“Welp! We're screwed!” I shouted, my voice was a little more loud than I wanted it it to be.

All the ponies, including the Princesses looked to me with puzzled expressions, probably thinking that I not at the best of my mental faculties, which at this point, makes no difference anymore, seeing how I am in Ponyville’s Hospital inside of a Blaziken’s body.

The sun goddess directed her gaze to me. At first I felt intimidated, her austere presence was really worth of her title. But she gave me a warm and kind smile, enough to make my heart stop beating faster than normal.

“Hello my dear guests. I assume that you both know my name, am I right?” she spoke in a sweet and calm voice.

Roxy and I nodded at the same time, we were still a little worried about her sudden appearance.

“That’s good. Then let me say that’s a great honor to receive you two in our kingdom. Arceus was able to send us nothing more than a quick note regarding your arrival, and we were really taken aback by such event.”

“Princess.” I turned to her, my voice always being kept low, “How much did Arceus tell you about this whole thing?”

She smiled, probably seeing through my apprehension for being in her presence, “Just that he was sending two Heralds from his kingdom. He also said that both of you have pure and lovable hearts, so we can trust in you completely.”

Roxy interrupted us, she was calmer than me, probably because she was more happy than intimidated in seeing the Alicorn Sisters, “So he didn’t said anything about the message?”

They raised an eyebrow, at the same time.

“No my dear, he didn’t said anything to us.” Celestia answered, in her motherly tone.

“At least this make our trip more worth.” I mumble, trying to get out of the bed.

The Lunar Princess, quiet until now, took a step and cleared her throat, “May we ask why thou does not show any concern about thy current situation?”

I gazed at her, concerned, Luna was a little more harsh than her sister sometimes, and I really didn’t wanted to upset her.

“Well, you see Princess Luna, we are more than just Pokémons like Arceus is. We are in fact different creatures called humans, and we live in a world named Earth. Arceus said on his message to us that he can make contact with Earth easier than he can make contact with Equestria, so he decided to send us here, but in Pokémon’s bodies because of the abilities they possesses, and probably because Roxy and I are quite experienced in using them on the game.”

“Game?” she frowns, “What kind of game thou speak about? And how possible you can use Arceus subjects for a game?”

“In our world, Pokémon is just a game, and you guys are the stars of a famous TV show. We don’t know how is possible that everything is real, I still think that we are insane, so I’m just assuming that this is my head playing pranks on me.”

Each pony on the room looked to me with confusion on the eyes.

“It’s like being Pinkie Pie, without being Pinkie Pie.” I concludes

They exchanged glances and smiles, nodding.

“Hey! You can’t be me without being me unless you are a great magician or somepony has discovered about the mirror pool!” Pinkie shouts, entering the room, bouncing like a rubber ball and going direct towards me.

“How you know about me? Or about the Princesses? Or about my friends? Wait! Don’t tell me! You are a-”

Knowing where that was going to, I interrupted her the fast as I could, “No Pinkie! I’m not a psychic! That would be Roxy.”

The party pony turned to Roxy with wide open eyes and a huge smile, “Really? Like, really, really? You are a psychic?”

My friend just nodded, being taken aback by the rapid succession of questions that she was bombarded with.

“Can you guess how many fingers I’m hiding behind my back then?” the pink pony asked, putting one of her hooves behind her flanks, trying to hide it from Roxy’s sight.

Roxy chuckled, “But you don’t have any fingers Pinkie.”

“I’m still don’t understand how you guys know so much about all of us!” Rainbow Dash shouted, directing the attention back to Princess Luna question.

“Arceus did said something about it to us. I will try to explain.” Celestia took the matter on her hands... I mean hoofs, and explained our situation to all the ponies.

Every pony seemed to understand what happened. Twilight though, seemed to still be curious about us.

“I think I got it, or most of it for that matter, but I never seem such creatures such as you two, not even in books. Could you two tell us what is a Pokémon?”

I gazed upwards, trying to come up with some good way to tell her what a Pokémon was supposed to be, “They are a race of powerful beings from another world. They can use the powers that they are born with to do practically anything, pretty much like unicorns can do all the things they do with their magic. Pokémons exists in many different species, actually five hundred forty-nine different ones. Each species have unique traits, but they have some things in common, like what we call their types, for exemple, I’m a Blaziken, and I have control over the fire, Roxy here is a Gardevoir and she can use Psychic powers.”

I stopped my explanation for a bit to look at Twilight, she was delighted with such an amount of information. Where I saw that sparkling gaze before? Ah! Yes! That’s Roxy going in her full fan girl mode.

“Please, continue!” she says, nodding her head.

“Well, aside from what we call normal Pokemons, we have really strong ones called the Legendary. They are pretty much alike Princess Luna and Princess Celestia here. On their world, they are so powerful that they can do unbelievable things, as causing massive downpours or terrible droughts, or control the time or the space itself. Arceus, who looks to be Princess Celestia’s friend is the creator of their entire universe.”

“That’s so incredible!” she yells, “I need to document all that information!”

