Falling for a Star

by CCpone


Chapter six - First Impressions

Anon's POV:
30 Minutes later


You can feel nothing, you can see nothing. The only things you make out is the white snow and the black darkness the night has brought you. Your head is spinning from the lack of air and nutrients. Your mind is filled with shouts from every part of your body telling you to give up. Yet though all of this shouting comes a little spark. You can do this Anon, you can be the hero for once.

That's all you needed, that little spark, a spark so little yet so powerful. You force your frozen eye lids open once again in pain. Struggling you sit up and start taking off your bags, the bags that were now frozen onto your pilot coveralls.

Pulling and pushing on the straps you finally get them off. The wind picks up in a huge gust that knocks you back down into the snow. You can't feel the cold and you know that, that's a bad sign. Once again in agony you push yourself up and out of the deep snow. Every part of your body was starting to lock up, but that didn't deter you one bit. With what's left of your remaining energy you un-zip the backpack and pull out the pre-cut wood. Easy part done, now for the hard part. You tell yourself.

All you needed is a fire, any size would do as long as it gives you warmth. You look over to where Rainbow Dash lay. The spot was perfect for a fire, It was like a little trench that the fire could fit in so the wind wouldn't touch it.

Regretting every moment of your actions you push Rainbow Dash aside into the deeper snow. Sorry Rainbow Dash but it'll be worth it. You think it instead of saying it, moving your mouth was too much work at the moment.

You start to work on removing the remaining snow from the trench. Digging restlessly you're rewarded with the sight of grey rock and brown dirt. You turn back to the pack and grab the sticks as well as the kindling. Making the fire was the easy part it was digging that really sucked.

With lightning fast speeds that flash himself would be proud of, the fire is now setup. Turning again to the backpack you reach in and pull out the survival kit. Fuckin' zippers! Your mind screams as you fumble helplessly with the zipper. Each second wasted was a second Rainbow Dash could be warming up and getting better.

Once you get the zipper open -thanks to luck- you pull out the flint block and steel rod. With shivering gone with the cold you steadily stroke the flint with the steel rod creating a spark that fly's off in the opposite direction. FUCKING WORK GODDAMMIT YOU PIECE OF SHIT! Once again you try, but this time with a positive outcome.

The fire starts however small, you really didn't care at the moment, it was precious warmth. The fire lights up the area around you as it grows and grows. You spot the cyan Pegasus still in the snow and worry starts to set in. You race over to her and inspect her body for any signs of life.

To your luck she was still breathing. Her coat now frozen solid, every hair was glued to her body. Her mane and tail has frost all over and moved more like stiff solid objects then the normal flowing. You take her in your arms and bring her over to the slowly growing fire.

10minutes later...


Time passes as you hold onto her by the fire, warming both of you up. Feelings start to come back to your body; pain, cold and hearing. The wind was the first thing you noticed, it didn't sound like it was giving up anytime soon, as well as the darkness that crept around your fire, waiting for the fuel to be consumed.

Looking up you can see the star filled sky looking beautiful as always. Guess it doesn't matter where you are in the universe, the sky is the sky. With a little chuckle you tilt your head back down to the raging fire fighting the ever so sneaky shadows.

Your eyelids keep getting heavier and heavier as you watched the fire. Snapping yourself back to reality you realize that if you fall asleep right now, you risk losing the fire and that would mean possibly losing Rainbow Dash's life or even your own. So with a new desire for coffee you force yourself to stay up.

2hours later...


If the lack of sleep wasn't killing you, it was the sound of the wind whipping the snow around and into your little trench. You kept hold of Rainbow Dash on your stomach feeling every breath, making sure that she'll get though this sinister place. You would like to take the time now to take back what you said before. Easy my ASS. This was worse than survival training up north.

Rainbow Dash shuffles a bit in your arms, taking your mind off yourself put-downs. Her breathing is steadily going back to normal. A smile comes across your face as you realize that you did not lose a life today, instead you managed to save a life today.

Turning your attention to the flickering fire you can see that it's in need of sustenance. You reach into your backpack and pull out a hand full of sticks that you toss in. The flame grows then settles back down to its normal self. Feeding the fire was always your favorite, because it would give you a quick burst of heat.

Looking back up to the stars you thank them for keeping you company on this lonely peak. Rainbow Dash is not much help when she's asleep, but you also appreciate her company too. With time you can physically see the colors slowly come back into Rainbow Dashes coat and mane. Once the colors are at their full, Rainbow Dash slowly opens her eyes. "Hello there sleepy head." You say with a smile keeping a eye on the fire as you speak. "Have a nice nap?" You ask as you turn your full attention back to her.

