A/N:Hi Guys and Gals! I just wanted to say that this is my first fic ever, so I do apologize if I rushed the stories to much or I don't exactly get every character's personality/dialogue correct. Also, I don't have an editor or anything like that so there may be some grammar/spelling errors as well, but please do not be afraid to tell me about it. I encourage constructive criticism and hope that it helps me become a better writer. Anyways, I'll stop boring you with the author's note and dive right into the chapter. Enjoy!

His name was Luke. Luke was a 16 year old and had short black hair, brown eyes, and was 6'1". Though he would never think of himself this way, he was also somewhat good looking. If Luke was known for something at his school, it would be for how quiet and unsocial he was. Luke was afraid to make friends because he knew that people were capable of hurting one another emotionally, and wanted to avoid that by never getting to attached to someone. He also thought friends were just distractions, and that school was more important. Even though he was smart enough to have friends while maintaining a great grade level, he just needed another reason for himself to not make friends.

Luke never realized it, but his loneliness had caused him a lot of depression. He had usually spent his time trying to better himself in anything he could, either it be improving his physical attributes or gaining more knowledge. He had somewhat of an athletic look to him because not only did exercise help him physically, but it helped his mind as well. Luke had also been trained as an exceptional fighter in many different fields of fighting, mainly karate. But no matter how good he could get at fighting, he had always carried a combat knife on him. The only reason why he did this was to protect himself or others from the violence the world could offer, a violence he had known all to well.

When he was just five years old, his mother had been murdered on a business trip, which meant that all Luke had left was his father. And his father was NOT a nice person. Luke would find himself being beaten very often by his dad, until Luke turned 13 in which he could defend himself. Luke never had a chance to have a real childhood with loving and caring parents, and was never truly cared for at all. But this was the very reason why he devoted himself to making himself the best that he could be and had always put others before him, so that he could prevent any pain to others and keep people happy.

Luke had once even received a medal at school for catching a 14 year old girl from falling off of a ladder (she was putting up a banner for a school play). He had even gotten a kiss on the cheek from the girl he had saved, which was a very foreign feeling for him. Sure he had always found girls attractive in school, but this was the first time he had ever been shown affection from one that he thought was cute. Of course, he had merely said it was nothing and continued to keep to himself, even though it was clear she liked him and he liked her. He was just to shy to act on his feelings.

The day he had found out about my little pony, he was hooked. Once he had started watching, he just couldn't stop. He was not quite sure what it was, but this show had appealed to him nothing like anything else had done before. It may have been the lack of humanity, and by that I mean the lack of violence, crime, rape, etc. It was like the show had filled a gap in his heart, and he knew that this was the thing that had given him the most happiness in life.

-Present day-

*BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP

Luke sighed as he turned off his alarm clock.

He rolled out of bed, put on clean clothes, made himself breakfast, the same morning routine. He had looked outside and saw that it was raining, but he knew he had to walk to school because his father was most likely hung over, even though he would usually not get a ride anyway. He gave another heavy sigh as he packed his backpack and began the trek to school.

The walk to school was about a 30 minute walk, but he usually didn't mind because he could listen to music, which was usually related to my little pony. As he was walking, he began to notice that the sky looked off today, even for a rainy day. Just as he was about to put on his headphones, he noticed that it was starting to get brighter out, but the rained kept going. After a closer ananlysis, the light was only forming on him, and it was not coming from the sun. Still confused to what was going on, Luke decided to pick up the pace a bit, only to find that it was getting more and more difficult to walk.

"What the hell is going on?" Luke said getting worried.

The light had only been increasing in brightness, and he could no longer move. As Luke began to scream for help, he realized that he began to spin at a gradually growing pace. As Luke looked down, he realized that his feet were beginning to leave the ground as well. He contiuned was spinning faster and faster, to the point of him beginning to feel sick. The last thing he heard was an extremely high pitched noise and all he could see was white.

As his consciousness began returining, the first think he realized that it was night now. He opened his eyes only to see a plethora of trees in front of him that seemed to just keep going.

Luke began to look around and he realized that he was in a forest. It seemed to be about evening time and it was getting dark, but not dark enough to see where he was going. What happened? A...forest? How the hell did I get here? How long was I out? He sat in silence for a brief moment, contimplating on what to do next. I know I'm supposed to stay put in situations like these, but I don't have enough supplies to support myself out here. I guess my best bet is try and get out of this forest.

