Lyra and Bon Bon were standing on the platform at the Ponyville train station, waiting for their human friend, Bryan, to return from Canterlot. Lyra shifted and fidgeted while Bon Bon stood and waited patiently.

"Bonnie," Lyra whined. "When is the train gonna get here? I'm hungry."

Bon Bon faced her marefriend of eight years and spoke, "It should be here soon, Greenbean. Although it's kinda weird that the train's running late. I wonder what's going on?"

Lyra gasped, "You don't think something happened to him again, do you?" Lyra's eyes were filled with concern.

"No, Lyra. If something had happened to Bryan, we'd have be told about it through a letter from the princess. It's more likely that the train has just been delayed," Her teal eyes focused on Lyra's large golden eyes, seeing her green unicorn calm a little.

"Yeah. You're probably right, Bonnie. Bryan hasn't had any bad luck like that in six months. He's fine, I'm sure," Lyra replied with a toothy grin.

Bon Bon was just about to speak when the train rolled up to the platform and stopped with a hiss. The steam billowed from the engine and the two, now excited mares, patiently watched the train cars for their friend.

They watched as ponies and the occasional griffon got of the train and collected their luggage; Lyra was the first to see him.

She let out an excited squeal and charged him while shouting with glee, "BRYAN! You're home!"

He looked at the green unicorn mare charging at him and stepped back to better absorb the incoming blow from his enthusiastic friend. He caught her with no effort and looked at her with a tired smile.

"Hey there, Greenbean. How ya been? Where's Bonnie?" He asked. Before Lyra could answer, her cream colored mare-friend answered.

"I'm right here, Bryan. Pinkie says she's sorry for not being here but Sugercube Corner got a huge catering order. She was still planning your third anniversary party, too."

Still hugging Lyra, he responded, "It's okay, Bonnie. I'm not upset about it; that's just the way it goes, sometimes." Bryan looked at Lyra and said, "Hey, Lyra. Would you get my luggage for me, please? You know how traveling screws me up."

Lyra squeed happily, "Sure thing, Bryan." She jumped down from his embrace and went to retrieve his bags for him.

Bon Bon looked at him smiling, "She really likes you a lot, Bryan."

Bryan smiled at the earth pony. "I'm way beyond blessed to have friends like you girls, Bonnie. So how were things here in Ponyville while I was off in Canterlot? No big crazy happenings while I was away?"

Bon Bon giggled, "No, Bryan. The gates of Tartarus didn't open again. There was no world shattering epic level events and Rarity didn't have one of her signature freak outs." Bon Bon laughed as Lyra returned to them with Bryan's bags suspended in the golden aura of her levitation field.

"Yeah. Well, the meeting in Canterlot was a total wash out, anyway. Those rumors of humans in the Crystal Empire were a case of mistaken identity." He commented dryly.

"Really, Bryan?" Lyra queried, "I was kinda hoping there might actually be some more humans but friendly ones this time. You know, like you. Not like those guys from last year. They were total flanks."

Bryan laughed mirthlessly and scratched the back of his head. "Lyra, nopony could have known that we would get a trio of hardened criminals with that incident last year. Bunch of dumb-asses. I still can't believe they tried raping an earth pony, of all ponies."

As they walked towards Ponyville to the library, Bon Bon spoke up. "Yeah, they couldn't have made a worse choice either. I mean that cousin of Applejack's is really strong. That couldn't have been more stupid."

Bryan snorted derisively, "I don't know, Bonnie. There were those rumors about me knocking up Daring Do for a while. I mean, you have one impromptu make out session with a famous and somewhat horny pegasus and all of the sudden you've gotten her pregnant."

Lyra giggled, "But you did have sex with her, didn't you? Bryan?" Lyra waggled her eyebrows at him. "Hey, how was she anyway? I've never been with a pegasus before."

"Lyra!!" Bon Bon shouted, "That's not nice!"

Bryan laughed, "Yes, Lyra. We went at it and she was great. You know she's coming to town to see her sister Ditzy soon; maybe you should see if you can talk her and Bonnie here into a threesome. She told me then that hadn't had any mares in a while and she said she didn't want to go to a brothel."

