Twilight stared at the creature in front of her. She didn´t blink or look away. She was incapable of tearing her eyes away from it. It was tall, about two ponies high and a meat eater. Well, it was an omnivore, but a big one to try and domesticate. Twilight could see why Fluttershy wanted her to take care of it while she was out of town, but she had only found it that very same morning. Even Fluttershy couldn´t say for sure that it wouldn´t try to hurt ponies. Guess that was why she left it with Twilight, Celestia´s personal protégé.
It was currently climbing the bookshelves using its hands, as she had learned was the name for primate front appendages and usually the back ones as well, except this one had strange looking, elongated versions of its hands on the end of its legs, kind of like Spike´s really.
Despite its deformation (perhaps evolution) it was climbing the shelves at a rate that far outclassed any pony, dead or alive. Within seconds it was sitting comfortably in one of the library´s many outcroppings that usually housed books. One leg dangled limply in front of the bookshelf and the creature´s gaze fell on Ponyville outside the window.
Letting its leg hang limply like that gave Twilight a prime opportunity to examine it to find out if it was a distant, or close relative of the primates she knew of. The structure of its feet showed that it wasn´t made for more than a quick peek into rougher terrain and instead seemed built for balance on two legs on a longer journey on soft grass or dirt. She was unable see practical use in any of the smaller toes, but the big toe was simply too large to be useless, it was probably for more balance.
The lower leg was little more than bone in the front and muscle in the back. The knee was much like Spike´s, bending forward to allow better balance and climbing and Twilight could make out thick tendons on the back of the knee. Its upper leg was much thicker than its lower leg. The large muscles were hard to miss, but it was obvious that this was also one of the places where it stored fat in its body.
Over all it was becoming increasingly more obvious that this creature was made to traverse long distances on plains at a rather slow pace. It also lacked most of its hair.
Twilight looked up. The creature was looking at her. It seemed to have been examining her while she examined it. Twilight stepped back so she wouldn´t have to strain herself to look up at it. The creature took the chance to jump down, falling about its own height before landing on its feet like it was nothing.
Twilight sat down so she wouldn´t have to strain her neck and the creature took it as an invitation to do something similar. It bent its knees and ankles so it was more or less only standing on its toes and practically sitting on its heels. At first Twilight was wary of the creature, but any thoughts Twilight had of the gesture being hostile were dashed as the creature held each hand with the other, placed its elbows on its upper legs and leaned its upper body on its arms so its whole body rested on the front of its feet. It managed to avoid squishing the large mammary glands on its chest.
The two of them stared into each other’s eyes, but after some time the creature dropped its gaze for a second but then turned to her again. Again it averted its eyes after some time and Twilight took that moment to stand up. She gathered some magic in her horn to be ready to cast if needed. She turned away from the creature and walked the other way. All the while listening for movement. She heard the creature get up and start walking after her. She kept walking for a few seconds before turning around to see the creature right behind her.
The creature looked down at her with a tilted head before seeing her slightly glowing horn. Its eyes widened and its mouth opened slightly. It walked forward and Twilight tensed, but did nothing. It reached out and brought its open hand above Twilight´s face before slowly moving its hand closer to her horn. Twilight, for her part, was doing an admirable job of not blasting the creature, and instead remained calm and let it touch her horn.
The feeling of having one´s horn touched was unique in a way, because through it, one could feel both mana and touch. Touching someone´s horn was usually considered taboo and thus stories of sexual nature started popping up about unicorn horns and how they could be used to bring unicorns to the brink of insanity through stimulation. Those stories were of course untrue. The most one would get from it was a numb feeling.
The creature touched Twilight’s horn and rubbed a bit before grabbing it lightly and rubbing it up and down with a thumb.
Unicorn horns were often a public sign of a relationship. Unicorns would rub horns and other races in a relationship with a unicorn would sometimes rub their horns with a wing or the like if it was within comfortable range.
Twilight blushed lightly at the thought of what this might look like to somepony who saw them right now. They would probably think of it as bestiality or the like.
The creature let go of Twilight´s horn and looked to the window. Twilight followed its gaze but saw nothing out of the ordinary. To Twilight´s surprise, the creature practically leapt at the nearest bookshelf and climbed into the outcropping above it at lightning speeds.
Before Twilight had time to question the creature´s strange behavior, the front door flew open and a pegasus dashed into the library and in Twilight´s direction, before stopping right in front of her.
