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Living Between Worlds

by ShadowBreeze

Chapter 4: The Start of a New Friendship

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Equestria: One hour after Celestia left

It has been one hour since Princess Celestia left to bring the human to Equestria. Princess Luna, Spike, and the Elements have been waiting in the throne room to be able to meet their new guest.
“Ugh, this is so boring! How long is this gonna take?!” exclaimed Rainbow Dash, who took to flying around the throne room to vent her frustration.
“My sister should be returning momentarily, Rainbow Dash. Please, be patient.” said Princess Luna
“Fine” grumbled Dash, coming to a stop and crossing her forelegs
“I have so many questions to ask him! I hope they get here soon.” said Twilight, a tinge of excitement in her voice while her mind thought up more and more questions to ask the human.
“Oh, I know darling! I can’t wait to ask him about the fashion they have there! So many different designs I could make!” exclaimed Rarity, her eyes burning with the flames of inspiration, dreaming up new designs and possibilities with the human’s help.
“I can’t wait for the really big party I’m gonna have for him! This is gonna be so much fun!” said Pinkie Pie as she was hopping in place
“Um…I’m just glad that he’s nice.” said Fluttershy, her voice barely a whisper.
Soon, there was a sparking sound around the throne room and soon there was a great flash.
“Eep!” squeaked Fluttershy in fright as she flew off and started hiding behind a window curtain farthest from the flash. The girls and Spike dashed off to retrieve her, once they managed to talk her out of hiding the flash ended and they all gave a collective of soft gasps when they saw Princess Celestia and their new arrival.

