I awoke feeling… numb. I as regained my senses I noticed I was in a hospital room. Now you’re probably wondering how I knew it was a hospital. Well once you’ve seen one hospital you’ve seen all of them. I noticed that Autumn Skies was in the room sitting in a chair. She saw me wake up and walked over to the bed. I tried to get out of bed but she stopped me.
“Take it easy,” she said gently but firmly putting a hoof on my shoulder, “You took quite a hit back there. The doctors said you’re lucky you only had bruised ribs. It’s a good thing you were wearing armour or you would have been injured more badly.”
“What happened?” I asked putting a hand on my chest noticing that my armour had been removed. I heard a voice I didn’t recognize laugh nervously. I looked in the direction of the voice to find a sky-blue pegasus with rainbow hair looking rather sheepish.
“Heh heh, yeah… that’s kinda my fault. Sorry,” she said rubbing the back of her neck with a hoof.
“May I ask why you felt the need to peregrine dive at me?” I said and I noticed her ears pin back as she looked guilty.
“Yeah I kinda saw you with my friend and assumed the worst,” she replied and I turned to Autumn.
“Pass me my bags,” I said holding my hand out. I turned back to the blue pegasus, “If you have damaged anything in my bags I will not hesitate to rip your wings off and shove them so far down your throat that you’ll be shitting feathers for the next month and then I would make you pay for the damages.” I saw the blue pegasus gulp and back away slightly. Autumn passed me my bags. I then proceeded to empty them and check everything and after double checking everything I found nothing to be damaged.
I sighed, “You are very lucky that nothing got damaged. I am now willing to accept your apology and start over,” I said. She looked at me surprised.
“What? Just like that?” she said and I chuckled slightly.
“I was mainly worried about the stuff in my bags as they’re all I have left of my ‘old’ life,” I said, “You thought you friend was in danger and put her life above yours. I can respect that. The name’s Vuur Koning.”
“Rainbow Dash,” she said holding out a hoof. I bumped it with my fist, “fastest pegasus in Equestria and Element of loyalty,” she said puffing out her chest.
“How fast were you going when you hit me anyway?” I asked rubbing my chest.
“Fast enough to give you a concussion when you landed courtesy of Rainbow here” Autumn said scowling at the aforementioned blue pegasus.
“Hey I already said I was sorry. Ok?” Rainbow Dash said, “He’s willing to forgive me so I don’t see why you have to be so bitchy about it.”
“I’m pissed off because you attacked him without aggravation,” Autumn said walking towards Rainbow Dash who did the same until they were stood opposite sides of the bed looking ready to rip each other’s throats out. Rainbow Dash was the next to speak.
“If you want to do this the hard way we’ll do this the hard way.” Autumn made to jump over the bed at Rainbow Dash.
“ENOUGH!” I said pushing them away from each. I didn’t expect them to be sent flying in opposite directions through the room and when they hit the walls I noticed that they had a small amount of smoke coming from their chests. I looked at my hands to find them engulfed in translucent red flames. “Ah fuck! my hands!” I then proceeded to get out of the bed and run around the room waving my hands around.
“Put it out put it out” I screamed and I was promptly held in place by a purple aura. I was slowly turned around until I saw Twilight at the door with a similar purple aura around her horn.
“Care to tell me what exactly is going on? I leave for five minutes and when I come back I see those two about to kill each other and then you send them flying across the room and start running around screaming.”
“Fuck you my hands are on fire! Put them out!” Twilight responded by splashing a cup of water in my face and my hands were still on fire.
“You’re hands aren’t on fire. Its magic,” she said, “And don’t swear.”
“Bullshit its fire,” I said responding to both statements. She just rolled her eyes.
“Do your hands feel like they’re on fire?” she asked.
“No, but…” I said.
“But nothing. It’s magic. It just has an odd aura that’s all,” Twilight said dispelling her magic aura. I dropped to the floor with my hands still engulfed in magic flames. Twilight went over to check on Rainbow Dash whilst I checked on Autumn. I shook her slightly, noticing that the flames didn’t harm her, and she stirred.
