It's morning, and the sun is slowly rising. My thoughts have been on Sunset, and what has she said to me, but she didn't explain much about it, as into why. It's must be a touchy subject for her, she might warm up to me about it later. I did find it funny that since I got home, Twilight didn't ask me a question about Spike or his whereabouts from last night. Anyways I was getting ready to start my day, and this time I was in my own room finally. Twilight come by to my room door she knocks, and this stops me from getting ready. I went to the door and open it. There she is just standing by the door and has a worried look on her.

"Anon, have you seen Spike last night he hasn't come home since then."
As she placed her hoof on her chin.

Damn... So Spike hasn't come back from his action time with Rarity. Looks like I'm going to have to make it sound like he is just with Rarity for the night. Doing something to help her in her making clothes for a big client and has to do it overnight.

"Yea I have, he was at Rarity's helping her out with some clothes making, overnight for a big client. You know how he is with her."
I shrugged.

"Oh... Well, he should have told me about it before he goes off and does something like that. I might as well go and see how this is going for them."

"Ok. Anyways I don't get why some ponies would want to wear clothes? Normally you all don't need to.... ~sigh~ Never mind that I ask. Before we go and do anything do you want to go out and eat some breakfast?"
I suggested.

Twilight is thinking through about this option and just nod head while her stomach is growling. This made her blush. ~squee~

"Well I would love to have some breakfast with you, and it's sound good right now. Anyways I can't think that well on an empty stomach. So yea lets go! Also, I glad that you're finally taking me out on a date."
She'd cheered.

"I'm not taking you out for a date, we're going to eat some breakfast."
I argued with her.

"It's a date if you're taking me out anyways."
She argues back.

~sigh~ "That is no point in arguing with you in any way. Whatever let's go and eat something, ok."

As we got out of our home and I didn't take a few step from the door. The next thing I noticed that I got glomp by a certain minty green pony. I hit the ground hard, and it sure made a dust cloud around me and the mare that glomp me. I look up to what hit me and holding me down on the ground in a tight hug. Twilight was just watching at what has just unfolded in front of her.

~cough~ "Hi, Lyra...." ~cough~

"Hello, my human friend! How are you doing today?!"
As she smiled while she nuzzles into my chest.

"I'm doing ok.... Lyra...? Can you... Let go of me... I can barely.... breath..." ~whizzing~

She let go of me from her death grip as she kind of blush and having her hoof on the back of her head.

"Oh... Sorry, Anon. I'm glad that you are doing ok. I just got over excited about the fact that you're a real human. Unlike those mirror ones that are from that magic mirror."
She shimmed. ~squee~

I got up and dust myself off. Then I look at Lyra and what she just said. I remember what Celestia had told me about it some time ago. I guess there is a way out of here if what she says is true about it. I'll think about this option later on. I've got other things to go deal with for the day.

"So Anon what are you up to for the day?"
Lyra ask.

"Not much, Lyra. Me and Twilight are going to have some breakfast and go about doing other things for the day. You're more than welcome to join us. Is that ok with you Twilight?"

"I don't see a problem with it. The more, the merrier they always say."
She claims.

This made Lyra jump for joy about the fact that we are about to hang out and have some breakfast. She stops for a moment in her jumping and looks at me with her eyebrow raised.

"Anon, you don't want to do anything with me or want to hang with me. Why the change in heart? Also, are you going out with Twilight?"

She seems to guess I have changed my mind about these ponies. They all seem just as crazy the day I've met them all in this god forsaken town full of crazy mares. At least the stallions here seem normal enough to hang with, but there is so many few of them verse the mares here, lucky studs.

"No Lyra I'm not doing any of that, I'm just feeling nice today, so please don't push your luck."
I stated.

"Ok, whatever you say, Casanova. Let's go!"
Lyra says in excitement.

Lyra went back to her jumping of excitement, and we all went off to town. Twilight is looking around the street way of the town for a good place to go eat at. I couldn't help to think about these turn of events. A lot of things do and don't make any sense as into how these things are happening to me, I guess that's my luck. This just made me wonder how it would have been if I've done some things more differently before I got here. I think the world would have just ended and I wouldn't care because I've done the things I wanted to do in life if it happened but it didn't. I would be like everyone else and just let it happen to see how it end. At least in an alternate universe, this would happen but I'm stuck with this one, and I don't have it in me to be evil.

