Authors note: during the parts with music, if you see stars before and after the link(***** link *****)then i want you to read as the song plays. If its just the link, then i want you to stop reading and listen to the song before continuing. Now back to Twilights library!
"Why dont you have a seat?" Celestia gestured toward the couch. Her voice was soothing, with a motherly tone.
She said that just like the "to catch a predator guy" you thought. You were suppressing a laugh. Who knew what this princess was planing, better keep your guard up.
"I would prefer to stand."
Wait that might sound disrespectful. You quickly realized.
"Its a human thing."
"I see. Now, humans, as you call them, are unheard of in Equestria. I'm sure you have many questions but first, i would like you to tell me everything that has happened to you from the time you arrived, to now."
You had just finished explaining to Celestia in great detail, who you are, and the events that had taken place today.
"Well it sounds to me like your hair color changed, based on the emotions your feeling. And with each emotion, you get different powers." Said princess Celestia
"Of course. Everything makes so much more sense now!" You said. This made her giggle
"And as for how you arrived here, the forest you were found in, has strange connections to other dimensions, sometimes opening portals, and sucking in whatever in near."
"Well i was asleep in my room last time i was in my dimension." You responded
"Sister, tis' time to set the sun and raise the moon!" Roared princess Luna, who had been mostly quiet until now.
"Oh my, so it is. My sister and I must depart. Mark, do you have a place to stay for the night?" Asked princess Celestia.
"No, but i don't mind sleeping on the stree-"
"He can stay with me!" Twilight blurted out.
"oh, okay then. That's very generous of you Twilight. Now we must be off." Said Celestia
Princess Luna teleported first, then princess Celestia a second after.
"You sure were quick to let me stay here." You said.
"Mark, you were about to offer sleeping out on the streets! You're my friend. I couldn't possibly let you do that."
"Oh, well thanks Twilight, i appreciate it. I'll try not to be a burden."
"I'm going to go make dinner, what are you in the mood for?"
"Do you have chicken? I'm really craving chicken right now!"
"Ch-ch-Chicken?" She looked horrified.
"Um, yeah. Whats wrong?" You asked.
"Y-you eat m-meat?
"Yes."
Twilight screamed and ran up the stairs. You heard a door slam. What the hell has gotten into her? You ran upstairs and went next to the only door, and knocked.
"Go away! Don't eat me!" She screamed back.
That's what she's worried about? You guess all animals in Equestria are herbivores.
"Twilight, i'm going to give you multiple reasons why i cant, and wont, eat you!" You shouted back.
"I'm listening."
"It is true that most humans are omnivores, so we do eat meat. But we cant eat it raw, over time we lost our immunity to the bacteria, and parasites that are all over raw meat. If i ate you i would get very sick. I think i could even die if i tried eating enough. Also i wouldn't be able to bite through your skin and muscle, human teeth aren't anywhere near sharp enough. Now aside from the reasons i physically cant eat you. Like you said before Twilight, we are friends, i would never try to intentionally harm you."
The door slowly opened and Twilight stood there, staring at you, will tears on her cheeks.
HNNNNNNGGGG! You couldn't bare to see anything as cute as her cry. You bent down and wrapped your arms around her, pulling her into a tight embrace. It took a second, but she returned the hug, squeezing you tight. It was then that a thought occurred to you. Do you like this pony... that way? You quickly pushed the thought out of your head. You were the first to retreat after a few seconds had passed. She pulled back as well, and you looked at her face. Her cheeks were red, which you assumed was from the crying. You wiped the remaining tears off her face with your thumbs. You stood back up.
"Come on, i'll help you make dinner."
It had been a quiet dinner of carrots and rice. But conversation picked back up as you were both sitting on the couch. She was asking you all kinds of questions about where you were from.
"So did you have music on earth?" She asked.
"Yeah, i was actually a musician."
"What genres of music did you have?"
"Alternative, rock, reggae, techno, dubstep, pop, metal, classical, country, rap, and about ten others i can remember off the top of my head."
"What? How do you have so many? The only ones i recognized were techno, and classical."
"Those are two of the worst genres where i'm from. I tell you, you're missing out."
"What about organs? Where are all you organs and joints and everything located?
You grabbed one of her hooves and pressed it against your chest over your heart.
"Here's my heart."
She blushed. You moved her hoof back and forth pressing both sides of you chest.
"These are my lungs. Thats all the common human really knows. I mean you could look it up easily and find out, but not many people know more than this off the top of their heads."
She moved her hoof to your waste and lifted an end of your shirt.
"Why do you wear these?"
"Well two reasons. The first is to keep us warm, for as you can see, humans don't have much hair. The second is because its considered impolite, rude, and even illegal to show yourself in public without at least..." You pulled your pants down about an inch, and slipped your thumb under the waste band of your underwear."...these."
