Mana is Magic

by Alex1108

Chapter 2

"Wakey wakey. Time to wake up." Celestia told me as I muttered in bed. Celestia used her magic to pull the blanket off of me. "Good morning princess." I told her. Then I got up and Celestia walked out of the room. "So that wasn't a dream." I told myself. As I got out of the room, I asked Celestia. "Where's the bathroom?". She looked at me from across the hallway and aimed her horn. Then the next thing I knew I was in a bathroom. "Thank you." I said to her even though I was in a different room than her. There was a shower, a sink, a toilet looking thing and a door behind me. I used the toilet thing and it did not have toilet paper but I didn't need it. It cleaned me with water. I was shocked by that function. Then I used the shower and instead of the faucet handle below the shower head, it was on the wall. The hot water was nice on my body. After I got done with the shower, I shook my body like a dog and got out of the room. The door leads to a bedroom. There was a large bed, a double door and a balcony. Then the door opened. There was Celestia and she walked up to me. I was impressed by her height. "Are you okay? You look like you've seen a wendigo." Celestia asked. I replied. "Ya it's just… you're taller than Luna."

"Oh most of my new subjects when they were this close to me usually have the same reaction."
"Nice bathroom."
"Thank you."
We started walking together out of the room.
"What am I going to do today?"
"Paper work."
"For what?"
"To confirm your citizenship."
"Well that makes sense. What do you do in the morning?"
"Paper work."
"Don't you have a bureaucracy?"
"Yes but I have to do my part as well."
"So when are we going to do the work?"
"After breakfast."
"Finally, I'm hungry."
"Considering you haven't eaten for a couple of days, I had a feeling you were."

As we walked down the hallways of the castle, I saw the guards protecting and the maids cleaning. When we made it to the dining room, it was an empty room with a long table with eight chairs, two at the ends and three on each side. There were pancakes with whip cream on them waiting for us. One of the two plates had a box next to it. I asked Celestia. "Um… Celestia, whose box is that?"
"It's yours. Open it." Celestia told me
"Thank you."

I opened the box and in it was a white crystal attached to a neckband. I asked. "What's this?" She replied "it's a catalyst." Then I sat down and put the catalyst on. As Celestia sat down and started to eat her pancakes, I looked at the civilware next to myplate of pancakes. I looked at it and wondered how to pick up the fork and knife. I started to imagine human hands grabbing them then I noticed a white aura on my catalyst and on the handles of the civilware. I used them to eat the pancakes.

"What in tarderes!" I heard from Celestia. I asked "What am I doing wrong?" Her jaw dropped.
"How di… did you do that?!"
"Well I imagined hands."
"It takes weeks to learn telekinesis!"
"Damn, that's sad."
"Sam, I don't know what to say. I never in my life saw somepony learn it so quickly!"
"Well you summoned me."
She took a breath and smiled at me.
"Well Sam, you're going to be a great mage."
"Well thanks."

After we got done with breakfast, we headed back to the bedroom and Celestia put on her jewelry. Then we headed to her office, there was a desk with a crapload of paperwork on it. She handed me some paperwork for my citizenship and a pencil. Of course I started to work on it so Celestia did hers as well. At 10:46, Luna was holding her cup of coffee and came into the room and said. "Good morning sister. Helping Sam with the paperwork?"
"Yeah, just telling him some information about years and months." Celestia told Luna.
"Then who's helping Sam with singing and holding the papers?"
"Look"
Then she noticed my catalyst. Her eyes widened.
"How did he learn it!?" Luna asked Celestia.
"Well he imagined hands."

After they chatted for a little bit, Luna left the room. We finished our paperwork at 11:37. It was a long couple of hours but we got it done.

(Name: Sam. Family/second name: E.Nickel. Date of birth 980/Lun/15. Gender/Sex: Colt)

