Pov: Keshaun

It was about a week since Applejack did Applebuck season. Right now Rarity, Twilight, Pinkie Pie and I were watching a practice stunt test Rainbow Dash was doing for the Wonderbolts. I was more just practicing with my guitar I mentioned in the last chapter.

Yes I'm breaking the fourth wall. Deal with it. Anyway I was practicing with it. It was a simple black electric guitar Justice, Spike, and Caleb made for Christmas 2 years ago. I always liked making music. I was glad when they gave it to me.

"Hoof-biting action overload! She was like a stunt superstar, flying higher and higher, and then Rainbow Dash swooped down--swoosh--and right before she hit the ground--shoom-she pulled up--vrrrmmm!" Pinkie said as Rarity and Twilight were just in awe.

"Uh-huh." Twilight said in awe of the spectacular performance Rainbow was giving.

"And then she looped around and around like whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo whoo!" Pinkie said in a burst of energy.

"Uh-huh. Phew." Rarity said also still in awe.

"Rainbow Dash!" Pinkie yelled.

"[grunt] Pinkie Pie? Not again." Rainbow said losing her focus.

"Rainbow Dash." Pinkie yelled.

"Not now, Pinkie Pie." Rainbow said getting annoyed.

"But, but Rainbow Dash–" Pinkie tried to say before being interrupted by Rainbow.

"I'm in the middle of something." She said furious.

"But–" "I said not now--[grunt]" Rainbow said before crashing into the side of a mountain. "[grumble]" Rainbow grumbled a few swears.

After that whole thing. Twilight and I went back to the library.

I heard knocking on the door and I opened the door to see Pinkie outside.

"Keshaun, have you seen Rainbow Dash anywhere?" Pinkie asked.

"She's up in a cloud." I said.

"Thanks Keshaun." Pinkie said.

"No prob. Pinkie." I said as I rubbed the back of my head.

I was coming back from the store with Spike getting more scrolls for Twilight.

"You sure Twilight needs about 200 scrolls Spike?" I asked him holding 100 scrolls.

"This is Twilight we're talking about." Spike said with a deadpan expression holding his own 100.

"Yeah I guess your not wrong." I said. All of a sudden a thunderclap sounded. Spike and I were unaffected by it. Then I saw Rainbow and Pinkie laughing at something. I walked over towards them.

"Is something funny that we're missing?" I asked Rainbow.

"Weren't you two scared out of your scales from that prank?" Rainbow asked.

"Not really. I actually like thunderstorms." Spike said.

"I knew you two were trying to prank us and before you ask. It's because I can sense magic." I said.

"Though I will say it is a good prank idea. If it was used on someone else they'll be hiccuping for a while." I said.

"You two are good at pranks. See ya later." I said heading to the library.

I was heading to store to get some ingredients for burgers I was making tonight and other stuff. As I was heading there I bumped into someone. As we bumped my helmet fell on face in a way that I couldn't see out of it.

"Move it twerp." The person said a bit annoyed.

"Sorry. I wasn't paying attention. Here let me help you up." I said giving my hand to the person. Then my hand was swatted away.

"I don't need any help. Okay? Anyway your mask thing is messed up." They said fixing it. As it was moved I saw who I bumped into. And they were a she. And a Griffon no less.

She was wearing a white tank top, blue jeans short, white and black socks, and boots. Her fur was a brown like milk chocolate or caramel. She had d-cup boobs and a nice ass.

"Hey can you hear me. I said move it you twerp." She said blushing a little.

"Oh sorry. I just couldn't stop looking in your eyes." I said with a charming grin on.

"S-shut up dork." She said blushing.

"Ok. I'll stop. Anyway I'm Keshaun. What's your name?" I asked.

"I'm Gilda." The Griffon now named Gilda said.

"Huh? Oh crap I forgot the sale for what I'm looking for is about to end. I gotta go see ya Gilda." I said running towards the market.

After getting the ingredients for the burgers. I went to get some apples. As I did I saw that Gilda was by the apples.

"Hey Gilda!" I said running towards her.

"What do you want?" She asked.

"Hey don't be like that I just wondering?" I said.

"About what?" She asked.

"About why you were going to take an apple." I said in a menacing voice as I grabbed her tail.

"Um, well I didn't have any bits." Gilda said a bit scared.

"Oh. Well why didn't you just tell me." I said.

"I could've given you some for an apple. Hell I could've made you something if you were staying." I said smiling.

"Oh, um thanks for the offer but I'm staying with someone already." Gilda said with small frown.

"Okay. Well see ya Gilda. I got to get cooking." I said heading to the library.

