In the doorway stood one of the tallest female humanoid creature Chris has ever seen. She was taller than him by a good five inches and he was easily 6’2”. She was pure white with flowing hair and tail of blue, green and pink. She was wearing a white gown that had a gold hem and a sun embroidered at the hip area. She also wore white gloves that went up to her upper arm that had a gold trim and a crown. Also of note, she was wearing shoes, something that Chris hasn’t seen any of the other ponies wearing and she had wings and horn.

‘I’m guessing she’s an Alicorn considering how tall she is, also the horn and wings… that’d probably give it away too.’ Chris thought.

After he peeled his eyes away from her he realized everyone else in the room was bowing. He felt somewhat awkward… only somewhat.

“And you won’t bow?” Celestia asked him.

Chris shook his head, “I understand you’re a princess and such and you deserve to be treated with respect as much as anyone else would when first met, but that’s just it. To me, you are just some one else, to me everyone is equal, no one is lesser or greater. And if that’s a problem then I’m afraid you’ll just have to deal with it.”

Everyone stood up quickly in surprise to his answer and Twilight tried to stammer out an excuse for him only to have Celestia stop her.

“It’s quite alright Twilight, in fact I’m quite pleased he said that. It shows he isn’t afraid to speak his mind and will treat me and anyone else the exact same.” She finished with a smile.

“Unless they do something I go against completely.” Chris said.

“Understandable and may I ask your name?”

“Chris McGrath, pleased to meet you, your highness.” He said with a curt bow.

“Please, Celestia is fine. Now, while I’m sure my student asked you some questions before I got here she probably forgot the most important one. How did you get here?” She asked getting straight to the point.

“Getting straight to the point, I like that. Well you see, it all happened yesterday…” and he told his short story, “…and here I am now talking to candy colored ponies so…”

“So now you’re looking for a way home.” Celestia finished, having Chris nod in response.

“I see, well, would you mind if I talked to my student and her friends in private for a minute?”

“Nah, it’s cool, I’ll be outside.” He picked the cloak off the ground and put it back on. As he closed the door Celestia cast a soundproofing spell on the room so nobody could hear them if they were outside.

“I’ve never heard of a dragon breathing cold… well anything before, I’m thinking he’s lying.” Rainbow said.

“I don’t know Sugarcube, it didn’t seem like he was lying” AJ said.

“Applejack is right, he wasn’t lying.” Celestia said.

Twilight looked up at Celestia, “Princess?”

“Well you see, as you know my sister and I are thousands of years old, and back years before Nightmare Moon or even Discord the second largest kingdom next to ours was the Kingdom of Drakes.”

“Right the old Dragon Kingdom, though now most if not all of the dragons on the planet are roamers while a few hundred did stay within the kingdom.” Twilight said.

Celestia nodded, “Correct, well years before that, when my parents were still alive, there was a great war between the dragons. You see there was a time where there were more than dragons that breathed fire. There were all kinds of dragons but the four greatest were Earth, Electric, Fire, and Ice. earth and electric were taken out by fire and ice near the beginning of the war and the rest of the dragon clans tried to take out the two strongest dragon clans, only to fail and be wiped out themselves. It did not end there though, of course it came down to the two strongest clans, Ice and Fire. Ultimately fire won out, but there was one survivor of the Ice clan, it was a female wyrmling. The oldest and strongest family in the fire clan took pity on her and adopted her into their family with their own wyrmling, who is the current Dragon council elder.”

“Elder Enis, I heard she is a very old and wise dragon, and very strong too.” Twilight said, obviously proud of herself.

“Indeed she is, but she only took over that position after her sister, the wyrmling that was adopted into her family disappeared ages 2,000 years before Discord appeared. She was known as Ixis by most and by many of the dragons as The Frozen Terror, a bit generic I know, but despite being an ice dragon in a world of fire dragons, she ended up being the strongest dragon of her time and one of the strongest dragons to have ever lived. We all thought her dead, but we see that she was somehow teleported to a different world and sent our friend here.”

