***POV Jordan***

First and foremost, this was one really comfy bed.

Second, never in my life did I expect to see what was in front of me now. A PURPLE UNICORN was standing next to the bed. It had Purple hair with pink highlights and these big purple eyes.

It even felt like it was examining me, almost like it was studying me. I was scared to even move. My childlike emotions took hold and I just sat there frozen just like the purple (or is it lavender, I don’t know) unicorn sitting there. I felt like this was a stand-off, both of us daring the other to make the first move.

I saw something else move. An even larger white unicorn with blue hair and light blue highlights stepped into my view. It was at least 2 heads taller that me. And it did the most surprising thing. It talked.

“Hey there little guy,” said the white one, now identified as a male.

I did the first thing that came to mind. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!” I exploded into noise.

“Just great Shiny, now you scared him. How did you know it was male anyway?” The purple identified female asked.

“His name seemed like a male name. I don’t think you can name a female Jordan and not make it seem ridiculous,” White said.

“How do you know my name?!” I half yelled.

Both: “AAH, he can talk!?!”

“Well, you both talk. And you’re horses? Ponies? I don’t know anymore,” I said while trying to find logic in this scenario.

“We are ponies and everypony can talk. What is so strange about that? You are the weird one here. We never even seen something like you before,” The purple one countered.

I was stumped. “Everypony? Ayayay, my head is not capable to handle this. Logic doesn’t even exist anymore.”

The white one looked a bit concerned. “Look, just relax. We will try to answer the questions you have if you feel you are up to it. Do you need some water?” He asked.

“We?!?” Purple yelled. “Yes, we. We both brought him here. We might as well help him. He’s clearly not from around here.” And with that he shut her up.

About a minute of really awkward silence passed before I was able to completely calm down. “Sigh, OK. Let’s start this again and do this properly.” I stated. “My name is Jordan Eckhart. Nice to meet you. Sorry about the yelling, I just really freaked out.”

“It’s no problem,” The white one said. “My name is Shining Armor but friends call me Shiny. And this is my little sister Twilight Sparkle nice to meet you.”

Both me and Shining noticed that the purple filly Twilight hadn’t moved yet. “Come on Twily. You asked for a friend and now you are just gonna leave the opportunity? Just say hi to the little guy.”

“Hi,” she squeaked.

“Hi there.” Was my genius awkward response. I was never the best at making friends. Can you tell?

“If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.” Shinning said breaking the awkward silence again.

“Well, how about trading questions and answers?” I proposed. “I am sure you two have questions for me as well.”

“Excellent idea, don’t you think Twily?”

“...”

It appears someone was more shy than me. YES! Sorry, I just don’t like my own shyness.

“Where are we now?” I asked, starting our little information exchange game.

“Right now you are at our home, which is in Canterlot, which is in Equestria. Does that answer your question?”

I nodded. “Alright, an obvious one. What are you?” Was Shining his first question.

“I am a human. Which is a bipedal hairless monkey.” I saw both of them exchange a look. “No, wait. A species of hairless ape. Monkeys have tails.”

Once again they shared a look and Twilight looked quite smug now while Shining was annoyed.

“Scientific name Homo Sapiens Sapiens.” I continued.

But I heard scratching. Like a pencil was writing an essay on paper. I looked around and saw just a floating pencil and some paper doing just that.

“What is this?” I asked fascinated.

“That is just a pencil and some paper,” Shiny said like it was the most obvious thing.

“Yes, I know that. But how is it doing that?”

“Twily is just levitating them to write down what you say,” He said it like I was as dumb as a bucket of bolts.

“With what? Magic?” I asked sarcastically for clarification.

“Yes.” This time Twilight answered with a completely straight face.

“What? How? Why? I have so many questions!” I said a bit panicked.

“Twily, I don’t think he knows about magic,” Shiny said stupefied.

“How can anypony not know about magic? It is inside every living being,” Twilight asked.

“I’m not a pony.” I cheekily pointed out. “But I really do want to learn more about this so called ’magic’.”

“If you want, I can teach you,” Twilight offered.

“Yeah sure. Thanks.” I said. I saw her about to start her lecture on magic but I stopped her just in time. “But not right now Twilight. There are more questions to be answered.” She quickly nodded. You could see the happiness in her eyes though. And she seemed a lot more eager to join in on the conversation.

“So how old are you guys anyway?” I asked to further our conversation.

“I am 12 years old,” Shining said. “And she is 7. What is your age?” He continued.

I didn’t know how to answer his question. Should I tell him my mental age or the age of my physical body now, which I didn’t even know. I decided to say what came most natural to me.

“I am 7 as well.” That was surprisingly quick that I came up with an answer to that question.

