An unexpected visit

Author's note: I'm trying out a tiny bit of a different style, I hope you all don't mind. All previous chapters were written in the present form, but now I'm trying to mix present and past forms together, as I find it easier to write with. Please let me know if it doesn't work out and I'll change it back.

The walk to the library wasn't a very long one, it took about twenty minutes to get there from Applejack's home. The walk also wasn't as awkward as the day before, when all ponies made sure there was at least thirty feet between them and you.

You reach the library and you what you see is definitely not what you expected. You expected a big Roman style square building which could hold stacks of books, but what you see here is quite the opposite. In front of you is a huge tree with a door and windows.

You don't know how the tree hasn't started to rot yet, but your best guess is that is has something to do with the magical charge of this world. Magic is everywhere here, not only in ponies but also in food and even in the air, at least that is how is feels.

Twilight walks to the door and magically opens it.

"Come on in. I'll show you around." Twilight says while looking at you.

The other ponies already went inside so you follow suit and do the same. Once inside you see that the tree-house is indeed a library, everywhere you look there are books. The walls are not walls at all, they're shelves filled with books. There are also several stacks of books laying on the floor, almost reaching the roof and looking precariously unstable.

"Wow" Is all you can manage to say as you look around you in awe. The library looked much bigger on the inside than it seemed from outside. You look at the titles of the books on the shelves and quickly find the pattern. It was pretty simple, every book was placed in alphabetical order but each shelf had a different category.

"Oh, sorry about the mess. I totally forgot I was working on a new spell. Sorry." Twilight started as she walked around the stacks of books.

"I don't mind." You reply, still gazing at the shelves, trying to see what kind of books there were in here.

"Enjoying yourself?" The white unicorn said with her perfect British accent and stretching the words, obviously making fun of your behaviour. Everyone started to chuckle a bit, although you don't see the fun of it all.

You walk toward one of the shelves where a book caught your eye.

"Can I?" You ask Twilight as she walks up to you and stops right next to you.

"Uhm... Sure go ahead." She said with a questioning look on her face.

You take out the book which on the cover read 'A journey to the middle of the planet {Jules Knight}' and immediately open it to quickly scan through the contents.

"Wow, this is something I didn't expect." You mumble to yourself, completely ignoring the ponies standing behind you looking at you intently.

*Ahem* You hear Twilight beside you and you get pulled back to the present.

"So what's with the book?" She asked looking from the book to you and back again.

"Well." You start, not really knowing how to explain. "This book is very oddly, extremely similar to a book I've read before I came to this world." You say with a nervous smile on your face.

"That's interesting." Twilight looks up at you then back at the book again. "So what kind of similarities does it have?" She asked with excitement in her voice.

You explained to her how the story matches freakishly well with 'A journey to the centre of the earth {Jules Verne}'. It has the same main storyline, and also the same events. The only things that are different are the names, dates and places. After about ten minutes of talking you see everypony looking at you with a quizzed look on their faces, all except Twilight that is.

Twilight walked over to another one of the shelves and threw another book at you. You read the title and immediately make the connection. The book is an atlas of the world, although at first you thought it was an atlas of Earth. The cover of the book is a map of the world, and it very closely represents the ones you know from earth, but the title states differently. 'Large Atlas of Geographical and Political Equestria' the title said.

Twilight looked at you with a huge grin on her face, apparently feeling very proud about what she just discovered.

"What'r you two up ta?" Applejack says with that puzzled look on her face.

"I think we just discovered that I'm not from any random alternate dimension, but from a parallel one." You say with a little chuckle.

"What in the hay is that supposed to mean?" She continues to ask.

"Well, it means that many of the things in this world represent similar things in my world." You say with the smile on your face getting bigger.

"For example this book." You point to the book you placed on the floor after Twilight had thrown you the atlas.

"It very closely represents a book from my world, having the same storyline etcetera. Then we have the atlas." You say, this time pausing before continuing to build up some tension.

"The geographical layout of your world is almost the same as the geographical layout from mine, apart from the dramatic changes in altitude." You finish talking and then look at the faces of the stunned ponies looking at you.

"What?" You say nervously after a long and awkward silence.

It seems like these five ponies hadn't really thought about where you were from, let alone how you even got here. The only one who wasn't surprised was the one you had talked to the most, but she also looks like someone, or rather somepony, who would actually think about this kind of stuff.

"Oh. Right. Almost forgot." Twilight started as she now walked to the back of the library.

