At Canterlot...
Alicorn of the night came on the balcony. Her mane was like an ocean wave. Princess's horn glowed and the moon had shown from the horizon. After doing her job, Luna decided to look at everyponies dreams. Going into her room, she closed door, layed on bed and closed eyes. Luna opened them in Dreams Realm. Thousands of doors stood ahead, and Luna starts checking dreams of other ponies.
Vlad was in the same room as he was last day. After sitting on the couch, he tried to open the Panel, successfully. However, Vlad couldn't interact with it "Guess I need to be active. Whelp...Now I wait...", with that being said, human layed down on couch and put his hands on chest, "Yaaarn...Well, if it's my dream..." he stood up and the whole room turned into a grass field with sky full of stars.
Vlad sighed "Ah...Just what I needed!" he layed on grass and looked at shining stars, mumbling some song.
After helping another pony, Luna sighed "I suppose we are done for tonight...We don't sense any stress"
Suddenly, alicorn sensed that new door appeared...It had...Strange structure. Luna teleported to this entrance.
This door was in a perfect rectangle shape. It was made from pleasant to the touch material, and had light brown color.
Luna tilted her head "Interesting...", she said and opened the door.
Princess appeared on grass and looked around. This pony's dream was just a meadow with sky full of stars. Suddenly, something that looked like a dragon sat and looked around as well, noticing alicorn.
Vlad didn't realize who was that "But I didn't imagine something like that..." he said and looked at alicorn with calmly confused face. Vlad had feeling that something about this pony was strange...
Human closed his eyes and put one of the palms on face"Dark blue coat, this perfect mane an~"
REALIZATION KICKS IN!
Vlad kneeled before the Princess "Forgive me my rudeness, mighty Princess!" he thought for himself 'HOLY SHIMATA! What I was thinking?!'
Luna backed off a bit 'That's strange, I didn't see this creature yesterday night...' she then clipped her eye '..what is it anyway?'
Princess coughed into her hoof "We shall forgive you, however, as an apology, you are going to tell us EVERETHING we ask you!" she looked at kneeled creature.
Vlad nodded "Uhh...As you say, your majesty"
Luna sat on grass "You may sit down as well, mortal"
Vlad sat, crossing his legs. After looking on Luna's face, it took him a lot to not smirk 'I understand that she is Princess...But that "serious" face..."
Princess raised one of her eyebrows "Something funny?"
Human coughed one time "Excuse me your majesty...So uhm...What do you want to know?"
Luna inhaled "Well, first of all..."
And next few hours Princess was asking questions about where Vlad came from, what is his business here and other stuff. Luna became relaxed after first hour of conversation, and after even more time she was talking with human about simple stuff with pure smile.
Luna put both of her hooves on head "So, you are telling us that there is no magic, but technology in your world?!"
Vlad nodded "That's right but," he sighed ", your majesty, may I ask you question?"
Luna nodded "Sure thing, little human"
Now Vlad grabbed his head with arms "Just HOW can you cook without magic? I mean, using mouth is dangerous!"
Luna chuckled "Oh, it's easy..." she wanted to explain something, but made confused face "...huh...We actually never wondered"
Vlad sighed "Great...How I want ask Twilight about it...It might be rude.."
Luna tilted her head "Twilight Sparkle? Did she find you?"
Vlad answered "I actually found Ponyville myself...The first pony for me to meet was Lyra Heartstrings. I got so scared that I hit my head against wall and fell asleep!"
Luna made strange face "And then you woke up in Twilight's house hmm~?"
Vlad looked at Luna with tilted head "Uh, yes, that how it went"
Luna sighed "Perhaps you are too young or pure to understand..." she then looked at Vlad with curiosity "But anyway, how did you end up in our world?"
Vlad put palm to his chin "Well...I was walking back from school..."
Luna nodded in excitement "Did some kind of special erm...Human, send you here?"
Vlad negatively turned his head "Actually, I felt something from behind...And then~" he gasped "Oh! I got it!"
Luna groaned "Come on! Tell us!"
Vlad put fist on his palm "I got killed!"
First seconds, Luna's face showed nothing, but after realization kicked in, it turned into terrified one.
Luna backed off "Human, don't joke like that!" even though she said it, her mind told her that human's words were true.
Vlad shrugged "Well, I guess that was my fate"
Luna looked at human with shocked face "You accepted your...Fall, so easy...Just how old you are?"
Vlad chuckled "Oh! I'm 15! Turning 16 soon"
Luna gasped "YOU ARE JUST 15?!"
Vlad looked at alicorn with confused face "Well, it was fast and not painfull..." he then thought and bowed to Princess "Uhm...It may be rude to ask...But PLEASE! Don't tell anybody about my death"
Luna looked at human with wide opened eyes. She calmed down "It's 'anypony' and don't worry, your secret is safe with us"
Vlad sighed and sat again "Thank you, your majesty!"
Luna looked away "Well, since we got to know each other, you may call us just Luna"
Vlad choked and coughed few times "E-excuse me? Your majesty, but we just talked for small amount of time! I can't call you like that! In my world, it would be rude..." he sighed.
Luna closed her eyes "Hmpf! In this case..." she smirked "...It's an order!"
Vlad started "B-but~"
Luna made the scariest face she could "You dare to disobey Princess's order?"
Vlad gulped "As you wish, yo~ Luna"
Princess then smiled joyfully and put her hoof on Vlad's head, petting him when suddenly her face became surprised.
Vlad made grumpy face "Uhm...Luna, could you be so kind and not touch me?"
Princess whispered "No way...Your mane is even softer than ours! Can we~"
She got interrupted.
Vlad turned around "Luna, I don't like being touched!"
Alicorn sighed "Excuse us..."
Her voice and face were so sad...
Vlad sighed "Perhaps I could make an exception ...Since it's a dream, I won't be hurt, right?" he also added "But it doesn't mean that I will allow you to do anything with me in Real world!"
Luna gasped and appeared behind human, making him sit down with even more joy "Well well well, what can we do with this mane"
Vlad laughed nervously "Why do I feel like I'm going to regret it?"
