The moon shone down over the Everfree Forest, screams of fear rained out from a small out cropping, followed by laughter and cheering. Nightmare Night always seemed to be an eventful time of year, with Princess Luna’s appearance as Nightmare Moon, she still managed to scare every single foal (and some of the other ponies(wusses)), but even she didn’t expect what was to happen this night, nore did anypony else. You see, this night was like any other nightmare night, except for a flash of light. This flash of light caused everypony around it to stop the laughter and stare at what was left. A strange, mostly furless, creature stood there. Wobbling on its feet as it stood and looked around. Everypony just stared at this creature, not knowing whether to be scared or inviting.
“Hello?” Luna finally broke the silence with her soft voice... well she was hardly going to use the Royal Canterlot Voice on a strange, rather scared creature, was she?
“T-T-T-T-T” was all the creature managed, before it fell backwards in a faint. It was lucky it was near Luna, her magic caught it just before he smashed into the statue portraying Nightmare Moon.
“We need to get this thing somewhere warm and fast” Luna ordered, quickly taking the creature with her towards to the town of Ponyville. The crowd that were once in laughter quickly separated to make way for the princess, a determined look on her face.
This creature was weird: it stood on two legs, had strange claw like things for hooves, and very little fur. Nothing anypony had ever seen before, but even so it was still in need of help and that is just what the princess intended for it to receive. She was rushing towards the one place she knew might have an answer, the Library!
The door of the library crashed open with a very loud bang, startling the Unicorn inside.
“Twilight Sparkle! We require your aid!” Panted a very flustered Luna.
“Princess Luna! Whatever is the matter?” Replied a very confused looking Twilight.
The princess lowered the creature in front of Twilight, causing the same reaction from her as from everypony else: Stunned.
“Princess... What is it?” enquired a very puzzled Twilight.
“We do not know” Luna replied swiftly “Never have I, or anypony seen one of these before. But it still requires our aid! It is in a state of faint.”
Twilight nodded, quickly preparing a space for the princess to rest this creature down. Along with Spike, her very helpful dragon, a space was created on the floor with blankets and pillows. They wrapped the creature up to keep it warm.
“Strange end to Nightmare Night” Spike spoke up after half an hour.
“Do you think we had this planned young dragon?” The princess responded softly, almost laughing.
The dragon just chuckled, setting back to his previous chores. Twilight soon butted in “Princess, you have never seen a creature like this?”
“Never Twilight Sparkle, have I or anypony, as I said, seen a creature like this.” Luna replied. “I shall talk with my sister about this, and return shortly to see if this creature is dangerous to Equestria, if it is awake by then. Until then, Twilight Sparkle, look after it.” A twinkle and a smile from the princess was all Twilight needed to feel assured.
“I will princess, you can count on me.” She said confidently, with a small bow.
With that, the princess took off into the night, soon teleporting away towards Canterlot, the magical mountain side city. Twilight smiled and took rest next to where the creature lay; taking the opportunity to study this thing the princess had left in her care. She observed what little fur the creature had, how its mane was short, how it was in fact a he. Much to her embarrassment. She lowered the covers again hiding his shame, but this caused him to stir in his slumber. She froze in fear; the princess had only just left! Spike was asleep, so it was just her and this thing. He turned to her and slowly opened his eyes. His reaction, however, wasn’t exactly what Twilight thought it would be.
“Purple... Ponies? Ok now I know I’ve died...” He said, lying back on the makeshift bed.
She blinked several times before responding “err... no you’re not dead, far from it in fact.”
He pushed his claws over his eyes; I say claws... more like an apple pie with small carrots sticking out of it. Anyway. “ok and they talk... right...” He proceeded to tap himself over “ok I am alive...” he checked under the covers “I’m also...”
“Naked, yes. I thought that was normal? Seeing as we don’t wear clothes normally” Twilight quickly butted in.
The creature blushed “not... strictly correct. I’m not exactly comfortable being naked around total strangers, or in... a library?” he started looking around the room.
“Yes, Ponyville public Library to be exact.” She swung a hoof round as if to show off the place. It was huge, books from ceiling to floor covered the walls.
He scratched his head “Ok... not too different from human society... books and talking.”
“Human?” She interjected once again.
“Yes, I’m a human.” It suddenly hit him “You haven’t seen something like me before have you?”
She shook her head “Not even the princesses have. You’re the only one of your kind to ever walk in Equestria!”
He paused, stunned at what the unicorn had told him. The only one of his kind in this place? After a while of this awkward pause, he spoke up. “My names Daniel, Dan for short. What’s yours?”
“Twilight Sparkle, just Twilight or Twi will do” She smiled warmly at him as she spoke. “I hope you don’t mind this next question, but um... I’d like to ask you a few questions about you?”
“errrm... sure? Such as what Twi?” he returned the warm smile.
“oh well um...” A piece of paper and a quill appeared from out of nowhere, glowing along with her horn in the same purple glow “such as what are those? And those?” she pushed a hoof to his apple pie tins, and his hooves.
He was taken aback by this, clearly. It’s a bit of an odd question to start off with. “umm... well these are my hands” he said, holding them up “I use them to hold things, like you’re doing with, I assume, magic?” She nodded and allowed him to continue. “And those are my feet, they allow me to walk much like your hooves.” He finished, pointing at them.
She noted down this information, and no, I’m not going to bore you with EVERYTHING she discussed with him. It’s all basic stuff, like how does he function, what was his society like. Stuff like that. As it turns out, the two societies don’t differ that much. They both rely on each other’s services to function, they both exchange a currency for these services, and they both eat and drink and well... enjoy themselves in various ways. Yes they even discussed sex, a delicate subject for them both, being both virgins as it turned out in their discussions on the subject.
“Our cultures don’t differ that much, although I am disgusted that you eat animals.” Twilight said, setting down her paper and quill.
“I did warn you about what I was going to tell you, I promise you we don’t always eat meat. Certain members of the human race do in fact eat no meat what so ever. I’m willing to do the same if it means I get to join your society.” He moved slowly closer to Twilight as he spoke.
She yawned and stretched out “well... I am tired beyond belief. Dan I’m sorry to say but... that is going to have to be your bed for now, sorry it’s nothing more than a few pillows on the floor.” She looked at the pile, sighing slightly.
“It’s better than you realise Twi” Dan said with a smile. “you go off and rest, you earned it after all that writing!” He chuckled.
She weakly smiled and headed upstairs. He settled back onto the makeshift bed and relaxed himself. Twilight had made him feel very welcome after all that, but from what he understood his stay might be short lived if the princesses arrive. Twilight had told him about the rulers of this land, being kind and forgiving creatures, but still... he had his reasons to not wanting to go back home. He actually liked this new place, Twi had told him about the town in their discussions about human settlements. He wrapped the blanket around himself, still not comfortable with being nude even though he was now alone in this place. He peered out of the window to see some decorations from a holiday season starting to be taken down.
“Yeah... I like it here already” He smiled as he returned to the make shift bed. He soon dozed off into a sleep, clearly worn out by Twilights endless questions.

Author's Note

Hello! Just a note here. This will be a clop fic, but I'm playing it out long. I took inspiration from many of the fics I've read, so if some of the themes seem similar, that's why. All the peoples work that I have read I have enjoyed, so I thought "Hey why not try it myself?" Thus... this. Enjoy the story.