I open my eyes and tried to look around. At first my surroundings were too bright to see anything and I shut my eyes tight.

"What in the world happened to me?" I thought to myself. I Tried to remember anything that could have happened before this moment. All I could remember was that I had been biking home from school. About halfway through the memory it went blank. I forced myself to open my eyes again and look around. I was on a mountain from the looks of things. There was snow all around me but for some reason I wasn't cold at all. It did explain why it was so light.

I looked up at the sky, not a cloud in the sky. It seemed to be that no matter where I looked it was so bright that it hurt.

"Damned sun, Sometimes I wish you just disappear and not hurt my eyes." I said to myself out loud. I was a weird habit I had. I tended to talk to myself and objects more than I talked to people.

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I'm guessing you would like an introduction. My name is Gunnar A. Berge (Say it like this: Gunner bergy), I'm 16 years old and I am an American who lives or at least lived in the Netherlands. After some family issues me, my brother and my mom moved there because of our step dad. I have (or had) brown hair, brown eyes and a light, tan tinted skin color.  

My nature has always been that of an unintentional jerk, tending to make situations worse with ill placed words. Though I do try not too, they tend to slip out a lot. I never had much faith in humanity and tended to hate most of the people around me but I think that might have something to do with some teenage angst and my own urge to be myself instead of following along with whatever crap other people did. It tended to get me insulted or told to act differently for a large piece of my life.

I got the luck of good genes and was naturally stronger than most of the kids in my school so nothing ever got worse than just insults and friendly advice from people I didn't know or care about. I had some great friends then, a nice group of about 4 or 5 gamer friends that didn't really care to much about my strange and sometimes insane ways of acting. Saying things like "oh that just how Gunnar acts, he a crazy American." That title stuck like a fly to honey. I miss those times but what I had got thrown into now was like a dream come true.

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After my eyes had finally adjusted, I could clearly see everything. The first thing I did was take a quick look around. Looking over a cliff I could see a town in the distance, but there was a dark forest in between it and me. "Great, there's always a catch." It seemed every time anything good could happen, I would first have to work like hell for it to happen.

The next thing I saw stunned me. I wear a pair of, black long, fingerless gloves that my grandma had made for me a couple years back, almost all the time. They were originally made from wool but now they seem to be made of something much tougher and far darker from what I normally wore. There was also a strange blue crystal in the center of both gloves. "Well these things look even cooler now." I thought to myself. The next thing I realized gave me a big smile. A piece of my hair smacked my in the eye. I rubbed my eye and saw something was different about my hair.

"Holy shit!" I yelled. My normally brown hair had gone completely white. It was as white as the snow around me. "This is like a dream come true. I wonder if I have gone completely insane, maybe I crashed into someone or something like on my way home and now I'm in a coma or have just gone crazy. Either way, I like it." I said to myself.

I started looking for all the changes that happened to me. I was far stronger than before or at least I think I was after picking up a rock the size of my chest with ease. I was normally good against the cold but this cold should me making me at least shiver. I was like I had become the perfect me, if that is any what understandable. "This is too good to be true!" I yelled. The pro's of this strange event made me completely forget that I was alone, on the middle of a mountain without any memory of how I got there.

The next thing I realized was that my backpack was missing, but at least my pockets contained everything I wanted. I had my keys, my Ipod, some change and a now frozen packet of Mentos.

The cons of my situation quickly started to set in. There I was, in the middle of no where, with nothing of value to eat and no way of knowing where I was.I sat down for a moment to think of what to do.

"Now there are two sensible things I can do right now. 1. I can have a panic attack and waste energy and food trying to calm myself down or 2. Accept the fact I've probably already gone crazy and try to bring myself back to sanity in the best way I can, too just deal with it.

I chose the latter and took a few deep breaths, accepting my fate. "There's no use in fighting what I momentarily cannot control."

I grabbed my Ipod and turned on the song "Other Light" by Finger Eleven. It seemed to be most fitting at the time though it didn't exactly help me feel better. I just needed to listen to some music before the batteries ran out, not that it would happen anytime soon.

I walked over the the side of the mountain where I had seen a town, looking for a easy way down. Lucky for me with a but of jumping I could easily make it down. I did make sure to be careful, having not been on a mountain before meant I had no idea what could happen if I did something stupid. After almost falling of the mountain multiple times, I finally got down.

The next challenge ahead of me was to make it through the large forest ahead of me. Every part of my body was telling me not to go in. The forest was dark and it gave off a creepy vibe. Ignoring my fear, I walked in. The dark lighting was a nice change in comparison to the super bright mountain top. I turned off my music so that I could listen to my surroundings. I saw all kinds of animals roaming around. They didn't fear me at all which only strengthened my fears.

