Your Human and You: I think, Therefore I Am

The Human was tall and muscular. He wore a undershirt and light brown shorts. He had a short black hair and a bread. The thing is that his bread was well groomed, something you don't really see often. I, however did not care for why he was groomed. All I knew was that he had harmed Humana.

I was angry.

Slamming open the door I rushed the human. Now I'm no Royal Guard or officer of the law but neither am I weak or inexperience in the realm of fighting. My dad made sure to teach me how to defend myself and others.

Closing the distance between us I jumped and double kicked him in the chest. We both fell down. The second my ass touched the ground I got to my feet ready to dish out more. The other human was on his feet already. He just stood there like I didn't even hit him. It was at that moment I broke one of the only rules I was ever asked to follow. I spoke. "I'm going to FUCKING kill you."  For the second time I rushed him. Instead of a of kicking I resorted to a left hook. Unfortunately my fist didn't connect to where I wanted it to go. The reason, he caught it with his own hand.

I was surprised. I may have never been in a fight with another human but still, for another human to stop an attack rather then dish our their own in the hope to hit first, it was just... it was not normal.

Before I could do anything else the human place a hand upside down on my chest. He pulled at my captured arm and lifted my body with the other one. The next thing I knew was that I had been tossed over his shoulder and was now laying on the ground. Reaction to my instinct rather then my head I rolled away. It was the right decision because a second later a foot came down hard right were my head had been at not to long ago.

I got to my feet ready to go again yet a little more careful this time.

"LUKE!"

Just by the voice I could tell that it was Badge. I move my head slightly to look but stopped. If I did look then the other human would have an opening I could not afford to give.

The human move his head enough for to see it in the low lighting that I had. He looked back at. Once again he surprised me, this time by grinning.  "LUKE" This time it was dad. they must have come together.

"We will settle this later son of Greg." The human spoke practically causing me to drop my jaw in surprised awe. Not waiting for a reply he took off into the darkness. What did he mean son of Greg. Did he know my sire? Well at the very least he didn't say 'Luke, I am your father.' The is no way I would accept that.

Finally with the other human gone I turned to face my dad and Badge and to my surprise, my mom too. "Wha- what happen? We saw you fighting that human." my bother asked

I opened my mouth to speak but stopped. 'HUMANA!!' She was still on the ground, bleeding and unconscious. "I'll tell you later" We need to take her to the hospital first!" I exclaimed. All at once they realized that that there was a injured pony on the ground. While they recovered from shock I bent down and gently pick up Humana in my arms.  I made sure to be gentle so not to irritate the knife wound. I stared at the knife for a moment contemplating in taking it out.

"NO DON'T, if you take it out she will bleed out faster." Mom called out. Her forelegs waved in the air. Well there goes that Idea. Still, time was of the essence.

"We need to get her to the hospital." Dad announced. "Badge, come we need to get the hospital the heads up. Honey help Luke." Without another word Dad and Badge took off at top speed. Mom and me glanced at each other before we to started running albeit slower due to Humana.

A few turns right and a few turns left and The hospital is In view. Mom runs ahead opening the door for me. "Come here boy. In here." I say nothing in return for obvious reasons I dashed inside. It came to no surprise that as mom and me walked in my dad and brother along with two hospital staff pulling a gurney came running to us.

The staff stopped short staring at me. Apparently they have never seen A human caring an injured pony before. "Told you he was trained." Badge rolled his eyes.

The two hospital staff blinked then stared at each other blankly. "Um how do we..." I tilted my head. Humana shuttered in pain making it terribly hard not to say something in hopes of soothing her while she remains unconscious.

Once again Badge rolled his eyes again. He stands up on his back legs and taps a hoof on the gurney. "set her down here boy." I complied, setting Humana down gently on the soft bed on wheels. " Good boy Luke, Good boy.  Thankfully the staff didn't  gawk around and immediately took Humana away to work on her. Even with the nap from earlier I was completely exhausted. My fear for Humana safety and dull pain from my fight with the human took a lot out of me. The only thing left for my body to do was to collapse onto the floor... so I did.

When I collapsed to the floor I didn't lose consciousness. Spooked the Tartarus out of my family though. Mom took me off to the side where she could see how I was doing. Dad found some water for me to drink. It was out of bowl but I didn't give a shit. I was thirsty and  needed liquid.  I the good thing that came out of this was the respectable glances I got from the doctors and nurses. News spread about what I did and a lot of ponies liked it. Maybe it could quell some of the hate that is aim to my kind. As time when on neither of my parents requested that we return home. I got the feeling that they knew something about me liking Humana. I guess that's why we stayed. Of course dad did go out to get food for us. He didn't come back alone.

"Where is my daughter!" yelled a pony as he busted through the door. It was Ore Body followed by dad.

In ten seconds flat a nurse was with him asking and entering questions. These ponies must have dealt with ponies like Ore body before.

"What's your daughter's name?"

"Humana."

"Humana? Humana...! ah yes, she is in surgery right now. Please sir you will need to wait here."

"But I want to see her now!"

"I can't let you do that sir. She is in surgery and the doctors need to concentrate on saving her life. They can not have any interference. Either I or one of the other nurses will inform you when she is out of surgery, but for now you must wait here."

Anything Ore Body was about to say stopped when my dad placed a hoof on his shoulder. Ore Body looked at him with a scowl but dad just shook his head. Without a word Ore body wacked away dad's hoof and walked a distance away just to sit down looking at the floor.

