Chapter 1 – the steel moon

My name is Jacob Circe, I have striking blue eyes in contrast to my long black hair, I was about 5 feet tall, 200 lbs, and I forgot a map. I was wandering in the forest that my FOSTER parents lived by, for about a half an hour, before I realized I was lost, I had never been in this part of the forest before and it was creepy. All the trees seemed to have faces, staring at me.

I always saw movement at the edges of my vision, but the moment I turn it stops. For a minute I felt woozy, I don’t know why, but I almost collapsed. I saw an amazing sight the moment I came into a clearing, where the moonlight shone, unfiltered by trees. I looked up at the moon and said aloud “what the…” I never got a chance to finish that sentence, the moon that I looked up at was completely steel-colored and reflective. The moment I looked up, pain lanced through my right leg.

My knee began to buckle, but I was able to remain standing long enough to see, what looked like a pile of twigs arranged to look like a wolf biting my leg. For a moment I was really confused, then the pile of twigs growled and looked up with glowing yellow eyes I did the only natural thing… I punched it. (I know some of you might not consider that ‘natural’ but what would you do huh?) The wolf-thing looked surprised, which gave me the moment I needed to yank its head off my leg, and bolt.

I ran as fast as my legs could take me. I found some strange ruins and hid in them. I heard the wolf-thing howling but, fortunately, it didn’t find me. I took am moment to look around the ruins and at the bite. It wasn’t as deep as it looked and I was able to bandage it rather well with the only present the pigs had ever gotten me, a grey shirt that was falling apart, they found it at a garage sale and made me buy it.

It was easy and fun to rip into strips and soak in blood. The ruins were grey and cold, and had a feel of darkness to them (yes, fore those of you who hadn’t guessed it’s the ruins where Nightmare Moon fought the mane 6). I began to drift off. In my dream, I saw a giant black horse, wait, not a horse, it had a horn growing out of it’s head… a unicorn… no wait, there are also wings on it’s back, a Pegasus… what was the term for both a Pegasus and a unicorn…an alicorn, it was a giant black alicorn, it wore blue-black armor that covered most of it’s upper body.

The scariest thing about it was it’s eyes, it had green eyes with slits for irises, like a snake (for those of you who haven’t guessed, yes this is Nightmare Moon) the giant walked up to me and in a rather loud feminine voice said “a human?” it chuckled “how quaint, it’s been a while since I last saw a human.” I then realized that I left my jaw on the floor and quickly picked it back up, staring at it I thought ‘am I going crazy or something’ it continued chuckling for a moment before it said “so you saw it, did you?”

I looked at her, I had decided it was a her, and said “s…saw what” (if you think it’s nerdy or weak to be stuttering like that, you try facing a 50 – foot tall Nightmare Moon) “MY moon of course” she said it as though it was a known fact to everyone “y…you mean the steel moon?” “Yes, finally somepony who get’s it without me having to explain it thoroughly” “umm, excuse me, did you say ‘somepony’?” “Yes” “umm don’t you mean somebody?” “Of course not, you left the human world a while ago” “t…the human world?” “YES, welcome to Equestria” I stared at her for a while with my mouth hanging open