Twilight let me borrow the spare room in the library which was nice of her and before everyone left, I asked Rarity if she could fix my jacket, which she generously accepted for free, (which I argued about for a while before giving up), and I got to know Spike a little better since we hanged out for a bit.

I placed my things on the wall next to the bed and laid down on it, admiring how nice and comfortable it was. However, it was a little difficult to get sleep since I was extremely nervous. Tomorrow I'm meeting the princesses of the sun and moon which, thinking about it now, makes them seem more like goddesses which is even more terrifying than before!

I start to calm down once I realize I'm hyperventilating. 'It's going to be ok Aaron, just get some sleep and be nice and courteous when you see them tomorrow.' I think to myself as I start to control my breathing and rest my head back qgqinist my pillow and let sleep take a hold of me.

MORNING

The sun shines brightly through the window wakes me up and getting up out of bed may have been the hardest thing ever for me, probably because I has tired and beat. That manticore fight I had and the all the walking I did must have tired me out more than what I expected.

I went downstairs wearing the same clothes as I was as I was so tried I didn't even care. The sweet smell of breakfast bringing me to the kitchen to see Twilight reading a book on the sofa and Spike cooking in the kitchen.

"Oh!" Twilight says in surprise when she hears the thudding from the stairs and looking to see me. "Good morning Aaron." She adds with a smile and wave.

"Good morning Twilight." I say with a smile and wave back. Looking over to Spike in the kitchen, I ask, "Hey Twilight, what's Spike making?"

"I'm making pancakes with apple slices!" I hear Spike yell as he flips a pancakes.

"Well I guess there's your answer." She says with a smirk and a laugh and I do the same.

"So what're reading?" I ask while leaning over her.

"It's a book on advanced magical theorems and rune spells." She says. Well that explains everything.

"Anyway when do are we planning to leave?" I ask, wanting to know so I'm prepared.

"In a few hours. We're planning on getting there and the princesses said in their letter that they would treat us to lunch when we get there." She explains to me and I smile at the generosity of these princesses.

"Heya guys, breakfasts ready." Spike yells from the kitchen. We both go to the kitchen to see a stack of pancakes and syrup with a plate of some apple slices.

"This looks delicious Spike!" I say with giddiness and approvement.

"Thanks." He says with a blush which I chuckle at.

"Well, lets dig in." Twilight says as she pulls out a chair for herself. I do the same and put some pancakes and apple slices on my plate. I see Twilight and Spike do the same and start eating so I start doing the same and HOLY SHIT THESE ARE AWESOME!!! They taste so sweet and full, practically melting sweetness into my mouth. Twilight and Spike look at me with a little concern but with in relief when I start scarfing down the pancakes, but not without some terror in their eyes at the monster speed at which I'm eating.

Slowing down my chewing and swallowing the piece of food in my mouth, I look towards Twilight. "Hey Twilight, you said that the currency here are named 'bits' right?" I ask to which she nods before swallowing.

"Yes they are, why do you ask?" She says while tilting her head in cute way. Woah where did that come from? Whatever.

"Well you see. Before I arrived in this world, I had about 2000$ of my currency from my world in my duffle bag. But, when I arrived here somehow, all the money in my bag was changed into bits." I explain to her and Spike which makes them both surprised. "What I'm asking here is if you can help me count how much money I have in bits since you have more knowledge than I do." I ask her while looking to her.

"Um.......ok. I can help you. Can you go get the duffle bag?" She tells me after some hesitation and then asking. I nod to her and go upstairs and grab the bag full of bits.

"Here we go." I say as I get downstairs and place it down in the living room area.

"Ok, let's get this started." She says before looking towards Spike, "Do you wanna help too Spike?" She asks, looking back towards him as he stands over in the kitchen room doorway with his hands in his pockets. He just shrugs his shoulders and comes over before sitting down while I open the bag.

AFTER SOME TIME
(decided not to include this as it would just be boring)

I'm waiting on the coach with Spike while Twilight does some math with a calculator. Spike told me that it would be best to leave her be at this point to which I agreed as she looked very concentrated.

"AHAH! I've got it Aaron." She says after some time. Looking back at me, she stands up and presents it.
"After some time, I've found out the exact amount of bits you have from the 2000$ you had. The exact amount of bits you have is........2000 bits." She says anticlimactically. The only thing I can think is how much that sucks. I was hoping I'd kinda be rich and it would be like a million bits or something.

