The Shadow Of A Pony

Shadow's POV

I was floating in what seemed to be a black void. The first thing I realized was how light I felt. Not just kind of light, like really light. It was to the point that I felt like a short breeze could take me away for miles.

I saw nothing of interest in the blackened void, so I started to walk. I walked for what seemed to be miles. I expected something to change, but alas, this mere expectation was not met. Everything still remained in its blackened state.

"Hello? Is anybody there?" I spoke into the nothingness.

A figure appeared in front of me. Bathed in a heavenly glow, the figure spoke to me.

"Shadow, it has been too long..."

"Maria... Is that really you?" I spoke in a whisper.

"Yes..." Maria replied in an equally quiet voice.

"MARIA!" I yelled as I ran towards her and pulled her into deep embrace.

"Shadow, I am very proud of you. Even though you were against good in the beginning, you changed your path to save the earth and everyone on it. While doing this, you have put my final wish to rest. You finally decided to give the other humans a second chance..." Maria broke the hug.

"So is this the end of the road for me?" I asked quizzically.

"Even though you have fufilled your destiny in one place, doesn't mean you are finished.

"What are you trying to say?"

"I have convinced the over rulers to let you go to a different universe altogether."

"Where..." I was cut off.

"Shadow, I must go now. I will hopefully see you under different circumstances soon..." Maria started to fade.

"Maria, please don't leave me again!" I pleaded.

"Be strong Shadow. Good bye... for now." Maria faded until she was no more.

I am not going to lie, I fought back tears of many multiple emotions.

"Don't worry Maria, I'll be strong for you. I promise!"

Suddenly I started disappearing in the same fashion that Maria disappeared. I assumed I was going back to the physical world.

*****

I woke up in what appeared to be a room of some sort. I sat up on the bed and looked around. The walls were of a cream type of color and were otherwise blank, no windows or anything. The floor was a classic type of tile design, something that you would see in an average bathroom or kitchen. Next to my bed were these two tall objects. One of the objects had a red line that fluctuated. The other object was simply a metal stand with a pouch of liquid in it. I noticed that the pouch had a tube next to it. I followed the tube and found out it was attached to me! I swiftly pulled it out. Nothing happened, so I assumed that the piece of machinery had done its job and wrapped the cord around the hook next to the pouch. I decided that I had no longer any need to stay in the room and walked out.

I walked down the hallway of the building I had been residing in until I reached this shiny rectanglular thing. I looked on the side of it and saw there were two buttons, an up arrow and a down arrow. I thoughtlessly pressed the down arrow, I assumed that since the base of the building is at its lowest point, then that would be where the exit into civilization would be. I guess I assumed right because the doors of the thing opened.

I stepped into the thing and only saw a dead end. I turned around saw some buttons on the side of the thing again. Before I could actually press a button the thing closed. I didn't pay much attention to it and instead wondered about the new buttons added to this new panel. I inspected them for a second and determined that they were of no use to me. I pressed the lowest button on the panel. Then the thing started to move downwards.

After a minute or so the thing stopped and opened back up. I got out and looked around. I saw a desk that said patient check out. Was I a patient? I didn't know, but walked over to the desk.I saw a lizard looking thing come in the door. The lizard had purple skin, green scales, and emerald green eyes. It went up to the desk and started talking to the pony at the counter. (I saw a couple of ponies surround me before I passed out in this world, so I muled it over and came to terms with it. That is why I was not supplies when I saw the pony.) The pony at the counter was white with green eyes and a medical symbol with four hearts in each ornery on the side of her buttocks.

I got to the desk, but the two were so deep in conversation that they didnt even notice me. I cleared my throat and they turned around. The receptionists face had a look on confusion on it while the lizards face had a look of relief on it. The receptionist spoke to me.

"How are you out of bed? You should be hurt so much that moving would be impossible!"

I just shrugged, I really had no clue how I was not hurt after that fall.

"Well, I guess you can go then... I'll sign you out."

"Come with me, we have to go."

I just nodded and went along with the little guy. He seemed to know where he was going.

Once we left the hospital the dragon started talking.

"Hi, my name is Spike! I'm a dragon!"

"Interesting..." So this thing is a dragon. Quite a small one if I must say myself.

"So what's your name? What are you?"

"Shadow. Shadow the Hedgehog."

"Shadow... I like that name! It suites you perfectly!"

Gosh, this kid sure is energetic.

"Oh look we're here!"

I looked up at the place we stood in front of. It was a treehouse basically, except the whole tree was made into a house. It even had windows!

"Where exactly are we?"

"Oh that's easy, we're at Twilight's house!"

Well that helped a bunch.

We walked up to the door, knocked 3 times, and nobody answered. We tried opening the door, but it was locked, so Spike unlocked it for us. We opened the door and we saw...