Chapter 3: Actions

My faithful student Twilight,

Rustic Silver you say? I have not heard of that particular name before. It is quite odd. You said you found him out in the Everfree? Very odd indeed... I have a scheduled visit to Ponyville in my plans so I will stop by to check out this interesting pegasus.

I would have come sooner but my visit might be delayed for a terrible crisis has come up in Canterlot. It is something that I must attend to first above anything else. But rest assured, it it nothing you should worry about my faithful student. I am sure we shall resolve it soon.

Take care and I hope to see you very soon.

~Princess Celestia

"Twilight, this is like the 7th time I have read this note." Spike said flatly.

I didn't respond, I was to busy thinking at the moment. The Princess not knowing about Rustic Silver?

'That is not normal, she is supposed to know everything about everypony! What makes Silver any different from the rest of us? Sure he is blind, but I know being blind isn't TOO uncommon... And he says he can't remember where he is from? Something weird is defiantly wrong with that pony.'

"So what are we going to do now?" Spike said.

I though for a moment. If anything we should find out more about or mysterious guest. We need to keep him in Ponyville so the Princess can meet him and possibly tell us who he is and where he came from, but for now we need to keep him occupied here in Ponyville so the Princess gets that chance.

I turned my attention to the door as I slowly opened it with my magic. I looked around the main room, Silver was sleeping on the floor with a pillow and blanket I gave him last night. Such a peaceful sleeper. It must of been nice to finnaly have a place to sleep without having to worry. This would be the second day that Silver had a nice place to lie and not worry about a thing. He didn't look threatening, its just his secrets, secrets can be dangerous. What could he be keeping from us and why is he keeping these secrets? Closing the door lightly I turned to Spike again.

"We are going to keep Silver here in Ponyville until the Princess gets here okay? If anything, she will know what to do for sure after talking to Silver. We might even find out some enlightening information about our newcomer." I said.

Spike twitched a bit and shot me a disturbed look.

"You should keep it down Twilight, you said it yourself, Silver's hearing is amazing. We shouldn't be talking about him behind his back you know. He might hear us." Spike said.

I though about this for a moment. He had fallen asleep fairly early since he didn't have much he could do. This was a library after all, it's not like he is going to read any of the books... But by this time he should of gotten more than enough sleep, any sudden changes to his surroundings could possibly wake him. I wasn't sure.

"No way, he has been sleeping soundly for quite some time now. I doubt he hear any of our conversations. Although I do agree with you, We should keep our voices low when talking about him like this. I don't want to upset him."

With that Spike gave a easy nod as he walked out of my room and into the main room.

I looked around my home, it was quiet except for the light breathing coming from Silver. Not to much action. To be honest the library almost never had any ponies here unless there was some catastrophe going on. From time to time we would just have someone stop by with a question and just search it up. Not many ponies borrowed books, excluding Rainbow Dash. That filly and her romance novels...

I walked over to the window to get a good look at Ponyville, not much was moving outside either. It was the weekends and many were sleeping in for the day. Looking up to the sky I could see that the sun was almost at its apex. It was around midday right now.

"So Twilight, what do you want to do for lunch?" Spike said,

I looked over to Silver and then turned to face Spike.

"Maybe we should go ask Silver what he might want." I walked over to Silver and gave him a nudge on the back...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH.........!!"

~~~~~

I heard a voice.

"This will complicate things, but I am sure it will do just fine..."

What...? My thoughts were cut off as I felt a searing heat wash all over my body as I screamed in pain. It was so intense and the burning heat went on for ages.

"Ah don't be such a baby, we haven't even started yet.

Another wave of intense heat flooded my body, one by one, my senses were overloaded and they slowly succumb to the heat.

"Al-most, finished...!"

I felt something touch my back.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH.........!!"

My screams were met with frightened screams from both Twilight and Spike. I commanded my eyes to open and I saw the glass orbs that represented my two hosts quivering in fear in the corner of the blackness.

"Are... You okay, Silver...?" Spike said. Judging by his shaky voice I must of scared the poor guy to death and back.

"Yeah... Sorry about that, really..! It was just... I just had uh, bad dream..."

Twilight spoke up.

"Really? What was it about...? You can tell us, we can help."

I thought for a moment, shivering at the thoughts of intense agony and pain.

"Eh... Well... It was about..."

I was going to start telling Twilight what had happened if everything didn't turn pink as I felt myself hit the wooden floor.

