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Chapter 3
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Sweet Apple Acres
9:13 a.m.
I am truly amazed. Really I am.
So far today not only have I found out that there are sentient beings in this dimension, but also the fact that they are multi colored horses, and said talking horses can talk in the same language that I can talk in, and the fact that some of these horses know how to use magic.
But strangely enough I am taking this situation very well. Truth be told a normal person, that is not a wizard, would be completely freaked out by this, but seeing as how I am a wizard to begin with my curiosity to learn about new things outweighs my fears which also explains my still firm grasp on my sanity. Hopefully the end this venture will be an insightful learning experience for me.
Like right now for example, I have just found out that these horses know how to tie knots with rope. Found this little tid-bit of info out as they began tying me up just a few seconds ago with me lying on my stomach. Not that I really am enjoying this experience all that much, but hey at least I’m learning.
I then begin to hear the purple one and the orange one start talking about me so I raise my head up so I could get a better view of the conversation also to hear it better.
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“Um AJ I understand your reasoning behind capturing this… creature, but don’t you think tying him up might be a little… extreme?” Twilight asks while she finished tying a knot of rope around the creature’s hands and ankles “With him being sentient and all.”
“I know Twilight, but you have to understand that this varmint did some crazy magic stuff when I was chasing him in the orchard,” AJ says as she began pacing in front of the creature “he was able to make walls of stone appear out of thin air!”
“W-well that’s intriguing AJ, but that doesn’t mean he is entirely dangerous.” Twilight replies as she turns toward the creature and asks it “Isn’t that right? You are not trying to hurt anypony right? By the way my name is Twilight Sparkle.”
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I blink twice at her question, not only at the fact that she used anypony instead of anybody, but by the fact that she was not jumping to conclusions by thinking of me as some sort of monster just yet.
I felt a little more secure around this one than I did the orange one so I decided to answer her question.
“Well let’s see uh Miss Twilight is it? I don’t plan on hurting anyone er anypony as long as I am not threatened to be harmed as well.” I stated to her. “Although as first impressions go this is kind of a step in the wrong direction don’t you think?” I then say motioning towards my tied up appendages.
The one called Twilight looks down at me with an embarrassed smile and says “Sorry it’s just that you are a new creature that I have never seen before and well I didn’t want you to end up hurting yourself also do you find what you just said ironic? With you stealing from AJ’s apple orchard, not paying for it, and running away and if I remember correctly stealing is not a good first impression either.”
Now it was my turn to be slightly embarrassed, but I still replied “Touché Miss Twilight, touché. I’ll agree with what you said, but I was not in my right state of mind at the time, because during that time your orange friend here decided to insult my gem crafting skills which made me mad and well made me act like the way I acted.”
“Well maybe that was AJ’s opinion at the time which you shouldn’t get mad at another pony’s opinion, and when you say gem crafting are you like a jeweler?” Twilight asks me with a hint of curiosity.
I chuckle at her statement apparently these horses have no idea of what Gem crafting is.
“True I should have not gotten too mad at her and no Miss Twilight I am not a jeweler I am a wizard who creates gems from magic, but if it was her opinion then she would have had some sort of knowledge of what gem crafting is actually is to begin with, so yes it was her opinion, but it was her opinion on some other profession.” I explain to her in the best way possible to not try to sound too confusing.
The face on the unicorn suddenly brightens when I mentioned that I am a wizard which she quickly begins asking a series of questions “Wow so you are a wizard? What kind of spells do you know? What kind of magic do you deal with besides making gems? Do other wizards where you come from look like you? Actually where did you come from? What’s it like there?” And so on and so forth. Apparently she has an insatiable hunger for knowledge just like me.
But for now it was the time being it was the orange horse named AJ’s turn to speak “As much as I like a game of twenty questions can we stick to the matter at hoof? The matter being as to how you are going to pay for all those apples you ate in my orchard and don’t get me started about the stone walls that you sprouted up in my orchard as well!” She then began glaring at me expecting an answer.
To tell the truth I felt a little ashamed of myself, it was sort of childish of me to run from her to begin with and these horses seemed understanding enough so I might as well try to make up for the apples and apologize to her. “I understand that you are angry that I stole from you and also about erecting all those stone walls in your orchard. For that I am truly sorry and I should have known better at the time. I promise to you that I’ll pay back for all the apples some time in the future and help clear out the walls in your orchard.” I said with a determined gaze.
