//------------------------------// // 2. A New World // Story: The Trials Of the Elements // by Kirbysnumber1 //------------------------------// It was a beautiful spring day and John was taking a walk through the park, it had just went from winter to spring so there was still some snow on the ground but he didn't really care, while winter wasn't his favorite season it wasn't as bad as people said it was. It was actually one of his favorite seasons, he liked the fact that it wasn't really hot like summer and it didn't make his allergies go crazy. So it was a close second behind spring as his favorite season. As he walked down the path he was looking up to the sky "It's such a beautiful day. No clouds in the sky, the sun is shining, and there's a nice breeze to go along with it, reminds me of the episode where the ponies wrapped up winter" he said to himself, humming the catchy song to himself that the ponies sang in that episode. He was walking down the path of the park, looking at all the puddles of water left from the melting snow. Suddenly he got an urge to jump in the puddle like he did when he was a kid but he knew better than to do things like that in public, so he just dropped some snow in it to subdue the urge of stomping through the puddle, not only would it be really embarrassing but it would also ruin not only his shoes, but his pants as well. He was still walking down the path when suddenly he saw a flash of light almost directly in front of him "What the h-?" was all he was able to get out before he fell backwards, 'Oww that hurt.' he thought "What was that?" he opened his eyes, except when he opened his eyes he saw the impossible, right there in front of him was the same characters from the show he was just thinking about "W-what in the hell!!" he yelled in shock and disbelief at the sight in front of him. "Is this the place princess?" Twilight asked looking around the new area they were now in. "It's really pretty here." Fluttershy said also looking around at the park they had appeared in. "Yes it is truly beautiful here darling." Rarity said looking around the park "Could do without all the mud though." John might've looked a little calm on the outside, but on the inside he was freaking out all he could think to himself was 'HOLY CRAP THE MANE SIX AND CELESTIA ARE STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!!' he tried to opened his mouth to speak but he couldn't find the words to use, all he could get out of his mouth was a small squeak. "Hey he sounds just like Fluttershy" Rainbow said pointing at him with her hoof falling down laughing as John's face started to turn red with embarrassment "Ummm I don't really sound like that...do I?" Fluttershy asked barely audible, after she asked, John swore he could hear a tiny squeak coming from her. "Umm you kinda do actually...and it's really cute" John said looking sheepishly at them hoping they wouldn't think he was weird from his comment. He didn't want them to get off at the wrong foot or hoof in their case and the last thing he wanted was for them to avoid him thinking he was some sort of weirdo. Fluttershy's face started to turn visibly red "oh uhh.. thanks" Fluttershy said really quietly while looking down at the ground. Rainbow looked at John with a confused look on her face "Oookay that was weir-" Rainbow was interrupted as Pinkie suddenly gasped really loud, making John jump to his feet and quickly look for someplace to hide as he knew what was coming, Yet John quickly realized there was no immediate place to hide, he suddenly felt a chill go up his spine as he knew what the next ten seconds were gonna be like 'Shit' he thought to himself as he heard the sound of what he could only describe as by what he heard, either every bronies greatest dream...or their worst nightmare. "Oh my gosh a new friend I love new friends will you be my friend!!" John slowly nodded his head, clearly terrified, but Pinkie didn't seem to notice "Yaaay now that we're friends I can throw a 'I made a new friend today' party and we will be the bestest of friends and we'll have fun playing and-." Pinkie suddenly gasped again "Wait a minute." she looked around and the biggest smile John had ever seen in his life appeared on her face "Oh my gosh there are new friends EVERYWHERE!!!" Pinkie tried to run to meet new people but was suddenly enveloped in a yellow light as she started to float up. Celestia sighed "It appears I have no choice, I'm sorry I have to do this." Celestia said to John as her horn started to glow even brighter than it had before "I'm sure we will meet again." was the last thing he heard before everything went black. ******************************** "Ooooww..my head." John groaned while rubbing his head which was in pain for a reason he could not seem to remember. "What happened?" John said to nobody in particular as he was the only one living in his apartment. His apartment wasn't that big, but it was big enough for one person to live in. Which was okay since he was the person living there, and he wasn't planning on anyone moving in anytime soon, he didn't have a girlfriend and all his friends didn't live anywhere near him. But from what he was told they were doing pretty well for themselves. So they weren't in need to move in, plus even if they did they had others closer to them that they could move in with instead. He got out of his bed and started staggering to the bathroom. "I need an aspirin." he said fumbling with his medicine cabinet looking for the right bottle. When he finally found it he took two and went to the kitchen for some breakfast, as he was eating his breakfast of a few waffles when he started thinking about what he was doing yesterday that gave him such a bad headache in the first place. It was a Saturday so he wouldn't have to go to work, not that he liked his job at the bank much anyway, I mean yeah it payed well but it wasn't the most fun thing to do for eight hours a day, doing the same thing every single day. Someone comes in, asks to pay off a loan or to take a loan, go accept it, rinse repeat. After about an hour the most he could clearly remember was that he was going for a walk in the park, and he started thinking about My Little Pony. He also remembered that he started humming Winter Wrap up to himself, but everything after that was a blurry mess. He eventually decided to go for another walk 'Maybe I'll be able to remember if I go walk in the park again.' He thought to himself as he put on a Hoodie and walked out the door. ********************** "Ummmm Princess?" Twilight said to Celestia nervously. Celestia looked at her student with a smile "Yes Twilight, what is it?" "Why did you have to erase that man's memory? He didn't seem like a bad person." Twilight didn't like to question her mentor's choices, but she just had know the reason for this one. Twilight had just witnessed Princess Celestia send the strange man to what Celestia said was his home and was curious about how Celestia knew where he lived. Celestia sighed "Well Twilight, we can't be sure about anyone here until we go through with the trials, besides..." Celestia looked down to the purple unicorn and smiled " I have a feeling we'll see him again soon." She said to the now even more confused unicorn. But Twilight had one more question she wanted to know the answer to. "Princess, one more thing." Twilight said "What is it Twilight?" Celestia said to her student. "How did you know where he lived? We've never seen him before, so I don't understand how you knew where to send him." Twilight asked Applejack nodded in agreement "Yeah ah've been wondering that too, it doesn't make sense how you just knew were to teleport em." Celestia smiled " Oh is that all you wanted to know, I just did a identification spell on him to find out where he lived then I sent him there." "Is that it?" Twilight asked curious. Celestia looked down at Twilight "Well I also had some help from Pinkie." Twilight saw this as a understandable answer and decided not to question it any longer. After all, never question Pinkie Pie. ******************************** 'Here we are, back at the park.' John thought to himself as he got to the park from his last memories of the previous day. 'Hopefully this will help me with the blank spots from yesterday.' He thought as he entered the park and walked down the familiar path. After about thirty minutes of walking down the path John found himself on the complete other side of the park with no idea of what happened the day before. So he just decided to walk down the street to think. As John was walking down the street he noticed a crowd starting to form in front of the convention center "Hm? What's going on over there?" He started heading to the steps of the center when he saw something that booted all of his lost memories back into place in ten seconds flat. Right there at the top of the steps...was Princess Celestia, and the mane six standing a few steps behind her, and a giant banner behind them that read Welcome To The Trial's of The Elements.