Chapters No ponies during this life!
As I duck, dodge, and weave through the area around me, avoiding direct eye contact with Endermen, I wait for the scourge of my world to attack. Finally, my chance comes, and I strike fast and accurately with my diamond sword, directly into the Enderdragon’s neck. It flails around at the wound I have just inflicted upon it and retreats from me, giving me just enough time to remove my sword. Now, I wait for the next attack.
It comes back around, charging straight for me, the wound fully healed. Wait…Fully Healed? Fuck! I must have forgotten a crystal, and he used it to heal his life threatening gap I put in his neck. I must find it so I can destroy it, and destroy him!
As I search, I avoid confrontation with the beast, dodging his every move, until he hits me. I go flying across the floating island in the middle of nothingness, and land right where I wanted to be. Slightly injured from the fall, I wield my bow, notch my arrow, aim, and FIRE! My accuracy never fails. I land the arrow directly on the crystal and it explodes, causing great damage upon the dragon while it was attached to it. Now, I can win.
Ducking, dodging, and weaving, this scene is all too familiar, but with a twist: He can no longer restore his body to full condition after every beating. I. Can. Win!
I dodge his lunge at me for the last time, breaking my blade off into his right eyeball. He thrashes and kicks at the pain, slowly rising into the air, disintegrating. The portal appears in front of me, and I walk toward it. Built with bedrock, there is no way of destroying it. At the top, a dragon egg, my prize. I reach to grab it when suddenly, the island starts to collapse! Blocks fall off the island, starting at the edges, eventually making it’s way to the portal. The portal suddenly goes from being a weird spacey hole, to a very rainbow-ish color. The dragon egg falls into it and teleports to where it leads, home. I jump after.
Falling through space and time itself is quite a weird feeling, but this one is different. It doesn’t fell as if I am being sucked from the Universe into nothingness, but instead feels as if I am being assaulted with happiness and friendship. Colors swirl all around me as I tumble through the portal, not knowing if it will take me home to my family. I can’t seem to find my backpack with all my stuff, which is weird, considering that it never leaves my back. Now as I tumble and turn though the gateway, I see a blinding white light, the exit of the portal.
I reenter my home, or at least that is what I think. I have just a second to survey the land before I fall to the ground.
Game Over. Time to respawn for the billionth time in a row. What I saw doesn’t make sense. No block. That was the first. The second was the scenery. It looked nothing like Minecraft at all!
As I wait to respawn, I think over what I just saw. No blocks, weird trees, a town…A town! Maybe they know where I am, and can help me out. Possibly this is the Farlands Jane was talking about. That couldn’t be. It was just old child tale to keep kids near home. Wasn’t it? Lord Notch did mention something about a mysterious land far off where nothing is normal. Maybe this IS the Farlands. But why is my backpack gone and nothing blocky? Notch did say that blocks, BLOCKS, were created all randomly, a proof of Herobrine’s evil power. This new land had NO blocks.
I’ve respawned now. And get a chance to survey the land properly. Yep, no blocks. That’s really weird. Oh please Great Notch, creator of everything, let me find a way home.
I wander off into the woods to start from scratch. Time to punch trees again. Great.
As I enter the woods, the Sun starts to fall into sky.
“Fuck.” I say aloud, “I have no food, no shelter, and no tools. I’m going to be raped tonight.” I start to punch a tree, realizing that it hurts. Like, bad! After about two minutes of punching the tree, I figure two things out. One, no monster! Hooray! And two, I can’t punch a tree the gather wood. The Nether? I continue my search and come to the conclusion that the town is my best bet. I’ll head there in the morning.
I rest my head on my makeshift bed. A few sticks for bedding, leaves woven together with stems to make a blanket, and a clump of grass for a pillow. Yep, one rocking bed. Damn it’s uncomfortable, though. As I am just going to sleep, I hear howling in the distance. Wolves! Now I just need to find bones and I’ll be set. They seem to be getting closer. Even better! Maybe they will stay here until morning and I can tame them.
As the wolves reach me, I notice something, I can’t see them. It might be because it’s too dark, but I can see the tree line clearly, along with their eyes. Their glowing, red eyes.
“FUCK!” I exclaimed, jumping up from my “bed” to try and fight. There are about five of them here, and I can’t see any of their bodies. Wait. I can! Their bodies are made of sticks! The Nether?!
They attack. I am able to dodge about two of them, but the other three get me, putting my health very low. I have about four hearts remaining, and nothing to defend myself with. I fight them off the best I can, but it is useless. I am able to kill one of the…things, before I am killed myself.
Game Over. Great. Twice in a day. Time to check the town.
I respawn in the same place as my first visit to this new world, without the fall. I look around, glad that it’s finally morning, searching for the town I saw last night. I find it over to the left of me, and considering the position of the Sun and direction of it, it seems to be about 10:30am and technically it is northeast of me. I’m a nerd, yes. Exploring miles from your point of origin and trying to return will do that to you. Deal with it.
I head towards the town and notice a sign outside. “Welcome to Ponyville.” I read aloud, “What a weird name. What’s a pony?” My answer soon comes bouncing to me taking the shape of what looks like a large wolf, but pink. Apparently, it’s happy to see me, and isn’t that quite a relief, compared to last night. I shudder at the thought.
“Hi!” It exclaims once it is about four feet from me, which is funny because it has four feet, “I’m Pinkie Pie, but my friends call me Pinkie most of the time, and everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, is my friend, so you can call me Pinkie. So who are you, and mind if I ask what are you? Not to sound rude or anything, but you look weird.” She paused to deeply inhale for her next fifty mile talk to me, “So, who are you, and do you like parties?”