"Well what do we do now Celestia?" I asked.
"Well I do court but that’s at one." She told me in a tired voice.
"What's court?"
"It is where I sit on my throne and nobles come and complain."
"Well that's stupid."
"Tell me about it."
"What purpose does it give to the government?"
"It's really for keeping nobles complacent but all it does at this point is keep the nobles happy."
"That's bullshit. You're a goddess and they are just rich ponies."
"Yeah but it has to be done."
"How much do they give to the government?"
"Nobles give ten percent of the government's funding."
"You can just threaten to get rid of their nobility."
"Sadly, I can't."
"Why?"
"My nephew Blueblood is a noble. When he passes away without a child, I'll be able to."
"That jackass."
"Yes that Blueblood."
"You don't like Blueblood either?"
"No I don't. Over a thousand years ago, Luna and I had a sister. She never was an alicorn. I don't remember her name but she was a nice pony. She had kids and they had kids and so on and so forth. But every generation they grew more sour and pathetic, and now Blueblood thinks he has some kind of divine right."
"Wow, that's tragic."
"I miss her so much." As a tear dropped from her eye, I patted, I presume her shoulder with my hoof.
"Thank you" she told me. As we walked out of her office, I asked.
"How's Twilight?"
"She's fine but she's salty about last night."
"Is it about the music box?"
"Yes, but I thought it was funny. But Twilight didn't."
Then Luna came along and said. "Sister, is it ok if I take Sam?"
Celestia replied "what are you going to do with him?"
"Well sister I'll be taking him to the library and teaching him magic."
"Yeah sure, in a few hours I'm going to court."
"Thou! Come with us."

Luna told me, of course, as one of her subjects I followed her. Afterwards we walked through the hallways of the castle,there was a double door but this one was wooden and normal height. Then Luna asked.

"Can thou open the doors?" Of course I used my new catalyst to open the doors. "Thank you." She told me. We walked to a desk and took a seat. Luna gave me a book titled. "Magic 101: The Basics of Manatheorem." So I opened it and started to read the first chapter. The first chapter was about mana. Mana is magic energy and where it possibly comes from. One of the theories comes from a different dimension. The second chapter was about how this mana is used in spells and spells are like some kind of script or program it runs. Ponies memorize these spells. Luckily, I was getting my minor's degree in programming. Sadly, if I make a script for an NPC I would need to make a body for it. It may be programming but sadly I have to actually build the thing first. Mana also can be bent by the will of the user. This part of magic allows telekinesis, but that is it. When I closed the book Luna asked with a glass of water.

"How much did thou learn?"
"May I have some water Luna?" I asked
"Um… ok." She told me with confusion.

She set the glass on the table. So I grabbed the water itself, grabbed the hydrogen and ripped them off of the oxygen and put the hydrogen in a sphere above the glass. Forcing the hydrogen to make a small star, a bright light blinded the library. Luna started to panic and ran out of the library, but the star only lasted a minute. As I walked out of the library, somepony asked behind me.

"How did you do that?" She was a brown pegasus with a white mane in a maid outfit. I replied with "magic" then I went out of the library. As I walked out, I saw Luna. She was just standing there scared. When I approached her, two guards jumped in front of her. Then she said, "Oh no it's fine. He just spooked us." Then the guards lowered their spears. Luna asked, "Sam, how did you do that?" I replied, "Well I used my human knowledge and just used my telekinesis." Then we walked back to the library.

She handed me another book. "Races Across the World." I opened it and started to read it. There are ponies, griffins, zebras, hounds, sea ponies, kirin and changelings. Ponies are divided into three subraces: unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies. Unicorns are able to do magic naturally with their horns. Pegasi can fly and they often live in the mountains. Earth ponies don't have any special abilities. Griffins are bird-like in appearance and they have claws to grab things. They can fly as well. Zebras are like earth ponies but they are often depicted as excellent alchemists and they are black and white striped. Hounds are canine like and their keen smell and hearing makes them great bounty hunters. Sea ponies are mermaids but instead of the top half of a human it's a pony. Kirin are like wood elves. They like trees and nature. Changelings are shapeshifters, able to blend in with other races. Thay are bug-like and feed off of mana as a second food source. They often live in hives ruled by a queen. After reading two or three chapters, I looked at the clock on the wall. It was 3:00 clock.

