The Journals Of A Human

My name is John Cormier.

I am a human.

This is my story.

Last time I checked, I was a six foot tall white guy that is about two hundred twenty pounds. I have light brown hair and blue eyes. How I got here is a mystery to me. What I do know is that, one second I’m was walking back to respawn at an Spring offensive, Airsoft event, and the next moment I’m in a strange world of magical talking ponies.

Anyways, on with the story.

I slowly came to and looked around to see that i was at the bottom of some sort of canyon.

What happened?

As I looked around, I noticed a strange looking tree in a cave in front of me, below an old castle, along with all of my gear. This shocked me at first because I’d looked over the event area myself, and there's no way in hell that this was a part of it. I trudged over and collected all my items together, and looked into my gear pack for a quick inventory.

I was already wearing my plate carrier but there was no helmet to be found. However, I did find my 1911, my M4A1 with an ACOG, and my five day pack inside of a medium ruck. The pack consisted of spare clothing which was mostly socks or shirts, more loaded magazines for both weapons, a few MREs, and a compact sleep system, but as I inspected my weapons, I almost dropped them. My Airsoft guns had been replaced with the real thing. Instead of pellets, I had bullets. Instead of an HPA gun and CO2 pistol, I had real firearms. I quickly picked them up and secured them, making sure that no one would be hurt, when I noticed that no one was around.

I looked to the world around me, and i decided it would be for the best if i took the weapons and gear with me. I then looked further around my surroundings to see that I was in a cave of sorts that continued on behind that same weird tree and as I did, I finally noticed what the tree was made of.

Holy shit is this thing made of fucking crystals?

Another inspection of the tree confirmed that it was. I was quite surprised at first, but in hindsight, my first moments here was probably the least weird compared to what laid in store for me later.

After I had fully regained my bearings, which took a while as I was in front of a crystal fucking tree. My first plan of action was to try and explore the surroundings that I was in and try to figure out just where i was exactly in the castle above me, and try to get a call out on my Baofeng. So I threw on my ruck, secured my sidearm into my holster on my waist, slung my rifle across my chest, and proceeded toward the cave.

The cave opened into some kind of canyon in front of an old castle which looks like it’s close to falling down, and I could see old stone steps leading up the side of the canyon wall to it.

Ok, I’ve got a way out of here but let’s check out the rest of this place first.

I walked into the cave and brought my rifle up to bear while I switched on the attached surefire flashlight.

I walked for maybe a few hundred feet before I hit the wall of the cave. There was nothing in here. Why would this space be here if there was nothing? The walls themselves looked fairly natural, but there was some man-made aspects to the cave here, so I started to feel around the wall while tapping it.

After ten minutes of this, my efforts bore fruit. My inspection of the wall had revealed an area of maybe ten feet high, and five feet wide where when I tapped the wall it sounded different.

It could be a door.

I felt around for some kind of way to open it, when my hand brushed by one of the little outcroppings. Then with a hiss, the door opened slowly. Of course, I backed away and readied my rifle incase anything came out of the new opening.

As it revealed the otherside, I saw a dark passageway which lead up to something above, most likely the castle that I saw earlier above my location. This is a stupid idea, but I don’t fucking care anymore. I pointed my rifle up the passage which illuminated it and proceeded up the steps.

My assumption about the stairs were correct, they did lead into the castle. I slowly opened the door to try to keep myself unnoticed, but as I did, i realized that the place was empty. The stairs themselves opened up into a library of sorts, that looked to be connected to a throne room, which in itself was connected to the tower. I followed the stairs up the tower and set my stuff down by the broken window. I then took out my solar charger and let it sit in the sun. i wanted to make sure my radio and phone had power. The radio for coms, and the phone for GPS. someone would come for me, and i wanted to make it easy to be found. I took out my baofeng and turned it on to the frequency that I was given for the field staff. I then held down the button on my headset and spoke “Hey, is anyone out there, I may or maynot have gotten lost and need some help back to base”

I sat there in wait for a minute, but got no response

“I'm serious guys, this shit aint funny, I could use a hand here”