“Hello,” I say formally, “My name is Steve. I was suddenly transported here from my native land when a portal messed up and sent me here. I am a human, from the land of Minecraft, the place I have strayed from. I am going to guess you are a pony…”
“Well of course I’m a pony, silly. Everypony is a pony in Equestria. Oh, I’m sorry. Did I interrupt?”
“No, not at all.” I continue, “Do all ponies talk here? Or just a few. In Minecraft, just we humans talk. Animals don’t.”
“We all talk, but someponies say I talk too much. Can you believe that? Talking too much. What a crazy thought. Anyways, wanna meet my friends? Not all my friends, but my best friends? Come on! I’ll show you to Twilight Sparkle. We mostly just call her Twi though, so you can call her that if you wish.”
“Well, okay.” I reply, “Pinkie, do you think you could tell me how to get home?”
“You should ask Twilight. She knows all those smarty stuff.”
As we walk, I get a good idea of the town. Most of the buildings are built from wheat and wood. The wood I understand, but wheat? We finally approach our destination after a few minutes of walking. A giant tree is where Pinkie Pie stops me.
“Well, here we are!” She informs me, “Twi should be inside. Help yourself in.” I tell her my thanks and enter the house thing. Twilight Sparkle, or what I presume to be Twilight, sits in the middle of the room, reading about three books at once. Three! At once! How absurd! A small green and purple dragon walks around picking up books scattered around the room.
“Thank you, Spike.” She says to the dragon as he put the books away. “Don’t know what I would do without you. Oh, Hello.” She said as she notices me. “I’ve consumed in this book on Starswirl the Bearded. What a great tale. Wonderful unicorn.”
“Hello Twilight Sparkle. My name is,” I introduce, “Steve. I have recently been teleported here…”
“Teleport? Awesome! Please tell me all about it. How far did you travel and how did you do it without unicorn magic?” She drilled me. “What exactly are you anyways?”
“I was going to get to that. I am Steve, from the land of Minecraft. I am a human, as are the rest of the inhabitants of my native land. As for your other questions, I don’t know. I was hoping you could help me.” I explain the whole story about getting here to Twilight and wait for her response.
“Sorry,” She starts, “World traveling as yet to be accomplished. I suppose you will just have to recreate the portal you used to come here.”
“Oh,” I recall, “and before I forget, if I should die, check the clearing outside the forest, southwest of here. I will respawn there, unless I sleep in a bed, then I’ll respawn there.”
“Okay,” Pinkie starts, “We’ll remember. Now, wanna meet everyone else?” Before I could answer, she dragged me outside. And as if it were fate, a barrel comes rolling down a hill. Pinkie and Twilight were able to avoid it, but it squished me against the house, draining my health bar.
Game Over.
THUD! I hit the ground once more in the same spot it was last three times. As I looks left and right for any other life threatening… things, I head on back to the town.
After about ten seconds of walking, a bouncing pink ball starts heading my way, followed by two other balls, an orange and a purple. Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, another of their friends, I presume.
“Hello again.” I say, closing more of the distance, “See? Perfectly fine.”
“Intriguing,” Twilight Sparkle says, getting about five inches from my face, “What makes you come back to life, just like that?”
“Well,” I begin, “I don’t…”
“Cool!” Pinkie interrupts, bouncing on top of me, “Your body just, like, disappeared! And POOF! You’re back here!”
“As I was saying,” I pick up, coaxing her off my chest, “I don’t know why I have never ending life, I just do. Everyone from Minecraft does. And this is?” I say, suggesting the newest addition to the conversation.
“Ahm AppleJack, Ah work at Sweet Apple Acres with mah older brother, Big MacinTosh, mah little sis, Applebloom, and mah grandma, Granny Smith. Terribly sorry ‘bout the barrles. Big Mac and Ah were justa cartin’ them there apple juice down to tha market for sellin’. Yer name is?”
“I am Steve, from Minecraft. Pleased to make you’re acquaintance, AppleJack. Now, what is the name of this town and planet?” I inquired, reaching the town for the second time.
“This is Ponyville in the great land of Equestria.” Twilight Sparkle explained. “We live a pretty peaceful life here, but there are the occational things that we have to do, like defeat a god of chaos. What is Minecraft like?”
“LOOK OUT!” A screaming Pegasus yelled at us, everyone but me avoided the cyan pony’s crash, hitting me, a bench, and then finally, a tree. Groaning, I crawled out from under the Pegasus’s body while she tried hard to get her head out of the tree.
“Need help?” I ask, grasping her hind legs. “That was quite a crash,” I said, wincing at the slight pain, “I would know, seeing how I was in it.” Freeing her, she shook he head, and turned to face me.
“Wow, hehe, I’m sooooo sorry.” She said,finally facing me, “I didn’t mean to…to…Uh. Who are you?”
“I am…”
“His name is Steve!” Pinkie interrupted,bouncing up and down in her normal manner. “He’s not from here, Rainbow!
“You don’t say.” The pony said, eyeing me suspiciously. Finalizing that I meant no harm to her, or he friend, she said, “I’m Rainbow Dash. I see you’ve met Pinkie, Twi, and AJ.”
“Nice to meet you Rainbow Dash.” I said, extending my left hand and fully examining her. She had a cyan blue coat with a rainbow colored mane/tail.
Taking it in her hoof, she said, “Call me Dash.”