When Luna was about to squeeze human's hair, he dissapeared, and Princess appeared at Dreams Relam. She groaned "Noo! Why did he have to wake up?"
Vlad stood up really fast and looked around.
Spike gasped "Dude! Don't scare me like that!"
Vlad sighed with a relief "Spike, I owe you one...That dream was WAY too realistic"
Spike tilted his head "If it was a nightmare, Princess Luna would probably help you..."
Vlad nervously laughed "Heheh...I prefer to handle some problems myself"
Spike raised his eyebrow and shrugged "Well, Twilight wanted to see ya for researches"
Vlad stood up and stretched, making some of his bones crunch "Ooh~ That one was loud!"
Spike backed off "Sweet Celestia! What is wrong with your bones!"
Vlad shrugged "Dont mind that...Anyway, let's go!"
Spike sighed "Riiight..."
Human and dragon walked down to the first floor "Not gonna lie, this house is amazing...I mean, tree and other stuff took pretty long, right?"
Twilight was sitting on couch "Thank you and yes" she stood up and walked to Vlad "I suppose Spike told you about what are we gonna do, right?"
Vlad nodded "Mhm, so, do you need my hair, tear or blood?"
Twilight gasped "Why would I need your BLOOD?"
Vlad shrugged "Like...DNA 'n stuff?"
Spike sighed "You humans are strange..."
Vlad looked at Spike "Belive me, I think so too"
Twilight coughed "AHEM! So, I will just ask you several questions"
Vlad nodded "Oh, alright then"
Spike sighed "And I will go to sleep..."
With that being said, Twilight started asking questions, and dragon went upstairs.
Vlad was finishing his sentence "...and that's how our World Net works!"
Twilight wrote that down in her notebook "Impressive...Humans were able to create so much without magic!"
Vlad put his palm up and moved his fingers "We have advantage, hehe"
Twilight sighed and looked at Vlad's blue dot "By the way...How did you get this thing?"
Vlad looked at dot "I'm not sure"
He suddenly gasped, scaring unicorn.
Twilight nearly fell down, but Vlad caught her hoof. Now it looked like they were dancing. Human helped unicorn to get on her four.
Twilight sighed "Phew! Don't scare me like that!..And how did you catch my hoof?"
Vlad shrugged "Back in my world, I was doing some dancing. Perhaps my muscle memory thought it was some kind of move"
Twilight giggled "Well that was cute. Anyway, why did you gasp like that?"
Vlad opened his Panel "Well, yesterday before going to sleep I looked through my...Uhh...Upgrades?"
Twilight nodded "Go on..."
Vlad started pressing something on panel "Well, there is the thing. I think I can...How to say it in the right way...Upgrade my Magical and Physical abilities?"
Twilight tilted her head "What do you mean? Just yesterday we found out that humans dont have any magical abilities!"
Vlad sat, so that Twilight could see panel and pointed to Icons "Well, you see those pictures?"
Twilight leaned against human shoulder "Uhh...Wings and arm?"
Vlad moved away from unicorn and stood up "First of all, PLEASE don't touch me"
Twilight gasped "Oh! Sorry, I didn't notice"
Vlad nodded "Alright...So yeah, those are called-"
Spike spoke behind them "Skill trees, pretty good stuff ya know"
Both human and unicorn gasped.
Spike half closed his eyes and smiled"Aww you looked so cute together~"
Vlad sighed "Spike...PLEASE!"
Spike shrugged "Won't happen again! My promise"
Vlad shrugged as well "Well Twilight is cute, I' d call everyo- EveryPONY cute"
Twilight giggled "Aww! That was sweet!"
Spike rolled his eyes "AWWW MAN COME ON!"
Twilight tilted her head "Wait, I thought you were saying 'everyONE' yesterday..We didnt learn you this yet"
Vlad put his palm behind head "Oh you know, Intuition"
Twilight half closed her eyes "That's not how it works..."
Vlad sweated a bit "Oh, where is the bathroom? I have to wash myself..."
Twilight pointed on second floor "It's up here, just go to the end of corridor"
Vlad sighed "Thanks!..And uhh...Can I get towel please?"
Twilight looked around "Uhh..."
Spike found one in kitchen "There ya go buddy"
Vlad took towel "Thanks bro!"
Twilight asked "But what about your...'Skills'?"
Vlad pointed finger into nowhere "Oh you know, I can't stand being dirty and smelly! So let's talk about it later!"
Twilight sighed "At least we won't worry about smell!"
Vlad entered the bathroom and took his clothes off...
(I won't describe process of washing)
Meanwhile in Canterlot...
Celestia was going to visit Ponyville to meet the 'Creature' that Twilight Sparkle has encountered. After she told this to her sister, Luna asked to come with her.
Celestia turned her head to sister "But Luna, you are supposed to sleep, don't you?"
Alicorn smiled "Dont worry, I've got plenty of sleep last day" she did seem energetic today.
Celestia smiled as well "Well, if you say so, you can come"
Luna calmly nodded, but inside she was screaming with joy.
'Now I can learn more about it's mane...Err... hair!'
Luna ran to her room "I will take some...Items"
Celestia nodded "Sure thing, dear sister"
She then entered her room and wrote letter to Twilight Sparkle about their arrival.
Back to Ponyville...
Vlad came down the stairs "Ahhh! I feel like I got reincarnated!"
Twilight and Spike were at kitchen arguing and didn't hear like Vlad got behind them "What is goin' on here?"
Unicorn and dragon gasped, turning back at Vlad confused.
Spike sighed "So THAT how it feels..."
Twilight coughed one time "Well, yesterday you ate some cupcakes that Pinkie made...But we are not sure what do you eat usually. I mean, looking at your figure, I can say that sugar is not main thing in your diet, right?"
Vlad nodded "Indeed, but what about you tell me what do you have here?"
Spike pointed at table, showing eggs, bread and some vegetables "Twi is sure you will eat any of those. But I think that you're like me ..I mean, can you eat gems?" dragon looked at Vlad.