“Urg... what happened?” she asked looking around.
“I kinda sent you and Rainbow Dash flying across the room and discovered that I had magic in the process,” I said showing her one of my hands. I looked over at Twilight who was talking to Rainbow Dash.
“Hey Twilight,” I called and she looked over at me, “Any idea how to turn this off?” I said holding up a hand. She said something to Rainbow Dash before walking over and covering my hands in her magic. She sat there for a few moments with her eyes closed.
“What are you doing?” I asked. She sat her for a bit longer before dispelling her magic.
“You haven’t used magic before have you?” she asked. I shook my head “it’s just been building up your whole life and now it’s been, for lack of a better word ‘unlocked’. It’s getting rid of the excess magic and it should dissipate in about…” she quickly enveloped my hand in magic again before saying, “give it a couple of hours and you should be able to control it.”
“And how do I turn it off then?” I said.
“Try imagining a candle being extinguished,” she said, “I’m guessing you’re alright to go now?”
“Chest’s still a bit sore but other than that I’m fine,” I suddenly remembered, “Where’s my armour?”
“It’s at the library” she said. I deadpanned.
“I can’t walk through town bare foot. Please send it here,” I said arms crossed. She closed her eyes in concentration and her horn glowed briefly before my armour appeared in the room with a flash. I stood there wide eyed, “How the hell…?”
“I modified a teleportation spell into a summoning so instead of the spell caster moving to their intended location the object that is being focused on moves towards the spell caster,” she said.
“Clever girl,” I muttered under my breath before putting my armour on. I put the helmet on last, the shield status on the HUD flared into life, and the armour was enveloped in a pale red Aura that eventually faded when the shield status read 100%.
“What the buck was that?” Rainbow Dash exclaimed.
“I do believe I now have active shielding Rainbow Dash. It seems when I ‘unlocked’ my magic it activated the shielding,” I said. I put a hand to my arm and I could feel some resistance as I did so, “So that means no more getting mauled by a walking shrubbery,” I noticed Rainbow Dash's confused look, “I was attacked by Timberwolves,” I gathered up my stuff before turning to everyone and saying.
“So… Who’s hungry? Because Rarity won’t let me pay for the clothes I requested and I’ve got a grand to spend. My treat.”
We ended up going to a café at Twilight's suggestion. It was a nice little place and we sat down at one of the outside tables. When I looked at the menu I noticed that the symbol used for Equestrian bits was the ‘ß’ sign.
“Hah I never knew that you used a ‘sharp S’ to represent bits,” I said.
“What do you mean a ‘sharp S’?” asked Twilight.
“It’s a letter often used in European languages, like German, and is pronounced as ‘SS'. Where I come from, the U.K., we use pounds and pence as currency,” I got my phone out from my rucksack and turned it on and I then showed them the symbols for each. I then went into my wallet and placed on the table a one and two pound coin, a couple of bank notes, and one of each type of penny coin (one pence, two pence, five pence, ten pence, twenty pence and fifty pence). I turned to Twilight.
“Think you could work out an equivalent value of these compared to your currency?” I asked. She nodded whilst studying the pound coin and one pence piece.
“Why do you have two different coinage systems?” Twilight asked.
“We don’t. The Pence are used when Pound coins aren’t exact enough £1 equals 100 pence. Don’t you have small change coins?” I asked.
“We do but it’s in fractions,” Twilight said, “For instance we have 1/10 bits, ¼ bits and ½ bits.” I returned to looking at the menu. Most of the options on the menu didn’t appeal to me so I soon found what I wanted. A waiter soon walked over to the table placing drinks that we had ordered when we arrived. We ordered our food and the waiter walked away, I turned to Twilight.
“Hey Twilight. Do you think you could teach me how to control my magic once ‘this’ stops?” I said gesturing to my hands. She took a sip from her drink before saying.
“I will probably have to modify my teaching methods to accommodate your arcane focal points but I don’t see why not,” she said smiling.
