Fear the old blood

As I am lead back to the library, I can’t help but to look around. The colorful horses that we pass look at me with concern and confusion, but once again I am unable to sense fear. The horses in the front are all conversing, and from what I pick up they are theorizing what I am. In honesty, that is a question that even I can’t answer.

After a few minutes, we make it back to the library, and I am led into a lounge of some sort, in which they all take seats. I remain standing for now, as I had not been invited to sit.
“You don’t have to keep standing up, you can sit anywhere you want to.”
I nod, uttering a quick thank you as I take a seat in the corner. The purple one seems exited, and I assume her to be a scholar of some kind. After all, she’s acting just like I did whenever I began a new experiment or started studying an interest.

“Ok spike, make sure to write down everything. This is interview 1 with an unknown Cervidae species, fully capable of speech. For my first question, what’s your name? We can’t just keep calling you creature.”
“A wise first question when considering first contact. My name is Laurence. Might I inquire yours?”
“Of course! My name is Twilight Sparkle, and the drake writing down this interview is Spike. ”
“Sup.”
“the girls that found you are my friends. Meet Applejack.”
“Howdy.”
“Fluttershy.”
”Oh, uhm… hi.”
“Rarity.”
“A pleasure darling.”
“Pinkie Pie.”
“Hiya! I can’t wait to be your friend! Oh I just can’t wait to through you a welcome party!”
“Easy there Pinkie. And finally, Rainbow dash.””Hi.”
The blue one, rainbow dash, looks unamused. I wonder if I upset her somehow. “The pleasure is all mine.”

“Now that we’re all introduced, let’s start the interview proper. First major question, what exactly are you?”
I had hoped this question would not get asked. I sigh, and give my answer. “To be honest, I do not know. To my knowledge, I am the only of my kind in this world.”

Rainbow dash snorts, not believing what I say, until Applejack speaks up.
“He’s tellin the truth. A deppresin truth but the truth nonetheless ”
Rainbow dash shifts back and lightly blushes, embarrassed by her little show.

“Second question. What did you do before we found you? We have to know because if you did something bad, we could all be in danger.”
Another question I had hoped to avoid. “ I was a scholar at a prestigious college before a falling out with my master caused me to continue my research solo. It didn’t go that well, and my research hurt some people dear to me.” The Twilight Sparkles eye’s light up as I spoke, obviously exited to have another intellectual around, but then dimmed as I spoke about what had happened after going solo.
“Yer not tellin the whole story, but what yer sayin is true.”
Damn she’s good. She must be a natural lie detector.

“Ok, question number 3. What do you plan to do now?”
Finally, a question I feel completely comfortable answering. ” I plan on researching different topics. Seeing as what happened last time, if I continued my current research, I could very well hurt more people, and I do not want to do that. I do what I do to help us evolve and grow as a society. Besides, I lost all of my previous notes.”

“Eyyup, that’s the truth.”
“Thats good to here. Ok, question 4, how did you arrive in the everfree forest?”
“Once more, I do not know. I awoke there without a clue as to where I was, or where the closest town was. I was lucky to have found those 3 little ones. If I hadn’t, they would be dead and I would still be lost.”
All of there faces paled upon the mention of death, but they kept strong. Applejack just nodded to Twilight, indicating I was being truthful.

“ok, well… question 4! How did you survive your fight with a manticore?! They are an incredibly dangerous species.”
“That answer has a simple answer. The one with the faster claws and stronger jaw wins. I just so happened to have that.”

If their faces were pale before, they were ghostlike now.
“You… you killed a manticore?”
Fluttershy’s eyes are welling up with tears. I can tell she’s an animal lover.She would not like my previous diet.
“Heck yeah, that’s sick! It must have been a wicked fight, when we got there, you were almost dead!”
“I can assure you, it ended up much worse than me.”

“Did, did you have to kill it? Couldn’t you have just subdued it, or knocked it out, or… I don’t know, something else?!”
“I did not want to take any chances. I had never seen one before, so rather than risking to attempt to knock out a creature that I know nothing about, and potentially getting my calculations wrong, I went with the option that guaranteed those 3 could get away without it tracking them down.”
“But don’t you know violence is never the answer?!? DONT YOU?!?!”
Pinkie pie has somehow managed to grab me using hooves and is shaking me around.

“Sometimes the only way to guarantee someone’s survival is to use violence. After all, a wolf cannot eat a herd of doe, if the buck gets it first.”
“Yeah, what he said! Come on girls, the big cat was gonna hurt the cutie mark crusaders! They may get into trouble a lot, but none of us wanted to see them become kitty chow.”
“I mean, I guess you’re right, but please, try to refrain from violence in the future. We ponies try to do things peacefully.”
I nod in understandment.

“I think that’s all the main questions I had. I’ll have spike make a copy of the interview and send it to the princess, and while we wait for a reply, could you please stay with us, as to not cause a panic? ” I chuckle. “ Of course I will. Fear causes panic, and panic causes chaos, which nobody likes. But always remember, without fear, we are little more than beasts. Sometimes it’s good to be afraid, as that means you are still you.” They look at me confused, wondering just what the hell I meant. “Never mind, it’s just an old proverb.” They nod in pretend understanding.

“ well this has been interesting. Spike, have you copied it yet?”
“Yep!”
“Good, you can send it to the princess.”
He nods, and then sets the scroll on fire.
“Why would you do that? Weren’t you supposed to send that to someone?”
“Yeah, I just did. That’s how I send letters. Magical dragon fire.”
Magic? So Odeon wasn’t being metaphorical. “I’ve never seen magic before.”

“Well you better get used to it, because I’m the princesses personal student, and the element of magic.”
I may have no idea what an element of magic is, but I assume that it helps her with her abilities. “Could you show me please?”
I have a good feeling about this.