shoved a landfill into a building. “Pony Duck!”
A loud bang came from inside. “Come in!” A scraggly older voice yelled out. Walking in, I quickly found myself stepping on tools and parts that replaced the floor. Piles of junk laid claim to some of the walls and corners. In the center of it all a rust colored old pegasus sat against the only clean thing in the building, a metal desk. “Well now, hello there Jet, how you- Oh, I see you found a cute little thing.” He said without looking at us.
Blue Jet and I blushed and moved away from each other slightly. “It ain’t like that Duck, she’s a friend and just moved to town recently, she’s that mare I found in the ravine.”
“Oh, the mare with magic eyes. Tell me lass, how do you see?”
“What? I don’t quite follow Mr. Duck?” I replied.
“Well…” When He turned around I screamed, jumping back and falling onto the pile of junk that is the floor. He has no eyes, they're both gone. “Ha, never gets old.”
“What happened to your eyes!”
“Talk like that and you’ll sound like a hypocrite. I was born without eyes, blind.”
“Sorry, It just scared me.”
“You should see me at Nightmare Night. Them foals run for miles, usually they drop the candy too.”
“Mummy?”
“Smart one you are. She’s a keeper Blue.”
“It ain’t like that Duck. We were wondering if you have a microwave she could buy?”
“Alright, I think I keep those in parts, but I did pick one up a week ago I’ve yet to take apart. It should be around here somewhere.”
“Any place specific?”
“Back room, pretty sure I put it on a table.”
There’s a back room? This whole place looked like a single room. Pony Duck started flapping his wings and flew, eventually he hit the ceiling and followed the support beams over the back wall before landing on the other side. Hidden back room, cool!
Loud banging and a few pained curses came from behind the wall until. “Found it! Jet, little help.”
Blue Jet flew over, after a moment they flew back carrying a large, cartoony looking, green microwave. The logo was in a weird language. “ What language is that?” I asked.
“Fella that sold it to me was a Zebra that used to live in town, he was moving and needed some bits. Only seen a few machines like this one, doesn't run on electricity. It's powered by several small enchanted gems to cook the food.”
“That's amazing!”
“Complicated too. Reason why the never sold well, needed a wizard to fix it, not a repair pony.”
“How much?”
“25 bits, fella sold it for 15 so I still make profit.”
That will leave me a 55, plenty for a few utensils and food. “Deal.” I started counting bits, I've always kept my money, even the bits my parents gave me, in stacks of five, kept together with a rubber band. A trick one of the guards that watched over me told me.
Once the five stacks were laid out on the table Pony Duck picked them up. “Stacks of five, smart. Well, enjoy your microwave.”
“Thank you.”
“I can take this thing back to your place Lovely, you head on to the store, you can't miss it.” Blue Jet said. I agreed, seeing that this thing clearly is heavy…
“Are you sure you can lift this?”
“Yeah, I'll meet you at the store.”
Blue Jet flew off towards my apartment, he looked funny carrying the microwave. Moving on, I found the store, actually I found two. One full of ponies, the other full of Griffins. I remember one of the guards back home being a Griffin and let me taste some of his food. It was the first time I ate meat, I would have kept eating it to this day, but pony stomachs aren't meant to digest meat and the toilet I ran to ten seconds later would agree.
Still, maybe I can look… and smell.
The second I walked in my nose was hit with the multiple aromas of meats cooking and the seasonings. Walking more inward I found myself at a food line of sorts, the source of the delicious smells.
I know a lot of ponies find meat a morally wrong, but growing up in a mafia family, you learn to toss some, or most, morals aside.
“Never expected to see a pony eye some meat in my lifetime.” I turned and saw a griffin, female, with her neck and head feathers dyed green. She looked surprised at me. “Damn girl, you must really love meat!”
I chuckled. “No, well I do like the taste of meat but my eyes aren't reflecting that. It's a magical genetic defect.”
“Ah, so you're that wild eyed mare I've heard about. Didn't think the gossip was true, looks like I'm out twelve bits. Wait you like the taste of meat? Seriously?!”
How to reword this story… “My parents had a coworker that was a Griffin and he let me try some of his lunch one day, it was like nothing I had ever tasted before! Unfortunately my stomach disagreed with me since I was running to the bathroom ten minutes later. Totally worth it though.”
“Really… wait here, my boss is gonna want to see you.”
