As the group of ponies huddled around the figure, one purple-colored pony seemed to have the best reason to worry. Although standing right next to the Princess, Twilight Sparkle felt unsafe around this being that which only the Princess seemed to know about. Twilight was going to say something to the Princess’s earlier remark, when the creature began to stir. Twilight’s head was spinning; her mind was moving faster than Rainbow Dash ever could. She began to back away, constantly keeping vigilance on the being. By the time she was out of the group she sat on the ground. She was worried for the safety of all Equestria, and while she was thinking of all the possible catastrophes that could befall Equestria, most completely insane, the creature stood up. Everypony in the crowd backed away, scared of what it could do.

It was a scary sight, it was about the same height as Princess Celestia, but it stood on two legs, it had a type of paw like a bear, with fingers, but five and not three or four. It had a peach-tan color, and it didn’t have any hair or fur on the main part of its body. It rubbed its eyes and looked left, right, and upon looking down, put his hairless paws in-between its flanks, and then looked around some more. Nopony said anything and eventually the creature took a step, and then another step. Its eyes locked on to Twilight’s and it started to step again.

It was exactly like Twilight’s dream, just as she had feared. The creature began to run, and Twilight just put her hooves over her eyes and waited for the monster to do what it was going to do.

All Twilight could see was black for what seemed to be minutes rather than seconds, and eventually she took a hoof off. And to her dismay, the creature was sitting right in front of her. Twilight screamed and tried to stand up. Her hooves were scraping against the ground, slipping almost, to where she could not get up. The creature seemed interested and the noise Twilight made, and now with everypony surrounding the two the creature just sighed.

“I must be going crazy…”

There were a few gasps, but mostly complete silence. It was so quiet one could hear the air passing by, just wisping through Ponyville. Twilight looked up at the being; she was absolutely astounded by what she had just heard. The creature can speak, and not only that, but speak the same language as everypony else! Twilight was the first to say anything back to the creature.

“Um…Hello.”

This time it was the thing’s turn to scream. It got up and bumped into Celestia. It seemed so surprised. Everypony was surprised.

“This is royal business, and as such I would like everypony to leave.” Said Princess Celestia.

Nopony objected, and as everybody began to walk away, Twilight asked:

“Princess, what is the meaning of this?”

“I’m sorry Twilight, I can’t tell you. Please return to the library.”

“Okay Princess…” Said a now sad Twilight.

On her way home, Twilight passed Sugarcube Corner. She thought about yesterday, and how it was just another normal day, and how her life is now changed because there is something that maybe nopony knows about in the entire country. After reaching the Library, she sat on her bed. Her bed creaked and it woke Spike up. Spike climbed up next to her.

“Is everything okay, Twilight?”

“No, Spike.” In a fruitless attempt to get her mind off of what happened Twilight asked, “Where were you this morning, you usually never leave here without telling me first.”

“I had…errands to run…”

“I see...” Said Twilight, her interest piqued, not enough to take her mind off the more important issue though.

“So what’s the problem?”

“There is a creature that appeared in Ponyville today, and nopony seems to have any idea what it is, save the Princess, maybe.”

There was a knock at the door. Twilight went to the door and much to her surprise, when she opened up the door, the Princess was there with the creature right next to her. They both came in and Celestia closed the door.

“Princess! What are you doing here?” Asked Twilight.

“I know you have an extra room, Twilight.”

“Princess! With all due respect you can’t be serious! I don’t know what this thing is and you want it to live here?”

“Just for now Twilight. I don’t want to manage two towns fretting over this issue. And by the way, this creature is called a human.”

Twilight has never heard the term before. Through all the books she has read, the word hadn’t appeared once. The human sat on the floor next to a bookshelf, looking confused as ever.

“I’m sorry, Twilight, but I must leave. I need to tell everypony that I’m going to take this human up to the castle in Canterlot so nopony will bother you.”

And with that, she was out the door. Twilight just stared at the human, who was looking down. She noticed that it began to sob a little. Twilight felt so bad, and went against all of her fears to sit next to this human.

“Are you okay?” She asked.

“I don’t know where I am, or what you are, or what year is this, or who I am, or who you are, or...or anything! I just want answers!”

“ Well…I’m Twilight Sparkle, and don’t worry, I’ll make sure nothing bad happens to you.”

“Thanks.”

Twilight realized that this human was in a much worse state than she was, and so she lead him into the spare room and had him lay down. As soon as Twilight thought things might settle down, Pinkie Pie came crashing through the door with something absurd on her back. Twilight rushed out of the room and slammed the door. She said:

“Pinkie Pie, what are you doing here…and what is that on your back?”

“My Pinkie sense lead me here. And this is the design I had Rarity make. It’s funny-lookin’ don’t chya’ think?”

“This isn’t a time for anything to be funny. And why-”

But before she could finish, Pinkie bucked, obviously her Pinkie sense, and the clothes landed right on the handle of the door to the guest room.

“Hmm, that’s weird!” Said Pinkie. “My Pinkie sense is telling me to go now so bye!”

After Pinkie left, Twilight just went back up to her room. Spike was already back asleep. And as Twilight lay on her bed, thinking of everything and nothing, she finally fell asleep too.