Wings of Roaring Flames

by dibs1337

Ch 3: Meeting a Princess

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I looked at the ponies wearing gold armor and carefully grabbed the points and moved them from my neck.
“You just had to ask, I don’t want to cause any trouble, but….well….” I said as I looked out the window at the moon rubbing the back of my neck nervously.

“But what?!?!” yelled one of the armor clad pegasi.

All I did was point at the wrapped ankle held up in a sling, and then shortly after the pegasi retracted their spears and walks outside of the room, and I could hear quiet whispers and mumbling, which made me wonder what was happening.

After a few minutes I heard the door open then...green smoke flowed through the room and out the window, and the armored Pegasi, came back in. I hope that green smoke wasn’t dangerous, or poisonous.

"We sent a letter to the princess, and we shall see what we need to do for your....current condition. Well since we may have to wait a bit....I'm captain swift. And this is my lieutenant, fleet." I have no idea how I didn't notice before, but the captain had a scar going behind an eye patch over his left eye. "Oh, looking at my eye patch? It’s fine, a lot of ponies ask about it. A Manticore attacked during an assigned route. He got my eye pretty good, but I was just a grunt at the time."

Just as I was going to say something a small yellow flash came up and a letter landed in my lap. I picked it up and held it to swift thinking he would want to read it, but he said I should….because it landed in my lap….odd reasoning yet …understandable I guess? What ever. I broke the wax seal and unrolled it and read the letter out loud.

“Dear Hoo-man…’I guess she meant human…’ I apologize for what I arranged, but I didn’t know you were injured. So, I shall be there tomorrow, at noon. I was notified by captain swift that you also said you did not wish to cause trouble, and I am glad to hear that. And I again apologize for the guards putting their spears to you, I said they should have them ready, but not instantly use them, but just as well I can understand their reasons for worrying about a possible threat. I hope you do to, and I am hopeful I can help you….get……..home……”

I sighed

as I fell back onto the bed after I finished the note excluding her signature at the bottom, which looked very elegant and regal.
The lieutenant tilted his head a bit as he spoke. “Is something wrong? It almost sounds like you don’t want to go home.”

“Because I don’t….I don’t want to be around my own kind…I don’t want to hear about more wars, and more deaths. I cant stand it. The news talks about nothing but the bad things….usually anyway….accidents, people dead, injured, wars, homes destroyed, lives ruined, suicides….I hate it….I hate that world….I….I don’t care what I lose….I didn’t have much anyway….family hates me, lost most of my friends, and no jobs AT
ALL!!!”

“Wow….I never imagined there was a world with so much war….the longest fight in our recorded history was….I believe a couple years, when discord took over. But there were not that many big battles really…just two, discord and the princesses’ first fight, and their final fight. Most of the years were just the princesses discovering the ‘Elements of Harmony’ and finding them, learning to use them as amplifiers for their magic…or was it to use them in general….meh, either or in my book. But then they used them against discord, which he just laughed off, but then he was….banished? Hmm….OH!! He was turned into stone! But that was the worst Equestria has ever had….the griffon kingdom, dragons, and Minotaur’s may have had worse but not Equestria anyway.”

“my world has had….revolution, civil, Afghanistan, Iraq, and assisted in many others that I cant name off….from what I believe, the Iraq war was still kind of going on….or we still had soldiers there I think….ugh, its been so long since I heard anything about over there I don’t even know. Maybe this princess….” I looked at the letter signature and tilted my head trying to read it. “Ce….les…ti…a….Celestia?” Swift and Fleet nod to me to confirm I said it properly. “Maybe Princess Celestia will let me stay….or….something….” I yawned and heard swift saying I should get some rest before the sun is risen (odd way to say it I guess, but maybe he’s just tired too…?)

I just layed down and tried to get comfy…with my leg held up at an awkward angle….so I decided to just close my eyes as I felt myself get lighter and lighter till everything around me was non-existent.

I started feeling something hard poking my shoulder a few time then push me gently. I groaned and tried to roll over, but something held me down, and kept me from rolling. When I opened my eyes I saw fleet. Why did he keep me from rolling over? I looked around while rubbing the blurriness from my left eye and saw the hospital room. Oh right, my ankle is sprained…wait, THE PRINCESS IS COMING AT NOON!

I sat up quickly and look at fleet. “What time is it?!” I asked. Fleet pointed at a clock showing it was 11:45. “Fleet, can you get me my pack? I really need to get some stuff from it.”

Fleet went to the chair my pack was in and brought it over to me as I rummaged through it around my game system, and pulled out a new shirt, being a basic dark blue T-shirt, and switched shirts stuffing the dirty shirt into an empty part of the pack and grabbed the comb and a few other things to make myself look more proper, instead of having bed head, and twisted, wrinkled clothing.

