Chapter 7: Living arrangements

The next morning marked Von's first day of living with Twilight and Spike. Von uncurled and yawned as he was stretching. Twilight as already wide awake and tidying up around her house. "Up pretty early, aren't you?" He asked, grinning. She jumped when she heard him speak, but she calmed down when she saw him. "Oh. Good morning, Von. Did you sleep well?" Von shook his head. "Barely. I keep having this weird dream." Von thought about the dream he had last night. The dream he had was a mysterious one indeed. The dream he had involved when he was back up on the mountains. When he was a young dragon, he saw something miraculous. It was faint, but he thought he saw a light of some kind. He felt so happy seeing it and wanted to find out what it was, but the dream ended there. He wanted to know what that light was and why it was so important to him.

Von didn't decide to go anywhere for the moment, so he chose to help Twilight with her cleaning and reorganizing. The sounds of their feet moving around awoke Spike from his nap. Spike yawned and looked downstairs and saw Von and Twilight cleaning up. "Twilight? What's going on?" He asked. Twilight looked up at him. "Good morning, Spike. Sorry for waking you up. Von and I were just cleaning up." Spike looked confused. "But I thought that was my job." Von looked over at him, placing books back on Twilight's bookshelves. "Well, you're probably working too hard. Think of it as a break. Don't worry. I can handle all of this." He smiled at Spike. Spike felt a bit saddened that he wasn't helping Twilight out, but he also felt angry that Von was doing his job. He sighed and went outside.

Twilight looked back towards the door and looked down at her hooves. "I'm sorry. Normally, Spike is the one that helps me with cleaning. It feels so different when someone else is helping me with this. He must be upset with me." Von finished cleaning and went over to Twilight and put one of his claw on her shoulder. "Don't worry about it. Besides, if i'm going to be living here, I'll need to pick up my own messes. It's the least I could do." He smiled at her before he resumed speaking. "I'm done now, so i'm going to go to Sweet Apple Acres to see if Applejack will let me have some apples." He licked his lips and began drooling when he said that, but he calmed down and went outside.

Twilight giggled and continued cleaning, but she began to blush when she thought about Von. She thought he was the second nicest dragon she ever met. She had only met one dragon that was nice to her and that was Spike. Perhaps Von living with us was a good decision Princess Celestia made. Maybe things will turn out well for him and everypony else, Twilight thought as she went back to cleaning. "Maybe...just maybe. A pony can only hope that nothing goes wrong."

Von was just over Sweet Apple Acres, his stomach beginning to growl. His flying has not improved much, but he felt he'd gotten better. He landed by the barn and knocked, but nopony answered. Von was hoping Applejack would be there because he really wanted those apples. Of course, he wanted to spend time with her, too, but his hunger needed to be tended to first. He knocked again, but still nopony answered. "What's a dragon got to do to get something to eat around here?!" He yelled. At that moment, he felt a thud against the back of his head. He looked around only to find Applejack standing behind him, grinning as she picked up the apple she threw at him and shoved it in his mouth. "If y'all was just hungry, ya shoulda came by earlier." She said.

"Ah woulda made a whole meal for ya if ya asked." Von smiled and munched on the apple she gave him and swallowed. "Hey Applejack. I was wondering. Do you know any places in Equestria that we could go to? I wanna see everything." Applejack thought for a moment. There plenty of places in Equestria that he could go to, places that she's been to. Now that ah think about it, me and my friends haven't gone anywhere since we defeated Chrysalis, she thought.

"Alrighty. We'll go somewhere and have some fun. But where do you wanna go?" Von looked at her. "Where could we go?" "Well, there's Cloudsdale. That's a place that's up in the sky. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy live there...well, just Rainbow Dash anyway. Fluttershy lives here in Ponyville. Then there's Manehatten. A high society kinda place for some ponies. Ah know Rarity would want to go there. Everypony there is as stuck-up as her." She said. Von laughed until she continued. "We done already been to Canterlot. Ya'll seen what that was like. Lastly, there's Appleloosa." Von smiled. "What's that place like?" "Appleloosa was said to have been built in less than a year. Mah cousin, Braeburn, lives over there, as does a tribe of buffalo." She told him."Let's go there. I wanna see this Appleloosa place." Von said.

Von wanted to learn a little more about Equestrian history and going to Appleloosa was a good way for him to learn more. "Alrighty then. Let's go and get the others. 'Sides, Ah ain't seen Braeburn in a long time. Boy howdy! Won't he be glad to see me." She said, smiling. As they were walking back, Applejack sniffed the air around Von. "Von, are you wearin' some fancy-schmancy perfume?" Von looked at her in confusion. "No. I've never worn anything like that before." He said, looking away. Applejack was happy about going back to Appleloosa with her friends, but she was fixated on the strange smell coming from Von. It smelled sweet, but he didn't notice it. Von didn't notice, but Applejack's face was bright red the whole way back to Ponyville. The reason, only Applejack knows...

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