Dream Mare

It all  started when she appeared in the parking lot of my apartment building.

I was minding my own business as I walked to my car. I had been scheduled to work all week and I wasn't looking forward to it. It's not that I don't love my job. But you try working around drunks for eight hours every weekday. Imagine working for eight hours on a Monday with a hangover. Your sight is SNAFU'ed beyond belief, your head feels like someone just buried a claw hammer in your cerebellum, everything sounds 10x louder than usual so the worker who says "good morning" sounds like he's screaming it through a megaphone into your goddamned ear, and you can taste baseball stadium hot dogs at the back of your throat but you don't remember going to the Yankees game the day before. I think I might be going way too far into detail about this.

Anyway, I was walking to my car, a 2012 Mercedes-Benz, when I felt a sudden warmth from behind. I didn't think anything of it at first since it was the middle of June and the humidity was supposed to be at 90% that day. But it wasn't supposed to get to that point until after after 12:00 and it was only 10:00. I looked behind me and saw something that nearly made me barrel roll over the hood of my car.

It was a tiny glowing ball of light. Small enough to fit in the palm of my hand. I stared at it for what felt like hours before deciding to approach it. As I got closer, however, it began to grow in size until it has the size of my fist, and then the size of my head. It soon grew until it was at the same height as my shoulders. Then there was a loud crack and a flash of light, and what appeared in it's place was...

A pony?

Yup! Definitely a pony. It had a dark blue coat and mane. Except it's mane appeared to contain stars and constellations and also appeared to be flowing in some sort of nonexistent breeze. A closer look revealed that it had some sort of marking on her flank, a crescent moon. It also had what appeared to be a unicorn's horn on it's head (okay how that managed to be the last thing I noticed is beyond me).

We stood there for several minutes. Staring at each other in shock and disbelief. Until it finally spoke.

"H_Hello?"

...

I suddenly heard someone screaming and realized it was me before taking off in the opposite direction fast enough to break the land speed record.

"WAIT! STOP!" I heard from behind me.

As I ran across the parking lot I felt something hit me in the back and send me face-first onto the asphalt, effectively knocking the wind out of me . As I laid sprawled out on the ground, it stood on my back to keep me pinned.

"Please stop running!" it pleaded. At least I could tell it was female.

"Okay I'll stop running now get off of me!" I managed to say somehow with the little bit of oxygen that could reach my lungs.

"My apologies. When you ran away I panicked. Are you injured?" she asked as I picked myself up off the ground.

"Only my pride, thank you." I replied with a hint of irritation in my voice as I dusted myself off. "What the hell are you?" I asked.

"My name is Princess Luna." she answered.

"How much did I fucking drink last night?" I muttered to myself. "Well how in the hell did you get here?" I asked

"I have no idea." she answered. " I was simply walking through the castle garden when I was suddenly engulfed by a blinding light. When I opened my eyes I found myself where I am now." she answered.

"Well...good luck with that." I turned around and started to walk away.

"Wait!" Luna called out.

I turned around and looked at her. "Yes?"

"May I seek refuge with you?" she asked

I hesitated. BIG mistake because before I could answer, she shot me what was possibly the most pitiful look possible. It only took about three seconds for me to cave in.

I sighed before answering. "Fine, you can stay with me." I replied and Luna smiled. I'll admit, she has a pretty smile. "Follow me."  I instructed and started walking back towards the complex with Luna following me. When we finally reached my apartment on the third floor I unlocked the door and opened it before inviting her in.

"Welcome. make yourself at home." I motioned for her to enter.

Luna entered and I closed the door behind her. She shifted a little bit before speaking.

"Excuse me, may I use your facilities?" she asked.

"Sure, of course. The bathroom is down the hall to the right." I told her, pointing in the direction of the bathroom. Luna thanked me before trotting off to the bathroom. I walked over to the dark blue couch (What? I like blue.) and prayed that toilets worked the same way in her world.  A few minuted later, she came back out and trotted over to me.

"Pardon me human, but I believe I have yet to learn your name." she said.

"Oh, it's Miles." I told her.

"Well I must say I greatly appreciate you're generosity in allowing me to seek refuge within your home."Luna thanked me. smiling.

"Like I said, it's not a prob--"then I noticed something that I couldn't believe I hadn't seen before.

She had wings.

"Uh Princess?"

"Yes Miles?" she answered.

"Why do you have wings Actually since when do unicorns have wings at all?" I asked.

"Actually I'm an alicorn." she corrected.

"A what?" what the hell was she talking about?.

"In my world, an alicorn is an extremely rare immortal species of pony. It is a combination of the earth pony, pegasus, and unicorn species. Usually the only alicorns are of noble blood. But there if a  pony is deemed worthy, than they too can be turned into an alicorn." the dark blue mare explained.

"Deemed worthy by who?" I asked.

"My sister and I." Luna answered.

"You have a sister?" I asked, surprised.

"Yes, Celestia, the Princess of the Sun. She her job is to raise the sun while mine is to raise the moon." she explained.

"Alright, go on."

"The only case, however, where a pony not of noble blood has been deemed worthy of becoming royalty was my sister's student, Twilight Sparkle". Luna explained further.

I wanted to laugh at how ridiculous these names sounded but if Luna could do the things that she said she could, then the last thing I wanted to do was piss her off.

After she finished explaining, it occurred to me that people wouldn't react well to seeing a talking pony walking up and down the streets of Long Island. And I couldn't just have her cooped up in the apartment until she found a way to get home. If she ever did.

Hey Princess Luna? Since you're probably going to be here for a while you're going to need to be able to blend into society. Can't you preform a shape shifting spell or something?" I asked.

"Actually yes. One second." she backed up a few steps and closed her eyes. Her horn started to glow with a dark blue aura. There was a flash of light and standing in front of me was a tall, beautiful woman with deep cerulean eyes and long jet black hair. Perfect.

Except for one thing:

She was completely naked.

I'm pretty sure I looked like a cartoon character with my eyes bugging out of my head and blood about to start spurting out of my nose.

"Umm...Princess?" my voice cracked.

"Is there something wrong?" she asked.

"Y-you're going to need c-clothes." I stuttered.

"Oh, of course, my apologies."

There was another flash of light and she was completely clothed in a dark blue evening gown.

"A little more casual." I told her.

"This isn't casual?" Luna asked me.

"Not around here. Just--" I grabbed a catalog from Kohl's and flipped through it until I found a picture of a woman wearing a simple yellow tank top and blue jeans with white tennis shoes."--try something like this." I showed her the picture and there was yet another flash of light and she was wearing the same thing as the woman in the picture.

I sighed.

"We've got a lot of work to do."