“That was some history lesson princess, but what does it all mean?” Rainbow asked.

Celestia started to answer before pausing, “That, Rainbow Dash, not even I know… but it seems that I have to get back to Canterlot, but before I do, I know that whatever magic she used to send him here in her final breath, we can’t repeat at all, Enis might know though. And I shall tell him this on the way to Canterlot, but I have one last question for you all. If Enis doesn’t know how to send him home, will one of you be willing to let him stay with you?”

The girls looked around, “Well I would princess, but there’s barely enough room for me and Spike here.” Twilight said nervously.

“And my shop is mostly filled with my supplies. I apologize as well your majesty.” Rarity said with an apologetic look.

Rainbow just shrugged, “Unless he can fly and stand on clouds he’s outta luck with me.”

Pinkie simply said, “The Cakes.”

“And mah family, is comin’ down so I won’t have any room either, sorry princess.” AJ said.

“Well, that just leaves you dear Fluttershy.” Celestia said, looking at her with hope.

“I-I have room and I don’t mind, he’s really nice and he said he’s good with animals. That is, if he doesn’t mind.” She said with a smile.

Celestia returned the smile, “Perfect, I’ll tell him that on the way to Canterlot as well and send you a letter when I receive his answer, if he stays of course. It was good seeing you again my little ponies, have a good rest of your day.”

With that Celestia left the library to see Chris trying to talk to the guards which made her giggle a little bit.

Chris heard it and turned towards her, “Man these guys don’t budge, well I guess someone has to be good at their jobs huh?”

“Indeed they do, so Mr. McGrath are you ready to go to Canterlot?” She asked him while walking over to her chariot.

“Ready as ever, and call me Chris, all my friends do.” He said climbing into the chariot after her.

“Glad to know you count me as a friend, though I'm afraid I have some bad news, a bit of a story, and some good news to tell you on the way there so I suggest you get comfy.”

Chris nodded and sat against the walls of the enclosed chariot, getting ready for a long ride.

As Celestia told him the story and news of how they couldn’t replicate whatever magic sent him here and how Enis might be able to, only one thought came to his mind. ‘Honestly, it wouldn’t be too bad living maybe I can even be happy.’

As they pulled into Canterlot from the air Celestia was finishing up what she was saying, “….And Fluttershy said she’d be able to house you if it was alright with you, if we couldn’t send you home.”

Chris felt really happy about that actually, “I don’t mind at all, I actually quite like Fluttershy.”

“Well that’s good to hear, now, since it’s going to take an hour or two for Enis to get here, I want you to go talk to my sister, she wanted to meet this creature from the white.” She said with a smirk as they entered the castle.

Chris facepalmed, “Really? The being from the white? Is that what I’m going to be known as?”

“Only if that’s the name you want to be in the papers tomorrow.” She joked.

“You are an evil evil pony, I like it. But where is your sister anyway?” He asked.

“Probably in her room still asleep, if you need directions ask a guard… wait.” She pulled out a pin shaped like her cutie mar from somewhere and pinned it to his cloak, “There, once the guards see that pin they’ll know you’re a guest and will take you to wherever you ask. Also aren’t you going to take that cloak off?”

He realized he was indeed still wearing the cloak, “Nah, I actually kinda like it, and I’ll keep it on for now. Anyway, why do I have a feeling you have a bag full of these little pins that you keep on you just incase?”

She gave him a devious little smile, “I have no idea what you are talking, but I have to go hold the rest of day court until Enis gets here, have fun talking to my sister, oh and call her Woona, she loves that.” She walked away with a bit of sway to her hips.

Chris just scratched his head in confusion, “Why do I feel like I just flirted with a god without meaning to?” he shrugged it off, “Oh well, better go find her sister… actually I better go find a guard.”

And so he did, a white pony in golden armor, “Uhm, excuse me, I was told to ask one of the guards to be taken to Princess Celestia’s sister’s room.”

