This isn't a dream?

"Ugh…" I groaned, my head aching so badly. I flickered open my eyes, only to have the sun shine right into my eyes.

"Ow…" I mumbled as I stood up, eyes closed, only to fall right onto my face. I attempted to sit up once more, yet, again failing. Something wasn't right… it felt…so different. I opened my eyes and realized I was outside. Wait, why was I outside? Why was everything so vibrant? The colors were so unbelievably bright and just, amazing! I put up my arms to hold my head that was still aching. But something felt different… weirded out by the odd feeling, I looked only to see two hooves in front of my eyes. Wait, hooves? HOOVES?!

"HOOVES?! What?!" I screamed and instinctively stood up managing to scramble a bit backwards, only to land on my rump once more. I looked down to see two more, that were in the place of where my legs were supposed to be. I gasped and started looking around nervously. I was, a pony?! How could this even happen? Last thing I remembered was lying in my bed trying to get some sleep! Wait a second… sleep? This was obviously a dream, yet it felt so real. I looked to my sides and saw wings. They were pink, a light pink, as was the rest of my body. The wind blew harshly, only to blow my mane in my face. It was a darker pink, almost like a red. It was almost, sparkly. As for the scenery around me, I was in a field. A field with grass that was a vibrant green, almost as if it were neon. It had few flowers poking from the ground that were a spectacular shade of pink, purple and blue.

I decided I would get up and hopefully start walking around, seeing what I could do. This was a dream after all, right? I stood up, managing to balance on all four legs. Huh, it was odd saying that. All four legs… I started walking forward into one direction hoping to maybe see some civilization. I noticed I saw some apple trees in the distance. Boy, I was a bit hungry… seeing this was a dream after all, why not just go pick an apple or two to munch on? I sped up into a full on sprint heading towards the apple trees. I stopped right in front of the tree, to see hundreds of more in the distance. I scanned throughout the land in front of me, and it sure was beautiful. Only one thing had caught my eye though. I squint to see further back…there was a barn! I forgot all about the apples I was going to pick and ran towards the barn.

I finally had reached the barn, I was exhausted. I definitely underestimated how far away I was from it. I walked forward only to see an orange pony. She had three apples on her side, and had a blonde mane, pulled into a low pony tail. How ironic.

"Um, excuse me!" I said trotting towards the pony, hoping to catch her attention.

"Why, howdy! I haven't seen you 'round these here parts, what's your name? Ah'm Applejack!" She said excitedly, adjusting her cowgirl hat.

I smiled back, and replied, "I'm Kate! Hi, I am new here, obviously, heh… you see, I am just dreaming, so I guess um, well…yeah! I'm sure you already knew that, or you didn't. Really, I don't know. I'll just be on my way, as I don't really see a point in asking for directions anymore… cause, this is a dream! Right?! Right. Heh, heh…" I was hesitating. After just being here for what seemed like half of an hour, it really felt too real. Too real to even be a dream.

Applejack stared at me, acting as if I were really weird, or just plain crazy. She replied with a 'what-the-heck' kind of voice, "Ah'm afraid you aren't dreaming, sugarcube…anyway, welcome to Ponyville!" She then walked away to attend to some apple trees.

What? That's nonsense. Just, crazy. I'm not dreaming? Was this true? I wish I could pinch myself right now, and wake up in my room. Sadly, I can't do that, because I have HOOVES!

"Wait, Applejack!" I said, running straight towards her.

"Huh? What do ya need, sugarcube?" She asked me, seeing that I was coming back.

"Well… do you know how I can get to…well… some other place? With more ponies, perhaps?" I asked.

"Well, head up that there path, and turn left, that's where most everypony is." She replied, while pointing towards the path to go on.

"Thanks, Applejack!" I yelled, running towards the path.

I wonder what everypony else will be like… maybe I'll even make a few friends!

Chapter 2

I ran down the path, and turned left and trotted down that road for a while… then I saw some buildings in the distance. Not too far away, with ponies! I ran as quick as I could. There were tons of mares, and not as many stallions. Lots of buildings, and little shops where you could buy veggies and fruits. Although this one shop caught my eye. It was called 'Sugarcube Corner'. It was like a huge edible house! The roof was made out of what looked like chocolate, with a white outline. I wish I could eat that…I decided I would walk in to see if there was anything to eat. It was a shop, so why not? I walked in to find tons of sweets behind the counter, delicious confectionaries like cupcakes, muffins, and cookies. One cupcake definitely made me drool. It was what looked like an apple cupcake, green frosting piled high with an apple wedge, just for the top. The scent darted up my nose and I found myself right at the counter.

"What can I get for yoOoUuU?!" I looked up to see a pink pony, with crazy curly poofed up hair in front of me, and to my side, not even in a second. She gasped loud enough to break my eardrums for about 10 seconds, in the air. How did she even stay in midair like that? I had a feeling that was normal for her.

