Chaos and Nightmaresby Time_TurnerChaptersProlougeChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4ProlougeThe seagulls cawed overhead as the dark haired teenage boy sat staring out to sea on the edge of the white sands of the desert island. Beautiful Blue Ocean lay ahead and all around him as he tried to see if there were any other signs of life. “Well, I guess there’s no point in keeping up our chances of leaving, I’ve run magical spells across the island, nothing...that was defiantly a one way send-off…we’re doomed.” The tall white alicorn walked out of the small patch of palm trees and sat next to him, her wings gave a small flutter as she flicked the hot sand until she hit the cool part of the island and sat in the small ditch she had made. “We had a nice run though right?” the boy squinted as he turned his head to the left to look at the alicorn who was a few inches taller than him when they were both sitting. “Oh yes of course, couldn’t have asked for a better shot at it.” She replied and brushed the sand off her hooves with her wings. “And this island is quite pretty if you think about it.” He ran three fingers through the sand to his right. “Defiantly.” She agreed with him with a nod. “I guess you could say we are the king and queen of our own land now.” He smiled and so did the alicorn. “You better stick to your royal duties.” She joked and put her large white feathered wing out and hugged him with it. “You know what I’m not going to miss though?” “What's that?” he asked in wonder. “I don’t have to haul that heavy sun around anymore.” She gave a laugh and the boy joined in after a small chuckle had escaped them, soon they were laughing hysterically. “Ah, we truly are idiots aren’t we Celestia?” the boy and the alicorn had stopped laughing after about 30 seconds of non-stop laughing. “Yes we are Drake.” She replied and the laughing died down. “Anything you’re not going to miss about your world?” Celestia breathed in the fresh salty air. “Well, I guess I certainly won’t miss rainy days…” “C’mon, I won’t miss pulling the freaking sun across the world and you try to top it with rainy days?” she nudged him slightly. “I wasn't exactly an immortal prince though.” He gave a weak smile and lay back on the sand and stared up at the picturesque sky, the clouds were few and the sand greeted him warmly like a welcoming hug. “We’ll see about setting up a shelter for the night and a get a fire going.” The alicorn also rolled onto her back and her chest plate dug into her spine as she did so, it only took her a few seconds for her to sit back up straight and remove the chest plate and crown, she used her left hoof to dig a small hole and stash her jewellery into it before feeling the sand on her back without any uncomfortable feelings. They spent maybe half an hour just dozing and soaking up the sun’s rays, Celestia had never truly taken the time and sunbathed; even though she was the princess of the sun. “I tell you what Drake…if we do get out of here…we are having a sun bathing day…24 hours of sun and no work…” Celestia had relaxed so much that she was now dribbling but didn’t bother to do anything about it, she was far too comfortable now in the sand that had formed around her. “I second that.” Drake was also dribbling slightly. “Can I ask something?” Celestia wiped the drool from the side of her mouth. “Yep.” Drake didn’t wipe the drool but let the sand soak it up. “If we are able to escape, are you going to return home?” her leg twitched sharply as she relaxed a bit too much and her leg nerves sprung back. “Had too much of me?” he joked. “I didn’t mean that!” Celestia took it like he meant it. “I know, I’m just pulling your wing.” He nudged her after a failed attempt of poking her and dug his hand into the sand. “Well, I was wondering if you wanted to stick around for a bit longer. Since Luna moved with her troops to keep the south secure from Discord, there’s a free room that could do with a new owner.” She bounced back from her sudden hurt tone and Drake sat up, the back of his spiky black hair was dotted with sand. “Are you asking me if I want to move into the castle with you?” Celestia sat up as well and brushed the white sand out of her wings. “If you want to that is.” She gazed out to sea from the tiny island, the waves must have raised and dropped about a few centimetres as they slowly washed upon the small shore. “I’d be honoured to live with you Celestia.” He shuffled next to her, leaving a large line where he slid along the sand. He out his left arm and held her close to him, he used his fingers to slowly brush her gently. “Let’s get a fire going then.” Drake stood up quickly and clapped his hands together, brushing off the sand on his brown jeans and on the back of his white shirt. “…and so he said, ‘ugh, do you mean that octagon thing?’ and the police turn to him and say, ‘Who taught you octagon?’” Celestia gave a huge laugh as Drake continue to tell his joke, he gave a chuckle at her laugh, it had a slight posh tone to it, but since they had been sent to that prison island by Discord she had given up on her royal attitude and taken to getting her hooves dirty. The fire crackled in the centre of them, Drake and Celestia were sitting opposite each other with the fire in the middle with parts of the trees used as fire wood and Celestia had used a spark spell to ignite it. “I guess we are going to need a shelter for tonight. I think I found a bunker in the trees that had been buried in the ground…” before she finished Drake stood up and began to search the ground in the trees for any signs of a hatch or door by kicked things around with his foot, the only light was coming from the fire and everything else was pitch black. “Here…” came Celestia’s voice from beside the fire, a small sphere of light shot over to Drake and bounced along the ground and rolled to his feet like she had gently tossed a baseball. “Thanks.” He grabbed it in one hand and crouched down on his knees to see if anything looked a bit odd and might conceal a trap door or something until… “Aha!” he gasped and grasped a small metal ring that was covered by dead leaves, he stood up and was still bent when he lifted it, taking a trap door made of dark wood and covered in leaves and sand, the sand either fell backwards or into the hole. “What’s inside?” Celestia had left the warmth of the fire and trotted next to the hole, making sure not to fall in as Drake found a ladder nailed to the side and descended into the hole, carrying the light orb like a glass ball as he did. “Anything?” “Very…very dark.” He said in a constant tone. “Anything usefull?” she rolled her eyes and was thinking about going in herself when Drake reappeared and lent on the side of the hole. “Beds, not great like what you’d be used to, but it’s better than sleeping on the sand, we also have: rotten apples and…” he ducked back down and got back up with a glass bottle full of a dark liquid. “…What I think might be cider…and a lot of it.” “What makes you think that it’s cider?” she doubted that it was actually cider and certainly wouldn’t be as nice as what the Apple family made. Drake made another ducking down and reappearing act and pulled up a large wooden crate and lit the side up with the glowing orb, big black writing on the side said ‘Cider’ “Ah that would probably make it cider…” “Want some?” he reached into the box and pulled out another dusty bottle of the same dark liquid. “Sure…” she used her magic and the bottle uncorked itself and she downed it in one gulp. At sunrise, the fire had died and half the cider had been drunk, they were now both asleep in the weirdest spots, Celestia was asleep in one of tree branches, he legs dangled off each side and her wings were drooping forward. Drake however was on the ground and sleeping like a starfish on the sand, he sat bolt upright and screamed. It caused Celestia to fall out of her tree and into the bush below her with a crash. “What?” she cried out as she tried to escape the bush. “Ugh, Twilight? I had a terrible dream that I was trapped on a beach with Princess Celestia.” He rubbed his eyes and rolled over onto his front. Celestia popped her head out of the bush kind of like a giraffe, her light purple eyes gave a glazed over look that anypony would know straight away that she was thinking ‘you idiot’. “Wasn't a dream was it?” Celestia shook her head slowly. “Feels like we’ve been here for weeks.” He groaned as he stood up, brushed the sand from his hair and helped pull the twigs out of Celestia’s mane, coat and wings. “We’ve been here for a day.” She stood very still as Drake continued to pull the tiny bits of twigs and leaves out of her swirling mane. “Do you miss Equestria?” he was now taking out the last few tiny twigs out her mane, by now he was running his fingers through it, her mane was warm like it was cosy rays of sunlight. “Of course…” she said and then shut up quickly. “There was a ‘but’ at the end of that sentence.” he held her gently and they walked and trotted over to the sand where they kept sitting, the dead fire was still sitting in its ashes. “No there wasn't.” she denied it but Drake wasn't