To Go Beyond

"A lost stallion? Don't you then have any relative who lives in Ponyville?"

Looking left and right, very slightly. "Erm... no..." I answered. My voice wasn't also particularly high at that moment.

"So, you're just lost? Why were you actually lost in the first place?"

"Erm, an accident with... some wild animals?" That was more of a question than a statement.

"Really, that wasn't really convincing." I could feel that she just innerly facehoofed.

"Mhm." Added the baby dragon that seemingly agreed with his surrogate mother, hands folded, his head went up and down, eyes was still being closed.

"Would you then believe me if I came from a human world?"

My mind was particularly blank at that time, what did you think then?

"What! But how did you come in Equestria? Did you came through the portal? How did you know about it's existence? When did you exactly come to Equestria anyway? Is your throat okay?" Rambled the alicorn princess with the full might of an interrogation officer while on steroids.

"Twilight..." Spike muttered.

"Oh right, I'm... sorry for my previous rambling. Please get inside first."

Judging by my current condition, that was my best option at that day. And because of my current goal was technically to just to get inside.

"Thank you, Miss Sparkle." I politely answered.

I went inside just as she commanded, and get struck by the awe of the sheer detail of that castle. Everything was so shiny and detailed unlike from the cartoony counterparts.

"Nice home you have here." I commented.

"It's a gift from my mentor, to be exact. But I assume that yo've already known it since you've already known my name. Are you sure you're okay with that kind of voice?" She looked at me again with that suspicious expression.

"I'm fine with it, ehem." I cleared my throat. "And about my knowledge, well, I just knew a human girl named Twilight Sparkle that has the same style like you, so I just assumed that you maybe has the same name like her..."

'Really?'

"Hmm, please follow me."

'Did she really believe that?'

My mind was blank and I just trotted along with that suspicious purple pony princess.

Walking through the corridor, and after we passed a numerous amount of rooms, we finally arrived in a sort of library, I meant the library that belonged to her. There was also that tall pyramid stack that made from books instead of cards. One of the good things about that library was that I could read those books because those were apparently written in latin alphabets.

"Spike, get the quill and paper."

"Got it, boss." Spike saluted. And just like an obedient servant, he ran to get the said items. Or did he?

I then decided to look at the neatly shelved books from her collection.

"This is a pretty impressive collection." I commented while was skimming the lower sections of the library, with a bit of hoarse tone.

'How about a plan before she send a letter about me to her dictator-ish mentor? Celestia can just pop out from nowhere, then if she knows about the existence this gem, she can easily take it away. Even Twilight can do it too. Goddammit. Does she even already aware that I'm currently harboring a seemingly powerful magical artifact that may possibly become a big threat to this land?'

Although my fear about it was baseless, my heartbeat raced again this time and paranoia started to consume me. To be honest, I was always paranoid to everyone on this world. Especially to anyone who apparently had much greater power than me. Magical power. Well, the magic really made the difference.

"Not really." She paused, then continued to observe the book collection of hers. "There was an accident that caused the destruction of the previous version of this library. Almost everything from my previous researches and collections were lost in that accident."

In response to her grief of her lost collections, I just nodded.

'How about a mind control spell? Like from one of those Magic cards. But instead of a full control, just erase both their memories about the event of this morning... or just give them suggestions to forget about the fact that I'm not from this world and then just give them some false information about me... but would it really working to a seemingly magically powerful being like her?

I pondered a bit about that decision, and finally took a conclusion:

This couldn't go on like this.

"Sorry Twilight, welp, I almost forgot the pancakes so I made another portion for our guest here." Came the little dragon with three plates of pancakes, then he put them onto the table almost perfectly just like a house maid.

"Are those apple cinnamons?" I asked him.

"Yup. Specially made by me, Spike the master chef." Boasted him with a hint of pride.

"That looks very nice." I commented with a smile.

"Thank you sir, always happy to serve." He then bowed himself.

"Spiiike..." Called his alicorn master.

"Oh right, sorry." He ran back again to get the quill and paper, which were actually just lying around at the corner of the library.

"But first, let us have a nice breakfast." She smiled. "Come on Spike."

"Really Twilight? Hmph..." She just dropped the quill and paper he was currently holding on the ground. And continued to join the breakfast while still standing because of the lack of chair in that room. It actually didn't really matter because the table was approximately only a foot tall from the floor.

And we all were eating in silence.

'Holy crap, what to do now?' This time I was the one who eyed them with suspicious look while was levitating the fork and preparing to slice the pancakes.

'Just fucking try it or fuck it. Fuck.' I sighed inwardly.

Then I stabbed the fork on the pancakes and closed my eyes.

'Concentrate... mind control spell... concentrate...'

Nothing. There was no weird feeling or some big change of things in my thoughts.

'Did something even happen?'

Then I opened my eyes to check if it was actually working. To my surprise, there were actual strands of blue-ish mana, I assumed what those things were called, which were interconnected from my head to both Spike and Twilight's head.

And such things also weren't really subtle of course.

"Hey! What are you doing?" Shouted the mare in front of me to her surprise.

"Whoa..." Spike was struck in awe instead.

