(A/N: Sorry for the long wait guys/girls. I'm not going to lie, I've been super lazy for the past couple of weeks. Please read the A/N at the end for more information. Thanks.)

I waited for what felt like an hour inside the princess's personal library. Princess Celestia told me to wait while they settled themselves where the ceremony was going to take place. I kinda wished the the goddess of the sun would've given me a estimation when they'd tell me when the whole thing would start.

Hell, for all I know. They're probably just talking with the other ponies who'd be at the damn awards ceremony...

After twiddling my thumbs for a minute or two, I got up from the red cushion that I sat on and began to explore the small personal library. I guided myself close the large shelves that were filled with either books or scrolls. The large wooden shelves stood high towards the ceiling, each holding numerous books and scrolls and its well aged shelves.

I reached my hand out towards a large,dusty brown book that managed to catch my eye among the others. I held it in my now dusty hands. The book, from what I could tell, was rather heavy for its size and was well passed my age. Turned its yellowed pages a couple of times, exploring it's contents for a small amount of time.

The book soon began to lose my interests, most likely because I couldn't read the language it was written in. Shit, I couldn't read any of the books and scrolls that filled the place.

As I started to explore the room again, the door sounded with sudden raps that caught my now interested attention. The large door opened to reveal a small brown unicorn mare with a even darker brown mane and tail. She looked at my with her big blue eyes and smiled at me.

"So, you must be Isaiah, am I correct?" She asked in an unusually cheery voice.

I nodded my head. "And you must be...?"

The mare's horn lit up with a pale blue. The flaps on the saddlebag that I failed to notice when she first walked in raised up and a small scroll floated out.

"I am Miss. Brief. Now, let me be brief," The mare chuckled at her own joke. "Princess Celestia sent me here to give you a quick rundown of what you're supposed to do."

The unicorn trotted over to a cuisine next to me and sat herself down with a professional air towards herself.

"'Bout time she sent someone some information." I grumbled.

Miss Brief's face faltered into a slightly unease expression. "I do apologize, that is partially my fault. This is my first time to ever be in this part of the castle. I usually work in the lower districts. But never-mind that, allow to explain what you're going to do for the awards ceremony..."

I silently listened to the mare instruct me for the period of time that she was assigned to me. I had the fortunate luck of her being detailed, yet brief with instructions. They'd all seemed easy, the possibility of messing up was low.

"... and then you'll take your seat at the front." The mare finished.

Before she could continue on, a trio of loud knocks came from the door.

A mare in the common gold armor opened the door and locked eyes with me.

"Isaiah Harper," She started with a rather butch voice for a mare.", the ceremony will be starting soon. Follow me."

And so I followed.

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The guard led me into a back room near where the ceremony was being held. I could hear the chatter of numerous ponies in the background. The only thing keeping me out of their line of site were large, thick white drapes covering the doorway that I stood in.

I thought back the instructions the brown, unicorn mare gave to me to follow.

The talking behind the large drapes began to die down, this was a clear sign that the awards ceremony was starting. When the ponies that were gathered became silent, Princess Celestia’s angelic voice began.

“We are all gathered here to give our undivided attention to a hero who had faced danger, and risked his life to save a squad of Royal Guards who were captured in the Everfree Forest. Our hero’s name is Isaiah Harper.”

When Celestia said my name, that was my que to join into the stage. I used my arm to push the drapes aside to enter, as soon as I made my presence known to the crowd, multiple gasps came from the audience. I glanced my eyes over them, they all had a look of either shock, or wonderment.

When I positioned myself next the sun goddess, the ponies slowly began to stomp their hooves; making me assume that that was their way of applauding.

Princess Luna, who stood next to her older sibling, continued the speech. “Having little to no information about the captors, Isaiah took matters into his own hoov-hands, and single handedly fought for the freedom of the guards.”

The ponies in the crowd that had a militaristic like uniforms had risen eyebrows, some even nodding their head in approval.

I looked over to the Princesses, each giving me a smile. Luna even gave me a wink that was unseen by the audience.

The only thing I could do without saying anything was wink back.

“What was that about? Little odd wasn’t it?” I thought to myself.

Meanwhile, Princess Celestia was calling out the names of the guards who were able to attend the ceremony. They began to stand up in the crowd, they appeared to have seen better day; most were covered in bandages with cuts spotted about on their coat. The once captured ponies looked at like a child would looked up to a hero; eyes open, mouths slightly agape, and speechlessness.

The princess asked if any would like to come up and say anything; most stayed seated, but a single mare stood up and slowly limped up to the alter.

The mare whom I recognized as Straight Streak slowly maneuvered behind the altar. Her body was in much better shape than the other captured ponies, the only wounds that she gained were already healing and fading away into memory.

