10. Introductions
"Dear me, there you have your Robin Hood and your noble knight..." Gingerbread whispered to Sweet Stuff, when they were starring at the strange kids.
The boy with the Shield grumbled, "Well, that wasn't the right portal for home in any case! I knew it. But nobody ever listens to me. This world seems to be quite 'nice', but..." "Shut up, Eric, it would have been that..." the girl with the Staff replied, but became silent when she noticed the amazed ponies.
"Wow! What's that?" the youngest of them asked. He looked curious at the ponies and came a step closer to them. "No, Bobby, don't..." the reddish-haired girl warned but the boy didn't listen to her and came a further step closer.
After they looked at each other silently, Twilight finally asked stammered, "Who... who are you?" The youngest frightened, stepped back and stared at the ponies perplexed. "You can speak..." the boy in the green robe and the Hat said surprised. "Of course, we can speak! You do it, too!" Fizzy replied cheeky. "Fizzy!" Medley admonished her.
"So, these cute animals aren't an illusion of me, are they? You talk with them! And don't dare to make fun of me once more when I talk to any animals..." the boy with the Shield snorted at the other kids. The irony in his voice wasn't to ignore. "Yeah! But we've got a reason to talk to them at least. You haven't got a reason, 'cause you even talk to yourself, what we don't do! That's it!" the small blond boy turned to the other boy and grinned. "Watch out, what you say, little rascal!" he replied stuck-up.
"I guess we should really introduce ourselves!" the older blond boy suggested. "Well, I'm Hank the Ranger. That's Presto the Magician, Eric the Cavalier, Diana the Acrobat, Sheila the Thief and her younger brother Bobby the Barbarian. We were in an amusement park and there we were riding the roller coaster 'Dungeons and Dragons'. But during the ride we were transported into another world, the Realm of Dungeons and Dragons. After we found out that we were wearing strange clothes, a mysterious man, which introduces himself as 'Dungeon Master', greeted us. He gave everyone of us a magical object what we use for defence against monsters. Well, Dungeon Master gives us riddles to come in our world again. And so we came through a portal in this world."
With not much hope in her voice Diana added, "And this isn't our familiar world, is it?" "Oh, um, I guess it's not. We're sorry!" Sweet Stuff meant.
"Ponies, then we also should introduce ourselves!" Wind Whistler thought. "All right then. Well, we're ponies from Ponyland. I'm known as Wind Whistler. Those are my friends Fizzy, Medley, Sweet Stuff, Twilight, Gusty, Firefly and Gingerbread and..." "My best friend Sundance was kidnapped by a dragon!" Firefly interrupted her. Wind Whistler threw a look to her that said she would mention it now, too.
"By a dragon?" Presto asked. "Yeah. By a dragon with five heads!" Gusty added. The teenagers looked at each other knowing.