Waking up in a cosy bed is a lot better than waking up on a cold tiled kitchen floor. Shifting myself to lean upon the headboard supporting my back, there was still a phantom pain but oh well. Looking to my left I spotted another yet gorgeous women, but complete white and boy oh boy did she have an arse for days. She had a massive wingspan, but what I didn't understand was, why was Twilight smaller and this majestic being stood at 7 foot tall. Crazy.

"Yo!" I said whilst giving the pair a scare.

"Well good morning to you too," Twilight said clearly annoyed at my antics. Whilst the much bigger one gave me a bemused stare.

"Sorry love, wasn't trying to scare, or was I?" I said, I was clearly chuckling at this point.

"So erm, who is this?" I said whilst eyeing up the white mare. She clearly had a bit of muscle on her as well, toned stomach, some parts had golden armour covering her in places, she looked like some royal queen. Wait...I think this is Luna's sister, she did tell me to speak to her, but from just looking at her I could feel a certain pressure of power, it wasn't crushing me it was really welcoming, kind of like a loving mother. This is really weird.

She walked forward after putting her cup of tea down on the table. She had a regal walk in her step, definitely royalty, so I did what I do best, I didn't bow down to her and swear allegiance. I walked over to her looked her straight in the eye and said.

"So, who's your gorgeous looking friend Twi?" using a nickname only broadening my vulgar attempt at flirting with a Princess.

Twilight had her mouth wide open and looked like she was about to faint, the princess, however, had a sparkle in her eye and moved her face a little closer to mine.

"So Twilight, who is this handsome Human you have here?" she said whilst turning her head towards Twilight with a smug grin on her face. I, however, wasn't prepared to get jibed on my own game. Since it made me blush up a storm and stutter a bit in surprise.

Seriously though, wasn't expecting her to reciprocate., I thought she would've shrugged it off and say absolutely fuck all about it.

She is definitely going to be so much fun

Twilight, however, took it really seriously, so serious in fact she was furious and she sped over to me and grabbed my head and brought it to the floor, not hitting the floor of course, but just enough to make me bow. Whilst furiously saying how sorry I was for me.

"Ow! Ow! you're hurting my fuckin head Twilight, it was just a joke love come on!" I said whilst my head was aching from the constant pressure upon it.

"I'm sorry Princess for his incompetence, he's not from this planet so I'd guess he would've known of the customs we have over here." Whilst she stared at my lowered form in annoyance.

"It's quite alright Twilight, yes, he may not be of this world, but that means he's not under my rule until he gets his Equestrian Citizenship," she said whilst putting her hand on Twilights shoulder and giving her a knowing look.

"Either way, I don't mind a bit of banter, it helps me unwind and destress from all the paperwork I have to go through," Celestia said sighing a bit.

"Oh, right, hehe, my bad, sorry Elliott. Are you still hurt?" Twilight said whilst lifting her ten tone hand off of my neck.

"For fuck sakes Twilight, how heavy is your hand? Probably lift a house with that thing." I said whilst rubbing the back of my neck moaning slightly at the pain. Either way, I had better things to be focusing on.

I stood up at my full height, Princess Celestia chin was just above my nose, a pretty well endowed tall ass women, not going to lie or anything but I think I was slightly intimidated. I outstretched my hand to shake hers which she kindly obliged, soft fingers too, no I do not have a hand fetish. Is that even a thing?

"Hiya love, the names Elliott Johnston, just call me El, because I absolutely despise my name," I said whilst smiling.

"My name is Princess Celestia and I welcome you, Human, to Equestria." She said with a sincere smile on her face.

"I thought I slightly recognised you, I met your sister in my dreams, she said I was supposed to speak to you," I asked with slight concern written on my face.

"Ah, so Lulu has met you then, I assume she hasn't yet told you anything on what I'm going to tell you now correct?" Celestia said with a bit of a commanding tone on the last part, which got my full attention since it sounded like it was serious.

"Uh, not really, like I said she only told me to speak to you," I said scratching my neck not sure what was going on at the moment.

"Well, you had a dream correct? What happened in that dream?" She asked giving me a look that meant business.

Scary...

"Well, I was in a forest that looked like it was in the middle of winter, and until I got a little further in I spotted a sword that was in a bit of rock, and after trying my hand in pulling it out, I got confronted by a demon, which in turn was the headless horseman and he literally tried to kill me, until Luna came along kicked him like he was a bag of shit and after teleporting me back and pulling the sword out of the stone, I went for him and then the dream cut out. So yeah that basically sums it up in simple terms." I said whilst folding my arms, suddenly growing a serious look on my face. Whilst to others I looked pissed as fuck, but in my own head, I was just curious.

