Your Human and You: Knight of Thorns

by The Crestfallen Soul

Prologue: All Roses Have Thorns

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--Eleven Years Ago--

Running, Running is what my Farther always told me to do if I was scared, angry or even sad. He always told me that it was "Therapeutic" that it would always clear your head since the winds would blow out all of the negativity, the reason I was running today though was not because I was Melancholy but because its my birthday and that my Farther had promised he would finally teach me the family secret since I was finally a man. Several Fire-trucks start driving past me at a alarming rate heading towards my neighbourhood but I don't worry, why should I? This day nothing can go wrong! though I notice something different up in the Gray British skies...Smoke...and as I grew closer and closer to my home the thicker and thicker the smoke became. I couldn't move, I couldn't breath, my home is burning...My Home Is Burning...My Home is engulfed by flame that burns with a passion, all I can do is watch as my home is scorched by the flame...and then darkness

--Present Day--

My eyes slowly flutter open but I am met again with the soul crushing dark but this darkness is caused by the cage I am held in. Nothing to entertain myself but telling stories to the other captives and by tell them I mean make groaning noises while I say the story in my mind but I know he is listening and I Actually think its better I explain this story from the very start in case someone new is listening in my head.

--Around Nine Months Ago--

Around 9 months ago I had a easy yet dull life, I would go to work, have lunch, get shouted at, go home, go to sleep and have the same nightmare that has plagued me since I was ten years old. It was a simple life but it was my life but that's not important now, No not important at the slightest though what is important is how I got my self into the predicament I am in at the moment. Now one day, to be more specific the day of my arrival to this woeful land, I open my door to my apartment and sluggishly step in from a hard days work, were I work you ask? That's none of your business...A law firm, and sit my once fat ass on my favourite chair but then I notice something a little peculiar box on my little side table, of course I reached over and snatched it up confused deeply by its presence in my apartment but as soon as I make the first rip in the paper some bellows out and boom!...There he floats with an odd book in his paws.

Honestly when I first saw him I was intrigued by how a creature like him came to be, He had a deer antler on the right of his head, a blue goat horn on the left, one long fang, different-sized pupils with yellow and red eyes, a snake tongue, a goat beard, and white bushy eyebrows. He had the right arm of a lion, the left claw of an eagle, the right leg of a lizard, and the left leg of a goat. In addition, he had a bat's wing on the right, a Pegasus' wing on the left of his body, what looked like a horse's mane and a dragon-like snake's tail with a white tail tuft. The shape of his body resembles that of a snake with brown fur. If anything it reminded me of those old Japanese dragons but back to the point he just floated there, book in claw, giving me a mischievous look before uttering in a very familiar voice "Oh! Kirk my boy! Its been so long! How are the folks?" he asked as he shook my arm with a great force, I gave him one blank look before uttering "They died eleven years ago.." his smirk is removed from his face as his eyes look down at my face "Well..I would say they were good people...But that would be a lie!" he laughs, I stared at the creature in front of me with true hatred and shouted "How bloody dare you say that! What are you to judge who they were! Who in hells name even are you!" he gained a playful smile and uttered "I'm surprised you don't remember your old pal...Discord."

I froze right on the spot, my mind raced with a thousand thoughts per second at what he just said. "You can't be.." I said "Your not real! Your Not Real!" I spouted again and again trying to make sense of this situation "Oh...Make sense? Oh, what fun is there in making sense?" he chirped. "You can hear my thoughts?" I asked "Of course I can Kirky! Don't you remember the good old days?" he answered smugly but I didn't answer my mind was ready to burst from all these thoughts but they were all interrupted when he told me why he was really here.

"Now. I know you are thinking why have I returned to grace your utterly boring life with my chaotic presence. Well I have a little offer from my best pal Kirky!" He said punching me arm lightly "A O-offer?" I sheepishly ask him not truly understanding how my childhood imaginary friend was floating in front of me offering me a deal "Yes! Ya see I come from a world called Equestria where it is so harmonic and peacefully boring and its has gotten even worse now since I had to stop causing chaos to stay not being a statue...Long story" He said while spinning my fish-bowl on the tip of his claw before turning it into a chocolate milkshake "Anyway the problem I am now faced with is I am the god of chaos but I can not cause chaos! But then I remembered your family!" He shouts "My family?" I ask "Yes! and how your mother and farther were my followers and promised to serve me in anyway possible" He explains but at that point some may say I had the best poker face ever devised by mankind or ponykind. "Well I can see you are taking this information with a spoonful of salt so I will be quick, I want you to become my new Chaos servant, come to Equestria with me and cause Chaos...What do you think?" He says outstretching his paw.

