The Odd Tale of Sven Grimmok
Chapter One:
“Hey, the thing is starting to wake up!” A young child-like voice echoed to my ear, along with multiple steps coming closer to me. I attempt to open my eyes, but lack the strength to even move a single muscle. My feared mind was to think that the current form I was in would be noticed by the public, and I don't believe they would take too well for someone that looks...supernatural.
“What is this thing? A freak from the Everfree Forest maybe?” Another voice chimed in with a rude tone, which made my blood turn cold, maybe they found out my cursed form? It was only a matter of time before the government were going to come after me again.
“Don't be ridiculous.” A voice with a leadership tone said sternly, “The Everfree Forest is on the other side of the town. And besides, Fluttershy witnessed the whole thing, but she is too BUSY to tend to her chickens to make sure none were in the coop when it crash landed right on the darn thing!” Wait, what!? Crash landed? Did I end up somewhere else in the world? Must be, I never heard of this Everfree Forest.
“UGH! That explains why it's covered in cuts, bruises, dirt, and hay!” A posh voice also joined in the conversation. How many people are around me?
Suddenly, I felt an immediate pressure on my stomach and chest, like someone is using the palms of their hands to squeeze me, forcing me to exhale, and breathe normally. After which, a voice with a southern accent was heard, “Well, least it's alive. When it wakes up, Ah have a few questions that Ah need answerin.”
“We all need answers, Applejack. We just have to be patient.” The leader voiced replied. Applejack? Fluttershy? Where in the world did I end up in? Must be a foreign country I never came to. That must be it.
I felt my strength coming back to me with each breath, which was more than enough to open my eyes. I opened my eyes, but I was still trapped in darkness. My eyes felt like they were covered by some sort of blind fold. Please tell me I'm not held hostage...
I slowly brought my words out to the voices that were around me, “Am...I...Blind?” Which after I asked the question, the voices around me dramatically gasped, and heard all took a few steps back with caution.
Without warning, the most cheerful and upbeat voice was heard with a giggle, “OH! Why hello there! Of course you are blind, silly! Blindfolded! I wanna make it a surprise!”
I somehow still lacked the strength to take the blindfold off my eyes, so I made the best attempt to wiggle my fingers and speak, “Can someone...please...help?”
There was a long silence, until I hear a happy-go-lucky “Oh!” to the left of me, and heard someone walk over and take the blindfold off. Immediately, the sun shined brightly against my eyes, which made me close my eyes once again. Slowly, I opened my eyes, coping with how bright the sun is. My first sight was probably the most shocking moment in my life, up to this point. A small purple dragon was sitting on my chest, both of his hands on my lungs to wake me up. I continued to stare at him. I thought dragons don't exist? All made up in a bedtime story! This is impossible! And what makes it even more weird, he looks so...cartoony. When the dragon saw me staring at him, he quickly got off my chest and ran off out of my sight.
When I put my head back down, I was greeted by what kept me questioning why the word 'fiction' exists. A pink, wildly maned, blue-eyed pony was staring straight at me, with the most unbelievable smile across her face, its teeth holding a party horn, “SURPRISE!!” She exclaimed, blowing the party horn in my face.
Yea...Foreign country...Right.
I must have made a concerned face, for the pink pony was pushed aside by a purple pony, with pink highlights in her mane, also giving off a concerned but annoyed look, a horn in the middle of her forehead. A Unicorn!? The purple Unicorn spoke, “Pinkie, I believe that's the wrong surprise this thing is having right now.” The purple pony turned to face me, “I'm terribly sorry for the randomness, she does that. My name is Twilight Sparkle, and the dragon that was sitting on your chest is Spike. What is your name?”
What in the living heck have I fallen into? Am I hallucinating? An illusion?
