I woke up at about 9:30 and climbed out of bed reluctantly. Today I was planning to try and earn everyponys trust. So far, they all trusted me except for Rainbow Dash and Applejack, and I intended to find out why.

The first thing I do is go into the bathroom and wash up. I used the bathroom and washed my hooves when I looked into the mirror. I had forgotten that I didn't get a chance to see my face yet.

My horn was slightly longer than average, and had a sharp point. My snout stuck out and was flat, just like any other stallion. I also saw that my eyes were amber colored, the same color as my mane. I tried using my magic to levitate a bar of soap so I could see what color my magic aura was, which was black, unlike any unicorn I've ever seen before.

I trudged down stairs to see that nopony was home and that the only animal in the house was Angel, who was eating a small salad. He glared at me for a few seconds before returning to his salad.

In the kitchen there was a plate on the table with toast, eggs, and some pancakes on it, along with some silverware and a note. I picked it up and read it.

Daniel,

I made you breakfast and went to take care of some animals in the Everfree Forest. Just make yourself at home. Don't worry, it's no trouble for me. If you need me, just follow the nearby path to the forest. I'll be back soon,

Fluttershy.

After I ate breakfast, which was very delicious, I found a quill and paper and wrote another note. Writing with magic was pretty difficult to get used to, and so was writing with a quill. Before leaving I reread my note, which was surprisingly legible.

Fluttershy,

thank you very much for your kindness and hospitality. I am going to Ponyville to earn everypony's trust. I don't think Rainbow Dash and Applejack like me very much, and I'm going to find out why. I will be back soon,

Daniel. P.S., you're a very good cook, breakfast was delicious. Thank you.

I stepped out the front door and attached the note to the door. I headed into Ponyville and was stopped shortly by Pinkie Pie. She ran in front of me with a wagon behind her. "Omigosh!" She says quickly. "Daniel, I have to welcome you to Ponyville. I'm giving you my super special welcome with my super special welcome machine!"" She didn't wait for a response and pressed a button on the machine.

It opened up, revealing several horns and multicolored cannons. The horns started to play party music. She started singing while bouncing around the wagon. "Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!" She jumped up and landed on her back legs. The music stopped, and confetti came out of a cannon that looked like an oven, while yellow cake batter came out of another cannon. The batter completely covered her. "Oops, I must have put the cake in the cannon and the confetti in the oven!" She started laughing. "I do that all the time!"

I joined her in laughing. "Pinkie Pie, you are so random!"

"I know right?" Pinkie licks all the batter off of her in one huge lick. "Rainbow Dash likes to say that too. She also says I talk too much. You don't think I talk to much do you? Everypony likes me, but they think I talk too much and they think it's annoying. Do you think I'm annoying? I never want to annoy anypony, I just want to make everypony happy. I-"

I hold my hoof up to stop her. "Pinkie, you don't talk too much. You just talk too fast. Honestly, I could listen to you talk all day if I could understand you. Slow down a bit." I change the subject to find out about Rainbow Dash. "I'd like to keep talking with you, but I'm looking for Rainbow Dash. Do you know where she is?"

"Yeah, she's in-" She stops when she realizes she's talking too quickly and slows down. "I mean, she's in that cloud over there." She points a hoof to a specific cloud, about 10 meters off the ground. "Now that I've welcomed you, I need to plan you and Twilight's party."

"That seems a little cliché, but okay."

"What does that mean?"

"You wouldn't understand."

"Oh, okay, bye!" She dashes off to Sugarcube corner.

I approach the cloud and sure enough, Rainbow was sitting on the cloud, taking a nap. She was laying on her back using part of the cloud as a pillow. I walk directly under the cloud. "Hey, Rainbow Dash!" I shout to her. She wasn't actually sleeping, like I thought she was, but she was trying to.

"Huh?" She sat up and looked around before looking down to me. Her look of surprise turned to a glare. "Oh, it's you." Rainbow Dash flew off the cloud and lowered herself down to me. "What do you want?"