“I’m guessing you mean my hands when you say ‘arcane focal points’,” I said and took a sip of my drink. Twilight nodded. I then remembered something.
“Oh Twilight. I need to visit the library when we’ve finished here,” I said.
“What for?” Twilight asked.
“I need to look at maps of this world. If I plan to travel then I need to know where everything is,” I said. Twilight stirred as if she suddenly remembered something.
“Speaking of maps, do you have any maps of your world?” She asked.
“just a sec,’” I said going into my bag and getting my laptop out. I hoped that the laptop had cached the map as it required internet to use properly. Thankfully there was enough to make out on the screen “Ok bear with me on this as it requires a network to work properly. It’s only just detailed enough to make sense,” I spun the laptop around showing them the U.K., “This is what I am talking about when I mention the United Kingdom.”
“How big is it? Relatively speaking,” Twilight asked.
“Quite small. Great Britain,” I said pointing to the larger of the islands, “is about 200 or so miles from its most westerly point, Lands’ End, to its most easterly point, Lowestoft. Ireland is a similar width.”
“Your country has really weird names,” Rainbow Dash said. I rolled my eyes.
“Says the pony from ‘Ponyville’.”
“Ah, Touché,” Rainbow Dash conceded. I suddenly remembered something.
“Although having said that. There is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch,” (read: hlan-vairay-poohl-guin-gihl-gogery-u-queern-droboohl-hlatisilio-go-go-goch) I said. I saw Autumn Skies face-hoof and I’m pretty sure I saw Twilight's eye twitch.
“What the buck kind of name is that?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Language Rainbow,” Twilight chastised.
“But he swears a lot,” she said pointing at me.
“That may be true but I try not to when in public places and to answer your question it’s in a language called Welsh which is apparently the language of the Minotaurs on this world. On my world it is a very old language and the name roughly translates to: St. Mary's Church in the hollow of the white hazel near the rapid whirlpool and the church of St. Tysilio with a red cave,” I said and at that point the waiter arrived with our food. He placed the food on the table before walking away.
“Oh whilst we’re on the subject of odd names.Tthe town I come from, Scunthorpe, don’t say it out loud but what word do you get when you take away the ‘S’ and ‘horpe’?” I waited for a few moments but Rainbow Dash was the first to react. she did a spittake and I burst out laughing at her reaction.
“You… are… bucking…kidding…me” she spluttered/laughed in-between coughs. Twilight looked confused.
“I don’t get it,” she said. Rainbow Dash leaned over and whispered in her ear. Within a couple of seconds her eyes widened and a blush spread across her cheeks, “That isn’t funny,” she said.
“That, my purple friend, is a ‘northern’ British sense of humour: crude, rude, vulgar and bloody hilarious if you understand it. Most people from other countries in my world don’t understand our sense of humour either. We often poke fun at ourselves. Take the weather for instance. Here it is rather nice, quiet, and sunny, but not too hot. In England it will be like this one minute and the next it’ll be the middle of a rain storm. We even have a saying: If it rains, wait ten minutes,” I said. Rainbow dash looked confused.
“Don’t you control the weather?” she asked.
“What do you mean?” I asked. Rainbow dash took off and flew up to a cloud. She then proceeded to push the cloud towards me and bucked it causing it to dissipate with a ‘poof’. She then landed back at the table as if it was nothing.
“My god how in the hell did you do that?” I asked slack jawed. Rainbow Dash went to speak but then looked at Twilight who sighed before saying
“All three types of pony have intrinsic magic. The pegasi and earth ponies have passive magic and a unicorn has active magic. The passive magic in pegasi increases agility and helps then to fly and manipulate weather whereas the passive magic in earth ponies gives them extra strength and helps plants to grow. The active magic in unicorns means the possibilities of what can be done are limitless. Chances are if you’ve thought of something that can’t normally be done then there’s a spell for it,” I looked at my bags and an idea popped into my head.