I finally snap out of it and turn my attention to Twilight as she points out a restaurant. It kinda looks like a bit fancy place, and I don't look the part for it but oh well. Let see what this is all about.

"I've always wanted to eat over here. I've had heard so many good things about it. I haven't go yet because I'm always busy."
Twilight stated.

~gasp~ "We are really going to eat here!?"
Lyra bounce.

Despite the excitement from the two ponies next to me. I've notice Sunset Shimmer going by, and I wave to her, just trying to get her attention. I have to say she is the only one that I feel comfortable around these crazy mares.

"Hey! Sunset over here!"
I shouted at her.

She looked over where I was at and along with others. Sunset stops in tracks and smiled and made her way over here. Twilight and Lyra are both happy to see Sunset coming over. We all say our hellos to each other, and we invite her to eat with us, and she accepted it. Then we got in line for the restaurant.

"So Sunset how are you doing today?"
I say smiling.

As I look over to Sunset. She looks up at me and smile.

"I'm doing find Anon. I was looking for you earlier I had to tell you something about what I said the other day. But this going to have to wait for now. Maybe after we eat and leave, until then how about you finish that story you have?"

"Alright Sunset, I guess Lyra and Twilight will hear a part of this story as well."
I chuckle lightly.

"A story from my human friend! I would like to hear it! Is it full of adventures or maybe things what would a human do!"

Lyra just seems to go off like a rocket. Me, Sunset, and Twilight started to laugh a bit. It's interesting to see her jump for joy, in a way she is like Pinkie Pie when she is around me only. Most of the time seeing her, when she is nowhere near me she acts a little normal if you can call it normal for her? Anyways I might as well finish this story for Sunset and maybe get a story in return from her about her background and the many questions I have for her.

"Calm down Lyra, I'm about to tell a small part of my life's story and how I got to Equestria."

"Really! Just a small part of the story, ok... I was hoping for something awesome and epic! Like you fighting a monster or a big scary dragon, maybe. I don't know I'm just excited to be hanging with you, Anon. That's all."

"It's nothing too crazy Lyra. It's at the end of how I got here met the very few ponies before I got in any further in my life mission."

"OK. Maybe next time you tell me how it all goes down and I want to hear all of it when you get a chance."

"Alright, Lyra I'll do that let's get something to drink, ok."

I had to stop for a moment so we can get seated by the waiter and we get a few drinks and getting comfortable at the table. I begin where I left off from the last time I tell this story to Sunset. I think Twilight might know where this story takes place and looking at Lyra she seems to be happy at whatever part of the story I was at. I'm looking forward to finishing it for Sunset though.

....

So I looked down and sighed again.
"Ok. So where am I going start, I don't have a place to go to at the end of the day. For that matter of fact, I don't have a job either. On top of that, I don't know if anybody will like me or want to be with me?"

Celestia speaks up. "Well Anon, I don't know what else to tell you. Just keep in mind, that you need to follow your heart. As for a place, I'm going to have you go and live with Princess Twilight Sparkle from now on, and she will help you out with your journey through Equestria. In return, all she asks is to learn as much about your kind. I know that I have met them myself, but I didn't spend that much time with them. So this could be a good time for that, and I hope you see our ways as well, Anon. Princess Twilight well you show him the way out, once you and him are ready to leave."

She looks towards the smaller lavender colored Alicorn, and her face lit up to a red that I never thought a pony could do that, let alone what color she is. Anyways I can only go with it and maybe see what will happen. I still don't feel comfortable with the idea of being in a relationship with a pony... But rooming it with one is alright with me seeing that they're far more friendly than any person I've met beforehand. As I was lost in thought Twilight Sparkle snap me out it by tapping my leg.

"Hmmm....?" I look down at her, it was awkward at first. Seeing that she has her face bright red and the biggest smile, but she broke the ice first.

"Nice to meet you, Anon. I'll be looking forward to your stay at my home. I do have lots of questions about your kind since your the only human in our world, and we do not have much written history or cultures about humans being in our world. Also, don't worry about being friendless I'll be your first made friend here in Equestria." Still blushing and holding her hoof next to her muzzle with a quill and parchment flowing next her.

