A month has passed since I arrived in this world, I returned back to the castle after saving Lyra from that drunk man and went to my room where I read up more on the air element before dinner where Luna kept glancing at me now and then, Blueblood didn't even show up.

Celestia got word of my helping Lyra and thanked me, I've been spending most of my time at the Training Grounds practising my magic and swordsmanship. Shining and I had our rematch and he still beat me, though I did manage to get two hits in.

I've finally managed to channel three Elements at once and the results spoke for themselves, my spells are stronger but also consume a lot more mana as well, I'm going to have to focus of increasing my mana pool before trying to use four elements at once.

I also found out those guards in the light blue armour are Blueblood's personal guards and the reason they glare at me is because I refused his offer. If they think they can intimidate me they've got another thing coming.

I've been sending and receiving letters to Twilight about how I'm adjusting to Castle life and what's going on over time. She managed to visit twice during the month like she said she would, first time to see how I was getting along and the second was to show Celestia a new spell she was working on and to visit her folks and brother, she even got word from Lyra about what happened in that alley and thanked me for helping her as well as someone else named Bon Bon.

I've also noticed a lot of accidents have been happening around me, like a suit of armour falling over near me where I almost got mauled by its halberd, there was another time where a potted plant almost hit me on the head, and the time when a maid was carrying cutlery for dinner, she tripped and all the utensils flew towards me and only me, mainly the knives. I panicked and cast a stone wall spell to block the cutlery and destroyed the marble floor in the process.

The maid apologised to me while I apologised to Celestia, she said it was fine and instantly repaired the floor with her magic. I swear I saw a shadow of some kind escape under the kitchen door afterwards.

I've heard nothing from Blueblood all month and I think that's a good thing. Luna has also been asking me to join her in the evenings more often as the weeks progressed, same with Celestia but during the mornings, we talk about each other and our worlds during breakfast and dinner, although Blueblood has ordered his meals delivered to his office stating he was too busy with a backlog of paperwork.

The Princesses and I have gotten to know each other so well that they've asked me to address them by name all the time instead of their titles, much to the displeasure of the Nobles. It still amazes me that she and her sister raises and lowers the sun and moon here.

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I am sitting in the gardens with Luna while looking up at the night sky. "We've been keeping a close eye on Blueblood these past few weeks," she tells me. "We've noticed he has been speaking to somepony when he thinks nopony is listening."

"And how do you know that?" I ask her.

"We have sent our best spy to keep an eye on him," she tells me.

"And anything to worry about yet?" I ask.

"No, all she has managed to find out thus far is that he's talking to somepony, but hasn't seen who this is yet," she replies.

We chat about an up coming event called the Grand Galloping Gala for the next ten minutes, apparently I am invited to it, as well as Twilight and her friends. We're interrupted by a dark grey unicorn woman in dark purple leather like armour with lighter purple hair and two curved daggers on her hips, her eyes are cat like and the tips of her ears have tufts of fur on them, I also notice she has small fang like teeth and her horn is slightly curved backwards.

She kneels and bows to Luna. "Princess, I've just come back from Blueblood's office, it would seem he's been talking to what appears to be some sort of assassin, a black unicorn with a dark red mane and tail named Silent Shadow dressed in all black leather armour with many vials and other items on him," she tells Luna.

"We see, so those accidents during thy stay here were not mere accidents, but mayhap an attempt at thy life..." Luna says to me.

If that's the case, I'm going to have some words with Blueblood. "So what do we do then? What if he's listening to us right now?" I ask.

Luna's horn glows and all three of us are teleported to her room, my head spins from the sudden change of location but I shake it away.

Luna looks slightly dizzy after having to teleport me. "Now no pony can hear us or enter without our knowing," she tells me. "As of what to do, we shall tell our sister of what has transpired. For now, just keep thy eyes open for anything, should this Silent Shadow make another attempt on thy life, thou has our permission to defend thyself," Luna tells me then turns to the Spy. "Night Blade, keep an eye on Blueblood, we wish to know what else he may be up to. Also, search his office when thou get an opportunity to do so to find any evidence," she orders her spy.

"As you wish, Princess," Night Blade replies, her horn glows and she fades into the shadows.

Luna now looks at me. "We shall walk thee to thy room where we shall place a ward alerting us if anypony other then thou or our sister and our-self enter thy room,"

"Alright, sounds good," I reply.

We make our way back to my room in silence, I'm constantly on guard in case something else happens, though I doubt it will with Luna here.

We enter my room and her horn glows, a few seconds later, she stops and sighs. "There, the ward is in place, should somepony enter without our permission we shall know of it instantly," she says.

"Thank you," I say and yawn.

"Get some sleep, we have a surprise for thee tomorrow," she tells me.

I raise my right eyebrow with a smile. "I'll be looking forward to it, I'll see you tomorrow, Luna."

She smiles and leaves the room, I strip down to my trousers and get into bed. After a few minutes I fall into a restful asleep.

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I wake up to a bright sunny morning and stretch. I slide out of bed and get dressed, though, I might need to get some more clothes... my own three sets are starting to get a bit worn out.

I equip all my gear and head out to the Dining Hall, I see Celestia and Luna already here waiting for breakfast to be served. Celestia smiles at me and Luna waves me over. I sit across from Luna and place my stave against the table beside me.

"Good morning you two," I greet them.

"Good morning, Adrian. Did you sleep well?" Celestia replies and asks.

"Very well, thank you. So, Luna tells me you have both have a surprise for me?" I ask them.

Celestia nodded. "That we do, it should be arriving any minute now," she replies getting me to raise an eyebrow at her.