"Well, thanks Twilight. It helped me a little and that's what counts." I say with a smile as I stand up and pick up the money and put it back in my bag.

"No problem Aaron. Besides, it helped passed the time and speaking of which, we should head to the train station so go get your things. Both of you." She says as she looks at a clock and points to both me and Spike.

TRAIN STATION

We arrive at the train station with our stuff and I see everyone else get here too. Rarity is holding my jacket and when she spots me, she runs up and hands it to me.

"Here you go darling, all better." She says with a happy smile. It's true too. It looks like nothing ever even happened to it.

"Thank you Rarity." I say with a smile as well as I put it on. "Looks perfect, you really are a miracle worker." I say with a warm smile and a slight bow which makes her blush. Muttering something about a gentleman.

"ALL ABOARD!!!" A conductor yells as a train stops in front of us.

"Well this is our train. Let's go." Twilight says with some light enthusiasm as she boards along with everyone else including me. We took our seats and put away it luggage as the train starts up again. After some time, Twilight looks out the window and gasps.

"Aaron, look!" She says as she point outside the window. Looking over her I see a mountain with WHAT THE HELL?!?!?

THATS CANTERLOT?!?!? ITS HUGE, AND BEAUTIFUL, AND NO THESE ARENT INNUENDOS!!!!!

"Wow." Was the only response I had really. The train arrived at the station and I was actually surprised at how quickly we arrived, only about an hour. Twilight was leading us to what I assumed was the castle. The city was truly beautiful but I wish I could say the same for the citizens here. The girls told me warned me that the 'nobles' of the city were extremely arrogant, greedy, and by there own words, rude. This annoyed to the extreme as nobles are meant to be wise and kind, not arrogant and greedy. The 'nobles' are looked by at me with disgust and horror, probably thinking I'm some kind of monster.

"What is that disgusting creature? It has no reason to be in our beautiful city." One noble said.

"I agree. Only those of noble birth belong in Canterlot. Anypony else should be kicked out and banished!" Another said, getting the rest to nod their heads in agreement.

This started to piss me off so I decided to glare harshly at them which when they finally looked at me, since their noses were up in the air. When they saw me, they wided-eyed and ran from me screaming about how they were being attacked. This happened to get the attention of the guards and girls. Before I knew it, about twenty guards with swords, shields, and spears were surrounding me. One earth pony guard steps toward with a sword and glaring at me though his helemet.

"Halt you monster! You're under arrest for terrorizing the nobles of Canterlot! You will be coming with us to the dungeon." He says with authority and points his sword at me making me reach for mine.

"I didn't do anything. I simply glared at them for insulting me, and besides, I'm here to see the princesses." I state, trying to be as non threatening as possible. The asshole guard only find this amusing, as do the rest of the guards.

"Ha! Why would we believe what some ugly monster says? And besides, why would our glorious princess want to see an east like you?" He says in mocking tone that only pissed me off.

"So this is how the 'great royal guards' of Canterlot act? This is an insult to your princess. And it's princesses idiot. There's more than one." I say to all the guards in a mocking tone as well to mock his tone he used on me, which only seemed to make them extremely pissed at me.

"So now your insulting us and the princesses?!?! That's it! You aren't going to the dungeon! You're going to die!!!" He yells as he runs towards me and tries to cleave my head off which ducked since I can react faster than most. This makes him even madder as he tried again and again. Soon he was unleashing a flurry of swings and stabs which I simply dodged.

He kept attacking me, or at least attempt to, I mean seriously, he was just swinging his sword at me without sense. The girls, Spike, the rest of the guards, and even the nobles. I decide I wanted to end this one-sided fight. After he swings his sword at me, I duck under it and then get behind him before putting him in a full nelson hold which makes him drop his sword.

This shocks everyone around me me and pits the guards on edge. My little hostage I'm holding is only enraged my this action.

"Let me go you damn hairless ape!" He screams at me as he tries to struggle but clearly has no idea how to escape this hold.

"Not until you tell your friends that to stand down." I order to him as I gesture to the surrounding guards. This order made him angrier as he try's to escape the hold but can't. After about a minute of struggling he finally gives up.

"Fine. Everypony stand down." He orders as his pride is clearly hurt. Not that I care. It could really help him.

