I like where this is going. I want more! Here take some stars I can't hold all of them!

Is it a bad thing that, when she described her dream, the first thing I thought of was the scene with Sheik from The Ocarina of Time? Great writing, though, and a fun take on Lyra and Bon-bon's relationship (I assume they aren't dating in this one, correct?)!

This is seriously good. I want more

So instead of Agent Mulder (I want to believe) and Agent Scully, we have Agent Lyra and Agent Bon-Bon.

This could prove to be interesting. I'll give it a follow!

COOL! i look forward to reading more!

(most creative comment ever)

Humans? Feh, ponies still believe in that myth?

And then the humans transport to Equestria and Lyra gives Bon-Bon a "I told you so" face and the starts a revolution against Celestia with her human army. THE END

Kinda like the fic I'm doing. Except I have Lyra searching out old myths on humans, and eventually stumbling accross a ruin on one of her expeditions. Going into the ruin, and after some adventures there, Lyra finds a chamber filled with thousands of humans in cryogenic suspension.

I like this story and Nightgazer your story sounds pretty cool.

XD This seems to be quite interesting! (Are you making fun of Lyra and her short attention span with the fork? XD Nice.)

Aw....that cover art makes my eyes leak.

♫♥I look forward to reading what happens next in your story♥♪

You have my attention. I demand more!

Follow your dreams Lyra!  You just gotta keep believing, and sooner or later your dreams will come true!

Love it!  I absolutely love the idea shaping up right here.  Heh, it's honestly too easy to envision a gigantic, exaggerated grin on my favorite ocean green unicorns lips at finally not only getting her cutie mark, but learning to control magic.  Kind of wondering where you're planning on taking it though, seeing as it could either go on about how Lyra uncovers something ground breaking and slowly pieces together a secret that's been hidden in the form of pieces and clues spread all across Equestria (just like Nicholas Cage did! ) or she just drives Bon Bon up the wall crazy with her obsession.

Either way, I'm following this!

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Tracking

As a Cryptozoologist (someone who studies Cryptozoology;the study of unknown animals like Bigfoot and Loch Ness Monster) I am highly interested to see where this goes.

>>7265572655

they live in the same house... they're probably married

This is very interesting indeed! But make sure you KNOW where your going on with this before continuing...this kind of thing can have many road blocks you need to deal with...good luck!

Alright! Stand back everyone, I am about to blow your minds with this amazingly original comment. *clears throat* MMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

If this is going to be one of those humans in Equestria stories, please don't let it be like most of the rest where two species overcome their differences in 5 minutes.

What's here is pretty darn good, but here's the big question: how focused will this be? Will Lyra's quest for humanity be the sole plot thread, or there be half a dozen other weaving in and out of the story? 'Cause a problem I've noticed popping up in fics lately is that they loose focus of the main plot in favor of jokes and whatnot. Or perhaps it's not all that prevalent a problem at all? In either case, it's something to be avoided.

>>7311173111

*shrugs* Says "roommates" in the description and it's not tagged as romance, so I think not. I'd be fine with it either way, though.

I like it. Looking forward to Pt. 2.

This is so full of win it deserves 6 STARS

At first, the introduction of the story of Lyra’s Cutie Nark confused me because I didn’t know how this was suppose to connect with the story of finding humans. But then you connected Lyra’s love for music with humans, and I thought that was really clever.

I am intrigued!

A very strong opening.  I really liked how you tied her interest in humans to her cutie mark and it was a good cutie mark origin story.  Most Ponies, I expect, have a relatively calm one like that, important to them, but not awe inspiring.

Anyway, I'll be following this.  Good job.

I like it. I wonder, will you make it so that human DO, or at least DID, exist? Or will the story mainly feature Lyra's foalish, yet comedic, attempts to prove their existence?? I'm very intrigued in what will happen

Great.

Believable. Plus, decent writing style. Tracking.

This has caught my attention.

I shall be tracking and faving this grand story!

Most enjoyable, and a wonderful way to dovetail cutie mark and anthropological obsession. Also:

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Oh dear, img tag fail. Lemme try that again:

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More of this please. SO much more of this.

Wy oh why can't i hold all hese stars, could you take some of my hands?

