Twilight Sparkle shivered a bit and forced a fake smile. "Uh... well... nice to meet you... Mr. Pein."
"Wait, wait, wait," Rainbow Dash was heard again. "And what in the hay did that 'I am god' mean?!"
Applejack quickly placed a hoof on her blue friend's mouth, smiling nervously. "Ehehe... Dash, I think it's not a good time for yer cocky questions... heh..."
"My, my," the white unicorn with pretty purple umbrella on its back chimed in and elegantly trotted up to the human. "Don't listen to them, darling," she said politely, "I, of course, know what you meant." She placed her hoof on his cloak, caressing it, amazed. "This sure is a work of god! Did you make it alone or did -"
"Rarity, better get back here!" Rainbow Dash shouted at her from behind.
Rarity rolled her eyes, sighed in annoyance and came back to the group of her friends.
Pinkie was having a hard time keeping herself from shouting and jumping around.
Pein finally spoke again. "I don't answer any questions from summons, so lead me to your Master. He might can tell me how to get back to where I come from."
Twilight nervously coughed. "I-I... don't understand... we are not any 'summons' or what y-you said... we are ponies... but... I think w-when y-you said 'Master' you m-mean princess Celestia..."
"So you're lost huh?" Rainbow Dash questioned curiously while she was hovering above the ponies.
Princess Celestia...? Not summons? Where am I? "Ms. Sparkle, may you tell me where exactly I am?"
"E-Exactly?" He really doesn't have any idea where he is. "You're in the Everfree F-Forest near Ponyville, Equestria."
His eyes widened. I must have been teleported to another dimension. "I have never heard of that. And I guess you've never heard of Elemental Nations, right?"
They all shook her heads.
"Hm," he mutterd, bringing another awkward silence. Then his eyes noticed the yellow pegasus mare, Fluttershy, shaking and hiding behind her friends, letting her pink mane cover her face. Fluttershy hoped that this wouldn't happen, that he would not notice her but she felt that he stares at her. The scared Pegasus began quietly whimpering. What if he does the same thing he did to those poor wolves...? Tears flowing down her cheeks, hidden behind her mane.
"Please, excuse Fluttershy, darling, she is quite sensitive," Rarity spoke with and caressed Fluttershy's head.
Pein lightly nodded.
"YAY!" Pinkie blurted out of the silence suddenly, smiling ear to ear. "I sense there's a big 'Welcome-to-Ponyville... no, no, no... 'Welcome-to-EQUESTRIA' party on the way! YAHOOOO!"
"Welcome party?" Pein repeated the only thing he caught from Pinkie's talking, puzzled.
"Yeaah, I make them for my every new friend!"
"Friend?"
"YES, WE ARE! Are we?"
"Uh -"
"YES! I KNEW WE WERE!" Pinkie jumped and hugged the emotionless creature.
Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Applejack facehoofed at the sight.
"Alright, mr. Pein, you can join us if you're not going to harm me or my friends," said the lavender unicorn. "But now, we should get going and find out what is causing this never-ending rain!" The others agreed.
The human smirked slightly, performing several hand-seals, raised his hands in the air and the rain suddenly stopped. All of them was gaping at what they just saw. The clouds started uncovering the sun and turned white. After a while there was sunny as it should be.
"Finally!" exclaimed Rarity.
Twilight was stunned. "Y-You just... H-How...?"
Pein wanted to respond but couldn't because of a certain pink mare.
"YAAY! My new friend can do magic like you Twilight!"
"B-But... h-how...?" Twilight was still repeating. Any Pegasus couldn't stop it and he did it with a few moves? And still, how the heck can he even do magic, he doesn't even have a horn! Impossible!
"Well, I think we should see the princesses first," said Twilight, still quite stunned from what she saw a moment ago.
The pony with a hat spoke when the orange-haired man nodded. "Eh... well, no offence partner," he said to Pein and turned to the purple unicorn. "But Twilight, are ya sure we can trust 'im?"
