"You mean...they were...in the hot tub?”  I softly nodded my head as my girlfriend asked the question to why I came home yesterday with a weird look on my face. After walking in on Rarity and Devon, thank god AFTER they had sex in the hot tub, I just turn and left, completely forgetting why I wanted to look for them again. "Remind me not to use that tub again.”

            "You're telling me,” I answered, before groaning and holding onto my head with the hand of my right. Twilight saw this and stopped to look at me.

            "More of those head pains?” she asked as I softly nodded.

            "Yeah...this one was a bit worst...ugh; maybe I should go see the doc later on.”

            "I would think it would be best,” softly nodding we made our way though Ponyville, I had to go soon outside of the small village to see who this new human was and bring him back. Celestia wrote another letter to me, but also to Twilight to cover any questions the purple Unicorn may have about why I had to go out. She wrote saying that she thought something was going on, the same thing that happened around the same time I came to Equestria and wished for me to investigate. Twilight brought that, but it was still too early, I maybe had an hour left before I had to go. "Well the doctor's place is right over there so we should...” I stopped and turned to hear the sound of a wall breaking. An old shop that had been closed for a while was causing the new as me and Twilight looked over. All of a sudden the wall broke down as Devon jumped though, wearing his metal gloves as he landed before us.

            "Oh yeahhhhh....arghhh!” he then bent forward holding onto his head. "Note to self...don't bust though walls without a helmet.”

            "What...?” I started.

            "The...?” Twilight said the next and we said the last word together.

            "Fuck?” my human friend, now the boyfriend of Rarity, wearing the same clothing as yesterday with the headphones, looked up and grinned while rubbing the back of his head.

            "Sup you two, that was pretty cool huh?”

            "Why the hell did you do that?!” I asked going over to see if he had any bruises of the sort, I found a lump on his head as I sighed, but then I noticed something...it had those lines you would see on the unicorns. "Dude...what happened to your forehead?”

            "Huh oh I don't know, I noticed that this morning, also check this shit out!” he then turned to his right, showing his left side as he worked with his pants...what was he...?

            "Dude! Keep your pants up!”

            "I'm just showing you what's on my leg, jeez, but look!” I looked toward his legs, and did a step back, how the...already?

            On his leg, was what seemed to be a sliver bowl like cup, you know, the type used to pour the drinks for lemonades. It was tipped on its side a bit, pouring our a red water like texture, wait a second...his Cutie Mark was...I faceplamed, now knowing why he sounded like the Kool Aid guy, I'm just glad it WASN'T the Kool Aid guy. What I don't understand, why was his on his thigh, while mine was on my arm? He grinned and pulled his pants back up.

            "Yeah, it happened just after you left after you...err...you know...heh, heh.” I gave him a nasty look as he shrugged. "Hey you know you liked it!”

            "Did not,”

            "Was my butt sexy?”

            "Devon...”

            "I bet you wanna give me a kissy kiss now don't you?” he made kissing sounds with his lips as I glared harder.

            "Do you want to have kids one day?” I asked him as he shrugged and nodded. "Make one sexiest joke to me, and I'll make that dick into a mangina!” he blinked at me and gave a small laugh.

            "Okay, okay, man, can't have any fun with you...”

            "Look...” I sighed then holding my head. "Sorry...just I've been having these head pains all day...their making me a little cranky. Twi, I think I'll go to the doc's right now and then go check what Celestia wanted me to see.”

            "Alright,” she answered with a nod, I went down as she reared up on her hind legs and embraced me lightly around the neck, kissing my cheek goodbye as I waved and made my way to the doctor's.  

            The main doctor, the one who patched me up last time I was here, was not here this time, but the nurse was. Her coat seemed to me to be a whitish grey, her hair, I'm not really sure, was it a darker grey or maybe some sort of pink...ugh...these pains...her eyes I think were a very light blue, her old style nurse's hat held her Cutie Mark, the old red cross of a hospitable. I was sitting down on one of the low beds, since they truly didn't have anything human size. I was shirtless, since she wanted to see if maybe something was wrong with my body to cause the head pains. Nurse Redheart rubbed her chin as she looked over the notes she had written, and then came over to me and bowed her head.

            "I...I am greatly sorry Prince Brandon,” she spoke to me as I looked up. "But I can not find what ails you so.” I sighed and nodded my head. "Please, do not be crossed with me your majesty!” I softly chuckled and placed a hand on her shoulder.

