Invisible

(POV: Josh)

You have been stuck in your room for a few hours since the assassination attempt; most of the time has been spent reading. You found a book about Equestria that is intended for people who have never been to Equestria. You are about half way through the book when you hear a knock at the door. “Who is it?”

“It is I, Luna.” You hope she is here because the assassin has been found.

“Come in” Luna enters the room, she has dark blue bat ponies by her side, You read about the bat ponies in the book, they were the elite guards of Luna.

“We- sorry, I would like you to come with me, Celestia and I have matters to discuss with you.” You drop your book and get up from the bed to follow Luna. “We do not need to walk.” Her horn glows a blueish white, the moment you blink you appear in the throne room, there were no guards this time.

“Can you please warn me next time, I feel sick” The teleportation must have messed with your stomach and you are pretty sure humans are not meant to teleport.

“My apologies” Luna engulfs you in her magic and heals you.

“No that you are here, Josh, lets discuss the matter at hand, the assassin has escaped.” The news frightens you, not only is the assassin out to get you, he is also nowhere to be found. “The search has ended after three hours, the whole city has been searched and there was no trace of your attacker, which leads me to believe the castle is not safe for you anymore.” This put matters worse, now you have to hide from the assassin. “but, I have a solution, the assassin is after a human, so what if we disguised you as a pony?”

“This is the only solution we can think of,” Luna says in a sad tone.

“If it is the only solution than I accept.” There is nothing else you can do besides hide, but this means you will have to get used to a pony body.

“The spell will look at your traits, both physical and magical, to decide what pony to become.” You think you will be a unicorn, due to your magic abilities.

“Are you ready?” You nod in agreement. Her horn forms a ball of golden aura at the tip, which is than shot at you. You could feel yourself change, you could feel your torso changing, your hands turning to hooves, a horn growing on your head, and two unknown appendages growing on your back. “This can’t be!” You feel taller, in fact you are a few inches taller than Celestia as opposed to being the same height as her.

“What’s wrong?” Nervousness is creeping upon your body as you fear the transformation went wrong.

“You...you are an alicorn, but how.” An alicorn, so you had both a horn and wings.

“What’s wrong with that?” Surprise was clear on Celestia’s face, you have no idea what could be wrong with having both a horn and a pair of wings.

“I have forgotten that you know little of our kind.” The surprise is still apparent on her face. “You see, there are only four alicorns existing at the moment, Luna, myself, Princess Cadence, and Princess Twilight, all of which are royalty.” So that’s why.

“I see, so ponies would consider me to be royalty?”

“Yes,” Luna cuts in “ponies would think that a new prince has been crowned” So your choices are now hide, or become a prince, and you know little to nothing about politics. “What do you propose we do, Celestia”

“I believe there is one more choice, however, I must first write a letter.” Write a letter, what idea could she possibly have. Celestia takes a piece of paper and a quill from the table and writes.

“Who are you writing to, sister?” You wonder who she is writing to also.

“Twilight Sparkle and the other elements, they may be able to keep Josh safe, and Ponyville is a very remote village, although strange things happen there news still spreads slowly from the town.” You know that Twilight Sparkle is a princess, but what are the elements? “Luna, please turn Josh back to human.” Luna performs the same spell Celestia used to turn you back to your normal self.

“Who are the elements, and what does another princess have to do with your new plan?” Celestia finishes the letter uses her magic to send it.

“I would like you to move to a remote town called Ponyville, it is much safer than a busy city like this, as for the princess and the elements, there is a story I must tell you.” She spends about a half hour telling you about the elements, they are six friends living Ponyville who represent different ideals of Equestria: magic(friendship), kindness, generosity, loyalty, honesty, and laughter. They are referred to as the “Elements of Harmony” and they have used the power of harmony to defeat several powerful foes such as Discord, a chaotic chimera god, Nightmare Moon, a corrupted version of Luna, and Chrysalis, the changeling queen, they also ended the war between changelings and ponies when they defeated her. “and their elemental powers will protect you from anypony/one from harming you.”

“Fine with me, I’ll do whatever it takes to get away from assassins.” Although you do not know how living in a remote village will be safer than a huge castle with hundreds of guards, you don’t question her.

“Good, the elements should arrive here in a little while, and Luna, I must speak to Josh in private.” Luna takes her leave and Celestia gestures for you to follow her. She shows you all the different window art in the throne room. They depicted the victories of the elements and several other depictions that looked historical.

“These artworks appear magically when a major event occurs in Equestria, and now I would like to show you  the most recent one, in fact, it appeared yesterday.” She points to the picture, it shows two humans, one bright blue with white eyes, ponies surround it as if they are cheering and celebrating it, to the right of that human, a dark red human with black eyes is depicted, ponies bound in chains surround as if they are slaves to the human. “You see Josh, your choices will impact Equestria, it is your choice whether it be good or bad, for others or for yourself, for the one you love or to kill the one you hate, it is all up to you.” You feel a heavy weight drop on your shoulders, you carry the fate of this nation now, nothing will be easy from here on.