Honestly I shook his paw without a second thought, I mean what did I have to lose, I had a shitty job, no love life, shitty apartment and I am pretty sure my boss wanted me dead. "A weighty choice is yours to make, a right selection or a big mistake. If a wrong choice you choose to pursue the foundations of home will crumble without you." he said randomly "Sorry just reminiscing when I could almost destroy Equestria...But back to the task at hand!" He announced as he puts his paw on my shoulder "Now this inter-dimensional teleportation may have some effects and I am pretty sure we will end up in different places but who cares! Jeronimo!" I tried to say something to stop him but poof...We were already gone and I was alone in some god awful forest puking my guts out, turns out that was one of the side effects, but after my little exorcists moment I started to trudge along a old dirt path in this new foreign land and so many thoughts ran ramped in my mind, what were the people like here, how does society work here and why am I up side down?

Turns out while I was in a daze I tripped a trap and ended up upside down for a few hours until the strangest creature came and looked at me with interest and a smile, the creature looked like a pony but it had huge eyes and a weird fur colour like it was something out of a kids story book but the most shocking thing was when it shouted "Hey Spilt-Wing I got another human here!" and that's when one with wings showed up, cut me down and let me full to the ground, now I tried to say thank you but all that came out was "Gargh.." what got me a response of "Easy there big guy its gonna be alright..." Said the thirst one before a large sudden pain on my head knocked me out completely. And now I have been in this Hell Forbid cage for two weeks, sure I was getting regularly feed and I was introduced to what humans here look like...and believe me whoever you are they are not pretty...But I have been hearing whispers from some of those pony things and it turns out my kind ain't nothing but dumb animals these "Equestrians" used for just about anything! Also we are stopping soon in a town called "Ponyville" What I thought was a very original name by giving out a few laughs that horrified my handlers.

--Present day...Again--

I am jolted awake as I feel our caravan is suddenly stopped, I mange to stand up in my rusted cage and give my now small and deflated limbs a good stretch, I have lost allot of weight since I was captured I thought, and by doing so getting odd looks from the my brain dead cell mates. I stifle out a yawn just before the handlers bloody swarm into the room and start opening up cages left and right and herding out other humans before myself was herded out, anyone of the humans that got out of line as we were lead outside was sapped with some kind of glowing stick and at first I thought this was another cleaning day but no...We are in some kind of town, must be Ponyville, and being lead to some unknown location "Alright Everypony!" Yells a grey stallion with a buzz cut that I have duly nicknamed sarge "Lets get this Humans to the market and then lets get paid!" he cheers as a few other ponies cheers as well as we are herded down a long street to the market.

As soon as we arrive at the market I take note of how many ponies I see and bloody hell I see allot of them in all shapes, sizes and colours. We are lead to a certain stall were we are all, around forty of us, lead into around three cages except me and two other, a little boy and girl, we are lead to the front of the stall were we are forced to sit down and told to wait. "These three as you can see Barter are definitely young and good shape" Says sarge while I give him a questionable look, some of my ribs are showing mate! I think to myself "Yes they are! So you get you bucking bonus" Barter says sternly and throws sarge a large sack, sarge nods and runs off to catch up with his pals...Good riddance "I'm gonna get a nice price for you" Says Barter as she pats me on the head "You even come with clothes, who ever owned you must have loved ya...We will see if we can get you another owner like that" She giggles.

I wait and wait until this one normal pony comes up to me and starts to inspect me, she has a pink coat and blond mane and appears to have three lily's tattooed on her arse and gold eyes. "Hey Rose! Rose! How about this one?" she says excitedly as another normal pony comes into my view, she has a pale yellow coat, raspberry mane with light raspberry streaks, chartreuse green eyes, and a tattoo of a rose on her arse. "..W-well He definitely look nice Lily.." She says shyly and she look over me "Excuse me Miss!" Lily shouts to Barter "How much for this one my good mare!" she asks, Barter gives me a quick inspection and utters "Around seventy five bits.." Rose makes a face but Lily gladly hands over seventy five gold coins...Gold Coins...To Barter "Very good, Very Very Good!" Barter says happily. After Barter gains her bits she puts a collar around my neck and attaches a leash to it and hoofs the leash to Rose "Now remember Humans are like children, Discipline always work!" Barters smiles but I frown at her and poke her right in the side, I can tell by Barter face she didn't like that as she huff away but while Lily gives me a worried look, Rose is giggling happily to herself "I think...I will call you Thorn" She giggles and I smile a small smile as she has practically just guessed my last name for I am Kirk Thornos and this Rose seems she needs a few little sharp thorns by her side.

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