My strength was slowly coming back to me, and I was able to sit up and speak, “Sven. My name is...” My mouth stayed open to the unimaginable of what I saw as I sat up. Three other ponies were a few meters away from me, with the fact of another off in the distance, tending a group of chickens and a damaged chicken coop. The ponies were of different colors. The first was orange pony, with blonde mane and a hat you see in the old wild wild west films, a few freckles on each of her cheeks, but most of all she was giving me the death stare, like she wanted to beat the snot out of me. The second one next to the orange pony was purely white and elegant, her purple mane perfectly done and curled to make it a posh and neat look. What was more surprising was that she had a horn in the middle of her forehead, a Unicorn like the purple pony. She gave off the most disgusted look I have ever seen, she was probably the one that talked about my destroyed leather clothing. Figures. The Third pony was very odd, she was a blue pony with what looked like wings on its side. A Pegasus!? I thought those were mythical as well!? Aside from that fact, the blue Pegasus has a colorful mane of all sorts of colors that would make a rainbow proud, along with her calm attitude, her head cocked slightly.
There was another pony that was way off in the distance, having a very pale yellow color, also with wings on her side. She had a very neatly made pink mane. She was also huddled with the group of chickens. I looked at the damage I have done to the chicken coop, completely shattered wood, and a massive hole. I looked away in embarrassment and shame.
My voice made it obvious I was shocked at what I was witnessing right now, “What...How...Where am I?” I slowly asked.
The pony that called herself Twilight Sparkle quickly answered, “In small, Fluttershy's home. In medium, the outskirts of Ponyville. In large, this place is called Equestria!” She seemed pretty eager to answer my question.
“Well this place does not seem to sound familiar.” I remarked, “Definitely not from Earth...” I muttered under my breath. I raised my voice to normal level so the ponies can hear, “I am Sven Grimmok.”
The pink pony, known as Pinkie Pie, cheerfully looked at me, “Oooooo! Such a name! That sounds so...Sven Grimmok-y!” She hops around happily.
The orange pony spoke up, which I assumed to be Applejack, “Well, the question Ah have in mind, is what ARE you? You certainly don't look like no pony, or anything that Ah have ever seen.”
I look at my hands and body, nothing seems to have changed. I still had the same short brown hair, made into a fohawk. My face is still normal than before, my eyes still blueish-green. The only thing I recognize that's different is that I was completely cartoonized with the entire place they call Equestria. I sighed, “I am a human. And a darn fine one, to be exact!” I said, attempting to hide my other non-human side.
Twilight looked puzzled, “A human? I've read about them a long time ago, but nopony has ever seen one, ever! I always thought humans don't exist, and yet, here you are!”
I attempted to look happy, but was unable to due to my weakened state, “I am a first, huh? Well what an honor.” I chuckled, but immediately regretted that, for there was a sharp pain on my right side after I chuckled. Great, injured myself in the crash. I set aside my black leather duster and lifted up my shirt to find a big piece of wood stuck in my right hip, blood slowly trickling down.
All ponies gasped at the sight of the injury, all now look with concern. The white pony stepped closer to examine my injury, “Oh, my! You poor dear! You are hurt! We better get you some help quick!” she exclaimed. Applejack took that as her cue, and ran off with incredible speed to get help before I could stop her.
“Wait! It's nothing, I've had worse, trust me. I can walk. I just gotta...” I tried to get up, but as I set my right foot on the ground, immense pain shot up throughout my body, and I sat back down, gritting my teeth, “Okay, so I can't get up...” I blushed in humiliation.
The response was unexpected. The rainbow-haired pony started snickering and then laughed, “Well that shows how tough you are! I would have gotten up in my sleep!” And then she laughed some more. She kept laughing until the white pony nudged her side, “I mean...you should rest. My name is Rainbow Dash, the fastest Pegasus in all of Equestria!” she boldly boasted.
The white pony took her turn of introduction, “And I am Rarity, and all of us seeing a human the first time in history, it is a pleasure to meet you.” She well-mannerly said. I weakly waved, and then I looked beyond over to the pale yellow Pegasus, now silently weeping, which caught Rarity's attention, “Oh, and that is Fluttershy. I don't want to seem rude towards my best friend, but she is absolutely terrified of new things.”
I looked at Rarity, “So she is incredibly shy?”
Rarity nodded, “That's what I said.”
I shake my head, “How can all this be possible? This can't be real, and yet, here it all is!” I said.
Twilight walked to where she was in front of me with the rest of the ponies, except for Pinkie Pie, who was still hopping around and blowing her party horn. As well as Fluttershy, still weeping silently. Twilight spoke, “Well I was hoping you would explain that to us, what happened before you woke up?”