Human looked back at Spike confused "You are eating GEMS? Sorry for ya, but Twilight was right"
Twilight looked at Spike with smug smile "See? I was right"
Spike turned away and crossed arms on chest "At least I tried to guess"
Vlad thought a bit and said "I could cook something if you want"
Spike suddenly appeared on one of the chairs "That would be lovely!"
Twilight started to argue "But Vlad, you are our q-"
Vlad closed his eyes and moved his finger left and right "Nuh uh! I want to share one of our dishes!"
Twilight thought for a second and smiled "Well, if it's not hard for you!"
Vlad snapped his fingers "Alright, so uhm...Do you have frying pan and some oil?"
Twilight nodded and brought everething out with magic and put items on table near human.
Vlad put one hand behind his head "You know, I'm actually jealous...You gu-... Ponies have magic, wings and physical strength while I have uh...Panel with stats"
Twilight giggled "Aw, that's actually-" she suddenly tilted her head "Wait, your uhh...Panel, has stats about your body?"
Vlad started to heat the oven "Eeeyup! Everething about my body, blood and other stuff that I don't understand!" he then cut circle in bread and put it on pan, cracking an egg inside of it.
Twilight looked at his cooking "I will have to look at those later and...Oh wow! I never cooked eggs like that!" she leaned on table with her hooves, accidentally touching Vlad with right one, making him shake a bit.
Vlad looked at Twilight "Uhm...Some space please?"
Twilight apologized and moved away "Oh right, sorry I forgot, hehe"
She sat at the table while Vlad was cooking other 'Egg Toasts'.
After they had breakfast, Vlad stood up.
Twilight collected dishes "It's so simple, yet tasty!"
Spike yawned "Aaah...I wish you could teach me this..."
Vlad shrugged "Sure, why not"
Spike pointed his fist up "Oh yeah!"
Twilight put dishes in sink "Where are you going now?"
Vlad put his fist under jaw "I guess I will walk 'round the Ponyville. Perhaps I could do something. Oi, Spike!"
Spike opened one of his eyes "Yeah?"
Vlad put his palm behind head "Uhh, could you guide me through town?"
Spike jumped off his chair "Sure, but didn't you have some kind of map in you Panel?"
Vlad opened his palm and Panel showed up "Yeah, but the thing is that I have to explore Ponyville and only then I can use it" he shrugged "Balanced enough"
Spike snapped his claws "Let's go!"
Vlad opened the door "See you later, Twilight!"
Spike walked out before Vlad did "Laaater!"
Twilight smiled "Dont get in trouble, you two!"
Vlad and Spike walked to the center of Ponyville. Dragon asked Vlad "Well, what about we visit Rarity?"
Vlad put palm on his chin "Oh, right! She told me to visit her so that she can make clothes!" he then looked at dragon.
Spike sighed "Lucky you..."
Vlad sat on Spike's level and pushed him weakly "Aw, don't worry! It's not like I'm going to take her from you!" he whispered.
Spike blushed "H-hey! How did you-"
Vlad shrugged "Intuition"
Spike sighed "Right...AHEM! Let's go!" Dragon started marching.
Vlad snorted "Hmpf! Lead the way, captain!"
Sooner, they arrived at fancy looking building. For some reason, it looked like an attraction. There were really few details that were telling it was a boutique.
Vlad whistled "Wow, it looks like a toy house"
Spike knocked at the door. Sighnboard was telling that boutique is opened.
Muffled Rarity voice could be heard from the building "Come in!"
Vlad opened door for Spike, and they entered the boutique. Big amount of mirrors and mannequins with dresses on some of them met quests.
Rarity was sitting at the sewing machine and looked at her customers "Oh! Welcome to my not very humble boutique!"
Spike waved his hand "Hello Rarity!"
Rarity put her glasses off and approached Spike and smiled "Hello there, Spiky Wikey!"
Spike smiled and blushed a bit.
Vlad turned his head around and quietly snorted "H-Pft...Hello there..." he put palm to his mouth.
Rarity looked at Vlad "Oh! Hello there Vlad! I suppose you are here for clothes"
Human turned his head at white unicorn "Uh...Well you asked me to come and here I...WE did" he then added "And well...I kinda need some clothes after all"
Rarity grabbed her notebook and pen with magic "Aalrighty! I will take your measurements and start creating!"
Vlad opened his Panel "Dont worry, I have those somewhere around here..." Human started scrolling through the panel.
Rarity tilted her head "That's...Quite comfortable" she gave Vlad notebook and pen after he found needed information.
Vlad was writing really fast. He spent only a second to memorize some parameters and wrote them down immediately. After two minutes, human gave unicorn the notebook and pen.
Sooner, Rarity was looking through notes "Huh...Humans are built almost like dragons"
Vlad shrugged "Not like I'm against it to be honest"
Rarity went back to sewing machine.
Spike whispered "Heh, thank you dude"
Vlad smirked "You are welcome buddy"
They did Bro Fist and started to talk quietly. Now that Spike got a REALLY good look at Vlad, he realized that humans were really tall.
Spike asked "Are all of you so tall?"
Vlad rolled his eyes "Well, I'm kinda average for my age, so yeah. Though there are even taller guys back into my world"
'Like Daniel...' Vlad secretly bit his chin from inside weakly '..I wonder...Nope, don't wanna become dead inside now!' he shook his head slowly.
Spike put one of his claws to jaw "I wonder how does it feel to be so high..."
Vlad shrugged "You can sit on my shoulder since you are small enough"
Spike didn't argue with human about his size "Well, could you give me A HAND?"
Vlad smirked and helped Spike to get on his shoulder "Hope you will hold my BACK"
Spike sat on human's shoulder "I'm telling you, we are almost same! Whoa...It's VERY high"
Vlad wanted to say something then dragon started to cough rapidly "Hey! Spike are you ok?!"
Spike somehow managed to get on the floor "Yea...On sec-" he blurped out the letter.
Vlad gasped "What the..?"
Spike calmed Vlad down "Don't worry, I'm OK. Looks like this letter is for Twilight...I will see you later!"
Vlad said a bit confused "Uhh...Yeah, sure"
Spike walked out of boutique "See you later Raity!"