stupid. “Don’t play dumb with me please Celestia, I know there’s a reason you don’t want to go back to Equestria.” All the twigs were now gone but he was still running his hands through it and along her back. “I’ll play fair then…Discord scares me.” Drake kissed her neck gently as reassurance. “He terrifies me too Celestia.” “Then why do you still want to go back even though you know he’s going to give it everything he’s got to kill you?” she snapped and stood up quickly, she turned to face him; her eyes were streaming with tears. Drake breathed in deeply and calmly said, “Because a hero will not be afraid to stand up for what is right and Discord is defiantly wrong. A hero is not afraid to give his life and I’m going to destroy myself before I give up on my friends back in Equestria.” Chapter 1Drake remerged around in his bag for his subway he’d brought home from town, university food sucked. “Got it.” He said as he pulled out his 12 inch meatball marinara sandwich. His mouth watering at the sight of it as he unwrapped it. As he bit into the succulent sandwich, he caught sight of the digital clock on his kitchen oven. 09:46. His eyes widened as he realised his bus to uni would be leaving soon, he put on his grey jacket and his red vans and with sandwich clenched between his teeth, he shot out the door and sprinted to the bus stop As he swallowed down the last of his sandwich, he just saw the bus leaving the bus stop without him. He bent over trying to catch his breath; he began to hiccup from swallowing his food too fast. “Damn it.” He said loudly as he stood up and began to walk through the woods behind the bus stop to get on his long walk to uni. The only reason he took the bus was because firstly, it was really far, maybe about 3 miles, but to him, that was far. And secondly, the woods were gloomy and muddy. As he began to enter the woods, walking along the dirt road, it began to rain, slowly at first, then it began to hurl it down, he couldn’t go any further as he would die of pneumonia, so he stood inside a tree that had been hollowed out, his jacket had just caught some of the rain so he took it off and wrapped it around his waist, felt stupid and put it back on. The rain grew heavier and heavier, soon, lightning and thunder joined in and suddenly drake knew that standing underneath a giant tree wasn't the greatest idea in the world now. Suddenly the whole world was lit up with a bright light. Drake could feel himself lying down on the ground, his eyes shut and he felt something cool between his fingers, the rain and thunder had stopped and the air felt cool and cleaner than before. He opened his eyes and his vision was fuzzy, but when it sharpened, he could see in the sky; fluffy white clouds that seemed to float and not move. “Aw crap I better not be dead.” He said loudly to himself as dark humour. He heaved as he sat up, he wasn't entirely sure that he wasn't dead. Where he now sat was in a green field with blue skies above him. He stood up and looked around, he could see any sign of a town, then suddenly a bush shuffled in the corner of his eye, he began to quickly walk towards it and ask who ever was inside it where he was. “Excuse me, where is the nearest town?” he asked it, feeling stupid talking to a bush, it shuffled slightly. “Hello?” A grey head popped out of the bush with golden hair and golden eyes to match, although its eyes were pointing in different directions. “Erm…” he murmured. “Hi.” It replied then snuck back down into the bush. After a few seconds, it reappeared again from the side. “You’re not a pony.” “A what?” Drake asked. “Pony…unless they changed the name. Did they?” Drake guessed she was what she was describing as a pony. But he was sure that ponies in his world didn’t talk. “Erm…I don’t…where am i?” Drake enquired. “Why, you’re in Equestria, but it’s ok, I forget sometimes as well…you don’t look like you’re from around here.” The grey pony said with a cheerful grin. “I’m from…far away I guess.” Drake said as he bit his lower lip. “Well…I’m sure the princess would want to see you…what ever you may be…” the pony said, slowly she began to rise out the bush by beating her wings and then she sped off through the woods. “WAIT!” drake shouted as he began to run after her, she was weaving in and out of the trees, he was made to duck underneath branches and leap over low hanging ones. Terrified he’d lose sight of her, he kept sprinting to keep up with her. Eventually he fell into an open clearing of green fields, the grey pony was lying on her back staring at the clouds. “Why…why did…you fly so…fast…” Drake panted. “Oh, sorry, I forgot.” She replied as she began to roll around on the grass. “Oh, by the way, my name is Derpy, what’s yours?” “My name…is Drake.” He began to catch his breath back. “Well Drake, this place is ponyville.” She stood up and pointed a hoof towards a town that was about a mile away, it looked small in the distance. “I’m sure the princess will want to meet you.” She toppled over from holding her hoof up and loosing balance. “I haven’t done anything wrong though.” Drake replied. “Oh no, it’s nothing bad, she’ll just want to say hi.” She flew up next to his face. “If I were you…don’t mention her sending anything to the moon…it used to be funny, not anymore.” She giggled. Drake stared at the town in the distance and he and Derpy began to walk towards it. Chapter 2Drake and Derpy began to enter through the towns entrance gates, the gates were a mere arch rather than full gates that Drake had back in his world. Soon they reached the main town centre, it had a large town hall in the middle of it and beautiful blue lakes that ran around it with bridges going over them, large amounts of thatched roof houses were dotted around outside the lakes and some stood out far more than other as clearly businesses, with large pieces of fake candy hanging off one of the buildings. A lot of ponies were chattering until Derpy took the first few steps into the town centre, they stopped quickly and began to stare at her, a few of the filly’s were giggling and pointing, parents were shoving their kids hooves down but didn’t stop staring. But when Drake joined Derpy; he had fallen behind from looking at all the buildings and not paying attention to how far in front of him she was, the ponies instantly switched their staring from Derpy onto Drake, with eyes that burned his skin, none of the filly’s were laughing or giggling now, some of them hid behind their parents legs and refused to move. Drake quickly snapped his eye sight to one of the light blue ponies with green hair who had been pushing her nose up at him; she froze instantly then ran inside one of the buildings with what looked like lace hanging around it with golden ribbon strapped on it with a very stunning effect. “Why do they stare?” he asked derpy without taking his eyes off random ponies. “Don’t think they know what you are.” Derpy replied kicking a small stone. “I meant why do they stare at you, you’re a pony like them.” He added. “I think it’s the eyes, I’ve gotten used to it by now.” She gave a wide grin. Derpy led Drake through the town and soon she had led him to a large tree that stood in a large clearing with two balconies and a sign outside with a picture of an open book. Derpy quickly changed her direction leaving Drake to almost trip over her if he had not jumped back a pace or two. She banged her hoof against the dark red door. “Is this where the princess lives?” Drake bent down to whisper to her. “No, I just have to drop a letter off to the pony that lives here.” She said as she quickly pulled out a small letter from the brown bag she had on her back. After a few seconds, the door gently swung open and before them stood a pony that was about the same size as Derpy but was a beautiful purple with dark purple mane and a light pink strip running down the length of it, he nose was muzzled in a book as it levitated by means of a glowing horn that stuck out of the top of her head and through her mane. “Good morning Twilight.” Derpy said to her as the letter flew from her mouth and joined its side by the purple book that had shut and was floating in mid-air. “Thank you Derpy.” She had a soft voice that was warm and slightly fuzzy to hear, it reminded Drake of the times in winter when he got back home and drank fresh hot chocolate and watched You’ve Been Framed. The book dropped to the ground and the letter followed with a flutter when she gasped as she saw Drake, standing twice as high as her and staring around at the huge amounts of books then suddenly back to her and took a small step back as she ran out and began to look at him at all angles. “My gosh, I’ve never seen anything like you before except in books.” She hopped around him and inspected him further. “Er…same here…ponies don’t usually talk in my world.” Drake was feeling very uncomfortable as he felt her breath on his legs. “Oh please come inside, if you’re free of course.” She stood on her back legs and put her front ones onto his back. “Actually, I was going with Derpy to see the princess.” Drake said as he look down upon Derpy. “It’s ok Drake, I’ve got a ton of mail to