"I just wanted to say hi and maybe talk. So how are you today?"

"I know what you're planning. My friends trust you, so they won't defend themselves when you attack. But that doesn't mean I won't." She flies back up and continues napping on a cloud much higher than the first one.

That went well, I think to myself. I guess Applejack's next. Isn't her farm on the edge of town? I don't remember. I better get looking.

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I was finally able to find Sweet Apple Acres after about 20 minutes of aimless wondering. Applejack's farm looked much larger than it did in the show. Apple trees, and various types of crops went further than I could see. Going down the long path I could see the barn, along with the house Applejack and her family live in.

I approached the farm house, expecting Applejack to greet me the same way as Rainbow Dash. The house was next to the barn, and beyond that were more apple trees.

When I got to the front door I raised my hoof and knocked few times. A few seconds pass and a little yellow filly with a red bow in her red mane opens the door.

"Hello?" She said "Who are you?"

"Hello little filly, my name is Daniel. What's your name?"

"Mah name is Applebloom." She holds out her hoof, "nice to meet ya." When I grab her hoof she shakes it vigorously like Applejack would.

"Applebloom, I'm here to Applejack. Is she here?"

"Jus a sec." She turns around, "Applejack! Somepony's here to see ya!" She turns back to me, "come in." She closes the door behind me runs off.

I enter the living room and before I sit on the couch, I realize that I haven't sit on any chairs or couches since I came to Equestria. I had no idea how to sit, but I didn't want talk to Applejack while standing, so I tried to learn. I started by standing on top of the couch, then lowering my body onto the seat. When that didn't work, I tried folding my legs under my body one by one, which caused me to fall.

"What are you doing?" Applejack says as she entered the room. She didn't seem very happy about my visit.

"I just came by to visit. Applebloom invited me in. I just wanted to talk."

"Here's how you sit on a couch." She put her front hooves on the couch and folded her legs first, then she did the same with her back hooves. When I copied it I was still a little uncomfortable, but I knew I would get used to it.

"Thank you."

"Yer welcome." After that we sat together in awkward silence for about ten minutes before I spoke up.

"So how are you?"

"Fine."

"Your sister seems nice."

"Thank ya." It seemed that Applejacks expression was souring, like everything I said annoyed her.

More awkward silence. I don't know how Applejack could stand being quiet for so long. I can't stand awkward silence.

"The main reason I came here was to earn your trust."

"Then ah think you should leave," She says, pointing a hoof at the door.

"I just want everypony's trust."

"Ah've got nothin more to say to ya."

"Please, just hear me out."

"Leave now." She pointed towards the exit again. She was now noticeably angry with me for a reason I didn't know.

"But I-"

"Get outta here!" She says harshly.

"Why are you acting so-"

"NOW!" She slams her front hoof into the floor, making a loud bang.

"Fine!" I get up and storm through the house and out the door with a dejected look on my face. Her yelling upset me a bit, mainly because of how angry she was from just seeing me. I was walking down the path leading out of Sweet Apple Acres when I was stopped again by Applejack.

"Wait!" She shouts. I turn around and see that she was standing at the doorway, now upset instead of angry. "come back over here." I walk back to the house.

"Ah'm sorry. Ah'm just upset right now. You came by while ah was in a bad mood." Tears began to well up in her eyes, a look of guilt was now on her face. Ah'm so sorry ah yelled at you." She starts to cry. "Ah heard you were a human and ah just assumed you were tha same as all the others. Ah'm also sorry I ever doubted you."

I wrap a comforting hoof around her shoulder. "It's okay, I forgive you. What do you mean by 'the others'?

"It's nuthin against you, but ah don't wanna talk about it." She looked away. "Please excuse me." She ran off up the stairs to her room.

What was that all about? Whaat was she talking about? Does she have a problem with humans? I thought they were mythological here in Equestria, and I don't remember seeing anything about Applejack hating humans in the show.