~~~~~

'NO!' I screamed in my thoughts. Out of all the inconvenient moments to show up this might make the top three for sure. Pinkie Pie! Why now!?

"Oh my gosh! You must be that new pony that everyone is talking about! I heard you from outside!" Pinkie Pie said, a wild grin stretching from ear to ear. She was standing on top of Silver who she has just tackled bursting through the front door.

"I know that because everypony was talking about you and how you didn't talk but you got along well with Twilight and Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash and stuff like that. I was so happy to hear that we have a new pony in Ponyville because I always throw parties for new ponies! I LOVE to throw parties and your's will be extra special because you are new and you are blind and I will make sure everything is just right for you so you don't have to worry about a thing and it will be awesome! By the way what's your name?" Pinkie said immediately getting right up next to Silver.

Silver had the look of confusion, surprise and from what I could tell, a hint of fear presenting itself for all to see.

"My name is uh, Rustic Silver. But please, just call me Silver."

"Okay!!" Pinkie Pie said with a little jump. "Nice to meet you Silly!"

"Uh..." Confusion was the dominate emotion this time.

"YEAH!! Well anyway it was super duper ultra fantastic to finally meet you! But I need to get your party ready! It will be down at Sugarcube Corner. That's where I make cupcakes and muffins and all sorts of yummy treats! I'll make sure to find you when I am done! Okay bye Silly!!" With that Pinkie happily hopped out the front door of the library and down the path to Sugarcube Corner.

At that moment Rainbow Dash flew down to the front door, probably watching the whole thing unfold from a cloud overhead.

"HAH, Scan totally got Pinkie'd!!" Rainbow said with a big laugh to complement it. "Man Scan. With that amazing hearing of yours I would be surprised it you can still hear me talk about you by now! Pinkie Pie totally nailed you with that tackle!"

I looked at Silver. He was completely emotionless.

"What just happened?"

I giggled a bit.

"You have just been invited to one of Pinkie Pie's parties. Don't worry, she does that to all the new ponies in Ponyville. That is how she earned her cutie mark. She is quite the 'party hard' kinda gal."

"Oh..." Silver said as he slowly brushed himself off. He look like he had just been fallen of a cliff. His normally short, swept back mane was facing in all different directions. I looked over to Dash.

"Pffffffftt..! AHAHAHAHAH!! Oh my gosh Scan! You look terrible! You should see yourself..!-" Rainbow suddenly realized what she had just said.

"Oh, sorry Silver... I didn't mean to..." Rainbow Dash looked like she was about punch herself in the face.

"No, no. It's fine, I know you didn't mean to say that. I forgive you." He said as he quickly fixed it mane and returned it to its original swept back style.

"Oh... Well in that case..." Rainbow Dash flew into the room and tackled Silver into the bookcase behind us knocking all the neatly placed books onto the ground. "I didn't hurt you enough! Come here!" Rainbow said with a light laugh. I looked at Silver, he was smiling as much as Rainbow was, trying hard to swat Rainbow of himself to no avail.

"Okay, Rainbow! Okay, okay! Get off me!" Silver said.

Rainbow Dash flapped her wings a couple times until she was hovering of the ground.

"Wow Silver, you give up way to easy. Well I'll catch you three later. I'll be sure to show up at your party Scan! Be there!" And with that Rainbow flew through the door and out into the sky.

Silver got up slowly and brushed himself off with a forehoof and stretched his wings.

"That's two times I have been tackled in one minute. Anypony else?" He said in a sarcastic tone.

Right then and there, Rainbow Dash came back through the door again and tackled Silver into another neatly ordered bookcase, knocking all of the books onto the ground.

"Oh yeah Twilight." Rainbow said as she tossed me a long overdue romance novel with her mouth. "I forgot to drop this off." She looked at Silver and knowing full well that he couldn't see her, she winked at him. She picked herself up again and waved back at us as she flew out.

"Bye Silver! See you later!" She called out.

"Bye Rainbow! Catch you later!" Silver said. With that Rainbow flew of into the sky once more.

"Make that three, anypony else?" He said as he looked at me with a light smile on his face.

"Not a chance." I said with a laugh.