I asked Luna. "Are you hungry?"
She replied. "No we Alicorns only eat for leisure"
"Really? I was just asking because it was past lunch but ok."
"Are you hungry?"
"No, I usually eat like once a day."
"Are thou ok?" She said in concern.
"Ya it's just for years I only ate like one meal a day."
"Why? What pony has to do that extreme?"
"Well there's my three part time jobs, College that takes up 16 hours of my day with no breaks, sleep for five hours and that leaves me with three hours of free time."
"Oh… oh my. That's… that's."
"That's what?"
"Bad… just bad. Are there any laws against that?"
"Sadly no, since megacorps rules in America get to change the laws."
"Are there any ponies that try to stop them?."
"Yes there were, but the corporate overlords have the money to pay people to kill all the statesmen."
"That's sickening."
"You think that's bad, over in China they developed nerve stapling."
"What's that?"
"They cut your head open and cut parts of your brain, no emotions, no will. Making the perfect slave."
"Th… that puts Sombra’s role to shame." She stuttered.
"Who's Sombra?"
"He was a tyrant that enslaved ponies with mind control who ruled the Crystal Empire over a thousand years ago."
"That's it?"
"Yes that was it! What tyrants lived in your world!?"
"Oh there's plenty of those. Hitler he committed genocide. So did Stalin, he killed a lot of people."
"How many 'people' were killed?"
"A couple million. Hitler just gassed them and Stalin put them in the cold and starved them to death."
Luna started to cry.
I asked her. "Are you ok?"
She told me. "Those are the real kings of monsters, not Sombra." Then she wiped her eyes off and said. "I'm so sorry that beings like that ruled over there. You're in a better place now."
I was confused about what she said and thought to myself. "Is she feeling pity for me? She's over at least a thousand years old, she's had to have seen worse."
Then Luna left the library and said to me, "I gotta go to my sister and tell her what happened." Then she left. I just stayed at the table in the library and somewhat confused, then that maid pegasus came up from earlier to me and said. "Are you that summoned one?"

I replied with,"Ya I'm the guy who got summoned by horse goddesses." And so we started to have a conversation with each other. Her name was Vera Jak. She worked as a maid in the castle. She lives with her twin sister, Rosey. She also asked questions about my world and what we humans are. She was both scared and interested in mankind from the roman empire to the germans landing on the moon and apparently most ponies around the castle can't stop talking about me Vera told me. Some are suspicious of me, while others want to talk to me and be friendly. But overall me being summoned is a bit of a mixed reaction for them. I also asked questions about their world as well. That tattoo on my ass was called a cutie mark and it represents the pony's personality and what makes them unique, some even consider it to be their destiny. But the tattoo on my butt is artificial so it is pretty much a blank slate. Her cutie mark was grapes and she's good at making wine. I also learned about the drinking age in Equestria and it was seventeen years old, the age of adulthood in Equestria as well.

After a couple of hours, that bastard Blueblood came along and started to insult Vera and me."Oh wow it's the peasant with some freak from another world."
Vera just took it, like she can't defend herself. I decided to step up and said.
"Look at that blonde creature that doesn't work for anything."
"Oh yeah what did you do for a living?"
"I fucking worked my ass off for college and worked three part time jobs."
"Ha, you are a freak and a peasant!"
"You're a useless piece of biomass that has no place in this world that is better off for energy production. No one is going to cry or even care about you when you die, not even your goddess will care. You are nothing but dirt to them." Then Vera's jaw dropped.
"Well… I'm going to tell the world about your origins."
"Go right ahead, make me even more special than you."
Then Blueblood angrily stomped out of the library. Then Vera said to me, "how did you do that!?"
"Do what?" I told her.
"You insulated a fucking member of the royal family!"
"Ya so?"
"You just don't!"
"You don't know what equal means, do you?"
"What! Are you an equalist?!"
"What's that?"
"Oh yeah you don't know what that means."
"Don't you have rights?"
"Ya we do. Like freedom of expression, freedom of press, right to basic health care, and that kind of stuff."
"Then why is it bad to stand up for others?"
"Well it's just… well since you mentioned it. Ya why should we keep dealing with his crap?!"
"Can't he fire you?"
"No, only the royal sisters and my boss can."
"Well that's good."
"Well I got to go home now. My shift ended a couple of hours ago."
"See you tomorrow."

After that, she left. As I walked out of the library I looked at the clock above the door. It was 7:12 and so I went out of the library to look for the sisters. As I looked for them, I noticed the castle was empty. As I walked around somepony bumped into me, I fell down while he just stood there and asked. "Are you ok?" While he handed me his hoof, I realized he was one of the guards of the castle. "Yes I'm fine. Umm… can you tell me where the princesses are?" He replied with. "Yeah sure." Then he escorted me through the castle. Soon enough we made it to a double door. "Here you go sir, they should be in that room over there." he told me and of course I said. "Thank you." Then he left. I knocked on the door. Then I heard Celestia say from the room. "Come in." I opened the door with my telekinesis and walked in. Celestia was laying in front of a fireplace reading a book, while Luna was sitting with her eyes closed with these white strings coming out of her horn. In the room, there was this table with white glowy pattern on it, a bookshelf next to the wall and a box with a sign saying, "Humon stuff." I laid next to Celestia in front of the fireplace and she asked. "How was your day?"