hand out before I’d even have a chance to go to Canterlot to see her.” She replied as nodded her head towards Twilights house. He nodded back and allowed Twilight to drag him inside in a hurry. The door slammed loudly and Twilight stood before him with a huge grin on her face slightly jumping as she looked upon him. “Nice house.” He said breaking the silence that was only being disturbed by Twilight squeeking as she bounced. “Oh it’s nothing…may I start asking questions?” she stopped bouncing and a quill, ink pot and paper flew over to her. “Sure go ahead, may I ask some as well inbetween yours?” he thought she would snap back and shout no. “Seems fair.” She replied. “Ahem… you don’t come from Equestria do you?” “No.” he answered, “My question, where am i?” “You’re in Equestria, a land watched over by princess Celestia and princess Luna who pull the sun and moon across the land. Now, where do you come from?” she asked as she scratched on the parchment. “I come from a land called Earth, a planet inhabited by what I am known as a human.” Drake replied trying to match the way Twilight spoke. “How did I get here?” at this point Twilight stopped writing and stared at him like he had just drooled on his shirt. “What do you mean? Didn’t you walk or travel to Equestria?” she let the quill, ink and parchment gently descend to the floor. “No, in my world, I had been caught in a lightning storm and hid in a hollow tree. I don’t remember what happened after that, just light and then…I woke up in a green field and met Derpy in a bush.” She walked over to a globe that was sitting in the middle of the room and dragged it over to him. “Does this look like Earth to you?” she asked as she gently spun it. Drake took one look at it and shook his head. “Well, this is our world, here’s Equestria, so if this doesn’t look like your world…that must mean that you’ve travelled between worlds.” She said as she pointed out Equestria and pulled a few books off the shelves that surrounded them. She flipped open a book called ‘Stars And Star Gazing.’ She turned the book around to drake and he saw that she had opened the book upon the star constellation Leo. “Do you recognise this?” “Yeah, that’s Leo the lion, everyone knows that. Why did you ask me this?” he gently took the book that floated in mid-air and scanned his eyes across the rest of it. “We have that constellation in our world, which means that you’re still in the same galaxy, so our worlds are close to each other.” “Close? How is that close? A galaxy is huge.” He burst out. Running a hand through his black hair and began pacing around the room. “Well, taking in the idea that you could have been sent across the entire universe, it’s close.” Twilight said as she watched him sit down on a step leading upstairs. “Will your princess be able to send me back?” Drake thought that if this was a dream, he’d play along as he’d have nothing else until he woke up. “I’m sure she will do everything in her power to help you.” Twilight said gently as she trotted up to him and nuzzled him gently. “C’mon, we can go see her now.” Chapter 3Twilight was trotting in front of Drake as they travelled to the train station to arrive at the princess’s castle. They passed a few shops after they had left Twilight’s house; Drake noticed that the shops in ponyville were very different than the ones in England. These ones were built s if they wouldn’t sell a different item in their life; there was a joke shop with joke props around it, a cake shop that looked like it was made of gingerbread and others that were just as silly looking. Drake jogged up to Twilight’s side and walked with her till the train station came into view, there were no trains in sight, and few ponies were on the platform. A white pony with a deep purple mane and tail was hopping on the spot and had a large collection of clothes and capes that looked like they had been bombarded with jewels. “Oh, where is the train? AH! I’m going to be late if it doesn’t hurry up.” She grunted as the clothes floated in mid-air by something that Drake couldn’t understand how it was happening. “Rarity!” Twilight called out and raised her right hoof in the air, the pony turned around and her blue eyes instantly fell upon Twilight and she trotted over to the white pony who didn’t look like she could move through the clothes hanging in mid-air around her. “I’ll…just wait over here.” Drake called over to her, ignoring the fact that he was the only human in that world and just shouted out for the entire station to hear…so only about him, Twilight, Rarity and some old pony with a dark brown leather hat dosing off on a wooden bench. Drake couldn’t hear what they were whispering about, but he was pretty sure it wasn't about the clothes that hung in mid-air. “…a friend...” Twilight finished her sentence and they both trotted over to where drake was standing. “Drake, this is one of my very good friends, Rarity, she works in fashion.” Drake had no idea how to go about greeting Rarity, if he was in another world with ponies that spoke, did they have different greetings? If he petted her would she be hurt? “Er…hello…my name is Drake.” He bent down to her eye level as she was about the same size as a large dog. “Oh darling I just adore your clothes, they are so…original.” She said out of the side of her mouth. It felt very awkward between them as they waited for the train to Canterlot. “So Rarity, how come you’re going to Canterlot as well?” Twilight stood next to her and gazed at her clothes. “Well, I’m going to show my new line of designer clothes to a high market dealer and hopefully he will like them and set up a shop in Canterlot. Can you imagine how amazing that would be?” she squealed at the mention of ‘Canterlot’. “I’m sure he is going to love them.” She replied. After a few minutes of flying clothes and Drake kicking a small stone around and finally Rarity kicking it away, a train pulled into the station, it was glistening white with golden figures of ponies attached to it. It was puling four long carriages that had a few ponies in them, some had horns and the rest had none; Drake could see there would be no point if ponies that had wings would take the train. As they steppe aboard the train, having a carriage to themselves wasn't hard, there were so few ponies aboard it that they could sit alone and not be disturbed. The seats were very wide and hard as Drake sat down on it. Twilight sat next to him and Rarity hung her clothes on a rail that ran the length of the carriage. “How long does this train take to reach the princess?” Drake sat on his hands as the seats were so uncomfortable. “About half an hour.” Twilight replied as Rarity sat next to her, she wouldn’t take her eyes off Drake; but it wasn't a lusty look, it was more of a what the hay are you kind of look. “May I ask you some more questions Drake?” “Go ahead.” He nodded to her. It freaked Drake out when she pulled a quill and paper from nowhere with a slight poof. “Ok, what where you doing before you came here?” she began scribbling down on the parchment. “I was underneath a tree, I don’t know if I blacked out and taken here by someone, or something else happened, it’s all a big blur really.” Drake rocked forwards and then backwards as the train departed the station. “I’ve got a question.” “Ok.” Twilight replied as she marked on her parchment. Drake rested his head against the window and felt the vibrations running through it; it felt no different than Earth trains did. “What happens if the Princess can’t send me back?” he stared out of the carriage, until he suddenly fell backwards as the train ran up a slope. Twilight stared at the floor and Rarity was looking at Drakes red shoes. “Er…well I’m sure she can…” “But he has a point Twilight, what if she can’t. I mean, I’m not thinking less of her magic, but, if she can’t send Drake back, what happens then?” Drake smiled at her. “At least someone sees my thoughts.” He said to her, brushing his black hair off the glass and gripped onto his seat as the train went round a bend that climbed a large grey mountain. “Well, if she can’t…” she began. “Then I should get used to eating hay?” he finished. She nodded slowly. “But I’ll trust your princess until she says no.” Drake shut his eyes as he caught a glimpse of how high they were. After a few seconds of climbing later, the train tracks evened out and Drake opened his eyes again. Rarity was collecting her clothes and Twilight was standing the carriages door, she didn’t need to tell Drake to get up; he was on his feet instantly and by her side. “I’m going to guess she lives in a castle; being a princess and all.” Drake said as he stooped down to duck underneath the doorway; it was built for ponies after all. “That one to be exact.” Twilight pointed a hoof at a large tower with a golden roof and white walls. “Wow, that’s big.” He stated the obvious; he couldn’t imagine the queen of England living in something like that. As they were walking, Rarity left them to go to show the fashion pony her clothes, they said goodbye and Rarity said she hoped she would be good friends with Drake and he wished the same to her. A long golden