Walking down to the town center, we stopped at some places. We went to see if Big Macintosh had gotten the barrels of juice to the market okay, to find only one broke. We stopped by a place called Sugar Cube Corner so Pinkie could return to work. Dash had flown out to a place called Cloudsdale to make sure the weather schedule was right, and returned in the quickest fashion I’ve ever seen. Last, we stopped by the library so Twilight could get a book.
Finally getting to the town center, AppleJack said, “Oh shoot! Ah forgot that Ah was supposed to help harvest the zap apples today! Gotta run guys!” And she darted down to Sweet Apple Acres.
“Ah,” Twilight sighed, “always working. She never takes a break if there is work to be done or if she made a promise to someone. That is probably her best quality. Anyways, let me introduce you to the other ponies.”
After walking for about half a mile, we approached the edge of the woods and a little cottage on the edge. I gave a shudder looking at the woodlands remembering my last visit to it during the middle of the night.
KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK! Twilight knocked on the door on the cottage door. “Fluttleshy! Are you there? I brought company!” She spoke through the door, “Fluttershy, open up!”
“He-hello?” the door opened just so far that the small voice could easily past through to be heard, but no one could be seen through it. “Twilight, you know I start Spring cleaning today. Angel gets angry if I don’t stay on schedule.” as if called, a small white bunny hopped through the door, opening it wide enough to see the pony inside. She was about all the other ponies’ height, with a yellow coat and long pink mane/tail.
“Fluttershy, come on out and meet our new friend.” Twilight gestured for her to exit the cottage with her hoof. “He isn’t from here.”
“Nice to make your…” I started.
“AH!” Fluttershy exclaimed. She dove back into the cottage before she was drug back out by the bunny who I presumed was Angel.
“Nice to make your aquaintance?” I said, slowly extending my hand towards her.
“Hi.” She said softly, looking away fom me. I lowered my hand while she continued, “I-I’m Fluttershy. I tend to the woodland critters around here. Wh-Where are you from?” She spoke in such a soft voice, I had to strain to just barely hear her. They don’t call her Fluttershy for nothing, do they?
“I’m from Minecraft.” I said, noticing she had wings. A Pegasus. “I just got here to Equestria and I’m trying to find my way back.”
“We are about to leave to meet up with Rarity, want to come Fluttershy? You two can get aquainted more on the way.” Twilight explained. I didn’t know who Rarity was, probably another one of Twilight’s friends.
“Okay.” Fluttershy said, in a voice that could be heard with ease. “Angel, I’ll finish cleaning when I get back, okay?”
We walked back to the main square of Ponyville. Heavy dubstep music and multicolored lights streamed from a house nearby. As we approached, I heard two female voices argueing over the volume of the music. One was debating it wasn’t loud enough (oh Notch), and the other, with a more sophisticated sounding accent, was complaining that it was WAY too loud. Twilight knocked on the door, loud. A white unicorn with a spiky, electric blue mane, and purple glasses answered the door.
“Sparkle!” The pony exclaimed, “Wanna join in on the party?”
“No thanks, Vinyl. I’m just here to tell you that Octavia is right, back the wub wub off some please?” Twilight replied.
“YES.” I concurred, a little louder that expected.
“Told you!” A pony from inside the house said, guessing that it was Octavia. “I told you it was too loud. And totally not the right genre in my opinion.” She said, approaching the door.
“Fine.” Vinyl said, defeated. “But you owe my for this. You told me when we got this house together that my music could be loud.”
“Within good reason, Scratchy.” Octavia replied, rubbing her muzzle across Vinyl’s. “How about we can get the parts for that dishwasher you saw in The Wub. They continued the conversation back into the house. Reaching a fancy house, I saw a small white cat exit it through a cat door in the front.
“We’re here.” Twilight announced, stopping at the door. Knocking on it she said, “Rarity? Are you home? I brought a visitor.”
“Meow.” The cat said with disintrest, walking back inside. A few seconds later, a voice approached the door.
“Twilight,” The voice complained, “I was in the middle of my latest masterpiece. I call it…” She stopped when she saw me.
“Hello.” I said, used to the way the ponies reacted to me when they saw me. “I’m Steve. Nice to meet you Rarity.”
“Hello.” She said, uncertainly. “Hello Fluttershy. How have you been?”
“Fine.” Fluttershy replied, back in her soft voice. “You were saying that you called your latest masterpiece what?”
“Oh! Come in, come in! I’ll show you” Rarity ushered us in to a model of a pony wearing long elegant dress. The cat was playing with the tassels that held the cape thing on the back. “Opalessence! No. I’ve told you not to mess wit my art work.” She shooed the cat, Opalessence, away from the dress. “Anyways, I call it Luna Midnight.”
The dress had the pattern of the night sky, and when the fabric moved, it seemed like the stars and galaxies rose and fell ith the movements of the fabric, like a bobber in the water.
“Princess Luna’s Gala dress, I presume?” Twilight asked.
“Oh yes. I’m starting Princess Celestia’s in the morning.” Rarity proved. I saw Opalessence walking near me, so I reached down to pet it. It hissed at me and started clawing my face. Forgeting I had low hearts from Dash hitting me, it didn’t take much for me to fall down, near death. The last thing I heard was “Are you okay?”.
Game Over.
THUD!
I respawned, thinking of all the current ways of death in this strange, round world. So far, I have been killed by wooden wolves, barrels, and a cat. I should make a note to stay away from those (Stay away from wolves, cats, and barrels. There, done.)