The guard looked him up and down before seeing the pin before nodding, “Follow me sir.”

It took a few minutes to get there and on the way he saw more guards and they looked exactly like the one he was following, he asked about this and the guard told him that the armor was enchanted to make anypony who wears it look the same.

That’s all the conversation they had before getting to some very large double doors. “I’d advise knocking before entering sir, Princess Luna can be a bit cranky being woken up so early.”

“Right….” Chris hesitated before rapping on the door a few times waiting for a response when he got a clear “you may come in” from behind the door the guard nodded and you opened the door and went in.

When you came fully in the door closed behind you with a soft click and you looked around before your eyes settled on the bed. On the bed was another Alicorn, this time she was dark blue with translucent blue hair and tail, which also seemed to have stars in it. She was wearing a simple black gown that looked like it was meant for sleeping and she didn’t have any of the regalia that her sister wore. ‘Makes sense, she was just asleep’ he thought.

“Dear subject how may we help you?” She asked using a few older English words.

Chris pulled his hood back, “Celestia said that you wanted to meet the creature that appeared last night. Well here I am… I guess.”

She blushed, “Oh we’re going to get Tia for this, we told her to wake us up before she went to go see you, she’s always trying to play some sort of joke on us. It seems she played a joke on you as well creature.”

He cocked his head to the side in confusion, “What do you mean Princess?”

She pointed to his chest, more specifically the pin, “That pin, we bet she told you that you need it to traverse the castle yes?” He nodded, “Well you don’t she pulls this on any newcomer to the castle, even all the guards are in on it, you can take it off if you wish. She didn’t tell you anything else did she?”

Chris thought for a second realizing some, only to get a devious thought, “Not at all Woona, she just told me to be polite.”

Luna went from blue to red in near half a second, “She is so going to get it, well since she told you to call us Woona, we want you to do us a favor and call her Molly the next time you see her.”

“Can do Princess Luna.” He said as he took the pin off his cloak and stuffed it into a pocket.

“Please just call us Luna. We’re not much into formalities like our sister. May we ask your name so we don’t keep calling you creature?” She said sitting up fully she seemed to be Chris’ exact height.

“Chris McGrath, but call me Chris all my friends do… And before you ask, I like to consider everyone my friend until they do me wrong.” He said shifting uncomfortably being caught in one of his infamous awkward situations.

You see, Chris always seemed to be caught in awkward situations with females. This time was no different. Seeing how Luna’s gown was a bit too big to it was slipping off her shoulders and revealing a large amount of cleavage.

“Well we hope to not do you wrong, we quite enjoy having friends.” Luna said with a smile.

Chris sighed before sitting on one of the chairs in the room, “So you wanted to meet me hm? Well let’s talk I got an hour or two before Enis shows up.”

Luna’s eyes lit up like stars at night… ha, “Yes, let us converse, this shall be fun.”

And so they talked.

Chris quite enjoyed talking to the princess of the night; she was very laid back and really funny. Though she brought up something about his eyes too, but before he could check he was summoned by the guard.

Celestia met him and the guard at a fork in the hallway, “So, did you enjoy talking to my sister?”

“Yep, Luna is pretty cool, has a good sense of humor. So how was the court Molly?” He said with a wicked grin.

Celestia blinked, “Wait… what did you call me?”

Chris snickered, “Nothing at all, so I’m guessing I was called because Enis is here?”

Celestia sighed, “Yes, she arrived not but five minutes ago and is waiting in the conference room, probably the only room in the castle big enough to hold a dragon I might add. So, just follow me.”

Chris stepped to the side to let Celestia pass, “After you Molly.”

She facepalmed, “I knew it, I’m going to get Lulu back for that, she knows I loathe that name. Seriously it came about in the most ridiculous of ways, although it was a thousand years ago. But of course she’s old enough to remember.”

Chris shrugged walking next to her, “I say you deserve after tricking me like that. Though I am curious as to how you earned the name Molly. Care to tell?”