I let him go and throws him his sword which he grabs out of the air with a glare.

"Now can I go? I don't want me to be late for the princesses." I say wit boredom laced in my voice. This makes him mad as I see his face turn red compared to his white fur but he reluctantly agrees with it. Not that he had a choice.

Me and the rest of group go to the castle so we may meet the princesses but as we are walking, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie decide to start praising me.

"Aaron! That was awesome! How did you dodge that so easily?" Rainbow asks.

"Yeah! He was like 'swing, swang, swash!' And you were like 'nope, nope, nope, nope!' And it was so awesome!" She says as she pretends to reenact the fight and jumps into the air in an explosion of confetti.
Still have no idea how she does that.

"Yeah I know. And to answer your question Rainbow, I was trained how in several martial arts and pushed my body to the it's limit and beyond." I state with a tone of superiority that surprised the girls and made Rainbow look at me in awe. She was about to say something but we arrived and went inside the castle with Twilight escorting us to the throne room. Now at this point, I look composed on the outside, but on the inside I'm freaking out and am terrified. After a minute or two of walking, we arrive at the door to the throne room.

"Ok everypony, lets make sure we're on our best behavior." Twilight says as she looks at us for clarification, which she got in simultaneous nodding. Opening the door to the throne room, I was blinded for a second by a bright light which dimmed to reveal two of the most elegant and beautiful woman I've ever seen. One of them was a tall, Amazonian like woman, probaly 6'5, with white fur like Rarity's and flowing hair of a light blue, green, and pink. She had pink eyes as well. She also had large white wings and a long white horn on her head, which Twilight told are referred to as alicorns. This was probably Princess Celestia.

(remember she's anthro, so she has fur and a horn. couldn't actually find a good anthro pic, sorry)

The other princess was slighted shorter, about 6'2 which is my height. She had extremely dark blue fur and wings, with flowing hair like Celestia expect hers were light blue with a dark blue outline and looked like stars. She also had light, teal blue eyes. Her wings were a slight smaller than Celestia's but they were still bigger than the average pegasus. This must be Princess Luna.

When we enter, the first thing the rest of the group does is bow which I follow but in a different way. The rest of the group bows by getting on there knees, while I bowed the traditional Japanese way, with me beans my body foward. This confused everyone including the princesses and the guards in the room looked disgusted.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing?" A guard asks as he approaches me with a look of anger on his face. This confused me as it didn't make sense since I didn't offend anyone, I simply bowed.

"I'm bowing to the princesses as a sign of respect, what did I do wrong?" Jeez, all these guards are just getting mad at me for no reason.

"That's not bowing you idiot!" He yells at me as he throws a punch which just makes me sigh and I put up my hand and catch it with no effort. This action shocked everyone, the punch, not me blocking. He gets mad and reaches for his sword but is stopped by a golden and blue aura that pulls him off me and I look over to see both Luna's and Celestia's horns glowing, golden for Celestia and blue for Luna and they both seemed pissed.

"Guard, you will refrain from attacking our guest just because he bowed differently. That could easily be be how they bow in his world. Now you will leave and guard the door." Celestia says with anger in her voice. The guard nodding his head, looking like he was about to shit himself which amused me.

"Both me and my sister apologize for the actions of the guard." Luna says after said guard left the room. Celestia nods in repsponse to Luna.

"It's ok princesses. Besides, it's his fault for it so you don't need to apologize." I say with a wave of my hand which made the princesses smile at my kindness. Though they both made serious expressions and looked at me.

"But we did hear that before you arrived here, you fought against a guard who told us you were terrorizing some nobles." She said with a serious tone. To which I simply rolled my eyes which they both noticed.

"Now that's a flat out lie if I've ever heard one!" Applejack said as she came up to my side which the rest of the group did as well, nodding their heads with *hmph*.

"Would you care to explain, young human?" Luna says as she points to me, both of their faces switched to confused faces rather than serious.