Lyra looked thoughtful while Bon Bon's face turned as red as one Sweet Apple Acres' apples.

Lyra then appeared at Bon Bon's side and rubbed against her marefriend, "Come on, Bonnie. It would be fun; we haven't had a threesome since we lived in Canterlot."

Bon Bon looked at Lyra and said, "I don't know, Greenbean. Shouldn't we have a threesome with somepony we know really well, instead?"

Lyra looked puzzled for a moment, "I don't think we could talk Ditzy into that, Bonnie. She's not that kind of pony."

Bryan erupted with honest laughter, "If you two were interested I would go for it with you girls. You're both hot!"

Bon Bon, for her part, just looked serious and tried to get conversation back on track. "Bryan, what happened to those guys?"

He stopped laughing and answered her, "Well, they got the royal guard on them and it turned into quite a mess."

Bon Bon cocked her head to the side, "What do you mean?"

While shaking his head he replied, "They were found in Canterlot and when the guards cornered them, they tried fighting back. It turned ugly when they managed to wrest the spears the guards had away from them: It ended with the guards putting them down. Such a waste." Bryan said sadly.

Lyra looked thoughtful again and asked Bryan a hard question, "Why do some humans even act like that, anyway?"

Bryan sighed, "I don't know, Lyra. It's something that the majority of us take seriously and look down on. I can't explain the things some humans do. Hell, I can't really understand what most of us do. We are a very mercurial race: On one hoof we're not a very mature species and at the same time we are. There's just no understanding it."

"Well, I'm confused," Lyra chirped.

"Try it from where I am sometime," Bryan deadpanned.

The rest of the trip to the library was filled with light hearted laughter and conversation. Bryan was truly happy to be back where he belonged; where he was truly meant to be. As they reached the library, Lyra decided to ask the remaining question of their conversation.

"So, Bryan," she spoke up as she opened the library door to step in, Lyra winced momentarily as he ducked inside.

"Well. Let's have it, Lyra?" Bryan asked.

Lyra paused her train of thought momentarily interrupted, "Ummm... Oh yeah, why were the rumors of humans in the Crystal Empire not true?" she said.

He looked at her and then remembered, "Oh yeah! Um well, you see a crystal pony had dropped her glasses and saw a group of minotaurs that were passing though the empire and she thought she saw humans because without her glasses and at distance, we don't look too different. By the time she found her glasses and put them on, the minotaurs had left. And that's how the whole thing got started. Princess Cadence was very apologetic over the whole thing. Still, two weeks in Canterlot for nothing, though."

As they walked into the library Bon Bon spoke up. "What a pain in the flank. Did you get anything out it, Bryan?"

"Yeah. An argument with the griffon ambassador and a headache the size of Canterlot," Bryan snarked.

Bon Bon shook her head sadly while Lyra winced at their friends' attitude.

"Sorry, you two. You didn't deserve that. I just feel like ten miles of bad road right now," Bryan remarked.

Lyra jumped up on his shoulders and hugged him from behind, "It's ok, Bryan. We know you didn't aim that at us." She nuzzled his cheek and dropped to the floor.

"Yeah. It's all right, Bryan. There's no need to be sorry about it," Bon Bon smiled up at him warmly.

Bryan looked around the library to Twilight talking to Vinyl Scratch and Octavia. He also saw Dinky Do sitting at a reading table reading a book.

A small smile crept across his face as a plan formulated in his mind. He carefully sneaked over to the reading table without the filly noticing him. When he was in position he acted. "Hey Dinky," he whispered into her right ear. "What are we reading?"

Dinky without looking up said, "It's book of stories by my friend Bryan that he wrote about another world of ponies."

"Oh, really? What this other world of ponies called?" He said sweetly.

Dinky replied sweetly, "It's a place called Dream Valley and there are a lot of really great ponies in the stories but also some scary bad guys, like Tirek the centaur." Dinky shuddered, "He's a big old meanie who wants to turn all of the ponies into dragons but Bryan and his marefriend, Megan, beat him with a magic rainbow; like boom!" She said enthusiastically.

Bryan just smiled and shouted, "DINKY!" as his he lightly jabbed his fingers into her ticklish sides.

"Ahhhhhhhh!" The small unicorn squealed and launched into the air, only to be caught in his arms.