She blushed, “Well it was around the time Discord came around, a spirit of pure chaos, disharmony, and well discord. He has the ability to change a pony’s nature. He managed to get a hold of me at some point and while I’m normally a kind, respectful and caring ruler. When he changed my nature I became a rude, personal space invaded, obnoxious ruler. The ponies at the time called me Molestia because my actions tended to be me molesting my subjects in some way or another, and so the nickname Molly was created because it’s much easier to yell out “Molly is coming, hide!” than it is “Molestia is coming, hide!”

Chris shook his head but he still had a small smile, “That is horrible and hilarious at the same time and I approve. I mean no one got hurt right? They just hade their bubble popped every once and a while.”

“I suppose that is true, but we’ve arrived and a word of advice be polite, she isn’t harsh but she does like ponies being polite.” Celestia said as she opened the door, as she did so her horn flashed ever so briefly and went unnoticed by anyone.

Chris looked passed Celestia into a large cavernous room, in the center there was a huge oval shaped table with many chairs of various sizes and shapes. The largest chair was being occupied by a very VERY large Dragon.

Chris assumed this was Enis; her body was a deep forest green while her secondary coloring (Belly, horns, spines, frills, wing membrane etc.) was a nice brown color that reminded him of oak. Her eyes were a very interesting contrast to the rest of her, they were a blazing red, it looked like he was staring into a roaring forest fire, yet he didn’t feel in any danger.

Enis, turned and looked down at the two, her long neck arcing downward to get a closer look, “Celestia, it’s been too long, how have you been? And who is this youngling creature you have with you?”

“It’s good to see you too Enis and I’m doing fine. This, is Chris McGrath, he’s a human sent from his world to ours by someone we thought to be dead.”

Enis’ eyes winded a bit before looking at Chris, “Ixis?” She got a firm nod in response. She blinked, raised her head and then lowered it back then, “Tell me young one, how is my sister?”

Chris rubbed his arm nervously, “Actually….. she was, uhm, dying when she sent me here, sorry…”

Enis frowned before shaking her head slowly, “I see… it is alright young one, I thought she perished long ago. I have come to terms with her departure. But that begs another question, why did you bring him to our meeting Celestia?”

“I think that would be better answered by him.” Celestia said taking a seat in a chair that had a sun carved into it.

“I see, well take a seat young one, and tell me why you’re here.” Enis said gesturing towards a chair.

He took it, “Uhm, please call me Chris, Grand Council Dragon Enis. But I’ve come to speak to you with the assumption that you may be able to replicate whatever your sister did to send me here so that I may get back.”

Enis looked away in thought before speaking, “Hmmm, I’m assuming, Sir Chris, that she sent you here while dying and that she breathed on you correct?”

“Yes, I actually thought she was just going to kill and eat me but I found myself here instead. And I guess I did get what I asked.”

“And what was that?”

“I wanted to see a new place no one on my planet has seen. You see my species we like to explore, expand and learn. While, there are places on my plane that we haven’t fully explored or discovered a vast majority of what we could traverse without the aid of something has been done. So I guess sending me here was the best thing for my request.”

“I see, so if you got what you asked for why would you want to go back?” Enis asked.

Chris paused ‘She’s right, I did get what I asked for, and there wasn’t much for me left, it’s just that…’ “I never got to say goodbye.” He said.

Celestia and Enis were visibly stunned. Honestly, Celestia thought he wanted to just get back to his friends and family, but this… this was something she didn’t expect.

Enis was the first to recover, “So you want to go back just to say goodbye?” Chris nodded, albeit, sheepishly. “Well I’m sorry to say that, that kind of magic was exclusive to Ice Dragons. It was a power bestowed upon them by our gods to help them win the war against us, the Fire Dragons, but it could only be used when an Ice Dragon was dying. I am sorry, I understand what it feels like not being able to say goodbye.”

Celestia nodded, “As do I and I am sorry Chris that this came to a dead end.”

