The Lost is Found.

by Drag0nb0rn196

Chapter 8: Tick of a Watch

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“Holy shit!” I yell shooting up from my bed and grasping the covers hard. I take a quick look around the room and see that I am back in Fluttershy’s house and instantly I sigh and slump back down roughly into the bed. “Shit…it was only a dream!” I think to myself while staring up at the ceiling, trying to calm my body down from its alert and nervous state but it refuses to move to a calm so I just lay there, terror stricken and scared. When a few minutes pass and I am able to get some sort of control over myself, I look over to the window and see that the sun has barely risen over the top of the horizon indicating that it must still be early morning.

Sighing in annoyance I then close my eyes and try to get back to sleep. But before I can get even close to falling back to sleep, I feel a warm presence brush up against my back followed by a slight sigh and instantly I shoot back up and yank the covers off one side of my bed before breathing a sigh of relieve. Curled up on the right side of my bed sleeping soundly is Fluttershy, her stretched out form gently rising and falling with gentle breaths with her tail curled in an arch around her side, a calm smile on her face. Seeing her instantly calms me down and I laugh slightly before slowly laying back down and gently scooting towards her sleeping form, making sure not to disturb her.
When I get almost face to face with her, I stop and gently brush part of her mane out of her face and she gently stirs in her sleep while slightly giggling as she slightly opens both her eyes. “Good morning sleepy head.” I say quietly to which she yawns once more and then looks me in the eyes.

“Good morning Chri-.” Fluttershy starts to say before opening her eyes wide, eeping then burying her head under one of my sheets, causing me to laugh slightly and quickly uncover her head from the sheets.

“Hey, what’s wrong?” I ask the hiding mare, to which she looks up to me with a blush on her face and worry in her eyes.

“I-I s-slept with you without asking and that was the first time I had slept beside a stallion it i-is embarrassing.” She says shyly to which I gently caress her cheek and she eeps again, but I do not remove my hand.

“I don’t mind if you sleep with me so don’t be so embarrassed, actually it was probably the only thing that kept my nightmare down to half intensity.” I say smiling, but a look of concern then crosses Fluttershy’s face and she gently places her hoof in my hand.

“I heard you screaming about something last night and I came in here to find you thrashing around and trying desperately to wake up, so I hummed to you and that calmed you down slightly and I thought if I slept with you then you would have a good night so I curled up beside you and fell asleep.” She says quickly in an effort to try to explain the situation and when she finishes I chuckle slightly while removing my hand from her cheek.

“Thank you very much, you know your kindness seems to have no ends and that is something I like about you.” I say making her blush and leans her head into my shoulder and then sighs.

“You are not like other ponies, you have something about you that I feel I don’t need to be nervous about, a calming presence that seems to make me feel as though I have known you forever.” My heart melts inside my chest with that comment and I start to hum with bright energy and then rest my head on the top of hers.

“Well, I am glad that you have quickly warmed up to me and you enjoy my company!” I say proudly while gently rubbing into her mane with my head.

“Hey that tickles!” She says shaking her head in a playful attempt to get me to stop, but I ignore it and continue to caress the top of her head with my head.

After a few minutes, I cast a quick glance over to the window and see that the sun has now risen completely over the horizon and is now brightly illuminating the landscape and all its details. Then I realize that if I wanted to be able to catch both Celestia and Luna in the right amount of time then I will have to get going soon…not wanting to keep the princess of the night from getting her sleep. Now looking back to Fluttershy I see that her face is bright, but her eyes are not the same. “You need to get going, you do have to go to Canterlot today…how exciting that you, on your third day to Equestria are already being invited personally to the royal palace by none other than princess Celestia herself that has never happened before with anypony, how exciting.” I slightly laugh and then release Fluttershy before sitting up and stretching slightly before rising and walking over to a nightstand where I had placed my clothes for the event.

“Well, I guess that could be expected when you can call and ride dragons, breathe fire and do other things that nopony else can do, but if you want my other opinion it is because Celestia likes me but that’s just my two cents.” I say quickly while picking up the clothes and heading for the door.

“C-Celestia likes you?” She says shakily, causing me to stop and then return my eyes to her.

“I don’t really know for sure, but I can tell you for sure that Rarity does, the way she acted around me last night was proof of that and I have a feeling the rest of your friends do as well, even Rainbow Dash.” I say plainly as Fluttershy laughs quickly and I raise an eyebrow in confusion. Not being able to determine if anything was wrong or not, I shrug slightly and then step over to the door to the closet and open it with one of my hands and stepping one leg out, making sure to continue to smile at Fluttershy. “I am going to take a shower, if you want when I get out I can help you with the animals.” Fluttershy smiles at me and all the nervousness from just a second ago leaves her face in an instant.

“No it is alright, I will get it all done, I don’t want you to get those clothes dirty before going to the palace.” She says happily creating a slight smile on my face.

“Okay Fluttershy I am going to take a shower and wash up while you do that, when I get out we can eat breakfast together and you can tell me about Canterlot sound good?” Fluttershy nods her head gently smiling and then stretches her wings out before rising off the bed and looking out the window.

“Can you hurry, I want to spend as much time with you before you go as I can.” Fluttershy says nervously, making a light blush spread across her face and this in turn makes me smile and laugh.

“So I guess she likes me, well I guess I also like her but in the same time I also think I have warm feelings for the other mares to…so the circle is complete minus Applejack who I have a feeling I will find out soon enough about her.” I think to myself as I give Fluttershy a small wink and then step completely into the hallway and close the door before walking slowly to the end of the hallway, opening the door to the bathroom and stepping inside closing it. Then I place the clothes on the end of the sink counter and slowly start to remove my clothing from my body.

I remove all of my clothes and look down to the clothes Rarity had made for me. A pair of simple but stylish brown cargo pants folded up neatly next to a bright orange and red colored shirt with a pair of brown slip on boots and long black boot socks. That is also when I noticed that underneath the black socks was a pair of white and black boxers “Well, I guess when she said she investigated my body she meant my entire body, oh boy I hope she has not told anypony.” This thought makes me slightly blush and I try not to picture the look on her sly face as she mentally goes over me section by section. However, not wanting to dwell on the thought of Rarity oogling at my nether, I shift my full focus onto the shirt.

A small ray of sunlight coming through a window near the top of the shower is striking the shirt and from that spot flames radiate off the shirt. Immediately I recoil slightly and then hold my hand over the supposed flame, but no heat greets me. That’s odd. Wondering what was going on, I then pick the shirt up and lift it so I can get a better view of the flames and more light strikes the clothes, causing more of the fabric to be consumed in what appeared to be flames. I instantly look at it in confusion, but then instinctively I hold the rest of the shirt up to the light pouring in through the window and the entire shirt then bursts into flames. “Well I guess when you say dragon, most ponies think fire, it is nice but they have not even seen 1/4th of my thuum yet, hell maybe I will get lucky and Trixie, Blueblood or even Gilda will show up that way they can be assholes to my friends so I have an excuse to turn someone to ashes or call a storm and them get fried by lighting and tornadoes, speaking of storms I bet I can use that shout to fuck with the weather pegasus and Rainbow Dash, yea I am going to definitely do that eventually!”

Now having something devious to laugh at I remove the shirt from the light and the mock flames instantly are extinguished and I set the shirt down neatly and then still laughing in an evil like way at my plans for the weather ponies, step over to the shower and turn the water on. As I wait for the water to warm up, I sit quietly and think to myself. “This is going to be a great day!”
After I finish my shower, I quickly dry off and then get dressed into the clothes before proudly staring at myself in the mirror. “They fit perfectly, nice job Rarity!” I shout inside my head, hoping that somehow she could hear me and revel in the appreciation of her clothes conforming to me so well. “It must have been very difficult for her to do this, I will have to thank her in person when I get the chance.” I tell myself as I let a ray of light strike my chest causing the flames to once again ignite. After a few seconds of admiring the handiwork of the clothing I then turn from the mirror and the fabric extinguishes itself before I head over to the door and slowly open it then proceed down the hallway. As I take small steps toward the kitchen and living room area, I can hear Fluttershy humming slightly and birds repeating the sound she had just hummed, making me sigh in content. “Her voice is so beautiful, I wonder if she knows that sound can rival that of the angels…guess not.” I think to myself as I slow down at the corner and poke a curious look around.

The kitchen table is lined with all sorts of breakfast foods and drinks while Fluttershy runs here and there grabbing various bottles and foods while gently attending her waiting animals. Wanting to see her in greater action, I quickly slip around the corner but stay absolutely quiet while looking at the hard working mare. That is when I take a few tentative steps forward and then gently clear my throat, giving up on being stealthy and going in guns blazing. Fluttershy gently stops in mid step and then quickly turns and looks at me before her face explodes in amazement.
“W-wow you look amazing!” She says with a blush on her face and I smile and walk into full view of her.
“Thank you and it is all thanks to your friend Rarity!” I beam proudly closing my eyes and putting an arm forward and pulling it back to me in a fist pump before Fluttershy screams and I instantly jolt from my happy position, fear present in my face and body.

“What’s wrong?!” I say quickly and loudly to which Fluttershy quickly rushes into the kitchen and come flying back out towards me with a pot full of water.

“You’re on fire Chris!” She screams loudly causing some of the animals to freak out and start to run amok around the house. That is when I quickly look down to my shirt and notice that some sunlight coming from the windows in the kitchen had enveloped my shirt and now the mock flames had consumed me and look back up to the mare and see that she is about to douse me with the water.

