Title:           Life in Equestria: Chapter 2
Author:          Cyanblast
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First Edit:      Friday 10th of August 2012 11:38:19 PM CDT
Last Edit:       Friday 10th of August 2012 11:38:19 PM CDT

        Lucky bro. He got wings. WINGS. Now I was jelly. I almost dropped my improvised loincloth, but it was understandable. The large pony with flowing hair caught it and helped me pull it back up with magic of some sort. "Is he okay?" I ask. "He'll be back up and flying in no time." She reassures me. I look and everyone else but one guard had gone. "Though, he also may just stay unconscious like this for a few days." She says with a nervous chuckle. I look closely at his shoulder and what I see proves he'll be fine. "He'll be just fine." I relay to her. "How can you tell?" "Do you see this scar? Someone stabbed him there a few years ago, and he walked himself to the hospital, which was a good three miles away." You were surprised you knew this. It seemed Pony Lady had the same idea. "First memory back?" "Yeah, thanks...uhm..." "Princess Celestia"
 
        Well then. I knew the princess. Of what? I didn't care. I had connections now. "What may I call you?" A voice interrupted your thoughts. Oh, right your name. "I..I don't know what my name is. Call me...call me Anon for now." Really? That's the best I could come up with? I must be still dazed. A thought came through my mind. "How long has it been since we were brought here?" "Well, somepony heard a yell and a loud crack out in their back garden," My yell. I probably fell on the laptop to make the snap. "and that was yesterday evening."She said. As I was thinking I noticed the Princess staring at me. Before she could say anything I said, "All I know now is that I'm not from this world." She was thinking. "If I remember anything, Ill tell you." I finished. "Thank you, now, shall we let your friend rest? Let us leave for the palace so that we may discuss some things." She said as she turned around and headed for the door.
 
        I followed behind far enough that the guard wasn't suspicious of anything, but close enough that neither of them had to tell me to catch up. We were walking for about ten minutes, and ponies kept staring at me the entire time. Once we got to the palace, I wasn't paying attention, so when I heard "We're here", I looked up and once more, my mouth hung open. "Wow." I managed to get out. "It is quite impressive, isn't it?" She said with what looked like a smug grin. "Yeah. Yeah it is." I answer. "Shall we?" She extends a hoof toward the door. "Right, yeah" I say as the palace guards open the door for us. We enter the large throne room and go through to the next hallway and into a small conference room. I sit on the floor at the less regal looking side, because the other end of the table had gold plated carvings covering the edge. Oh, and there were no chairs. Whatever, it's a castle. I'll deal with it. The princess sat down at her end and began asking questions.
 
        "What are you?" She began. "I'm what my race calls a human, but none of us have any extra traits that others don't. Most people have the same parts and pieces. Such as, there aren't some of us with wings or horns or extra anything." You explain. "People?" She seems confused. "Sorry, the equivalent of the word ponies. In my world, things like everypony is everybody, and somepony is somebody. It's quite simple once you think about it." She understands and continues questioning with, "Do you have a cutie mark?" "A what? Cutie mark? What's that?" She thought how to explain it, "Well, you get a mark on your flank when you find what your special talent is. Mine is the Sun because I control the Sun and daytime." She turns to the side to show you. "Do you get markings like that on your world?" I thought what would be the equivalent of a cutie mark. Nothing. "No, nothing like that. A lot of the time, people have to work jobs they don't like because they need money to get extra schooling so they can qualify for the job they want. Usually, they don't get it. It's kind of sad." Celestia looks horrified. "What? Forced to work jobs they don't like? Is that normal?" She's hoping I say no.
 
        "Yes, sadly. And a lot of people are lonely at home by themselves after work... I just realized that people's lives are pretty sad. But to sum it up, yes, it is normal." I look at Celestia again and she looks on the verge of tears. I just remembered that here you get to do the job most fun for you and everyone is everyone else's friend. So compared to that, people are walking sob-stories. "I'm sorry..." She finally gets out. "No, it's okay. We push through. We eventually find friends. Sometimes we even get the job we want." "Sometimes?" "Yeah, but we're used to it. I'm usually pretty happy." She looks a little less sad. "I'm sorry you had to see me like that, it's just so different. It seems so sad to have few friends and a life like that." "Why don't we just talk about something else? Like, where am I going to stay?" Celestia was about to answer when the door opened and a guard walked in and said, "Princess Celestia, The other..." He paused. "creature woke up. He is standing outside. May he come in?"
 
        Celestia said without hesitation, "Of course!" and the guard started to leave when he stopped and stared at me for a few seconds, shook his head and left. He came back a minute later with Mous who also had his blanket tied to his waist. "Hey bro, sleepy much?" I chide. "Hey, I was hit in the head... with something." I remember something I wanted to tell him. "Hey, when I saw you in your hospital room, you were, what was it called?" "A Pegasus." Celestia chimed in. "Yeah. You were a pony and you had wings." "Really? Wow, cool." Celestia tried to bring us back to the conversation. "Yes, you had wings. Now, why aren't either of you ponies now?" I thought and so did Mous. "I have no idea." We both say at the same time. "Well, in any case, you need a place to stay. I don't think Canterlot would be a good place. It might upset the city folk. Though the ponies in Ponyville are much more accepting, my student there could keep an eye on you as an assignment, and I know there are several empty houses from when business picked up in Fillydelphia and some families moved." We looked at each other and I said, "Okay, but," "we need clothes first." Mous finished. "That can be arranged" Celestia said with a satisfied smile. I walk up an hold out my hand and I shake Celestia's hoof "Deal"
 
        After the Royal Seamstress (She isn't called that for nothing!) takes our measurements, she somehow patches us together a decent pair of shorts and a shirt. We take a copy of our measurements with us so that this "Rarity" in Ponyville will know how to make us more clothes. We add a few notes as to our preferences of pants length and clothes color when they aren't looking. We then went to the shoemaker, and as it turns out, pony shoes aren't too far off from people shoes. A few adjustments and we have some slightly uncomfortable shoes, but whatever, they gave us the most comfortable socks ever to make up for it. Apparently they were made of enchanted clouds. Huh. A few minutes later, we were at the pegasus carriage stables. (Kind of like an air-bus station.) As soon as we took off, Celestia sent a letter to her student "Twilight" in Ponyville with some sort of green fire, letting her know she was coming for a visit, but not saying why. She explained that she thought meeting new people or "ponies" as she said would be a nice surprise for them. She also gave us watches and told us, "These are stopwatches. As soon as you meet a pink pony with a fluffy pink mane and balloons for a cutie mark, start them. As soon as someone throws you a party, stop them. Then send me the time. I want to see how good Pinkie is at throwing parties. She has a party every time she meets someone new." We agreed, but were still a little confused. So we just sat down and thought about our situation here. I started thinking, "This is going to be an interesting life."