She looks quite frightened when she realizes where she is and who she's on. With not so much as a squeal she jumps of you and backs up until her flank hits the wall of the snow trench. Which in turn causes a large amount of snow to fall onto her burying her completely.

With hast you crawl over to the pile of snow and start to dig her out. The pile was quite high and it took you a good 20 seconds to see her face. Her magenta eyes burning in anger, but the redness in her cheeks show otherwise. "Having fun in the snow Rainbow Dash?" Man keep it up Anon and maybe you can earn a hoof to the fac-.

*SMACK*

Well you had that one coming, and you kind of asked for it. "Well I guess I deserved that one." You say chuckling. You offer your hand to help her out of the snow, but she shoves it away and pulls herself out. Rainbow Dash and her pride, what else would you expect.

"I'm fine thanks for asking." She grumbles, the statement drenched in sarcasm. "And remind me once again, why the buck did we climb this mountain?" She asks as she trots over to the blazing fire, no doubt cold as fuck.

"You're welcome." You say smiling. You crawl over next to her by the fire. "We climbed this mountain to get a look around the area for any sign of civilization." You state in a mater-of-fact tone taking off your gloves and razing your bare hands to the fire. You were surprised when you saw they didn't have frost bite.

"Did you check if you could see any?" She asks holding her hooves up to the fire as well.

"Nope I was too busy saving your sorry flank." You turn your head to look at her, a smile creeps onto your face. "I think your priority here Rainbow Dash." You say turning back to the fire. You were now getting a bit hungry, but you can always push it aside for now.

"Well I didn't need your stupid help." She pouts and crosses her hooves, only to return them to their last position seconds later. "Well if you're not going to look out of this ditch, then I will." She continues with confident tone.

All you manage to do is shrugged and keep your focus on the fire, taking in every moment of this lovely heat. You can hear Rainbow Dash shuffling around trying to find a place to stand up and peak over the snow wall. The trench wasn't that big for you, only about half your height, but for Rainbow Dash she had to get up on her hind hoofs to look over.

Rainbow Dash gets onto her hind hooves and pokes her head over the trench wall. "Ummm Anon, I think I found the civilization we were looking for." She turns her head to you with a devilish smirk. "You still got that flare handy?"

You don't have to hear that sentence twice. You shuffled over to Rainbow Dash and stand up beside her. Soon you're greeted by a huge gust of wind that chills you to your core. Thankfully that's not the only thing you're greeted by. In front of you is a huge mountain, you would guess it was about 7 miles away, However the mountain was accompanied by a castle built on the side of it.

With a slack jaw you can't help but stare in wonder and amazement at the sheer beauty. The castle was made out of some sort of white stone, maybe marble or quarts. That was not all the edges were trimmed with what looked like gold, but from this distance you considered yourself lucky to even see the trim.

"BWAHAHAHAH! You should see the look on your face Anon. Its priceless." A voice none other then Rainbow Dashes. She nudges the side of you "Your hilarious Anon." She then proceeds to laugh it off as you break your attention with the magnificent castle.

"Easy for you to say, you've probably seen it before." You state note to amused. "Back where I come from that building shouldn't even be standing." Your brain goes over all the laws of physics and each one shattering into a million pieces as you try to make a connection.

"Well it is and it's our ticket out of this dirt hole." Rainbow Dash claims as she takes off your helmet placing it next to you and goes back to you backpack. She rummages through your backpack throwing everything out that's not the survival kit. Soon the trench is littered with medical kits, sticks and meat.

"Oi!" You yell out annoyed at her careless thinking. "We needed that stuff and now you've gone and messed them all up." You shuffle over to the mess and pick up the meat first making sure they are still editable. Thankfully the meat was still intact just covered in snow and a bit of dirt.

Turning back to Rainbow Dash you see her pull your survival kit out. You're pretty sure you know what she is going to do, but nevertheless you're still hungry and the last thing you needed was for her to throw your fish on the ground.

You place the fish on top of the snow carefully making sure not to ruin them anymore. Turning around you are greeted by the sight of Rainbow Dash opening up your survival kit with a smile plastered on her face. You really hope she remembers how to fire the thing. The last thing you want is for her to shoot the ground messing up your one chance of getting rescued.

Picking up the medical kits next, you glance over at Rainbow Dash just to make sure she is doing it right. With a proud smile upon your face she fires the flair up into the air just as you thought her.

"Now we wait." You say as you finish picking up the last of the item's Rainbow Dash has foolishly thrown around. "You know you could at least dump the backpack in a nice pile." You say annoyed. Rainbow Dash looks over to you with her smile still upon her face.

"Yeah I could of, but then that would make your life easier." She then walks past you and sit down next to the fire. "Consider it payback for covering me in snow." She then holds up her hooves to the fire.