He began to walk aimlessly through the forest hoping for any sign of civilization. As he continued walking, his stomach began growling. He went through his bag again until he came across his school lunch. As he took a bite out his peanut butter and jelly, he heard somewhat of a crunching sound from under his foot. He looked down to find a...huge scorpion tail coming out of a bush? A loud growl suddenly came from the bush as a large figure arose from it. Luke froze. The figure turned around only to come face to face with him. A lion with wings and a scorpion's tail...almost doubling his size...staring him down. "...AAAHHH!" Luke screamed as he dropped his sandwich and ran as fast as he could away from this hideous beast. The beast gave a roar that shook the trees around it and began pursuing its target.

-Ponyville, Apple Orchards

Applejack had a stressful day and decided to take it out on some trees. It was late at night and she knew that she was from a family of heavy sleepers, so she didn't have to hold back. Just as soon as she was about to buck her third tree, she a loud scream followed by an even louder roar that omitted from within the everfree forest

"Uh-oh, somepony's in trouble!" she said as she began galloping to the noise.

-Everfree Forrest border

Luke just ran. His only thought was to get far away from that huge beast, and from what sounded like trees falling behind him, he was not doing as such. He gave one last full on sprint until he got far enough away from it and hid behind a tree. The manticore slowly aproached the area where Luke was hiding and began searching the area for him. Shit! Shit! Shit! What am I gonna do?! Its only a matter of time before that...thing finds me! He heard another growl from the beast as it continued to sniff out where it's next meal was. Luke's mind was racing until he realized something. My combat knife! He quietly took the knife out of his bag and decided that if he was gonna live, he would need the drop on the beast. Luke found a big stick on the ground and threw it in a bush about 20 feet to his right. The predator spun its head around and pounced on the bush, only to find a stick. Luke saw his chance and rushed the beast.

-Applejack third person POV

Applejack had finally reached the source of the roar and had hidden in a near by bush at first, planning to get to help who ever needed help. When she saw the manticore ripping apart a bush, she assumed that the pony was in there and she was already too late. Just as she was about to jump out and fight the manticore, she saw an ape-like creature who was running on two feet come from behind a tree and rush the beast. From what she could tell, this wierd creature seemed to be wielding a large knife.

-Regular POV

Luke rushed the beast and jumped on its back, bringing his knife down 2 times on it before being thrown off of the beast and into a nearby tree, back first. Luke staggered to his feet and saw that a now even angrier manticore was running towards him and jumped in the air to attack him. Barely managing to roll out of the way, Luke went at the creature and slashed at the creature's upper right leg. The beast roared and swiped at him, and even though Luke jumped back, the creature tore through his shirt and scratched his upper chest, leaving a bleeding slash mark on him. "fuck!" Luke yelled as the creature's claws made contact to him. The creature brought its paw up in the air and tried to bring it down on top of him, only for Luke to jump to the left and bring the knife down on its paw, leaving the paw stuck to the ground with a knife in it. "RRRRAAAAGGGHH!" it yelled trying to free its paw. Luke took this opportunity to go for the head and start pounding on it until the creature ripped its paw out of the ground and shook Luke off of itself. He managed to land on his feet this time and retrieved the knife from the ground with the patch of fur and flesh still left on it. He got in a fighting stance, ready to try and counter whatever the beast was going to do next. What the beast did suprised him, it began limping back into the forest.

Luke gave a sigh of relief as he got out of his fighting position and sat down, leaning on a tree. That was way too close. What is going on?! This forest, that lion thing, how the hell did I get here?! As his adrenalin started dying down, he remembered that slash he got from that beast. He took off his shirt to get a better analysis of his injury. The cut wasn't too deep, but was bleeding a lot. He used his shirt to whipe the blood and used it as a bandage. He wrapped the shirt around his upper body and tied a not near his back. This will have to do for now, could have been worse. Luke heard a cracking noise by a bush nearby and jumped to his feet, knife in hand.

