Harry Potter: Seeking Friendships' Home
A/N: Welcome to the second chapter, hopefully it gets just as positive a response as the first chapter. To those that wonder why there was no magic used during the brief encounter with Nightmare Moon, the honest answer is I forgot. I do address this issue in this chapter, so on with the story. Pairing information at the end.
Disclaimer: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is owned by Hasbro and Harry Potter is the property of JK Rowling.
"Talking"-conversation
'Talking'-thoughts
Pain, a massive amount of pain coursed through Harry's arm and back as he willed himself to wake up. When he finally did he found himself looking at a second winged unicorn with an indigo coloured coat and a teal mane. It was at this moment that Harry realized that the events of the past hour had not been a vivid dream and that he truly was in a world with ponies rather than humans.
Hearing hoof steps coming up towards him Harry looked to his left to see yet another winged unicorn approach, this one with a white coat and a multi coloured mane, gazing at the pair of them. When it looked at the indigo coloured pony Harry saw a smile cross the muzzle; however that smile disappeared when it looked over at him. Trying to stand up Harry collapsed as with one broken foreleg and a smashed wing, he could not find a sense of balance.
"Thank you for defending My Little Ponies, however I must ask who are you?" The taller winged unicorn asked in a gentle voice, clearly not wanting to intimidate Harry, who by this time had managed to balance himself. By the pitch of the voice Harry could tell that the winged unicorn was a female.
"My name is Harry Potter Miss; my I ask who you are?" Harry responded politely, curious as to what she wanted to know.
"I am Princess Celestia, Mr. Potter; I am one of the two rulers of Equestria. Why are you here?" The now identified Princess Celestia told him before posing a second question.
"To be honest Princess, I'm not sure I know myself. An hour ago I was in battle with a Dark Lord; fighting for a chance to end a war that had taken everything that meant anything to me. After finally killing him I lay down, closed my eyes, and woke up in the forest outside. I would like a chance to tell you everything that I remember but I do not think that this is the place for it." Harry answered trusting in his instincts that he could trust this princess and the others in the room, before raising a second question of his own. "Princess, I do have one question: before I blacked out the second time I was trying to stop a grown winged unicorn, when a rainbow coloured beam of magical power slammed into it. What happened?"
"Do you see the filly lying before you?" When Harry nodded his head Princess Celestia continued "That is my sister, Princess Luna, the Alicorn you were fighting was known as Nightmare Moon, Luna's dark side. The beam of magical power as you put it, brought an end to Nightmare Moon, and reawakened Luna."
"Sister?" a group of voices said, all of them shocked about this revelation. When Harry turned his head he saw the ponies that he had seen confronting Nightmare Moon earlier, subconsciously Harry noted that they were female as well, he saw the white coated unicorn gazing at him with an expression of gratitude on her muzzle. The other unicorn, this one with a lavender coat and violet mane, was looking at him with unmistakeable curiosity.
After seeing the reunion between sisters, during which even Harry was tearing up slightly, not that he would ever admit to it, Harry carefully made his way over to Princess Luna to speak with her while Princess Celestia went over to talk to the other six ponies.
"Excuse me Princess, do you have a moment?" Harry asked, bowing his head in reverence to the position the filly held in Equestria. While his instincts told him that he could trust Luna, he wouldn't forget that this was the same filly that beat him to a pulp less than half an hour ago. What Harry didn't expect was for the filly to start apologising for what happened.
"I'm sorry about hurting you, please don't hate me." Princess Luna practically begged Harry, drawing the attention of the six ponies and Princess Celestia over to them.
"Princess, I'm not going to hate you, but I will not forget what your dark side is capable of." Harry told the princess before hearing yet another question from behind him.
"Mr. Potter, why didn't you use magic to stop Nightmare Moon, surely it would have been less painful for you" The lavender unicorn asked, curious as to why an Alicorn would not use their magic.
"To be honest, I didn't think of it. Also, there was a chance that I may have hit one of your companions by accident." Harry answered, embarrassed that he had managed to forget the only thing that had saved his life over the last twenty two years, ever since his parents had been killed.
