“Wooah.” I muttered in awe as I took in the sight of the Canterlot high building.
The two story U shaped building with the spherical dome on top surrounded by large open grassy fields with a statue of a pony in front which held one of the two known portals between this world and Equestria, seeing it in the show did absolutely no justice to the description of it.
“Welcome to Canterlot High.” Fluttershy tells me.
I nodded, “Right so where do we begin?” I asked hopping off her shoulder.
Fluttershy opens her back pack and hands me a stack of papers, “Would you mind helping me out by passing out fliers.” she asks me.
I took the stack, “Sure.” I say before walking off to a different part of the school ground.
While Fluttershy went to hand out fliers for the shelter in front of the school, I went around back to the parking lot to handle the students who may have come in their cars.
There weren't many students coming in yet on this side so I decided to sit down against a tree nearby.
“I can’t believe so much has happened.” I muttered to myself, since I no longer had Fluttershy’s calming presence around me I was fully hit by the reality of my sudden Isekai trip.
“I..I..” I curled in upon myself shuddering and hiccuping, “I can’t believe it’s all gone, what did I do to deserve this? I just wanted to have a nice relaxing time at a convention and meet some fellow fans.” I muttered into my knees.
‘Everyone, I’m so so sorry that I was such a jerk and remained so distant these past few years, Siren I hope you are well taken care of.’ I mentally apologized.
“I never even got to hold her.” I muttered thinking of my unborn niece, I had been looking forward to my role as an Uncle before this accursed event.
“Are you okay?” A soft bubbly voice speaks from above me.
“Huh?” I weakly murmur looking up from my arms, my eyes stinging from how much I’ve been crying to see a teen girl with light gray skin, pale olive hair and brilliant gold eyes wearing a blue shirt with a yellow tie and a green skirt, but the most distinct feature of hers was the fact her eyes were misaligned.
I blinked at seeing Equestria Girls counterpart of the best pony above me.
“Muffin?” Derpy says sitting down beside me and pulling me onto her lap holding a Muffin out to me.
I blinked, ‘Where did she get that Muffin from?’ I thought, “Huh?” was all I could say aloud.
“You seemed upset, I always eat a Muffin to cheer me up when I feel down.” Derpy says.
I look at the offered pastry for a bit, “Thank you.” I say graciously taking the Muffin and taking a small bite.
My eyes widened from shock at how good it tasted.
“Better?” Derpy asks me.
I nodded, “Thanks I feel alot better, I’m Zorua Dokuro, call me Rua.”
Derpy smiles kindly at me, “Glad to meet you Rua, I’m Derpy Hooves.” she says before her smile falters a bit, “Although some call me Ditzy Doo.”
I held out my hand, “Nice to meet you Derpy.”
Derpy takes my hand, “Do you mind if I ask why you were so down?” she inquires.
I faltered a bit while it would be good to talk about it for my own sake but I didn’t exactly feel like confronting the situation yet.
Derpy notices my hesitation, “It’s okay if you don’t want to talk about it now.”
I nodded, “Thanks, I know I need to talk about it for the sake of my mental health, but I’m just not ready to face it yet.”
“Do you mind if I ask you another question?” Derpy says.
I nodded, “Sure.”
“Are you part animal since you have that Fox Tail.” Derpy asks.
I paused, you know I never actually touched my tail only looked at it, thinking back it was strange Fluttershy never mentioned the tail I had as I could understand why she never mentioned the fox ears as that was just the style of my hair
I gave a sly smirk, “Wanna try touching it.”
Derpy ran her hand through the tail and I braced myself.
Only to feel nothing, I blinked as I saw Derpy’s hands touching the tail.
“Wow it feels so real, if you didn’t actually touch it you could easily mistake this tail as a real one.” Derpy says.
I felt stupid, ‘Of course that was why Fluttershy never said anything about the tail, while I was unconscious she must of realized that the Tail was an accessory of the outfit.’ I thought before speaking aloud, “I’m glad you like it, I love Foxes so I added a tail for my outfit.” I slightly lied as I never actually made this outfit.