“NO, NO, NO IT’S NOT REAL FIRE!” I shout loudly causing the approaching mare to at the last second pull the pot back with her teeth, causing some of the water to spill over the side of the pot and onto the floor. She sits the pot down on the ground and then quickly gives me a confused look. “It is something Rarity designed for me, because most associate fire with dragons and since I am ‘Dragonborn’ she wanted to include something that might covey that, probably because of my massive fire shout last night but these are not real flames, when exposed to sunlight it appears to burst into flames.” I say informatively to Fluttershy and after a second a huge look of relieve crosses her face.

“Oh I thought you were on fire and I was scared for your well-being so I quickly reacted without thinking, after all I don’t want you to get hurt.” She says quietly, but clearly.

“That is really sweat, thank you!” I say happily before closing the last few inches between us and then giving her a gentle hug. At first I think I may have scared her because she gives a slight gasp but then slowly wraps her forelegs around me and then places her head on my chest and coos.

“Y-your w-welcome.” She says blushing and this causes a large flash of heat to spread from my chest upwards, making me feel as though the mock fire has entered my blood stream. Fluttershy’s tail is gently swishing back and forth behind her while her breaths are long and relaxed, making gentle happy noises rising and falling with the movement of my chest as I slowly inhale and exhale while enjoying the warming feeling of the mare being pressed against my chest. But along with the feelings of happiness, a more primal feeling wells up in me as I feel heat start to shift to my neither region along with the building pleasure from the rest of my body and instinctively I place a hand on the small of her back and gently press her more into me. This causes a slight mph to escape Fluttershy’s lips and then I feel a hoof being pressed into my chest slightly.

“Uh Chris, are you alright?” Upon her saying this I release her as my control is once again brought back to normal.

“I have to control myself, don’t want to scare her and hurt her feelings.” After my momentary self-scolding session, I then look down to Fluttershy and give a nervous smile. “Somewhat, how about you.” I say while laughing nervously trying to desperately avoid intensely warm eyes that seem to in a happy way, looking into my very soul.

"You seemed rather distant for a second and it looked like your eyes were glazed over slightly.” She says worriedly and I instantly try to come up with an excuse for how I was feeling.

“I am sorry I was just remembering my nightmare that’s all.” I say quickly while sighing on the inside from being so quick to save myself. However the concerned look in her eyes grows slightly and she slowly releases me from the hug before walking over to a chair at the end of the table and sits down before looking back to me.

“You want to talk about it?” She says kindly to which I sigh and walk over and sit in a chair on her right side.

“Sure, thanks Fluttershy I actually was wanting to talk with you and your friends about it eventually, but I figured that I would not have to, that it would just fade away eventually but this is going on almost a year of me having this dream so it is about time I spoke of it.” I say grabbing a plate quickly serving myself some pancakes and syrup before taking a fork and cutting off a piece of pancake. “Okay, for the longest time I have had this dream of Hell…more importantly of me going there.” As soon as I say this Fluttershy cocks her head to the side and observes me closely.

“What is Hell?” Fluttershy asks me innocently, causing me to clear my throat. Realizing that since most of Equestria was probably not familiar with the concept of Heaven and Hell, God and The Devil, I try and sum up the story quickly.

“Remember what I said about dragons being demon princes…well demon princes and demons are evil beings that inhabit Hell because they were cast from Heaven in punishment for a rebellion against God, the divine father who created all things including humans who he made in his image. The demons did not want to bow before humans, they thinking because they came before humans that humans should bow to them.” I say in caution, but Fluttershy seems to pick up on this and gently nods her head for me to continue. “This caused tension to build and eventually it boiled over into a war in Heaven where the demons wanted to overthrow God and he threw them out eternally, casting them into a world of misery and torment, Hell, where they suffer for all eternity.” Fluttershy the whole time is gently nodding her head, but when I finish she is shaking slightly and I wait for her to be able to recompose herself before continuing.

When a few seconds pass she looks to me with a confident smile and I continue my story. “Well, now that you know about that somewhat let’s get down to business. In my dream I am sleeping quietly in an unknown location and around my neck is this brilliant gold watch with a white lanyard. ” I then quickly recompose myself and then sigh before continuing. “However, suddenly it is as I am viewing myself from outside my body and my vision slowly starts to focus more on the watch itself as it pops open by itself, the loud ticking noise filling the air. This watch is far from normal because inside an ominous voice repeats over and over again ‘You can never come back.’ As the voice sounds off the face of the watch glows a white color and this light fades and brightens each time a word is spoke. It continues to repeat itself until all the hands line up at the twelve o’clock position and with one final tick, the entire watch explodes into a million pieces, sending me flying through the sky in a completely new place. All around me black storm clouds swirl around violently and I pass through them quickly, the wind whipping my face and stinging my eyes. You okay Fluttershy?” I ask her concurringly to which she quickly stops shaking and refocuses on me.

“Yea, I am j-just trying to steal myself for what is to come, please continue.” Fluttershy says in a low voice and uneasily I clear my throat and continue my story, but now trying to pay close attention to how she is reacting.

“After a few seconds I pass through all the clouds and shoot into a wide open space in what appears to be a dimly lit rocky desert and in the center is a massive wall of lightning. I am flung through the wall and this causes massive pain to shoot up my body, like I had just been struck by a train, but as soon as that happens I then fall to my stomach and feel nothing. From there that is when the ground starts to shake violently and instinctively I get to my feet and start to run away, something in my body telling me that no matter what I had to get away. Looking back as I ran I could see stress marks all going to a central part of where the wall used to be and for some strange reason, I immediately knew that an explosion was about to occur and I try to increase my speed, but I am already running at full speed and cannot run any faster. A few seconds pass of intense shaking and rumbling, a huge explosion shoots up into the sky leaving a small red colored hole and stirring up the clouds, causing them to spin into a deep black tornado.”

Fluttershy’s face is now partially hidden behind her hooves, but I press on and try to finish my story. “As soon as the tornado forms it lowers to the ground and the base connects where the hole in the ground the massive wind gripping me as if a giant hand and starts to yank me backwards towards the whirling monster. I struggle to get away, it throws me on the ground but that does not stop me from trying to fight. I dig my hands and feet into the ground, clawing desperately to avoid getting sucked into the tornado, but no matter how hard I try I continue to lose ground and then after a few more feet I am near the base of the tornado and am sucked inside the monster.” Fluttershy has now buried her head underneath her hooves and is shaking intensely.

“As soon as I enter the inside, super intense winds wildly fling me about, making me thrash wildly in an attempt to stabilize myself. However this is also when I notice that unlike in a traditional tornado where you would be pulled up, I am falling down as if I was inside a whirlpool and I look down because I knew the tornado was camped overtop the red hole… what I see fills me with terror. Sitting at the bottom of the tornado is a large red grandfather clock where the hole that was formed by the explosion and I was approaching it very rapidly. Knowing that I probably knew what was on the other side of this grandfather clock I start to curse and panic before the wind suddenly stops and instead of whirling around, I start to freefall at a rapid pace. Knowing that whatever was happening there was no stopping, I quickly say a prayer and then fall through the face of the clock and it comes into a terrible scene.”

I say with a serious voice and notice Fluttershy start to whimper slightly. Taking this as a good time to warn her of the next part I pause briefly and put a hand on one of her fore hooves. “Now Fluttershy, this next part is going to get very graphic, are you sure that you want me to continue?” I ask in a worried tone to which Fluttershy does noting, but the feeling of an invisible hand lightly squeezing my hand greets me and I know she is okay with me further explaining, so I sigh and resume my speech. “I enter into a world full of fire, smoke and air rich with the smell of death. Below me, a massive ocean of lava seems to stretch on in every direction with no visible end and I am falling full speed towards it.”

Fluttershy now starts to cry slightly, causing me to want to completely stop, but I instead squeeze her hoof even harder and continue. “But just as I am thinking that I am going to end up in the lava, a long skiff like boat emerges from the lava and I fall straight onto it, lucky enough that I landed on my feet and did not go tumbling off it into the lava. Then after a moment I get my barring and then stare in horror at where I now am. That is also when I realize that I am not alone on the boat and I turn slightly to look behind me. A giant skeleton beast is looking at me with evil eyes and immediately I try and use a shout on him, but I find that for some reason I cannot use my thuum. The massive beast then quickly tried to bite me and I duck and it only gets me in the arm.”

I say in relief, however it does not seem to calm Fluttershy down as her crying starts to grow even more intense. “Being bitten by this beast feels like I am being stabbed by a thousand hot knives and I cry out in extreme pain, tears streaming like mad out of my eyes. My body is crying out for me to get as far away from this creature as I can and with a burst of strength I sprint up to the front of the boat. But then something comes slowly rising up out of the lava and instantly my new sense of fear floods my system. After it rises out of the lava, the creature gives a loud roar and then appears out of the fire, a giant hellhound looking at me with an evil smile and fire orange eyes. But that is not the only strange thing about him because inside his eyes are these bright red symbols that look like bulls eyes with the addition of one line extending from the top and three extending out from the bottom.” I quickly pull Fluttershy into a tight hug as the painful memory starts to make me feel unsafe, something I am not used to feeling.

