A Pony for a Day

Fluttershy really was a very nice pony. The more you got to know her, the more she opened up and talked. If she was really in good mood, she actually talked a lot. Still... the voice was still the same, so even though she talked much, she wasn’t heard much. But I was good at listening and the walk to Ponyville was a long one. Especially since I had to lean against her the whole way. We took our time putting one hoof in front of the other one at a time. The countryside was nice this time of year. Actually I didn’t really know what season it was here in Equestria at the moment. But that did not matter. It wasn’t winter and the sun was shining and I felt warm and happy inside. Next to the light pain I had in those particular ribs. They still hadn’t healed, but what did I know about that. This wasn’t the human world and therefore I could not really know how it all happens here. And also since magic exists, I couldn’t know what effects that could have. The paved road felt nice against the my hooves. I still felt a little funny though, walking on hooves. At first, when leaving the house, I had to train walking around, but I quickly learned how to walk with four legs and hooves. Before this trip I had basically been laying in bed all the time, but then again I had had enough to see to, by learning how to eat without hands.

A lot of flowers were in bloom colouring the landscape and breaking the monotone, but still beautiful green colours of the grass, bushes and trees. The landscape was broken up by small hills and little forests and a river floated gently next to Ponyville. The village had been hiding behind a hill top for some time, but came into view and shined in the sunlight. It was not long until noon and Celestia’s sun shone bright as far as the eye could see. Only small cumulus clouds, gently flying by in the wind, shadowed some parts around the landscape. The weather ponies had made this an excellent day for discovering Ponyville.

When we left the Fluttershy’s cottage I’d shown interest in the beautiful nature around Ponyville and had set the start line for Fluttershy, who began to praise the small critters in their holes, the birds in the sky, the flowers and the trees. She had been talking for 20 minutes before the village came in sight behind the hill. She had also told me a lot about the flora, which could be seen from the road. One plant in particular I noticed had a long stalk, precisely one leaf around half up towards the the flower with outer leaves in the dark kind of blue like the evening sky, the leaves just one step more to the middle a dark red glare and in right next to the complete white mid, warm orange leaves, which made a nice finish. Fluttershy had told me that the flower was called a Morning Star because it looked like the night sky retreating making space for the beautiful orange morning colours. It was not to be eaten like that, because it could have grim effects, but she couldn’t remember those precisely.

At reaching Ponyville we stayed clear from the town square, going around the city to reach the library in which Twilight lived. It really looked like the one from the series with all those branches with windows and rooms and the balcony for stargazing. It was an amazing sight and I would bet my life that 99.9 % of all bronies would give their entire fortunes for just being able to see it real life. But not only the library, but the whole village. It was just a dream to see everypony happily going about their business, shopping, working etc. Everypony seemed happy and friendly and Fluttershy and I got a lot of smiles, even in the outskirts of town.

Fluttershy knocked gently at the door. I, standing next to her, could almost not hear it, so I suggested, that she should knock one more time a little harder. She did so and we heard a voice from within:

“Please come in! The door is unlocked!”

We opened the door and saw Twilight lying in a pile of books, reading all she could. She turned her head and greeted us with a smile and welcomed us. She called for Spike, who she asked to make us some tea. Spike ran towards the kitchen with enthusiasm. I had thought many times that he often seemed to do a lot of chores, without getting much in return, but I saw now that he enjoyed having something to do and he really loved being Twilight’s number one assistant. We sat down at a table in her living room.

“I haven’t figured out so much yet, but I have read some books describing humans” Twilight said.
“And?” I asked with a sense of humor and big grin on my face, since I would really like to hear her talking about humans, with and actual human, even though I was in pony form.
“You live on a faraway world called Earth, isn’t that right?”
“Eeyup.” I said and both ponies looked at me and started laughing.

I hadn’t really thought about it being the trademark of Big Macintosh. I had just over the past weeks started to use that term more and more, because it sounds awesome. After laughing and taking a sip of her tea, Twilight continued:

“You have a lot of culture differences even in between humans and also different languages. So how do you communicate?”
“Our world is made up by countries, like Equestria for instance. Almost every country has its own language, so for normal day life, communication isn’t a problem. And when we need to talk between countries we often use English, like we are speaking now, or just each others language. Of course there are difficulties, but that’s why we study each others languages, so we are able to communicate.” It was quite a long sentence, so I took a large drink of my tea to please my dry throat.
“Aah I see!” Twilight said, “So do you know any other languages than English?”
“English isn’t my main language.” I said and both Fluttershy and Twilight looked at me, “My main language is Danish!”
“Danish? How does that sound?”
“It’s quite hard to explain, so maybe I should just say something in Danish?”
“Well thought. Perhaps you could state your name and age in Danish?” Twilight asked.
“Hej, jeg hedder Phillip og jeg er 19 år og jeg er glad for at i passer så godt på mig og at jeg må være hos jer” I said.
“What does that mean?” Fluttershy asked gently.
“I just told that my name is Phillip and I’m 19 years old and that I’m happy that you have taken care of me and let me stay here.”
“Oh, that’s no problem. Happy to help.” Flyttershy smiled.

Twilight then started explaining more about what she had found and how she intended to continue her search. If she couldn’t find any answers here, she might have to go to Canterlot to the royal library to look for useful books there. Since I might be the first human ever to come to Equestria in at least some thousand years or maybe since ever, not many books were written about the mysterious humans. Twilight had only been able to find little information and most of it very general information. But even though it was hard to find anything about humans, Twilight’s interest had been sparked and she wanted to know more. She said that she had been reading, since she got home from Fluttershy only pausing to sleep and to eat, which she hadn’t used very much time for anyhooves. When finished explaining her findings and concluding that more study was needed, before she could help me I asked a question, which she might not have expected:

“Twilight... Now... since I’m a unicorn... you know... and you are too... I thought... maybe you... maybe you could show me how to do magic?” It was a lot harder to ask than I had imagined. It just sounded silly, being from the total standard non-magical world.

She just looked at me with a frown.

“Erh... I don’t actually know. Normally magic is something you learn early on as a unicorn filly. You have obviously not had any training at all... I can try giving you a lesson sometime if you would like, but at the moment I have to find out about this incident.”
“Thanks Twilight! Ever since I first read Harry Potter I have been thinking of how nice it could be to perform magic..”

Twilight interrupted me: “Harry Potter? What is that?”
“Oh sorry... Some story from my world. I’ll tell you about it sometime.”