Darkness….an empty void, that’s all I see, but I can’t be dead! Can I? I wasn’t bleeding…at least I didn’t see any blood. But I feel…cold. Maybe I am dead, but I don’t see a light. I don’t see anything, just darkness, I don’t even know if I have my hands, or anything, I can’t see them, even if they were in my face I can’t see them.

Wait….I can hear something….chirps? No….it sounds like…..beeping. Timed sets of beeping….like a heart monitor? Yeah, I hear a heart monitor, and silent voices far off. Maybe if I head for the voices, I can get out of this endless void! But I can’t move, I can’t speak, I can’t do anything. I’m….stuck here.

I felt a something hard hit me in the face, and I grabbed my cheek groaning in pain. Wait, I can feel my hand, I can see white (if not slightly pink tinted…) walls. And the beeping is much louder. I looked around and saw a hospital room.

I looked down and saw my foot wrapped up and hung by a sling hanging from hooks in the ceiling, and I felt something get on my chest, which sent a shock through my body and made me start coughing, like there was no tomorrow.

I then heard a very quiet and timid voice speaking “it’s okay now; just take slow deep breaths now."

I calmed my coughing fit and looked at my chest seeing Mimzy and I started scratching behind her ear smiling a bit, knowing we would be home soon, but something made me start doubting myself, from the right side of my peripheral. Why would I doubt that thought now? I’m in a hospital room, I’m safe, they can call my home, and say everything’s alright now….right?

I looked over and saw…..a hoof, with yellow fur. A hoof…..a “HOOF”….A FUCKING HOOF?!?!?!?!

I looked up quickly, and saw a small horse with a worried yet scared smile, and long bright pink mane. She seemed to have jumped back from the quick motion I made and her eyes went wide with fear, and I could see her cyan eyes just staring at me.
I wish my first reaction was better but….

“AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!” I screamed as I fell off the bed, and landed flat on my face and chest, but I could also hear the small horse scream as well, maybe because of my scream? But, still screaming I jumped up and started clawing away till I was up and bolting for what seemed like an exit. Bad idea not looking because….

*CLUNK* *THUD*

I hit the top of the door head first, but good thing it stopped my screaming. As I was holding my head I could hear some clicking of something hard hitting tile floors. Most likely the horse walking over. Soon I saw the horse’s face looking down at me, with worry, and fear, but not scared fear….fear for another….for me maybe?

“Are you alright? That looked pretty bad.” She said in that quite timid voice. “I’m Fluttershy….what’s your name?”

“Daniel….and that fur ball of mine is Mimzy” I chuckled and slowly sat up holding m head. “Sorry about that scream I kind of….didn’t expect to see a small horse that can talk….ever….”

I heard a gasp from Fluttershy, as she just blinked at me with her head cocked back and a hoof to her mouth. “Umm….I didn’t say anything wrong did I?” I asked.

“You bet your senseless tastes you did!!!” I heard a Trans-Atlantic English accented voice yell, which I turned to the door to see a white….unicorn with curly purple mane and tail. Ok…I am in some weird dream, aren’t I…?

“Oh….I’m…..sorry?” I said as I looked at the white unicorn confused out of my gourd.

She just huffed, and then walked past smacking my cheek with her tail as she passed and I just held my cheek with a pained yell.

The unicorn then turned to me looking annoyed. “You should be! I mean you insult poor Fluttershy here, and you dare wear such tacky clothes?”

I just groaned and stood up being careful of my bad ankle. “I’m sorry but….insult?” I said as I looked at the white unicorn.

“Whorse! That is a terrible thing to call a lady! Especially one that helped you.” She huffed out while glaring daggers at me.

“Horse is….a slur? How does that work?”

“We don’t sell our bodies to random stallions with bits to pay!”

I spoke slowly to myself to think on the word. “Hor…..oh….OH!!” I slapped my hands on my mouth hard as my eyes went wide and I looked at Fluttershy moving my hands. “I am SOOOO sorry! I…I didn’t know! Where I come from a horse is an animal of equine nature, and what you described miss….I-I'm sorry, I never caught your name.”