Straight Streak was slightly trembling as she attempted to speak, each time she tried to speak, they came out coursed. “I-I was the first prisoner who was freed my Isaiah. He escorted me out of the forest and told me to alert the guards at he the Everfree Outpost. Never in my life have I flown as fast as I did that night. I w-would like to say how thankful I am that such a brave soul came and saved us… That’s all.”

The pegasus limped away back into the crowd as the audience members slowly applauded.

I didn’t really know how to feel about what she had said. The was she said it just sounded so depressing. I know that she was thankful but she sounded… almost dead inside.

When she sat herself back into the crowd, Celestia’s voice caught my attention for the next part of the ceremony.

“Its mine and my sister honor to bestow Isaiah with an award for his achievement for his heroism. Isaiah, if you would please stand in front of me…” The alicorn asked.

I did as I was told and stood in front of her with left exposed to the audience members.

From the corners of my eyes, I could see Luna hovering a ornate white chest in her magic next to Celestia. The lid of the chest gained a golden aura as the older sibling lifted it to expose the contents.

A large gold and blue medallion floated out of the chest. The sun-rays peeking out from the windows illuminated the symbols that I instantly recognized as both Luna’s and Celestia’s cutie mark. The center of the neckpiece was solid red with golden trim, and words stitched in equestrian were expertly sewn into the red strip.

The neckpiece then became engulfed in both of the Princess's magic and began to float towards my head. I lowered my head down enough so the loop could pass through. I watched as the medallion reached and rested on my chest. When both of the alicorns both let go, I could feel the full weight of the golden medallion that shown with an almost light glow emitting from it.

The audience members finally applauded in a more confident cheers that the previous one from before. I could even see Twilight and her friends joining in with the crowd. The guards that I rescued could only give me a faint smile; they either lacked the required strength to cheer or their limbs were in rough condition.

I looked up to see Princess Celestia and Princess Luna giving me a warming smile with their equally warming eyes that shown in the light.

I rose my head back up as Princess Celestia hushed and regained the attention of the ponies. “As of tradition, the awards recipient must give a speech to close the ceremony!” The mare turned to me. “Are you ready Isaiah?”

“Yeah, lets get this over with…”

As if they already weren’t, all eyes were on my as I quickly began to think of what to say. I’ve never had to give a speech to such a crowd that had been bestowed upon be, so it was safe to say that I was a little nervous.

Not that I cared what they’d think of me…

“Uh… First off I would like to that the Princesses for giving me this award. I’d never thought that I would be awarded something in my entire life. I must admit, this is pretty strange for me. Anyways, I’m glad that I had the courage to do what I had done, it may have been ballsy; but it was the right choice and I would to it a thousand times over just to know that lives will be saved.” I loudly addressed the audience.

I could only stand, slightly awkwardly on the stage as the ponies once again cheered.

The alicorns whom I shared the stage with both stood close to me as a pony with a 19th century camera settled down in front of us.

“Hold still please!” She yelled as she blinded us with a blinding flash from the camera.

When the my eyes started to re-adjust, Princess Luna waited until the audience would quiet down. Much to mine and the princess's dismay, they seemed to ignore her as if she was nothing of importance. I looked over to the Princess of the night to see her slightly flustered, and frowning at the ponies.

I turned to the audience ahead of us, filled my lungs with air and yelled as loudly as possible.

“HEY!!!”

The crowd instantly became dead silent as the looked at me in shock.

I quickly flicked my eyes over to Luna as she looked at me with wide eyes.

“Floors all yours Princess…” I said, giving her a encouraging smile.

The mare quietly huffed and called for all of those who were invited to lunch.

The mass of ponies began to file out the door of what I supposed led to the large dining room. The freed captives slowly shuffled to the large golden doors with fellow guards ponies next to them for support.
“T-Thanks for gaining their attention for me…”

I rested my right hand on her neck and started to lightly massage it as I looked down at her. “No problem, I’m just glad to help.”

The mare gave me a blissful smile as I worked my way up and down her neck.

“Think you can promise us both a massage Isaiah?” Celestia spoke, both startling Luna and I.

“Sure he will…” Luna answered for me.

I let out a grunt at both of them as the started to giggle. “Wait shouldn’t I have a sa-”

“I believe that right before bed would be a perfect time. Wouldn’t you agree sister?” Celestia asked with a mischievous grin.

“Oh, I couldn’t agree more Tia…” Luna purred as she pulled away from my hand and began to make her way towards the exit with Celestia in tow, leaving me alone to my bemused selfe.

“...Wow, really?”

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My I placed my fork down onto the ornate place the was before me, majority of the contents that was originally on my plate was now in my stomach. The meal that was giving us felt like the same thing that has always been served; a salad with a side of more salad, but with a little bit of fruit mixed in.