With relative ease, I found myself back at the town. Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, and Fluttershy were waiting at the town square. Rarity had her (shudder) cat, Opalessence, with her. Fluttershy shied away from me, considering she just saw me die. Twilight was, well, Twilight.
"You see, Twilight, the dress is made of a special material that Zecora whipped up for me. She told me 'It is made from otherworldly materials that came to her just a day ago.' I said, 'I don't care WHERE it care from, I just want MORE of it!' It is absolutely Fabulous, wouldn't you agree, Opal, dear?" The cat showed little to no interest. Instead, Opalessence decided to leave the conversation, making it safe for me to approach. Don't want to get my face violently mauled by the cat's claws...again.
"Hey." I said, sitting next to Twilight. Fluttershy shied away a little bit more. "Sorry about the... death... thing. Anyways, what are you guys talking about?"
"Oh," Rarity started up, flipping her hair/mane thing to the side, "We were just talking about the dress I tailored especially for Princess Luna." Turning back to Twilight, she said, "Isn't it simply wonderful ?"
I didn't stick around to hear the rest of the conversation. As far as I could tell, the dress isn't for protection. The way I see it, if it isn't to protect you from danger, why even bother to waste the leather/iron/gold (nope)/diamonds to make it. And so I left, wondering where I could find something else to do.
I hadn't much more than a few yards when I encountered the spiky, electric blue maned, dubstep pony. She had on some weird head mitten things that were blasting out music. I decided that there was nothing better for me to do, so I approached her. She was bobbing her head up and down to the beat of the fast paced music.
"Hey," I started, attempting to get her attention. "Hello? HELLO?" Ponies were starting to stare at me, so I decided to tap her shoulder instead of trying to match the volume of her music.
"Oh, hey," She said, removing her music head thing. "I couldn't hear you over my beats. So, what's up?"
I stared at her for a minute, lost in thought and amazement on how she retains her hearing. Even now, I can her every note played through her music thing. It's simply crazy, but then so is this world.
"Oh, sorry," I said, breaking out of my own trance, "I just thought since I have nothing better to do, I would find out more about the population here in..." I wracked my brain for the name of the country/planet/universe I was in.
"Equestria?" She answered for me.
"Yes," I started back up. "Equestria. Anyways, when I was with Twilight, you and your roommate really caught my eye. Want to hang out?"
"Man, how FUN that would be, but," The white pony replied, "I got this DJ gig I gotta do. You can go hang with Tavi, though. She should still be at the house. Anyways, cya later blocky man!" The pony then dashed off, placing her music head box on her ears, making a turn a couple blocks down.
"Well." I thought, contemplating what to do. I hadn't gotten the name of the DJ pony that I just talked to and I've been invited to hang out with her roommate. "How could this go wrong?"
Author's Note
I know this chapter is short, but the next one will be just as short... probably. Please forgive me for the lack of everything in this chapter and in stories in general (I know I'm pretty much talking to an invisible audience, except for the 3-ish people who read this.), I've just been busy with school and games and life and etc.
It took me literally nearly an hour to find the DJ's house. In such a small town, you wouldn't think it would be hard to get lost, but believe me, when you don't know the place, and every single house is the same, it's hard to keep track. After wandering aimlessly, I made my way back to the square. From there, I retraced my steps to find DJ pony's house, and by process of elimination, I came to the conclusion that the one (ONE) house with every window cracked would be it.
I approached the house, and prepared to knock. I wasn't expecting to have the door swing wide open and find the other pony in the duo staring at me, expecting something.
"Well?" She said expectantly. He accent was moderate. It wasn't too heavy and it wasn't so light, you didn't notice it.
"Hello," I started up my routine greeting speech, "I'm Steve. I was just talking with your roommate about, oh, an hour ago. She said she was busy and that you might wanna talk some. Tavi, is it."
"Uh!" She said, annoyed. "Why must Vinyl always introduce me like that? She knows I HATE that name. I apologize about that. My name is Octavia. It's nice to meet you, Steve." Octavia ushered me into her house. She showed me to a seat and I sat.
"So," Octavia began, "What brings you to Ponyville?" a great difference in the atmosphere around the house was the music level. Plus, it was playing music that was more soothing.
"Well, I didn't really choose to come here." I started up, the relaxing music massaging my mind. "I was teleported here after a freak accident concerning the End portal." Octavia stared at me with a blank look upon her equine face. "Uh. The End is the "final frontier" for the land of Minecraft. It is where the Ender Dragon, the scourge of my world, resides. It was up to me to vanquish the vile beast and bring peace to my lands." Her face went from confusion to wonder.
"So," Octavia, started to ask, "you're the hero of your world? That's pretty cool. I'll tell you this, Vinyl would love to hear this story. Knowing her, she would probably compose a dubstep song to accompany it."
I looked around at the house. It was quite a nice home, one comparable to fancy house in my town. The ability to have roundness really adds to the architecture. There were elements of both ponies present in just the main room alone. Unlike my house, everything was everywhere. The "dubstep" parts were mixed into the parts the Octavia associates with, making it a Picasso of music. The loud speakers were set next to the cellos, and the turntable was in front of the record case full of what I had to guess was Octavia's music.
"Speaking of Vinyl," Octavia picked up, "She should be back soon. Would you like some tea?"
"Uh." I had never heard of such a drink, "What is tea?" I felt like a complete fool.
"I'll just make you one." She left to the kitchen to start the tea. Right after she left, I started hearing some heavy music approaching the house. Instantaneously, I knew who was coming.