“If so then what about… a pocket dimension? Specifically one for increasing the capacity of a bag like my rucksack?” Twilight thought for a moment.
“I’ll have a look when we get back to the library and you can look over the maps whilst I search for the correct spell.”
“Oh and where am I staying tonight? It will be a few days before Rarity can finish my cloaks and even then I might stay for a couple more days and relax a bit,” I said.
“I have a spare room in the library,” Twilight said. I looked at Autumn Skies.
“Hey Autumn,” she looked up, “Where are you staying tonight?”
“As your guide and evaluator I have to stay where you stay”
“Do you have two beds?" I asked Twilight. She suddenly put on a really nervous smile and rubbed the back of her neck with a hoof.
“Heh heh. Funny you should ask that,” she said and I deadpanned.
“You don’t do you?” I asked rhetorically. She shook her head with her expression remaining the same.
“Well this week is going to be awkward,” I said. Autumn seemed to agree. We finished our food and I went to pay for it. Once that was done I gathered up my stuff and we left for the library but whilst we were walking towards the library I heard three young voices yell, “CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS MONSTER HUNTERS YAY!” before I was tackled to the ground by three young ponies. The moment I fell to the ground they stood on my chest proclaiming their victory. They then turned to each other.
“Anything yet?” the orange pegasus asked before they all looked at their flanks they seemed disappointed to find their flanks bare.
“Aww shoot. we ain't never gonna get our cutie marks at this rate,” the yellow earth pony said in a Texan accent.
“Maybe we should’ve used a net,” the white one said.
“Erm, would you mind getting off my chest so that I get back up?” I asked starting to sound a little annoyed. I looked to Twilight and the others. They were just sat there as if this was a normal occurrence except for Autumn. She was just standing there trying not to laugh. The three young ponies seemed startled by the fact I could talk.
“It talks!” the orange pegasus said. I rolled my eyes.
“I thought they still taught kid manners these days. Seems I was wrong. Once again I will ask. Please get off,” I said. This time they did as asked and I stood up to my full height. They were impressed by my height.
“Whoa, you’re huge,” the orange one said.
“So care to tell me why I’ve just been tackled to the ground by you three?” I asked sternly. The orange one spoke up looking very sheepish whilst she did so.
“Well we kind of have this show and tell at school tomorrow but we didn’t know what to take. Then we saw you and thought that if we were to take you in then we would be sure to win,” she said scuffing her hoof on the floor
“And the shouting before you tackled me?” I asked. they perked up at that.
“I’m Scootaloo” the orange one said.
“Ah’m Applebloom” the yellow one said.
“I’m Sweetie Bell” the white one said.
“And together we’re the cutie mark crusaders searching to find our cutie marks,” they finished in unison.
“So you thought that if you were to ‘capture’ me then you would get cutie marks in ‘monster hunting’?” I asked. Their ears folded back and I turned to Twilight and the others.
“Go on ahead I’ll catch up to you” I said. They nodded before continuing towards the library. I turned back to the ‘cutie mark crusaders’. They looked rather nervous. I crouched down to get closer to their level.
“Don’t worry I’m not angry with you. I was just a little surprised that’s all,” I said and they perked up slightly, “So this show and tell at your school, when is it?” I asked. Now they looked really excited.
“You mean you’ll let us use you as our show and tell?” Sweetie Bell asked.
“Sure why not. It’ll be fun. Although,I will need to speak to your teacher,” I said.
“Why?” Applebloom asked.
“Because I don’t think it would be wise for me to turn up unannounced I would rather not cause a panic,” noticing the apprehensive looks on their faces I added, “Don’t worry I won’t give away too much information. I’ll arrive before the school day starts and tell him or her: ‘Look some of your pupils want to use me for show and tell. Is that ok?’” They seemed reassured by my words.
“So what’s the name of your teacher?” I asked.
“She’s called Miss Cheerilee,” Scootaloo said.
“Ok then. I’ll go there early tomorrow to make sure none of the other pupils are there,” I said.
“Thanks, Mister…” Sweetie Bell trailed off.
