"You can't hide from me!" Rainbow Dash yelled as she searched for the human in a nearby forrest. She lifted up a stone and looked underneath it. But when she saw only some bugs she dropped the stone, then she flew in front of a bush hoping he would be in there. Again without results when she looked into it.
"Great. I found a weird looking talking monkey and I already lost him." she mumbled to herself.
Rainbow Dash's head went up, she heard a sound behind her. She had a little grin on her face and talked quietly "There you are." She flew away towards the sound she heard.
However, the man hid himself behind a tree, not far away where Rainbow Dash stood just five seconds ago. He leaned his head against the tree and breathed slowly so she couldn't hear him.
"Ok, what's going on here. First I wake up in a stange place I don't even know, now I'm beeing attacked by a flying blue pony. Can this day be even crazier?"
He looked slowly behind the tree to see if she was really gone.
"Good, she's away. Now... where am I?"
He stepped away from the tree and looked around.
"What is this place?"
After a small walk in the forrest, he finally he reached the border of the forrest. It was on the edge of a hill and now he had a clear view of the landscape.
His mouth dropped down when he saw the Canterlot Mountain in the distance. He held his hand against his head and stroked his hair backwards while he gazed at the palace.
He started to laugh a bit "Whoah, Would you look at that." he even laughed harder. "Can someone please wake me up?"
"I'll wonder who would build-ow!" Rainbow Dash flew out of nowhere and tackled the human by crashing against his back, making him fall downhill together with the blue pegasus.
After a few rolls he hit the ground with a thud. The human was lying on his back again, when he opened his eyes he saw Rainbow Dash looking at him upside down angrily but curious.
"Who are you?" Rainbow Dash asked.
The human didn't react, he only stared at the blue pony.
"Don't make me say it twice!"
"I'm Adam." he reasponded in a calm voice.
Rainbow Dash stepped back a bit when Adam rolled slowly on his belly and puched himself up, so he could sit on his knees. "What about you? You're a flying blue pony. Damn, what was the name of a horse with wings, a... a pegasus right?"
Rainbow Dash began to smile "Yeah, I am. The name is Rainbow Dash." Adam looked at her mane and tail "I see. Rainbow Dash huh?"
"Yep. Wait a minute. You never seen a pegasus before?"
When she saw Adam shook his head she laughed, making Adam a little confused.
"You really need to get out more. I'm not the only pegasus around here. In fact you should feel yourself lucky. You have the chance to meet the coolest and fastest pegasus in Equestria."
"Equestri-what-now?" Adam asked when he stood up.
Rainbow Dash was kinda suprised with that question "You mean you really don't know?"
Adam shook his head again.
"Tell me... Adam. Where do you come frome?" asked seriously.
"Well, I guess you can say I'm from..." Adam stopped before he finnished and looked at Rainbow Dash with a weird smile.
"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?" Rainbow Dash asked when she stepped back.
"I feel a little..." Adam leaned backwards when his eyes rolled over. He fell on the ground again.
Rainbow Dash looked confused at him "Err... Adam? You ok?"
"Rainbow!"
Rainbow Dash turned her head as she heard her name. She recognized that voice "Applejack?" She saw the other ponies coming to her in the distance. Applejack in front followed by Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Twilight, while her horn was reduced by annealing.
"Rainbow Dash, are you alright?" Twilight asked her. But she looked at Adam quickly after.
"Did he hurt you?" She asked Rainbow Dash.
"No I'm fine."
Pinkie Pie grabbed her hoof and examined it very closly "Then how do you explain those bruses and durt?"
Rainbow Dash pulled her hoof back "Pinkie, I'm fine. I just fell downhill, that's all."
"Uhm, what are we gonna do with him?" Fluttershy pointed her hoof at Adam.
Pinkie pie jumped up next to Adam's head and giggled "He looks funny."
"Don't worry Fluttershy, he won't do us any harm. My 'Sleep-well spell' has ensured that he stays this way for about 7... maybe 8 hours."
"Wait, you did that? Why?" Rainbow Dash asked.
The ponies looked confused at Rainbow Dash.
Applejack was the first to respond "Sweetie, in case you didn't noticed, there was a human standing in front of you."
"Yeah... so?" Rainbow Dash wanted answers "Why did you used a spell on him Twilight?"
"That thing is dangerous. You're lucky you survived this."
"His name is Adam... and he's not dangerous!" Rainbow Dash responded angrily.
"Have you lost yer mind? The book told us he was."
Twilight stared at Rainbow Dash "Applejack is right, we don't know what he is and why he's here. I think we're better tell this to princess Celestia. She will figure out what to do."
"No!" Rainbow Dash stomped with her hoof on the floor. "Who do you believe more? A stupid book... or me?"
