Evolution of a Gentleman

I hated airplanes. I loved flying… I just hated being in an airplane, you have no control on where you are going. Where was I going… Neo Equineox, a small island with a portal to another world, Equestria…

A few weeks ago I had received a letter from an old college friend who had heard of my unfortunate situation. So he invited me to come to Equestria for work, or so he said. My skills in computers were okay and my technical skills were below average; unless he needed me for physical labor or was on the lookout for circus performer, I seriously wasn’t going to get this job. Still, what the hell, a free trip is a free trip, and I wasn’t going to pass up an opportunity like this because I felt under-qualified.

“Uhhh we will be arriving in Neo Equineox in just a few moments… Uhhh, please bucket your safety belts until we have come to a complete stop… Uhhh, thank you for flying with us today.” The overhead speakers said.

I looked around as people, and some ponies sat back down in their chairs. Thank goodness I never left my seat or unbuckled my belt. Stupid planes…

I had an easy enough time exiting the plane with my backpack and retrieving my bag. What I found odd was the amount of security they make you go through before entering the portal. First they scan you for any weapons, then they go through all your bags and pull out any weapons or weapon like items, finally they sit you down and question you about your reasons for entering and why you brought any so called weapons with you.

It was my turn finally; I sat in a small booth with two pairs of scissors, an old school shave kit and blade, toe nail clippers, some medication and a Sony PSP. A small young lady with blue hair and a business attire to match entered the room. She had a very strong floral scent with a name badge that read ‘Jo’.

“So Mr. Mishkin, what brings you to travel beyond the gate?” She asked.

“Work.” I stated.

“Do you know how long you will be staying?” Jo asked.

“Not at the moment.” I replied.

“Okay… So why do you need all these sharp tools?” Jo asked looking at me with a stare that could paralyze a puppy.

“Umm, I was told by a friend who lives there that electricity is in short demand, so to bring non-electrical items…” I said.

“What about the PSP? It is the only electronic device you have… no cell phone, iPod, touch pad.” She asked, her eyes returning to her paperwork.

“Just using it to ki… pass time on the plane.” I replied.

“What about these blue pills?” She asked raising an eyebrow.

“Medication, it’s for my thyroid.” I responded.

“Okay last question, do you have any tattoos that are not listed or documented?” Jo asked.

“Yes…” I replied hesitantly.

“Okay what is it and where, or would you like to show it to me?” She said tapping the desk with a pencil.

“Show, it is rather large.” I said while standing up lifting my shirt. The tattoo covered my chest, arms, back and outer thighs; the pattern had a tribal look to with a few defined images.

“Hmmm, well here you go.” Jo said, handing me a bunch of papers, a box with the words ‘Manual/Solar Charger’ printed on the brown box. “You check out just fine…very fine. Your group number is 38B, and your personal transport number or PTN is 14. Put all your stuff away except this paper, and your passport. When you are done head out of the room and down to your left; look for the LED that says your Group number and wait for them to come collect you. Oh! By the way if you have any questions when you return back to Earth, my number is on the top of this page… My personal number.” Jo said as she left the room.

“Thank you.” I said as she walked out. I quickly put all my stuff and extra papers away before returning to the long hallway. I follow her directions and found a large terminal like waiting room with LED screens everywhere. It took me a while but I found my group. I walked over to a vacant seat and sat down.

As I looked around a little bit a fear took a hold of me, I saw several soldiers walking the area, and a few sitting down in my group. I took in a deep breath to relieve the tension, because the truth is I had a reason to fear these soldiers. I was a mutant, a type 2 mutant, dangerous and heavy weapon required. Why was I dangerous… because I have two abilities; the first one is to recover or heal rapidly from any injury, and the second was the ability to manipulate the hydrogen molecules in the air. Not a very good combination, especially during the mutant registration act… Type 1, 2, and 3s were to be locked up or destroyed. Eventually this came to a close when human rights activists decided to stand up for mutant rights, but mutants are still seen as a danger. We aren’t allowed to travel without permission, we have to go through regular blood test monthly and then are locked up for our own safety if we’re a danger to ourselves or the people around us. Bullshit!

Thank the stars I wasn’t a registered mutant, if I were, I would have been locked up a long time ago. I took out my PSP and continued playing a Japanese robot game I purchased a while ago, until our group would be collected.

An hour or so passed before a man with a clipboard, glasses and the highest pants I had ever seen who was escorted by two marines came over to our section and called our group number.