I could have just stayed in Applejacks house and wait for her to come out, but I needed to see Rarity as well as Twilight, so I left the house. I would have helped myself to a few apples, but I didn't want to risk getting on the Apple family's bad side.

I figured I'd go see Rarity first, since she probably wanted to make an outfit for me.

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I was more easily able to find the shop after asking for directions instead of just wondering. Rarity's boutique was now in sight with various multicolored ribbons and other accessories decorating it. I approached the door and tapped my hoof on the door a few times.

"Come on in, darling!" I heard from the inside. I opened the door and stepped inside. Rarity was sitting at a table sipping tea.

"Hello darling, I've been expecting you." Rarity levitated a second cup on the table. "Would you like some tea?"

"No thank you, I don't like tea."

"Well okay then." She sets down her cup and stands up. "As you may know, I have some things I want to do with you. Go wait in my workroom and I'll get right to you."

I walk in to her workroom to see a white filly with a purple, curly mane pushing herself around the room with her back legs.

"Ugh, I am sooooo booooored," the filly says before she notices me. "Oh, hello. My name is Sweetie Belle, what's yours? I've never seen you in Ponyville before."

"My name is Daniel. I was just waiting for Rarity. Wow, you are just adorable, how old are you?"

"Um, thanks. I'm eight years old." She started to look uncomfortable around me. I don't think it's appropriate to call foals "adorable" like on my world.

"I'm sorry if I weirded you out."

"That's okay, I guess. So are you a friend of Rarity?"

"I think so." I wasn't actually sure if Rarity considered me a friend yet. We haven't actually had a chance to talk with each other. Rarity had just entered the room with some measuring tape when I started to think about it.

"Sweetie Belle, why don't you go outside or something." Rarity pointed to the door. "I have a client to work with."

"Fine, I'll just go play outside." Sweetie Belle then ran out the door and out of the boutique. Rarity begun by measuring my body and writing some notes down.

"Rarity, do you consider me a friend?" I ask while she measures my legs.

"Why do you ask, darling?"

"Sweetie Belle was just asking me, and I wasn't sure what to tell her. We haven't really spent much time together, so I just assumed we weren't.

"Of course we are. Everypony else seems to like you, and a friend to everypony else is a friend to me."

"Not Rainbow Dash and Applejack."

"Rainbow Dash is like that to everypony that's new, especially the ones that claim to be from another world. Applejack is just like that because of an incident she had with her parents when she was a foal. She'll tell you everything when she's ready. Don't worry, they'll both come around." As she said this, Rarity was able to finish writing her notes. "I'm finished darling. How about I make you an outfit?"

"That won't be necessary."

"Nonsense! You don't have any clothes yet, I need to get you some right away. You've got to have at least a suit for formal events."

"Thank you then."

"You're very welcome, now you should get going so I can prepare you're outfit." She started pushing me through the door and out if the boutique, closing the door after pushing me out.

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Using the same process as before, I found Twilight's library fairly easily. It was just a hollowed out tree with windows and a door. I was happy I was going to get some answers about how I Got here.

Just like with the other places I visited, I approached the door and knocked a few times.

The door became surrounded with a purple aura and it swung open to reveal Twilight standing there. "Hello Daniel. Come on in." She smiled, "I can't wait to tell you everything and maybe even get some information from you." She sits down in a chair next to a scroll and quill. I sit next to her. "We already have most of the information we want to know about humans, so you won't have to tell me much, other than a few questions about various things, like human anatomy."

"You're not dissecting me if that's what you mean." I laugh at my joke while Twilight just looks at me like I'm stupid.

"You're not even a human. Anyway, let's talk about last night. What you did was an amazing feat of magic for somepony so inexperienced, although there is a reason you were able to do what you did. When a unicorn is under an extreme amount of emotion, such as stress, anger, or fear, their horn will give off various types of magic involuntarily. What you did would be normal for anypony, but you gave off magic much more powerful than the average unicorn would. I wouldn't be surprised if your special talent involved magic."

