My New Life In Equestria

This Q&A session has been going on for what seemed like eternity. I take a look at the sky, that was now turning into late afternoon. I yawned as I stretched out my limbs feeling numbness slowly starting to spread over them.

"Ok," Twilight said as she rolled up the one thousandth scroll about the entire human race, how I knew about that when my grade in history was usually around the 60% to 70% range is beyond. "Now that we got your world's history out of the way, I want to know about you."

"Why would you want to know about me," I asked.

"I like to know all about my friends. Their likes, dislikes, favorite foods. Stuff like that," she said with a straight face.

"Really, you think of me as a friend already?" I asked.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I?" she said with an eyebrow raised, "As long as you don't give me a reason not to. I like to think of everypony I meet as a potential friend."

"Wow, that really means a lot Twilight," I said with a small smile adorning my face, "So, what do you want to know?"

"For starters, what's your favorite color?" Twilight asked.

"Personally, I always liked the color red," I said with a shrug of a shoulder.

"What's your favorite food," Twilight asked.

"I have long list of foods and we really don't have the time to go through every single one," I said while pointing my thumb at the window, which showed the sun setting.

"Oh wow, I didn't it had gotten that late," Twilight said.

"Yeah, if it's alright with you I'll just crash one the couch," I said as I started to make my way towards the couch. "Good night, Twilight."

"Good night Robert," she said as she was making her way up the stairs. "See you in the morning."

***

I awoke to the smell of something good being made in the kitchen. As I got up from the couch, I walked into the kitchen and saw spike at the stove cooking what looked like pancakes along with other varieties.

"Yo, morning spike," I said as I came in.

"Morning," he said. "Did you sleep alright?"

"Like a baby," I said with a chuckle.

"That's good to hear," Spike said.

After a few minutes of waiting for breakfast to be done. I noticed Twilight coming down the stairs.

"Morning Twilight," Spike said.

"Good morning," she said as she pulled a chair up to the table.

"How did you sleep?" I asked as I walked to the table and was about to sit down when I noticed the chairs were a little low to the ground. So I just moved it and sat on the floor and even then I was still able to be slightly taller than the table.

"I slept alright," she said.

"Alright, breakfast is ready," Spike said as he passed out the plates.

"Thanks," I said as I got ready to dig in, but then I noticed Spike didn't have a plate.

"Spike, bro. Are you going to eat anything?" I said.

"Yeah," he said as he pulls out a bag full of gems, rubies, and other stuff like that. "I have a bag of my favorite gems right here."

I take a look at the bag, and my eyes widen as he pops one of them in his mouth and crunches on them as if they were hard candy.

"Hey, can I see one of those?" I ask pointing to the bag.

He looks to the bag and then to me, the look on his face says that he is hesitant about giving me one of his gems.

"Come one Spike," Twilight said, "It wouldn't hurt to give him one, would it?"

He sighs as he hands me a gem. I inspect it and I knocked on the table and sure enough it was hard as a rock, if not harder. There is just no way that he has the jaw strength to crush a ruby.

"How can you eat this stuff," I ask, "Wouldn't your teeth be shattered on contact?"

"Well, it's a known fact that dragons love to eat gems," Spike said.

Almost instantly my jaw drops.

"Wait a minute, you mean to tell me that you're a dragon?!" I said pointing at him.

"Yeah, I am," Spike said and as proof he blew green fire from his mouth.

"Wow, that's pretty cool," I said with a smirk on my face.

"Robert, don't forget I'm taking on a tour around ponyville," Twilight said.

"Why," I ask as I eat another spoonful of my breakfast.

"So, that you'll get a lay of the land and so the ponies here will get used to you," Twilight says with a smile.

"I don't think so," I deadpanned, "Did you see how they reacted to me yesterday? I wouldn't exactly call that open arms."

"Well, this is so stuff like that doesn't happen again," she says.

"Whatever you say," I agreed. "It's better than sitting around doing nothing."

After eating breakfast, I gather me and Twilight's plates and before I could get started on washing the dishes I'm stopped by Spike saying that he had this under control. So, I shrug and head out the door with Twilight behind me only to be met by the stares of almost everyone outside.

"Uh, hi" I say as I raise up a hand and waved to the crowd, "My name is Robert Thomas and, yes, I know I look pretty weird to you but I promise you I am in no way, shape, or form a threat."

"Sweet Celestia!" I heard one of them say. "It spoke."

Then suddenly the mare that said that fainted. Leaving me baffled I looked down to Twilight and say:

"Was it something I said?"