At Request of the Ancients

3rd POV

As Jack heads toward the town of Ponyville, one of the few non-pony creatures are just waking up to make breakfast for, who he considers, his adopted sister. This creatures name is Spike: a baby dragon with purple scales, green slitted eyes, light green belly scales, and green spikes. As Spike wakes up before his sister he starts his day by getting out of his basket, heading out downstairs to the kitchen and starts making breakfast for his pseudo-sister Twilight Sparkle.

Fifteen Minutes Later

"Hhmmmm," Spike hear's somepony humming happily. Turning around he see's Twilight's finally awake, shuffling like a zombie towards the table for breakfast.

"Want your coffee Twilight?" Spike asks, as he finishes making their breakfast.

"Mmmhhhmmm," came the mumbled response from the half-asleep unicorn.

"Alright, here you go Twi," he says, handing a mug of black coffee to her that he had prepared like any other day. Spike starts setting up everything at the table, giving Twilight her plate of food and setting up himself in the seat across from her and they both start eating their breakfast.

As they finish breakfast and head to the library portion of their home to get to work. Spike grabs some books from the book return and head over to the bookshelves to put them into their respective positions. While Twilight uses her levitation magic to grab a couple of books off of the shelves.

20 Minutes Later

Twilight is still reading her books, having gotten 3/4 the way through the book on the History of Starswirl The Bearded; meanwhile Spike has finished restocking the books and is relaxing on a pillow.

*Knock Knock Knock*

Twilight is to absorbed into her book to notice the knocking at the door. Spike, however, is not and lifts his head to look at the libraries door.

*Knock Knock Knock*

"Hello?" Spike hears a male voice sound from the other side of the door, "This is the library isn't it?" It sounds like he's talking to himself.

"Augh," Spike makes a sound showing his annoyance, "I'm coming!"

Twilight looks up for a second then goes back to reading her book. Spike get's up from the pillow he was relaxing on and walks over to the door opening it. "How can... I... help..." Spike trails off, finding himself looking at the bottom part of a grey hoodie. He slowly tilts his head up and takes a step back to get a better look at what he's talking to. The strange creature look's like a teenage dragon in height and is standing on it's hind-legs like one; he, judging by the voice he heard, has light brown looking skin; a black mane; and for some reason has it's hand -like a Minotaurs but with an extra digit- over it's face.

"Is this the library?" The creature at the door asks, taking his hand off of his face and hanging it by his side.

"Uuhhh," Spike says, ever the eloquent speaker, "Twilight! Can you come over here please." The creature at the door raises an eyebrow at this.

A huff of annoyance sounds from behind him, "What Spike?!"

"There's... um... someone at the door."

"Well, than let them in. This is the library," she say, then mumbles under her breath, "don't know why the hay ponies knock, when it's a public library."

"Er, well come on in." Spike tells him while backing up some more to make room for him to get in.

"Uh, thanks... I guess. Is there a... uh, History section?"

"R-right over there," Spikes stammers, still unsure what this creature is, pointing a claw towards the history books.

"Thanks" he mumbles.

23 Minutes Earlier

Jack's POV

As Jack get's closer to the town he's able to start making out details better, more specifically what appears to be the 'residents' of the town.

Am I dreaming? I've got to be frickin dreaming, I mean seriously? Fucking technicolor equines, Unicorns and Pegasi to boot? I stops and give myself a hard slap across the face *Smack!* "OW!", I yell out, "Ok, not fuckin dreaming and never doing that again."

Ok, Jack. Deep breaths. In through the nose. Out through the mouth. Just calm down and think, I think to myself, putting my hand on the sides of my head, trying to calm myself down. Alright Jackie-boy, let's break down what I know or think and try not to freak. I'm in a new... let's say universe until further notice due to some strange person breaking into my house last night a hitting me with the head of that cane. I woke up in the middle of some kind of field surrounded by nature. I found a medieval-looking town. The obvious residents appear to be sentient Equines judging by the way they're acting and the fact that I don't see anything else that could have built the houses. It is yet unknown to me whether they speak any language I could possibly know, though if their Equines than they shouldn't be able to speak any human language, but then again I went from sleeping in my bed after a routine day to waking up in a damn field near a village with thatched roof's and what appear to be sentient Equines. Breathe in. Breathe out.