“Upon noticing the strange symbols my mind races and I immediately try to run back towards the other monster, wanting to be as far away from this new monster as possible. But with a quick breath in and out, a wall of fire smacks into the ship in front of me, spawning small imps. I scream in horror as I try to run away from them only to be stopped by more fire and imps blocking my forward path. I am now surrounded and before I know it they jump me and instantly start biting into my skin. The pain is unbearable and I scream out for help, but to no avail as the creatures continue to claw and bite me with no mercy.” After a few minutes of trying to shake the imps off of me, my heart drops in my chest as I feel the boat start to tip upwards and on instinct, I gather my remaining strength and make a mad dash to the front of the boat. Before I can get there the boat has tipped up and is slowly sinking back into the lava and I quickly climb the foremast and hold on as tight as I can as the imps continue to tear me apart.”

At this my skin starts to crawl and I almost fall out of my seat, only being stopped by Fluttershy’s firm grip on me. “My screams now increase not from physical pain but from the overwhelming emotional pain because I know that despite the physical pain, I was never going to get to go back and be with those I love again…eternal separation from all things I care about.” And right before I can touch the lava, I wake back up.” I finish looking at Fluttershy with relieved eyes. “I told you it was intense, sorry.” I say plainly to which Fluttershy turns and looks me dead in my eyes.

“I know it was a dream, but I am scared now that this will happen to you!” She says wrapping me in her forelegs and crying into my chest intensely. Feeling my heart leap into my throat I slowly stroke her long pink mane.

“Aww, Fluttershy it’s just a dream…a scary dream but still a dream.” I say quietly to her but frown slightly. “Yea, for now.” I tell myself before letting her go and wipe a few more tears from her face. “Hey, let’s eat we both have a big day today!” I say energetically before motioning her to get food which she reluctantly releases me then slowly makes herself a plate. Seeing this I do the same and we sit and eat in total silence, trying desperately to not remember the horrible story that I just told.

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We finish our breakfast and quickly clean up then both step outside and prepare to go our separate ways for the day. However I can tell that the conversation about my dream earlier is still bugging her and so I try my best to get her mind off of it.
“So where do you got to go today?” I ask while quickly looking to Annabelle’s sleeping figure and then back to her and I can see her start to look a little nervous.

“W-well Pinkie Pie and the rest of the gang need my help with something, s-so I got to g-go to Ponyville.” As soon as she finishes this statement, she immediately gives a nervous smile laughing slightly.

Well that’s suspicious, I really need to teach her to better handle herself because I am not even applying any pressure and she is cracking.” Seeing that she was nervous enough, I just shrug and pretend not to notice anything strange. “Alright then let’s go to Ponyville, you can keep me company.” I say smiling before she looks to me nervously again.

“P-please don’t use the fast running again that s-scared me last time.” She says timidly, causing me to break out in slight laughter.

“No, not this time, actually I figured since I have not spent much time with Annabelle we could ride her into town, or do you think that would cause a panic?” I ask in an unsure voice.

“After yesterday with the dragons, I don’t think so.” She says with uncertainty and that was all I needed to here. Knowing that she was up for the idea I instantly turn and call Annabelle’s name and she springs awake, lazily gets to her feet before yawning and walking over to where we are. As soon as Annabelle sees me she coos and gently lowers her head to me and nuzzles her face with mine and I return it in kind by rubbing my face back. After a few seconds pass, she slowly leans over and then does the same to Fluttershy who giggles and nuzzles her back.

“Good morning Annabelle, did you get a good sleep?” She asks happily to which Annabelle coos and then lets out a deep almost purr from deep in her throat, causing Fluttershy to giggle. “I think that’s a yes.” Seeing these two together is warming my heart and to think that only 2 days ago, she would have probably wet herself at the mere sight of her, but is now completely warmed up to her, as if she had personally raised Annabelle from birth to now. The two embrace for a solid minute and then Annabelle lifts her head back up and looks to me with expectant eyes.

“You must not have been too deep in sleep because I am guessing you know what I want to do?” I say skeptically to which Annabelle grunts and lowers her head to the ground waving her tail slightly. “Alright then good girl!” I say quickly giving her neck a scratch and then climbing aboard the massive T rex sitting down on her neck. “Let’s role!” I say happily to Fluttershy who quickly runs over, flaps her wings to get to where she can mount the neck and gently lands behind me, placing her forelegs around me.

“I am, but please be careful as you know I can scare easily.” She says her face turning a face of red and then giggling again. Knowing that all was well with her, I tap Annabelle on the side and she gently starts to take a few steps forward. After she gets into a steady rhythm and I readjust myself so I do not fall off, she then slowly walks toward the road and with a slight up step, rises above the slight ditch on the side of the road then gently starts walking up the road towards Ponyville. We ride in silence for 5 minutes until we almost reach Ponyville when we encounter a light grey earthpony with another tan earthpony and when they see us they stop dead in their tracks. Not thinking anything of it, I just politely wave and smile, to which they look horrified but then immediately relax and wave back.

“That’s the Dragonborn!” The tan mare says in exclamation and the grey earthpony looks to me as well in amazement.

“What will he do next?!” He says loudly and I take the praise with kindness and gently wave to them as we pass by.

“You know, you might just become more popular than Rainbow Dash.” She says softly to which I laugh and lean back slightly into her.

“Well, that is not my intention but if it happens it happens and all these things I am doing, not wanting to brag, are powerful but there not the most powerful shouts I have.”

“What is your most powerful shout?”

“Well if you are talking about inborn shouts then it is the storm call shout.” I say looking back to her as her eyes grow to massive size.

“Y-you can control the weather?” She says in amazement and I quickly reply.

“Uh huh, most of the time it is to awaken the destructive forces of lightning upon my enemies, but it also spawn tornadoes.” Fluttershy’s eyes grow wide in amazement and then she looks up to the sky.

“Wow that is truly terrifying, but it is nice to know that if need be you can do it.”

“Yea, I guess so but the weather ponies would surly hate me!” I say in a sly tone, causing Fluttershy to give me a hard look.

“We are almost hear, so how are you going to get to Canterlot…unless you will ride a dragon up there it will take forever.” She says instantly lowering her scowl. I curse to myself under my breath.

“I have no clue, but I guess Twilight will know more about it, but I think they will come and get me.”

“How do you know that?” Fluttershy asks skeptically and this makes me think.

“Well, I believe Celestia said she would come and get me last night.” I say sighing and leaning forward off of Fluttershy and staring at the town lazily. The ponies on the outskirts of town are all going about their normal business until they spot me on the T rex.

“The Dragonborn comes!” one of them shouts quickly rushing off into town and I immediately smile and start to feel warm inside. As we slowly approach the main entrance to Ponyville, I can hear some stirring going on inside the town and then a few ponies come rushing out and immediately seeing me they begin to cheer.

After a minute or two more of approaching the town...Annabelle takes a step inside the front and I will her to make her way towards where Twilight’s library is in the middle of town. With her massive legs we reach our destination in mere seconds. Standing around the entrance is Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Rarity, who look at me as if they had just seen a wonder of the world.

“No fucking way!” Rainbow Dash shouts.

“How is this even possible?!” Twilight exclaims before doing a double take

“Wow, even the beasts of the mighty Everfree forest submit to him.” Rarity says while looking at me with an impressed blush and I cannot help but smile back at her.

“This is one of the best things that I have ever seen minus those dragons and I have about seen it all here in Ponyville!” Pinkie Pie says before pulling a glass of water seemingly out of thin air before drinking it and then spitting it out in a comical fashion. Wanting to see the rest of my new friends, I will Annabelle to stop and she does before lowering her head to the ground. Fluttershy is the first to get off, gently flapping her wings and gently releasing me before raising herself up off the neck and jumping down to the ground. I swiftly follow her and then pat Annabelle on the nose.

“Good job girl!” I say praising her for her efforts and she coos and gives me a small nuzzle before laying down in the middle of town and quickly falling asleep. Then I turn and face the group of mares before clearing my throat. “So how’s the morning been?” This seems to break them from there intense staring and they all shake their heads.

“Good just trying to figure out how we are going to plan your-.” Twilight starts to say before Pinkie places a hoof in her mouth and glares at her slightly. Taking the hint to not say whatever it was she was about to, she nods and Pinkie removes her hoof from her mouth before wiping it off on her coat.

“We were just trying to figure out when Celestia was going to come and take you to Canterlot.” Rarity chimes in.

“Well, it is a good thing you all know because if not then I was just going to take a dragon up there.” I say laughing slightly, but Pinkie immediately cuts in.

“That would not be a good idea because the guards may think you’re a danger and then your dragon and you might get super obliterated!” Pinkie says energetically as she acts like she is exploding.

“Thanks for the advice Pinkie!” I say calmly then I wink at her and her face grows a few shades lighter in pink in what I can only imagine to be a blush. That is when Fluttershy walks over next to Rainbow Dash and then stands quietly, slightly blushing towards me and smiling.

“Well then, when will you ever cease to amaze us?” Twilight asks brightly and I turn and face the lavender colored pony.

“Probably never.” I say in a matter of fact tone to her and her face turns a light shade of purple and I immediately understand that to also be a blush.

“I wonder, how are those clothes that I made you, I assume that you like them?” Rarity asks me skeptically and I look her way.

“These are kick ass and you did an amazing job with them, I love them!” I say as a ray of sunlight hits me, instantly setting the shirt ablaze.” With this all the mares eyes grow in size and their mouths fall open, reveling in the sight of hot fire burning on my shirt.

“Wow that is amazing!” All of them say in unison and this causes me to beam with pride.

“Yes, it is pretty amazing, oh and if you are wondering where your book on fire spells went to Twilight, I had to borrow it to make his shirt, sorry.” She says looking to Twilight and instantly a stern look crosses Twilight’s face. However after a few seconds pass her smile returns.