Suddenly a bell rang over the area.
Derpy stood up, “I better get to classes, I hope to see you again Rua.” she says walking off.
I smiled feeling a little better as if a weight on my shoulders had been lifted.
“I guess I didn’t know how much I needed that.” I said running my hand through my head as my fingers caught on something briefly making a dangling sound.
Out of the corner of my eyes, I saw the Mist Earrings hanging their tauntingly.
My eyes narrowed, “You accursed things.” I growled out, trying to take them off, only to fall over in pain.
“Ow, Ow, Ow!” I winced from the sting of my nerves
“What happened?” I muttered in shock rubbing my ears.
I gently pulled on the earrings again feeling the sensation of touch.
“No way these are permanently on my ears.” I said in shock before laughing hollowly, “I guess I really am a Displaced.”
“I better find time to work on controlling my new powers as well.” I muttered to myself leaning back as my fingers brushed a paper.
I looked down and winced, “But first I should go apologize to Fluttershy for not being able to help her with passing out fliers.” I said gathering up the scattered papers.
I walked around the school to where Fluttershy said she would be.
“Hey Fluttershy!” I called out looking around for Fluttershy, only to see an empty courtyard.
“Did she already go inside?” I asked myself, if classes already started it would make sense for her to be inside.
Suddenly something caught my attention out of the corner of my eye.
From the base of the statue came a glow before two figures shot out of the base, one was a purple dog with green ears and a light green belly with a tuft of dark green fur on his head. The other was a girl with light purple skin with dark bluish purple hair with a streak of red wearing a blue blouse with a red bow tie and a purple skirt with a star marking on it.
“Mazel Tov.” I said looking up at the statue the two just emerged from before focusing my attention on the newcomers.
On the ground in front of me was Princess Twilight Sparkle and her loyal assistant Spike the Dragon.
“Looks like things are fully kicking off.” I muttered as Twilight Sparkle slowly began to get up.
“Uh Twilight?” Spike asks looking at the new form of his friend.
“Spike, you're not supposed to” Twilight questions her eyes blinking into focus and seeing the dog in front of her, “Spike are you a dog?”.
Spike spins around examining himself, “I think so, but I have no idea what you are” he says confused
Twilight brings her hands in front of her face for the first time, Screaming as she did.
I chuckled a bit, I always did find the reaction amusing when I watched it.
Twilight grasps her right hand and wiggles her fingers before wobbling her wrist.
Spike scratches his ear as he watches Twilight’s freakout.
“Twilight you have to get it together!” Spike says hoping to calm his Mother figure/friend down.
Twilight takes a deep breath in and out to calm down, “What does the rest of me look like?” she asks.
“Um.. like you, only not you. Your muzzle’s really small.” Spike says.
“My muzzle?” Twilight questions touching her nose.
“Are you gonna scream again?” Spike asks when he notices Twilight about to have another freakout.
Twilight shook her head
“Where are we?” Spike asked as the two of them looked at their surroundings.
“I don’t know.” Twilight tells him
I figured this was about as good a time as any to introduce myself to the princess of friendship.
“Kaosu.” I greeted walking up to the transformed Alicorn and Dragon.
“Ahh.” Twilight yelps falling onto her rear.
I smirked a bit in amusement at that.
“Woah, what are you?” Spike asks circling around me.
“I’m an Arcobaleno.” I tell the dragon dog calmly.
“An Arcobaleno, is that what I am?” Twilight asks, looking at her hands again.
“You’re not from around here are you.” I “Asked” Twilight..
Twilight begins sweating nervously, “No what do you mean I’m just a normal Arcobaleno like you.” she laughs nervously, her eyes darting around.
I gave a smirk, “First I saw the two of you emerge from that statue.” I said holding up a figure, “Second, You went into a panicked state when you first saw your hands meaning you have never seen them before.” I said holding up a second finger.