She looked at me with a deepening stare studying me as if to see if I was telling the truth or not. I soon got my answer.
“Apology accepted, partner.” AJ says with a smile on her face “And as for the bits you owe me and the walls you created you can begin work tomorrow if you like.”
I look at her with a confused look and began to ask “But how can you trust me so suddenly now than just a minute ago?”
“Well with the apology and the promise you gave me I couldn’t detect the slightest hint of dishonesty from you.” AJ replies “By the way my name is Applejack. It’s a pleasure to meet ya partner.” So that’s what AJ means then.
My confused face then turns into a face of relief, although I began chuckling as I then proceed to say “I would shake your hoof if it wasn’t for the fact that I am tied up at the moment.”
“That can be fixed.” Says Twilight as she undid the knots on my hands and ankles.
As the knots became undone I stood up and began to massage my wrists and stretch my arms and legs while nodding thanks to Twilight who I noticed had backed up slightly no doubt intimidated from the height of my body I was almost twice as tall as her although she continued to smile none the less.
I turn to Applejack who had her hoof extended to me which I promptly grabbed it with my right hand. She seemed astonished at how my hand could grab her hoof so firmly, but seemed to dismiss this as she began shaking my hand with a force that nearly made me lose my grip. For her size she seemed quite strong.
“By the way those apples were incredibly delicious; you really know how to do your craft well.” I tell her with a playful smirk.
“Thanks, partner and I guess your gems looked pretty nice as well,” Applejack says to me as she shakes my hand.
“No problem and thank you for the complement. Oh and by the way you can call me by my real name Zekeal. Zekeal Grendale, as you should already know.” I said with a smile on my face remembering my little outburst I said to her before I was tied up.
“Fine then Zekeal it’s been a pleasure to meet you this time compared to last time.” Applejack says to me with a big grin as we both stop shaking and as I let go of her hoof. “But as of right now I should be getting on with the preparations for the celebration in about a week.”
“Celebrations for what?” I ask until I was interrupted by Twilight.
“OH that’s right! AJ how are you and your family coming along with the food preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration? I was chosen again to oversee the preparations for this year as well.” Twilight asks and explains to Applejack.
“Well besides the interruptions from this morning everything, as a whole, is coming around quite nicely! I say we should have enough apple trees bucked for the celebration in three days.” Explains Applejack smiling brightly.
During Twilight’s and Applejack’s conversation I noticed that the purple lizard from before was standing beside Twilight also listening in on the conversation and pulled out a parchment of paper and checked off a small box with what looked like a picture of an apple beside it.
“So… who and what are you?” I ask the purple lizard out of curiousity.
The purple lizard jumped a little by my sudden question, but replied back to me “Uh who me? Uh I’m Spike and I am Twilight’s number one dragon assistant.”
Dragon huh? Now that is really intriguing.
“So you are a dragon huh? Well why are you so small Spike?” I ask it.
“Well you see I am still just a baby dragon so I won’t become bigger until later on.” He replies back.
“Hmmm makes sense although does that mean you breath fire and eat meat?” as I ask him another question.
“Well I can breath fire, but I am more partial to eating gems instead of meat,” Spike replies to me.
Hmmm a dragon that eats gems. Almost sounds like the complete opposite of what the stories back home depicted of dragons.
“Hmmm well if you like gems then how about this?” I say as I used a small bit of my mana to create a Grade 1 Slowing gem “Care to give my gems a taste?”
“Oh boy would I!” The dragon replies as he grabs the blue gem from my hand.
I knew that my gems were made for defense purposes only but seeing as how the gem I gave him was of a low grade it shouldn’t affect him too much.
And with the way he is scarfing down the gem he is apparently enjoying it.
“Wow that gem was amazing! It tasted very cold at first, but quickly the feeling disappeared and tasted more like a sapphire.” Spike explained to me with noticeable enjoyment from the gem.
“Heh glad you enjoyed my gem Spike even though where I come from gems are not considered a delicacy, but your compliment is still noted,” I tell him while patting him on the head.
Twilight looked back at us and gave a small smile at me bonding with her dragon assistant. She then turned back to Applejack and said “Well I’m glad to hear you are doing well Applejack I hope I’ll see you after you get finished with the preparations for the celebration.”