“Vuur Koning,” I said. They seemed to be confused by my name.
“That’s an odd name,” Scootaloo said.
“I’m not from around here,” I said deadpanning, “Anyway I'd best be off. What time does your school start?”
“9 o’clock,” Sweetie Bell said. I nodded in acknowledgment before walking off towards the library, ‘Well that’s my plans for tomorrow sorted out. I’ll probably arrive half an hour before the school starts. I’ll have to hide somewhere until the[/color lesson starts though,’ I thought to myself. I arrived at the library a few minutes later. Walking inside I saw several books floating in the air. Twilight was in the center of it all and levitated a book closer to herself before quickly flicking through it and groaning in frustration before placing it back on a shelf.
“I swear I read something about pocket dimensions in one of these books,” she exclaimed, She noticed me walk in “What happened out there?” she asked.
“What happened is I’ve become a show and tell piece for those three children…”
“Fillies,” Twilight corrected whilst looking through another book. She suddenly exclaimed “Aha, there you are, ‘pocket dimension spell: vastly increases the carrying capacity of a receptacle, is not suitable for liquids’,” she read off I took my bags off and emptied the rucksack out before passing it to Twilight. She took it in her magical field before quickly re-reading the page. She placed the books she didn’t need back onto the shelves before closing her eyes and concentrating. Her horn suddenly flared up and my rucksack was enveloped in a similar glow. A blinding flash later and the spell seemed to be complete. Twilight floated the bag back over towards me. I looked in the bag to find that instead of the small compartment that I was used to there was now an area the size of a large room. I looked at Twilight.
“Give me a sec,’” I said before climbing into the bag, “This is bloody brilliant,” I exclaimed. I heard Twilight giggle. I then heard hoof steps walking towards the bag and I suddenly had an idea. I walked towards the ‘entrance’ to the ‘room’ and waited for the hoof steps to stop before I poked my head out and yelled out in my best African-American accent.
“SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKER!” I shouted. Rainbow Dash whinnied in surprise and took off, hitting her head on the ceiling and falling back to the floor. I heard Twilight and Autumn burst out laughing and I did so as well.
“Wow,” Rainbow dash said rubbing the top of her head with a hoof, “You really got me. I’ll have to think of something to get you back now. That was good I’ll have to remember that,” I climbed out of the rucksack and started putting my stuff inside.
“I could put a bed I here and use this place as a room,” I called out to Twilight. She poked her head through the ‘entrance’.
“And how exactly do you intend to fit the bed through this hole?” she said deadpanning.
“Ikea?” I suggested shrugging my shoulders, “But seriously do you know any shops that make flat packed furniture?”
“To answer your question yes. I can think of one or two in town. But you’re seriously considering converting this place into a bedroom?” she asked.
“And living room,” I said, “it will be a lot easier than constantly setting up and dismantling a tent. I’ll just need to find a power source to charge my laptop. Weight won’t be a problem will it?” I asked. Twilight shook her head.
“It’s a pocket dimension. The position of the rucksack won’t affect the room either. So you could tip the bag upside down and everything would be fine. We can get hold of a magic generators for power and once your magic is under control I can even teach you how to increase the size of this place,” she said. It was at that moment that the magic flames engulfing my hands died down. I snapped my fingers and sure enough the familiar red flames once again engulfed my hands. I then imagined the flames being extinguished. It took a few tries but eventually I was able to ignite and extinguish the flames repeatedly. I climbed out of the bag and zipped it back up before putting it on my back. It felt weird, like there was a weight to it, but at the same time there wasn’t.
“Right where are the shops?” I asked, “Because I would rather get everything I need now while I have the money.”
“I’ll come with you otherwise you won’t know what you’re looking for,” Twilight said.
“Fair enough,” I conceded. I turned to Rainbow dash and Autumn. They both nodded and I suddenly noticed that when they were stood side by side they looked remarkably similar. If I was colour-blind I wouldn’t be able to tell them apart. I pushed that train of thought to one side as we walked out the door. I saw Twilight put up a sign telling ponies that the library was closed and after a few minutes of walking we made it to the shopping area. Twilight sopped walking and turned towards me.
