Chapter 1: Surviving my first day

Author's note- Hello everyone to my first story! Now Ive redone this chapter, so if you are just starting, you're lucky. I would like to thank anyone who reads, favorites, or follows my story! Oh and I don't own anything in the MLP universe. Enjoy :)

Hello everybody! My name is Daniel Roberts, I'm 17 years old, I live in Ohio, and of course, I'm a brony. Now, I don't really the time to explain what is going on, because I am currently drowning. Why you might ask? Well God turned me into a brony, as per my request, and being the funny guy he is, he put me at the bottom of a lake. Oh and I can't swim. I'll tell you about that some other day when I'm not drowning to death.

So here I am, not even a full minute in Equestria and I'm already going to die. Great. So as I was losing more and more air, a thought popped into my head. I have wings. So naturally, I tried flapping them to try to use them as propellers, and holy hell it worked. So I frantically flapped my wings until I broke the surface of the water. I then doggy paddled myself over to shore, where I collapsed from exhaustion.

I got up to search my surroundings, to find that I was in the middle of the woods. This must be Everfree Forest I guess. I'll have to learn to fly pretty quickly, because I'm not even considering walking through the dangerous forest. So I tried to flap my wings, only to find they were still pretty wet, and wouldn't get me off the ground. Well now is a good a time as any to see what I look like.

I walked back over to the lake and glanced at my reflection, and hot damn do I look pretty cool. I was a Pegasus, with a dark blue coat, with one red, lightning shaped stripe on both sides of my body. My mane was also red, and flowed down the side of my face, partly covering one of my eyes. Speaking of my eyes, they were a really dark, deep blue. And finally, my cutie mark, which was a silver...shield? Ok I guess, you're the boss. What do I do all day? Shield things? Whatever, I'm sure I'll find out what it means later. For now though, I need to find Ponyville and meet the mane 6. Wait, wow, It just kind of hit me. I'm a pony...In Equestria. This is sooooooo fucking awesome!

I had to cut my celebrations short, as I heard a low growl pretty close to my location. I sprang up and looked all around me. It was dusk, so it was a little dark out. I looked at my wings and saw they were still pretty wet, so that's kinda out of the question. I couldn't run, as I was still pretty bad at walking with four legs. The only choice I had was to sit here and die. So I narrowly avoided drowning only to be mauled to death. Great.

As I sat there twiddling my hooves, I heard more growls from within the bushes and saw a couple of green eyes pop out of them. I got up and yelled "Nope nope nope nope" as I slowly backed off in the other direction, only to find more pairs of eyes pop out behind me. Then they slowly started to make their way out of the bushes and saw what I was up against . Timberwolves. Dozens of them. So naturally I jumped back into the pond in hopes that they can't swim. And of course they just jumped in and started to float over to me. Timberwolves. Right. Made of wood. I'm stupid.

Just when all hope was lost a bright flash appeared out on the shore. I then saw Princess Celestia standing there with a confused look on her face. She then proceeded to start shooting some of the timberwolves with magic bolts. The timberwolves then re-prioritized and started to go towards the princess. I dove under the surface of the water and swam under the wolves, as they were quite slow, to Celestia. Once I got there, I was totally star struck and the only thing I could muster to say was a measly...

"H...Hi"

"We shall talk later, but for now, we need to get out of here."

I was then enveloped in a bright light, and when I opened my eyes, we were in the castle. I looked around and it appeared we were in the Princesses room. All of a sudden, I couldn't move any of my muscles and I was started to float over to the wall where I was pinned down, presumably by Celestia.

"What are you, you look like a pony, but you have an energy about you that I have not encountered before. Are you some kind of mutant changeling?!" Celestia said

"Ummm well, I...I'm not a changeling, I'm just a normal pony, who got lost in the woods! I swear!"

"You should know better than to lie to me boy"

What should I do, I mean I could just tell her about me being a human, my death, and God, but I feel like she will throw me in the dungeons for being a freak of nature. I could just try to lie my way through it, but she seems to know when I'm lying. Wait, oh my God, can Celestia read minds?

"Why yes I can, and I do intend to throw you into the dungeons, possibly forever" The Princess said with a mischievous grin on her face.

"I'm not I swear, I couldn't even handle a couple timberwolves! I'm a huge coward, I couldn't harm a fly!"

Celestia then started laughing, at first I thought it was because of my begging, but It was much too light for that. After a while I started to nervously laugh, just to break the tension I felt.

" Whew...I haven't laughed that hard in years." The Princess said

"Ummm if you don't mind me asking, what was so funny?" I asked timidly

"Well my human friend, I was just kidding about the whole "I'll throw you in the dungeon" thing. You see, a human, just like yourself, came to this world not too long ago."

"What? How is that possible!"

"Well how are you here? That doesn't seem very possible either now does it"

"Well I guess not..."

"Do you know a human under the name Lauren Faust?"

Then all of a sudden, it hit me like a ton of bricks. The princess then told me about Lauren's unjust death and her choosing a world that was "Peaceful, friendly, and perfect". The Princess said that Lauren stayed here for about one month, until a portal appeared out of nowhere. She said she saw her friends and family on the other side and immediately jumped through, never to be seen again. I then went on to tell her that she made a TV show out of this world, and it was quite successful.

"Wait, if this is a little girls show, then why did you want to come here?" Asked the Princess

"Well the show has a rather large following of men who watch the show. We call ourselves bronies".

"Oh well I'm glad that our lives are so enjoyable to watch."

There was a bit of an awkward silence, so I decided to break it.

"So what are you going to do with me?"

"Well I imagine, you would go like to meet Twilight Sparkle and her friends"

"You bet Princess"

"Please call me Celestia, and I'll allow you to go to Ponyville. Under one condition. You must not tell anypony else of who you really are, just make up a backstory about yourself."

"I believe I can do that"

"Great! Oh my goodness, where are my manners? What is your name human?"

I thought about it for a while, because I needed a good pony name.

"Well I was Danny Roberts, but now I'm Radiant Breeze."