Aside from Twilight who seemed to be in an awe, all the other ponies were looking to me with wide open eyes. Rainbow Dash mouth was agape, “It’s awesome! I can’t believe that such a world exists!”

Then all the gazes are put into her, the pegasus clear her throat, seeing that she had let escape something that she didn’t wanted to say, “Of course! I’m still way more awesome!”

Roxy and I can’t resist and we burst into laugh, much to her distress.

She complains,“Hey! It’s not funny!”

I stop from laughing, and pet her mane, “Don’t worry, we are not making fun of you Rainbow Dash, it’s just that you are exactly like we thought you would be. And being in Equestria is a dream come true to us.”

She blushes, understanding our situation. I took a look around, seeing that my room was already full of important ponies, the only one left to appear was Rarity.

“Excuse me!” Rarity yells, entering, trying to pass through Rainbow Dash and Applejack that were standing on the door way.

“Take a look at that! They really are amazing looking!” she says, trotting towards me first, “This one has such a daring style! I love the bright red of your feathers!”

I blush a little, “Thank you Rarity.”

“Pardon? I don’t remember being presented to you yet.” she frowns, confused.

“That’s a long story. Your friends are going to give you the details soon enough.”

She then turns her attention to Roxy, “What a stunning dress you are wearing Missy! I would love to know who designed it for you.”

Roxy blushes, “I don’t know if this is really a dress Rarity...”

I turned my gaze away, and tried to avoid looking to Roxy. I needed to concentrate and think that she was wearing a dress, or my nose would start bleeding all the time I was around her.

I just heard she saying from over my shoulder something like, “Ah! Yes it is a dress indeed! Take a look Wolf, I bet you didn’t knew that Gardevoirs wore dresses.”

I sighed in relief, and turned around to look, Roxy was showing her back to me, fiddling with a zipper, that was now open half-way of her back, showing the snow white skin of her body.

“Not again!” my nose exploded with a torrent of blood, “Excuse me! I need to find a tissue!”

Fluttershy came closer and offered a tissue for me. “Oh my! You need to take care of yourself.”

Roxy was laughing, she slowly zipped her dress back, “You really are so easy to tease!”

Every pony inside the room was looking to us, trying to understand what just happened.

“What happened Wolf? And why you said ‘not again’?” the butter pegasus asked me.

I finished clearing my nose, or beak, from the blood, and turned to her to explain, “We use clothes all the time on our world Fluttershy. And Roxy likes to tease me by... Doing these kinds of jokes.”

“Why you guys use clothes all the time?” Rainbow interrupted, “It’s so impractical! I mean, I would hate to wear a fancy dress while I’m out training.”

Roxy turned to her, “ We have different kinds of clothes for different situations, not all of our clothes are like your Gala dresses.”

“Are you serious my dear?” Rarity exclaimed, “That’s must be a crime against the fashion!”

“And it still does not explain why Wolf had a nosebleed by seeing Roxy taking her dress off” Twilight interrupts, scribbling something on a parchment, “Guess that’s something I must study later...”

I was embarrassed enough, so I decided to try to change the subject completely, “Alright already! We have a important message to give to the Princess!”

Roxy covered her mouth with a hand, “That’s right! We can’t lose track here.”

“Princess Celestia, Princess Luna.” I turned to the Royal Sisters, “Arceus send us here because he felt that a big crisis is coming your way, and he wanted to alert you two to relay your best soldiers and stay careful.”

I could see that Celestia’s eyes beamed with worried look for a second, as if she was immediately thinking about something. She then masked her worry with a smile, nodding, “Thank you very much Wolf, but I believe that my best soldiers are already here, and they all heard your message loud and clear, right my little ponies?”

“Yes Princess!” Twilight shouted with confidence, “We are ready to take on any threat that comes our way, right girls?”

The six ponies exchanged determined gazes, nodding together.

“That’s good.”

“Wolf?” Roxy called me, “Now that we passed the message, aren’t we supposed to go back?”

“I think that’s not that easy Roxy. Maybe we still have to stay here and help them deal with this crisis.”

“I think guess you are right.” Roxy nodded, “But we can’t stay on the hospital can we? And we don’t have any money to rent a hotel room.”

“Yeah... We need a place to live until this crisis or whatever is reverted and we can go back home.”

Applejack took a step smiling, “Don’t worry you two! Ah can rent a room for each of ya, but you guys gotta promise meh that you are goin’ to work on mah farm to pay for it!”

We exchanged gazes, smiling, “Of course we accept it Applejack!” I shout, “ It will be good not only for giving us a place to stay, but also we can try to discover more about our new powers while working on Sweet Apple Acres!”

“Good.” the Princess of The Sun declares, “Now that’s everything is settled, Luna and I needs to go back to Canterlot. Excuse us my little ponies.”

All the ponies inside of the room pay reverences to the Royal Sisters, we do the same, they are the Rulers of our new temporary home after all, and they trot away exiting through the door.

“So this means that you two are the new residents of Ponyville.” Twilight says with a smile, “Welcome!”

Pinkie starts to bounce on place, yelling, “Oh my Celestia! You guys know what this means?”