Rarity answered without distracting from working "See you later darling"
Vlad asked Rarity "Uh...Was that..." he pointed at the closing door.
Rarity giggled "Oh don't worry! Spike can send and get letters with his magical fire" she smiled "Truly a gifted gentle dragon"
Vlad shrugged "Alright...If you say so..."
Vlad closed his eyes and started humming quietly.
Meanwhile at library...
Twilight invited Lyra to discuss things about humans. They spent like this around an hour. They had cups with tea on the table and some snacks.
Lyra was finishing her sentence "...and if I'm right, he could appear in Equestria by 3 ways"
Twilight was noting everething "And what are those ways?"
Lyra moved her hoof "Well, he could be summoned here, not sure how though, but still. Second way is being able to control magic, but since humans aren't able to control it, we can forget this way"
Twilight noted this "And...What is the third way?"
Lyra suddenly became serious "Well...Death"
Twilight dropped her pen and notes "D-death?"
Lyra nodded "Not just death...Being murdered..."
Twilight gasped "Murdered?! Lyra, are you saying that-"
Lyra moved her hooves fastly "No! I'm sure that he got summoned in Equestria by accident!"
Twilight exhaled "I hope you are right...Thank you for coming over anyway"
Lyra smiled "You are welcome!"
Suddenly, Spike entered library, heavily breathing "Twi- HUFF...Twilight, you got letter..." Dragon fell down holding scroll of paper.
Twilight used magic to pick Spike up and put him on couch "Get some rest, thank you!"
Spike made a thumb up "You are...welcome..." then his arm fell on the couch.
Lyra opened the letter and read it for herself. Her eyes were widening as she continued.
Twilight turned around worried "Is there something serious?"
Lyra gave letter to Sparkle with surprised face.
Twilight read the letter "Dear Twilight Sparkle..." she mumbled some parts of letter and read the last one aloud "...that's why I thought it would be a good idea to visit Ponyville. By the way, my dearest sister is coming with me to witness our quest.
With best wishes
Celestia"
Twilight dropped the letter and screamed.
Back to boutique...
Rarity was walking around Vlad "So, what do you think? Since you told me you don't really like something fancy (what got me scared), I did something very simple"
Vlad looked in the mirror. He was wearing shirt with grey torso with black stripe with dots in the middle and white sleeves. Pants looked like his old ones, but a bit brighter.
Vlad turned around "It's AWESOME! Rarity, you just read my mind! Even this detail with buttons!" he looked at his back.
Rarity smirked "Well, I told you I can create perfect clothes for everypony"
Vlad turned back at Rarity "So uhm...How do I pay back?" he made apologetic face "I don't have any money now so-"
Rarity put hoof in front of her interrupting her "Darling, I made those clothes as an experiment, so they are free!"
Vlad sighed "Back in my world charity was rare thing to witness...Don't worry, I will repay you one day, I promise, just tell me what to do!"
Rarity snorted and took her glasses off "Well, if I need you, I will call you!"
Vlad bowed his torso with one hand on stomach and another one on back "You are very generous, mademoiselle"
Rarity giggled "What was that for?"
Vlad shrugged "Well, I sometimes like to act like that" he put his palms in pants pockets.
Rarity wanted to say something when Twilight ran into boutique "IT'S BAD, REALLY BAD!"
Vlad shaked a bit and looked at purple unicorn with confused face "Whoa! Twilight, what's wrong?"
Rarity tilted her head "Twilight dear, are you alright?"
Twilight was heavily breathed "P-princesses are coming to Ponyville!"
Vlad suddenly paralyzed "Did you say...PrincesseS?..Meaning that BOTH of them will arrive?"
Twilight nodded "Everething has to be perfect! Vlad, come with m-"
Rarity suddenly protested "NO TWILIGHT! HE has to look perfect! I wi-"
Vlad interrupted white unicorn "Actually I have only ONE request...It's to...Show humans's traditions" he turned his head to Twilight "I will be at library in a few minutes"
Twilight sighed "But DON'T be late, please!"
Vlad nodded and made a thumb up. Twilight ran out of boutique back to library. Vlad was a bit nervous...Not about Princesses's arrival though.
Rarity tilted her head "So, what do you want me to create?"
Vlad turned around with a bit nervous face "Something for head...ANYTHING"
Princesses were in a chariot somewhere in the sky. It wasn't cold at all. Pegasi that were leading the chariot were simply flying, without experience troubles.
Celestia looked at Luna's bag "Dear sister, mind telling me what are you carrying?"
Luna giggled "Oh! Those are for...Tests!"
Celestia smiled "I see...It's quite rare for you to go out of the castle at day time. Especially to run those...Tests"
Luna averted her eyes "Well, everething happens, right, Tia?"
Celestia giggled quietly "Sure thing, Luna" she looked forward.
One of the pegasi suddenly said "Ponyville ahead! Prepare to land!"
It took them quite a while to find place to land. Chariot landed near to the entrance of Ponyville. Every single pony gasped and bowed to Princesses.
Back to the library...
Twilight was running around the house with Lyra and Spike, preparing it to meet Princesses. It was so clean, that some parts were literally shining. Chairs were put around table perfectly, along with the couch.
Purple unicorn nervously looked around "Alright...Tea, snacks...Everething is ready"
Lyra nodded "AND new notebooks since we finished last one" she levitated two notebooks with her magic.
Spike shrugged "Everething except for Vlad" he put bowl with candies on the table.
Twilight suddenly screamed "EXACTLY! Oh no...What do we do...Maybe there is still time to take him here!"
Twilight ran to the door, and after opening it she bumped into somepony...Unicorn looked up, and her eyes widened.
Celestia was looking at unicorn with warm smile "Greetings, Twilight Sparkle"
Twilight gulped "H-hello- I MEAN- Welcome, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna!"
Spike and Lyra bowed to Princesses.
Celestia looked at them "You can stand up, no need to bow every time you see us in your house"
Lyra silently nodded and sat on couch, so did Spike.
Twilight nervously giggled "Uhm...H-human is not in house right n-now so..." she gulped again.
