Walking through the streets of Ponyville drew a lot of eyes. I expected this due to my unique situation. I mean come on; when you are the only human on the planet, you tend to be a point of curiosity for a lot of ponies. It was a bit later in the day but still a bit early. I knew that I needed to get that food, but at the same time, I had a few errands that I needed to run as well.

My first stop was to the town hall to notify the mayor of my presence. In addition to being Twilights guard, I also found myself to be the only guard presence in the town. Apparently, they have been incredibly peaceful in later years, which lead them not to really need a guard force. After introducing myself to the mayor (who I found funnily enough to be named Mayor Mare), I showed myself around the town.

Overall it was rather quaint. There were a few places of business that were a bit strange from the outside. The local bakery looked like a giant gingerbread house and apparently there was a fashion designer in the city that lived and worked out of a place that looked like a carousel. I did notice that as it grew a bit later in the evening that the local populous seemed to disappear. The more it happened, the more curious that I became. It didn’t appear to alarm anyone though so I just sort of shook it off.

After making my final stop at a local café to pick up the to-go sandwich for Twilight, I made my way back to the Library. I felt a little sad due to how long it took me to get everything together, the sun was slowly setting, and it seemed almost like the village was deserted. As I got closer to the library I felt like I caught the tail end of music being cut off. “weird? Oh well, I need to get his food to Twilight.” I walked up to the door and pressed it open “Hey Twilight sorry about taking so long, but I got your sandwich.”

No more than two seconds later a blast of confetti hit me while noisemakers all went off “SURPRISE!!!!!” I fell back on my ass from shock. The entire library seemed to be packed with ponies. Again I observed mostly mares, but it looked like most of the population of Ponyville was currently sitting in the room.

“wereyousupprisedIbetyouweresupprisedIknowyoulookedlikeyouweresuprisedwhydidyoufalldownareyouokaywhyareyoureyesblackrightnowohhhyourhairischangingcolorshowdoyoudothatmynameispinkiepiewhat’syournamemmmhhhhhhhmmmmm.”

I was saved from the onslaught of babbling by Rainbow putting her hands over the pink mare's mouth “Sorry about that dude. She can get a little crazy when somepony new moves in. By the way dude, why was Twilight so embarrassed when we got here to set this up?”

This really confused me “Embarrassed? I have no idea. I just complimented her on the smell of the room she gave me. I love the mixture of Lavender, fresh paper, and ink. I have no idea why that would be embarrassing.” For some reason, Rainbow’s face lit up with a little bit of blush as well.

“So you were just saying that you like the smell of the room.” She seemed to confirm.

“Um… yea. Was that wrong? I’m still learning a lot about how things are done here.” At this point, I was bewildered.

“yea no big deal, I’ll let Twi know it was just a misunderstanding” Misunderstanding, what would it be a misunderstanding for? I was blown away by the line of questioning but figured it was no big deal. Lifting myself off the floor, I looked around to see who all was at the party. Just like my assumptions, it would appear everyone was here. Strangely enough, even the stallion that worked at the café was here.

The music playing was something that I would really have expected at a child’s birthday party. Deciding to take a little initiative I quickly scanned the room to see if there were any foals around, finding none I went to find the party organizer. Her pink afro made that task a rather simple one.

Walking up next to her “So you are the one that put this all together?”

She beamed at me “you bet ya. My name is Pinkie Pie, and this party is just for you. It’s your welcome to a new universe and Ponyville party.”

I was slightly alarmed by that seeing as I hadn’t told anyone that I came from a different universe “um… okay, first question here. How did you know that?”

“My Pinkie sense told me.”

I was at a loss for words, and it was at this point that Rainbow Dash leaned around and gave me a look that says ‘don’t ask, you don’t want to know.’ Deciding to take her sage advice I continued to my reason for talking to her, “Well miss. Pie, if it would be okay with you. Would I be okay to show you how I used to party back where I am from?”

Her eyes lit up, and I could swear I heard angels singing behind her
“OHMYGOSHYESYESYESIWOULDLOVETOLEARNABOUTNEWWAYSTOPARTYAFTERALLMYNAMEISPINKIEPIEANDPARTIESAREMYSUPERSPECIALTALENT!!!!!!”

