The Love of Rainbows

Chapter 2

The ground was hard, cold, and every-which-way uncomfortable. I obviously woke up for what felt like an hour. I was surprisingly dirty. But, then again, I was smacked against a fucking tree and had a bone out of place. The wound wasn’t severe, though. Just the bone out of place. I sat up and started to yell again.

“Hello?! Anyone hear me?!” I looked around. Nothing. The grassy plain didn’t even show a town, let alone people, for what seemed like millions of miles.

“It’s hopeless.. I’m…” I sighed, looking at my ankle.

“I won’t get anywhere unless I snap it. But I don’t know how! God! I wish I knew how! Where are my books when I need them?… Where is my family?.. My friends..” I cried into my hands. For several minutes, or what seemed like hours, I sat there, looking at the gravel and dirt. A breeze or two brushed through my brown hair and dried some of my tears. And then I heard a crash.

I looked around, and started yelling again.

“Hello?! Anyone there?! Please! I need help!” I looked around, shifting, slowly turning in a circle so that I don’t put pressure on my ankle.

I saw something blue at the corner of my eye flash into a cloud. It looked like..

“Hello?! Please! I need help! My ankle is broken! Please…!” I cried out, looking all around for whatever I saw. As I looked more, this placed seemed familiar. The green grass, large mountains, beautiful flowers, marshmallow like clouds, and a dark dense forest of what seemed like something out of a horror movie. I couldn’t quite process what it was. But it seemed vaguely familiar.

But, then, something dropped down behind me and started to sniff my hair. I jumped and cried as I put pressure on my ankle.

“Owww!” Tears streamed down my face as I cried and the ’something’ spoke in a womanly raspy tone.

“Ohmigosh! I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to scare you! I heard yelling and I came as fast as I could.” The woman-voice said. I had my eyes cringed but I heard her move in front of me.

“My ankle.. It’s..” I opened my eyes. My grey eyes lightly reddened with stress and so much crying. I looked up and saw something astonishing. A sky-blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane.

“It’s broken! Ohmigosh!” She dipped her head looking at it. She slowly pressed herself on the ground, placing her hooves at each side of my foot.

“A.. A-are you a .. Pegasus?” I asked. The pain didn’t seem relevant. Was this who I think it was?

“Yes, I am. The best flier in Ponyville, too!” She exclaimed with amazing prowess. She also seemed very confident in that.

“P.. Pony..?” my mouth went agape. I couldn’t believe it. Am I in..

“So.. I.. W.. Who are you?” I asked.

“I’m Rainbow Dash! But, that’s not important. You’re hurt and I need to fix that ankle.” She said, looking at my ankle.

“I.. I don’t want to try and snap it back in place.. I’m worried that I might make it worse..” I said, trying to contain all my excitement. Rainbow Dash. The best pony, to me, ever! My idol in the pony world!

“I know a thing or two about snapping my bones back together. This… Will hurt a lot.” Her rose-y eyes lightly brought a sparkling smile. It took my mind completely off the pain.

“So, you are?” Rainbow Dash asked. But, before I could answer, I yelled in pain as she quickly snapped my ankle back into place.

“OWWWW! FUCK!” I yelled and winced.

“Ohmigosh! I’m sorry! I really am! I just had to do it with you off-guard..” Rainbow Dash moved closer, looking into my grey eyes.

“It’s.. Okay.. I’m.. It’s feeling better now..” I said, wiping my eyes of tears.

“I’m Carl… I.. This.. Where am I?” I answered her previous question and inquired where I was.

“This is Equestria. You must be.. Uhm.. A homo-sabien.. Or whatever?” Rainbow Dash looked at me, up and down, and probably figured that out by my hands.

“Uhm.. Yeah..” I answered. I’m surprised Rainbow Dash, an athletic and physically smart pony, would know such a word.

“How.. Did you get here? I mean.. Twilight -- my friend -- always spoke how ’It’s impossible to have a human in Equestria!’.” She imitated Twilight quite well. She folded her mane into what looked like a rainbow-unicorn horn and pranced around like she was reading a book.

I laughed lightly. It was pretty funny and helped ease my mind a bit.

“I.. Don’t know. I just went to sleep in my bed last night and woke up to a Manticore smashing me into a tree. Breaking my ankle.” Rainbow Dash shook her head as I gave my response.

“C’mon, let’s get you to my friend Fluttershy. She can help you rest.” Rainbow Dash gave me a nice smile, fluttering lightly upward with her wings and helping me stand.

“Carl, right?” She asked and I nodded. I lightly hopped with my arm wrapped around her neck. It was brushing against her mane and it felt like I was brushing a newborn puppies fur. It was really soft.

“Well, I promise to help you. Whatever it takes.” Rainbow Dash brought me forward, slowly, and we headed off in the direction of what I assumed was ’Fluttershy’s’ house.