"Fine that makes us equal then. Even thought you technically did that to yourself." You sigh not wanting to continue this conversation. On your way back to the fire you pick up your helmet. You sit next to Rainbow Dash and strap it onto your head keeping the visor up. You would really hate to lose the helmet so you decide to keep it on if Rainbow Dash is not using it.

"Yeah, were equal." She replies shaking a bit from the cold.

"Bucking temperature!" She exclaims loudly as she moves closer to you.

At this time you take it upon yourself to get some shut eye seeing as there is another set of eyes that can watch over the fire. You lean up against the snow wall carefully making sure not to cause another mini avalanche. With the sound of the wind dying down your eyelids finally touch bringing you into a deep and much needed sleep.

30minutes later...


An-!
Anon!
ANON WAKE UP!

Your eyes snap open this time without the pain. You shoot up only to hit something knocking both of you down to into the snow. You take it upon yourself to assume this was the reason for being woken up. You get into a good position on top of the creature you have bumped into.

Pulling your right hand back for the first blow your vision starts to clear up. Just seconds away from clobbering the thing, a cyan blur crashes into you and you're both knocked into the snow... once again... for the third time... this night.

Opening your eyes you come to see that you're face to face with Rainbow Dashes magenta colored eyes, inches away from your own. "Why the fuck did you do that Rainbow Dash! I had it all under control!" You yell getting both of you out of the snow and into the trench again.

"Because you almost attacked Luna, princess of the night!" Rainbow Dash replies. With your vision finally clearing up you take a look back at the fire where the creature was last. This time instead of a black blob obscuring your vision you're greeted by another pony.

This one however, looked way different then Rainbow Dash. She had a dark blue coat with her mane and tail looking like the stares above. The thing you thought was weird was that her tail and mane were flowing in the opposite direction of the wind, it was like they had a mind of their own. She also had both wings and a horn, this was your first time seeing a pony with a horn and it looked quite bad ass.

Your mind starts to replay what Rainbow Dash had said moments ago. 'Attacked Luna, princess of the night!', 'Attacked princess', 'princess'. Oh you dun fucked up Anon, you really did it this time. You quickly give a bow. "I'm sorry princess, I thought Rainbow Dash was waking me up because of a problem concerning rabid animals."

The princess stands there shaking off the snow that your unworthy hands have put there. "It's quite alright citizen." She speaks rather loudly and with a old English accent. Either way she wasn't looking at you. "I would not expect any less if I were in thou position." Luna looks up and finally lays eyes on you. Her eyes widen as she realizes just what you're.

With a calm tone that surprises you she looks over to Rainbow Dash and speaks. "What pray tell Rainbow Dash is that?" Rainbow Dash does a quick bow and turns to you.

"I think he can explain it better than I can princess Luna." You look over to Rainbow Dash with a confused look. You really did not know how to talk to royalty, you have never done it before. Not only that, but what if there're some cultural differences between human and pony. You would not like for Luna to get offended and throw you into a dungeon.

Taking in a large amount of air in you gulp it down.

You step forward and bow once again.

"Hello Princess Luna, I am Anonymous and I'm part of the species known as human's or homo-sapiens if you will. I have come to your planet by accident and it looks like I'm trapped here." You take a step back and look into Luna's eyes.

Luna looks a bit taken back at your ability to speak. You speak up once again trying to break the ice. "I'm sorry to ask, but is there any way we can talk about this somewhere less.... cold." You put on a smile all the while keeping eye contact with Luna.

This seems to work as Luna speaks up. "Oh, yes, Sorry thou are a new species and it took me a while to believe what I was seeing." Luna's horn begins to glow a dark blue and soon there is a large flash of light. You shield your eyes with your arm from the enormous amount of light given off. All you can do is listen as a crack and large bang is heard. When the light fades you lower your arm to see you just where you left off, on top of the same fucking mountain.

The thing that really surprised you was that Luna and Rainbow Dash were gone. They just vanished. You can see their hoof prints in the snow but they didn't go anywhere. You contemplate the situation for a couple of minutes before returning to the fire.

It looks like being stuck on this mountain could get worse. Your one companion has left you with this so called princess Luna. You think over in your mind if this was some sort of punishment for the way you spoke to her. That must be it, there is no other reason for it.

However this still doesn't explain how they diapered. You remember Luna's horn glowing before the light and sounds, then after they were gone. A small part of you just wants to give up on the problem right then and there, but another part of you really wants to find out how. It could be magic Anon? They're ponies with wings and horns. That would not be the strangest thing you would be told.

Yup you're defiantly going insane thinking about magical winged ponies. Maybe this was all just a hallucination and there never really was a cyan colored Pegasus. It must of been one hell of a hallucination to last 7 days.