road wound up to the castle and it gleamed with a beautiful glow as Twilight and Drake walked along it. There was a large purple door that was shielded by a huge steel gate, five white horses with golden armour on were guarding the front door; they didn’t move at all, just like the ones at home Drake thought. “Halt! What creature wishes to enter?” one of the guards beckoned. “Er…” Drake stuttered, his mind went blank and his vision darkened, his palmed sweated and he couldn’t get any words out; well, they were sounds, but not words. “I’ve got it Drake.” Twilight nudged him and he snapped back to focus. “This is Drake, he came from another world and we wish to speak with princess Celestia for help.” The guards looked at each other then stood aside and the gate raised itself, the door opened to a large red carpet in a large hall. A large golden star was in the middle of the hall with two doors leading off on both sides of left and right, a large white staircase with the red carpet leading up it stood before them with stained glass windows behind it of the sun and the moon. “Are you sure it’s wise to turn up at a castle to meet the princess without telling her?” Drake was terrified. “I’m her prize student, and you’re in need of assistance, I’m sure she won’t mind.” This didn’t help Drake’s fright. They climbed the staircase and turned left, Drake stuck very close to Twilight as he walked. He saw the expensive paintings and tapestry’s. He had never seen the inside of royal buildings before. They came to a door with a large sun on it with a dazzling white background. “This is where you’ll find the princess, and don’t worry, I’ll stay with you.” She winked at him and smiled, Drake smiled back, nodded and knocked on the door. “Come in.” came a light and graceful voice from inside, Drake pushed open the door and took in a deep breath. Chapter 4Drake opened the white door and took a deep breath, before them was a circular room with a large fire at the back with a rug on the floor and pillows or comfort. And standing by a large window that opened onto a balcony stood a much larger pony; more likely a horse. “Princess Celestia.” Twilight Sparkle announced her presence to her, the tall white princess turned to face her, her light purple eyes seemed to radiate happiness and security from them. “Good evening Twi…you…you brought a friend, and they're not a pony.” She spoke with a teacher and mother like tone that didn’t help Drake. “This is Drake; he came from another world and needs your help princess.” Twilight used her horn to prod Drake forwards into the room. He bowed before he went any closer to her and remembered what he would do if he met the queen of his world. Princess Celestia smiled warmly to his generosity. “Thank you Drake.” She thanked him and he slowly straightened up. The door shut behind them and the princess began to walk around Drake like she was inspecting him, she too had a horn but it was longer than Twilights horn and it matched her coat just like Twilights did. “What world did you say you came from?” the princess said behind Drake. “E…Earth.” He stuttered. “Hmmm…well…interworld travel is very rare, extremely rare and takes a lot of magic, so all you would need to do would be to reverse the spell you did and all should be right.” The princess stood in front of Drake now and looked like it was a simple explanation that anyone should be able to do. Drake looked at Twilight and then back to the princess, Twilight had the same look. “Er…slight problem….” “Why didn’t you tell me you could use magic?” Twilight snapped. “That’s the thing, I can’t use magic. I didn’t do anything to send me here, I stood underneath a tree and then poof…I came here.” The looks on Twilights and the Princess’s face both faded quite quickly. “You…can’t use magic?” the princess asked. “N…no.” he stuttered again. “So, something else caused you to come here?” she asked. “It sure looks like we’re heading down that path Princess.” Twilight replied. She hopped over to a large bookshelf a bit larger than Twilights. She pulled out a few books with stars and galaxy’s on them. They opened as she flicked her horn at them. “Well, this has never happened before, very strange indeed.” She flicked through the books really quickly. After a couple of minutes of pulling books out, reading through them, putting them back and pulling more out, princess Celestia finally said: “This is either a huge coincidence, or dark forces messing with the walls between worlds.” “As in plural? More than just this and my world?” Drake asked. “Yes, far more, thousands and millions of worlds, each different to another, but how you came here I do not know. Drake, I’m afraid that you may not be returning to your world as quickly as you’d like, you’ll have to be set up in Equestria for a while.” She spoke softly even though this was powerful words to speak. “He can stay with me Princess; I have a spare bed all ready for anypony.” Twilight spoke up. “That’s extremely thoughtful of you Twilight. I will make sure I talk with my Astronomers and see about what happened. We shall be in touch.” Princess Celestia turned her back and pulled out a quill, ink and parchment and began to write things down. They left through the same route and out the purple door again, as they walked to the train station, Drake couldn’t think straight, would he eventually go home, would the ponies here actually like him? As they sat on the train going back to ponyville, Rarity didn’t rejoin them so once again they were alone, Drake didn’t want anypony pointing at him like they did to Derpy at the moment more than any other time in his life. He rested his head against the window again, Twilight sat next to him. “Thank you Twilight.” He said to her. “No problem Drake, I’m sure your friends would do the same if I was in your predicament.” She smiled. “I don’t have any friends.” He quickly replied. “I’m sure you must have some…” “None, I go to a large school and yet I’m still an outcast.” The train rattled as it went down the mountain. “Oh, well, I’m very sorry to hear that.” She replied. “I wouldn’t hesitate to help you though Twilight.” He smiled at her; he could feel small tears forming. She brushed against him and he felt her horn rubbing into his skin. The rest of the train journey was Drake holding onto Twilight as she leant against him, once the train stopped, they got out and passed a few ponies again before they got into the town centre, all the shops were fully open now and ponies were running in and out of shops carrying bags and new items or food. Twilight noticed that Drake looked a bit depressed and instantly knew how to help. “I know who could give you a helping hoof.” She spoke in a very happy and high voice. “Who?” he asked tilting his head to the side. “Oh, you won’t know her, but c’mon.” She began trotting off in a different direction than they were already walking. Drake began to hop alongside her and cracked his knuckles in a manner that he always did when he didn’t know what would happen next; he didn’t do it in front of the princess because he knew it would be very rude. Twilight quickly turned her head towards him and tried to look to where the cracking was coming from. “Here we are…argh!” Twilight had stopped abruptly and Drake crashed into her, falling on top of her and they both laid in a heap in front of a purple barn style door lead up by lighter coloured steps to what looked like a huge gingerbread house. “I’m sorry Twilight.” Drake apologised immediately and helped her to her feet. “Thank you.” She said as she pushed open the barn door to the shop with a chime coming from what Drake thought to be probably a bell. “Pinkie Pie?” Twilight called out aloud. A pink pony with a light pink mane sprang up from behind the counter with light blue eyes and had a huge smile. “Twilight, I’m so glad you found a new friend!” she shocked Drake by how much she seemed to be much more hyper than any other pony he had met; granted he had only met a few. She jumped over the counter and leapt upon Drake, knocking him to the floor, her candy floss like mane fell upon his face but didn’t hide her enormous smile. “Oh my gosh, you must tell me your name, we can be bestest best friends for like ever, and we can throw parties all the time, I really hope you like cupcakes, and there’s loads of ponies around here that will be so happy to be your friends, but you can always count on your auntie Pinkie Pie no matter what; hehe, although that’s Rainbow Dash’s trait…” she just kept talking and talking and Drake didn’t see her stopping anytime shortly. “Did you say party?” Drake instantly smiled at this thought, so did the pony back at him; he couldn’t tell who’s smile would be bigger. “You like parties?” she asked getting closer to him. “I LOVE parties!” Drake said louder than he should of. “Brilliant. Twilight, bring your friend down to where we have the Nightmare Night celebration at 7’o clock tonight.” She stuck a hoof in the air and then shot through the barn like door and out of sight. Drake was still on the floor when Twilight stood over him. “She’s mad.” Drake said quietly. “I thought you might like her.” Twilight seemed a bit upset. “Never said I didn’t.”
