"It's Yours..."

Stepping through an interdimentional portal was less anticlimactic as I thought it would be. Instead of falling or turning into said pony-horse thing, I am still human, and didn't fall though like a moron. Now that didn't mean I was shocked by the place I had stepped in.

Where I was, it seemed impossible. Like the structure was too big to be made of what looked to be crystals. My jaw was on the floor just at the sight of a system of tree roots hung from the ceiling. On the other side of the room was a door where I saw Celestia speaking to a smaller and more purplier version of her, minus the flowing mane shit she has going on. Wonder if that's just her or something else.

"Are you sure you can take care of him for a week Twilight?"

"Of course, how hard could it be?"

Celestia looked to me, then back. "Just try to catch him up on a few things about Equestria. Make it known to your friends that they must also aid him. Fluttershy shouldn't have a problem since his kind is not native to this world."

"W-what exactly is he?"

"Human." I answered. "I'm a human."

"That's correct, he's a human...He is also...you know..."

"Right, father of the babe." She sounded less than excited. "Don't worry Princess-" So she wasn't lying about that. "-we'll take good care of him. You said it was only for a week?"

Celestia winced. "Honestly it could take more trying to set up everything." She sounded like she really wanted to groan in frustration from the amount of annoyance in her voice. "It should be three weeks at most, a week if fate doesn't wish to give me the middle hoof."

"Ahem..Right, that's fine. It's not like I don't have enough empty rooms in my castle. So it really shouldn't be a problem unless he has some crazy human thing."

"All humans have some crazy thing..." I deadpanned. "I have sociophobia, so let's just get this over with please. I'd like to have some time alone."

"Are you the kind that's afraid of large crowds or the kind that just hates talking?"

"Large crowds." I replied.

"Oh, then Fluttershy might actually like you then. Personality fits I suppose, but then again, I only know from what Celestia has told me."

Celestia cleared her throat. "I must be leaving now. Please make sure he is not harmed, or I might explode..."

"Why would she explode?" I ask Twilight. "Is that normal?"

"Unicorn slash alicorn thing." She said. "I'll explain later." Twilight turned her head back to Celestia and smiled. "Don't worry Princess, we'll have everything crystal clear."

"Is this place made of crystals?" I asked, not really caring if I was heard.

"Good Twilight-" Guess not. "-and thank you for this. You will be rewarded when this is all over, and is settling down." With a bright flash, Celestia had vanished from sight, leaving Twilight and I alone in the same room.

"To answer your question, yes, this is an entire castle made of crystals, and it isn't the first to be made." Twilight answered and walked towards me. She was just about my height with her horn, but her head easily rested below my neck. She studied me for a few seconds before sighing. "Look...I want to lay a few things out, just so we'er clear. Is this okay?"

"As long as you act like a mature adult." I replied. "Other than that, yeah, sure! Lay it out on me."

She took a deep breath in and out. "Okay look, I'm not the happiest mare right now. The fact that you got my godmother pregnant irks me to no end, and quite frankly pisses me off. However, from what she's said about you, you actually sound like a pretty nice...um..."

"Guy, go on."

"Pretty nice guy." She took another breath in. "Just don't hurt her okay? And we might actually become friends when this is all said and done. Knots tied and all."

"Why can't we be friends?" I asked. "I know I just met you and Tia there, but you sound like an ass when you said 'might actually become friends'? Which implies that there is a possibility that we cannot become friends." I knelt down a little. "What do you like to do? What are your hobbies?"

"Reading, writing papers, and practicing magic." She replied.

"I like reading, and I write my own stuff. On earth, I'm pretty good with patterns, and solve a Rubix Cube in thirty seconds."

"Sounds like fun I guess...So...you like puzzles?"

"Sure I do!" I smiled. "My biggest solved puzzle was ten thousand pieces."

Her ears perked up. "That's actually pretty good. How long did it take you to finish it?"

"A night of insomnia hoping to be cured by boredom." I replied. "I had a hard job, and couldn't think about how much time passed."

She gave me this strange look before shrugging. "Well, I think I should introduce myself. I'm Twilight Sparkle, Princess of Friendship and Magic."

"Christopher Robins, although you can call me Chris or Rob."

"Nicknames I assume?" She smiled.

Giving her a nod, I pulled my stuff up in my hands. "Can we do something with these?"

"Right this way!"

It's just about an hour later. Twilight helped me find a room to stay in for the next two or three weeks. So far I'm still actually amazed and confused how they managed to build not one but two crystal castles. The purple princess also made it aware that this was only a quarter of a year short of being a year old, so that put me into a little funk. And honestly, I feel like I should be freaking out right now, or trying to return back to my world, my home, my Earth, but the funny thing is, I don't. I feel warm, like I'm trapped in a hug that I don't want to get out of. It feels like I was with my mother again, hugging her for the last time before she died. For some reason, I feel...happy deep down, which was somehow keeping me calm. Like I was home.

So I decided to take a look around in my room. There's a few empty bookshelves, luckily I have a few books saved to my laptop, all it would take is some writing down, and I could re-publish them. A huge bed sat in the back of the room, sitting nicely in the center with it facing the door. Two windows were slap dead center in between the bed and the walls on each side of the bed, and it seemed that the sun wasn't coming through them. Bonus for me I guess, seeing that I don't have to wake up with the sun directly in my eyes.

IT takes me all of maybe an hour to unpack my stuff and put it away neatly. I sit down with my laptop, feeling slightly afraid to open it up. If I opened it, I would only have twelve hours with the backlight completely down. How could I write down an entire set of books down onto paper in as little as twelve hours? I sighed, putting on my nightstand. I sat on my bed, with my head hanging. How the fuck will I do this...? No technology...no way to stay connected with the world events. I was disconnected from the world, more than the Amish ever were, in my opinion anyways.