            "You did the best you could, that is all I ask. Do you have any doctor orders I should follow?”  I gave her a light smile that seemed to lighten her mood a bit.

            "Yes, I believe that some rest will do you some good, I know you wish to fight to stop that Darkness Alicorn, but from what I've heard, you've been fighting way too hard. Maybe your body is trying to rest, or maybe the shock of all the fights you've been is now at last being felt within your body.” I sighed to myself and nodded my head slightly at his, I have heard from football players that they were hit so hard, that they didn't bleed for the next day, or feel any sort of pain. Maybe she was right...maybe I should stop fighting for a while, just until I'm one hundred percent back.

            "Alright, thank you Nurse Redheart, how much do I owe you?” she waved her hooves back and froth as she reared on her hind legs.

            "No, no, I could not ask someone like you to pay, please, you may leave...but first!” she then left out the room and came back with a bottle on her back. "Here, this potion will numb the pain in your head for a while, it will also help you sleep, take it before you rest.”

            "Aye, aye, nurse,” I smiled and gave her a small salute as she giggled slightly. I brought the potion and brought it into my pocket, it wasn't that big, so it easily slipped in. As I got up to leave, I felt her tap my leg.

            "Um...before you go, I have a favor.”

            "Hrm?” I asked as she looked to my right arm.

            "Do you mind if I see your Cutie Mark? I've heard what it looks like, but I haven't seen it.” I smiled and nodded, putting the shirt back on the bed as I knelt down and turned my body to show the marking of the mixture of the sun and the moon. On the left side, the moon was much like Luna's; with a darker spots to show I guess crater marks like on the moon, the rest of the side that would hit the sun was black. Six stars were seen in front of a set of two bats like wings, much like Luna's guards. On the sun side, I guess in a way it looked like a Pegasus wing; the sword that went down the middle easily seen as she looked to it.

            "It is very pretty,” she spoke. "Unlike any I have ever seen before. A Cutie Mark truly fit for a prince such as yourself.”

            "Thank you,” I spoke slipping my shirt on. "You honor me with your words.” She smiled once more as I left out of the office, giving her one last goodbye.

            Looking at the clock tower, I noticed it was soon, noon, so going outside of Ponyville, almost like a five minuet walk, I didn't have to look for long, to notice that like they said, a human was there; looking around in utter confusion.

The guy looked to be around six foot one, maybe an inch so shorter then me, but he indeed look older; maybe in his mid twenties or so? Brown messy hair was seen, or what I could see as he wore a black ball cap. When he turned once more and caught sight of me, I noticed that he had brown eyes, much like Devon's own. As he made his way over to me, I noticed his skin was light skin, the basic white t-shirt that he wore, I could see that his chest was much lighter then his arms; much like mine; though he was a little lighter then myself. He looked to be in very good shape, muscles easily showing on his legs from the cowboy cut jeans, his arms bugging out with muscles; I'm guessing he was, or is a country type fella. The basic work boots he wore crunched on the ground below him, man, would Rarity have a field day with this guy. I also noticed now, some glasses on his face, before he stopped before me.

"Why howdy there pardon,” holy crap...he even spoke the same way as Applejack, I guess I found him a place to stay, well until he wishes to go back home. "Ya'll mind helping me? I was just minding my own, when all of a sudden...I'm here...where am I though truly sir?”

"You might want to follow me,” I told him turning and walking. "You may not believe what I have to say.”

"So let me see if I have this straighten out,” we had yet to go inside Ponyville; I decided to wait until I caught him up to speed. "This land here is called Equestria, there are no humans save for myself, you and some guy name Devon. And the ones who live in this place called Ponyville...are many different shades of talking ponies live and work? And you and this Devon feller have unicorns as your girlfriends?”

"Yup,” I answered with a nod. "That's pretty much it.” he just gave me a look and then started to burst into laughter, I gave him a blank look, crossing my arms as he then looked up to me and then stopped.

"Wait...you're not pulling my leg here?”

"Nope, look, I know you need a place to stay, cause trust me, you're gonna stay here for a while until me and my girlfriend Twilight find a way to get humans back, if you want to go back that is...and I know the perfect place; follow me!” I turned and went down toward where Applejack worked and stayed. I watched as he followed me behind as I started to ask him question. "So you got a name or something?”

"Name's Mike Stormwolf, and you?”

