A rare feeling

The gates opened wide to the castle, and me and Rarity walked into the great hall. There were great big picture windows along the walls, maybe 15 or 20 feet in height, and about 3 feet across for each one. I noticed that not one of them depicted any humans, and quickly reminded myself where I was.

"Rarity...you mentioned Equestrian Creatures. Is that where I am? Equestria?"

She stopped once again, and once again I had run into her spirally tail. Once again, I felt its soft, springy nature tease my aching groin. I was becoming increasingly irritated and embarrassed by this, and my face was becoming red.

She immediately came to the same realization from the feeling in her tail, and jumped forward. She whirled around, almost unable to breathe.

"Well-yyyaaahh!! GOOD SIR! I mean...Matthew. I'll thank you to keep your..lower appendages..under control! I mean..ahem..I'm flattered and all, good gracious me, but uhm, I think you should save your, ughm, excitement for members of your own race."

She turned quickly back around and we both continued walking down the hallway.

"Could..could you not mention this to this Princess? Or anyone else? I'm more than a little embarrassed by this little problem." I stammered.

Rarity chuckled to herself.

"It's no problem, Darling. I am quite the catch after all. I'm not surprised you find me attractive."

My cheeks burned, and I was even more irritated. She was so full of herself! And what in the world was wrong with me? I was a human, and she was some kind of big-eyed cartoony pony-type creature I couldn't place in my own "beastiary". What I into..beastiality? No. No, that didn't make sense in the context of Equestria. Here, I was the beast, and Ponies were people. The role reversal made me dizzy and ashamed at the same time.

We opened the 2nd doorway to the throne room, where a purple unicorn with wings was reading a book, despite her lack of a set of hands to hold it or even turn the pages. It was somehow floating in front of her, surrounded in a purplish light that seemed to sparkle and sizzle with small bits and bubbles ever so slightly.

"I knew it!" shouted the purple pony as her eyes went wide at the sight of me.

She rushed over to me and bowed her head politely.

"I am Princess Twilight Sparkle of Equestria. This is the town of Ponyville. Welcome to my castle, Matthew!"

Both Rarity and myself were slack-jawed for a moment. How did she know my name? What was it that she knew?

"H-hello, Princess. How, did you know my name?"

"Haha! Oh, excuse me. I was doing a little experiment with Interdimensional Magic. It usually pulls things like plants and pieces of buildings from other worlds. They usually land in Ponyville Lake. And, you..you seem to be all wet. Here, let me get you some towels."

A stack of large fluffy towels suddenly levitated off a far shelf and headed quickly in my direction. I dodged the first one, but soon I was covered in them. Rarity and Twilight laughed, and soon, I was beginning to laugh as well.

It wasn't too long before the 3 of us were comfortably sitting on plump cushions and drinking tea. There were sugary cakes as well.

"Well," said Twilight, "As you are new in town, and even to Equestria, I suppose you'll want a few things explained to you."

I nodded. I decided to let the fact that she knew my name slide, at least for now.

Twilight's horn sent a purple sparkling cloud over our heads, framing a picture that somehow reminded me of an 80 inch flatscreen, if it wasn't for the fact that it was hovering in the air and surrounded by swirling gases in varying shades of purple.

The image displayed was of my home, where I had just been walking back home after a good meal at a local pub. Suddenly, a vortex opened in the air above me, an a number of electric snake-like tendrils wound their way around me from inside the vortex and pulled in, sharply. The vortex slammed shut in a spiral pattern, leaving nothing but a quickly dissapating cloud of smoke. Even the remaining smoke seemed to drain away up into the air. The next image was me, being pulled through a tunnel of clouds and fleshy innard-like slimy things that surrounded me. The next image after that was of my body falling into Ponyville lake. After this was shown, the entirety of the display was sucked back into the Princess's horn, and her eyes had stopped glowing. I wasn't quick to notice that they had started to glow an opaque white in the first place.

Both me and Rarity looked back, quite expectantly at Twilight.

"This is the second time I've accidentally brought a human here to Equestria. I have to say, the previous one was much more ill-mannered than you, Matthew."

"Another human? You mean you've done this before?" I asked.

"Sadly, yes. I had to banish him though. Quite quickly, I might add. He was very...affectionate. Unnervingly so. Do..do all humans react this way to Ponies?"

I blushed again, and Rarity winked at me with a devious smile on her face. What was she thinking? I really was getting uncomfortable now, and all of this was starting to catch up with me. I felt woozy, and began to see stars.

"Are you ok, Matthew?"

In another flash of light, only known to me, I was unconcious.