Warrior

Blake's P.O.V

I woke up suddenly still out of the way in the corner I'd tucked myself away in, the pain in my shoulder was a dull throb and the pain in my side wasn't as bad either, I was about to doze back to sleep when I heard female voices calling. "Hello, please come out, we don't want to hurt you." One voice said and I got up and walked over to the window, I was on the ground floor so I could make a quick escape if I had to. With out hesitation I opened an old window all the way despite the noise it made and climbed out being careful not to reopen the wound on my shoulder or aggravate my potentially broken bone.

Once I was outside I cautiously walked around to the front of the castle and the rope bridge, seeing that the coast was clear I made a move, but unfortunately my timing was way off because when I got to the other side of the rope bridge I heard gasps from behind me, rather than looking back I ran into the forest as fast as I could quickly getting out of sight.

Running through trees and bushes as fast as I could with my injuries I could here my pursuers close behind me, they were maybe only twenty feet behind when I heard a sudden "ROOOAAARRR!!!" Behind me followed by screaming female voices and I kept running for a few seconds before hearing two more roars, I thought about leaving and saving my own skin but I could hear my father's voice in my head again. "That's right, the weak die and the strongest survives, that's the rule of nature." I looked back feeling sick at the thought of my father being right.

"Not today, fuck the rules of nature." I said picking up a rock and ran back towards the screaming voices, I came through a bush and saw three big lion like monsters surrounding a group of the ponies I'd seen back at the town. I recognized the white, blue and orange one's but not the pink one who was wearing a blue and white striped vest with light blue jeans and pink sneakers, the yellow one with wings who was wearing a thick green sweater and a long pink skirt with flat shoes and purple one with a horn wearing a blue vest and dark blue jeans with black sneakers, and then I did the dumbest thing I've ever done in my short life so far, I threw the rock at the nearest lion monster right in the head and shouted. "COME AND HAVE A GO IF YOU THINK YOUR HARD ENOUGH!" I then ran as fast as I could, and like any good predators the monsters went after the easier kill, me.

I ran like my life depended on it because it did, I ran through bushes trees even a stream but the monsters wouldn't stop following me and they were closing in, I needed to find cover to escape but I didn't see any, so I kept running even as my legs burned like I'd ran a marathon and I reopened the wound on my shoulder from how much I ran and it started bleeding again. As I ran I tripped and fell down a banking rolling as I fell, when I hit the bottom I was on my back looking up at the sky and I saw the three monsters closing in on me, I got back up looking for a away out but there wasn't one and I ended up getting backed up to a rock wall that rose up nearly fifty feet. "Shit, end of the line." I said as one of the monsters got closer licking it's fangs as it stalked closer.

I thought I was done but then a crack shattered open in the sky and a sword like none I'd ever seen before fell through as if it had been thrown and fell to the ground stabbing blade first into a large rock between me and the monsters startling them back a little as the six I tried to save appeared at the top of the banking behind the monsters getting the attention of the beasts for just long enough for me to run to the sword and pull it from the rock with my right hand, as soon as I pulled the sword free blue marks started glowing up the sides of the blade and then I felt a burning pain up my right arm as the same marks started appearing on my arm going from my wrist to my shoulder.

The free monsters looked back at me and the nearest one pounced at me and I froze but my body moved as if guided by something else as I stepped back into a 360 spin and used my momentum to cut the head off the first monster, I looked at the sword in my hand and seeing the marks on the sword still glowing blue as well as the marks on my right arm, as I was looking at my arm another of the monsters attacked, I dodged back nearly ten feet and swung the sword at the monster releasing a wave of blue energy that cut it in half.

The remaining monster looked at the two dead ones then to me, then the six, it then snarled and growled and spread the wings on it's back and flew away leaving me and the six as it retreated. I then look at the six and saw them coming towards me and I raised the sword at them, I no longer felt like I was being guided but better safe than sorry right. "That's close enough." I said as the six stopped and looking at me.

"Please lower the sword, we just want to talk." The purple one said taking a step closer.

"I said that's close enough, I don't want to hurt you but I will if you get closer." I bluffed, I knew I wouldn't but they didn't know that, or that I have no idea how to use a sword.

"Ok, we'll stay back, can we ask you some questions?" The purple one asked and I thought about it.

"I'm ok with that, but I have questions of my own." I said not lowering the sword, the purple one smiled a little.

"What's your name?" She asked.

"Blake Winters." I answered. "And you?" I asked in return.

The purple one spoke first. "I'm Twilight Sparkle." She said not taking her eyes off me.

