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// Things are always as they seem 
// Story: Starting on a New Hoof 
// by Dracoraun 
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       They all stared at me. I mean, All of them. The didn't seem to understand the explanation, but they all thought I was crazy. I never once thought, in my entire life, that I would be thought insane by a bunch of colorful ponies. That, I had to admit, was crazy.
"So... you're telling me... this pegasus isn't actually a pegasus? ...What?" Fleet said, obviously confused beyond anything. Then again, reversing the situation, if some random person walked up to me and said that he was a pegasus and asked me why he couldn't fly, I would consider him pretty insane and call a mental ward or two. Then I would run for my life.
"When you put it that way. But, I have no better explanation for why magic doesn't affect him at all." 
"Here, let me try something." Canvas said, and then his horn started glowing. Nothing was happening. I felt a tingling feeling reverberate through my entire body, but besides that, I felt nothing at all.
"Oh my, that certainly is odd. I-" Before Picturesque could finish her sentence, I was hit on the face with a plank that flew out of freakin' nowhere.
"What the hell?! What was that! Oh, my nose..." I buried my nose in my hooves, but the stinging feeling didn't stop.
"He's still affected by objects affected with magic!" Canvas said with a silly grin. I felt like punching him. Honestly. That hurt like hell.
" Sometimes, Canvas, you just can't control yourself." Thunder grumbled while trying to hide a grin. I saw that grin, however. I knew he was laughing at me.
"Yeah, it's real funny." I said, still holding my nose. Apparently, I said something funny because everyone broke out in laughter. I found nothing funny about it at all.
"Hey, what's so funny? I just got smacked, in the face." 
"It's the way you're talking. It's so... silly." Stormy said while giggling.
"I don't find anything funny about it at all. This poor dear is hurt, you cruel ponies." Picturesque said, not amused at all. She had common sense. There was nothing funny about this.
After all the ponies laughed it up, they wiped the tears from their eyes and collected themselves. My nose still stung, and my face was red with anger, but besides that, I was fine.
"Let's never do that again, okay?" I said lowly to Canvas, who was smiling kindly at me.
"Sure, okay. " He giggled a little bit. I just stared at him with a suspicious eye, and started to walk a small circle in the gazebo. The gazebo itself was nice, it was a very pure color, and there was low-cut grass on the bottom with benches spread out around. Most of the ponies in our little group sat around on the grass, just laughing it up or listening to our conversation. The one laughing the hardest had to be fleet, he was nearly choking on his own laughter.
"Anyways," Stormy started, trying to end all the taunting laughter at me. "I think we need to discuss what we make of this. I mean, this really isn't normal."
Picturesque stopped giving a glare at Fleet, and turned her attention to me. "I do agree. I have not even heard of this, this human thing he says he was, let alone of one turning into a pony"
"I think he's full of muck. I mean, seriously guys. A human? Best joke ever, least serious explanation." Fleet said, still trying to get over laughing.
"Really? I think you're full of shit. Now that we got that out of the way, look at things from my point of view. Say, you're flying around doing your weird pegasus thing, you know, whatever pegasi do on their spare time. Then, suddenly, you're back in my dimension, with humans walking around everywhere and you have absolutely no idea of how you got there. Sounds like fun, right?" I said, trying to get my point across. It seems to have worked, because I accomplished the impossible. He actually shut up.
"So, how... how is your world like?" Thunder asked, bieng the first to really take me seriously.
"Well, it's pretty dark. Unlike your perfect little utopian world here, mine actually had crime. People would harm eachother in horrible ways. We had wars, and if you don't know what that is, it's essentially a bunch of people, or in your case, ponies, gathering up, but instead of partying with eachother, they kill eachother." This seemed to shock them, making them take a step back. "Now, my father, my real father, he fought in these wars. I never really got to meet him, because he died. After he died, my mother tried getting another husband. Who knew my step father would turn out insane? One night, he shot my mother, and them himself. I was crushed, and I was never really the same. After that, the people I called family were just my grandmother and my little brother. They drove me insane, let me tell you. But I'd trade anything just to see them again." All the ponies around me looked shocked, especially Thunder and Fleet.
"I... I had no idea... I'm so sorry... That is just... not cool..." Fleet said, trying to find something to say.