All of us who were invited sat in the dining hall with a long wooden table to eat upon. At one end, both of the Rulers of Equestria shared a wide curved end. Why they shared? I could only guess to show that neither one is better than the other. Next Celestia was Twilight, who was talking to Princess Cadence who was sitting next to her Aunt Luna. Beside Cadence was her husband, Shining Armor, which I sat next to. Across from me was Twilight’s friends, who were lively talking amongst each other.

I looked up to both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, hoping to start a more interesting conversation than the other ponies who were trying to start with me. Both Princesses both had their eyes fixated at each other with mischievous smiles adoring their faces as if they were up to something to no good.

I brought the glass of water that was given to me to my lips as I stared at Celestia with curiosity. As each sip I took, either she or Luna would stifle a small giggle while one of them would have an excited look on one of their faces.

Celestia and my eyes caught each others. I held eye contact with the now blushing mare as her sister started chuckling. I gave the older sibling the ‘what's going on?’ look as she took a sip of her drink.

“So, you think that you can beat Mr. Isaiah is a spar Major Block?”

I diverted my eyes away from the alicorn and tried to locate who said my name. I scanned the long table of individuals, only to spot to mares who were apparently arguing with each other about me; much to my displeasure.

A mare who sat next to me (whom I have already forgotten their name) nudged my side to gain my attention.

“It seems like you have a challenger Mr. Isaiah...” She said loudly enough to gain everyone's attention in the dining room.

All of the voices died down, now curious of what was to come and what I was about to be thrusted into.

The mare next to me started at the challenging mare, waiting to speak up. I too, eyed her down, expecting an answer from the pony.

The challenger, who was an above-average sized earth pony wearing a decorative uniform, felt the peer pressure of those who shared the same table with her and looked at me with a slowly growing determined face.

With her growing courage, she spoke. “Yeah Low Flier, I think I can beat him in spar. Just look at him…”

A series of multiple ‘oohs’ came from the ponies sitting at the table, surprised at what the mare had said to me.

“So, you think can beat me?” I asked the dark brown mare with a grey mane and tail.

“Yes, I believe I can-”

“I find that very hard to believe. Just by seeing the environment you live in, you just maybe have next to none experience.” I interrupted her.

“Whatever.” She said while rolling her green eyes. For someone with a military rank, she sure does have the balls to speak like that out loud. “So human, you wanna see who’s the better?”

I scratched the back of my head. “I don’t know; it’s not right to hit a girl in front of a bunch of poe-ponies.”

My words only seemed to boost her ego. “What? Are you scared human, afraid of the sight of a strong earth mare?”

The ponies at the table were really eating up of what was happening right in front of them; even the Princesses seemed interested of what was next to happen.

“Where would it take place?” I questioned as I shifted my body around in my seat.

“There’s some areas in the guard training grounds where they spar for practice against hoof-to-hoof combat.” Shining Armor informed.

In all honesty, I really wanted to beat the everlasting shit out of the mare for talking shit and assuming that she was better than me.

I looked over towards the Celestia and Luna both nodded in approval, as if they knew what I was thinking.

“So, what’s it going to be?” The challenger spat.

I turned towards her and glared at her. “Let’s go.”

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3rd POV

The ponies who were once in the dining room moved out into the guard spar grounds. Everypony seemed giddy at the prospect of a fight between a seasoned guard and a alien being.

The blazing sun shone in the noon sky, making everypony warm beneath their coat, uniform, or both. Isaiah, who clothing over majority of his body seemed unaffected; after all; he was used to the burning Texas summer sun.

Shining Armor, the Captain of the Canterlot Guard and the Prince of The Crystal Kingdom, lead the mass of ponies and single human to a single sparing circle.

This circle brought memories of his training days when he was young; both good and bad. One memory that greatly disturbed Shining was when he remembered when he got bucked so hard the the jaw, not only did it break but he had to visit the dentist every other day to get his teeth magically healed.

He shivered at the memory…

“Here it is!” The stallion announced to the ponies and lone human.

Isaiah looked away from the alicorn sisters who were sitting under a tree to see a large ring with a fifteen foot radius. Majority of the grass had been torn up from pass spars, what was left her scattered specs along the perimeter. Slightly loose dirt covered the ground where he was to fight, if he had to, Isaiah could grab and hand full of dirt and throw in into the mares eyes; if the rules allowed it.

Isaiah stood at the boundaries of the sparring circle, waiting for whatever would happen next. A sudden prod to his side interrupted his focus, he looked over to see Shining Armor holding a clipboard.

“Isaiah, before the match starts, you’re allowed to warm-up for five minutes.” Shining said to him.

“Uh, thanks. That’ll makes things a little easier-”

Before he could finish, Shining interrupted. “You’ll also need to remove your clothes.”

Isaiah stared down the stallion as if he had spoken another language.

“What? Why?!” The human halved yelled.