“Where is that thing?! I´ll show it what happens if you mess with my friends! Where is it Twi? I saw it molesting you just a second ago!” The pegasus exclaimed.
Twilight sighed. She should have seen it coming, honestly. “Rainbow-” She said before the pegasus interrupted her.
“Just tell me where it is and I will scare it away for good!” The pegasus exclaimed. “You won´t have to worry about it ever again.”
“Rainbow-“ She managed to say before the very rude pegasus interrupted her again.
“Twilight.” The pegasus said very calmly. “If that thing has turned you into its willing sex slave then you have my word that I will give you all the help I can get you to make you better.” The pegasus said it so calmly that Twilight had to do a double take to make sure she heard her correctly.
A twitch, another. Twilight´s right eye was starting to twitch, such was the pegasus´ ignorance. “AGGHHHHHHH!” She exclaimed. “Unicorn horns are NOT orgasm machines! No matter what rumors say! I can barely feel anything with it! IT. IS. A. CELESTIA. DAMNED. BONE! It has sentimental value! That is why we don´t like others touching it! It´s where our magical capabilities come from, it is NOT a second clitoris!” Twilight yelled .
The pegasus was a bit taken aback. “Ok, ok. I´m sorry. I didn´t know, ok? I just… thought you needed some help…” The pegasus was pretty meek at the end of her apology but she shook it off in favor of a more important question. “But isn´t horn touching a sign of a relation?”
“It is. What about it?” Twilight asked, completely oblivious.
The pegasus rolled her eyes.”Well…” That was as far as she got before being interrupted.
The creature, which had been in the outcropping right above them, jumped down and onto the pegasus´s back, driving her to the floor where it held her forelegs down and her wings at her side, rendering her immobile. Twilight was quick to respond and grabbed the creature with her magic. The creature´s eyes widened and it squirmed in the telekinesis around it. Rainbow leapt to her hooves but held a hoof to her chest and grunted.
“It doesn´t respond well to hostility, it seems.” Twilight mused. “I think it be best if you were to leave now Rainbow. I´m sorry to have to cut this short but I have to go to bed and you need to have somepony look at that bruise.” Twilight more or less threw the unfortunate pegasus out of the library before locking the door and heading upstairs, holding the creature at her side.
She took the creature to the guest room and let it down on the bed. She used her extremely advanced magical abilities to create a makeshift collar and chain, and made sure the creature couldn´t get out of bed.
“Sorry to have to leave you like this, but I don´t understand you well enough to let you walk around freely. I´m going to take you for a walk tomorrow and try to find a meat vendor. Until then, goodnight.” Twilight left the creature with those words and headed to bed herself.
She missed the smirk on the creature´s face.
End of Day 1.
They still think I´m an animal.
Author's Note
This is something that´s been trying to get out for months now. I havn´t read a story where the human acts like an animal AND, much to my chagrin, I have not found a single story where a WOMAN goes to Equestria and no man is anywhere in sight. There are plenty of fics where a MAN goes to Equestria and stays, but none where a WOMAN goes to Equestria and stays, not without a man being there as well. This may sound feministic to some of you, but I´m not talking 40/60 I´m talking 0,1/99,9 FimFiction needs more stories with women.
Rarity was often stressed, and Twilight could relate to that, so as she stood outside Rarity’s Boutique with the animal on a leash she felt somewhat insensitive. She knew Rarity was working on a big project, but she had ordered a scarf for the autumn. Rarity had told her to come by when she had the chance and pick it up, so here she was, half a day into caring for a strange, two-legged and curious animal and about to walk into a house full of expensive and easily torn fabric.
Twilight would have just left the thing outside, but she didn’t want it scare ponies. It had already shown an aversion towards potentially hostile actions and/or loud noises. Rainbow’s intrusion hadn´t been under the most ideal of circumstances for adequate and definite conclusion. All she knew was that it attacked Rainbow. It hadn´t attacked her or Fluttershy, so something about Rainbow or her entrance and subsequent shouting had warranted an aggressive respond. It could have just been her mane colour, Twilight had no sure-fire way to know.
While Twilight was thinking, the animal had moved up to the Boutique’s wall and begun inspecting it. Twilight noticed this and watched silently as it looked up at the small front door overhang and looked about to jump, when the front door opened all of a sudden and Rarity was about to step outside.
“Why, good morning Twilight. I wasn´t expecting you this early.” When Twilight seemed about to apologise she cut her off with a hoof. “Don´t worry about it darling, as you can see I was awake and about. Now, you´re here for your scarf I presume. I have it hanging just her on the coatrack.”