"Spike?" Silver said.

"Well now that you mention it..."

"Spike..." I said.

"Awww... But he is totally asking for it!"

"Come on, we got some things we have to do. The Princess is coming over and I wanted to prepare some thing before hand."

"Ah okay then. Where are we going?"

"Er, I was hoping you could stay and watch the library." I quickly grabbed a pen and paper with my magic and scribbled down a note for Spike.

~~~~~

"Er, I was hoping you could stay and watch the library." Twilight said quickly. Hmm, what was she up to. I was thinking but that was cut of as I saw two objects enveloped in the same lavender purple aura as the mare. It looked like a pen and paper.

'Spike, I'm just going out on a walk with Silver. See if I can find anything out, just play along.' Then, as quickly as they appeared, the two items vanished as the aura slowly faded away.

"Okay Spike, there is a list of things you need to do before I get back."

"What? Oh, yeah..! I'll get right on that! You two just go out and do those... uh.." Spike said.

I felt Twilight push me outside and onto the streets.

"Yeah okay bye!" She said as she closed the door behind her.

Outside was not to bad. There was a cool breeze making its way down the street and I could feel the suns rays shine down onto the small town. I was sure there was not a cloud in the sky.

"So I see your enjoying yourself Silver. You seem to be getting along quite well with my friends." Twilight said.

"Eh, well if you mean 'getting along with' is exactly the same as 'surviving encounters with' then yes, I suppose so."

Twilight giggle again.

"Well I suppose your right, but what about Fluttershy. She hasn't tackled you. Yet."

Just the thought of it. Such a gentle mare... Would she really be up to tackling anypony? That thought was cut of by the sound of Twilight's laughter.

"Of course Fluttershy isn't the pony to really tackle somepony."

"Yeah, really. She is quite shy, isn't she." I said.

"Well yeah, but she cares for any and every injured or wounded animal. Even though she is shy, she is very kind. After all, it is her element."

Element?

"Elemtent?" I said.

"Nevermind. We can talk about that later. About earlier though, you said you had a bad dream?" Twilight said. Her voice was as gentle as possible. Her voice sounded concerned, ready to listen to whatever I had to say.

"Well..." I started. "Well... It was a little strange... You see... It was dark, and all I heard was the voice of somepony talking out loud."

"Really? What did they say?!" Twilight said. I looked over to her, some of the color drained of the sphere that rep. "Oh, that was a little loud, wasn't it?"

I nodded politely.

"Well it was saying things like 'This will complicate things, but I am sure it will work.' and then I felt an intense heat washed over me. My entire body was burning up."

Twilight said nothing. I looked over into her direction. She had small purple shapes of light around her sphere. Slowly they pieced themselves together but some were obviously missing...

"Interesting... Is that all?"

"Well then I felt something touch my back, but then... That's kind when you woke me up."

The light puzzle around Twilight's sphere quickly crumbled into the darkness again. "Oh..." She said.

"Sorry... That's all that really happened." I could feel the cold air slowly roll of the glass orb.

"No no, it's fine. I wonder what that could mean though. I mean, intense heat and pain... That is kind of weird..."

"Yeah... I guess..."

"Although it you might be recalling a certain event from your past." Twilight said.

An event from my past...? Did that happen to me...? I bit my lip at the thought, no. I didn't want to believe it, it must have some sort of subconscious meaning.

"Well just around this corner we can pick up some lu- Oh Silver watch out!!" Twilight shouted.

"Huh..?"

Bam!

I felt my face hit a coarse wooden surface. I was going to stop, but my body had other plans as it walked straight into whatever I had just walked into. All I heard next after the crash of the wood against the stone paved road was the small patter of something rolling down the street. Somepony was probably carrying something in this cart. It had to be a lot of something because the sound only multiplied as the small patter turned into a wave of sound. It sounded like whatever was in that cart was now all over the street.

"Wha' in tarnation..?!" Said a voice.

I faced the direction the voice came from. It was coming from another glass sphere. This one was a bright orange and it had a bright red fire angrily whipping around it.

"Do ya kno' how long it takes to buck them apples?!" Said the voice.

"Applejack..." Twilight said.

"It dun took me a whole lot'a time to buck that many apples!"

"Applejack."

"Now what am Ah gonna sell now? Ah can't go sellin' apples 'at been rolling around in the street!"

"Applejack..!"

"You should watch where you 're going! Are yew blind or somethin'?!"

"Applejack!!" Twilight finally.

"What is it-! Twilight..?" Applejack said.

"Rustic Silver is blind, he couldn't see where he was going. I'm sure he is sorry for ruining your apples, right Silver?"

I turned to face Applejack and I nodded slowly. I could feel my face, it was burning up.

"Yeah, I'm really sorry... I didn't mean to... It's just that I can't see... very... well..."

The color drained from the bright orange sphere as it was replaced with a watered down grey.

"Oh... Sorry fer yellin' at you like that... It just that it take a lot of time to buck 'em apples..."

"No, don't need to apologies. It was my fault for walking into your cart, I must of made a mess."

I looked over at Applejack, the color had slowly seeped back in.

"No, really. Ah didn' mean to yell at you like that... Ah didn' want to hurt anyponies feelings..."

The glass orb has now some bright neon color between red and orange.

"No it's okay I forgive you, but to you forgive me? You sounded pretty mad when I knocked over your apples.." It was true, she sounded like she was about to buck me straight in the face. And from what I understand, she is a farmer pony and who knows how hard she might of bucked me...

"Of course sugarcube, Ah forgive you. Ah know you didn' mean to knock over 'em apples." Applejack said with an apologetic tone.

I smiled warmly as I stood up and stretched my wings.

"Alright ponies, there is nothing to see here, let's move along." Twilight said.

What? There had been other ponies watching us? I listened carefully, I could hear the quiet hoofsteps of our spectators making their way back to there normal everyday activities. They were probably outside to see what might of happened if Applejack started getting crazy. They must thought I was crazy for just walking into Applejack's cart and knocking it over. They probably didn't even know I was blind.

"Well Ah need to return to Sweet Apple Acres to buck some 'ore apples to sell." Applejack said.

Maybe I could make it up to Applejack, I did feel sorry for ruining an entire batch of apples.

"Maybe I could help? It's the least I can do after ruining your apples."

"Sure!" Applejack said. "Ah wouldn' mind having an extra pair of legs around the farm. Although how will you find the trees..." I heard Applejack say as started walking off. "Oh..! This way sugarcube, Follow me."

"How about we just teleport there? It would be much easier for Silver, plus you don't need to pull that cart all the way back." Twilight said.

"That would be a great idea Twi'!" Applejack said as she trotted back over to us. "Okay Ah am ready. Let's go Twi'!"

I looked over to see Twilight's light purple aura envelope the orange sphere that represented Applejack as well as the cart that she was pulling. Shortly after there was a small burst of light as Applejack, her cart, Twilight disappeared from view.

But the strange thing was right before they vanished I felt as small bolt of something shock me then quickly spread out around me and envelope some apples that were laying around me. They too vanished along with Applejack and Twilight.

I sat there for a moment. Nothing felt different, The ground still was made up of the smooth stones that paved the streets of Ponyville...

