A Reformed Evil

As the next day came and Daniel was met with sunshine, he groaned as he knows today he have to help out the Mane 6, simply because he is their friend. As he got up, he did the one thing a lot of humans did and stubbed his toe into the corner of a dresser as his mind quickly reels to a curse "Oh buck!" he says. It's something he didn't normally say, but since this is a world of ponies, he felt his dictionary needed a tune up. As he got in a quick shower and clothing, he looked in the mirror, yet something didn't happen.

He didn't see that weird face like last time. Come to think of it, he didn't have any nightmare or dream either. Must of been the universe giving him a break from all the craziness. As he got himself clothed, he walked out of the room and down the hall, he found himself meeting Twilight who seems to be going over a list of sorts. As he looks around, it seems to be of them just taking inventory and reshelving the books again as he thinks back to how many times this has happened. It was becoming apparent it must of happened at least once a week or something from how often Twilight had done it. As she set down a list and picked up a new one, Daniel looked over at it as he sees they are missing a few things, problem from all the questioning the ponies put him through.

He clears his throat to make his presence known as she turns and smiles "Oh Daniel. I didn't know you were up" she says. She looks back at the checklist and library as she laughs nervously "Well... seems we're going to have to put the questions on hold for a while. Apparently we went through a lot of parchment and I may of gotten a tiny bit out of hand with it" she says with a small smile and flush of embarrassment.

Daniel just shakes his head "It's alright. Honestly if the situation was reversed I feel the same way as well. Still, perhaps I can go and get the supplies? Just as a way of saying thanks for letting me stay here and of course not trying to experiment on me" he says with a small smile. Twilight simply nods and hands him some bits, even though he had a few himself from odd jobs around the town like helping move a crate of quills into Quills and Sofas in town. Still, didn't hurt to have a few extra bits in hand, especially if it's getting enough quills and parchment for a eccentric mare like Twilight.

As he walked through town, he met many of the familiar or seen many of the familiar mares he had been introduced to over the week. All he did was say hello and wave, as he really just wanted to help out one pony today and nothing more. However, the universe decided to toss something in his path as before he knew it, a large group of residents came walking and all murmuring of a magician coming to town. In the time of interest and intrigue, Daniel followed the crowd as a reasonable sized group came and saw a travelling wagon with a sign on it. The sign read, in purple and blue 'The Great and Powerful Trixie' as if that was the whole selling point.

As he stood and watched, he saw a firework display and before a puff of smoke a mare appeared, a unicorn specifically. As she stood there, she was a good five foot six inches with definitely some kind of wizard ensemble from his point of view, complete with pointy hat and cloak. She was a blue mare with white hair, yet didn't look a day over twenty-three. She had purple eyes, yet her ensemble kinda... confused him. It was purple, but with mix of yellow and teal stars. As he watched, the mare says "The Great and Powerful Trixie will now start her show! First, a volunteer must come up!" she calls out.

As first, no pony raised a hand to volunteer as Daniel rolls his eye before a blue aura goes around him and levitates him "Thank you for volunteering for the Great and Powerful Trixie!" she calls out as he levitates him to the stage.

He gets out of it as he looks at her "I volunteered for nothing" he says, but it fell on deaf ears.

She looks at the crowd "And now, The Great and Powerful Trixie will make him disappear!"

"You just love hearing yourself talk don't you?"

"Witness as I make it vanish before everypony!"

"I'm a male you narcissistic street performer" was all Daniel said as some magic bolt hits him, leaving a cloud of blue smoke. The cloud dissipates as he is still on stage, but she is gone as he rolls his eyes and feels his pockets. He pats around as he looks at the crowd "Where is she? Where is that unicorn?" he asks as they all shrug, not knowing. Daniel sighs as he rubs his temples and walks back to the castle. As he got back, before Twilight even said a word he stops her "No I didn't get he quills and parchment, got forced on stage by some third person referencing unicorn who tried to make me vanish, yet robbed me of my bits" he says as he closes his door to his room.

He heads over to a desk as he takes out a piece of parchment and writes down Trixie's name as a small reminder for him to get payback on that unicorn at a later date. For now, he needed to be alone in order to let his anger quell itself before he loses it on some pony by accident. As his eyes closed, his mind went to something else as he tries to relax.

In his mind, he is sitting on a throne, made of black stone and radiated evil as two weird shades floated in with Trixie in chains. Here she sat, on her knees before him, begging for forgiveness and what did he do? He did a hand motion and before his eyes a pillar of fire shot out and burned her to nothing but a scorched corpse as he shoots awake as he groans. He always hated people who use him or others, yet that dream was... it was nothing like he normally dreamed of as 'comeuppance' for ponies like her. He just lays back down as he tries to relax. As his eyes are about to close, they open to a loud cawing sound as a bird flies into his room with a envelope in talons. As it lands on the footboard, it looks at Daniel as it drops the letter before going and landing on his shoulder.

Daniel picks up the envelope as he tears the seal and reads it

Dear Daniel Gladesfield,

It has come to my attention that your knowledge of the human world may come of use to us to help in certain situations. A matter I am keeping private from my little ponies is the talk of war on the horizon with the Griffin Kingdom and need your knowledge of treaties and of war tactics, the later as a back up plan only!. We wish for this to be resolved without conflict, but that is for another time. For now, I wish for your help in supervising the Grand Galloping Gala. I believe it is similar to a 'ball' from your world. You are to help the Mane 6 in this endeavor.

- Sincerely,

Princess Celestia

Daniel put the letter down as he looks at the crow "I figure your her eyes on me?" he asks. It just started to preen it's feathers as it sits on his shoulder. He sighs "Oh well... always wanted a crow" he says. He reaches up as it's head leans into his hand, letting him pet it. He points over to a hat rack as the sun was starting to set. As it did, the crow sits on the hat rack as he simply lays down for sleep.