Hey guys thanks for the positive reviews! Over a hundred visits in three days, it isn't much compared to other stories (I think) but it's enough for me. I appreciate you people for reading this story. Anyway here's the second chapter.
Chapter 2: Arrival
Travis and Jessica were both unconscious after their encounter with the mysterious rock. Travis was the first to wake. He slowly opened his eyes and moaned. His head was hurting and he felt nauseous. He was on his side, eyes half open and his thought process was barely functioning. Travis was having trouble regaining his bearings but his sister's grunting gave him the power to do so. "Jessica!" He thought and he quickly tried to get to his feet but immediately fell over. "Agh if only I wasn't so dizzy!" He stumbled over to the grunting noises. Travis found the source of the voice, but was startled by what he saw. He gasped, and his sister rolled over to see her brother. "Tr- Travis?" she murmured. Jessica rubbed her eyes and saw a gray stallion with a brown mane on its side next to her with his mouth open and eyes wide open.
Jessica screamed, startling the stallion, who then also screamed. They both stumbled backwards and stared at each other. "Jessica?" asked the stallion. "Travis?" she asked with worry in her voice. Travis nodded, "Jessica, I don't know if you realize this, but… you're a horse." He looked at the horse in disbelief that it was his sister.
"What?" Jessica looked down; her coat was sky blue and her mane was blonde. She shrieked and looked at her hands which were now replaced by hooves. "Travis, what's going on here? Why am I a horse?" she asked frantically.
Travis remained quiet, not knowing what to say. He tried to stand on two legs so he could walk over and calm his sister down but once again he fell over. "Why can't I-" His thought was interrupted after he noticed his legs weren't the same as the ones he used to have. "What? Am I also a horse?" It was still dark but he managed to examine his body further to realize that he too was a horse.
It was another fifteen minutes before the shock had worn off of the two. "Okay, we may be horses, but we still need to get out of here." Said Travis after remembering the situation they were previously in. The sun was close to rising, the sky became a shade of dark blue. "We should get moving now I guess." The stallion nodded his head and they began walking in a randomly chosen direction, but Travis stopped shortly afterward. "This isn't where we were yesterday." He started looking for a few landmarks that he remembered before the sun fell the day yesterday. "You're right," Responded Jessica. "Then where should we head?" Travis thought for a second, "There's a clearing over there." He pointed with his hoof. "I suppose that's where we should head."
They began walking. Jessica occasionally glanced at Travis and vice versa, it was still odd knowing that their sibling is now a horse. "Travis, what's that mark on your rear end?" Travis looked back at his hind and saw a tree. "I wonder what that is. You have one too by the way." Jessica turned her head. "It's a blank sheet of paper." She noticed something else too, "Look, I have wings!" Travis looked at his sister's side, then at his own. "Me too, maybe these could get us up a little higher, you know to look for civilization."
Travis began to flutter them. He began to get lift, and then he started drifting to the side and eventually crashed into the floor. "Okay, I guess not." Nonetheless, it didn't take too much longer to get to the clearing. From that point on there wasn't much but grass and rolling hills. In the distance were a few jagged peaks and behind them were the woods they recently emerged from. The siblings sat on the grass, not knowing what to do next.
Out of nowhere Jessica broke the silence and said "You know this is all your fault right?"
Travis immediately felt the need to defend himself "Well if you didn't run off like an idiot we wouldn't be this lost! Nor would we have ever found that stupid rock, and we would still be human!"
"Ugh, it was your idea to sneak off into the wilderness in the first place!"
The argument escalated and it caught the attention of a nearby creature. It walked casually towards the quarrelling pair. "Hey there, are you two ponies lost?" said the purple mare.
Travis and Jessica immediately stopped arguing turned towards the pony and stared. "You can talk?" said the confused stallion.
"Um, yeah. Of course I can talk. So do you two need help or anything?" The purple pony gave them a funny look.
Jessica came to a quick realization, if they were talking horses, then why can't they that one talk. What if it knows where they could find help? Jessica quickly responded "Actually yes, we don't know where we are, could you maybe give us directions to some civilization maybe?"
After a bit of thought Travis realized that the horse Jessica was talking to was an intelligent being. Though he remained quiet not wanting to offend the creature as it may be their only hope of finding civilization.
"Sure, just follow me; Ponyville isn't too far from here."
"Ponyville? That's a strange name." Travis thought. He decided to not worry about it because it was civilization nonetheless, and he knew that they wouldn't last another day out in the wilderness without food.
Their walk was nothing but awkward silence for the first mile; it was too much for the purple coated pony. "So what are you two's names?"
Jessica introduced both of them, "My name is Jessica and this is my brother Travis."
"Nice to meet you, my name is Twilight Sparkle, what brings you two out here anyway?"
"It's a long story, but I guess we have time." He began talking about the trip to Yosemite, the rock, and the events leading up to the meeting of Twilight. Once he finished Twilight's jaw dropped. She had never heard of Yosemite, what a car was, or what a human was.
"I… don't know what to say. So you two weren't originally ponies, but 'humans' am I correct?" Twilight, despite how much she knew, was dumbstruck.