ProlougeThe seagulls cawed overhead as the dark haired teenage boy sat staring out to sea on the edge of the white sands of the desert island. Beautiful Blue Ocean lay ahead and all around him as he tried to see if there were any other signs of life. “Well, I guess there’s no point in keeping up our chances of leaving, I’ve run magical spells across the island, nothing...that was defiantly a one way send-off…we’re doomed.” The tall white alicorn walked out of the small patch of palm trees and sat next to him, her wings gave a small flutter as she flicked the hot sand until she hit the cool part of the island and sat in the small ditch she had made. “We had a nice run though right?” the boy squinted as he turned his head to the left to look at the alicorn who was a few inches taller than him when they were both sitting. “Oh yes of course, couldn’t have asked for a better shot at it.” She replied and brushed the sand off her hooves with her wings. “And this island is quite pretty if you think about it.” He ran three fingers through the sand to his right. “Defiantly.” She agreed with him with a nod. “I guess you could say we are the king and queen of our own land now.” He smiled and so did the alicorn. “You better stick to your royal duties.” She joked and put her large white feathered wing out and hugged him with it. “You know what I’m not going to miss though?” “What's that?” he asked in wonder. “I don’t have to haul that heavy sun around anymore.” She gave a laugh and the boy joined in after a small chuckle had escaped them, soon they were laughing hysterically. “Ah, we truly are idiots aren’t we Celestia?” the boy and the alicorn had stopped laughing after about 30 seconds of non-stop laughing. “Yes we are Drake.” She replied and the laughing died down. “Anything you’re not going to miss about your world?” Celestia breathed in the fresh salty air. “Well, I guess I certainly won’t miss rainy days…” “C’mon, I won’t miss pulling the freaking sun across the world and you try to top it with rainy days?” she nudged him slightly. “I wasn't exactly an immortal prince though.” He gave a weak smile and lay back on the sand and stared up at the picturesque sky, the clouds were few and the sand greeted him warmly like a welcoming hug. “We’ll see about setting up a shelter for the night and a get a fire going.” The alicorn also rolled onto her back and her chest plate dug into her spine as she did so, it only took her a few seconds for her to sit back up straight and remove the chest plate and crown, she used her left hoof to dig a small hole and stash her jewellery into it before feeling the sand on her back without any uncomfortable feelings. They spent maybe half an hour just dozing and soaking up the sun’s rays, Celestia had never truly taken the time and sunbathed; even though she was the princess of the sun. “I tell you what Drake…if we do get out of here…we are having a sun bathing day…24 hours of sun and no work…” Celestia had relaxed so much that she was now dribbling but didn’t bother to do anything about it, she was far too comfortable now in the sand that had formed around her. “I second that.” Drake was also dribbling slightly. “Can I ask something?” Celestia wiped the drool from the side of her mouth. “Yep.” Drake didn’t wipe the drool but let the sand soak it up. “If we are able to escape, are you going to return home?” her leg twitched sharply as she relaxed a bit too much and her leg nerves sprung back. “Had too much of me?” he joked. “I didn’t mean that!” Celestia took it like he meant it. “I know, I’m just pulling your wing.” He nudged her after a failed attempt of poking her and dug his hand into the sand. “Well, I was wondering if you wanted to stick around for a bit longer. Since Luna moved with her troops to keep the south secure from Discord, there’s a free room that could do with a new owner.” She bounced back from her sudden hurt tone and Drake sat up, the back of his spiky black hair was dotted with sand. “Are you asking me if I want to move into the castle with you?” Celestia sat up as well and brushed the white sand out of her wings. “If you want to that is.” She gazed out to sea from the tiny island, the waves must have raised and dropped about a few centimetres as they slowly washed upon the small shore. “I’d be honoured to live with you Celestia.” He shuffled next to her, leaving a large line where he slid along the sand. He out his left arm and held her close to him, he used his fingers to slowly brush her gently. “Let’s get a fire going then.” Drake stood up quickly and clapped his hands together, brushing off the sand on his brown jeans and on the back of his white shirt. “…and so he said, ‘ugh, do you mean that octagon thing?’ and the police turn to him and say, ‘Who taught you octagon?’” Celestia gave a huge laugh as Drake continue to tell his joke, he gave a chuckle at her laugh, it had a slight posh tone to it, but since they had been sent to that prison island by Discord she had given up on her royal attitude and taken to getting her hooves dirty. The fire crackled in the centre of them, Drake and Celestia were sitting opposite each other with the fire in the middle with parts of the trees used as fire wood and Celestia had used a spark spell to ignite it. “I guess we are going to need a shelter for tonight. I think I found a bunker in the trees that had been buried in the ground…” before she finished Drake stood up and began to search the ground in the trees for any signs of a hatch or door by kicked things around with his foot, the only light was coming from the fire and everything else was pitch black. “Here…” came Celestia’s voice from beside the fire, a small sphere of light shot over to Drake and bounced along the ground and rolled to his feet like she had gently tossed a baseball. “Thanks.” He grabbed it in one hand and crouched down on his knees to see if anything looked a bit odd and might conceal a trap door or something until… “Aha!” he gasped and grasped a small metal ring that was covered by dead leaves, he stood up and was still bent when he lifted it, taking a trap door made of dark wood and covered in leaves and sand, the sand either fell backwards or into the hole. “What’s inside?” Celestia had left the warmth of the fire and trotted next to the hole, making sure not to fall in as Drake found a ladder nailed to the side and descended into the hole, carrying the light orb like a glass ball as he did. “Anything?” “Very…very dark.” He said in a constant tone. “Anything usefull?” she rolled her eyes and was thinking about going in herself when Drake reappeared and lent on the side of the hole. “Beds, not great like what you’d be used to, but it’s better than sleeping on the sand, we also have: rotten apples and…” he ducked back down and got back up with a glass bottle full of a dark liquid. “…What I think might be cider…and a lot of it.” “What makes you think that it’s cider?” she doubted that it was actually cider and certainly wouldn’t be as nice as what the Apple family made. Drake made another ducking down and reappearing act and pulled up a large wooden crate and lit the side up with the glowing orb, big black writing on the side said ‘Cider’ “Ah that would probably make it cider…” “Want some?” he reached into the box and pulled out another dusty bottle of the same dark liquid. “Sure…” she used her magic and the bottle uncorked itself and she downed it in one gulp. At sunrise, the fire had died and half the cider had been drunk, they were now both asleep in the weirdest spots, Celestia was asleep in one of tree branches, he legs dangled off each side and her wings were drooping forward. Drake however was on the ground and sleeping like a starfish on the sand, he sat bolt upright and screamed. It caused Celestia to fall out of her tree and into the bush below her with a crash. “What?” she cried out as she tried to escape the bush. “Ugh, Twilight? I had a terrible dream that I was trapped on a beach with Princess Celestia.” He rubbed his eyes and rolled over onto his front. Celestia popped her head out of the bush kind of like a giraffe, her light purple eyes gave a glazed over look that anypony would know straight away that she was thinking ‘you idiot’. “Wasn't a dream was it?” Celestia shook her head slowly. “Feels like we’ve been here for weeks.” He groaned as he stood up, brushed the sand from his hair and helped pull the twigs out of Celestia’s mane, coat and wings. “We’ve been here for a day.” She stood very still as Drake continued to pull the tiny bits of twigs and leaves out of her swirling mane. “Do you miss Equestria?” he was now taking out the last few tiny twigs out her mane, by now he was running his fingers through it, her mane was warm like it was cosy rays of sunlight. “Of course…” she said and then shut up quickly. “There was a ‘but’ at the end of that sentence.” he held her gently and they walked and trotted over to the sand where they kept sitting, the dead fire was still sitting in its ashes. “No there wasn't.” she denied it but Drake wasn't stupid. “Don’t play dumb with me please Celestia, I know there’s a reason you don’t want to go back to Equestria.” All the twigs were now gone but he was still running his hands through it and along her back. “I’ll play fair then…Discord scares me.” Drake kissed her neck gently as reassurance. “He terrifies me too Celestia.” “Then why do you still want to go back even though you know he’s going to give it everything he’s got to kill you?” she snapped and stood up quickly, she turned to face him; her eyes were streaming with tears. Drake breathed in deeply and calmly said, “Because a hero will not be afraid to stand up for what is right and Discord is defiantly wrong. A hero is not afraid to give his life and I’m going to destroy myself before I give up on my friends back in Equestria.”
