It's been two days since you left Canterlot and lived in Ponyville. Most ponies here got to know you a lot more, knowing that you aren't some kind of monster that wants to eat their children. Most of that trust came from your friends spreading the truth about you.

But for some reason, Rose has been acting weird towards you. Like just the other day you asked if she wanted to get lunch just as a friendly gesture. She totally freaked out and ran out of her own flower shop, you asked your friends about this but they had no idea what was happening to her.

You woke up from bed it was about 9 A.M.  Your usual routine would be wake up, make breakfast, walk aimlessly around town until you spotted one of your friends, they would hangout with you, go home, make dinner then go to sleep.

You looked on the counter and saw a letter that was sent to you by your mother.

It read: Hello Dante. I know how you feel about the Grand Galloping Gala but please, would you come? Twilight Sparkle already received tickets for herself and a plus one, it's only fair that I do the same for you. Here are two tickets to the Gala, please consider going this year. Your mother Princess Celestia.

P.S. Luna will visit you tonight. Please make her feel welcome as she's adjusting to the dream realm again.

You hated the Gala, you remembered those years that the Gala took place. Just a bunch of snooty ponies with money talking about politics and shit that you didn't care about. Most of the ponies would ask you dumb questions like what were you and why were you there. You would ignore all their questions and when a pony would try to force you to answer a royal guard would bail you out and kick out the bastard.

You decide to give the Gala one more chance, but only for your mother. Anyway, you continue your daily ritual of making breakfast. After eating your breakfast, you exited the library and walked through town.

You spotted Vinyl lying on the grass looking at the clouds.

"Hey Vinyl." You said. She got up to a sitting position and removed her purple tinted glass.

"Oh hey Dante, what's up?" She asked, looking at the clouds.

"Nothing really. What are you doing?" You asked.

"Hmm, oh just looking at the clouds. Wondering if it would be cool if somepony jumped from a building and landed perfectly safe in a bale of hay." She said. You always admired Vinyl's weird fantasies. Like the other day she wondered if you some how gained powers by an artifact.

"Well that would be impressive Vinyl but I think that would kill somepony." You tell her, that would truly be insane.

"We can all dream can't we?"

"Anyway, away from that conversation, you wanna go to the Grand Galloping Gala with me?" You asked.

"Thanks but no thanks, I'm not to good with all that formal shit." She said.

"Yeah, I knew you'd say that." You tell her, getting up from the grass. "Anyway I'll see ya later."

You walked through town and spotted Lyra with her friend Bon-Bon. You met her yesterday and from what you can tell, she was a nice pony, probably Lyra's best friend.

"Hey Lyra." You greeted

"Oh hey Dante, what's up?" Lyra asked.

"Nothing really just got these Gala tickets and got nopony to go with me." You said, sitting on a bench.

"Oh that's too bad, me and Octavia are going to the Gala."

"Really? Why?" You asked.

"Well Octavia and I are in the orchestra."

"Anyway, do you have any idea who I should take to the Gala?" You asked. Lyra then thought about for a couple seconds and said. "How about you take Rose? She seems like the type that would go if you asked."

"I don't know, you know how she acted when I tried to take her out to lunch." You reminded her.

"It doesn't hurt to ask." Bon-Bon stated.

"Maybe but I wanna ask Derpy just in case she wanted to go." You tell her. "Anyway, what are you two doing today?"

"We were going to get lunch, wanna join?" Lyra asked.

"Sure, I could eat." You three then walked towards a café. You felt raindrops on top of your head, looking up you saw that it started to rain.

"Wow, that's weird. I swear that it was just sunny out." You tell your friends.

"Yeah I guess the weather pegasi had to hurry their schedule. Let's go inside." You and your friends entered the café and dried off, weather was amazing when you were a child. Your mother and other pegasi could walk on clouds, it was amazing what magic could do. You remembered when she had cast a spell on you, letting you walk on clouds and enjoy a day with her.

"Hey Dante, how did you get those tickets? They're pretty expensive." Uh oh, this was hard. Should you reveal yourself as prince or make up a lie? You know that if you lie it could backfire but if you tell them that your a prince they might treat you differently. Fuck it you're gonna lie.

"Well I bought them a few weeks back before I came to Ponyville."

"Really? Well you must be really rich to get them." Bon-Bon stated.

"Heh, yeah." After eating, you pay for the meal and walked down the road. You then saw Derpy delivering some mail to your house.

"Hey Derpy." You said approaching the mailmare.

"Oh hello Dante, what's up?" She asked in a cheery fashion.

"Nothing much. Hey, I wanted to ask you a question."

"Sure, what is it?"

"Well do you wanna go to the Grand Galloping Gala with me?" You ask hoping that she would accept. Not that you wanted to go with her but you really didn't want go alone. Then again you could always ask Rose.

"Sorry but I can't go. Why don't you ask Rose?" Derpy recommended.

"Hmm that's not that bad of an idea. Thanks Derpy." Derpy then gave you your mail, which consisted of junk mail and the newspaper. You entered the library and set down the mail on the counter. You took the time to clean the kitchen which you left a mess in since you were lazy in cleaning it in the morning.

You then heard a knock on the door, it was a soft knock. You opened to see a yellow pegasus with a light pink mane. One word you could describe her as is beautiful.

"Um e-excuse me?" She said in a soft voice.

"Oh I'm sorry, just got lost in my thoughts."

"It's okay. Is Twilight home?" She asked. You looked at her once more, you didn't notice the bunny on her shoulder before and now you knew since he was glaring at you.

"No, she's out with her friends or something like that." You say to her.

"Is it okay if I come in?" She asks

"Uh sure miss..."

"F-fluttershy." She said in a barely audible voice.

