# My little pony: A New Start Chapter 2

Author: furryguy74
Tags: Fluttershy, My Little Pony, Rainbow Dash, Series, Twilight Sparkle

#2 of My Little Pony: A New Start

Chapter 2 of my first series. Hopefully better written then the first, which I'm thinking of re-writing. Thanks for reading!

"Oh come on Twi, I just wanna see  
what he looks like. You make him out to be really interesting." A  
voice I never heard yet.

 

"Not now Spike, he's sleeping, he had  
an eventful day yesterday and needs his sleep, you will just have to  
wait till he gets up." Now that's a voice I recognized, Twilight!

 

"Ugh, fine." I heard foot steps and  
hoof steps walking away from my door, _seems like it's time to get  
up._

 

I didn't know she had someone else  
living here. I yawned as I sat up and stretched my upper body, I felt  
the blood begin to flow faster and was feeling refreshed. I glanced  
out the window and saw the sun coming up over the horizon, the first  
pony folk leaving their houses and beginning their day.  M_ight as  
well start unpacking before I get some breakfast_ ,  
I thought while heading over to the boxes in the corner. As soon as I  
got to the boxes I realized, I didn't have a knife to open them with,  
_better get a knife from the kitchen._  
As I was about to open the door, I stopped. _This isn't my  
house,_ _I should really  
put on a pair of pants at least._    
I turned around and walked back to the dresser next to the bed. My  
clothes were laying on top of it, and I grabbed my pants and put them  
on. I decided to leave my shirt where it is seeing as how I planned  
on getting in the shower (If they have them) after unpacking. I  
walked back to the door and opened it, stepping on the upper floor,  
which I presume was Twilight's "room".

 

I started to go  
down the steps, I looked down into the middle of the room when I saw  
Twilight going through book after book. As I stepped onto the main  
floor she noticed me and gave a friendly smile.

 

"Good morning  
Marshall." She blushed a bit as she noticed I did not have a shirt  
on. "Let me introduce you to my number one assistant Spike." She  
pointed a hoof towards a small dragon who was sweeping in a apron.

 

He was about the  
body height of a regular pony, he was mainly purple with a green  
underbelly and green spikes on his head to his tail and emerald green  
eyes.

"So, you're  
Marshall huh, doesn't seem like much Twi." He turned while  
getting back to sweeping.

 

"SPIKE, that's  
rude. He is a nice person and very interesting seeing as how he's the  
only human known to exist in Equestria. Never mind him, are you  
hungry?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Yea, but I'm  
going to unpack my stuff and get a shower first. Which way to the  
kitchen? I need a knife to open the boxes." I scratched the back of  
my head _great, bed head._

 

"Oh sure, here  
let me get you one." Her horn glowed purple and I saw a butter  
knife glowing the same purple come from the kitchen I presume. "Here,  
and the showers upstairs on the left."

 

"Thanks Twi." I  
took the knife and it stopped glowing as I headed back upstairs.

 

"Hey, do you mind  
if I see all the things you have up there?" Twilight asked with a  
hint of curiosity. Well she had never seen anything from my world, a  
real curious pony.

 

"I don't see why  
not. Although they may seem bizarre to you." I shrugged.

 

Her face lit up and  
she smiled. "Thanks Marshall, I've been curious as to what you have  
in the box."

 

She followed me up  
the stairs and into my room. I cut along the side of the first box, a  
longer but thinner box, and inside the box was a black case. I picked  
it up and put it down on top of my bed.

 

Twilight raised an  
eyebrow "So whats in the case?" I could only chuckle as she had  
no idea what was in it.

 

"Well, its a  
musical instrument, its called a guitar." I opened the case and the  
cherry red guitar shined in the sunlight coming from the window. It  
was an Epiphone Dot, iconic guitar, and one of my personal  
favourites.