"Oh, um…" I was cut off by the pony with her face right to mine.

"You're new here! Oh my gosh! I'm Pinkie Pie! What's your name?"

"Well, I…" I tried to answer but she interrupted me.

"Where are you from?! I know every single pony here and I haven't seen you before! This calls for a PARTY! Oh! I have to get my party cannon too! OH! AND my welcome wagon! This is going to be so FUN!" She ran right past me out of the shop, in less than a second.

"I guess I'm not getting that cupcake…" I mumbled to myself walking out of the shop. I decided I would go and explore more around the town. A few ponies stared at me, I'm guessing that they noticed I was new here. Although, a few more greeted me. They were quite nice, and I could see they were all friendly. I was hoping to strike a conversation with someone, as the only civil-like one I had was with Applejack. I really hadn't had a nice real conversation with anypony, and I was definitely hoping to change that. I desperately needed some friends here, especially cause I was new.

All of the sudden, Pinkie Pie appears right in front of me, and starts dragging me to Sugarcube Corner.

"Pinkie! What? What are you doing?" I said trying to stop her from dragging me into the shop. But it was too late, I entered the shop and there was cakes, cupcakes, muffins, punch and lots of ponies staring at me. I felt really awkward having them all stare at me for a good 15 seconds straight.

"Uh…" I was cut off, once again by Pinkie who dragged me into a corner with 5 other ponies once the party had really started, and everyone was hanging out.

"Pinkie, what is this?" I said, staring at the other 5 ponies in front of me.

They all looked nice, so I really had no problem being around them, but I felt as though I should introduce myself, to get rid of the awkward quietness around us.

"Hi… um, I'm Kate." I said, twiddling around with my two front hooves. Err… it still sounded odd saying that.

"I'm Twilight Sparkle," said a purple unicorn with a darker purple mane, and a lighter purple and pink streak in her hair. "this is Fluttershy," she said nudging the pony next to her, who was yellow, and had a pink mane that was partially covering her left eye. She looked really frightened, and I could definitely see why her name was FlutterSHY.

"Hi Twilight, and Fluttershy." I said smiling, hopefully making Fluttershy more comfortable around me. I could see why she was acting shy though, I was new.

Twilight continued, "This is Rainbo-…" she was interrupted by the pony.

"RAINBOW DASH. The one, the only." A blue pony, said, while putting on a confident smile. She had wings as I did, with rainbow mane, and tail. That was definitely different.

"Hi, Rainbow Dash, the one and only!" I said, copying the one and only part. I smiled and looked over to see another unicorn.

"This is Rarity," Twilight continued and looked over to Rarity. She was a white unicorn, with blue eye shadow. Her mane was purple and had a few curls. She was also wearing a stunning dress.

"Wow, Rarity! I really like your dress. Did you make it yourself?" I asked, giving a friendly smile.

"Why, yes I did." She said confidently, showing her dress off.

"It's lovely." I replied.

"Thank you!" She said giving me a friendly smile back and a nod.

Once more, Twilight continued, with only one pony left. Although I knew this pony…it was Applejack!

"and last, this is Applejack." She finished all of the names of her friends.

"Hi, Applejack! Nice to see you again." I said, remembering that she did point me towards Ponyville.

"Howdy!" she replied, with a wink.

"So you're new here, huh?" Asked Twilight.

"Yes, I am… really I don't even know how I got here." I said back slowly.

"What?" They all said together, giving me a confused look.

"Yeah well… I'd rather not talk about it right now, after all, Pinkie did throw a great party!" I said hopefully turning away from the fact, that I had absolutely no idea how I got here. I just ended up here mysteriously in the huge field by Applejacks apple farm.

"Well, I guess so, but I really would like to hear how you ended up here. There's got to be some explanation. Do you have a place to stay?" She asked me.

"No… in fact, I don't…" I replied, looking down to the floor. Where was I going to stay? I can't just wander around all night.

"Well it's your lucky day, because I happen to have room in my Library!" She said giving me a nudge, trying to perk me back up.

"Wow, really? That would be a great help. Thank you so much, Twilight!" I said perking right back up, just as she had hoped.

"Now let's just enjoy this party! It is one of Pinkie's famous welcome parties, after all. We don't get too many of these!" She said happily going over to the snack table.

Huh. Everypony was so nice to me. I think I could really start to like it here. Although I really need to find a way back to my home… I just mysteriously ended up here, and this honestly makes no sense! I'm a pony for goodness sakes! This isn't even scientifically possible! How did this even happen? Maybe this is just a hugely realistic dream? I don't know. Maybe later I'll end up waking up in my bed at home. Yeah. That'll happen. It definitely will. Right?