Chapter 15

Dave awoke to Spike poking him in the stomach “Wake up” said the purple dragon excitedly

Dave pushed his claw away and turned over “leave me alone… five more minutes” he grumbled as he attempted to sleep again

Spike responded by poking Dave rapidly in the back of his head “Now Dave” he poked furiously until Dave finally sat up

Dave scratched the back of his head “Where are we?” he yawned

Spike walked over to the door “We’re back in Ponyville” he pushed the door open allowing the sunlight to strike Dave’s eyes

“AH CRAP” Dave threw his hands over his eyes to protect himself from the summer sun “Be gentle with that stuff” Dave rolled out of his bunk and followed Spike outside

The ponies were all standing beside Dave’s chests as he stepped out onto Ponyville train station, the train whistled as it began to depart and the driver waved farewell

Dave rubbed his eyes as they adjusted to the sudden bright light “good morning would have been better” he mumbled miserably

“We all woke up when we received a letter from Princess Celestia,” Spike explained as he climbed onto Dave’s shoulder “She told us where your new home is” Spike smiled at Dave

Dave began to follow the ponies as they walked along the street, Twilight was carrying the chests with her magic and as they walked, they all began to talk amongst themselves

“How long do ya think it will take for his house ta be built?” Applejack asked

“Well Princess Celestia said she would send specialists” Twilight looked at the clock tower on the outskirts of town “So they should be finished now”

Rainbow Dash flew above their heads “It took one night to build a house?”

Twilight giggled slightly “The princess would have sent unicorn builders as well to make construction go as quickly as possible,” She looked up at her friend “didn’t you know that?”

“Duh” Dash groaned, “I’m not pen pals the princess though am I?”

Twilight ignored Dash and walked alongside Dave “So what do you think your house is going to be like?” after a minutes silence she looked up at his blank face “Dave?”

Dave was brought back to reality by Spike poking him again “Huh? What do you want?” Dave turned and looked at the dragon angrily

“Twilight is trying to talk to you” Spike shuffled uneasily under Dave’s glare

Dave took a deep breath before replacing the smile to his face “Sorry Twilight I was lost in my own thoughts for a minute”

Twilight bumped slightly into Dave “What were you thinking about?” Obviously, the bump implied she wondered if he was thinking of her

“Nothing important really” Dave lied ‘I am about to get a house and all I can think about is my old home?’ Dave looked down at Twilight ‘I hope she finds out something soon because at this rate I’ll be doing more than just living here’

“Ok and my original question was what do you think your house is going to be like?”

“Simple I hope” Dave looked around at the houses around him ‘and not near anypony else’

They all continued to walk until they reached the outskirts of Ponyville, the houses began to space out until they reached the edge of town

“How far away is this house?” Dash asked as she landed on the ground “Princess Celestia said it would be just outside of Ponyville”

Twilight removed a letter from one of the saddlebags she was carrying “She said that the house should be up this road” She looked at the road ahead “I never thought it was going to be too far away”

Dave walked past the ponies and continued down the road “Now where the hay are ya goin?” Applejack called out to him

Dave turned around but continued to walk backwards “I am going to find my house” he smiled at the ponies that all looked disappointed that he was going to live far away from their own homes, except Rainbow Dash who followed him

“Yeah come on” She flew to catch up with Dave and continued on hoof, “I’m sure it isn’t far”

The ponies all quickly jogged to catch up before walking behind Dave as he scanned the area, after a few minutes of walking Spike noticed a pale blue unicorn in the distance “Hey look” he pointed at the unicorn as it walked over to a large house and they both disappeared

“D-did everypony just see what I did?” Dave stammered

Rarity wandered over to where the house was and slowly stretched out a hoof “Well I must say this is a fantastic spell”

“What is it?” Fluttershy whispered as she hid behind Dave, “Is it bad?”