Before I could get too down, there was a few light knocks on my doors. "You may enter my realm!" I shouted.

At first I didn't seen anyone open the door, but that was until I looked down and saw a small purple and green lizard. I looked at it, it looked at me, and that was all we did for a few minutes, really it was a few minutes.

"So..." I say. "You are?" I was asking who he was and what he was.

"Spike, the dragon." He answered. "And you?"

"Chris Robins...the...-ahem...The human."

"Are all humans afraid of baby dragons?" He smirked.

"I-it isn't like I-I'm afraid of a little 'ol babe...It's the fact you're a dragon! That means there's a bigger dragon out there! Shit!"

"Well, you can calm down dude...I was raised by ponies, not dragons. If that where any close to being true, I'd be thirty yards long, rampaging, monster. So yeah...you can calm down." He walked on over and his size become more clear to me, he was actually the size of a child by the looks of it. His chubby little cheeks were more pronounced.

"You sound like an adult."

He shrugged. "Happens when you live with a bookworm, master Arch-magus, and former student of Princess Celestia." He said that like it was nothing. If he was talking about Twilight, than a few thinks make sense as to why she asked Twilight to hold me here until time was up. "So, you hungry? What do humans eat?"

"Yeah I'm hungry, and uh....Try to keep this on the down low, but I'm actually a omnivore, these ponies don't seem like the type to eat meat...."

"Oh, that's fine!" He beamed. "You think Twilight would keep me on a strict gem diet? Pfffttt-Yeah, right."

"So you eat meat, I mean I knew dragons ate meat, but you got meat here?" Spike nodded. "SWEET! This isn't so bad after all!" I raised my arms quickly into the air with joy, and nearly knocked off my laptop from the table.

Spike looked at it. "What's that black square you got going there?"

"It's called a laptop." I answered. "It has a bunch of stuff on it from my world all in this tiny little box."

"What can it do?"

"Read you books, play games, watch movies, and I also got a few TV shows on it, complete seasons too."

"What are TV shows and movies?"

"They're like....books! But with moving pictures and lots of action!"

"None of that romance stuff right?" He deadpanned.

"Yeah, none of that shit."

"Can you show me? I've never seen a movie before...or a TV show...or what a TV is."

I looked at the laptop, biting my lower lip. "Um...there's a problem with that I forgot about."

"That is?"

"I don't have anything to charge it."

"Like electricity?" I snapped my fingers and nodded. "I think Twilight has a spell to help you. She's a master at that kind of stuff."

"Guess Princess of Magic doesn't mean she can't do hocus pocus, but Abra kafucking supda cadabra."

Spike gave me this weird look, like I had pissed in his cereal. "Um...yeah. You want me to ask her while we eat?"

"Nah, I can ask her. So who cooks the meat?" Spike raised his hands. "With your fire?" He shrugged, but still nodded.

"If I feel like it." He replied with little care.

I chuckled at him. "How old are you?"

"Dragon years, or pony years?"

"Drake."

"Six-teen, after twenty one, we age really slowly."

"Wow, okay, no baby talk then. You know the birds and bees right?"

"Shove it, lets go grab some grub."

"Bossy one you are." I said in my awful Yoda accent.

He turned around and looked right into my eyes. "There's hardly any stallions in this town, mostly mares, and you're the only one who doesn't treat me like a child." He huffed, sounding rather annoyed. "Sorry though.

"I have no reason to. Mentality is an age of its own." I shrugged. "But hey, I under stand where you're coming from. I had three sisters, and I was the youngest." He winced. "Yeah...so no guys?"

"One or two, here and there..."

"Yeesh!"

As it turns out, Spike is a pretty good cook. He used his fire to cook up a freshly cut steak, and as it turns out because Twilight got that princess status, she gets whatever she wants within reason. Apparently ordering six hundred cows worth of meat is under that 'within reason' category. Well not the six hundred cows part, but she does have a lot of meat for just Spike.

"So does she eat any of this?" I ask as I cut into another bit of steak.

"Well, I'm not supposed to tell you this..."

"Just shake your head, I can keep a secret."

"You gotta Pinkie Promise."

"Um..." I held out my pinkie at him, but he just looked at me like I was crazy.

"That's not right. Look, it's like this." He went through some crazy motions and spoke a weird chant.

"Alright...I cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake...ugh....In my eye...ow..." I didn't mean to poke my eye, that hurt. I fixed my glasses so I wouldn't do that again anytime soon. "So tell me, does she have a secret craving?"

"I wouldn't say it is a craving, but ever since she ascended, she's needed more protein to fix her problem."

I chuckled. "And what's that?"

"An alicorn's body has a rapid metabolism." I heard Twilight's voice ring, and she sounded pissed. "We need to eat a lot to make up for it. Protein is hard enough to get from peanuts and eggs...Meat was a better alternative. Besides, the cows who gave their lives for this had long healthy lives in a clean field, when it comes time for them to go, they get some Griffins to help pick their old up." She stepped over to Spike with an angry look on her face. "SPIKE! I said it was a secret!"

"But I made him Pinkie Promise!" Twilight had seemed to calm down a little; is it something important? This Pinkie Promise I made?

"Just don't do it again Spike..." She turns to me and takes my plate.

"No..." I say sadly. "My food..."

"I got a letter from Celestia, it's for you."

"Why didn't I know?" Spike asked.

"Because each time she tried to set it, she got a big ball of chewed up steak."

I snorted into a fit of laughter. "Oh gods above that's...that GREAT!! Woo-hahahahahah!"

"Shut up and read it. It maybe important."

"Yeah, yeah...alright." I grab the scroll on the table and break the seal. As soon as I open it, I only get one word.

RUN!!!!