“Group 38B, please gather your personal belongings, turn off all electronic devices and put away any unnecessary items. Once you have all gathered we will head down to our right and proceed to the gate.” The clipboard man said.

I stood up turning off my PSP and slipping it into my book bag before heading to the man with the glasses. Apparently only 10 to 15 people or ponies were allowed to pass through the gate every two hours; the reason for this was that between Earth gate use, Equestria was using the portal to send things through.

“Okay I count 14… I see fourteen on my list… we are good to go. Please follow me.” The clipboard man said before heading down the terminal. We began climbing upstairs, both electrical and normal stairs. Behind us the two soldiers walked keeping a few feet away from us. As we climbed we passed through a large wall of cold air that led outside. Finally we made it to the top; we were completely surrounded by what appeared to be a medical facility. We were outside but still almost surrounded by white walls and medical symbols.

“Attention all first timers, please remember that once you cross over you will be hit with a cleaner atmosphere and the magic from the portal can cause some side effects. Please be careful and step through one person at a time. Thank you and have a safe journey.” The clipboard man said before walking over to the portal and began counting off numbers.

One after another one, humans and ponies walked through the portal, finally it was my turn. “Do you have all your papers and baggage sir?” The clipboard man asked, I nodded before he gestured me to go in.

I walked through the portal, it was like being pulled and stretched across the world. Light and darkness flooded my eyes before my feet landed on solid ground again. I was suddenly overtaken by the fresh clean air, I felt light-headed and dizzy. A medical personal escorted me a little forward before asking, “Are you okay… if you need to throw-up, please do so to your left.”

I looked over to my left and saw a white bowl of some kind; I rushed over grabbing the handle bars on the side and threw-up. They handed me a bottle of water and sat me down in a chair next to a mirrored wall. A doctor or nurse came into up to see me, “Ahh a cookie tosser… We don’t get that too often… So I am going to ask you a few questions to make sure you are alright, do you understand?” The man asked.

“Yes, I understand.”

“Do you know who you are, and where you are?” He began asking.

“My name is James Mishkin, and I am in Equestria…?”

“Good, next look in the mirror, has anything about you changed?” He said gesturing to the mirror next to me. I looked over…

“No, not that I can… wait, my eyes are gold?” I stuttered.

“Gold? You mean light brown…” The nurse started to say walking over to me. He placed a light in my eye and began to inspect my eye. “So, what color where they before?”

“Dark brown.” I replied.

“Uhhh, yeah they are gold tinted alright.” He said writing it down, “Anything else?”

I quickly began to inspect every part of my body making sure nothing else had changed, got added on or subtracted. After patting myself and looking at myself in the mirror I found nothing else and let out a sigh of relief. I looked at the nurse, “Does this happen often?”

“Not really, it happens once in a while. I’ve seen it about twice… I think?” The nurse said, before writing down what had happened on my paper and told me to proceed once I felt that I was able to. “When you’re feeling up to it, head over to that green unicorn over there with the glasses and clipboard.” The nurse said leaving for another patient.

A few minutes had passed; I stood up and walked over to the green unicorn who was levitating a clipboard in front of her. “Okay, paperwork… Number 14, James Misssh-kin, welcome to Equestria.” She said scribbling some stuff on my papers. “Now just wait here until the others arrive.”

It was about half an hour later, the sun was beginning to set when we left the Equestrian gate way. As we walked down a cobblestone path I noticed we were being escorted by ponies in gold armor and dark purple armor, some carrying spears while others carried swords. I started to walk closer to one of the ponies dressed in dark purple armor; from what I could tell she had a light purple coat, a straight bouncy purplish-grey mane, and bright purple eyes. “How are you this fine day?” I asked.

“I’m fine.” The female armored pony said. “Why do you ask?”

“Just trying to make conversation.” I said moving a little closer to her. “So… what’s with all the armed guards?” I asked.

“You humans are weak compared to some of the animals and creatures of Equestria, also Diamond Dog raids… they have a tendency to attack your kind as soon as you come into Equestria.” She said looking up at me as I gave her a smile. She turned away, “Seriously, what could my sister see in your kind?”

“What was that?” I asked.

“It’s nothing just… shhhh!” She paused and looked around, “Did you hear that?” She asked looking around.

I steadied my breath and for a second I heard something… something underneath. “The ground is shifting… like giant moles…” I murmured.

The purple armored pony looked at me with a surprised look before yelling out, “DIAMOND DOGS!”