“Why of course not darling” she tapped her hoof on the air and the sound of wood rang out “It’s an invisibility spell”

Twilights eyes flashed open “Really?” she hurried over and tapped as well “It is!” she said excitedly “I’ve never seen one used on a building before”

Dave walked over and tapped the invisible building as well “Well technically you can never see an invisibility spell can you?” he joked, where he had tapped little dots of wood appeared

Twilight opened her mouth to protest but she quickly closed it again “Shut up” she smiled slightly as the unicorn from earlier stepped out from nowhere

“Can you please stop hitting the wall?” The grey maned unicorn’s horn glowed a faint blue and the building began to fade into view before their eyes “I assume you are Dave?” the unicorn stepped back into the doorway that appeared

Dave stood back and watched as an entire wooden house began to take shape, it was made of wood and had a large thatched roof that easily covered the two-floored building

As all the ponies watched as a balcony appeared on the front of the house and a long black telescope slowly began to fade atop the balcony, Spike also dropped off Dave’s shoulder to watch as a tall stone chimneypot poked out at the top

Dave meanwhile decided to walk inside the door the unicorn left open, he walked into a kitchen so the front door must be on another side, the unicorn walked through a door and Dave followed, they walked into a large living room

“Well at least Celestia got the floor plan nailed” Dave said to the unicorn as he slumped down into a large, brown sofa “Ah finally” Dave sighed as he placed his feet onto the wide table

“Ahem?” the unicorn grabbed Dave’s attention “Mr Dave I was simply applying the finishing touches to your… simple home”

“Are you from Canterlot?” Dave asked as he looked at a large stone fireplace that sat opposite the sofa

“Why yes I am” the pony held his proud head high “Why do you ask?”

‘Because you sound like a pompous snob’ Dave’s mind growled

“I was just admiring the work you’ve done, something simple has never looked better” Dave smiled at the unicorn “And I knew you had to be from Canterlot” Dave strained to say all those things but it was true, he did like it all but it just pained him to say he liked the stuck-up unicorns work

The unicorn meanwhile raised his head higher, if that was possible “Well I suppose it was why the Princess chose me to decorate” he began to head for what looked like the front door but it burst open as the other ponies all charged in along with Spike

“Wow have you seen the size of this place its HUGE!” Spike squealed in excitement as he sat next to Dave leaving the spot on the other side free for anypony to sit down

Most of the ponies took the chance to look around Dave’s new house, except for Rarity who took the opportunity to sit close to Dave “well I must say Darling this is a lovely house” She looked around the living room before resting a hoof on Dave’s leg

“Y-yeah it’s nice” Dave shuffled around uneasily as Spike looked over at Rarity

“Can I get you something to drink Rarity?” Spike asked, his body floating off the chair

“No thank you Spike I am perfectly fine here” Rarity turned her gaze to Dave “can I get you anything Dave?”

“Umm… no thanks” Dave avoided looking at her but watched Applejack trot through the living room and into the kitchen

Spike looked at Rarity who gazed into the side of Dave’s face ‘why is she acting weird recently?’ Spike looked between his best friend and his crush ‘she must be exhausted from the trip to Appleoosa, yeah that’s it’ Spike still had a nibbling feeling at the back of his head that something else was going on

Twilight walked into the living room excitedly “Dave you have something in your bedroom for you” she quickly left the room and climbed the stairs opposite the front door

Dave quickly followed with Rarity and Spike close behind, when they reached the top of the stairs they saw Twilight walk into the door directly ahead from the stairs

Dave walked into the room and saw the other ponies all standing around a king sized bed, which had a brown package resting on the centre and the word ‘Dave’ written across the top

“What is it?” Dave asked as he picked up the package and shook it gently, a faint noise of something bouncing around caused Dave to stop and gently tear the top of the package off

Inside were a bronze key and a deed, obviously for the house but there was also two small scrolls wrapped up inside ‘wonder which Princess these are from’ Dave thought as he unravelled the first letter and read it to himself, careful to not let anypony see

Dear Dave

I hope you have enjoyed your new home so far as we sent as many ponies as we could to get it built in time for your arrival

My sister told me about visiting you soon, I will enjoy catching up

Also, I suggest you enjoy the view

From Luna

Dave placed the letter inside his bag and dropped it onto the bed before picking up the other one, as he unravelled it, Twilight placed his chests down at the bottom of the bed

Dave

I hereby grant you the status of Equestrian Civilian so everypony may know that you are a friend of the royal thrones

Signed Princess Celestia and Princess Luna

P.s. sorry about these formalities

Dave chuckled as he held the letter in his hands “Equestrian Civilian” he muttered under his breath “What did Luna mean about ‘enjoy the view’?”