"So, it looks like it's started. There are terrible forces lingering on the far outskirts of Equestria, but what you faced was not something of this world I'm afraid, it was a test of sorts, firstly a compatibility test, that sword let you take ahold of it and tried to pull it out if it moved at all, then it was a success, then fighting a nightmare being of your own memories, surviving long enough to pull the sword out of that stone means that you've completed that test and gained its trust. " She said whilst lowering her horn to my chest, scanning my entire body with a pulse of magic.

She seemed to be done however, she took a step back with a thoughtful look on her face. But suddenly I fell to my knees out of breath, it looks like something hot was inside my chest, hoping that I wasn't going to go in a coma again, that shit really fucking hurt to the point where passing out was a kindness, it was getting hotter and hotter, like a tiny inferno swirling around in my stomach, if this continues I might as well be confirmed that I'm a literal walking talking bomb at this point.

The two looked at me with a lot of worry on their faces, they were waiting for something, I knew something was up, I, however, was trying to bare it, to push through, so I stood up on my shaky legs, not letting whatever this thing is consuming me.

"What's happening to me?" I said between laboured breaths.

"Your body is going through a detoxification phase, but don't worry you're going to be fine, your body is just getting used to the latent magic in the air and surrounding our bodies, it's in everything you could possibly think of, its the natural pillars of the world that makes up Equs in its entirety. Also, your body is intaking magic at a fast growth rate and normal, which is expected considering you are a being of none magic." She said whilst kneeling down and holding my hand to try and get me through this terrible immense pain.

"Right, well since I came from Earth it kind of makes sense I guess, our planet doesn't have any sort of magic on it besides some stupid tricks that people can pull off at shows or concerts," I said coughing a bit, breathing was becoming a slight problem, it was like the air was thin, but the fire in my stomach was steadily growing, tears started to flow down my cheeks as the pain heightened threatening me to scream out.

"It hurts, so fucking much, is there a way you can nullify the pain? It's slowly becoming unbearable and I'm not sure on what I might do when it does." I said in a low threatening voice, but it didn't persuade her to back off, she simply gripped my hand a lot harder whilst giving me a warm motherly like a smile, Twilight had joined to on my right side, holding my other hand in worry, along with an encouraging smile of her own.

"It's funny, you guys have done more and shown more than any other human has shown to me, pretty inspiring to say the least, I look forward to learning from you all," I said between slight laughs and coughs.

They both smiled and we all waited for it to pass.

About thirty minutes later, the pain subsided and the fire in my stomach dissipated, I was glad beyond belief because that was the worse thing I've ever felt in my entire life. Standing back up, slightly relived I heard a slam somewhere in this place. Celestia, me and Twilight all looked at each other confused, then another slam, and something whizzing down the hallways.

Suddenly the door to our left slammed open and a sword along with it's sheathe came barreling in, it was my sword, and it was suspended mid-air IN front of us like it was alive and somehow sentient.

"So er, that's my sword that I came with, and I'm prettyyyy sure it doesn't have any magic," I said, slightly on edge.

"Then why is it floating?" Twilight said whilst clocking eyes with mine.

Celestia was still staring, and from the looks of it, she was in thought yet again, she was completely composed which had my curiosity quite a bit.

"I have no fuckin clue," I said whilst taking a slight step back.

Then a golden portal opened up and out came the Excalibur I saw in my dream last night, slowly emerging out of the swirly like vortex. Both swords were in the air stood beside each other, then the runes hummed and shined brightly, then a tiny wisp-like dot just little ways in front of the runes on the blade, then the same symbols of the runes where drawn like on paper, once the runes had finished copying itself into the air, the copied runes floated towards my sword and embedded the runes into the curved blade, then the magic dissipated leaving just the weird symbols on my blade.

Then the same portal that brought Excalibur out into the open completely sucked in Arthurs blade and disappeared nowhere to be found. Then the last floating blade and it's sheathe clattered to the ground.

"Soo...what just happened?" I said whilst looking between the two.

"I have no idea" Twilight said whilst bending down and looking closely at my blade.

"Well whatever it is, that was King Arthur's blade and somehow it got out of the vault with it's own magic inside of it. Interesting." Celestia said whilst tapping her hoof on the ground.

"Wait how do you know of King Arthur?" I said whilst scrunching up my face, turning ever so slightly towards Celestia.

