So there I stood, in front of me a pony with wings and a horn, named Twilight Sparkle, which is a ridiculous name by the way, lying about me being Gin Ichimaru, while being in his body. To say the situatuion was wierd was an understatement. Apperently to Twilight though, it was not. Or at least not nearly as wierd as it was to me."So Gin, what are you doing here and why are you scaring my fellow ponies?" I really didn't had an answer to those questions. Well ok, I was scaring the ponies because they were annoying and it was a little bit funny. But I couldn't tell her that. And for the first question I didn't knew it myself. What was I doing here? I said the first thing that came to my mind."I'm on vacation, and I don't know why the ponies are scared of me, I just walked through town and they started screaming and running."
From judging by her face alone, even though she was kind of a pony, I could tell she didn't buy it. Great, now I looked even more suspicious. I mean, if one could look even more suspicious than Gin-suspicious with this face. Before she could tell me to spit out the truth I asked her a question that poked me in the back of my head since she stood before me."What exactly are you?" That seemed to stop her in her tracks, as she took obvious offence in my question." I mean, the other ponies here I can recognize, pegasi, unicorns and, well ponies. But you have wings as well as a horn, so what are you?" I actually wanted to ask quite some other questions too.
For example: Where the hell am I? What happened to me? Where are all the humans? Why can you talk, etc, etc. But something told me I should be more considerate on that one. She looked at me as if I were an alien. Which I kind of was, but that's beside the point."You must be from the other side of Equis to not know what I am." Equis? Was that the planets name? Seriously? Okay that was just stupid, it's like we had named our planet Homoria instead of Earth, but again, besides the point." I am an alicorn, we're known for incredibly strong magic, ageless bodies and our few numbers." It was fascinating how she could speak of herself as of an endangered species. But wait a second, ageless bodies? I looked in utter disbelief at the creature before me, if that was true, how old was that pony then? I know it's not accurate to call a lady, especially a royal one, old but, I just couldn't help myself.
"So you're actually hundreds of years old?" She reacted just like I expected a woman to do, when asked a question like this." No! I just recently got became an alicorn!" That confused me, so a unicorn or a pegasus could just be turned into an alicorn? Then why weren't there only alicorns? But before I could asked any other question, she lifted one hoof to silence me."I think it would be best if we continue this conversation in the privacy of my castle, so the ponies here can come out of their houses."
How naive, what if I were a spy or a assasin?
I heard that thought in the back of my head and asked myself where that did come from. Usually I don't think of stuff like that. But I quickly shrugged it off as me being a little paranoid after being thrown into another world. So I just nodded at Twilights proposal and her horn lit up. I could only lift an eyebrow before we both were engulfed in light and than we stood before an crystal made treehouse-castle. At this ridiculous I had a really hard time not to laugh my lungs out, for the second time today I thought my constant smile to be a good thing. Twilight lost no time and oppened the ridiculous big golden doors with her magic and I stepped in. We then proceeded to walk up some stairs and then in the end went inside something I could only descripe as a thron room, except that there were six chairs. As she closed the doors of the thrown room, I could almost feel the change in her additude. It seemed that, out there, she kept the facade of the concerned ruler as good as she could, probalby because she wanted to give her subjects a feeling of protection and safety, but in here, where we were all alone, she exploded with questions." Why are your eyelids closed all the time? Can you see through them? Why do you smile constantly? You're a human right? "
"Yes, it's natural, because I'm a happy man and yes, wait, there are other humans on Equis?" I felt really dumb using this word. She however, shook her head."No thats why I really like to know how you got here, the only humans I ever met, were on the other side of a portal, but you seem to be quite different from them." A portal that let to another world, with humans but who where different from me? I was more confused than ever before in my life.
And then a little purple dragon with green spikes came into the room. He looked at me and I, of course, smiled my creepy smile, and he, just as Twilight, didn't screamed or shrieked, he didn't even run away. No, he looked at me with a surprised look on his face I assumed I would've made in that moment if I could stop smiling and open my eyes."A human? How can a human be here? Twilight?" He turned to the alicorn and looked at her with an curiosity that almost leveld Twilights."I'm trying to figure this out myself rigtht now Spike." Than she looked at me. Even though the only evidence for my surprise were my eyebrows and my slightly altered smile, she figuered out what was going on in my head and which questions I wanted to ask."Gin, I want to introduce you to my number one assistant Spike." She made a waving gesture with her hoof in the direction of Spike, who seemed to be very proud of the fact that he had this position.