~~~~~

Whoosh!

With a burst of light we arrived at Sweet Apple Acres.

"Alright Silver, welcome to Sweet App- Oof!" Applejack said. She rubbed her head with a fore hoof as and apple fell right on top of her. "What the hay?" She said.

I looked around, we weren't even close to any apple trees how did that apple hit her? I looked around some more to see that there were a lot of apples scattered all over the ground, I didn't teleport those. Wait...

"Where Silver?"

Applejack looked around.

"I thought you used yer magic to get him over to Sweet Apple Acres." Applejack said.

"I did, but he is not here..." I felt a pang of guilt eat away at me.

"Are you sure? Are you sure you didn't move 'em somewhere else Twi?"

The guilt was slowly eating away at me. I know I used the teleportation spell on Silver. I channeled my magic to him. So I couldn't of messed up, but then were is Silver? I have never messed up a teleportation spell before! For all I know Silver might be in some alternate universe!

Applejack must of heard me think as she spoke to me.

"Now don't go frettin' sugarcube. Ah am sure there is a good explanation fer why Silver ain't here."

"No no no! I never mess up that spell. What if he is in a alternate universe?! He must be so scared right now! How would he survive?! He is blind! Oh my gosh what are we going to do?!"

I looked out into the horizon. The sun was about to set. It was getting late.