DOHOHOHOHO

Humans...

Next you will be saying that the sun and moon move by themselves

Good Story so far, I'll give it 4.5 cuz it entertained me

>>7265572655

LISTEN TO THE MAN. THIS HAS CROSSOVER POTENTIAL.

But anyhow, surely Bon-bon has heard of monkeys? I mean Fluttershy even mentions monkeys when fantasizing about the GGG. I mean unless in the Ponyverse, primates are some obscure mammals noone ever talks about, like what we do with most rodents.

you sir... you sir have a good thing going on at the moment, keep it up

Take my stars. ALL of it.

>>7276972769 BEST. STORY PLOT. EVER.

Most of the instruments had already been taken. So much for drums, Lyra thought. Wandering around the music room, between other young unicorns who were already trying out their new instruments, Heartstrings finally took a closer look at the lyre. No way, that one would definitely be too hard…

First sentence Lyra, second sentence Heartstrings, just a little slip-up there, nothing too major, easy fix.

I'll just say it now. I love this story, I think it flows perfectly together, with perfect transition and pace, but I'm not really a critic, so I can't think of anything else to say that will make me seem intelligent, haha.

Dialogue punctuation is a bit different then what I was taught, not sure if it's different from place to place, but I'm still eight years into grade school, so don't take whatever I say too seriously, alright? I'm not an expert at anything, lol.

It just rips me in half that ponies dont know about humans. They think its a myth just like we think they are a myth. I actually think there is ponys in another dimension. You never know...

>>7265572655 I thought the exact same thing

>>7416974169

Her real name was Lyra, but as she said earlier in the same flashback, she used to go by Hearstrings. So that wasn't a slip-up so much as just her flip-flopping on names in her own mind.

Oh I'm definitely looking forward to more of this story! Keep em coming!

Vincent! Stop the presses! Make sure you get this in.

Keep this up, you have successfully managed to  catch my interest, not an easy feat...Oh look, a chair!

5 stars, darling

Poor Bon-Bon, having to endure Lyra's crackpot theories about mythical bipeds and their opposable thumbs, it must be very taxing.  That filly really needs to get some professional help.

Excellent, I think I'll definitely watch you and follow this story. Great story, post soon :P I can't wait.

I have not yet seen a fanfic surrounding Lyra's fascination with humans. I've seen it referenced, some important parts of a story surrounding it, but not a whole story dedicated to her obsession. I'm definitely going to enjoy this!

actually sweetie belle might know that problem (WE HAVE NO IDEA IF SWEETIE BELLE AND RARITY A UNICORN OR EARTH PONY CAUSE OF THAT DAMN HAT) still good start

It's not often I comment on a first chapter or even rate on a first chapter but you sir get both

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MOAR!

Sweet celestia! Someone sure is popular? I had no idea FIM fiction had such love for lyraXhuman

i really liked lyra's backstory, great way to end OH LOOK, FORK.

Why can't I hold all these stars?! Oh, I know! You can have five of them!

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Humans....What the hell is a human!?

WHY WEREN'T WE TAUGHT THIS IN FILLYDELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL!?

I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION AND REQUEST A CLASS ON THESE....CREATURES. DID THEY REALLY INVENT SO MANY OF THE THINGS WE SEE TODAY? IS THAT WHY THE TEACUPS HAVE HANDLES EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE TOO SMALL TO HOLD WITH A HOOF?

*Looks at my hooves* I kind of want these...these "hands" now. I figure they'd be useful. Brb gonna go practice standing on my hind legs for extended periods of time, hopefully I won't fall over backw

Well, I've officially plugged this on every pony site I'm active on on a regular basis. I told them all it had some serious potential based on the first few chapters, and I'm pretty confident you'll deliver. If they actually read my whole post, there should be even more attention headed this way.

*cough*

>>7366873668 I even heard a myth that these humans fight and, wait for it... WAGE WAR!!! Could you imagine something like that happening in Equestria!? BAHAHAHA!!!

Ah yes 'humans' the ancient race of sentient bipedal mammals that allegedly invented the majority of all technology. We have dismissed that claim.

kknd2 lol very smart

>>7372473724 There are monkeys in Equestria, but their similarity to humans isn't immediately apparent. Different sizes, feet, dissimilar postures, tails. We look more like Diamond Dogs, really.

