Philosopher of Earth

+++ Unknown location, Unknown time +++

My mind flared into life. All around me was darkness. Where am I? I asked myself. I tried to move my arms, no reaction. I've been like this before... Directly after a surgery that happened nearly a year ago... My thoughts were sluggish. Crap, was I under medication? What would have happened to me that required surgery? Or to be knocked out? I came up with nothing, the last thing I remembered was falling down after saving the unicorns life... Suddenly something flicked the switch that controlled my ears, and I started hearing a slight breeze... Slowly my senses started to return. My limbs took all my will to move slightly. After a minute or two I finally had the strength to open my eyes.

+++Twilights castle, Noon +++

The room around me wasn't the prison cell I had been expecting... Instead it was a moderately furnished room that had led to a balcony... Did they not expect me to throw myself off? I wouldn't of course but hypothetically... I tried sitting up, and failed. My limbs were slowly regaining feeling, nothing hurt so far. Suddenly, to my extreme surprise, a purple pony burst into the room! I tried to weakly get up, only to be gently pushed back down.

"Don't get up. You've been asleep for nearly three days!" she calmly said. I now recognized her as the "alicorn" that I had seen several times before.

"Nngh..." I moaned, still trying to get up.

"No." she said sternly as she pushed me back down again. I stopped struggling.

"...What... happened... to... unicorn..." I asked, still trying to find my voice, why I asked that I have no idea, I suppose because it was the one of the last things I remembered. The alicorn looked as surprised as I felt.

"Well, the doctors think she will pull through..." the purple alicorn said. "But, she wouldn't have if you didn't do what ever you did..." I saved the unicorns life? A comforting thought, that my efforts weren't wasted, albeit in a strange manner. "What did you do by the way?" asked the pony. I thought for a moment.

"In order to stop the bleeding, I had to straighten the broken bone. But to straighten it, I needed to have something brace the bone and hold it in place. Sticks would work wonderfully, except that they can't attach to the leg. Lacking anything else, using long grass that is twisted like rope would provide enough strength to bind the stick to the leg. I was then able to put pressure on the bleeding wound, if one puts pressure on a wound, it helps keep the blood away from leaking, and it allows blood already at the wound to seal up." I explained, feeling strong enough to talk coherently. The alicorn nodded like she understood.

"Did you do the same for a light blue pegasus? she asked.

"I knew that would get me found out... Minus the bleeding part, yes I did, is she alright as well?" I chuckled.

"Yes! In fact she'll be out of the hospital tomorrow!" she exclaimed. I sighed, at least I didn't cause the deaths of those two ponies. We sat in silence for a few minutes, I could tell she was gathering the courage to ask something else.

"You want to ask something else." I said, feeling much more awake.

"How did..."

"Intuition." I interrupted her. The lavender "alicorn" sighed.

"Where you the one who butchered that rabbit?" she asked, slightly scared. It was my turn to sigh.

"Keep in mind, that humans are omnivores, we can eat both plants and animals. But, lacking any plants in the area that supply the nutrients that a rabbit does, I had to trap and kill one for my own survival." Twilight looked a little sick. "But, if it helps, I didn't want to kill it, and I killed it quickly and relatively painlessly." I continued.

"What about the pile of guts and skin?" she asked, not eager to follow this conversation.

"I did that after I killed it." I answered. "All it felt was a quick twist of the head." The purple pony sat in a stunned silence.

"Will you have to do it again?" she asked, clearly not wanting a yes.

"It wouldn't be necessary if I had peanuts or some other source of protein..." I answered. She looked relieved, peanuts apparently were available to the ponies. We sat in silence for a few minutes longer.

"Are you what they call an alicorn?" I asked, no longer patient enough to wait for the question to answer itself.

"Yes I am. I was however born a unicorn!" she answered excitedly.

"Interesting..." I murmured. "Are alicorns considered the rulers of this land?"

"I...in a sense, yes..." she said in a thoughtful tone.

"So, I've attracted the attention of a ruling member of your society?" I asked.

"Actually, you've got the attention of three out of four princesses." she stated with a smirk.

"Gee, what'd I do this time?" I jokingly asked. The alicorn laughed. "I don't believe I caught your name?" I asked.

"Oh! My name is Twilight Sparkle, and what's your name?" Twilight asked.

"You may call me Cheez, I go by many names but I think that one is the one that best states who I am." I answered after a moment of thought.

"Cheese? That's an odd name for a human..." Twilight said.

"It would be, but I choose it as a screen name. And, you know about humans?" I asked.

"Oh yes! I once visited the humans land while searching for a stolen crown!" she exclaimed excitedly.

"I'm sorry." I said.

"Sorry? What for?" Twilight asked, confused.

"There weren't many humans who accepted a talking pony were there?"

"I was technically a human during that time..." Twilight murmured.

"Then the humans you encountered treated you differently then one of their own?"

"That's not fair! I was unfamiliar with human customs!" she exclaimed.

"Even when you learned the customs... They didn't exactly accept you as one of their own?"

"I should hope so... Seeing as I practically told them I was a pony!" Twilight exclaimed. I was silent for a moment.

"And they didn't ostracize you? I'm not buying it." I deadpanned.

"What?!" the lavender pony yelled.

"Come on... We can't even stand different skin colors! Hell, glasses are apparently bothersome enough! Speaking of which..." I said as I realized my glasses were missing. I looked towards the nearby night stand and groped for them. Suddenly my eye sight cleared as my glasses put themselves on my head. "Did you..."

"Yes."

"Oh... Thank you then."

"What does hell mean?" the now distinct Alicorn interrupted.

"Hell? Um... It's a very unpleasant place where evil spirits are imprisoned." I answered

"Like Tartarus!" she exclaimed excitedly.

"You know about Greek mythology? Curious..."

"What mythology!?" her face suddenly became inches away from mine.

"Um..." I stammered.

"Never mind, I'll pick your brain later..." she went back onto the floor. We sat in silence for several minutes. "Wait... Humans can't stand different fur colors?"

"Skin color, and yes... Well, some of us do... But they're becoming the minority really fast."

"Huh..."

"Your kind aren't like that?" I asked.

"We used to... But that was over a thousand years ago. And just call us ponies." Twilight shrugged.

"Okay... How did ponies get over racism?" I asked, perhaps I could use the knowledge somehow.

"Wasn't too difficult if the other option is freezing." she answered. Annnd... There goes that idea.

"Darn." I said outloud.

"Why darn?" the alicorn inquired.

"Other than being incapable of doing so...I'm pretty certain threatening to freeze everyone if they didn't get along would cause the police to come down on my head rather quickly." I stated. Twilight gave me a confused look. "Never mind." She continued to give me the confused look. That is until she seemed to decide something.

"I better leave you alone, Cheese... Let you rest and recover." My name sounded odd on her tongue for some reason. "Oh, while it's still fresh my mind... I personally don't think humans are that bad..." She said as she continued out the door. I rolled over in the bed.

"How little you know."