Chris waved it off, “Meh, it’s fine. My peeps will be fine; I only book in with the strong willed… I’m going to miss them though.” Celestia and Enis gave him sad looks. “But don’t mind me; you two have political stuff to talk about right? Well you do that.”

Celestia blinked, “Well yes, but what will you do?”

“Me? I’m going to tune you two out so I don’t hear whatever I’m not supposed to hear and nap. Wake me when I gotta go.” He said leaning back in the chair and closing his eyes.

Enis laughed, “You always find the strangest creatures Celestia, but yes he is right I came here to discuss political matters, so let us start.”

Chris, like he said, tuned out the two beings talking. But he did not nap instead he thought and thinking always brings him out.

So you finally got away from all those idiots you called family. Took you long enough, I hated them, all of them. You have no idea how much I wanted to hurt them, hear them scream in pain as I broke them like the broke us.

’Shut up.’

You only tell me to shut up because you know I’m right, you wanted to hurt them as much as I did, you wanted them to suffer, to know your pain. Even beloved little-

‘I SAID SHUT UP. Yes, they hurt me so what? They realized what they did wrong apologized and helped me later, they helped me repress you. They-“

THEY ALL LEFT! That’s what they did, they left you, they left you alone when you needed them most and what happened? They forgot about you, they never talked to you, but now you never have to worry about that again because you’ll never see them again.

‘And why do you sound so happy about that? Didn’t my so called ‘resentment’ towards them fuel you? Without them around anymore, you’ll just die.’

hehehe…..ahahahahaha….HEHEHEHEHEHE….AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA….

And with that the voice faded away but the laugh left shivers down Chris’ spine. After that he did nap for a little bit before being poked awake. When he opened his eyes he was staring directly at a very large, white, chest which startled the beejesus out of him causing him to fall back in the chair.

“HOLY MOTHER OF ALL THINGS BALLS!” he yelled out causing the two much older females to giggle.

“Are you all right Chris?” Celestia asked.

He nodded before standing up and dusting himself off, “But next time warn me before I get a face full of boob, ok? I mean, I ain’t complaining but Yeesh.”

“I’ll remember that, but the meeting is over so that means it’s time for you to head back to Ponyville. But first we have to stop by my chambers so I may write a letter to my student. I hope you won’t mind waiting a bit longer.”

He shook his head and looked to Enis, “It was nice meeting you Elder Enis.”

She gave a soft smile, “It was a pleasure to meet you as well young one, and I hope our paths cross again. Oh and Celestia remember what I said.”

Celestia looked at her before turning her head, “Come, Chris let us get you home quickly.”

After the two left the room Enis stood from the spot she was sitting in before walking to two large doors that were behind her and opening them, revealing the sky.

“Sister, I hope you understand what you are doing. I can see the potential he has within himself, but I can also see the great darkness as well. But as long as you are there I believe he won’t fall to it, keep him safe he will make a good king.” And with that she took off towards the south head back to the Kingdom of Drakes.

Chris was standing in Celestia’s room watching her write a letter to Twilight, that’s really all he was doing… he wasn’t staring at her chest or anything, nope not doing that at all.

Celestia was sitting at her desk writing a letter to Twilight while Chris stared at her chest, she knew he was, she could see him out of the corner of her eye she could also the bulge in his pants. And she wasn’t appalled by it or anything she was quite happy actually, she was happy that she was still attractive. Ever since Luna came back she noticed that most of her subjects became very attracted to her younger sister and while she was glad Luna was getting respect and attention she was also a bit jealous… so it was nice that she was being oogled and getting some oogling in herself. He was attractive in a way, sure he wasn’t the most handsome, but he didn’t look bad, he was just very straightforward and honest and she quite enjoyed it, not many ponies were like that around her. As she finished writing the letter, she rolled it up and tied it with a pink ribbon she pulled from a jar on her desk before igniting it.

Chris watched as the smoke and ash flew out the window with a raised brow, “Uh… was that a rough draft?”

