Unto A New World

Chapter Two: Mad World.

I slowly opened my heavy eyelids to find that I was lying in the singlemost, comfiest and largest bed I had ever been in. It looked similar to the sort of bed that a king or queen would sleep on in medieval movies. I folded the silk sheets back so I could slide out, and crawled over to the bed posts on each of the four corners of the frame. They were made of wood that must of come from a tree that I had never seen before. It was a dark ebony colour and had a design pattern similar to that of the envelope which started all this. The dark ebony wood stretched up high and connected to a sort of roofing, made specifically for the bed iteself. While looking up, I noticed that the 'roof' of the room I was in was a black void, much like the night sky. It seemed to be endless.
Looking around the room, I made a few observations. First of all, I discovered that I was in a royal bed chamber.
Falling off the bed with a great 'THUD!', due to my feet getting stuck in the silk sheets, I noticed that my foot was no longer wrapped in bandages. A closer look at the base of my foot, there was but a small scar where the pin had gone. It should have taken much longer than a few hours to heal. 'How long was I out for?'I thought as my heart pounded in my chest.
"I'm still in this mad world with talking horses!" I exclaimed, losing my breath and forcing myself to hyperventilate.
"We prefer to be called ponies, Jackson" a voice came from behind me. "Wh-who are y-you?" I blurted out.
"My name is Princess Luna. I am terribly sorry for having to push you through the portal. Please accept my apologies" said the tall pony. She was on the verge of bursting into tears. I instantly felt sorry for this poor soul.
"I a-accept you apology" I started to stutter less, as I was relaxing at the sight of the princess's face. "Are you okay?" I asked.
She couldn't hold back her tears any longer. She broke down in a heap on the floor, weeping to herself. "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" she kept saying.
I walked over to her, hesitating before I put an arm around her neck. "You could have just talked to me first you know.." I trailed off as she looked up to meet with my eyes. She was blushing?
"I know" she said, whiping her eyes with a hoof. "I'm not good at this whole social thing yet, that is why I had to put a sleeping spell on you. I didn't know what to do, what to say" There was an awkward silence, which lasted minutes as we sat there on the floor. She backed away from me, making me release my arm from her. "I have so many questions I have to ask you, but first would you like some food? You were asleep for three days, I was in such a panic that I made the spell too strong" She said in an apologetic tone.
As if right on cue, my stomach let out a loud growl. The princess was giggling, which soon caught onto me and eventuallly we were both rolling of the floor, holding our sides from laughter.
"Well now that the ice has broken" I chuckled "I would love some food".
"Fantastic!" she said as she beamed a huge smile "I'll make you something personally!"
"You really dont have to, your Majesty" I retorted "I don't wish to be a burden"
"Well, I sort of HAVE to make you food.. Nopony else knows you are here except for me.." She looked shamed.
"You mean you haven't told anyone yet?" I said, the look of horror was stuck on my face "What if they chase me out of wherever I am, or if they have me executed?"
The princess placed a comforting hoof on my shoulder. "I will not let it come to that. You and I will go see my sister later today. I will talk to her before hand so she does not do anything she will regret" she told me. "You must stay here, and if anypony knocks on the door, hide as fast as you can. Don't let anypony see you until you have my sister's approval. In the meantime, I have found some of your personal belongings and placed them on the table over there" she pointed towards the corner of the room, where indeed, there were some of my clothes, some soap and.. My acoustic guitar.
"How did you get this?" I yelled as I rushed over to give it a once over. I took it out of it's leather case and checked it, and strummed the strings with my fingers, which gave out of tune sounds.
"I collected them from your house as you left to go to the meeting place" she replied, looking uneasy. "I know how much you cared for that thing when you looked at it the night before I gave you that letter" her ears flopped down. "I'm sorry"
"Stop being sorry! I am grateful that you brought it, and this 'thing' is called a guitar. It is used to play music" I mentioned.
The princess's ears shot up "Music? Maybe you can show me after I get some food and refreshments?" she asked with a smile on her face.
"Maybe, I mean i'm NOT bad at it, but I wouldnt have a clue on what to play" I defensively retorted.
Almost instantaneously, she cocked her head to the side and pouted her bottom lip. "Please?" She gave me the 'puppy dog eyes'. Damn it she was good at that.
I actually knew of many songs that I could play. Feeling guilty, I gave in "Okay fine"
The princess stood up and stamped her to front hooves on the floor "Hurray! Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou, Thankyou!" She chanted.
I couldnt hold back my giggles, before I exploded with laughter. Her face started blushing hotly, before she started laughing too.
As we quieted down, she got up and walked towards the door. Looking back over she shoulder, she nodded to me in a friendly 'I'll be back soon' way.
I nodded back and she left the room, and I heard it locking from the outside. 'It's not like I was going to leave anyway' I thought as a sat back down and started to tune my guitar.