 

He eyes went wide  
as she looked it over, a brand new thing to look over and study must  
be a thrill. "That looks cool, how does it work?" She asked while  
touching a string with her hoof, that then started to vibrate, to  
which she quickly pulled her hoof back.

 

I picked up the  
guitar, I put the strap over my head so it rested on my shoulders. I  
opened the little compartment inside the case and picked up a pick.  
"Well, you see. I use this here pick, and strum over the strings.  
Each one is a different pitch, and I can play more at once to make a  
chord." I explained to her, all the while she was nodding and  
intently looking at what I was doing.

 

I decided to play a  
C chord to show what one sounds like, "See that was a C chord.  
There are many different types and many that go well together, and  
some do not."

 

She was staring,  
obviously never hearing one before seeming as they lack fingers, her  
horn glowed purple and a piece of parchment and a quill both came  
into the room and started writing. "Oh cool, I'd better take some  
notes for a report to Princess Celestia."

I could only  
chuckle as she quickly took notes like a student in university. Then  
we both heard a knock at the front door then a voice called out.

 

"Hey Twilight,  
you here? I'm looking for the next chapter of Daring Do."

 

Twilight walked out  
of the room and looked down as she noticed Rainbow Dash. "I'll be  
right down Rainbow." Looking back at me she said "you can  
continue getting unpacked, I'll be back in a bit." before walking  
downstairs to find the book Rainbow Dash was looking for.

 

It took about ten  
minutes to get out my amp, iPod, my headphones and a small laptop. No  
bigger then a book all dedicated to music recording. _I wonder what  
kind of music they have around here, I'd better start recording some  
songs to show what music I had back home._

 

After setting up  
everything I decided to take a shower. After looking through all the  
body wash they had, _Cool Coat, Silky Coat, Clean Coat... I'll try  
Cool Coat. Now for shampoo, Mane Moisturizer, Magnificent Mane, and  
Manly Mane. I'll try the last one hehe._ While about halfway  
through, I heard a knock at the door and Twilight call out for me.

 

"Hey Marshall?  
You in the shower? I wanna show Rainbow here your.. Umm. Guitar!  
Yea." I'll bet twenty she looked at her notes. But I saw no problem  
in letting them look.

"Sure Twi, just  
be careful, the body is very fragile. And that goes for you too  
Rainbow Dash." I heard some giggles from Twilight and a groan from  
Rainbow. "Come on I'm not  
that clumsy!"

I couldn't help but  
let out a small chuckle, "Sure" I sarcastically retorted,  
eliciting a few giggles from Twilight and another groan from Rainbow.

After turning the  
water off I grabbed a dry towel from a closet with towels all neatly  
stacked and sorted by colour. _Who would of guessed, she likes  
organizing._ I dried myself off and got dressed. _Going to have  
to buy some... or get someone to make me new clothes. I doubt there  
are any clothes here to my shape._ I then heard Twilight shout out  
with a gasp.

"Careful  
Rainbow!" Then a loud crash, and my heart skiped a beat. _No,  
she couldn't, she wouldn't, she didn't, did she?_

I dashed out of the  
bathroom and stopped in the door way to mine, and what I saw was  
heart wrenching. The only important thing I had left from my world,  
was broken. One side of the body was smashed in, it was a semi hollow  
body guitar after all. I felt like I had been punched in the chest,  
there was no way to replace it, or even fix it that I knew of. It was  
a one of a kind item in the world,  I was devastated, angry at her  
from breaking it. "N..no...how..."

 

They both had  
shocked looks on their faces, but most noticeably Rainbow Dash. Her  
ears were splayed down on her head, and was shaking her head from  
side to side, tears welling up in her eyes."Oh my gosh, oh my gosh,  
oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I'm so so sorry Marshal. I can fix it... I'll  
find a way."