"Bryan!" Dinky squealed and swatted at him playfully with a hoof while giggling.

Unfortunately, Bryan's plan worked to well and Twilight was caught in the scare as a casualty.

"Gahhhhhh! Bryan! Don't do that!" Twilight bellowed while Vinyl and Octavia were laughing their flanks off.

"Good one, Bryan," Vinyl said enthusiastically.

"Indeed, it was most amusing," Octavia said between giggles.

Still holding the grayish unicorn in his arms, he looked over at his friends. "So... Vinyl, Tavi. What are you two doing here, anyway?" He questioned.

Octavia spoke up, "We are here discussing the musical arrangements for your third anniversary party with Twilight, Bryan."

"Yeah," said Vinyl. "We're also here cuz Twily wanted to have a huge welcome home dinner for you."

"Yes," Bon Bon stated. "It's just too bad everypony else couldn't make it tonight."

Bryan replied with a dismissive wave of his hand, "There's no damage here, Bonnie. Everypony will be at the party tomorrow, anyway. It's nothing as a result."

"Yeah. Bonnie, it's not like the end of the world or something like that," Lyra said as she trotted over to the snacks set up on another table in the library's main room.

"Hey, Lyra. Could you bring me some those crackers, cheese and some celery, please?"

Lyra gave toothy grin and replied, "Sure thing, Bryan. I'll bring them over to you and Dinky here in a moment."

"Thanks, Lyra," he replied.

"Bryan?" Dinky said. "I wanna ask you something."

He looked at Dinky smiling, "Yeah, little one? What do ya need?"

"Well, I was wondering: Was Megan a real pony or is she made up?" Dinky asked.

He laughed at his little unicorn friend, "Actually Dinky, she is a real pony. You see, Megan was my first real human friend and, yes, we did date for a little while."

Dinky's eyes went wide, "Whoa, really?" She squeaked. "Wow! Do you think I could meet Megan somehow?"

"Well, I came here; so yeah, it could happen. I would honestly love the chance for everypony to meet her. I really think you would all love Megan a lot. You know, Dinky, Megan and Twilight have something in common," he responded.

"Wow! Really what is it?" she asked enthusiastically.

"Well," he began. "Megan was my first real human friend and Twilight was my first real pony friend here in Equestria."

Dinky smiled warmly at him, "Does that mean you're going to date Twilight, too?" She asked innocently.

There was another chorus of laughter around the library; Twilight, on the other hoof, was beet red.

Bryan smirked at Dinky, "Maybe but I was kinda wondering if your mom would be interested."

Dinky squealed and blushed, "Bryan! You know mommy likes you but I don't think she likes you like that!"

"Yeah, Dinky. I know. Ditzy has got her eye on somepony else. You wouldn't know who would you?" He asked her innocently.

Dinky, for her part, saw through her clever friend's ruse. She'd known him for three years and she knew better.

"Mommy said you'd probably try to get it out of me and said not fall for it. You'll just have to wait for her to tell you," She punctuated her seriousness by sticking out her little her orange tongue. "Anyway, I've got to get home so I can help mommy get everything ready for auntie Daring's visit." She levitated a bookmark into the book and closed it. "I'll see you tomorrow, Bryan." She left the library and galloped home.

"Well, everypony," Twilight spoke up, "Let's have dinner."

The dinner was a lighthearted affair that went well and ended with the two mare pairs heading home. When it came time for bed, Bryan opted to sleep with Twilight so he could actually rest. Twilight was upset that Bryan was so stressed out but gleefully took care of him, going so far as to hold him to ease him to sleep.

The next day was largely spent after breakfast by Twilight, Spike, and Bryan getting the library ready for Bryan's third anniversary party. Pinkie had insisted on having a party every year for the first ten years so that no matter what else happened to him, he would always have something good in his new life in Equestria.

As afternoon came the first of the party guests were arriving at the library. There was a knocking on the door. "Bryan, would you go and get the door please? Spike and I can finish this up." Twilight said as she and Spike finished hanging a banner.

"If you two are sure, Twily." he said

Spike waved his claw dismissively, "Go ahead, Bryan. We've got this."

