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// 4, Interpersonal Relations 
// Story: Journey to North Star 
// by Cool writer 
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	"What is it?" Nocturn asked, looking at the sleeping creature that had appeared in a beam of light. Luna looked at it. It was a strange, bipedal creature with dull claws on it's arms. It had a tan flat face and a short black main, that was only on the top of the creature's head. Luna took a few steps back. She gulped.
"I think... it's a human." Luna answered, despite her dry mouth.
"What's a human?" Stella asked. Luna looked at Stella, with a firm stare.
"Tis' an extremely violent creature that kills its own species," Luna replied, whispering. All the ponies who could hear Luna's response gasped. "Tie it up, and put it in a tent," Luna commanded.



Alex woke with a splitting headache.
"I feel like I was hit with a lead baseball bat." Alex groaned. He tried to stretch his arms, but he found they were tied together. He was in a red sleeping bag inside an ugly, small green tent. "What happened to me?" He thought out loud. Alex sat up and looked around the tent to see if he could find anything useful to escape his binds. He found nothing. He suddenly heard the sound of a tent flap fluttering, followed by a voice calling "it's awake!" in a terrified tone. Alex was suddenly picked up off the ground by some unknown force (accompanied by a blue glow), and the same force floated him out of the tent. It was night, and a full moon was high in the sky. The sky was dotted with stars, more than Alex had ever seen at one time before. Alex looked around and saw some sort of campsite, it had a few tents, lots of campfires (each surrounded by a ring of sleeping bags), and a bunch of tiny miniature horses roaming around and sleeping. He swore a few had wings.
'Where the heck am I?' Alex thought. He floated up to a regular size horse, it was navy blue, with a (literally) flowing blue main and tail, (regular) blue things attached to it's hooves, and a black ring with a crescent moon engraved on it around her neck. Her flank looked as though someone spilled black ink on it and drew a crescent moon. The odd thing about it was, it had a horn! It was glowing the same blue that enveloped him in its tela-kinetic hold. Alex also noted that it had a pair of wings on it's sides. It was glaring at Alex.
Standing next to the winged unicorn was two little horses, the one on her left was navy blue, was a bit bigger than the one on the left, and had bat eyes... Alex paid no attention to the second horse, this one had his full attention. He noted that this one also had wings, but these were leathery bat wings, unlike the first's feathery ones. The bat horse noticed Alex stairing, and shrunk away slightly, before takeing a step forward and trying to look brave. Alex realised something: the bat horse was scaired was scaired of him. It was adorable how she tried to look brave. Alex then thought about this for a moment.
'She's trying to look brave...' He thought to himself. Alex repeated this train of thought a few times. 'Horses are smart, but not that smart.'
After a moment more of scilence, something extraordinary happened: the large horse spoke.
"Who are you, human?" It said, sounding disguested to say the word "human." Alex's jaw dropped. It spoke in a feminan voice. Alex staired, awestruck for another moment, before the creature repeated her quetion. "Tell me who you are!" She demanded. Alex realised she might be just as scaired as the little one.
"I'm- I'm Alex." Alex stuttered. "Alex Aldetoro."
"I am Luna, princess of the night." The large horse replied, after a moment of consideration. "Why have you come here?" She asked, stern.
"What?" Alex asked, really confused. "A better question is, how have I come here, because I have no idea!" A look of surprise washed over Luna's face. She shook it off, and continued questioning.
"Where are the other humans?" Luna asked. Alex was about to say "all over the world," before he thought better of it.
"I have no clue." Alex said. He wasn't really "lieing" becasue Alex needed to know where he was, so he could tell where the anyone else was. Luna looked confused.
"Are you the only one?" She asked.
"As far as I know." Alex answered. Luna opened her mouth to ask another question, but Alex interrupted. "Look, if you want me to answer any ore of your questions, you need to answer some of mine. Who knows? it might even answer some of your questions in the process." Alex cleared his throught. "Where am I, what is this place, how can you talk, are there other's like you, and why are you so scared of me?" Alex asked in rapid sucsession. Luna thought for a moment, and answered in rapid succession:
"Equestria, Equestria, the same reason you can, yes, and because you're a human." Luna replied. Alex put the answers and the questions together in his head.
"One final question, why are you scared of humans?" Alex asked. Luna looked as though it was a silly question.
"Because humans are violent murderers! They kill each other for no reason and spend all their time coming up with new ways to wipe themselves out! They already did it once, or so I thought." Luna answered. Alex felt a wave of shame wash over him.
"Hey! That's not-" Alex began, starting to re-evaluate his own species. "Sadly, your not compleatly wrong there." Alex sighed. He then realised a counter argument (he was good a debate). "But not all humans are like that. Sure humans fight each other, but most of them are doing it to protect their families, and even more want peace! And humans do so much more than killing. We invent, new ways to communicate, new ways to travel, new ways to have fun, new ways to live. Humans strive to better themselves, and sometimes the world around him. I'm a prime example. I just got out of school, and I'm not going off to war, I'm just trying to start a life for myself." Alex explained. Luna looked awestruck, as if her world view had just gotten shattered like fine china. The smallest horse looked up at Luna.
"Is he telling the truth?" She asked. Alex felt the ropes around his arms untie itself.
"Yes," Luna replied absently. The glow on Luna's horn (and around Alex) faded, and Alex fell to the ground. 

"Alex Aldetoro, welcome to the Luna Republic."