"Alright everypony!" Vinyl Scratch spoke to her crowd as she entered the house, "Let's get this party started!" She sounded like Pinkie Pie. Vinyl trotted over to the turntables and put some records on. As Vinyl Scratched checked her equipment, Octavia bound into the room, shocked.
"Vinyl!" She spouted as soon as she saw her roommate. "What do you think you're doing?"
"Ah, Tavi!" Vinyl responded quickly, her speech slightly slurred from what I could guess was alcoholic drinks, "Listen baby, I was just gonna have some friends over for a small party. It won't be long."
"But..." Octavia started to speak, but was briefly cut short by Vinyl Scratch, doing something I would have never guessed. Vinyl spun around as quick a lightning, giving Octavia a huge kiss, making it last.
"Listen," She started, "Do this for me, and I'm all yours tonight." Such a phrase allowed me the knowledge that the DJ was usually gone at night. "Now let's get going!"
Turning back into her usual self, Vinyl spun back to the tables and started up the dubstep. The song started off softly, by her standards, but picked up quickly. I started to dance like the ponies around me were doing. I hadn't realized it, but I wandered dangerously close to the large speakers.
"BASS DROP!!!" Every pony in the room yelled suddenly as the music seemingly cut out. I was dead wrong, and I don't mean figuratively. I was so close to the speakers, my health had dropped faster than the music. I was dead within seconds of the drop. Who knew sound, let alone music, could kill.
Game Over.
*POP*
I respawned for umpteenth time since coming to this strange place. By the third time, I should've realized that Equestria is radically more dangerous than my native land of Minecraft. Oh well, I guess I'm just an idiot.
Sighing, I contemplated on what I should do. It was the middle of the night and all of my new found friends were either asleep or getting their eardrums blasted out with "bass drops". After going over everything, I decided to retire for the night with how exhausting dying can be. I'll figure out what to do in the morning.
"Oooaaaah!" I yawned, stretching my arms out over my head, feeling better than I had since I jumped into the End. I yawned once more, blinking the sleep from my eyes and allowing for adjustment as to not blind myself with the bright rays from the sun. Once I was fully awake, I gazed at my surroundings. The first thing that struck me as odd was the room. I fell asleep on the side of the road, unable to get a bed created. The walls enclosing me gave me a short burst of claustrophobia, but I soon calmed down.
"Oh, my." I heard a soft voice speak. I looked around for the source, but it must have come from outside the room. After a minute, I saw the petite, yellow pegasus glide through the door, carrying a platter of plants. "How did you sleep?"
I blinked a few more times, making sure my brain fully registered everything. "Fine. How'd I get here?"
She fluttered over to me, placing the platter of fruits and vegetables on the bed. "Oh, well I was out last night searching for my missing chicken when I saw you sleeping on the side of the road." Nodding, I reached for a reddish pink fruit as my inventory identified it as a "Strawberry". I didn't care what it was called. It was scrumptious! "With the help of some of my woodland friends, we carted you back here."
I finished off the strawberry and quickly vacuumed up several more, noticing that my hunger bar was dangerously low. As I munched and crunched the juicy and sweet food, I scanned the room once more, noticing that it was her bedroom. Swallowing the now ground fruit, I voice my question.
"Where did you sleep?" I felt guilty. She gave me, a complete stranger, her bed, and now she shared her food with me.
"Oh, well, I slept on the couch in the living room." She shied away from me. Her face was absolutely adorable, though!
I gazed at her, giving her a sympathetic look. "You didn't have to do that." I stated. She squeaked, and scooted ever so slightly away. Notch, was this pony's special talent being adorable? "Thank you." I reached and stuffed a few more strawberries into my inventory along with multiple other foods on the plate set in front of me, including "Bananas", "Cabbage", and "Cherries". I'd try them all later.
"Listen," I said, returning my attention to the pegasus, who I remembered was Fluttershy. "Fluttershy, I'm still a little lost here in Ponyville, so do you think could guide me through the town?" If it was possible, she became even more cute at my request.
"I would like to..." She started to reply, but then the small, snow white bunny hopped into the room and began to kick her back leg impatiently. "Yes Angel, I know. I would like to accompany you, but I still have a lot of Spring Cleaning to do, and Angel is getting really impatient." You don't say. "Good luck, though."
I left a few minutes after that. I kept playing over our conversation. It seemed to me that Angel pretty much ruled Fluttershy's life. I didn't think she minded, but still.
Coming out of my mind, I realized that I had circled that town square several times already, and people, ponies, were starting to stare. I looked around at them, blushing slightly, and left. It was time to go find someone who could help me.
Looking around town, I noticed a house that had cracked windows. I deduced that this was Vinyl and Octi's house, and that I wasn't really keen on blowing my eardrums, and health, out... again. I quickly passed by their house, moving on to go find someone I knew.
After a few more minutes, I became engrossed in my thoughts yet again, and that's exactly the time that some pony decided she should charge me.
"OHMYCELESTIA!" She shouted at the top of her lungs, galloping towards me at top speed. I didn't even have time to react as she plowed my down, grinning wildly at me. "You have HANDS!"
Brushing her off me, I replied. "Yeah, I guess I do. You are?" I extended my arm towards the aquamarine mare, and she practically fainted on the spot. What? Was I, like, the DeadMau5, of this place?
"Lyra," Another pony, this one a really pale yellowish, "please don't harass other pon..." She stopped mid-sentence, seeing that I wasn't a pony.