"You may call me Aaron princesses, and what happened was when we were entering the city from the train station, I overheard a group of nobles mocking me and saying they were going to try to kick me out of the city. I was annoyed by this so I glared at them which they noticed and overreacted to it by running away in terror, screaming about how I was a monster. Newrby guards noticed and surrounded me, with one coming up to arrest which I tried to explain the situation. They didn't believe me, saying that you two wouldn't ant me to come near you or more specifically, one of one." The more I continued, the more they got shocked and angry, but when they heard the last bit, Luna looked sad and Celestia furious. Will have to ask about that later. I continued on, saying,"I then proceeded to correct him and tell him off about his behavior and that it is disgusting, which got him angry and then he proceeded to attqck me with his sword." This pieces of news shocked both of them, hearing that one of their guards attacked a innocent must never happen I guess. "I dodged all his attacks before make my him give up by putting him in a hold he couldn't escape. After that, we left and came here." I finished my story and the princesses did not look happy, in the slightest. Celestia looked at me with sympathetic eyes.

"I'm terribly sorry Aaron, I will make sure that the guard who did this is punished." She said to which I agreed with.

"I have to ask though. How were you able to dodge all of his attacks?" Luna asked "All our guards are welled trained to hold their own in any fight." She states to which I gave an understanding gesture.

"Aaaahhhh!" I say in a realizing type of tone. "Well you see Princess Luna, in my world, I was trained in the ways of martial arts and swordsmanship, along with training with a bow, since I was seven." I explain in a matter of fact voice. This bit of information surprised both the princesses who looked at each other in shock.

"So is this how you were able to beat a manticore by yourself?" Luna asks to which I nod which suprises them yet again. They were about to ask something else but was interrupted by a loud rumbling sound coming from Pinkie's belly. This made the girls giggle and me chuckle.

"Well, I think it's time for lunch." Celestia says while giggling which everyone nodded to. We were escorted to the dining room by the princesses. We arrive to the dining room which is simply a room with a long table and chairs. We all sit down with Pinkie to my right and Luna to my left. A waiter comes out and asks for everyone's orders which are daisy sandwiches, Spike got hay fries, a few salads but when he got to me, my order freaked everyone out.

"I'll have some cooked fish with a fruit salad and water please." I tell the waiter who looks at me surprised before going off into the kitchen to give our orders to the chefs. I look around at everyone to see them looking at me in shock and horror. "What?" Was my only response.

Rarity decided to speak up with a little bit a green on her face. "Darling, you eat meat?" She asks appalled.

Sighing at myself for not bringing this up sooner, I respond with, "Yes I do, but only live stock and to a certain degree. No sentient creatures if you're wondering." This made everyone visually relaxed but a little discomforted. After a few minutes the food arrives along, being carried individually to everyone. When mine arrives to me, I look at the meal in satisfaction as I haven't eaten much meat in a while and it looks delicious. I cut off a piece with my knife and take a bite of the fish to find it crispy and chewy with a nice hint of spiciness. It also seemed to be extremely juicy as it seems to melt in my mouth in flavor which makes it so blissful~. I continue to eat, despite of the discomfort of everyone else, until I'm finished as I lay my stomach a few times before sighing in satisfaction. Looking around, I saw that everyone else was also finished with their meals. The waiters came back to take the dishes back to the kitchen.

"Thank you princesses. That was very good." I say to Celestia and Luna with a satisfied smile on my face as well as everyone else's.

"Well it was our treat." Celestia said in kind, motherly tone as she gestured to both her and her sister.

"Hey Aaron? I was wondering...how good are you with that sword?" Luna asks me with a tilt of her head and look of intrigue on her face as well as everyone else's after she asked the question.

"Well lets see. I've won about 13 sword tournaments before, as well as 8 martial arts tournaments, and three archery contests too." I state as I put up fingers on my hands to represent the numbers and looking up to remember. Looking back down to see everyone else in shock again was really amusing to me. Snapping out of their shocked states, everyone looks at me in awe.

"Aaron, that means you've won at least 24 tournaments throughout your life!" Twilight says to me.

"Well technically since I was thirteen but no ones keeping track so who knows." I say nonchalantly with a wave of my hand.

"Wow! That's so awesome!!! You've got to show me some of those sword skills you promised." Rainbow says as she flys up next to me.

"Yes indeed. I think we all would like to see." Celestia says as she gestures to everyone else which they all nod at. But before I could say anything, a guard broke into the room looking exhausted.

"Guard, what's the meaning of this?" Celestia asks as she stands up.

"Princesses! There are invaders in Ponyville! The masked bandit group Arcadia!"

Author's Note

Next chapter will be the first real fighting chapter in the story so I hope you enjoy.