I worked my fingers in my ears in a fruitless attempt at making the pop “well then. ‘cough’ I have to ask a few questions first.” She nodded with excitement “first off, do you know what Cannabis is and are there any issues with it?”

She cocked her head to the side “I don’t know what Can-ie-buss is. Is it something fun?”

“It can be. Let me clarify, are there any substances that are not allowed?”

She gave me a hard look “You’re not talking about Salt, are you. That stuff is really bad for ponies. I know that the Princess wouldn’t send you here if you used that kind of stuff.”

I pulled my hands up to show surrender “I swear to Celestia’s glorious golden ass that is not the kind of stuff I was talking about.”

At my comment, Pinkie began giggling with uncontrolled mirth as Rainbow joined her “H-h-he s-s-said G-g-g-glo-glorious golden ass.” They seemed like they were about to pass out from laughing so hard.

“What can I say, I would be lying if I said she didn’t have a fantastic ass. Not like I haven’t told her that before. But we are getting away from the point. Cannabis or weed as it is more commonly known as a plant. It has a naturally occurring chemical that it produces called THC or Tetrahydrocannabinol if you want to get technical.” Her eyes glazed at the long name “in any event it is a fun substance that can be smoked, concentrated, or baked with. It has more applications, but those are the main ones. I happen to have some that I would be interested in sharing, as well as some music from home. Now I have to say that I wouldn’t let any kids have this stuff.”

Pinkie was again confused “what do baby goats have anything to do with this? We don’t have any goats that live in Ponyville. They mostly keep to the northern islands.”

Slapping myself on the head, I clarified “not what I meant. I meant children or foals. It’s stuff for grownups.” Realizing that I had never introduced myself “by the way my name is Magos or Mag for short, so what do you say? Would you like me to go grab some stuff real quick?”

Pinkie nodded so fast I was scared that she might just lose her head, but at the same time I couldn’t but help to notice that she was stacked. Like to the nines and back. A fantastic figure with a generous chest, now some would think that I was a bit of a perv. But let’s face it when you grow up at a camp full of demigods that are all technically related to you, yea it made things hard. I know that the relation wasn’t close enough to care about, but I still felt like girls that I knew from back home were a little too ‘in the family’ for me to be comfortable with asking out. But I digress. It seemed like this village was just full of knockouts.

Running down to the basement, I jumped to my room to get my shit. Making sure that the door was closed I approached my trunk. It was a rather unassuming addition to the room; it appeared to be made of plain hardwood with bronze fittings. What most wouldn’t notice without training was that it radiated magic. This trunk was my most significant achievement.

About ten years ago I got into a show called Dr. Who. The idea of having something that was larger on the inside became an obsession. Taking this in mind I approached the Hephaestus cabin with the idea for the project, lucky for me they were always trying to do stuff that would get them some kind of recognition from their dad ‘poor dumb bastards,’ and this was a big project. They finally managed to get a trunk that had an area of double the size of the exterior and with a fixed max weight of 300 kilos. The way that they explained it to me was that no matter what I put in the trunk. It would never weigh more than that benchmark. To date, they had never been wrong.

However, I wasn’t satisfied with just double the storage space. It had taken them three years to get it to that stage. After they gave it to me, I began my work. Now seven years later I had a trunk that held a small warehouse worth of space. Nothing too significant of course, and it only let you into the larger room if you opened it right. Using the standard method of opening the trunk all you would see would be my clothes, but open it in the right way, and you got a ladder down into the room.

Flipping it open with the correct movements and application of magic I dropped down to get my shit, letting the trunk lid slam close after me.

Perspective shift to party
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Pinkie found Twilight sitting with a light blush on her face “Hey Twilight, what are you doing over here all alone? Are you sad?”

Twilight looked up at her friend and responded “No Pinkie I’m not sad. I am a little embarrassed, ‘looking around to make sure no one was listening’ you girls know about my special room right?”

Pinkie nodded “yeppers. Every single mare has a room like that.”

Sighing Twilight continued “yes well Princess Celestia apparently decided that was the room that I was supposed to give to Magos to stay in. I cleaned it up as much as I could, but apparently, it still had a smell to it.” Her face was lit up bright red.