-Applejack Third Person POV

She just witnessed some bizzare creature take on a manticore and win. What was she supposed to do now? Confront the creature? No, not after what she saw that thing could do. What ever it is, it seemed dangerous...she wasnt going to take any chances. She should just leave while she has the chance. As she slowly backed out of the bush, she stepped on a branch, making a loud crunch noise. Oh, horse apples!

-Regular POV

"H-hello?" Luke said a little shakily. The last thing he wanted was another one of those things...or worse.

He heard more rustling from the bush and saw the silhouette of an odd figure come out of the bush. "H-howdy" Applejack said in a similar way.

"Oh thank goodness! You would not believe what I've been through! Um, can you direct me to the closest-" but stopped talking as soon as the figure walked closer and was illuminated by the moonlight. He blanked. ...Applejack? WHAT!? A-Am I INSANE? No, no, I must be dreaming! Yep that's it! I'm asleep! But...I shouldn't able to feel anything while I'm sleeping... Luke thought as he felt the slash on his body.

"A-are you alright?" Applejack asked, snapping Luke back into reality.

"Um, I got...um..." Luke was fumbling with his words. He was still beside himself that he was speaking to THE Applejack. "I got hurt fighting some wierd...thing and I got cut by it. Nothing too bad though, I...I think I'll be fine."

"Pardon me if I sound rude, but... what exactly are you?" Applejack asked with a small tone of fear.

"I'm a human, um, my name is Luke. Nice to meet you." He said trying to show her he was friendly.

"Nice to meet you too. Ahm a pony, and my name is Applejack." Applejack said with a bit more confidence reaching out a hoof.

Luke looked down at his hand and just went with what felt right. He didn't want to seem rude, but a hand and a hoof would be wierd for a hand shake. He grabbed on to Applejack's hoof. It was an awkward handshake...if you would even call it that. But both of them just went with it.

"So what are you doin' out here at this time at night?" Applejack asked.

"To be honest...I just kinda woke up in the forest. I don't really know how I got here..." Luke said. How did I get here? And why am I in Equestria?!

"Well, do you have anyplace to stay for th' night?"

"No, not really. I'm probably going to end up making a camp or something when morning comes."

"Um, do you want to spend the night at mah house?" Applejack asked unsure if it was a good idea or not. Ah, don't even know this...creature. Should Ah have invited him over? He seems nice enough...and Ah wouldn't wish it on anypony to spend the night in a place like this...

"...Um, ok. If it wouldn't be to much trouble."

"No problem at all...follow me."

They began to walk back and Luke was still in complete shock to what was happening. I'm in Equestria? How? There should be no way I'm here right now! A different planet! This is insane! ...was I drugged maybe? Luke kept trying to come up with reasons to how any of this was possible. Then he looked at Applejack. He noticed how her flanks were swaying and it made him think. For some reason she looked...attractive? Wait...WHAT?! Attractive? What the fuck is wrong with me! A...pony, attractive? I have to be drugged...

The walk was silent until they approached the Apple residence.

"Try to be quiet... I don't want to wake mah family..."

"Ok, I will."

They tip toed and tip hoofed up the stairs and into what Luke assumed to be Applejack's room. It was a fairly small room, nothing unexpected from a farmer.

"Make yourself comfortable on the bed while Ah go get a sleepin' bag for mahself."

"Um, that won't be necessary, you deserve to sleep in your bed, you're doing so much for me already, I would be fine with the sleeping bag." Luke insisted

"Ah, won't have none of that...you're mah guest and shall be treated as such. I will be fine, please take the bed." Applejack insisted back.

"No, really, I'm fine, a sleeping bag is more than enough for me."

"Um...We could just...share the bed..." Applejack said with uncertainty.

Luke went wide eyed for a moment. W-what? Share the bed? I don't think I could do that...Well... S-she's just trying to be nice...and it would be rude if I said no... "Alright..."

Luke went to one side of the bed and Applejack went to the other. Both of them felt very awkward, but Applejack seemed to fall asleep rather quickly. Luke on the other hand couldn't clear his thoughts and was beginning to stress out. This is all too wierd...I...I will be fine in the morning! Im just on something right now that's making me hallucinate! Probably a fever dream or something...I'm gonna wake up and everything will be fine in the morning. Luke eventually fooled himself enough to fall asleep because of his unwillingness to accept that what was happening was true...

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