Darkest of Days

Alright, so apparently eating meat or meat products around ponies here is greatly frowned upon. It took a great deal of teaching and convincing for the ponies to even allow me to eat my can of tuna. Although it tasted like shit it was still food, and besides for all I know this pony food could be deadly.

“So, ah remind me again, why do humans have to eat meat” said Applejack from all the way across the room, seeming still unsure of my carnivorous pallet.

“I’ve already told you, it supplies us with valuable nutrients that fruit and vegetables can’t provide for us, relax I’m not going to eat any of you, I promise” I said holding my hand to my chest, trying to sound as sincere as possible.

“Do you Pinkie promise” said Pinkie seeming to pop out of thin air.

“Umm, yea whatever”

“No silly, repeat after me, cross your heart and hope to fly stick a cupcake in my eye” She said while doing specific movements as she rambled on.

“Do I have too?”

“Yes” all of the ponies including the Princesses said in unison.

“Fine, cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye, there you happy”

“Yes, now don’t break a Pinkie promise, or I’ll have to destroy you” said Pinkie trotting back to her place at the dining room table.

“What’s that supposed to mean” I said looking across the table, the only pony that looked up was Applejack.

“Yawl don’t want to know, just don’t break it” she said looking down at the table, seeming to be attempting not to cower from the pink pony.

The rest of the day went great, I got the grand tour of the castle, found out that the winged, and horned ponies were called, unicorns and pegasi, the girls seemed to lighten up a bit as the day went on as well, finally getting used to my alien form. The Princesses both gave me a grand tour of their spectacular castle. In this world it seems that everything is run by magic, hell the Princesses even said that they raise the sun and moon. This world isn’t real; it can’t be real, can it?

“So, Princess Celestia, where will I be staying for the night?”

“Oh hush with the formalities and Here of course” she said emphasizing here.

“Well no duh here, but where exactly.”

“You will be shown to your room when the time comes.”

“Fair enough” I said with a small shrug.

“Anyways before then my sister and I have a few question we would like to ask” Said the Princess. The hallway that we had been walking down seemed to get much narrower. At the very end were two large doors, of course guarded by two unicorn guards.

“What kind of questions” I said trying to hide the nervousness in my voice.

“Simple questions, nothing to big” she said once again.

“Good afternoon you highness, would you like to enter the observatory” said one of the guards, guarding the double doors.

“That I would, oh and allow the human passage as well, he must be questioned” said Celestia motioning back to me.

“Of course your highness” said both the guards quickly opening the large double doors allowing us entrance.

As we entered the large room, I could not help but notice the two guards staring at me as we entered. It was only when the doors closed that I felt their judgmental stares leave me. I now get a good look at the massive observatory, the ceiling seems to be nothing but a large glass dome, books and spare parts lined the wall. Along with a large balcony that houses one large telescope. Not to mention the two couches that lie in the middle of room.

Sitting on one of the couches was of course Luna, and surprisingly Twilight with a quill and scroll in hoof.

“Welcome Griffin, please take a seat” said Luna motioning towards the still empty couch. She seemed to be trying to bottle her excitement, I say try lightly, as it seemed she was about to self-destruct due to how excited she looked.

“Alright, let’s just get this over with” I said walking over to the couch and plopping down upon one of the cushions, much more soft than I would have thought. Celestia took a seat in between Twilight and Luna.

“Alright first question, where do you come from” said twilight looking over at me from where she sat.

“A planet called earth” as I said this memories began to flow through me, all of what happened before the darkness came.

“From earth, got it, question two how did you end up here.”

I could not think of any better way to answer that question except by saying “The darkness sent me here.”

“What’s the darkness” asked Luna with a now concerned look, apparently the pain I held back from the darkness was evident throughout my facial features.

“I would rather not talk about it; all I will say is that it took everything from me.”

The Princesses and Twilight seemed worried but understood.

“Question 3, why do you wear clothes” said Twilight, at this everyone or should I say every pony in the room leaned in, guess they were really interested in why I always wore clothes.

“*sigh* so we don’t get cold, also we humans have some parts that we would rather keep hidden, how many more questions do you have.”

Twilight began to look through her now multiple scrolls “Hmm, about ninety three” she said beaming.

“Oh just fucking perfect” I whispered to myself.

The questioning seemed to go on for much longer than expected; Luna was still giddy until she got to ask her question. I don’t know what came over her, but all she asked was “Do you have a special some pony back from where you’re from” all I did was say no and then she went absolutely ballistic, enough so that it would make Pinkie impressed.

“I think that’s enough questions for now” said Celestia getting up from where she stood, “Luna, can you please raise the moon now” up until this point I thought the Princesses were just messing with me about the whole rising sun and moon thing.

“Of course” said Luna getting up to her hooves, her horn began to glow a light blue, and with it I noticed the moon rising in the background.

“Well I’ll be a son of a bitch, you ponies weren’t kidding. You actually just raised the freaking moon” I screamed in disbelief, everything that I had been taught about the sun and moon back home, just went right down the toilet, including my sanity.

“Can I please be shown to my room, I really need some sleep.” I said in a hushed whisper, as I tried to comprehend what I had just seen.

“Of course, but I must ask Griffin, are you alright” said Celestia, in her usual motherly tone. Except now there was no playfulness in her voice, all that was left was a concerned frown.

“I should be later, but I really have to think, now please Princess show me to my room”

“As you wish” she said once more slowly coming up to me, she draped one of her wings around me as if to comfort me, I hardly helped, as there was a mental war being waged in my head.

The Princess of the sun escorted me to another room, almost identical to the last. We made it to the door and we said our good byes, I told her I would be fine, just for her to wake me up in the morning. I would sort all these problems out myself. Realizing that I was also very tired I jumped on the bed, not even slipping in between the blankets before I was out.

What I didn’t notice was my backpack lying right next to the bed; it was glowing, glowing a dark black. Whispers began to play in my mind as the last of my consciousness slipped away into sleep.