Celestia warmly answered "It's fine Twilight, right, Luna?"
Her sister leaned on her hoof and sighed "'Sure thing, we will wait as long as ne-"
She was interrupted by Vlad who ran into the house "HUFF...Sorry, there were a lot of ponies around your house...I wonder w-" he suddenly stopped talking after noticing that everypony was looking at him.
Human knelt down, placing his fist on floor "My apologies, sorry for making you wait, your majesty!"
Celestia giggled "I suppose you are the 'human', right? You dont have to greet us this way"
Vlad stood up "As you wish, your majesty" he looked at Twilight with apologetic face.
Purple unicorn sighed "Why don't you sit on the couch?"
Vlad was a bit nervous. After human sat on the couch, silence filled the house. Even Princesses stayed silent.
Lyra spoke first "So uhm...What is that thing on your head?"
Vlad put hand on his head "Well you see? My hair is...A bit messy, so I asked Rarity to sew this hat for me" he meant red wool hat that completely hid his hair.
Celestia giggled "Dont worry, it's totally OK if you don't want to show your...Hair"
Luna was looking at hat with childish grumpy face and thought 'Perhaps human is much more clever than we thought...'
Celestia drank a bit of tea "Twilight Sparkle and Lyra Heartstrings, why don't you show me your notes about our guest? I'm sure you wrote some"
Twilight gasped "O-oh right! Please follow me!" she quickly stood up and headed upstairs with Lyra.
Celestia teasingly looked back at Luna "Please, don't be rude to human"
Luna smiled "Dont worry dear sister, we won't lay a hoof on him"
Celestia nodded and followed Twilight with Lyra, leaving alicorn, dragon and human alone. They were silent for some time.
Vlad whispered to Spike "Dont leave me alone, please!"
Spike nodded with warrior face and whispered back "I won't leave my bro alone!"
Luna looked at them with skeptical face "You DO understand that we can hear you, right?"
Human and dragon shaked a bit.
Luna giggled "Didn't you hear our words? We won't hurt you in any way, Vlad" last word sounded a bit louder.
Spike put one of claws to his jaw "Wait...Princess knows your name...You woke up scared today..." Dragon gasped "Did Princess Luna visit you in dream?"
Vlad silently nodded, holding on his hat. It looked really ridiculous.
Luna sighed "Perhaps we look too dangerous for you..." she made sad face "Maybe it would be better if we stayed at castle..."
Spike pushed Vlad a bit "I think you have to apologize"
Vlad looked at Luna and sighed "I'm sorry, your majesty. I'm just very nervous. I mean, BOTH Princesses arrived at Ponyville just because of me. Forgive me my rudeness and tell me what can I do so that you can forgive me"
Meanwhile in his head 'Ah shimata...I think I will regret this. But at least I can finally...'
Vlad pointed at Luna "Your next line is: 'Then what about you show us your hair?' !"
Alicorn answered with childish smile "Then what about you show us y-" her eyes were wide opened "Wh...How did you know this?"
Vlad looked back at Luna surprised "O-oh...It actually worked..."
Spike shrugged "Intuition, right?"
Vlad looked back at dragon "Yeah, probably, anyway" he took his hat off, showing hair "Your wish is my order...Or how did that guy say..."
Luna gasped and opened her bag.
Vlad suddenly opened his Panel "One second!" he started to interact with it, while Luna and Spike were looking at him confused.
Vlad was mumbling something "Huh...So now I'm level 5...I could invest points sooner..." he finally looked at Luna and Spike "Sorry, just wanted to check on my stats"
Luna tilted her head "You humans are always so rude?"
Vlad gasped "No no no! Sorry for my attitude. I just got two notifications and well uhh.." Human was trying to find words.
Spike pushed him "Calm down!"
Vlad coughed "AHEM...So uhh, what can I do for you, your majesty?"
Luna closed her eyes "First of all, we ordered you to call us Luna"
Spike whispered to Vlad "Wait what? Strange order"
Human whispered back "Yeah, it was back in my dream...Did she say 'First of all' ?"
Suddenly, Luna pulled out comb from her bag "And second is..."
Vlad slowly stood up "Uhh...I have to go to the bathroom..."
Spike looked at comb, then on Vlad "Huh?.."
Luna giggled "Dont worry, we remember our promise" she put comb on table "We just wanted to understand if you know what is this"
Vlad blinked few times "Oh...You could just ask me"
Spike was sitting with confused face "Wha..? What was that question?"
Vlad sat back near Spike "I will explain everething to you after Princesses are done with their business"
Luna put her hooves on table "Anyway, we have some time to talk, do we?"
Spike and Vlad synchronously shrugged and said "As you wish...Wha?"
Luna giggled "Perhaps you could become very close friends"
Vlad nodded "Yeah, I think so too"
Spike smirked "We call each other 'bro' already"
Luna asked "Human, could you show us your ability again?"
Vlad nodded "Mhm, sure!" he activated Panel "Actually, I wonder what will happen if I use my points"
Spike looked at the Panel "Choose magic!"
Vlad looked at dragon "Why? I think it's better to upgrade my physical stats...Besides, it's safer to learn magic when someo- somepony who can use it around"
Luna coughed "You are forgetting about US, human"
Spike pushed Vlad "Come on! I know you want it too!"
Human groaned "Fine! Let me open the tab..."
After clicking needed buttons, Vlad opened black tab.
Spike climbed Vlad's shoulder "But there is just one upgrade...It's an upgrade, right?"
Vlad nodded "Yeah...Uh, Spike, you better hide behind Pri-"
Alicorn coughed several times.
Vlad sighed "..behind Luna. I'm not sure what will happen after I press this button"
Spike shrugged and jumped down, standing near to Princess.
Vlad sighed "Well...There we go!"
Human pressed the button and...
Meanwhile at the second floor...
Celestia was looking through notes "Interesting..."
Twilight was talking to Lyra "So you're telling me that he had glasses?"
Lyra nodded "Yeah! The way he was trying to look around yesterday, gave me the idea. Besides, before scaring Vlad yesterday, I heard him talking about his lost glasses!"