Travis nodded his head. "You don't know what a human is do you?"
"No, please explain."
"A human is a- hmm how do I explain this." It was strange trying to describe what a human was for the average person doesn't think about it, for most a human was what they saw in the mirror.
"A human is a creature that walks on two legs, we have fingers instead of hooves and we populate the planet Earth." Travis's explanation only created more questions than answers.
"Okay…" Twilight said, now questioning the two foreigners' sanity. "We're almost in Ponyville by the way.
A few more minutes of walking passed and they arrived. It was still sunny, but the town was not what they expected. They saw a civilized pony society, some were selling their goods and a few were eating food in a restaurant talking about their day.
"Do you two have a place to stay?" Twilight asked, if their story was true, Equestria was a completely new world for them, and the time they were lost in the wilderness alarmed her.
"No, we don't, unfortunately," Said Jessica.
"Well, you could stay with me until things get sorted out for you two. Are any of you two ponies hungry? You two were out there for an awfully long time."
They were suddenly reminded of their hunger, "Yeah," they said simultaneously. Twilight acknowledged their hunger and she told them to follow her to her house so she can make them something to eat. Along the way a certain rainbow colored pony caught sight of Twilight.
Rainbow Dash dived down from the sky and stopped a few feet above the floor. "Whatcha doing Twilight? And who are these two ponies?"
"Oh hey Rainbow Dash, I was just on my way to my house and I found these two ponies lost outside of town. I'm about to get them some food, you can come of you want to."
"Sure, why not." Rainbow Dash landed next to Twilight.
"So where are you two from?" Dash looked at Travis and Jessica.
"Umm, it's a long story, I'll explain when we get to… wherever we're going." Travis was too hungry to explain their journey a second time.
The four of them arrived at Twilight's house which was built out of a tree. Inside, the walls were lined with books on shelves and a few were piled in stacks on the floor. Twilight them to follow her into the kitchen and she began preparing food. They all took a seat and Twilight brought the sandwiches over with magic. Jessica was amazed.
"How did you do that? That was amazing!"
Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow, "Umm duh, she's a unicorn, unicorns could do magic," she said blatantly.
Travis looked at the sandwich in front of him, looking for some meat. All he saw was some flowers and grass. "Umm, what kind of sandwich is this? It looks… strange."
"It's a daffodil sandwich."
"Daffodils?" Travis said in a repulsed manner.
"Oh come on! Have some respect you're a guest here just eat it. What are you expecting royal hay?" Dash was irritated at the pickiness of the two new ponies.
"Umm Dash, I think you should know something about these two ponies, you see…" Twilight began retelling the story Travis told her earlier.
Dash's reaction was fairly similar to Twilight's. "You're saying, these two ponies weren't ponies… and that they're from another world called Yosemite? I'm finding that hard to believe."
Travis nibbled the sandwich a bit only to discover how flavorful it was. "Oh man why didn't we eat these back at home?" he asked hypothetically. He then began eating the sandwich fairly quickly.
Jessica stared at hers, "He's not dead. Mind as well!" Then she began ravenously eating her sandwich. Twilight was barely half done with her sandwich before the two other ponies had finished theirs.
"Not quite filled but we'll be fine," Travis said.
They spent the rest of the day in Twilight's home, Rainbow Dash left after the meal. Twilight explained to the new ponies where they were, she read a excerpts from a few books about Equestria further teaching them about the place. Jessica and Travis in return talked about their own homeland. Neither of the parties managed to grasp an understanding of each other's worlds. Eventually it got late and Twilight laid down a few bedspreads on the floor for them to sleep on. Twilight returned to her room with spike.
They both sat on the bedspread and tried to figure out how to lay down comfortably. Soon they figured it out and began falling asleep.
"Travis?" Jessica asked.
"Yeah Jessie?"
"Do you think we're ever going to go back to our world? Back home?" Jessica's voice sounded hurt and her eyes began watering up a bit.
Her brother wasn't sure how to respond. But he noticed the tears rolling down Jessica's cheeks. "We will, sis, we will." He went over and hugged Jessica, and soon they were asleep.
Up in Twilight's room, she was preparing a letter. "Spike, take a note." Spike picked up a quill and paper, "Okay Twilight, ready!"
Twilight began speaking
Dear Princess Celestia,
This isn't about a lesson I learned about friendship but I think you should know about this. Today I came across the two strangest ponies lost outside of town. They were out in the wilderness for a day and a half, but the strange thing about it is that they weren't from here. When I asked them where they were from, they said they were from another world called "Earth." They also said they weren't always ponies, but two legged creatures called humans. They came here when the stallion had found a strange rock with some writing on it. Upon reading it a strange blinding light was emitted from it, and then they passed out and woke up here, as ponies. Everything here was new to them; they are currently staying with me while they sort things out. However, I still question their sanity.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle
I'm not so sure about this chapter, it felt like my brain just vomited all over the keyboard. Are the characters OC or no? I couldn't tell. Leave some feedback and tell me please!