"All right," Bryan said less tiredly than yesterday as he walked across the main room to the door. He opened the door to see the Cutie Mark Crusaders standing at the door with their sisters and Rainbow Dash. "Girls!" Bryan said his mood having suddenly improved one thousand percent.

"BRYAN!!" They shouted in unison as they tackled him in an enthusiastic group hug.

Bryan almost squeed as he hugged the three fillies who have been like little sisters to him for the last three years.

"I am soooo happy to see you three again. It was kinda brutal in up Canterlot," He hugged them as if his life depended on it. "I'm just relieved to be here with all of you again."

The crusaders giggled and cuddled with him like a trio of affectionate kittens.

The fillies released him and got down on the floor on the floor and Bryan noticed something on their flanks. "Girls, did you? You did! You got your Cutie Marks!" He jumped to his feet and gave and excited shout, "I'm so proud of you three. Well let me have a look."

Apple Bloom was the first to show hers to Bryan: It was a red, pale pink, and purple shield with an apple and a heart in the center; Scootaloo was next with the same shield that had a wing with a lightning bolt on it, and finally Sweetie Belle who also had the same shield but with a musical note inside of a star instead. Bryan exploded with joy and swept them into another hug. "That's really great girls," He squeezed them a little. "I'm just... I just don't know what to say," He sniffled a little.

"Hey. It's ok, Bryan. We're really happy about it, too," Sweetie cooed.

"And we're happy you're back home!" Scoots said wither her usual flare.

"Now, it's a only a matter of time before you get your cutie mark Bryan and will be so great when you finally do," Apple Bloom said enthusiastically.

Bryan shook his head and laughed a little.

Applejack chuckled as she walked inside and said, "You do realize they aren't gonna let it go, don't ya, Sugercube?"

Bryan smiled, "Yeah, but who knows. Maybe they're right. We still have no way of knowing how much the magic here has changed me."

As the minutes passed, the rest of the partiers arrived. Pinkie, of course, brought the party treats including one her signature "how did she get that in here?" cakes that seemed to be tall enough to reach the ceiling in the library's main room. With Lyra, Bon Bon, Vinyl Scratch, and Octavia arriving a few minutes after Pinkie. The last to arrive were Ditzy, Daring, and Dinky who was beaming up at Bryan when she saw him.

"Hi Bryan," she squeaked. "We brought some muffins mommy and I made for the party."

Bryan smiled, " Thanks Dinky. So when did you start baking?" It was then he noticed her flank for the first time. "Dinky, you got your cutie mark too?"

Dinky squealed with a cute little giggle, "Yeah. I started helping mommy with making muffins and some cakes too and whoosh," she stated. "My cutie mark appeared."

"Wow," Bryan said. "That's great, Dinky," He scooped her up and hugged her, "I'm so happy for you little one."

Dinky nuzzled her friend, "Now, maybe you'll get your cutie mark, Bryan." She tapped her hoof to her chin "What would it be do you think?"

He carried Dinky across the room as he thought about it. "I dunno, Dinky. That's a tough one. I mean I've been a writer for a little while now but wouldn't say I have a talent for it. I'm also a royal adviser to the diarchy when it comes to my race but it rarely comes up. So that's it." He put her down with the crusaders. "Nope, I have no idea what it would be to be honest. That's a mystery at the moment."

The four fillies looked up at Bryan, "Well, whatever it is, I bet it'll be perfect for you Bryan!" Scootaloo chirped.

"Yeah, it'll be just the right mark for you, Bryan." Apple Bloom stated.

"And we'll go bowling to celebrate." Sweetie Belle squeaked.

"I'll bake you a special muffin. It'll be big and have blue berries and chocolate chunks," Dinky said sweetly.

Bryan smiled at the fillies, "That would be nice to go bowling with you girls; I had fun the last time. Dinky, that special muffin sounds really good. I bet you'll do excellent job on it." The fillies beamed brightly. "Okay girls. I think Pinkie has some party games set up go and have fun, I'll be along after I talk to Ditzy and Daring for a bit."

"Okay, Bryan!" They said in unison and galloped off to have fun.

Ditzy trotted over to Bryan., "Those girls really love you, Bryan. So, Dinky said you had something to ask me?"

