Stranded

“Ugh… my head.”

Jack woke up with his face buried in the pillow. The sun coming through a crack in the curtain fell directly into his eyes making him growl in displeasure. It was Sunday morning and the idea of staying in bed all day sounded delightful.

"What a dream I had last night... I shouldn't have dine that much."

He thought as he stood on his left side, with the other hand he reached out to close the small space of the curtain. He fell on the bed again staring to the ceiling

"Alicorn... what a strange word. In everything I've read about mythology I had never heard of anything like that."

He began to laugh, remembering the details of the dream that he'd had.

"What was her name? ... Ah yes, Princess Luna."

Jack touched his shoulder; the pain caused him to tighten his teeth. In that moment he realized that he still had his clothes from the day before and uncovering the place where it hurt he saw that he had a big bruise.

"What? How did I...?"

His mind traveled to the moment he was chatting with the princess, he remembered that she had hit him with a stone when he mocked her for the way she had fallen.

"No... it can't be... it was just a dream, sure that I hit my arm while climbing the stairs yesterday's night..."

He said with a slightly shaky voice, however, his train of thought was cut when someone else spoke at his side.

"Mmmm... the tea is delicious... Tia! Don't eat the whole pie..."

After hearing those words, Jack with eyes wide open looked at the movement of something under the covers. Gathering some courage, he took the side of the blanket and lifted it finding a surprising and rather cute scene.

Beside him, sleeping peacefully was the same being from his dream. Luna was curled up with her head between her front hooves. Her long and messy mane moved slowly, as if dancing with a soft breeze, she smiled and spoke dreamily.

Jack was stunned. It was the same creature he had been talking in the dream, but now, he was awake! She was real and was there in the bed beside him!

It took several minutes until, by instinct, Jack began to bring his hand to the body of the night goddess. He dug his fingers into her mane and saw that it was in fact hair, but as soft and light as a feather. The contact made hundreds of little flashes to arise from it. Luna began to wake up and yawning noisily stretched her forelegs, she cracked her neck and spread her wings to its full extent. Jack froze not knowing what would happen next. She opened her eyes heavily and looked over to where Jack was.

"Hello... good morning..."

The two looked at each other and then, Luna cried out in terror and Jack did the same. They shouted to each other again and again until the alicorn tried to get up in one jump, but she became entangled in the blanket and fell with a loud thud. Jack stood up and ran around the bed. Luna had her face covered by the blanket and was still screaming, he took the tip of the cloth and pulled it slowly until she was free.

"Are you okay?"

Jack asked. Luna lunged at him pinning him to the ground with a death glare on her eyes.

"Hey, what are you doing? Get off me this instant!"

"What kind of magic did you use, creature? Why did you bring me here? Answer!"

"Listen... Luna, right? I'm as surprised as you are. Do you think it's normal for a human to see something like you in a dream and then wake up and know that you're real?"

She was about to answer when a knock on the door caught their attention.

“Lord Remington, is everything alright?”

Said someone from the other side of the door.

“Oh bugger.”

Jack took the opportunity to take Luna by her waist and twisting for him to end on top of her. Luna froze while he placed a hand gently on her chest and pleaded her with his eyes and finger on his lips that she remained in silence.

“Yes, Mrs. Robinson. I just… had a nightmare and… fell off the bed?”

There was no answer for a moment, Jack started to sweat.

“How many times have I told you to not eat that much before bed, kid?”

“I know, Mrs. Robinson, is just that your cooking is great, I can’t have enough of it.”

“Oh Jack, you’re a real gentleman. Well, I just wanted to tell you that the breakfast is ready on the kitchen, I'll be on my way now, see you next Tuesday.”

“Yes, and thank you so much Mrs. Robinson, see you then.”

With that, Jack heard the steps of the old lady walking away, then, a door opening and closing leaving the house in total silence. Breathing in relief, Jack placed his other hand on Luna’s chest without noticing it, well; he did notice the softness of her fur as he traced his fingers over it.

“Excuse me?”

Said another voice and he looked down to a blushing Luna with her front legs curved inward. Realizing what he was doing, he quickly stood up and moved to one side.

“S-sorry, here, let me help you.”

He offered his hand, Luna looked at it with wary.

“I will not hurt you, please, trust in me.”

Jack pleaded and she stretched her leg, he took her hoof and helped her to stand.

“T-thank you.” She said.

“Not the better of the first impressions, isn't it?”

Luna said nothing; Jack sighed and sat on the bed.

“Okay, shall we begin again?”

He asked and Luna nodded, he let a smile appear on his face.

“My name is Jack Remington, owner of Remington Industries, the greatest steel company on London.”

“L-London?” She asked fearfully.

“Y-yes.”

Luna rushed to the window and opening the curtains she felt a chill ran down her body. In front of her, a massive city spread on all directions. She saw many more “humans” walking on the streets; she saw carriages that moved without the need to be dragged by other ponies. All this was too much for her, her eyes filled with tears and she turned to see Jack.

"T-this... this is not E-Equestria." Jack shook his head. "Where am I?"

She sat on her haunches and began to mourn bitterly. Jack felt like if someone was squeezing his heart just by listening her. He slowly approached her to kneel down in front of her.

"Listen, I do not know how you got here; I know that this is not your home, this is earth, my planet. The last thing I remember is that I walked into the fog as you said something about the forest. After that, we woke up here."

Jack dared to take Luna's face with his hands. When he lifted it, he was marveled by her big deep blue eyes.

“I can't feel a single trace of magical power here; I’m stuck in this world. Oh Mother Faust, what am I going to do?

She said and Jack could feel the despair, fear and sadness in her words.

"Luna, don't worry, we'll find a way for you to go back home."

He told her heartily, Luna wanted to say something but in the end, she hugged Jack tightly and collapsed in his arms. He returned the embrace and the two stood there without saying anything more.

***---***---***

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, a man with messed up grey hair, stains of coal on his face and big glasses over his eyes was looking to the lectures of a machine that steamed as many little multicolor bulbs flashed with every whistle that it gave.

“Yes! There has been another event!”

He said while taking a drink of coffee from his mug.

“Oh, and a bigger one this time, if those idiots on the British Museum could see this they wouldn’t be laughing of my right now.”

The man walked to a map on the wall with many sites marked with a red cross.

“Aha! Here it is, the place of the last event.”

He said while placing another cross over the map.

“This time, I’ll get the evidence I need; I will show the world that the trans-dimensional travel is possible.”