“I thought Spike had burned it…I gave him quite a lecture last night guess I owe him an apology, that is if he was awake!” She says annoyed before turning to look at her library and giving another glare of annoyance. This instantly causes Rainbow Dash to sigh and quickly snap her wings open and then without warning bolt over to an open window on the top floor.

“Spike, get out here there is somepony new you need to meet!” Rainbow says in an annoyed tone as I hear her hit something. As soon as she says this a sudden yell of shock followed by a loud crashing sound originates from the house followed by a few groans of pain.

“I am coming already!” An annoyed voice says and after a minute the door to the front of the library opens and a small purple and green dragon steps forward from inside and wipes his eyes groggily.
“Hey everypony what’s-.” Spike stops dead sentence when his eyes look to me and he cocks his head slightly and then a look of confusion hits his face. “What is that?” he asks in confusion and Fluttershy lightly speaks.

“Oh this is Chris and he is a human.” It is barely loud enough for me to hear, but Spike then instantly jumps slightly and then looks over to Twilight.

“How is that even possible, you even said that they were just a legend!” Spike exclaims with wide eyes. This causes me to cock my eyebrow and look quickly to the other mares.

“Humans are just legends?” I think to myself before refocusing on Spike. Twilight sighs slightly and then points a hoof to me.

“Well, I was wrong and now one is here in Equestria.” Twilight says matter of fact and Spike just looks at me strangely. Getting slightly annoyed by the constant staring I furrow my brow and take a little breath.

“You know, it is not polite to stare at somepony Spike.” I say in a slightly annoyed tone, instantly Spikes jaw instantly drops and he stares at me with even wider eyes than before.

“He, he can speak that is amazing… from what you said about them Twilight they were rumored to be savages that could not speak and wanted to devour us.” He says to Twilight who looks uneasily to me and then back to Spike with a worried look bringing her hoof across her throat. However I just laugh slightly and then turn to spike and give him an evil look.

“No Spike, I much prefer to feast on dragons!” I say ominously to which Spike gulps and quickly starts to back up. Knowing that this could be the start of a good prank, I place my hands up near my face and slowly start to tread towards the small dragon. Spike retreat now quickens and his breaths start to get more panic like, as if cornered by a great predator. He continues to back away from me slowly until he back up into the tree house and in a gasp, turns around slightly to see that he has nowhere to go and then quickly looks back to me. However I quickly look over to the mares and give a little wink, trying to clue them in that this was just a prank. At first they do not seem to responds, as they either don’t get it or don’t want to give it away. But eventually the mares all smile slightly and giggle and I turn back to Spike a fierce look present on my face. I pull my lips over my teeth and bring my head back before bringing it back forward and letting out a loud high pitched screech and staring running at him. Spike immediately lets out a loud scream and starts to call for help.

“Twilight!” I continue to run at him full speed and before long I am upon him and am staring him in the face. The dragon is whimpering and shaking harshly and I take this chance to get right in his face and let my breath hit him hard. I slowly start to inch myself closer and closer to him until my mouth is just inches from his neck and then I laugh slightly.

“Gotchay.” I whisper in his ear and immediately burst out laughing. The others do the same. It does not take very long at all for me to start laughing so hard that I start wheezing and I can barely hear myself over the howls of laughter coming from the other mares. I immediately withdraw my head from Spike and stumble over to Pinkie pie and place a hand on her side to prop myself up to keep from falling over.

“Hey that’s not funny you guys!” Spike says madly, but is only met with more laughter and Rainbow Dash gets up in his face and blows him a raspberry.

“You should have seen the look on your face!” She says laughing uncontrollable before dropping to the ground and rolling around in hysteria. Spike obviously does not appreciate this as he just huffs and then turns away from the group annoyed.

“Spike, it is not good to be a bad sport, just go with it!” Rarity says happily continuing to laugh and this causes Spike to blush and turn to face me. He stares me down for a few seconds before a small smile forms on his face and he starts to chuckle slightly and before long he is also laughing along with us, albeit not as intensely.

...

laughing uncontrollably for at least 5 minutes we then slowly settle down as to give are lungs a minute to recuperate and I take this brief pause to look up to the sky. However, I quickly look back down to the rest of the mares and cock on of my eyebrows. “Where is Celestia, I am starting to wonder if she has forgotten me.” I say sighing while looking back up to the sky as Twilight clears her throat.

“No when Princess Celestia says she is going to do something then she does it, no questions asked.” Knowing that I needed something else to pass the time, I try and just make small talk.

“So any of you want to know how I can make that raptor noise from earlier.” I ask skeptically and instantly Pinkie Pie shoots into my face.

“Yea that was so super awesome but scary at the same time how do you do it?!” Pinkie Pie says excitedly and I slowly push her away from me and pop my knuckles.

“Well to tell you the truth I have no idea, but it seems to be something that I have always been able to do since I was born…strange huh?!” I say energetically. However, before anypony can respond, the heavenly horn that played yesterday starts to play and all the ponies gasp.

“It’s Princess Celestia, she is almost here!” Twilight exclaims while Rarity tries desperately to fix a slight stuck of hair from her mane and Fluttershy smiles slightly, her and Pinkie being the only two calm ones in the group. Even Rainbow Dash appears to be scrambling to make her already stunning physique look any better than it actually was and she lands before trying to get the ponies into a line.

“I understand that she is the princess of the sun and all, but this is ridiculous!” I think to myself as some shimmers of light start to form and the horn continues to play its melody. These shimmers of light start to slowly take the form of Celestia and grow in intensity adding more and more detail to the outline. Even though I had seen this happen yesterday, I cannot help but be awestruck at the sight unfolding in front of me as even with all of my experience with the supernatural and other oddities that I find myself constantly being exposed to, it is not often that I get to witness something like this. After a few seconds the shimmers of light become one solid light and I can clearly see the shape of a pony take form and then in a bright flash of light, Celestia emerges onto the ground standing proudly and smiling. Sensing a warm feeling coming from her smile, I smile back to her as she starts to make her way towards me with eagerness and delight abound in her eyes. When she gets really close the others bow in respect, but I remain standing upright and continue to meet her smile with one of my own.

“It is good to see everypony again please rise.” She says looking to the others and they slowly rise up and break their line before forming a semi-circle around me and Celestia.

“Princess Celestia, it is good to see you again.” Twilight says humbly as Celestia then turns her attention to the lavender colored pony.

“It is great to see you to Twilight, I assume you all are ready for the day?” Twilight quickly nods her head and then Celestia turns back to me and flashes a bright colored smile. “And how are you feeling Chris?” She asks me in a warm and caring voice her calming smile making me feel as though I am melting on the inside.

“Great actually never been better!” I reply happily, causing Celestia to giggle and blush.

“It is great to hear and I see you brought a friend along today.” She says looking behind me to what I know is Annabelle and then back to me with a questioning look.

“Yep and thanks to the thuum we are now the best of friends.” Celestia looks at me with awe for a second but then she clears her throat and then stretches her wings until they are fully extended and smiles slyly to me. At first I seem slightly confused at what she is trying to do because of my natural autistic tendencies to not understand social norms of people, much less ponies but then something clicks in my mind and one thought rushes to my head. “She is trying to show herself off!” I say with passion as I look at the alicorn’s massive wings and marvel in their presence. Brightly glowing white feathers that seem to catch and radiate the suns light back to me are in full display for me to admire, causing me to take immediate interest. The muscles that connect them to her body appear soft but firm and seem to bulge just slightly, indicating the extreme strength in her that must be required to power them. “Wow that is impressive, if I ran my hand along her I could feel every pulse, every signal, and every slight movement of her powerful muscles wow!” But at the same time her wings look very sensitive, as if a gentle stroke from the right pony or person…could drive her wild!” I think to myself as a blush forms on my face and she quickly snaps them shut and then clears her throat before turning to face the other mares.

“I take it that you know what is being worked on right now.” She says slyly as the rest of the mares grow sly smiles while looking to me.

“Oh yea princess we are going to be done in no time flat!” Rainbow Dash says energetically before hovering off the ground and doing a back flip before landing one more on the ground.

“It is going to be the best of times alright!” Pinkie exclaims quickly before pulling a kazoo out of nowhere and playing a tune that sounds familiar but I cannot quite place my mind to identifying it.

“ Going to be the talk of the town, but I must be going now, I have a massive amount of orders to fill so ta-ta.” The rest of the mares wave goodbye to her and she then slowly starts to walk away, but not before looking back to me with a lustful smile brushing her tail to the side slightly, giving a brief glimpse of her marehood and I blush slightly and look to the others. They all seem to be looking at me now, sly smiles plastered on their faces. I laugh nervously and then quickly refocus my attention to Celestia.

“S-so I guess your hear to take me to Canterlot?” Celestia slowly nods her head and then look back up to the sky.

“Yes so are you ready to go?” Celestia asks me calmly and I nod my head in response before I then turn back and point to Annabelle.

“Alright sounds good, Annabelle is going to sleep for a while but if she wakes up then just feed her some meat and she will be fine.” I say looking back over to Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie who all nod in agreement.

“You can count on us!” Twilight says enthusiastically and I give her a thumbs up and wink to her, causing her to blush and turn her eyes from me.

“Okey dokie smokey!” Pinkie says while bouncing off towards sugarcube corner, humming a happy tune.

“I will never get tired of that!” I say looking to Celestia who then rolls her eyes in a playful manner and then steps up beside me.