Your thoughts are soon interrupted by sparks of lightning that almost come in contact with you. Literally scared out of your mind you shuffle back and get a glimpse of the source. There was a dark blue ball growing and growing, the lightning was flying out of the ball in random directions.

Sitting in the coroner of the trench you pick up one of the sticks that were on the ground, thanks to Rainbow Dashes foolish acts. You swing the stick around while you look around for your M-4. You were too confused to pull out your Desert Eagle that was holstered on your leg.

The ball grows and grows till it's about three fourths your size. The ball then explodes with light and a bang similar to when they disappeared, but when the ball exploded it did no physical damage to the area around it. When the light fades you can make out the same shape you remember waking up to. "Luna..... is that you?"

Swinging the stick around in different directions a voice replies. "Yes Anonymous it is I Luna." Your eyes start to focus again and Luna comes into full view. OH SHIT SHE'S COME TO FINISH THE JOB! You look around again for the M-4 but find it a good ways away.

You're left with only one option. "Please don't kill me. I don't want to die this early." You know it's pathetic, but it's all you can do at the moment. Your body is not in a condition for fighting seeing as you didn't even eat today, let alone how tired you were. Not even your adrenaline could help you there it was too busy keeping you awake.

The princess once again adorns a facial expression of somewhere between confused and shocked. "Nay humon, I has not come to kill you." Her expression seems to sadden from your statement. "I came back for thou."

Now it's your turn to be surprised "So... you're not gonna kill me?" You ask listening to how pathetic you sound. You should not be the one saying these words. "How did you disappear and re-appear and is Rainbow Dash OK?"

Luna walks over to the fire and sits down across from you. "Rainbow Dash is OK I assure you." She has a sturdy voice, kinda like your captain. "And what do you mean disappear and re-appear, you mean teleport? Do you not have magic where you come from?"

Looks like you were right brain there is magic here, you sit there looking over at her once again picking up on her black necklace glimmering from the fire. On the necklace was a moon shaped symbol. On top her head she had a tiara with the same black color as the necklace. "Yes teleport, and no we do not have magic where I come from." You say as you calm down, putting the stick away.

"Ah that must explain why the teleport didn't work on you." You hold the same expression as your last... confused. "You see in order for magic to work you must have magic within you." You take the time to scratch your head. She seems to pick up the gesture and continues. "Everything born or made in Equestria has magic within it. It is that magic that allows us to levitate objects" she picks up your stick to show you. "light up the dark" her horn glows lighting the area around you up brighter then the fire. "and much more."

You seem to get the idea of the lesson. "So can all ponies use magic like that." You think back to Rainbow Dash. If she could of heated both of you up or levitate you to safety then she's got a lot of explaining.

"While all ponies have magic within them, only unicorns can use it in the way I showed you." Well that makes sense why Rainbow Dash didn't do any of what Luna was showing you.

"I'm guessing that there's a lot more to magic and you're just giving me the dumb down version." You say smiling. "Thanks for not making it overly complicated." Looking back at the fire you ask a question that was burning in your head since you came here. "Do you think there will be a chance of me getting back to my world?"

Luna sits there in silence for a while contemplating the question you have just asked her. "Honestly, I have no Idea, but I'm sure Celestia and Twilight will figure out a way." You sit there, head down and thinking of all your friends back on earth that you will never see again, if it turns out there is no way back. Luna seems to see your depressed state and gets up from where she was sitting. "Well Anonym- "

"Call me Anon, all my friends do." You say with a crackled voice. This was really hitting you hard, there being a chance of never returning to earth. A stray tear adorns your face as you to stand up with the princess.

"Well Anon it looks like I should get you to the castle, so Celestia and Twilight can get working on a solution to your problem." Luna stops for a moment and looks into your eyes. "Thanks Anon for calling me a friend, as funny as it may seem I don't get the luxury of friends." With that said she takes off and hovers before you.

"No problem." You say wiping the lone tear from your eye. "So how are we going to get to the castle, as you said before magic doesn't seem to affect me." You are taken by surprises as Luna picks you up of the ground with her hands and starts flying at incredible speeds to the castle.

Looking up you can see that Luna has a smile upon her face. She seems to find it amusing that you're currently screaming like a little child. It's one thing to fly in secure plane, but to be picked up by a pony smaller then you and carried thousands of feet above the ground is another. "How the fuck are you so strong!" You yell out in between your screams of fear and excitement.

Luna doesn't seem to answer your question and instead speeds up. Your face is pelted with freezing cold air as you travel from the peak to the castle within minutes. To say the ride was exhilarating is an understatement, the last time you felt that was when you were in a biplane doing a nose dive.