Holes opened up all over the ground, with large gorilla like dogs jumping out of them. “Take what you can!” One of the dogs yelled, swatting the purple pony I was talking to. As I looked around the Diamond Dogs were taking our luggage, and pulling jewelry off any human they could find. These large dogs carried themselves like gorillas, with very little armor or clothes, but they were armed. These Diamond Dogs carried very primitive spears and swords.

“Are you okay?” I said trying to help the purple pony up.

She began to nod when her eyes open wide in fear, “Look out!” She yelled, but it was too late. As the Diamond Dogs fought off the pony guards, one of them lost their balance, his spear finding its way into my back.

Now just because I can heal from any wound doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt, quite the contrary, healing from the wound hurts just as much as receiving the injury. The spear pierced my skin, its dirty rusty edges burning and tearing at my flesh. Then it cracked my left shoulder blade, moving in and through my lung… at this point I could feel myself begin to drown in blood as the blood started to flood into my lungs. The spear missed my heart, but barely, the edge still cutting through muscles in my chest, before exiting the front of my shirt. I cringed from the pain, screaming and cursing, my hand reaching for the tip grabbing it before it went any further.

“You fool! We no want to kill these humans!” One of the Diamond Dogs said.

I looked over to the pony I was trying to help up, “Run, take everyone with you...” I said coughing up blood. “I will hold them here…”

“Are you crazy?! You’ll die…” She said looking at my wound.

“Seriously I think I’m pretty much doomed…already…” I stood up and pulled out the spear, dumbest thing I ever did. I started swinging the spear at the Diamond Dogs. “Come and get me you… you… cat-lovers!”

“Cat What?!” yelled one of the Diamond Dogs as he hit me with his large paw, my body taking the impact, sending me off a few feet to the side. I felt my arm break as it took the hit and my leg crack as it slammed into the ground.

I looked over to the pony in purple armor, “Get them out of here!” I yelled as I got back up and ran towards a Diamond Dog, stealing one of their loot bags, as I ran off into the woods.
“ICY! RAVEN! HAZE! Take the Humans to cover, I am going after him!” She yelled as she tried to fly only to fall onto the ground.

A large armored mare with a blue mane walked over to the pegasus on the ground who I was speaking to, “Sorry Eclipse, no can do… that human is on his own.” Icy said picking up Dark Eclipse onto her back.

The rest of the people and armored ponies ran off as I hid in a tree, the Diamond Dogs sniffing around for me.

“He here somewhere… keep looking!” One of the thin Diamond Dogs exclaimed. I stared at my watch, cringing in pain, my body recovering from all the injuries I had just taken. At one point I had to bite down on my belt to relieve the stress from the recovering. Five minutes had slowly ticked passed, until I decide it was time to start scaring these dogs.

“Where he go? He was bleeding… follow his blood!” A thin Diamond Dog yelled.

“No blood… it stopped.” A large Diamond Dog replied.

“What is that?” A short Diamond Dog said pointing at my direction.

“Hey guys, what’s up?” I said coming out from my hiding spot, dropping the bag of stolen goods.

“Ready to give up, weak human?” said a Diamond Dog.

I looked up giving a toothy grin, and then stared back at the Diamond Dogs. “Nah, ‘cause you guys really can’t do anything to me.” I said taking a standard martial arts pose. “Come at me fools!” I said only thinking to myself that I sounded corny.

Several Diamond Dogs started to rush at me; I gave a swift punch forward releasing fire with my punch. The Diamond Dogs slid to a stop before turning around, “What… what was that?”

I for some reason or another decided to go religious on these Diamond Dogs, “I am Lucifier! The King of the Underworld, keeper of damned souls…” I then pointed at the Diamond Dogs, releasing fire into the air around me. “And I have come to drag you dogs to HELL!”

“What is hell?!” said the Diamond Dog in charge.

I turned to him setting the air around him and the others on fire keeping it at a distance as not to burn them, but for them to feel the heat. “It is fire and brimstone, lakes of lava and blood, and scream of the evil and wicked burning forever… until the END OF TIME!”

The Diamond Dogs screamed and shrieked before running off, either into the woods or underground. I looked around after a few seconds had passed and quickly turned off all the fire, making sure that I didn’t set fire or burn the trees in this forest. I began to walk out of the forest and back to the road I was on. The sun had already set and the moon was in full view.

“Hey there beautiful…” I said looking up at the crescent moon. “Glad to see you’re as beautiful as ever.” I said giving a smile before grabbing my stuff and began walking down the dirt road again.

