A Way Into Paradise

Into Equestria

The teleport took less than a second. When we reappeared I took a look around. We seemed to be in a library, judging by by all the books in the shelves. Then again, there was also a pretty big table on the left side of the room, full of what appeared to be notes but they were written in some other language. When my eyes met Twilight, I was a little surprised. She was laying on the floor, panting. "Are you okay?", I asked while helping her getting back up.

"Yeah, just a little bit exhausted. Seems like taking two persons through time and space takes up a lot more energy. I'll have to write that down at some point.", she answered, her breathing already normal again. " So, welcome to my home. As you can see I live in this library and I work here as well. My personal rooms are upstairs. Sorry for the mess, I made these notes while creating the spell I just used. Since it seems to work perfectly, I can put these in the basement.", she said, her horn started to glow and the papers disappeared. When I returned to looking at the room she suddenly started squeeling like a little girl.

"Huh?", I said, raising an eyebrow.

"Oh-it's-just-that-this-is-the-first-spell-that-I-ever-created-and-it-works-so-good-and-Ooohh-Celestia-will-be-so-proud-of-me-and-I-just-got-closer-to-my-Idol-Star-Swirl-The-Bearded-who-was-one-of-the-most-talented-mages-in-all-of-Equestria-"

"Twilight! You're back! Where have you been? You just disappeared in the middle of the night without telling anyone. We were pretty worried about you.", said the small purple... lizard? I was not exactly sure what it was. Then it saw me.  "Uhm Twilight, what is standing behind you?", he (his voice was definitly male) asked.

"Oh, that's Alex. He's a human. I met him while I was gone and he wanted to come to Equestria, so I took him here. Alex, that's Spike, my number one assistant. He's a dragon."

"Hi", I said and waved at the dragon.

He looked at me and was obviously trying to find out if I was nice or not. Afetr some time of awkward silenc he said:"Well if Twilight trusts you, then I'll do the same. Nice too meet you."

"Thanks. Nice too meet you as well.", I said, shaking the pawn he had raised.

"Spike, I'll go and show Alex the town. Please keep an eye on the library while I'm gone, okay?", she said, walking to the door.

"Will do. See you later Twi.", Spike said waving as we walked out.

My first impression of Equestria was pretty much this: "So. Many. Coulors.". I mean I should've probably expected the ponys to be wildly coulored but this went beyond my epectations. There were some ponys that could've been from Earth with brown or black coutes and manes. But there were pink ponys, blue ponys, yellow ponys, heck some of them even had two coulors in their mane.

The landscape was slooking better than at home. Everything looked way brighter, probably how Earth looked before humans came and polluted everything. And it even felt better. Fresher in a kind of way. I could literally feel how the fatigue, stress and boredom of working almost every day were lifted off of my shoulders. Suddenly I was full of energy and very eager too meet as many ponys as I could. That stopped almost immeadiatly again though, due to the fact that everyone had stopped dead in their tracks to stare at me. An orange mare stepped out of the crowd.

"Uuhh, Twilight? Care ta explain?", she asked.

"Since we got everybody's attention, that seems like a good idea AJ. Hrmhrm. Everypony! I'd like to introduce Alex to you. He's a human from a planet called earth. I met him on a research trip yesterday and since he wanted too see Equestria, I brought him here. He probably won't be here for too long, but please be nice to him while he's here okay? Thanks."

Appearantly, if Twilight trusted someone around here, that meant that person was perfectly fine. Not that I would complain. Shortly after the explanation the crowd vanished and everypony, what was appearantly the correct term went back to everyday life. The onliest one that stayed was the orange mare who had spoken up earlier.

"Ah, yes I think I should introduce you to her. Alex this is Applejack, one of my closest friends and the bearer of the Element Of Honesty.", she explained.

"Nice too meet'cha Alex. Me and ma family run the apple farm on the other side of town, so feel free to drop by whenever you want.", Applejack said, smiling.

"Nice too meet you as well. And uh, what's the Element Of Honesty, if I may ask?"

"It's one of the six Elements Of Harmony, the greatest magical power in Equestria. There's honesty, loyalty, generosity, kindness, laughter and magic. All of these Elements are represented by a bearer whose most important character trait resembles the Element he or she bears. I'm the bearer of the Element Of Magic and Applejack's the bearer of the Element Of Honesty. We only had to use them once against an Alicorn named Nightmare Moon who too kcontrol over Luna because she was sad and angry about the fact that-"

"Your trailing off again Twilight. I'd like to learn about that at some point but for now I just wanna take a look around, okay? Also, you said that tere are six Elemnts and six bearers. Who are the other four bearers?"

"They're my best friends. Do want to meet them?"

"Sure, why not? So which Element are we going to see first?"

"Rarity probably. It's likely that we meet Pinkie on the way, Rainbow could be anywhere and Flutters is probably feeding her animals rightnow. So Carousel Boutique it is.", Twilight said as she turned around and started walking.

"A have to go back to the farm. I'll see you two around.", Applejack said as she started walking into the opposite direction.

I waved after her. Then I turned around and followed Twilight. Somehow I could feel that it was going to be a good day.