"I told you!" Lyra exclaimed at the other mare. "I told you that they existed, didn't I? But you were all like, 'No, there is no such thing as a human ', but here he is!"
She continued to obsess over my body for several minutes. I did nothing but stand there, not sure what to do.
"I'm terribly sorry for Lyra's behavior." The pale mare apologized, extending her hoof towards me. "I'm Bon-Bon, and you are?"
I grasped her hoof with my hand, causing Lyra to go into another fit of excitement. "Steve. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Lyra."
Several minutes later, we were over at their house. It was simple, single story house near town center. From the window, one could see Applejack's apple stand and Sugar Cube Corner. I removed myself from the window, turning to sit in the chair next to Lyra. She had calmed down greatly, going from hyperventilating at all of my movements to just staring. Bon-Bon had left to the Sugar Cube to pick up Lyra's cupcakes. As it turned out, her birthday was today.
After the merrymaking was done, I left Lyra and Bon-Bon to themselves. I was feeling... good, actually. Even after dying on a nearly constant basis, I was glad to see that this world, albeit round and foreign, isn't all that different in essence from my own. Now, all I need to do was figure out what to do about sleeping arrangements.
Walking around for several minutes, I was about to give up hope. Then I saw Fluttershy poking her head out from around the corner. Moving in to her, I noticed her pet bunny, Angel, glaring at me with discontent. Big surprise.
"O-oh, hello." She squeaked in her small voice. Honestly, I've just about had a heart attack just from the adorableness of these ponies.
Smiling, I replied, "Hey Fluttershy. What are you doing out here at this ungodly hour?" Gazing towards the moon, I made not of the speed and judged about 3 more hours of night.
"W-well," She began, shrinking away from me. Angel pushed her back into my view, though. "I was going to ask you i-if you needed someplace to stay, if only for the night."
Taken aback, the surprise on my face must have scared her, poor girl. "My, that's quite kind of you. Are you sure?" The fact that I've only known these ponies for not even two days, and yet this little... filly, I think, finds it in her heart to trust me and invite me into her home.
Once we had trekked to her house, the little cottage at the edge of the forest seemingly blending into the scenery, I took note of something: houses usually don't float around... upside down?!
"Oh my," She gasped, fluttering up the chaotic cottage. "It seems Discord decided to visit now." After a brief moment of silence, the homely hut was returned to it's natural, peaceful place on the ground. "Okay Steve, I'd like you to meet..."
"AH!" I jumped back, taken by surprise by the... thing, that presented itself to me. It was part pony, part bat, and part dragon(?), and part... monstrosity.
"'AH' yourself, sir." He replied in an ungainly matter, mimicking my very movements, even taking my shape! Shifting back into what I presumed was his normal form, he bowed deeply. "Lady Fluttershy, how great it is to see you have returned safely."
"Discord, this is Steve." She directed his attention to me. "He's new to our world, and he needs a place to stay. I've offered to let him stay here for the night."
"Steve?" He questioned as I moved forward to shake his... hand? Paw? I don't even know anymore.
"Yes," I said. "And I apologize for my reaction. I was just... surprised by your appearance."
"Heh, I get that a lot." He dismissed.
After entering Fluttershy's home, she directed me to the spare room, stating that Discord preferred the couch, anyways. Weird guy.
I settled down, ready to put this day behind me. I felt as though I was forgetting something, though.
HO~~~WL~~
A chill ran through my blocky spine, reminding me promptly of what I was forgetting. Wolves, cats, and barrels are dangerous. Oh, and bass drops. Can't forget the bass drops.
Spawnpoint Set.
Author's Note
Okay, the hiatus I took was completely unforgivable. I offer my deepest and sincerest apologies to those of you who read this story for this immense wait.
Waking up, it truly felt great to actually sleep, despite not needing it. Now that I know I won't spawn in the woods every time I die, I might go and explore this world a bit. Maybe someone else in this world will know how to take me back to Minecraft.
"Oh, um," Fluttershy pushed the door open a crack, poking her head into the room. "I was just wondering if you were away, yet."
Sighing, I hopped out of the comfy bed. I smiled. "Yeah, I'm up."
After eating a hearty breakfast of fruits and vegetables, most of which I'd never heard of, including the "bananas" and "cherries" still in my inventory. Turns out, in this world, foodstuff isn't nearly as limited in pallet as back home. This includes a mixing of many different items, making "salads" and "sandwiches". Apparently, it wasn't uncommon for a pony to eat flowers. the thought just makes me shudder.
"So Discord," I began, trying to make casual conversation, "what do you usually do around here?"
He cackled. The sound alone chilled my very core. It was the laugh of a madman.
"Oh, aren't you naive?" His voice slithered. "I am Discord! Eternal spirit of Chaos!" Making a grand display, he reversed gravity, making everything float around freely. "My very name should be the only indication you need."
"Discord!" Fluttershy asserted, flying right up to the towering... thing. "I told you! No disturbing the natural balance of thing in my house!" The shift in personality was so drastic, I would've fallen over, if I could. More surprising is that Discord complied.
Bowing, Discord backed away from the glaring mare. "My bad, Fluttershy. I guess I got a little carried away there." Snapping his claws, the room returned to normal, with me landing smack dab into the "salad".
Picking what my inventory was labeling "lettuce" out of my hair and clothes, I turned to face Discord, but he had disappeared. Examining everything, I tried to locate the mischievous devil until I noticed I was... wearing him. How that's even possible I have no clue. Anyway, I unequipped him and tried to right click him. Bad idea.