Celestia turned to face him, “Oh, no its just a type of sending magic, I learned it from the Dragons but it comes naturally to them.” Her smile dropped and her face took on a more serious expression. “There is something I want to talk to you about.”

Chris squirmed trying to get comfortable, “O-ok, what did you want to talk about?”

“Well when I woke you up I noticed something about your eyes…”

Chris sighed, ‘Seriously, what is up with my eyes that everyone keeps mentioning it? I’ll just have to check when I get a mirror or something.’

Celestia continued, “I saw darkness in them, I saw the pain of a life that did horrible things to you, I saw sadness, grief, sorrow, hatred, rage, regret, and so much more. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t curious as to what happened.”

Chris started to panic a bit, his heart rate increasing, “I… uh…. I-I don’t…. I don’t want to talk about it… please…” He closed his eyes and took a shaky breathe.

He felt something wrap around him and squeeze him; he opened his eyes to see that Celestia was hugging him with one arm while the other ran through his hair.

“I’m sorry if I made you remember anything painful, but I know how its like to hide your pain and real emotions. I’ve been alive for a long time and I have been through quite a lot so I understand. You hide your emotions very well, but I can see you are troubled…. Hmmm, can you promise me something?”

Chris just gave her a questioning look.

“If you ever feel sad or upset or anything negative, send me a letter, talk to me or come straight to Canterlot ok? I don’t care what I’m doing, If you need me I’ll be there to listen. Can you do that?”

Chris just buried his head into her shoulder and nodded, gripping the fabric of his cloak. He wanted to cry, he really did, but he can’t he just can’t.

“Good, but also send me a letter of the good things too; it’ll be nice to know about those as well.”

Chris took a long breath, “I… I can do that, but how will I send the letters to you?”

“Well, Ponyville has a mail system so you can use that or if you want to send it directly to me uhm… here.” She pulled back from Chris and reached into her cleavage making the man cough and blush heavily. She pulled out a small emerald (anime logic also magic, don’t gotta explain shit) and handed it to him. Chris was hesitant but took it

“Whenever you tap something to the emerald or the emerald to something twice in rapid succession it should get sent straight to me.” Chris nodded in understanding.

They sat there in silence for a few minutes before a wisp of smoke came in through the open window above her desk and popped out a scroll in front of her. She read it quickly and stood up.

“Well now it looks like its really time to go to Ponyville, the guards will take the Chariot to Fluttershy’s house. Also Twilight might want to study you so I suggest you just let her do it, it’ll be a lot less painful. I am afraid I can not walk you to the chariot though I have some paper work I need to get done, just ask one of the guards outside my room to take you to the runway.” She put the scroll in a box filled with more scrolls.

“Ok, thanks for everything I’m glad you were my first official friend. I promise I’ll write.” As he turned to go…

“Chris, one more thing.” Celestia walked up to him and gave him a hug and whispered, “You’re adorable when you get flustered. I also know you were staring, don’t worry I’m not mad I quite enjoyed it; it means I’m still attractive. Oh and I also quite enjoyed staring at you too.” She gave him a kiss on the cheek and groped him making him jump a bit.

“I uh… what?” He stammered out.

“I’m just teasing you, You make me feel young and flirty again, I quite like it, so I hope you don’t mind.”

Chris thought about it for less than a millisecond, I mean come on it’s a hot as hell, well shaped female with a great personality flirting with him? “Yeah, I’m fine with that as long as it’s ok for me to do so back.”

She smiled, “Oh I think I would like tha-AAAAIIIIIIII!” She squeaked because she got groped hard by Chris who then took off running down the hall. “Oh I am going to enjoy him.” Celestia said with a giggle.

Chris was sitting in the back of the chariot shaking his head, ‘Oy I someone managed to get another one, yay… well should be fun life and stuff.’

He chuckled before being bounced around as the chariot came to a stop. “We have arrived at our destination sir.” Said one of the Pegasi guards that were pulling the chariot.

