Enter the Ponyverse, Chapter 02

We went into the house and I saw that the inside of this tree was simply hollowed out with bookcases carved out on the sides with a staircase to the upper levels. Spike was not seen, I assumed he was on the second floor as Twilight called for him, "Spike! I need you right now!"

"Just a second." It sounded as if he was rearranging the books as they dropped with bangs as they hit the floor. It only took him about a minute before coming down to see what Twilight wanted.

"Spike, I need you to get the dictionary and look somethings up for me."

"Sure, what do you want me to look up?"

"I want you to look up 'eemale', 'kompyuter', 'tivi', 'teksting', and 'dimenshon' " Twilight demanded spike as he sat the dictionary down on the table on the far side of the room. She flicked her head as her horn began to glow again, this time a book came off the shelves and opened in front of her, an atlas, "You said Orlando Florida. right?"

"That's right, but I don't think you're going to ever find it."

"Why? is it not on the maps?"

"No, it's a big city, much much bigger then this one"

"How many ponies live there?"

"Last I heard, it had a population of almost 200,000."

The Ponies were flabbergasted at the number. "That's over twenty times the size of canterlot!" Spike said practically jumping out on top of the dictionary.

"But where I come from, that's not even considered a big city, some have populations of over 10,000,000"

They were petrified, I guess I said too much too soon, "Gosh, you'd think if there was a city that big, ponies all over the world would know about it." Applejack finally said in the silence.

"Just forget about what I said, I'm drawing more and more to the conclusion that this is not the world I was from."

"It sure sounds like it partner."

"You have no idea, if I even try to describe where I came from, it would sound like the craziest fantasy in the most bizzar dream you can imagine."

A silence drew upon the room as they took in what I had said as the honest truth before Twilight gave up looking for my home town, "Ugh, I just can't find any land like what you're describing. Did you find anything Spike?"

"I can't find anything, it's like he's just making up words."

"But why would he make these things up? and how could he not have a cutie mark? That's the part that don't make no sense" Applejack inquired.

"I know the books about Cutie marks forward and backwards, only fillies that have not learned their special talent don't have their cutie mark." Twilight answered.

So that's what a cutie mark is, a symbol that describes their talents and what they are best at. That explains a lot, but not what I'm wanting to know. "Fluttershy, you mentioned before about telepoartation. is that right?"

Still shyly and quietly, Fluttershy responded, "Y... yes, she dose it every-so-often. That's what I thought happened to you, you teleported somewhere you didn't know."

"How do you do it?" I asked, not expecting a real response.

"Oh, I just use this spell" Twilight excitedly replied as her horn glowed brighter and another book on the shelves took flight and opened in front of me with a strange language of which I have never seen before, almost like hoove prints and some parts like arabic, I couldn't even tell which direction the writing was going until I saw where the last sentence stopped in the paragraph.

"Um... I can't read this, and I don't even know how to use magic, if I can at all."

It was clear that Applejack and Fluttershy had no knowledge of magic, but Twilight began to speak, "well you do have a horn, that means that you have at least a little bit of magic. "

"But before I woke up a few hours ago I didn't have a horn..."

Twilight quickly interrupted me saying, "but you have one now and you might as well try."

"Ok, so what should I do?"

"First let's try something easy." She looked around the room quickly and put the book she was levitating on the table, open to a random page, "Ok, I want you to consentrate on moving the page over."

I closes my eyes and concentrated, thinking about the page turning and each time the page turned I would open one of my eyes and peek at the book to see if it moved. After about the fourth try, something caught my eye behind Twilight, I looked up and saw another pony, completely pink with a chaotic poofy pink mane, when she saw me looking at her, she finally spoke in a high toned, clearly excited voice, startling the others, "hey, what's everypony doing?"

"Woah, Pinkie! When did you get here?" Twilight inquired.

"I got here when you were talking about cutie marks... who's your friend?" She asked between giggles, obviously questioning who I am.

"Oh, I'm new to town..."

"Sounds like you're new to more then just Ponyville." She said with a pleasant smile.

"Well... yeah, what do you make of it?"

"Well it sounds to me like you need some welcoming to our holmly little town with lots of people, so you can make some good friends."