She flew upwards and into what looked like a shed built into the ceiling. I guess if everyone here can fly stairs or ladders aren't necessarily needed.
“WHAT!?” A yell came from the ceiling shed as that Griffin I was talking to flew back down, followed closely by another female Griffin. She had beautiful red and orange feathers. She landed right in front of me. “You're a pony, and you like meat!?”
“I do, but my stomach doesn't.”
“Is it alright if I talk to you in my office?”
“Sure.” The Griffin grabbed me by the barrel and flew me up to the ceiling mounted office. It was small, but there wasn't much in it so it wasn't cramped. “Alright now hear me out before asking questions. This store is going bankrupt, I've done the math and only seven percent of New Springs population are meat eaters, that's not enough to keep up open for long. A while ago I commissioned a zebra in Ponyville to make a potion that would allow a pony to digest meat without worry,” She pulled out a large bottle out from under her desk, the liquid glowed a faint purple. “As you can see there's plenty, only problem is no pony that has come into the store will try it. They just buy spices and leave. What I'm asking is I want you to take it, eat some meat, wait and see if anything happens, if you're good after eating it then we make a public display for the towns ponies to see.”
“So you think that by seeing a fellow pony eat meat without the digestion worry they'll buy some meat and the potion?”
“Exactly. What do you say?”
I was actually debating this, on one hoof I'm going to be shown in front of ponies, even though Blue Jet told me ponies probably… wait a minute. “You haven't said anything about my eyes.”
“That? Kid when you've lived in New Springs for your whole life you tend to ignore the oddities about folk. Believe me or not there's a Griffin that comes here once a week, buck naked, no feathers or fur with a tattoo of himself in a three way with a mare and Monitor on his back. No one gave him a second look anymore after the first three store visits.”
Brain! Do not! Make mental- Damnit! I need brain bleach! “I'll do it, mostly to forget about that mental image I just had.”
“Great. The zebra said to only take a spoon full, so a sip should be alright since I don't have a spoon on me.”
I took the bottle and upon opening it the scent of raspberries filled my nostrils. It tasted like it smelled and a sip went down my throat. I don't feel anything. “Did it work? I don't feel anything.”
“It's a potion, not a spell. You don't feel the difference, you notice it..” She flew me back down in front of the food line. “Iggy, one hotdog!” She yelled to the Griffin behind the counter. He pulled out a small round meat strip placed between a half cut bread. It didn't have much smell to it. “This is just to test the potion. Try it.”
I took the hotdog in a hoof and took a small bite, it was kinda salty but it was good. I swallowed and felt fine. Last time I ate meat I immediately felt sick, I feel fine this time though. That potion does work! “It works, my stomach doesn’t hurt!”
“Ha! Fuck you biology and thank you magic! Guy’s, set up a stand outside and some platters ready. Nute, grab the small sampler cups in the back.” Nute, the griffin I first met, gave a salute and flew off. “You…”
“Lovely.”
“Lovely, right. You keep trying some of the other selections, see what you think the other ponies will go after.”
“Will do.” I began browsing the selections. Eager to try and see what else I could happily devour.
I was beyond full. The potion worked and a large group of ponies bought some meat, with a free “Anti-Sickness” potion in a small plastic sample cup. The manager, Lla, had me keep eating until the crowd left. She said I ate about a pound and a half of meat while the sale was going on. She gave me a week's worth of the potion, and one of every type of meat they had in the store as thanks for the help. I was glad to, really, but that whole “Too much of something is bad” thing was working hell on my stretched out stomach. It was at that moment I was glad to be an earth pony, strength to spare.
Blue Jet found me when the sale was still on and even bought some meat and potions for his family to try. I was glad to see that he trusted me enough to try something that most ponies see as morally and physically unhealthy. I bought some other, pony specific, food and cooking items and was left with 15 bits. It was a good shopping experience though. I still don’t have towels or bathroom supplies, but Blue Jet did say he went home and left me some toilet paper to last me til payday. I sure hope it does, when this meat finally digests I may end up using an entire role.
Opening the room, my nose was flooded with the scent of roses. That wasn’t the odd part though, there were lit candles all over the place. I had a good feeling on who is behind this. I walked straight to my bedroom, and shut the door after seeing what Desire had done. All I will say is that she was Thanksgiving themed, and butter. Butter EVERYWHERE!