She places you onto a rather large balcony. You're a bit dazed from the flight but you manage to find your footing and regain focus. You turn to see princess Luna turn back to the mountain peak ready to take off again. "Why you going back there Luna? And thanks for the ride I really -" you then proceed to vomit on over the balcony.

Luna chuckles "Sorry Anon, I didn't mean to make you sick on your first ride." Soon the gates open and she lets out a rather large laugh. You would assume royalty would have manners, but even you had to admit it was pretty funny. Luna calms down then speaks up once again. "Sorry again. I'm Just going to gather the equipment you left on the peak."

You're taken back at the kindness of Luna "Thanks Luna, Thanks a lot. I can see why you're a princess" Luna nods then jumps off the edge of the balcony out of view causing a mini heart attack. You really need to get used to ponies having wings and shit. Turning around you can see a rather large wooden door. You walk up to the door and open it up as this was your only way off this balcony without causing death. The door opens without a screech that you would of assumed it would make.

Once inside your jaw once again finds its way to the floor. The door led to a corridor inside the castle, but that is not what made your jaw hit the floor. The architecture was magnificent it looked to be all han- hoofmade. You couldn't make out the material the castle was made out of but it resembled well polished marble.

Taking a few minutes to take in the lovely scenery you get back to the task at hand. Somehow you have to find Rainbow Dash in this huge castle, a task sounding so simple could not be any harder. While walking though the countless corridors you take note of the pictures upon the walls. Each one seemed to be a picture of a pony, you assumed this to be the family tree.

Soon enough the hallway split into two different directions one left and one right. When in doubt pick right, because right is the right way! Once again you're hit with the sadness of your predicament. It was one of your friends that said that to you, a friend that was now far, far away.

Turning right you're met face to face with the floor. Looking behind you, you can see a pony laying on the ground getting up. This pony has a black coat and dark blue mane. Unlike the other two ponies you have met this one had bat wings and was wearing a full suite of armor. The armor was black and had the same moon shaped symbol that Luna had on the breastplate.

"Sorry about that." You go over to help the poor pony up. "I need to watch where I'm going." You say with a chuckle.

The bat pony stumbles up and takes a good look at you. The pony jumps back in fear drawing his spear out. You take note of his hostile actions "No look I'm friendly" you say putting your hands in the air. The bat pony looks you over flying around you, when he is satisfied that you have nothing dangerous he lands back down.

You laugh a bit as he lands back down. You're laughing because he completely missed the desert eagle holstered on your leg that's currently shining in the torchlight. You guess he doesn't know what it is and just passes it on and a lump of metal.

"Silence creature!" The bat pony shouts not to happy you laughed at him earlier. "You're trespassing on royal land! What do you have to say in your defense." At least he's nice enough to give me a chance to defend myself. Much better then on earth where they take you in before letting you talk.

"Believe it or not princess Luna brought me here to speak with some pony called Celestia and Twilight." The guard looks confused, sadly hes not buying into the truth. You don't blame him either, if you where him you would be skeptical to. A large alien comes into a royal building and states that the leader has sent him there.

"Lies!" The bat pony states. He then pushes the spear closer to your very fragile body nudging you to move. You don't want to start a fight so you proceed with his directions. The directions that you're willing to take because you had no idea where you're.

Both you and the bat pony walk until you hit a set of stares heading down into the ground. Stepping down the stairs you notice that the walls are no longer white and pure but instead are rugged stone walls. This place gave off a really eerie vibe like you are not supposed to be here. Then again you're not even supposed to be in Equestria.

He leads you to what you assume to be a cell in a poorly lit room. The cells down here look like they haven't been in use for years. Cobwebs occupied every corner and some even covered whole hallways. The pony then shoves you into the cell and locks it.

Taking a look around the cell you spot a wooden bucket no doubt the bathroom. The walls were wet and slimy with moss growing on it. There was no windows just a square room with a wooden bucked. The cell was poorly lit as well, the only source of light was from the front of the cell. With nothing left to do you sit down and lean against the wall.

The bat pony gives you a firm look "Don't try anything funny creature." He then turns around and heads back up to the castle with a victorious grin upon his face. The sound of a door closing is the last thing you hear before you're left in the dark cell.

Assuming the pony where to leave you here to rot you pull out you Desert Eagle and aim at the lock. Ahh how nice it is to have a Desert Eagle at a time like this. You shoot the lock off with a loud BANG that echo's around the room leaving you with a ringing sound in your ear.

The door swings open and you step out and place your pistol back into its holster.

You think back on your actions. Was it a really smart idea to break out of jail? Nope! You just wanted another excuse to use your Desert Eagle.