I went back to the library to see Twilight and Justice doing some reading. Spike was playing video games. And Caleb was meditating.

"Hey guys. I'm back with food." I said putting down bags of food.

"Oh, welcome back Keshaun. How was the shopping trip?" Twilight asked helping to put the ingredients in the fridge.

"Not a lot of ponies were shopping today but I did meet someone new." I said.

"And who would that be?" Twilight asked putting away eggs.

"A Griffon named Gilda. She seems to try and put on this tough girl act. But she's actually pretty nice if you see past it." I said.

"Oh, you meet Rainbow's old friend from flight school." Twilight said.

"Huh? Didn't know that." I said surprised.

"Why am I not surprised?" Twilight said having her hand to her face. All of a sudden there was knocking on the door. I opened it to find Pinkie again.

"What is it looking for Rainbow again Pinkie?" I asked.

"Nope I'm inviting you all to welcome party for Gilda." Pinkie said giving us invitations.

"Thanks. We'll be there in a few minutes." I said as I put my invite on the table.

"Okay join us soon." Pinkie said bouncing off to Sugarcube corner.

"I'm gonna wear a jacket to the party." I said as I grabbed a black hoodie with a zipper.

"There. Now I am good." I said putting on my hoodie heading to sugarcube corner.

At sugarcube corner

"Hey Gilda!" I said running towards her.

"Oh hey dweeb." Gilda said looking away with a small blush.

"Aw. You're already giving me a nickname." I said jokingly.

"S-shut it Keshaun." Gilda said blushing. I laughed a little at her being so cute.

"Gilda! I'm so honored to throw you one of my signature Pinkie Pie parties, and I really, truly, sincerely, hope you feel welcome here amongst all us pony and dragon folk." Pinkie said stretching her hand out for a handshake.

Gilda grabbed the hand and was shocked by a joy buzzer. "Oh Pinkie Pie, the old hoof-shake buzzer. You are a scream." Rainbow said laughing a little.

"Yeah [chuckles nervously] uh, good one, Pinkie Pie." Gilda said feeling some after shocks.

"You okay?" I asked.

"Yeah. That didn't hurt much." Gilda said as a few of her feathers were burned.

"Come on G, I'll introduce you to some of my other friends." Rainbow said walking towards Twilight and others.

"Right behind you Dash. " Gilda said glaring at Pinkie while I followed behind.

"Everyone, I'd like you all to meet Gilda, a long-time, dear friend of Rainbow Dash. Let's honor her and welcome her to Ponyville." Pinkie said as everyone began to cheer for her. As they were I noticed something with Gilda's eyes. They looked like Gilda was sad about something.

"Please help yourself." Pinkie said with a platter of lemon drops on it.

"Vanilla lemon drops. Don't mind if I do." Gilda said eating one. All of a sudden she was red.

"Hot!" Gilda said with her mouth on fire.

"Here. I got some water." I said with a water bottle in my hand.

Gilda gulped the water down. "Thanks Keshaun." Gilda said panting a little bit.

"You okay?" I asked her.

"Yeah. I'm fine. It wasn't that spicy anyway." Gilda said lying though her teeth.

"Okay. If you say so." I said concerned.

"Cake time everyone." Pinkie said bringing a cake with some candles out.

"Hey Gilda. Why don't you blow out the candles? You are the guest of honor." Spike said with small smile on his face.

"Exactly." Gilda said blowing out the candles. Then they came back alit.

"[laughs] Re-lighting birthday candles, I love that prank. What a classic." Spike said laughing a little.

"Yeah. A classic." Gilda said getting a bit mad.

"Hey G, you're not upset about some silly candles, are you?" Rainbow asked.

"No way, Dash. Like I said, I'm down with a good prank." Gilda said glaring at Pinkie.

"Hey y'all, it's pin the tail on the pony. Let's play." Applejack said.

"Oh, my favorite game. Can I go first? Can I have the purple tail?" Rarity said excited to play.

"Wait shouldn't we let the guest of honor play first?" I asked.

"Yeah. I am the guest of honor, and I'll have the purple tail." Gilda said grabbing the purple tail.

"Okay. Let's get you blindfolded." Pinkie said wrapping a blindfold on Gilda's eyes.

"Hey what-- ugh-- what are you doing? Rrrah." Gilda said dizzy.

"We're spinning you around and around and then you can pin the tail on the pony. Now just walk straight ahead and pin the tail." Pinkie explained spinning Gilda.

"Now just walk straight ahead and pin the tail.Hmph, yeah, right. This is another prank, isn't it? I'm going this way." Gilda said walking towards me.

"Wait. The poster is this--" Pinkie tried to say before Gilda tripped on a lemon drop.