“Well maybe she want’s you to see the view from the balcony,” Twilight suggested as she trotted over to a pair of glass doors that lead onto a wide balcony

“Well the house is certainly bigger than what I imagined” Dave noticed how much space there was on the balcony even with everypony on it

A long green field stretched downwards towards Ponyville, the walk they had taken could have easily taken ten minutes, the sky was clear of most clouds and only a few dotted the blue sky

The ponies all gawped at the view they had “I can see my house from here!” Pinkie screamed happily

“Ah think we can all see our houses from up here” Applejack chuckled happily

Dave wasn’t distracted by the view but instead had his attention dragged to the long black telescope, Dave knelt down and placed his eye to the eyepiece

At the other end of the view was Princess Luna with her own telescope that was coated with the same colour metal as her crown, she waved as Dave placed his head to the telescope and he returned the wave ‘Damn this thing is powerful’

Dave watched the Princess of the night leave her telescope and return to her quarters “yeah enjoy the view” Dave smiled as he was left looking at the top half of the castle but something caught his eye

Dave turned his telescope to another balcony that was attached to a tower on the other side of the castle, he couldn’t see what it was but all he could see was something white

“Um can somepony zoom this for me or something?” Dave asked trying not to take his eye of the white object

Twilight hopped over “Wow Dave this is an amazing telescope” she looked over at the various knobs around the scope before turning one with her magic “is that better?”

Dave’s view slowly zoomed in towards the white object “thanks Twilight” Dave gave a thumbs up to Twilight who just looked confused at the gesture

Dave fiddled with some of the other knobs to bring the telescope into focus on the white object and the blur took shape

The white object turned into Celestia as the telescope focused in on her, Dave zoomed in closer to her as she looked across Canterlot

“Spike can you write something for me?” Dave asked not moving his eye from the telescope

“Sure thing Dave” Spike grabbed a paper and quill from Twilight’s saddlebag “Ready when you are”

“Just write… thank you for the house it is… brilliant” Dave watched as the Princess sighed heavily ‘what is she thinking about?’

Spike was about to send the letter but Dave quickly took it and wrote at the bottom ‘P.s. I see you’ before handing it back to Spike

Spike blew the letter away and Dave replaced his eye to the telescope, Celestia had her eyes closed and a piece of parchment levitating in front of her, she was writing something slowly but seemed to be crossing out mistakes

Before she could start writing Dave’s letter appeared beside her, she levitated the letter over to her and she smiled slightly as she began to read

Her smile wavered slightly when she read the part Dave quickly added at the end, her horn glowed slightly brighter as a pure white telescope appeared before her and she pointed it at Dave

Dave waved slightly at the Princess, even though the telescope hid some of her face Dave could still make out a wide smile

She hid the parchment she was writing on behind he back ‘what is that letter?’ Dave thought, as she seemed to be very protective of it ‘probably something private’

Celestia raised a hoof and gave him a small wave in return, Dave took his head away from his telescope and looked to where Celestia was sitting many miles away and he could feel her doing the same

Dave stood there staring in the distance and all the ponies looked at him awkwardly, Spike burped out a letter

“Oh” he said in disbelief as he handed the letter to Pinkie

Dave did not notice Pinkie scream in happiness as she shot towards Ponyville faster that anypony could have imagined

“So I’ve got to go” Twilight smiled weakly as she backed away from the others “Got something very important to do” Spike climbed onto her back as she ran downstairs and out of the house

“Yeah I uh… got some tricks to practice, come help Fluttershy” Dash grabbed Fluttershy who screamed slightly and flew into the sky

Dave turned and noticed his friends were all leaving “Where are you all going?” he asked as Rarity and Applejack walked back into his bedroom

The two mares looked at each other but then back at Dave, Rarity spoke up “Well darling we have been having so much fun around you but we really all must go and attend our normal routines”