 

I couldn't stay, I  
was heart broken, I had warned her, she said she was only going to  
look at it. I turned a walked down the stairs and out the door,  
ignoring the calls from behind I kept walking. Past ponies looking at  
me with wondering expressions, as I walked by them looking straight  
ahead. Through the market place and out of town towards the woods  
before I couldn't hold my emotions any longer. I fell to my knees and  
pounded the ground with my right hand.

"How could she  
break it? Its a one of a kind thing, all I had left. I know it was an  
accident, but that doesn't fix whats broken." I vented my anger  
at ground before I stopped when my hand started throbbing.

"Umm...  
Marshall?" A quiet voice called from behind, most likely Rainbow  
Dash looking to apologize, but I was in no mood to listen to Dash  
right now. "Rainbow... please leave me alone for now.. I  know it  
was an accident, but I don't want to talk to you right now."

"So...sorry, I'm  
not Rainbow Dash, but I'll leave you alone.. if that's what you want  
that is." Whispered the voice again, this time I recognized the  
voice, Fluttershy! Her voice soothing, and calming. She wanted to  
help me, lend an ear. I shouldn't of snapped until I knew who it  
was.

 

"Wait Fluttershy,  
please don't go. I'd like somepony to talk to, I thought you were  
Rainbow Dash, sorry for snapping at you." I said as I turned  
around, feeling a tad better to be able to talk to somepony. I gave a  
weak smile to her in hopes to make her feel better and stay to talk.  
She was wearing saddlebags, and heading towards her house.

 

"Umm sure, lets  
go to my house. I need to feed my animals, if you want to that is."  
She started to walk along the pathway towards the forest.

"Thanks Flutter,  
you're a good friend." I said while getting to my feet and dusted  
off my pants when pain shot through my hand. "Ow, dammit."  
Fluttershy gasped, and turned around with a worried expression.

"Are you ok? What  
did you hurt yourself?" It caught by surprise as she wasn't her  
usual shy self, she went into full doctor mode. I brought my hand up  
to my face and looked at the red swelling on the bottom of it.

"I just vented my  
anger at the ground with my hand, probably not the smartest thing in  
the world to do." I explained while chuckling at my actions that I  
shouldn't of done. Tunnel vision as they say.

She examined it  
closely. "It only looks swollen, that wasn't a smart thing to  
do." She looked at my face with a stern look. _Yea you don't have  
to tell me._ She took my wrist in her mouth and started walking  
again. "You're coming with me, were gonna get you some ice for the  
swelling. Then you can tell me what happened."

As we were walking  
towards her house, my stomach growled. _Dang, I forgot about  
breakfast._ It must of been loud because she noticed and asked.  
"Have you had breakfast yet?" I shook my head and scratched the  
back of it. "Hehe, no I haven't." She narrowed her eyebrows and  
released my wrist from her mouth before turning into the left side of  
her saddlebags. She pulled a blueberry muffin from inside it and  
turned towards me. "Here, you can have this. Its my leftovers from  
my own breakfast this morning." I took it from her mouth and gave  
her a side hug. "Thanks Fluttershy." She blushed slightly from  
the sudden embracement, but soon she leaned into it.

Her house was quite  
a walk from Ponyville, set in a nice bit of a forest. Seeing as how  
she was shyer, and like being near animals, it didn't surprise me in  
the least. Its away from all the busyness in  Ponyville so it made  
sense. As soon as I saw her house my jaw hit the floor. It was a  
tree, like the library, but there was animals all around. Birds  
chirping, rabbits hopping, wow! This place was paradise, a  
pond/stream was out front with a bridge connecting each side. And  
there were bird houses everywhere! She noticed I had my mouth agape  
at the sight.

 

"Well, this is  
home. It's nothing special. Now, let me get you some ice, you can sit  
next to the pond, if you want to that is." Nothing special? I've  
never seen anything like it in my life. I sat on a hill next to the  
pond and seen dozens of fish swimming around. I took in a deep breath  
and took in the rich smell of the outdoors. I was used to a city  
atmosphere, this was a big change from what I am used to.