Pinkie was a little taken aback by this “did he say it was a bad smell?”

Blushing harder “N.no… he said he loved the smell.”

Leaning down “What was that Twilight I couldn’t hear you?”

Getting a little upset Twilight burst “HE SAID HE LOVED THE SMELL!” as soon as the words left her mouth, she felt like she had just slapped herself in the face.

Pinkie smiled “I don’t see what the problem is then. Isn’t that a good thing? I mean he might look a little different, but he is still hunky. Why not give him a go?” her eyes lit up “ohhhhhhhh I know, we can share him.”

Twilight couldn’t believe her ears “what do you mean share him?! Like trying to establish a herd?! Pinkie I don’t know if I’m ready for something like that, besides he is supposed to be my guard, not my lover.”

Pinkie just shrugged “why not both?”

Twilight was stumped. How was it that Pinkie always seemed to do this to her. From behind the purple mare spoke a raspy voice “well if you’re not up for it egghead I may toss my name into the ring. That guy is jacked. I tried to lift his trunk and only managed to lift it up like an inch. Dude grabbed it like it was nothing and dropped it down on that luggage cart. I bet he can give me a challenge.” She grinned wryly.

At this point, Twilight was a bit upset “why is everyone just rushing into this?! He just got here, and you are already after him?!”

Rainbow and Pinkie gave her a pair of deadpan looks “really Twilight if we don’t then he is going to get snatched up rather fast. Last I checked, there were only three unattached Stallions in this village, Big Mac, Poky Peirce and that Dr. guy.” At this point, they heard a familiar voice call out “MY MUFFINS! DR. PLEASE, NOT SO ROUGH”

Looking back to Twilight “correction two unattached stallions, and let’s face it. I think Fluttershy is the only one with any chance with Big Mac, and I’m fairly certain that Poky is gay. So why not ask him out. At least we can give him a shot first. You know, see if he is the right kind of guy?”

Twilight couldn’t believe what she was hearing. On the one hand, he was supposed to be a professional; she hardly thought that the princess would do something like playing matchmaker with her.

Perspective shift Canterlot

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Celestia sneezed, looked over at her sister as they shared their evening meal Luna questioned “dearest sister art thou well? We dost not recall when thou last sneezed without meaning to?”

Celestia smiled and responded directly “It’s nothing Lulu, somepony we know must be thinking about me.”

Luna nodded and added, “So dost thou think that thine student will leap at the opportunity that thou hast set for her?”

Smirking at the younger alicorn, Celestia continued “I think she will likely have to work up the courage to approach him. However, she might get some encouragement from her friends.”

A sound came out of nowhere “yepperonies.”

Both Sisters looked at one another and shuttered. Luna spoke first “The pink one, while we owe her our freedom, She scares us, sister.”

Celestia just nodded.

Perspective shift back to Golden Oaks library Twilight, Pinkie and Rainbow
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The room suddenly went dark and the music cut. There was enough light to see but not much. A fog rolled through the library, leaning over to Rainbow, Twilight whispered “I don’t like this Rainbow. You didn’t mention any kind of fog tonight, and even if there was supposed to be some, it shouldn’t be able to get inside.”

Rainbow was at a loss for words “Don’t look at me Twi, I have no idea what is going on.”

Pinkie sat back with a massive grin on her face. “Just sit back and enjoy the show, girls he’s about to start.” They looked at her with confusion just as the Song began.

https://youtu.be/JawRInQ-0fw?t=5s

The dance floor had cleared as soon as the lights went out, seemingly to get closer to the windows where more light could be found. The fog from around the room began to coalesce in the center as it began to take the form of a bipedal figure. The observing ponies were not used to such heavy music, something that Mag had been counting on. Not long into the song, the beat dropped, and the mist fell from him.

Twilight, Rainbow, and Pinkie were taken aback to see Mag standing there. He had changed his clothes from the crisp uniform of a guard to something one would likely see at a rave. Black Tripp pants with chains. Woven through the chains appeared to be glowing lights, his hands were covered in black fingerless gloves, and his shirt was replaced with a very tight under armor shirt.