Chapter 1Drake remerged around in his bag for his subway he’d brought home from town, university food sucked. “Got it.” He said as he pulled out his 12 inch meatball marinara sandwich. His mouth watering at the sight of it as he unwrapped it. As he bit into the succulent sandwich, he caught sight of the digital clock on his kitchen oven. 09:46. His eyes widened as he realised his bus to uni would be leaving soon, he put on his grey jacket and his red vans and with sandwich clenched between his teeth, he shot out the door and sprinted to the bus stop As he swallowed down the last of his sandwich, he just saw the bus leaving the bus stop without him. He bent over trying to catch his breath; he began to hiccup from swallowing his food too fast. “Damn it.” He said loudly as he stood up and began to walk through the woods behind the bus stop to get on his long walk to uni. The only reason he took the bus was because firstly, it was really far, maybe about 3 miles, but to him, that was far. And secondly, the woods were gloomy and muddy. As he began to enter the woods, walking along the dirt road, it began to rain, slowly at first, then it began to hurl it down, he couldn’t go any further as he would die of pneumonia, so he stood inside a tree that had been hollowed out, his jacket had just caught some of the rain so he took it off and wrapped it around his waist, felt stupid and put it back on. The rain grew heavier and heavier, soon, lightning and thunder joined in and suddenly drake knew that standing underneath a giant tree wasn't the greatest idea in the world now. Suddenly the whole world was lit up with a bright light. Drake could feel himself lying down on the ground, his eyes shut and he felt something cool between his fingers, the rain and thunder had stopped and the air felt cool and cleaner than before. He opened his eyes and his vision was fuzzy, but when it sharpened, he could see in the sky; fluffy white clouds that seemed to float and not move. “Aw crap I better not be dead.” He said loudly to himself as dark humour. He heaved as he sat up, he wasn't entirely sure that he wasn't dead. Where he now sat was in a green field with blue skies above him. He stood up and looked around, he could see any sign of a town, then suddenly a bush shuffled in the corner of his eye, he began to quickly walk towards it and ask who ever was inside it where he was. “Excuse me, where is the nearest town?” he asked it, feeling stupid talking to a bush, it shuffled slightly. “Hello?” A grey head popped out of the bush with golden hair and golden eyes to match, although its eyes were pointing in different directions. “Erm…” he murmured. “Hi.” It replied then snuck back down into the bush. After a few seconds, it reappeared again from the side. “You’re not a pony.” “A what?” Drake asked. “Pony…unless they changed the name. Did they?” Drake guessed she was what she was describing as a pony. But he was sure that ponies in his world didn’t talk. “Erm…I don’t…where am i?” Drake enquired. “Why, you’re in Equestria, but it’s ok, I forget sometimes as well…you don’t look like you’re from around here.” The grey pony said with a cheerful grin. “I’m from…far away I guess.” Drake said as he bit his lower lip. “Well…I’m sure the princess would want to see you…what ever you may be…” the pony said, slowly she began to rise out the bush by beating her wings and then she sped off through the woods. “WAIT!” drake shouted as he began to run after her, she was weaving in and out of the trees, he was made to duck underneath branches and leap over low hanging ones. Terrified he’d lose sight of her, he kept sprinting to keep up with her. Eventually he fell into an open clearing of green fields, the grey pony was lying on her back staring at the clouds. “Why…why did…you fly so…fast…” Drake panted. “Oh, sorry, I forgot.” She replied as she began to roll around on the grass. “Oh, by the way, my name is Derpy, what’s yours?” “My name…is Drake.” He began to catch his breath back. “Well Drake, this place is ponyville.” She stood up and pointed a hoof towards a town that was about a mile away, it looked small in the distance. “I’m sure the princess will want to meet you.” She toppled over from holding her hoof up and loosing balance. “I haven’t done anything wrong though.” Drake replied. “Oh no, it’s nothing bad, she’ll just want to say hi.” She flew up next to his face. “If I were you…don’t mention her sending anything to the moon…it used to be funny, not anymore.” She giggled. Drake stared at the town in the distance and he and Derpy began to walk towards it.
Chapter 2Drake and Derpy began to enter through the towns entrance gates, the gates were a mere arch rather than full gates that Drake had back in his world. Soon they reached the main town centre, it had a large town hall in the middle of it and beautiful blue lakes that ran around it with bridges going over them, large amounts of thatched roof houses were dotted around outside the lakes and some stood out far more than other as clearly businesses, with large pieces of fake candy hanging off one of the buildings. A lot of ponies were chattering until Derpy took the first few steps into the town centre, they stopped quickly and began to stare at her, a few of the filly’s were giggling and pointing, parents were shoving their kids hooves down but didn’t stop staring. But when Drake joined Derpy; he had fallen behind from looking at all the buildings and not paying attention to how far in front of him she was, the ponies instantly switched their staring from Derpy onto Drake, with eyes that burned his skin, none of the filly’s were laughing or giggling now, some of them hid behind their parents legs and refused to move. Drake quickly snapped his eye sight to one of the light blue ponies with green hair who had been pushing her nose up at him; she froze instantly then ran inside one of the buildings with what looked like lace hanging around it with golden ribbon strapped on it with a very stunning effect. “Why do they stare?” he asked derpy without taking his eyes off random ponies. “Don’t think they know what you are.” Derpy replied kicking a small stone. “I meant why do they stare at you, you’re a pony like them.” He added. “I think it’s the eyes, I’ve gotten used to it by now.” She gave a wide grin. Derpy led Drake through the town and soon she had led him to a large tree that stood in a large clearing with two balconies and a sign outside with a picture of an open book. Derpy quickly changed her direction leaving Drake to almost trip over her if he had not jumped back a pace or two. She banged her hoof against the dark red door. “Is this where the princess lives?” Drake bent down to whisper to her. “No, I just have to drop a letter off to the pony that lives here.” She said as she quickly pulled out a small letter from the brown bag she had on her back. After a few seconds, the door gently swung open and before them stood a pony that was about the same size as Derpy but was a beautiful purple with dark purple mane and a light pink strip running down the length of it, he nose was muzzled in a book as it levitated by means of a glowing horn that stuck out of the top of her head and through her mane. “Good morning Twilight.” Derpy said to her as the letter flew from her mouth and joined its side by the purple book that had shut and was floating in mid-air. “Thank you Derpy.” She had a soft voice that was warm and slightly fuzzy to hear, it reminded Drake of the times in winter when he got back home and drank fresh hot chocolate and watched You’ve Been Framed. The book dropped to the ground and the letter followed with a flutter when she gasped as she saw Drake, standing twice as high as her and staring around at the huge amounts of books then suddenly back to her and took a small step back as she ran out and began to look at him at all angles. “My gosh, I’ve never seen anything like you before except in books.” She hopped around him and inspected him further. “Er…same here…ponies don’t usually talk in my world.” Drake was feeling very uncomfortable as he felt her breath on his legs. “Oh please come inside, if you’re free of course.” She stood on her back legs and put her front ones onto his back. “Actually, I was going with Derpy to see the princess.” Drake said as he look down upon Derpy. “It’s ok Drake, I’ve got a ton of mail to hand out before I’d even have a chance to go to