“So these are called hands?” Twilight muttered.
“And third, you think you’re called an Arcobaleno.” I say holding up my third finger.
“You mean I’m not an Arcobaleno?” Twilight asks confused.
I shake my head, “No you are what is called a Human, or Hairless Monkey I guess.” I muttered at the end.
“What is an Arcobaleno?” Twilight asks in a scholar mode.
“Consider it as a subspecies of Human.” I say cryptically, “Now it's your turn to explain.” I tell her.
Twilight looks at Spike a bit unsure.
“Might as well tell him Twilight he did see us come out after all, plus having some help in this unknown world would be useful towards accomplishing our task.” Spike says adding his two bits.
Twilight sighs, “Your right Spike.” she says before looking at me, “My name is Twilight Sparkle, I am a Alicorn princess who came from a land called Equestria to retrieve a crown that was stolen by a Unicorn named Sunset Shimmer, I have 3 days to do this task or else I’ll be trapped here for 30 Moons and Equestria will lose one of its greatest defenses.” she tells me.
I paused for a moment to let the info fake sink in before deciding on the best questions to ask, “Alicorn?” I asked first.
Twilight nodded, “Equestria is a world that is populated by various races like Diamond Dogs, Dragons, Griffons, Changelings but the majority of it is populated by Ponies who are all all divided into four different Sub categories.” she tells me.
I nodded at that.
“First there is Earth Ponies, second is Peasus, third is Unicorns and lastly are the Alicorns which is an amalgamation of all three.” Twilight explains.
“I see and what did you mean by your crown being the greatest defense?” I asked her.
“In Equestria there are six elements known as the Elements of Harmony, they consist of Honesty, Kindness, Generosity, Loyalty, Laughter and Magic, they help keep the balance of Harmony in Equestria and the Element of Magic sits in the crown that was stolen.”
“Sounds like the Flames of the Sky.” I muttered under my breath, “I see, this is indeed important. I'd be glad to help you out.” I tell Twilight.
Twilight stands up wobbling a bit, “Thanks umm…. I just realized I don’t know your name.” she says
‘Kufufufu’ I laughed with a grin, “It’s Zorua Dokuro, call me Rua.
“Nice to meet you Rua, I’m Spike.” Spike says waking up beside me.
“Pleasure Spike, and word of advice, keep quiet when it’s not just Twilight and I around.” I tell him.
“How come?” Spike asks confused.
I pat him on the back of the head, it felt weird to stand shoulder to shoulder with a dog, “It isn’t normal around here for a dog to talk like a normal Human.” I tell him.
Spike nods, “I understand.”
“This must serve as the gateway back to Equestria.” Twilight says sticking her hand through the mirror at the base as it shimmers, I could see that instead of a hand the reflection shown through the glass was a hoof.
Twilight shook her head, “We need to find my crown as soon as possible and get back there.” she says resolutely, “I suggest we start searching the castle first.” she says looking at the school
“Works for me.” Spike agrees
I couldn’t help the laugh that slipped out.
“What?” Twilight asks looking at me confused.
“You’ll soon see” I tell her teasingly.
Twilight shrugs before she got into a crouch as Spike hopped her back and I jumped on her head, Twilight took off across the High School courtyard on all fours.
“You do realize that Humans don’t normally walk like this right.” I asked her as if casually talking about the breeze.
Twilight stops walking, “What do you mean?” she asks.
Spike taps Twilight’s shoulder getting her attention.
The two look over to see a random pedestrian walking by with his dog on a leash.
“Yeah, I think Rua is correct. I don’t think this is how the new you is supposed to walk.” Spike says.
Twilight quickly jumps up, knocking Spike off, but I managed to remain in my place on her head as she smiles and tries to play her earlier walk off as a joke.
The man and Dog just stared at us before walking off.