“Oh ok see you later” Dave smiled as he turned back to his telescope

Applejack stepped over to Dave “If ya like we can stay” she could leave Big Mac for a few more minutes

Dave shook his head “Nah I understand, I’ll see you all some other time” he lowered his head to his telescope but Celestia had disappeared

“Well see ya later Dave” Applejack called as she followed Rarity downstairs and out of Dave’s home

Dave watched as they caught up with Twilight and all three of them hurried towards Ponyville

Dave had no reason to stay on the balcony so he walked into his bedroom and over to his chests “Right let me see what you got” Dave kicked the silver lock, breaking it off he chest and it landed on the floor with a loud ‘thud’

Dave kneeled and placed both hands on either side of the lid “The prize is?” Dave lifted the lid and was instantly greeted by a wave of gold rushing out of the chest and covering Dave’s lap “Ha Ha I’m rich!”

Dave attempted to push the gold back into the chest but it wouldn’t shut “Hmm I guess I could store this gold somewhere else and leave this chest with the rest” He pulled a draw out from the bottom of a large wardrobe and piled the gold into it

The other two chests contained a variety of gold and gems which quickly took up all the space in Dave’s bedroom “Ok so I have chests full of money, gems and most of my storage is now full of this stuff” He pounded the air “I’M RICH!” he cheered again as he danced around his bedroom

He dived onto his bed “Thank you Celestia for letting me keep the chests” he rested his head against his pillow “Ah and thank you for the comfy bed” he sighed as he quickly fell asleep

Many hours later…

Dave was awoken by a loud ‘BANG’ and he was thrown slightly into the air by the tremor “What the hell?” he was still slightly asleep but another blast woke him up

BANG

“What is going on?”

BANG

The banging stopped and the lights went out, Dave ran to his window and looked outside, the sun was setting and the moon was beginning to rise from the horizon

Dave heard noises from downstairs ‘am I being burgled?’ he crept over to his bedroom door and peeked out ‘they must be downstairs’

He took a deep breath and slowly began to walk down the stairs ‘I swear if I am being robbed then they are gonna regret it’ he thought angrily as he turned towards his living room

Dave opened the door suddenly, hoping to surprise the criminals but as quickly as the door opened Dave was blasted by a bright light and a lot of noise

“SURPRISE!” All the ponies in the room yelled and Dave fell over backwards from fright

Dave sat up and looked around his living room, there were decorations everywhere, and some DJ turntables were set up in one corner in front of a short smoking cannon

The ponies around the room all had wide grins on their face, the mane six were there, Spike, the Princesses and even some ponies Dave had never met before

“WOW” Dave got to his feet and looked around the room “What is all this?” He asked in wonder

Pinkie bounced up to him “It’s your house warming party silly” she placed a party hat on his head “Were you surprised?”

“Very” Dave panted, as he looked at the ponies around the room “You all came here for me?”

They all smiled at him ‘oh so when they left earlier they must have been getting ready for this’ Dave looked at the decorations again and the wide spread of party food on the table

“How did you decorate all this so quickly?” Dave asked looking at Pinkie

“I brought my party cannon!” She bounced happily into the kitchen which contained yet more food and bounced back with a slice of cake “Here you go Dave, now lets PARTY!” she screamed and a light blue maned pony with shades flicked on the power to her DJ turntables and music started to blast from some speakers around the room

Dave began to laugh happily as all the ponies around the room started to either dance or help themselves to some food “Thank you” he yelled to Pinkie Pie who was busy shaking her arms in the air

Applejack walked over with a wooden barrel that had a red ribbon on top “Here ya go Dave, a batch of our finest cider!” she allowed Dave to lift the barrel off her back

“Thank you AJ” He called to her ‘Cider? Alcoholic stuff I hope’

“Now don’t drink it all too fast” She started to head for the kitchen “Makes your head go woozy”

“I won’t” Dave lied he wanted to enjoy himself so why shouldn’t he? It probably would not affect him anyway

Dave spent the next hour talking to the other ponies around the room and stopped to talk to the DJ

“So what’s your name?” He yelled over the music to the white unicorn

“Vinyl Scratch but my stage name is DJ Pon-3!” She twisted some dials as she bounced her head with the beat

