The Earls and Their Ponies

Ciel awoke with a pounding headache. He was outside. Since when was he outside? He moved to stand up, but... "Hooves?" He cried out. "Since when do I have hooves? I'm not a horse!" He managed to obtain a quadrupedal stance. "Horses aren't this color anyways." His stance was awkward, legs spread far apart in an attempt to keep his balance. He looked around for Sebastian, but only saw another weird horse thing.

"So you are Ciel." The voice came out flat, a tone Ciel had never heard from it's owner. Clearly, Ciel was not the only one who wasn't happy to be here. "I'd gloat, but this seems like a hollow victory, since neither of us can get home."

"How do you know? If we got here, we can get home, even if we don't know how!" Defeat was a surprisingly disconcerting look on weird-horse Aloise. Then, coming down the road came the sound of humming. A yellow and pink weird-horse with wings was trotting into view. The two earls stared at her. She was most likely older than them, as she was a bit taller. She stopped when she saw them. She walked right up to Ciel, investigating his left eye, reminding Ciel of the fact that he didn't have his eyepatch. He self consciously closed his eye, covering it with his front left limb. She drew back.

"I'm sorry." She said quietly. "What happened to your eye?" The question was almost as an afterthought. Ciel backed up, best has he could with his poor balance and elevated hoof. At least he didn't fall over. Aloise still hadn't stood all the way up.

"None of your business." He said harshly. A little too harshly, apparently, as the weird-horse started to cry and ran away, forgetting she had wings or something.

"What's that?" Aloise said, pointing to a cloud. Ciel turned him stared.

"Is this some kind--" A blue flying weird-horse slammed into him, knocking him over and cutting off his sentence.

"What did you say to her?" The rough voice demanded.

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Aloise, his question answered, decided to enjoy the show. Part of the show seemed to include a purple weird-pony with wings and a horn coming in for a slightly awkward landing. Cool. Aloise watched in mild interest as the newcomer ran the rest of the short distance and then... Lifted Ciel's attacker with some sort of magenta aura that seemed to be coming from her horn. "Rainbow Dash!" The purple one exclaimed. "Calm down! He's just a colt!" Neither of them had acknowledged Aloise yet. That was poor judgement on their parts.

"Hi! Who are you? Who's you're friend? What'd I miss?" The voice startled him. A lot. He jumped and whirled, finding himself facing a pink on pink weird-pony.

"Slow down!" He said. "You may call me Earl Aloise Trancy. The other pony here you don't know is... Hard to explain. You missed him accidentally insulting one of your friends and then getting assaulted."

"Ooh, you're an earl! Twilight! This guy's an earl!" The purple one rolled her eyes.

"Just because he says he's an earl doesn't mean he's really an earl."

"Stop that line of thought there before he tries to kill you, please." Ciel said, getting up a bit less awkwardly than before. "We're both earls. My name is Earl Ciel Phantomhive. The reason Aloise finds it hard to explain me is because he's tried to kidnap me multiple times. Hasn't given up yet, either."

"Kidnap? It that anything like foalnap?" The purple one asked.

"If that's taking someone somewhere against their will for nefarious purposes, than yes."

"Nefarious? Honestly, Ciel, Nefarious simply isn't the word for my intentions."

"I highly doubt that."

"Note to self;" The pink one interrupted. "Hold two separate welcome to Ponyville parties for the newcomers."

"Pinkie!" The other two said. "You can't throw a welcome to Ponyville party for a foalnapper, even if they haven't succeeded!"

"Don't be silly. Of course I can!"

Aloise and Ciel looked at each other. "We've got to get out of here." Ciel whispered. "All differences aside, these ones are insane. Let's see if there are any sane sentients in fleeing distance." Then the purple one picked them up in her magical grasp.

"Come on. We've got somewhere to go." She said, lifting off.