Retracing the steps you make it back to the stares and into the castle. The sight was welcoming as the pure white comes back into view. Something about this castle seems to bring out the positive side of you. Maybe it was the purity of the stone used to created it.

Peaking around every corner, you come across a rather large -what looked to be gold- door. You open the door popping your head in to peek inside. The door slides all the way open as you lose control of the emotions in your body. This was no doubt the throne room of the castle and it looked magnificent.

Color's of every hue were presented in such a harmonic way. There is mosaics on the walls each telling different story's. You followed up the red carpet towards the throne looking at every mosaic as you went by. Funny you thought you recognized one of the ponies in the mosaic, you assume it to be a coincidence and continue to the throne.

Once at the throne you look it over. The throne has a gold color to it and looked very detailed, seems like this leader doesn't mess around. A idea comes across your mind as you look over the throne. Sit on it Anon, you know you want to. You can't argue with that, this would be the first time you're able to sit in the seat of royalty with no one around.

With your idea in mind you sit down on the throne. HOLLY SHIT THIS IS COMFORTABLE You sit there taking in the view. This princess sure knows where to put a thrown room. You're caught off guard when a rather large white pony comes into the room. She continues to walk down the red carpet until she notices you her normal expression turning into a shocked. OHHH SHIT! You jump of the throne as quick as you can and get back to ground level.

"Sorry it was just so tempting." You say sheepishly. Once down you get a better look at the pony. She was about the same height as you and adorned a golden necklace and a golden tiara. "Please don't send me down to the dungeon again."

The pony moves her shocked emotion to a confused one. "Again?" she asks. Her voice has a motherly tone to it that calms you down a bit. She looks quite tired no doubt because of your arrival. Her eyes are red and she has a mug with what looks to be coffee in it. You never liked coffee but it's a welcoming sight to see that some things are the same here.

"Yeah I was shoved into your dungeon when I arrived at the castle after being dropped off by Luna." You claim, yet you don't want the pony to get into trouble so you don't mention what the pony looked like. After all you would of done the same thing.

"Then take my apology for the inconvenience." You're taken back by the ponies apology you have just sat in the princess's throne. "By the way how did you manage to get out of the dungeon?" she walks past you and you notice a that she has a sun as a cutie mark. You look back up to see her upon the thrown her hair doing the same thing Luna's did.

You stand there while the gears in your head start to turn. Oh shit she's the other princess! You immediately bow to her "I'm sorry princess, I didn't know you were royalty." She gives a light chuckle. "If I would of known I would of gave you more respect." You're still quite shocked that she doesn't seem to care that you're a alien.

"It's OK and I do have to agree this seat is quite tempting." She gives another chuckle. "So you're the reason why I have to get up early today. I do have to admit I have never seen anything like you before." She places her mug down and looks you over from the throne.

"I'm Anonymous, but you can call me Anon all my friends do." She smiles as you mention her as a friend. Alright Anon befriending two royal members in one day!. "I come from a planet called earth and I don't know exactly how I got here." You wince at the mention of earth again. "Do you think there is any chance of me getting back to my planet?"

Celestia looks down at you with a saddened expression. "I have never heard of a planet called earth before. Getting you back to it will prove to be quite the task but I think me and Twilight will be able to figure out a way." There's that name again Twilight, first Rainbow Dash said it then Luna and now Celestia.

"If you don't mind me asking, who is this Twilight?" You ask looking over at the mosaics once again. This time you are sure that the pony in the mosaic is Rainbow Dash but why would they make a mosaic with her in it.

"No I don't mind one bit." Celestia smiles back down at you. "She's my prized student. She is one of the smartest ponies I know here in Equestria. If there is a way to get you back home I know for sure that Twilight will find a way." You smile a thanks to her.

You're taken from your thoughts about Rainbow Dash when you hear the door open behind you again. Turning around you are greeted with Luna holding your stuff along with Rainbow Dash beside her. Rainbow Dash has a smile upon her face which to your point of view looked like relief.

Luna walks up to you and places your two backpacks down in front of you. "This is all I could find Anon, I hope it is everything you had when you came here." She then turns to look over at Celestia with smirk. "I see you had no trouble getting up Celestia." This world is full of surprises, royalty acting so laid back.

As Luna went over to Celestia to talk about who knows what, Rainbow Dash comes up to you. Again you were taken by surprise when she full out hugs you. "Wow, what's that for Rainbow?" She must of realized what she had done because she now has a tinge of red on her face.

"Just glad that you didn't die up on that mountain while I was gone." You roll your eyes at her. "Anyways what did I miss in here." She looks from you to the throne where Celestia and Luna talked in privet.

"Nothing much, just me getting thrown into the dungeon by mistake. Then I broke out of the jail, walked over here because the gold door looked interesting. Then I sat on Celestia's throne." You say the last bit smirking.

