Living with Lyra

Once again Aden's vision faded to black as his body vaporized right before the princesses eyes. The whole trip here had done nothing but confuse him further. Was the ruler of pony land crazy? Or was she just making sure he didn't leave on bad terms. Either way Aden was going to find a way to get back to that building and confront her. He knew that she had the power, she even proved it to him.

Sadly his redemption would have to wait as he was once again sucked through the magic straw, however this time it felt a lot stronger. Without even regaining his composure Aden was launched across the basement of a familiar pony. Since he was launched from the teleportation Aden quickly became good friends with the wall. Giving it a big old hug seconds after exiting the magical straw.

"Fucking ponies are going to be the end of me." Aden growled under his breath as he slowly peeled off the cold and damp stone wall. His stomach turning inside his body begging to throw up.

Landing flat on his ass Aden jolted up and regained his senses. The room he stood in was exactly how he left it, except for the lack of a minty green unicorn. One of which he would have to apologies to in order to have another shot at getting home.

Might as well get this over with.

Yeah I'm not looking forward to talking with this crazy pony again.

I swear all the ponies in this pony land are crazy!

Agreeing with his inner thoughts Aden walked towards the stairs and proceeded to climb them one by one. Each step upwards made him wish that the wall had killed him upon impact, however he will say that it took away his headache mysteriously.

Reaching the top step Aden looked around the open living room. The light was still shining albeit dimmer now that the day has progressed. Everything seemed to be just the way it was a few minutes ago, which really didn't surprise him at all.

Stepping into the living room Aden then made his way to the other set of stairs. If anything she's either out doing who knows what, or she's in her room, once again doing who knows what. Shrugging the thoughts out of his mind Aden trudged through the open living room and up the stairs, once again regretting his decision every step of the way.

Arriving once again within the pictured hallway Aden noticed that the door to Lyra's room at the end of corridor was wide open. Inside he could see a bundle of green fur laying down on the overly sized bed. Well for the pony it was over sized, for him it was two feet to small.

Walking closer Aden heard the soft sound of crying. Looks like she took my speech a bit to personal. Ah fuck now I feel really guilty about what I did. His thoughts made him want to just turn around and find another way to get home but he knew that Celestia was right. If she wasn't going to help him get home then Lyra would be the only other pony.

Stepping into the room unnoticed Aden walked up to the bed, looking down at the depressed pony that lay within the covers. Might as well start to try and cheer her up. He claimed to himself sitting down on the edge of the bed. "You know you shouldn't get all worked up from what a human has to say, were not all that were cut out to be."

Aden figured if anything were to right his wrong it would be to put down his own race. Hopefully she would see this as some sort of an apology. What Aden got instead was something he was not prepared for. Within the span of a couple seconds Lyra tossed the covers away and latched onto him. "ADEN! I'm so, so, so sorry! You were just the first human that I have ever seen and I just wanted to get as much information out of you before you left. I completely forgot to take your feelings into consideration and that you are an actual being."

During this whole fiasco Lyra had her head buried in his chest crying all the water out of her system. "There... there..." Aden said awkwardly rubbing her mane, he didn't really know how to deal with these kinds of situations. Sure he knew how to make steal and at what temperatures to heat it at, but crying was something he rarely encountered.

Nice save there man almost had me worried. I don't think you could of fuck up more.

Maybe if someone were to help me a couple of seconds ago we wouldn't be in this awkward silence!

Don't you go dragging me into this!

Oh you're already in this, you're me remember!

Aden's inner argument with himself was broken when he realized he was scratching Lyra behind the ear. It was all out of pure instinct and he really did not know how to explain himself. Nevertheless he continued and before he knew it Lyra was on her back a smile plastered upon her face as he continued to scratch her belly. It was like she was putty in his hands.

Taking away his hand Lyra smile faded. "Sorry I'm just so used to doing that to dogs and other animals that it came to me instinctively." With a sheepish smile he got back up to his feet placing Lyra on the bed. Sadly this world works on making Aden's life a living hell so when he got back up he forgot that he was injured on his foot.

Letting out a large yelp of pain Aden sat back down on the edge of the bed, mentally cursing to himself for forgetting such a huge thing. Turning his head around he noticed that Lyra was wiping away her tears as she sat up on her bed. "No don't be sorry that actually felt amazing." She commented with a sheepish smile of her own. "I'm sorry about how I treated you, is there any way we can move passed this."

This thought brought a smile to his face. "How about you cook me some more of those delicious pancakes and we start over from fresh OK?"

Smiling back at Aden Lyra once again latches onto him. "In that case I'm going to make the best pancakes ever!" She yelled out in joy.

*thunk*

A large plate of steaming hot pancakes landed in front of the starving human. He eyed his meal with a look one could only get when they're on the hunt. The teleportation's from earlier sure emptied his stomach.

"Hi I'm Lyra you are?" Lyra asked holding out her hoof with a smile. Looks like she's taking this 'starting over' thing seriously.