Chris stepped out onto the ground and thanked the guards before they flew off back towards Canterlot. He looked around and realized he ran passed this area when he was fleeing from Pinkie Pie. There was a rather decent sized hill that had a door on the front of it with several windows dotted about the place; something he noticed was that there were a crap load of bird houses on and around her house. He walked up to the door and saw that it was split vertically in the middle, he guessed it was to see who was outside without opening the door fully or to let out small animals… depending on what half of the door you opened of course.

He gave it a few raps with his knuckles, “Hello, Ms. Fluttershy, are you here?”

He heard a small cry and a flustered quiet voice call out, “Ah, one minute please! Angel can you get the door? Thank you!”

Chris scratched the side of his head as he heard bumps and a few crashes coming from in the house, ‘Angel, I wonder who that is? Brother? Boyfriend maybe? Sister? Or possibly even girlfriend, I don’t judge all things considered.’ He heard the door creak opened and did not expect to see what he saw. Standing in the doorway was a small white bunny giving him a death glare. A BUNNY was giving him a death glare.

“Hey, I’m guessing you’re Angel?” He asked, getting a nod in response. “Cool, so is it ok for me to come in? I mean she is expecting me, or she should hopefully.”

The bunny looked him up and down to see if he was a threat or not and after several awkward moments Angel decided it was ok. He stepped aside and Chris walked into the house. It was much bigger on the inside than it looked but at the same time there were so many animals and Chris LOVED it, hell he even squealed when he saw a hedgehog crawling along the floor.

It was a few minutes before Fluttershy came down and she saw Chris softly petting Mr. Hedgy, “Oh I see you found Mr. Hedgy, he is really friendly.”

Chris looked up and gulped, Fluttershy was wearing teal t-shirt, pearl white jeans, and her hair was up in a bun with two strands of hair, one hanging over each eye. She looked very pretty and it made his heart skip a few beats. “Uh…. I…. you…. Gah?”

At him struggling to speak Fluttershy rushed over to check if he was alright and he made the motion for water which she quickly got for him. Chris chugged it down like a fat man eats pie.

“Whew, thank you, sorry about that I have no idea what happened.” He laughed nervously, ‘Of course I knew what happened but she’s super shy and probably takes compliments…. weird.’ He thought.

She sighed happily, “That’s good, I’m happy you’re ok.” She hesitated for a moment before speaking again. “So, y-you’re ok with staying here right? I wouldn’t want you to feel uncomfortable with it or anything…”

“Huh? Oh, yeah I’m perfectly fine with staying here, I already love it.” He said while rubbing one finger against Mr. Hedgy’s stomach.

“You really do like animals; good I was afraid you were just saying yes to make me happy.” She said looking away.

“Nah I don’t do things like that, I love animals, especially small adorable ones.”

Fluttershy looked down at Mr. Hedgy, he looked so happy, “Mr. Hedgy looks like he likes you too, that’s good…. OH! I almost forgot it’s time to feed the animals.”

“You mind if I watch?” He asked. “I could also help if you want.”

“Oh I would greatly appreciate that, thank you.” She smiled and went to get the food. When she came back she had a lot of food, like a lot of food.

Chris’ eye twitched almost immediately regretting offering his help, “S-so how many animals do you have?”

“It depends really, I don’t own any of these animals except for Angel, and I’d like to say I’m more of an animal sanctuary. They are free to come and go as they please or people can come and adopt them. I also take care of injured animals. But I guess right now I have about 30 animals, the bigger animals are outside.” She said dragging the last bag of food out into the living room.

Chris regretted his decision but he wasn’t gonna back out, so for the next 30 minutes they fed the animals, Fluttershy had an amazing assortment of animals it was crazy. There were carnivores, omnivores, herbivores, and insectivores; it was quite weird to see so many different animals live together peacefully.

After you two were done it was dark out, sure it was only 30 minutes but he got to her house pretty late.

