The Tale of Deviant, Son of Discord

Everything was a blur. My head was in throbbing pain, as was my bat wing, but I couldn't feel my hawk wing for some reason. I checked my surroundings around me, or tried to at least. Every time I moved, my body felt an intense sharp pain, it was unbearable.

My vision slowly started to sharpen as I stay still, and no longer was I in that cold tornado, but inside a nice warm cottage. I didn't know what to think, first thing that came to mind was, Am I dead? I had no clue what-so-ever how I ended up inside this den. I could hear the crackling of fire not to far away from me, and could see that the storm was still at its full rage outside from the windows.

I tried to move any part of my body, but everything I did caused that sharp striking pain to occur. This time it was worse than the first time I tried to move. I guess I have to just sit still and wait until I can move , I thought to myself. I could move one thing though, my lions paw was able to move freely without pain occurring. I tried to move my other arm or stretch my back out a little bit, but I was forced to keep my back still due to the sharp pain occurring in my chest. My paw quickly clenched the striking area, then I discovered I was bandaged around my torso.

"What the? How do i have these? I never put these on!" I spoke with grief and confusion throughout my voice, with the agonizing pain striking with each word. I was dumbfounded, my mind going on and on about how I got here, and why I was like this. While asking all these questions to myself I heard something coming from a distance not to far from the door. My ears twitched, hearing every movement whatever outside the cottage was making. I was in panic, If I had to defend myself, I could be as good as dead! I tried to stand up, but after that tornado, I couldn't move a single muscle. I decided to wait and see what would come through that door, my heart pounding with fear.

The door slowly creaked open, I was sweating in fear of what was behind the door. The door was now fully open, but I couldn't see who opened the door, cold winter winds were thick and blocked my field of vision. As the cold winds came through the door, all candles and lights were blown out, leaving me in the darkness. My heart was racing I was so scared, I had no clue what would come through that door. But to my surprise, a small white bunny came in, hopping in the cottage where I was.

This rabbit lives here, I must still be dreaming , I thought to myself. The rabbit just held the door open for some reason, continuing to let in the cold air. I tried to speak up to tell the rabbit to close it, but I was too weak at the moment to bear a single sound.

The rabbit was gesturing to something to tell it to get in the house, and so something came in. A yellow pony walked in with a colorful pink and green scarf and was covered in snow. She closed the door and locked it shut, preventing any more snow and harsh winds to enter the home. She had a basket in her mouth, At first I thought she had a picnic out in the blizzard, but thats just my stupidity getting the best of me.

She went over to the kitchen and started setting down her things, she glanced over at me, and saw that my eyes were open. Everything stopped as we glared at each other, but that didn't last long. She finally broke the silence. "Oh your awake!, I was so worried!" I tried to respond back to her, but only mutters and mumbles came out of my mouth. I was too weak to even to turn my head in her direction, she only looked back me with concern. "Oh you poor thing, you must be so weak after that blizzard."

I responded with a small grunt of agony, the sharp pain was everywhere throughout my body. She finally stopped looking at me and started moving around the cottage turning everything upside down as if she was looking for something. She moved back and forth, upstairs and down until she screamed," Oh there it is!" She trotted down stairs and came over to me with a bottle and a spoon in her hooves. The yellow pony opened up the bottle, pouring out a yellow liquid onto the spoon. The gunk slowly dribbled down onto the spoon, and a foul odor emerged as the bottle opened. "Ok now open wide." She said as she tried to give me the liquid. I opened my jaw slowly so that no pain would occur while I did this. The pony slowly but steadily put the spoon in my mouth, forcing me to taste the yellow substance.

It was awful! The taste of that liquid made my skin crawl, and forced me to cough in disgust. Doing this made me spit out the horrid substance and the spoon as well. The yellow pony only picked up the spoon and poured more liquid into the spoon. "You must swallow this, it will help you, I promise." she said with her voice as smooth as silk. If she's trying to help me then I have to try to swallow this gunk! I thought to myself before trying again. She put the spoon in my mouth again, as I was trying not to vomit at the taste of the liquid. The texture and taste was horrible! but I somehow managed to force the substance down my throat, but after I did I was coughing and gaging for air.

So vile! I was panting with disgust after that, I somehow managed to move my head up and look at the pony. She was right, no pain occurred when I lifted my head, I still didn't speak thanks to that medicine. She kept talking in a smooth voice, so calm and gentle "Im so sorry about that, the medicine isn't the best tasting, but it sure does help!" a smile wiped across her face.

I lowered my head no longer in pain, but exhausted from escaping the vortex, I was taking long deep breaths as I slowly regained my strength. I was still concerned about my bandages so I decided to ask, "Miss.." I was still weak for some reason but uttered the words out of my mouth as she looked at me. "Why am I bandaged on my chest?" The pony looked back with a frown "Your not just bandaged on your chest. Something hit you on your head and were unconscious when I found you."

I had no idea I hurt my head. I raised my paw rubbing the surface of my head, and sure enough a bandage was covered over the top of my head. I slightly touched the bandaged area, the sharp pain hit me as I did this. The pony responded quickly, "Oh don't do that! Don't touch it or your going to get worse!" I could help but wonder how she even found me, I was out in a blizzard for Celstias sake! I had to ask, "How and where did you find me? There was a blizzard going on you could have gotten sucked in." She only looked at me and blushed, "Well I didn't go looking for you. You somehow hit our home, as soon as I heard something I went outside and there you were, unconscious and with serious wounds." She hid her face as she said this. I was still breathing heavily, but managed to respond to her, "Were you not scared of me? Look at me, Im a monster!" She showed her face again looking me dead in the eye. "You're not a monster, your just an innocent creature in need."

The pony was very quick to respond to me, as if she was defending me. I still saw myself as a monster, but after she said that my heart shifted, changing from sad and lonely... to loved. I was trying to get up from the chair I was sitting in and slowly stood up. I nearly fell over as I did so, but managed to stand up, with my legs shaking as if they were about to snap. As I was up I slowly paced over to the pony, and was then right in front of her. She stared down at me, "Are you still hurting? If so ill get you som-" her voice cut off as I proceeded. I put both my arms around her, hugging her tenderly, with tears pouring out of my eyes. I was so happy that someone cared for me for once, and didn't care what I looked like. She spoke up "There there, its all going to be okay." She moved both her hooves and hugged me as well.

We both just stood there, for eternity it felt like. I started to dry my eyes of the tears and backed away, with my arms still hugging her. "I can't thank you enough. (sniffle) You saved me." She smiled and a tear struck her eye and rolled down her face. "Your welcome." Her eyes got big as she stared at me. We finally broke from the hug and pegasi trotted over to the kitchen. I slowly went back to my chair, and moved it closer to the fire place, warming myself up. She glanced at me near the fire "Would you like some hot-cocoa? It will warm you up." I started to smile "That sounds... nice"

She brought over two mugs, steam and white foam burst out of the mugs. She sat down in another chair next to me and handed me a cup. I could feel the warmth of the mug on my palm, it felt so good, and smelt even better. The cup touched my lips as I tilted the cup upwards. Warm rich cocoa filled my mouth, It was delicious I took small sips though because the beverage was extremely hot. She glared over at me and smiled, "Is it good?" I nodded with foam across my mouth. She giggled at this, "Hehe, by the way my names Fluttershy." I swallowed a large sip and cleared my throat, "Hello, my name's Deviant."