The white unicorn seemed to blush and clear her throat. “I am sorry, I never introduced myself. My name is Rarity. But please, just rarity is fine, darling.”

“All right, I’m sorry about the misinterpretation, Rarity, but what you described, where I’m from, that’s called a whore, not a whorse, so why don’t we just…..clear the slate and start over, alright? My names Daniel.”

As Rarity was about to say something, there was a knock at the door. I saw Rarity’s horn get a dark purple aura that formed over the doors handle and pulled the door opening showing a cyan Pegasus with a rainbow style mane and tail with a red, yellow, and blue streaked lightning bolt coming from a cloud. Now that I’m looking closer, Fluttershy and Rarity have something on their...I think the word for that area on equines was “flank”? Well….it seemed they had symbols on their flanks as well.

Rarity had three cyan or light blue gems, and Fluttershy had three butterflies on her. Note to self: ask what the symbols are and if they mean anything.

Fluttershy was the first to speak to the cyan Pegasus. “h-hello Rainbow Dash.” I know I said I don’t use the word cute often…but the way her voice is, being so shy and timid like, just makes her so cute. Wait….why am I just now seeing her wings….? Damn, I really do need glasses again….

The cyan Pegasus, who I am guessing was Rainbow Dash was about to speak, but then saw me. In an instant all I saw was a mass of cyan in my vision, with purple aura over it. What just happened?!

After gaining my senses I fell back hitting my head on the top of the doorway AGAIN and held my head hissing from the pain, but when I looked up I saw rainbow dash in midair with her hoof straight out in an attempted punch kind of way held by Rarity's magical aura. I sighed in relief I wasn’t hit. My skull would have probably been caved in from her instant increase in speed.

After looking around I could see many ponies staring at me in shock or fear. The next thing I kind of expected, but not in the number it happened.

I felt something ram into me, then so many more masses seemed to pin me down, while one slammed my head, face first, hard into the tile floor, but I heard the girls voices yelling at them to stop, that I’m ‘peaceful, intelligent, and not a threat’. After a while I felt the weight get off my limbs and body then held my head. The doctors quickly apologized to me and helped me back into the hospital bed and one of the unicorns got my foot back in the hanging sling.

“You don’t need to apologize. From how Fluttershy seemed to act when I woke up, my kind most likely aren’t known here.” I said as I saw a few doctors nod still looking sorry, and they started asking questions like ‘what am I’ and other random questions. But I explained that I’m not well enough for ’20 questions’ so I just explained who and what I was, ending with what my kind was called…’humans’.

After some talking with the girls about ourselves, they had to go “practice”, “take care of the animals” and “finish some orders”. I remember asking about the marks on their flanks (also asked I got that word right…I did!). I learned the symbols explain their special talent, and that it helps describe what they are best at, as well as enjoy the most. Must make getting some jobs super easy if you get the right kind of cutie mark, as they’re called. I also learned they were ‘ponies’, nice to know for any future interactions with their kind.

Later that day, I heard a knocking then a couple of pegasi clad in golden armor came in and pointed spears at me. Spear points at my neck, a couple pissed off looking armor clad pegasi, and me in a bed, with one leg held up. Could I be in a MORE less defensive position than I am now?!

“You will be coming with us creature!” said one of the armored ponies.

I guess this is it….taken away, by some ponies in armor, with spears, and for what reason?! I said I wouldn’t hurt any ponies, I explained a lot about humans….as well as….how….much war….we have had……I fucked up royally….didn’t I…?

Author's Note

i may have problems in it, i wrote this with 3 days of sleep deprivation...add 2 days of work on it, i finished it with 5 days of sleep deprivation, and microsoft word may not catch EVERY mistake....that is where i need you, the readers, to jump in and give me some assisstance. if you dont like it, then dont read it, i am not forcing you to read it. you like the story? please watch, favorite, and thumbs up the story. do two of those things, or hell, do ALL THREE if you want!!!

but in all seriousness, i may not be able to work on other chapters like i could these two. ive had these two done for a while, and looking for them on one drive on my new laptop took FOREVER!!!! gotta learn how to use one drive for windows 10. THANK YOU FREE WINDOWS 10 UPDATE X3