“Alright if all is said and done, then let’s go.” She says happily slightly crouching down looking at me with expectant eyes. This act confuses me and I let it known as I look at her confusingly.

“Uh what are you doing?” She then looks at me and giggles slightly and then spreads her wings out and flaps slightly.

“Oh I want to personally fly you to Canterlot.” After letting the statement of what she just said sink in a wave of confusion and joy hits me hard and I break out a shocked smile.

“WHAT?!” Me and Twilight shout in unison, but where mine was confusion and joy hers was full of only confusion.

“But Princess Celestia, won’t that be viewed as strange by your subjects?” She ask with concern, but immediately the princess holds her hoof up.

“My most faithful student, I understand your concern but I wish to do this in honor of his performance yesterday.” Celestia says in a motherly voice, causing Twilight to sigh in defeat and then nod her head at me, telling me that this is really happening and I smile slightly and throw a wink to Twilight, making her slight frown turn into a smile as I slowly throw a leg around Celestia, running it down her strong side, making sure to not step on her wing and then planning it on the other side. Then I slowly sit down on her back, making sure to take it as slowly as I can in an effort not to overload her body with weight.

When I place my full weight on her and adjust myself so I am balanced she then slowly rises to her full form, lifting my feet of the ground and making me lose my balance slightly and I have to lean forward into and wrap my arms around her neck, causing her to chuckle slightly.
“Have you ever flow on an alicorn before?” I quickly set myself up and place my hands on the side of her forelegs and slightly squeeze to keep my non balanced body in an upright position.

“No and this is not like a dragon so I am sorry if I seem awkward.” I say chuckling slightly, making Celestia laugh and take in a deep breath. That is when I for the first time truly feel her. Her massive breath makes all of her muscles flex slightly and the energy from those movements race through my body almost instantly. My heart starts beating fast and I become lost in the sensation. Every single inch of her body is pulsing with energy, every expansion and contraction of her chest as she would draw breaths and then exhale, causing another jolt of energy to surge through me. The spots where my hands were located on the tops of her forelegs were also alive with energy as she would move ever so slightly and the movement would rocket up my hands and into my body, sending a slight wave of pleasure racing through me to meet the oncoming waves.

Then after a few minutes of standing and allowing me to become comfortable with sitting on her still she gives her wings a hard flap and slowly starts to rise into the air. When she gets to about 10 feet off of the ground she then turns away from Ponyville and points herself towards a distant mountain.

“You ready?” She ask energetically and I pull myself out of my euphoric state long enough for me to nod in response I quickly turn back and look down to Twilight and give her a wave. She quickly smiles to me and waves a hoof back to me. As I turn back around Celestia starts flying at a medium pace towards the rather distant mountain. Almost immediately my senses are bombarded with the feeling of rapidly flexing muscles and I sigh in happiness and slightly lean forward and wrap my arms around Celestia’s neck. This earns a slight gasp from Celestia as I begin to slowly stroke the skin where her neck meets with her chest.

“I am sorry, but I cannot help myself you’re just so soft!” I say giggling, looking forward trying to see her face.

“No don’t be sorry, I don’t mind… it has been so long since someponies touch was not motivated by malice.” This statement causes the sensations of energy to stop completely and I raise my head up slightly.

“What do you mean?” I say in heartfelt honesty, causing Celestia to stiffen slightly and I see her eyes start to grow heavy.

“Because of my status for 1000 years as the soul ruler of Equestria caused me to become highly sought after because if a stallion married me then they would be inducted into the royal family. But unfortunately…these would be stallions were just after my body and did not care about me personally. Things never would even progress past a slight kiss and then they would become consumed in lust and try to take advantage of me.” As she finishes this statement a tear rolls down her cheek and I can hear her trying to hold back the rest. “They would try to have sex with me but I would turn them down because I was not ready for it and often times I would stop seeing them after no more than a couple days. I continued to do this for a while until one of the suitors did not like my rejection of him.” That is when the floodgates open and it all comes rushing out. “He was so angry at me that one night, he snuck into my chambers and then he…he tried to rape me.” Upon her saying that she starts to sob uncontrollably and I hug her neck tighter in an effort to calm the upset mare. “Lucky for me a guard had just happened to hear the commotion and he came running and upon seeing him, stabbed him with a spear… he died right on top of me.” She says sobbing even more intensely and immediately my insides become sad so in an effort to calm her I scoot forward towards her neck and then reaching forward gently wipe the tears from one of her cheeks.

“Celestia…please don’t cry, hey look at me.” I say in her ear to which she gently turns her head and because of my close proximity she almost brushes against my cheek. Even with a fierce look of sadness on her face, she still manages to hold my warm gaze and blush slightly while I gently wipe the tears from her eyes. I continue to do this for what feels like an eternity, letting her release her stream of tears, saying nothing but holding my caring look and not letting up in my gentle strokes on her cheek and neck, trying to slowly force all of her sad emotions to leave her and in doing so, make her not only feel better but truly be better. Eventually my technique starts to work and I can see her tears start to come less frequently and the tight feeling of her face and throat relaxes slightly and I take that as a good sigh so increase the frequency of my strokes on her powerful throat. Now in between whimpers of her sad outside I can hear slight sighs of content and happiness, letting me know that my act of kindness is working in full. Then slowly the sighs of happiness start to become more frequent, until they are the only thing she is showing and I slowly remove my hand from her cheek but leave my hand on her throat while deep breathing to get her to even further relax.

“How, how can you do that?” She says so softly that I cannot barely hear her, but I do catch what she is saying and I can feel my own eyes start to feel heavy as my own sadness starts to well up inside as I remember who was the first one to have asked me this question.

“Because…because, for my entire life I have had no friends save the dragons you have met and one that is no longer living.” At the last part I briefly shutter as a tear runs down my cheek. “And was rejected by others, but my family always said I had a naturally calming nature and despite me being rejected that one day this would make me a good friend to others. But because of my isolation from others I felt as though it was just a gesture to soothe my heartbroken existence.” I say hurtfully as another tear makes its way onto my face and I quickly wipe it off with my free hand. Celestia immediately notices this because as soon as I feel more tears about to come out, she gently puts her face to mine and nuzzles me affectionately.

“They were right you know, you really do possess a special gift…a heartwarming charm that even I do not possess and all the other girls really like that, take pride in that.” She says as she gives me another nuzzle and retreats her head so her lips are only inches from mine. “And I also want you to know that you will never have to worry about being isolated and alone again…that is a promise.” Celestia says in a heartfelt tone. This statement while very simple in nature makes my insides fill with a flash of heat, the same heat as I experienced the day I told Fluttershy to not fear me and that I had accepted her and would never think down on her. For one of the first times I truly felt happiness and when coming from a female even if the female was a pony, to hear her say something like that to me without any malice, was absolutely amazing. So much so that before I can even start to process how I am going to respond I smile a bright smile quickly throwing myself forward and wrapping my arms tightly around her neck near her barrel and lay my head down softly on top of her neck. “Can I tell you something very honest right now, I never expected you… to be so soft!” Celestia says in a silly tone and this elects a light laugh from me.

“Well that’s a first, never though of myself as soft but alright!” I say warmly as I tighten my embrace on Celestia.

“Not only do they like me, but I like them…all of them.” I tell myself contently, as my body relaxes into her soft but firm body, releasing all the sadness I had experienced through the conversation and allowing me an inner piece I had just recently come to know thanks to my new friends, a feeling of bliss knowing that even though we barely knew each other that I might have a shot at not only becoming one of their best friends…but possible even their coltfriend.

...

After about 20 more minutes of flying we are very close to the mountain from earlier and from our location I can clearly see the city of Canterlot. It is a huge metropolis with buildings that appear to had been all forged from the rock of the mountain itself. From my angle they all appear to mimic the structure of the Greco Roman style, with tall columns and large arches all carved out of lavish white marble and gold. The streets are formed of similar materials, with various patters of dark, light, shiny and bright colored stones intertwining into a checker pattern that seems to be alive with life and energy.

“Wow Celestia, this place looks even more amazing in person!” I say excitedly and Celestia gives a light giggle.

“It truly is, what do you think of the royal palace?” She says happily and I turn and look towards the center of town. If the city was made of jewels than the palace would be the diamond in the center. It is a huge medieval style castle forged of the shiniest white stone and gems I have ever seen with tall arched walls and two massive minarets side by side that I could only estimate to be at least 100 feet tall. They are both polar opposite colors from one another with the one on the left being adorned in gold and seeming to glow with the same intensity as the sun and the other a jet black color that is dotted with gems that resembles the night sky. Near the top, two massive paintings in the stone depict a fiery red sun with rays painted in a curved shape and the other a brightly lit full moon matching in similar to the design of the sun. From the way that it is set up, it appears that the users of the towers could easily have a bird’s eye view of the entire city and the thoughts of actually going to the top even further excites me.

“It is a true marvel to behold, I assume that you and your sister’s chambers are located in those two towers at the very top?” I ask excitedly wanting to know as much as I can about the palace.

“Yes, mine is the one that seems to resemble the sun and hers is the one that resembles the night and yes, her and my chambers are located at the very top and the throne room is at the center of the palace.” She says cheerfully and this raises my interest a little more about the home of the two princesses.

“So how many rooms are there in the palace?” This seems to cause some trouble for her as she says nothing for a second and then places a hoof to the underside of her chin.

