The first thing I became aware of was the fact that I was floating.
Not ‘Oh my Gods I’m a ghost!’ floating, I was floating in a dream. Now usually, the dream wouldn’t mean anything... if I were a normal human. Whenever a demigod dreams, it’s either a vision of the past or present, or a message from a god. Depending on the dream I could be anywhere. Right now I was standing in a colossal throne room.
Trying to see just how big the room actually was, I slowly started turning. When I did a complete 180, I realized there was a 10-foot man standing in front of me.
“I leave these matters to you, Celestia.” The man spoke in a deep, booming voice.
With a start, I realized that the man in front of me was my father, Poseidon.
“Before I go I must warn you of something.”
“What is it my lord?” a woman’s voice rang from the other side of my father. His massive size blocked my view, preventing me from seeing whom my father is talking too. This person must be the “Celestia” my father mentioned before.
“I don’t know when, but a child of mine will come one day. When this happens it means that the barrier I placed around your world has weakened. Once this happens, monsters from Tarturas will be able to make their way into this world.”
“My lord, what can I do to stop it?”
“Nothing can be done to prevent it. But you can fix it.“
How they would fix this problem they were talking about was a mystery to me. The room was disappearing as everything faded to black.
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I slowly realized that my eyes were closed and my senses were gradually returning. The one thing that came fast was a pounding headache. Then the pain rushes towards me like a hurricane. My whole body was sore from hitting the ground and tree. I haven’t felt this much pain since… the time before I got the curse of Achilles. Why do I feel fatigue when I should feel nothing?
Before I could figure out why the curse isn’t working anymore, I needed to know where I was. I gently rose to a sitting position while I rubbed my head in an attempt to ease the pain and clear my mind. That’s when I heard a voice beside me.
“Not anymore.”
So I wasn’t alone. The voice was female; that much I could tell from that one sentence. I couldn’t determine if the speaker was a child or adult. Before opening my eyes I decided to get a sense of my surroundings with my free hand. Unfortunately, because of that, I reached too far and fell off whatever I was lying on.
“Σκατα that hurt!”
“Oh my goodness, are you okay?”
“Yeah, yeah I’m fine. Never felt better.” I sarcastically replied back before realizing that there was another female near me.
I finally opened my eyes to see who the two people were. I wasn’t expecting to see six unnaturally coloured…ponies I guess you would call them, all staring at me. Okay….I’ve probably seen weirder stuff along my journeys; I just can’t recall what they were at the moment. I decided to find the owner of these…ponies.
“Hello? Can someone tell me who owns these ponies?”
“Excuse me! I am not owned by anypony! How dare you say that to a lady?”
I looked back at the six ponies and saw a white, purple maned unicorn glaring at me. Now I wouldn’t be surprised since Poseidon created horses. As his child I am able to communicate with any horse breed telepathically; but I didn’t hear the voice in my mind. The white pony had actually spoken English!!
“By the Gods! That hit from the tree must have done more brain damage than Dionysus could ever do!”
“You silly willy! Why would you be hallucinating? Sure you took a bump to the head, but you should be fine because Fluttershy here is the best when it comes to medical expertise. Speaking of which why aren’t you hurt more? That’s just weird. Especially because you were in the Everfree forest where there are a bunch of nasty creatures. Not to mention the strange wind that appeared before. Do you remember that girls? It was all “wwwoooossshhh” everywhere and then vanished faster than Dashie’s sonic rainboom. But enough about that, what’s your name?”
This time the speaker was a pink pony with a curly mane, and she just said all that in one breath. I thought she was going to explode by talking so fast! I couldn’t reply back to her questions- how could I!? I could barely make out what she even said! Thankfully I was saved from answering her when one of the other ponies came forward.
“Pinkie Pie you can’t just ask so many questions after it woke up.” said a purple unicorn.
Mental note: The pink one’s called Pinkie Pie. How…appropriate.
“I’m sorry about my friend here,” the purple unicorn continued,” but she’s always hyperactive. Since you just woke up, we will start slow. What is your name?”
Now this unicorn was finally going at a pace I like, nice and slow. Since she was being polite I decided to answer.