"Yeah. Though I think you know what I'm going to ask you, Ditzy." He said.

She giggled into her hoof, "That eager to know, huh?" He nodded. "Well, I'm going to go with Lily. I've know her for as long as I lived in Ponyville and she really loves Dinky, too."

"That's great, Ditzy. She really knows how to treat somepony right. I kinda wish she was here tonight."

Ditzys' face fell a little. "She's in Baltimare on family business. She told to tell you that she's sorry, Bryan. It came up rather suddenly."

He looked at her worried, "It's not bad, is it?" she shook her head. He breathed a sigh of relief "That's good to hear. I worry about her sometimes. She is a little delicate after all."

The grey pegasus looked at him while shuffling her hooves a bit, "I should have known that you wouldn't be mad at me Bryan. I mean, I know you and Lily dated for a while: She said not to worry about it and she was right."

"You worry too much about nothing sometimes, sis," Daring said. "Hey Bryan, you weren't kidding about these Pinkie parties; this is great."

Ditzy smiled at her sister and went to get some punch and a muffin.

He decided to tease the bold pegasus a little bit, "So Daring, I remember you saying that you been with any mares in a while and I think I've got something for you."

"Really?" Daring said skeptically, "And who would that be, I wonder? Cause if you're gonna make a smart remark about me and Ditzy."

Bryan cut her off, "Nope." He leaned in and whispered to her, "We already took care of that didn't we, Daring?" The adventurous pegasus actually blushed at that thought.

"No do you see that green unicorn playing the lyre over there?" He said while pointing to Lyra. Daring simply nodded.

"Well she and her marefriend, who's that cream colored earth pony sitting with Vinyl there, would like to have a threesome again and Lyra wants to try out a pegasus. So does Bon Bon for that matter."

Daring's eyes lit up, "I see. You know it has been a while since my last threesome, too. Even longer with a mare pair and they're a pretty sexy pair of fillies," She licked her lips hungerly. "I think, I'll help them with their little problem. That's what Daring Do does after all helps ponies in peril."

Bryan just rolls his eyes in response, "Yes. They are such damsels in distress, they are sooo vulnerable without you, Daring. You must formulate a plan of action rescue them from their peril."

The tan pegasus laughed, "Hey, a boring sex life isn't good for anypony. I mean you never complained, not once."

He shook his head. " It's that recklessness of yours that got us caught making out at that party Daring."

She flicked her grey-scale tail a crossed his thy and said. "Hey they only caught us making out, they didn't catch us in bed that's what matters."

The party went on into the night hours with everpony having a good time and Daring was circling Lyra and Bon Bon like a predator the whole time little knowing that Bryan had already suggested the idea to them, and that they were actually ready for her. When Daring "pounced" as the party wound down she was intercepted by the couple who "dragged" her away while everpony laughed, none more so than Daring's sister and niece.

Octavia whispered something into Vinyls' ear that made her blush as the two of them left, Spike went to his room, and the rest left needing to get the fillies home as there was still school the next day. This left Bryan and Twilight alone in the main area of the library.

Twilight looked up at Bryan. "Bryan," Twilight began "it's time you had a special somepony for real now. No more dating and messing around. You need somepony who loves and will take care of you."

He smiled tiredly. "Let's not talk about this here Twily, we both know where this is going so let's just do what we've needed to do for two years."

Twilight pounced on Bryan knocking him down with passionate kiss, and teleported them to their bedroom. She lay upon him in the bed she smiled as she broke the kiss. "I love you so much, Bryan. Let me make love to you, to show you how much you mean to me."

He stroked her mane. "Please, make love to me, Twilight Sparkle," He said; his eyes wet with tears.

Twilight saw that pain again. The pain she'd seen many times in three years. She would do all that she could to soothe that pain. It would not have a hold on him anymore. She kissed longer and deeper than before as she began to undress him.

*Squee*

Meanwhile in the heart of Everfree, something malignant stirred........

Author's Note

Here it is everypony, my very first Megan returns story. Let me know what you think and of course any ways in which it can be improved. And please let me know if I missed any spelling or other errors.

Whooo! Editing is now being done one Rusty Bascule, thanks a lot Rusty.