“P-princess Luna!” Twilight said as she bowed deeply along with her five friends. I of course didn’t move a finger.

“Miss Sparkle.” Princess Luna said and returned the gesture with a nod as she walked up to me with her wings still spread out in a majestic manner… What a show of.

“Thou must be the fearsome alien our dear sister has spoken of” she pointed out as she inspected me from top to toe.

“No, you must be thinking about the OTHER fearsome alien over there” I replied sarcastically as I pointed to an empty part of the throne room.

“Is this how your kind shows gratitude towards those who agree on letting thou out?” Luna was now just an arms reach away from me. She did not however stop moving but started to walk around me. Probably to inspect me some more because I could feel her eyes staring at me as she walked around me in a circle.

“Nah we usually beat the living shit out of those who unfairly send us to the dungeons in the first place. But I think you’d appreciate sarcasm more.”

“Thou have some nerves, speaking to a princess in such way” She said as she now stopped before me and once again looked me in the eyes. Her face became stern as her eyes tried to pierce through mine. But I was not afraid of her. If I survived the pink devil then I won’t let the princess of the night fill my mind with fear.

“And you got some nerves judging me without even knowing my name, Princess.”

“We do know that your name is Martin.”

“Great, you judged me even though you only knew my name. I don’t know much about ponies, but that’s low, even for human standards.”

“Thou are correct on that point. But we don’t know much about your race, but lying, knocking out a baby dragon and kicking down said dragons friend from a case of stairs, are viewed in a lower state for us ponies.” I became quiet after that. What was there to say anyway? She’s right. What I did was low and unacceptable. “But even though thee committed such crimes” Luna continued as her face softened up a little. “Thou, unselfishly, took the fall in order to save our dear Applejack. What changed your violent behaviour?”

“Well… If I did let her die, who would bite my leg whenever I do something stupid again?” A chuckle was heard from blondi. At least she got humor.

“Thou are a fascinating persona. We give you that. What worries us though is that thee have proven thyself to be an excellent actor.”

“I had to learn how to be deceptive” I simply answered her.

"That would be the very reason why we do not trust thee." Luna walked past me and headed towards the six ponies behind me. I gave out a tired sigh and walked towards the big ass window and inspected the kingdom that was before me. The sun was beaming with warm and cozy warmness over both me and the population in the big city. I closed my eyes and let the sunshine shower over me. I must say that the warmth of the sun was exactly what I needed after being underground for a while.

I then opened up my eyes and started to do what I intended to do in the first place. To inspect the city, and I must say that I was rather impressed with what I saw. Even though they are a bunch of colorful ponies with tattoos on their asses they are not so very different from humans when it comes to constructions of buildings... "note to self" I thought. "Ask them about the meaning of their tattoos... And why they are placed on their arses...."

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" A voice suddenly popped up beside me as I winched and quickly looked at the source of the voice.

"Oh I'm sorry! I didn't mean to surprise you." It was Twilight, and she looked rather happy for some reason. I didn't answer but looked around and saw that the princess was gone…

"Where's the old dictionary? I thought that we were supposed to work out an agreement here." Twilights smile faded away and gave me a rather stern look.

"Don't talk about her in that way." Her voice was just as serious as her face. "Yes, she may talk differently. But you may remember that I and my friends here, not long ago freed her from nightmare moon after a thousand years of absolute solitude. You of all, should be understanding. And the princess and I came to an agreement to let you at least take a shower and eat something before we talk about anything."

I don't know how, but that mare just made me feel a little bit guilty…That’s quite impressive.

"Sorry..." I sighed out as I turned to the window again. A sigh from Twilight was also heard.
"It's ok." Twilight began. "I know that you feel... Alone and perhaps a little bit scared but... If we all put down the battle axe for now we will both get along quicker and maybe find a way to your home planet." I closed my eyes for a second and inhaled and exhaled deeply. I then turned to Twilight and looked down at her with a weak smile.

"Yeah... I guess you're right" “Of course she’s right, stupid. The era of aggressiveness have passed. Time to be a little bit more friendly, I guess” I thought to myself as I witnessed Twilights smile returning.
“Oh, before we get cleaned up, let me introduce you to my friends!” Twilight beamed as she walked over to her friends. Truth be told, I was starting to get nervous. I mean, I literally kicked one of them down a pair of stairs!