It had been twenty minutes before the door swung open and I dove to the floor to hide behind the bed. Scurring under it, I could hear hooves clacking on the floor. "Luna!" said the voice "Where are you?" It got louder. "That foal! She was ment to adhere to the court thirty minutes ago!"
The being moved to the other side of the room. "Hmm.. What's this?" said the voice. I head the sound of a perfectly tuned guitar being played unskillfully.
Before I knew it, I was out from under the bed. I snatched away the guitar from the aura that surround it and hugged it tightly. "DO NOT TOUCH IT!" I screamed, as the pony reared up. I only just managed to dodge the hooves coming down onto the floor, with great force they cracked the floorboards.
I saw Luna rushing in through the door, followed by two guards. "What the hay is it?" Said one of the guards as he lowered his lance to my throat.
Luna instantly jumped in, bucking the lance away from me. "Do not touch him, he is my guest and I take full responsibility!" she screamed, lowering her horn as if ready to charge. "Luna! With me, NOW!" said the voice. I finally looked upand saw that it was Luna's sister, whom she called Celestia. "As for, whatever you are" she looked down at me, and then to the guards "take it to the dungeon and lock it up".
"NO!" Screamed Luna, with such force that it made the gurads' flinch, and actually pushed them back a few inches. "DO NOT TOUCH HIM!" She stood over me, and protected me like a mother would protect her child.
"LUNA!" Celestia's voice was earthshaking. "STEP AWAY FROM THAT THING!" She instructed, before forcefully lifting her up in an aura of magic and forcing her aside. The tall white unicorn took Luna's place over me, but her horn was glowing.

The last thing I heard was Luna's cries and the world faded to black.

I awoke in a jail cell, it smelt like faeces, and all I could see were walls that were stained with blood and one single door on the far wall. The ground had patches of hay scattered around and in the corner, I could see where the smell was coming from, the toilet. It was broken and flowing, murky water came from under the lid.
I went to brush my brown hair away from my face, but I soon discovered that my hands were bound with rope. On the floor next to the door, there were a set of iron cuffs. I thought that they must have already tried them on me, but found that they were too big to hold just one of my arms. They were ment for a horses leg, not a human arm.

It felt like I was sitting there on the cold, wet cement for hours. I didn't even want to think why the cement was wet.
Suddenly I heard a pair voices coming from outside the jail door. One of them was Luna's, the other's belonged to Celestia.
The door opened ever so slowly as Luna's head shot out around it, scanning the room with her cyan eyes. She spotted me and her eyes went wide as she rushed over to me. She collapsed next to me and dug her head into my chest, her tears were drenching my shirt. We sat there for a while, and Luna seemed to have run out of tears, but she didn't move from her position. I noticed Celestia standing over by the door, looking at the floor, whilst kicking the hay with one of her hooves.
"A-am I going to be executed?" I whispered into Luna's ear. She looked up at me, head still on my chest, and shook her head.
I felt a sigh of relief flush over me, but it returned just as fast as it left with the next question on my tounge. "What's going to happen to me?" I asked Luna. She slowly moved her head away from me and leaned in next to my ear "I sorted everything out with Celestia. I told her who you were and how you got here, and why you are here" I didn't even know why I was here, I hadn't been able to ask many questions so far. "She agreed to start over again, if you were willing to give her a second chance. She feels terrible for what she did, and she was only trying to protect me.. A foreign species in my bed chambers, who was opposite sex" she blushed slightly, before returning to her serious gaze "Please forgive her"
I let the words sink in for a few moments. I couldn't really blame her sister for anything, if I had a sister and found a guy in her room, he'd be lucky to come out with a few bruises and cuts.
I stood up, and Luna followed suite. She was just as tall as me, although her sister was one and a half Lunas' high.
Stumbling, I slowly shuffled, and I only just noticed my legs were tightly bound aswell, over to Celestia, who looked me in my eyes and quickly darted them away. In that split second, I couldn't stay mad at her, I saw the sorrow in her eyes. She was instantly forgiven.
"H-Hi there" I said shyly. She looked up (down) to me and extended a hoof "It's a pleasure Jackson, I'm so incredibly sorry for that misunderstanding" she was nearly in tears. 'How can rulers of a country be so emotionally unstable' I thought to myself.
Extending my arms, I managed to take hold of her hoof and shook it. Her eyes widened at the sight of the ropes and her horn glowed. I cringed and tried to hop away, but was surrounded in a white aura. I felt myself become weightless as I floated up to meet Celestia eye to eye.
"I'm so sorry! Please allow me to unbind you!" she offered. I held up my arms and the rope came loose, moving like a snake. She continued onto my leg bindings, which came as equeally as loose before landing on the ground.
She placed me on the floor and I stretched. It felt good to be able to move again.
Luna came over to me and wrapped a wing around me. She didn't seem to care about the fact that I was sitting in things I do not wish to speak of. "Please, come and join Luna and I for dinner, and we may talk about what to do next" she said majestically. Her voice sounded so nice and calm. "Luna, please take him to the washrooms. I will tell the guards to escort Jackson to the dining hall" "Ofcourse sister" Luna replied, looking toward me.
"Thankyou your Majesty" I bowed.
Both Luna and Celestia Chuckled. "You do not need to call me by my title, 'Sir Jackson'" Celestia said sarcastically "And i'm sure Luna wont mind being called by her name either" Celestia and I looked towards Luna, who simply nodded. Celestia looked back to me, then Luna, then Luna's wing. Luna saw what she was subconciously doing and instantly removed her wing from around my shoulders, her cheecks going a light red.
"You were right Luna" Celestia remarked "He is a cute one!" she mumbled loud enough for us to hear.
I looked at Luna and saw she went bright red, her face almost completely covered in crimson red. Celestia and I started to laugh and eventually Luna started to giggle.

I was going to like this place.