"NO WAY!" Rainbow Dash says with excitement in her voice. "and she didn't care?" she looks back to you then again at Celestia that was now smiling at both of you.

"Well when she walked into the throne room, I guess I shocked her." You say looking back at the mosaic. "and I noticed that this pony in this mosaic looks exactly like you." you point to the pony in the mosaic.

Rainbow Dash smiles and turns her full attention towards you. "That's because it is me in the mosaic." Your jaw drops as you hear this. Have you just spent a full week with a hero! "This is when me and my friends defeated Discord."

"So you're famous, that so cool." You state as you look at the mosaic one more time to confirming it was Rainbow Dash in the picture. Sure enough it was and you turned back to Rainbow Dash with nothing more to say.

Rainbow Dash was about to say something when Celestia spoke up. "Anon, I'll be sending you to Ponyville for the time being until we can figure out a way to send you back home. It's not to far so you can always come ask me any questions." You noticed out of the corner of your eye Rainbow Dash's facial expression fall. "As for now, Anon I welcome you to Equestria. I do ask you to stay one night in the castle so that I and Luna can spread the word around that you're harmless and will be living with us for a while. It would be a shame if you were attacked on your first day."

"Thanks Celestia, I am forever in you dept." You bow in thanks. "If you don't mind me asking, but do you have a kitchen I am starving." Celestia nods and calls for a guard to guide you through this huge castle. You turn towards Rainbow Dash "Would you like to join me in 'pigging out.'"

Rainbow Dash looks to you with a smile. "Buck Yeah!" She immediately covers her mouth with her hoof and looks over at Celestia and Luna who where now laughing at Rainbow Dashes sudden burst of excitement.

The guard arrives ironically being the same guard that put you into jail. You can see him physically getting nervous as you looked at him. You nudge him in the shoulder and whisper to him "Don't worry, they don't know it was you." He looks at you with a sigh of relief and smiles turning to the corridor in front of you.

Nudging Rainbow Dash she follows in tow with you following the guard. "Have you ever eaten here Rainbow Dash?" You say as you follow the guard down multiple corridors and rooms.

"Call me Dash all my friends do." She smiles knowing that she stole your line. She then proceeds to follow you and the guard into the rather large dining area. There is multiple tables setup no doubt they could host a feast in here.

"OK Dash, have you ever eaten here before. What is normal for a pony to eat?" You pick a table near the middle because why not, you were the only ones in here. Dash takes the seat across from you as the guard leaves to get the cook.

"Well I like to flower sandwiches, oh and also hay burgers and hay fries. I know there not the best for you but there so good." You can practically see her mouth water at the mention of those foods. However you dint really like the thought of eating hay or flowers.

Nevertheless the cook comes out looking fairly tired as well. You kind of feel sad for the guy, getting up at what was it, four or five in the morning. "Here's your menu ma'am" He then turns to see you "Here's your menu - GAH!" He takes a step back out of fear of seeing you for the first time.

"Don't worry, I won't eat you." You say hearing a chuckle from Dash."But I will eat whatever you have here." you smile at the cook that is now regaining his composure.

"Very well I heard that there was a alien in the castle with the princesses, but to see it first hand is something different." He passes you the menu and trots back to what you assume to be the kitchen. You look over at Dash who is now smiling into her menu.

"So what're you getting." You say as you open up your own menu to take a look at what they have. By the looks of it the only thing that looks editable to you is the fruit salad. You sigh living here is going to be a big change from living on earth.

Dashes voice awakens you from your dark thoughts. "I'm thinking on getting the peanut butter and zap apple jam sandwich. I can't believe they have zap apple jam it's not even the season. What are you getting?"

You look over the menu again finding that you rather not find out why they call it 'zap' apple jam. "I will just go with the boring old fruit salad." Dash and you both place your menus down at the same time. "So, why did you stick with me when you could of just flown home?"

Dash seems insulted by your statement "I'm the element of loyalty it's my duty to stay loyal to ponies." You look at her with a deadpanned expression.

"I'm not a pony Dash, being loyal to someone you just met and is an alien is just crazy." You say as you see the cook come out of the kitchen to take your orders. "there must be another reason." You say as the cook finally reaches the table.

"What can I get you to." The cook says as he pulls out a quill and a piece of paper. You just noticed this but he seems to be the only one working here at this time. You didn't see any waiters. You push the useless thought out of your head.

"I would like your fruit salad, and this lovely mare over here would like you finest peanut butter and zap apple jam sandwich." You make sure to sound grand as you speak the order. Dash chuckles and blushes as you finish the order.