This continued for a while. The two of you exchanging questions. And before you knew it the clock rang ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding,ding. signaling it was eleven o' clock.
"We should get to bed." Said Twilight.
"Alright, am i crashing on the couch?"
"No way, come sleep in my bed. Its big enough for the both of us." This made her blush hard.
"If you say so." You really didn't mind. You had woken up after being drunk at a party one time, with three other guys in the same bed. Thank god you had all been fully clothed.
The two of you went upstairs. Twilight lied down on the bed. You took off your pants, but kept your shirt on for the sake of Twilight. You got in bed, but were met with the problem of part of your calf resting on the hard, wooden, bed frame. Twilight noticed this and used her magic to open a closet, pull out a folded up cover, pull you legs up, and put it under, so your legs wouldn't be getting cut into by the bed frame.
"Good night Mark."
"Good night Twilight."
A lot had happened that day, and you were exhausted. It didn't take long for you to drift off to sleep.
You awoke as you almost always did. Crusty eyes, dry throat, and groggy. It took you a moment to realize you were awake as it always did. It took you a moment to notice, your arm was thrown over Twilight, and she was balled up next to you, with her head pressed against your chest. You were actually enjoying it, but it made you think again. Do you feel...that was about this pony. You had just met her yesterday. You watched for a few seconds as her chest rose and fell a smile on her face. Then another thought occurred to you. If Twilight were to wake up right now, it would be to damn awkward. You got up out of bed and put your jeans back on. Unfortunately you weren't wearing shoes when you got pulled into Equestria. You went downstairs and found Spike sleeping on the couch. Come to think of it this was the first time you had seen Spike since you and Twilight abandoned the group yesterday. Twilight had told you he lives here but he didn't return last night. You can ask him when he wakes up, for now you needed water. You walked in to the kitchen, got a glass, got yourself some water from the fridge, and drank it thirstily. Just then Twilight walked into the kitchen, looking rather groggy herself.
"Oh, there you are." Said Twilight
"Hey. So what are we doing today?" You asked
"Well its already noon. Princess Celestia asked me in her letter to ask you about your civization,economy,things like that. But last night i didn't really ask you anything she would want to know. Than later this evening i want to show you something."
"Um, okay i guess."
Twilight and you were now walking to this "thing she wanted to show you." The morning had been a slow one. This time Twilight asked you rather boring questions while writing them down. Like unemployment rate. How we choose a leader, things like that, But at one point she asked how technologically advanced humans are.
"Well the fastest manned vehicle we have is the SR-71 Blackbird. I'm pretty sure it can exceed two thousand miles per hour, Easily breaking the sound beerier." Then in termed of space exploration, we have recently made it out of our solar system with a vehicle called "Voyager1" that is moving at around 38,000 miles per hour." You said
"Whoa slow down. Your telling me that a bird went over two thousand miles per hour? And whats a sound barrier? And what do you mean by You left your solar system? She asked
"Well first of all its not a bird. Its what we call a jet. The sound barrier is how fast sound travels, which is seven hundred sixty something miles per hour. And when exceed that speed. A sonic boom is created."
"I think its safe to say humans are more advanced than ponies."
She looked at the clock.
"Come on, its time to go." She said as she walked out the door.
You were on the outskirts on ponyville and you could see a building a couple hundred yards away. You started to get that feeling again. The feeling that something was wrong. It was coming from the large building, that you could not identify as a barn, you were walking towards, and now in front of. You were right behind Twilight. She extended her hoof to open the door. That feeling was now much,much, stronger.
"Twilight, wa-"
She quickly swung the door open, and took one step inside. A light was turned on but not by her.
"Look out!" You yelled.
You wrapped your arms around her mid section and leaped to the right, landing on your back with Twilight on top of you. You heard the word "surprise" as you landed. She immediately began cracking up. Followed by lots of others from inside the barn.
"Mark this is a surprise party for you!" She said.
You got up and looked into the barn, there were ponies everywhere laughing, with lots of streamers and balloons littering the place. You immediately face palmed. Twilight got up and came to your side.
"Its nice to know you would try to save me if i was in danger, but its just a party. Come on lets go have some fun." She said still giggling."
You were standing near the snack table lost in thought. You had begun thinking about how you would never see your brother or friends again. You were feeling pretty depressed.
"Are you okay? Your looking a little...see through."
You looked up to find Twilight and Rainbowdash standing in front of you. There was a wagon with a white tarp over it behind them. You looked down at your hand. You could see straight through it to the wooden floor below.
"Fine." you responded
"Well i got something that will cheer you up!" Said Twilight.
"What is it?"
"Well Celestia said that a portal opened sucking in everything near it. And you said you were in your room. So... "
She took the tarp off the wagon. In it there was your guitar case, backpack, amp, computer, lots of clothes, and your shoes! Both your amp and computer were broken. But you still had your portable mini-amp which was almost just as loud as the big one.Seeing these items made you the happiest you've been since you arrived here. Your hair turned bright gold faster than you could have blinked.
