Aurthur visits Equestria

by James Fire

The Welcoming Party

"Who is the new pony?" I am genuinely confused at this, as the only one that knows I am here is Twilight Sparkle.

Pinkie Pie answers very quickly, like lightning. "You are, silly! I don't know you yet, but me and the rest of the town will get to know you at your 'Welcome to Ponyville' party later! Be there." She then disappears, but I do see her just walking out of the room.

"Umm, any way I can avoid being revealed to the entire town?"

"If you want to stay hidden and unknown, you are doomed. On the bright side, you will be able to make many new friends." Twilight explains. Meanwhile, Discord comes in, muttering about something or other.

"Leave the portals to me! They are all mine! Oh, hi Twilight." I think she wants the face palm, or is it face hoof? I don't know, but whatever it is, she wants to do it. "I felt you messing about with portals, don't, they tend to get very messy very quickly." Don't need to tell me that. There was the one time 'shudder'. Those things are best not spoken of.

"But, I already know how to control them. After all, I have about 3500 years, my years, that is, of experience. How many do you have?"

"According to my calendar," he pulls out a ridiculously large and thick calendar, perusing through it. "I will be approximately 5121 years old this year."

"What, exactly, are you? You are very clearly a magical creature, what with the mishmash of parts. But I have not seen an aura like yours ever since I visited the planes of magic."

Twilight Sparkle interjects a thought in response to my comment. "You have visited the planes of magic? I have read about them, but never have they been anything more than a theory."

"I am Discord. The embodiment of chaos itself." I can see he is nervous from my question, but is trying to put a brave face and avoid it.

"Are you an Elemental? Or even a minor Titan? Your power would match up with what I saw in some of the weaker minor Titans, or even a powerful Elemental. So I ask again, what are you?" He looks like he is going to answer, but before he does, Pinkie Pie comes in.

"IT'S PARTY TIME!" She grabs all of us, and runs over to the gingerbread house near the centre of town. She deposits us just inside the doorway, and then showers me with questions. Good thing Discord isn't doing the showering. As it is, I feel like my layers are being washed away.

After the shower, Pinkie Pie turns me toward the crowd of ponies held within the building. I notice that they are all having fun, playing games, drinking punch, or just chatting. Pinkie Pie announces that the guest of honour, Mana Spark, has arrived. Huh, I didn't know I had a pony name, nice to know what it is.

I feel my illusion, determining that it and the shield are still intact. I am still not sure how Discord broke my illusion through the shield, I will have to ask him.

Mobbed by ponies, I attempt to just survive the night. Which includes playing pin the tail on the pony, and drinking inordinate amounts of punch. I do manage to stay away from the alcoholic stuff though, but I still have drunken (at least I think they are) mares attempt to hit on me. I finish off the night by executing a tactical retreat, telling Pinkie Pie that I am tired and need to go home to sleep. She relents, and let's me leave. And so, I return to the castle, grab the books on magic I was reading and using earlier, and teleport home. Where I promptly fall into the very comfy bed I made earlier.

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