Chapters 1 - Weird dreams
"Come here Tom, you can choose now, accept or run away."
Tom slowly shifts back to reality. "What a weird dream, I shouldn't be drinking so much coffee late at night."
"Time for breakfast!" he says as he goes to the kitchen and takes out a few loafs of bread and looks into the fridge.
"Cheese again then, I should really go the the shop today." he says because there's only cheese left.
"Oh yeah, I have a day of today, well, good timing." He eats his simple breakfast and puts some clothes on. He leaves the house and locks the door.
'So cheese, salami, chicken filet and bread should do' he thinks to himself making a mental shopping list.
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He enters the shop and searches the things he listed, goes to the cashier and pays the bill. The rest of the day he was going to do some things for work to catch up a little and watch TV. As he unlocks the door he hears some stumbling inside. He quickly opens the door and finds himself standing in front of someone, or better somepony he knows very well. As he looses consciousness and falls to the ground she says "Hello, I'm... " and then everything goes black
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He wakes finding himself lying on the couch surrounded by eight ponies that he all knows.
"Are you alright?" asks Celestia.
"Well, I don't know." he says in deep thoughts. "Or I've gone crazy, or you're really in my house."
"Well, first of we're really in your house and secondly, you fell unconscious right in front of me."
"I know as much." he says.
"Okay then, who are you exactly?" Rainbow Dash asks.
"Well, I'm Tom, and from what I can tell you're Rainbow Dash, element of loyalty. Your friends are Pinkie Pie, element of laughter, Fluttershy, element of kindness, Applejack, element of honesty, Rarity, element of generosity, Twilight Sparkle, element of magic and the princesses, Celestia and Luna." Her mouth hangs wide open, just as the rest of them have their mouths wide agape, except for Celestia, who's smiling.
"You know a lot, more than I thought you would. Well that speeds up a few things as introducing ourselves isn't necessary." Celestia says, still smiling widely.
"Now, why did we come here you might ask. Well, because of you." He stares plain at her as he processes what she just said.
"Wait, what do you mean?" he says after a few seconds.
"What I mean is that you are selected to be my representative in this world."
"No, it can't be me! This is a mistake!" he says in total panic.
"No, if you are Tomas Geoffrey a.k.a Tom then it's you I'm looking for." she says calmly.
"No no no no!" and he blacks out again.
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He wakes up alone with no light in the room. "It must be nighttime if it's so dark." He stands up and walks to his bedroom. When he opens the door he sees the 8 ponies lying calmly sleeping on his bed. "The couch it will be then." he says defeated. He goes back to the living room and he lays down on the sofa. After a few minutes he falls asleep.
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"Well hello there, Tom." Luna says.
"Wait, how did you enter my, oh yeah." he says remembering that Luna can enter dreams.
"What do you guys wan't from me? And is Celestia kidding that I'm her representative in this world?"
"First of, my sister isn't joking when she says such things. We have waited 284 years for you to be born and grown old enough to understand what's happening. And what do we wan't from you? Well I honestly have no idea, you'll have to ask my sister about that."
"Okay." he says a little surprised.
"Well, good dreams then." Luna says while fading away.
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The next morning he's been woken up by Applejack, who's violently shaking him.
"What!" he says annoyed.
"Well hello sugarcube." she says in her typical accent "I need to get you to princess Celestia so she can give you the ability to use magic."
"What! AWESOME!" I scream through the house. "What kind of magic exactly?" I ask curious.
"Ah don't know, I guess unicorn magic."
"Well good morning Tom, now you should have already heard I'm going to give you the ability to use magic. Have you ever seen another human use it?" Celestia asks
"No, only illusions that others call magic." I say.
"Okay, are you ready?"
"One last question princess, is it going to hurt?" I ask trying to prepare myself.
"I don't know, but I don't think it will." she says in all honesty.
"Okay, then I'm ready." She starts the spell and I'm lifted into the air. The next moment I immediately regretted that decision. It hurt like hell! There's no way to describe the pain I felt that moment. The worst was that it was all over my body. A few seconds later I blacked out, again.
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He wakes up surrounded by all the eight ponies who have been staying for a day by now. Celestia asks
"How do you feel?"
"Tired." he says completely out of energy and in need of some more sleep.
"Did it hurt?"
"A lot. What did change to me?" he immediately asks.
"Well, you can use magic now, but you will still have to learn how, and that's what my sister is going to learn you. She will enter your dreams and learn how you can use magic, so it doesn't conflict with your daily life."
"And when I know everything I need to know, what will happen then?"
"Well, you need to go to the rulers of this planet and tell them that you need to better your life's or most of you will die, except for the ones that already do good in their life."