“My name is Percy, Percy Jackson.”
“That’s a weird name!”
I recognized that voice. It was the first voice I heard after I woke up. I turned to see that the one who spoke was a blue Pegasus with a rainbow coloured mane.
“My name is weird?! This whole situation is weird! Why are you able to talk?”
The blue Pegasus just became irritated. “Look bub, we’re the ones asking questions. We’re ponies, it’s natural for us to talk. You’re the weird one here! Why are YOU able to talk?”
Okay, this is getting annoying. “I’m able to talk because I’m a human; why wouldn’t I be able to talk?”
This caught all of their attention. And to think all it took was one word: Human.
“Okay…why do all of you look so surprised? You never saw a human before?”
The purple unicorn came closer to me. “We have all heard about humans before, but…”
“But what?” I didn’t like where this was going.
“Humans don’t exist. They are just legends and myths.”
What? Humans are a myth? That doesn’t make sense. We’re found almost everywhere on Earth. Unless…
“Where am I?”
The purple unicorn looked confused, “You’re in Equestria. Where else would you be?”
Now I’m getting scared. That bright tunnel took me much farther that I thought it did. I was in a completely different world. My brain kicked into overdrive. How did this happen? Can I even get back to Earth? Are these ponies my friends or my enemies? Demigod rule number one; never trust anything cute or colourful, because it will usually lead you into a trap. I began pacing the room trying to figure out what to do next.
The six ponies were following my movements, unsure of what they should do next. Before they did anything I decided to make the first move.
“Before we continue our discussion can I have your names?”
“Of course, my name is Twilight Sparkle”
“Rarity.”
“Ah’m Applejack.”
“Um…Fluttershy.”
“I’m Pinkie Pie! Your new friend!”
“And I’m Rainbow Dash; the fastest flyer in Equestria!”
Okay, just recapping; the purple Unicorn is Twilight, the white Unicorn is Rarity, the orange pony with the cowboy hat (ask about that later) is Applejack, the yellow Pegasus is Fluttershy, I already know Pinkie, and the blue Pegasus is Rainbow Dash. And they all thought my name was strange?
“All right, now that we know each other let’s try to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. First off, I’m not from here. I’m from a world known as Earth.”
“Earth? Ya mean like the ground?” Applejack asked.
“No. Earth with a capital E.”
Long story short, I had to explain where I came from, while making sure that I didn’t let them know what I really was. True they were friendly, but from my experiences I needed to know more before I could trust them completely. After all, this could all be one big trap that I’m heading into. Finally, Fluttershy brought up the question:
“Um…Does your world have animals, if you don’t mind answering?”
“Yeah, it does. It has all kind of animals. Animals that fly, run, swim, they’re all over my world.”
“So who takes care of them?”
“Well the wild ones take care of themselves, but…” before I could finish my sentence the ponies went from interested to scared.
Some of them looked like of me like I had turned into a Gorgon, while others were looking at me like I was about to attack them at any moment.
“Hold on a minute! What did I say?”
“You’re walking on thin ice here bub.” Rainbow Dash said angrily, “It’s not natural for animals to take care of themselves. They need some ponies like Fluttershy to help them. Otherwise they become dangerous or don’t survive.”
“Well sorry to disappoint you but that’s how it is in my world. You’re now going to have to explain to me how your world works because I’m still confused about where I am.”
Twilight was the first to regain her composure. She looked like she was debating whether to tell me everything about their world or not. All the other ponies waited for her verdict, leading me to guess that she was the leader. Finally, Twilight spoke.
“First off unlike humans in your world, ponies are not the dominant species in Equestria. There are several others that share this land with us. We may be the friendliest but that doesn’t mean we can’t defend ourselves. I’m gonna be honest with you, half of the myths about humans aren’t nice. That’s why we are being cautious with you.”
“Makes sense.” I replied.
“Now that you understand, we will try and explain about Equestria.”
