Chapter 3: New friends pt.1

After a few minutes passed, Rainbow Dash and Von landed in front of a treehouse. Von looked up and saw a unicorn with lavender fur through one of the windows. "Here we are!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "My friend, Twilight should be able to help us out. Wait here." She walked up to the door and knocked on it a couple times. A female voice yelled out from within. "Just a minute." About 15 seconds went by when the voice answered until the door finally opened, revealing the lavender unicorn Von had seen earlier. Rainbow Dash smiled. "Hey Twi." The unicorn, Twilight, returned a smile. "Oh. Hi, Rainbow Dash. Did you need..." She cut her sentence short when her gaze averted towards Von and her friendly look turned into a nervous one.

Twilight wrapped her hoof around Rainbow Dash and snatched her into her house and popped her head back out to speak with Von. "Could you excuse us for just one moment?" She asked before shutting the door. Inside her home, she quickly turned to Rainbow Dash. "Why is there a dragon in Ponyville?!" Twilight asked. Rainbow Dash chuckled and began scratching her mane. "Well...he said he wanted to explore a little and i...um...found him in the Everfree forest while i was flying. Yeah, that's it. I found him. I couldn't leave him by himself, so i brought him here." Twilight looked at her friend with distrusting look on her face. She's totally lying. If anything, she probably crashed into him while performing one of her tricks. But i'll ask her about that some other time, Twilight thought. She had no idea how accurate that guess of hers was.

Von spent a good ten minutes outside and he was beginning to grow impatient. He paced back and forth in front of the tree house before he finally sat down and groaned. "What's taking them so long? I'm so bored." He said to himself. While he was waiting, he began thinking about what he'd do if he was allowed to stay. Where would he go? Who would he hang out with? Where would he live? All these questions kept popping into his head. "Will this princess of theirs actually let me stay here?" he asked. At that moment, the door opened back up and both Rainbow Dash and Twilight looked out at him. Von gulped, hoping that she would help him out, but he tried not to think about it too much because he didn't want to jinx it.

Twilight approached Von and began examining him. As expected, Von immediately backed away, feeling his personal space being invaded. Twilight giggled in response. "Sorry. I didn't mean to invade your personal space, if that's what you're thinking." Twilight said to him. She came a bit closer to him and extended her hoof. Von gave her a questioning look before realizing that she was trying to be friendly. He reached out with his claws and grasped her hoof gently, without harming her and shook it. "It's nice to meet you." Twilight continued, "My name is Twilight Sparkle. I see you've already met Rainbow Dash. Welcome to Ponyville." Von let go of her hoof and smiled. "Nice to meet you, too. I'm Von. Thank you for welcoming me." Twilight moved aside, allowing Von enough room to go inside.

When he entered, he was amazed at all the book that were around him. "Are these all yours?" he asked in amazement. Twilight giggled. "Yes. These books are the archives, encyclopedias, reference guides and alot more that were brought with me. I guess you could say that my home is also a library." She looked down and blushed with embarrassment. "Ahem. A-anyway, you want to see more of Equestria, right? Well...I could write a letter to Princess Celestia telling her about you and see if I can convince her to give you a place of your own to live here in Ponyville." Von smiled at her with delight. "Thank you, er...Twilight, right? Thank you so much."

Rainbow Dash couldn't help but snicker, seeing Von putting on such a display. But deep down she thought it was kinda cute. Twilight smiled, feeling happy that she could make a new friend and make that friend feel such joy. "But until we get a response, we have to keep you hidden somewhere. I'll let you stay here for now. But you won't be too lonely. I have a dragon staying here with me. Spike!"

The sound of small footsteps was heard from upstairs and a small purple and green dragon came running downstairs. He was smaller than Von, his head coming up to his haunches and he was a bit chubby. "Yes, Twilight?" Spike said before looking over at Von. "Whoa. Another dragon? Wait. What's he doing in Ponyville?" "Well, he's--" Twilight started, until Rainbow Dash cut her off. "He wants to travel Equestria and he needs a place to stay, but he doesn't have a home. So he's staying with you guys." Spike looked a little shock and he looked at Twilight and she nodded her head to him. "I'm going to write a letter to Princess Celestia explaining the situation. Don't worry, Spike. We'll make sure nopony else sees him. We don't need a catastrophe on our hooves." She told him.

Spike nodded his head and Twilight went back upstairs. "Well, i'm gonna go. I need to practice my flying. Just you wait, Von. You'll see things that you could never dream possible in flying." Rainbow Dash said with a confident smile. Von looked at her and gave her a smug grin. "I hope you can impress me." He said. Rainbow Dash smiled, seemingly interested by his little challenge and took off out of one of Twilight's open windows.

The rest of the day went by smoothly. Twilight had finished her letter and had Spike send it to her using his flame. As it hit nightfall, Twilight tucked Spike into bed and Von stayed downstairs. "Sorry I don't have an extra bed or mattress for you to sleep on." Twilight said apologetically. Von shook his head and smiled. "It's ok. I'm just glad to be staying somewhere other than the mountain." He walked over to the base of the stairs, laid down, curled up and covered himself with his wings. With his eyes closed, he could finally have happy dreams.

After leaving the mountain, he met two Ponies and another dragon, all three of which are now his friends. He wondered what could possibly go wrong for him. The next day, there was a knock on Twilight's front door and it jolted him awake. Twilight came downstairs to answer the door, her mane looking messy and he stood up and yawned. When Twilight opened the door, four ponies, a white unicorn, one pink pony and one orange pony and a yellow Pegasus popped in and yelled "Surprise!" But they didn't seem all that surprised to see Von there and both Von and Twilight's jaws dropped when they entered. All Von could manage to utter was, "Just my luck..."

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