As the beat dropped, he began to dance. His movements seemed to allow him to glide over the floor, almost as if his feet were propelling him. As the tone of the song shifted his movements shifted as well, he began to rhythmically jump through the air in time to the music. As the music continued more and more ponies stopped looking and started to let the beat take them as they joined in with the dance.

The trio of mares on the couch continued to watch, Twilight blushing, Rainbow with hunger in her eyes, and Pinkie just being Pinkie, after the first song ended another began in short order, at this point the temperature in the library had risen considerably.

“Fuck it’s hot in here” unnoticed by Mag several ponies looked at him with shock at the langue, their shock was short lived as the watched him remove his shirt, finally giving a view of what more than one mare, and at least one stallion had been hoping to see.

What none of them had been prepared for was a torso that was covered with hard mussel and scars. But what really was shocking, were the tattoos. His body seemed to be covered in them, and each one seemed to be inked over a rather nasty scar. On his left side were four deep gouges, covered in the image of a massive paw that appeared to be made of the night sky. A deep cut in his right shoulder appeared to have a sword sticking out of it; his right bicep had an arrow shaft sprouting out while the other side had the arrowhead sticking through.

ignorant of what the view was causing he started up again as the next track began.

https://youtu.be/KSs0ih3A3ZI

As he danced, he seemed to be utterly unaware of the effect that his appearance had on the gathered ponies. After the second song ended, the music continued, but Mag decided to take a seat next to the trio of mares.

Turning to them “So what do you think of my music Pinkie? It’s not too hard is it?”

Leaning forward she appeared to have tears in her eyes as she brushed his right shoulder “W-what happened?”

Seeing her attention, he shrugged pointing to each in turn as he explained “well that one is from the recent war, the enemy got through and managed to chop into me. I took care of him but this hurt like a bitch ‘I tell ya wat,’ the arrow happened at camp, Let me tell you, Son of Poseidon should stick to swords. Some guys should never use a bow. It’s okay though, I filled his boots with sauerkraut the next day as payback, as for the big one.” He gestured to his entire left side.

“Well Quests are seldom pleasant, let’s just say that carrying a javelin through Callisto’s lands isn’t a good idea. And believe me she was pissed, luckily she decided not to kill me. She just gave me a parting gift.”

Twilight’s eyes grew wide at this, “you mean to tell me that you took on the mother of all Ursa Majors?!!!”

Mag was confused “Mother of all? Isn’t she the only one besides her son?”

Twilight shook her head “legend has it that over a thousand years ago the first Ursa Major fell from the sky and began to breed with the large bears of the Everfree forest, this would have been shortly after Princess Celestia moved to Canterlot. They aren’t very densely populated, but I know of at least two within a day’s journey from this town.”

Rainbow and Pinkie looked shocked “You never told us that before.” They said in tandem.

Shrugging Twilight continued “I didn’t think it was important, Ursa are territorial, as long as you leave them alone, they won’t bother you.”

Smirking Mag added “I can attest to that, I can’t fully believe that she just let me live. But she did smack me out of her land. That is likely what saved my life. But we are getting off topic; I get a tattoo after every battle to commemorate it. The only exception was when Jackson shot me. But it’s not every day that you get shot by one of the big three’s kids.”

They all looked confused “Big three?” Twilight asked.

Nodding with understanding “The major gods of Olympus, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades; they agreed around a hundred years ago to stop having mortal children due to some prophecy. The only issue was that Zeus and Poseidon fell off the bandwagon. Lord Hades kept to his agreement. Although he does have a kid running around, nice guy. At least his boyfriend thinks so.”

Twilight was stunned. This…man was talking about demigods as if they were a dime a dozen. “How can you talk about demigods like that, they are immensely powerful beings, and you act like it was no big deal!”

Realizing that he never actually told them he sighed “Well for me it isn’t a huge deal, but allow me to reintroduce myself.” Standing up he faced them “My name is Mágos Schmidt, Son of Hecate the goddess of Magic, demigod, and according to Princess Celestia your new guard/teacher.”

The mares in front of him were shocked, and only Rainbow spoke “Damn.”