Canterlot to see her.” She replied as nodded her head towards Twilights house. He nodded back and allowed Twilight to drag him inside in a hurry. The door slammed loudly and Twilight stood before him with a huge grin on her face slightly jumping as she looked upon him. “Nice house.” He said breaking the silence that was only being disturbed by Twilight squeeking as she bounced. “Oh it’s nothing…may I start asking questions?” she stopped bouncing and a quill, ink pot and paper flew over to her. “Sure go ahead, may I ask some as well inbetween yours?” he thought she would snap back and shout no. “Seems fair.” She replied. “Ahem… you don’t come from Equestria do you?” “No.” he answered, “My question, where am i?” “You’re in Equestria, a land watched over by princess Celestia and princess Luna who pull the sun and moon across the land. Now, where do you come from?” she asked as she scratched on the parchment. “I come from a land called Earth, a planet inhabited by what I am known as a human.” Drake replied trying to match the way Twilight spoke. “How did I get here?” at this point Twilight stopped writing and stared at him like he had just drooled on his shirt. “What do you mean? Didn’t you walk or travel to Equestria?” she let the quill, ink and parchment gently descend to the floor. “No, in my world, I had been caught in a lightning storm and hid in a hollow tree. I don’t remember what happened after that, just light and then…I woke up in a green field and met Derpy in a bush.” She walked over to a globe that was sitting in the middle of the room and dragged it over to him. “Does this look like Earth to you?” she asked as she gently spun it. Drake took one look at it and shook his head. “Well, this is our world, here’s Equestria, so if this doesn’t look like your world…that must mean that you’ve travelled between worlds.” She said as she pointed out Equestria and pulled a few books off the shelves that surrounded them. She flipped open a book called ‘Stars And Star Gazing.’ She turned the book around to drake and he saw that she had opened the book upon the star constellation Leo. “Do you recognise this?” “Yeah, that’s Leo the lion, everyone knows that. Why did you ask me this?” he gently took the book that floated in mid-air and scanned his eyes across the rest of it. “We have that constellation in our world, which means that you’re still in the same galaxy, so our worlds are close to each other.” “Close? How is that close? A galaxy is huge.” He burst out. Running a hand through his black hair and began pacing around the room. “Well, taking in the idea that you could have been sent across the entire universe, it’s close.” Twilight said as she watched him sit down on a step leading upstairs. “Will your princess be able to send me back?” Drake thought that if this was a dream, he’d play along as he’d have nothing else until he woke up. “I’m sure she will do everything in her power to help you.” Twilight said gently as she trotted up to him and nuzzled him gently. “C’mon, we can go see her now.”
Chapter 3Twilight was trotting in front of Drake as they travelled to the train station to arrive at the princess’s castle. They passed a few shops after they had left Twilight’s house; Drake noticed that the shops in ponyville were very different than the ones in England. These ones were built s if they wouldn’t sell a different item in their life; there was a joke shop with joke props around it, a cake shop that looked like it was made of gingerbread and others that were just as silly looking. Drake jogged up to Twilight’s side and walked with her till the train station came into view, there were no trains in sight, and few ponies were on the platform. A white pony with a deep purple mane and tail was hopping on the spot and had a large collection of clothes and capes that looked like they had been bombarded with jewels. “Oh, where is the train? AH! I’m going to be late if it doesn’t hurry up.” She grunted as the clothes floated in mid-air by something that Drake couldn’t understand how it was happening. “Rarity!” Twilight called out and raised her right hoof in the air, the pony turned around and her blue eyes instantly fell upon Twilight and she trotted over to the white pony who didn’t look like she could move through the clothes hanging in mid-air around her. “I’ll…just wait over here.” Drake called over to her, ignoring the fact that he was the only human in that world and just shouted out for the entire station to hear…so only about him, Twilight, Rarity and some old pony with a dark brown leather hat dosing off on a wooden bench. Drake couldn’t hear what they were whispering about, but he was pretty sure it wasn't about the clothes that hung in mid-air. “…a friend...” Twilight finished her sentence and they both trotted over to where drake was standing. “Drake, this is one of my very good friends, Rarity, she works in fashion.” Drake had no idea how to go about greeting Rarity, if he was in another world with ponies that spoke, did they have different greetings? If he petted her would she be hurt? “Er…hello…my name is Drake.” He bent down to her eye level as she was about the same size as a large dog. “Oh darling I just adore your clothes, they are so…original.” She said out of the side of her mouth. It felt very awkward between them as they waited for the train to Canterlot. “So Rarity, how come you’re going to Canterlot as well?” Twilight stood next to her and gazed at her clothes. “Well, I’m going to show my new line of designer clothes to a high market dealer and hopefully he will like them and set up a shop in Canterlot. Can you imagine how amazing that would be?” she squealed at the mention of ‘Canterlot’. “I’m sure he is going to love them.” She replied. After a few minutes of flying clothes and Drake kicking a small stone around and finally Rarity kicking it away, a train pulled into the station, it was glistening white with golden figures of ponies attached to it. It was puling four long carriages that had a few ponies in them, some had horns and the rest had none; Drake could see there would be no point if ponies that had wings would take the train. As they steppe aboard the train, having a carriage to themselves wasn't hard, there were so few ponies aboard it that they could sit alone and not be disturbed. The seats were very wide and hard as Drake sat down on it. Twilight sat next to him and Rarity hung her clothes on a rail that ran the length of the carriage. “How long does this train take to reach the princess?” Drake sat on his hands as the seats were so uncomfortable. “About half an hour.” Twilight replied as Rarity sat next to her, she wouldn’t take her eyes off Drake; but it wasn't a lusty look, it was more of a what the hay are you kind of look. “May I ask you some more questions Drake?” “Go ahead.” He nodded to her. It freaked Drake out when she pulled a quill and paper from nowhere with a slight poof. “Ok, what where you doing before you came here?” she began scribbling down on the parchment. “I was underneath a tree, I don’t know if I blacked out and taken here by someone, or something else happened, it’s all a big blur really.” Drake rocked forwards and then backwards as the train departed the station. “I’ve got a question.” “Ok.” Twilight replied as she marked on her parchment. Drake rested his head against the window and felt the vibrations running through it; it felt no different than Earth trains did. “What happens if the Princess can’t send me back?” he stared out of the carriage, until he suddenly fell backwards as the train ran up a slope. Twilight stared at the floor and Rarity was looking at Drakes red shoes. “Er…well I’m sure she can…” “But he has a point Twilight, what if she can’t. I mean, I’m not thinking less of her magic, but, if she can’t send Drake back, what happens then?” Drake smiled at her. “At least someone sees my thoughts.” He said to her, brushing his black hair off the glass and gripped onto his seat as the train went round a bend that climbed a large grey mountain. “Well, if she can’t…” she began. “Then I should get used to eating hay?” he finished. She nodded slowly. “But I’ll trust your princess until she says no.” Drake shut his eyes as he caught a glimpse of how high they were. After a few seconds of climbing later, the train tracks evened out and Drake opened his eyes again. Rarity was collecting her clothes and Twilight was standing the carriages door, she didn’t need to tell Drake to get up; he was on his feet instantly and by her side. “I’m going to guess she lives in a castle; being a princess and all.” Drake said as he stooped down to duck underneath the doorway; it was built for ponies after all. “That one to be exact.” Twilight pointed a hoof at a large tower with a golden roof and white walls. “Wow, that’s big.” He stated the obvious; he couldn’t imagine the queen of England living in something like that. As they were walking, Rarity left them to go to show the fashion pony her clothes, they said goodbye and Rarity said she hoped she would be good friends with Drake and he wished the same to her. A long golden road wound up to the castle and it gleamed with a