Life Lessons

That all too familiar darkness filled my vision, but I did not take nearly as long to regain most of my energy.   I heard a light beeping sound come from my left.  The sound being all too familiar as well.  Am I in a hospital?

I slowly opened my eyes and was greeted with blinding light.  I powered through the burning sensation and allowed my eyes to readjust.  After they had focused a bit, I looked around to find that I was indeed in a hospital.

The white walls and ceiling allowed light to reflect off their surface and made the room very bright.  I looked down and noticed that I was in a bed.

“Look girls he’s waking up!”  I looked up and saw six shapes in front of me.  They looked familiar as well, so I focused my eyes on the figures.  It took a second, but the detailed images finally registered in my brain.  They were standing at the edge of my bed and now that they were so close, I got a better look at all of them.

The one farthest on my left was white with a curly light purple mane.  She had long eyelashes and alluring azure blue eyes.  One thing that caught my attention was the thing jutting from her head.  Wait, is she a unicorn?  I thought they were just myths!  Not believing what I was seeing I moved on to the one next to her.

The next one was yellow with a long pink mane.  She had adorable cyan eyes and seemed to have a very timid nature as she tried to hide her face behind her mane.

The middle-left one was the one that had worn the tiara.  She was a unicorn as well.  She had a lavender coat and purplish-blue mane with a magenta stripe running through it.  She had purple eyes that matched the rest of her body.

The one to her left was an orange horse with a blonde mane that was tied up at the end into a ponytail.  She wore a brown stetson on her head that made me believe she was some sort of cowgirl.  Her eyes were an emerald shade of green and she had freckles on her cheeks.  Overall she looked pretty cute but also really strong.

The next one was pink.  Her coat was a hot pink and mane was darker shade of pink.  Her mane was very poof.  The way it laid reminded me of cotton candy, though I doubt it tasted like it.  Her eyes were a slightly darker shade of blue than the timid yellow one.

The last one was….flying? She has wings!  Wait..now that I think about it isn’t there another mythical horse with wings?  What was it called again?  Ummmm...oh! I know, a pegasus!  Yeah that’s right, there are unicorns with horns, and pegasuses?..no uh...pegasi with wings.  I looked back to the others and noticed that the yellow horse also had wings, I must have missed them the first time because they were tightly folded to her sides.  Anyway, back to describing the last one.  She had a cyan coat and mane that was the colors of the rainbow.  She had magenta eyes that drew my attention to them.  Her mane was a bit wild and from the look on her face seemed to be a bit of a tomboy.

“What are you and what are you doing in ponyville?”  The lavender horse looked at me with a very serious gaze.  Once again, the fact that they can talk is blowing my mind, but I need to ignore it because right now they don’t seem too happy with me.  I opened my mouth to talk but couldn’t seem to form words.

“I..uh…”  I stopped, closed my eyes, and took a deep breath.  Opening my eyes, I felt my nerves calm down a bit.  “I-I am a human, as for what I’m doing here...wherever here is, I don’t know.”

“Are ya friend er foe?” The cowgirl spoke with a southern accent that fit her appearance perfectly.

“Uh...friend?  I guess...I’m not here to hurt anyone if that’s what you mean.”  Right after I said this, a look of relief spread across their faces as they all let out a loud sigh in unison.

The lavender horse began to speak again.  “Well that’s a relief.  Sorry that we chased you earlier, everypony in town ran scared so we figured that you were dangerous.”  Every-pony?  That’s new.  “I’m Twilight Sparkle and these are my friends.”  She pointed her hoof towards the other ponies next to her.

“I’m Rarity, it’s nice to meet you darling.”  said the glamorous white unicorn.

“Howdy pardner, name’s Applejack, Ah’m proud owner of Sweet Apple Acres!” Said the cow-pony...I don’t know, I thought I would try it.

“The name's Rainbow Dash, you may have heard of me, fastest flyer in Equestria.”  The cyan pegasus exclaimed in a bold tone.  Someone’s a little full of themselves.