"So, how long is that going to take?"
"I don't know but I estimate two to three months."
"Well, what are you guys going to do now?"
"We will leave and come back again in a month to check what progress you made, and some extra lessons from me."
"Well, goodbye then."
"Goodbye, oh, one last thing. Tell as least people as possible, we don't wan't to be discovered."
"Au revoir." he says in his best French accent.
"Goodbye." they all say together.
To be continued...
%i% - Magic means learning
2 - Magic means learning
"Hello!" Tom says cheerfully to his colleagues greeting them.
"Where have you been yesterday?" a tall men in a black suit ask firmly as he almost bumps into him.
"I-eh,I was sick." he says lying but keeping the cover he promised to the princesses.
"Get back to work." his boss commands in the same monotone voice he always has, well except for the time he drunk to much whisky and was talking claptrap the rest of the day.
"O-Okay, I-I'll do that, mister Harvey" he says a little scared. Mister Harvey smiles and then walks back to his office, where he usually does nothing but observe Tom and his coworkers.
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"You weren't sick, weren't you?" Hilda, the only female employee in the room asks.
"Well, I wasn't feeling good when I woke up and after that I had a headache" he says lying again 'she doesn't need to know' he thinks in his head as he starts working.
The rest of the day nothing special happened, aside when the secretary got fired during lunch, again! Mister Harvey had the bad habit to fire the secretary's as fast as possible. This one did last pretty long, 2 and a half day to be exact, the others usually got fired the day they were employed.
Back to the point, nothing special happened and he got home safe and sound.
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"Well, another boring day of work done." he says while seating in the couch and lounging for a few minutes. He then goes to the kitchen, makes a simple meal and eating it upright. He washes the dishes, takes a shower and decides to go to bed a little early today so he has some more time to learn how to use magic tonight.
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"Brrr, I should really call the plumber to fix that busted boiler, it's starting to annoy me, those freezing cold showers. Well, next weekend probably, now lets go to bed and hope Luna's ready too.
He lays himself down onto the simple bed and falls asleep almost instantly. "Goodnight." he manages to say before drifting to sleep.
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"WELCOME, THOU SHALL BEGIN WITH OUR LESSONS. " Luna screams in the royal Canterlot voice, only to be greeted by a thrown over Tom who wasn't expecting that she would use it.
"Eh, hello?" he says confused by the loud scream Luna made.
"Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to ..."
"Alright, alright, just don't scream like that anymore." Tom says his ears still peeping a little from the sudden amount of decibels.
"Okay, now let's get started shall we?" Luna asks already knowing the answer that's going to come.
"Yes, let's get started. So, where do we start?" He asks wanting answers and getting over whit the lesson as quickly as possible.
"First, you need to know how to gather enough energy to perform spells, so that's where we are going to focus on the most today. Maybe we can start with simple levitation to, but I doubt we can get that far today."
"Well, what are we waiting for!" Tom exclaims excited.
"Not that fast, first you need to focus your mind in order to do it. I'm going to get a small ball of pure magic and I want you to concentrate on it, as long as possible."
That sounded not as much fun he had hoped the lessons would be, but he can't complain, you're already the only one that can do magic after all, well, the only human who can anyway. "Okay, let's get started then." he says calmer than his original excitement.
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After an hour it started becoming boring constantly watching the same little thing. "Hey Luna, where you're first lessons as boring as this one, or were they more fun?" Tom asks being bored to dead and wanting to get a conversation going.
No reply. "Hey Luna" he says again, this time stopping to watch at the globe of magic. This was the worst thing he could do as he got kicked right in the face as he turned around.
"Concentrate!" Luna said firmly, reminding him of his own boss.
"Aw, okay, but why was that necessary?"
"You need to concentrate!" She said, making her point to Tom.
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Two hours later Tom began drifting away. "I think I'm waking up Luna." he says.
"End of the training then." she says strictly.
"Until next night then." he says, finally drifting of.
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Tom opens his eyes, looks at the clock and sees its ten to eight. "Holy, I need to get to work immediately!" he says not wanting to come late.
To be continued...
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%i% - More learning and other stuff (Incomplete)
3 - More learning and other stuff (Incomplete)
"Few, just in time. Hopefully I can get something from the cafeteria because I'm starving" Tom says to no one in particular. I should really get a proper alarm that does wake me up.
"Hi Tom, how are you doing?" the new secretary asks to him.
"How do you know my name?" Tom asks surprised.
"I'm your old roommate from college, don't you remember?"
"Oh right, sorry, didn't recognize you Sarah, have you gotten your hair dyed?"