“Woah, ah Woah.” Twilight stutters out as she takes a few wobbly steps trying to gain her balance, “Come on Spike I do not wanna be like this for longer then I have to.” she says using the railing to pull herself up the stairs.
“Well look on the bright side, you don’t have those pesky wings to worry about anymore.” Spike says trying to give Twilight a positive.
Twilight gives him a blank stare as she finally manages to figure out her new center of gravity and stand up straight.
“Looks like you got everything figured out.” I compliment her.
Twilight nods doing a hair flip and confidently strolling forward.
I realized what was gonna happen, “Wait Twilight that door’s not an…”
Twilight slams head first into the door rubbing her head in pain.
“Automatic one.” I finished.
Twilight blinks in confusion as she scrunches her face in concentration before it morphs into confusion, “My magic it isn’t working.”
“That makes sense, you don’t exactly have your horn.” Spike tells her.
“What?!” Twilight yelps out grasping her hair.
“We really need to find you a Mirror.” Spike says.
I bopped Twilight on the head, “Did you really not see your reflection when you stared at the portat in the mirror from before.” I asked her
Twilight paused at that before blushing, “Oops I guess I did, I was just too distracted to fully notice everything and take it in.”
“Well considering your whole body changed and the massive task of your mission it isn’t that far fetched to miss a few things.” I tell her.
Spike pushes open the door and the three of us go inside.
The whole hall was empty except for the three of us, various school spirit stuff was around, in the corner sat a trophy case.
“Just as boring as I remember it.” I commented to myself.
Twilight notices the Trophy Case and walks over to it, “What do you think Spike, other artifact’s she’s stolen from Equestria.” she asks.
Oh my gosh Twilights Naivety was just so adorable.
Twilight gasps seeing her reflection in the glass, “So this is what I fully look like as a Human.” she says fully taking in her appearance with a clear head fiddling with her hair and squeaking her teeth a bit.
Suddenly the bell rings and the whole hall was crowded with students.
“I must have been talking to Twilight longer then I thought.” I muttered to myself since a typical class period was 45 Minutes and before I met Twilight the first bell had just rung.
The swarm of Students knocked Twilight down as I hopped off onto the Lockers.
I watched as Twilight and Spike crawled out from under the sea of Students with Twilight landing at the foot of a Student.
‘Flash Sentry.’ I thought looking at the boy with narrowed eyes.
“Woah, You Okay?” Flash says offering Twilight his hand.
Twilight takes it and Flash helps her up as Twilight nods that she's okay.
“I don’t think this is a castle.” Spike says.
“Nope it’s a School.” I say from above them on top of the lockers.
“A School?!” Twilight says in a giddy tone.
“Indeed.” I said as I hopped back onto Twilight’s head as she went around exploring the school.
Suddenly as we were walking musing becan to cue up in the background.
“Okay where the hell is that music coming from?” I asked but got no response.
‘I’ve seen a place that’s quite like this.’ Twilight sang as she walked through the hallway observing the other students.
“How can I hear her voice when her lips aren’t moving?” I was even more confused.
‘Everything is turned around this crazy world is upside down.’ Twilight and Spike look at each other unsure.
‘Getting on my feet it’s the hand that I was dealt.’ Twilight trips and falls into her face.
“You okay?” I asked her in concern.
Twilight nods to show me that she is okay.
‘But I don’t have much time to fend, got to learn all that I can.’ Twilight stands up clenching her fists in resolve.
Twilight spends the next several moments observing various students doing their activities and behaviour.
‘They don’t use any magic or fly with any wings.’ Twilight peaks through a classroom door to look at the human counterpart of Cheerlie teaching a class.
‘I don’t get these funny clothes, Skinny legs or tiny nose.’ Twilight fiddles with her skirt for a bit.
‘Everything’s confusing when it seems so new, But I look a little closer and it starts to feel familiar too.’ Spike jumps into Twilight's arms just as the three human Cutie Mark Crusaders rush by causing Twilight and Spike to look at each other in confusion.
