Celestia's Fire

Okay. I will give my legit reason on why my stories are taking so long to update. I'm having most of my time taken up by football, homework, and recruiting and applications for colleges I want to go play football at. By the time I'm finished with everything, I'm already worn out and I don't feel like writing with the little time I do. Really the only time I have is on weekends, and that can get sketchy at times. Please forgive me and I hope you all understand. But anyway, here's the new chapter and enjoy. I just wanted to get something and sorry if there are mistakes. I was lazy.
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“Twilight! I took the trash out last week!” complains the purple baby dragon.

“I know, Spike. I promise I’ll do it the next two weeks. I’m on a break through.” She replies while planting her face into the book she was reading. “I’ll give you a gemstone if you go and take it out.”

Spike gives a small huff, but gives in for the reward. He runs up the stairs to gather Twilight’s heaping pile of useless notes that she’s thrown on the floor. He does get them to stuff inside the waste basket and carries it back down the stairs. He walks into the kitchen and dumps the paper into the large bag. He ties the drawstrings and more or less drags the bag out the back door. Just as he steps outside, he sees, what appears to be an appendage, sticking just outside the trash cans with the object on the ground. He let’s go of the bag and starts a frightened creeping walk to the strange creature.

As he gets closer to it, eh begins to notice it had fingers. Not much different than his own paw. Only difference was the lack of scales and claws. He panics and runs back toward the door calling for Twilight. Almost instantly hearing this, she appears just outside the door to find a running and terrified, Spike.

“What’s wrong, Spike?” she asks using her magic to hold back the screaming baby dragon.

“There’s a dead thing in the trash!” he yells back.

She giggles and shakes her head, “Oh, Spike?” She sets him down and walks over to the trash bins.

Spike hides at the door as Twilight walks forward toward the trash bins. She sees the appendage sticking out and starts to get nervous. She slows her pace to a stalk getting ever so closer to the unknown creature. The appendage gave a slight movement, but it was more of a twitch.

The twitch did make her much more cautious. She reaches the creature and comes into full view of it. The creature was an ugly very, very light brown color, very tan. It reminded her of some type of primate, just with less fur. Its nostrils were flaring in and out, telling her it was obviously still alive.

“Oh my! It’s still alive!” she moves up to get a closer look at the strange creature. “Spike, go and get Fluttershy. She’ll know what to do.”

Spike runs out the door and runs toward Fluttershy’s. She’ll know what to do.”

Spike runs out the door way and runs toward Fluttershy’s cottage. Twilight watches him leave and then moves back to the creature. Her horn glows as she tries to lift it into the library. But it wouldn’t budge. Why is my magic not working? She tries again, but alas, comes up with nothing like before. Well, it’s obviously not magical? So she resorts to plan B. Drag it.

She bites the clothing on its upper body and begins to tug. It drops to the ground off of the trash cans; making Twilight realize heavy the creature really is. She tugs and pulls and eventually does get it through the door. She drags it across the slick tile flooring of the kitchen and into the stained hardwood of the main room of the library.

She let’s go of the creature and takes a couple of breaths from exhaustion before being greeted by a familiar voice.

“Hi, Twilight!”

Twilight jumps from the sudden greeting, “Rainbow!”

She turns around to find Rainbow Dash standing next to Fluttershy. Now’s my chance! she thought to herself.

“Fluttershy, I need your help!”

“You do?”

“I need you to look at this creature.” She points with her hoof to the creature lying unconscious.

Fluttershy’s sensitive and skiddish personality instantly goes away as she creeps slowly toward the mysterious creature.
She lifts off of the ground as she moves over top of the creature.

“Rainbow, fly next to her just in case.” Twilight tells Rainbow Dash.

She flies over to Fluttershy and stops next to her. At that moment, the creature began to stir. It grumbles and wipes its face.

“Twilight! I couldn’t find Flutter…” Spike called out running back inside the library. “Oh! You’ve already found her.”

He looks on the floor to find that large and strange creature, “You brought THAT inside!”

Twilight turns back toward Spike and nods, “Why, yes. I couldn’t just leave that poor thing outside in the cold. It is winter time you know.”

She turns back to Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash slowly getting closer to the figure. They seemed to be trying to wake it, but Twilight had no idea on why they would want to. The figure began to stir even more before finally setting itself up. Everyone was holding their breath waiting for something. Rainbow ,ready to make any necessary action that will be required, wants impatiently in the air.