Jeronimo’s POV

I see a great flash and I ended up somewhere else. I feel a bit disoriented so I closed my eyes and fell down on my knees.
“Are you alright?” asked Princess Celestia her voice with concern
“Yes, thank you.” I wave off a dismissive hand in the direction of her voice “It just feels really weird being teleported.”
I soon open my eyes and see a beautifully decorated throne room. I look in awe at everything around me. I rose up to my feet and walked towards a balcony and I take in the view. I could see all of Canterlot and farther away I could see Ponyville. I felt tears of joy stream down my face.
‘I’m actually here.’ Taking in a deep breath of air, enjoying how clean it was compared to Earth ‘I’m actually in Equestria’
I felt a great wing cover me; I turned my head to look and see Princess Celestia, a smile on her face. I give her a great and gentle hug, grateful for this experience.
“Welcome to Equestria.” She said, feeling the warmth in each word.
“Princess…I can never thank you enough!” I say, squeezing tighter in my hug, but not too much to cause her discomfort.
After a few minutes, I released her from the hug. I use my sleeve to wipe the remaining tears from my eyes and I gave her a grateful smile. We both walked back inside and were greeted with the presence of Princess Luna, but she looked just like she did during the beginning of season 1.
She faced Celestia “Sister, I’m glad to see you are back with our guest.” Her gaze shifted to me ” Welcome to Equestria, human.” She said with an air of nobility, giving a flourish of her wings and a dramatic wave of her right hoof.
I drop down to one knee and kneel in front of her.
“Tis’ truly an honor to be in your presence Princess Luna.” I say in reverent voice “I must say it’s a surprise to meet the creator of the calm and beautiful night.”
“It’s nice to meet you as we…wait, did you just call our nights calm and beautiful?”
I slowly stand back up
“Well…yes. I always enjoyed the night. I love going outside and watching the stars and moon light up the sk-whoa!”
I’m suddenly embraced in a hug by Princess Luna. I could feel something wet hitting my shoulder.
“I’m so happy to know there is someone who actually appreciates my night. I guess things truly have changed since I finally reunited with my sister and subjects four days ago”
My face was in shock and I slowly turned to Celestia who smiled and nodded. I smiled and slowly hugged her back.
‘Four days ago!?’ my mind flashed in alarm ‘That means that Luna had just been freed from Nightmare Moon and all the other episodes haven’t even happened yet. I better be careful so I don’t change anything important.’ The possibilities of various consequences running wild in my thought
“I guess, in a way, we are not so different princess.” I calmly say to her, hoping my words won’t convey my concerns.
She slowly breaks away from the hug, using a wing to wipe the tears from her eyes.
“How so?” She asks, tilting her head with a puzzled look
I cleared my throat trying to maintain an image of coolness “You have just returned to Equestria after being away for so long. I have just come to this world that I thought was only fantasy. We both now have to adjust and learn to live in a world we know little of.”
She smiles and nods
“You are right, I can tell we have much to learn together”
Princess Celestia stepped up towards us
“Could it be you’ve made a friend, Luna?”
Luna looks back at her and nods
“Yes, a most special friend indeed. That is, if he’ll have me. Jeronimo, may I ask if I may be your friend?”
I dropped my jaw in surprise, but soon caught myself. I smiled and gave a small bow.
“It would be an honor, Princess”
“Please my friend, call me Luna.”
I stood up and she then turned to Princess Celestia.
“You see, sister!? He agreed!”
Celestia gave a small giggle.
“I’m glad you’ve made a new friend, Luna. I’m curious though, where is Twilight Sparkle and her friends?”
“We’re right here!”
I slowly turn my head towards the familiar voice and I couldn’t believe who I was seeing and was about to meet. Making their way towards us was the Mane 6 and Spike.
“There you all are! I would like to introduce you all to our new arrival. This is Jeronimo.”
I slowly walk towards them as to not appear intimidating. I then took notice that everypony was at least 4 feet tall and Celestia was at least 7 feet tall. I stop a few steps away from them.
“H-hello there, I’m Jeronimo. I’m a human and it’s a pleasure meeting all of you in person.” My heart raced in excitement; trying my best to suppress the urge to squee and hug them all right then and there.
Everypony gave a small smile; Pinkie Pie hops over to me and jumps up to my face.
“Hi! My name’s Pinkie Pie and I love to have parties for everypony! Of course, you’re not a pony, but I’m still gonna give you a super-terrific party! Do like parties!? Do humans even have parties? Oh, what about cupcakes!? What’s your favorite flavor!? I always loved…”
Pinkie was suddenly cut off by Applejack covering her mouth with her hoof.
“Sorry about that. It’s just that Pinkie here gets real excited when she meets somepony new.”
I give a small chuckle at Pinkie still trying to talk with Applejack’s hoof covering her mouth.
“It’s fine. To answer your questions Pinkie, I love parties and cupcakes. My personal favorite is a tie between chocolate and vanilla.”
Pinkie gives a large smile and hops back towards the group. My right arm is suddenly grabbed by Applejack and shaken up and down.
“It’s a pleasure makin' your acquaintance, Jeronimo. I’m Applejack.”
“N-nice t-to m-meet y-you, t-too” I shakily say through her forceful handshake.
She soon lets go of my arm and I hold onto it for a sec to make it stop moving.
“Wow. That’s quite a grip you have their, Applejack. In any case, it’s nice to meet you, too. From what I’ve heard, you and your family have an apple orchard, right?”
“That’s right. That’s Sweet Apple Acres, the finest and biggest apple orchard in all of Equestria, if I do say so myself”
“Well then, you certainly must give me a tour of it someday.”
“Well sure! It would me my pleasure.” She smiles, flashing a wink.
Applejack walks back to the group and Rainbow Dash flies towards me and hovers in front of me.
“Hey, I’m Rainbow Dash, fastest flier in all of Equestria!” She proudly boasts while taking a dramatic pose.
“Nice to meet you Rainbow, when we have the chance, you definitely have to show me some of your moves”
“You got it! You know, you’re pretty cool, for a human.”
“You’re pretty cool too, for a pony.”
She smirks and flies back towards everypony else and Rarity steps forward.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you, darling. My name is Rarity.” her voice in that upper-class tone that I remember her to have.
I smile and give a small bow.
“The pleasure is all mine, Miss Rarity.”
“Oh my! What a gentlecolt! You simply must stop by my boutique to design some clothing for you.”
“The term would be gentlemen for me, but thank you for the complement. I would love to stop by your work.”