“Thanks sugarcube, but please come by any time in the next day or two I promise it won’t hurt our work progress on the farm,” says Applejack as she turns to me “And I hope you’ll be ready by tomorrow to start paying off your debt to me Zekeal.”
“I’ll be more than ready by tomorrow Applejack, goodbye.” I reply back to her as she turns around and heads off back towards the orchard.
“Well seems like you’re going to be in need of a place to stay huh?” Twilight says to me.
I look at her and reply back with my own question “Yeah, but where should I stay exactly? Are there any places for rent?”
“Well there are really no places to rent in Ponyville and since the barn is going to be filled up with apples in the coming days that strikes out Applejack’s place as a choice so why don’t you stay at my library then?” Twilight interjects with her own solution to my housing problem.
My eyes immediately light up at the mention of a library as her home, but I quickly remembered my manners and reply “Thanks for the offer Twilight, but I can find a place of my own whether it be a cave or something.”
“No I insist Zekeal plus it would probably be for the best since that not everyone in Ponyville would be too… “thrilled” to see you let alone meet you.” She replies back with a sheepish look.
“What would be the problem exactly? Would they run screaming inside their houses and hide from me like some sort of monster?” I ask her with a playful grin on my face knowing that that can’t possibly be it.
“Actually that’s just it they WOULD run and hide from you like you were a monster,” she says slightly embarrassed.
Guess I shouldn’t be surprised really if any of these horses ended up in my dimension they would have been treated like monsters as well. Although we wouldn’t have ran and more than likely ran them out of town or something.
“Oh… well then I don’t want to be a nuisance then to you or any one else.” I say to her with a sympathetic look on my face.
“No. Don’t worry you won’t be a nuisance Zekeal.” Twilight says to me with a welcoming look.
“…Alright. But first can I at least do one thing first? It’ll make me feel more comfortable when I enter your home.” I ask her.
“Sure, you can do anything Zekeal as long as it’ll make you feel more comfortable to stay at my library.” She replies with a smile.
I sigh and smile back at her “Thanks Twilight and now let me get this thing over with,” I say as I look into her eyes with a serious look while putting a fist over my heart.
“As by the unwritten codes of wizards dictates since you are allowing me a place to stay, a place to eat, and a place to gain knowledge from, I swear upon my honor as a wizard that I will help, serve, and protect you and this village for as long as I am allowed here. With this statement I make myself bounded upon this oath.” I say with what I would consider too serious compared to the way I usually act.
Twilight was a little stunned by what I just said and then asks me curiously “Uh just what exactly was that you just did Zekeal?”
I slowly broke my serious face with a smile at her and explained “What I just did was what I and most wizards call a “Wizard’s oath”. It’s when we promise someone, whether it be a lord, a duke, or a peasant, that we will serve them for as long as we are taken care of and fed by them, but it’s more of a sign of respect towards the person who is allowing us to live in their village and home so it’s just more of an out of common courtesy thing amongst us wizards towards other people.”
She nods her head and smiles at me saying “Well thank you Zekeal for saying that to me although I doubt you’ll need to do much protecting for this village as we rarely get attacked by anything around here.”
“Yeah I could sorta guess that there isn’t much as to danger around here with the sun shining and colored horses all around,” I reply and then ask her “Anyway now that that’s out of the way, may we begin heading towards your library?”
“Sure thing Zekeal and how about if we pass the time by you telling me how you ended up in Applejack’s apple orchard to begin with?” She asks me.
“Sure in fact I think you’ll be interested in how I got here in the first place,” I reply back as we began heading down the path away from the apple orchard.
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Outside of Ponyville
10:22 a.m.
“So let me get this straight you are actually from another dimension entirely?!” Twilight says quite surprised as I finished telling my story.
I told her the story of how I “accidently” sent myself here while excluding the parts when I was attacked by monsters along with that Shadow bitch as well. I didn’t want to startle her too much right now with the monsters and all, but I still plan on explaining to her about the monsters of my world later on. Hopefully it won’t come back to bite me in the ass too much.
“Yes, yes I am,” I answer Twilight’s question.
“Wow so you ended up here by botched spell?” asks Spike “Almost sounds like one of Twilight’s off days.”
“Oh Spike he was just probably testing a new spell out probably and it just backfired like he said,” Twilight says to Spike with a hint of embarrassment. “Although what was the name of the spell you were trying to perform again?”
“It’s called a “Banishment” spell Twilight, if we need to send something to someplace else we just use this spell and poof! It’s gone.” I explained in full.