The four ponies were silent for a moment. Twilight looked at the sleeping human, she closed her eyes and sighed. "Alright." she spoke quietly "I will take him to my place so we can ask him where he comes from."
Rainbow Dash made a small smile of relief "Thanks."
Twilight returned the smile and stepped shortly after towards the human. "Come closer, I'm going to teleport us to my library."
Applejack and Rainbow Dash folowed Twilight's instructions immediately, Fluttershy hesitated at first, but with a 'gentle' push from Pinkie's head, she was standing next to Applejack.
Twilight lifted her head up and prepared herself to teleport her and the other.
And in a blink of an eye they were gone.
Twilight searched into her bookself to find more answers of the human they found. He was still sleeping on the couch .
Fluttershy was already gone home, to take care of the animals. Rainbow Dash looked intently at Adam as she lay next to him.
"Are you alright Rainbow?" Applejack asked her when she stepped closer to her.
"Yeah, I'm fine." she responded with a sigh. "It's just... I can't believe he's dangerous. Why would they write something like that?"
Rainbow Dash looked back at Adam "He was more afraid of me, then I was from him." she turned her head at Twilight "Did you find anything yet?"
"No, I can't find anything about his whereabouts, they don't even know if he actually exists. The Mystery encyclopedia is the best clue we have about him."
Pinkie Pie appeared out of nowhere next to Applejack "Maybe the Canterlot library has some books that most ponies don't know about. Or maybe they kept it a secret and locked something away in a secret passage and..." Applejack held her hoof against Pinkie's mouth before she could finnish.
"You know that doesn't sound like a bad idea." Twilight came closer to the two ponies.
"What? You don't really think that the library in Canterlot has secret tunnels?" Rainbow Dash asked her while lifting an eyebrow.
"Of course not, but they may have some artifacts about mythical creatures. We will go to Canterlot today."
Twilight realised something "Shoot. The library is closed today. Now what?"
Pinkie jumped up and down "Oh Oh. Guessing games. I like those."
Applejack looked at Pinkie pie curiously "So... yer already knows how to get in the library?" .
"Yes."
"Pinkie, we will not sneak inside." Twilight reacted.
"Then no. I do not know." she continued with a big smile.
"But the museum might be open. Maybe there we can find there some old books or articles that can help us."
"Sorry Twilight but I'm not comming." Rainbow Dash said as she lowered her head on her hoofs. She was still lying on the couch next to the human.
"Aaw. Why not?" Pinkie Pie asked her "It could be fun."
Rainbow Dash stared at the ground "Because I'm not in the mood, ok. Besides, walking in museum's isn't my thing."
Applejack looked at the blue pegasus with a grin "Says the pony who's sitting in a library."
"I know, but this is different." Rainbow Dash looked up and turned her head at Adam "And somepony need to watch over him. I'm the only pony he knowns."
Twilight let down a sigh "Well alright. But promise me you will be carefull. Applejack, Pinkie. We have to go to the train station before we miss our train."
"Twi we're ready to go... but wouldn't it be easier and faster to use yer fancy magic instead of the train?"
"Yes, but Canterlot is been heavily guarded because of the market. If I teleport us there they know something is wrong."
Pinkie jumped in the air screaming "To the train station!" and ran away. Applejack followed her shortly after.
"You guys make sure you keep a good look for Pinkie, she might get lost in the museum." Rainbow Dash said with a laugh.
Before Twilight followed the others she had one more thing to say to Rainbow Dash "And you make sure you keep a good look for Spike when comes back. And for our sleeping friend."
Then she ran outside leaving Rainbow Dash alone.
After a long trip on the train and a small walk in Canterlot, they finally reached the museum.
"Wow, it's huge in here. How are we gonna find something 'bout that guy?" Applejack asked Twilight while looking around.
"I really don't know. Ah, I see somepony who might help us."
She talked to the museum guide but without results. He didn't even know what a human was.
Twilight walked towards Applejack "Great, nothing." she looked left and right "Uh, where's Pinkie?"
"She went to those old books over there." Applejack pointed her hoof at Pinkie who was watching very closely at some books in the bookshelf.
"Pinkie, are you comming. We didn't find anything there."
"Those books maybe not. But this secret tunnel will tell us." Pinkie Pie said in the distance. Twilight rolled with her eyes "Pinkie there isn't a secret..." her eyes widened when she saw Pinkie opening a bookshelf in a secluded corner of the museum.
Behind the door was a staircase leading down. The walls were made of old bricks. On the wall hung a number of torches to see the stairs.
"Pinkie? Ah don't know how you do this. But you have to teach me someday." Applejack stepped closer towards Pinkie.
Twilight investigated the secret doorway "I can't believe this."