Twilight sighed "Poor thing...He has so many problems..."
Lyra pushed her a little bit "Don't worry! He will be ok!" she then explained "I'm sure that humans are really good at adapting to anything"
Celestia turned back at unicorns "It's good to know that humans can't use magic. By just looking at him, I can say that he is harmless"
Twilight sweated a bit "Well uhh...About magic..."
Lyra tilted her head "What do y-"
Suddenly, white flash sparked on first floor.
Lyra gasped "What the?!"
Celestia walked out the room with unicorns "Luna wouldn't do anything like that..."
Twilight continued "Meaning...Oh no..."
Lyra looked at Twilight "Wha?! What is going on?!"
Everypony ran downstairs...
Vlad was pointing at the roof, his fingertip had small bulb of light on it's end "Oh...wow!"
Spike was was hiding eyes behind his arms "AAH MY EYES! Make it go away!"
Luna was covering her face with wings "We would like you to stop too"
Vlad gasped "O-oh, alright I will try..." light on his fingertip slowly dissapeared "There we go! Spike, Luna, are you alright?"
Spike rubbed his eyes "Yeah...Just need few moments"
Luna hid her wings "We are fine, however, you are about to have a lo-o-ong conversation" she pointed her hoof behind Vlad.
Human sighed "Let's get it over with qui-"
He turned around to see Twilight's angry face.
Purple unicorn pointed at Vlad "You will explain EVERETHING!"
Lyra nodded "AND, you will show it again!"
Vlad shrugged "You're, asking, I'm answering"
After couple of minutes...
Twilight furiously put her hoof on table "Do you understand that somepony could get hurt?"
Vlad averted his eyes "That's why I asked Luna to be prepared. Besides, this is the first upgrade!"
Lyra noted something "Can you show it again?" she looked back at angry Twilight "What? He said it's just some light coming from his fingertip!"
Purple unicorn wanted to argue, but Celestia interrupted her "I'm actually interested too"
Twilight sighed "Alright then..."
Spike asked human "But uh...Can you make it not so bright?"
Vlad nodded "Yep!" he pointed his finger out and some light appeared on it's tip.
Celestia looked at it for a while and said "I see nothing dangerous in this light, it's totally safe"
'Though I have to admit...It's quite weak, for now at least. It has a big potential. Fortunately, young Vlad seems like a reliable person'
Lyra looked at human's eyes "You are hiding something, don't you?"
Vlad opened his Panel "Yes, yes I do" he started pressing on buttons.
Twilight protested "Hey! What are you do-"
Vlad calmed her down "For now I won't do anything like this without someone nearby"
Twilight sighed "Wel uhm...Princess Celestia..."
Alicorn looked back at her "Twilight Sparkle, I'm sure you can take care of this human"
(Haha, classic)
Luna, Spike and Lyra were standing near Vlad. He was explaining something to them, while pointing at Panel.
Twilight turned back at alicorn "Princess Celestia, I will help Vlad as much as I can!"
Celestia smiled "Good to hear, besides, he will need education. And I don't know anypony better than you for this job"
Twilight nodded and looked at human.
Vlad looked at the second Skill Tree "Hm...I wonder what this one does..."
After human pressed it, he snorted "Looks like I was right, Twilight!"
Purple unicorn tilted her head "Huh? What do you mean?"
Vlad showed her the Panel "Well, this skill tree is to upgrade my physical stats and stuff...BUT! It has some skills that I had back in my world!"
Twilight looked at the skill tree "Interesting...You can make your body better...Huh? Dancing?"
Lyra gasped "You can dance?"
Vlad shrugged "I guess so, but it was so long ago...Still I remember some moves!"
Twilight continued reading "What is Judo?"
Vlad smirked "It's kind of martial art in my world...I spent around 5 years on it but then I left due to problems with neck...I actually don't regret leaving"
Spike gasped even more "NO WAY! It's like karate?"
Vlad put palm on his hip "Well, it's focused on fortitude and moves...Not just swining your arms"
Twilight read last one upgrade with surprise "Intuition?..But that's..."
Vlad closed Panel "Told you! But the worst part is that I can't upgrade it with points...None of those actually"
Spike shrugged "It's better than nothing, eh?"
Lyra nodded "I agree...Besides, you promised to visit me!"
Vlad thought for few seconds "Can Spike come?"
Lyra looked at Spike "Yeah, why not?"
Vlad and Spike did Bro Fist.
Twilight coughed several times "Uhm...Didn't you forget that Princesses are still here?"
Celestia warmly smiled "We are actually leaving, right, Luna?"
Vlad turned around to see another Princess sneaking on him with hoof aimed at hair.
Spike and Vlad made confused face while Luna backed off and collected her items back in bag "We actually have to to leave, thank you for the meeting"
Twilight answered confused "You are welcome?"
Few minutes later...
Both Princesses were in chariot.
Twilight moved ahead "Thank you for visiting us!"
Celestia nodded "If you need anything for our human friend, I can always help you"
Vlad kneeled down again "Thank you for your kindness, your majesty!"
Luna looked at Vlad "We will see you soon" she winked to human.
Vlad sweated a bit "I'm waiting for our meeting..." he stood up.
Chariot took off, and everyone and everypony waved their hands and hooves before vehicle dissapeared in sky.
Vlad looked at Spike and Lyra "Whelp, let's go, shall we?"
Spike climbed human's shoulder and said "Lyra, lead the way!"
Lyra nodded "Aye aye, captain!"
Twilight stopped them "You are not going anywhere today. We will do researches on your magic for the rest of this day" she stomped her hoof into the ground.
Vlad sighed "Sorry Lyra...Not today..."
Lyra sighed as well "What about you visit me and BonBon tomorrow?"
Vlad put his arms in pockets "Yeah, why not"
Spike groaned "Aww...We could have so much fun today!"
They went back to Twilight's house silently. When they arrived, Lyra went back to her house.
After trio entered the house, Vlad put Spike down and said "Twilight...I'm sorry for acting stupid"
Unicorn turned around "What do you mean?"