If other pony could see it, at that moment the eyes of all of us three were actually glowing with bluish light.

'Alright, here it is.'

"Forget about this whole eating act." I whispered to make sure that this spell was actually working.

And they both dropped their forks to the ground.

"You..." Twilight just stared at me while also repeatedly blinking. "How can I be here..."

I continued to press the spell on.

"Forget about this morning's event. You both just wake up and I came inside politely via knocking the door, then you both recognized me as Ra, a common stallion who came from Fillydelphia to Ponyville because I was broke, so I met you, Twilight Sparkle, to get some help, and you offered me a room to live in this castle and I accepted it.... for free. Then Spike went to the kitchen and made this apple cinnamon pancakes for us three." I whispered the whole sentence and by continuously staring at her eyes.

Then I closed my eyes. 'Stop this spell.'

'Wait...'

I opened my eyes again, and the strands of mana were also gone. And they both just stared at me blankly.

"Uh, Twilight?" I called her.

She just blinked a few times. "What is it, Ra?" And smiled.

"Nothing, it's just, you just dropped your fork."

"Oh, right, heheh, silly me." Using her telekinesis again, she then picked her fork that fell on the floor before, and just continued to eat her served breakfast blissfully.

Then she took a pause.

"Hmm, how about your voice Ra? Are you okay with that? Your voice is just like a fifty years old stallion with all those whispers, you know."

"Worry not, I'm just fine with this voice."

"If you insist." Then she continued her meal again.

'Hmph...'

"Hey Spike." I called the little dragon.

He just blinked a few times while was still holding the plate.

"Um, yeah?"

"Don't forget this." I put his fork with my telekinesis, then placed it on top of his plate.

"Oh, thanks. I wonder why it fell on the floor..."

"Well, you just easily dropped it." I said with a smile.

"I suppose it doesn't really matter now." He shrugged and just continued to eat his pancakes.

'Holy cow, was that really working?' My heartbeat was really racing like hell at that moment.

"Uh, hey Twilight, you didn't forget our agreement, right?" I asked her to get the clarification from her.

She just stopped her eating act. "Oh you silly, how old do you think I am?" Remarked the alicorn with a seemingly warm smile.

"So, in which room then would I stay?"

"Oh, yeah, I almost forgot that, heheh, guess I'm really that old, am I right?" She just scratched her head sheepishly. "But let's just eating first. Don't you like apple cinnamon, Ra?"

"No no no, of course I like it, heh..."

Without hesitation I levitated a stuck of the pancake to inside of my mouth, with the fork of course, and chewed it.

"Hey, this is pretty good!"

'Really?' My inner self rolled his eyes due to my bad, unoriginal joke.

"Glad that you like it too." She smiled again.

'Goddammit Twilight, stop with your unnerving-inducer smiles.' I thought while was eating along with observing the alicorn princess.

—||—

The sun was still shining outside, while the princess and the newcomer, the light-brown coated unicorn were walking in the castle's corridor.

"So, here it is."

She turned to the left and opened a door of one of the many rooms that castle provided.

The room was, how could I say, pretty big. There also lay a seemingly comfortable, white-sheeted, king-sized bed in it, although it was pretty bland due to the lack of decorations. And in another corner near the window was a large, wooden cupboard with a princess-sized mirror embed at its front side.

"So, what do you think? Yeah I know. It's pretty bland but because you're a stallion, I think a room with mare-ish decoration won't suit with you, I guess."

"Wow, I appreciate this very much, Miss Sparkle. This is actually just more than enough for me."

She smiled. "Alright then, just call me or Spike if you need something. I leave you alone for this time being because I still have some homeworks to do, princess stuffs and such."

In my response, I just saluted her.

"Oh, and by the way, just call me Twilight. I'm not really comfortable being called with such formality under friends anyway."

"Got it, Twilight." I smiled in my reply.

"See ya!"

And with that she just trotted back to the inner parts of the castle.

—||—

In my new bedroom, I was looking at the scenery outside. Its radiant beauty wasn't get caught by my mind because I was currently pondering of something about my rash action before.

"What have I done..." I muttered.

I just sighed in response of it.

'Welp, need to go to the bathroom.'

Putting off the clothing of a pony was no task for a newbie if you didn't know how to do it, especially without hands. But thanks to telekinesis I could breeze all of it with only the power of my mind.

'Another demeaning thing to live on. But it seems fine since the whole community is composed of naked ponies, it will be fine to be naked anyway.'

"It. Will. Be. Fine." I muttered to myself again like a madpony. Did you think it would be easy to be naked in public?

Reflexively I also saw my reflection on the mirror that stood beside me. 'Wait is that my cutie mark?'

A picture of a pair of golden horns with an egg-shaped, golden gem that floated in- between of the horns' curvy tips was marked on both of my flanks. Just like those actual horns symbol I saw sometimes ago before. Horns that belonged to the greatest enemy of the multiverse, of Magic the Gathering, the dragon Nicol Bolas. All while I was also holding the shining golden Gem of Becoming with my telekinesis too.

'You've got to be kidding...'

I just stared blankly at my reflection, then I closed my eyes.

Words couldn't describe about of how many litres of air I inhaled at that moment.