"Why would I stay here long enough to find my special talent? I'm gonna leave as soon as I can."

Twilight looked like she knew something and wasn't telling me. "Well... about that," Twilight was interrupted by the door slamming open and Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Rarity entering the library.

"Applejack!" Rarity scolded, "You really should have knocked before entering!"

"This is a library, ah didn't need ta knock," Applejack responded.

"Girls, what are you doing here?" Asked Twilight, surprised at the sudden appearance of her friends in her library.

"We wanted to check on Daniel, and we knew he's be here, so I got everypony to come over and see you," said Pinkie Pie.

"Pinkie wanted us to check on you, so she asked us to come with her," grumbled Rainbow Dash.

"Now's not a good time, I was just about to give Daniel some bad news." replied Twilight.

"Don't worry, we don't mind. Whatever it is, I need to cheer him up with his welcome party!" Pinkie said excitedly.

"Okay then. Daniel, we need to talk."

"What is it?"

"After a bit of studying, I was able to figure out why you're here. I've already reported my findings to Princess Celestia."

"You found the answer already? Only a day has passed."

"Sometimes I have trouble sleeping at night. When I do, I spend all night studying, and that's what I did trying to find an answer. Now about what I found."

"You won't like what she found," said Spike, who was sitting at the top of the stairs. I didn't notice him until he spoke. "You're Daniel, right? I'm Spike."

Twilight continued, "Before I tell you, I'd better explain the elements of harmony to you." She gave a brief explanation of the elements of harmony before continuing. "All six elements need to be present for them to work. If somepony tries to use their element too early, the consequences are difficult to predict. Anything could happen when one or more elements are used early. Instead of banishing the dark energy that infected Luna like it was supposed to do, it did the opposite, and brought you here. You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time."

"So why did I turn into a pony?"

"Humans don't exist here in Equestria. The elements of harmony can only teleport creatures that exist."

"Hey, didn't Fluttershy use her element before Twilight could discover hers?" Said Rainbow Dash.

Everypony looked at Fluttershy, who was now looking extremely guilty. She hid her face behind her mane. "I panicked, and then I just did it."

"Anyway, for us, inter-dimensional travel is currently impossible. The elements of harmony are the only things capable of producing magic strong enough to teleport creatures across dimensions."

"So we can use the elements to get me back home?"

"No, if we use them, there's only a small chance you'd be teleported, an smaller chance of you going back your own world, and an even smaller chance of going back as a human. You'd be way more likely to take a great deal of injury, or even die. The princess wouldn't allow you to risk hurting yourself or others." Twilight sighed, not wanting to be the one to give this news.

"What are you saying, Twilight?"

"I'm afraid you can't go home. You're stuck in Equestria permanently."

Those last words took a while to sink in. When it did, I thought that my life was over. I never thought I would miss anything on earth, but here I was, going over everything and everyone I would never see or do ever again in my head. The more I thought of it, the more I knew my life would never be the same again. I would never see anyone in my family or friends, eat certain foods, do things that don't even exist here, or be a human ever again.

When Twilight gave me the news, the other five ponies gasped. Everypony in the room watched me, waiting for me to react.

Some tears started to form around my eyes. I buried my face in my hooves and after a few seconds, I cried softly, while the others all gave me looks of sympathy.

"Oh no." Fluttershy started to cry with me. "It's all my fault! I'm so sorry!" She flew over to me and gave me a hug. I returned the hug, and then we were crying into each others shoulders.

"Fluttershy," I say, looking into her eyes and wiping away her tears, "it's not your fault, you didn't know. I don't blame you."

"No, please don't cry, you two," said Pinkie, "everything's gunna be ok." We continued crying. "How about a party, to cheer you up?" When that didn't work, some tears formed around her eyes. "Please stop crying, I can't stand seeing other ponies cry." Tears were now streaming down her face. "You're going to make me cry." After she said that, Pinkie was now crying as well. She joined in the hug, along with everypony else, except for Rainbow Dash, who disappeared out the door, and Spike, who just continued watching from the top of the stairwell.