Vlad sighed "Well...How I met Princesses and stuff..."
Twilight giggled "You don't have to be sorry! You've been in Equestria only for few days after all!"
Spike added "Besides I noticed how you were acting when Luna was around. Did she threaten you or something?"
Twilight thought for a second "By the way I noticed it too..."
Vlad averted his eyes "Let's say I promised her something that I don't like doing..."
Spike shrugged "If you don't want to tell us, it's your choice"
Vlad sighed "So uhh...We are good? I'm free to go?"
Twilight turned back at human with strange smile "Perhaps you forgot but..."
Vlad thought for himself 'Am I seeing things? Why does it look like she has menacing aura?'
Twilight grabbed some items with magic "We are going to do researches"
Vlad calmly answered "Cut the act, crazy scientist is defenetly not your role"
Twilight tilted her head "I thought I did well"
Spike crossed his arm on chest "We all know you wouldn't hurt anypony just for 'researches'"
Twilight sighed "Well, you are right..."
Vlad looked at items that unicorn held with magic "Besides, how would you use books to learn my abilities?"
Twilight put everething back on shelves "I just wanted to check on your so called 'Intuition' "
Vlad looked around "So...What next?"
Twilight turned around "Let's see what can you do for now"
Vlad suddenly smirked "Well, you see...There is one thing I want to check"
Twilight tilted her head "What do you mean?"
Vlad pulled his finger out "When I thought about my magic awakening, I thought it would be like a flash bang"
Spike rubbed his eyes "And it actually was...Damn my eyes hurt when I memorize it"
Twilight sighed "Get to the point"
Vlad clanched his palm into fist "I saw only two upgrades on my magic side. Those were 'Capacity', and 'Regeneration'. That gave the idea that..."
Human unclenched his palm, releasing some white transparent tentacles out of it. They moved for two seconds and dissapeared.
Vlad fell on his back with shocked face "IT ACTUALLY WORKED?!"
Spike and Twilight stood with even more shocked faces.
Unicorn started talking "W-what did you do?!"
Vlad answered a bit louder than usual "I never thought that it would work! That's...Aww man..." he said last words with annoyance in his voice.
Spike suddenly understood something "You spent your last pieces of energy, didn't you?"
Vlad opened his Panel "It's actually called Mana but whatever...And yeah, I have to upgrade regeneration"
Twilight looked at Spike with surprised face "You understand what is going on?"
Spike shrugged "Not really...I mean, at least we know that he has limits."
Vlad added "Pretty small FOR NOW! I will be able to regenerate mana if I-"
Twilight interrupted him "BUT YOU SAID THAT HUMANS DIDN'T HAVE MAGIC! WHAT IS MANA THEN?! HOW SPIKE KNOWS ABOUT YOUR MANA?!" she heavily breathed "So could you PLEASE explain everething to me?"
Spike and Vlad got confused, but still they were able to explain some things to her.
Some time later...
Vlad was finishing his sentence "...so that means that when I unlocked my magic, Panel gave me small amount of mana. However, I can't regenerate it until needed upgrades are discovered"
Twilight was writing everething down "And...Why did you name this energy 'Mana' ?"
Vlad shrugged "I played a lot of RPG games back in my world so I thought it would be cool"
Twilight sighed "You humans are addicted to those video games..."
Spike came back from kitchen with tea and one dish with an egg "Hope you are OK with fried egg since we don't have any bread left. By the way, good choice with naming your energy 'Mana'! Pretty simple ya know?"
Vlad shrugged "At least I explained something to you guys. Thank you for the food!"
After human ate his food and unicorn drank her tea, she "Alright, last question and we are moving on with your researches!"
Vlad was washing everething in a sink "Yeah, what is it?"
Twilight grabbed her notebook with magic "You started to talk about your uhh...Awakening. How does it apply to our situation?"
Vlad finished with dishes and turned around "Oh that! Well, I thought I can materialize my thoughts...You know, imagination and stuff?"
Twilight wrote it down "Mhm...Got it. So you are telling me you can fo anything with your magic?"
Vlad put finger to his jaw "Theoretically, yes. Practically, no"
Spike was drying off dishes and turned around "Eh? You mean your energy capacity?"
Vlad sat on couch "Not only that...What I'm trying to say, is that my power is Over Powered!" he said it with serious face.
Twilight tilted her head "But what is the problem then?"
Vlad looked at her with confident face "Isn't it obvious? There HAS to be weakness. There is ALWAYS weakness to something"
Spike shrugged "Well, for now we know that your weakness is capacity of energy"
Vlad nodded "Yep, FOR NOW! But I guess we will worry about it later!"
Twilight put her notebook away "And now we will do researches..."
Spike suddenly saluted to Vlad "I will remember you...Till my last breath..."
Vlad looked at Spike confused "Come on! It can't be that bad...Right?"
...but Spike was already upstairs.
Twilight asked human "Don't mention it. Could you activate your magic again?"
Vlad shrugged "Nope, I don't have any energy left"
Twilight looked at his blue dot "You said that you can solve this problem, right?"
Vlad opened his Panel "Yep, one second"
After human tapped Panel few times, he smirked "There we go! Now my mana regenerates overtime! I still have 2 points left by the way!"
Twilight nodded "Alright...Let's see if you can carry items with magic like I can!"
Vlad crossed arms on his chest "Twilight, it's called REGENERATION for a reason. We need to wait. Besides, I think I won't be able to do it like unicorns"
Twilight tilted her head "What do you mean?"
Vlad thought for a second "Well...You unicorns have horn to channel magic...My mana goes through my whole body"
Twilight grabbed her notebook "Interesting...Go on!"
Vlad pointed at her horn "You guys are focusing magic in one place, making it easier to control and detache it. Thats how I think it works" human then shrugged "I sure can focus magic magic in my arm or something, but I won't be able to control my mana after it goes off my body. I'm trying to say, that if I grab items like you do, I won't be able to control my magic and they will just stay still or something like it. Here is the conclusion: unicorns can control magic remotely, but can't channel it through body. Humans have FULL control on their magic as long as it attached to their body. That's it...Phew!" he inhaled a lot of air after his speech.