Again the no response. I kept at this for maybe a half hour, even tried my phone, but it had no signal. With all my options exhausted, I switched the radio to the emergency frequency, 406 MHz

I sighed as I pushed down the button and began to broadcast “Mayday Mayday Mayday. My name is John Cormier, Im requesting immediate aid. I'm lost in the middle of nowhere with limited supplies, requesting direction or aid to my location, over”

I waited for five minutes for a response that should have come in five seconds. Fearing that the transmission got garbled, or no one heard it, I tried again

“Mayday Mayday Mayday, person in need of immediate assistance, does anyone copy? I Repeat, Mayday Mayday Mayday”

Again no response, but in this period of silence, I heard some noise. It was two voices, one female and one male. I immediately shut off the radio so i could hear them better. As the female voice spoke.

"Come on Spike, we need to get some of these books back to the castle library before they get damaged," the female voice stated, "I'm surprised that these books are still here, even after a thousand years exposed to the elements."

She sounded young, probably in her early twenties. Then the male voice came in, his was that of a young child.

"But why did we have to come out here so early Twilight?" the male voice stated.

I opened the door slowly while I peeked through. What I saw made me double take. Coming up the stairs before me there was a light purple pony with a horn and wings with a purple mane that had a reddish stripe going through it. She was about waist height to me and had some kind of sparkly stars looking tattoo on her flank. Right beside her was a small purple and green dragon. He was about half her height and to my disbelief, they were talking.

Okay, this has got to be a dream or something.

The purple pony, turned to the dragon, "Well why else would the map send us out to here, all of this knowledge is in danger of being lost.”

I tried to close the door so I could sneak away and reevaluate what I just saw. Unfortunately ancient doors make noise, lots of noise. So as I closed the door, a very loud creek echoed out in the tower which startled the two talking creatures.

"What was that!?" Spike yelled, both the pony and the dragon looked to where I was.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get the door fully closed in time and was left exposed. Left with no other alternative I threw the door open and rushed out of the room.

“Don’t fucking move!” I brought my rifle up and aimed at the two, “Who and what the fuck are you?!”

The two were startled by aggressive tone but before I could react, I was wrapped in some kind of pink aurora, with the same aurora coming from the purple one’s horn. I was levitated closer while my weapon was removed from my grasp by the aurora. I flailed around trying to escape the magic field that was holding me, but to no avail as I my limbs were all pinned tightly against my body.

"What are you?" she asked, "I've never seen a...minotaur like you before."

"Minotaur?" I responded “I’m a human for your information.” I tried to struggle, but i couldn't free myself “Now where am I and what kind of technology is this, it is almost like...magic.”

She looked at me like she was confused, "This is the land of Equestria,” she replied matter of factly, “and have you never seen magic?!"

I look at her skeptically and then said, "Yeah right, this sounds like something out of a...nevermind but I’m a reasonable guy, so if you let me go I’ll cooperate in exchange for some help."

She let the me go from her magical grasp, letting my comment about her ‘magic’ slide and walked toward the doors, "Follow me then."

Once she set me down and I collected my weapon, I began to weigh my options.

So, I seemed to be trapped in some sort of mythical fantasy land with multiple sapient species with one of them being talking horses. Great.

I let out a deep sigh and followed after her, along with her little dragon who remained silent but wary of me.

Might as well form good relations with the local nationals and see where this takes me, not like I have many other realistic options.

“My name is John by the way.”

She stopped and faces me to hold out her hoof, “Twilight Sparkle.”

I took it and we shook, “Well I guess it’s nice to meet you.”

Hopefully I won't be needing to run away, it is unlikely I would escape her magic.

I continued to follow her and we walked the narrow path in silence for some time, maybe fifteen minutes, before we came to the edge of the woods.

There was a small town was visible in the distance. It looked like one of those old traditional, cottage style towns that you’d find somewhere in Europe.

“Finally civilization, or at least some form of it, I appreciate the guidance.” I started to walk towards the town, but oddly enough, she kept following me.

Soon enough, I saw why.

on the edge of the town was another crystal tree, and this one was huge, and from the looks of it. It had a colossal castle on top of it.