“Right what is it that you need to get first?” she asked. I looked around at the semi-circle of shops.
“Which shop sells flat-packed furniture?” I asked. She briefly searched before pointing to one of the shops with a fore-hoof.
“Let’s try that one,” she said walking towards the shop. I followed her inside. There were several different items of furniture on display as well as the packaging that they come supplied in for demonstrative purposes. A male earth pony walked up towards us. He hesitated slightly when he saw me before walking closer and addressing us.
“Good evening sir and madams. How may I help you?”
“I would like to buy a couple of beds,” I said, “I need to be able to fit the pieces in this bag” I took the rucksack off my bag and showed the pocket dimension inside to the salespony ,“I plan to travel the world at some point and it would be easier to set up bed in here than constantly setting up and packing away a tent,” he nodded in understanding before walking over to a display piece and beckoning us over.
“I feel that this may be to your liking considering your… generous height,” he said. It was a large bed with an ornate styled headboard, “It was designed with griffins in mind,” he added. I looked at the price-tag, ‘150 bits each, not too expensive I hope,’ I thought giving a low whistle.
“I’ll take two,” I said. I saw Autumn's surprised look “What? You thought I would make you sleep outside whilst I sleep in a nice warm bed?” I got the bag of bits out of the front compartment of the rucksack (that part wasn’t connected to the pocket dimension) and placed the 300 bits that the salespony wanted into a bucket that he had quickly gotten whilst I was talking to Autumn Skies, the salespony then walked off to collect the two packages. I took them off of the salespony before walking into the rucksack and placing them in a corner of the ‘room’. When I climbed out I found him standing there with two mattresses.
“These come free with the beds,” he said. I looked to Twilight for help. She sighed and rolled her eyes before walking into the rucksack and summoning the two mattresses into the pocket dimension. They disappeared with a flash and a few moments later Twilight stepped out of the rucksack. After that we went to a shop selling things like duvets and pillows and that brought the total money I had spent so far, including lunch for everyone, up to about ß335.
“Right what do I need next?” I thought out loud as we walked through the shopping district, “Oh. A generator,” I remembered. Twilight nodded and we walked towards a hardware shop. Inside there was all sorts of machinery and electronics ranging from cables to speakers, computers (although they looked computers from the 80’s) to radios and much more. Twilight walked up to the counter and asked if there were any generators and the Salespony went into the back of the building. He returned a few moments later.
“We have one left in stock,” he said.
“Can it be used to charge electronic items?” I asked.
“Yes depending on the voltage rating,” he said, “May I see what equipment you use so I can get a compatible adapter?” I got the charger and laptop out of the bag. He looked at the plug for the charger before reading the technical information on the transformer. He walked back into the storeroom and returned a few minutes later with several boxes of varying sizes. I paid for them and left the shop. As we walked through the town I heard a male voice speak up.
“My my you are different. Which is saying something coming from me,” ‘he’ said. I couldn’t place where the voice was coming from.
“What do you want Discord?” Rainbow Dash asked suspiciously getting onto a defensive stance.
“Shame on you Rainbow Dash. I thought you trusted me,” he now sounded like he was behind me. I looked back to find nothing out of the ordinary. There was suddenly a flash in front of me. I looked to find a chimera of some type standing there.
“What the bloody hell are you?” I exclaimed. He slapped his forehead as if remembering something.
“Oh of course where are my manners? I am Discord recently reformed spirit of chaos,” as he finished his sentence a giant neon sign with the word ‘DISCORD’ appeared above his head in an explosion of streamers. It disappeared after a few moments and he walked towards me standing roughly the same height as me, “I already know who you are Vuur Koning and what you are. I’ve seen your kind before, watched them on your world, and the odd one or two that has been ripped into this world,” he noticed the confused faces of the three ponies and chuckled slightly.