“Hmm, I believe 100 rooms and that does not even count the kitchen or the various living rooms and offices for officials to work out of, plus the various guard quarters and other miscellaneous rooms.” She says happily removing the hoof from her chin as my mouth drops agape.

“WHAT…that’s insane!” I say in shock and Celestia giggles and turns her head and looks to me.

“You’re a funny one Chris, so would you like to see some of Canterlot while your hear, I can land a little way from the palace and we can walk if you want to?” She says sincerely and I take a second to consider her offer and then quickly respond.

“I would love to, but tell me…what did Twilight mean by when she said that it would be viewed strangely if your people saw me riding on your back?” Celestia’s ears perk up slightly and then she slowly shakes her head back and forth.

“Well, in theory it could be taken as you and me were romantically involved.” She says as she stops shaking her head and turns her head to me and blushes slightly to which I laugh.

“That is strange, but what the hell let’s do it!” I say energetically.

“Alright, but be prepared you may receive some…strange and possible evil looks.” She says before starting to slowly descent down towards the city as we had been flying over top of it for the past 20 minutes.

“Ah looks can’t kill and besides I think this may solve your problem with all those stallions chasing you.” I say in a matter of fact tone, causing Celestia to burst out laughing at this statement and eagerly start to descend a little faster. As we draw closer to the wide streets of Canterlot, I can start to hear the voices of ponies talking to one another and the clopping of hoofs as busy ponies rush here and there while fillies and colts run around chasing each other playing various games. This whole scene continues to play out until we are a little ways from the ground and then a loud horn starts to play a heavenly tone and immediately the crowed of people look up to the sky.

“It’s the princess!” Various ponies shout from within the crowed and then the entire crowd starts to bow as we steadily approach the ground. After she gets to about 10 feet off the ground she starts to flap her wings hard in a forward motion, even further slowing are descent and whipping wind into my face. After 3 hard flaps of her mighty wings, I feel her feet slowly come into contact with the ground and this makes a small tremor spread through her body and into mine, making me readjust myself slightly. Celestia continues to keep her massive wings spread out to their maximum length, blocking my view of the crowed so I cannot see if any of the ponies have spotted my yet, but I imagine that this is all a part of the plan and so relax and let Celestia go through with whatever plan she has.

“It is so good to see you all once more, but I have someone new I want to see…my new friend and companion Chris the Dragonborn!” She says loudly before slowly lowering her wings and resting them at her side. Immediately everypony looks up to me where her wings used to be and their faces go from happy and ecstatic to a mix of confusion and slight revulsion. Trying to play myself off as if nothing is affecting me, I slowly raise my hand and wave to the crowed.

“Hello everypony.” I say shyly while trying to make the best impression I can, but they all hold their looks. “Yep there confused alright!” I say to myself as I wave to the confused ponies and hold a bright smile, but this I can see has a strange affect. It is not fully there, but as I scan the crowed I spot the occasional evil glare directed towards me and I try my best to ignore them, just focusing on making a good first impression on the crowed. “Your city is beautiful and I feel honored to be here today!” My years of natural calming ability is now being put to the test and I try to pour every ounce of my enthusiasm into my words, not for my sake but for Celestia’s because I know that if I screwed up then it might ruin her and in so the others in Ponyville, if that happened…I would never be able to forgive myself.

“Princess, who is this strange looking alien and what is this about dragons flying over Ponyville?” A voice breaks from the crowed, making Celestia giggle happily.

“This is no alien, but a human, and yes there where dragons in Ponyville, dragons that this kind stallion here called so we could ride them in tribute to his new home of Equestria. She says proudly before turning to me and smiling.

“Oh boy!” I think to myself as I look from the crowd to her then back and I smile sheepishly. This causes murmurs to break out in the crowed and soon another voice speaks up.

“Princess if that is true how can you be sure he is not dangerous?”

“Because if he was then I would not do this.” Celestia says quickly before turning to me and leaning her head into my cheek giving me a gentle kiss. My eyes instantly grow wide and a mix of emotions start to well up inside me, but mostly the feelings of confusion and anxiety. The kiss only lasts for a couple of seconds, but when she removes her lips it feels like an eternity has passed and when I look at the crowd, they look as though they had just seen a miracle happen.

“Well...shit!” That is when I decide that this little walk of ours could wait until a later date and I lean back in to the still smiling mare and whisper in her ear. “Hey we can walk later, let’s just get to the castle alright.” Celestia simply giggles, giving my cheek another kiss before snapping her wings out and with several hard flaps she is air born and heading towards the castle. “Damn it, I am going to never live this one down.” I tell myself as I sigh and run my hand through Celestia’s mane and try to focus on something else. That is when I hear another strange animal like roar, similar to the one I heard on the way back to Fluttershy’s cottage yesterday.

“Can you hear that?” I ask Celestia in a concerned tone.

“No I can’t what are you talking about?” she asks gently as another animal like roar breaks the air and causes me to look around frantically, searching for the epicenter of the sound. But nothing appears and after a minute we reach the front entrance to the castle and land.

“Chris what is it that you think your hearing?” She asks my concurringly.

“I am not sure, but it sounds bad and I am worried something is off in Equestria because according to what I know of the Dragonborn they often times appear in places because of a great evil that only they can vanquish.” I say looking down to the ground.

“Chris, just relax.” Celestia says warmly before I feel her drape a wing over me. “We have destroyed all super powered villains, we have had no true threat to Equestria.” This causes me to become slightly irritated and I then ball my fist up slightly.

“Yes, but evil is always there and no offense, they were pushovers compared to the things I have fought and if something like that has found its way to Equestria then all the alicorns in Equis combined with the elements of harmony could not stop them.”

“Why is that?” She asks warmly and I release my fist and sigh.

“Because no matter how many times you put them down, they would just return stronger and stronger because you could never kill them, but the Dragonborn can because when a Dov or Daedra fall to a Dragonborn, then their souls are consumed and imprisoned within them for all eternity.” I say looking down to the ground with an upset look on my face. “I am sorry for getting heated but it’s just that…I am worried that something bad has come and that you all might get hurt.” I say uneasily to which Celestia just laughs slightly and I feel her face come into contact with mine.

“Do not worry Chris, even if something like that does come to Equestria then with are combined efforts we will defeat it.” She whispers calmly into my ear and all my bad feelings go out of the window and I smile and lift my head to her, my lips mere inches from hers. This makes her blush slightly and she smiles to me, then suddenly a thought crosses my mind.

“Hey if she wanted to troll you earlier than lets troll her back!” Now acting on that shear impulse alone I slowly close the remaining few inches from her lips to mine and gently press mine to hers placing a hand on the side of her head. Celestia gasps slightly and her eyes grow wide, but I hold my lips on hers. However after a few seconds Celestia seems to relax slightly as some of the tension in her face disappears and her eyes shrink to normal before I feel her gently press back. After 4 seconds more I gently pull my lips back from hers, feeling all the pulsing energy depart from me as soon as I do, making me want to go and kiss her again. Celestia now looks to me with confused eyes and I lean in and whisper in her ear. “That is for earlier in town.” I then pull myself back and see that a slight smile and she then starts to laugh.

“Let’s go in shall we, my sister is waiting in the throne room.” She says contently and starts to walk up the lavish colored walkway to the castle. I keep in step with her and try my best to enjoy just being here and the feeling of her wing still being draped across me with gentle nature. Eventually we arrive in front of a massive set of lavishly decorated gates encrusted with gems and decorative carvings with two massive ponies standing off to both sides. They appeared to be guard pegasus ponies with massive golden armor that looked like it would be nigh impossible to cut through. They wore helmets with a large crest of fur that ran from the mid-section of the helmet all the way down the back of the helmet stopping just as the helmet ended. On the chest plate of both their armor, a massive picture of a blazing sun was carved into it, making it appear that they were radiating light from the sun. From both their backs sprouted massive wings that seemed to rival the size of Celestia’s wings. They both stood there expressionless as we approached the gate, not flinching in their strict soldier stance and not moving their eyes from their stare in front of them. That is when the one on the left side of the gate looks down to the princess slightly and then to me, his sharp eyes burrowing into me. Nervously I give him the same stare back and just try and remain calm and collected.

“Good day princess.” The one says and then he motions to the other with his wing and the gates starts to slowly open. As soon as the gate gets to its fullest width, Celestia starts walking once more and I do the same, trying to hide inside the massive wings of the alicorn I am with. As we walk past I turn my head around slightly and look towards the guard. His stare is still cold and calculated, as if he was already thinking of the best way to take me down if the time came. My stare holds and after a few seconds I nod to him and turn my head back to center and shake my head slightly.

“Are all your guards so intimidating?” I ask with haste and Celestia smiles slightly and shakes her head.

“No, but those two are the best of the best in all of Equestria and I imagine seeing something as foreign as a human come walking to the gate with me might make them a little…primed.” The hint of power in her voice makes me shutter slightly and I shake my head once again.

“Yea…I know that feeling, so those gates back there…they remind me of the pearly gates.” I say calmly.

“The pearly gates?” She says questionable and I sigh and realize that it might be a foreign concept to her as well.

“Well…the pearly gates are on the outside of Heaven, a place of eternal bliss where those who are faithful to God go when they die.” Immediately I mentally kick myself because I know there were going to be a barrage of questions that was going to be coming my way and a raised eyebrow from Celestia confirms my suspicion.

“Who is God?” She says warmly and I sigh once more and try my best to explain the concept to her.

