How Did I Get Here, Seriously?

You wake up, yawning as you roll off the bed, landing on the ground with a small thud. You don't mind though, as you're used to doing this every other morning. You stand up and stretch, clapping your front hooves together to make a cup of water appear on the bed. You grab the cup and chug it, and then afterwards you make the cup dissappear. You look at the books on the shelves, and start reading the titles.

Most of then seem to be ones on Equestrian history and magic, and you slowly lose interest as they all seem to be very high level books. You look out the window on the left side of the room and you see the townsfolk walking around and doing their thing, and you smile. Then, you think about last night.

"Really, I came up with the fucking name Earthville? What kind of moronic shit is that? God, I'm never going to live that down..." you mutter to yourself, sighing before talking to yourself more. "Then there's the nervousness, what the fuck was with that? Am I truly just that inept at speaking to ponies? Ugh, maybe it's just because I was nervous about meeting my childhood heroes... yeah, that's gotta be it" you say, coming up with a reasonable theory that doesn't hurt your ego too much. Is ego the right word even? Whatever, it's not all that important anyways. Then there's the sudden thing with Twilight, why in the hell did you randomly start crying? Whatever made you come to this place must either really hate you, or you're just making things worse for yourself.

Anyways, you fell for Twilight WAY too fast, and then there's the fact that you're still... you know, a human, so no messing with ponies in any way. You've fallen too quickly for people before, and it's only ended in disaster for you, so you'd better get a better hold of yourself.

...still hate the fact you called Earth fucking Earthville.

You leave the bedroom, going upstairs and walking towards the kitchen when you see Spike, cooking what looks to be pancakes while sucking on a blue gem. On the show Spike seemed pretty cool, but you leave him be to his cooking. You go towards a random bookshelf and read the book titles, which all mostly seem like they're written with rhymes in mind. Pretty neat.

You really don't know what you're going to do right now, so you decide to go and leave the library. Afterall, you have a lot to think about when you get home, and you really just want to be alone at the moment.

You eventually reach the outskirts of Ponyville and walk for a good twenty minutes to get back home, careful to not alert any creatures in the Everfree. You finally get there, and so you walk to the door and go inside, closing it and wondering what you should do. You use your magic to go back into your human form, just because it's so much easier for you to walk around like this. You've been taking things too lighthearted, at least that's how you perceive it. You need to take things slowly, you can't just jump into a lake before checking the temperature. Heh, made that one up on the spot, your dad would be proud.

Dad... you just now once again realize how much you miss them. Perhaps the reason you came to town earlier than you wanted was a way to try to keep your mind off them. Not that far fetched of an idea, considering how you've always been. Always concealing your emotions and dealing with them when it's convenient. It got you through life on Earth well enough, but in Equestria, you don't think it ever worked out on the show. Didn't work for Starlight, at least.

Your thoughts carry on to how your family might be acting. Mom and dad are definitely freaking out right now, siblings probably confused, and friends... yeah, most of them probably don't care or will forget in a few weeks, so not much to miss there. You weren't really close to anyone outside of immediate family in your last few weeks on Earth, which is mostly due to... stuff going on.

Before you get to think about that "stuff", you shake your head and get your mind off of it, despite your brain lingering on it for a second too long. You need to focus on trying to get home right now, not making friends in Ponyville. Despite how badly you want to get to know them, especially purple book horse, you have other things to do.

Actually... okay, you're a moron. You have magic, a powerful kind as far as you can tell. You could probably just use it to create a portal back home, right? Well, there's only one way to find out.

You snap your fingers, and... nothing happens. Huh. You attempt to do it a few more times, but it still doesn't work. You shrug sighing sadly.

"Well, probably should've expected that... still worth a try, I suppose" you say to yourself, now thinking. So now, you know that there's a limit to how powerful your magic is, but what is the extent of it? Is it like Discord's magic, or is it a new type?

Well, it's time to experiment!

It's been a month since you started experimenting with your magic, and you think you've got a hold on the extent of it. You can do pretty much anything, but it has a limit, as you already knew beforehand. The limits are pretty much this: you cannot create portals to cross dimensions, cannot distort reality to a certain extent (basically, you could make a space the size of Ponyville turn into how Discord ran things, but any larger and everything will go back to normal), and you cannot blow up the world. Do not ask how you found that out, it was a long explanation to the authorities that resulted in your imprisonment for a good week.

Noone knows about your real self yet, and you want to keep it that way. Although, during your prison sentence you happened to meet Princess Celestia, and you're friends... you think? You at least have been writing to her every few days, and it's been pleasant company. She knows about your magic, which seemed to alarmed her a bit but after a bit of talking, she seems fine with it. Knowing her though, this will blow up in your face eventually, but until then you're good.

The subject of Twilight and her friends though... well, you've tried to cut them off just for some privacy, but at least one of them has been visiting at least weekly, specifically Pinkie. She treats you like you're a younger brother, which you kind of appreciate. She really helps you smile when you need it, which happens to be quite a lot. The rest of them are nice to be around, Applejack and Rainbow are nice to hang with, Rarity is cool enough to talk to when you need fashion advice (which isn't very often, but still), Fluttershy is somepony who you're able to talk to without being judged, and Twilight is good to speak to about books and such.

Still, you don't want to get too attached to them, as you are still trying to figure out how to get home. Despite you unable to find a way to get home, you think you might be able to find a way to get back within a few months. A few months still feels like hell, but it'll hopefully be worth it...

As you think this, you hear a knock on the door. You get up from your bed and yawn, getting ponified quickly and rushing downstairs. You open the front door to see a Ms. Pinkie Pie, brightening your day already. She runs up and hugs you, which you return immediately.

"Heya Nate, how are you today?" She asks in a chirpish tone, releasing the hug.

"I've been alright, you?" You ask, as you walk into your kitchen to make her a cup of hot chocolate, as she asks for one pretty much every time she's over. She follows you, standing a short distance behind you as she looks around a bit.

"I've been super duper great lately! You know, you should come to Ponyville more often, because Princess Celestia came down and told us about you!"

This makes you freeze for a moment, but you act cool and say, "oh really? What did she say about me?"

"Oh, nothing... besides that you're able to do magic!" She exclaims, making you turn around with your coat going white.

"C-Celestia... told y-you..." you don't say anything else before you faint, your face hitting the floor with a thud.