"Nice to meet you Spike, but Miss Sparkle, about that portal thing, what makes the humans there so different from me?" She remembered what we were talking about and looked at me with a little sparkle in her eye, I didn't know why, but that sparkle had something creepy to it."I don't know, you just don't, how do I say this, feel like them. As if you are what they are but something different at the same time. I would love to examine you." Now I recognized that spark. It was scientific curiosity. I backed of just a step."No thanks, I'm good." I somehow felt a little bit reminded of a certain scarred doctor, and I didn't want to fall into the ha-hoofs of such an individual. She looked disapointed. "Ok, but could you at least tell us how you got here?" Spike nodded in agreement and both looked at me. I sighed."I actually don't quite know how I got here, I just touched something I wasn't supposed to and than I got sucked into a black hole in the ground. And before you ask, no I don't remember what that thing was, the memories are somewhat a little bit blurred."
Yes, I lied to them, and? I never said that I trusted them, just because she was a cute little alicorn and he a cute little dragon. And I was quite certain that, once I revealed that it was my Zanpakuto that brought me here, she would take it from me and do some magic-scientifical research on it. And I didn't want to give Shinsou away. Never! So I lied to them. Back in my own body, I never were a good lier, my face betrayed me almost every time I tried. So, the smile and the closed eyes were, again a good thing. My smile remained and grew even a little bit wider, which seem to irritate Twilight, but she didn't bring it up. Instead she frowned."Thats unfortunate, I know some portal spells that can be placed on items but..." She paused and thought about something for a moment."Does magic exist in your world?" I chuckled. "No, some may think so and some may hope so, but it doesn't."
She shook her head."Then I don't know how you end up here. Except for...no, he wouldn't do that." My ears pricked up."Who wouldn't do what?" She waved a hoof at me."Oh, don't worry about that, it was just a stupid little thought. And I think if you're planning on staying here much longer, I think you will meet him soon enough, and I can guess that he would like to introduce himself to you first." I shook my head, with every word that were spoken, everything just got more confusing. But I must say, without any boasting here, I think I took this whole situation quite well. But that could have been due to the fact that, at least I supposed so at the moment, my mind was altered in a way to imitate Gin's mind just as my body were. So,I remain calm.
"I don't really have any place to go at the moment." I said, to answer her silent question if I planned on staying here any longer. She nodded."If thats the case would you...would you like to sleep here in my castle for a night or two?" I was stunned, did I not expect such an offer. I mean she was a royal, obviously, and back in my world these tended to be not so generous."Thank you very much for your offer Miss Sparkle, I would love to spend some nights inside these halls." Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking, I spoke quite like an old man right? Well I can't explain it myself, it just felt accurate and it possible was. But Twilight quickly pointed out that it wasn't.
"You called me 'Miss Sparkle' twice by now, there is no need for that, Twilight is enough and there is no need to talk like an noble too. I might be a princess but I just can't stand it when ponies talk to me like that." I thought about that, it was true, since we were in her castle, she completely shrugged the princess behavior of and acted like any scientist would. I nodded. "Thank you Twilight."
"No need to thank me, I am the Princess of Friendship after all so it's kind of my duty to help others." She looked at a clock that was hanging on one of the walls."Oh, so late already? Come Gin, I'll show you your room, it should be getting dark soon and I bet you want some sleep." Dark? I looked out of one of the window, the Sun were still standing were she when I came out of the forest. Which was pretty odd given the time that passed between than and now, but I paid only little attention to that."What do you mean by that? The Sun didn't even moved a lit-..."
And than it happenend. The sun suddenly decided that it was night now and basically jumped behind the horizen and at the same moment, the moon swung into view and took the place of sun. My jaw dropped. And that was quite something, keep in mind I was still smiling. It must have been quite the hilarious image, judging by the laughter I heard from Spike. I heard Twilight hissing to him, something about that it wasn't nice to laugh about someone, but I paid almost no attantion to that. The flippin Sun just moved. And not only just moved, but moved really really fast and the Moon too. After one or two minutes, I were finally able to say something."How the...what...I...did that really just...?" Twilight looked over to me.
"Sorry, I should have told you that, don't worry though, this is absolutely normal here, I'm going to tell you everything about it tomorrow okay?" I nodded and buried all the burning questions for now."Come with me, I'm going to show you your room now." I nodded again and followed her to a guestroom. It was quite luxorious, but what did I expect in a castle like this?
"Good night Gin, I hope you sleep well." With those words she closed the door and I fell on my bed. I didn't noticed it until now, but I were quite exhausted, not physically, this was Gin Ichimarus body after all, but mentally, all those informations, the confusion about most of them and now, the thing with the Sun and the Moon. I just wanted to sleep and wake up with new energy, so I made myself comfortable, until I noticed something.
How were I supposed to sleep when I could see through my eyelids?