"Whoa whaa waah waah waaaaah [groan]" Gilda said in pain as she landed on me. She took off the blindfold and looked down and started blushing.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to get in the way. Anyway are you ok-- [snicker]." I said.

"Uh, Gilda? You pinned the tail on the wrong end." Pinkie said as Gilda had the purple tail on her beak and everyone else started to laugh.

"[roar] This is your idea of a good time? I've never met a lamer bunch of dweeb in all my life. And Pinkie Pie, you! You are queen lame-o with your weak little party pranks. Did you really think you could make me lose my cool? Well, Dash and I have ten times as much cool as the rest of you put together. Come on Dash, we're bailing on this pathetic scene. Come on Rainbow Dash. I said, we're leaving." Gilda said with rage heading towards the door.

"You know Gilda, I was the one who set up all those weak pranks at this party." Rainbow said in a calm voice.

"What?" Gilda asked surprised by this.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"They weren't all meant for you specifically, it was just dumb luck that you set them all off." Rainbow answered.

"Come on, Dash, you're joshing me." Gilda said in shock.

"No way. It was Pinkie Pie. She set up this party to trip me up, to make a fool of me." Gilda said in shock.

"She set this party up so you could feel welcome in Ponyvile." I said.

"And you sure didn't need any help making a fool of yourself. You know, this is not how I thought my old friends would treat my new friends. If being cool is all you care about, maybe you should go find some new cool friends someplace else." Rainbow said breaking her friendship with one of her oldest friends.

"Rrgh. Yeah? Well you, you, you are such a, a flip-flop: cool one minute and lame the next. When you decide not to be lame anymore, gimme a call." Gilda said running out the door.

"Gilda wait." I said trying to stop her. As I did I saw that she was crying.

"Wow, what was that about?" Twilight asked me.

"I'm going out to find her." I said concerned for her.

"What about the party?" Justice asked eating a lemon drop despite it being hot.

"I don't care about the party if the one who was supposed to enjoy it just left." I said going outside.

"Gilda? Gilda?" I asked looking around Ponyvile.

"Where are you?" I yelled.

"Go away." I heard a quiet voice say. I saw that Gilda was on a hill.

"Hey what are you doing here?" I try to comfort her.

"Just leave me alone and go back to the party." She said depressed.

"Hey. Do you want to talk?" I asked her.

"What is your deal with me?!" Gilda snapped and said.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Ever since I came to this place you were always nice to me when I treated you like shit! Why? Do you like me or something?" Gilda asked me.

"I don't know why I like you. I just do." I said blushing a bit.

"What do you see in me that makes you like me?" Gilda asked.

"I guess it's because we have a bit in common." I said looking down.

"What the hell does that mean?" Gilda asked.

"You were jealous of the fact your best friend made new friends and forgot about you. I delt with something like that. Well the forgetting you thing. I was 7 when it happened." I started.

"I move around a lot because of my mom's job. So I couldn't make deep friendships. But there was one I made that broke off. His name was Jake. He was my best friend in the town I was staying in. We were very close. But that change when my mom said we had to move. He said this to me on the day we were moving. "How could you just move and not say bye? I hate you!" That's what he said before he punched me. So I know how you feel Gilda." I said as I noticed that Gilda was crying.

"I-I was jealous because Rainbow made these great friends and I was afraid she forgotten me. That's why I act like that. I just wanted my friends back but I let my pride get in the way." Gilda said crying and hugging me.

"Gilda. It's ok to let go of your pride for your friends." I said patting her back.

"Shh. It's ok to cry. Just let it out." I comforted her.

"Now are you all going to stay hidden or are you coming out." I said knowing everyone was hiding from us.

"Gilda. I heard everything you said. I didn't know. Can you forgive me?" Rainbow asked about to cry as well.

"[Sniff] Yeah Dash. I forgive you." Gilda said with red puffy eyes as she hugged Rainbow. Fixing their friendship.

"Dearest Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that it's hard to accept when somepony you like wants to spend time with somepony who's not so nice. Though it's impossible to control who your friends hang out with, it is possible to control your own behavior. Just continue to be a good friend. In the end, the difference between a false friend and one who's true will surely come to light.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle" Twilight said writing her note to Celestia.

"Hey, anyone want Burgers?" I asked.

"Sure." Gilda said rubbing her eyes.

"That sounds good about now." Caleb said as we all went to the library again.

Hello everyone this is Keshaunthesilverwolf here with chapter 8. This chapter will have some feels, a bit of backstory to one of the trio of dragons, and a new harem member to the list. With that in mind. From a howl at the Moon from a silver wolf see you all soon.