Taking a large bight out of the first pancake Aden reached out his own hand. "I'fsh Adon." Aden recited with a mouth full of pancake. Shaking Lyra's hoof Aden quickly went back to eating.

"So why did you come back?" Lyra asked.

"Well I really didn't have much of a choice seeing as you sent me to your ruler." Aden stated after he downed the last piece of the pancake. Nonetheless he grabbed another one and started to scarf it down as well. "I don't really want to talk about our little encounter." He finally claimed.

Lyra's eyes shoot wide open. "You met Princess Celestia!" If she were eating the pancakes too, Aden would of betted that it would of been all over his face right about now. "What did you tell her?! Please tell me that you didn't tell her about my iPod!" Aden only raises an eyebrow at that claim.

"Well duh, how else am I supposed to explain how I got sent to her court seemingly out of nowhere. I don't know about you but quantum theory is a bit of a long shot." It seems that Lyra has either tuned Aden out or has something really important on her mind. Either way she still tuned him out and for that he crossed his arm to show his disapproval.

Once again Lyra seems to ignore him completely. "This is not good, this is definitely not good!" She exclaimed getting up from her seat and trotting around the room. Just watching her Aden was sure he would catch whiplash.

"Whash noat good?" Aden questioned as he happily munched on the rest of the pancakes on the plate. To any human being the speed he devoured them would be unreal. Nevertheless he still did it and under five minutes to!

"Using magic to interfere with others life without consent is against the magic law! I could be expelled, thrown in the Canterlot dungeon for years! or worst of all be executed." Her pacing seems to have increased and if she kept it up any longer he was sure she would wear a grove into the carpet, if that was even possible.

Standing up Aden when to Lyra "You really need to stop worrying and start thinking." He claimed scratching the back of her ear with his fingers. Lyra leaned into him and he could feel her relaxing. "If Celestia were to punish you I'm sure she would of done it by now. Plus I don't think Celestia would send me back to you, if she had planned on exiling you out of the country."

"I guess you're right." Lyra cooed from the pure pleasure she was receiving from Aden's fingers. In all honesty it was starting to creep Aden out that he could just change her emotions like that. All he would need to turn this minty pony into a puddle of minty paste was a few seconds of scratching. I wonder if all ponies would act this way? Aden pondered.

Nevertheless, Aden continued to support the small unicorn. "It's funny how you like this simple action so much." Aden said. Lyra just simply nodded as she once again rolled over onto the floor causing Aden to start scratching her belly. "You know if you keep acting like this, I might just think you're a dog."

Taking his hand away Aden ponder the thought further. Maybe ponies have the same soft spots as dogs and cats do on earth. With this new hypotheses Aden waited for the pony to get back up off the floor. "I just can't help it when you do that. It just feels so good!" She claims with a smile upon her face.

"Alright you sappy mare get up." Aden stated as he helped the mare to her feet, however he didn't stop there. Reaching out Aden then proceeded to scratch under Lyra's chin. On the other hand Lyra's eyes grew wide and her tail began to swish around. After about two seconds the mare collapsed on the floor with her eyes closed and a goofy smile upon her face.

Well it looks like our hypotheses was wrong.

Either that or she liked that way too much...

Time passed by as Aden placed the minty mare onto a nearby couch and waited for her to awaken. He sat across from her looking as her small belly raised and lowered from each breath she took. It was quite an amazing to see, especially when the sun is setting letting the warm orange glow flow into the living room.

Just as the sun dipped down below the horizon the candles upon the walls flickered on. Being caught off guard, Aden immediately jumped out of his seat causing the green mare to awaken in the process. "What the fuck!" He yelled as he slowly calmed himself down before approaching one of the candles.

Hovering his hand above one of the candles he noticed that no heat was given off of the flame. It was like all of the energy that the candle was converting was going directly into light energy. Something that would have scientists back home freaking out.

Bringing his hand in closer to the flame the temperature remained the same. As his mind raced his curiosity struck him. Slowly but carefully Aden lowered his hand into the flame, the burning sensation he would of thought would follow never came. Instead it felt just like the air around it almost like the only thing that stated it existed was the light it gave off.

"Magic's sure is cool isn't it!" Lyra chimed in beside him. "All these candles have a spell on them so when the room reaches a certain darkness they all tern on. Pretty cool huh! Only took me about ten minutes to do and they last for a month."

Aden grunted in response. "Magic I will never get used to it. No matter how casually you talk about it." Turning his attention away from the flame he turned to face Lyra. "Looks like the sleepy pony finally awoken. Have a nice nap." Aden teased.

"It's not my fault that your hands were made by the divines!" Lyra replied her only response was a well placed raspberry. "You know I was going to sleep on the couch again and let you have the my bed, but just for that you can sleep down here tonight." She added with a smirk.

Aden only smiled. "I don't really mind and if I ever do change my mind I can just scratch under your chin." This time it was Lyra's turn to blow the raspberry, however her being a pony she failed miserably and instead let out a neigh. Which in turn made Aden fall down to the floor clutching his stomach in preparation for the laughter that soon followed.