I was awoken by the sound of a train whistle, as I opened my eyes I found myself in an old school locomotive, surrounded by talking ponies. As I adjusted myself in the chair I felt a little nauseous, I had just come out of being interrogated by several US marines and ponies in gold armor asking me how I fought off a pack of Diamond Dogs. My first day in Equestria and I had been thrown into a portal, fought off a pack of Diamond Dogs after nearly being stabbed in the heart and then pulled in by the authorities and asked questions on how I survived. I let out a heavy sigh as I pulled out a letter I had received from my friend a few weeks ago inviting me to Equestria for a job opportunity. Supposedly I was to meet him in a place called Donut Joe’s in Canterlot, I looked out the window at the morning sun, hoping that today would be a better day.

As I sat there a little colt was running around and accidently bumped into my leg. As he turned to apologies he froze; he had caught me mid-yawn and I had a horrible habit of yawning without covering my mouth. As I finished my yawn the young colt as well as a few other ponies on the train had a terrified look on their faces. I quickly covered my mouth and apologized, quickly getting off the train into a weird station.

It took me a bit to find some signs in English and when I did I quickly discovered I was in Canterlot. After a few minutes of asking directions, getting weird looks and getting lost; I found my way out of the station. Standing there I looked around; it was a beautiful sight to behold, a large castle, sculpted buildings, and statues to match.

“Cra…ud…” I muttered to myself trying not to say such a vulgar word out loud. Looking around I then realized something very important, I had no idea how to get to Donut Joe’s. I smacked my forehead with the palm of my hand, “The directions…. They’re here in my poc… ket.” I said looking at the blood covered torn directions in my hand. At that moment my anger got the better of me and the paper combusted into flames.

“How did you do that?” A female voice said from behind me.

“Ahhh!” I yelped as I was caught off guard and stumbled over myself landing on my ass. Quickly looking up I caught a look at my scarer, a white pegasus pony with an indigo mane and orange eyes.

“Wow! I didn’t think you humans scared so easily.” The white pegasus said giggling.

“Ha-Ha, very funny…” I said as I tried to get to my feet. Suddenly I felt something on my head; as I looked up I noticed this little pony had put her hoof on my head.

“You have nice hair… do you color it?” She asked.

“I don’t color my ha…i…r…, wait what color is my hair?” I said looking at this pony in a terrified way.

“Umm, black with red tips?” She replied. I quickly dropped my backpack and began to go through it until I found a mirror. I quickly pulled the mirror out to look over myself; black pants red threading and pockets, black shirt, black sneakers and black hair with red… tips. “Why what’s wrong with it, I like it.” This pony said putting her hoof back on my head and messing it up more.

“Look you.” I said grabbing her hoof, “I don’t know who you think you are but…”

“Oh! I’m Morning Dart” She exclaimed interrupting me. “And you are?”

I let out a sigh, “My name is James Mishkin… uhh, what’s wrong?” I said looking at Morning Dart who was blushing like crazy.

“Well… I was wondering if I could have my hoof back. Not that I mind… it’s just embarrassing.” She said as I quickly released her hoof, Morning then caught the scent of something, pulled the hoof closer to her face and gave it a good sniff. “Orange mint…”

“What are you do..ing…?” I said as she got closer to me.

“You smell really good…” Morning said her face getting closer to my chest.

“MORNING DART!” I yelled.

Morning realized what she was doing and quickly pulled away, “So sorry about that… hormones.” She said giggling. “Wait… did you say James Mishkin?” She said coming about 2 inches away from my face.

I was taken by surprise when she said my full name; normally ponies had a rough time with human names. I know, I spent the last few hours being interrogated by them. “Yes, why do you ask?”

“Har… Win… your friend sent me to meet up with you, he is going to be busy for a couple of days and he asked if I could watch over you… that’s okay, right?” Morning said digging her hoof into the ground.

“A couple of days… how long are we talking about here?” I asked patting myself clean.

“Well with what happened at the Royal Wedding and all the security… I would say… about 4… no 6 days.” Morning said with a smile.

“6 DAYS! DUDE THIS IS LOW! EVEN FROM YOU!” I yelled while looking at the sky, I gave another heavy sigh, “I’m sorry… Maybe I should just go find a hotel or something; I really don’t want to cause inconvenience to someone I just met.” I said looking back at Morning.

“You wouldn’t, I am used to living with a lot of ponies, and also you probably won’t find a place to stay. Everything is either booked or taken, I checked.” Morning said slightly turning red.

