Family in Equestria

You know, what did I do to deserve this? Why me, of all the 7 billion humans in the world? I didn't want this, even though it wouldn't be that bad if it was just me who ended up here.

Let me get down to detail. Once upon a time, that's how stories start, isn't it?

Once upon a time there was me. My name’s Jonah, I'm 15, male and quite handsome if I say so myself. I’m also a closet brony. Yeah, see the word closet there?

Sometimes I wish I could just have the courage to just come out and admit my love for ponies but with the gender stereotyping society of today’s world, it's hard. Not even my friends know, the only person who does know is my older brother, Kevin, and he's a complete and utter prick.

Kevin is 18 and leaving home come this September to Warwick Uni so I only have to put up with him beating the life out of me for 2 more months. And it's not just physical abuse, he teases me, taunts me, blackmails me, you name it Kevin's done it.

My mum is a radical Christian. The ‘Jesus Freak’ of the family. Luckily, she tends to leave us alone with our religions but she does drag us to church every so often.

My dad is a science buff, and is a GP at my local hospital, he is the one who brings in the cash for my family.

I live in Grantham, commonly known as the worst town in England. It’s a shithole of chavs, mugging and drunkards, well at least, I did live in Grantham, all that changed on a Friday afternoon.

,.,.,

“Hey there, faggot,” my charming brother said to me.

“Oh piss off, I’m trying to study,” I muttered so he wouldn't hear. I forgot that Kevin had supersonic ears. He pushed me off my chair and kicked me rather hard on my back.

“What did you say to me, fag, show some respect,” he spat on me and left, smirking to himself. I picked myself up and sat back down on my chair, wiping the spit off of my cheek and grumbling at yet another bruise that would appear tomorrow. I looked back at my paper: Physics. If I was lazy (and Kevin) I would just get dad to do the work for me, but I like to get on with my work, not force others to do it for me.

“Mum!” I yelled, “Can you please make me a cup of tea, I’m studying!”

“Fine!” Mum yelled back and I heard Kevin’s taunt from the living room,

“Mummy's boy,” he said.

“Don't tease your brother, Kevin,” my mother scolded him, but he never listens anyway, he’s a lost cause.

So there I was, doing my physics homework and drinking tea when I felt this tugging sensation. I looked up from my work, startled. Mum looked at me strangely,

“How are you doing that?” She asked,

“What?” I asked, “can you feel it too?”

“Yes,” she replied.

“Yo fag, whatever you did, stop it,” Kevin yelled.

“I didn't do it!” I said. Why does everyone blame everything on me?

“Steven, come here,” Mum called dad into the room. The sensations got stronger, like pins and needles but the pins have been dipped in lava and the needles are razor sharp. My head was swimming in crazy arcs as I finally collapsed and fell off my chair. I didn't even feel my legs hit the ground.

,.,.,

I rolled over in bed, snuggling into my sheets and enjoying the tickle of the nice soft grass beneath me. The nice soft grass. Grass. Grass!

I shot up into a sitting position and looked around wildly. I was in some sort of dark forest place, which looked strangely familiar but I didn't have time to dwell on that as I could see my other family members nearby starting to stir, including my charming brother, Kevin.

My mum was the next to awaken, and if I'm honest, I wish that she wasn't. Being the radical Christian that she is, I’m not really sure how she would react. My best guess was that she would freak the hell out.

She got up, twigs in her hair and she saw me and the others.

“Where are we?” She asked to me,

“I’m not sure,” I replied, but even as I said that, I had a gut feeling I knew exactly where we were.

Could we really be in Equestria?

Nah, that sort of stuff is reserved for lame fanfiction, I'm sure this is just a dream and I will wake up on the floor of my bedroom in a few minutes… Will I?

Kevin suddenly mumbled, “fucken’ idiot spiked my drink or something,” And rolled over, but I could tell he was awake when he picked up some grass and his eyes burst open, staring right at me.

“where the hell are we, dickwad,” he said to me.

I didn't reply as I could see behind him a pair of startling green eyes.

“Kevin,” I said rationally, “come very slowly over here and don't make a sound,”

“why should I listen to you?” He snorted but I simply pointed behind him and he screamed and scrambled over to mum and I. Too late, his noise had disturbed the creature and it came into our little clearing. Once I saw what it was, my suspicions had been confirmed.

“DEMON!” Mum cried out.

“Mum, calm down and get dad, Kevin and I will distract it,” I said. Mum nodded and ran over to dad.

Trust my luck for the timberwolf to charge me first. Kevin, being the supportive brother that he was, laughed his head off at my performance with the wolf, but that laughter soon turned into fear as the timberwolf gave up on me and charged him.

How does one defeat a wooden wolf? How did they do it in the show?

I couldn't remember but I soon saw what Kevin had in his hand. A lighter.

How would one defeat a wooden being? Fire.

Kevin quickly pulled a branch off a tree and I threw a stone at the timberwolf to buy him some time to light it. The wolf charged me and out of the corner of my eye, I saw mum and dad together, mum praying and dad holding her defensively.

Kevin lit up the stick and as the timberwolf ran past him, he lunged and the flaming stick entered into its body. The wolf looked confused for a second, then it started thrashing around and it lit on fire from the inside. Kevin peered at it in grim satisfaction as it perished.

My mum shrieked and ran over to us, hugging us and said to us,

“Don't you dare scare me like that again,”

Kevin pushed her off of him but I just accepted the hug as I realised the truth:

Stuck in Equestria, in the Everfree Forest with no idea if we can get back or not.

"Hey faggot," Kevin said to me, "you're lucky I saved your worthless ass back there."