“What the fuck?” my language shocked Twilight, and caused her to put her hooves over spikes ears while sending me a stern glare.

As she did, I began to notice something else about the small town.

Ponies. Ponies everywhere.

The town was filled with more pastel colored ponies than a young girl’s room.

“Holy shitbucket, I’ve got to be high on ketamine or drunk or something.”

“Watch your language!” she sternly scorned, “and you’re not imagining this, this is my home, Ponyville.”

She walked in front of me, with the little dragon now riding on her back, and lead me through the town. Of course, to me it felt like a perp walk, because as I walked through the town, every-err-pony, stopped what they were doing to look at me like I was some animal at a zoo.

Every once in a while, Twilight would point some things out to me. Like the town hall, the local restaurant, a few shops here and there. I will admit, overall it’s actually a nice little town, aesthetically speaking. I don’t know about its inhabitants yet, as I didn’t exactly talk to any of them.

It took me a minute to realize, but she was walking me to the castle, probably to meet their leadership. Something that may not bode well with me as I was in military clothes with unfamiliar weaponry. I wasn’t exactly going to come off as a harmless individual.

As we approached the doors, Twilight turned to me and said, "This...” she gestured to the grand crystal castle before us, “This is my home."

I just stared at her in awe.

She had to be pulling my leg.

"You live here?" I asked

The one I now know as Spike the dragon jumped off her back and opened the door. "Yep!" he casually stated, “Welcome to the castle of the princess of friendship.”

I just stood there absolutely flabbergasted, "The princess of friendship?” I said with obvious doubt to my voice, “Okay this is definitely a dream.”

Less than ten seconds after that statement, there was a high-pitched scream from behind me. I turned around with my rifle at the low ready to see what it was. I had just enough time to see a fancy looking umbrella before I was smacked over the head with it.

"Get away from my friends’ you...you...you..." the female metropolitan voice behind the umbrella wavered off in her anger as she took a closer look at me.

Twilight turned around and yelled, "Rarity wait, he's a guest! I found him in the old castle."

I grumbled to myself as I robbed the sore spot on my head, and stood back up "Definitely not a dream…”

The refined voice belonged to a unicorn pony, similar in size to twilight. She was white, with a violet mane, and with another one of those tattoos in the same spot on the flanks in the form of three diamonds.

"Oh dear heavens!" she responded, "My apologies darling, that was very unladylike of me."

I stopped rubbing my head where she hit me and gave her a slight nod, "It’s ok, I’ve been through worse."

The white unicorn nodded back, "Well, I am Rarity and may I ask your name as well as what you are?"

"My name is John and I am a human."

She looked to Twilight, "I thought they were only myths?”

Twilight shook her head, “I did too, I thought he was a strange minotaur at first.”

“Well here I am, the mythical human...” I stated sardonically.

Twilight rubbed her chin for a second before gasping “Oh! Idea!~”

“Come this way John,” She turned toward Spike, “get a pen and some paper.”

She grabbed my arm in her magic and pulled me along into what looked like the castle library as Rarity followed.

“Take a seat, I’ve got some questions to ask you when spike gets here.” She pulled up a chair for me to sit in, as Rarity walked over to me and inspected where I’d been hit.

“Are you sure that you’re alright darling, that looks like an awfully dreadful bump.”

“I’m fine,” while out of the corner of my eye, I watched as books began to fly around. A few of them, maybe three or four, landed on the table in front of me and each opened to a certain page.

“So, you’re using ‘magic’ to do all this?” I asked.

“Yes,” Twilight replied as she turned around and brought over a chair for her. She set two more chairs into a semi-circle in front of me. As she did so, Rarity continued her answer.

“Yes, unicorns as well as alicorns in Twilight’s case, can use the magic in our horns for things like; fine manipulation of the environment, spells, or even teleportation.”

“Huh, neat…. hang on, alicorn?” I replied.

“Yup,” Twilight replied, “A combination of all three types of ponies; earth ponies, unicorns, and pegasi.”

“Ah I see,” I replied.

Not much later, Spike came into the room, and the three of them all sat down across from me. Spike lifted up a quill and what looked like some kind of scroll and nodded to Twilight.

