"Why, Lemon Hearts? Why did you move to Ponyville? Why would anypony move there?"

I get that question a lot and, to be honest, it is a good question.

What could a quaint little town as Ponyville offer to a Canterlot unicorn like myself? A tiny town that isn´t even a hundred years old. It doesn´t have the glamorous lights of Manehattan or the exciting nightlife of Las Pegasus. It´s just a small farmer town.

Not to mention that since the Princess´ pupil moved the town has become a place more dangerous than Tartarus itself. It seems that every week some creature is trying to destroy it or some deranged pony takes over. no safe pony would like to live in such a place.

So, why do I stay?

Because of a rainbow.

It all happened the week I moved to Ponyville. I was trotting across town when I got lost and ended up in the Everfree Forest. Not to the best place to be all alone, even during daytime you can hear all sorts of creatures lurking in the bushes. I got scared and galloped at full speed, trying to find a way out. I´m sure some other unicorn would have thought of some spell to escape the forest but the truth is that magic has never been my strong point. Aside from simple levitation, I never mastered many spells. Unlike other unicorns, I actually prefer to get my hooves dirty. Probably the reason why I get along fine with the ponies in here. Still, even a skilled magician would probably be scared if lost in the Everfree.

I didn´t know what to do so I just kept running, not realizing that I was circling around the forest and heading to the back of Sweet Apple Acres. I ended up crashing against a tree and then, it happened. I looked up and saw a rainbow.

I have actually hit a nest of fruits bats, startling them. When they flew away, they painted the sky with every color in the rainbow. I´ve never seen something so beautiful in my life. After they left I heard a faint sound and realized one of them had fallen from the tree, injuring a wing. I took him to the veterinarian and she healed him but, when we returned to the forest, we were unable to find his family back. it seems they moved somewhere afar.

I couldn´t keep the bat since the inn I live in forbides pets, so I did the only thing I could and made him a tiny nest in a tree near the town dam. The morning after I went to visit him and then I discovered something about fruits bats. They´re not just made of fruits, the create fruits. Leave a fruit bat in a forest and it would magically grow a fruit tree. It didn't took long for my tiny friend to get a mate and make a new family and that little patch in the forest filled with color.

I still visit that patch every day, keeping an eye on my friend´s family.

I could tell my Canterlot friends about it but I doubt they understand. They still think lowly of this place. But I don´t intent to keep it a secret either. It shouldn´t be one. Wish more ponies knew about it, that they could also see this beautiful rainbow that rest just outside the town.

But for now I just trot up that hill, with a basket in my mouth, ready to have lunch under the shadow of my hidden rainbow.