"Uhm... Human? You don't have anywhere to stay, do you?" She asked, and you could swear you saw a little blush on her face, just like the pony had in your dream. You eye her, your face wearing questioning look.

"Well I have a guest room back here, so if you want you can sleep here for the time being, until you get yourself a home, that is." She started looking up toward the ceiling, seemingly averting her eyes from yours, and now there was no way that there wasn't a blush on her face.

You notice the other ponies looking at you as you try to make the rather easy decision.

"Sure, I would love to stay here. Anything is better than that awful hospital bed. I would even sleep on the floor here if you didn't have a guest room." You say while taking a little bow, making Twilight blush even harder.

"Okay... Uhm... Now that that's settled shall we... Uhm... Continue with the tour?" She asked, looking a bit embarrassed, her eyes darting from one side of the room to the other.

"Okay, sure. Where do we go next?" You ask her, as her cheeks begin to go back to their normal colour.

"For this I'll need to do some magic." She said, her lips twitching up to make a small grin.

She moved to a different room and started to move stuff around. After a few minutes she walked back out, holding a few phials and bottles with her magic.

"Just so you know, I don't know what effects this may have on you." She said pointing in your direction.

"But ponies do not have any problems when I use magic on them. I expect humans don't react differently to it." She just laughs at you as she first walks up to the pink bouncing fur-ball of energy and her horn starts to glow. Pinkie stops bouncing for a second or two when Twilight lightly touches her head and a little light flashed from her horn.

A split-second later and the pink pony is up and around bouncing happily on her spot. Twilight continued to the other ponies and did the same, although she skipped the two pegasi, which had you wondering why.

She slowly walks over to you and her horn starts to glow again.

"I need to touch your head for this, can you please get a little lower to the ground?" She asks as she closes the gap between you two. You bend your knees and you lean forward with your head a bit, to make it easier to reach.

You feel the horn touch your head and a flash of light fills your vision. Only moments later you lay on the floor gasping for air and you see Twilight doing the same. You hear three sets of hooves running in your direction and you look to see al five ponies, the pegasi flying, rushing over to their fallen friend and the strange alien being.

"What *GASP* was *GASP* that *GASP* ?" You ask with your eyes now wide open.

You saw Twilight open her eyes slowly and looking at you. Her eyes went wide, and as they did the other five also looked at you. Their eyes also growing in size considerably. You wonder what's going on and you look at yourself. You down and are shocked by the sight.

Your whole body is covered in a sort of aura, similar to the light Twilight's horn gives off when she wants to do magic. You push yourself up against the wall to sit up straight.

"What the hell just happened?" You ask Twilight after regaining your breath somewhat.

She looked at you curiously and then just smiled widely.

"Ooooh, this is fun." She says with a smirk on her face.

"I think I may have accidentally done something that wasn't supposed to happen." Twilight continued while looking at you with a grin.

"Please Twilight, explain." You say, worried that something bad may have happened.

"You know how this world has a lot of magic in it, right. Everything in this world is fused with it, all ponies have some magic in them, even earth ponies. But... the thing is... When you came here you didn't have any magic. Or at least so we thought since you came from a world without it. When I touch you with my magic, I think it unlocked yours. Since you didn't have any magic in most of your body, there must have been a part of you that did, which in turn reacted to my magic." She kept on lecturing for a good fifteen minutes before she thought you understood what she meant.

"So basically I'm a magician without one of those horns on my head to actually use it." You say still sceptical about the whole thing.

"Well, yes and no." Twilight answers. "It seems that, since your body is quite big, you have quite a bit of magic, which was all bound together before and now flows through it. I think you may not even need a horn to utilise your power." As she thought about what she'd just said she started to look with fear in her eyes toward you.

"What's wrong" You ask her, seeing that fear in her eyes.

"Well, the only being I know of that can utilise magic without a horn or a catalyst has more than once tried to lay waste to Equestria." She said while her voice sounded soft and quivered slightly.

All of them now looked at you with fear in their eyes. You felt really bad by causing so much fear and just wished you were invisible, just so they would stop looking at you like that. You dropped your head down in your hands and then you were surprised , yet again.

You saw your hands become see-through and almost vanishing, leaving only a vague outline of them in front of your face. You looked at yourself and noticed that not only your hands but your entire body, including your clothes had a glassy look to it, see-through but still visible.

You look up to see the Six still staring at you, only now they looked terrified by what you just did.

"I-I'm sorry" You say drooping down again.