“Martin, let me introduce you to my best friends. Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie (Pink devil) and Fluttershy and Applejack as you already know.” They all said their ‘hello’s’ and I returned a, more or less awkward greeting back….. While keeping an eye on that bouncing pink one…. I don’t trust her one bit.

“Now listen here, you big ape!” I was caught off guard as the cyan pegasus was right up my face. Her wings was gently flapping as her face was, by the looks of it, trying to murder mine.
“My friends are willing to give yah a new chance, and so do I. But remember that I’m keeping an eye on you. If you so much harm a hair from my friends manes I will buck your-”

“Rainbow Dash! Ah think that he got the picture. Now let him breath for once, will yah?” Applejack promptly interrupted Rainbow as she walked up to my side and faced Rainbow Dash.

“I-It’s ok, really. She’s just trying to protect you guys.” I said cheaply as I scratched the back of my neck….. I really need to take a bath. My hair feels greasy as butter.

“I’m quite sure that we won’t have any more trouble with Mr. Martin again, Rainbow Dash. Don’t you agree?” Rarity asked in a polite manner as she looked over to me.

“I’m not here to cause trouble, scout honor.” I simply promised and placed my left hand on my chest and the right one up in the air.

“Oh! Oh! Oh! Is that a human version of a pinkie promise!” Pinkie pie jumped up and down repeatedly and gave me a big, creepy smile.

“Yeah… Sure, whatever you say….” When a pony say ‘Pinkie promise’ It must be something else than the regular pinkie promise, because last time I checked they do not have a fucking pinkie finger!

“Now, now. Let’s not beat around the bush too much. This poor human have a serious need of a bath. I can even smell him from here. No offence of course.”

“Non taken, and I do agree with you Rarity. So where are we going?

“First of all, we are going to escort you to one of the royal guest rooms, where you can clean yourself up. We don’t have any clothes in your size...or shape, so you are going to have to leave them to be cleaned while you are taking your bath. Does that sound good for you? I’ve heard from the royal guards that you do not appreciate the thought of going somewhere without your clothes”
“No, I don’t like the thought to go out naked, thank you”

“Let’s get this over with! I’m starting to get hungry so let’s show him the room already!” The rainbow coloured pegasus complained as he crossed her front hoof in an irritated manner.

“You’re hungry?! Last time I ate something was yesterday's satan's little sandwich of failed potential!” I thought to myself. I didn’t want to stay here any longer so I stayed quiet and looked over to the door.

Twilight gave out an irritated sigh as she turned to the door.
“Well then, shall we?”

And with that we all started to walk out of the throne room and walked down the endless corridors that this castle had. But this time there were guards around, but they didn’t stop us or anything. Which was nice really, I’m getting tired of having a spear aimed at my general direction all the time.

We were all quiet. No one dared to start a conversation. It was like when you sit beside a stranger on the buss. You either just look out at the window or just keep looking right ahead. It all changed when we passed by a big mirror. What I saw made me stop right on the spot and the ponies noticed my lack of movement and turned around.

“Is something the matter?” Rarity asked with a concerned voice. I did not answer as I kept looking at my own reflection. My dark brown, greasy hair was so long that it reached the top of my back. My pile was long enough to cover my right green/blue eye. I had also grown a beard and a mustache…. Not the glorious, Viking kind of facial hair. It was a mix of a normal looking one and the kind early teenagers gets.

I started to chuckle. Soon it evolved to a small laughter

“No wonder why you guys are scared of me! I look like an ape with a chromosome problem!” I started to laugh harder and soon enough Pinkie Pie and even Rainbow Dash joined in.

“D-don’t be so hard on yourself” Rarity said, she tried not to laugh but it was obvious that she was close to laugher herself.

“Y-you are not… That scary….” Fluttershy said behind her mane. No sign of humor or anything.

“Anyway, jokes aside. Is there any chance that I can borrow a razor? I’m quite sure that I will look less intimidating without all this facial hair.”

“Do you humans often shave it off?” Twilight asked while giving me a quizzical look.
“Yeah, some do. Why?”

“N-Nothing. Just a harmless question. And I think that we can fix that.”

“Splendid, splendid” I said as I kept on going and so did they. It didn’t take long before we finally arrived at our destination. The ponies stopped at the front of the door and looked over to me.