Roxy squeals, “That we need to throw a party!”

“Hey! That’s my line.” the pink pony goes to her side, “But you are right. We need to give you guys a big and fun welcome-to-Ponyville party!”

She then goes away bouncing like a rubber ball in the exact same fashion as she first entered, “Dashie! Rarity! Come with me, I need you two to help me with all the preparations!”

Pinkie takes the two mares by their tails and drag them out of the room at a unbelievable speed. Twilight sighs, “Guess we need somepony to keep an eye on her. I will see you guys at the party.”

“Welp, If that mare is throwin’ up a party, then ah best get ready to make some buck.” Applejack blinks to us, “See ya guys later!”

Now the only pony on the room was Fluttershy, I decided to ask, “Aren’t you going with them?”

“I want to stay and help the nurse with some more exams. Manticore poisoning is serious, we can’t let you go out of the hospital without being sure that you are full healed.”

I nodded, “Ok, but those exams does not involve any kind of-” I paused to gulp, “Needles...”

That’s one of the few things that I hate. Guess that being on the body of a Blaziken didn’t worked to make some of my personal fears go away.

“I assure you that not.” Fluttershy smiles, making my heart a little more calmer.

Some hours later, and I finally managed to get out of the hospital. It was not bad, but I don’t plan staying on a bed now that I’m in Equestria, in the skin of my favorite Pokémon and with the girl that I love by my side.

We went down the road that separates the hospital from the town square. It was really funny to know most of the place, even if it was the first time that we actually were there.

“Where you think that Pinkie’s party will be?” Roxy asked me. She was holding me by the hand, thanks god that my face is covered in red fur.

“Knowing her, it can be anywhere.” I was avoiding to make eye contact, and rooting that she didn’t notices that.

We walked to the central square, but everything was looking pretty normal there. We looked around, but nothing seemed out of place.

Roxy looked to me with a confused frown, “Maybe we got here too soon?”

“I don’t know. It’s night already, after all.”

Suddenly, we are startled by the sound of a loud flugelhorn. How I knew that this sound came from a flugelhorn is beyond me.

We turned to see Pinkie Pie, standing in a door way, leading to the Sugar Cube Corner. She blinked to us, smiling, and entered back inside. We run after her, laughing.

Everything inside was pitch-black. We stopped, standing still on place, trying to see something on the darkness. Then all the lights were lit at the same time, and various ponies jumped out of the furniture and from behind the shelves and from the counter, “Surprise!”

Pinkie bounced towards us, blowing her flugelhorn, “So you guys like it? Did we catch you? How’s the decoration?”

“It’s great Pinkie! Even knowing about the party, you really surprised us, right Roxy?” I turned to Roxy, she was looking around with her eyes sparkling.

“I can’t believe that I went to a Pinkie Pie’s party... It’s like, the best thing ever!”

All the girls were there, already dancing, or playing some game. Pinkie grabbed both me and Roxy by our hands with her hooves, how she managed to do that, I think that I will never know, “C’mon guys! Let’s play something! What you two like? Maybe put the tail on the pony? Just say the game and I have it!”

There were many other ponies on the party. Probably all the town was invited, and they were spread around the store enjoying the party.

We started to do the same, after all ain't no party like a pinkie pie party!

The event continued during hours and hours. We played many games, eat a lot of different sweets, and danced. I finally managed to dance with Roxy without stepping on her feet, guess that having those agile bird-like feet have some advantages.

After some time, most of the guests were already going. I was sat on one chair close to the counter, waiting for Roxy to come back from the toilet. Pinkie had passed out due to a overdose of sweets, and all the girls had already been gone due to having important business on the following day.

I felt a cold wind blow from the entrance door. It was strange...

The night was nice until five seconds ago. Feeling a little uneasy, I decided to go outside to check if the climate had changed. As I walked out of the store, I could feel that the wind was really chilly.

Ponyville’s streets were a little scary during the night. Everything was pretty dark, and the only light was the solemn silver full moon on the sky. I looked around, searching for some sign of life, but no pony was around. Then it came to me...

A creepy laugh, seeing as it was coming from the darkness itself. “Who’s there?” I shout, trying to sound as determined as possible.

“It does not matter now.” the voice boomed back, echoing through the empty streets.

“What are you dammit?” I shouted even louder, scaning every corner with my eyes, looking for the source of the voice. It was fruitless, the thing seemed to spoke to me from all directions.

“Sleep tight my new friends. Soon the threat that you two came to avert shall hit you. And I will devour this town and everything you hold dear.”

The voice echoed one last time, laughing in a malicious tone. I felt a drop of cold sweat roll down my forehead.

“Wolf! Pinkie said that we can sleep here today and talk with Applejack about our rooms tomorrow-” Roxy exited through the front doors smiling, but her smile melted into a worried gaze when she saw me looking to the sky, with my eyes wide open.

“What happened?” she asked, coming closer.

I shook my head, putting my bravest face and I turned to her smiling, “Nothing to worry about. But I guess that our trip to Equestria is not going to be just parties and laughs Roxy...”

To be cotinued...