I nod my head to show that I agree what's going to happen and reply. "Thank you for letting me stay with you. I won't be a bother to you and your home as I live there. I'll be willing to answer any questions that you might have. And I'll do my part in the house if needed. I just hope that this crazy adventure dream is over soon so I can go back to my real life and do my normal things."

The look on her face was priceless with a mixture of excitement and arousal because she is biting her lower lip. Like she is going to go off like a rocket yet at the same time I have this feeling that she wants to do some other questionable things with me but I can only guess what. So I just smile at her, I know in the back of my mind I should be worry and what she might pull on me. Another part says that this is for the better since I don't have anywhere to go home, too. Also, I'm going to have to give the biggest trolls of their kingdom a thank you gift for setting me up with a date with a pony which is kinda obvious to me. This is why that they want me to fall in love with a talking horse in order to save the worlds in the first place. So decided to give a gift, and what I'm giving is going to be extra special. I hope they'll feel the same as how I get about this whole thing. I know that I've just met the lavender princess here and from what I can tell she is brilliant and I do have a bit of a soft spot for smart women. Yet I have this feeling I should tease her and just mess with her head just for kicks I guess. I kinda wish that they are more human-like, and I would be more willing, but that's not the case. All I see now is this pony form and that my luck for ya. Oh well...

Before I could say anything and let Princess Twilight Sparkle know I'm ready to leave. Princess Cadence came up to me like she wants to give me a gift or something before I could do anything.

"Anon, I want to give you a gift before you leave and I wanted first help you out with your journey. So just close your eyes and relax."

My thoughts are telling me, that this could be a trick of some sorts or it's a trap, but I'm going with it.
~sigh~ "ok..."

So I close my eyes thinking this is going to hurt in some way and awaited for what is about to happen. I begin to start to feel a warm feeling in my chest it was like my heart being left from this cold place. It felt good it and made me feel like a part of me was put back together. Yet I see a flash in images that are going by too quick for me to pick up on. All I had was my thoughts for that moment.
(I don't know what she is doing to me and to my heart, now this feeling I can get used to this.) Then I hear her voice.

"You can now open your eyes, Anon."
She said.

When I did everything seems slightly different but still the same. So I ask her what has she as done to me. She just smiles and winks, then tells me this.

"I have to mend your broken heart back to a time before it was broken. It still needs that one piece for it, and you know what it is for. Just give it some time to grow on ya and just don't let your heart down. Also lessen to it as well."
She explained.

"Well I don't feel any different here, but you guys are using magic on me. So I don't if I should believe it or not but I don't know if they will work on me."
I said.

Princess Cadence just smiled and give me a hug. "You'll soon find out, soon enough, Anon. It will hit you hard before you even know it. So don't worry about a thing, ok."
As she whispers that to me while biting her lower lip.

I just hug her in return. "That is why I am worried about here. But whatever you say, princess."

Then I looked towards Princess Twilight Sparkle and letting her know that I'm ready to go with her. Where ever that might be.

"So, Princess Twilight Sparkle where are we heading to?"

She replies back. "Please, Anon you can just call me Twilight, and also we're going to Ponyville."

"Ok, Twilight. So what is Ponyville like?"

She tilted her head and answer. "Will it's a very wonderful place, where everyone is friendly there, and it's full of surprises. Also, we have a welcoming committee there, so you don't feel friendless or loneliness while you're here." She beams with a smile.

All I can think about is how much fun this is going to be...... ~sigh~ No... Not really I'm doom. You know what? Why do I have a feeling that there is going to be a lot of references to a show that has nothing to do what is going on here. Only time can tell. Anyways I reply to Twilight.

"Oh, fun. Sound like this strange dream is going to get weirder."

"Anon you know this is not a dream for the last time we told you that. Anyways our ride is waiting for us to go."

And so I'm off to this crazy dream adventure of a lifetime.
"OK you lead the way Twilight. Let the crazy dream life begin..." ~sigh~ (Why do I get the feeling that I'm starting my life all over...)

...

"After we arrived in Ponyville. I spend a whole day try to convince myself that was just a dream or hallucination. I believe Twilight over here knows the rest to that part of the story."

She looks toward while still eating her food and I have to say she looks silly with salad all over her face. Then she levitates a glass of water and then sips some to clear her throat.