Pein's looked at her blankly with his unfocused eyes. "That's perfectly fine... But don't worry, I mean no danger to you, your princesses or your village... Well, if they mean no danger to me," he said, looking very serious.
When they were quietly walking through the forest, Pein didn't want to answer any questions until they meet princess Celestia. Twilight was very curious about this mysterious being. What were the species and what could they learn from them? But she was still quite unsure, he could be dangerous. After all, they all saw what he did to the wolves.
As soon as Pein with the group walked into Ponyville, everything went silent and he was watched by widened eyes of all the frightened ponies with mouth agape. Twilight Sparkle was nervously smiling as she and her friends was leading the strange being through the streets. Pein, on the other hand, was all calm, looking around himself at the houses of all shapes and colors. Soon they got to an odd tree with door and windows. Twilight opened the door and let her friends and Pein enter. She walked in as the last and quickly closed the door.
Inside the tree was a pretty room in which almost everything was made of wood. The bookshelves were all filled with books and there were MANY bookshelves.
"Spike, I'm home!" Twilight exclaimed. "Could you, please, come here?"
And in a second, she received the response of a young male from the upstairs. "Okay, Twi, I'll be right there!"
The unicorn color similar to Pein's Rinnegan turned to the human. "Make yourself comfortable, Mr. Pein," she told him politely and pointe to a large sofa and two armchairs near the wall.
"Thank you, Ms. Sparkle," said he with a light nod.
She slightly smiled and looked at her friends. "And you girls, of course, too."
They all nodded. Pinkie Pie quickly took a spot on the sofa right next Pein, staring at him with big smile; he stared back but his way was the right opposite, emotionless and cold. But Pinkie didn't care at all. Rainbow Dash sat next to Pinkie, Rarity on a one of those armchairs, Applejack settled on the second one. And Fluttershy was crouching next to the door, hiding her face behind her mane anxiously.
"Come on, Flutters," called Rainbow Dash, "You can sit there, it's empty." Pointing with her hoof to the spot next to Pein.
"...Um... t-that's alright... I can s-tand..." she whimpered quietly, her head tilted.
Rainbow Dash chortled at the sight, she expected that reaction from her. "Oh, you are scared, are you?"
"...N-no... I j-just... want to s-stand..." she replied in her trembling high-pitched voice. Of course, she WAS scared of that creature.
"Okay."
"Hi girls -... uh... Twi, who is that dude sitting on the sofa?" a little purple dragon that just came in said. Pein's eyes widened a bit when he looked at the creature that appeared. Dragon, hm. The dragon's eyes widened too when he noticed the being's eyes. Creepy, Spike thought. And what's with his face? The other ponies, except Fluttershy, waved at him smiling.
"Spike, this is Pein. Pein, this is Spike," introduced them Twilight.
"Well... eh... nice to meet ya... Pein..." he said rubbing the back of his head nervously.
"To me as well," Pein replied in his low voice.
They both stared at each other for a while.
"Spike," the purple mare spoke, "I need you to send a letter to princess Celestia.
"Well, as I look at your new friend I think I know why."
"Hurry up, Spike!"
"Okay, okay," he muttered and pulled out a vellum and a quill already dipped in ink. Twilight told him what to write and after a while, Spike teleported it to the princess, using his fire breath.
"I'm sure the princess will arrive soon," the lavender unicorn said.
Pein slightly nodded.
"Would anyone like some tea?"
"ME!" Pinkie shouted. "ME!"
The human shook his head, forcing a fake kind smile. "No, thank you Ms. Sparkle."
Minutes had passed. Pinkie Pie threw about ten sugar cubes into her cup of tea and began sipping loudly, though the atmosphere was still tense.
"So," Rainbow Dash spoke, "What exactly are you?"
"A human," he answered.
"Where are you from, huh?"
"Classified," he simply said.
"And could teach me that cool shinra-or-what-thingy?"
"No."
She frowned and turned her head away from him, miffed.
"I would like to know how you can even perform magic," Twilight Sparkle joined the conversation.
Pein cocked his head lightly. "What is magic?"