Twilight wrote it down with sparks in her eyes "Impressive! It's so simple yet true that even I wouldn't be able to think of it! How did you come up with that idea?" she looked at human.
Vlad smirked "It simple!" he put palm against his face again "I have the power of video games and anime on my side!"
Twilight's face changed from amazed into annoyed "Seriously? Games? And...What is 'anime' ?"
Vlad shrugged "Dont look at me like that! I played a lot of games and watched even more anime to come up with this theory and was right, wasn't I?"
Twilight groaned "Sweet Celestia...Now i dont want to know what is 'Anime' "
Vlad opened his Panel "Besides, my mana is fully regenerated!"
Twilight smiled "Great! Now show me how are you going to grab this book with magic!" she put book on the table that was near to human.
Vlad put palm to his jaw "So...Just grab it with magic? That's it?"
Twilight nodded "Yes, as simple as that!"
Vlad rolled up his hand and summoned few tentacles out of his arm that grabbed book and gave it to him "As I said, full control as long as they are attached to my body!" tentacles dissapeared.
Twilight wrote down something "OK...How did your so called 'Mana' react to your spell?"
Vlad opened his Panel "My mana is getting absorbed after I cast something. Like, I can summon a lot of those things and keep them as long as I want"
Twilight averted her eyes "Hm...Can you feel your new limbs?"
Vlad nodded "Yeah, it's like I'm growing myself more parts"
Twilight tilted her head "Can I touch one of those"
Vlad shrugged "Sure, why not?"
He summoned one tentacle out of his hand and Twilight touched it with her hoof "They are pretty soft"
Vlad made it dissapear "I felt nothing though, nice"
Spike walked downstairs "Whoa! You are still alive!"
Twilight answered "Spike! I would never hurt anypony for no reason!"
Spike put his arms up "Alright, alright! By the way, can you create something else? I mean, something hard, not soft?"
Vlad thought for a second "Well I think I can, why?"
Spike shrugged "Because why not?"
Vlad nodded with clever face "True, true...Alright then" his arm got caught in white transparent aura.
Spike groaned "That's it? Aww man..."
Vlad shrugged "What did you expect? Shield? Dude I unlocked my magic today, what do you expect from me?"
Twilight wrote something down "And...I suppose this aura acts like shell?"
Vlad nodded "Yeah, it's like I'm putting more clothed on myself"
Spike came closer "Uhm...Can I touch it?"
Vlad sat on his level "Yep, sure"
Dragon touched it with his claws "Wow! It's SUPER hard!..I actually don't know how strong it is, but you get the point"
Vlad made his 'Shell' dissapear "And there we go. Need regeneration again"
Twilight sighed "Alright...Let's finish for today" she went upstairs with pen and notebook.
Vlad opened his Panel "I actually want to upgrade one thing in my body"
Spike tilted his head "Why do you need to upgrade body when you have magic?"
Vlad shrugged "Well as you saw my mana capacity is low. I want to have Safety pillow just in case"
Twilight was walking downstairs "What do you mean by that?"
Vlad shrugged "Sooner or later I will need to find myself a job. Since magic is not rare at all here, I could use my hands"
Spike turned back at Twilight "I'm actually surprised, you didn't test Vlad's strength yet"
Twilight sighed "Apple Jack or Rainbow Dash can do it much better than I can. Maybe tomorrow we will meet with them"
Vlad was still looking through his Panel "Besides, who knows what kind of threats I can encounter here. I'm not fighting type, you know?"
Spike pointed his finger at human "Good point..."
Twilight snorted "Come on! You are completely safe in Ponyville! It's not like some evil forces are going to show up!"
(Yeeeeah...)
Vlad shrugged "Still, I want to upgrade my body!"
Twilight sighed "Well, it's your choice after all"
Spike yawned "Ah...Guess I will go sleeping"
Twilight looked through the window "Oh wow, it's already sunset!"
Vlad pressed some buttons on Panel "Mana capacity...And I still have one point. I wonder if there is THAT one upgrade..."
Spike looked at Vlad "You DO realize that if you talk to yourself, it doesn't look mysterious at all, right?"
Vlad sighed "At least I tried...Anyway, last point is going into my Body!" he pressed something on his Panel and it closed.
Twilight curiously smiled "And what did you upgrade?
Vlad snorted "Something that will help me avoid surprises I guess?"
Spike suddenly remembered something "Maybe I'm asking too late, but what was that Fast Heal?"
Twilight gasped "Right! I completely forgot about it! And what was that...Message?"
Vlad shrugged "I get Fast Heal every 5 levels. I will get next one at level 6, and after that at level 10. Why didnt I get it now though...Besides, I dont know how they are working"
Spike crossed arms on chest "But what about the message?"
Vlad yawned "Instructions...Aww man I sure do feel sleepy!"
Twilight sighed "Alright...Oh yes! What about your glasses?"
Vlad gasped "Oh no! I completely forgot about them! Eh...It's going to take a while to create new ones, but I guess I'm ok without those for now"
Spike got confused "You had glasses?!"
Vlad nodded "Yep, something is wrong with it?"
Spike shrugged "No I mean...Uhh...Yeah I don't know why I got confused to be honest. Maybe because I can't imagine you wearing glasses"
Vlad sighed "Alright, I'm washing myself and going to sleep, that's it"
Twilight nodded "I will look through my notes for a while"
Spike stretched his body "I don't feel sleepy to be honest...Guess I will do some chores"
Vlad walked upstairs "Sleep well I guess!"
Spike and Twilight wished him 'Good night' and human walked into the bathroom.
He noticed his old clothes 'They are not dirty anymore. Not sure if it was Spike or Twilight, but tomorrow I will try to repay them'
After Vlad washed himself, he changed clothes and entered his room. Human looked through the window and fell on his bed.
Vlad thought for himself 'I thought I could make my body stronger with that skill tree. Eh...There were just three upgradeable stats. At least one of those looks interesting. I hope I didn't waste my last point for something useless"
With those thoughts, he covered himself with blanket and fell asleep.