"And what would you like to drink." The cook states looking rather unimpressed at your current attitude. You get the point that he doesn't need your shenanigans this time in the day. In fact you were beat tired as well, but you need food to survive the night.

"I will just have water" You say in a normal tone.

"And you ma'am" The cook points to Dash.

"Oh yeah, I'll have hard apple cider if you got it." She then looks at you with a devilish grin. The cook writes down the order and trots back into the kitchen to make the meals. You look over to Dash assuming hard apple cider is their equivalent to hard alcohol.

"You going to get drunk before the day even starts?" You question Dash. You kinda want to get a taste of what there alcohol here tastes like. Who know maybe it'll be way better then the alcohol on earth.

"HAY YEAH! I just survived seven days with you. I think I deserve it." You can't help but laugh at Dashes awesome come back. You do have to agree with her on this one it has been a rough seven days. She also looks like she could loosen up a bit.

The cook comes surprisingly out of the kitchen with your meals prepared. Must be because you're the only ones here and he doesn't have to keep track of other peop- ponies food. Getting used to saying pony and not people is going to take some getting used to.

"Her you go sir." The cook places down your fruit salad with your water. "And yours ma'am" The cook was about to leave before you stop him to ask him a question.

"What is your name sir I forgot to ask." You ask as you take a bite out of your delicious looking salad. To your liking the salad was perfect it was a burst of flavor that no one back on earth could of done.

"Oh,yes, my name is Brew and my last name is Strawberry" You really wanted to burst into laughter from his last name, but you kept it in.

"Well it was nice to meet you Brew. Just letting you know back on my world your food would be considered god sent" The cook then nods in thanks and heads back to the kitchen this time smiling for a change. looks like you managed to brighten someone's mood.

The rest of the meal is uneventful as you and Dash have no time to talk but instead chow down on the food. You notice that Dash has yet to drink her cider and you still have the voice in your head telling you to try it.

"Hay Dash?" You say as you look up from your meal to see Dashes face covered in peanut butter and rainbow colored jam, how fitting. You wonder how long she'll go before noticing.

She looks up from her sandwich "hmhmh" She says with a mouth full of sandwich. You smile knowing that she'll swallow her food soon enough and repeat what she was trying to say. "Sorry, yeah what's up?"

"You mind if I taste that cider of yours." She gives you a cold look like she wanted to have that cider all to herself. "Well if that is if you don't mind like I said before."

Dash looks at you then to the cider then back at you. "Fine!" She shoves the cider towards you. You nod your thanks and take the mug in your hand.

Taking a large sip you notice that it docent have any alcohol in it. instead you are greeted by a salty taste. It tasted pretty bad with the salt and you down it making sure not to waste her cider. You push the mug back to Dash.

Rainbow Dash takes the mug happily and downs the rest of the content. From your view it looks like Dash is already bit tipsy from just one mug of it. Either this stuff is really strong for ponies or Dash is a really light weight.

You both get up from the table and head out to the hall. Only to realize that you have no idea where Celestia wanted you to sleep. You look down to Dash that is having trouble standing so you help her out by allowing her to lean on you. At first she denies the help but once she falls seconds later she gladly takes the assistance. Yeah you're guessing that Dash is a really light weight.

Walking down the hall you're greeted by another pony. "Hello, sir." You say as you come up to the pony. The pony turns his head to see you and jumps back in fear. "Don't worry I won't harm you, I'm just looking for the guest rooms. Celestia said that I could stay the night here, or rather day as it looks like."

This guard pony has a different set of armor on. This one had a white coat with a brown mane. The armor he wore was gold colored and had a symbol of the sun on it. The gears in your head start to turn again as you realize that there must be two types of guards, morning and night guards. Makes sense because having one type would tire them out.

The guard pony regains his composure "Ah you must be the humon then. I must say seeing you in person is much different then Celestia telling us." Looks like Celestia has started spreading your name. "Your rooms are down this hall up the stairs and to the right you can't miss them there is only two doors on the floor."

"Thanks for the help, hope to see you again." You help Rainbow Dash down the hallway and up the stairs. The guard was right the floor that the stairs brought you to only had a small hallway and two doors leading you to your rooms.

You push Dash and yourself to the first room on the left. Opening the doors you're greeted to what would be a equivalent to a 5 star resort room with a hot tub and a great view of the city bellow that was now bustling with busy ponies. The ponies looked high class and very up tight, but you didn't really care at this exact moment.

Placing Dash on the bed you tuck her in and leave the room. No doubt she needs her sleep more than you do. Exiting the room you go to the second door that lead you to an identical room. You happily shut the door behind you and jumped into bed not caring for anything else. "FINALLY" you shout out as you hit the bed "SLEEP!"


"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
- W. Somerset Maugham