"Yes! Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!" You yelled.
Twilight giggled
"Rainbowdash and I went and got it when you were asleep last night. So... did we earn an explanation of what this stuff is?"
"You earned yourselves live music."
You grabbed your guitar case and opened in for them to see. In it was your black, sg guitar.
"That looks like some kind of classical instrument that Octavia would play. Oh please don't start playing it. You would make half the party leave!" Said Rainbowdash
This genuinely made you laugh. What you were about to play was about as opposite as you could get from classical.
"Rainbowdash, i'm sure it will sound great. He told me humans had like twenty genres of music last night." Said Twilight.
You grabbed your backpack, and pulled out everything you needed. First you pulled your iPhone out of your pocket. You had recorded just Tyrone, and Jordan playing every song you guys played so you could sing and play guitar while you played the recording, when you were alone. Some songs would require a second guitar. So you would play the less fun part in the recordings for those songs. You could jam alone just like when you were with the guys. You thought for a second on the song you should play. Break would be perfect. You connected your guitar, iPhone, and mic/headphones to the portable amp, and strapped it to your belt. You then put the headset on and turned the amp on, and to full volume on everything. To them your sure it looked like you were arming a bomb or something. Finally you put your guitar strap around you,pulled out a pic, and selected "Break jam alone" from your iPhone. The noise at the beginning caught everyone's attention and the room went silent.
***** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4VCpTZye10 *****
*strange noise at the beginning stops and drums start*
You now have the rooms full attention. There were likely over one hundred ponies staring at you.
"Tonight, my head is spinning. I need, something to pick me up!..."
Now, a good amount of your audience was either slightly headbanging, or taping a hoof along to the beat. Twilight, and Rainbowdash had backed up into the crowd to avoid seeming out of place. Your hair was now black again.
"Tonight, I stop the fire. Tonight, I break away, break!..."
The cheering has started by now, and as soon as you yelled "break" you shot up into the air a few feet.
You finished the song. (Wait till the song it over before continuing to read) You had flown around on your back, over the audience, during the parts that didn't require too much guitar action. They had been screaming their heads off by the time you finished and landed back over by the snack table where you had started. Twilight ran up to you.
"That was amazing! You have to play another one!" She yelled over the crowd.
A couple ponies heard Twilight and started to yell things like "Yeah do another!" You pulled out your iPhone again. All the songs in your "jam alone" album were numbered in order. You started think about lyrics, and what would fit the situation. "Drown."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9EY2xlQqAE
You finish your song, still levitating in air. with this feeling of bliss, it took no effort to fly around. The crowd once again starting cheering for more.
"Alright last one everybody! Or everypony I guess, i'm new here cut me a break! Twilight pick a number under one hundred!" You shouted at the crowd. Everyone quieted down for her to speak
"nineteen!"
You looked at your iPhone. nineteen was "someone who cares". One of your favorites. You tap it and start playing again.
(its important that you listen closely to the lyrics on this one especially for the first minute and a half.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRwLbuKvNpE
Everypony had been pretty quiet, for the first minute and a half. But they picked back up after that.
The rest of the party consisted of ponies constantly swarming you, asking questions, you never got a break with them. Most of the ponies had left by now except for a few. One with a white coat, a blue and white mane, and purple shades was walking towards you.
"Hey, uh, Mark, right?"
"Yeah" You replied.
"I'm Vinyl Scratch. That was some awesome music you played! What kind of instrument was that? She asked
"Its called a guitar."
"Never heard of it, but how were you playing it without a bow?
You had been carrying your guitar and backpack with you the whole party for fear of getting it stolen. You opened up the case, and pulled out your guitar and a pic. You played a few chords.
"Cool, but why is it so much quieter than before? And it sounded much much different before."
"Look, if i tried to explain all my equipment we would be here until tomorrow."
"Okay fair enough. Now i was thinking, people would pay to hear that music. So how about i try and score you some gigs, and you give me ten percent of the money? i'd be like, your manager!"
"Alright sure. I'm living at Twilight's house for the time being, so come find me there once you have a gig for me."
"Will do. I'm going to go now, see you soon!"
"Bye."
Once she left, Twilight approached you.
"Your ready to go Mark? I'm exhausted." She asked.
"Yeah, lets go." You replied.
It was a silent walk back to the library. Both you of you too tired from partying to ever try and spark up conversation. When you got home, both of you simply marched up to Twilight's bedroom. She hoped in bed, while you set down your guitar case, backpack, and undressed yourself. You got into bed with her, and she blew out the candle next to her. You both faced each other.
"Mark...about that last song you sang."
"Yeah?"
"There is room for you here, and i care about you.