"If they weren't afraid of me then that means that humans don't come around these parts." I thought to myself. I continued walking. After I had walked for about an hour or so I came across a rode and followed it. the road had a little bit of growth on but was bare for the most part. This was a good sign. It meant it was being used.

My feet started to hurt and I decided to take a quick break. I climbed into a tree and turn my music back on. I looked at my feet an smiled . "I happy I put my mountain shoes on." I thought to myself. By chance, I couldn't find my normal shoes when running late for school and quickly put them on instead. The only thing that seemed different it that they were black instead of brown.

I sat there for awhile just trying to enjoy myself instead of worry. All of a sudden, I heard a loud roar and a scream. Instinct kicked in as I jumped out of the tree and ran towards the sound. As I got closer I could hear the screams of help more clearly. It sounded English which was a good sign. The voice was high pitched and sound like that of a young girls voice.

I reached the source of the noise and saw the strangest sight I had ever seen before. There stood a little blue pony thing that was running around screaming for help as a strange lion scorpion thing chased it around. For a moment I had a *WTF moment* As I tried to understand what in the world was happening but it didn't last very long.

I started making noise and try to get the lion things attention, Shaking tree branches and yelling at it. "Hey you, lion thing!!" The lion thing its head towards me. "Pick on someone who is relatively closer to your own damn size!!"  I don't know if what I had done was really stupid or not but it worked.

The lion thing (as I shall thus forth call it) ran straight at me. My first reaction was to run away from it with an endless line of cursing. It closed the gap quickly forcing me to bolt up a tree. I had never ran that fast in my life. The lion thing started trying to stab my legs with its long "lion thing stinger." Luckily it missed every time and stopped after I was completely out of its reach.

Then I witnessed what could have been the second dumbest thing of that day. The little blue pony thing yelled, out asking if I was okay. My palm spontaneously flew into my face with great speeds as a loud *Smack* could be heard. It was the hardest facepalm I have ever made. One that could be remembered through out history as the greatest facepalm ever made.

The lion thing turned its head and started walking back to the pony. "I can't believe I'm doing this..." I said before jumping on the back of the lion thing. It was the ultimate distraction. The lion thing started doing anything it could to get me off, shaking, jumping around, running its back along trees.

It stopped for a moment. I saw something move behind me and turned my head. The lion thing was preparing to try and stab me. "This day is just full of stupid." I thought to myself. Right before it struck, I simply rolled off it back and watched it stab itself. It just kinda rolled around and stopped moving short afterwards. "You idiot....." I said to the lion thing. Another, less dramatic facepalm struck my face.

While the facepalm struck the same little pony came out from behind a tree.

"The was amazing, thanks for saving me!" The little pony said. I just gave her a confused look. Being the person that I am I had no idea if I should trust the strange looking pony that was standing in front of me. I swapped from talking English to dutch In my brain. That way I could still do my average talking and hopeful she would not understand me. "Ik ben gek geworden...." (I've gone crazy) I said. The realization that a little big eye'd pony was talking to me hit like a rock.

"What......?" The little pony said confused. We kinda just stood there for a moment examining each other. All I did after that was kinda wave goodbye and looked for the path. The pony followed behind making sure to keep her distance. All I could really do is continue walking and think about what happened. It felt as if I was accepting everything a little to fast.

I had been walking for some time before, here and there I would hear the pony mumble something to itself. I turned a corner and saw an opening in the trees. I walked up to what seemed to be an exit of the forest but quickly hid myself behind a tree. Peaking out from behind the tree, I saw what seemed to be a hut or cottage. There were tons of different animals there. A different pony was feeding them. It was a yellow pony with pink hair. I laughed a little when I saw this though I had no idea why. I guess the idea of it was just to much for me and this was my reaction.

Focus a little bit more on it, I noticed hit had wings. Another *WTF moment* popped up. Suddenly from behind me I heard the pony that was following me say something. It surprised me and made me jump a little. "You know you don't have to be afraid of her right? It looked at me as if I was retarded. I gave an irritated look and looked back at the yellow pony.

I realized I forgotten something and looked back at the pony, who just stood there looking back at me. The color of its mane was the same color as how my hair was now. Pure white, The only difference being its had a blue stripe going through it. I took a closer, focused look this time and also saw tattoos on her hind legs. Both Identical and they looked like a stone with a horseshoe imprinted into it. I drifted back into a deep thought. I had an odd mix in which I normally had close to zero focus on something unless it was any what interesting, the only problem with that being it that I would forget about most everything around me and only theorize on the subject.

