Lost Soul

It was a sunny afternoon, the streets of Ponyville were full of ponies on their daily errands.

"So Equestria is a monarchy."

"Yes, we are ruled by Princess Celestia and her sister Princess Luna."

Twilight, Fluttershy and Longwing were walking along the main road of Ponyville, while Twilight was answering Longwing's questions about the Equestria.

"Are they Unicorns?"

"No, they are Alicorns."

"Alicorns? I never heared about alicorns."

Twilight was smiling, happy that she could share her knowlage with somepony that was wiling to listen.

"They are ancient beings, eternal and very powerful. Physicaly they resemble winged unicorns but much taller. Celestia rules the sun, while her sister controls the moon. They guard harmony in Equestria and in the whole world."

"Wow! That sounds incredibile."

"Princess Celestia has been my teacher since the time I jojned the academy for gifted unicorns, she is very wise, I'm going to ask her if she had ever heared about any incidents like yours."

"Friends in the highest places eh?" He smiled and looked around, he was still a bit nervous about this whole situation. He was in the unknown land surrounded by creatures he knew only from legends and fairytales, and in addition he was one of them.

The weirdest day in my life...

"Twilight?" He wispered to the unicorn next to him. "Is it only my imagination or most of the locals are looking at me?"

Lavender mare gigled. "Forgive them, they are curious, Ponyville is a small town and you are new here. Besides your size makes you hard to overlook."

He relaxed a bit. "Not to mention that I'm propably the most handsome ma... em... pegasus they've ever seen." He smiled widely and winked at Twilight.

"And certainly the modest one." She laughted, Fluttershy walking next to her smiled.

They continued their walk towards the library talking about Equestria and Ponyville, by the time they got there it was already an evening and the town was basked in the orange light.

"Here we are, the Ponyville's library."

"A library inside the tree, your town suprises me again and again." He was suprised that despite the fact that there was a house built inside it the tree seemed to be alive and healthy. When they got close to it Twilight used her magic to open the door.

"Um... I'm sorry Twilight but I have to go back to my cottage and feed my animals."

"It's ok Fluttershy. See you tommorow."

"Goodbye Fluttershy. And thank you again."

"Goodbye Twilight, goodbye Longwing." The yellow mare trotted in the direction of the forest leaving Twilight and Longwing alone.

Unicorn entered the library. "Spike! Spike we have a guest!"

Longwing followed her inside the tree. When he looked around he saw the biggest collection of books he had ever seen before. Bookshelfs occupied almost every inch of free space on the walls and a lot of books were laying on the floor or tables.

"I'm sorry for the mess, please take a sit." She pointed at the chair while relocating the books from the table with her magic.

"Hi Twilight! Who is your guest?" When Longwing turned in the direction of the voice he saw a small bipedal creature covered in green and purple scales and with green spines streaching from the tip of his tail to the top of his head.

"A dragon... And just when I started to think that nothing could suprise me. My name is... er... Longwing." He streached his right front leg to greet the dragon, but wasn't sure if the ponies do that until Spike shook it.

"Hi! I'm Spike, I'm Twilight's asistant. I have never seen you around here before. Are you new in Ponyville?"

"Yeeah sort of."

"Spike, I think that our friend here is from another dimenion." Young dragon started to laugh. "Ow that was a good one Twilight! Haha!" When he realised that no one else is laughing his eyes widened. "You are serious." He looked at Longwing. "But how is this even possible?"

"That's what we hope to find out. Until then could you please prepare something to eat? We are starving."

"Okie-dokie Twilight!" And then he disappeared in the kitchen.

Longwing smiled and returned his attention to the unicorn in front of him. "Your dragons are a lot nicier than in our legends."

Twilight returned the smile. "He is just a baby. I hatched him myself during my entry exam to the school back in Canterloth."

"A baby dragon in a library huh? I bet that your insurance rate is higher than my yearly income!" Both of them laughed. After a moment Longwing's face became serious. "Twilight, I don't want to sound ungrateful but... Why do you help me? I'm complete stranger to you, telling unbelieveble story and you not only agreed to help me but you invited me to your own home. Why?"

Twilight was suprised by his question and it took her a moment to gather words. "Well... I just believe you... When I speak with you I can feel that you are honest with me."

He smiled a bit. "A unicorn magic thingy?"

She gigled "Perhaps."

"In my world I would be ignored at best, at worse, beaten by some thugs or closed in some kind of psyhiatric facility."

They sat in silence for a while.

"I wondered if..." Twilight seemed a bit nervous. "Could you tell me something about your world?"

He sighed heavily. My world... His memory was shattered, he couldn't recall names or faces but he remembered the general picture of his world and his life. The pain of the recent events returned to him. For the first time this day he was thinking about his family and how scared they will be if he doesn't return fast.

Twilight noticed his hesitation. "It's okay if you don't want to talk about it."

"No no it's ok. It's just... I'm thinking about my family, they will worry about me." He saw the sad expression on the Twilight's face and waved his hoof. "Don't worry, we will figure this out. And about my world..." He changed the topic quickly, the last thing he wanted now was to make his host feel bad. "In general it is similar to yours. But we don't have pegasi, unicorns, dragons or magic and perhaps many other creatures that live here in Equestria, for us all of this are only legends."

"No magic?" For Twilight this statement was unbelieveble.

"Nope... There are some that say that they are magicians, but most of the people don't believe them. They just manipulate our percepction so we think that they art is magic."

"It's hard to believe... When we talked in the hispital you mantioned that you were riding a motorcycle... What is that?"

"Hmm? Ow, it's a kind of vechicle. Two wheels powered by engine conected to the steel frame." He smiled as the fond memories flooded his mind. "Riding it is a real fun. I personally think it's the closest thing to flying that a human can feel."

"Sounds great"

"Yeah... It seems that we are more technologically advanced than you, at least that was my impression when we walked through the town."

In that moment Spike entered, he was carrying a large tray with bowls and plates on it and started to set it on the table.
"There you go, a hay and carrot salad and daisy sandwiches!"

"Thank you Spike"

"Thank you..." Longwing looked at the plate in front of him.

"Is everything allright?"

"Yeah... I'm just not used to eat hay or daisies" Ow come on be a man! He thought and after a moment took a bite from a sandwich. It tasted good. "Hey it's realy good." He smiled and devoured his meal quckly not realising until now how hungry he was. They ate in silence and when they finished he yawned loudly. "Uh... Sorry."

"It's ok, you must be exhausted." Twilight led him the the quest room. It was a cosy room with one bed, a desk and of course a bookshelf.

"This will be your room until we find a way to send you back."

"It's nice. Thank you Twilight."

She headed to the door. "Sleep well, tommorow I will send a letter to the princess and we will start our search... And if you want I could show you the rest of the Ponyville."

"That would be great."

"Goodnight Longwing."

"Goodnight." He climbed on the soft bed. The weirdest day of my life...