"Alright, I need to find something to help figure out where the hell I am so let's head off and see if I can find a library," I say to myself as I start walking towards the town again, "I hope I can communicate with these... equines, somehow otherwise I'm screwed... damn it, not even a full day and I'm already talking to myself."

As I enter the outskirts of the town the residents slowly start to take notice of me, not that hard considering their all quadrupeds while I'm a biped making me about 1-2 ft taller than them. I'm able to make out more details as I begin walking past the equines that were near the outskirts, most of them edging away or frozen like a deer in headlights. At least there's not any screaming or pitchforks, judging by the looks though I'm guessing they've seen something similar to me but they've never seen a human. Let's just ignore that observation for now and file it away for later, I think I'm having enough trouble keeping calm without that tidbit of information.

As I make it to some kind of cross section I find the first bit of writing since entering town and strange enough It's actually English! If they can write it than they can most likely speak it (How the hell do equines possess the ability to write a human language?), at least that's my hope. Though whether they speak it or not it looks like they'll bolt if I so much as breathe in their direction, so let's continue with that library idea and hope I can figure out more about this place. Looking at the sign it looks like a sign you'd see in a human town only an older version, it being made of wood. It says the library is to the NW side of town. So I start heading that way towards information and hopefully not a mental breakdown.

10 Minutes Later

Well... I found the library, at least according to the signs... It's a fucking tree. A damn library in a tree house; I don't mean in the tree branches, I mean a literal tree-house as if somebody carved out the inside of a tree and, somehow, still managed to keep the tree itself alive; it's a frickin Treebrary. God I'm gonna have a breakdown if this keeps up. Walking up to the door I pause for a second to try and figure out why the hell they need door handles when they don't have hands, decided to file it for later questioning, and knocked on the door to make sure I'm at the right place, wouldn't want to walk into somebodies house, I'm sure they'd freak out enough if some random person walked in, add to the fact that they seemed to be unsure of me with me just walking around.

*Knock Knock Knock*

I wait a couple of seconds and knock again when I don't get any kind of answer, hoping that somebody will answer.

"Hello?" I call out, then say in a quieter voice, "this is the library isn't it?"

I hear an "Augh" sound from the other side of the door, then heard what sounded like a little kid call out an, "I'm coming!"  Well, at least I now know they speak English.

A few seconds later the door opens and I look down expecting to see one of the equines. Is that a baby Argonian -My hand meet's my face- geez, what the hell doesn't this place have, what's next? A Sphinx? hhmmm, I wonder if the riddle would even be the same if there aren't any humans here

"How can... I... help..." Mr. Scales trails off and slowly tilts his head up and takes a step back to get a better look at me.

"Is this the library?" I ask, taking my hand off of my face and put it back at my side.

"Uuhhh," the baby lizard-child says, then calls to somebody inside while still looking at me, "Twilight! Can you come over here please." I raise an eyebrow at him (I think it's male, just sounds adolescent) when he does this.

A huff of annoyance sounds from the other side of the doorway, "What Spike?!" A female voice calls, alright so Mr. Scales name is Spike... not very creative is it.

"There's... um... someone at the door." Spike says putting emphasis on the 'one'.

"Well, than let them in. This is the library," the lady confirms what I read on the sign.

"Er, well come on in." Spike tells me while backing up some more to so I can get inside. I enter, ducking my head down so I don't hit my head on the top of the doorway.

"Uh, thanks... I guess. Is there a... uh, History section?" May as well start somewhere.

"R-right over there," the Silurian named Spike stammers, guess he's taking it rather well considering I'm barely holding myself together as it is.

"Thanks," I mumble heading over to wear he pointed.