I frowned, wait would they be Cutie Mark Crusaders here, since the Cutie Mark was something that came from the magic back in Equestria that showed a Pony’s Special Talent would they even know that the term was, ah what ever I’m going to call the Human CMC Colors.
‘What a strange new world (What a strange new world)’ Twilight pushes open the bathroom door and walks in observing herself in the mirror.
“Um.. Twilight.” I said tapping her head
“Yeah Rua?” Twilight asks looking up at me.
Suddenly the door opens and a young boy is standing in the stall.
“You’re in the colt's room.” I say in a deadpan.
The boy yelps and slams the stall shut.
‘I’m trying to make heads or tails of this strange new world.’ Twilight bolts out of the restroom in embarrassment with Spike chasing after her.
‘Sorting through the small details of this strange new world.’ Twilight stands there trying to play off her embarrassing mistake.
‘What a strange new world’
Twilight and Spike were wandering through the halls while I still rode on her head.
“I’m really sorry.” A soft spoken voice I recognized.
“Fluttershy.” I muttered realizing this was when Sunset confronted her, I bit my lip cursing myself for failing to be around to protect her.
“I-I just found it and I thought I should give it to her.” Fluttershy stammers out.
Twilight’s ears perk up as she hears the soft spoken voice.
“I didn’t know you had dropped it.” Fluttershy says as Twilight and Spike peak their heads around the corner to see two girls in a confrontation.
“Well I did and I was about to get it before you swooped in and ruined everything!” Sunset scolds Fluttershy.
My eyes narrowed at that.
“You shouldn’t pick up things that don't belong to you.” Sunset says.
Fluttershy curls in on herself and brushes some hair out of her face.
“It doesn’t really belong to you either.” Fluttershy mutters.
Sunset slams her hand against the locker pinning Fluttershy, “EXCUSE ME!”
“N-Nothing.” Fluttershy says sliding down the wall.
“That’s what I thought, it’s as good as mine and you know it.” Sunset says bashing Fluttershy.
I clenched my fish in anger, I knew Sunset redeemed herself, in fact it was the events of Rainbow Rocks that lead me to develop a bit of a crush on her but right now I despised the fact she was harming the person who took care of me.
I could tell Twilight and Spike weren’t doing much better as Spike was growling and I could feel the tension in Twilight’s face.
“You really are pathetic, it’s no wonder your best friends are all dirty animals.” Sunset says before turning to leave the broken Fluttershy.
“HEY!” I called out.
“How dare you speak to her that way.” Twilight says stepping into the hallway.
“What did you say?” Sunset says turning to focus on us.
“I said how dare you speak to her that way!” Twilight says walking up to Sunset.
The two have a face off before Sunset smirks, “You two must be new here.” she says flicking Twilight’s chin.
“I can speak to anyone however I like.” Sunset says strutting through the hall glaring at a student who shuts themselves in their locker.
“Kufufufu, that’s an interesting thought Bacon head.” I say chuckling in amusement.
“B-B-BACON HEAD?!” Sunset says whirling around to face me in shock.
I can see Spike smirking at me from the corner of my eye.
Sunet stalks back up to me glaring at me, “You should watch what your brat says or else he might find himself in big trouble.” she tells Twilight before stalking off.
Twilight blushing slightly from the implication that I’m her child.
“I can’t believe you did that.” Fluttershy says in awe.
“I couldn’t just stand there.” Twilight tells Fluttershy
I hopped down from Twilight's head and walked over to Fluttershy
“Are you doing okay?” I say in concern.
“I’m okay, thanks for your concern Rua, but did you really have to do that?” Fluttershy says in worry.
“Do what?” Twilight asks curiously.
“It’s just that, no one ever stands up to Sunset Shimmer.” Fluttershy tells us.
“Sunset Shimmer?!” Twilight gasps in shock looking in the direction where Sunset went.
“You’ve heard of her?” Fluttershy asks.