About 10 minutes passed before I could hear gasps, and some metallic objects clatter in the hospital hallway. I carefully got my foot out of the hanging sling and layed it flat on the bed and sat up looking at the door as it opened showing a bigger/taller white unicorn….with wings? Wait what would that be called….pegacorn? unicus…? No unicus sounds REALLY stupid….both do actually, but at least pegacorn rolls off the tongue better….

“You are the human I heard about correct?” Celestia said in one of the kindest and yet authoritatively regal tone I have ever heard. It actually made me nervous from how much kinder she was than I thought and the authority in her voice just sent a feeling of worry of saying even the slightest thing wrong.

“Y-yes, I’m Daniel, and I assume you are…Princess Celestia?”

“Yes, but please, just Celestia is fine, you are not one of my subjects. So, could you explain how you got here? Is it how you got injured as well?” she looked at my ankle with a worried look. “I can heal your ankle to where you can walk on it, but it will still sting, when you put pressure on it. But that’s only if you want me to….and I will be careful just in case magic has a bad reaction to your kind. I don’t want to make your current condition worse by neglecting any possible problems.”

“I would appreciate it if you could. I’m sick of being in bed, but yeah, how I got here is how I got hurt….I believe…” I looked at the pillows and saw Mimzy asleep on the upper part of the pillow. “But….I also have a request….and its for a good reason…..for myself, yes….but also for this worlds benefit as well….”

“A request? Please, do tell.” Her horn started forming a pale yellow glow, and the same glow formed from my knee down, and under the cast over my foot.

I just looked at her hoping she would understand. “Don’t look for a way to send me home….not even if I ever chose to want to go back. If you did make a portal there, mankind will work on creating a portal to this world, and who knows what will happen. If you were even able to just get me there without a specific hole between the two worlds…I’m certain I will just become a test subject, to be used as a conduit to find a way here…which still endangers you and all other forms of life here.”

Celestia just stared at me in shock for a while, then….smiled and nodded at me, which made me smile with a sigh of relief. “And…could you explain how you got here? You still haven’t yet.”

I facepalmed and chuckled at my forgetfulness and explained everything. Robert attacking me, my escape from him, getting my cat (as well as introducing the little fuzzball to her), being hit by the truck (with an explanation about vehicles from my world), and the pain filled meeting of Fluttershy, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash.

Half way through the explanation she had finished healing my ankle, which felt so much better as I stood up and stretched out the tightened muscles, and popped the stiff joints, which each pop made Celestia flinch, or cringe, which was pretty funny.

She sat down in the chair my pack was on before she came, and looked at me. “So, I am to assume you wish to become a citizen of Equestria?”
I nodded.

I started rubbing the back of my neck and spoke nervously. “I hope that’s all right your highness…”

She just giggled and nodded. “Its perfectly fine, I just wanted to be certain this is what you want. I will get all the paperwork dealt with. And just as well, I give you an invitation to stay at the palace till Equestria is used to your presence. It will be for your protection as well, I do not wish to hear that you got hurt because somepony believed you were a monster and just attacked you.”

“Thanks, I appreciate it Princess Celestia. I think you did better with healing my ankle than you think. Sure there’s a slight stinging, but its barely noticeable. And it seems magic isn’t affecting me badly, so that’s a plus too.”

I got my pack and carefully picked up Mimzy, and we started to leave the hospital, dealing with my release forms, on the way. When I got outside I saw swift and fleet talking with two other Pegasus guards that were strapped to a carriage, which was white, with gold inlay and golden designs, except for Celestia's sun cutie mark on the carriage door. I followed Celestia onto the carriage, and we soon started moving till we were in the air.

Wait….THE AIR?!?! Don’t get airsick….don’t get airsick….nothing will happen….she has magic….nothing will happen. I just took a deep breath, and started to wonder….since she is a princess….and is a pegacorn…..wouldn’t her magic be much stronger…? And nothing is impossible with magic….can I….be turned into a pony?! I will have to ask her at some point. But for now….I should just relax….and think if I want to be a pony or not, just in case she can…


Author's Note

if there are any parts that you are confused by please leave a comment about it, and i will either explain it, or fix it on here, if even i get the slightest bit confused.

it was really hard to do this on my ipad.....especially with auto-correct jumping in all over the place....but i finally got it....chapter 3....

now....major question.....should i have Daniel become a pony in chapter 4...or chapter 5.....because chapter 6 [or maybe chapter 5...] will be where episode 1 begins, and "ponified daniel" will go WITH twilight to ponyville, and the big adventures begin...it will not JUST be the episode adventures and events, there WILL be special/[hopefully] unique adventures, relics, and many other things.

in case you didnt know before, yes this all takes place BEFORE the first episode...BEFORE the elements of harmony we found, BEFORE twilight meets the others. and either chapter 5 or 6 is where that part will begin.
it matter by what chapter you readers want the human to become a pony, and be renamed to his pony name.

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