The Beginning
The Beginning
Coel Greaves was your average college student that had no idea what was in store for him that night. It had been another terrible late night writing essays for next week when he looked at the time on his laptop. It was around one in the morning and he had bloodshot eyes and a massive migraine. He decided to go to the bathroom and clean up before going to bed since tonight’s tuna sandwich could still be smelled on his breath. As he walked in the bathroom he reached for his toothbrush and his Colgate toothpaste. He squeezed the toothpaste onto the toothbrush and began to brush his teeth. He looked into the mirror and saw his own reflection staring back at him with those sullen brown eyes on his tanned face. He had short black hair that barely reached down past his ears. His face wasn’t exactly handsome but he was far better than most of his other classmates. He had a few relationships every so often but they all inevitably ended with him cutting it off. He was also a fairly tall man. He stood at 5’11 was fairly broad while weighing in at 180 pounds. He had quite a decent amount of muscle and was pretty strong as well. As he finished brushing his teeth and looking at his reflection he decided it best to go to bed.
As he entered his bed he looked around his room. It was a simple apartment near Rochester Institute of Technology. It had a white ceiling with blue walls surrounding him. A calendar hung by his bedside above the nightstand to the right of him. He turned the lamp off and stared into the darkness of his room. he tried his hardest to sleep but endless nights typing away at essays had ruined his day and night cycles. He then closed his eyes and tried to count sheep like his mother always told him to do when he was young and couldn’t sleep. “One, two, three…” On and on he went counting his sheep and it was getting him nowhere. Instead of drifting him off to a land of fantasy it only served to aggravate him more and more. “twenty-two…twenty-three…twenty-four..” He kept counting and counting wasting precious minutes he could be using for sleep. He finally realized he couldn’t keep this shit up and for Christ’s sake he had an English exam in a few hours. He turned over onto his stomach and face down in the pillow. “Fuck.”
It all happened in a flash going from his room to falling down from thousands of feet in the air. Mind you he was still in his bed and was not pleased to find that his sheets had been whisked away from him by the sheer wind. “What the hell is going on!? Why am I falling!? Why is it daytime!?” Now by all common terms anyone who talked to Coel knew he was a fairly smart person. But he managed to do one of the things you learn as a child not to do. He looked directly into the sun’s gaze. “My eyes! My eyes are on fire!” The sheer light from the sun had blined him so much that he no longer knew his orientation and fell off of his bed. “Please…Please be there you one source of comfort in this cruel new world.” He reached out and grasped at nothing but the passing around him. “Oh god! I’m falling and I can even see when I’m going to hit the ground! If there is a god I swear if I survive I’ll be a better person!” His pleas were unanswered and he just kept falling. Then he just screamed at the top of his lungs as he opened his eyes to see that the ground was far closer than it had been before. “FUCK!!!!”
Twilight Sparkle the Element of magic. She had just finished her friendship report to Princess Celestia on finding friends in Ponyville. She decided that now she was done with her report that she might as well take a walk and stretch out her legs. It was a wonderful day out the sun was shining in the distance and the birds singing. She trotted down to Ponyville square and saw all the market stalls open and selling their high quality fruits and veggies. “Hello there Carrot Top, how’s the produce?”
“Wonderful Twilight! Fresh as can be. I even picked them up from the family farm!” Carrot Top replied with a grin beaming across her face.
“Great! I’ll take four of your finest carrots! So that should come out to about six bits right?”
“Awesome! I’ll even throw in a free carrot for ya!” Carrot top gathered the carrots and gave her the bundle while Twilight threw her bits on the stand. “Have a wonderful day!”