"Well, he actually came to this world a thousand years ago, kind of like the predicament you've also found yourself in. But what has really lost me is that sword, he never told me about this, strange," Celestia said whilst picking up my blade, nothing seemed to happen until Celestia chucked it over to me, landing in my palms, on contact it hummed gently, like it was alive, so like anyone else, I rubbed my hand along the blade, petting it like it was a cat. And it seemed to acknowledge this and hummed even more in volume. Grabbing the scabbard from across the floor Immediately sheathed it in place and it grew quieter like it just went to sleep.

"Well, anything else I should know? Wait didn't you say I had magic now? You said that magic in the air absorbed into my body right?" I asked, a little excited because having magic is fucking badass.

"Yes, but, I am not sure about what the effects will be. Since you are so different to us in many ways a lot of things can happen, the only things I did notice when Arthur went through the same Detox, later on, he began being able to use telekinesis, which is the basics of any magic out there," she said whilst Twilight nodded in agreement since it sounded logical.

"Well, back when I was at the hospital, I noticed Nurse Redheart, that didn't have a horn on her head, used telekinesis, the energy itself was around her hands, so how does that work?" I asked, a bit confused.

"Well, to put it simply, there are four races of ponies, well the last one is kind of a hybrid of all three of them but I'll get to that. Firstly, the Unicorn can do magic, with their horn, using an abundance of magic, they have a higher tolerance to other magic, and susceptible to others, whilst Earth ponies have their natural-born strength, but when they choose to dabble with a bit of magic, they can wrap their hooves or hands with magic, increasing their strength, or they can do basic small magic such as lower inferior telekinesis which only can pick up smaller objects and is a lot harder to apply their focus.
And pegasi or pegasus can enhance their wings, or their agility, speed and the like, for example, Rainbow Dash can go so fast she breaks the sound barrier creating a magic dispersion of energy like a shockwave through the air and it's quite good with final attacks if used against an enemy." she said whilst taking a little breather.

"Well, that explains it all, pretty bloody interesting I go got to say, I wonder how it'll affect me," I said pacing a little bit whilst taking quick glances at my sword.

"Heyyyy, would it be alright to go outside in your back garden Twilight? I wanna see if I can test if I have any magic?" I asked still pacing whilst taking quick glances at Twilight for the confirmation and Celestia too.

"Well, it shouldn't really be a problem, but if something does happen I don't really want my house being blown to bits," she said. (Queue the foreshadowing)

"Brilliant let's go now!" I said whilst grabbing Twilight by the hand, not noticing the sizeable blush on her face, looking between my hand and me, whilst Celestia followed along, slightly interested in the outcome.

Arriving just outside Twilights place, she had a quaint little garden, lush bushes, flowers and the like, it wasn't exactly fenced off either, so a lot of the civilians that lived in Ponyville would walk by and stare at us, mainly me and Celestia, I mean, one of their rulers is just there in someones back garden for no apparent reason, they didn't stay though, most likely too nervous to come up to us.

"So, how do I channel magic? I've never exactly done this before." I asked, whilst unsheathing my sword again, humming in response to be it's reawaking, it didn't seem that happy, with the low tones if that's any indicator I don't know what is.

"It's quite simple really, just close your eyes, and try to feel what's around you, kind of like a six sense," Twilight said whilst teleporting her note pad to write down the events that are about to transpire. Now I just feel like a test subject.

"Erm, you're going to have to be more specific than that Twilight," I said whilst eyeing her expectantly. But Celestia chimed in to help me out.

"Firstly, sit down in a comfortable position, and try focus on an object, I would focus on your sword, lay your sword flat across your thigh and simply close your eyes and try to feel the energy emanating towards it, feel the flow, get the handle of that flow, and try to synchronize that flow with your own magic inside of you.

I did exactly as she said, clearing my head, focusing on the object in front of me, trying to feel out its energy, after a few minutes I felt nothing, but as it went on I did feel something, but I wasn't getting any other results. Sadly sitting up I looked at my sword in frustration, whilst my sword stayed quiet.

"It looks to me that you're having trouble with feeling the energy," she said whilst in thought. And Twilight finally stopped taking notes, clearly waiting for something else to pop up. Until Celestia looked like she had a light bulb over her head.

"How about this, I need you to get angry, it's possible the magic reacts more to emotions than it does just focusing and clearing your head, like a trigger of sorts," she said with another nod, then Twilight carried on jotting down whatever information she could've got from this.

"I mean, I need something to get me angry, I can't just get angry out of nowhere. Otherwise, it won't be genuine." I said whilst sheathing my sword again.