"Sorry, didn't catch that."

"Fluttershy." She said a bit louder.

"Oh, I'm Dante." You said. Awkward silence took over as you stood there.

"Anyway, I have to go somewhere. Ddo you mind being here by yourself?" You said walking towards the front door.

"Not at all. Goodbye Dante, it was nice meeting you." She said waving.

"You too Fluttershy." You said, walking out the door. You walked towards Rose's flower shop, knowing that she'll be working.

The sun was setting and you saw the flower shop at the distance. You then spotted your friend closing the her store for the night.

"Hey there Rose." You said approaching her.

"Oh H-hello Dante." She said with a stutter

"Are you okay Rose? You seemed flustered." You tell her. You then notice a light blush on her cheek but you decide to ignore it.

"Um, what brings you here?" She asks avoiding your question.

"Oh yeah. I wanted to ask if you wanted to go to the Grand Galloping Gala with me?" You asked.

She seemed very happy about it. You saw a giant grin grow across her face.

"Y-yes of course I would love to!" She exclaimed she pulled you into a hug and said. "It's a date." She then ran off to her home.

You stood there confused at what just happened, you just asked your best friend on a date! Whatever, you'll fix the problem later, right now you were hungry.

You walked home. It was now late, the moon out and shining brightly. You entered your house to see six happy mares holding tickets to the Gala and one semi upset dragon.

"Okay, what is going on?" You ask as the six mares turn their attention towards you.

"Oh hey Dante, just excited about the Gala." Twilight said with smile.

"Oh, that." You said unamused.

"Hey, I know how you feel about the Gala but Princess Celest-" you quickly covered her mouth not allowing her to finish her sentence her friends were confused at what happened.

"Twilight, could I speak with you in the kitchen?" You ask, removing your hand from her mouth.

She nodded and lead the way to the kitchen, once inside you begin to tell her.

"Twilight please don't mention anything about Princess Celestia when anypony is around." You tell her a little mad.

"Why not? I mean all of Equestria is going to find out sooner or later." She said with a matter in fact tone.

"I rather not tell anypony that I'm the son of a goddess. It'll ruin my relationship with my friends and bring out the ponies who care for me because of my title."

"Okay okay you have a point there. I promise I won't say a thing but I still want you to meet my friends." Twilight said.

"Alright and remember, nothing about the Princess." She nodded and exited the kitchen. You two both walked into the main room to see her friends waiting for her.

"Girls, I would like you to meet my friend, Dante." Twilight said.

You then noticed one of the girls from the group which was Fluttershy, who gave you a small wave.

You then felt something wrap you in the tightest hug. You were face to face with a pink pony with a cotton candy looking mane.

"Oh so you're the pony that every pony's been talking about. They kept saying that they trust a creature that was bald and only had hair on his head and your Twilight's roommate, are you a couple or what? Tell me, tell me, tell me." She said.

'Goddamn she talked fast, did she even breath during that whole sentence?' You thought to yourself.

"Uh hi." That's the only thing you could say at the moment.

"You're funny." She said giggling. She let go of you and walked towards her friends.

"Hey there Dante, my name's Applejack." She said, shaking her hand. She had a firm grip when you shook her hand.

"Nice to meet you Applejack."

"Hello there, my name is Rarity. Pleasure to meet you." She said.

"The pleasures all mine Rarity." You said giving her hand a kiss. She blushed and giggled.

"Hey there, the name's Rainbow Dash." She said proudly.

"Hey there Rainbow." You said, giving her a fist bump which she accepted

"Hey Fluttershy." You said to her.

"Oh hello Dante." She said in a soft voice. Goddamn that was cute.

"You two know each other?" Rainbow asked.

"Hardly." You say to her.

"Anyway, I'm starving let's go get dinner. Dante, wanna come with?" Twilight asked.

“Sure.” You all walked out the door and made your way to restaurant which, surprisingly, was still open. Many hours were spent conversing with your new found acquaintances. You,Twilight and Spike walked home, you experienced many things today, met new ponies, experienced weird weather and got a date to the Gala. You walked towards your bedroom and slept hoping tomorrow will be a good day.

You wake up in a white plain, nothing around just a door that was locked.

"Hello Dante." You turned around to see Luna sitting on a chair with a table next to her.

"Oh hello Luna. How are you today?" You asked.

"Great now that I'm with you. You know that your the only pony that I could relate to."

"Really? Why?" You ask, sitting on the opposite end of the table.

"Well we're both different, I know that you and I have difficulties in surviving in a new world." She said sipping her tea. You did the same and surprisingly the tea tasted delicious.

"Well I only lived her for eleven years, you practically lived her for hundreds." You say to her.

"Yes I know with age comes wisdom but I'm still very young in alicorn standards." She tells you.

"Really? so my mother is much older than you?" You asked.

"Of course, I am her little sister."

"Some times I wish I had a sibling." You tell her. It was true, you did wished that you had someone to care for, to call your sister or brother.

"You have Twilight don't you? From what I can tell, you two have your arguments but you make up and also Spike, he may be fifteen but he still needs guidance." Luna stated.

"Yeah I know."

"You also have Rose and from what I can tell, she's taking a liking to you."

"What? No, she's just a friend." You had no idea where Luna was going with this.

"Very well but just know this, you may not like it but sooner or later you're gonna need to tell your friends about your status as royalty." Luna tells you.

"I promise that sooner or later I'll tell them, I just have to find the perfect time that's all. Goodbye Luna."

"Goodbye Dante and remember, I will be visiting you daily so if you have any questions about anything, let me know." With that she disappeared from your dreams. Just hope tomorrow will be a good day. Next Chapter: Past #1 Estimated time remaining: 5 Hours, 3 Minutes