“You checked… so you didn’t want me to stay with you at first, huh?” I said picking up my large duffle bag and rolling suitcase.

“No, that’s not it…” Morning said before mumbling something I couldn’t even hear.

“Huh? What was that?” I asked.

Morning’s face became flushed as she panic and quickly trotted ahead of me, “Nothing, it’s nothing… Why don’t we head back to my place and drop those off. Then I could show you around Canterlot.” Morning smiled while turning to face me, her face completely flushed. “It could be like a date or something.”

A date with a pony… yeah, like that would even happen. Morning was cute, but she wasn’t someone I would go out with. I mean, we’re two different species. As I followed her back to her home I noticed a few things that caught my eye; every stallion that Morning passed followed her with their eyes, and a few human males did too, but what threw me for a loop was whenever we were walking alone she would flick her tail, exposing herself. What was worse was that my nose was more sensitive than of a human or even a pony from what I could gather, and every time she flicked her tail a strong musky smell invaded my nostrils. The scent and the shape of her… well, her ass was starting to make me even reconsider my original thoughts.

“What’s wrong, James?” Morning said stopping suddenly, her tail giving a light flick into the air.

“No..” My voice cracked followed by me clearing my throat, “Nothing’s wrong just a little out of shape…” I said looking around at my surroundings, and then I spotted a park. “Hey do you mind if we take a little break over there?” I said pointing at the park.

Morning turned scrunching her mouth as she looked at the park, “Yeah sure, I am little tired too… I’m not much of a day pony…” Morning then looked shocked and turned to me, my face unchanged.

“What?” I asked.

“Umm, nothing… never mind.” Morning said letting out a sigh as she headed to the park, “Come on slow-poke.”

I chased after her until she reached a tree, immediately I tossed my bags to the side and sat down on the grass under a tree. I could smell the trees, the clean air, the mildly wet dirt and the bitter grass. I lay back onto the grass, letting the shade of the tree cool me off. As I opened my eyes I found Morning right above me, causing me to feel slightly embarrassed.

“Aren’t you worried about getting your clothes dirty?” Morning asked.

I looked down at my black shirt and black pants, “No, not really. I found a comfy spot and I’m not moving.” I said turning onto my side away from Morning.

“You are a strange ‘guy’ James… so, ummm. Are you gonna tell me how you did that fire thing or am I gonna have to wait.” Morning said lying down against my back.

“That was… a lighter trick.” I said nervously as I started to feel her warmth against my back.

“A lighter?” Morning asked. “Oh the pocket flint… you can do that with that thing?”

“Yes!” I said, relived that she believed me. “Yeah it has a flammable fuel inside that you can release and ignite.”

“Okay… I guess that works.” Morning said, slightly snuggling against me. “You don’t mind me getting so close do you?” Morning asked, I responded by shaking my head no. “So James, what brings you to Equestria? Other than your friend.”

“A new life, a new beginning.” I said.

“What was wrong with your old life?” Morning asked.

“Why do you think something was wrong?” I asked Morning.

“Someponies start a new life because of bad beginnings or a bad end. You seem like you might have had a bad end…” Morning stated.

“A little bit of both actually…” I said turning to face the sky. I began telling Morning about my life, about how my parents abandoned me but not why. How I was left at the circus at the age 10, and was raised by the ‘Flying Mishkins’. Then how the circus closed down after the gateway between the worlds was open, and that my new family lost their jobs, moved to Florida and how my father began working with his brother in the used car business. Without realizing it I told her my darkest secret, the real reason he left earth. “Anne Brown… she was my fiancée.”

“Fiancée? You were going to get married?” Morning said moving her head over mine.

“Yeah, but she cheated on me with my best-friend for almost 2 years.” I replied.

“Cheated? I don’t understand?” Morning asked.

“Umm, she was having sexual relations with my best friend even though me and her were both virgins when we met.” I replied. “Plus after all that happened she told me the reason she had sex with him was, ‘Because I thought you slept around before we met and I wanted some experience.’…Experience?!” I said punching the air. “What are we a video game?! So I took my stuff and left the day I found out. As far as I was concerned she was the one who threw our relationship away.”

“Why was it her fault, she just wanted to make sure she was able to satisfy your sexual needs…?” Morning said lowering her head onto my chest.

Almost by reflex my hand went to her head and I started to run my fingers through her mane. “Truth… she should have asked me, communicated her fears and feelings, not go around my back and have sex with the worst sexual deviant I know.” I said letting out a huge sigh as my hands started to run over Morning’s shoulders and back.