Rarity smiles and returns to her place and Twilight, with Spike on her back, came up next.
“Hello, my name is Twilight Sparkle and I’m in charge of the Ponyville library.”
“Nice to meet you Twilight. Since I’m new here I’m definitely going to stop by to learn more about Equestria.”
“Great! I’d be happy to help you anyway I can!” her face lit up with excitement.
“Hey, I’m Spike, Twilight’s #1 assistant! It’s nice to see I’m not the only non-pony in Equestria.”
“Hey Spike!” I say, crouching a little to his height “Nice to meet you too. We should hang out sometime.” I brought up a hand to shake.
“That would be awesome!” He beamed, grabbing it with both his claws to shake, I winced a little from the pain they caused by how sharp they were. He noticed and apologized in embarrassment.
They walked back to rejoin their group, I then noticed Fluttershy slowly walking towards me. To make myself a little less intimidating, I get on my knees to seem less tall. She finally makes it to me.
“H-hello, I-I’m Fluttershy.”
I decide to whisper to make thing more comfortable for her.
“It’s nice to meet to you, Fluttershy. I can tell you’re a very nice, but quiet pony.”
She covers part of her face with her hair, but I notice a small smile on her face.
“Man, she’s really cute when she does that.”
I see Fluttershy blush and giggling coming from the girls. I notice what I just did and I soon blush as well.
“D-did I just say that out loud?”
Everypony nods and my blush increases.
“I-I’m sorry.”
“I-It’s OK. Um… t-thank you.”
She gives me a smile and hugs me. She flies back to her friends and I stand up.
“Well, I can tell you all have questions for me, so why don’t we do this? You all ask me questions one by one and I’ll answer them. Twilight, you start.”
She smiles. “Thank you. My first question is, what are you?”
“Well, like I had said, I’m a human. The scientific term for my species would be homo-sapiens. Think of us as kinda like Spike there. We walk on our hind legs, we have hands or in Spike’s case claws, we have some hair on our bodies, but not enough to form a proper coat, so we wear clothes pretty much every single day. Mostly to protect ourselves from the weather and…”
I stop with a small blush on my face.
“T-to cover our…personal sections.”
The girls and Spike figured out what I mean and they all blushed.
“Ahem. Anyway, next question?”
“Wait, I have one more question! When you saw us, you said it was a pleasure to meet us in person, does that mean you know about us?”
My eyes widen as everypony was looking at me.
‘Man, she pays attention to detail! Well, I guess I have to do this.’
I turn to Princess Celestia for reassurance and I see her still with her calm expression as she nods at me.
“You may tell them, I trust you.”
I smile and take a deep breath as I turn back to the girls and Spike.
“That question is kinda difficult to answer. Listen, you all have old mare stories right? Like the story of ‘Mare in the Moon’?”
They all nod in acknowledgement.
“Well, in my world, all of Equestria is thought to be make believe to us, mostly due to the fact that the creatures and beings of Equestria are myths in our world.”
They all gasped.
“So you don’t have any ponies in your world!?” Pinkie asked, cringing at the thought of a world without ponies.
“No, we have ponies in our world, but with some key differences. First off, we don’t have any pegasi or unicorn ponies. Also, the ponies of our world don’t have basic knowledge like you all do. Humans are the only sentient beings in our world. The ponies of our world are human companions and help with farm work.”
“What about dragons?” asked Spike
“Dragons, along with griffins, unicorns, pegasi and the creatures of Equestria are myths in my world. Along with magic since it doesn’t exist there as well.”
“A world with no magic!?” exclaimed Twilight, a look of terror spreading across her face that could match Pinkie’s.
“That’s correct. I, along with others, know about Equestria through those stories. More specifically, we know about you all and your adventures. You and a lot of ponies in Equestria, including the princesses, are famous in my world.”
“Famous!?” All of them yelled
I laughed and nodded.
“Yep! In fact, if you don’t believe me, I can show you.”
I walk to my suitcase and I open it and I get out my laptop and opened it.
“What’s that?” asked Rainbow
“This is called a laptop or a portable computer. This piece of technology allows people to communicate, send messages, play games, and read all kinds of books and papers all over the world!”
“Information from all over your world!? That’s amazing! You have to show me how to use this!” exclaimed Twilight with excitement.
I give a small chuckle and I turn on my laptop and the screen shows a calm sunset over a beach. I notice that my laptop battery hasn’t diminished at all and that I’m connected to an unknown connection with full bars.
‘I guess all those stories with laptops still being connected to Earth are true. Convenient!’
I open my files and I open episode 1 and 2 of the show. Spike and the girls gathered around me and I pressed play. We watched both episodes in silence and when the second episode ended; I closed my laptop and turned to them. They all had looks of shock and awe in their faces.
“W-well?” I asked nervously
“This is…impossible. While it didn’t show everything that happened that day, the important parts they showed were exactly correct!” said Twilight.
“Well they wouldn’t exactly show every single moment of every day. Just the important facts of certain days, so you still have your privacy.”
“This is so awesome! How many fans do we have!?” asked Rainbow
“Well I don’t have an exact number, but I know it over hundreds, thousands, maybe even millions.”
They all gasp.
“Millions of people!? Watching me!?” says Fluttershy as she curls up into a ball and starts shaking. I felt bad and I slowly walked up to her and softly removed her hooves from her face.
“Fluttershy, it’s OK. I don’t think they are watching you right this second. I believe the show is just a way for us to know about Equestria without actually seeing it all happen first hand. You don’t have to be scared, please? I’d hate to see you sad.”
She gave me a soft smile and hugged me once more.
“Thank you.”
We soon let go and I think I saw a small blush on her face. I move away a bit to face all of them.
“Now, I might know about you all from the show, but I don’t want to depend on that. I want to personally get to know each and every one of you. If I’m going to live here in Equestria, I want to be able to truly connect with you all. So…”
I swallow nervously and scuffle my foot across the floor
“W-will you all be my first friends here in Equestria?”
They look at each other and then back at me with smiles on their faces. They then ran towards me and surrounded me in a group hug. With that I knew that I had just made seven more new friends in Equestria. I hugged them back with a great smile as tears of joy once more fell from my eyes.
‘I can tell this is the start of a beautiful new friendship.’

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