The pink one was the next to speak with barely contained excitement. "Hi I'm Pinkie Pie." She said looking ready to run up and hug me. And I was thankful that I had a sword keeping her at bay.

The orange cowboy wannabe introduced herself next. "The names Applejack partner." She said in a thick southern accent. "And I'm sorry about what I did earlier." She added.

"I should hope so, you could have broken more than one bone." I said glaring at her.

After the cowboy the fashionable white one spoke next. "I would also like to apologies for earlier, I'm Rarity." She said looking very ashamed of herself.

"Fuck off, you could have killed me, and you can bet your ass as soon as I find out who to talk to I'm pressing charges." I said pointing my sword at Rarity who I will be calling The White Bitch from now on and she looked like she dropped a log at what I said.

And then the rainbow haired one that started this misunderstanding in the first place spoke. "I'm Rainbow Dash, and I'm sorry for assuming you were some kind of monster." She said looking away, clearly embarrassed.

"To be fair I don't have a problem with getting kicked around, as long as it's not my father doing it, besides you didn't hurt me as bad as those two." I said glaring daggers at The White Bitch and Applejack, which made Rainbow breath a sigh of relief.

And last but not least was the yellow one. "I'm Fluttershy." she said very quietly. But I still only just hear it.

"Ok, now that introductions are over, how old are you, you look about the same age as us?" Twilight asked having pulled a note pad and... A quill and ink pot out of nowhere.

"I'm turning 18 in a few weeks." I said and I caught a few looks I wasn't sure I liked, mostly a mix of regret and interest.
It was my turn to ask again, so I decided to find out for certain what these anthros were. "What are you, I've never seen your kind before?" I asked feeling that I had asked a good question.

"We're Ponies, more specifically Unicorns, Pegusie and Earth Ponies." Twilight explained. "Well, now that I think about it there are Bat Ponies as well, but they only just got rediscovered." She added. "What about you, your clearly not a Pony?" She asked taking notes or maybe making a sketch, I really don't know.

"I'm a Human from planet Earth." I answered and felt a bit of pride as I silently realized I was making first contact with an alien race. As soon as I looked at Twilight she had a huge smile on her face and it was creeping me out while the others just looked at me wide eyed.

"This is wonderful, your the first of your kind in Equestria." Twilight said rushing up to me with stars in her eyes like an anime character even though I hadn't lowered my sword.

I jumped back and pointed my sword at Twilight. "Hey, I said keep your distance." I said having been startled by Twilight's sudden move closer.

"Sorry, I got a little too excited for a moment, it's just Humans were thought to be a myth." Twilight said as her cheeks went red embarrassment as she took a few steps back.

Pinkie then popped up next to Twilight seemingly out of nowhere and asked. "Do you like cake, how about parties?" She asked with a wide smile.

"Yeah I guess, as long as there no kids around." I answered not completely sure why she wanted to know. Pinkie's smile got even bigger when she heard my answer and was now looking like she was going to explode with excitement, but before anyone could ask anything else we heard the roar of another monster and it sounded a lot bigger than the lion monsters I'd killed a few minutes ago.

"What the hell was that?" I asked as I turned to face the direction that the roar had come from.

"I'm not sure what that was, but we should get back to Ponyvaille before it finds us." Twilight said and she got nods of agreement from the others and they started walking away, Twilight then looked back and when she saw that I wasn't following she asked. "Aren't you coming?"

I gave her my best poker face as I stayed where I was standing. "Why would I, the last time I was at that town I was attacked just for existing." I said and I could see Applejack, Rainbow and The White Bitch visibly cringe.

"Even though you have a sword, there are monsters and poisons plants everywhere in here." Twilight said as the monster roared again sounding closer. As much as I didn't like it she had a point about this forest, but I still didn't trust them, that being said I was still more inclined to trust Twilight, Pinkie and Fluttershy than the other three, the monster roared and we heard the sound of trees breaking and I didn't want to find out what was coming.

"Fine, I'll come back with you, but that doesn't mean I trust any of you." I said following Twilight and the others.

"Don't worry, nothing bad is going to happen to you." Pinkie said walking on my left.

"I'll be the judge of that." I said not letting my guard down even as I lowered my sword. "Now if only I had a scabbard for this sword." I said and the marks on my arm and the sword lit up as a scabbard on a belt attached to my back with the belt across my chest. "That works." I said taking four tries before finally getting the sword in to the scabbard as the girls look at me with a look that said, how the fuck did he just do that.

"Wow, the marks on your arm just glowed." Pinkie said wide eyed

"Come on girls we can talk more back at the library." Twilight said and we all left the forest.