“God is the one who is responsible for all in and out of creation…he created all the planets, stars, and living things that now inhabit all of the universe, even you and your sister, all ponies and humans for that matter with humans being his most beloved and divine of creations and because of his divine love for humans, sacrificed his only son to die to make us fit to reign with him forever in Heaven.” He has no beginning and he will have no end and is the most powerful of all things.” Celestia then turns her head to me with an even more confused expression.

“So if that is true, then how does it explain us ponies then?” This question forces me to ponder the meaning of what I had just said as I had never had to explain this before and I put a hand to my chin. After a few seconds of though I smile.

“Because God exists in all places and we only know about us, then who is to say he did not base you on us or vice versa.” I say nervously smiling.

“Interesting, I would love it if you could teach me more about God if you get the time.” She says happily as my spirit lifts at the thought of being able to spend more time with her.

“Sure thing Celestia.” I say happily electing another giggle from the princess. “That’s another one!” We then walk in silence the rest of the way to the castle entrance, looking at each other from time to time smiling before quickly looking back to the entrance of the castle. Then after a minute passes of passing glances back and forth we reach a massive wooden door. Celestia’s long horn starts to glow a yellow color and with it the door quickly swings open to reveal another large dark alicorn about only an inch taller than me and Celestia quickly removes her wing from me and looks to the dark alicorn.

“Tia, finally your back was the trip alright?” She says before looking down to me smiling. “And you must be the one that my sister was talking about!” She says excitedly causing me to blush slightly as I step forward slightly towards her and bow slightly.
“Yes my name is Chris Labrador and you must be Luna, princess of the night.” I say lifting myself back upright and notice the look of shock on her face.

“How is it that you know my name?” Taking this as a chance to impress her, I laugh slightly and put on a charismatic attitude.

“I have a great power inside of me called the thuum that can pierce even the darkest of nights and revels when it finds something strong, powerful and beautiful.” I say charmingly and I can see a faint bluish color rush to her cheeks.

“...T-thank you.” She says softly and another wave of blue crosses her face and she then looks down to the floor and I laugh slightly.

“Anytime Luna.” I say before Celestia clears her throat.

“Should we show are guest to the throne room sister?” Celestia asks cheerfully. Luna now raises her head from the floor and puts on another warm smile and waves her wings towards a massive door near the opposite end of the small room we are in and I quickly start walking towards the door. When I reach the door I pause and step out of the way and gesture my hand to the door.

“Ladies first.” I say and both of them giggle and Celestia and Luna quickly move through the door and then motions for me to follow them which I do without hesitation. When I step through the door a feeling of awe washes over me and I gasp in amazement.
“Is this the throne room, it is even better looking in person!” I say excitedly and the two sisters giggle and look at me with happy eyes. The throne room is massive, with a long triangular roof and large ionic columns running from the very top all the way down to the bright gold and dark blue floor that seems to be weaved together as if it was made of thread. The walls are covered in massive windows that have stained glass frescos painted into them depicting various scenes, such as Celestia and Luna conquering different kingdoms to pictures of Twilight and her friends overcoming various and sundry enemies, all of them depicting something very important from the past…the heroes of Equestria. “Wow even the painting in the windows are the same!” I say while looking, instantly recognizing them all. “That one right there is of the elements of harmony defeating Discord.” I say pointing to a painting near the middle of the wall. “Oh and that one is of the defeat of king Sombra.” I say pointing to a painting two spaces down from that one. I continue to name all the paintings until I get to one and do not bother to check what I was saying. “And that one is where the elements defeated…Nightmare Moon.” I say happily and then instantly face palm. “Shit!” I yell inside my head and slowly turn to face Luna who has a raised eyebrow to me.

“What’s wrong Chris?” She says happily and give a nervous laugh and put my hand to the back of my head.

“Uh…well I kind of did not want to bring up Nightmare Moon you know…it not being one of your better parts, sorry.” I then brace myself for the hounding I may receive, but the polar opposite happens and she starts to laugh at me.

“Oh Chris… contrary to what some ponies may think, I am not that sensitive and besides we all have our bad sides right, so I have mine and I just except it.” She says happily and I crack a smile starting to join in on her laughing.

“Good to know, so how do you two control the sun and moon, you just use your magic or what?” I say as I slow my laughing before stopping completely, looking to both of them and still holding a smile. Celestia gently prods her sister in the side with one of her fore hooves and she quickly regains her composure and looks to me, a smile still present on her face.

“Well actually it is just that simple!” Celestia says plainly and I raise an eyebrow in surprise.

“That simple?” I ask with skepticism and they both shake their heads. “Hmm, sounds sort of like my thuum, just speak and BAAM you got powers beyond imagination!” I say energetically and the two mares giggle at me again, a blush spread across each of their faces making me spout one as well. “Shit, now Luna to!”

Luna stands almost the same as her sister with a very similar build to Celestia, minus her dark night blue coat, starry night sky blue tail and mane with stars seeming to sparkle from within. On top of her head is black crown that compliments her dark black band that stretches over her chest that has a bright white crescent moon painted in the very center in a similar fashion to Celestia’s sun emblem. Luna’s fore and back legs looking very muscular and toned with a strong chest that gently rises and falls with her breathing. Her mid-section is also well toned and strong, with similar wings to Celestia but not to the point that it is to muscular to not be appealing. Luna also has a well rounded flank with a large mark of the moon on both sides of her mid outside thigh and I out of curiosity look to Celestia’s flank. Sitting at the same level as Luna’s is a bright sun that looks similar to the one painted on her tower. “I guess that’s where the symbols on their towers came from, but I find it strange that they are that identical.” I say confusedly to myself as I am hypnotized by the intricate designs of their cutie marks and flanks however, my eyes hang on their flanks for far longer than I had anticipated it to be and they quickly giggle and wave their hooves and I break from my gaze. “Yes?” I ask questionable and then they both look to me with a cute expression.

“You looking at are Cutie marks?” Celestia says plainly and I laugh slightly.

“Yea just admiring the stunning detail!” I say laughing and both of the ponies smile to me while joining in on my laughing. We continue to laugh for a good minute before we seem to run out of energy to laugh and then all is quiet. However that does not last long as a shocked expression crosses Celestia’s face.

“Oh I almost forgot, I have something for you Chris!” She says happily before her horn lights up and a small box levitates from behind the throne. This makes me feel honored that she would get me something and words cannot describe how I feel about it so I just stick with being simple.

“Thank you!” I say happily and Celestia winks at me before looking quickly to the box that is now floating midair in front of me. Without hesitation I slowly take a hold of the box and I feel the magic disappear and I bring it so I am now looking down at it.
Then eventually my fingers find the seams of the gold box and I pull the top off gently and my eyes grow wide as I almost drop it to the floor. “Oh shit!” I yell inside my head as I look in confusion to Celestia and then back to the box. Inside of the box, in a blue velvet material is a size 20 gold pendant watch with two gold threads that connect to a similar white velvet lanyard gently folded up above the watch.

“So what do you think, Luna and I used are most powerful magic to forge this with some of the rarest materials in all of Equestria.” Celestia says and I nervously remove the watch from the box.

“I think it’s great, thank you!” I say hiding my nervous attitude and trying to show her that I really enjoy the gift but on the inside I am freaking out. ‘This watch looks the same as the one from my dream, what the hell is going on?!” Then curiosity gets the better of me and I notice a button on the opposite side of a small hinge on the right side of the watch. From all my experience with watches I figure this is the way to see the inside and I gently press it with one of my thumbs to which it gives a CLICK and face of the watch pops open. “Okay something is wrong now, because this is impossible!” I say to myself as I look at the face of the watch. The watch inside is a light whitish grey color that gets darker in a circle near the center.

The minute and hour hand are both lavishly designed and colored with the minute hand being a bright gold and the hour hand being a dark blue with similar hands to what the hands on big ben would look like. The second hand is less designed, with it having only a standard straight hand with a small hole near the top that would complement the finest of old style watches. The watch in itself is absolutely beautiful, but the circumstance of it being absolutely identical to the one in my dream makes the beauty take a back seat to my now growing sense of fear. However I am still calm enough to notice that the hands are not moving. I sigh and look over to the mares with a fake smile. “So I guess you wind it up am I correct?” A gentle nod from both the sisters tells me that I am correct with my theory and I hesitantly grasp the stem with my left hand.

“You alright, you seem nervous.” Luna asks gently and I sigh once more.

“No, it is just that I have seen this watch in my dreams before and let’s say they were not pleasant ones.” I say looking back down to the watch.

“You mean the one with the monsters and lake of fire?” Luna says plainly and I instantly look back up to her in surprise.

“H-how do you know that?” I ask her skeptically to which Luna then gives a slight straight laugh

“When you’re the princess of the night, one of the jobs is watching over ponies in the night and that includes their sleep and dreams, but I must say you have very odd nightmares, reminds me of Tartarus, if you would like I can calm them for you.” She then turns back around to face me and I give a half smile.

“Sure, thanks Luna, Fluttershy keeping me company at night can only do but so much.” This elects a raised eyebrow from both of them and I chuckle at the thoughts that might be running through their heads.“Not like that, she slept with me last night because I was having that dream and she thought that a soft presence may make the dream less intense.” I say still chuckling and I can see their eyebrows lower, but then a though slips by my autistic powered filter. “Even though I do find being snuggled with a mare to be quite pleasant.” As soon as this slips from my mouth, I realize that I may have given myself away to the attractive mares and I blush slightly while turning away from them, electing another round of giggles from the mares.

“You enjoy being close to mares?” Celestia says slightly seriously and my blush deepens and I look up to both of them.