“I am sorry to hear that, what was his name?” Morning murmured.

“Michael Turner… great guy, I don’t blame him for what happen. I even spoke to him a few days later and he told me that he rejected Anne at first, telling her that I never slept with anyone.” I said.

“You humans have the weirdest names. Tur-nner, sounds like somepony that should be working on pipes or jars. Though I like yours, James, it’s simple, clean and easy to say. James.” Morning said as she raised her head above mine once again.

“So what’s your story, beautiful?” I said looking deep into Morning’s bright orange eyes.

“I worked hard all my life, my job was it for me. My parents raised me and my sister right. I then went to go work in the castle, and worked my way up. Eventually everything was running fine until I ran into some complications, and when I went for help, they told me to solve it myself.” Morning said moving closer, “James, I am so sorry but I can’t help myself.

“About wha…mpghhhh!” I said as Morning kissed me. My first reaction was to try to pull away from her, but the ground I was lying on was preventing me. After a few seconds of being pinned to the ground by Morning I really started to enjoy the kiss, but then I realized one thing, ponies drool a lot. Most of the time I spent lip locked with Morning, I was swallowing her drool. She then pulled away and I gave a little cough as it was too much for me.

Morning was only a few inches away when she began to apologies, “James, I am so sorry, I didn’t mean too… well I wanted to but, I am so…mmmhhh.” Morning started to say before I grabbed her muzzle and pulled her back onto my lips. I literally lost myself on her lips, in her mouth, and around her tongue. I have no idea how much time had pass by as we lay in the park under that tree.

The sun had just set when Morning pulled away, her eyes even brighter in the moonlight. “I’m sorry, Morning Dart, I couldn’t stop…” I said lying on the ground looking up at Morning.

Morning then gently placed a hoof over my mouth, “You can call me Morning…” She said.

“Sorry Morning…” I replied.

“No, no, no, it’s fine. I was really enjoying myself; I just thought we might want to move indoors.” Morning said as another pony passed by looking at us. We both turned red in the face and looked at one another; I simply nodded agreeing with Morning. We both stood up and continued walking to Morning’s apartment, suitcases still in hand. I still couldn’t believe what was happening, I just met this ‘pony’ and I was now heading back to her apartment with the intention of doing ‘other things’.

“Morning, I’m sorry I don’t think I can… I mean you are a pretty girl… mare, but I don’t think this is a good idea.” I said looking away.

Morning stopped and turned to face me, “Listen James, I regret nothing that we have done, or will I regret if we do anything else. Cause right now my heart is beating really fast, my thoughts are filled with you and your scent, and I really want you…” Morning said getting closer to me.

I could barely swallow, let alone breathe, “Look, I already told you I am a…” I began to say to only be silenced by the tip of her hoof against my lips.

“Just like me… a virgin, right?” Morning said with a glisten in her eyes and a sweet smile that could melt the heart of any person I knew, I nodded under her hoof. “Good!” She said walking away flicking her soft tail and letting it run smoothly across my face. The scent of a field of flowers and morning dew lingered on my face and in the air.

As her soft tail left my face I felt my heart drop, as if it was tugged or pulled out, and that’s exactly what Morning was doing, pulling on my heart one little tug at a time. The scent of musk then followed after, it caused me to twitch and I felt my lower member strain against my pants. “Seriously if I wasn’t weird enough already…” I said.

We made another turn before Morning said with a happy hum in her voice, “We’re here!”

I looked up at the large building in front of us; it was about 3 stories tall and painted greyish blue and what I found odd was everywhere else I had seen so far I had seen flags with a sun emblem. This building was decorated with moon emblem flags; I decided not to pay that much attention to it. From what I understood Equestria had two princesses, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and anybody… anypony was allowed to follow who they wanted. “So you said you lived with a bunch of roommates?” I asked as we walked into the building.

“Yeah, but they are all probably at work by now… plus we all have our own rooms. So we can be as loud as we want.” Morning said flicking her tail as we walked up the stairs to her room.

“If you keep doing that I might not wait till we get to the room…” I said in a low voice, but still loud enough that she could hear me. Morning then froze at the top of the stairwell, “What’s wrong?” I said as I finally caught up with her and noticed another pony standing in the hall.

“Poison Heart?! What are you still doing here?” Morning said slowly backing up trying to hide me.

“Finishing a potion…” Poison Heart said before her hunter green eyes focused on me. “My, my! Is that him?” The dark purple coated pony asked.