As I head over to the shelves I take stock of the inside of the... tree. For some reason there's a couch and some pillows in the middle of the room, I'm guessing it's for people to relax in while they read; kinda nice, considering one of the most annoying parts of reading is finding a comfortable spot that won't become uncomfortable in five minutes. The shelves themselves seem to be part of the tree that got carved out, same with the stairs leading upstairs. I look over to the couch as I pass it by and see a lavender colored unicorn absorbed in a book. Walking up to the shelves I search them until I find a book titled An Abridged History of Equestria. Well, I hope that I'm in Equestria right now and not in a different country... oh who am I kidding, most of the residents I've seen so far are equines if this isn't Equestria than they need to work on names... actually they need to work on naming places anyways, I mean seriously Equestria and this town is filled to the brim with equines; speaking of which I need to figure out what this towns name is, I've seen multiple signs so far but not one mentioning this towns name.

I take the book I picked off the shelf and head over to one of the cushions and plop myself down on a red one, laying on my stomach and open the book up and start to read. After about three minutes of quiet reading, I hear a quiet gasp and look up to where the unicorn was only to see her staying down at me with wide eyes.

Damn these thing have some big ass bug-eye's, if their equine why the hell are their eye's in the front of their heads instead of on the side? Do they eat meat?

I look next to see that 'Spike' is sitting beside and slightly behind her, probably having just notified her that I was here.

"Hello?"  I say with apprehension in my voice, after staring at one another for a minute. She seems to flinch slightly as if not expecting me to be capable of speech.

"Uhm hello," she seems to be studying me, her eyes moving slightly taking in my features, "er, not to sound rude but what are you?" I raise an eyebrow at the rather blunt question, she could have at least asked my name first.

"Have you never seen anything like me before?" I ask, hoping to get an answer to the question that's been bothering me most since waking up.

I'm surprised I haven't had a mental breakdown yet, I'd think any sane person would have by now

"No, the closest thing I can think of is a Minotaur but you're to scrawny to be one."

Well, that's a blow to my ego, but at least she answered that question. So, no humans... well not like I interacted with them much when they were around so I guess that won't change very much; on the plus side I know another creature here: so far we've got different breed's of equine, Minotaur's, and whatever the hell Spike is called here.

"Well, I'm a human."

"Human?" she asks as her horn lights up and, I kid you not, a frickin old fashioned looking scroll of parchment and a quill start floating next to her in the same aura as her horn.

Sure, levitation. Why not, I think looking from her horn to the floating objects, yet another thing I'm going to have to worry about.

"I'm just going to take some notes, I've never seen or read about anything like you before." Probably mistaking me eyeing the floating objects for me wondering why she's taking notes. "That's fine," I tell her, moving to a sitting position to get comfortable, if she's anything like me right now she's probably bursting with questions. She backed up a bit as I sat up, probably not expecting me to move.

"The names Jack Ignianos," I tell her, since she has yet to ask or tell me hers, "what's yours?"

"My names Twilight Sparkle I'm Princess Celestia's personal student, it's nice to meet you." She tells me with pride in her voice.

No, idea who that is but at least I know what kind of Government this country most likely has, I ponder why the personal student of a princess is in a small town library. She seems to deflate slightly when I don't give any reaction to her introduction.

"Sooo... where did you come from?"

I experience a bit of discomfort at that, but manage to not let it show. I'm unsure if I should tell her; her being the personal student of a princess could be good and bad. She could tell the princess who would tell her parents, who could then help me find a way back home or at least help me figure out how the hell I got here. Or she could tell the princess who would tell her parents, who would see me as a threat and either imprison me or put me in a cage or something. I start to hyperventilate slightly causing Twilight to look at me with concern.

"A-are you alright?!" She asks me, "you don't have to tell me if it brings back bad memories, just calm down!"

I close my eye's. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out.

"S-sorry about that, I'm fine; even if I did tell you where I'm from I doubt you'd believe me, probably put me in a mental hospital."

She raises an eyebrow at this. "Why don't you tell me anyway's and I'll decide whether to believe you or not."

Well Jack, no going back now. "Alright... I'm not from around here."

"Oh, are you from around Minos? I know that most of-"

"No. Farther than that. As in not from this planet."