"Yah? Well, it's my past. Let's leave it be because we can't change it." I said and looked into the eyes of all the ponies who know stared at me, obviously concerned. Thunder knew well what I was trying to do, so he decided to pipe up.
"I guess your world isn't the greatest of places, huh?"
"Well, it certainly isn't like this colorful world filled with ponies, but it has it's own beauties, let me tell you. I guess I just always viewed my world as awful. Now that I think about it, I'm pretty damn cynical. Huh. " I stated, with little reference to what I had said earlier. Not like it didn't matter, but my scars will always be there and that doesn't change anything. The other ponies were just looking down, not really very talkative, I supposed.
"So, is there any pony that would have any clue what the hell happened to me? Any at all?" I said, trying to get some kind of reaction from this dead crowd. I regret ever mentioning my past, and these ponies didn't take it very well.
"I... Yes, dear. I think... I think you're best hope would be Ponyville... I will gladly go with you."
"I as well" Said Treble
"Me too, buddy." Fleet said, still kind of down.
"I... would gladly go with you." Canvas said, feeling really guilty like it was his own damn fault or something.
"And you know well that me and Stormy will go with you anywhere." Thunder said with a smile. I really liked that guy, even though he was too peppy and upbeat for me. I looked at stormy as well, with her yellow eyes staring back at me.
"You didn't think you could get rid of me that easily, did you?" She said with a big grin.
"It's settled then. We're going to Ponyville" Thunder said with a big grin. I guess this was my best ticket back, so I was happy.
"Well, I need to be off to get my stuff gathered." Thunder said, and looked at all the other ponies in the gazebo as they nodded in agreement.
"Considering  I have no stuff, I guess I'll just walk around a bit." I flatly said. The  other ponies just kind of looked down.
"So, how we gonna get there? I mean, I can't exactly fly there." I said, trying to change the subject a bit.
"We're going by train. It's our best bet." Thunder said from just outside the gazebo. "Try to be here around..." He looked at the clock tower in the square "Say, twelve. We'll leave for the train then." That gave me a good two hours to wander around the town and try to get a better idea of where the hell I was exactly. I opened my mouth to speak, but instead of words coming out, a loud growl that came from my stomach came out.
"You seem to be hungry, either that or you're growling at us angrily. I think the first thing I said is probably the case." Stormy pointed out. Yeah, I was hungry.
"Here, take take ten bits. You can buy yourself a hay burger or something." Thunder said, handing me some money and a pouch. Hay. I mean, seriously. Hay. When I thought about it again, I guess I was a horse.
"Hay. Burgers. Honestly? How could I eat that stuff?" I grumbled. I was hungry, but there was no way in hell I was eating hay. Even if I was a horse.
"Fine, fine. Go buy yourself an apple pie or something. I don't care, just don't leave hungry." Thunder said while rolling his eyes. I guess he liked hay burgers, but I didn't care. He had a point, though. I was hungry, and I needed something to eat. I guess an apple pie would have to do for me. It sounded swell, actually.
"Okay, okay, okay. I'll get a pie. It should take me about two hours to find one anyways, so see you here after that." I said with a smile. This answer seemed to work for them, because they walked off. Well, Fleet tripped down the stairs first, but after that he got up and laughed it off while walking away. I was alone, but I guess that wasn't so bad. The town was still lively, but I didn't really feel like talking to any of the ponies around. 
Suddenly, I could smell the delicious smell of pie somewhere off in the distance. The smell was amazing, and I realized just how hungry I was. I didn't really like pie, actually, but it sounded way better then the alternative. I walked over to the pie stand and asked,
"So, uh, how much... bits is a pie?" I almost said dollars. I don't know why I was so concerned about not embarrassing myself in front of ponies, but I digress.
"That would be 8 bits, sir." The pony said behind the stand with a smile that was probably used a thousand times. I brushed off his fakeness with a nod, and handed him 8 of the weird coin things that I assumed were used as money. I'm a real common sense wizard, or in this case, unicorn. Still felt weird thinking like that, but oh well. What could I say. I took a deep breathe of the air which was unpolluted by anything and grinned. This world would definitely take some getting used to, but I was sure I would do fine.