Morning then rushed to her roommate pulling her off to the side as they began to talk, I stood there and began to look over the two. While they both looked to be the same size, Morning did seem thinner but I think that was because she was a pegasus. This Poison Heart was a unicorn and kind of different from everypony I had seen today. I mean, her mane was a yellow-green set up with long twirls that followed into her tail, but she had these tuffs on her ears… which I noticed Morning also had but smaller. What really caught me by surprises was her ‘cutie mark’, it was a red heart dripping green liquid. The two then stopped talking and Poison Heart trotted towards me.

“Good luck lover-boy!” She said as she trotted down the stairs.

My heart literally skipped a beat, as I turned to find Morning just few inches from me. “She didn’t scare you or looked weird to you… did she?” Morning said as her lower lip began to pucker.

I stood there and began to think… “Well to be honest… she had this very alluring mature look to her… almost as if she could eat me alive with her eyes.” I said shaking a bit.

“Pffft!” Morning said as she began to laugh, rolling around on the ground laughing hard.

“What? What’s so funny?!” I asked.

“Well, she did say she would…” Morning said trying to speaking through her laughter.

“Would what?” I said crouching down to look at Morning’s face.

“That if she was left alone with you… she would eat you alive! I just found it funny that she could make you feel that with just her looks!” Morning said slowly getting up.

I just looked away, flushed in the face until Morning stopped laughing. Eventually she got up and headed to her room, pushing the door open.

“Welcome home… well at least for now…” Morning said as she walked in.

I lowered my head as I entered through the doorway; looking around I noticed it looked very roomy. The kitchen was exposed to the living room via a bar window, the living room was cluttered with multi-colored pillows, and a hallway with two door that lay at the end of the living room. The apartment itself was painted with a warm off-white color, with very few paintings on the wall. Then I noticed an old Scottish Claymore hanging on the wall, “Woh!” I said putting my stuff down.

“I knew you ponies had weapons, but not weapons like this.” I said touching the green hilt and scabbard of the sword.

“You like?” Morning said as she entered the kitchen and began to drink down a bottle of what appeared to be apple juice. “Urghh! God this tastes nasty!”

“You okay?” I said looking over to Morning, “Maybe you shouldn’t drink that stuff if it tastes bad.”

“Have to… medicine. Blah!” She said scraping her tongue with her teeth. Morning then turned on the faucet and began to drink from the tap.

Morning gestured me to go sit in the living room; after looking for a good group of pillows I sat down. Then I fell over and laid down… I was tired, still tired from yesterday. “Maybe just for a second…” I said as I closed my eyes.

Wiping away the excess water on her face Morning walked out of the kitchen with a newspaper. “So did you hear about what happened yesterday? Some human fought off a pack of Diamond Dogs and got… away…” Morning said walking into the living room, catching me already asleep in this den of pillows. She smiled and walked up to me, laying down right next to me, her head resting on my chest. “You must be tired… someone who can fight Diamond Dogs and breathe fire… you must be something special… are you a soft skin dragon or something…” Morning said while I slept. She nuzzled up into me and fell asleep. There we stayed the whole night, wrapped around each other covered in pillows, keeping each other warm as we slept.

The next morning I found myself unable to move, something was holding me down; it was warm, fuzzy and breathing. I remembered falling asleep in the pillows but was I moved somewhere, did Morning cover me up with a blanket? After fidgeting for about a minute I was able to remove the pillow that covered my eyes. There she was, her head resting on my chest, her mane completely relaxed as it covered half her face. Somehow I knew she was going to do this, but I wasn’t angry… I was happy, it felt nice not being alone. The arm that I managed to free I used to run my fingers through her coat, from the back of her chin to her collarbone. She began to coo and smile, I stayed there for a while just enjoying her warmth… her smile.

‘What happened between now and yesterday morning.’ was all that I could think about, how could someone just get that comfortable with someone they just met? My thoughts wandered about home, friends… loved ones, but they always seemed to return to the pegasus that I found sleeping upon my chest. This couldn’t be love at first sight… I was too old to believe in that shit. I thought as I let out a heavy sigh, “Maybe… maybe this is all a dream.” I said looking out the window as the morning sunlight began to flood the room.

“Then let’s keep dreaming…” Morning murmured in her sleep.

I smiled and placed a kiss on Morning’s white-coated pegasus muzzle. She let out a gentle moan before opening her eyes. Her eyes opened wide as her wings quickly expanded out making a ‘flomp’ sound. “I can explain that!” Morning said in a small voice.

