Twilight and I were trotting back in the direction of the old castle, as I interrupted the awkward silence with a set of questions that I really needed answering, both for conformation that this really was the world of the famous Hasbro television show that I enjoyed greatly and for hopeful hints at how I had gotten here.

While I was greatly entertained by the straightforward answers that the famous main character gave me that helped me confirm that this was television-show-equestria, I only got confused yet knowing looks when I finally got to asking questions that might have helped me figure out how I had gotten here in the first place.

"Ok, so you're trying to figure out how you got here, that you know of this place but never been to it? I want to know your story, now." Claimed Twilight Sparkle, a very curious yet pushy look in her eyes.

"Ooh ooh I wanna here too!" Exclaimed Spike, saying some of the first words he had really said since they had met.

"Oh alright. I'll also tell you how I know some things about you already, but don't ask questions, I only asked my questions earlier because of the fact that I needed some serious confirmation about where I was, especially after I saw the two sisters banners in the main room of the old castle." I submitted and explained.

"Ok lets hear it." Twilight said with even more interest.

"My name is Samuel Lyons. I came from a world inhabited by humans, but not the humans of the magic mirror as I may think is your first guess. I live in East Tennessee in the country of the United States of America on the continent North America and I had an extremely boring life. I have always had weight and sleep problems, the weight being unexplainable and the sleep... Ibelieve that some sort of dark spirit had me in binds and all I ever had for sleep whenever I DID sleep was a dreamless sleep of nothingness. I fell into a huge depression that I had ended u practically destroying my life so horribly I considered suicide. After politely declining myself the right to slit my own throat for the longest time I met one of my greatest friends Greg. Greg seemed like an oddball to me at first, but of course I was also an oddball. We became great friends onward from that point and eventually I fell into one of the deepest pits of joy I think I could have fallen into. I discovered this amazing show called 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic', and watched the hell out of it." Twilight winced at the word "hell" but was too interested in the fact that a show named after something that Celestia would call her underlings to do much more, "I became a dedicated... 'brony' afterwards, keeping up-to-date with the show as much as I possibly could. I lasted about a year like that, when my fancraze decided to finally die down a bit due to repetitiveness. Afterwards I fell into a depression again, though not nearly as bad as before, due to lack of interest. That did NOT mean that I hadn't lost an interest in being interested; I really wanted to keep myself entertained any way I could, but that turned out to be a hopeless battle most of the time. Eventually I gave up, after finding nothing that could pique my interest constantly for more than a week. I am now a Junior in High School who keeps himself entertained..."

Twilight interrupted, "But you're a mare, not a colt. why would you refer to yourself as a 'him' rather than a 'her'?" After listening to the question from Twilight's interruption, I became momentarily confused... and then I looked under myself.

"Oh, umm... that... wasn't... t-t-there before I came here... Oh god..."

I tried to recover from the sudden realisation that my gender had been changed. After I managed to pull myself together enough to speak without stuttering or silent embarrassment, I continued on, deciding to stop explaining myself and get to the last point of memory I had before I had gotten here, "Aside from that embarrasing realization," I said, blushingprobably the deepest red that was possible, "let's get straight to the point on how I got here.How I said that I've always had a sleeping problem? Well, more specifically, I believe it was some sort of spirit that wished I really NOT have a dream. I have never had a dreamful sleep since the day I was born, July 30, 1998. The best way I can describe how this... dark spirit... attacks, is that when I begin to have the faint hint of a dream, it tries to cover my entire field of vision in blackness, and then either allows me to continue with a dreamless sleep, or wakes me when it's attacked me.However, I came home from a regular school day with the intent of making myself at least feel better physically with a dreamless sleep, but rather than a dreamless sleep like I usually get, I've somehow found myself here, where causing myself pain doesn't seem to wake me and I can cause and survive fires, such as the time I woke up in a fire earlier, having no clue as to what I'd become or what happened to have me become that way." I finished, almost tiring myself with the tiringly long explanation. I looked to Twilight's side and noticed spike had fallen asleep. "That's all I can tell you of how I got here, I have told you of everything I know about my own life and how I got here. Suposedly I was in a dream... until... well... you came along and dowsed my magical fire-mane-thing in water, of which caused pain that seemed... way too real to be a dream. I am happy to leave my old depressing life, but I never expected to leave it through a neverending living-dream." I confessed with a large, yet somewhat weak smile.

"I think...I've seen a situation similar to this before," Twilight began to explain, "ah, I know. about sixteen years ago a six year old human boy that had supposedly died during an operation that was intended to save his life. as his soul was leaving his body, however,the soul of Nightmare Moon had cast a spell that would generate a new body, but had the side effect of pulling the poor kid's soul into the body with her. His innocence trapped the evil soul in a mental cage andhelped him claim primary control over the new body. The boy turned mare found his new life very hard, especially when he found out about his death and therefore inability to return to his former life. He suffered greatly after running away and being foalnapped by Nightmare Moon protesters and lost his, or rather her now, wings and horn. The loss had broken the innocence of his soul, allowing the spirit he had originally trapped free, but eventually the soul of Nightmare Moon was broken also. Due to circumstances, Nightmare Moon lost her anger towards the filly and eventually melded their two broken souls together into a single whole soul order to save the filly's life. Now the filly lives under the name of Stellar Nova under the motherly care of Princess Luna."

Twilight, after finishing her story, noticed a sparkle of interest in my eye. "Touching story, but does that provide evidence that there may only be entrance to this world via death?" I questioned, the interest in my eyes striking my thoughts "Does that mean I may have died of... probably malnutrition?"

Twilight picked herself back up, almost feeling sorry for the light orange teen mare, "I don't know, but we can go to Canterlot and get help from Princess Luna and Celestia."

"Ok, maybe they can help me assess my situation," I admitted, "so, I guess we go?"

They left the Everfree Forest on hoof, completely forgetting about the castle fire, which had ended up snuffing itself out anyway. Spike was pretty much asleep for the entire following conversation after Samuel's story. Twilight teleported him to her back swiftly, making sure he didn't shift too much and they were off.

To Canterlot.

Author's Note

Phew, had the editing mixed up and pasted chapter three over this.
Thank god for the slim chance that the wayback machine had a backup from like May or something, cause I couldn't find the document for this chapter anywhere.