“Oh Celly hasn’t told you?” Discord asked.
“Told us what?” Twilight asked. Discord shook his head slightly and tutted.
“I thought she was done keeping secrets. Vuur Koning here,” he said gesturing to me, “Isn’t the first human to arrive on this world and you won’t be the last. Whilst I don’t know exact details I do know that more and more will start to appear on this world. And know this, you will meet a friend from your world in the near future whilst I don’t know when. I do know who,” that really caught my attention.
“Who will I meet?” I practically shouted. He suddenly looked really smug.
“Now that would ruin the surprise wouldn’t it? I’ve revealed too much as it is now if you’ll excuse me. I have low level chaos to cause. I also need to have a talk with Celly. Ta ta,” and with that he donned sun glasses and disappeared in a pink mushroom cloud which promptly started raining chocolate milk. I turned to Twilight.
“Da fuck was that?” I said jerking a thumb at the slowly dissipating pink cloud. She just sighed.
“That was Discord. While he isn’t a major problem he can be a bit of a nuisance at times. He isn’t evil anymore but his nature means that he isn’t exactly good,” she said.
“You know just because he controls chaos doesn’t mean he’s evil,” I said. Twilight looked at me as if I had just told her that magic wasn’t real. Noticing her look I continued, “Chaos drives everything just as much as harmony. Chaos is what makes all snowflakes unique, Chaos makes sure lightning never strikes twice. Chaos is what creates nebulae, which spawns stars, which groups together into galaxies. Chaos is what makes things change. If it wasn’t for chaos the universe would never have started in the first place. Scientists on my world theorize that the death of the universe will occur when entropy stops and things harmonize.”
“I never thought of it like that,” Twilight said.
“When we get back to the library I’ll show you some documentary videos about the universe. One of them goes into the end of the universe. After looking into things, like I do, you start to realize that you need chaos as much as harmony. They both have an equally important roll to play in this universe.”
“Geez I never took you for an egghead,” Rainbow Dash said. I snorted.
“I am not an egghead. I’m just well-read on subjects that interest me. Like railways. You could ask me what locomotive pulled a certain train on my world and I could tell you without hesitation and then I could tell you who designed the locomotive and what railway used it,” I said. Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes.
“Yeah. You’re an egghead,” she said.
“I prefer the term ‘railway fanatic’,” I said. I noticed a shop selling alcohol.
“Give me a few minutes,” I said to Twilight before walking inside.
I stepped out of the shop now in possession of several bottles of Sweet Apple Cider and a bottle of ‘Hayleys’, which seemed to be the equivalent to Irish cream, as well as several glasses of various sizes.
“What did you get?” Autumn asked.
“Wait and see,” I said tapping my nose. We made it back to the library without incident. I placed the bag on the floor and climbed in. I returned carrying the bottle of Hayleys, three bottles of cider, three pint glasses and a whiskey glass. I placed them on the table before walking back into the bag and retrieving my laptop. I brought up the video app and selected the right documentary before passing it to Twilight. She levitated it over to a desk and summoned several scrolls, a quill and a bottle of ink.
“Either of you two want a drink of cider?” I asked Rainbow and Autumn. They both nodded. I passed them the drinks before turning to Twilight. I was about to ask her if she wanted a drink but she was furiously scribbling down notes. I shook my head before looking at the shelves of books for maps. Finding what I needed I sat down with the two pegasi and poured myself a glass of Hayleys. I raised my glass towards the pegasi.
“Cheers,” I said and they returned the action before we all took a sip of our drinks. I savoured the creamy taste and texture for a few moments before swallowing.
I sighed. “Like liquid gold,” I muttered in appreciation before opening the book and studying the maps inside. The moment I saw the world map I did a spittake. Autumn and Rainbow looked at me in surprise.
“Holy shit this world is huge. This quest that I’m planning is going to take longer than I thought. A lot longer,” I said.
“Are you getting second thoughts?” Autumn asked.
