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// A Difference Between Worlds 
// Story: New Life In a New World 
// by Bool1989 
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	Dean started, he hadn’t really been paying attention to where they were going. He looked up to see that they were at the foot of the crystal castle that they had seen overlooking Ponyville earlier in the day. From this angle, the castle looked massive. It was casting a long shadow over them. 
Celestia raised a hoof to knock on the door, knocking three times. They heard a voice answer from inside. A few moments later, the door opened, and what looked like large purple lizard with a fat, light green belly, green spikes on his head, and stumpy legs and arms, emerged.
“Princess Celestia! What are you doing here?” the lizard exclaimed.
“Hello Spike.” Celestia replied serenely “An important matter has come up that I must speak to Twilight about. Is she in?”
“Er, yeah” the lizard whose name was Spike, answered. “I think she’s working on one of her research projects. Would you like to come in?”
“Please” Celestia replied, smiling.
Spike gestured in welcome, and stepped aside to let them in. When he noticed Sam and Dean, he asked “Who are these ponies?”
“Ah, forgive me for being so rude, Spike.” Celestia replied, before gesturing for introductions.
“This is Sam Winchester” she said, pointing at Sam.
“And this is Dean Winchester” she pointed at Dean.
“Sam, Dean, this is Spike the Dragon.” She said while gesturing at Spike. “Princess Twilight Sparkle’s number one assistant.”
“Yep, that me! Twilights Number One Assistant” his chest puffed with pride.
“You’re a dragon!?” Sam blurted
“Well, yeah” replied Spike “I’m only a baby dragon, but one day I’ll grow up to be big and strong, just you wait!”
“And we all look forward to that day, Spike” Interject Celestia “But I believe I said that I had to see Twilight about an important matter.”
“Oh, right.” Spike said. “Er, I’ll show you to the living room, then I’ll go get her. Is that ok?”
Spike led his guests the castle living room, then rushed off to find Twilight. 
“Why is there a Dragon here?!” Sam exclaimed.
“I am not sure what you mean?” Celestia asked, confused.
“Aren’t they all monsters?” Sam replied.
“Monsters? What do you mean by that?”
“Well, where we come from, dragons like to rape and eat virgins, and horde gold.” Sam explained.
Celestia looked shocked, as if the very idea of Spike, or anyone else for that matter, raping or eating someone was alien to her. 
“NO!” she exclaimed “Spike wouldn’t do that! No one would do that! The very idea!”
Sam blinked, surprised by Celestia’s loud protest. There was an awkward pause.
“Sorry to burst your bubble, lady, but monsters eat people all the time.” Dean said “A lot of murders happen because of the monsters that like to eat them.”
“There has not been a murder in Equestria in 300 hundred years.” Celestia said quietly.
Dean blinked, stunned.
“What?” he asked
“There has not been a murder in Equestria in over 300 hundred years.” Celestia responded, a bit louder.
“You’re lying. There’s no way there can’t be murder, it happens all the time.” Dean said, disbelieving.
“You think I would lie about something like that?” Celestia asked, eyebrow raised. “it is the truth, murder is rare in this country.”
“Then someone is pulling the wool over your eyes, cause murder just doesn’t not happen” Dean replied.
“The world that you come from must be a horrible, tragic place, if you would believe that I am lying, rather than that murder is rare.” Celestia commented.
Dean paused, thinking.
“Wait, if murder is rare, what about war?” Sam asked “Surely you have to kill ponies in war.”
“War, if anything, is scarcer.” Celestia replied “Equestria’s last war happened over 500 years ago.”
“How is that possible?” Sam asked “Surely you would have to fight for resources, if nothing else.”
Celestia smiled. 
“The truth, Sam, is that I have a number of policies in place that prevent that from happening.” She replied. “We have strict population control laws. Herds are not allowed to have more than 2 foals per mare. We have a policy of using diplomacy before resorting to conflict, which is often more successful than conflict anyway. We have many treaties and trade agreements with our neighbors, and a careful international balance of power between nations. We have laws in place to prevent our lower class citizens from being exploited by the wealthier class.”
She paused, before saying “All in all, the results speak for themselves.”
“So you just expect us to believe that everything is just hunky dory, huh? Bullshit.” Dean said.
“I don’t, actually.” Celestia said, a cross look on her face “I expect you look it up yourself. I expect that you will not take my words at face value, because that is what I expect of all of my little ponies, to think for themselves, not simply believe everything I say.”
She sighed, before saying “This world is not your world, our ways are not your ways. If you are going to live here, you will have accept that your old life is over. We don’t need you to hunt down evil, because the evil you seek does not exist, except within yourself, due to that Mark.”
Dean was quiet, trying to process the words he had heard. He knew what the words meant, but he just could not bring himself to believe them. 
His thoughts were interrupted by a sudden bright purple flash. Standing at the entrance to the living room was a pony with a light purple coat and dark purple mane and tail that had pink highlights. And Spike.
“Princess Celestia! I’m so sorry, I came as soon as Spike told me you were here!” the pony exclaimed. 
“It’s alright, Twilight.” Said Celestia, smiling.
“May I introduce Sam and Dean Winchester?” she said, gesturing at them
“Hi” said Sam “I’m Sam” 
“I’m Dean” Said Dean gruffly 
“Oh, hello” said Twilight “I am Princess Twilight Sparkle, the princess of Friendship.”
“Nice to meet you.” Said Sam. Dean said nothing.
“So, what was this urgent matter you had to talk to me, Princess?” Twilight asked “and why are they here?”
Celestia sigh, then said “It’s a long story, would you like to sit down?”
Twilight blinked, then moved to sit down, and looked at Celestia expectantly.
“It starts” Celestia began “with a secret that I have been keeping for a very long time.”