"Hmmm, maybe this will work," Celestia said whilst a glow appeared around her body like some magical girl from sailor moon. She was adorned with golden like armour, silver trims, and a golden firey like sun emblem in the middle of her chest piece, kind of like her sisters, but her sister's armour was more gothic than anything. She had a massive golden shield about the size of me, and a long golden sword that rivalled the beauty of Excalibur's designs.

"Princess, what are you doing?" Twilight asked whilst gawking at her former tutor.

"Don't worry Twilight, this will be quick, I would stand back if I was you, I want to test something, to see if it will bring out Elliotts power," she said whilst grabbing her sword on her right and her shield on the left.

"Wait what do you mean, you aren't going to-OH FUCK!" I said before she rushed me like a bull.

Dodging backwards from the longish swing from her sword, I unsheathed my sword and pulled it out in front of me in a stance, like I was against those wolves again, the only difference was that I was literally fighting a princess, what the absolute fuck.

"Okay okay! Alright, love, why the fuck are we fighting?" I said whilst hesitating slightly, her pressure had increased, I could slightly feel the heat of the sun from here, it was making me sweat a little.

"So we can draw out your hidden abilities, just trust me on this, I won't hurt you, believe in yourself," she said whilst going in for another charge, but I was ready this time since I could see the sword coming a mile away. Going up for a block from a sideswipe, what I didn't account for was that she actually fainted her swing and shoved her shield forward hitting me in the chest and sending me a few feet backwards. There was a slight crowd now, seeing our throw down, wait, not really a throw down more like a fuckin scrap with me getting my head smashed in.

Taking in a few steps backwards, I was lost in thought for a moment.

"You shouldn't daydream whilst the enemy is in front of you, if this was a real battle you would've definitely perished by now," she said whilst getting ready for another charge, but I was way ahead of her, she wouldn't kill me, so that means I can go all outright?

Hardening my gaze, I held my sword to my right, for a striking stance, and leapt forward a little faster than usual, and connected with her shield, she was a little surprised by my strength, so I kept swing at her defence, not letting her get a chance to get a hit in, with a flurry of blows, I saw her sword trying to come down upon me, so I sidestepped and jumped up using her shield as a footing and leapt over the shield, then I landed and went for her naked back, but unfortunately, she was too quick, she spun around blocking the attack and parrying with her awesome defence leading my sword to go forward a bit, kicking me straight in the solar plexus sending me to the ground.

Regaining my footing again, I stood back in my stance, heaving like a pig on a hot summers day, I was definitely pissed, only because I was being absolutely useless right now, being knocked around constantly with an audience no less, it's quite embarrassing. I could feel it and hear it, within my sword, the humming again, so it must be reacting to my emotions, I just need to feel it, and embrace the feeling, maybe that's how I'll get stronger.

"How did you get here Elliott Johnston?" she said asking a question in a middle of a fight was weird, but I answered.

"I went through a portal because some bellend thought It was funny to plant one in my living room," I said whilst eyeing her up for any weaknesses.

"And what of your family? Do they know that you're missing?" she said, she already knew what buttons she was pressing, she could see it in my eyes.

"I chose, it was my decision, it was either stay there, live a boring mundane life and do something that nobody would even remember you for, or go to a fantasy land, become an entirely different person, and start anew, with new people, yeah I will miss them and I do feel guilty, but it's what I wanted, and I wasn't happy there!" I said raising my voice a few octaves higher, clearly irritated with the question.

"What of your father, your siblings, your grandparents, how would they feel if you just suddenly left them with nothing, no trace of where you've gone, for all they knew you where dead!" she said whilst taking an intimidating step closer.

"You don't know me, you don't know me at all, the shit I've had to go through just to get here, that portal was my only saving grace, the light in my life, yeah some people had it worse off than me, but, everybody has a threshold on how much they can take before they snap!" I was shouting now, my heart was racing and I could hear it in my eyes, just thinking about it now brings even more tears to my eyes, a failure of a son, a failure of a brother, my mother long since passed, but wherever she is, she's probably disappointed in me too.

But what was I supposed to do, sit alone in my room, being antisocial to fuck, speaking to no one other than a group of friends, no socialisation, even before that damned virus I was still the same, I wanted to leave, to start anew, it's what I thought I needed, I could hear the humming of my sword growing louder and louder, my hands trembling, whilst my gripped fist was tight enough for the grooves in the handle to slightly cut my hand from the pressure.

"What about your mother?" she said clearly locking eyes with me now, whilst I had a sudden heat rise in my stomach from the question.

"She's dead and gone, it was cancer, nothing more nothing less," I said whilst narrowing my eyes and clenching my teeth subconsciously.