The house suddenly exploded with the force of unadulterated, well, chaos. The roof flew somewhere into Ponyville while the walls simple ceased to exist. Luckily, Discord DOES have some control, because only things the aren't living were removed from the immediate area. Either way, Fluttershy, Angel, all her other pets, Discord, and I stood in the remnants of her living room. Everyone except Discord could do nothing but look like complete idiot, while he just laughed his evil laugh.
"That. Was. RICH!" He fell over, laughing his head off, literally. "Who knew THAT would happen!"
Fluttershy composed herself first, turning to face the most destructive weapon to ever exist with a look that would kill most beings, but not Discord. He did, however, stop laughing.
"Oh, alright." Sitting up, he snapped his fingers, restoring the world to how it was not even five minutes before. Unfortunately, I was in the middle of where one of the walls were supposed to go.
It didn't take long. The initial explosion took quite a chunk of my hearts, and my body was unable to expel me from the solidness of a wall before my health hit zero.
Game Over.
Author's Note
This part is short, I know. I'll try to start pumping these chapters out in a more timely fashion. Thank you for reading!
I respawned, hoping to be back in the bed Fluttershy loaned me, but apparently, Discord's magic reset my spawn point. Just. Great. I already don't like him.
Moving onward, putting my death behind me, I noticed something was... off. I look down, and notice my feet were replaced be hooves. They were still blocky, but they weren't... feet.
"Steve!" Twilight Sparkle started to approach me. "Steve! I've been trying to find you ALL DAY!"
Sighing, I brushed the dust off my clothes. "Yeah, I apologize for that. I was over with Fluttershy, but then Discord killed me." Still holding it against him.
"I heard." She smiled a little, but it quickly disappeared. "I've been analyzing you ever since you arrived, and I've come to find some... interesting results."
Opening her saddlebags, she extracted a long, and I mean long , piece of paper. Deftly scanning it, she found the sections of interest and separated them from the rest.
"As you can see here," She began, handing them to me, "You still carry trace amounts of magic from the portal you had entered from. Now if we can break it down and recreate it, we could send you home." Now that was interesting. While Equestria is fun, I miss Minecraft and my family.
"Do you really think so?" I was yearning to return home. Looking behind Twilight, I noticed the rest of the gang approaching.
Nodding, she continued. "I do. After we do get the spell perfected and can send you home, we might be able to set up permanent settlements in your world and the other way around. This would be a great step forward in science. Now, I do have more to talk to you about."
"What'd be that, sugarcube?" Applejack asked as she and the other four got within talking distance. While there was plenty of open space, everyone decided to crowd around on the dirt road. It was a little cramped.
Twilight frowned, her features scrunching up. "Well, allow me to show back at the library." Her horn started to glow that rich purple of her eyes, and suddenly, Poof!
It was instantaneous, but I was blinded for a second, and it gave me sickness for ten seconds. Not to mention, it seemed that teleporting here had the same effect of teleporting with an Ender Pearl, that is, I took a few hearts of damage.
After I regained my vision, I inspecting my current surroundings. Everyone was still here, add one surprised baby dragon. It was quite a large library. In the center, there was a bust of an equine. While it was, and still is, a library, Twilight had done quite a good job of making it feel welcoming and homely.
"Now as you see here," Twilight began, already recovered from the teleport, bringing a big green board out and a small white stick she used to write on the board. "Here's Minecraft. For the sake of the demonstration, it's a cube. And here is our world, Equestria." She continued to draw and diagram the situation. "For some reason, seeing how Steve here is not only from another world, but a different dimension altogether!"
"We already know this, egghead!" Dash blurted. I couldn't blame her. I was getting pretty impatient.
Sighing, she quickly erased the drawing just recently added to the board. "Alright, but here's the thing:" Scribbling furiously, she created a new diagram. "For some reason, the more the magic fades on Steve, the less... him, he becomes. I've been inspecting it, and his mind is becoming more and more equine by the passing days. Soon enough, his body will follow behind it."
"Like this?" I lifted my foot/hoof thing to show them. The surprise was expected, but Twilight's was less so.
Fluttershy approached my leg cautiously, as if she was afraid she was going to catch some terrible disease. "Are you going to be okay?"
"He should be fine," Twi reassured, "but the effects may be irreversible. we must work fast. Celestia knows how fast this will happen."
"Oh! I've got to create a line of clothing now before he becomes a pony permanently!" And Rarity was off. All that was seen was the papers flying and the white blur of her darting out. She can move.
Applejack sighed and Pinkie Pie just laughed. "She's always like that!" Pinkie said, surprisingly for the first time today, but now she'll never stop. "Rarity is always going on and on and on about fashion and dresses and anything pretty. She just can't stand ugly, and just yesterday she was saying 'You know Pinkie, I really need to make some clothes for Steve. He looks so ragged in those casual clothes he always wears.' And of course I agreed with her, I mean, she's NEVER wring about fashion, and she went off like she just did, but not nearly as fast, of course, but she left and I didn't see her for the rest of the day, so I went to Sugar Cube Corner..." She was speaking a million words a minute, and after that, I, and I think everypony... one else did too.
"as I was saying ," Twilight started up once again, Pinkie's voice becoming a droning background ambiance, "I need to get to Canterlot and confer with the Princess about getting a team of trained unicorns together and making this portal spell." She finished her doodles on the board, all steps clearly labeled and put in both chronological and alphabetical order.