My concentration broken by the sight of my breath. "Odd, I didn't know that it would be that cold now." I thought to myself. Looking back down and noticed that the pony was gone. Looked back around the tree only too jump back five meters as I almost bumped into the yellow pony, she did the same. The blue pony was standing right next to the yellow one laughing.

"See, this was the weird animal I was talking about." The blue one said. "What do you think it is?" I just kinda stood there staring at the two. "I hope I haven't taking any strange drugs lately." I thought to myself as I stared at the two conversing ponies.

"I don't know, I've never see anything like it." The yellow one said.

"Maybe I found a new species!" The blue one said proudly. "I guess I'd be pretty happy if I found a new species on animal." I thought to myself only to facepalm again. "I just did."

"I think we should take it too Twilight, she might know something about it." The yellow one said. I raised one of my eyebrows contemplating whether or not that was really a good idea. Though that grabbed there attention.

"Do you think it can understand us?" The blue pony said. It walked up to me and slowly said. "Caaaan..... Yoooooouuu. Understaaaaaaand...... meeee?" It said it like I was some kind of foreigner (which I was) that had just asked it to repeat what it had said five times. I just looked at it with the same look, acting like I didn't understand it.

"Well I guess that answers our question." The blue pony said. "It really does look weird doesn't it. Kinda like a monkey. It seems to be a lot smarter though. It managed to save me and get a manticore to kill itself." That is when I sudden thought popped into my head. "I yelled in English and she didn't know. Either she deaf or just was really panicking." I thought to myself.  

The little yellow pony was crying a little. "Oh... well I...  I guess if it saved you then its okay." She seemed pretty sad about the news.

"Oh come on Fluttershy, you don't have to cry for one of those manticores, most would attack you without second thought. Thats just how the Everfree forest works." I replayed the name Fluttershy in my head so I could remember the name. Atleast It was an easy name to remember.

"Anyways, lets get going." The blue one finally said. They started walking and I walked a distance behind them. I was thinking,  trying to make some more sense of my situation making a list of pros and cons in my head. "Pros: I some got stronger, My hair turned white and my glove things look awesome.(Yes that is what I call them, even in real life.) Cons: I've either gone crazy or I really am stuck on some different dimension with no knowledge of this place other than that big lion things are idiots.

In my time of thought without realizing it, I had caught up to the ponies and was right behind them. I grabbed my Ipod and set some more music on. This time the song was Erase/Replace by Foo Fighters. It was one of my favorite songs and made me forget about most of the things around me. I started humming it dragging more attention back to me.

The blue pony said something and I pulled one of my ear buds out to listen.

"Looks like it knows about music." The blue pony said.

"Maybe that how it talks." The yellow said. I giggled a little by that comment and imaged what it would be like him everyone was humming songs to each other.

The blue pony looked at me with a kind of confused look and the looked back in front of her.

"I don't think that's how it talks. I heard it saying some like. Ik benne ghek gehworedden." The blue pony said. I couldn't help but laugh a little from how bad her accent was. She looked back at me with angry eyes. I stopped for a moment to let some distance build again and put my ear bud back in.

We walked a little longer before reaching a town. It looked like what I had seen from the mountain. I looked back to look at it and got the strange urge to go back to it. I turned off my music and looked around. I got a lot of strange looks from a bunch of different ponies. Now I could clearly see a difference a between male and female pony. The males looked large and had wider chests in comparison to the females who were smaller and thinner.

We reached a big tree, it was full of windows. "Talk about a full blow tree house." I thought as the yellow pony knocked on the door. "Twilight, are you in there? Its Fluttershy, we found something you might want to see." She said as if trying to yell but failing.

The door opened and a purple pony popped her head out. What really pulled my interest is when I saw, and I kid you not, a single horn on her head. "Shes a damn unicorn. That most likely made the winged on a pegasis!" I yelled in my head. I started to get hyper at the idea of living mythic creatures. I could tell that I was not the only one getting hyper. The purple pony's voice was full of excitement. "Come in come in!" She said rushing back in.

We walked into that seemed like a library. There were books everywhere in case you hadn't guessed. The blue pony and Fluttershy sat down. I repeated Twilight's name a few times in my head. The first thing I did after that was look through all the books. Unforchantly, they where all fictional which I comfirmed when looking up at a sign saying Fiction. "Derp." I said quietly, trying to not attract attention to myself which ended up being easy because the Blue pony and Fluttershy were deep in conversation.

I looked around at the signs looking for a history section. I wanted to find out some more about this place. Right when I saw it the purple pony I had come to known as Twilight. There were tons of books flying around her, all of them having a purple glow around them. "Fucking magic..." I thought to myself trying to calm.