“Oh that sort of sounds like the time Princess Celestia banished Princess Luna to the moon,” Twilight states matter-of-factly.
“Now it’s my turn to ask some questions Twilight like who is this Princess Celestia and Princess Luna? And why did this Celestia person er pony send Luna to the moon? ” I ask.
Twilight beams and says “They are both sisters and co-rulers of the land of Equestria, which you are currently in right now, and the reason behind Princess Celestia banishing Princess Luna to the moon was because about a thousand years ago Princess Luna turned into Nightmare Moon and tried to make night eternal in Equestria.”
I was a little speechless at the moment when I heard that both of these Princesses were well over one thousand years old. I mean I was impressed, normally the wizards from where I’m from usually live to be about 200 or something and that’s if they use advanced restoration spells and are lucky enough not to get torn to shreds by monsters. Also the fact that this Celestia person could banish a person or pony to the moon was incredible I may not me a mathematician or an astronomer, but the moon should be incredibly far away the last time I checked. Also it sounded like this country was under a monarchy, never really liked leaders all that much, but hey these ones might be different right? And the name of the country being Equestria didn’t surprise me with all these Equines, although I could be worse they could have called it PonyLand. I shudder intensely at that thought.
I was snapped out of my train of thought when Twilight says “Hey Zekeal we are about to enter Ponyville keep close and try not to look too intimidating okay?”
I looked forward to see that there was indeed a village coming up, what surprised me the most was that it looked like a normal human village only… more colorful with less brown and dark dreariness.
“Alright whatever you say Twilight.” I say as I got closer to her.
As we entered the village I looked around to see that there were other different ponies all around some with horns and some with, which surprised me, wings. So there are some ponies that could fly eh? But back to the matter at hand, most of which were staring at me cautiously, but other than that they didn’t really entirely freak out, although some of the mothers shooed their children back inside. Maybe it was because of Twilight standing near me and guiding me through town that kept most of them calm. Which got me thinking what standing was Twilight in this village to begin with.
“Hey Twilight uh not to sound intruding, but what is your standing in this village?” I ask her quietly.
She looks back at me and says “Well you could call me the Librarian in Ponyville, but I am actually here to study the magics of friendship and send reports to Princess Celesitia, I am her student after all.”
Magics of Friendship? I’ll have to make a mental note to ask her about that some time in the future. But the thing that made me wide eyed was the fact that she was studying under one of the rulers of a nation!
“Wait so you are a student under the teachings of the ruler of this country!? Then that must make you a very powerful wizard… uh or unicorn then?” I ask her intently.
“Uh well I’m not exactly all that powerful and I am still learning and-“ Twilight began blushing a little but was interrupted by Spike.
“She is the best at magic in all of Ponyville! In fact there was this one time that she put an Ursa Minor to sleep by using her magic.” Spike proudly said.
“Wait what’s an Ursa Minor,” I ask out of curiosity.
Twilight quickly interjects Spike before he could say anything and says nervously “Oh it’s nothing, nothing at all don’t mind Spike I’m not really that powerful to begin with it was just a lucky break.”
Hmmm so she is powerful and modest as well. We may just get along just fine.
“Alright then let’s change the subject shall we? Like how long till we get to this library of yours?” I ask.
“It shouldn’t be too far actually we should be aproa- *bump*” Twilight tries to say before she bumps into another pony.
The pony that was standing before us looked pink with poofy hair. If not for the fact she wasn’t wearing a funny hat I would have mistook her for a jester.
Twilight manages to regain her balance and looks at the pink pony before asking “Oh hello Pinkie Pie how are you doing?”
The pink pony named Pinkie Pie was looking straight at me not breaking eye contact. I felt a weird uneasiness about this especially with the silence that was coming from her. I decided to break that silence.
“Uh hello?” I ask her while waving uncomfortably which she immediately gave me a response.
Pinkie Pie then suddenly jumps and hangs in the air for what felt like five seconds, which made me wonder what magic could have caused that, while giving off a huge gasp before eventually dropping back down to the ground and taking off in some other random direction at an amazing speed.
“Uh what was all that about?” I ask Twilight.
“*sigh* Well that pony’s name is Pinkie Pie and she is actually one of my other friends that live in Ponyville and the reason she acted like that was, because well I think she went off to go plan a surprise party or a welcome to Ponyville party for you.” Twilight states “She did the same thing to me when I moved to Ponyville.”