"You mean like a party?" Twilight interrupted.

"That's exactly what I mean! You're so smart Twilight."

"Well I'd hate to be rude, but I would rather like to know why I'm here first. But I would love a party in my honor."

"Great, I'll go set up the party! Meet you guys at Shugarcube Corner!" She said as she bounced out the door.

"Who was that?" I asked, not really knowing what just happened.

"Oh, that was just Pinkie Pie, she's always like that." Applejack answered with a feeling like she's the one who knew her the longest.

"Pinkie Pie?"

"Pinkamena Pie is her real name, she works at the local bakery, we all just call her Pinkie." Twilight replied inquisitively.

"Well it seams like she's the life of any party, always laughing and giggling, was her family rock farmers of something?"

The girls looked at me weird, almost like, 'what are you talking about' but more like, 'how did you know?' and silence grew in the library before Twilight broke the silence, "Well she only worked there when she was a filly, but how did you know that?"

"Oh, I took psychology when I was in school, I could tell that she was overly happy because of her unhappy childhood... and I was just joking about the rock farm... was she really?"

"She was, her family harvests rocks a few miles north-west of here." Twilight informed me, allowing another long silence grow before getting back to the task at hand, "Why don't I read you the book on simple spells, you said you can't read it right?"

"Can't you just tell me the jest of it? You know, sum it up to a simple statement."

"You know we should probably get Rarity, she might be able to help." Fluttershy quietly stated.

"Rarity?"

"Oh, she's another unicorn..." Fluttershy begins to say.

"Yeah, but she's so snooty and up-tight... she might not even want to see him, let alone help him on his magic." Applejack asserted.

"Well it wouldn't hurt to try." I interjected, wanting to meet as many ponies as I can on a personal level, plus Twilight wasn't exactly a good teacher either.

"Alright, if you want to that much then follow me." Applejack stated as she bluntly walked out the door.

It was just me and Applejack while we walked towards a house a few blocks away, and still many ponies stared as whispers spread throughout the crowd. Upon entering, it was obviously a fashion butique as a white coated unicorn with a delicately curled purple mane and tail that had three diamonds on her flank was sewing together bits of cloth onto a dress form the shape of a pony. She was mentioning the states of the dress with a delicate and sophisticated manor in french, "Cette robe est tout simplement ne s'ajustent pas correctement. Je pense avoir besoin d'attacher une..."

"Que diriez-vous attacher une longueur violette dans le style de Watteau pleats en utilisant un point de attraper." I stated, noticing the dress and what it looked to me like it was missing.

"Ô oui, merci! Merci! Ce serait sont magnifiques!" She exclaimed as she lifted a purple cloth and began to sew it onto the dress.

"Why's you two speaking in fancy? I can't understand a word of it!" Applejack exclaimed.

"Oh, sorry Applejack, I just needed to finish this dress..." Rarity started to say before noticing me. "Are you the one who said that?"

"Oui, mon nom est Bailey, mais je suis souvent appelé Beirirangu. Et je suppose que vous êtes la belle Rarity."

"Ô vous flatteur, je dois dire que vous parlez la langue magnifiquement."

"Non... mon français n'est pas aussi bon que mon anglais."

"Français? Anglais? Ce n'est canterais."

"Toutes mes excuses. Mais d'où je viens, il est appelé en français et il est bien connu sous le nom le langage de la mode."

"Alright, I've had enough! if you all're goin ta keep talkin in fancy, I'll just drag y'all back to Twilight's!" Applejack suddenly shouted.

"Sorry, Applejack, I was just making introductions. more then less..." I humbly stated.

"So what is it you wanted? Barging in here like that and throwing off my concentration." Rarity snutedly pouted at Applejack

"Ya see this fella here? Apparently before he woke up this morning, he wasn't a unicorn."

"I find that pritty hard to believe Applejack."

"What about a pony our age that don't have no cutie mark? That easier to believe?"

I took that as the signal to turn and show yet another person my blank flank. As soon as she saw it she gasped, "Th... That's not possible! Unless he really did become a unicorn overnight!" Still in shock i guess she could've believed anything, but as long as things were smooth, no need to make ripples.