"Yea, I recall from that day. You were trying everything in the book just to wake up from this 'supposed dream or hallucination' that you're in. And I have been telling you for about week that this is real and then you break down after that. I had to tell Pinkie to postpone the party for you till you felt better. I'm happy to see after that you finally come to terms what is happening to you. I know you still have some form of discomfort with the idea of being in a relationship with a pony but after the events that have happened. I wanted to ask you this. Are you ready to be with one?"
She looks at me with a raised eyebrow.

I realized that she just put you on the spot with that question. I know that I have some feels towards Sunset and she doesn't know yet. I have to come up with something quick just to keep this idea about me towards ponies going. So none of them would have suspicions about me, especially with Twilight.

"I don't know what are you talking about Twilight. Because I still don't have feeling towards to anypony here. I think that spell that Cadence cast on me was all for not. So no need to raise for suspicion about me here. Ha,ha,ha...!" I laughed nervously and have a cold sweat running down.

They all look at me with questions on their minds, but none of them say anything about it. As time went on, we talk about other things and such. Then Sunset finally asks the question to me about me.

"Anon, I know what you said about us ponies and everything. But I wanted to talk to you in private after we're done eating here." She says.

I just nod my head and finish up my meal. Everypony else is done, and before we know, we were going our own ways out. Like Twilight is heading toward to Rarity's place to go get Spike from there. As for Lyra, she was just happy to hang with me for the day, but I have a feeling she is not done following me around and trying to find out about Sunset and me, and what we're going to talk about. I'll just try not to think it too much about it when it comes down to that pony. I, myself is looking forward to what Sunset have to tell about me, and now I feel towards them all. I've already explained myself and my intention and what I want to do with the saving the world, and it's not looking bright. I guess that could be some hope, but I don't want to think about it. Then we left the place and go toward Sunset home.

....

Sunset and I are now walking towards her place again yet this time it was more awkward and quite. We do look at each other from time to time but say nothing to each other. It's like we just can't find any words to say, like "how are you?" or "Hey there is a bug on your nose." or something. It was this awkward, and I just don't know why. Every time I try to say anything I just get butterflies in my stomach and the cat got my tongue. I think she is going through the same thing yet I can see her blush from time to time like she wants to say something but I can't put my finger on it.

We finally made it to her house and went to her front porch and sit at her table that she has out front.

"Anon, I'm going inside and get some tea ready would you like some?"
She asks.

"Yes, I would like to have something to drink, please."
I answer.

She went inside, and a few moments later she came back outside and place a tea set on the table. Sunset sits down at the table I'm in and then looks down and sighs and return looking into my eyes. I can tell that she been through so much just by looking deeply into her eyes and I can say she has a lot on her mind. All I can say her eyes are beautiful and hard to take my own eyes away from them. So I break the awkward silence that has been going on for some time now.

"So... Sunset, what is that you wanted to talk about to me?"
I asked.

"Well, I wanted to tell you that, I've learned a lot about humans and their weird little world. But the one you described is way different from the one that I've gone through. Your world is completely devoid of magic in any way and form, unlike the one I've gone through. That world is mirrored to my world here even if you go there you wouldn't be able to find what you left behind there. Also, that world has a mirrored version us ponies that have been put into human forms, like a perfect copy. It seems to be devoid of magic, but it is still there. By the link of their pony version of themselves. There is a legend that a mare lost her love and wanted to search for her human lover but couldn't because the gate to your world is sealed with no way to get through it. So she asks for help by the Royals and the most powerful unicorns to make a mirror in the hopes to get through to the one that he is in."
She sighed like a big weight was lifted.

"So you're telling me this just to get this off your chest?"
As I took a sip from my tea.

"Yes, that is one them, but there is more to it. I'm telling you this because I think we both have something to do with this problem at hand."

"Ok. Well, how are you in this mess of a mission that I am in?"
As I stare into her eyes.

"I didn't want to tell you so soon about this because ever since you show up my life is starting turning around. There is the reason why I can tell you what I said earlier in that aisle way. Because I'm afraid of you getting taking away like my past boyfriends that I had before. Ever since my mother gave me this pendant, she told me that it will help find what I'm looking for in life but it made my life all messed up, and forced me to go to that mirror world but it was no different there either. So I came back when my pendant started to glow and pointed me back to my world. After my return to Equestria, things were going great till you walked in my bar. That's when the pendant went off like crazy, and I've to notice yours glowed briefly, I had to say something to you about it, but I didn't want to scare you off. So I just played it cool."
As she blushes as she'd say this.

