The Strangest Things

Working with Shy has been a blast. We take care of the animals together, and it takes a lot of the load off her back. I thoroughly enjoy how the animals look the same, but act entirely different. They come when called, and seem to be almost completely domesticated. Fluttershy was the nicest mare you could hope to work with She is caring, understanding, and tolerates mistakes. She is super nice, and as sweet as sugar. She’s- oh, you probably don’t want to hear my ramblings. I like to think we’ve grown close. She seems... more open, I guess. A bit more talkative. Voicing her opinions. Also, Angel Bunny is no angel. He bit me like five times in the last four days. He seems possessive of Fluttershy, and doesn’t like me one bit. But still, working and living with Fluttershy has been a unique experience.

Cough, cough.

I have a sore throat. Good sign or bad? Maybe I’ll finally be able to speak.

“Oh, my, are you alright?” Fluttershy looked concerned. Dawwwww. “I can make some herbal tea, that would help the cough and maybe help the problem with your voice.”

I nodded my approval. The tea she gave me was bitter, but it did help me with my sore throat. I tried talking. A harsh wheezing came out. Wasn’t pretty, but a good sign. I kept exercising my voice, and hopefully I can get back to full functionality eventually. In the meantime, I needed some fun. I wrote the word ‘cupcake’ on my notepad and pointed at my mouth. Fluttershy nodded in understanding, and beckoned me to follow. Then she stopped for a moment, and asked,

“Are You sure you want Pinkie to see you?”

I nodded my approval.

“Okay...”

You see, Pinkie was just the pony I needed to get everypony comfortable with me. After all, she makes friends with everyone. *Simulated evil laughter here*

“Hi Fluttershy! What is that thing behind you? It’s neat! Is it a new animal?”

“Yes, it’s a human...”

“Ooh, cool! What was it you wanted, anyway?”

“One dozen vanilla cupcakes, please.”

“Sure, coming right up! Why so many? You don’t normally eat so much sugar.”

“Oh, he wanted some,” she said, gesturing to me. “He likes sweets.”

“Coooooooool. Does he have a name? What does he do?”

“Yeah, his name is Nathaniel, or Nathan, but I call him Nate. He’s really nice, and the other animals seem to like him alot more than Angel Bunny. Plus, he can help me move things if I ask him to.”

“Nice. Here’s your cupcakes, now if you’ll excuse me....” With that, she dashed off to who knows where.

As we were walking home, Fluttershy started to ask me a question.

“Um, I was meaning to ask you this, but, um, do you-” She trailed off, and looked a little sheepish. She calmed herself down, and finished her sentence. “like me?”

I stopped dead in my tracks, a look of shock on my face. NOT THE QUESTION I WAS EXPECTING. *Grabs Torch* BACK, SEXUAL IMAGES, BACK I SAY! But regardless, I turned to her, and nodded with a slight smile, accompanied with a slight blush. She kept walking, but she was noticeably closer, almost touching my leg. She looked up and smiled.

“That’s good, because I think I like you too. It’s always nice to find a kindred soul. Oh, we’re home.”

BOOM!

The distinct firing signature of the party cannon rang through the air.

“Not good. Not good at all. They’re going to make a mess!”

I looked at her with a look of confusion on my face. We walked into the room and read the banner.

NEW PET PARTY. I facepalmed. Pinkie looked exited as soon as we walked in the door.

“Surprise! Time for a party!!”

“Pinkie, what did you do?” asked Fluttershy.

“Weeeellllllll, when Ifound out you had a new super special awesome new pet, and I kinda hadn’t thrown a party in a while, so I thought this deserved a party!”

All the other of the Mane Six were there, and that included Twilight. Rarity looked absolutely ecstatic that the clothes she made fit wonderfully, and the other three just stared in amazement. Twilight was the first to recover from the shock of seeing me.

“Fluttershy, what is that?”

“Oh, um, this is a human, a bipedal animal related to the monkey. This one’s name is Nathaniel, or Nathan, but I call him Nate.” She blushed.

“Well, why is it wearing clothes?”

Rarity stepped in for that one. “It’s not adapted for winter weather, and it probably only lives in tropical climates.“

“Well, after the party, could we maybe go and run some tests in the library?”

The entire time, I was eating all the cupcakes I could get my hands on. Pinkie was a remarkable baker. However, I stopped cold when Twilight said tests, and dropped the cupcake I was eating. I quickly ran to crouch behind Fluttershy. Oh, Celestia. Tests By Twilight TM should be used as torture by the Chinese military or something, they were that bad.

“Oh my, Twilight, you scared him. He can tell what you want to do, and your intentions, by the tone in your voice. It’s actually quite interesting. But he hates tests. He wouldn’t even let me give him a checkout on the first day I found him.”

Good. Fluttershy was still hiding my intelligence. Wait, Fluttershy would lie for me? D’awwwwwwwwwww.  Then I saw slowly stood up and began to back away.

Twilight was still interested with me.

“He seems to have imprinted on you, Fluttershy, yet he seems almost full grown,” Twilight made a lap around me. “I wonder why... also, his hands seem much more dexterous than on Spike, so I wonder what they are for. There are five fingers on it, giving him better grip, and he has no claws. Not for attacking, then. So it seems they are used either for climbing or manipulating tools.”

Woah, all that from a few moments of observation? I started sweating.

“Oh, his emotion sense knows what scrutiny is, huh? I just have this hunch that he’s hiding something...”

I bolted into the woods.

“You scared him off... do you know what time it is? Nine-thirty. The sun went down at seven today... Nate is in danger! He ran into the Everfree...” Fluttershy trailed off, tears in her eyes.

The rest of the Mane Six looked at Twilight.

“Well!?” said Applejack, “Get over there and go’n fin’ Nathan! You done made Fluttershy cry, so you gotta go out there’n fix it!”

“Oh, okay!” Twilight snapped back to reality. “You’re right, Applejack. This was my fault, so I have to go fix it.”

I ran through the darkness of the Everfree. As I ran, I raged. I can’t let my cover be blown. Not now. I honestly didn’t know why, but I suddenly thought of a good reason. I don’t want my life to end up like a lame self-insert on FimFiction! I like the Mane six just the way they are, and I don’t want some crazy destiny that probably involves The Nightmare and Princess Celestia. I don’t want their lives to revolve around an alien thing whose only skills were the ability to talk! I sure don’t know how to get home, but if I’m stuck here, I don’t need center stage.

I look up at what I was running at. Fuck.

The light coming off of Twilight’s horn revealed a horrible sight. Nathan, obviously paralyzed with fear, staring up at a manticore. Ok, Nathan, just don’t panic, and I will come in and calm down our little friend. Please have good instincts, human.

FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!!!! I vomited as I saw the two ton beast of a manticore standing in front of me. Even with my animal handling skills can’t handle something like this. (Note that my animal handling skills extend to my roommate Jordan, who is a complete druggie.I found all eleven of his bongs and burned them. He’s such a bitch.) I tried to look in its eyes. I found no hatred there, so I approached slowly. I raised my hands and slowly approached. The manticore tensed and I saw its back leg muscles ripple. I flinched as it lunged, and, even as Twilight cast a spell that stopped the manticore cold, I let loose the most human sound I made since I came here. As Twilight watched in amazement, I screamed.

Oh, shit’s hitting the fan now.

A/N: My chapters are a bit longer, no? Chapters are coming a bit farther apart, so read my other fanfic, I Miss You, Dashie. Thanks for following so closely. KTHXBAI!