It was simple, there were three kinds of ponies; Unicorns, Pegasus, or as they are like to called Pegasi, and Earth ponies. There was also a fourth kind known as an Alicorn. The Alicorn had the abilities of all three ponies groups; the wings of a Pegasus, the horn of a Unicorn and the strength of an Earth pony. Equestria was created after the three ponies came together as one group. Soon after, the Alicorns came. The three groups decide to allow them to be leaders for they represent the unity of the three.
The next thing they explained was cutie marks. It is a special marking on their rear end that shows them what their special talent was. It reminded me of when demigods get claimed by their parents. Each of us has special talents based on our parent. The only difference was our mark only stayed for a minute before disappearing. I don’t think I could stand having a trident forever on my butt.
Right now I’m in Fluttershy’s cottage, which is on the outskirts of a town called Ponyville. Feeling I had heard enough, I asked if I could have a tour of Ponyville just to stretch my legs. They were reluctant at first, but remebering and explaining to me that Ponyville had faced threats much worse than me, they decided to allow it.
Before I made my way to the door Pinkie Pie yelled at the top of her lungs, “OH MY GOSH! I have to go NOW!”
Before I could even blink, the pink pony vanished.
“Uh does anyone mind telling me that was about?”
They all looked at each other and started laughing.
“Don’t worry darling,” Rarity said after she stopped laughing, “Pinkie Pie is just being herself. We’ll see her soon once we go into town. I suggest we take our friend here to Sugar Cube Corner the bakery of Ponyville first to get him something to eat.”
I decided it was better not to ask any more questions. As we made our way to Ponyville, my curiosity took over, and I started a conversation with them.
“So what do all of your…cutie marks represent?”
Rainbow Dash decided to go first, “Well mine obviously means I’m the fastest flyer in Equestria. If I go fast enough I’m able to make a sonic rainboom. Once the Wonderbolts see it I’ll be a shoo in for the team!”
Of course ask one question and you get two more questions. I decided to ask about the sonic rainboom and Wonderbolts later, as Applejack began to tell me about her cutie mark.
“Well ya see, mah family owns an apple orchard. Mah cutie mark helped me understand that Ah was meant fer apples and mah family, so Ah run a business sellin’ apples, and apple treats in town, while Ah also help grow them on the farm with mah big brother.”
Fluttershy was next.
“My cutie mark was the best thing that ever happened to me. I’m a shy pony but when I’m with my animal friends I have so much fun with them. I’m able to communicate with them very easily so I help take care of them.”
“I see and I’m going to take a guess and say your cutie mark has something to do with diamonds?” I asked Rarity.
“Not quite. I have a magical ability that allows me to locate gems. It is quite helpful for me since I am a fashion designer.”
Ponies wear clothes? That’s something I’ll have to see to believe. The thought was pushed out of my head as Twilight started to explain her cutie mark.
“My cutie mark basically represents magic. I seem to have an amazing amount of magical ability. Princess Celestia saw the potential in me so now I’m her personal protégée. I’m learning a lot of astounding magic spells from her.”
“Princess Celestia?” I swear I’ve heard that name before...
“She’s basically our ruler. Princess Celestia is an Alicorn, which is why everypony looks up to her. She is wise, kind, and always knows what’s best for her citizens.”
Okay, so this princess was the leader of all the ponies, but why did the name sound familiar? For some reason I couldn’t let the matter slide. I just had to remember where I heard that name. I mean if I remember all the dreams I’ve had but…that’s it! I remember where I heard it before! My last dream with my father, he was talking to some person named Celestia! What if it wasn’t a person but the Alicorn these ponies told me about?
Without realizing it, I suddenly yelled, “I remember now!”.
All five ponies were staring at me with confusion etched on their faces. Before I could try and explain my sudden outburst, Applejack began sniffing the air.
“Does anypony here smell smoke?”
Applejack wasn’t wrong. Further down the street, a black pillar of smoke rose high into the sky. We ran towards the source to see what was wrong, and arrived in an open plaza. Directly in front of us was a building engulfed in flames.
~Author's Note~
Its finally here! The plot has now started to develop more! Hope you all enjoy this chapter. Once again thank you MC BRON3 for editing (he is astounding, just letting you know!) Until next chapter. Enjoy.