The white unicorn held up the paper with the rules up to Isaiah even though he couldn’t read them.

“The rules states: All clothes are to be removed to eliminate the chances of an unnatural advantage for the fighters.”

The man folded his arms. “Come on man, can’t you just let this slide?”

Shining Armor shook his head. “Sorry, that can’t happen Isaiah. Even if I overlooked it, the other guards would surely notice. If won’t take off your clothes, you’ll be disqualified.”

From behind, Isaiah could tell that all eyes were on him as he shook his head in annoyance. He turned around and instantly say the challenger looking on with a smug look on her face.

Not too far away, Celestia and Luna watched Isaiah as he began to remove each article of clothing he wore. First came his boots, then his socks, then to shirt and jeans. The only thing left was his boxers as stood there as there was a couple of unknown mares whistled in approval of his body.

Luna sat in the shade under the tree next to her sister. She watched as the human that she and her sister called friend. The younger sibling flicked her eyes towards her sister to see her eyeing the human like she was doing. Luna refocused her attention on the half-naked man, now with unlady-like thoughts in her head.

Luna froze at what she had just thought. The mare shook her head as if doing so would purge the dirty thoughts out of her head.

“Having suggestive thoughts, now are we sister?” Celestia said from the magic telepathy she had mastered long ago.

“Hush sister…” Luna messaged.

The sisters rarely used telepathy to talk to each other, but it had proven to be very useful when they had conversations like the very one they were having; especially when they were in public.

Afar, Isaiah was a dilemma. All around him were ponies waiting for him to remove his final piece of clothing. The human leaned over to whisper into Shining Armor’s ear. The stallions look became perturbed when the human finished and pulled back from his ear.

“Come on man, do you know much it hurts for your balls to be dragged around in the dirt?” Isaiah stressed.

Shining’s eyes widen when he recalled an unwanted memory from training. “Sadly, yes, I have experienced that…”

“Please man, can you help a brother out on this?”

The unicorn looked over towards the ponies who’d be assessing the fight.

“I’ll have to ask the others.” Shining mumbled as he ventured towards the others.

Isaiah watched Shining walk away with crossed fingers, hoping that it would help.

The lone human turned his head away from the stallion to his challenger; Major Block her supposive name was. She mare was jogging in place as a fellow guard talked to her.

Isaiah remembered that he was allowed the five minutes that was given to him to warm-up. He spotted a shady place underneath the same tree where the alicorn sisters sat and away from the crowd of ponies.

Isaiah made his way under the tree and rested himself on the cool grass. The man felt so exposed without his clothing on; despite the boxers he wore, he felt naked.

Under the same tree, Celestia and Luna watched the human began to stretch his muscles. He spread his legs far apart, and then began to lean all the way to his right leg, and holding his foot for a period of seconds. When Isaiah finished leaning both left and right, he rolled onto his belly with hands to his sides and pushed.

Luna’s and Celestia’s wings began to slowly rise as the sun rays that managed to peek through the tree’s canopy reflected of his slightly sweat covered skin. They both watched the human go up and down with little effort; push after push. Celestia admired his muscles as they moved in coordination with his body as he made each effortless movement. The white ailcorn bit her lip, she wondered what it would feel liked to be held in those big stron-

"Tonight should be something else..." Luna said to her older sibling vie magic telepathy.

The sisters ogling of the human ceased when they heard a certain pink alicorn laughing from afar.

Princess Cadence’s merth distracted Isaiah. The human rose from his position to ask the Princess of Love what was so funny. “What are you laughing at?”

Cadence stifled her giggling to the human who was completely oblivious to what was happening behind him. “Oh nothing much, just look behind you?”

Isaiah turned around to Celestia and Luna with both of their wings fully flared. “What, am I doing something weird- why are y’alls wings all spread? Hell, you never told me what that meant.”

When Princess Cadence heard the words that came out of her mouth, she roared in another fit of laughter at both her aunt’s predicament. Princess Luna could only shoot the mare a glare as the Princess of Love began to trot away in merriment.

“What?” Isaiah asked both the sisters again in confusion.

Before the Princesses could say anything, Shining Armor came back from the discussion with the others.

“Isaiah, you lucked out. You can keep those… things on. But your other clothes have to stay off.” The lone human let out a sigh of relief. “Now, it’s time for you to get in the circle, are you ready?”

Isaiah got up from the grass and rubbed his muscles along his arms. “Yeah, ready as I’ll ever be.”

Author's Notes:

Hey guys/girls

Sorry for the long absence of content, I'm just gonna say that I had better things to do than writing about a man living in a world inhabited by magical ponies. I'm not going to lie, at some parts I was like 'wow, this is coming out smoothly' and other parts I'm like 'holy shit this is shit'. Well, I hoped y'all enjoyed! Don't forget about the poll in the comments!