"Its got to be somewhere around here!" She yelled flipping through book after book looking for something. I grabbed a book and check the chapters. It was a book on mythic animals and objects. I then proceeded to go to the back of the book and look for the word human. To my surprise I found it and read through it myself. It gave a good description of the human anatomy but little else. It showed some ancient weapons, from the time of ancient Greece from the looks of it, even showing a  hoplite. (Its a ancient Greek warrior, Look it up!)  

I looked through it and most of it sounded like nonsense but some was quite interesting. "Damn, it looks like I found where all the old myths seem to come from." I thought as I set down the book. It seemed that I had attracted a lot of attention from the ponies. They were looking at me with a confused and slightly awe filled look. I quickly closed the book and stared back.

"Where did you find it?" Twilight asked.

"In the Everfree forest. I decided to take a walk and kinda got attacked by a manticore. This thing ending up saving me." The blue pony said.

Twilight grabbed the book I was reading and tried to find the pages I had been to.

"Longtrot, do you now what this means?!!" Twilight said excited as she found the page about humans. "I think you may have found a human!!" I started replaying the name in my head, it was easy to remember just because of how strange it sounded to me. It also sounded more like something you would name a guy, not a girl.

"A what?" Longtrot said.

"A human, there are a super rare species of animal that was thought to have been extinct for more than 5000 years!! I need to tell the Princess about this! Wait here, I will be right back!" Twilight said as she bolted out of the room. "Oh god, I have the feeling something is about to go very wrong." I thought to myself as I walked closer and closer to the door.

Right before I could make my escape, Twilight came back through the door with a quill and paper scroll floating next to her. She began switching between looking at me and writing on the scroll. When she was done she called out a name. "Spike, I need you to send a letter!" A few moments later a small lizard purple and green lizard walked into the room. Twilight gave it the scroll and it breathed a green fire over the scroll. A green cloud flew out one of the windows and disappeared.

The lizard looked at me and I just kinda stared back. I started to recognize a pattern that was forming with almost every pony/lizard thing I had came across. "Whats thats?" It asked.

"We believe this might be a human!" Twilight said excitedly.

"A what now?" The lizard asked. Twilight let out an irritated sigh and re-explained everything. "A human, its a super rare species that has been talked out in tons of books, but not a single sighting has happened for around 5000 years." she said in a single breath taking a deep breath and adding more information. "There has been unconfirmed sighting through out the ages but nothing has been proven so far. We might have a chance to confirm some of those sightings like this.

"Um, ok. I'm gonna take sleep upstairs now." The lizard walked out of the room, showing no interest to me, which came as a relief.

Fluttershy walked over to a window. "Its getting late, I need to leave." She said.

"Me too." Longtrot said.  

"Okay, you two. I will keep the human here. Be sure to comeback tomorrow. I will have more information about it then." Twilight said. I started to get a bit irritated by being called It the entire time though I did have myself to blame. The three said there goodbye as I quickly took a look through some of the books. She seemed to realize something and quickly bolted out the door and yelled. "Make sure to bring Lyra with you!!" A faint response could be heard but I couldn't understand it.

Twilight came back in and looked at me intently. "Now all I have to do is keep you from escaping in the night." She said. I just gave a bland look back. At first I just planned to listen and watch the ponies but when she said that I felt a shiver run down my spine. I started thinking about what the military would do if there found an alien or something like and compared it to the situation I was in.

"I don't know if you can understand me but please stay here for now." She opened a door leading down, probably to a basement. I walked in and she closed the door behind me. I walked into a large room full of more books and not much else. I looked for a spot to sit and grabbed some books to read and pass the time. I read the books for some an hour or two before getting bored.

I ate the Mentos I had with me and sat up to think. A feeling of sorrow overcame me as I realized how much I was going to miss my old life. At least that life gave me a path to follow and a idea on life. This place was just to different to call any kind of home and I started wishing I could just go back. The uncertainty of my life from now on was heartbreaking and I started getting a little depressed.

I grabbed my Ipod and turned on the song "Stranger Things Have Happened" which was also by Foo Fighters. The only thing that brought me some comfort was the music and I ended up singing a long with the song, not caring about the fact I was trying to keep the the ponies from knowing I spoke English.

After listening to the song a couple times I turned off the music and fell asleep. Day one in the unknown had been eventful and above else painful. At least I could sleep easily.

[Thank you for reading, I hope you liked this first chapter of my new fic. I don't know how much I will be updating it because I am still working on a different fic but I'm planning on getting this one done with more spelling quality and I am testing a new form of story telling that fits my tastes more. If you have any problems or anything like that with this first chapter, please tell me so I can improve :D]    Next Chapter: A fishing trip. Estimated time remaining: 5 Hours, 19 Minutes