Twilight looked at me directly, “So John, where are you from?”

“I’m from Earth, it's where my kind resides and from what I can infer, this land Equestria is on a different planet.”

“Why is that?” Twilight asked.

“Humans are the only truly sapient species on the our planet, not to mention we’ve explored all of our planet, and we haven’t found anything like this place. So I’d have to bet that I’m on a different planet.”

“I see...” Twilight responded.

I broke off my focus on her and looked to see that spike was furiously taking notes.

I pointed to him “I’m guessing that you’re having him transcribe what I say?”

“As always!” the little dragon answered, “Twilight likes to make sure that her information is as accurate as possible.”

I smiled, ”Well she does seem to be quite the studious type, maybe even a bit of an egghead.”

Spike and Rarity snickered as Rarity replied, “A good friend of ours would say so.”

Twilight cut back in wanting to continue her study of me, “Anyways back to you John, what did you do for work?”

“I built computers, but in my freetime I rehearsed combat scenarios, hence my uniform and weaponry.”

That peaked Twilights interest and got Rarity to look at me oddly as Twilight spoke, “Interesting, I am unfamiliar with your weaponry and why you still have them, but that definitely explains some things.”

Rarity spoke up, “Yes, and it would also explain his rugged look which I didn't notice when I first saw him.”

I just put my hand over my face and shook my head at that as she continued, “Honestly darling, you do look rather handsome and I’m sure that all the mares will swoon for you, especially with nicer attire.”

I chuckled at that, “Yeah sorry but no, I’m not exactly the fancy or refined type I'm just a simple guy at heart,” I sighed, ”Also, a woman genuinely falling in love with me?” I scoffed, “That's just a bullshit fairytale to me.”

The two mares were shocked. Both by my language and answer. Honestly, the only one in the room who wasn’t looking at me funny was spike. He was too busy staring at Rarity.

Ah, to be young and in love.

“John, why is your view so negative?” Twilight asked.

“It may be somewhat negative, but it’s the reality I have lived with,” I stated, “and all I can do is accept it and just get used to the loneliness...”

There was an awkward silence that followed as the ponies in the room were stunned by my words. I then cleared my throat to break the silence.

“Look, I know this is a little fast and I'll understand if you say no,” I took a deep breath and exhaled, “but do you have a place where I could crash for a night?”

They both just sat there and stared

“I’d be gone tomorrow after breakfast, and I’ll pay you when I can get the money,” I scratched my beard, “but from what I’ve seen, I don’t think this place accepts american dollars as a valid currency.”

Twilight didn’t even take a second to respond, “Of course! The Castle has a bunch of guest rooms and I wouldn't mind if you stayed in one, also don’t worry about payment.”

I was somewhat surprised “That is...quite generous...uh your majesty…”

She giggled, “Please, there’s no need for formalities. Just call me Twilight, I’ll have Owlicious lead you to a room. Just give me a few seconds to talk with my friends here and I will meet you there.”

From behind me I heard the flapping of wings and a small cooing, “Whooo.”

I turned around to see a small owl hovering behind me as Twilight spoke, “Yes Owlicious thank you, just follow him John.”

I picked up my stuff and followed the owl as the flew slowly down the hall to a small set of double doors and unlocked them.

“Thanks man,” I replied as I walked into the room, and holy shit was this place was fancy.

I just stood there in the room and gawked at its finery. The room was more than large enough for a human and with matching furniture. There was also a set of glass double doors that opened up to a balcony and another door on the side wall opened to a large luxury bathroom.

I heard two sets of hooves come up behind me and turned to see Twilight and Rarity walking up. I looked to Twilight with awe, "Wow, and you’re sure you’re okay with me staying here?"

"Of course, I always treat my guests well.” she replied, as I walked over to the bed and set my pack and gear down Rarity walked up to me.

"Again, I’d like to apologize for my earlier actions dear, in fact, stop by my shop when you can and I’ll make you some clothes better than those garish military rags that you have on as an apology."

I looked at her and then back to my pack as I realized that I really only have five days of clean shirts and socks, well maybe longer if I stretch everything. Though my combat top and bottom would be filthy.