Pinkie Pie's head came next to Twilight "Well? let's find out what's hidding downstairs."
Adam opened his eyes quickly when he saw a sealing. His attention however went to a voice he heard. A simular voice.
"Keep falling down like that and you will hurt yourself one day." Rainbow Dash said with a teasing tone.
She was sitting up on the couch not far from his legs.
Adam looked around "Is this where you live?"
"Hey don't insult me. This is the library of my egghead friend Twilight."
"So you're friends with an egg?" Adam asked confused.
"What? No no, you got it all wrong. It's a nickname I gave her."
"So she's not an egg. What is she? A pegasus like you?"
"Nope, she's an unicorn."
Adam looked at her in disbelieve but he was soon distracted when his stomach growls.
"You hungry?" Rainbow Dash asked him with a smile. Adam only nodded with a small laugh.
"There is probably some food in the kitchen." Rainbow Dash pointed her hoof towards a door "You can take whatever you like."
"And this Twilight will be ok with this?"
"She won't know about it, I do it all the time." Adam could only smile with that answer. He stood up and went to the kitchen to grab some food he liked.
When Adam closed the door, Rainbow Dash started to think, something bothered her "Wait a minute. Twilight said he would be out for 7 or 8 hours? Then why are you standing up just after 2 hours?"
The fixed door of the library opened.
"Hello Rainbow." Spike walked in and waved at Rainbow Dash but stopped immediately.
"Rainbow Dash you're back? Where are the others? What about that human-thing?"
"Oh don't worry he's..." Rainbow Dash paused for a moment to think "He's been taken care of. You don't need to fear him anymore." she continued while trying to hide her grin.
"Pfff, I wansn't afraid. Who said that?" Spike responded bravely.
Rainbow Dash jumped of the couch and looked at a cardbord box Spike held in his claws "What's that?"
"This? It's a cupecake I bought from Sugar Cube Corner... and no this is my cake."
Rainbow Dash let down a fake sigh "Just put it in the kitchen before I eat it."
She saw how Spike walked into the kitchen and waited a moment.
Rainbow Dash started to laugh out loud when she heard Spike screaming.
Spike ran out the kitchen and hid himself behind Rainbow Dash "Well... so much for the brave Spike."
Adam appeared in the room with a carrot in his hand. He was also surprised when he saw the purple baby dragon.
Rainbow Dash stepped aside so Adam and Spike could see each other again "Adam this is Spike, Twilight' sassistant." Adam waved at Spike which makes him calmer.
Rainbow Dash looked at Spike "Spike this is Adam. The oh-so-terrifying human." she said with a sarcastic tone.
Even though Spike knew Rainbow Dash made a joke, he could only stare at Adam.
"Finally!" Applejack said relieved when she put her hoof on the floor "Ah thought that it would never end."
On the bottem of the stairs, the hallway ended up in the dark. Luckily Twilight used a spell making her horn glowing.
In the distance they saw a wooden door. Twilight, Applejack and Pinkie Pie looked at each other.
"Ah wonder what's behind it. And why they put it away from anypony."
"Well, there is only one way to find out."
Twilight stepped closer to the door, she pulled her hoof up to open the door. Unfortunately for the ponies, the door was locked. Pinkie Pie crossed her hooves "Great. Now what?"
"Pinkie." Applejack received her attention "Twilight has magic, remember?"
Pinkie looked at Applejack "Oh yeah."
"It won't be easy to open it. There was no key used for this, the door seems to be sealed by magic."
She pointed her head towards the door when her horn started to glow.
Like Twilight said before, It was not easy to break the spell on the door but she managed to open it.
"Aha, There we go. Now why would they use such a difficult spell?" she asked herself.
The wooden door creaked as they opened it. The room looked like a dungeon. Again some torches illuminated the room, but there wasn't much to see insinde, only a only a small table.
They went into the room to get a good look of the table.
"Is that a book?" Pinkie asked.
"Yes, it is Pinkie." Twilight read the cover "But i'm not sure it's the one we're looking for."
"What is that thing doing here anyway?" Applejack asked "Is it important or something?"
Twilight opened the book and looked at the first page "I don't know but..." Twilight's mouth fell open.
"What... Twi?" Applejack stepped beside Twilight and tried to read along.
"Look at the name and signature." Twilight responded again. "It's the same one our former queen used.
"So yer saying that this book was written by the queen?"
"Well duh." Pinkie said unexpectedly.
"I don't get, who would keep this a secret?" Twilight lifted the book up with her magic and began to smile "Well, there is one way to find out. We'll take this book and I will read it back home."
"Fine with me. This place is given me the creeps anyway."
The three ponies gasped when they heard a male voice. "And what are you three doing here?" There was a shade standing in the door opening.
"Answer me Twilight Sparkle."