"Wow, didn't see that one coming." You hear the hoarse (hehe) voice, which belonged to Rainbow Dash you remember, say to you.

This comment seemed to lighten the tension immediately as all the ponies regained their composure. All except the yellow pegasus, who was cowering behind all of her friends.

"No no. It's okay. We should be the ones that are sorry. We shouldn't have judged you like that, just because you can do something only one other being, evil or not, can do." Rarity was speaking, although she still looked a bit nervous.

You look at yourself again and realize that you're still near to invisible.

"Uhm... How do I change back?" You ask Twilight as she looks at you. Then she starts laughing really loud and she almost falls to the ground.

"What's so funny?" You ask her again not really understanding what's so funny.

"Well we did just think you were about to kill us, and now you're asking me how to change yourself to being visible again." she said still half laughing. "I totally forgot you haven't learned how to magic at all yet."

'So they are laughing about the fact that I'm not able to use my magic and they each could have pinned me down by themselves.' You think annoyed.

"I'm sorry, but how did you manage to be like that in the first place." Twilight asks now fully recovered from her laughing fit.

"I don't know. I just didn't want you guys to look at me with those terrified eyes, so I just wanted to be invisible." You say looking at them with a little sadness in your eyes, thinking about how terrified they were only a few moments ago.

"Hmmmmm." Twilight said deep in her thoughts.

"You did magic by only thinking about it?" Rarity interrupted Twilight's train of thoughts and mumbled something to herself as she continued.

"If that were the case then try thinking about being visible again." Twilight said as she now focused back on you.

"Okay. If you say so." You answer feeling sceptical again.

You think about being seen again, but this time with curious eyes on you instead of terrified ones. Your hear a few gasps and then open your eyes to find yourself visible again.

"Wow, that's different." You say with a little bit of shock in your voice, as now the fact that you can do magic begins to seep into the part of your brain which makes you accept things as they are.

"It is indeed not what I had planned for today, but I think we still have time for that." Twilight said, but then quickly added, "Tomorrow."

"So what did you have planned for today darling?" Rarity asked but was quickly answered.

"That's a surprise. But now I need you all to leave and come back tomorrow. I have some things I wish to discuss with our human here." She said pointing to you again.

"Awwww." All the ponies said in unison as they were led out of the library by Twilight, who then locked the door before returning to the main room.

"So what did you want to talk about Twilight?" You ask her as she drops herself down next to you.

"I want to teach you how to control your magic, so that you don't accidentally use it when you don't want to." Twilight started. "When unicorns are born they have magic in them, not much but enough to cause a little trouble every now and then, since they don't have control over it. With you it could be a bit of a larger problem. You have a tremendous amount of magic in your system, and you don't know how to use it, let alone control it."

"I'm going to have to teach you the basics of magic in order for you to be able to keep yourself from potentially destroying something you don't want to. There is only one catch. It would normally require a month at least to learn this, and we do not have the time for that. I don't want to risk having an unstable source of magic around here for a month."

"I will have to transfer and copy some of my memory into yours." She looked you in the eye and then said seriously, "It. Will. Hurt." You flinched back a little to the side away from the purple pony who'd just said that she's going to hurt you.

"But if it isn't done than you might get hurt even more than you can imagine." You sigh at that.

"There's no other way?" You ask just to be sure she thought about everything.

"No, this is the only way there is. Although we could make it a little more comfortable by lying on a bed instead of the floor." She said and she blushed a little again.

You and Twilight walk to the guest room and you see one bed. Not very big humanwise, but it looked like it would be able to hold the both of you and still have some room to spare. You walk to the bed and sit on the edge, feeling the soft mattress.

"Should I lie down or just sit up like this?" You ask Twilight before she hops onto the bed on the other side, and plops her head onto one of the pillows.

"I guess I'll be lying down then." You say to Twilight, making her blush even more.

"Just try to relax, and please try not to move." She said with a little worry on her face as her horn began to glow and she came close to touch his head.

The moment you made contact the room burst with light and you were temporarily blinded, even though your eyes were closed. You felt as if something was trying to push your thoughts aside and when they were gone all you could see were memories. But not your own memories. These were the memories from the being lying opposite from you and you let them come in.

As soon as you made the decision to let them enter your mind you were overwhelmed be an almost endless stream of information. It felt like eternity before it stopped, and when it did you feel nothing for a few seconds, then the pain kicks in and you pass out.

AN: I hope you all like these turn of events. And if you want to know what the Actual surprise is, you'll just have to wait for the next chapter :p.