“Now it’s time for us to eat…” At that she realized she didn’t know what humans eat and blushed fiercely and panicked a bit, “Oh... oh my, I was about to go make some food without asking what you could eat, I am so so sorry Mr. Chris, please don’t be mad.”

Chris laughed and patted her back, “It’s alright Fluttershy, don’t get worked up, uhm I’m an omnivore, and you have a few so you know what that means. But if you want me to be specific, I can’t eat flowers, grass, hay or anything like that. Other than that I can eat most anything.”

Fluttershy nods, “So you eat meat as well right?”

“Yeah I do, that want be a problem will it? If it is I don’t have to.” He said sounding a bit worried.

“No, its ok, I mean I do feed Mr. bear and other omnivores and carnivores, I’m ok with it, but I’m guessing you don’t eat it raw like they do?” Chris shook his head, “Ok I’ll cook something for you too.”

Chris was a bit stunned, yeah she has carnivores and omnivores here but for her, an herbivore herself to be so calm about that was, well, shocking.

So he sat and watched her cook, he even asked to help a few times but she said she was fine. And she was right, she was very graceful in cooking, much like everything else Chris realized, but it was like a soft graceful. And when she was done it smelled amazing to him.

He looked down at his plate and saw a cooked fish and a small salad with some orange slices. Then he looked to Fluttershy’s, she had a number of steamed vegetables and a few chilled fruits thrown in there.

“Thank you, for cooking this, honestly. I understand that you may not be perfectly comfortable with it but this means a lot.” He said picking up a fork and knife.

Fluttershy blushed, something she did often, “It was no problem, and I understand that you need meat to survive but I also know that you would never eat or harm a pony or any of my animals so it’s all ok.”

“Thank you for trusting me.” He said with a big smile before tearing the fish apart…. Chris REALLY liked seafood.

Fluttershy looked at him and thought, ‘Even though he is very smart and kind he still is a predator of sorts, I can sense it in him, I can feel it, I can see it now as he’s eating but he’s also smiling. So I know its ok for him to be here. My animals like him and he likes my animals. I think, I’ll like having him around. He also understands my shyness, yes it is going to be fine.’

Chris looked up and saw Fluttershy staring at him with a small smile before he raised an eyebrow, “Wahrt?” he asked with a mouthful.

Fluttershy eeped, blushed, looked down and starting eating while shaking her head.

After the meal was done Chris leaned back in the chair and rubbed his stomach, “Man that was good. I think I’ll sleep good tonight.”

Fluttershy looked at the clock and gasped, “Oh! It is late, I guess it’s time for bed.” She went to grab the dirty dishes when Chris grabbed her wrist gently.

“It’s ok, you go do what you have to do, I’ll take care of the dishes and stuff, it’s the least I could do.”

She just nodded and walked to the entryway to the kitchen before looking back to see him already washing them, “I almost forgot, you’re room is on the third floor, it’s the only one and the bathroom is in there too, I’m a floor below you, so if you need me just call.” He just gave a small wave. Fluttershy smiled again and went to go take a shower and go to bed.

Once Chris was done washing the dishes, he headed up the stairs to take a shower and he realized he didn’t have any extra clothes but his were dirty so he made a decision to sleep in his underwear. As he was getting comfortable he heard scratching at his door, he went to check what it was only to see Mr. Hedgy out in the small hall, “What you want to sleep in here with me?” the hedgehog just nodded. “Alright, come on you spiky thing.” He picked him up and put him on top of the comforter while Chris snuggled deep into the warmth. Right before he put his head down he took a sheet off one of the pillows and wrapped it around Mr. Hedgy.

“Yeah, I could get used to life here.” He said as he drifted off to sleep.

Author's Notes:

No idea what I was thinking at some parts of this , but it get's better later, I promise.

Yes, I'm putting a link to the Q&A blog in every author note, for those who stopped at mid points in the story, It's for reaching 25 chapters being written, even though 25 is still being written: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/831885/qs-for-the-qa-chapter