The kitchen doors open and a few trays are carted in, one leaves the hall, no doubt Blueblood's breakfast, but three others are brought over to us, a plate is placed in front of me and the lid is lifted off, the smell of a cooked fish greets my nose, I stare at the food wide eyed. There's scrambled eggs, strips of fruits and vegetables with some kind of sauce next to them, and next to all that looks like a perfectly cooked bass.

I look at the Princesses and see them smiling, I smile in return. "Thank you, where did you get the fish from since you don't eat meat?" I ask.

"We went to the lake below the mountain and teleported one out of it for thee. From what thou told us, thou do need a source of protein correct?" Luna replies.

I nodded. "Yes, thank you for doing this for me, but if it's all the same, do you think you can find me a fishing rod so I can catch my own?" I ask them.

They look at each other, still smiling. "I don't see why not, while we ponies don't fish for food, we do fish as a sport and pastime," Celestia tells me. "Do you remember seeing a building next to the lake when we took the carriage from Ponyville to here?" she asks me.

I frown in thought, I do recall seeing a cottage besides it. "I think so, why?" I reply.

"Tis actually the Ponyville fishing club," Luna tells me.

Huh, sounds like it could be fun. "If I wanted to go, how would I get there?" I ask and start eating.

"Some of the guards and Shining Armour on their time off go down there to relax, you could ask them to tag along if you want," Celestia informs me.

I finish off half of the fish before talking. "I'll have to ask Shining about it later, so what plans do you have for today?" I ask.

They look at each other before looking at me. "Nothing at all, today is the day we take off each month to relax. Why? Do you wish to spend time with us?" Celestia asks.

I chuckle. "Sure, I've got nothing special to do, I was planning to go back down to the Training Grounds, but I can do that later. So, what do you want to do today?" I ask.

"We we're planning to go down to Ponyville to visit Twilight and then go to the Spa to relax," Celestia tells me.

"Okay, I'd also like to know how Twilight and her friends are doing since I came here," I reply.

We finish off breakfast and head out to the courtyard where a carriage is waiting, I see Celestia has a scroll in her hand where her horn glows and it disappears. We then step inside the carriage and take off.

"How is thy training coming along?" Luna asks me.

I look from the window to her. "Pretty well, Shining is teaching me different sword styles while I'm learning more about my magic from the book," I reply. "By the way, I remember you told me that Starswirl was one of your greatest unicorns a thousand years ago... so why do I have a book written by him about human magic?" I ask them.

Celestia sighs. "He disappeared while trying to perfect a long range teleportation spell. Unfortunately, he miscalculated and just vanished. We tried searching for him but found nothing, with your arrival, we guess he was teleported to your world and learnt about your magic," she replies.

Hmmm, so I have a book that's nearly a thousand years old? Then why have I never heard of such a well accomplished mage back on my world? Surely the history books would have records of such a mage...

My thoughts are interrupted as we touch down in front of the Library, Twilight's already outside with a smile on her face, a white unicorn woman with indigo hair wearing an elegant blue dress is also standing beside her.

I exit first and hold my hand out to help the Princesses out, they both giggle and thank me, they then walk up to Twilight as she bows to them.

"Oh my! What a gentlecolt," the white unicorn says.

"Good morning, Princesses. It's so good to see you," Twilight says and hugs Celestia.

"Good morning, Twilight. How have you been lately?" Celestia asks her.

"Pretty good, I'm getting closer to completing that new spell since I last showed you," she replies.

I walk over to spike who just came out of the Library. "Hello, Spike, how have you been?" I ask him.

"Oh, hi, Adrian! Yeah it's been quiet around here since you went to the Castle," he tells me.

"How's Rainbow and Pinkie doing?" I ask.

"The usual, pranking the town, Pinkie's throwing parties and Rainbow's practising her stunts," he replies.

The white unicorn then holds her hand out with the back facing me. "Hello, darling. My name is Rarity, I am Ponyville's resident Fashionista," she introduces herself. She sounds like the classy type.

I lightly hold her hand and give a light kiss to the back of her hand. "A pleasure to make your acquaintance, Miss Rarity. My name is Adrian Stormsword," I reply and let go. I notice Spike frowning at me.

"Oh my..." Rarity says while fanning herself with her other hand. "A stallion with proper manners," she says and giggles.

Twilight then taps me on the shoulder. "Hello, Adrian. Still running around in your armour I see, is there a reason you always keep it on?" she asks.

"Hello, Twilight. And yes I am, it's just a habit. I've always wore it, I guess I'm just more comfortable with it than without," I reply.

"I see. So, the Princesses tell me you're here to join us at the Spa?" she asks. Rarity looks at me with raised eye brows.

"I guess so, I had nothing important to do today," I tell her.

"Wonderful! Maybe you can tell me more about your world's magic while we're there!" she says excitedly.

I see Luna stifling a giggle and Celestia just smiling. "Sure, I can tell you about the Kitsune, Elves, and Aquarian peoples magic," I tell her.

She has a large smile and starts pulling me towards the centre of town. "Then let's hurry! I can't wait to hear it!" she says. Luna is now laughing while Celestia is lightly giggling as they follow us. Two guards also follow us while the others stay by the carriage.

Along the way, people are bowing down to the Princesses who smile and wave back at them, we arrive at a building with a three pointed dark pink tent like roof, a sign of an elegant looking woman posing hangs above the door.

We all enter and are greeted by two women who are exact opposites of each other, one is light blue with pink hair and the other is pink with light blue hair. "Welcome to our Spa your majesties, how can we be of service?" they ask at the same time.

"We'd like the full treatment," Celestia replies. Why am I getting a bad feeling about this?

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