The figure erects itself fully before rubbing its eyes and then looking around, “Oh. Hey there cutie…” he holds his hand toward Twilight Sparkle across the room from him.

“Don’t try it buster!” Rainbow calls from above.

The creature then gives a sudden startled look before moving his eyes upward to find two pegasi flapping above him. He gives a confused but not panicked look, “Wow! Cool, pegasus. I’m starting to like this dream.” He says as he gets up on his two feet.

“Um… Sir, this isn’t a dream.” Fluttershy said after she realized how tall the creature was.

At that moment, the creature’s face turned from happy to a horror stricken expression that could pass as him seeing an apparition. He backs away slowly holding his hands out him front of him. As he backs up, he trips over some books lying on the floor.

“You can talk!? I must be dreaming!” he yells as he moves away from the 3 ponies.

He pinches his skin, pretty harshly, and lets out a small cry from the pain, “Okay. I’m not dreaming? I must be dreaming. Horses can’t talk, they can’t talk.”

“Hey, buster! Who you calling a horse?” Rainbow Dash moves up to him starting to give him the bad cop talk.

“This is a dream! You can’t be real.” He screams back.

Fluttershy, being the caring pony that she is, moves up to him; without fear might I add. She flies next to him and lays a hoof on his arm. At first he jumps from the soft touch on his arm but then settles down to stare straight at her hoof.

“Why do I feel this? And how can you talk?”

She gives a sweet smile, “It’s okay. I don’t think it’s a dream though.”

“Okay. But how can you talk?”

“Well, we’ve always been able to talk. It’s not hard for us to talk. Just as easy as you can, I presume.” Twilight interrupted by stepping forward and approaching the strange creature. “What exactly are you, sir… If I’m correct? “

“Um…” Jack wasn’t sure how to respond to her question. “Yeah. I’m a male, but to answer your question, I’m a human.”

“A human! Likely story. Sounds made up to me, Twilight.” Rainbow Dash comes out of nowhere to butt into the conversation.

“Why would I lie to you all? I’m a human, and my name is Jack… Jack Travers. I’m 18 years old and I play contact sports. I don’t how much more you want.” He adds to try to subside their suspicions.

“I don’t understand, but maybe I’m not the one to know who you really are.” Twilight moves up and starts to examine the tall “human.” “So… Travis, was it?” he nods.

“I find it necessary that we must meet the princess. I come to realize I have no knowledge of what a human is and I don’t have the information here in my little library to find anything out. I will write to Princess Celestia to set up a meeting with her.

She will determine if you are a “human” or a possible danger to everypony here.”

Jack thought to himself for a while, Everypony? What the hell does that mean?

“That’s fine. I don’t understand why I’m here in the first place anyway.”

Twilight gives a small nod, and she motions for Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash to head home. As they leave, Fluttershy is out
the door first followed by Rainbow Dash. She gives a nasty and disgusted look just as she heads out the door.

“Now that we are alone, we need to find you a bed to stay in for the night. It’s getting pretty late. Spike!” Twilight calls out.

A small purple figure turns a corner and walks slowly scared out of its mind. “What’s that?” Jack asked.

“This is Spike, my number one assistant and baby dragon.” She said proudly.

“A dragon? Why am I not surprised? Oh wait! I know, because apparently I’m filled with a world where horses… sorry, PONIES, can actually talk. Great!”

“Spike, would you mind showing him to his room? It’s getting late and he’s been through a lot.” He nods reluctantly, but it was obvious he wanted nothing to do with the large human.

Jack follows Spike upstairs, and inside a small room with an equally small bed. He steps inside, and before he realizes it the door slams shut. He hears a latch as he reaches the door handle, but it wouldn’t budge.

“Why am I locked up?” He calls.

“Twilight wanted me to lock the door while you stay here. It’s just a safety precaution, sorry man.”

Jack hears the faint clacking of the dragons little claws hit the hard wood as he moves down the small hallway. Jack moves over and lies down back down on the bed. This legs hang off the edge at his knees, but it didn’t matter. He was tired and had been through a lot the first night there. He begins to doze off back to sleep hoping that he would wake up in his cozy little home in Northern Maine. After a long while, his breathing slows down and he was out for good.