"Calm down Twi. Let's go look for him." Applejack said.

~~~~~

I sat there, still thinking about what had happened. I felt something grab me and spin me around.

"What are you doing out here Silly? Are you loco in the coco? Come on, you party has already started!" With that I was dragged of my hooves and down the street.

"Pinkie?" I said.

"Yeah Silly?"

Okay, that explains just about everything.

"Nothing."

"Okay! We are here! Hey everypony! I brought our guest of honor!" Pinkie Pie said. Were we that close to Sugarcube Corner?

I heard the sounds of ponies around me cheer and the sounds of noise makers and party favors, but I didn't see anything. I was expecting a whole bunch of glass spheres around me. Nothing was there though. All I saw was the multicolored sphere that represented Rainbow Dash and the light yellow one that represented Fluttershy. They were standing next to another sphere. It was a bright white, untarnished in anyway.

"Hey Scan! I see you made it to your party with some help!" Rainbow said as she flew over to me and gave me a small hug. "Where is Applejack and Twilight?"

I thought for a moment. They had just disappeared without a trace. Although...

"I think they teleported off to Sweet Apple Acres.."

"Why would they do that? Just leave you out in the middle of the street?" This was a new voice

"Uh..."

"Oh this is Rarity, Silver. She is one of our friends down at the Boutique down the road." Fluttershy said.

"Ah yes, I design some of the most fashionable clothing in all of Equestria!" Rarity said. "It is just a shame that you can not see my beautiful crafts!"

"Yeah, I wish I could. I bet that they would be absolutely stunning." I said.

"What a gentlecolt, Silver!" Rarity said. There was a warm air hanging around in the room and I could just feel all the warmth and kindness around me.

"Hey Scan, you said that Twilight and Applejack are at Sweet Apple Acres?" Rainbow Dash said.

"Yeah, why?"

"Well I'll go get them right now. Be right back, you won't even miss me." Rainbow said as I heard the door swing open.

~~~~~

"He ain't at Sweet Apple Acres Twi."

"Where could of he gone?!"

I was freaking out now. What if I teleported him into a tree or something, or maybe into the ground! Poor Silver, what have I done to him?!

"Twi, don't fret. Ah am sure he'll turn up somewhere." Applejack said putting her hoof on my shoulder.

Just then Rainbow Dash swoop down from the sky.

"Hey Twilight, Applejack! Silver said you two would be here! Come on! We are all at his welcome party!"

What?

"Silver is at his party?" Applejack said.

"Yeah"

I didn't wait. I quickly teleported all of us to Sugarcube Corner. I looked around and to my relief Silver was standing right there obviously noticing that we just appeared in the middle of the room.

"Oh there you gals are! We don't want to keep our guest waiting!" Rarity said.

"Yeah let's party!" Pinkie and Rainbow said.

I looked over to Silver who turned to face us, He didn't look at me. He just kind of shot a look in my direction. He smiled lightly.

I smiled too.

"Do you know how long it took us to search around Sweet Apple Acres Silver? Like two hours! Two! Hours!" I said as we all laughed.

~~~~~

Most of the ponies have left by now. It was just the 7 of us now.

"Well it's been fun gals." Rarity said. "Oh and Silver. I have had fun but I really must be off, I need to get some orders finished." With that Rarity walked out of the door, she was making her way out the door, but as she walked out she froze.

"Hey Rarity are you okay?" Silver said.

She didn't say anything, all she did was stared up into the sky. Quickly, I walked over to her side and looked to the sky. At first I didn't notice anything wrong with it, except...

"Sweet Celestia..." Applejack said with a gulp. The sun was low in the sky, right on the horizon.

"But that can't be right..." Rarity said. "We have been in that house for hours now!"

Everyone but Silver had there mouths agape.

~~~~~

Authors note: As per usual I would be overjoyed at some comments, suggestions, critique. I don't sit and refresh my browser every five seconds to check for comments. I still am in the need for a pre-reader. I realize that no one will want to edit my story so I am just going edit it myself. But some help would be greatly appreciative. Thanks for reading again!

~Athanix,

Peace

ALSO, see if you can spot the movie reference you win a prize! But lets make it reasonable, something I could write up, like a side chapter. Or maybe some artwork, although I am not a very good artist... :) Peace.