Acceptance

You rub your head and glance around at your surroundings. The room you're in has a lack of anything, except for that mirror that lies before you. You think you fell from it, but you can't tell for sure.

You stand up, and with a small back stretch you head towards the exit of the room. With one hand you open the door, and step outside of the room. You look around the outside of the room, it looks like your in a hall, a castle hall, it's huge, and very shiny, like a crystal. You walk around, with your hands loosely chilling in your pockets, you look at all the fine details of the hallway.

Suddenly you see a stallion, in full armor. When he sees you, he yells out, "INTRUDER!"

He starts to gallop towards you at full speed, you turn around and start running, unsure of what else to do. The stallion keeps yelling at you to halt, but you don't, you keep running. You look behind you and see him gaining on you, you push on trying to go faster, after all what would happen to you if he caught you? Up ahead there is a fork in the hallway, you choose to go left. As you dash around the corner, you hit into another stallion, crashing down onto the floor, you see the former stallion stare down at you.

Crap, they got you.

"Brave Shield, help me take this intruder to the princess." You listen into their chat, slightly confused on how they can speak.

"Sir, yes, sir!" The other stallion salutes to the former and his horn lights up as the two drag you away with their magic.

"Hey! Put me down!" You say, struggling in their magic possession.

"Stop struggling." They both say without even looking at you. You try punching out of their magic possession of you, to no avail.

They take you to what appears to be a throne room, sitting in the throne is an alicorn. You feel your jaw drop as you stare. The stallions speak to the alicorn, "Princess Cadence, we found an intruder in the castle."

"Hey, wait, I'm no intruder, I'm just lost..." You object.

"Then why did you run from me?" The stallion questions you, staring you straight in the eyes.

"You were chasing me, what else was I suppose to do?" You say, staring at him back.

"Everyone, please, stop your fighting." The alicorn speaks, directing her voice to you, "Hello, might I ask how you got here?"

"I got lost and these two chased and dragged me here." You say blatantly.

The alicorn walks down from her throne and up to you three, "I see. Hmm? Is it possible that you are a, human?" You stare at her for a second, before nodding. The stallions stare at you, clearly never have seen a human before, awed by the fact that they got the chance to see you.

Suddenly the stallions release you from their magical possession, and bow down before you, including the alicorn.

"I never imagined that I would be able to meet a human." She says, bowing to you, "Welcome to Equestria."

"Equestria?" You ask, "Hey, what about Earth?"

"Earth? Is that where you come from, human?" The alicorn asks you, no longer bowing down to you.

"Um.. Yes, and please don't call me 'human,' I have a name, y'know." You say, now looking around the room, it's massive.

"Oh. What do you want me to call you?" She inquires, a gentle smile on her face.

For a second, you consider what you'd like an alicorn to call you, but you decide to give her your real name, it would get annoying to be called DikLordAlmighty, all the time.

"Just call me, Michael."

"Okay then, Michael, would you like to learn about the history of Equestria?"

You shrug, and she begins to walk out of the throne room and into the hallway, "Follow me, Michael."

"--and that is why Princess Luna raises the moon, and Princess Celestia raises the sun."

"Wow, back at Earth  the moon and sun raise themselves."

"How strange. Michael, would you like to stay in Equestria for a while, or will you be heading back to Earth soon?" She asks you, and you realize, you recognize her voice. But ignoring that you ponder her question, and decide to stay, comparing Equestria to Earth, Equestria seemed more interesting.

"I'll stay, for a while. But, how do I get back to Earth?"

"Through the mirror in the room down over there," she points with her hoof down the hallway, "I'm so glad you've decided to stay longer, it'll be nice to have a human stay in Equestria for a while. Humans are like gods to us ponies."

"Really?" You ask, surprised, "We don't have any powers or anything." You state.

"Humans are the creators, or so the legends and myths state." She says, looking off into the distance of the hallway that you both stood in. No longer walking she looks back at you, "So tell me about your Earth."

"There isn't much to Earth, it's just a planet that's part of a solar system." You say shrugging it off.

After some time walking around the castle and chatting about Equestria and Earth, you find you and her outside of the castle, in a what she called the Crystal Empire.

"Wow. Is all of Equestria this shiny?" You ask her jokingly, every second that you stay here in Equestria, makes you long to see more of Equestria. It's so strange and new, and like a virtual video game, an escape from reality.

"Why don't you see for yourself?" She asks you, and hooves over some golden coins to you. "These are called 'bits,' they're like the dollar bills you told me about. Why don't you take a train ride somewhere? How about Ponyville?"

Why not, you smile at her and tell her your gratitude, you exchange a few more words and she shows you where the train station is via her hoof. You hug her and run off to where she pointed, as you run, you count the amount of bits that she gave you, you count a total of fifty.

At the train station, you finally got here, and you realize that you should probably run outside a little more. You recollect your breath, and ask when the next train to Ponyville is.

"Uh, Ponyville, let's see," the train station employee pony starts looking through the train lists, "Oh, the train for Ponyville is the one boarding right now, need a ticket?"

You nod, and give him a two bits, as the station signs imply, and he gives you a ticket in return, "Have a nice trip!" He calls out to you as you board the train.

You watch the scenery fly by, Equestria, it's so beautiful...