It was after this brief conversation that the six ponies introduced themselves and Rarity, the unicorn Harry had rescued from being skewered by Nightmare Moon, gave him a grateful hug being careful with his injured wing. After the hug was over Harry decided to speak up about his injuries.
"Um Princess Celestia, is there anything that can be done about my leg and wing?" Harry asked, feeling slightly uncomfortable about asking the ruler of this place about a broken leg and wing.
"My apologies Mr. Potter, one moment and I'll have you fixed up." Princess Celestia said before casting a series of spells to knit the bones in Harry's wing and foreleg back together. When she was done Harry tried putting weight on his leg and found that he could stand without wanting to scream in pain.
Seeing that Harry was healed, Princess Celestia gathered the other ponies around her and teleported them to a nearby village, Ponyville. Getting over the shock of how quickly the pink mare, Pinkie Pie, could throw together a party, Harry was struck at how much it looked like Hogsmeade, only without any of the damage from the last battle. Looking around he saw in place of Honeyduke's there was a building that resembled a giant cupcake while over where the Three Broomsticks had been there was a carousel of some sort. All around him Harry saw multi coloured ponies bowing in reverence to both princesses, and strangely enough him. Glancing over at Rarity, Harry decided to ask why.
"Rarity, why are they bowing to me? I'm no one really special here…"Harry started to say before being cut off by the mare.
"Mr. Potter" Rarity started to say before being cut off herself
"Call me Harry please, I think after the events in the castle we're on a first name basis." Harry interjected with a smirk on his face. "Harry then, it's because you are all Alicorns, the royalty and rulers of Equestria." As soon as Rarity had said this another pony entered the conversation. "For one thousand years Princess Celestia was the only one to rule, when she was forced to banish her sister to the moon for trying to bring eternal night. Now with the return of Princess Luna and your appearance we have three." The lavender coated unicorn, Twilight Sparkle told Harry, again looking at him with curiosity. On seeing that look Harry wanted nothing more than to find a place to hide but before he could get away he was called over by Princess Celestia.
"Yes Princess, what can I do for you?" Harry asked, curious as to what she wanted.
"Would you be able to come to Canterlot in two days to discuss your past and anything you did not want to discuss in the castle?"
"That should not be a problem princess; I just need to find a place to stay for a couple nights."
"I have asked my student to house you until you are able to find work of your own; I know you were not an Alicorn before your arrival, and therefore not related to me or anypony in my family. I look forward to hearing your story Mr. Potter." The princess said before departing with her sister on a chariot pulled by four white pegasi.
As the party broke up and the inhabitants of Ponyville departed for their homes Harry and his new friends made their way over to where Twilight was going to be living: a tree that had been turned into a library of all things. One of the pegasi, Rainbow Dash, made a comment about how it was a perfect place for an egghead like Twilight. On entering the tree Harry saw to his amazement a small bipedal dragon.
"Hey Twilight, who's this?" The dragon asked on seeing Harry.
"Spike, this is Harry. He's going to be staying with us for a little while, could you get an extra pillow and blanket please?" Twilight asked the dragon, who nodded by going to a second level. "I'm sorry, but I don't have an extra bed at the moment. The last librarian had a couch up on the second level, I hope that's alright. I'll see if I can get my things from Canterlot tomorrow, seeing as I'll be living here for the foreseeable future." Twilight said to Harry, smiling hopefully at him.
"It is fine Twilight, a couch is better than a few places I've slept over the last few years. Before you ask, I need to talk to the Princess about some things that have happened to me in the past, but I promise to tell you everything that I can, all of you." Harry said to the group before everypony said their goodbyes. A few hours later, Harry climbed onto the couch and promptly fell asleep.
A/N: So here we are at the end of chapter 2, hopefully it is as enjoyable as the first chapter. As for pairing information, I'm split between Rarity and Twilight being one of the two interests in this story. As for the second interest I'm open to suggestions be they from the Mane 6 or one of the other ponies in the series. Please leave your suggestion in a review or feel free to message me. I hope to have the third chapter up sometime within the next week.