“Ok, this is the room. Just place your clothes on the bed and they will hopefully be cleaned in an hour or so. After that we will have our “meeting” With the princesses while you can have something to eat.” I like that Twilight more and more. She is the kind of perso- eh… Pony that get things done.

I gave her a nod as I walked over to the door and opened it.
“Thank you for everything Twilight. And thank you all for understanding.” That was the last thing I said before closing the door, I didn’t even let them answer back.

The corridor fell silent while the girls looked at each other.

“Now what?” Apple Jack asked as she looked at Twilight.

“Now we wait.” She looked down the corridor and saw two guards walking towards them. As they arrived they gave them all a nod. “Are the pegasi guards in their positions?” Twilight asked one of the guards.

“They are outside of his window as we speak. He won’t go anywhere where we can’t follow.”

“Splendid. You can now go and tell the maiden that his clothes are ready for pick up. Oh, and ask her if she can bring a razor too.” Twilight asked the other guard who gave back a nod.

“Of course Ms. Sparkle.” He then turned around and walked away.

I woke up to the sound of the alarm on my cell phone. I groaned in annoyance as I slowly turned around and turned it off. Now I’m stuck in my heavenly soft bed of awesomeness and couldn’t find the strength to stand up. The smell of hay filled my nose and the sounds of happy guinea pigs filled my delicate ears. I looked down to the other side of my room and saw the cage to my girlfriends little babies. I looked to my left and saw Veronica sleeping like an angel beside me. She started to turn around and faced the wall when my alarm set off.

“Ingen skola idag? lyckost”
(No school today? Lucky you)
I gave her a quick kiss on her neck and went of the bed and dressed myself up. I walked out to the living room and headed to the big bird cage that had finally arrived and so did the new family member! I stopped before it and crouch down so that I could open the side of the cage. Jackie woke up and started to fly to the other side of the cage.

“Godmorgon Jackie! Sovit gott?”
(Good morning Jackie! Slept well?)
I asked the beautiful red splendid rosella as I grabbed the water bowl. He did not answer back, of course.

“Men vart är din rumskamrat?”
("But where is your roommate?")
I got my question answered as a green kakariki landed on my arm which I was grabbing the food bowl with. He started to chipper happily and jumped and flew around the cage like a speedy gonzales on crack.

“Där är du James! Sovit gott?”
(There you are James, slept well?)

James on the other hand loved to answer my question. This little fellow liked to talk, even to himself. I could hear how Veronica started to turn around in the bed. 3….2…..1…..

“Jag stör mig som fan på James! Kan inte han hålla käft?!”
(James is bothering me like hell! Can’t he just shut up?!)

“Och du vill fortfarande ha barn va?”
(And you still want to have kids huh?)
I replied back as a smug was forming on my face. I took the bowls to the kitchen and cleaned them off.

“Ett barn skulle vara värd skriket! Men inte fågelfan!”
(A child would be worth the screams! But not that damn bird!)

I started to laugh as I dried filled the bowls with water and food and walked back to the cage.

“lyssna inte på den gamla haggan. Du är värd- (Don’t listen to that old witch. You’re wort-)

“Vad sa du nu?” (What did you say?)

I quickly placed the bowls where they should be and ran back to my bedroom where my irritated love of my life was glaring at me. I didn’t stop running however and jumped towards Veronica and did a body slam right on top of her. She exhaled roughly and gave me a death stare as she gasped for air.

“Maaaartiiin! Du är för tung!” (Maaaaartiiiiiin, you’re too heavy!)

“Det sa du inte igår kväll” (That’s not what you said last night)
I gave her a wink and she just rolled her eyes as she placed her arms around my neck.

“Inget skola idag?” (No school today?)

She shook her head. “nä, och jag planerade till och med att ha en sovmorgon, men dina jävla fåglar väkte mig!”
(“No, and I were planning to take a sleep in, but your damn birds woke me up!)

“Jag vet!” I said with a big grin. “Dom är underbara!”
(I know! They are wonderful!)

I gave her a couple of kisses before my pocket started to vibrate. I picked up my phone and checked the message I got.

“Är det Mattias?” Veronica asked and looked out at the window. (Is it Mattias?)

As I checked my messages a screen appeared that said:

Från Mattias: Jag är här :P
(From Mattias: I’m here :P )

Author's Note

Sorry for being gone for so long.... I'm not really sorry, but you guys know what I mean :) <3