“They have a bit of a history together.” I tell Fluttershy in a vague explanation.
“I don’t think I’ve seen you around before.” Fluttershy tells Twilight.
“Makes sense, this is her first day transferring to this school.” I say leaning against the locker.
“Yes, I just transferred from another school, My name’s Twilight.” Twilight says picking up on where I was going doing a little trot with her feet and hands.
“I’m...Fluttershy.” Fluttershy squeaks out.
“Sorry, what was that.” Twilight asks.
“It’s Fluttershy.” Fluttershy squeaks out getting further away.
“It sounds like you’re saying Fluttershy but how can that…” Twilight says confused looking at Spike.
Fluttershy notices Spike through her hair, “Oh my goodness who’s this sweet little guy!” she says, rushing forward almost knocking Twilight down.
“That’s Spike my Dr...” Twilight says almost letting the truth slip out
“Dog.” I remind her.
“Dog.” Twilight corrects herself.
“Oh, he’s so cute!” Fluttershy says reaching into her bag and pulling out a cookie, “Go on eat up little pup.”
Spike looks at the cookie a bit unsure.
I gave him an encouraging nod.
Spike takes a small testing bite of the cookie before he eagerly devours it.
“Aw wouldn’t you just give anything to know what they're really thinking?” Fluttershy asks as she watches Spike eat.
“He usually just tells me.” Twilight says.
I slapped my hand against my face in a groan.
“What do you mean?” Fluttershy asks confused looking at Twilight.
Spike makes silence motions at Twilight reminding her I said dog’s don’t talk in this world.
“Arf Arf Arf.” Spike says fake barking wagging his tail.
“Oh uh never mind.” Twilight says playing off her mistake as a joke, “Sunset Shimmer said you picked something up, something that belonged to her, it wasn’t a crown was it?” she asks getting back into the meat of things.
“How did you know?” Fluttershy asks standing up
“Uh.. Lucky Guess?” Twilight asks with an awkward laugh.
“What did you do with that crown anyway?” I asked Fluttershy.
“This morning while I was passing out fliers for the Animal Shelter like I do every wednesday I felt something hit my head, I looked down and saw the crown that was given to the Princess of the fall formal dance. I have no idea why it was out in the courtyard but I didn’t want anything to happen to it so I figured the best thing to do would be to return it to Principal Celestia.” Fluttershy explains as she scratches Spike’s ears.
“So that’s where Sunset got the fake crown from.” I muttered.
“Principal Celestia, she’s the ruler here?” Twilight says confused.
“You… could say that” Fluttershy says feeling a bit awkward.
“Well the Principal and Vice Principal do technically make the rules of a school making them the de facto leaders of sorts.” I commented.
Fluttershy nodded at that, “Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna do make the rules here.”
“Where is she now?” Twilight asks.
“Probably in her office.” Fluttershy says before Twilight and Spike run off in separate directions.
“Three, Two, One.” I counted down using three fingers.
Twilight and Spike come back realizing they don’t know where to go.
“Third door on your left.” Fluttershy says in amusement pointing the right way.
“Thank you.” Twilight says running off.
“I’ll see you later Fluttershy.” I tell her before running after the equestrians.
“Oh wait!” Fluttershy calls out after us, “You’re not really supposed to have pets on school grounds might wanna tuck him into your backpack it’s what I do.” she tells Twilight about Spike. Before turning around as Angel Bunny, a Kitten and a bird poke their heads out.
The bird lands on my head.
I looked up at the bird, “Looks like I have a case of Head Pigeons.”
“They just get so lonely at home all day.” Fluttershy says cuddling the rabbit and cat.
“Oh, okay thank you.” Twilight says about the advice.
The Bell rings.
“Oh no, I’m late for class.” Fluttershy says jumping up, putting the Animals back into her bag and running off.
“Shall we?” I asked Twilight.
Twilight nods, “Let's go meet this Principal Celestia.
---MLP---.
Next Time: Meet the Humane Six