“Explain what?” I asked, a few seconds passed by before it hit me. I was suffering from the same problem… just a bit lower. “I think I understand…” I said looking away as our faces both became flushed.

“So, what do you want to do today, James?” Morning asked.

“I have no idea, remember I am the tourist here… completely new to Equestria.” I said slowly waving my hands in front of me. “What do you think we should do?”

“Ea… Shower, we should shower…separately… Me first though!” Morning said nervously as she stood up and dashed to the bathroom.

“HEY! I gotta pee!” I yelled chasing behind her.

After about fifteen minutes of debating, discussing and talking I was able to take a leek; as Morning followed by taking a shower. I sat in the living room organizing my stuff and luggage; I placed the solar charger they gave me at the airport outside on the windowsill. Looking out the window I was amazed to find so much movement down on the streets below, humans and ponies alike going to work or selling their wares. I plugged in my PSP and a set of rechargeable batteries. As I set my bathroom products, clothes and towel to the side, I heard a weird noise coming from the bathroom, a constant thudding.

I slowly got up and headed to the bathroom, the noise getting louder. I finally made it to the door and placed an ear against it; the sound of running water, something slamming against the wall and a soft moan, followed by panting. Curiosity got the better of me as I slowly opened the door a few inches. From the door I could see the entire shower; then I saw Morning’s silhouette on the shower curtain, moving back and forth against the wall. That is when I noticed part of the curtain was open, hung against the wall in the shower, from what I could tell was a large red dildo and Morning’s flank as she was slamming against it hard. I froze as she continued to slam against the shower wall, the red shaft disappearing into her. Morning was panting and letting out soft low moans, in hopes that I would not hear her. At one point she leaned against the side wall, her silhouette disappearing from the curtain, but completely exposing her marehood. I had really never seen one this close before, unless you count yesterday, but it was breathtaking. The folds of her lower lips devouring the red shaft as it sunk into her started to drive me a little lustful, then without warning she let out a little whinnies as tons of white fluid began to pour out of her hole. Morning then continued to move against the red toy shaft, her clitoris bulging out caressing and grinding against the toy. Morning let out a soft sigh as she pulled away from the wall, letting the red dildo slip out of her onto the bathroom floor. More white fluid poured out of her snatch as the dildo fell out; as it did, the smell of her marehood flooded the bathroom. It was too much for me to take; I quickly but gently closed the door and headed back to the living room. My thoughts on Morning… “What am I doing?” I said leaning against the wall. “I don’t deserve a second chance…” I said as I walked out of the apartment and then out of the building.

Three ponies came into Morning’s apartment, “So where is this human?” asked a grey coated pony with a green mane.

“If Morning picked him… do you think he is as big as a stallion?” exclaimed another grey coated unicorn, with a yellow-orange mane.

“Haunt! Belle! I told you to leave them alone!” Poison Heart said following the two, but the three where instead greeted by several flying pillows.

Tossing pillows left and right Morning looked all over, “I lost him! He’s gone!” She said running around the apartment before she came to a screeching halt. “Poison! Help! I lost him!” Morning said giving Poison a whimpering face.

I had found my way back to the park where Morning and I had a rest the day before; I hung upside down from a tree trying as hard as I could to think. Think about Morning, think about relationships… think about love. Did I deserve to be loved… everyone I knew hurt me once they knew about who or what I was. My real parents, my classmates, my teachers, even the few girlfriends I had all hurt me, or even worse, they used me. Mutant was a label which I was branded under most of my life. Mutants had been around for ages but as myths. They were confirmed as fact in the 20th century, and when they were, they were hunted. It was during peace talks between the pure humans and mutants that they created the ‘Human-Mutant Reformation Act’ it meant mutants were left alone for a while, and after a while we disappeared. Then a few years later a magic portal opened up with talking magical animals and the humans were okay with this. The mutant community began hating the ponies, not because they were different but because humanity accepted them easier and faster than the mutants.

I could only think of a handful of people who cared about me, who wanted to stay around, who loved me. Then Morning popped into my thoughts again; was she going to use me too or would she care? I didn’t want to know the answer, I was scared… afraid of being left alone… As I hung from the tree I heard someone calling my name and suddenly a bright flash of green appeared before me. It was the dark purple unicorn from the day before, “Found him!” exclaimed Poison Heart as she turned to the left. That was when I saw a white blur heading right for me.