It wasn't long after that that police officers appeared. One by one they took my family members to a side room to talk to them. I was left out of course since who could get a eye witness account from a pet. I could only surmise that they were asking questions about the attack. The investigators didn't hold any of my family member to long so that was a plus. One of the investigator thanked my family once they were all done before walking over to Ore Body along with his partner. A few short word were exchanged then they left.

conveniently, a minute later a nurse at the main desk called out to Ore Body. He bolted upright with the agility of a rabbit and cantered to her not even caring that he almost ran into several other ponies. I withheld a facepalm,  never-the-less I was interested in what the nurse was going to say. Hopefully it was good news.

I saw dad move from beside me. He turned his head toward Badge, mom and me and a slight motion with his head towards the Ore Body and the nurse. Badge and mom pilled themselves way from the wall sitting against. I soon followed suit. It didn't take long for us to reach Ore Body but by the time we did he was already done talking with the nurse. He turned toward us somberly with an equally depressing expression. At the moment I feared the worst. I feared that I was to late to save the mare that had stolen my heart.

He sighed, a sigh that was not saddening as he body language. It was a sigh of relief. "My daughter... my daughter is going to be okay." A single tear left his eye. The breath I was holding was released. Lucky it was covered my family doing the same thing. "The knife pierced an artery but thankfully it also kept her from bleeding out to quickly." He said with a small smile on his face. I was instantly grateful for mom telling me to keep it in.

Ore Body looked past us toward the direction the medical ponies had taken Humana in. "Their gonna to keep her here for recovery so I'm staying too. You guys should go home for now. you have done enough for my little girl but now I need to be the one there for her." Ore Body then did something that he had never done before. He smiled at me. "Gave that your human a lot of treats. He deserves it."

He walked away after that, preventing any further conversation. "He makes a gooood suggestion." Dad yawned. To my disappointment mom and Badge nodded. Dad, even as tired as he was noticed my reaction. "There is nothing more we can do. We will just have to wait." He said more to me then the rest of the family. I had to admit that he was right and I guess, here or home I'd be doing the same thing. Waiting.

Two days pasted before we were told that Humana wanted to see us. More specifically Badge and me. Neither of use could say no the request. Me especially since I had been cooped up in the house for those two days. My parents thought it would be a good idea because of the attack. At least during that time I found out the Badge had told them about my crush the day she 'pet-sat' me. He had ran into them and since I was suppose to be with him he had to explain why I wasn't. I can't really be mad at him since I did enjoy my time with Humana even though I slept through most of it.

Badge pushed open the doors leading into the hospital. Ponies of all shapes and sizes moved about within it's walls proving that even a small town like this a hospital is always busy. Badge made his way to the front desk with me tagging along behind him. The Unicorn nurse handling the desk did even look you at him, instead she continue to write on papers that lay before her.

Badge looked back at me with uncertain eyes before giving me a shrug. "Excuse me ma'am I'm here to visit a friend of mind."

"Name?" the nurse said not without looking up.

"Oh um I'm Shining Badge" Badge rubbed the back of his head.

The nurse who was levitating a bunch of papers to her stopped and made a quick glace to my brother. "No I meant the name of the pony you want to see."

"Oh.. eh eh" Badge laughed embarrassingly "Humana, her name is Humana." Once again the papers in the nurse's magic moved. This time it stopped in front of her. After several moments of waiting and paper flipping the nurse gave us the answer we were long for.

"She is in room 203, second floor. Is there anything else." she said returning the bundle of papers back from which they came. Badge shook his head then realized that the nurse was look back down at her work load and not him. He answered with a simple no. She gave no confirmation that she heard so we turned to leave.

Our walk to the stairs was stopped barely before it began by the nurse's voice. "Make sure your human behaves or we will have to remove the both of you by force." She didn't even look up when she said any of that.

Badge gave me a glace and shook his head. I wasn't going to do anything to jeopardize my stay here that was the end of that.

The stairs were easy to find only took a seconds to reach. Oddly enough the stairs were void of other ponies. "Well...I hope her bedside manner is better. I'd hate to be the patient she looks after." He vocalized. I hide my response as a huff of hot air. Badge chuckled slightly at me.

In a short amount of time we came upon the door to the second floor. Thanks to the conveniently placed directional signs it was easy to find out which direction room 203 was in. Once we reached said room Badge knocked on the door. "Come In." came a reply from the lovely mare inside. Without wasting anymore time my brother opened the door.

The room was white and bland, no surprise there, but there not to far away was Humana lay on her back in bed. She recognized us instantly and a smile appeared on her face. "Shining Badge, Luke it's good to see you. How are you doing?"

"We're fine. How about you." Badge replied, shutting the door. I waited for him to call for me before I followed him to the side of the bed.

"I'm doing better though the doctors say I'll need to stay for a few more days." She said continuing to smile.

Badge sat down on the chair next to the bed and I reminded standing pretending to look around curiously at my surroundings. In truth I was secretly taking glimpses at Humana. "Your father told me that you wanted to see us." he raised an eyebrow.

Humana's smile disappeared from her face leaving a serious frown. "Yes I do. I want you to stop lying and come out with the truth and nothing but the truth." Out of the corner of my eye I saw Badge almost turn his head to me but stopped.

"Wh-what are you talking about? I never lied to you about anything." Instead of replying to him Humana looked at me straight in the eyes.

"Yes, the two of you are. What are you? Because even though I was hurt and losing consciousness I know I heard you speak to that human. I say your mouth move and a voice come out of it. You also acted in a way that a human would never act unless it was intelligent so I let me ask you again. Who are you really."

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"Oh Shit."