beautiful glow as Twilight and Drake walked along it. There was a large purple door that was shielded by a huge steel gate, five white horses with golden armour on were guarding the front door; they didn’t move at all, just like the ones at home Drake thought. “Halt! What creature wishes to enter?” one of the guards beckoned. “Er…” Drake stuttered, his mind went blank and his vision darkened, his palmed sweated and he couldn’t get any words out; well, they were sounds, but not words. “I’ve got it Drake.” Twilight nudged him and he snapped back to focus. “This is Drake, he came from another world and we wish to speak with princess Celestia for help.” The guards looked at each other then stood aside and the gate raised itself, the door opened to a large red carpet in a large hall. A large golden star was in the middle of the hall with two doors leading off on both sides of left and right, a large white staircase with the red carpet leading up it stood before them with stained glass windows behind it of the sun and the moon. “Are you sure it’s wise to turn up at a castle to meet the princess without telling her?” Drake was terrified. “I’m her prize student, and you’re in need of assistance, I’m sure she won’t mind.” This didn’t help Drake’s fright. They climbed the staircase and turned left, Drake stuck very close to Twilight as he walked. He saw the expensive paintings and tapestry’s. He had never seen the inside of royal buildings before. They came to a door with a large sun on it with a dazzling white background. “This is where you’ll find the princess, and don’t worry, I’ll stay with you.” She winked at him and smiled, Drake smiled back, nodded and knocked on the door. “Come in.” came a light and graceful voice from inside, Drake pushed open the door and took in a deep breath.
Chapter 4Drake opened the white door and took a deep breath, before them was a circular room with a large fire at the back with a rug on the floor and pillows or comfort. And standing by a large window that opened onto a balcony stood a much larger pony; more likely a horse. “Princess Celestia.” Twilight Sparkle announced her presence to her, the tall white princess turned to face her, her light purple eyes seemed to radiate happiness and security from them. “Good evening Twi…you…you brought a friend, and they're not a pony.” She spoke with a teacher and mother like tone that didn’t help Drake. “This is Drake; he came from another world and needs your help princess.” Twilight used her horn to prod Drake forwards into the room. He bowed before he went any closer to her and remembered what he would do if he met the queen of his world. Princess Celestia smiled warmly to his generosity. “Thank you Drake.” She thanked him and he slowly straightened up. The door shut behind them and the princess began to walk around Drake like she was inspecting him, she too had a horn but it was longer than Twilights horn and it matched her coat just like Twilights did. “What world did you say you came from?” the princess said behind Drake. “E…Earth.” He stuttered. “Hmmm…well…interworld travel is very rare, extremely rare and takes a lot of magic, so all you would need to do would be to reverse the spell you did and all should be right.” The princess stood in front of Drake now and looked like it was a simple explanation that anyone should be able to do. Drake looked at Twilight and then back to the princess, Twilight had the same look. “Er…slight problem….” “Why didn’t you tell me you could use magic?” Twilight snapped. “That’s the thing, I can’t use magic. I didn’t do anything to send me here, I stood underneath a tree and then poof…I came here.” The looks on Twilights and the Princess’s face both faded quite quickly. “You…can’t use magic?” the princess asked. “N…no.” he stuttered again. “So, something else caused you to come here?” she asked. “It sure looks like we’re heading down that path Princess.” Twilight replied. She hopped over to a large bookshelf a bit larger than Twilights. She pulled out a few books with stars and galaxy’s on them. They opened as she flicked her horn at them. “Well, this has never happened before, very strange indeed.” She flicked through the books really quickly. After a couple of minutes of pulling books out, reading through them, putting them back and pulling more out, princess Celestia finally said: “This is either a huge coincidence, or dark forces messing with the walls between worlds.” “As in plural? More than just this and my world?” Drake asked. “Yes, far more, thousands and millions of worlds, each different to another, but how you came here I do not know. Drake, I’m afraid that you may not be returning to your world as quickly as you’d like, you’ll have to be set up in Equestria for a while.” She spoke softly even though this was powerful words to speak. “He can stay with me Princess; I have a spare bed all ready for anypony.” Twilight spoke up. “That’s extremely thoughtful of you Twilight. I will make sure I talk with my Astronomers and see about what happened. We shall be in touch.” Princess Celestia turned her back and pulled out a quill, ink and parchment and began to write things down. They left through the same route and out the purple door again, as they walked to the train station, Drake couldn’t think straight, would he eventually go home, would the ponies here actually like him? As they sat on the train going back to ponyville, Rarity didn’t rejoin them so once again they were alone, Drake didn’t want anypony pointing at him like they did to Derpy at the moment more than any other time in his life. He rested his head against the window again, Twilight sat next to him. “Thank you Twilight.” He said to her. “No problem Drake, I’m sure your friends would do the same if I was in your predicament.” She smiled. “I don’t have any friends.” He quickly replied. “I’m sure you must have some…” “None, I go to a large school and yet I’m still an outcast.” The train rattled as it went down the mountain. “Oh, well, I’m very sorry to hear that.” She replied. “I wouldn’t hesitate to help you though Twilight.” He smiled at her; he could feel small tears forming. She brushed against him and he felt her horn rubbing into his skin. The rest of the train journey was Drake holding onto Twilight as she leant against him, once the train stopped, they got out and passed a few ponies again before they got into the town centre, all the shops were fully open now and ponies were running in and out of shops carrying bags and new items or food. Twilight noticed that Drake looked a bit depressed and instantly knew how to help. “I know who could give you a helping hoof.” She spoke in a very happy and high voice. “Who?” he asked tilting his head to the side. “Oh, you won’t know her, but c’mon.” She began trotting off in a different direction than they were already walking. Drake began to hop alongside her and cracked his knuckles in a manner that he always did when he didn’t know what would happen next; he didn’t do it in front of the princess because he knew it would be very rude. Twilight quickly turned her head towards him and tried to look to where the cracking was coming from. “Here we are…argh!” Twilight had stopped abruptly and Drake crashed into her, falling on top of her and they both laid in a heap in front of a purple barn style door lead up by lighter coloured steps to what looked like a huge gingerbread house. “I’m sorry Twilight.” Drake apologised immediately and helped her to her feet. “Thank you.” She said as she pushed open the barn door to the shop with a chime coming from what Drake thought to be probably a bell. “Pinkie Pie?” Twilight called out aloud. A pink pony with a light pink mane sprang up from behind the counter with light blue eyes and had a huge smile. “Twilight, I’m so glad you found a new friend!” she shocked Drake by how much she seemed to be much more hyper than any other pony he had met; granted he had only met a few. She jumped over the counter and leapt upon Drake, knocking him to the floor, her candy floss like mane fell upon his face but didn’t hide her enormous smile. “Oh my gosh, you must tell me your name, we can be bestest best friends for like ever, and we can throw parties all the time, I really hope you like cupcakes, and there’s loads of ponies around here that will be so happy to be your friends, but you can always count on your auntie Pinkie Pie no matter what; hehe, although that’s Rainbow Dash’s trait…” she just kept talking and talking and Drake didn’t see her stopping anytime shortly. “Did you say party?” Drake instantly smiled at this thought, so did the pony back at him; he couldn’t tell who’s smile would be bigger. “You like parties?” she asked getting closer to him. “I LOVE parties!” Drake said louder than he should of. “Brilliant. Twilight, bring your friend down to where we have the Nightmare Night celebration at 7’o clock tonight.” She stuck a hoof in the air and then shot through the barn like door and out of sight. Drake was still on the floor when Twilight stood over him. “She’s mad.” Drake said quietly. “I thought you might like her.” Twilight seemed a bit upset. “Never said I didn’t.”