I was unable to remember most details, for some reason most was a blank, “I...was fighting...my most sworn enemy named Vetis, he is the, uh, king of, um, unfairness. I was atop to his tower where he leads his, um, men to battle, and we fought for days. An epic battle that took place across my world...” I was interrupted when I started to notice all ponies closely paying attention to what I am explaining, even Pinkie Pie stopped hopping and was paying attention as well. I continued my story, “We went from America, to China, to Antarctica, even from there to the North Pole, and trust, me, all those places are very far apart from each other. An epic clash between good and evil, of course me being the good guy, I expected to win. But to my surprise, before I could land the finishing blow, he did an uppercut to my face, grabbed me, and launched me to the air. After that, I was entrapped in everlasting darkness. I thought he trapped me into his little prison for all eternity. After waiting what I thought was an eternity, life was beginning to form around me, being stretched to replace the darkness. What I first saw was the sky, then the clouds, and then crashing head-first into land. And then here I am, explaining the story to you.” I finished my story with a deep sigh.
There was a long silence, all ponies looking at one another, trying to take in what they just heard from me. The silence broke when Rainbow Dash snorted, “Some good guy you were! Letting your guard down to land an uppercut on your face! Slowpoke!”
I looked at her with anger, “If you think you can do better, then by all means, take my place!” I snapped. After me explaining my story, she has the guts to go and make an insult towards me, harmless or not. Rainbow Dash quickly went silent, knowing she touched a nerve.
Pinkie, wide eyed, rocketed up in the air, “What a STORY! I thought you would get him, but what a TWIST! Like Chocolate Vanilla TWIST, MMMMMM!” She licked her lips at the thought of ice cream, and then, out of no where, presented the said ice cream, and proceeded to eat it.
Twilight looked at Pinkie weirdly, then to me, “That is so terrible to hear, you were sent off from your own world to this one. Is there anything we can do to help?”
I opened my mouth to speak, but I was interrupted by Applejack, behind her were paramedics, “Ah got back here as fast as Ah could, is he alright?” Applejack questioned Twilight.
I answered for Twilight, “I'm alright, still got a stick in my side though.” Forcing out a chuckle. The paramedics immediately went to work, using their hooves and mouth to attempt to get the stick out of my side to prevent further injuries. I gritted my teeth as they prepared to pull it out. Not out of pain, but out of fear I might...lash out, my non-human side unleashed, chains flailing out and everything. That's something I don't want happening. As my thoughts traveled on its own, one of the medics pulled out the stick in the split of a second, giving me no time to react in pain. Thankfully, my non-human side did not unleash itself, and I was grateful for that. The medics patched me up with bandages, given thanks, and went happily on their way back to their place. For ponies, they sure knew what to do. And they didn't seem like the unhappy medics back at home. That was a good change, for once.
After a short while, talking to the ponies, I have gotten half of my strength back to stand up with ease. Before I could start walking, Twilight stood in front of me, “Where do you think you are going? I believe you have an apology to make.” She points over to Fluttershy, curled up in a ball, surprisingly still weeping. I took a deep breath of annoyance. I don't have time for this, I need to find a way out of here, and fast. Vetis cannot regain his strength, or else it means the end for my world. But the look on Twilights face assured me that I wouldn't be going anywhere without apologizing. I slowly walked towards Fluttershy, which I saw her ears perk up, knowing I am walking towards her, and curled up in an even tighter ball, before I was even close to her. I shrugged and was about walk away, but something clicked inside me. I looked at Fluttershy, shaking in utter fear, her crying and whimpering could make the toughest man cry. Even I had a lump in my throat. My mind told me to help her. A shy pony, wanting nothing to do with the outside world, other than her care for animals. I must take this approach very down to earth, perhaps literally. I slowly lowered my self down onto my knees, grunting with pain each movement I make, eventually making down to where I'm sitting like a dog or a cat.
I could hear Rainbow Dash in the distance, already in mid-sentence, “...Not only did he almost harm her chickens, but he also is something she has never seen! Good luck to him trying to get a word out of her.”
