steel moon
Chapter 4: chapter 3 - Ponyville
Previous Chapter Next ChapterMy eyes grew huge, I grabbed the surprisingly light purple unicorn that gave an indignant “hey!” and dove out of the way, landing on my back with a unicorn on top of me. The cyan streak crash landed exactly where we were standing moments ago, leaving a large crater. A stumbling, but unharmed cyan Pegasus got out of the crater and said “whoa, that trick didn’t work” her voice was slightly masculine, but obviously belonging to a female “is everypony okay?” she asked in the direction I dived I groaned, but the purple pony got off of me and walked over to the cyan one with an annoyed look on her face “Rainbow Dash” I got up, I wasn’t hurt, just sore, my backpack took most of the slide Rainbow Dash looked at me in amazement “umm, Twi, what is that?” I raised a hand and said “hi” she jumped higher than I thought possible, I had to get back into the clearing we were originally standing in to see her again, just in time to see her dive bomb me.
“AAAAAAH!!!” I yelled and VERY quickly ducked out of the way “hey Twi, what is this thing?” “Ow, ow, ow, ow” I said as she jumped up and down on my head. Then she bounced really high I closed my eyes, waiting for the impact. After a few moments I looked up to see rainbow floating in midair while glowing in a kind of purple aura.
“Hey Twi, put me down!” Rainbow yelled indignantly “wait, I think we should talk things over with it.” “umm, I’m not an it, I’m a him. My name is Jacob Circe” “we should take it to meet princess Celestia, she would be interested to know about him” “fine” Rainbow grumbled Twi looked at me and said “”sorry, I haven’t introduced myself, I’m Twilight Sparkle, Princess Celestia’s number one student” “yeah, yeah and I’m Rainbow Dash, fastest thing in the sky!” “so, how are we going to meet this Princess Celestia?” “like this” and Twilight’s horn started glowing “umm….” I never got to finish as I suddenly felt like I was being moved very quickly.
For a moment I saw some of the town, specifically 4 ponies, an orange pony with three apples on her flank, kicking a tree, a pink pony with three balloons on her flank, bouncing around, a yellow Pegasus pony with three butterflies on her flank,leading some baby ducks, and a white unicorn with three diamonds on her flank, sewing a dress. I felt very dizzy and landed in an extremely large garden. It surrounded a beautiful palace made out of gold. Unfortunately I couldn’t see this as I was to dizzy to see anything.
After a moment, everything stopped spinning and I followed Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash through an enormous entrance hall into an enormous throne room where a white alicorn with an image of the sun on her flank stood. For some reason she looked somewhat familiar I just couldn’t put my finger on it.
Her mane and tail were all colors of the rainbow and blowing to an invisible breeze. I saw as I got closer how large she was holy shit she’s bigger than me! I thought as I kneeled, it seemed like the right thing to do “what are you?” she asked, obviously directed at me “I’m a human, my name is Jacob Circe” “D…did you say Circe?” I was surprised to hear her stutter like that, apparently Twilight and Rainbow were too. They grew tense as I said “yes” I tensed too, this can’t be good.
she sighed “so that’s why” I was somewhat taken aback “why what” “my brother, I don’t talk about him much he was a white alicorn, but he was somewhat annoyed he could never become king. Instead of accepting the pampering that he was given, he left, and lived in the Everfree forest, when Luna became Nightmare Moon, I went into the Everfree forest to find him, but I couldn’t his name was Honor Circe” I looked at her with wide eyes as she continued the story “he reappeared soon after Nightmare Moon was defeated, carrying a young human, that human was dying, and he said it had only just been born.
I felt pity for it, I gave it a lock of my hair, sealed with a clasp and a golden cross, with his birthstone embedded in it” I looked at her with absolutely enormous eyes “th…this?” and I pulled out my mother’s necklace she looked at it in shock “y…yes, that is the necklace I gave the young human” “I think that young human was me” “n…no, impossible, he took that young human back to the world called Earth” “that’s where I come from” she looked at me for a moment.
“very well then Jacob Circe, I wish to know how you would behave around ponies, Twilight” “yes princess” “take a note, the human will remain in equestria until we find out how to return him to Earth…” “excuse me,” everyone looked at me shocked “I, honestly don’t want to go back to earth” Celestia looked like she had no idea what to do, she sighed “very well then, Twilight, you will provide food and shelter for him, as well as study his behavior, for the time being.” Twilight looked somewhat annoyed “yes Princess” then I felt i feeling of going very quickly again.
When we stopped I was somewhat less disoriented than last time. I was in a library, that looked like it was carved out of wood. Our sudden appearance startled a purple lizard thing that looked around surprised. His eyes locked on me and he said “what are you?” “umm… hi, I’m a human” “Spike, this is Jacob Circe, he’ll be staying with us for the time being” “Jacob, this is spike,” “Her number one assistant” “he’s a baby dragon” with all that I went through today I just said “okay”.
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