"Could you be the descent of the mare that is no longer heard from again?"

This just raises the question in me to just ask like this. Because I'm being blown away by this. I needed to know from her. By now this explains how she knows what a human is, and why she is relaxed when we first met.

"Anon. The story you've heard from the Princesses is true, but they don't know my mother is the mare of the legend and she hasn't told me anything till I'm was fully grown. As her story goes, she went through the mirror to find him, but she had been stuck in the mirrored world for a long time. The flow of time is so different between this one and the mirrored one. I found out that the time flow is very slow in the mirror world verses here. Time flowed much faster here in Equestria. At the same time, it's always off for some reason. I did my research, and it was driving me crazy at how it works. So please don't ask about that."

"Point taken."
I nod.

"Anyways as I was saying after she goes through the mirror she searched for him in that world. She did make some friends in that world and started to make a new life in there. Until one day she got pregnant in that world, she never tells me who was my father in that world. She made a choice and go back to Equestria to have me here, and she did. Once she made her return to Equestria and realized that time has passed so much, she can barely tell what happens to it. So she stays as a mystery mare and go to the hospital and had me there. She didn't start telling me after my return to Equestria."

"So you were born here yet not in there? And come to think about That makes you half human from that world. Anyways, I guess it would be the best option, For your mother to go and do that, I think."
I shrugged.

"Yea, I know right. After that, I got a little older and the mirror, I didn't know much back then, and my mother hasn't told me much about her past. Later on, she signs me up for Princess Celestia's school for gifted unicorns, and I picked up magic quickly and made myself Celestia's next protégé. As I got a little older, my mother final give the pendant that she had for a long time, and she told me. 'This pendant will be your guide to the one you will love.' After I have received it my life felt different, and an empty void is made in my heart, and this only drives me mad. I only want more of something but to what I didn't know what I wanted, and this made me only want power."

"Wow, so you are saying that the pendant that you have made you go power hungry. The one I have is supposed do the same thing, but it didn't make me go crazy for anything. It just made me feel sadness."
As I took another sip of my tea.

"Yea, well Celestia did what she could to steer me away from such dark thoughts, but it was too late. I was already consumed by it, and when I had a fight with Celestia. All I wanted to do is run away from Equestria, and there was only one place, and that was the legendary mirror to that other world. So I went through it just to start over my life, and when I did. What I didn't count on is my dark side trying to retake hold of me. It took some time, about two years or so. I just get mean and only want more power but in that world didn't have magic. So use other means to gain power, you should know them well. Like money, position, and knowing powerful people. There was one thing missing for me to have complete power and control of the mirror world humans by magic. I have to go get it from Equestria, so I went back there and got lucky to find one of the Elements of Harmony and that one was magic. I lost it on my back to that mirror world, and that's set a course for me to got back to my old self before this power hunger took hold of me."

"This is interesting, Sunset. I don't see how could end up being bad. You're a good person... pony... whatever.. Anyways how did you go back to normal?"

"Well for one as I try to get back that element of magic back into my hands. I had to win the fall formal. That's when Twilight came around and with her friends stop my darkness and saved me from it. I change completely for the better and once again trying to start over but in that world. After that, I receive a letter from my mother tell me that I shouldn't give up on love and it will be coming around soon. That's when the pendant started to pull me towards the portal, and sure enough, I find myself back here, and the rest is history."

"Damn, Sunset. I didn't think you had been through so much like that, and here I thought I had it bad. So that means we're destined to be together. Since you have the other pendant from the legend and those stones around the gate and such. That only means that we're the one to restore the power in these stones?"

My heart skips a beat, and I sweat some what, as I saw her nodding her head. This only left me confused and awkward for a moment.

"So, I guess where supposed to fall in love?"
I blush red.

"I believe so, Anon. Why else destiny brought us here in the first place. I know this only make it a bit awkward. I'm letting you know that I have been hurt before, like you."
As she places her tea cup down.

"I know that I been through a lot and I have been in the past as well. Tell you what, I'm willing to save the worlds here and I hope you're up for it as well."

From there only silence had set in....

Author's Note

Well that was fun. I know this one took a while but I am done with chapter. So far I'm also done cleaning up this story.

Sunset have explain lot about herself and what roll she plays in this story so far.

Thanks, for reading.