“My names Pinkie Pie!  I’m Ponyville’s super duper party pony! Oh!  I should throw you a party!  Do you like parties? Oh what am I saying, everypony likes parties!  I always throw a welcome party for all the new ponies in Ponyville, but you’re not a pony are you?  You said you were a hue-man right?  What is a hue-man? Are there more like yo-Mmph!”  As my mind was trying to decipher all that she was saying, Applejack stuffed her hoof into Pinkie Pie’s mouth to shut her up.

“Sorry ‘bout that sugarcube, Pinkie here’s one big ball o’ energy.  She tends to get like this when somepony new ‘s in town.” If this is her just a bit excited, then I don’t want to see her on a sugar rush.  My brain is still recovering.

I looked at all of them and then let my gaze fall upon the cowering yellow pegasus.  “And you are?”  I asked while trying to make eye contact but found it really difficult with her hiding behind her mane.

Shock hit her face a she realized that I was talking to her.  “Umm….um...I’m..Flutter-”  She spoke so soft that couldn’t make out the last part.

“I sorry, I didn’t quite catch that, could you repeat that?”  I tried to speak in a more soft and gentle tone, trying not to scare her more than I already was.

“I-I-I’m Flut-”  She spoke even softer than before, I could tell this wasn’t working out.

Trying to break the awkwardness and put her friend at ease, Twilight Sparkle spoke up.  “This is Fluttershy, she’s pretty shy but has a very kind heart.”  This made the pegasus blush from her friend’s sudden compliment.  She really is quite adorable.

“So now that you know our names, what’s yours?”  Twilight asked.

“I’m Chris Marsh.”

“Well it’s very nice to meet you Chris Marsh.  Would you mind if we asked you a few questions?”  She asked with a big smile spread across her face.

“Just Chris is fine, and I guess a few questions would be ok.”

“Great!”  Her smile almost extending outside of her face.  Is that even possible?  “You said you’re a hue-man, what is that?”

“Well, a human is the only sentient being where I come from, the only one we know of that is.  There are about 6 billion humans populating the planet.  We have two arms, two legs, and these -” I then proceeded to hold up my hands, flexing my fingers.  “Hands!”

They all went wide eyed from what they were seeing.  I gave a slight chuckle at their reaction.

“Ok next question.”  Twilight said trying to get everything on her mind answered.  “You said that you don't know how you got here, but do you remember what you were doing before?  That may give us a clue as to how you got here."

I let out a small sigh and then proceeded to tell them about the gunman and my 'death'.  Only having to stop halfway through to describe what a gun was.  "-And next thing I knew, I woke up at the edge of the forest right outside of town."  After finishing my very odd story, I looked to see the pure shock and disbelief written on their faces.

“B-bu-but...you died!”  Twilight’s reaction was the worst of them all.  I take her as someone who tries to find logical answers for everything.  I sat there silent for a while letting them (mainly Twilight) take in the information.  Rarity soon spoke up, breaking the silence.

“I find the act very heroic, giving your life to stop those poor, innocent kids from being hurt by that marauder.”  This made me blush.  Me, heroic?  No, I just got caught up in the moment and didn’t want the kids being hurt.  I certainly wasn’t planning on dying.

It seemed that Twilight got all the information she needed, so I decided to ask her a few questions.  “So where exactly am I?”

“Oh that’s easy, you’re in Equestria, more specifically the town of Ponyville.”

“And in a bed in the hospital!”  Pinkie Pie added with a big smile.  Really, I never would have guessed!

I let out a long yawn, I guess all my energy hadn’t actually recovered.   All the girls looked at me and giggled.  Twilight then spoke up.  “I think we should let you get some rest.  The doctor said that you could get out of here tomorrow.”

I nodded, fully realizing that I could use some sleep.  “Yeah I think I could use a rest, thank you. Will I see you girls tomorrow?”

“Yup, we figured you could use some friends to show you around Ponyville.”  Friends?  Was it really that easy for us to become friends?  They seem happy so I guess I won’t deny a chance to gain some new friends.  “See you tomorrow Chris.”  I snapped back to reality from my train of thought.

“Yeah, See you girls tomorrow.”  I gave them a small wave as they exited the room and closed the door behind them. With the room being completely silent with the exception of the EKG’s rhythmic beeping, I laid my head against the soft pillows behind me, slowly drifting off to sleep.