There was a deafening silence that filled the air as Luke and the pony that had just recently attacked him locked eyes, waiting for the other one to make a move. Apparently, the pony got tired of waiting, springing to it's feet...only to yelp and fall back down on it's stomach. Luke jumped back too, startled by the sudden noise. He looked back down to see that the pony was favoring it's front leg.

Huh...looks more hurt than I thought it was.

"Um..." What am I supposed to say? "Are you ok?"

The pony snapped it head up...very confused actually as to what Luke had just said.

"...What the..." ,were the first words to come out of the pony's mouth. "You can talk?"

Now it was Luke's turn to be confused Can I talk? I'm not the fictional animal here...god how far away from home am I? "Uh, yea I can talk. Are you hurt?"

The pony flapped it's wings slightly, apparently trying to get away from the two legged creature towering over her. It managed to get a few feet off the ground before it's left wing tensed up and sent her coming right back down to the ground.

Luke couldn't tell if the creature was trying to either run away from him or was trying to get it's bearing to attack him again, but it's eyes were locked on him through the duration of it's little show.

Luke was about to speak up again when the creature limped towards him, favoring that leg. She had actually gotten a lot closer than he would have liked her to. "Why did you attack my friend?"

Ok...it's definitely not trying to run away. "Um, I'm afraid I don't follow."

"You had a spear pointed at my friend. Don't play dumb with me."

"...The pink one? I had no intention of attacking anyone, your friend approached me remember?" And managed to scare the shit out of me in the process.

The colorful pony actually paused for a second upon hearing that. "Then why did you have a spear? We're you gonna attack somepony?"

"...No, I was attempting to get some food for myself until I was interrupted by that little pink horse" Luke stated, getting somewhat annoyed. "Why would you assume I was attacking anyone?"

"Cause you had a weapon. Why would you need a spear to get food? Plants aren't exactly hard to come by."

"Well I kinda doubt that I would be able to catch a fish with just my hands, and I don't really recognize and of the plants here. They could kill me for all I know."

Instead of retorting with something else like Luke had expected, the pony's eyes had widened and it backed away. "You eat...meat?"

"Yea...well not all the time. But it's the only option have have for food right now."

The pony had furthered itself even further away from him, getting in what appeared to be a defensive stance.

What the hell is this thing doing? Does it think I'm gonna eat it?

"If you think your gonna eat me, you've got another thing coming." The pony was now on it's hooves...well the ones that were able to support her, and had flared it's wings out a little bit.

"Nonono! I'm not gonna eat you, my diet doesn't consist of horses...or whatever you are. I only brought you here cause it's getting dark, and being out alone in the woods with no shelter wouldn't be safe."

The pony's wings had folded back against it's back, but was still in somewhat of a defensive stance. "How do I know if I can trust something like you?"

Something like ME? Does this thing not know of humanity? God where the hell am I?

Luke sighed, "Listen. If I wanted to eat you, I would have done it by now...you were out cold for a good while. And I could have just left you there if I wanted, but with that leg and...wing of yours, you probably wouldn't have done too well out here." Luke noticed the pony's glare lessen a little bit. "I'm not stopping you from just leaving here and going back those other horses, but it's getting dark out. And I wasn't about to go back holding you while unconscious...for some reason I don't think that would blow over well. So bringing you here was the only thing I could think of."

The pony had gotten out of it's stance and was now standing normally, looking less intimidated, but still had a look of confusion on it's face. "Why didn't you just leave me there?"

"Well...I couldn't help but notice you weren't alone. And if you went chasing into the woods after me and didn't come back out, well they would assume that I had done something to you." Luke paused for a moment feel the spot where the pony had kicked him earlier. "If you had kicked me for just holding a spear...I can only imagine what would happen to me if you went missing chasing after the 'monster' as you put it." The pony's face had changed from one of confusion to one that almost looked like...

Guilt?

Luke took a breath and continued, "If you wanna leave, go ahead. But that wing and leg of yours look pretty bad. And it's dark. AND if these woods are any like the kind I know, it gets dangerous at night. And for some reason I don't see you being able to escape anything with the injuries you have, let alone fight back. So you can either wait till morning to get back to wherever you came from, or risked being hurt more by leaving at night."

There was a pause in the conversation, the pony probably thinking about what to say next.

"...Ok. I will leave in the morning...but I've got my eye on you...so don't try any funny business."

Luke let out a small sigh, seeing as he wasn't going to have to deal with a situation like earlier. "Like I said before, I'm not gonna harm you or your little horse friends. Now I'm gonna go gather some supplies to work on expanding the shelter a little bit, this wont fit two people. Or a person and a horse... whatever."

Luke started to walk deeper into the woods on the search for anything he could get his hands on to make a shelter, but was stopped when he heard the creature speak up. "We're not horses, we're ponies." It said in an annoyed tone.

What?

"I'm sorry what?"

"I said we are called ponies, not horses."

...Am I really having this conversation right now?

"Ok, ponies. My mistake, sorry."

The pony had said something else after that, but he had already started walking to look for more stray branches and things of the sort.

This is too weird. I need to figure out how I got here and get back as soon as possible. I don't think I would make it in a place like this...

After about a half an hour or so Luke came back with two arm-fulls worth of materials to start working on the shelter. He came back to find a small pile of branches and sticks, but no pony. Now where did that thing run off to?

He had placed the materials on the small pile sticks already there when he heard movement behind him. He spun around to see the pony limping towards the camp with a few sticks in it's mouth.

What is it doing?

She walked past Luke and spit the small bundle of sticks onto the now rather large pile of branches.

"Um...what are you doing?"

She spit what appeared to be the left over little bits of the sticks she just had in it's mouth before saying "Helping. I'm the reason you got that stuff anyways."

Luke looked down at the pile of various materials. "You didn't have to do that. You're injured, you were limping for crying out loud."

The pony sat down against a tree resting her sore limbs. "I'm hurt, not useless. Seeing how you let me have a place to sleep for now, I felt like I had to at least help out."

"Well, thanks. Saved me some time."

The pony stretched out a little bit before stating, "Well, I think I'm gonna hit the hay for tonight. Thanks for helping me out...even though I kinda attacked you." She said the last part of her sentence in a bit of a guilty tone.

"By the way, the name's Rainbow Dash"

Luke broke into a small grin. "I'm Luke."

"Huh...weird name." was the last thing she said as she laid down for the night.

Luke started working on his shelter as he broke out into a slightly larger grin.

Heh, sure. I've got the weird name.

Author's Note

Hey guys, I know I said I was going to have longer chapters, but I'm not gonna be near my computer for the next two days and I wanted to get a chapter out before I left. From now on the chapters will be much longer. Sorry to disappoint.

Also on a side note, I'm kinda blown away with how many of you are liking the story so far. I'm by no means a good writer, and to see this many people enjoying it puts a smile on my face. So thank you guys for that.

Ok I'm off to go get bit by bugs for the next two days, see you guys later.