I heard strong  
flapping coming from behind me. Then Fluttershy landed next to me, I  
forgotten that she was a Pegasus. She had a damp cloth in her mouth.  
"Here, wrap this around your hand, it will make the swelling go  
down." I took it from her and began warping it around my hand. She  
watched intently as I did so, and she piped up when I finished.

 

"Now, start from  
the beginning Marshall, tell me everything." She had a small smile,  
looking to help out a friend. "Well, it all began this morning.."  
I told her the whole story, not skimping out on any details. She kept  
on nodding her head, giving a couple of giggles from the funnier  
parts, to gasps when I discovered what happened to my guitar. Only  
stopping to explain what a guitar was to her.

 

"And I know she  
had no intentions to break it, it is a one of a kind thing here in  
Equestria. I hope I didn't make her think I hated her, my emotions  
almost took over, I got tunnel vision and I didn't want to do  
anything to my friend I would regret." I gave a big sigh and closed my eyes, the  
burden finally off my shoulders. Now only sadness filled me, no more  
anger at my friend. Fluttershy tapped my shoulder with her hoof and  
spoke in a quiet voice.

 

"Umm would a hug  
make you feel better?" To be honest, a hug felt like a really good  
thing to have at the moment. "Yea, thanks Flutter, that would be  
great." I felt her embrace me from the right with her forehooves,  
as I brought my right arm and warped it around her back. We sat there  
in silence for a minute or so while hugging before I tried to end it,  
though I never wanted it to end. Her body heat against me, her head  
on my chest, listening to my heart beat and my deep breathing. I  
tried to move away from her, but she didn't let go. I laid on my back  
and she brought her arm from around my back and laid her head on my  
chest.

 

This was a perfect  
moment, I could of sworn she was asleep until she whispered. "Don't  
go, not yet. Your heart beat is soothing, please?" Well how could I  
say no to her? I started to stroke her mane. "Sure, its pretty  
relaxing." I don't know how long we laid there until I noticed she  
had fallen asleep. She was so adorable, her breathing was steady and  
calm. My own eye lids started to get heavy. _I guess I'll just take  
a little nap, I don't want to wake her up._

 

"Hey he is over  
here Rainbow." Was I still dreaming? I resisted the urge to wake  
up, feeling Fluttershy still laying on my chest. I opened my eyes and  
was looking at Twilight's face. I brought my left hand to my mouth to  
quiet her, I didn't want to give Fluttershy a rude awakening.  
Twilight whispered "Oops, sorry." While splaying her ears to her  
head and looking at the peaceful Fluttershy sleeping. The sky was  
darkening as the sun began to set.

 

I looked down at  
Fluttershy and started to stroke her mane again, trying to wake her  
up easily. "Fluttershy... Time to wake up Fluttershy." As she  
started to stir, she was clearly relaxed and didn't realize that she  
had fallen asleep. "Wha...What happened? Did I fall asleep?" She  
asked while looking up at me sleepily. I felt a smile come over my  
face as I she tried to clear her head.

 

"Yea, you did.  
Come on Twilight and Rainbow Dash are here." Her eyes widened at  
Dash's name. "You're not still mad at her are you?" She worriedly  
asked me, not wanting a fallout between her friends. I gave a big  
sigh. "No, I'm still bummed about the guitar, but I know she didn't  
mean it. And I forgive her."

 

I heard somepony  
picking at the ground, and Rainbow Dash spoke up with an apologetic  
tone. "Marshal, I'm real sorry about the guitar accident, but I  
told you I would fix it, so I did. Well, Twilight did." I was  
turned and saw Twilight had my guitar case open, floating by her  
magic with my guitar looking as it did before it got broken. I looked  
back and forth between the two, Twilight with a proud look seeing how  
she fix it, and Rainbow Dash with a small hopeful smile. Tears  
started to swell in my eyes, I've only been here a day, and I had my  
closest item broken, and fixed my two ponies I barley know. It was  
overwhelming, but I knew that this was the place that I truly  
belonged.