As Rarity spun her head and grabbed the scarf in her magic Twilight was finally able to get a word in. “Yes, thank you, I am here for the scarf. Um… So, ahh… Yes! I´ll just take the scarf and… Wait no! Stop that!” Rarity was about to ask her what was wrong when something grabbed her horn and her magic fizzled out from the surprise.
She tried to spin her head, but was unable to. Twilight was frantically yelling at something beside her, but Rarity couldn´t see it. She was about to voice her concerns when something wrapped around her throat. Her words caught in her throat and she looked on as Twilight sprayed whatever held her with water.
“No! Bad! Let go of Rarity! Don´t force me to use my magic!”
Rarity would have probably laughed had she understood the situation better, but as it was she was slightly afraid of being mauled by some large dog Twilight was for some reason with. She noticed the leash floating in Twilights magic and the magical fabric stretched to somewhere outside her vision.
It was only when something started rubbing into her mane that she became truly frightened.
She struggled against whatever held her and started frantically yelling. “Twilight! Could you please get your pet off of me! It´s ruining my mane!” But Twilight wasn´t doing anything. She just stood there with the spray and leash in front of her and surprise on her face.
“Um… I´m sorry Rarity, but I´m going to have to watch this for a minute, this is very interesting. You´re not in any danger don´t worry. It seems to like you, which means I can probably tick loud noises of the aggression list and…” Twilight response slowly devolved into mumbling as she pulled out a notebook from nowhere and started writing, shooting Rarity a few glances now and then.
Rarity didn´t like it, but she stood there and let whatever it was rub her mane as it liked. It stopped after a while but kept something pressed into her mane. It was only then that Twilight finally intervened and her horn lit up brighter than before.
Rarity felt the thing pull on her as Twilight was undoubtedly trying to pry it off her at last. It was stubborn but let go when the pressure was becoming uncomfortable for Rarity.
At last she could get a look at it and it was… strange. It struggled in Twilight’s grasp, waving it´s appendages at Rarity. It made obvious sounds of frustration and effort as it tried to reach her. When it finally gave up its appendages slumped down at it looked at her with sad eyes and a quivering lip.
Twilight was still writing in her notebook and Rarity was getting a bit restless so she decided to risk her neck, and more importantly her mane, and approached the thing. It didn´t seem dangerous, it had had her at its mercy and just… rubbed her. It had also grabbed her horn. Rarity came to a stop in front of the creature and watched as it stretched its appendages towards her in an obvious attempt to touch her mane.
Twilight stopped writing to watch the exchange. “It seems to REALLY like you. You don´t usually have the most luck with animals, did you put some special shampoo in your mane?”
Rarity answered with a slight shake of her head. “No I haven´t. But, if I may be so frank, what is this thing? It’s like nothing I´ve ever seen before.”
Twilight scratched her head and looked at the creature while she drew a breath threw her teeth. “Well… I don´t really know, it resembles the primates of Zebrica, but it´s legs resemble a dragon’s slightly. The only think I´m completely sure of is that it´s female and that it´s not a vegetarian, but an omnivore.” The look on Twilight’s face told Rarity that this creature was her newest obsession.
Rarity had to act quickly or Twilight would start ranting about her theories of the creature, not that Rarity didn´t like to hear Twilight talk about her interests. She just didn´t have the patience right then and there. And the creature was still trying to touch her.
“I was going to have breakfast at Sugercube Corner, would you perhaps like to join me?” Twilight’s eyes lit up at the prospect and she dropped all thoughts of vague theories for now.
“I would love to! I’m sure Pinkie would love to meet our new friend. Let’s go!” Twilight looked at the creature attempting to reach Rarity still and smiled. “It might even switch its attention to Pinkie instead, her mane is really soft as well. She would love the attention. Oh my gosh! This is so exciting!” Twilight was quick to turn in Sugercube Corner´s direction and Rarity followed as Twilight walked with a noticeable skip in her step towards potential discovery and sweets.
Twilight was so occupied with her thoughts that she forgot about keeping the animal suspended.
“Twilight help me! It´s messing up my mane again!”
Oh my dear god, this is the softest thing I have ever rubbed my face into.
Author's Note
Hm. 95 weeks since the last chapter. This is probably worse but hey, I wrote something that wasn't COMPLETE garbage, so there's that. Enjoy?
Sorry if this doesn't meet your expectations, I´m really rusty.