“You seem to act a lot more mature than most of your age I believe,” Armor commented, “In fact, I am surprised you are taking this situation so well.”

“Wait a few more days until you really get to know me and then get back to me on that statement Besides, I think I’m going insane anyway,” I quickly countered with a bit of a cheeky grin.

“Hah, I can tell we are going to get along just fine. And I think the same can be said for Twilight,” Shining snorted.

The next few hours were spent exchanging questions and knowledge about ourselves like hobbies and things we like. They explained how their country and social system worked, well at least their understanding of them. I was pleasantly surprised about both of them.

Shining armor’s interests are more broad than I thought at first. He is an adept at defensive spells like barriers and force fields. He wants to join the royal guard. Those are like our policemen and army men mixed into one job. He likes all kinds of sports, even chess and checkers. He kind of has to like those because Twilight is really into the intellectual stuff and he really cares about his sister.

Twilight’s interests are a tad less broad. Everything that has to do with learning and books. In her spare time she reads books meant for ponies double her age. And they are not novels or fictional stories. I am talking about real studies meant for 14 year old ponies. But everything is based around magic in her life. It appears that she does not have a lot of control when she wants to use some of the more advanced spells. Which in turn got her a bit frustrated.

They also told me about this thing called a ‘cutie mark’. I still can’t keep a straight face when they say that name. It sounded absolutely ridiculous. It’s like a little girl came up with the name or something like that. But the concept is pretty neat. Getting a tattoo that resembles what you are good at and love to do is pretty helpful to figure out your calling in life. Shining showed his, a cobalt blue shield with a purple star in the middle (and 3 stars above the shield). It looked pretty cool.

Then I noticed that Twilight didn’t have one. When I asked her about it she got a bit sad and murmured that she didn’t have one yet.I guess it must be some sort of teenager or maturity thing and that they only appear at the right time.

“Maybe we can search for it together? I don’t have one either. I doubt I can get one but it would be fun to explore what our special talents are together,” I told her. Immediately she was beaming with happiness.

“I would love that,” She said enthusiastically.

Seeing as they told a bit about themselves. I might as well return the favor and tell them a bit about me. But the bit about me dying and more about my past is something I will only tell someone whenever I felt I was ready.

I told them that I like learning new things. I told them I could speak 3 languages and promised Twilight that I might teach them to her to the best of my ability. (English, Dutch and French).

I explained a bit about electricity and that I really like learning and testing with that stuff.

I also told them that I like music and named the instruments I love to play.

“Speaking of music. Do you know where my backpack is?” I asked.

“It’s right here,” Shining answered. I took my backpack and took out my sampler. With standing up I noticed how tall these guys were. I was a tiny bit smaller than Twilight in height, but Shining was towering over me like a giant.

I sat back down on the bed with the sampler on my lap.

“What’s that?” They both asked.

“This is my sampler. A simple electronic tune machine on which I can play music, record it and replay it. I just love to mess around on it,” I said while getting ready to give them an example.

“What kind of music?” Asked Shining. For some reason Phoenix Wright kept popping up in my head.

So I decided to play this.

When I was done I looked back at Shining and said “Did that answer your question?”

“That was pretty cool,” He answered back with a grin.

“Yep, I can play a nice variety of genres on this thing when I change up the settings. I think there are even some songs in the memory of the sampler from where I came from,” I commented.

“Where do you come from?” Asked Twilight.

With a heavy sigh I tell them: “I have no solid idea, but I have a few hunches. Right now I feel that it is a bit of a sensitive subject and would rather not tell.”

“Oh,” Twilight said.

“Maybe I will tell you two in the future, when I feel that I am ready to share that story with you.”

“Don’t worry,” Shiny said, “But if you ever need us, we will be there.”

I was a bit shocked by that answer. Humans are usually wary and cautious when it comes to strangers. But with these two ponies it felt like I was talking to good friends that trusted me. Either pony nature is a lot better that human nature. Or it is their childlike innocence that made them so accepting of me.

We continued our conversations with random anecdotes from embarrassing moments of their lives so far. We had an absolute blast.

We were busy laughing at a silly joke I made when the door opened and I heard multiple hoof steps.

“That might be mom and dad,” Twilight said, “I can’t wait to introduce you to them.”

A female voice then said said: “We are home dearies. Could you come down and bring the creature down as well? We have a surprise for you.”

This might not be something that I was looking forward to.

Author's Note

I don't own any music I will post in any chapters.

Anyway, have a nice day.
Whoa, black betty bambelam. Whoa, black betty bambelam.
Next time:
"Mom, dad. I would like to introduce Jordan Eckhart to you. Apparently he can talk."
parents: "..."
How the hell did I find myself in situations like this.