“You too Carrot top!” Twilight replied. She walked around Ponyville while eating her carrots. She stopped by a few stores to gather some supplies. “Hmm…I have my quills, parchment and my ink. But why do I feel like I’m forgetting something…” She was lost deep in thought. She knew she had something to do and yet she couldn’t figure out exactly what it was. Then it hit her! “Silly me! I have a package coming from Princess Celestia! How could I have forgotten something that is so important!?” She chuckled to herself as she trotted her way to the post office. It wasn’t a long walk but it had been out of the way she had initially planned out. It peeved her a bit that she hadn’t planned such a thing when making her schedule but she didn’t mind that much. The direction of the post offices was exactly the way she had to go to get back home so it didn’t put too much of a dent in her plans.
When she made it to the post office she was surprised to see the amount of activity that was coming from it. Pegasi were coming in and out at lightning speed and she could have sworn she almost saw two collide into one another. She trotted into the post office and what she saw was beyond chaos. Ponies were practically galloping from one end to the other trying to fill orders and get packages to the right mail routes. Paper was everywhere and the manager in charge looked like he was about to have a nervous breakdown. Twilight walked cautiously to the manager and yelled over the ruckus “Hello sir! I believe you have a package from Princess Celestia that is for me!”
“I have a package from incest elestia?! Who in the hay is that!?” The stallion replied with a confused look.
“Princess Celestia! Not Incest elestia!” Twilight yelled back, blushing slightly.
“Oh! That makes more sense!” The stallion now looked toward the ground flustered. “Uhh…let me see…oh! I sent that out with Ditzy! She should be to your house soon!”
“Ditzy!? As in Ditzy Doo?!” The stallion nodded weakly. “You gave a package that could be of utmost importance to that mare!? I have to get home!” Twilight ran out of the post office and galloped to her house. For all she knew that package could contain the power to destroy the world or be an ancient artifact from ancient ponykind! Now her life was in the hooves of a mare that was so clumsy sometimes she spun around midflight to see where she was going! She had to get home…now! “Wait a sec. I’m a Unicorn! I can just teleport back home!” She focused her magic into her horn and preformed her teleportation spell and was immediately zapped from the post office to her home.
“Here I was worked up for nothing.” Twilight thought. Apparently Ditzy had delivered the package on time and perfectly fine. “I should really stop doubting some ponies and stop being worked up over a package of gems for spike.” She sighed. She opened the box to find it filled with gems and a note from the princess stating that the package was for spike but she accidently put Twilight’s name on the package. “Whatever, I suppose it’s better than finding out a lamp with an evil genie broke on the way here and decided to terrorize everyone until they sated his strange chocolate desire. I have to remember to thank pinkie for that one…” As she looked up from the note she was levitating she saw all of her friends coming down the street. She waved excitedly and then suddenly stopped when she heard faint screaming. It came closer and closer and she looked up into the sky to see a black dot getting closer and closer. Her eyes went wide as she realized that something was falling and she was directly in the way of it. However she heard that the word this thing was screaming was “fuck”. “The hay does that word even mean?!” Within hearing this though the object that had been falling was now engulfed in some aura and disappeared. “That was weird…oh crud…” It seemed that what was a wonderful day started turning into a horrible and awful day. A bed was now falling from the sky and was heading straight for Twilight! “I really wish I hadn’t teleported here now.” She gulped as the bed whistled through the air like an airplane falling straight down and smashed into her causing her world to go dark.
“-UUUUUCCCCKKKK!!!” Coel hit into his bedroom floor. “What the hell…where’s the splat?! I was free-falling from thousands of feet!! W-was that all a dream?” Coel reached his hand up to the back of his head and rubbed. “God that hurt…wait where’s my bed!?” Coel got up and looked frantically for his bed but it was nowhere to be found. “This is really weird man! Just what is going on!?”
A banging came from the door followed by a gruff voice. “Hey kid! Shut the hell up! Some people are trying to sleep here and it’s two in the morning!”
“S-sorry! I-I just had a strange dream.”
“Yea and the next time you scream like that at this ungodly hour you’re gonna have a strange foot up your ass!”
Coel didn’t reply because of that threat. He didn’t feel like getting violated by some random dude’s size twelve boot. “Just what the hell was that?” However this was only the beginning of the strange adventure our friend would have in Ponyville.