"I’ll take you up on that offer then."

A smile came across her face as she replied, "Splendid darling, I’ll see you then, ta ta~," as she turned and walked out, Twilight walked in with a scroll in her grasp which looked kind of official. It had some sort of seal on it and it was addressed to me.

"This came in for you," she floated the letter over to me.

"I have mail already? I haven't been here for long."

"Well while you were getting settled in, I had spike send a letter to Princess Celestia. I think she is interested in meeting you."

I opened the letter.

Dear John,

My name is Princess Celestia.

I have been notified of your arrival to our world by my faithful student, and I have been given the transcript of her interview with you.

I would like to have an audience with you at my home here in Canterlot.

I know you have many questions for me and I will do my best to answer them, just as I hope that you will be able to answer some of mine.

Yours, Princess Celestia

I set the letter down on my bed and walked out to the balcony to watch the sunset. Something about that letter, something about that name, Celestia. It stirred something inside me, I don’t know what it was, but it lasted for only a second or two.

I must be anxious, she does seem to be the head honcho here.

Twilight walked up to me and asked "So what did it say?"

"Well the Princess wants to see me tomorrow."

"Really? That’s great news!"

"If you say so, now do you have anything I could write in?” I gestured around the room, “maybe an empty journal or a notebook?" with a small flash she made one appear in my hand.

"Here you go," Twilight replied, then she turned to leave.

“Hey uh Twilight?” I called out.

“Yes?”

I looked down at the scroll and looked back up to her “Could you tell me about Celestia?”

“Sure, what would you like to know?”

“Honestly, I don’t know… tell me anything about her; her past, how she looks, anything.”

“May I ask why?”

“Just so I can prepare for my meeting with her and ease my anxiousness.”

“I see...well let’s see what I can do,” Her horn glowed and a few orbs began to appear around me, each one containing a snapshot of something.

“What are these?” I asked.

“They’re snapshots of sorts, pieces of Equestrian history.”

I took a look at them and noticed that Celestia was in almost all of them, and as I saw her I noticed I was feeling more anxious but couldn't place about what.

“What do you think John?”

“She certainly seems interesting.”

“Hmm, also here are some of my memories.” Her horn flared again and one of the orbs opened up and was displayed in front of us.

What came into view was a towering white Alicorn in gold jewelry sitting before me, with a flowing mane of Cerulean, Turquoise, a light pink, and a light blue, with her Magenta eyes staring down at us and a smile on her face. I could tell from this that she was very regal but not uptight in nature, she also looked...stunning.

Wait what?

I shook my head at those thoughts and with a flash of Twilight’s horn, the image before me began to play out and Celestia began to speak

“Eventually I realized all the anxiety I felt was because I didn’t want you to go.” As she spoke softly I found myself fixated on her gentle caring voice.

“I loved having you as a student as you challenged me and taught me just as much I taught you,” Celestia looked shamefully at the ground, “I am embarrassed to admit it, but I was afraid that if you made friends, you wouldn’t need me anymore.”

The vision disappeared along with the rest of the orbs and I was left with the image of her smiling face burned into my mind.

Once again, it brought back some form of what must have been anxiousness in my chest but this time though there was a warmth there that wasn't before.

As I contemplated these strange feelings,I felt something tap my leg, and I realized then that I had spaced about for quite a bit.

I shook my head and sat down on my bed, “Sorry Twilight, that I spaced out there.”

“Don’t worry, you seemed perplexed and I didn't want to bother you.”

“Yeah...”

“Are you really that nervous about meeting the princess?”

“I guess so.” I replied with sigh as I laid down on the comfy bed.

She put her hoof on my leg, “Its okay she is a very kind pony.”

“Still, I can't help but feel anxious about-”

“Trust me,” she interrupted, “and don’t worry, when you meet her I will be there to support you.”

"Thanks,” I replied then yawning, “i think i'm going to call it a night."

She walked to the door "Ok, good night John."

"Good night Twilight..."

Well that’s all I have for today. Tomorrow I go to meet another princess and maybe I can find out more about Equestria. Though it seems that this is only, the beginning...