After a few seconds, Spike stood up and retched a couple times before belching a scroll onto the step in front of him. We all broke the hug and I wiped some tears from my eyes. "Guys, I think that was the princess," said Spike as he unrolled the scroll and cleared his throat. He read it out loud. "Dear Twilight Sparkle, I am sorry to hear about Daniel, but you are correct. There is nothing I can do to get Daniel home. Since he is going to spend the rest of his life in Equestria, I have decided to do the necessary paperwork to make him an official citizen of Equestria."

"Really?" I sniffle.

"Also, I bought Daniel a house to live in there in Ponyville. The address is listed below. I have included in this scroll, 250 bits to help Daniel start his new life here. I would welcome him personally, but I am terribly busy with my royal duties. I wish him good luck. Sincerely, Princess Celestia." Spike pulled out a brown pouch from the bottom of the scroll and tossed it to me.

"At least I'll have a place to stay," I say, even though all I wanted to do was go home. Since that wasn't an option, I had to accept my new house.

"Everything's gunna be okay! Let's go check it out!" said Pinkie, who was now back to her exited self.

"Okay, let's go." Fluttershy wiped some tears from her eyes. She was the last to stop crying, after me.

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Everypony followed me to the new address, where my new house would be. I wasn't sure where Rainbow Dash was, but I wasn't worried about her at the time. The house wasn't very far from Twilight's library. It was somewhere between the library and sugarcube corner.

It was a two story house, with white walls and windows that were lined with red. There was one window on each side of the house. It looked pretty similar to every other house in Ponyville.

Waiting outside the entrance was an earth pony stallion. He had a light brown coat with a blonde, combed down mane. He was wearing a brown vest with bowling shoes. His cutie mark was a bowling ball and two pins.

He smiled and greeted us when we approached him. "Hello, my name is Jeff Letroski. I assume you're the one the princess bought this house for."

"Yes I am, are you the previous owner? My name is Daniel, by the way." I extended my hoof and Jeff shook it.

"Would you like to know our names?" asked Pinkie.

"I don't have time. I gotta get going."

"Where?" I ask.

"I'm going on a world bowling tour. That's why I sold this house. I'm gonna make lots of money as a professional bowler. I'll buy a house and I can finally get out of Ponyville with the money Princess Celestia gave me."

"Good luck with that."

"Thanks, now if you'll excuse me, I gotta get going. This house is yours. Here's the key." Jeff pulled out the key to the door and handed it to me. "See you around, Daniel."

"Goodbye." I say as Jeff picks up a suitcase with his mouth and walks away, towards the train station.

I slide the key into the lock of my new house, unlock it, and push open the door.

In the living room there were a few couches and a chair. The kitchen was right next to the living room and had the usual stove, fridge, cupboards, and table. There was a set of stairs leading to two bedrooms and a bathroom.

In my bedroom, there was a bed with a nightstand next to it and an empty book shelf was on the other side of the room. The guest bedroom looked about the same except for the color of the sheets.

"Nice place ya got here," says Applejack, looking around the room.

"I don't really care for it, but it fits you," said Rarity.

"We better get going," said Twilight, "Daniel needs a chance to get settled in."

"Okay then, I need to prepare a welcoming party, and a housewarming party." said Pinkie. "Daniel, come to Sugarcube corner at one. I gotta go, bye!" She dashed off out the door. The rest followed shortly.

I went back to my room and threw my pouch of bits onto the nightstand and sat down on the bed. Equestria doesn't have television does it? I'll have to borrow some books from Twilight. My thoughts were interrupted by a loud knock on the door.

I walk down the stairs and to the door. I open to reveal Rainbow Dash standing on my doorstep, looking extremely guilty.

"Hey," she said quietly, "can I come in?"

"Yeah, come in." I motion her in. She walks in and sits on the couch in the living room. I sit next to her. "What do you want?"

"I heard about what happened with you. I just came to say I shouldn't have doubted you, and that I know now that you're not a spy."

