The Good, The Bad, and...The Ponies?

Author's Note:  I'm sure I haven't said this before, so I'm gonna say this now and get it out of the way.  *ahem* "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is owned by Lauren Faust and Hasbro.  Please respect the official release."  The OC's I made are Arcana, Kiyoshi Mushya, Lord Malice, and Tomiko (mentioned in chapters 1&2).

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We were all sitting in a cirlce, me with my legs crossed and them on their huanches, in the middle of Twilights living room.  They were all looking at me with an odd look. "What do you mean by that?" asked Twilight.

I reached upand rubbed the back of my head, "Well, I'm not from this world, so you're gonna have to forgive me for not knowing of this place or anything in it."

"Didn't any of the doctors or nurses tell you about this place?" Rarity asked.

I looked at her with a depressed expression, "That's just it!  When I was there they didn't talk to me.  When I saw them, they would either pretend I wasn't there or they would just run away."

"Those big meanie heads!" Pinkie exclaimed. "They left poor Kiki all by his lonesome!" She trotted over and hugged me, "Don't you worry your pretty little head of yours Kiki, your auntie Pinkie Pie will take care of you."

Returning the hug I said, "It's alright Pinkie, I'm fine really.  But thank you."  I released her from the hug and she trotted back and sat back down in the circle.  "So what or where is Equestria?"

Applejack joined in, "Twi, Ah think ya'll better explain this to uhh, Kiki."  I shot a glance at her.

"Well, do you want the short version or the long version?" Twilight asked.  "I presume you want the short one huh."

"Actually no," I said turning to her. "I would prefer the long version of this.  I've gotta know of what I'm gonna have to deal with while I live here."

She dawned a smile that almost resembled Pinkies...just almost. "Great to hear!  Let me get a quill and parchment for you so you can take some notes."  She trotted into another room.

Rainbow leaned in close to me and whispered, "Your going to be here a while."

"Better this than me wandering around like a lost dog...scratcth that, chased like a wanted criminal."

Twilight returned floating the quill and parchment to me.  She sat down in front of me and said, "Okay, let's begin shall we?  It all started over three millenia ago..."

"I should've asked for the short one."  I thought regretting my decision.

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After the 7 hour non-stop study session, my brain felt like it was about to explode.  Not like the usual "Oh, I have a headache.", it was more like "HOLY JESUS WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS PAIN!!!"  kind of experience.  My head was spinning with the knowledge of Equestrian history; The Pony-Griffon War, The Peace Treaty of Dragons, who Princesses Celestia and Luna are, the Nightmare Moon incident, Discords attempt to reclaim the throne and various others.  Twilight had also taught me of what Cutie Marks were and their importance in the community.

What I liked learning about the most though, was the concept of magic.  The idea of magic being possible just blew my mind.  On my home world, magic was either fancy wire tricks or simple slight of hand to make the illusion of magic seem real; whereas here, magic is the real deal and it's actually tangible.  She wanted to teach me about the different types of ponies but I had refused.  I told her that where I'm from, unicorns and pegasi were just myth and legend or some fictional characters from a T.V. show.

She closed her book and smiled.  "And thats the complete history of Equestria.  So, does that answer your question about what Equestria is?"

I sat there dumbstruck, my eye spinning comically in its' socket. "Yeah I think so."

"Okay that's good."  She stood up, stretched, and started to put away the diagrams and charts that she made during the lesson.  "If you have any other questions, don't be afraid to ask."

Twilight took a moment to look out the window to see how late it was.  When she brought her gaze back down, she was starting to smile again.  I asked with a confused look, "What's up?"  She nodded her head motioning me to turn around.  I turned to see what was behind me.  Everypony had fallen asleep; Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow, Fluttershy, even Pinkie were all snoozing.  I turned back to Twilight and said, "I'm guessing that it's gotten late."  She nooded in agreement and walked over to her friends and woke them up one at a time.  Slowly but surely they all woke up.

We were all standing by the front door ready to leave when I realized something, "Wait, where am I going to be staying?"  I looked around at everypony to see that this hadn't crossed their minds either.

"I'm sorry darling, but you cant stay at the Boutique with me." Rarity said. "There are too many ponies that come through there for me to hide you well enough."

Fluttershy was next to speak, "I wish I could let you stay at the cottage, but the animals will probably be freightened by you."  She realized what she just said and immediately began to appologize.  "Oh, I'm so sorry!  I didn't mean to insult you, please forgive me."

I just looked at her forgivingly, "There's nothing to apologize for.  It's true, I'm a scary guy, I used to be judged as a mean kid just based on my looks, so I ended up with not having many friends."  I turned my attention to Pinkie and Rainbow who stared back attentively, "I know that I can't live on a cloud, so Rainbows place is out of the question.  Aaaand I kinda broke through the Cakes roof, so I'm sure they're gonna hold a grudge against me."

"Silly Kiki!  I'm sure that they'll forgive you in no time at all!  Before we go I need to use the restroom."  Pinkie said before trotting off to another room that I presumed was the restroom.

"Well, why don't you stay here Kiki?"  Twilight suggested trying to hold back her luaghter.

I simply looked at her with an emotionless face and said, "As much as I would love to stay here I can't.  This place is right in the middle of town and the ponyfolk are searching for me."