“Hell no,” I said. I started planning routs to different places. Looking at the map I noticed that towards the north of Equestria all the towns and cities had names similar to ones back in England, ‘Windsoar?, Trottingham, Derbyshire!?, Lincolt?, Marechester?, Hoofquey?, wow, talk about play on words,’ I thought. I couldn’t help giggling slightly.
“What’s so funny?” Autumn asked.
“The puns in some of these name are ridiculous,”
“It can’t be that bad?” Rainbow Dash said. I deadpanned.
“Ok, here are some places in my country with similar names to places in your country: Windsor, Nottingham, Derbyshire, Lincoln, Manchester and Newquey,” they seemed to get the picture after that, “Hey Autumn. Do all the Equestrian cities and towns north of Trottingham have your type of accent?” I asked. She nodded.
“Yes although towards the border between Equestria and Minotauria they have slight Minotaurian twang,” she said, "It’s similar near the borders with the United Griffon Kingdom and Germaney.”
“What about the Changeling unions?” I asked. I noticed them stiffen at that, “Touchy subject?”
“We were invaded by one of the hives recently,” Autumn said, “Until that point we had a passive alliance with the five super hives. Now one of them is our enemy and the other four have gone neutral. Things are… tense. You wouldn’t understand,”
“Actually I understand a great deal more than you think. My species has seen its fair share of war. Tell me, what’s the combined casualties on both sides of your largest war?” I asked. Autumn put a hoof to her chin and started randomly moving the other hoof as if making calculations. After a few moments she came to a conclusion.
“500,000 lost their lives in the war between us and the griffins,” she said. My eyes widened, “Is that a lot compared to your species?”
“No definitely not. That is a mere battle compared to the wars on my world.”
“How many has your kind killed?” I heard Twilight ask. I suddenly grew tense. I noticed that she had stopped writing and was looking at me. I mumbled the number.
“I didn't quite catch that,” Twilight said.
“85 million,” I said. It was at that point that Rainbow Dash had chosen to take a swig of cider and promptly spat it out. You could hear a pin drop in the silence that followed. Twilight's eyes had reduced to pin pricks, Rainbow Dash looked like she had seen a ghost and Autumn's mouth hung open like something out of a cartoon.
“E-eighty-five… Million?” Twilight said as if she had trouble comprehending that many people dying.
“Yep,” I said bitterly taking a sip of Hayleys “My kind are a violent bunch. There’s a reason they called it a World War. The second one actually. Now can you see why Discord found me so easily?” I said.
“My thoughts exactly,” I heard Discord say.
“Piss off” I said.
“No,” he said, “I am a god compared to you mortal so there is nothing you can do to make me go away,” I swear at that moment the light in the room darkened briefly. it returned to its normal light levels as he spoke with a mischievous look in his face, “Answer me this, how were the showers at Birkenau...” whatever he was about to say was interrupted by my glass hitting him in the face. He wiped the drink off his face.
“Seems I hit a touchy subject. Nice choice in drink by the way.”
“Thanks now I will tell you one last time. Fuck off before I ram my sword down your throat,” I said. He looked hurt at that.
“Aww you’re not going to ask me out first?” he said. It took me a few moments for it to ‘click’ in my mind but when it did I burst out laughing. The ponies looked at me as if I had gone mad.
“Well played,” I said. Noticing the looks on the ponies faces I added, “Don’t worry northern humour. But seriously Discord, I would rather enjoy the rest of today plus I have some beds to build,” Discord looked annoyed at that.
“Fine,” he conceded. Folding his arms he snapped his fingers and disappeared in a flash. The glass repaired itself as he left. I shook my head slightly. I picked up the glass and put it on the table before pouring myself another glass. Twilight seemed to be finished watching the documentary.
“You finished with that Twilight?” I asked. She nodded it before levitating it over to me, “I’m going to build the beds now," I said before stepping into the bag with laptop and glass in hand.

please tell me what you thought of this chapter and if there was anything that you felt could do with improving

Vuur Koning Stat increases:

+5 magic
+5 armour