"Are you apologizing?"

"I'm terrible at apologizing, although I guess I have to, don't I?"

"It would certainly help."

Rainbow sighed. "I'm sorry. I just don't want anything to happen to my friends, and I would do anything to protect them."

"It's fine, I forgive you."

Rainbow stopped looking guilty and smiled. "Hey, maybe sometime we could hang out and get to know each other."

"I'd like that. Maybe I could do that with all of my new friends here in Ponyville."

"Well, I'd better get going. I'm supposed to be clearing the clouds today." She laughed. "Bye." She flew out the door, barely having time to open it and close it.

I didn't have any books or anything else to do yet, so I started to think. I started thinking about my home again. Everyone on Earth would think that I'm dead. I felt bad for them, especially for my family. Before I knew it, I was crying again at the thought of my family missing me.

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The time now was 12:55 P.M., and I was on my way to Sugarcube corner, expecting a welcome party. It looked like a gingerbread house covered in icing.

I push open the door to be greeted by six ponies shouting, "SURPRISE!" There was a banner with the word "Welcome" spread across the ceiling. Streamers and confetti were scattered all over the room. Only the main six were here, for some reason.

"Hey there!" said Pinkie, "Were you surprised? I hope not, because it wasn't supposed to be a surprise party!"

"Where's everypony else?" I ask.

Pinkie just sighed. "It's just us. I told everypony about the new pony in town, but most ponies didn't seem to care," she said dejectedly. "Most ponies only come to my important parties, because they think I'm obnoxious." She perked up, "That's okay though, because all my best friends are here."

"Pinkie, they don't think your annoying," said Rainbow, "you just throw so many parties that other ponies think it's hard to keep up with them all."

"That's okay too. Now, let's get this party started!" Pinkie turned on some music and started dancing, along with everypony except me. I stood off to the side and drank some punch.

"How are you feeling?" look over and see that Twilight stopped dancing and joined me. She had a concerned look on her face.

"I'm still a little upset, but I'll be fine."

"That's good. I can't even imagine what you must be going through."

"Don't remind me."

Pinkie heard us talking and dragged me to the dance floor without stopping her dance. "Maybe some dancing will cheer you up!"

Before I could object, I was on the floor dancing with Pinkie and everypony else. I didn't know how to dance, so I just resorted to flailing my hooves around. I fell down a couple times, since I was only used to walking as a pony, and dancing as a pony was another thing.

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We danced for quite a while, and afterwards, we played some games together. with the small number of ponies, we were all able to play at the same time. Then we just ate candy and pastries and talked for the rest of the party, which was almost over anyway.

After the party, I spent the rest of the day at Twilights library, learning about Equestria and the ponies that live there. I also answered the few questions she had about me. I was just glad I didn't have to pretend to not know anything about ponies anymore.

I searched through all the books in the library as well. I was mostly reading her spell books and seeing if I could cast any of them. When I couldn't, and Twilight would just tell me that I'd get it right eventually. I also borrowed a few books to take home and read.

I only borrowed four books, as carrying four objects at once was a strain on my magic. When I got to my house, I trudged upstairs and placed each of the books neatly on the shelf in my room. I borrowed the first two books in the Daring Do series, which sounded very similar to Indiana Jones. The next book was a spell book teaching black magic, and the other was a spell book teaching healing magic.

At this point I couldn't even cast the simplest spells from either book, and I could barely hold anything. Twilight had offered to train with me so we could both improve our magic and I accepted. We agreed to meet up the next day at the library to do so.

I flop down on my bed tiredly and get comfortable in my bed. I set the alarm clock on the nightstand to 8:30, the current time, and lay my head on the pillow. I close my eyes and slowly drift off to sleep. I'm going to miss everything on Earth, but since I'm gonna live here for the rest of my life, I may as well enjoy it. I find that kinda difficult to do, but I guess I don't have a choice. I wonder what my cutie mark will be. I look forward to finding out.

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