Well, I'm sold. Fascinating idea, brilliantly executed, and done with what appears to be a good idea of musical theory. Continue. I will be watching.

Interesting, and rather well executed.  

i like it! moar!

I used to have 5 stars, then I read this story.  Now I have none.

man this shits`is EPIC make more and fast

MOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!

>>7441174411

Then go and reread that paragraph, brony.

Because I'm an ass:

“Who knows? It took some practice, but I’m all right now,” Lyra replied. “And it just goes to show that everybody gets their cutie mark eventually. I’m sure you’ll all find yours soon enough.”

Should be everypony. Still,

>>7676576765

implying a pony obsessed with humans would be using words like "everypony"

planet of the apes anyone? i like where this is going!

MOAR!!!!!!

>>7687576875

Hah!  It's so true.  

Wait...if Equestria is Earth in the future...crap! we need to find John Connor, NOW.

>>7580875808 Now where have i heard something like that before?

I think it was a certain councillor in a certain government about something called "Reapers"

This is very well made.

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Love it! :D

Why can't I hold all of this awesomeness....

Well, good Lord. So many comments. I do like comments. Especially when all you humans are debating the existence of your own species. I find that very amusing. Anyway, I think I'll start doing updates every Monday, except for the next one, which I'll put up tomorrow. Then Chapter 3 will be Monday, and I'll keep doing that.

How am I so popular?

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http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=lyra#/d49b9sc

were you, by any chance, inspired by this?

Where did you get that picture? I demand to be told! It is essential to my childhood!

>>7329173291

I failed my first attempt to question you for information. So:

WHERE did you get your avatar? I MUST KNOW @_@

>>7779977799 Debating the existence of our own species? There's humans in the comments?!? Lyra was right!!!

>>7800178001

Sad to say, I think it was just from a random Internet search for Dashie pictures.

Ooh, the plot thickens... wonder what Lyra did to hurt her hoof though?

This is as great as the other chapter!

Also >>7903079030 I think she was trying to make fake hands for her hooves.

The humans remind me of the forerunners in Halo, on how they practically invented everything, but then vanished.

>>7904279042 I'm hoping you're right. For a moment I had the thought that, in some sort of crazed state, she'd tried to form fingers out of her hoof.

My brain goes to strange places sometimes.

Lyra, you silly filly. Human's clearly don't exist.

I immediately thought dark things when I saw Lyra's injured hoof and her talk of fingers. Hopefully Im way off.

I really like everything so far, and I'll watch with interest.

>>7908879088

*Speaks from back half of unconvincing pony costume while a friend is in the head*

Yes. Clearly made up and not at all walking among you trying to observe your culture without contaminating it further.

Humans? That's crazy talk!

the implication of Mad-Scientist Lyra operating on her hoof makes me laugh.

MODS ASLLEP, POST HUMANS

i feel like the book on 'cryptozoology' was an idea stolen from one of the comments on the previous chapter from an actual cryptozoologist. oh well. this is awesome! i hope lyra learns that humans are just a myth. they obviously could never exists.

>>7910879108

Shhh! Pony butts don't talk, remember?

Pff, humans?  That's all hogwash.

Obviously all the technology in Equestria was influenced by a race of sentient dolphin-men.

That hurts. We leave them so much, and so much evidence would point to our existance if only somepony would just SKIM for it (not look, SKIM!!!), and yet we are so easily placed as a myth.

That hurts real bad yo.

>>7914179141 aww... I know that feel bro .

But chu' know, Lyra is thinking of us... She always will.

>>7914179141

Well we don't know how long it has been, or if deliberate efforts were made to cast such evidence as false. Remember that Dinosaurs, saber tooth tigers, and most mega-fauna came down to us in mythology as dragons, manitcores and other monsters.

also, always remember cultural bias. Even unintentionally the Romans often attributed Greek inventions and material's to themselves for example. When it comes to ponies, the same situation could easily apply.

As for why nopony notices the many oddity’s of their tools and architecture, there is this horrible phrase that obliterates thought, I think it might contain words of power or something. "That's how we've always done it." which rears its head all too often.

A most impressive chapter!