"Brandon Casey, nice to meetcha,” he shook hands as we walked, soon finding ourselves at the farm, and then seeing my friend the farm pony. "Ah, there she is, don't believe me, well watch and listen. Hey Applejack!” I called out covering my mouth with my hands, at once she looked over, her hat always on, and on her back was a saddled that held apples on each side. She dropped them off and made her way over to us.

"Well howdy Brandon!” I saw Mike flinch back as she spoke. "Don't see yer around these parts a lot, what brings you all over here; and who's this? Oh wait, let me guess, you don't know how ya'll got here?” he softly nodded his head as I chuckled.

"Well AJ,” I spoke nudging Mike over to her. "You see, much like myself when I first found myself here, Mike here has no where to stay. You always told me you like to have another hoof around here, and by looking at him, I saw he can help with the last few weeks of Apple Bucking, and any other work you all do here.” My farm friend nodded her head and went over to Mike, bringing out a hoof.

"Well hey there Mike, name's Applejack, or you can call me AJ, whatever works for yer.”

"Uh...okay...AJ, nice to meet ya,” he took her hoof and softly shook it as I laughed.

"Yeah, I was shocked too when I first came here, just be glad you didn't meet Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash first, oh...man ether Pinkie would be pulling you into a party, or Dash would throw you to the ground with her speedy like nature!” Applejack laughed at this, and it seemed even Mike held up a smile. "So, what you doing now Applejack?”

"Oh, I'm about to spend the last day selling apples out in Ponyville, those the season is almost over, many ponies tend to wait until now to buy the apples. Seems they think they are the best because they are the last we sell out there. The rest of the apples we get, we all make that cider that you drank and other apple goodies for us for the winter!” she then looked to Mike as she looked him up and down, before nodding her head slightly. "Now Mike, if ya'll gonna stay here, you have to work off your share; we don't like lazy ponies!”

"I can understand that,” he answered with a nod. "And I can work hard for many hours, trust me. And I would love to stay here; your farm is quite nice.”

"Well shucks, thanks. Brandon you wanna help out too?” I nodded as she then pointed to two sled like wagons, the last time I helped out, I noticed the wagon she used was much to small so we made these sleds so all I had to do, was grab the rope and pull. We made a second one just in case the first broke. "Well, lets just get those two filled up with buckets of apples and be on our marry way!” after filling them up, myself and Mike each took a sled, and followed after Applejack as she pulled her own wagon toward Ponyville.

Along the way I started to fill in Mike on what was going on. He was shocked when I told him about the battle between Darkness and how he was now in it. I told him he didn't have to fight, but I had a feeling he would. When we made it to Ponyville, I noticed many of the ponies looking at Mike; he looked around slightly worried, causing me to slightly laugh under my breath. Was I like this when I first came to Ponyville?

            Anyway, he soon made it to the stall that Applejack would be selling her apples, when I noticed a pink pony hopping forward toward us like she always did, I guess she didn't notice Mike since he was behind Applejack, putting the apples off and onto the side.

            Hiya Applejack and Brandon! What are you two doing here?” I chuckled and shook my head slightly at my friend's happy go lucky style of talking. Another headache pain came, but not as bad as the last one.

            "Just helping Applejack send the last of these apples here to sell, and plus, it's not the two of us, but three.”

            "Three? But I only count two, see one, two! Where the three at?” just then Mike stood up looking at the pink pony as he blinked. Pinkie Pie's eyes grew wide as she blinked at him, he blinked back and started to wave to say hello, when she gasped loudly, jumping up, turning, and then once more like the first day here; booked it.

            "Uh...is that pony on drugs ya'll?” he asked as me and AJ laughed loudly.

            "No, no,” Applejack spoke shaking her head. "You see, when she meets a new pony...err...human, she plans a big bash for them, to welcome yer to Ponville.” I nodded my head slightly as I crossed my arms.

            "Yeah, in fact she'll do a party for just about anything really, if the case comes where something can be made into a party, she'll make it.”

            "How so?”

            "You'll find out the more you stay here, trust me.” Only laughing slightly under my breath, I was about to leave when I noticed Devon walking over.

            "Hey, I just saw Pinkie run over past me...” he then saw Mike as he stopped and waved. "Hi!”

            "Hey,” Mike answered. "Nice to meet yer, got a name?”

            "Yup,” he answered with a nod. "I'm Devon, and that's Brandon!” he pointed to me as he then grinned. "He was a prison...”

            "Devon shut the hell up!” I glared at him as he looked to me with a smile and then back at Mike.

            "...Bitch...”

            "Oh dear Celestia I'm gonna kill you one of these days...”