 

"Thanks girls,  
you are the best." I first went to hug Twilight, seeing as how she  
repaired it and was the closer of the two ponies. I had to drop on  
one knee to be around the same height as her. She was taken back a  
bit but soon embraced the hug back. "Anything for you Marshall, you  
deserve it to be fixed." She whispered in my ear. I soon broke the  
hug and walked over to Rainbow Dash who avoided eye contact and  
kicked at the ground. I dropped to one knee again and opened my arms,  
seeing as how she is the "tough" one I didn't expect her to take  
me up on the offer. But that was quickly dashed as she jumped up and  
hugged me tight. I felt a couple of tears fall onto my shoulder as  
she lightly shook. _Seems she has a softer side for her friends._  
I gently stroked her mane and gave her reassuring shushes, trying to  
calm her down. She snuggled her head into my shoulder and started to  
calm down. "I'm sorry Marshall, I wanted to see how it looked on  
me, but I dropped it."

 

"Shh shh shh,  
it's ok Rainbow. It was an accident, and I forgive you. Besides, you  
managed to fix it so everything if forgiven. You're a good friend  
Rainbow." She started to breathe regularly and started to return to  
normal. "Thanks Marsh, you're a nice guy. But, can I ask you  
something?." I broke the hug and looked at her questioningly.  
"Could you play some music for us? Please?" She asked with  
pleading eyes. I looked back at the other two, and saw Twilight had  
my small practice amp with her and was plugging everything in for me.  
I could only smile. "Sure Dash." I looked to my warped up hand,  
it didn't hurt anymore so I decided to take it off. Rainbow Dash  
narrowed her eyes as she looked at it. I glanced at her, "I'll  
explain later."

 

Soon we had a small  
campfire going and all four of us were sitting on one side closest to  
Fluttershy's house. The three ponies were laying in front of me while  
I got my guitar set up and turned the amp on. All three were watching  
intently as I started to play, they were clearly enjoying the music  
moving their heads side to side with the beat of the music. They soon  
got into it and we were all singing and laughing into the night. I  
switched off my amp as I was feeling pretty tired as were they  
judging from their yawns.

 

I let out a big  
yawn when Rainbow Dash noticed something and piped up. "Hey, whats  
that black dot you got on your tongue?" Twilight nodded in  
agreement. "I noticed it last night but I thought I was just  
imagining things." I felt my face start to get warmer. Well, crap.  
I didn't think they would notice it. Would they be freaked out? Never  
the less, they asked and they now know about it, might as well tell  
em.

 

I scratched the  
back of my neck, thinking on how to tell them what it is. "Well you  
see, its called a tongue piercing." I let my tongue out of my mouth  
and moved the barbell with my lower teeth. Fluttershy gasped,  
Twilight eyes became bigger as she looked on intently, and Rainbow  
had a smile that was growing. All of them interested in my tongue  
piercing, concern, interest, and perhaps it was cool to Rainbow Dash.

"Di...did it  
hurt?" Fluttershy asked while moving her hoof to her mouth. I  
nodded my head, I couldn't lie to my friends. "Yea it did, but only  
for a day or so. I hardly notice it now." Twilight was the next to  
speak. "Wow, I've never seen anything like that." They had to  
have some kind of piercings around here, right? I glanced over at  
Rainbow who had a big grin on her face. "You're tougher then I gave  
you credit for Marshall. I've seen a couple ponies with ear  
piercings, but never their tongue."

My face only became  
redder, why was I so damn interesting. I was always a shyer one when  
it came to girls, but these three are a snap to talk to. I took  
another big yawn, I thinks it's time for a little sleep. "Hey, I  
don't know about you girls, but I'm exhausted." I looked up and saw  
the moon was almost straight above us, it must of been around 11:30  
pm.