Twilight lowered one eyebrow, thinking if that guy was for real. "Eh, to put it plainly, magic is energy that lies within some kinds such as unicorns and alicorns, with which they can use spells."
"I'm afraid that I have never heard of the terms you mentioned. May you, please, tell me what is 'alicorn'?"
Everypony's jaws lightly dropped. "How can you not know what is an alicorn?" Rarity asked confused.
"Well, I'm from a place real far away, lady Rarity," he said and gazed at the white unicorn which was now slightly blushing at the 'lady'.
"Alicorn," Twilight continued explaining, "is a pony of incredible power and has a horn and wings. For example, our princesses."
"Interesting," he mumbled.
All of a sudden, a knocking was heard. "Excuse me." Twilight immediately reacted. Pein prepared to meet the princess and stood up. After a while, Twilight came back, followed by a tall white alicorn with a golden crown, necklace and a sparkling colorful mane denying gravity, a bit hiding one of her big purple eyes crowned by her long lashes. The mark on its flank symbolized the sun. . Pein noticed the amount of respect they all showed towards the princess. Spike and everypony in the house bowed and greeted her kindly.
"I'm honored to meet you princess Celestia," said the man politely, bowing his head. "Now I can finally talk to someone on my level."
"Hey!" Rainbow Dash shouted, upset.
Celestia smiled uncertainly at that compliment. "Why thank you, mr..."
"Pein," he finished.
"Pein..." she repeated, a little bit startled, looking carefully at the odd being in front of her. "Hm, when my student said 'different' I had no idea that this different. I am princess Celestia, the ruler of this land. Who are you and where are you from, if I may ask?"
"For I am a human, species you've probably never heard of. I am not completely from this world." Everypony except the princess gasped. "And in my world, I am from the Village Hidden in the Rain, which I rule."
"Village Hidden in the Rain?" the princess repeated.
"...That reminds me of how you stopped that rain, some mysterious way," Twilight chimed in and the rest of the ponies nodded.
The human turned to the lavender colored mare. "My own rain I will stop myself."
Twilight looked confused. "...Your own...?"
Pein didn't respond and turned back to the princess looking at him inquiringly. Pein closed his eyes as he began explaining. "I'm sorry if it startled you, but I use the raining jutsu to sense chakra at long distances, it helps me especially to protect my village, and today I had to use it to find my way out of the forest, following the chakra of the ponies of this town."
It was worthless, the ponies seemed even more confused after his explanation, so he started another one about jutsu, chakra and shinob, and that led to Celestia's explaining what's magic and spells.
"It seems very alike," he said.
"Indeed."
"I wonder what your world looks like," Rarity chimed in.
"It's nothing you would like to see."
"Oh, why?"
Pein didn't respond and turned back to Celestia. "And what about your world? How is Equestria?"
"It's a peaceful land of friendship and love," answered Celestia with a warm smile.
"Hn," Pein muttered. "How can you reach peace in... this..."
"What do you mean?"
"Love breed sacrifice, which in turn breeds hatred..."
The atmosphere had become tense and the human continued. "...The chain of hatred that it creates can be only broken by understanding and sharing one's pain and that is the only way to gain peace."
"Ya shouldn't tryna prove princess's words wrong, partner," Applejack was heard.
Celestia was dumbstruck by the being's ideals. "We have not created any chain of hatred with anyone. The peace and harmony we reached is mutual."
"I highly doubt it, princess," he muttered. "I'm going to let it be since you are not able to understand it."
"Okay, I guess it'll be better off this way," said Celestia, "By the way, Welcome to Equestria, Pein of the Village Hidden in the Rain. We will do our best to try to send you back to your world, to your village."
He nodded.
"You can stay in the library if you want." Twilight told him.
"Thank you, ms. Sparkle, I appreciate that."
"You can call me Twilight."
"Thank you, Twilight."
"But if you hurt any of my subjects, you shall feel my wrath," Celestia warned in a serious voice.
"I have no reason to hurt your subjects, princess."
She nodded.
And so began a murderer's life in a world filled with happy colorful ponies.