Secrets in Ponyville

Secrets in Ponyville
“Arrival”

There was a loud pounding noise on the door followed by a loud voice from the other side.

“Keenan! Wake up! You're going to be late for school!”

He quickly awoke rather annoyed that his dream had been rudely interrupted. He turned over and glanced at his alarm clock on his nightstand. It read “7:45 AM”. He soon realized he had overslept by nearly an hour.

“I'm coming! I'll be down in a minute!” Keenan yelled back to his older sister.

He abruptly sat up in bed and climbed off of his black and red futon. As he was standing up he almost tripped on the pile of mixed clean and dirty clothes near the foot of the bed. Catching himself before he fell, he reached down and rooted around until he found all the pieces of his outfit. He hurriedly threw them on, almost putting his black Rainbow Dash cutie mark shirt on backwards.

Keenan was about 5' 4” tall, a bit on the heavier looking side weighing about 185 pounds. He had short medium brown hair with a sort of neck-beard thing because he was too lazy to shave his facial hair regularly. He had an interesting shade of greenish-gray eyes and a less-than-pale skin tone. He was pretty much a typical sixteen year old, he was lazy, loved playing games with his friends online, drank more Mountain Dew than was good for him, among many other things. He was a brony as were all of his friends. He remembered when his friends had told him that they were watching My Little Pony after he had gotten home from working at a camp all summer long. He reacted by calling them odd and just brushing it off, but ultimately they convinced him to watch one episode and ever since he had loved the music, artwork, stories, episodes, and the fandom as a whole.

Keenan stumbled groggily into the hallway and then to the bathroom to brush his teeth. He sprayed himself with Axe deodorant, wet his hair and ran a comb through it. The then went running downstairs, grabbed his backpack, and ran outside to the car where his sister was waiting for him. He looked at the time on his iPhone and it read “7:58 AM”, he made it in time. His sister Ashley began pulling out of their driveway to drive them both to school.

The school year was nearly over, only a two weeks left until Summer break. Ashley was excited since she was a Senior and would be graduating in a few weeks. Keenan on the other hand wasn't as excited, he was only a Junior and still had another full year to go of high school.

Ashley started interrogating Keenan on why he overslept, “Why didn't you wake up on time? You almost made me late.” Being on time was a big deal to her since she had maintained a perfect attendance record all through high school. She loved school, and Keenan thought she was completely nuts for it.

“I'm sorry, I was up late with the guys online,” Keenan replied with a sigh. Luckily the ride from their house to the school was only a couple minutes, he couldn't stand her constant lecturing him about how he should study more and go to sleep earlier.

It wasn't long before they had arrived at Southwestern Area High School and went their separate ways. Keenan went straight to his locker to stow away his backpack and get his notebook. He went into his homeroom and sat down right next to his best friend Ian. Ian was a brony as well, in fact he was the main reason Keenan got into the fandom in the first place.

“What's up dude?” Ian asked him.

“Nothing really, almost overslept because I was up so late reading clopfics,” Keenan responded.

“Nice, you're virtually addicted to those things aren't you?” Ian asked already knowing the answer.

“You have no room to talk bro,” Keenan jokingly said back.

“I suppose you are right. But anyway, I was reading this really sweet fan fiction last night about this guy getting transported to Equestria and getting to live there forever. Wouldn't that be awesome?” Ian told him enthusiastically.

“Don't we wish? Anything to get out of this hell hole. Plus, living in Equestria? What brony in their right mind wouldn't want that!?” Keenan replied rather happy now that they were on the topic of ponies and fan fiction.

Some time passed after their short discussion and the bell rang to go to first period. Keenan and Ian said bye to each other and proceeded to their respective classes. The day drug on for Keenan, but finally 3:00 came. He made his way out of the school and into his sister's car. They were home shortly, and Keenan grabbed some junk food and a few cans of pop and went up to his room. He laid down on his bed and began reading assorted fan fictions. Before he knew it, the clock was reading “10:00 PM”. He was starting to feel a bit drowsy anyway, so he thought it best to go to sleep a bit early.

Soon Keenan had fallen sound asleep and was beginning to dream about Equestria again as he had the night before. It wasn't long before he woke up, but there was something out of the ordinary. He glanced around the room he was in and noticed it wasn't his room. His poster-covered white walls were traded for a light tan color with a deep wood grain. He wasn't laying on his black and red futon, but a large decorated bed with decorated covers and pillows on it. He looked for the clock that would normally be on his nightstand only to notice that there wasn't a nightstand there.

Confused at what was going on and at the same time thinking he was still dreaming, he attempted to wake himself up with no success. Suddenly a familiar face had appeared at the foot of his new bed, however it wasn't exactly somebody he had met before. It was none other than Twilight Sparkle. A member of the mane six from Friendship is Magic. Almost certain he was dreaming at this point, he went to rub his eyes but froze in half amazement and half fear at the sight in front of his own eyes. He was staring at his hands, or hooves rather. He had a set of hooves.

“Welcome to Ponyville,” Twilight said with a bright smile on her face. He couldn't respond. His mouth just hung open in utter amazement. His eyes spotted a mirror on the other side of the room. He jumped out of bed and ran over to the mirror. He couldn't believe his eyes.

What stood before him in that mirror was a jet-black pegasus stallion with a mane and tail that had a fiery combination of red and yellow-orange in them. He saw on his flank a cutie mark resembling a solar eclipse. However, his eyes were still that same distinct shade of greenish-gray. All he could do was stare with his mouth hanging open, speechless.

Twilight Sparkle walked up next to him and said “Hello Shadow Eclipse, and welcome to Ponyville. Or should I say, welcome to Equestria.”