"Well, if she was alive, I'm guessing she would also be disappointed in you," she said with no emotion on her face, like she's done this before.

"What. Did. You. Say?" I said, my blade now screaming, begging to be let out, black like wisps covering the top half of my blade. I was so pissed I couldn't think, my mind was numb, yes, I guess it was all my fault for going through that portal, and I can guess on what my family think of me now. A coward.

"You heard m-" Celestia was cut off, from the sudden speed and the sudden appearance, she had to bring up her shield otherwise I would've cleaved her in half. Clashing with the shield pushing her back quite a bit, catching her off guard and her footing was slightly off, I brought my sword down again, a blue hue of energy surrounding the erratic like black flames that surrounded my sword, with a flash a crescent blue and black wave of disproportionate and unstable energy hit her shield sending her quite a fair bit away.

The wave of energy dissipated as her shield grew much larger, and an aspect of fire surrounded the shield neutralizing the attack I sent. This knocked me out of my own angry stupor, and I immediately rushed over and apologised profusely. But she simply waved me off, completely dematerializing her shield and sword along with her armaments, walked over to me whilst I was about to apologise again, I flinched when she came in close contact with me, giving me a loving hug.

"I'm sorry for saying those things, I was only trying to bring out your abilities, and it looks like your sword and magic react to your emotions, so these were the only things I could get you to come through," she said again whilst bringing me into her massive breasts clearly choking the life out of me, if I was breathing I'd be in heaven right now, the adrenaline I felt earlier now gone, with a big weight off my shoulders.

"Not going to lie, I kind of needed that, a bit of a rant, cheers Princess," I said whilst gaining some air.

"It is okay my little human, but as far as your powers go, you're pretty strong for just now awakening your abilities, it was quite exciting," she said whilst we both pulled apart from each other, noticing a crowd had been watching the entire time, we both sheepishly looked around, there was minimal damage, but it would be cleaned up with a bit of magic.

"Princess! Elliott! Are you okay!?" Twilight came running towards us in a funny manner. As soon as she got to us, she immediately got between me and Celestia looking at every angle she possibly could find for any injuries we may have sustained.

"Don't worry Twilight, we are both fine, as you can see we have no injuries to speak of." Princess Celestia said as she lit up her horn again and repaired the damage we did to the floor with our scrap.

"That magic you shot out of your sword Elliott was brilliant! Please show me again sometime so I can take some tests!" Twilight said whilst back to scribbling in her note pad. I, on the other hand, went over and give her a good scratch behind the ears and she leant forward in my hand. Damn, really cute.

"Ahem, now that we got that out of the way, I would like to ask you, next week when I'm next available, I would like to have you at the castle, not that I don't trust you but I'd like to get the word out there that you are here in this world, and I will be granting you a completely legal citizenship of Equestria signed by me and Luna," she said whilst I turned with a grin on my face ready to ruin the conversation.

"My my, Celestia are you asking me on a date love?" I said whilst giving her a half-lidded gaze.

"Well, if you want it to be, I wouldn't mind having you in my office to fill out some paperwork" she winked, whilst I got absolutely annihilated again, by my own game, whilst Twilight rolled her eyes at our antics.

"Oh! And before you go, Princess, erm, bit weird to say this but, would you like to be my friend?" I asked whilst finding the ground a lot more interesting.

"Yes! Of course Elliott, but when you get to Canterlot if we are not in private I would like you to call me my given title, as much as I hate it, it's to stop those nobles from being so uppity, and it would give me a lot more of a headache and paperwork," she said whilst a bubble of orange and golden energy surrounded her, whilst the onlookers simply went off to do their own business, me and Twilight waved goodbye.

"I will send you a letter! If anything happens Princess!" Twilight said whilst waving.

"I will see you both in a week, bye for now!" Princess Celestia said until she was there and then not.

Me and Twilight looked at each other, for a solid few minutes.

"So er, wanna go for a drink love?" I said whilst giving my legs a good stretch.

"Yeah, why not, I haven't had a good drink in a while, let's go!" Twilight said as we both walked.

"Oh shit I forgot my sword!" running back and grabbing my sword whilst Twilight shook her head.

Author's Note

Hopefully, this moves things along, the first arc will be around Canterlot and such. I will include one or two chapters with some of the main six to give Elliott a feel for Ponyville and then moving on.

If you can, I would really appreciate the criticism and some advice, or if there are any problems with my writing I would like to rectifiy them and improve it whilst Im going along.

Until the next chapter!

Cheers!