"Well yes, you're the first of my friends to notice that, I did it a few days back. Do you like it?"
"Of course, I think brown fits you better than blonde."
"Thanks, I'm a little fluttered by that actually. I thought you weren't that good with girls?"
"Not with strangers, but friends always deserve some compliments. Anyway, I should really get going, I haven't had breakfast this morning so I'm really hungry. Oh yea, good luck with Mr. Harvey, he tends to fire the secretary rather quick."
"I heard of that, but don't worry, I know some tricks to keep my job."
"Till next time then."
"Goodbye!" she says, cheery as she always was. She walks right to the secretary's office and enters.
"I guess I will eat something and get to work." Tom says thinking of the boring day ahead. Signing contracts, helping some customers, signing of some delivery's and the rest. Good luck Tom!
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Lunch time...
"Hi Sarah, how is it going?" Tom asks curious how she is holding up the work.
"Great, I think I got Mr. Harvey to like me!" she says even more exited as this morning.
"You got him to like you? How did you do that?" Tom asks this time more curious than the last.
"Show him some funny pictures, drink some coffee, have a nice chat about something not work related and keep smiling. That's how I got it done anyway."
"Wow, well, I'm of to work again. Good luck further, and don't screw up!" He yells to her as he leaves the cafeteria.
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The same evening...
"Until tomorrow." Sarah says.
"Until tomorrow, and don't forget the dinner tomorrow evening!" he replies.
"No, just don't forget to bring enough money! I can still remember last time we went for dinner, we had to go get some fish and chips because you thought 20$ was enough for a restaurant."
"You still remember that? That was almost 7 years ago! This time I will bring enough, 200$ to be exact."
"Wow! Are we going to go to a 3 star restaurant?"
"Not quiet, but its going to be better than last time for the least!"
They both depart and go home, safely of course, but cant seem to set each other out of their minds.
Meanwhile at Mr. Harveys home...
"I'm home honey!" Harvey says to his wife
"Hello, how was your day?" his wife asks as always.
"Enjoyable for once, the new secretary isn't a nerd and I actually like her, which is pretty rare if you ask me."
"So you're saying I'm not good enough anymore or what?"
"No, no, It's just something I wanted to share because it's the first interesting thing in almost a year."
"And what was the last interesting thing again?"
"We had a new boss in the department."
"Oh yeah, that guy. He's the one who declined to organize the yearly employee dinner."
"Yes that guy, now if you excuse me, I got some extra work to do, call me when dinner is ready."
"Alright, just don't fall asleep again like last week.
"No, no, I'll come this time."
Back at Toms house apartment...
"Now, eat something, check Facebook, twitter etc. and then go to sleep to train some more magic skills."
As Tom finishes his short mental to do list one of his friends calls him.
"Hey Tom, how are you doing!"
"Oh hey Steve! I'm doing good, I've met Sarah again, she's working in the same building as I do now."
"Lucky bastard! When did you meet?"
"In the morning, I didn't recognize her at first until she addressed me, she's got her hair dyed brown now."
"Well, you still are lucky to have her at your work."
"And she's lucky sh isn't fired yet!"
"Why?"
"Well, my boss, Mr. Harvey, tends to fire the secretary rather quickly, the longest we had a secretary was 3 days, but I think Sarah's going to keep it up quiet a lot longer."
"Oh, she's got connections or what?"
"Not quiet, she got Mr. Harvey to like her."
"Nice, but I gotta go, I've got the late shift again."
"You still are a security guard at that chemical company?"
"Yes, but I've really got to go!"
"Hear you later then."
"Hear you later."
"Well that was a nice chat, now let's get back to business."
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"Goodnight Tom."
"Goodnight Princess, what are we going to do today?" He says hoping it isn't concentrating on that glowing orb of pure magic again.
"We, sorry, you are going to do some obstacle courses."
"Obstacle courses? Well, sounds fun."
"You'll regret saying that." Luna says with a grin on her face.
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"How am I supposed to make this? I don't think it's even possible!"
"Giving up on the first test already?"
"Kinda, yea."
"Use our previous lesson, concentration."
"How is that supposed to help me?"
"You see the big rock on the bottom of the pit, levitate it to a good height and use it to jump over."
"That's impossible! How am I even supposed to levitate things?"
"In that case we can go back to concentrating on that little orb over there" Meanwhile she's pointing at a little orb in the distance.
"No thanks, I will try."
"Good, lets get started." and she teleports herself and you to a small room with a pen and a table. The pen is lying on the floor.
"You need to levitate the pen onto the table."
"How am I supposed to do that?" you ask currious as to how you are actually