Announcement (because no one reads Author's blog posts, and it makes me a sad author)

First of all, I am sorry that the story lay dormant for so long. I was seriously rethinking some parts of the story, and came to a conclusion that I'll elaborate on later on in this announcement. This announcement also hasn't been pre-read by McStuffins, so expect some grammatical mistakes and for that I am sorry.

Second:

If you're new to this story, or haven't read the entire story prior to 1st of July 2014, you can safely skip this announcement as it concerns mostly readers prior to 1st July and might contain some spoilers. Also, I re-wrote the prologue so you should definitely re-read it if you're a reader prior to the change that I'll explain below:

Third:

Now this will be a little longer. A bit of history here: This story was never meant to be. It was ¨January/February, and I decided to write my first story in English and it was to be based on the then popular "Humans Acting Villainous In Equestria" thing.

Now, I had an idea and I managed to grow it some so that it would make hopefully a good story. But, first I wanted to introduce the character of Peter, Paul, Dufus and others that would play major part in that story, and I wanted to do it by writing a short one-shot prologue that would stand as a story on its own. That one-shot? You're reading it now.

The problem is that it was very difficult for me to write such an elaborate story-line of two years into 10K words, so I split it some. Then it became even longer, and I decided to make it a standard 60K story. To do that, the infamous time skip after chapter 7 happened, effectively skipping the longest part of the story—the journey itself. As you probably know, that didn't work out because the time skip itself was 20K words on its own; while that is way less than what the whole journey would take to write, it still didn't manage to do the thing I wanted it to do—to move the story forward rushingly, but bearably.

There was some good criticism about the time skip that I took to heart and thought long and hard about. The fad of Villainous Humans was already mostly gone and over-used, the whole story of WHHD that was supposed to be a prologue to another story became a normal story of its own, and I cam to terms that it would be pointless to try to rush it now. Thus, I decided to evaporate the effort that I had put into the time skip and continue from chapter 7 as if nothing had happened. Mind you, it wasn't really "deleted" as the time skip was an important plot point, but I managed to push it further down the way and give a few more hints about it in prologue, so it wouldn't be so jarring. (As I had said, the prologue has been updated by another 2K words, so you should definitely re-read it')

I know this probably wasn't the best way I could've handled this, and I screwed up royally, but I felt it was needed to move the story in the new direction I want it to go now. I am just sorry for wasting your time. Anyway, as an apology, here are two chapters that are set after chapter 7.

And a small reminder of what had happened so far:

Peter and Michael lived happily and all that jazz, until some evil purple mist swallows Michael and Peter and transports them to another world. Michael lands who knows where while Peter lands in a meadow in the middle of a huge forest. He finds no trace of his brother but a button from his pajamas, which he pockets into his bathrobe.

Peter is sort of rescued by a gryphon family that takes him in. He spends a few weeks there, growing accustomed to the new and strange society of mythical animals, learns a few things about the world and grows up to the family which he named: Jack (the father), Jessie/Jessica (Mother), Paul (oldest child), Thomas (youngest child). He gets a teacher that teaches him a few things, gets some supplies for his upcoming journey and even learns where he should go when a caravan of merchants drop by the village. With a clear destination in mind, he leaves toward a supposedly huge city north-east of the village. Paul joins him, as Peter suspected he would, and together they journey forward.