Twilight looked up  
as well, and her smile turned into a small frown, "Hey Fluttershy?  
You mind if me and Marshall stay here for the night? I don't wanna  
walk back home at this time." Fluttershy closed her eyes and nodded  
her head in agreement. "Sure, no problem Twilight."

I noticed Rainbow  
Dash had a sad look on her face, seeing as she could easily return  
home. But clearly did not want to leave us. I leaned over to  
Fluttershy and whispered into her ear. "Hey, Rainbow looks like she  
wants to stay to. I think someone is a little jealous that I'm  
staying here with you and Twi." She looked over and nodded in  
agreement before calling to Rainbow Dash. "Hey Dash, you wanna stay  
here to?"

Rainbow Dashes face  
lit up. "Really!! I mean, if you want me to I guess I can stay."  
Trying to keep up her tough image. After putting the fire out and  
collecting my guitar stuff, we started walking towards Fluttershy's  
house. "Marshall, you can have the bed upstairs, we can all sleep  
down here on the couch bed tonight." I turned to her with one  
eyebrow raised. "I'm not taking no for an answer." She said while  
turning her head to the side. _Did I see a look of disappointment  
on all of their faces?_ I was curious, why did she demand I sleep  
on her bed tonight while they all slept downstairs? I was too tired  
to ask. I realized I had worn my clothes for a couple of days. "Hey  
Flutter, anywhere I can wash my clothes?" She nodded her head. "Up  
stairs, to the left. In the bathroom on the right side of the room."  
Good, these need a good washing. I walked up the stairs and into the  
bathroom, striped to my boxers and put the rest of my clothes in it.  
_First things first, wash these boxers tomorrow morning!_ I  
thought to myself.

After putting my  
clothes in the washer and I headed across the hall towards her bed  
room, and by god the bed was huge! For a pony bed at least. It was  
about the size of a double bed back on earth. Before shutting the  
door almost closed, I called back at the three. "Goodnight girls,  
sweet dreams." Then hearing the trio call back. "Good night  
Marshall." I climbed into bed and shut off the lamp beside it and  
closed my eyes.

I could hear some  
whispers and giggles from downstairs. _Typical girls, hehe._ I  
closed my eyes and started to drift off to sleep. As I was sleeping I  
heard the door creak open. I was taken a bit out of my slumber, but  
resisted to fully wake up. In the weird state between deep sleep and  
awake. Consciously knowing what was going on but not able to move  
yet. I listened hard for anymore sounds. "Hey Marshall, Marshall?  
Good." Rainbow Dash? What did she want at this hour. I heard  
flapping, presuming she was flying towards the bed. I was stumped,  
what did she want? I heard her land next to the right side of the  
bed. "There isn't any room on that bed down stairs for three  
ponies, I'm sure he wont mind. I'll be up before him anyways." She  
whispered to herself, not knowing I was somewhat awake. _Hmm, why  
didn't one of them ask to sleep up here with me. I would of gladly  
made room for one of them._

She gently lifted  
the covers off of me, I was laying in the middle of the bed so I  
doubt that there would of been any room for her. "Dang, oh well. I  
am pretty light, I don't think he will even notice." She whispered  
to herself again. I heard her flap her wings again and she lightly  
landed on my chest. She wasn't very heavy at all, so I didn't  
struggle breathing. She laid her head on my chest and covered us up  
with the blanket. I unconsciously moved my right hand to her mane and  
slowly started caressing it. She let out a small sigh. "Hmm, this  
is why Fluttershy liked it so much." After a minute or so she  
moaned softly, and started to go limp and fall asleep. _Wow! These  
fingers must be something else! If I can get Rainbow Dash to melt at  
my touch, they must feel pretty good._ I thought as I drifted off  
to sleep at the sound of Dashes quick, smooth breaths, that  
contrasted to my long and deep breaths. _I wonder what kind of  
adventures tomorrow will bring._

 

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