A few hours later
You woke up as soon as the carriage touch the ground. You saw that Twilight and Spike were both asleep. You shook Twilight awake.
"What is it Dante?" Twilight asked.
"We're here Twi." You tell her.
You two both step out of the carriage, the sun hitting your faces. You had to blink a couple of times to make your eyes stop hurting.
"Well what do we do first Twi'?"
"I know you aren't going to help with the celebration so could you take our stuff to the library here?"
"Sure." You said, taking your luggage to your new house. Both you and Twilight were roommates, you didn't mind much since you got use to her late night study habits.
Leaving the library you saw a pink blur fly past you and then heard a loud gasp.
"Okay, I'll pretend that it's normal here." You said aloud
You were semi afraid of ponies. Why? Well when you first got here, your first encounter with a pony was with a royal guard and a noble, the noble called you a dirty creature. While the guard took you to the Princess, you slowly walked towards the guards who had their weapons out, scaring the crap out of you but you held your ground. She gave you a hug and told you not worry about anything, she would take care of you.
You were then sucked out of your thoughts as you felt something heavy yet soft on you. You looked up to see a grey colored pegasus with a blond mane and tail on top of you. She was wearing brown cargo shirt and shorts with a mail bag on her side.
"Oh I'm so sorry mister." She said, holding out her hand.
"It's alright miss, just a mistake is all."
You got up and saw her eyes, they were bright gold and she was cross-eyed.
"Hello, uh my names Dante, what's yours?" You asked
"Oh I'm Ditzy Doo but ponies call me Derpy Hooves."
"Well it was nice to meet you Derpy."
"You too Dante. Oh as a I'm sorry gift, would you like a muffin?" She asked. She actually looked cute when she handed you the muffin.
"Thanks Derpy."
"Anything for a friend." She stated, before she took off you stopped her and asked.
"Friend?"
"Of course we're friends." She said with a smile. She took off and flew to her next destination.
"Well that was unexpected." you mumbled to yourself. You were happy that you made a friend but it was only the afternoon and knowing Twilight she won't be at the library until everything is absolutely perfect. You decided to walk around town, get to know the locals and get that fear of other ponies away from yourself.
You ate the muffin that Derpy gave you, surprisingly it tasted good. You didn't notice that you accidentally bumped into somepony.
"Oh I'm sorry." You said holding out your hand towards a mint color unicorn. Judging by the cutie mark on the back of her hand, you could tell that she could play music well.
"Nah it was my fault anyway, wasn't looking where I was going." She said picking herself up with your hand.
"Anyway, my name's Dante." You say trying to strike up a conversation.
"Oh, my name is Lyra, Lyra heartstrings."
"Nice to meet ya Lyra."
"You too but there's something different about you, something that I can't put my finger on."
"What's that?" You ask
"You don't have a tail and your mane, it's brown and not colorful."
"You noticed huh, well I'm not a pony. I'm a human."
"A hu-man, what's that?"
This was a little difficult since you did know a little before your arrival here. But not so much where you knew everything about your race.
"Well it's a little complicated. I was raised by ponies and I never actually interacted with my kind before." You said honestly
"Hmm okay. Hey, are you going to that party that Pinkie Pie is setting up?" Lyra asked
"Pinkie Pie?"
"Oh sorry, she's a pony that lives here. She's kinda weird but in a 'try to cheer you up' kinda way, if you want somepony to make a party you talk to her."
"I'll keep that in mind. Anyway it's nice meeting you Lyra." You responded
"Yeah you too." She then walked off to the other direction and mumbled something that you couldn't figure out.
Walking into the marketplace ponies stopped and stare at you, some even glared but you kept a stern face. Knowing that if they intimidate you then you'll just be feeding them.
"Hello." A mare with a red and light red mane and tail said approaching you.
"Uh hello. This might sound stupid but why aren't you mad at me." You then pointed towards the crowd of ponies that looked at you with glares and scared looks.
"Oh then well I never judge a book by its cover and something about you seems interesting. Sorry I never gave you my name. My name is Roseluck."
You smiled and said "Dante."
"Dante huh I never that name before." Rose said. "Uh I didn't mean to insult." She quickly stated.
"It's okay I know it's a weird name but my mother gave to me." It was true Celestia did give you that name. The name just stuck from then on.
"So are you new to town?" She asked
"Yeah I'm here with a friend. She's just worried about some celebration they're doing here." You say to her.
"Really well the summer sun celebration is pretty big, the whole towns gonna be there."
"Great, one event that I want to avoid."
"Why's that?" She asked.
"Well most ponies I met so far were either assholes or snooty." You tell her. You remembered all those walks that your mother and you took, ponies staring at you, some even tried to shoo you away from the Celestia, which Celestia didn't take lightly. She hated when one of her subjects tried to take away her son.
"Well I can assure you that none if us are snooty. Just try to get use to things and eventually you'll earn everyponies trust."
"Well I'll try." You tell her.
"I'll see ya later Dante."
"Yeah you too." You walked away from the marketplace and made your way to the park. Once you entered the park you saw fillies and colts run around playing on the playground. It reminded you of your childhood and when you and Twilight use to play with Cadence.
You also remembered when Twilight cheated and used magic to find you. But you got her back with a prank then the three month prank war between you and Twilight started.
Shining,Cadence,and Celestia were all causalities but alls fair in love and war.
After a couple of hours, you heard a beautiful sounding noise. You looked up at a hill and saw a grey mare with a black mane and tail using what you could probably tell was a cello.
The sound soothed you. You listened to all kinds of songs when you lived in the castle from classical to rock and even dubstep, but nothing could beat classical music.
As soon as her song was over, you walked up to her to start a conversation.
"Uh hello there." You said, getting her out of her trance. She was startled at the interruption.
"Oh h-hello. You're the creature that ponies have been talking about, forgive me for asking but what are you?" She asked. You didn't mind her asking even if you hated being asked what you were.
"It's fine. I'm a human and my name's Dante." You said shaking her hand.
"Oh, my name is Octavia. You heard the music, didn't you?"
"Yeah, it was beautiful." You tell her.
"Really? Ponies don't think so."
"Maybe not the very few but I loved it."
"Do you play an instrument?" She asks
"Yeah I do I play the acoustic guitar." You tell her you played it when your mother thought that you were anti social.
"Really? Do you have your guitar with you now?" She asked you
"Sorry, it's back at my house." You looked at your watch you spent a good chunk of time at the park. "I should be going, my friend is going to worry." You tell her getting up from the ground.
"Oh of course. Are you going to the party Pinkie Pie planned?" She asked.
"Of course, I'll probably see ya there. Goodbye Octavia."
"Ah goodbye Dante." You walked away from the park and made your way to the empty streets. Nopony in sight, you sigh and walked through the market place. Again empty, you chuckled at the memories here so far. You made a few good friends but your day isn't over just yet.
You then walked in front of the library to see it you walked towards the porch, you saw a really exhausted Twilight.
"Damn Twi, what happen to you?" You ask
"It's been a long day Dante, lets just leave it at that." She tells you looking like she's going to collapse.
"Easy there Twi, let's get you to bed." You tell her carrying her.
"You'd like that wouldn't you?" Spike says walking next to you two.
As you opened the door you heard some noises and flicked on the lights.
"SURPRISE!"