I didn't look at Rainbow Dash, I was more focused on helping Fluttershy, “Hello, your friends say you're Fluttershy, am I correct?” I said in the softest voice I can do. The only reply I got was a startled shiver, but on the bright side is I couldn't hear her cry anymore, “Hey, it's alright, there is no need to worry about me, I am not here to hurt you, or your animal friends.” She continued to shiver, but slowly uncurled herself, lying down, but her eyes remained out of contact of mine, “I just want to apologize for any damage I have done. For the chicken coop, of course. I just hope I didn't hurt any of your chicken friends, that would be terrible to hear if I did. Did I hurt any of your animal friends?” I asked, only to be given a few shakes of her head, but now not shivering, “Well hey, how about I make it up to you? I'll rebuild your chicken coop, and do any sort of help around the place. What do you say?” I back up a couple meters, to give her some room, despite the distance between me and her was a lot to begin with, I just didn't want to break this pony with a glass personality. She sniffed and looked at me, the saddest look on her face was more heartbreaking than I thought, now fighting my tears, not allowing them flow down my face.
The sad look turned into a soft small smile, and she nodded her head. She slowly got up and walked towards me as I stood up on my knees, the same level as her, “Um...Yes...you can help...if that is alright with you...” I nodded my head yes, stood up, and walked over to the other ponies, all with looks of disbelief.
Twilight's face turned into an impressed look, “Wow, I have never seen anyone go down on Fluttershy's level like that. How did you do that?”
I gave a smile, “I have had experience with shyness back at my world, dealing with cats, dogs, deers alike. Even when I was a little kid, I had trouble being open and out of my shell. All it takes is a little patience to get a shy person, or pony, to be open to you.”
Pinkie, with her giddy smile, leaped right from under between Twilight and I, “YAY! Ya know what this calls for!? Since we have a new best friend here, I'm gonna throw the BEST PARTY EVER!”
Applejack chuckles, “Pinkie, you always say that before you throw a party for somepony!”
Rainbow Dash also partook in the conversation, “Yea, are you ssuuurreee this will be the best party?” she skeptically asked.
“Well DUH! The first ever HUMAN to come to Equestria deserves only the BEST PARTAY EVER!” Pinkie shouted with happiness, and then hopped away to prepare for the party.
Rarity walked over to me, closely examining my clothes, “UGH! Where did you acquire such a dreadful attire?” Her posh tone is what I needed to get used to, “Come by my place, and I shall make you something better than those old dusty hand-me-downs!” And with that, she gallops off to Ponyville.
I look down at my outfit. My black leather outfit was utterly destroyed, torn holes everywhere, and completely dirty and dusty. The only part of my outfit intact was my black leather duster. Maybe she was right, but I was almost afraid what sort of outfit Rarity was going to give me, probably an uptight tuxedo. I hate tuxedos.
Applejack looked at Twilight, “Hey, why don't you show Sven around town, Ah'm sure he is gonna get quite a welcome from everypony there. Ah gotta head back to the Orchard, those apples don't buck themselves, ya know! You are welcome to visit the Farm, Sven, maybe even help around a little, if you feel like it! Ah'm sure you humans have some sort of darn special techniques to take down them apples!” And she sprint gallops off as well. All that is left is Twilight, Spike, and Rainbow Dash. I left out Fluttershy, since I assumed this is her place.
Rainbow began to hover in the air by her wings, “I got some cloud busting and some practice I need done. Hey Sven, you should come hang around, you could learn a thing or two about how to be as cool as me!” She dashed off in the blink of an eye.
With all ponies except Twilight gone, I expect her to lead me to this so called Ponyville, so I gave her the motion to lead the way, with Spike riding on her back, Twilight trotted along to give me a grand tour of Ponyville. Before I completely left the place, I looked over to Fluttershy, who is picking up the pieces of wood around the destroyed chicken coop, who then looked at me too, a concerned and sad look on her face.
I stopped, Twilight I will be right back, and walked up to Fluttershy, “I will be back to help around, I promise, leave the work to me, it will be done in a jiffy, don't you worry.” I said cheerfully. She slowly made her frown to a heartwarming smile, and walked inter her grass-roofed house, and she shut the door. I then walked back to Twilight and Spike, and the three of us went over to Ponyville.