I replied. "Alright. I made a friend today."
"Really! What's their name?"
"Vera is her name. She works as a maid for the castle."
"Really? It’s your second day, and you're already making friends."
"Ya she's a nice pers- I mean pony."
Celestia chuckled a little.
I asked her. "How was yours?"
She huffed,"Long. I had to deal with nobles, paperwork, that kind of stuff."
"So normal royalty stuff."
"Ya and it was also an interesting day as well thanks to you."
"Really how?"
"Let's see. You made the world's record for learning telekinesis so fast, you brought the sun to the library with water and you made Luna scared of humans."
"Is Luna scared of me now?"
"No but she is mainly scared of your kind as a whole. Oh!"
"Oh wait?"
"There's a box of things from your world. Before we summed you, we summed some things from your world."

She used her telekinesis to bring the box of human stuff to us and opened it. In the box there was a bathrobe, a toaster, a Nintendo switch with its charging station, an electric outlet setup kit and a ticket for the new World Order movie.

I told Celestia. "Holy shit it's a Switch!"
She asked. "What's a switch?"

I pulled the console out of the box and showed her. "That's what it's called?" She said with wonder. I tried to turn it on but the batteries were dead. I used my telekinesis to grab the bathrobe and put it on. It was big, a little too big. "Well now we know that ponies are smaller than humans." I said. Then Celestia asked. "May I try?" I handed the bathrobe to her. "Ooo it's soft." She said, like a little kid getting their furry and soft coat for the first time. I put the switch back in the box and closed it. Celestia handed back the bathrobe to me. "Well it's getting dark now." I told Celestia. " Good night Sam." I put on the bathrobe, folded the sleeves so I don't trip over myself and I went to my bedroom and flopped on my bed. Then I drifted to sleep.

At 3 in the morning I woke up feeling thirsty, so I got out of bed. As I walked out of my room there were two guards, one on the left was sleeping while the one on the right was almost asleep. I just walked past them. I walked around the castle looking for cups and a faucet. After a while, I saw an alicorn and I didn't recognize her. Her wings glowed blue in the dark and her mane as well. But when I took a closer look it was Luna. She let out a tired groan and then she noticed me and said.

"Aren't thou supposed to be in bed?"
I replied. "Well I woke up thirsty."
"Ah we are up because… well I had a bad dream."
"What time do you go to bed?"
"At one we slumber, well try anyway."
"Umm do you know where to get a glass of water?"
"Are thee going to bring the sun again?"
"If you want to. I'm just going to drink some water."
"Ok then let's go."
We walked to the dining room and there was a door behind the table. I went to it and opened it. There was a whole kitchen with cabinets, sink, drawers and even a primitive fridge. I went in, grabbed a cup and used the tap to fill it with water. As I filled the cup Luna told me. "For showing you where the royal kitchen is and letting thou use it. Thou is in debt. And in order to pay it off thee must sleep with us!"
"What!? I'm not going to have sex with a horse!" I said in concern, disgusted and shocked, all at the same time. Her face turned red out of embarrassment.
"What! No no no no! We met like cuddling while sleeping!" She told me.
"Oh, well that's good." Her face turned back to normal.
"Well can we go now?"
"Ya sure"

I put the glass in the sink and we went to her bedroom. It was similar to Celestia's room but more bluer. She took off her jewelry and set them on a desk. I took off my catalyst and put it next to her things. Sadly I can't do telekinesis without it. Luna got on the bed. Luna looked at me waiting for me to join her for cuddling. Of course I hopped into the blanket with her. She got close to me and wrapped her wings around me. I don't know if this is a friendly thing or a romantic thing but nevertheless it felt nice. I hugged her back and once again I drifted to sleep again.

Meanwhile in blueblood's mansion .

Blueblood sat on his desk in the middle of the night and kept thinking to himself. "How do I expose Sam?" Countless scenarios go through his head, most of them ended with him being laughed out of the press office. But there were some that worked and for those that hypothetically worked. He pulled out a pen and wrote down those scenarios and at 5 in the morning he developed a 'perfect' plan. A plan to secure Sam's downfall. Sam soon will be seen as a monster amongst the ponies of Equestria and be put in his rightful place. Then he crashed in bed because he was up all night plotting to ruin Sam’s life.

Comments

[Starlight Nova]

fallow Sam throe this world

Don’t you mean “follow Sam through this world”?