VK and Vespi: Preventing the Cure

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It was black once again, I couldn’t see anything. All of a sudden, what I was able to see became brighter. It started out as a shade of solid orange, it began to fade to white. Eventually, the bright light opened my eyes, and it was clear to me now that it was morning.

Morning!? Wait, when did it become morning? When I was awake last time, there was the night sky. I began to think to myself, when I was awake last time, I was being chased by wolves, or creatures that I thought had been wolves. I ran into a river, and I couldn’t remember much after that.

When I opened my eyes after thinking, I began to acknowledge the surroundings I was in. It appeared that I was in bed, there was nothing around it, clearly this was a guest room, and more clearly, someone had brought me here. I remember falling into the river, and a few seconds later, I must have fallen into unconsciousness. To be here from that point must lead to one thing, not only was I brought, I was saved. But whoever did, seem to have done a job of half-effort, because my stomach was aching terribly.

This added another question to my list, first of all, where was I? Second, why and how did I get turned into a pony? Third, who went out of their way to save me? Actually, the third question wasn’t really important, if there was a person drowning in the river, then anyone who was there at the moment would just go and save that person. Still, I ought to give my thanks.

But since I was in bed, I thought I would just go back to sleep, it’s been a long night.

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“Sweetie! Are you okay!?”

I had woken up, looking at the clock; it appeared to me that I didn’t get that much extra sleep.

“My husband had found you unconscious; we thought that you were dead!”

Who was this?

“Please say something; I want to make sure that you’re okay!”

“I’m fine, where am I? What is your name?”

“Oh good, you’re okay. This is my husband’s house; he had found you in the river last night and brought you to one of our guest rooms!”

“I see, thank you very much, what is your name?”

I studied her appearance closely; she was a pony such as me. Except first of all, she was female; she had a white coat, purple mane, and purple tail which seemed to have been curled giving a spring-look to it. The one feature she had that stuck out of everything was three diamond marks on her flank.

“Oh I am sorry, my name is Rarity, although you don’t have thank me, my husband was the one who went out of his way to escort you here.”

“I see, it seems I will have to thank him”

“What is your name?”

In that bleak moment, I thought to myself. I just remembered when back where I used to walk, the mere mention of my name would bring about people causing violence. I had felt scared, but why? Was I that paranoid now? Something bad would happen from the mention of my title? Nevertheless, I stated.

“Verandernden, Verandernden Korper”

“Oh what a lovely name, are you from here?”

“No ma’am, I am…umm…traveling, yes. I’m from very far from here. As you can see, there has been a bit of trouble with my recent travel.”

“Really? Well Verandernden, you can stay as long as you like, ever since Augustus moved out no one uses this old room anymore.”

“Please, call me VK, and you really don’t have to. Who’s Augustus?”

“One of my husband’s friends, him and the others had moved out long ago, they are taking care of themselves now.”

“Hmm, I see”

I looked out the window; I saw rows of buildings outside with a large chapel in the center.

“May I ask, what the name of the town or city of which your residence is?”

“Why, this is Pony Ville, originally founded by earth ponies, this town has been around since Applejacks grandmother was a young mare.”

“Earth Ponies? Why are they called earth ponies?”

“Oh I’m sorry, you really must be new here, are you even anywhere from Equestria?”

“Equestria?”

“Oh dear, when you said you were traveling from very far, you really meant it. Well, let me try to explain.”

I gave a loud yawn, despite being able to listen to Rarity this entire time, I was actually still very tired.

“Oh, I’m sorry about that.”

“No I understand, you probably need more rest. Take as much time as you need. As for me, I have work that needs to be done.”

“Really?”  I began getting back into bed. “What’s your occupation?”

“Why, I am Pony Ville’s Fashion Designer and Seamstress, I have been for quite some time now.”

“Well, best of lu…” I fell asleep.

“Thank you.”

I closed the door, even though VK couldn’t finish his sentence from exhaustion, I still was able to make out what he was going to say. Clearly it was “Best of Luck” which he was going to imply. It was obvious because I’ve always had that towards me, from my parents, then Sweetie Belle, then Twilight, Flutter Shy, Apple Jack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, then Augustus, MD, Royal Royce, Neon, Courageous C, Ayan, and of course, my husband Vespi.

There were others of course who would wish me so from time to time, and then I thought to myself, would this be another person who would be included in the first list? It was not every day that some pony would arrive here along a river.  I think something happened, maybe not just some accident.

But who was I to judge? I walked out of the door and headed on my way to the old Boutique. My husband Vespi was probably still working his duties as a Royal guard. I did wonder when he would be back soon.