The World I've Come to Know

"Something the matter?" Celestia asked, looking back to me. I was sheilding my eyes from the sunlight that was entering my eyes.

"I kinda forgot that I was gonna have to adjust my eyes for the light out here," I said, rubbing my eyes, "I think this world has a brighter sun than my world."

"Oh, really?" she asked, raising a brow, "I would have suspected that it would have been the same."

I stopped hunching over and stood to a normal standing position despite my eyes still burning. "I wonder what else is different...except for the obvious of there being no humans," I said, finally getting used to the light outside. I looked around at the landscape now that I could see. "I can see a lot of obvious differences between out worlds," I said, marveling and the city that presented themself in front of me; a city with walls of gray bricks and oddly colored rooves of yellow and purple. Most of the rooves spiral at the top and there was hardly no flat roofing. Some were spire-shaped and some were rounded! The only ones that did flat roofing either ended up being connected to another building or had an area that you could look at the city below with.

Celestia was looking at me marveling at her beautiful sity in front of me. "This is the city of Canterlot. It is the capital of Equestria and is the place that I stay at. Should you need me, I will be here, in the castle."

I looked at here for a while with my mouth open, but, I couldn't quite make the words, I just stood there with a open mouth as if I was about to speak. I felt like an idiot, to say the least. My eyes shifted back and forth as  I went through her words over and over again. Eventually, I finally broke the silence.

"So...You're welcoming me to your world?"

"Yes," she said with a smile ever so present on her face. This has to be too good to be true.

"And I get to live here? Full citizenship, no questions asked? Even though I’m an alien from another world?"

"Yes...I was certain that I implied that when I told you where I would be," she said with a bit of a sharpness to her eyes. It quickly faded after that, though. "If you are going to be a friend to Equestria and you don't know how to get back, making you a citizen, if only temporary, would be acceptable," she said before turning to the streets of Canterlot, “Come, Raymond. I will first show you the castle.”

I followed her through street after streets. People bowed to Celestia and looked to me in complete terror, shock, or wonder. After what seemed like ages, we made it to the castle. Almost instantly when in sight, all the guards surrounded me and forced me away from Celestia.

“Woah, woah, woah! Gentlemen, calm yourselves! I’m with the princess!” I yelled out when shoved backwards. The guards were yelling at me and pointing spears, multiple ones telling me that I'll probably go to the dungeon if I don't tell the truth. I thought to myself, Shit! What am I supposed to do here?! Say that I am a random bystander?!

“Now, now, my loyal guards. Settle down. He did nothing wrong,” Celestia said, stepping through the crowd of guards.

“But, Princess, he-” a guard started.

Celestia interrupted him, “He is with me. Obviously, word hasn’t reached you here. But, I didn’t really expect that, seeing that there is no messenger in sight.” She cleared a path for me she walked to me and stepped out of the way so I could walk forward. I walked forward and front of the guards. They obviously don’t care about me since they got their orders from the princess.

I walked out of there and Celestia walked beside me. We walked into the castle walls as the guards still watched me just in case I didn’t pull anything unruly.

"The nerve of some people!" I said, disgruntedly.

"They are just doing their job, Raymond: Protect me, my sister, and the other princesses," she responded with her eyes closed.

"I think they do their job a bit too well," I said, rolling my eyes.

Celestia opened her eyes and looked to me, "Sometimes that's a good thing."

"Not if you jump to conclusions like that...Like someone else I know," I said, staring her down. She simply withheld her smirk from me.

We made it to the doors to the castle fairly quickly. They were huge, big enough for something four times my size. They were made of wood with two large, iron knockers and a long, iron frame. Or, at least I think that's wood and iron. I'm not entirely sure what these gates were made of.

I attempted to open the doors and, to my surprise, I found out that it was much lighter than I figured it would be. I pushed it open with ease and it revealed it to be an extremely large room with many tall stained glass windows with many things I didn’t really know what it was that was on these windows. Some consisted of some of what I’d assume to be happenings. I could only assume that these were not religious since they were, in fact, part of a castle and not a church. Some of them had some purple pony on it and a few other colored ones. I don't think I saw any of these in the city itself.

At the end of the red carpet we were walking on, there were a set of stairs leading to a two thrones. They were about my height. One of them were empty and the other had another...eh... “Alicorn”, was it? This one looked like Celestia, but, shorter, and pretty much only had one color pallet. She was mainly just blue and not any other colors aside from her emerald eyes. She did have the same mane as Celestia, though. It wasn’t multiple colors, just blue, with a bit translucent outline around her mane.

I walked down to the end of the room where the blue alicorn was. She was looking at me wide-eyed.

"Raymond?" Celestia said, walking next to me, "This is Princess Luna, my sister. Luna, this is Raymond of Earth." Celestia looked at me. I walked up the few steps to Luna.

"Hello," I said, putting my hand out to her. She shrunk back in her throne.

She whimpered, obviously afraid of me. I wasn't really surprised at her reaction, seeing that I was thrown in a dungeon and questioned while in a ball and chain only to be released if I made a promise to go back to that cell had any of my kind decided to invade her country.

I sighed and glared at Luna. I didn't move my hand. "Shake my hand, Luna, I'm not going to hurt you. What is with you people and your prejudice?" Luna looked over to Celestia, who simply nodded.

Luna looked to me and reluctantly shook my hand. "Hello..."

"There, was that so hard?" I asked.

She simply looked at me as I rolled my eyes.

"...Now that you two have been acquainted...I believe it's time for you to lower the moon, sister," Celestia said. Did she just say "lower the moon"?