“But when and how will I make these choices?” Butterflies ravage your stomach, you have never held so much responsibility or power, how are you supposed to use it?

“That is something you must decide for yourself, the path is yours to take, not mine.” The weight on your shoulders feels even heavier, not only do you hold the fate of the nation, but you alone hold it “but do not fret, you will not be alone on your journey, you will make friends...and enemies, remember that!” You wonder if she can read minds. “I think the elements should be arriving soon” As if on queue, the doors to the throne room open revealing six ponies and Luna. One pony is a light purple alicorn with a purple star for a cutie mark, another is cyan and has a rainbow main with a rainbow lightning bolt for a cutie mark, one is white with a rainbow with three blue diamonds for a mark, another is orange with a stetson hat and has three apples for her mark, the fifth is pink with a pink mane, and balloons for a cutie mark, and the last but not least one is yellow with a pink mane and has three pink butterflies for a cutie mark. The ponies bow before Celestia in respect.

“Welcome my little ponies, as I’ve said before you do not have to bow to me” Happiness and kindness was radiating from Celestia. “Especially you Princess Twilight, we are equals now.”

Twilight lets out an embarrassed chuckle “Sorry Prin—Celestia, I’m not used to being a princess yet.” Her cheeks turn bright red for a moment.

“There is no need to apologize, now for the matter at hand, Everyone, meet Josh Tristan.” The ponies all look in your direction, all of them wearing surprised looks, seeing they have never seen anything like you before.

“Hello” You did not know what to say so you just simply greet them.

“OH MY GOSH, are you an ancient biped!? I have read so much about you and I have so many questions, let me get my note book.” Twilight was exploding with excitement on the sight of you, she must be excited to see a creature that has been extinct for thousands of years.

“Meh, he doesn’t seem that interesting, and he looks pretty slow.” The rainbow one says, well she’s a bit direct.

“Rainbow Dash! How rude, you just met him and you already put him down” The white one says with a of an accent.

“Ah agree with Rarity, ya can’t just insult somepony upfront like that” The orange one replies with a heavy southern accent.

“Ummm, I don’t want to take sides…” The yellow one hides behind rarity showing obvious signs of shyness.

“He looks like he could use a party!” The pink one seemed to be perky and energetic, her rapid jumping up and down giving it away.

“SETTLE DOWN!” At Celestia’s command, everypony shuts up. So that’s what happens when Celestia raises her voice. “Instead of critiquing him, why don’t you introduce yourselves.”

Twilight steps up to you first. “I am Twilight Sparkle, nice to meet you.” She puts out her hoof for you to shake it. The other five do the same. You now have their names down, you already know Rarity and Rainbow Dash, but the orange one is Applejack, the pink one is Pinkie Pie, and the shy one is Fluttershy.

“Thank you everypony, now Josh here is in a bit of a problem” Celestia explains your explains your situation and why she called the six ponies here. “I would like him to move with one of you in Ponyville if you would allow him to, does everypony agree.” You hope everypony agrees, but you won’t blame them if they don’t, having someone you don’t know at all suddenly move in with you. “I will give you the rest of the day to get to know him before you decide.”

“So, how’s everypony?” you ask nervously, you want to give them a good impression of you. they all reply with the common good or well. “Twilight you said you had questions for me, what would those be?” Her face lights up with that question.

“Oh I have so many, I need to make a list first.” She brings a long piece of paper and a quill to existence with her  purple magic. You’re pretty sure the other ponies notice your facial expression while she writes her list at lightning speed.

“Yeah she’s like that, egghead stuff ya know.” Rainbow Dash explains, she sounded a little nicer than the last time she spoke. “By the way can you do anything cool, like magic?” You demonstrate your magic, by forming an ice sculpture of her cutie mark the size of the palm of your hand.

“Does this answer your question?” You hand her the sculpture. “Don’t worry it won’t melt.”

“You know what, you’re pretty cool and I’m sorry about what I said earlier; I was just grumpy from being cooped up in a slow train for a long time.” You accept her apology, you realize she was just bored.

“Ooh, Ooh, can you make me one of those ice thingies too?” Pinkie Pie put on a face that you would see on a kid who wants their parents to buy something. You make a little ice balloon for her. “Thank You!”

“Um… Mr. Josh?” Fluttershy asked in a whisper.

“Yes Fluttershy, oh and just call me Josh.” You don’t like it when people call you Mr. , it  makes you feel like a teacher.

“I would like one too, if that's okay with you.” She seemed more shy than you were when you were in elementary school. You make an ice butterfly for her. “thanks.” Her “thanks” was almost like a squeak, it was actually pretty cute.

“I finished the list everyone!” Twilight was holding a list, or a receipt from Gamestop, it was one or the other. All the other ponies were on the ground laughing, even Celestia and Luna were trying to hold in their laughter. “Okay, question number one…”

This is going to be a long, long, day of answering questions.