“A p-party?” I say loosely. “Why would she want to throw me a party?”
“Well have you seen the images on our flanks right?” Twilight states.
“Yeah,” I say to her.
“Well these are called Cutie Marks and they depict what we are good at,” Twilight explains.
“Oh so they explain what you do as a profession right?” I state trying to answer my own question.
“Actually that’s a good answer, like my cutie mark represents magic and studying, while Pinkie’s cutie mark is of three balloons which means she is good at throwing parties.” Twilight explains even more.
“Oh ok now I got it… but when will she throw me this party? I hope there will be alcohol at this party as well!” I happily say to her.
“Well you see Pinkie Pie throws parties at random and when you least expect them so there is no telling when she’ll throw one.” Twilight says to me. “And about alcohol it is usually frowned upon here in Equestria, but we tend to accept hard cider on special occasions.”
I was a little disappointed by this, but at least they had hard cider here. So some alcohol is better than no alcohol to me.
“Alright well I think that a party would still be good with hard cider just so long as I don’t end up getting too drunk and waking up in some bed with a pony that I don’t know of.” I chuckle a little at my lewd joke although it seems that Twilight was a little annoyed by it. “Sorry I couldn’t help myself.”
“Do most of your species act like this?” she asks.
“Well not all the time we tend to just make jokes every once in a while to liven the mood you know?” I say to her.
“Fair enough, but please try to keep your mind out of the gutter,” Twilight says to me smiling while rolling her eyes.
“Fine, I’ll try,” I tell her.
“Good,” Twilight replies “Now then I would like to welcome you to my home also known as the Ponyville Library!”
I look forward to see that there was a huge tree with windows in it and looked completely hollowed out… and is that an observatory on the top level!? How the tree was still living was a mystery in of itself, but just by looking at it I could tell this place would make a great place for my new mana pool. I could just feel the magic the tree was giving off. It felt exhilarating.
“Quite the treehouse you got here Twilight,” I say to her.
She giggles and says “If you think the outside is great get ready to check the inside.”
We began entering the treehouse with me having some trouble trying to get through the door, but that was to be expected with my size and all. When we were all finally inside I looked around to see a wizard’s dream. Books upon unread books littered the shelves. It took all the strength I had to keep myself from diving into the shelves and begin reading them.
“Impressive huh?” Twilight asks with a smile.
“Quite the collection Twilight, quite the collection,” I say to her quite impressed if I may add. “If I may Twilight can I look at a few of these books? I am quite interested in reading up about this country’s culture and traditions.”
“Sure you can, but first can I ask you a couple more questions about yourself? I just want to make a report and send it to Princess Celestia. If you don’t mind?” Twilight asks me.
“Uh sure Twilight I guess I can answer a couple more questions just as long as it won’t get me thrown into a dungeon or get me banished to the moon.” I tell her with a slight chuckle.
“I promise Princess Celestia is a kind ruler and won’t just simply banish you to the moon for no reason,” Twilight states while still smiling.
“Fine I’ll take your word for it, let’s get started then,” I say as I sit in a chair that was nearby.
“Alright first off what is your species’ name?” Twilight asks.
“The name of my species is called humans.” I say with a grin on my face knowing that this will only one of the long list of questions this purple pony will have for me.
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End of chapter 3
I really hope I didn’t end this chapter too abruptly for you guys, but it was nearing the 10th and 11th page on Word and I tend to start loosing focus to the story by around that time. So to avoid too many errors I stop at around page 11. But that’s beside the point. I really hope that all of you are enjoying this story, and please leave a comment whether it be about some errors I may have overlooked, continuity errors, or words of encouragement and advice I will gladly take into consideration and hopefully makes this story a little more enjoyable, but I am not forcing you to so do what you will.
Zekeal: Ah come on the story is good as it is Registered! No sense in changing it!
Zekeal please leave I am trying to have a conversation with the readers and I don’t want you messing it up for me!
Zekeal: Fine, fine…. Can I have more nachos then?
Fine. Here. Also you are still going to repair my 4th wall.
Zekeal: Fine whatever. *proceeds to eat the nachos*
Anyway with that out of the way this is Registered Anonymous,
Zekeal: And Zekeal!
Signing off, check ya’ll later. Also I won’t be updating the chapters as quickly as much as I already have been since I have midterms this week so… see ya when I get done with all that.