With her head slightly tilted to the left, she asked, "How do you know that they're looking for you?"  I pointed out the window to a poster hanging on the side of a building across the street. Twilight surrounded the poster with a purple aura and tore it off the wall, levitating it toward her with her magic.  She read it aloud so we could all hear what it said, "Warning! There is a strange monster on the loose.  Capture of this monster will be awarded with the bounty of 2,000 bits.  Wanted DEAD or alive."  Twilight looked back at me and said "Oh."

"So far, I think that everypony wants me dead."  I heard the sound of galloping approaching quickly from behind me.  "What is tha- OOF!"  I turned just in time to have Pinkie hug-tackle me, knocking me to the floor.  She was clinging to my chest sobbing, tears freely flowing from her eyes soaking my shirt.  Her normally poofy mane now deflated, straight and a darker shade of of the usual fluorescent pink.  I started to stroke her mane and asked, "What's wrong Pinkie?  Are you okay?"

She stopped her sobbing and looked up at me with those big, light-blue eyes of hers still filled with tears.  Her eyes always gave off the feeling of joy and happiness whenever I saw her, but now that she's like this, I can see every ounce of her being is filled with sadness, depression...and fear. She shoved her muzzle back into my chest trying to avoid my gaze.  I placed my right hand lightly under her chin and gently lifted it so I could look at her eye to eye.  While wiping her excess tears with my left hand, I said "Whatever the problem is, I'm sure we can face it one step at a time.  Now tell me, what's wrong?"  I gave her a comforting smile which was returned half heartedly.

After sniffling a few times, she said "When I heard you say that everypony wants you dead, I imagined you dead and...and well...I *mumble*."  Her voice progressively getting quieter as she explained.

"Could you say that last part again?" I asked.  "I didn't catch that."

"I said, I don't wan*mumble*.  For some reason she looked away from me and her face was slightly a darker shade of pink.  It would normally be really hard to see this...well...because she is pink, but because she was so close, it was noticable.

One more time please?"

After a few harsh seconds of silence she turned to me and screamed "I SAID I DON'T WANT YOU TO DIE!!!"  She immediately shoved her muzzle into my shirt and continued to cry.  I was stunned to say the least.  I couldn't believe I made such an impact on somepony in the short amount of time that I've been here.  Especially make one of the happiest ponies that I know cry.

I looked at her crying figure and smiled. "Well then, we don't have anything to worry about."  Almost like I said the magic word she stopped crying and looked up at me.  "Because I'm not going anywhere, and that I promise."  I gave her a quick peck on the forehead like a parent would do to ensure their child that everything would be alright.

Her mane instantly regained its' poofiness and she was back to her old self again, "Okie Dokie Lokie!"  She giggled.  She gave me a hug and proceeded to hop off of me and out the door to her home.

I looked after her watching her bounce out of sight.  I turned to Twilight, "What was that about?"

She looked at me and said, "It was Pinkie just being well...Pinkie."

I sat up and asked "Anyway, where did we leave off?"

"Ah think ya'll were about ta say somethin' about you with stayin' at Sweet Apple Acres."  I looked up to see Applejack looking down at me.

I stood up and said "If I could stay there, that would be great!  Not only will I be able to hide from the ponyfolk, I"ll be able to help you out at the farm."  It almost sounded like I was pleading for her to let me stay at the farm, partially due to the fact that I kinda was.  Not only did I want  to get away from the authorities that were after my sorry ass, but I also didn't want to get shouted at by Spike knowing from ancient lore what dragons are capable of.

Somewhere in another galaxy, a dark dragon sneezed, lighting a large caravan of khajiits ablaze.  Seeing this, he shrugged his shoulders and flew off to revive more of his fallen brothers.

"Hmm..." Applejack proceeded to walk around me looking me up and down as if searching for something.  She came to an abrubt halt in front of me. "Okay, ya'll can stay at the farm.  But there's one condition."

"Anything is fine, remember?  You're the one who saved my life and I owe you a debt."

"When ya get paid for your work some of it will be deducted.  But that's not fer savin' yer life."

I looked at her quizically, "Then what's the deduction for?"

"To pay fer the damage ya did when ya crash landed."

I nervously smiled at the reason.  "Oh...right."

"So is it a deal?"  She spat onto her hoof and held it out to me.

"It's a deal."  I spat into my hand and shook her hoof, making the deal official.

We were about to leave when Twilight stood in front of us preventing us from leaving.  "Kiyo, before you go, can you promise me something?"

"Uhh, sure Twilight.  What's up?"

"You must come back tomorrow and teach me about your kind."

I scratched the back of my head, "Okay Twilight, but just so you know, I don't really know much about the Huamn species.  Nonetheless, I'll still teach you everything that I know."

After saying goodbye to everypony, Applejack and I made our journey into the darkness towards Sweet Apple Acres.

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I gotta say that this particular chapter isn't my best work.  After much mental debate I have dicided to take a short brake from writing this and actually try to come up with a good plot line.  Yes it's true, I admit it, I've been improvising all of the chapters on the fly and tried to make them work.  It may take me a week or two to actually get an idea of where this series is gonna go, but do not fret. For I, anon, will get the main story line down in no time at all.  So until nex time, I bid you all adieu, sayonara, farewell and adios amigos.