"Okay..." I began, taking it all in. "so when do we start this plan of yours?"
Smiling, Twilight was obviously proud of the acceptance of her theoretical plan. "We start tomorrow in the morning. The..."
"Cupcakes are done!" Pinkie exclaimed, cutting off both Twilight and herself.
"What are you..." Rainbow Dash began, but she was already gone. "That filly is so weird."
"As I was saying, we start in the morning. Celestia shouldn't have anything then, and anyways, the sun has already set. Rainbow, if you could tell both Pinkie and Rarity, I would greatly appreciate it."
Dash saluted Twilight, accepting the task. "I'm on it!" And then she too "dashed" out of the room with blinding speed.
"Applejack, if you could pack some apples for the trip, that would be great." Twilight turned to the country girl. "While we will be taking the train, Canterlot is rather expensive."
"You can count on me, sugarcube." AJ tipped her hat to us, and left for Sweet Apple Acres. So far, she was the only one we count visually track out the room."
All that was left in the room was Twilight, Fluttershy, and myself, not counting the purple dragon stacking books and dusting off the general area. He still has yet to say anything, assuming he, or she, could.
"I-is there anything you need me to do, Twilight?" Fluttershy squeaked.
Twilight sat down, thinking. "I don't think so, although you're being a great friend, accepting Steve into you house. I guess you could keep providing him with a place to sleep as long as he isn't a nuisance." She turned to me. "You're not going to be a nuisance, are you?"
"I hope not."
"Good." Twilight then finally turned to the dragon. "Spike, could you write a letter to the Princess telling her we will be visiting in the morning?"
The dragon, Spike, nodded. "Of course, Twilight. I'll get right on that."
We then left for Fluttershy cottage. It has been a long day, even though all we did was talk about how I was from a different dimension and how I was becoming a pony. It was tiring, and I was ready to get started on that plan so I could return home.
"Same room as before, if that's okay with you." She said, waving a hoof towards the stairs. "Now Discord," she directed herself to her roommate, becoming assertive, "I don't want any trouble from you. Understand?"
"Oh me?" He looked hurt as a halo appeared above his horns. How ironic. "Why, I would never dream of causing trouble. You and your friends reformed me, remember?" That might be true, but I remember this morning.
Coughing, I gained their attention. "Well, I'm going to retire. Goodnight, Fluttershy. See you soon, Discord." Unfortunately, I mentally added.
A Visit in Slumber (Life Six cont.)
As I lay down to retire for the night, I could here Fluttershy instructing Discord on what to do in her absence. I could practically feel her stare from up here. It was quite unsettling, to say the least.
Putting it behind me, I got around to trying to sleep. Here, in Equestria, it's much different to sleep. I can't just lay down and skip night. I need to actually relax. This might take a while.
~~~~~
What is this? It's so dark here. What happened to Fluttershy's cottage? Why am I just floating in an endless void?
"All the answers you seek shall be granted unto you." A regal voice spoke from everywhere. Suddenly, I was sitting in a chair in some room. How did that happen?
From nowhere, a tall, dark purple-blue winged unicorn approached. Her mane appeared to be made of the night itself, flowing in a non-existent wind. Just her presence alone took my breath away. This was a true leader. A god, almost.
"Hello Steve," The royal pony spoke, addressing me as both a peasant and an equal. It was strange. "I am Princess Luna: Princess of the Night and of Dreams."
"Dreams?" I questioned. Such things don't exist in Minecraft.
She smiled a sad and sympathetic smile. "Yes Steve, dreams. They are the production of your mind at rest. Unfortunately, your body, being of a difference anatomy and reality, never rests. Dreams are wonderful, and I can see each and every one."
"So, I'm resting right now?" My mind was swimming. Funnily enough, as I pictured that, a brain was doing a butterfly stroke through the void enclosing us.
"Yes." The princess nodded, confirming my suspicions. I was "dreaming". It was so strange.
Bringing my hand to my chin, I thought about everything going on. "So why are you here, princess?"
"Well," She began, crossing past me, changing the scene around us to that of the night sky. "as you may have noticed, you're changing." I nodded. "This is because your body isn't meant for this world, so it's trying to adapt. You may have seen that things work differently here than in Minecraft."
"But that doesn't explain why I have hooves! " I interjected, thrusting my hands about.
Again, Luna smiled at my ignorance. "Oh, but it has everything to do with it. While neither my sister nor I have exactly pinpointed the cause of this transformation, but all of us think that the magical residue left over from when you first arrived kept you... you."
I was about to question her further, but suddenly everything started to blur together and shake. Luna was fading away, the black night and dotted stars blending to white, yellow, and pink.
"Steve?" I heard a voice call it. It sounded familiar.
Luna smiled once more. "Oh dear. It seems that night has expired and my sister has begun day. I'm sorry, but I must be on my way. Tia gets fussy when I don't lower the Moon."
And then she was gone.
~~~~~
"Steve?" Fluttershy shook me, arousing me from my slumber and dreams. "Steve, it's time to get up. We leave in a few minutes."
I gazed around the room, my vision blurring and flashing in psychedelic rainbow colors. Eventually, it stopped, and I could truly get a good look at the room. Everypony - one - was here, minus the dragon, Spike.
"C'mon, sleepyhead!" Pinkie Pie bounced, her saddlebags overflowing with colored paper and other odds and ends, all of which colorful.
Twilight nodded, agreeing with the hyperactive pink pony. "We must get a move on. If we leave now, we should make Canterlot in good time."
