The Alicorn of Music

The townsfolk were walking and talking amongst themselves much like I had imagined they would do on any other normal day. I gave myself a moment to take it all in. That is, until I felt a sudden wave of anger rush over me.

"Why would this happen to me?", I asked myself out loud. "Why can't I just die?"

Thoughts like these began running through my head faster than I could process.

"So many people who love life die every single day!"

"So first I accidentally live and now I'm insane?"

"Where can I find a joint? Or at least a cigarette?"

I was getting ready to flip out. Only this time, It was really going to happen. The fear and anger built up inside me like a soda can in a freezer, and there was going to be a mess-

"Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba!", I sang in a pitch so well tuned that even a professional pop singer would be impressed.

All the ponies stopped momentarily, looked at me with a slight confusion, and then sang back in perfect unison, "Sithi uhm ingonyama!"

I wasn't exactly sure of what had happened, but this made me even more upset than I already was. So what did I do? I tried to yell back at them, of coarse.

"Nants ingonyama bagithi baba!", I sang yet again in perfect pitch.

"Sithi uhhmm ingonyama!", The crowd replied.

"Siyo Nqoba!"

The crowd began chanting the phrase, "Ingonyama nengw' enamabala." I was left sitting there, completely flabbergasted, wondering why I was singing, what I was saying, and why all of these horses were able to join in with me like they had been waiting for this moment to happen.

I pondered the thought of walking back inside the hospital, but was too shocked to do so much as even move. All the creatures began dancing around what appeared to be a zebra.

"So we have fucked up little zebras too?", I thought.

When I was certain that they had forgotten about me, the zebra began singing a melody above the choral harmony that the other ponies were chanting.

"From the day we arrive on the planet,

and blinking, step into the sun.

There's more to see than can ever be seen,

more to do than can ever be done!"

It occurred to me that they were singing "The Circle of Life" from the Lion King. I sat down outside the hospital and watched the events play out in front of me.

"Interesting", I whispered, no longer controlled by anger.

It felt good to not be upset anymore. So good, that I may have cracked a smile, quite possibly the first smile to appear on my face since I was promoted manager at the fast food restaurant.

Half way through the song (which was sang quite well), I heard a voice behind me,

"There he is!"

I turned around to see the horse doctor followed by two much larger horses with a look on their faces that told me they weren't about to ask nicely.

My smile was replaced by a grimace.

"Either you can walk back in here and finish the evaluation or you can be carried back in and strapped down until we believe you are ready for the evaluation.", the doctor said.

The doctor said this in a way that told me he had said it several times to other patients in the exact same predicament I was in. (How about they just block the exit or something?) Anyway, I could tell that I was not about to make an easy escape. I had run from the cops before, but the two horses behind the doctor had wings!

"Why would a place like this exist?", I thought.

I was never much a suck-up until recently, and I really did not want to go back in there. Even though I had a small chance of getting away, I realized that those odds were not worth the risk. So I calmly approached the doctor.

"Let's go.", I said.

"Thank you, I really mean that. I hate seeing my patients hurting themselves while trying to tussle with these guys.", The doctor looked back at the two hospital guards who were still staring at me with the same expression as before.

I walked back inside the hospital with the doctor, the two guards still following us from behind.

I looked at the doctor, "I apologize for what happened. Perhaps a mental evaluation is something I've needed for a while now."

"A mental evaluation? No no no, this isn't that kind of hospital. All we need to do is check to make sure your horn didn't get damaged!", the doctor replied.

"Huh? oh...", I looked up to see the tip of it sticking over the edge of my vision.

"Yes indeed, we all know how much damage a damaged horn can cause."

"Yes, of course."

We walked down the hallway I used to navigate towards the restroom earlier, but instead of going back to the room I woke up in, we continued passed it until I found myself walking through a cafeteria of some sort.

When all of a sudden, I heard a loud buzzing sound.

"Uhh, please wait here for just one moment.", the doctor said nervously as he and the guards ran back towards the area I was in before. I suppose it was the ER section of the hospital.

So I sat on my haunches by a bench and waited... And waited... And waited... Until the idea of leaving the hospital again began turning into a real temptation. However, my willpower must have stayed outside in The Circle of Life; I didn't feel like running, I just felt like sitting and thinking. Thinking about all the events that had taken place in the last 24 hours of my perception.

I looked around the room. At this point, the cafeteria was completely empty. It was just me, the cafeteria benches, and a piano in the corner of the room.

A piano.