“Yes I do…it has been something that I have wanted for as long as I have seen this world through the thuum, to be close to Fluttershy and all her friends, to know the feeling of connection with each and every one of them…including you two.” I say honestly, making the alicorns gasp and look to me with wide eyes. I interpret this as I have upset the mares and immediately try to apologize. “I know this seems strange…an alien creature such as myself telling you that he basically likes you and six other mares only after knowing him for 2 days and for Luna just today, but I cannot help it…you all have some kind of connection to me and I feel God has lead me here because of that…please understand I-.” My rant is then cut off by both sisters walking up to me and stretching one of their massive wings gently draping them over me, leaning their heads in to me.

“You don’t have to explain yourself, because we already know.” Celestia says gently as a blush grows on my face.

“B-but how?” I say nervously and they both look at each other and smile.

“Because when I first met you, one look into your bright blue eyes and I could tell.

“Wait, but how did that tell you anything?” I say confused and Celestia turns and faces me with a warm smile.

“Because the eyes are a literal gateway to the soul and when I looked into them I saw your deepest desires, the longing for special someponies and then I saw Fluttershy and the rest of the group pop up one by one and I then knew that you had already fallen for them before you even came here.” She says and the two mares gently use their wings and pull me into their bodies and gently rest their heads on my shoulders. “But that is when I also noticed something that I never expected, I saw myself in your eyes surrounded by the same glow as the others and this made me feel extremely happy on the inside for some reason, knowing that you thought this about me.” She says nuzzling my cheek affectionately and I nuzzle her back, enjoying the warm feeling of her cheek and then I feel another warm presence on my other cheek and look over to see Luna’s cheek pressed to mine, her light blue eyes staring into mine.

“And when Tia told me of this I was skeptical, but the same thing happened to me when I looked into your eyes, I could see myself and instantly I knew she was right and even though I barely know you…it makes me feel honored that somepony viewed me not as the evil Nightmare Moon.” Luna says contently sighing into my shoulder. This statement from Luna makes a mix of feeling well up inside of me, a mix of happiness, sadness and anger and I try to sort them out as quickly as I can.

“…I am glad that you feel better, I once knew of the feeling of being alone but not anymore.” I say with a mixed tone of happiness and sadness and Luna frowns for a second and then smiles before shutting her eyes. Then as suddenly as it began both of the mares withdraw their cheeks from me and release me from their wings and then look to me with happy smiles.

“So, you going to wind the watch?” Celestia ask me happily and Luna nods her head and gently flex her wing towards the watch and I look down to it with a nervous look.

“This is the start of something bad.” I tell myself as I sigh and place the crown between my pointer finger and thumb and quickly turn the wheel. It slowly turns, clicking as it goes and then stopping when I readjust my fingers to turn the wheel once more. I repeat this process 10 more times and when I try to turn it the eleventh time, I can feel the wheel catch slightly and then loose a little bit of tension as I turn it the last complete turn with a loud CLICK. The watch face then shakes slightly and a bright white light illuminates it briefly before fading and then the second hand starts to tick. It starts with three quick ticks and after that slows down and starts to tick normally. “Also just like in the dream, actually fuck it because this is the watch.” I tell myself before releasing the crown and setting it in the palm of my hand and quickly shutting the watch face cover gently. I then take the white lanyard with both of my hands and slowly put it around my neck. “I greatly appreciate the watch, but won’t people find it strange that I have a watch because watches especially like this require a massive skill and magic level that even most alicorns don’t possess to create.” I ask the alicorns as they both smile to each other.

“Yes, because that is the only one ever created and we forged it when we took the throne many years ago as a symbol of our new position. That watch is a symbol of some of our strongest magic and a direct link to us, so whenever you want, you can communicate with us regardless of where we are.” Celestia says while Luna nods smiling and looking down to the hanging watch

“So you’re giving me your number.” I say chuckling winking to the two mares who cock their heads to the side and raise an eyebrow.

“Never mind it is a human thing…so…” I say trying to make them see but my thoughts wonder slightly and I find myself wondering the time and I quickly grab the watch and open the face. “Holy shit, it is already 6:00 in the afternoon damn it I told the others I would come and see them today!” I say quickly closing the watch face and looking to the mares with a concerned look, who raise out of their confused state and look at each other before smiling and giggling. “Am I missing something?” I ask raise an eyebrow but they continue to look at each other.

“You will have all night to do that!” Luna says happily and I just nod and sigh in defeat, realizing that the female ponies are probably going to be just as difficult to figure out sometimes as human girls were and that coupled with autism, was an almost impossible puzzle to piece together.

“What do you mean?” I ask skeptically once again and both of them laugh and look at me with sly smiles.

“You will see Chris, but I am glad you said something about the time because if you want to find out then we must go back to Ponyville.” Celestia says quickly and then both of the alicorns start to walk over to me and without warning, Luna’s horn starts to glow a purple color and within seconds the same color light covers my body and I am lifted slightly off the floor.

“Whoa!” I say as I hover in midair and Luna then gently steps underneath me as the glow of her horn grows less intense and I feel myself then float down until I am sitting comfortably on Luna’s back.

“Celestia, if you would not mind I would like to fly the Dragonborn back.” She says in a slightly pleading voice while looking to her sister who has a small smile on her face and is shaking her head.

“Alright Luna, it is only fair to share.” Celestia says happily and Luna smiles brightly and then turns her head to look at me.

“You don’t mind do you?” She questions me happily and I place a hand to my chin. “Well I might be the talk of Equestria in a bad way for a while but fuck it making her happy is all I care about, not to mention getting to get a feel for her powerful body as well!” I think happily to myself while smiling brightly to Luna.

“How can I say no to you?” I say in a mock seductive tone, causing Luna to break out in a deep blush.

“O-okay let’s go!” She says nervously hurrying to the door and trying to hide her face under one of her wings. Seeing that I seem to have given her the answer she wanted I then sigh and look back to Celestia who winks to me and then walks over to the right of her sister and with a gentle prod of her wing, Luna steps first through the door and Celestia follows her through the door and without hesitation sprint to the end of the hallway and throw open the doors before taking to the skies.

The ride back to Ponyville is far less time consuming than the one this morning and I find myself having to hold on tight to avoid falling of Luna’s back. But when I am not trying to keep myself on board, me and the princesses swap stories back and forth of each other’s life and past experiences. It mostly consists of Celestia and Luna telling of the history of Equestria and how they rose to become princesses along with some stories of the times they have had, the good, bad and the ugly. I mostly do the same and try to add my sense of comedy in and that most of the time seems to work as they laugh uncontrollably at my antics.

However I try to lessen my humor after Luna starts laughing so hard that she forgets to flap and we go into a straight dive towards the ground. In turn to hold on I quickly lean forward and wrap my arms around where her neck connects to her chest and give it a death grip, causing Luna to realize what is happening and she instantly levels out and rejoins her sister above. However, from the shock I had just had I keep a firm grip on Luna and this elects a blush from the dark alicorn. Nothing else special happens as we continue to fly through the sky and in less than five minutes after that we are hovering over the center of Ponyville and I am still breathing hard.

“That…shit…was…not…funny!” I yell in anger at the two alicorns who are still laughing from my continual hard grip on Luna. “Hey, even if I fly dragons, it is different trying to hold onto an alicorn since you have no spines or scales and I don’t think you would like me grabbing your mane would you?!” I shout in anger once more at the hysterical ponies and they quickly land and continue to chastise me.

“Yes it was, come on lighten up Chris.” Celestia says taking a verbal jab at me and I just angrily sigh.

"Your Dragonborn… show some backbone!” Luna says jokingly and I release her in anger and slide off to the ground. However after a few seconds of glaring at both of them I realize that I hear no chatter and I do a quick scan of my surroundings. There is no pony at all outside, just like yesterday when someone thought I was a demon and this starts making me get suspicious.
“Okay, so the town is dead empty, smells like trouble!” I say to myself before taking a few steps into the dimly lit street and looking around for anypony. I find no one and then turn back to Celestia and Luna, a worried and confused look on my face. However they seem to be wearing smug grins unlike my worried look and this confuses me even further. “This is weird, okay I need to figure this out, if something was to happen then where would the gang meet at besides Twilight’s library?” I ask with haste and their smiles grow even bigger.

“Most of the time it is at sugarcube corner.” They say pointing their wings to a large building that looks like it is made out of sweets and I instantly sigh then wave my hand to them while taking a step towards the building. I then slowly approach the building with a defensive posture, waiting for something to step from the shadows so I could obliterate it with one of my shouts. My head is on a swivel and I am constantly scanning the surroundings for anything that looks suspicious, while making sure to also pay attention for activity inside the building. After having slowly crept up to the front entrance of the building I look behind me and see that Celestia and Luna have imitated my movements, albeit in a rather unserious and joking way. Choosing to ignore their silly antics I turn back to the door and study it. There is no sigh of what looks like quick entry as indicated by the straight carpet and utter lack of dust near the doorstep, however there are still some vague hoof prints in what appears to be a glowing green ooze and that is all I need to see to know that somepony was inside. With this in mind my hand slowly finds its way to the door handle and swallowing slightly, I open it quickly. The entire inside is completely blacked out and I cannot see but a few feet in front of me because of the light of the moon, but letting go of my fear, I step on foot inside the door jamb and sigh slightly. As I am about to bring my other foot inside, the sound of a slight movement across the floor catches my attention and I instantly freeze and look into the dark.

“What the hell is going…”

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