“That’s cool!” Dave yelled again, “I don’t suppose you could play something better could you?” he teased

The pony playfully stuck her tongue out at him “I was saving this but you asked for it!” She used her magic to place a new record on her turntable, the room went quiet but a single beat could be heard

A fierce combo of noises suddenly joined the beat and all the ponies cheered, obviously, this was a popular one in Equestria

Dave smiled at Vinyl “That’s what I’m talking about!” he bounced his own head with the beat

Dave wandered over to the Princesses that stood together at one side of the room “Hey Luna, hey Celestia” he called to them and they gave him a warm smile “I didn’t think you would both be here”

“We said we would come visit didn’t we?” Luna smiled “This is a good event”

Dave could tell that she was a bit uncomfortable “Loosen up, you seem tense”

Luna smiled weakly at him “I have not been to many parties since my return, I have only been to a few in Canterlot”

“Well everypony here is a friend so you don’t have to be worried about being silly” Dave watched as Luna’s face grew determined and she headed for the makeshift dance floor

“Thank you for that” Celestia stood beside Dave “I have been trying to get her to talk to some of the ponies here”

Dave smiled as Luna began to bounce with the crowd, Pinkie and Rainbow Dash danced near her all of them laughing together

“What about you?” Dave asked as he pulled the stopper out from his small cider barrel “Have you been talking?”

Celestia shrugged “Partially, just passing a hello here and there”

Dave chuckled slightly “Well it means a lot to me that you could make it from Canterlot”

Celestia blushed slightly “As long as you are enjoying yourself” she looked like she was about to say something more but she quickly pulled her head back

Dave smirked as he took a sip of cider, it tasted delicious and made him decide to do something reckless “Who reckons I can’t drink this entire barrel?” he called out to the party

All the ponies turned and watched as Dave began to drink the barrel of cider dry, his friends all laughed as he drank and the party continued long into the night

Very early the next morning…

Dave awoke in his bed, his skull felt like it was going to rip itself apart, the room was still dark and a patch of moonlight bathed the room in a dull glow

“haha ow” Dave giggled heavily as he put a hand on his head ‘I must have had too much cider’ he thought to himself, even though he felt rough he also felt extremely happy, happier than he had ever been

He slowly climbed out of his bed and headed for his bathroom ‘What happened last night? Party, DJ, the barrel and then nothing’ he tried to remember last night as he stumbled to his toilet

As he relieved himself of all the cider he drank his head finally began to return to normal “no hangover? Nice” he said happily to himself

‘You are going to want to focus on this next bit’ Dave’s mind chuckled

“Why?” Dave said still smiling, Dave was still annoyed that his brain had slightly more input than it did on earth but he did not mind right now, he was just too happy

As Dave finished he reached to pull his pants back up “Huh?” where were his pants? Must have just gone to bed naked when he couldn’t find any pyjamas

He wandered back to his bed rubbing his eyes, he stood on something sharp “Ow” he said quietly to himself “what the?”

Dave bent over and picked up a metallic object of the floor, it was too dark to see it properly so he climbed back into bed while holding the object

As Dave got comfortable in bed he held the object to the moonlight, a cloud dimmed the moon’s light only showing the object’s silhouette

‘Is that a… crown?’ Dave’s eyes widened ‘Oh no… Drunk, nude, crown?’ Dave looked over to his left and saw a large bump in his bed ‘OH MY GOD!’ he screamed in his head

‘Luna kissed me before and now I slept with her?’ Dave looked back at the crown ‘What if Celestia finds out? She would destroy me… she would…’ Dave’s thought’s all became one panicked blur as the cloud unblocked the moonlight and revealed the crown was actually golden

‘She would have me thrown in a dungeon… wait… Gold?’ Dave’s jaw dropped as the mound shuffled closer to him and a long white hoof wrapped around his neck

Dave’s body froze as his head slowly turned to look at a sleeping Celestia ‘SHE WOULD SLEEP WITH ME!’

‘Haha’ Dave’s mind laughed at him as he prayed for this to be one huge misunderstanding